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Auction 151, Lot 737

Subject: Atlases

Ptolemy/Ruscelli & Valgrisi

La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuovamente Tradotta di Greco in Italiano..., 1561

Size: 6.4 x 9.3 inches (16.3 x 23.6 cm)
Estimate: $12,000 - $14,000
Complete First Edition of Ruscelli's <i>Geographia</i>
Sold for: $6,000
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 738

Subject: Atlases

Bonne/Raynal

Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dresse pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les Deux Indes, 1780

Size: 8.2 x 10 inches (20.8 x 25.4 cm)
Estimate: $2,200 - $3,000
Very Attractive Example of this Atlas with Original Leather Binding
Unsold
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 739

Subject: Atlases

Carey, Mathew

Carey's Minor American Atlas; Containing Nineteen Maps..., 1802

Size: 8.4 x 10.6 inches (21.3 x 26.9 cm)
Estimate: $4,000 - $5,000
Complete First Edition of this Rare American Atlas
Sold for: $7,000
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 740

Subject: Atlases

Rollin/Bastien

Atlas Contenant Vingt-Sept Cartes Geographiques, pour Servir a l'Histoire Ancienne et Romaine, 1807

Size: 9.4 x 12.3 inches (23.9 x 31.2 cm)
Estimate: $700 - $850
Sold for: $450
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 741

Subject: Atlases

Cummings & Hilliard

School Atlas to Cummings' Ancient & Modern Geography. Eighth Edition, 1815

Size: 6.5 x 9.6 inches (16.5 x 24.4 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $230
Unsold
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 743

Subject: Atlases

Goodrich, Samuel Griswold

Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Malte-Brun School Geography, 1833

Size: 8.8 x 11 inches (22.4 x 27.9 cm)
Estimate: $130 - $160
Sold for: $100
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 744

Subject: Atlases

Improved Atlas, for the Revised Edition of Adams' Geography, 1838

Size: 6.8 x 8.6 inches (17.3 x 21.8 cm)
Estimate: $250 - $325
Sold for: $150
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 745

Subject: Atlases

Morse, Charles W.

Morse's General Atlas of the World. Containing Seventy Maps, Drawn and Engraved from the Latest and Best Authorities, 1856

Size: 14.1 x 17.2 inches (35.8 x 43.7 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200
Sold for: $700
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 746

Subject: Atlases

Johnson & Browning

Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Seventy Steel Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred Imperial Folio Sheets..., 1859

Size: 15.5 x 18 inches (39.4 x 45.7 cm)
Estimate: $2,200 - $2,500
Colton's Impressive General Atlas
Sold for: $1,500
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 748

Subject: Atlases

Johnson, A. J.

Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas, with Physical Geography, and with Descriptions Geographical, Statistical, and Historical..., 1867

Size: 14.8 x 18.6 inches (37.6 x 47.2 cm)
Estimate: $1,100 - $1,400
Complete Edition
Sold for: $700
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 749

Subject: Atlases

Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

[Lot of 2] Mitchell's Modern Atlas... [and] Mitchell's Ancient Atlas, Classical and Sacred..., 1867-75

Size: 9.6 x 11.8 inches (24.4 x 30 cm)
Estimate: $80 - $100
Sold for: $130
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 750

Subject: Atlases

Mackenzie, William

The New National Encyclopaedia Atlas. With an Alphabetical Index of the Latitudes and Longitudes of 30,000 Places., 1868

Size: 7.5 x 10.9 inches (19.1 x 27.7 cm)
Estimate: $220 - $250
Sold for: $150
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 751

Subject: Atlases

Tunison, H. C.

