Maps & Atlases

Our Maps & Atlases department specializes in a wide range of works on paper. In addition to rare atlases and extraordinary maps, this auction includes color plate books with a special focus on botanical and faunal natural history tomes as well as unusual historical material. 

Highlights from the department include a complete copy of Mahmud Raif Efendi’s Cedid atlas tercümesi, the first known atlas published in the Muslim world, which reached $118,750; Novus Orbis by Richard Hakluyt, the first printed map to include the designation “Virginia,” for $80,000; a hand-colored aquatint and engraved plate, Carolina Parrot, from John James Audubon's Birds of America for $137,000; and He Mau Palapala Aina A Me Na Niele No Ka Hoikehonua. No Na Kamalii, a Hawaiian language children’s geography book containing 8 engraved maps, for $68,750.

The department regularly contributes research to scholarship in the field with discoveries, including that of a previously unknown first state of Frederick de Wit’s map of the Netherlands, which sold for $16,250 in December 2016.

Specialists

Caleb Kiffer

Specialist, Maps & Atlases
(212) 254-4710 ext. 17

David Rivera

Administrator
(212) 254-4710 ext. 13

Department ScheduleSee Past Auctions

Dec 1012:00 PM ET

Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books

Sale 2689

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