Past Auctions

Get the inside scoop on a new documentary about Fanny Palmer, artist for Currier & Ives, with Director & Producer Tina Spangler.

Maps (1-142)  |  Atlases & Books with Maps (143-175)  |  Color Plate & Illustrated Books (176-203)  |  Historical & Decorative Prints (204-239)

John James Audubon, Early Printed Maps, Atlases & More

Including Currier & Ives, Japanese Manuscripts & The Nuremberg Chronicle

An Introduction to the Catalogue by Eric Marcus | Highlights at a Glance

Upcoming Highlights

Upcoming Highlights

Highlights from this cartographic extravaganza include the manuscript maps of Japan and the first representation of the continental United States as an integrated landmass.

Leading this multifaceted sale is John Norman’s 1810 atlas, The American Pilot, a magnum opus that signaled the end of British supremacy of U.S. waters.

Presenting a vast selection of historic maps and continental atlases, Audubon prints and prescient satirical engravings make this a colorful sale.

We close 2016 with a transportive sale featuring historic guides to Southeast Asia, as well as decorative graphics and color plate books. Learn more.

The auction features a Dutch East India Company map of trade routes in the Java sea, engraved plates by Maria Sibylla Merian and Mahmud Raif Efendi's Cedid Atlas. More information here.