A Look Inside the Catalogue: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books

At Auction December 13

Complete Catalogue

 

Maps

An example of Abraham Ortelius’s map of Iceland will be included, famously and prominently featuring one of the most beloved aspects of seventeenth-century map-making: sea monsters.

 

Lot 164: Abraham Ortelius, Islandia, double-page hand-colored map of Iceland, Antwerp, 1603. Estimate $3,500 to $5,500.

 

Lot 58: Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres, A Chart of the Coast, from the Atlantic Neptune, London, 1780. Estimate $18,000 to $22,000.

Lot 58: Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres, A Chart of the Coast, from the Atlantic Neptune, London, 1780. Estimate $18,000 to $22,000.

 

Lot 53: Cornelis De Jode, Hemispheru ab Aequinoctiali Linea, ad Circulu Poli Arctici, from Speculum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1593. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.

Lot 53: Cornelis De Jode, Hemispheriu ab Aequinoctiali Linea, ad Circulu Poli Arctici, from Speculum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1593. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.

 

 

Japanese Maps & Commodore Perry

This sale will offer a wide selection of material, with a large run of early Japanese cartography, representing both the East and the rest of the world.

 

Lot 366: Manuscript report on the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry, with two portraits of Perry & Commander Henry A. Adams, Japan, circa 1853. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500.

 

image of lot 110

Lot 110: Color woodblock map of Uraga and Edo Bay showing the course of Commodore Perry’s Black Ship squadron, Japan, circa 1854. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.

 

Lot 106: Adrian Reland, Imperium Japonicum, first European map to use Sino-Japanese characters, Amsterdam, circa 1740. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500.

 

 

Atlases

 

Lot 265: Philippe Vandermaelen, Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Politique, Statistique et Mineralogique, first atlas to use lithography, Brussels, 1827. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.

Lot 265: Philippe Vandermaelen, Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Politique, Statistique et Mineralogique, North American volume of the first atlas to use lithography, Brussels, 1827. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.

 

 

Manuscript Material

 

Lot 122: Odo Staab, Didactic manuscript map of Europe, ink & watercolor, Germany, 1813. Estimate $800 to $1,200.

Lot 122: Odo Staab, didactic manuscript map of Europe, ink & watercolor, Germany, 1813. Estimate $800 to $1,200.

 

Lot 279: William Greene, manuscript ciphering book, Cambridge, MA, 1783-84. Estimate $800 to $1,200.

Lot 279: William Greene, manuscript ciphering book, Cambridge, MA, 1783-84. Estimate $800 to $1,200.

 

Image of lot 372

Lot 372: Edward Lear, Castello di Melfi in Basilicata, ink, graphite & watercolor, 1847. $3,000 to $5,000.

 

 

Natural History & Plate Books

Natural history, color plate books, and an example of one of Currier & Ives’ most alluring lithographs, previously owned by Americana-collecting legend Thomas Winthrop Streeter, will also be available for bidding.

 

Lot 342: Currier & Ives, Across the Continent / Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, hand-colored lithograph, New York 1868. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.

 

Lot 270: John James Audubon, The Birds of America, third octavo edition, New York, 1859. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.

Lot 270: John James Audubon, The Birds of America and Quadrupeds of North America, together in 10 matching octavo bindings. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.

 

Image of a plate from Lot 306

Lot 306: Frederick Sander, Reichenbachia, Orchids Illustrated & Described, in four volumes, St. Albans, 1888-94. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500.

 

Lot 311: Anton Seder, Das Trier in der Decorativen Kunst, portfolio of 29 lithographs, Vienna, 1896-1903. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.

Lot 311: Anton Seder, Das Trier in der Decorativen Kunst, portfolio of 29 lithographs, Vienna, 1896-1903. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.

 

 

 

Ephemera

 

Lot 383: Album of approximately 2500 wide-ranging postcards, early 20th century. Estimate $700 to $1,000.

 

 

 

Complete Catalogue

 

For more information on the sale, contact Specialist Caleb Kiffer in the Maps & Atlases department.

Consign with Swann