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Auction Info

Auction Name
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Auction Date
12/09/2025 - 12/09/2025
Sale Number
#2724
Total Lots
371
Sold Lots
351.0
Lots Sold
94.61%
Unsold Lots
20
Total Sales (USD)
947,007.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
612,250.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
871,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
644,650.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
919,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
103.04%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
341 John James Audubon

(BIRDS.) Carolina Parrot. Plate 26

1827 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 95,250.00
284 Jan Huygen van Linschoten

(TRAVEL -- SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NAVIGATION.) Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Orientales... Le Grand Routier de Mer... Description de l'Amerique

1619 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 30,480.00
311 (Lord John Elphinstone

INDIA.) Farewell address on the official departure of Lord Elphinstone as governor of the Madras district of India (1837-1842)

29 August, 1842 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 27,940.00
239 Fielding Lucas

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of all the Known Countries in the World

1823 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 25,400.00
310

(DRAWINGS -- SINGAPORE, PENANG, SOUTH AFRICA.) Assembled album containing over 80 ink sketches and watercolor drawings of various places, including Singapore, Penang, South Africa (Umgeni, Umlalaas, Zululand), St. Helena Island, etc.

1860s-1880s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 22,860.00
42 [Jacques Nicolas Bellin]; and Jean Lattre

(BOSTON.) Plan de la Ville et du Port de Boston Capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre

[1760s-1770s] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,050.00
156 Cornelis de Jode

(NORTH AMERICA.) Americae pars Borealis, Florida, Baccalaos, Canada, Corterealis

1593 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 15,240.00
265 Sebastian Munster

(EARLY MODERN GEOGRAPHY.) Cosmographei, Oder Beschreibung Aller Lander

1558 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,970.00
263 John Bachmann

(CIVIL WAR.) Panorama of the Seat of War

1861 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,700.00
364

(PERSIAN MINIATURE -- SAFAVID DYNASTY.) Khusrau Before the Palace of Shirin

sixteenth century USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 12,700.00
283 Joris van Spilbergen

(TRAVEL -- EAST INDIA COMPANY.) Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum

1619 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 11,430.00
15 Vincenzo Coronelli

(AMERICAS.) America Settentrionale. [and] America Meridionale

circa 1690 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,220.00
89 Herman Moll

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA -- THE BEAVER MAP.) A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America

1715 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,795.00
112

(GEORGETOWN.) Edward Sachse & Co. View of Georgetown D.C.

circa 1855 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 10,795.00
244 Thomas Gamaliel Bradford

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the United States and the Adjacent Countries

1838 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
111 Orange Green, surveyor

(GEORGIA -- GOLD RUSH -- CHEROKEE REMOVAL.) Map of the Third & Fourth Sections of that part of Georgia Now Known as the Cherokee-Territory in Which are Delineated all the Districts & Lots Which by an Act of the General Assembly Were Designated the Gold Di

early 1830s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 10,795.00
237 John Reid

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) The American Atlas

1796 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 10,160.00
233 Aaron Arrowsmith

(WORLD.) Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, Exhibiting all the New Discoveries to the Present Time: With the Tracks of the Most Distinguished Navigators Since the Year 1700, Carefully Collected from the Best Charts, Maps, Voyages, &c. Extant

1790 (but circa 1800) USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 10,160.00
275

(NEW YORK CITY.) The Citizens' Association of New York, Council of Hygiene and Public Health; and Egbert Viele

1866 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,900.00
163 Gerard van Keulen

(NORTH AMERICA.) Carte de la Nouvelle France ou se Voit le 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 & de la Floride, de la Louisiane, de la Virginie

[1720] USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,525.00

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