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Auction Name Online Sale: Maps and Atlases Total Sales (GBP) 45,430.00
Auction Date March 05, 2020 - March 05, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 31,080.00
Sale Number #2142 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 44,770.00
Total Lots 174
Sold Lots 114 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 50,950.00
% of Lots Sold 65.52% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 74,250.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 61.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
130 English Civil War

[Broadside comparing the civil wars in England and Bohemia]

1659 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 3,750.00
89 Ortelius (Abraham)

Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur)

1589 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,000.00
108 Purdy (John)

A Chart of the World

1821 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,500.00
23 Speed (John)

A New Map of East India

1676 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,375.00
132 Speed (John)

The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland

circa 1676 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,375.00
60 Jansson (Jan)

and Georgius Hornius. [Holy Land] Dimida Tribus Manasse ... [with] Tribus Ruben, …

circa 1658-1677 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,250.00
129 Blaeu (Johannes)

Britannia prout divisa suit temporibis Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia

circa 1645 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,170.00
45 Bacon (George W., publisher)

Serio-Comique Map of Europe at War. Hark! Hark! The Dogs do Bark!

1914 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,125.00
131 Speed (John)

Britain as it was Devided in the Tyme of the English Saxons especially during their Heptarchy

circa 1676 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,040.00
169 Speed (John)

Oxforshire described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ye famous university

1676 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,000.00
71 Schedel (Hartmann)

Roma [recto] [Genoa [verso]

1493 GBP 700.00 - 800.00 GBP 937.50
111 Jansson (Jan)

Tabula Itineraria ex Illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca...

circa 1660 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 937.50
106 Dunn (Samuel)

Scientia Terrarum et Coelorum: or

1781 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 875.00
65 Conder (Lt. C.R.)

& H. H. Kitchener. Map of Western Palestine in 26 Sheets

1897 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 812.50
22 Vandermaelen (Philippe Marie Guillaume)

Six double-page sheets of the Philippines and Borneo, from: Atlas 'Universel de geographie physique'

circa 1827 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 750.00
112 Cook (Capt. James) Hawkesworth (John)

[An Account of the Voyages...for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere...]

1773 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 750.00
146 Walker (John)

Map of the Inland Navigation, Canals, and Rail Roads with the Situations of the various Mineral Productions throughout Great Britain

1830 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
29 Gall & Inglis (Edinburgh publishers)

Australian Colonies and New Zealand

circa 1850s GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 687.50
121 Woodward (David)

The History of Cartography

1987 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
96 Napoleon

Advance of the French Army to Moscow; Retreat of the French Army from Moscow

1813 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 625.00
138 Speed (John)

The Kingdome of Irland Devided into Severall Provinces

1612 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 600.00
103 Homann Heirs.

Bosphorus Thracicus...

1764 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 550.00
53 Speed (John)

A Newe Mape of Germany

1626 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 525.00
122 Koeman (C.)

Atlantes Neerlandici

1967-71 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 525.00
168 Bacon (George W.)

Bacon's New Large-Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs...

1895 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 525.00
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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