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Neal Auction Company: Louisiana Purchase Auction - Session I

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Auction Name Louisiana Purchase Auction - Session I Total Sales (USD) 71,662.50
Auction Date November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 25,100.00
Sale Number #112025 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 37,450.00
Total Lots 40
Sold Lots 40.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 25,100.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 37,450.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 191.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

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

"Baltimore Oriole", hand-colored aquatint with engraving, Plate 12, from The Birds of America, Havell edition, "J.Whatman 1833" watermark, "Taylor Clark, Baton Rouge, LA" label ...

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 35,100.00
107 John James Audubon

"Florida Jay", hand-colored aquatint with engraving, Plate 87, from The Birds of America, Havell edition, "J.Whatman 1833" watermark, framed., Sheet: 37 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (96.2 x...

 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,175.00
51 Estaban Miro

Louisiana Spanish Governor Estaban Miro (1744-1795) Signed Manuscript Document

 1789 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,900.00
55

Five Antique Insurance Map Folios of New Orleans

 1937 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,770.00
53

Monumental Antique Army Engineers Flood Map of the Mississippi River

 1930 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 3,120.00
45 John William Hill (American, 1812-1879) and Benjamin Franklin Smith (American, 1830-1927)

New Orleans from St. Patrick's Church 1852

 1852 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,820.00
60 Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (French, 1697-1782)

Carte de la Louisiane

 1752 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,235.00
105 John James Audubon

"Roseate Spoonbill" lithograph

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,170.00
56

[Antique Map of the City of Jefferson, LA]

 1860 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,105.00
74

Collection of US Obsolete and Confederate Currency

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,040.00
43 Jefferson, Thomas.

Jefferson, Thomas. An Account of Louisiana, being An Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury, November 1803, Printed John Conrad, Philadelphia (and others), 12mo (8 3/8 x...

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 975.00
104 John (1804) Gould

"Tochilus Alexandri" and "Heliopaedica Xantusi", 2 hand-colored lithographs with gum arabic

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 975.00
73

Collection of International Obsolete Currency

 most 20th c., USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 845.00
47 X. Magny

Survey of Napoleon Avenue from the Mississippi River to Arcadia (Clara) Street

 c. 1851 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 780.00
52

Four Antique Mississippi River Maps

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 617.50
68

Louis XV Miniature Atlas

 1762, USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 585.00
49

Five Manuscript Louisiana Land Survey Maps

 1818 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 552.50
59 After Marie Adrien Persac (American/Louisiana, 1823-1873),

"Plantations on the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans, 1858"

 1967 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 520.00
65

[Antique Mississippi Coast Map]

 1841 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 520.00
54

[Texas-Louisiana Oil Fields]

 1906 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 487.50
61

U.S. Coast Survey Map of Horn Island Pass, Mississippi Sound

 1853 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 487.50
62

U.S. Coast Survey Map of the Gulf Coast

 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 487.50
63

U.S. Coast Survey Map of Mobile Bay

 1851 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 487.50
64

U.S. Coast Survey Map of the Harbor of Pass Christian

 1851 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 487.50
57 After Jean Hyacinthe de Laclotte

"Defaite De L'armee Anglaise Forte De 12,000 Hommes Commandee Par Sir Edward Packenham", aquatint and engraving

 1817 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 455.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    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
  • <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.
    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.