Antique Maps & Prints Auction Preview
Auctions For The Week Of January 30, 2006
Dominic Winter Book Auctions has a Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera auction coming up on Wednesday, February 1. Their catalog is online. Bowen's Royal English Atlas is being offered, (lot 69), with an estimate of 4,000-6,000 GBP. It's a very collectible antique atlas, published in 1780.
Also of interest at this auction, Jean Linden's monumental book of Orchids, Iconographie des Orchid, published from 1885 to 1901. The work contains approximately 800 chromolithographed plates of orchids. The presale estimate is 7,000-10,000 GBP.
Last but not least -- a real gem from 1601, a manuscript estate map of a property in Yorkshire, by noted mapmaker Christopher Saxton. This one-of-a-kind item has a presale estimate of 10,000-12,000 GBP.
Overall, a good sale from Dominic Winter, with lots of more moderately priced items than I noted here, including some of the always popular English County Maps by John Speed.
Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript Americana Sale
This sale takes place on February 2 at Swann Galleries in New York City. Some desirable items show up in this sale. My favorite is lot 121, McKenney & Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, first octavo edition, 1848-1850, containing 121 hand-colored plates. A gorgeous book of antique prints, and with a presale estimate of $12,000-18,000, this work is starting to get out of reach of most collectors. Lots of rare and desirable items in this sale, but also some moderately-priced pieces, so their site is well worth a visit.
Waverly Auctions Fine Prints, Art & Illustrated Books Sale
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Dominic Winter Book Auctions has a Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera auction coming up on Wednesday, February 1. Their catalog is online. Bowen's Royal English Atlas is being offered, (lot 69), with an estimate of 4,000-6,000 GBP. It's a very collectible antique atlas, published in 1780.
Also of interest at this auction, Jean Linden's monumental book of Orchids, Iconographie des Orchid, published from 1885 to 1901. The work contains approximately 800 chromolithographed plates of orchids. The presale estimate is 7,000-10,000 GBP.
Last but not least -- a real gem from 1601, a manuscript estate map of a property in Yorkshire, by noted mapmaker Christopher Saxton. This one-of-a-kind item has a presale estimate of 10,000-12,000 GBP.
Overall, a good sale from Dominic Winter, with lots of more moderately priced items than I noted here, including some of the always popular English County Maps by John Speed.
Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript Americana Sale
This sale takes place on February 2 at Swann Galleries in New York City. Some desirable items show up in this sale. My favorite is lot 121, McKenney & Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, first octavo edition, 1848-1850, containing 121 hand-colored plates. A gorgeous book of antique prints, and with a presale estimate of $12,000-18,000, this work is starting to get out of reach of most collectors. Lots of rare and desirable items in this sale, but also some moderately-priced pieces, so their site is well worth a visit.
Waverly Auctions Fine Prints, Art & Illustrated Books Sale
The website for Waverly Auctions in Falls Church, Virginia is always worth a visit around auction time, especially for moderately-priced items, and they are having a sale on February 4. I noticed a run of 19 issues of Harper's Weekly, (lot 39), including illustrations by Thomas Nast; some hand-colored botanical and fashion plates (lot 93); several lots with multiple loose prints in such areas as Natural History, and plenty of reference books for the collector. Worth a look.
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