Antique Maps Auction Preview Week of November 28, 2005
Currently in progress, the quarterly auction from our friends at Old World Auctions, an online, telephone, and mail auction that is a mainstay of the antique maps and prints auction world. It's always a reliable auction to bid at, and the descriptions by owners Curt and Marti Griggs are not only accurate, but the format of their descriptions has become something of a benchmark in the antique map and print world.
A Great Auction For Antique Maps In A Wide Price Range
Old World Auctions usually has a good range of prices in their sales, and a wide variety of material. This time, in world maps, lot 27 is a nice looking Hondius/Jansson double hemisphere published in 1666. A beautiful map, depicting California as an island, it carries a presale estimate of $11,000-13,000. Lot 22, Munster's 1558 woodblock world map has a presale estimate of $2,300-2,500. A world map by the Jesuit scholar A. Kircher, published in 1682, depicts subterranean tunnels connecting the oceans! It carries an estimate of $1,100-1,400, which I think may turn out to be lowball. (lot 28).
Antique Maps Of The Americas
Material relating to the Americas includes Visscher's Western Hemisphere, circa 1658, with an estimate of $3,000-4,000 (lot 77); Ortelius's La Florida, the first printed map of the southeastern United States, (lot 91, $1,800-2,000); and a beautiful De Wit chart of the Caribbean, actually extending all the way to New England, with a presale estimate of $2,300-2,750 (lot 93). DeLisle's Carte De La Louisiane, ca. 1718, is an important map for a number of reasons, including the first appearance in print of the word "Texas." There has been some restoration and some color fading; still, it garners an estimate of $4,000-5,000 (lot 167). Lot 174 is Visscher's enormously important Novi Belgii, here offered in the earliest obtainable second state. It is a landmark map that was the foundation for New England maps for the next century. The presale estimate is $9,000-12,000. While these are some highlights, there are plenty of American and state maps with more modest estimates, covering the period from the 1700s to the late 19th century.
Maps From Around The World
This auction, as usual, has a good selection of maps and prints from different parts of the world. Items from Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa are well-represented. Only the Oceanica category seems a little light this quarter. Closing out the sale: a selection of prints, incunabula, and books (both rare and reference). There are a few atlases in the books section, including a nice example of the small, but elegant, Philipp Cluver Geography, 1686, (lot 850, estimate $1,600-1,800). And last, but certainly not least, the full, 12-volume Senate edition of the Railroad Surveys, 1853-56, described by Carl Wheat as the "cornerstone work in a Western Americana collection." (lot 862, $6,000-7,000).
The Old World Auctions sale ends on December 7 at 10 pm EST.
A Great Auction For Antique Maps In A Wide Price Range
Old World Auctions usually has a good range of prices in their sales, and a wide variety of material. This time, in world maps, lot 27 is a nice looking Hondius/Jansson double hemisphere published in 1666. A beautiful map, depicting California as an island, it carries a presale estimate of $11,000-13,000. Lot 22, Munster's 1558 woodblock world map has a presale estimate of $2,300-2,500. A world map by the Jesuit scholar A. Kircher, published in 1682, depicts subterranean tunnels connecting the oceans! It carries an estimate of $1,100-1,400, which I think may turn out to be lowball. (lot 28).
Antique Maps Of The Americas
Material relating to the Americas includes Visscher's Western Hemisphere, circa 1658, with an estimate of $3,000-4,000 (lot 77); Ortelius's La Florida, the first printed map of the southeastern United States, (lot 91, $1,800-2,000); and a beautiful De Wit chart of the Caribbean, actually extending all the way to New England, with a presale estimate of $2,300-2,750 (lot 93). DeLisle's Carte De La Louisiane, ca. 1718, is an important map for a number of reasons, including the first appearance in print of the word "Texas." There has been some restoration and some color fading; still, it garners an estimate of $4,000-5,000 (lot 167). Lot 174 is Visscher's enormously important Novi Belgii, here offered in the earliest obtainable second state. It is a landmark map that was the foundation for New England maps for the next century. The presale estimate is $9,000-12,000. While these are some highlights, there are plenty of American and state maps with more modest estimates, covering the period from the 1700s to the late 19th century.
Maps From Around The World
This auction, as usual, has a good selection of maps and prints from different parts of the world. Items from Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa are well-represented. Only the Oceanica category seems a little light this quarter. Closing out the sale: a selection of prints, incunabula, and books (both rare and reference). There are a few atlases in the books section, including a nice example of the small, but elegant, Philipp Cluver Geography, 1686, (lot 850, estimate $1,600-1,800). And last, but certainly not least, the full, 12-volume Senate edition of the Railroad Surveys, 1853-56, described by Carl Wheat as the "cornerstone work in a Western Americana collection." (lot 862, $6,000-7,000).
The Old World Auctions sale ends on December 7 at 10 pm EST.
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