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Books and Manuscripts: A Spring Miscellany

Bidding Extended Through May 27 • 12:00 PM EDT • Online Auction

WARREN, GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE
^{Estimate $6,000 – 9,000}

Two important maps of the Transmississippi West by G. J. Warren, including an annotated proof copy of his seminal 'Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean.'

Lot 189

WHITE, JOHN
^{Estimate $3,500 – 5,000}

"One of the most significant cartographical milestones in colonial North American history [and] the most accurate map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent" (Burden). This is also the first map with 'Virginia' in its title and the first map to name the Chesapeake Bay; it was issued in the first part of de Bry's Great, or American, Voyages, Thomas Hariot's account of his expedition to Virginia. Third state, with the initial 'E' effaced and the correct 'C' added to 'Chesepiooc.'

Lot 190

[YOUNG, JAMES HAMILTON]
^{Estimate $4,000 – 6,000}

Philadelphia: Published by C. S. Williams, 1845. A rare pocket-map issue of an outstanding map published the year of annexation. The present copy, which was acquired at a Dorothy Sloan Rare Books auction, 14 February 2007, seems to be the only separately issued pocket version cited in the auction records. The map is most frequently encountered in its appearances in world atlases published by both Samuel Augustus Mitchell and Henry S. Tanner. Streeter had a copy of Tanner's atlas version preserved as a pocket map.

Lot 191

WALDSEEMÜLLER, MARTIN
^{Estimate $18,000 – 25,000}

The "Admiral's map": Waldseemüller's monumental modern map of the world from the celebrated 1513 Strassburg edition of Ptolemy's Geography, so named because the delineation of the New World was supposedly based on the observations of Christopher Columbus.

Lot 188

DÜRER, ALBRECHT, AND JOHANN STABIUS
^{Estimate $50,000 – 70,000}

Although not signed, this striking world map is acknowledged to be the work of Albrecht Dürer. The map was produced in collaboration with Johann Stabius, astronomer to the court of Maximilian I, and was a pendant to a pair of celestial charts on which they had collaborated. No sixteenth-century example of the map survives, but the original woodblocks were rediscovered shortly before the present impressions were pulled in 1781. This edition, published by Joseph Elden von Kurzbeck under the supervision of the scholar Johann Adam von Bartsch, is itself now very rare. The woodblocks are now preserved in the Albertina Museum.

Lot 176

BACHMANN, JOHN
^{Estimate $2,500 – 3,500}

Third state of this striking, quasi-aerial view of the northernmost part of the east coast of the Confederacy, and the southernmost areas of the Union, including Washington.

Lot 87

MITCHELL, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS
^{Estimate $5,000 – 7,000}

Philadelphia: Published by S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. A landmark western map and one of Mitchell's most popular and important pocket maps, representing "a great step forward, in that it is among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin. … Because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only with the public but on other commercial cartographers" (Wheat).

Lot 182

SELLER, JOHN
Estimate $4,000 – 6,000

A New Systeme of Geography, designed in a most plain and easy method, for the better understanding of that science. Accommodated with new mapps, of all the ... countreys in the whole world. With geographical tables explaining the divisions in each mapp. By John Seller, hydrographer to the king]. [London]: Sold at his shop on the West-side of the Royal Exchange, [1685]

The first edition, one of the earliest English world atlases.

Lot 154

FINE, ORONCE
^{Estimate $15,000 – 20,000}

First state of Fine's groundbreaking and influential double-cordiform projection, the first printed map to depict the world from the poles. The right-hand "heart" is dominated by the large southern continent labelled "Terra Australis recenter inventa, sed nondu[m] plene cognita" (literally "southern land recently found, but not yet fully known"), predating the earliest recognized discovery of Antarctica by nearly three centuries.

Lot 178

DOUGHTY, CHARLES MONTAGU
^{Estimate $2,000 – 3,000}

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1888. First edition. "Travels in Arabia Desert... is an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia... Sir Richard Francis Burton praised the book's scientific knowledge and its style... So reliable was the book's anthropology of the Bedouin peoples and its topography, that British intelligence mined it for information during the First and Second World wars.

Lot 19

KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN, AND CLAES JANSZOON VOOGHT
^{Estimate $2,200 – 2,800}

Amsterdam: Johannes Van Keulen, [1687]. Van Keulen's 17th century chart of the western Gulf of Mexico, oriented with west toward the top of the page.

Lot 125

ANVILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON D'
^{Estimate $400 – 600}

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, [1746 or later]. A fine copy of one of the best French maps of North America prior to the French and Indian War. This copy has been annotated by a contemporary French hand with commentary on several of the small islands in the Caribbean, including Saba and the Caymans.

Lot 169

APIAN, PETER
^{Estimate $15,000 – 25,000}

[Vienna,] 1520. The earliest obtainable authentic map with the place name America. Apian's striking truncated cordiform projection of the world is derived from Waldseemüller's monumental 1507 wall map and first appeared in the 1520 Viennese edition of Solinus's Polyhistor. The map is also sometimes found in Mela's De situ orbis (Basel, 1522), and copies were probably also sold separately.

Lot 170