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Auction Info

Auction Name
Maps and Atlases
Auction Date
02/11/2026 - 02/11/2026
Sale Number
#207
Total Lots
758
Sold Lots
577.0
Lots Sold
76.12%
Unsold Lots
181
Total Sales (USD)
289,396.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
313,150.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
381,435.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
408,710.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
498,705.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
58.03%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5 Plancius, Petrus

"Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus"

 1594 (dated) USD 15,000.00 - 17,000.00 USD 12,650.00
7 Colom, Jacob Aertz

"Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula"

 1650 (circa) USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,650.00
36 Schedel, Hartmann

"Secunda Etas Mundi"

 1493 (published) USD 14,000.00 - 17,000.00 USD 11,500.00
37 Ptolemy/Sylvanus

"[Untitled - Ancient World]"

 1511 (published) USD 14,000.00 - 17,000.00 USD 9,200.00
197 Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

"A New Map of Texas Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining. Compiled from the Most Recent Authorities"

 1846 (dated) USD 9,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,050.00
285

"The Territory of Nebraska Embracing the Public Surveys Up to the Summer of 1857..."

 1857 (dated) USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,900.00
10 Pitt, Moses

"Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula"

 1680 (circa) USD 9,500.00 - 11,000.00 USD 6,900.00
4 Ortelius, Abraham

"Typus Orbis Terrarum"

 1579 (published) USD 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,325.00
65 Munster, Sebastian

"Tavola dell' Isole Nuove, le Quali son Nominate Occidentali; & Indiane per Diversi Rispetti"

 1558 (circa) USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,700.00
1 Wit, Frederick de

"[Lot of 4] Nova Totius Americae Descriptio [and] Nova Africa Descriptio [and] Asiae Nova Descriptio [and] Nova Europae Descriptio"

 1668 (circa) USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,400.00
11 Blaeu/Valck

"Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per Utrumque Polum Conspectus"

 1695 (circa) USD 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,800.00
725 Homann, Johann Baptist

"Kleiner Atlas Scholasticus von Sechs und Zwantzig Charten"

 1715 (circa) USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 4,200.00
67 Speed, John

"America with Those Known Parts in That Unknowne Worlde Both People and Manner of Buildings Discribed and Inlarged..."

 1626 (dated) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
240 Railroad Companies, (Various)

"Township Map of Peninsular Florida Issued by the Associated Railway Land Department of Florida"

 1890 (dated) USD 400.00 - 475.00 USD 3,600.00
2 Fries, Lorenz

"[Title on Verso] Tabula Moder. Gronlandiae et Russiae"

 1525 (published) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
233 Russell, John C.

"Plan of the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, Ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by Them Established as the Seat of Their Government, After the Year 1800"

 1795 (circa) USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 3,000.00
114 Gastaldi, Giacomo

"Tierra Nueva"

 1548 (published) USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,000.00
80 Hondius/Jansson

"America Septentrionalis"

 1680 (circa) USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,880.00
24 Dunn, Samuel

"[On 4 Sheets] A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe; with All the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations, Containing the Most Interesting Particulars in the Solar, Starry and Mundane System"

 1794 (dated) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,760.00
192 Desilver, Charles

"A New Map of Kansas by W.H. Holmes"

 1859 (dated) USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 2,640.00
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