Antique Maps Auction Preview Week Of November 14, 2005
Major California Antique Map Collection Comes To Auction
Only one auction of note to talk about this coming week, but it’s a big one: On Thursday, November 17, at 1 PM PST, PBA Galleries of San Francisco is holding a sale entitled: The Cartography Of California, 16th – 19th Centuries. Maps from a private collection. Lots of top shelf California and west coast antique maps up for sale, including more than 40 maps depicting California as an island. The phenomenon of California as an island began appearing on maps around 1620, and lasted for about one hundred years. Such maps are prized today by collectors.
Ortelius’s Landmark Americas Map
One of the most beautiful, as well as important maps of the Americas is that by Abraham Ortelius, Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. (c. 1573). As was common at the time, the west coast of America is shown too far to the west. PBA is offering the rare second state, in excellent condition, with a presale estimate of $7,000-10,000.(Lot 126). Another example of the same map, considerably less rare, is also in the sale, and there the estimate is $2,500-3,500 (Lot 127).
John Speed’s America
Equally stunning is lot 156, John Speed’s America, showing the western hemisphere, and California as an island. This example, with a presale estimate of $8,000-12,000, was published around 1676. Attractive vignettes border the map, which according to the catalog is in excellent condition.
Sanson’s California
Another landmark map is Nicolas Sanson’s Amerique Septentrionale, (1651). Lot 140, it is an important map in the mapping of California, showing as it does several changes to the island coastline. It is also notable for being the first printed map to delineate the five Great Lakes in recognizable form. Sanson’s masterpiece has a presale estimate of $3,000-5,000.
Items From Beyond California
The sale is not restricted just to representations of California. Some important antique atlases are also in the sale, including John Cary’s New Universal Atlas (1808), lot 197, with a presale estimate of $6,000-9,000; David Burr’s New Universal Atlas (1835), lot 135, estimated $7,000-10,000; an 1856 2-volume Colton atlas, lot 199, estimated at $3,000-5,000. All in all, lots of goodies in this auction for antique map fans, and well worth a visit to PBA Galleries website.
Only one auction of note to talk about this coming week, but it’s a big one: On Thursday, November 17, at 1 PM PST, PBA Galleries of San Francisco is holding a sale entitled: The Cartography Of California, 16th – 19th Centuries. Maps from a private collection. Lots of top shelf California and west coast antique maps up for sale, including more than 40 maps depicting California as an island. The phenomenon of California as an island began appearing on maps around 1620, and lasted for about one hundred years. Such maps are prized today by collectors.
Ortelius’s Landmark Americas Map
One of the most beautiful, as well as important maps of the Americas is that by Abraham Ortelius, Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. (c. 1573). As was common at the time, the west coast of America is shown too far to the west. PBA is offering the rare second state, in excellent condition, with a presale estimate of $7,000-10,000.(Lot 126). Another example of the same map, considerably less rare, is also in the sale, and there the estimate is $2,500-3,500 (Lot 127).
John Speed’s America
Equally stunning is lot 156, John Speed’s America, showing the western hemisphere, and California as an island. This example, with a presale estimate of $8,000-12,000, was published around 1676. Attractive vignettes border the map, which according to the catalog is in excellent condition.
Sanson’s California
Another landmark map is Nicolas Sanson’s Amerique Septentrionale, (1651). Lot 140, it is an important map in the mapping of California, showing as it does several changes to the island coastline. It is also notable for being the first printed map to delineate the five Great Lakes in recognizable form. Sanson’s masterpiece has a presale estimate of $3,000-5,000.
Items From Beyond California
The sale is not restricted just to representations of California. Some important antique atlases are also in the sale, including John Cary’s New Universal Atlas (1808), lot 197, with a presale estimate of $6,000-9,000; David Burr’s New Universal Atlas (1835), lot 135, estimated $7,000-10,000; an 1856 2-volume Colton atlas, lot 199, estimated at $3,000-5,000. All in all, lots of goodies in this auction for antique map fans, and well worth a visit to PBA Galleries website.
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