Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books: December 8, 2022 Auction Highlights

**Lot 5:** Sebastian Münster, *Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula,* Basel, 1552. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500.

Our winter maps auction will offer a strong variety of material including collectible examples by stalwart publishers Ortelius, Blaeu, Hondius, Speed, and Munster. Plate books and graphics include works by Audubon, and a scarce volume of scenic lithographs of St. Petersburg, capital of Russia at the time.

Cartographic highlights are Egbert Viele’s Water Map of New York City from 1865, describing Manhattan’s long-vanished original streams and wetlands; and an important wall map of the United States from 1818 by John Melish — the first accurately coalesced representation of the nation from coast to coast and a signifier to the potential for settlement in the western reaches of the continent.