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Auction Name Maps and Atlases - bidstart 4/13 Total Sales (USD) 358,712.80
Auction Date April 27, 2022 - April 27, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 353,855.00
Sale Number #187 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 431,735.00
Total Lots 773
Sold Lots 641 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 423,200.00
% of Lots Sold 82.92% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 516,230.00
Unsold Lots 132 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.49%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
203 U.S. Army

[On 6 Sheets] Map of the Territory of the United States, West of the Mississippi River. Prepared by Authority of the Hon. the Secretary of War..., 1879

 1879 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 16,675.00
617 Blaeu, Johannes

Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio..., 1655

 1655 USD 16,000.00 - 19,000.00 USD 13,800.00
7 Visscher, Claes Janszoon

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula Auctore N. I. Piscator, 1652

 1652 USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 11,500.00
725 Jefferson, Thomas

[Thomas Jefferson Appointment Signed], 1779

 1779 USD 8,000.00 - 9,500.00 USD 10,925.00
2 Ortelius, Abraham

Typus Orbis Terrarum, 1571

 1571 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 5,750.00
73 Ortelius, Abraham

Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, 1571

 1571 USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 5,750.00
677 Ortelius, Abraham

Maris Pacifici, (quod Vulgo Mar del Zur) cum Regionibus Circumiacentibus, Insulisque in Eodem Passim Sparsis, Novissima Descriptio, 1589

 1589 USD 8,000.00 - 9,500.00 USD 5,750.00
131 Delisle, Guillaume

Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France et des Decouvertes qui y ont ete Faites Dressee sur Plusieurs Observations et sur un Grand Nombre de Relations Imprimees ou Manuscrites, 1703

 1703 USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 5,700.00
74 Bry, Theodore de

America sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeorum Inferior Globi Terrestris Pars, 1596

 1596 USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,100.00
282 U.S. War Department

Memoir Descriptive of the March of a Division of the United States Army..., 1850

 1850 USD 700.00 - 850.00 USD 4,800.00
614 Nieuhoff, Johann

L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie..., 1665

 1665 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,500.00
174 Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume De

[Three Volumes] Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain Addressees a Wm. S... on Esqr. Depuis l'Annee 1770 Jusqu'en 1786..., 1787

 1787 USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,200.00
75 Mercator, Michael

America sive India Nova, ad Magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis Imitationem in Compendium Redacta, 1609

 1609 USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,900.00
499 Blaeu, Willem

Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae, Caeterarumque Regionum Illi Adiacentium Exacta Descriptio..., 1634

 1634 (circa) USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,900.00
51 Cellarius, Andreas

Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum, sive Machina Orbium Mundi Ex Hypotheis Ptolemaica in Plano Disposita, 1661

 1661 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,600.00
54 Philip, George

[Orrery with 3-inch Terrestrial Globe], 1900

 1900 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,600.00
76 Hondius, Jodocus

America, 1609

 1609 USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
112 Esnauts & Rapilly

Carte Detaillee des Possessions Angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale…, 1777

 1777 USD 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,300.00
735 Bonne/Lattre

Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre [bound with] Recueil de Cartes sur la Geographie Ancienne, 1787

 1787 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,300.00
47 Robert de Vaugondy, Didier

Hemisphere Austral ou Antarctique Projette sur un Horizon dont le Zenith est Situe a 140 Degres de Longit? Orient? de l'Isle de Fer..., 1777

 1777 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
97 Price, Senex & Maxwell

North America Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Society at London, and the Royal Academy at Paris, 1710

 1710 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,000.00
224

Los Angeles City Directory 1888. Including a Directory of Pasadena..., 1888

 1888 USD 400.00 - 475.00 USD 2,880.00
182 Robert de Vaugondy, Didier

Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland Dressee sur la Grande Carte Angloise de Mrs. Josue Fry et Pierre Jefferson, 1755

 1755 USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,760.00
260 Smith, J. Calvin

Map of Long Island, with the Environs of New-York and the Southern Part of Connecticut, Compiled from Various Surveys & Documents, 1856

 1856 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,760.00
737 La Perouse, Comte Jean F. Galoup, de

Atlas du Voyage de La Perouse, 1797

 1797 (circa) USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,640.00
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    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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    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.
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    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.
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