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Auction Name Maps and Atlases - bidstart 11/2 Total Sales (USD) 277,535.60
Auction Date November 16, 2022 - November 16, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 307,215.00
Sale Number #190 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 376,325.00
Total Lots 757
Sold Lots 596 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 424,995.00
% of Lots Sold 78.73% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 520,525.00
Unsold Lots 161 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 53.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
155 White/De Bry

"Americae Pars, nunc Virginia Dicta, Primum ab Anglis Inventa, Sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh...", White/De Bry

1590 (circa) USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 14,375.00
6 Blaeu, Willem

"Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula", Blaeu, Willem

1635 (circa) USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,350.00
102 Sayer & Bennett

"The Theatre of War in North America, with the Roads and a Table of the Distances", Sayer & Bennett

1776 USD 9,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,050.00
716 Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche

"Atlas Universel", Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche

1788 (circa) USD 9,000.00 - 11,000.00 USD 7,475.00
723 Tanner, Henry Schenck

"A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World...", Tanner, Henry Schenck

1836 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 5,400.00
71 Moll, Herman

"To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham ... This Map of North America According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations...", Moll, Herman

1730 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 4,500.00
319 Dudley, Robert (Sir)

"Carta Particolare dell' Isole di Islandia e Frislandia, con l'Isolette di Fare...", Dudley, Robert (Sir)

1661 USD 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,900.00
330

"L'Europe en Sept 1939",

1939 USD 7,500.00 - 8,500.00 USD 3,900.00
9 Blaeu/Valck

"Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per Utrumque Polum Conspectus", Blaeu/Valck

1695 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
156 Hondius, Jodocus

"Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nova Descriptio", Hondius, Jodocus

1628 USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 3,600.00
673 Blaeu, Johannes

"Effigies Tychonis Brahe O.F. Aedificii et Instrumentorum Astronomicorum Structoris. Ao. Domini 1587, Aetatis Suae 40", Blaeu, Johannes

1662 (circa) USD 600.00 - 750.00 USD 3,300.00
407 Sanson/Mariette

"Cartes Geographiques des Gaules et de la France ", Sanson/Mariette

1707 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
5 Ritter, Franz

"[Untitled - World and Horological Diagrams]", Ritter, Franz

1607 USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,880.00
580 Blaeu, Willem

"Asia Noviter Delineata", Blaeu, Willem

1635 (circa) USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,880.00
32 Pitt, Moses

"A Map of the North-Pole and the Parts Adioining", Pitt, Moses

1680 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 2,760.00
325 Blaeu, Willem

"Europa Recens Descripta", Blaeu, Willem

1635 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,640.00
111 Bellin/Homann Heirs

"Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada", Bellin/Homann Heirs

1755 USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 2,520.00
146 Robert de Vaugondy, Didier

"Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland Dressee sur la Grande Carte Angloise de Mrs. Josue Fry et Pierre Jefferson...", Robert de Vaugondy, Didier

1755 USD 2,500.00 - 3,250.00 USD 2,160.00
622 Elwe, Jan Barend

"[On 4 Sheets] Partie de la Nouvelle Grande Carte des Indes Orientales...", Elwe, Jan Barend

1792 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
327

"Comic Map of the Seat of War with Entirely New Features",

1854 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 2,100.00
328 Rose, F. W.

"Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877", Rose, F. W.

1877 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 2,100.00
1 Jansson, Jan

"[Lot of 5] Typus Orbis Terrarum [with] Americae Descriptio [and] Africae Descriptio [and] Asia [and] Europae Nova Tabula", Jansson, Jan

1634 USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,040.00
8 Stoopendaal, Bastiaan

"Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita", Stoopendaal, Bastiaan

1682 (circa) USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,920.00
97 Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

"Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale Depuis le 28 Degre de Latitude Jusqu'au 72", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

1755 USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,920.00
712 Le Rouge, George Louis

"Atlas Nouveau Portatif a l'Usage des Militaires, et du Voyageur Contenant 91 Cartes Dressees sur les Nouvelles Observations", Le Rouge, George Louis

1756 USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
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