Interesting items for all collectors feature in the sale, with Martin Waldseemüller’s 1513 Tabula Terre Nova; a fine eighteenth-century manuscript map of the Holy Land; the second volume of Willem and Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Novus containing maps of the Americas; John Speed’s miniature Prospect of the World; and Joseph de Lisle’s important 1745 Russian Atlas. The auction will also include city views, flowers by Pierre Joseph Redouté, birds by John James Audubon and a large collection of fine lithographs by Currier & Ives.
Atlases
Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, Lyons, 1535. $20,000 to $25,000.
Nuremberg Chronicle
Hartmann Schedel, Liber Cronicarum cum Figuris et Ymaginibus ab Inicio Mundi, Nuremberg, 1493. $40,000 to $60,000.
Biblia Das ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft Durch D. Martin Luther Verteutscht, illustrated cartographic Bible, Basel, 1665. $1,500 to $2,500.
Thomas Jeffrys, The American Atlas, London, 1776-77. $10,000 to $15,000.
Miniature Atlas
John Speed, A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, 20 miniature maps, London, 1665. $2,000 to $3,000.
Hawaiian Imprint
He Mau Palapala Aina A Me Na Niele No Ka Hoikehonua, No Na Kamalii, engraving by George Luther Kapeau, Lahainaluna Seminary, 1840. $2,500 to $3,500.
Maps
Cornelis de Jode, Africae Vera Forma, et Situs, Antwerp, 1593. $4,000 to $6,000.
Martin Waldseemüller, Tabula Terre Nove, woodcut map of the Atlantic Ocean, Strasbourg, 1513. $20,000 to $30,000.
John and William Norman, A New and Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeak, Boston, circa 1803. $18,000 to $22,000.
Maria Vincenzo Coronelli, America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno, Venice, 1688. $7,000 to $10,000.
Natural History Books & Plates
Johann Christoph Volkamer, Nürnbergische Hesperides, Nuremberg, 1708-1714. $12,000 to $18,000.
Jacob Bigelow, American Medical Botany, cited as the first botanical work published in America, Boston, 1817-20. $1,500 to $2,500.
John James Audubon, Iceland or Jer Falcon, chromolithograph, New York, 1860. $3,000 to $4,000.
Historic Prints & Illustrations
Currier & Ives, The Mississippi in Time of Peace, hand-colored lithograph, New York, 1865. $6,000 to $9,000.
Buffalo Hunt, Chase, oil painting after George Catlin, 19th century. $2,500 to $3,500.
Japanese Manuscripts, Maps & Imprints
A sushi banquet for Commodore Perry & his officers, ink and gouache, Japan, 1854. $2,000 to $3,000.
Fine manuscript map of Commodore Perry’s Black Ship squadron entering Edo Bay, with manuscript sketchbook, ink and watercolor, Japan, circa 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
Archive of 15 illustrated diaries and maps by a young Japanese Christian, 1938-1954. $1,500 to $2,500.
Johann Bayer, Uranometria, Omnium Asterismorum Continens Schemata, Nova Methodo Delineata, Aeris Laminis Expressa, 51 celestial charts, Augsburg or Ulm, circa 1603. $5,000 to $7,500.
Emmanuel Dieuaide, Tableau d’Aviation, 53 highly unusual designs for early flying machines, Paris, circa 1880. $400 to $600.
Exhibition Begins December 12
The exhibition is free to attend and open to the public. We welcome
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Exhibition Hours
Thursday, December 12 — 10 am to 6 pm
Friday, December 13 — 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday, December 14 — 12 am to 5 pm
Monday, December 15 — 10 am to 6 pm
Tuesday, December 17 — 10 am to Noon
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