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Auction Name: Exclusive Maps Auction
Auction Date: 12/20/2025 - 12/20/2025
Sale Number: #122025
Total Lots: 27
Sold Lots: 15.0
Lots Sold: 55.56%
Unsold Lots: 12

Total Sales (EUR): 7,905.77
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 7,750.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 13,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 17,250.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 29,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 26.80%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
94397523		Constantinopelen/Galata/Pera		EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,417.00
99611609		Insularum Melitae vulgo Maltae et Gozae		EUR 1,100.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,417.00
99261750		Orbis Terrarum tabula recens emendata		EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 872.00
99613325		Regnum Poloniae		EUR 450.00 - 900.00	EUR 468.70
99583322	Louis Brion de La Tour -- Robert Lefebvre	Atlas Itineraire de L'Europe, adapte, quant a la France, aux Messageries Royales, Nouvelle	1776	EUR 750.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 453.44
99756777		Le Cours du Po [Lot of 5 maps]		EUR 500.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 436.00
99613444		Tabula Ducatuum Livoniae et Curlandiae		EUR 450.00 - 900.00	EUR 425.10
99611961		Imperium Turcicum in Europae, Asia et Africa (...)		EUR 450.00 - 800.00	EUR 425.10
99613764		Carte des Isles de Majorque, Minorque et Yvice		EUR 350.00 - 600.00	EUR 381.50
99551911		Eiland Formosa, met een Gedeelte der Kust van China		EUR 350.00 - 600.00	EUR 338.99
99697875		Belgii pars septentrionalis communi nomine vulgo Hollandia		EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 327.00
99614171		Situs Terrae Promissionis. S.S. Bibliorum intelligentiam		EUR 350.00 - 800.00	EUR 316.10
99610844		Hierosolyma Clarissima		EUR 350.00 - 900.00	EUR 305.20
99482093		Tabula Generalis Sabaudiae		EUR 150.00 - 400.00	EUR 179.85
99623934	Jacques Chiquet	Nouveau Atlas Francois	1719	EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 142.79
99624469		Introductionis in Universam Geographiam ..		EUR 1,100.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
99715103		Hamburg, the most famous free city of the Empire and the Hanseatic League		EUR 850.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
99715113		Map of Italy, Sardinia, Corsica		EUR 850.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
99612587		Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio		EUR 900.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
99614010		Peloponnesus hodie Morea regnum		EUR 1,600.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold

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Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000