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

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) The American Atlas

1796 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 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
33 Laurent Fries; after Martin Waldseemuller

(ATLANTIC -- NEW WORLD.) Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula

1535 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,890.00
23 Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres

(AMERICAN NORTHEAST.) The Coast of Nova Scotia, New England, New-York, Jersey, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence. The Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John, Antecosty, Sable &c. and Soundings Thereof

1777 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,255.00
43 Joseph Frederick Wallet des Barres

(BOSTON.) [Boston Bay]

November 13th, 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,255.00
238 Fielding Lucas

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) A General Atlas, of All the Known Countries in the World

circa 1820 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,255.00
190 John Thornton

(SOUTHEAST ASIA.) A Chart of the Easternmost Part of the East Indies and China, from Cape Comarine to Japan, with all the Adjacent Islands

circa 1703 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,858.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.