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Auction Name Maps and Atlases - bidstart 8/28 Total Sales (USD) 216,808.80
Auction Date September 11, 2024 - September 11, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 225,895.00
Sale Number #199 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 277,915.00
Total Lots 770
Sold Lots 582 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 333,450.00
% of Lots Sold 75.58% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 409,395.00
Unsold Lots 188 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 52.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
361 Ortelius, Abraham

"Islandia", Ortelius, Abraham

1585 USD 9,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,600.00
55 Munster, Sebastian

"Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula", Munster, Sebastian

1545 USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,400.00
56 Ortelius, Abraham

"Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio", Ortelius, Abraham

1587 USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,200.00
518 van Keulen en Zoonen, Johannes

"Aan Zyne Doorluchtigste Hoogheid Willem de Vyfde ... Wassende Graade Paskaart van de Zwarte Zee...", van Keulen en Zoonen, Johannes

1775 (circa) USD 1,100.00 - 1,400.00 USD 3,900.00
573 Braun & Hogenberg

"Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis", Braun & Hogenberg

1572 USD 1,900.00 - 2,300.00 USD 3,900.00
619

"Carte Topographique de l'Ile de Hong Kong",

1874 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,900.00
279 Bry, Theodore de

"[Grands Voyages, Part I] Admiranda Narratio Fida Tamen, de Commodis et Incolarum Ritibus Virginiae, Nuper Admodum ab Anglis...", Bry, Theodore de

1608 (circa) USD 1,900.00 - 2,200.00 USD 3,600.00
637 Bry, Johann Theodore de

"[Petits Voyages, Part VIII] Achter Theil der Orientalischen Indien / Begreiffend Erstlich ein Historische Beschreibung der Schiffart...", Bry, Johann Theodore de

1606 USD 4,750.00 - 5,500.00 USD 3,480.00
652 Blaeu, Willem

"Africae Nova Descriptio", Blaeu, Willem

1663 (circa) USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 2,880.00
622 Speed, John

"The Kingdome of China Newly Augmented", Speed, John

1626 USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 2,640.00
105 Wytfliet, Cornelis

"Norumbega et Virginia", Wytfliet, Cornelis

1607 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,400.00
153 Covens & Mortier

"Carte General de la Caroline. Dresse sur les Memoires le Plus Nouveaux par le Sieua S...", Covens & Mortier

1730 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,400.00
399 Speed, John

"The Kingdome of Irland Devided into Severall Provinces, and the Againe Devided into Counties. Newly Described", Speed, John

1610 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,400.00
13 Moll, Herman

"A New and Correct Map of the World, Laid Down According to the Newest Discoveries, and from the Most Exact Observations", Moll, Herman

1730 (circa) USD 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,280.00
101 Senex, John

"A New Map of the English Empire in America viz Virginia Maryland Carolina Pennsylvania New York New Iarsey New England Newfoundland New France &c.", Senex, John

1719 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
129

"A New and Embellished Map of the United States. Compiled from the Latest & Most Authentic Documents",

1845 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,160.00
135 Blaeu, (Family)

"Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova", Blaeu, (Family)

1663 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 2,160.00
141 Hondius, Henricus

"Nova Virginiae Tabula", Hondius, Henricus

1630 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 2,040.00
73 Scherer, Heinrich

"America Borealis", Scherer, Heinrich

1699 USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 USD 1,920.00
646 Ortelius, Abraham

"Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus", Ortelius, Abraham

1579 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
50 Ptolemy/Sylvanus

"[Secunda Africae Tabula / Quarta Africae Tabula / Prima Asiae Tabula / Prima Africae Tabula]", Ptolemy/Sylvanus

1511 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 1,800.00
118 U.S. War Department

"Military Map of the United States", U.S. War Department

1869 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
183 Koppel, Charles

"[4 Early Views of California Bound in] Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean ... Volume V", Koppel, Charles

1856 USD 350.00 - 425.00 USD 1,800.00
363 Blaeu, Willem

"Europa Recens Descripta", Blaeu, Willem

1635 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,800.00
7 Stoopendaal, Daniel

"Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita", Stoopendaal, Daniel

1682 USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,680.00
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800