Louisiana Purchase Auction At Neal's Of New Orleans In December
On December 3 & 4, Neal Auction Company based in New Orleans is holding a Louisiana Purchase Auction. The sale will be held in the Mississippi Arts Pavilion in Jackson, MS. While the sale features a wide array of goods, from furniture to painting, there are several items that are of interest to antique maps and prints collectors.
Audubon Birds And Quadrupeds
Lot 149 is an 1856, 7-volume octavo edition of Audubon's Birds of America. The presale estimate is $25,000-35,000, but condition is not listed on the website at this time. Lot 150 is a set of the octavo second edition of Audubon's Quadrupeds, with an estimate of $5,000-10,000. Neal's website leaves a lot to be desired in terms of usability, and requiring the user to click back and forward to different screens, to see if there happens to be a condition report, was irritating. (So I stopped doing it).
A Rare New Orleans City Plan
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention lot 454, an 1815 plan of the City of New Orleans, by city surveyor J. Tanesse. The 18" x 31" plan, described as "rare" by Neal's, comes with an interesting presale estimate of $18,000-25,000. Seems high, but who can tell?
More Mid-19th Century Maps
Lot 780 is a mid-19th century Colton wall map, one of a series of wall maps that the Colton firm issued around that time. The estimate of $1,000-1,500 seems quite modest. And last but not least, Neal's seems to breaking new ground with their presale estimate for lot 899, the Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana map from what they describe as a circa 1900 Johnson & Browning atlas. As if that wasn't strange enough, they claim it is printed rather than hand-colored, and slapped an estimate of $2,500-3,500 on it. As most map dealers can attest, you can get a complete Johnson & Browning atlas for that kind of cash (and it should be dated around 1860, with hand-coloring). Of course, this particular map is in a frame, so maybe that's where the value is.
Audubon Birds And Quadrupeds
Lot 149 is an 1856, 7-volume octavo edition of Audubon's Birds of America. The presale estimate is $25,000-35,000, but condition is not listed on the website at this time. Lot 150 is a set of the octavo second edition of Audubon's Quadrupeds, with an estimate of $5,000-10,000. Neal's website leaves a lot to be desired in terms of usability, and requiring the user to click back and forward to different screens, to see if there happens to be a condition report, was irritating. (So I stopped doing it).
A Rare New Orleans City Plan
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention lot 454, an 1815 plan of the City of New Orleans, by city surveyor J. Tanesse. The 18" x 31" plan, described as "rare" by Neal's, comes with an interesting presale estimate of $18,000-25,000. Seems high, but who can tell?
More Mid-19th Century Maps
Lot 780 is a mid-19th century Colton wall map, one of a series of wall maps that the Colton firm issued around that time. The estimate of $1,000-1,500 seems quite modest. And last but not least, Neal's seems to breaking new ground with their presale estimate for lot 899, the Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana map from what they describe as a circa 1900 Johnson & Browning atlas. As if that wasn't strange enough, they claim it is printed rather than hand-colored, and slapped an estimate of $2,500-3,500 on it. As most map dealers can attest, you can get a complete Johnson & Browning atlas for that kind of cash (and it should be dated around 1860, with hand-coloring). Of course, this particular map is in a frame, so maybe that's where the value is.
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