• Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
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Old World Auctions: Maps and Atlases

Auction Reports

Auction Name Maps and Atlases Total Sales (USD) 363,790.00
Auction Date February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 369,805.00
Sale Number #202 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 453,105.00
Total Lots 789
Sold Lots 630 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 437,935.00
% of Lots Sold 79.85% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 536,240.00
Unsold Lots 159 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.84%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
746 John Speed

The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine [bound with] A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World

1676 USD 70,000.00 - 85,000.00 USD 57,500.00
741

The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum for June 1776. Number VI. Volume II

1776 USD 9,000.00 - 11,000.00 USD 14,950.00
73 Henry Briggs

The North Part of America Conteyning Newfoundland, New England, Virginia, Florida, New Spaine, and Nova Francia...

1625 (circa) USD 16,000.00 - 19,000.00 USD 13,225.00
745 Abraham Ortelius

Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon; sive Veteris Geographiae Tabulae...

1624 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,200.00
3 Abraham Ortelius

Typus Orbis Terrarum

1571 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 8,625.00
2 Sebastian Munster

Typus Orbis Universalis

1540 USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 6,900.00
538 Johannes van Keulen

Nieuwe Paskaart van de Geheele Swarte Zee Beginnende van Constantinopolen tot Azak...

1709 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,900.00
695 Abraham Ortelius

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

1589 USD 8,000.00 - 9,500.00 USD 6,900.00
1 Waldseemuller/Fries

Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Exactissime Depicta

1522 USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,325.00
9 Nicolas Visscher

Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula

1658 (circa) USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,325.00
58 Sebastian Munster

Tabula Novarum Insnlarum, quas Diversis Respectibus Occidentales & Indianas Vocant

1554 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,325.00
59 Abraham Ortelius

Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

1575 USD 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,325.00
18 Nicolas Bailleul

Nouvelle Mappe-Monde avec la Representation des Deux Emispheres Celestes, les Disques du Soleil, et de la Lune, et les Diferents Sentiments sur le Mouvemt. des Planetes...

1755 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,100.00
60 Jodocus Hondius

America

1609 USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,100.00
75 Coronelli/Nolin

L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la Partie Septentrionale des Indes Occidentales ou se Trouve le Canada ou Nouvelle France la Floride la Virginie les Isles Antilles le Nouveau Mexique et la Nouvele. Espagne...

1704 USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 5,100.00
61 Willem Blaeu

Americae Nova Tabula

1634 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
179 Fremont/Preuss

[Lot of 7] Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon Commencing at the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River...In VII Sections... [with] Report No. 145...Canal or Railroad Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

1849 USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 3,600.00
122 Guillaume Delisle

Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressee sur un Grand Nombre de Memoires Entrau'tres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire

1718 USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,180.00
74 Sanson/Mariette

Amerique Septentrionale par N. Sanson d'Abbeville...

1650 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,000.00
262 Theodore de Bry

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

1608 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,000.00
158 Johann Michael Seligmann

Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium cum Partibus Adjacendibus Delineatio ad Exemplar Londinense in Lucem Edita

1755 USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,880.00
5 Petrus Plancius

Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus...

1624 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,760.00
102 Henry Abraham Chatelain

Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit les Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi Aujour d'hui S. Louis, aux Environs des quelles se Trouvent les Etats, Pais, Nations, Peuples &c. de la Floride, de la Louisiane, de la Virginie...

1719 USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 2,400.00
156 John Bachmann

Panorama of the Seat of War. Birds Eye View of Virginia, Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia

1861 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 2,040.00
753 Johnson & Browning

Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, with Descriptins, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical

1861 USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 1,920.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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