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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