Auction Reports

Peter Arnold

Auction Info

Auction Name
Maps, from seven vendors
Auction Date
08/12/2026 - 08/12/2026
Sale Number
#81226
Total Lots
144
Sold Lots
78.0
Lots Sold
54.17%
Unsold Lots
66
Total Sales (AUD)
190,449.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
123,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
161,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
185,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
243,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
78.08%

Top twenty five by sale price

Top twenty five lots by sale price
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
105 Russell Robert

Map shewing the site of Melbourne and the position of the huts and buildings

1837 AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 20,320.00
78 Linschoten Jan Huygen van; Langren Hendrik

Exacta & accurata delineatio cum orarum maritimarum tum etiam locorum terrestrium

1596 AUD 2,600.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 9,525.00
123 Thornton John

A draught of the coast of New Holland and parts adjacent

1708 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 AUD 9,525.00
118 Stirling James

Chart of Swan River

1829 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 AUD 9,525.00
67 Hondius Henricus; Jansson Jan

Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula

1630; 1633 AUD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 AUD 8,255.00
99 Proeschel Frederick

Atlas containing a map of Australasia

circa 1863 AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 8,255.00
51 Freycinet Louis Claude de

Carte generale de la Nouvelle Hollande

1811 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 8,255.00
79 Lodewijcksz Willem

Descriptio hydrographica accomodata ad Battavorum navigatione in Javam insulum Indiae Orientalis

1599 AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 6,985.00
36 Coronelli Vincenzo

Suite of globe gores of part of the Southern Hemisphere

1688; circa 1693 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 6,350.00
41 Dawes William

Sketch of Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales

1789 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 5,588.00
92 Ottens Reiner; Ottens Joshua

Orientaliora Indiarum Orientalium cum insulis adjacentibus

1745 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 5,334.00
38 Cross Joseph

Chart of part of New South Wales with plans of the harbours

1827; 1829 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 4,826.00
61 Hayes John

A chart of Van Diemen’s Land

1798 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 4,826.00
9 ARROWSMITH John

Map shewing the surveyed lands of Port Phillip

1843 AUD 2,600.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 4,572.00
59 Ham Thomas

Map of the settled district of Melbourne

1853 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 4,318.00
98 Proeschel Frederick

General, agricultural & gold fields map of Victoria

1860 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 4,318.00
91 Ortelius Abraham

Typus orbis terrarum

1608 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 3,810.00
8 ARROWSMITH John

Map shewing the surveyed lands of Port Phillip

1841 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 3,556.00
6 ARROWSMITH John

Plan of Dutigalla, Port Phillip and Bass Strait

1836 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 3,556.00
97 Proeschel Frederick

General, agricultural & gold fields map of Victoria

circa 1859 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 3,302.00

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