Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — December 10, 2024

At Auction Tuesday, December 10 at 12:00 PM ET

In this December auction we are offering a range of collectible material including nineteenth-century illustrated ship logbooks, Jacques le Moyne’s foundation of early geographic and ethnographic study in Florida, an important manuscript chart of Commodore Perry’s diplomatic arrival into Japan’s Uraga Bay in 1853, and plenty of regional and decorative world maps spanning 350 years of cartographic printing, highlighted by Heinrich Bunting’s unique clover leaf design of the continents. 

A strong grouping of works by Currier & Ives will be on offer as well as two bound volumes containing 120 beautifully engraved color plates of flowers by Pierre-Joseph Redoute (roundly regarded as the greatest botanical illustrator of the nineteenth century, if not ever), and a curiously imaginative journal of 1000 manuscript storybook pages with nearly as many hand-drawn illustrations by 12-and-11-year-old siblings in England at the turn of the twentieth century. 

Two French manuscript charts of the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Sea of Japan, ink and green wash on laid paper, circa 1750.
Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Les Liliacées (volumes 3 and 4), 120 hand-finished color-printed stipple engraved plates, Paris, 1807-08.
Estimate $25,000 to $30,000.
Samuel Lewis and Samuel Harrison, engraver, A Correct Map of the Seat of War, engraved map covering the area east of the Northwest, Indiana, and Michigan Territories, Philadelphia: John Conrad, and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, 1812.
Estimate $2,000 to $2,500.
F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902, playful pictorial title page with 68 pen-and-ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship’s mechanical devices, each monogrammed by Somerville and initialed by commanding officers, 1900-02.
Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Cornelis Wytfliet, Florida et Apalche, double-page engraved map of the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Bahamas, and Cuba, Louvain, 1597.
Estimate $1,500 to $2,000.
Currier & Ives, after A.F. Tait, Brook Trout Fishing. “An Anxious Moment,” large folio hand-colored multi-stone lithograph showing a fisherman landing a brook trout on a wooded stream bank, New York, 1862.
Estimate $5,000 to $7,000.
Jacques le Moyne de Morgues and Theodor de Bry, Der Ander Theil / der Newlich Erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von Dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam, letterpress title with engraved border, dedication with armorial arms of George Wilhelm Count Palatine of the Rhine, and folding map of Florida, Frankfurt, 1591 and 1603.
Estimate $15,000 to $20,000.
British Admiralty, Hydrographic Office, Pacific Ocean – Galapagos Islands Surveyed by Capt. Robt. FitzRoy R.N., large engraved chart of the Galapagos, with insets, London, 1841.
Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.
Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk, America Septentrionalis, double-page engraved map of North America showing California as an island. Amsterdam, circa 1694.
Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
A Week With the Camel Corps, 21 ink, wash, and watercolor sketches mounted on larger album leaves, most captioned and dated, October 26 to November 6, 1858.
Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Heinrich Bunting, Clover Leaf World Map, hand-colored double-page woodblock map of the world in a trefoil of continents, with Jerusalem at the center, Prague, 1592.
Estimate $3,000 to $5,000.
Reconnaissance of the Anchorage of Ura-Ga & Reception Bay, on the West Side of the Entrance of Jeddo Bay, Japan, September 1853.
Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Margaret Dovaston; and Jack Dovaston, Dovaston’s Weekly: Dovaston’s Magazine, approximately 1000 manuscript pages, profusely illustrated with ink and watercolor drawings, London, 1895-1903.
Estimate $1,000 to $1,500.

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