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Christies: Beyond the Horizon: The Mopelia Collection of Atlases and Travel Books

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Auction Name Beyond the Horizon: The Mopelia Collection of Atlases and Travel Books Total Sales (GBP) 2,301,000.00
Auction Date June 05, 2019 - June 05, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,411,100.00
Sale Number #17699 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 2,083,700.00
Total Lots 203
Sold Lots 123 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,747,400.00
% of Lots Sold 60.59% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 4,065,300.00
Unsold Lots 80 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 56.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715).

De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Werelt.

1688 GBP 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 GBP 395,250.00
13 METELLUS, Johannes (also Jean MATAL, c.1517-1597).

Speculum orbis terrae.

1602 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 299,250.00
184 LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875).

Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine exécuté sur la corvette de l'état La Favorite pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832.- [Zoologie].

1833-1839. GBP 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 GBP 137,500.00
176 CHORIS, Louis (1795-1828).

Voyage Pittoresque Autour de Monde, avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amérique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et des iles du Grand Ocean; des Paysages, des Vues Maritimes, et plusieurs objets d'histoire naturelle; Accompagné de Descriptions par M. le Baron Cuvier, et

 1822-?1823. GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 118,750.00
19 BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1588-1664).

Le Flambeau de la Navigation monstrant la description & delineation de toutes les Costes & Havres de la Mer Occidentale, Septentrionale & Orientale.

1620 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 106,250.00
14 BARENTSZ, Willem (c.1550-1597).

Caertboeck vande Midlandtsche Zee [Description de la Mer Mediterrannee auquel son delinees & descriptes au vif toutes les costes de la Mer Mediterrannee: Commençant de Gibraltar le long de Granade, Valence, Cataloigne, Provence & Italie].

1607 but 1609. GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 93,750.00
186 DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel Aubert (1793-1864).

Voyage autour du Monde sur la frégate la Vénus pendant les années 1836-1839.

1840-1864. GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
188 DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790-1842).

Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée.

1841-1854. GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
7 WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon (1533-1606).

Pars prima [- La deuxiesme partie] Du Miroir de la Navigation, de la Mer Occidentale, contenant toutes les costes de France, Espaigne, & la principale partie d'Angleterre, le tout comprins en plusieurs diverses Cartes Marines.

1590 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 75,000.00
95

Atlas maritimus novus, or the New Sea-Atlas.

GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 62,500.00
178 DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore (1786-1865).

Voyage autour du Monde, executé per ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette La Coquille de sa Majesté, pendant les annies 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825.

1826-1830. GBP 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 GBP 62,500.00
114 RENARD, Louis (fl. c.1702-1707) – Reinier OTTENS (1698-1750) and Josua OTTENS (1704-1765).

Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt.

1745 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 50,000.00
145 DIRECCIÓN DE HIDROGRAF??A.

[Composite atlas of Spanish charts relating to the Americas, Asia, and Australasia.]

1780-1870. GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 42,500.00
100

The English Pilot: The Fourth Book describing the West Indies Navigation from Hudson’s Bay to the River Amazones.

1767 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 35,000.00
156 LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (1741-1788?).

Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde.

1797 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 35,000.00
1 [WALDSEEMÜLLER, Martin (c.1470-c.1522).]

Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem.

 1513 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 33,750.00
169 LAURIE, Robert (1755-1836) and WHITTLE, James (1758-1818).

The African Pilot: Being a Collection of New and Accurate Charts, On a Large Scale of the Coasts, Islands, and Harbours of Africa.

1804 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 33,750.00
15 MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) and Jodocus HONDIUS (1563-1611).

Atlas minor, ou briefve et vive description de tout le monde.

1614 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
108 CASSINI DE THURY, César François (1677-1756).

Les Cartes de la France.

1744-1799(?). GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
135 COOK, James (1728-1779).

Relation des voyages entrepris pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional.

1774-1785. GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
3 PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178).

Geographia universalis.

1546 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
2 PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178).

Geographicae enarrationis, Edited by Michael Servetus (1509/11-1553).

1541 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
24 COLOM, Jacob Aertsz (1600-1673).

L’Ardante ou Flamboyante Colomne de la Mer.

1633 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
101

The English Pilot: Part V describing … the West-Coast of Africa from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope.

1757 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 20,000.00
165 BELLIN, Jacques Nicholas (1703-1772).

L’Hydrographie Francoise.

c.1800. GBP 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 20,000.00
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
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