• Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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Old World Auctions: Maps and Atlases - Internet bidstart 6/3

Auction Reports

Auction Name Maps and Atlases - Internet bidstart 6/3 Total Sales (USD) 202,623.20
Auction Date June 10, 2020 - June 10, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 209,125.00
Sale Number #178 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 257,070.00
Total Lots 617
Sold Lots 502 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 258,200.00
% of Lots Sold 81.36% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 316,620.00
Unsold Lots 115 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.00%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3 Ritter, Franz

[Untitled - World], 1610

1610 (dated) USD 11,500.00 - 13,000.00 USD 9,200.00
590 Ptolemy/Ruscelli

La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino..., 1574

1574 (published) USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,900.00
48 Sanson, Nicolas

L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles et Exactes; et en Divers Traittez de Geographie & d'Histoire..., 1699

1699 (published) USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 5,100.00
1 Ortelius, Abraham

Typus Orbis Terrarum, 1587

1587 (dated) USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 4,800.00
5 Visscher, Nicolas

Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula, 1658

1658 (circa) USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 4,800.00
43 Ortelius, Abraham

Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, 1579

1579 (published) USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,500.00
89 Lodge, John

A New and Correct Map of North America in Which the Places of the Principal Engagements During the Present War, Are Accurately Inserted..., 1783

1783 (published) USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,500.00
592 Peeters, Jacques

L'Atlas en Abrege, ou Nouvelle Description du Monde, 1692

1692 (published) USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,900.00
44 Mercator, Michael

America sive India Nova, ad Magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis Imitationem, in Compendium Redacta, 1628

1628 (published) USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,000.00
593 Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel

A Comprehensive Atlas Geographical, Historical & Commercial, 1835

1835 (published) USD 2,500.00 - 3,250.00 USD 2,880.00
23 Mercator/Hondius

Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio, 1634

1634 (published) USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 2,760.00
114 Seutter/Lotter

Recens Edita Totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali Siti, Delineatio Cura et Sumtibus, 1760

1760 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,400.00
377 Ortelius, Abraham

Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. Auctore Antonio Ienkensono Anglo..., 1587

1587 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 2,400.00
465 Blaeu, Willem

Asia Noviter Delineata, 1635

1635 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,280.00
314 Braun & Hogenberg

Vilna Lituaniae Metropolis, 1606

1606 (circa) USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,920.00
287 Munster, Sebastian

Europa Prima Nova Tabula, 1552

1552 (published) USD 1,100.00 - 1,400.00 USD 1,800.00
9

Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro in Plurimis Emendatus Auctus et Incunculis Illustratus, 1716

1716 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,680.00
72 Blaeu, Johannes

Extrema Americae Versus Boream, ubi Terra Nova Nova Francia, Adjacentiaqs, 1664

1664 (published) USD 1,900.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,680.00
105 Delisle/Covens & Mortier

Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressee sur un Grand Nombre de Memoires Entr'autres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire, 1730

1730 (circa) USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,680.00
433 Braun & Hogenberg

Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis, 1572

1572 (circa) USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,680.00
383 Braun & Hogenberg

Moscovia Urbs Metropolis Totius Russiae Albae, 1617

1617 (circa) USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,560.00
6 Blome, Richard

A Mapp or Generall Carte of the World Designed in Two Plaine Hemisphers, by Monsieur Sanson..., 1670

1670 (circa) USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,440.00
91 Rochefoucald Liancourt, Francois Alexander

Map of the United States, Canada &c. Intended to Illustrate the Travels of the Duke de la Rochefoucault Liancourt, 1799

1799 (dated) USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 1,440.00
292

Mapa Humoristico da Europa Guerra-1939, 1939

1939 (dated) USD 1,800.00 - 2,100.00 USD 1,440.00
41 Anon.

Pasquins Windkaart. Op de Windnegotie van 't Iaar 1720, 1720

1720 (dated) USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,320.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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