Old World Auctions
Auction #114 - Closed March 1, 2006
Featuring 765 lots of original antique maps, atlases, globes, reference books and vintage graphics.




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Lot#       Title   Creator/Subject   Period   Sold for:    
1   Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orbem, Orbi Spectandum Galleus Ortelium   Ortelius/Galle
 · Portrait
  1579   450   $392.00
2   Americae Tertia Pars Memorabile Provinciae Brasiliae Historiam   Theodore de Bry
 · Title Pages
  1592   200   $280.00
3   L'Epitome du Theatre de l'Univers d'Abraham Ortelius   Ortelius/Vrients
 · Title Pages
  1609   160   $532.00
4   Flandria Illustrata sive Descriptio comitatus istius per totum terraru orbem celeberrimi   Antoine Sanderus
 · Title Pages
  1641   350   $672.00
5   Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Toutes les Parties du Monde   Alexis-Hubert Jaillot
 · Title Pages
  1692   275   $201.60
6   Atlas Francois, Contenant les Cartes Geographiques…   Alexis-Hubert Jaillot
 · Title Pages
  1695   275   $364.00
7   [Lot of 2 - Title Pages]   Allain Mallet
 · Title Pages
  1719   80   $50.40
8   Atlas Historique   Henry Abraham Chatelain
 · Title Pages
  1720   240   $268.80
9   Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia, Regna et Status   Johann Baptist Homann
 · Title Pages
  1720   250   $201.60
10   Atlas du Voyage de La Perouse   Jean Francois Galoup, Comte La Perouse
 · Title Pages
  1797   220   $179.20
11   The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical   John Tallis
 · Title Pages
  1850   150   $123.20
12   Atlas National Illustre des 89 Departments et des Possessions De La France   Victor Levasseur
 · Title Pages
  1869   180   passed
13   [Lot of 5] Typus Orbis Terrarum [and] Americae Descriptio [and] Asia [and] Africae Descriptio [and] Europae Nova Tabula   Cluver/Jansson
 · World & Continents
  1661   3000   $2,688.00
14   [Lot of 5] Mape-Monde Representee en Hemispheres [and] Amerique Septentrionale et Meridionale [and] Afrique [and] Asie [and] L' Europe   Jean Jospeh Georges, Abbe d' Expilly
 · World & Continents
  1783   550   $392.00
15   Orbis Descriptio   Ruscelli
 · World
  1561   1000   $784.00
16   Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio   Rumold Mercator
 · World
  1587   5500   $5,040.00
17   Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio ex ea, quam ex Magna Universali Mercator Rumoldus fieri curabat in hac comodiore forma a Hieron: Porro redact:   Mercator/Magini
 · World
  1597   1200   $784.00
18   Typus Orbis Terrarum   Mercator/Hondius
 · World
  1607   1100   $952.00
19   [Untitled - World]   Hessel Gerritsz
 · World
  1612   800   $672.00
20   [Untitled - World]   Theodore de Bry
 · World
  1613   600   $560.00
21   Typus Orbis Terrarum   Hondius/Bertius
 · World
  1616   700   $672.00
22   Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula   Frederick de Wit
 · World
  1660   7000   $5,600.00
23   Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et In Lucem Edita Per N. Visscher   Nicolas Visscher
 · World
  1663   2000   $2,352.00
24   Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabula…   Benito Arias Montanus
 · World
  1698   6000   passed
25   A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans   Edward Wells
 · World
  1700   1400   $1,120.00
26   Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre   Jans Luyts
 · World
  1700   900   $616.00
27   Repraesentatio Totius Orbis Terraquei Cuius Partes, quae Umbra Carent, Fide, Catholica Imbutae sunt, Reliquae Omnes Inumbratae Religionis Catholicae Expertes sunt   Scherer
 · World, North Pole
  1700   1200   $784.00
28   Carta Hydrographica oder Algemeine Welt und Commercien Carte…   Stridbeck/Bodenehr
 · World
  1706   350   $280.00
29   Totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula, Ejusque Post Diluvium Divisio Inter Filios Noachi.   James Moxon
 · World
  1710   450   $392.00
30   Mappe-Monde Suivant les Nouvelles Observations…   Pieter van der Aa
 · World
  1710   1200   $1,008.00
31   Nova Delineatio Totius Orbis Terrarum Per Petrum Vander Aa   Pieter van der Aa
 · World
  1720   2000   $1,680.00
32   Typus Orbis Terrarum   C.L. de Launay
 · World
  1738   500   $420.00
