Upcoming Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books—December 9, 2021

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Lot 335: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, hand-colored aquatint, from Audubon’s Birds of America, 1828. Estimate $80,000 to $100,000.

Maps

Lots 1 to 241

Caleb Kiffer’s Specialist Picks for Maps: Lots 43, 74, 121, 134 & 172

Lot 30: M.G. King for William J. Dingee, Map of Oakland, Berkley, and Alameda, San Francisco, 1878. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Lot 59: Hurlburt Wheeler, F.L. Biddlecom & W.A. Sherman, Civil & Mining Engineers, Map of the Ouray Gold DIstrict, Ouray County, Colo., Ouray, CO, 1890.
Lot 99: John & Charles Walker, A Newly Constructed and Improved Map of India…, London, 1846. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Lot 152: William R. Morley, Morley’s Map of New Mexico, New Mexico, 1873. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.

Atlases & Books with Maps

Lots 242 to 287
Lot 255: Johann Baptist Homann, Neuer Atlas Bestehend in Einig Curieusen Astronomischen Mappen und Vielen Auserlesenen Allerneuesten Land-Charten über die Gantze Welt, Nurember, 1710. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
Lot 266: D. Miguel Geli, album of finely hand-drawn studies for nineteenth-century Spanish forts and military bunkers, Spain, circa 1830. Estimate $1,200 to $1,800.

Color Plate & Illustrated Books

Lots 288 to 327
Lot 297: Francisco Henrique Carls, Album de Pernambuco e seus Arrabaldes, 53 chromolithographed plates, Recife, circa 1873. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
Lot 322: Marco Sadeler, Giovanni Battista Falda, and others, composite atlas comprising five seventeenth-century engraved series of Roman architecture, Rome, latter half seventeenth century. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500.

Historical Prints & Drawings

Lots 328 to 422

Caleb Kiffer’s Specialist Picks for Historical Prints & Drawings: Lots 326, 340, 382 & 415

Lot 323: Paul Hariot, Le Livre d’Or des Roses, Iconographie Histoire et Culture de la Rose, Paris, 1903. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Lot 329: Captain Thomas Davies, group of five engraved topographical scenes of North American waterfalls, London, 1768. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
Lot 393: Jacob Ruppert, Panoramic View of New York City and Vicinity, New York, 1912. Estimate $700 to $1,000.

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November 16, 2021
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