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Auction Name Cartography, Exploration & Voyages: The Warren Heckrotte and Margaret Gee Collection (with additions) Total Sales (USD) 184,470.00
Auction Date September 19, 2019 - September 19, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 158,650.00
Sale Number #683 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 247,300.00
Total Lots 223
Sold Lots 169 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 202,350.00
% of Lots Sold 75.78% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 315,900.00
Unsold Lots 54 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.39%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
122

Rossiyskiy Atlas... [in Cyrillic characters]

1800 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,000.00
93 De l'Isle, Joseph Nicolas, et al.

Russischer Atlas, welcher in einer General-Charte und neunzehen Special-Charten das gesamte Russische Reich und dessen angräntzende Länder, nach den Regeln der Erd-Beschreibung und den neuesten Observationen vorstellig macht

1745 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,400.00
163 Goddard, George H.

Britton & Rey's Map of the State of California Compiled from the U.S. Land & Coast Surveys, the several Military, Scientific & Rail Road Explorations, the State & County Boundary Surveys made under the Order of the Surveyor General of California, & from P

1857 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,200.00
47 Burney, James

A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean...

1803-1817 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,000.00
139 Brion de la Tour, Louis

Mappe-Monde Celeste Terrestre et Historique Augmentee des Vouages et Decouvertes du Celebre Capitaine Cook...

1786 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,600.00
198 Milleson, M.

An Improved Topographical Map of the Northern & Middle Mines. Compiled from the most recent & authentic Surveys, showing a practicable Route for the great Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, through the Sierra Nevada at Fredonyers Pass. With a faithfull delineat

1854 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,600.00
130 Arrowsmith, Aaron

A Chart of the World upon Mercator's Projection, Shewing All the New Discoveries to the present Time With The Tracks of the most distinguished Navigators since the Year 1700 carefully collected from the Best Charts, Maps, Voyages, &c. Extent, and Regulate

1790-[1805] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,700.00
37 Roosevelt, Theodore

Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains: Comprising "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" and "The Wilderness Hunter"

1899 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,800.00
87

Sectional Map of the City of Los Angeles, California. Scale 600' - 1"

1939 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,500.00
88 Ningbo Huahua Bible Publications [in Chinese]

Geography (in Chinese)

1853 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,500.00
85 Buache, Philippe

Exposé Des Découvertes Au Nord De La Grande Mer, Soit dans le Nord-Est de l'Asie, soit dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique, entre la 160. dégré de Longitude & le 287. & depuis le 43 Découvertes Des Russes Depuis 20 ans...

1753 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
41 Venegas, Miguel

A Natural and Civil History of California: Containing an Accurate Description of that Country, Its Soils, Mountains, Harbours, Lakes, Rivers and Seas; Its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals and Famous Fishery for Pearls. The Customs of Inhabitants, Their Relig

1759 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,600.00
73 Akhmatov, I.

[In Russian:] Geographical, Historical, and Chorographical Atlas of the Russian State, Based on the History of N.M. Karamzin

1845 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,600.00
91 Anonymous

Untitled atlas of 8 maps showing the variations of the compass due to magnetic influence on James Cook's second and third voyages

[c.1785] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,300.00
191 Strahlenberg, Phillip Johann von

Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariæ Magnæ tam orientalis quam occidentalis in particularibus et gereralibus. Territoriis una cum Delineatione totius Imperii Russici imprimis Siberiæ accurate ostensa

1730 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
55 Fleurieu, C. P. Claret comte de

Voyage Autour du Monde, pendant les années 1790,1791 et 1792 par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique, auquel on a joint des recherches sur les terres australes de Drake et un examen critique du voyage de Roggween, avec cartes et f

An VI-VIII [1797-1800] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
57 Herbert, Thomas

A Relation Of Some Yeares Travaile, Begvnne Anno 1626. Into Afrique And The Greater Asia, Especially The Territories Of The Persian Monarchie, And Some Parts Of The Oriental Indies, And Iles Adiacent. Of Their Religion, Language, Habit, Discent, Ceremonie

1634 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,000.00
63 Meares, John

Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West

1790 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
83 Broukner, Isaac

Nouvel atlas de Marine composé d'une carte générale, et de XII cartes particulières, qui représentent le globe terrestre jusqu'au 82e degré du côté du nord, et jusqu'au 60e du côté du Sud. Le tout dressé sur les observations les plus nouvelles

1749 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
36

File of silver print photographs of Theodore Roosevelt, his funeral and related scenes

c. 1905-1919 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,280.00
17 Farwell, William B.

The Chinese At Home and Abroad

1885 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,160.00
142 Allan, Thomas J. & Edw. T. Williams

Map of the City of Oakland and Adjacent Territory

1914 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,160.00
151 Castillo, Domingo del.

[Nautical chart of the Pacific coast of Mexico, Baja California, and the Gulf of California]

1770 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
135 Bodmer, Carl

Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in Front of their Medecine [sic] Lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hankush

c.1840-43 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
19 Hamilton, Alexander; James Madison; & John Jay

The Federalist, on the New Constitution, written in 1788... With an Appendix, containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helficius, on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; also, the original Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United St

1818 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,680.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    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.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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