33   Carte des Lieux ou les Differentes Longueurs du Pendule… / Carte du Globe Terrestre ou les Terres de l'Hemisphere Meridl. / Carte des Terres Australes…   Philip Buache
 · World
  1739   700   $560.00
34   An Essay of a New and Compact Map, Containing the known Parts of the Terrestrial Globe   Jacques Nicolas Bellin
 · World
  1750   900   $1,064.00
35   [Lot of 2] Western Hemisphere [together with] Eastern Hemisphere   SDUK
 · World
  1846   140   $100.80
36   Planisphere   Victor Levasseur
 · World
  1850   275   $308.00
37   Moral & Statistical Chart Showing the Geographical Distribution of Man According to Religious Belief..   A.K. Johnston
 · World
  1854   200   $179.20
38   [Untitled - World]   Marino Sanudo/Petrus Vesconte
 · Ancient World
  1611   4000   $3,360.00
39   Descriptio Orbis Ptolomaica   Hondius/Bertius
 · Ancient World
  1616   200   $168.00
40   de tweede Weereld door Noachs dry Zonen bevolkt   Willelm & Jan Goeree
 · Ancient World
  1705   130   $112.00
41   De Bekende Weereld der Ouden; volgens Strabo, in Zeven Klimaten afgebakend.   Willelm & Jan Goeree
 · Ancient World
  1705   160   $156.80
42   [Lot of 2] Sisteme de la Creation du Monde selon Moise. 1re. Planche [and] Sisteme de la Creation du Monde Suivant Moise. 2e. Planche   Augustin Calmet
 · Ancient World
  1728   140   $123.20
43   IX Landkaart Vertonende de van ouds bekende Wereld verdeeld onder Noachs Nakomelingen   Johannes Allart
 · Ancient World
  1792   200   $112.00
44   Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio   Gerard Mercator
 · North Pole
  1633   2200   $1,792.00
45   Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio   Mercator/Cloppenburgh
 · North Pole
  1635   700   $560.00
46   Regionum Circum Polarium Lapponiae Islandiae et Groenlandiae Novae et Veteris Nova Descriptio Geographica   Scherer
 · North Pole
  1701   1100   $896.00
47   Poli Actici Constitutio / Poli Antarctici Constitutio   A. Kircher
 · Polar
  1682   130   $212.80
48   [Lot of 2] Carte des Deux Regions Polaires jusqu'au 45me Degre de Latitude [and] Carte de la Region Polaire Antarctique   Various
 · Polar
  1780   100   $78.40
49   Sud-Polar-Karte   Justus Perthes
 · South Pole
  1878   150   $123.20
50   [Geographical Diagram]   Ortelius/Vrients
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1609   70   $84.00
51   Horologium Horizontale Parallelos Horizontis…   Franz Ritter
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1640   800   $784.00
52   [Volvelle]   Giovanni Paolo Galluci
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1657   150   $123.20
53   [Volvelle]   Giovanni Paolo Galluci
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1657   150   $123.20
54   Premiere Carte Pour Introduction a L'Histoire du Monde, ou L'On Remarque La Sphere, Le Globe Celeste, et Les Differens Sistems du Monde   Henry Abraham Chatelain
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1710   375   $336.00
55   [Lot of 2] Afbeeldinge van 't zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks-Kop. [and] Nieuwe Volkplanting om wind   Anonymous
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1720   475   $672.00
56   Le Nom de Systeme   Le Rouge
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1748   140   $112.00
57   Sphere de Ptolemee [and] Rose de Boussole [and] Sphere Droite [and] Sphere Parallele   Jean Janvier
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1760   150   $145.60
58   [Newspaper Advertisement for Maps]  
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1785   80   $1,064.00
59   A Map of Principal Rivers shewing their courses, countries, and comparative lengths   SDUK
 · Cartographic Miscellany - Rivers
  1834   190   $156.80
60   [Hamersley Copper Plate] Map No. III Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria   W.J. Hamersley
 · Cartographic Miscellany
  1856   400   $2,128.00
61   Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World. Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World   Charles Desilver
 · Cartographic Miscellany - Mountains & Rivers
  1856   150   $123.20
62   Mountains & Rivers   Gray
 · Cartographic Miscellany - Mountains & Rivers
  1873   200   $168.00
63   Comet Melcher Anno 1680 und 1681 beobachtet worden   Johannes Zahn
 · Celestial - Solar System
  1696   300   $246.40
