Old World Auctions: Maps and Atlases, 202, Richmond

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025
Page Size: 789 items in 32 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
751 Joseph Hutchins Colton

[Disbound and Nearly Complete Collection of Maps - Colton's Atlas of America]

1856 USD 700.00 - 850.00 USD 1,560.00
752 Charles G. Colby

The World in Miniature: with Descriptions of Every Nation and Country. Together with a Treatise on Physical Geography...

1857 USD 400.00 - 475.00 USD 300.00
753 Johnson & Browning

Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, with Descriptins, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical

1861 USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 1,920.00
754 Samuel Augustus Mitchell

[Partially Disbound] Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc...

1865 USD 750.00 - 900.00 USD 480.00
755 Ormando Willis & Son Gray

The National Atlas. Containing Elaborat Topographical Maps of the United States and the Dominion of Canada, with Plans of Cities and General Maps of the World...

1881 USD 800.00 - 950.00 USD 1,560.00
756 H. C. Tunison

Tunison's Peerless Universal Atlas of the World

1882 (circa) USD 400.00 - 475.00 USD 450.00
757 Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co.

Arbuckles' Illustrated Atlas of the United States of America

1889 USD 400.00 - 475.00 USD 420.00
758

A Modern Atlas, of Fourteen Maps. Drawn and Engraved to Illustrate Hart's Geographical Exercises

1830 USD 400.00 - 475.00 USD 312.00
759 Emma Willard

Atlas, to Accompany a System of Universal History...

1836 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 252.00
760 Mitchell/Cowperthwait/Desilver

Mitchell's School Atlas: Comprising the Maps and Tables Designed to Accompany Mitchell's School and Family Geography

1855 USD 180.00 - 220.00 USD 120.00
761 Joseph Hutchins Colton

J.H. Colton's School Atlas, Designed to Accompany Colton's American School Geography...

1860 USD 275.00 - 350.00 USD 120.00
762 Rand McNally & Co.

1929 News Auto Atlas - United States & Canada and Metropolitan New York

1929 USD 160.00 - 190.00 USD 192.00
763 Jedidiah (Rev.) Morse

A New and Correct Edition of the American Geography; or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America...

1795 USD 1,100.00 - 1,400.00 USD 960.00
764 Fanning & Co. Phelps

The World Geographical, Historical, and Statistical; Containing a Description of the Several Continents, Empires, Republics, Kingdoms, and Islands on the Globe...

1853 USD 250.00 - 325.00 USD 156.00
765 George Anson

[Lot of 34 - Maps and Views from A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV...]

1749 USD 275.00 - 350.00 USD 180.00
766 Firmin Didot

Histoire Generale des Voyages, ou Nouvelle Collection de Toutes les Relations de Voyages ... Tome Vingt-Cinquieme

1749 USD 300.00 - 375.00 Not Sold
767

[Facsimile - 2 Volumes] The Blathwayt Atlas - A Collection of Forty-Eight Manuscript and Printed Maps of the Seventeenth Century... [and] ... Volume II. Commentary

1970-75 USD 550.00 - 700.00 USD 480.00
768 Thornton & Seller

[Facsimile] The English Pilot - The Fourth Book

1967 USD 180.00 - 220.00 USD 156.00
769 Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

[Facsimile] Libro dei Globi

1969 USD 220.00 - 250.00 USD 252.00
770 Alexander Dalrymple

[Facsimile] A Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean Volume 1/2

1967 USD 150.00 - 180.00 USD 132.00
771

[Lot of 2] Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries [and] The World Encompassed...

1952 USD 55.00 - 75.00 USD 180.00
772 A.L. Humphreys

Antique Maps and Charts

1989 USD 50.00 - 70.00 USD 90.00
773 Tooley/Bricker

Landmarks of Mapmaking - An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmaking

1989 USD 50.00 - 70.00 USD 38.40
774 Thomas Suarez

Shedding the Veil - Mapping the European Discovery of America and the World

1992 USD 50.00 - 70.00 USD 43.20
775

[Lot of 2] Maps and Map-Makers [and] The Mapmakers

1981-82 USD 55.00 - 75.00 USD 43.20
  • 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, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • 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€
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