Old World Auctions: Maps and Atlases, 205, Richmond

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Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 705 items in 29 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Ruscelli, Girolamo

Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1561 USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 USD 1,440.00
2 Arias Montanus, Benito

Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam ex Antiquissimorum Cultor...

1571 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 Not Sold
3 Ortelius, Abraham

Typus Orbis Terrarum

1579 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 5,400.00
4 Apianus, Peter Bienewitz

Charte Cosmographique, avec les Noms, Proprietez, Nature & Operations des Vents

1581 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
5 Munster/Petri

Die Erst General Tafel / die Beschreibung und den Circkel des Gantzen Erdtrichs und Meeres Innhaltende

1588 (circa) USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 1,200.00
6 Plancius/Vrients

Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio ex Peritissimorum Totius Orbis Gaeographorum Operibus Desumta

1596 USD 16,000.00 - 19,000.00 USD 23,000.00
7 Ritter, Franz

[Untitled - World]

1610 USD 11,500.00 - 13,000.00 Not Sold
8 Speed, John

A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yt Have Beene Made by English or Strangers

1626 USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 11,500.00
9 Plancius, Petrus

Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus...

1645 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,400.00
10 Visscher, Claes Janszoon

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula Auctore N. I. Piscator

1652 USD 14,000.00 - 17,000.00 USD 13,800.00
11 Visscher, Nicolas

Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro in Plurimis Emendatus, Auctus, et Icunculis Illustratus

1657 (circa) USD 1,800.00 - 2,100.00 USD 1,800.00
12 Duval, Pierre

Planisphere, ou Carte Generale du Monde

1684 USD 1,900.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
13 Chatelain, Henry Abraham

Plan de l'Histoire Universelle, ou l'on voit les Quatre Monarchies du Monde, et tous les Anciens Etats Aussi bien que ceux qui Subsistent Aujourdhuy

1705 USD 275.00 - 350.00 USD 288.00
14 Delisle/Schenk

Mappe-Monde Dressee sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Quelques Autres et sur les Memoires les Plus Recens...

1708 USD 700.00 - 850.00 USD 600.00
15 Homann, Johann Baptist

Planiglobii Terrestris cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Repraesentatio quam ex Novissimis Probatissimisque Geographorum...

1720 (circa) USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,380.00
16 Stoopendaal, Daniel

Werelt Caert

1725 (circa) USD 1,100.00 - 1,400.00 USD 960.00
17 Chiquet, Jacques

Le Globe Terrestre Represente en Deux Plans-Hemispheres Dressee sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royales des Sciences

1729 USD 200.00 - 230.00 Not Sold
18 Brouckner/Remondini

Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre

1761 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
19 Anon.

[Lot of 2] The Western Hemisphere from the Latest Discoveries [and] The Eastern Hemisphere from the Latest Discoveries

1776 USD 275.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
20 Cook/Hogg

A General Chart: Exhibiting the Discoveries Made by Captn. James Cook in His First, Second and Third Voyages; with the Tracks of the Ships Under His Command

1784 USD 475.00 - 600.00 USD 960.00
21 Barker, William

A Map of the World in Three Sections, Describing the Polar Regions to the Tropics in Which Are Traced the Tracts of Lord Mulgrave and Captain Cook Towards the North & South Poles...

1786 (circa) USD 120.00 - 150.00 USD 78.00
22 Nolin/Denis

Mappe-Monde Carte Universelle de la Terre Dressee sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles, Soumises aux Observations Astronomiques de l'Academie Royale des Sciences...

1788 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,040.00
23 Doolittle, Amos

The World from the Best Authorities

1793 USD 120.00 - 150.00 USD 108.00
24 Weiland, Carl Ferdinand

Sudliche und Noerdliche Halbkugel der Erde nach den Neuesten Entdeckungen...

1800 USD 240.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
25 Herisson, Eustache

La Mappe-Monde ou le Globe Terrestre Represente en Deux Hemispheres, l'un Oriental l'Autre Occidental...

1831 USD 700.00 - 850.00 Not Sold
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
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