64   Globi Coelestis in Tabulas Planas Redacti Pars I   Doppelmayr/Homann
 · Celestial
  1730   600   $504.00
65   Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevelii quam Riccioli   Doppelmayr/Homann
 · Celestial - Moon
  1740   1400   $1,904.00
66   Systema Solare et Planetarium   Doppelmayr/Homann
 · Celestial - Solar System
  1742   1200   $2,128.00
67   Plate V and IV [Untitled Celestial Charts - Constellations of Northern Hemisphere July through September [and] April through June]   Elijah H. Burritt
 · Celestial
  1835   160   $123.20
68   [Lot of 2] A Celestial Planisphere, or Map of the Heavens   Elijah H. Burritt
 · Celestial
  1835   120   $89.60
69   [Lot of 6 - Muggletonian Planetary Charts]   Isaac Frost
 · Solar System
  1846   1800   $2,128.00
70   Le nouveau Monde   Bertius/Claesz
 · Western Hemisphere
  1602   400   $364.00
71   Americae Descriptio   Jan Jansson
 · Western Hemisphere
  1628   500   $448.00
72   America noviter delineata   Mercator/Cloppenburgh
 · Western Hemisphere
  1630   700   $448.00
73   America noviter delineata   Hondius/Jansson
 · Western Hemisphere
  1641   3250   $2,688.00
74   Amerique   Pierre Duval
 · Western Hemisphere
  1672   400   $560.00
75   America noviter delineata   Matthaus Merian
 · Western Hemisphere
  1695   1000   $840.00
76   America   Peter Heylin
 · Western Hemisphere
  1703   1500   $1,232.00
77   America   Magini and Porro
 · Western Hemisphere
  1713   400   $448.00
78   Atlantis Insula a Nicolao Sanson Antiquitati Restituta   Guillaume Sanson
 · Western Hemisphere
  1721   1100   $1,064.00
79   America   Philipp Cluver
 · Western Hemisphere
  1729   500   $616.00
80   Nieuwe Kaart Van het Westelykste Deel der Weereld   Isaac Tirion
 · Western Hemisphere
  1754   350   $280.00
81   A New General Map of America. Drawn from several Accurate particular Maps and Charts and Regulated by Astronomical Observations   Emanuel Bowen
 · Western Hemisphere
  1757   150   $123.20
82   L'Amerique divisee Par Grands Etats   Janvier/Lattre
 · Western Hemisphere
  1762   325   $268.80
83   Map of the New Continent exhibiting its greatest diametral length from the River Plata to the Lake Assiniboils   Andrew Bell
 · Western Hemisphere
  1770   200   $168.00
84   Carte d'Amerique divisee en ses principaux Pays Dressee sur les Memoires les plus recents, et sur Differents Voyages   Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet
 · Western Hemisphere
  1774   1700   $1,456.00
85   Mappe-Monde sur le Plan d un Meridien. Hemisphere Occidental   Rigobert Bonne
 · Western Hemisphere
  1787   200   $179.20
86   De l'Amerique, Plan du Tableau…   Giuseppe Molini
 · Western Hemisphere
  1806   180   passed
87   [Lot of 2] Geographical, Historical, and Statistical Map of America [and] Western Hemisphere  
 · Western Hemisphere
  1813   140   $112.00
88   America   C. Smith
 · Western Hemisphere
  1845   90   $72.80
89   America   George Frederick Cruchley
 · Western Hemisphere
  1854   140   $156.80
90   America   Philip
 · Western Hemisphere
  1856   750   passed
91   America Septentrionalis   Johann Ulrich Muller
 · North America
  1692   400   $476.00
92   L'Amerique Septentrionale   Daniel de la Feuille
 · North America
  1702   550   $448.00
93   L'Amerique Septentrionale divisee en ses principaux Etats   Janvier/Lattre
 · North America
  1762   400   $336.00
94   [Lot of 3] Amerique Septentrionale [and] Carte de la Partie Nord, des Etats Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale [and] Les Isles Antilles, et le Golfe Du Mexique   Rigobert Bonne
 · North America
  1780   300   $246.40
95   [Lot of 2 - General Karte von Nordamerica samt den West Indischen Inseln Verasst von Herrn Pownall]   Franz Anton Schraembl
 · North America
  1788   800   passed
96   A New and Accurate Map of North America from the best Authorities   Mathew Carey
 · North America
  1822   200   $168.00
97   Carte de L'Amerique Septentrionale et des Antilles   Charles Francois Delamarche
 · North America
  1844   200   $168.00
98   North America   Sidney Hall
 · North America
  1844   180   $224.00
99   Amerique Septentrionale   Victor Levasseur
 · North America
  1845   325   $392.00
100   Mills' Map of the several Routes Proposed to the Pacific Ocean from the Head Waters of the Missouri, to the Isthmus of Darien   U.S. Gov.