Tunison's Peerless Universal Atlas of the World, 1887

Size: 12.1 x 14.4 inches (30.7 x 36.6 cm)
Estimate: $400 - $500
Sold for: $230
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 753

Subject: Atlases

Cram, George F. & Company

The Home Knowledge Atlas. Geographical, Astronomical, Historical. Showing the Greatest Number of Maps of Any Atlas Published in the World..., 1891

Size: 11.5 x 13.9 inches (29.2 x 35.3 cm)
Estimate: $100 - $140
Sold for: $75
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 754

Subject: Geography Books

Walker, John

The Universal Gazetteer; Being a Concise Description, Alphabetically Arranged..., 1801

Size: 5.5 x 8.8 inches (14 x 22.4 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $200
Sold for: $200
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 755

Subject: Geography Books

Colton, George Woolworth

J.H. Colton's American School Quarto Geography…, 1865

Size: 11.9 x 13.8 inches (30.2 x 35.1 cm)
Estimate: $275 - $350
Sold for: $150
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 756

Subject: Exploration and Surveys

General Land Office

Report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, showing the Operations of that Office since the 17th December, 1838, 1839

Size: 5.5 x 9 inches (14 x 22.9 cm)
Estimate: $150 - $180
Sold for: $120
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 757

Subject: Exploration and Surveys - Hawaii

Wilkes, Charles

[Volume IV] Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1845

Size: 7.5 x 11.5 inches (19.1 x 29.2 cm)
Estimate: $275 - $350
Sold for: $800
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 758

Subject: Exploration and Surveys

U.S. Coast Survey

Sketches Accompanying the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, 1851

Size: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
Estimate: $300 - $375
Sold for: $200
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 759

Subject: Exploration and Surveys

U.S. Government

[Maps and Views] Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress…Part III, 1854

Size: 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Estimate: $250 - $325
Sold for: $160
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 760

Subject: Exploration and Surveys - United States

U.S. Coast Survey

Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey during the Year 1867, 1869

Size: 9.3 x 11.7 inches (23.6 x 29.7 cm)
Estimate: $400 - $500
Sold for: $275
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 761

Subject: Miscellaneous Books

Hayward, John

The Columbian Traveller, and Statistical Register. Principally Relating to the United States, 1833

Size: 6.4 x 10.9 inches (16.3 x 27.7 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $250
Unsold
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 762

Subject: Miscellaneous Books

Beadle, D. W.

The American Lawyer, and Business-Man's Form-Book; Containing Forms and Instructions..., 1855

Size: 4.7 x 7.6 inches (11.9 x 19.3 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $200
Sold for: $60
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 763

Subject: Miscellaneous Books

The Bankers Register and Special List of Guaranteed and Recommended Bank Attorneys, 1896

Size: 8.6 x 11.8 inches (21.8 x 30 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $250
Unsold
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 769

Subject: References

Nordenskiold, Nils Adolf E.

Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography with Reproductions of the Most Important Maps Printed in the XV and XVI Centuries, 1973

Size: 11 x 16 inches (27.9 x 40.6 cm)
Estimate: $70 - $90
Sold for: $55
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 771

Subject: References

The Mapping of Ohio: The Delineation of the State of Ohio Through the Use of Manuscript Maps…, 1977

Size: 9 x 12.1 inches (22.9 x 30.7 cm)
Estimate: $100 - $140
Sold for: $75
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 772

Subject: References, Incunabula

Wilson, Adrian

The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1978

Size: 9.9 x 14 inches (25.1 x 35.6 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Sold for: $90
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 773

Subject: References

Schwartz & Ehrenberg

The Mapping of America, 1980

Size: 11.9 x 10.9 inches (30.2 x 27.7 cm)
Estimate: $80 - $100
Sold for: $95
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 774

Subject: References

Norwich, Oscar I.

Maps of Africa An Illustrated and Annotated Carto-Bibliography, 1983

Size: 9.1 x 11.8 inches (23.1 x 30 cm)
Estimate: $80 - $100
Sold for: $60
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 775

Subject: References

[Lot of 2] Maps of the Heavens [and] The Mapping of the Heavens, 1984-95

Size: See Description
Estimate: $80 - $100
Sold for: $60
Closed on 11/19/2014

Auction 151, Lot 776

Subject: References

Manhattan in Maps 1527-1995, 1997

Size: 9.4 x 11 inches (23.9 x 27.9 cm)
Estimate: $70 - $100
Sold for: $65
Closed on 11/19/2014
40 lots