A collection of fine maps and atlases from Martayan Lan.
Martayan Lan has published their Catalogue 44 of Fine Antique Maps & Atlases.
Don't use these maps for directions. You will surely get lost. These are old, some dating back to the 16th century. Considering the data available at the time, these mapmakers did a fine job, but their image of the world, and the New World in particular, was very different from what we know today. Nonetheless, it is fascinating to look back at the world as earlier generations imagined it, and as the great mapmakers depicted it to their curious customers. Included in this latest collection are many wall maps, some of which combine art with knowledge, or perhaps, "knowledge." Here are a few.
Edmund Halley is probably best remembered as an astronomer, particularly for the comet which bears his name. However, Halley was also a more broad based scientist and explorer as well. One of his contributions to both science and exploration was his map/chart circa 1702, Carte Generale De Toutes Les Costes Du Monde Avec Un Indice Des Variations Magnetiques… This is the Mortier, Amsterdam (French) version of his chart published in English in 1702 (it probably was published shortly after the English edition, though there is a chance it was earlier). In 1701, Halley published a chart showing magnetic declinations for just the Atlantic, while this map, based on observations Halley gathered from others, also covered the Pacific. Magnetic declinations, plotted in contour lines on Halley's chart, show areas with the same angles between true and magnetic north. This can help voyagers plot the most direct route, and Halley believed it would also enable them to determine longitude. Item 11. Priced at $45,000.
Item 23 is another seafarer's chart from a man better known for other things. It is the French printing (circa 1781-83) of Benjamin Franklin's map of the Gulf Stream. Franklin's charts are rare as they were printed for use by sea pilots, as opposed to being commercially published. Franklin had served as Deputy Postmaster General for the colonies in the 1760s when he discovered that some of his postal ships were taking two weeks longer to return from Europe than other merchant ships heavily laden with goods. Franklin had the whaling Captain Timothy Folger draw him a map of the Gulf Stream so that ship captains would know what area to avoid. The first version of his chart was published in England in 1769, but in the early 1780s, with the Revolution taking place, Franklin was stationed in Paris. That is where this edition was printed. $33,500.
Item 26 is the 1641 Jansson/Hondius Amsterdam map America Septentrionalis, North America. The Dutch were still very much involved with America at the time, but no one new much about it beyond the Atlantic and Gulf Coast. Outside of this fairly accurate coast, the map does have a reasonable portrayal of Hudson Bay and some lakes in the general vicinity of the Great Lakes. Most of the interior of the continent is a blank. This map also contains one of the earliest depictions of a myth that would last for almost a century - that California was an island. A notation on this map perhaps explains how this myth came to be so widely accepted. It refers to a Dutch captain who obtained a map depicting California as an island from a captured Spanish ship. In other words, it was the Spanish who were responsible for this misconception. $8,500.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE Le Neptune Oriental
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: CASSAS Eaux fortes de la Sicile et quelques vues d’Espagne
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: CASSINI DE THURY Carte générale et particulière de la France.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: JOUY; GARNERAY Vues des côtes de France dans l'Océan et dans la Méditerranée
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LA PÉROUSE Voyage autour du monde
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIERE Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LICENT Hoang Ho, Pai Ho, Loan Ho, Leao Ho. Itinéraires suivis dans le bassin du golfe du Pei Tcheuly
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: FRENCH SCHOOL FROM THE 19th CENTURY Panorama d’Athènes
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: PEETERS Description des principales villes, havres et isles du golfe de Venise
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: PÉRON; FREYCINET Voyage de découverte aux terres australes
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: STACKELBERG La Grèce : vues pittoresques et topographiques.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: VALENTINER Atlas des Sonnensystems.
Forum Auctions Online Sale: The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper Ending 7th November, 2024
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). The Thirteen Problems, first edition, The Crime Club, 1932. £15,000 to £20,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Dumb Witness, first edition, 1937. £3,000 to £4,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: Berkeley (Anthony). Jumping Jenny, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. £800 to £1,200.
Forum Auctions Online Sale: The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper Ending 7th November, 2024
Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.
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Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
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Freeman’s | Hindman Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana November 14
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.