• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea. £7,000-£10,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. £8,000-£12,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). A Happy Pair, 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: The Arabian Nights - Alf Laylah wa-Laylah. 1862. Starting price € 25.000
    Gonnelli: Depero futurista. 1927. Starting price € 9.000
    Gonnelli: Dalì, Alchimia dei Filosofi. 1976. Starting price € 3.800
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes. 1480. Starting price € 4.800
    Gonnelli: Cassini, De cometa. 1653. Starting price € 10.000
    Gonnelli: Cataldi, Trattato della quadratura del cerchio etc. 1612. Starting price € 8.000
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Cavalieri, Geometria indivisibilibus. 1635. Starting price € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Diophantus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Starting price € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Fontana, Novae coelestium observationes. 1646. Starting price € 10.000
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Galileo, Sidereus nuncius. 1610. Starting price € 100.000
    Gonnelli: Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones nonagentae. 1532. Starting price € 7.000
    Gonnelli: Jansson's Waterworld. 1657. Starting price € 20.000
  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Corner-stone Document of Irish Freedom: 1916 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC. €100,000 to €150,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Important 18th Century Gaelic Scribal Manuscript. Ceating (Dochtuir) [Keating, Dr. Geoffrey]. Forus Feasa ar Éirinn. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Irish Provincial Printed 18th Century Herbal. K'eogh (John). Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, or, A General Irish Herbal, Calculated for this Kingdom… €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Somerville (E.OE.) The Discontented Little Elephant. Inscribed presentation copy. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Broadside: “Great News from Dublin, Giving a True Account of the Seizing of a Ship coming from Ireland, with Fifty Commissions from the late King James…” €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Welch (Rbt.) Photographer: Six photographic prints of the Titanic. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece. O’Brien (Flann). At Swim-Two-Birds. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks : or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: [Natural History] Donovan (Edward). The Natural History of British Birds; or a Selection of the Most Rare, Beautiful and Interesting Birds which Inhabit this Country. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Authors First Publication. Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems. €1,000 to €1,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Heaney (Seamus). Remembering Malibu. €3,500 to €5,000.
  • Chiswick Auctions
    Bulldog Spirit: The Churchill Sale
    30th September 2025
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). A V for Victory Cartier silver pendant. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: British School, mid 20th century (After Graham Sutherland) Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Chiswick Auctions
    Bulldog Spirit: The Churchill Sale
    30th September 2025
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). Signed typed letter, 1963. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Collected Works, 38 vol., Centenary Limited Edition. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). Photographic half-length portrait, signed ("Winston Churchill, 1953"). £2,000 to £3,000.

Auction Reports

Old World Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Maps and Atlases
Auction Date
09/10/2025 - 09/10/2025
Sale Number
#205
Total Lots
705
Sold Lots
536
Lots Sold
76.03%
Unsold Lots
169
Total Sales (USD)
324,851.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
336,165.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
413,015.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
446,900.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
547,305.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
59.35%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
40 Jode, Cornelis de

Hemispheriu ab Aequinoctiali Linea, ad Circulu Poli Arctici / Hemispheriu ab Aequinoctiali Linea, ad Circulu Poli Atarctici

1593 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 28,750.00
62 Waldseemuller, Martin

Tabula Terre Nove

1513 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD 28,750.00
6 Plancius/Vrients

Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio ex Peritissimorum Totius Orbis Gaeographorum Operibus Desumta

1596 USD 16,000.00 - 19,000.00 USD 23,000.00
10 Visscher, Claes Janszoon

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula Auctore N. I. Piscator

1652 USD 14,000.00 - 17,000.00 USD 13,800.00
660 Vostre, Simon

[Illuminated Leaf]

1502 USD 800.00 - 950.00 USD 11,500.00
8 Speed, John

A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yt Have Beene Made by English or Strangers

1626 USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 11,500.00
63 Munster, Sebastian

Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula

1545 USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 9,200.00
234

A Map of Chicago's Gangland from Authentic Sources Designed to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue in Young Persons and Graphically Portray the Evils and Sin of Large Cities

1931 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,912.50
624 Ortelius, Abraham

Maris Pacifici, (quod Vulgo Mar del Zur) cum Regionibus Circumiacentibus, Insulisque, in Eodem Passim Sparsis, Novissima Descriptio

1589 USD 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,050.00
3 Ortelius, Abraham

Typus Orbis Terrarum

1579 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 5,400.00
671 Mercator/Jansson

Atlas Minor, das ist: ein Kurtze / Jedoch Grundliche Beschreibung der Ganzen Welt...

1631 USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,100.00
66 Speed, John

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

1626 USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,200.00
268 Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel

Texas

1838 USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 4,200.00
398

Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae Livoniae et Moscoviae Descriptio

1589 (circa) USD 700.00 - 850.00 USD 4,200.00
288 Ruscelli, Girolamo

Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1561 (circa) USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,200.00
4 Apianus, Peter Bienewitz

Charte Cosmographique, avec les Noms, Proprietez, Nature & Operations des Vents

1581 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
672 Wolff, Jeremias

[Untitled - Composite Atlas of 16 Maps]

1710 (circa) USD 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,300.00
109 Gastaldi, Giacomo

Tierra Nueva

1548 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,760.00
362 Blaeu, Willem

Europa Recens Descripta

1644 (circa) USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,760.00
9 Plancius, Petrus

Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus...

1645 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,400.00

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  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Sherley (Anthony). Sir Anthony Sherley his Relation of His Travels into Persia, 1st edition, 1613. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Buc'hoz (Pierre-Joseph). Premiere [seconde] Centurie des Plances Enluminees, 2 volumes, 1775-81. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Chinese Export School. An album of 25 fine large botanical studies in watercolour, circa 1830-40. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: World. Schedel (Hartmann), Secunda etas Mundi, Nuremberg: 1493. £5,000 to £8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Anderson (J. & G. A. Boulenger). Zoology of Egypt, 1898-1907. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Donovan (Edward). Natural History of the Insects of India, 1st edition, 1800. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Wolley (John). Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated Catalogue..., 1864-1907. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Wolley (John). Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated Catalogue..., 1864-1907. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Shackleton (Ernest). South, 1st edition, 1st impression, 1919. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Bell (Robert Anning, 1863-1933). Collection of 71 ex-libris by Robert Anning Bell. £300 to £500.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 vols in 3, 1st quarto edition, 1855-56. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: M'Cormick (Robert). Voyages of Discovery, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1884. £800 to £1,200.
  • Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
  • 30th September 2025
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Dickens: "Phiz" Original Drawings to Little Dorrit. 1857. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Shaw (George) & Nodder (Frederick P.) The Naturalist's Miscellany, 24 vols., 1789 – 1813. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Photographic. Afghanistan - Military [1878-80]. Photographic albumen prints. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Tuke Correspondence [Tea, Coffee & Cocoa] etc. 1732-1852. Over five hundred letters. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Indian Mutiny. Dodgson. Als' Lucknow 26th.Sept. 1857. £1,200 to £1,500.
  • Sotheby’s
    By a Lady
    1-15 October 2025
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.