 · North America
  1848   200   $67.20
101   Amerique Septentrionale   Victor Levasseur
 · North America
  1850   275   $364.00
102   Colton's Map of the United States of America, The British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies, Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.   Joseph Hutchins Colton
 · North America
  1853   1200   $1,456.00
103   [Lot of 7 - North America]  
 · North America
  1818   300   $532.00
104   Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest separes de l'Asie par le detroit d'Anian   Robert de Vaugondy/Diderot
 · Western North America
  1772   250   $212.80
105   Terra Nova   Petrus Bertius
 · Canada, Newfoundland
  1612   300   $308.00
106   Quebec, Ville de l'Amerique Septentrionale dans la Nouvelle Frnace avec Titre d'Eveche   Nicholas de Fer
 · Canada, Quebec
  1694   300   $420.00
107   The Coast of Newfoundland from Placencia to Cape Bonavista   Nathaniel Cutler
 · Canada, Newfoundland
  1728   200   $168.00
108   Carte du Cours du Fleuve de St. Laurent Depuis son Embouchure jusqu'au dessus de Quebec.   Jacques Nicolas Bellin
 · Canada
  1757   130   $112.00
109   Carte de la Baye de Hudson   Jacques Nicolas Bellin
 · Canada
  1758   100   $84.00
110   Carte qui represente les differentes connoissances que l' on a eues des Terres Arctiques …/ Carte de la Baye d' Hudson…   Robert de Vaugondy/Diderot
 · Canada
  1773   180   passed
111   Charte von MacKenzie's Reisen von Montreal zu dem nordlichen Eis=und dem stillen Meere   Alexander Mackenzie
 · Canada
  1802   200   $145.60
112   Chart Showing The Recent Search for a North-West Passage. Also the Coast Explored in Search of Sir John Franklin, Between the Years 1848 and 1854   Sidney Edwards Morse
 · Canada
  1856   70   $134.40
113   [Lot of 3 - Canada]   Samuel Augustus Mitchell
 · Canada
  1860   150   $112.00
114   Pascaerte van Nieu Nederlant, Virginies, Nieu Engelant en Nova Francia   Anthonie Jacobsz
 · Colonial United States and Canada
  1650   2100   $7,840.00
115   Canada   Pierre Duval
 · Colonial United States and Canada
  1672   550   $532.00
116   Canada ou Nouvelle France   Allain Mallet
 · Canada and Colonial New England
  1683   200   $235.20
117   A map of Florida and ye Great Lakes of Canada   Robert Morden
 · Colonial United States and Canada
  1693   400   $784.00
118   A Description of the Bay of Fundy Showing ye Coast, Islands, Harbours, Creeks, Coves, Rocks, Sholes, Soundings & Anchorings &c.   H. Moll
 · Canada and Maine
  1745   325   $280.00
119   Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada   Homann Heirs
 · Canada and Colonial New England
  1755   700   $728.00
120   A New & Accurate Map of North America Including the British Acquisitions gain'd By the late War   John Entick
 · Colonial United States and Canada
  1763   375   $560.00
121   A Chart of the Sea Coast of New Foundland New Scotland New England New York New Jersey with Virginia and Maryland   John Thornton
 · Colonial United States and Canada
  1770   1500   $1,092.00
122   Partie Occidentale du Canada et Septentrionale de la Louisiane avec une partie de la Pensilvanie   D'Anville/Santini
 · Colonial Great Lakes
  1775   1000   $1,232.00
123   Carte du Theatre de la Guerre Presente en Amerique Dressee d'apres les Nouvelles Cartes Anglaises par L. Denis   Louis Denis
 · Colonial United States and Canada
  1779   3000   passed
124   L'Isle de Terre-Neuve l'Acadie, ou La Nouvelle Ecosse, l'Isle St. Jean et la Partie Orientale du Canada   Rigobert Bonne
 · Canada and New England
  1783   200   $190.40
125   Map of the United States in North America: with the British, French and Spanish Dominions adjoining, according to the Treaty of 1783   Thomas Kitchin
 · United States and Canada
  1783   1200   $1,792.00
126   British America   John Tallis
 · Canada and Alaska
  1850   150   $212.80
127   America Russia America Nord Ouest   Francesco Marmocchi
 · Canada and Alaska
  1858   150   $112.00
128   Staaten Am Atlantischen Ocean   Hermann J. Meyer
 · Eastern United States and Canada
  1865   80   $67.20
129   Carte Generale des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale   Adrien Hubert Brue
 · United States
  1820   600   passed
130   Map of the United States to Illustrate Olney's School Geography   Jesse Olney
 · United States
  1840   140   $364.00
131   The United States from the Latest Authorities   George Hayward
 · United States
  1849   300   $420.00
132   Map of the United States and Canada   Roswell C. Smith
 · United States
  1853   90   $201.60
133   Map of the United States   Case, Tiffany & Company
 · United States
  1854   400   $616.00
134   Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America   Carl Flemming
 · United States
  1855   200   $168.00
135   Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale   G. Civelli
 · United States
  1858   180   $112.00
136   Map of the United States, and Territories. Together with Canada &c.   Samuel Augustus Mitchell
 · United States
  1860   300   $392.00
137   Johnson's New Military Map of the United States Showing the Forts, Military Posts &c with Enlarged Plans of Southern Harbors   Johnson & Ward
 · United States