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Auction 165, Lot 756

Subject: Atlases

Ptolemy/Ruscelli

La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino..., 1574

Size: 6.6 x 9.1 inches (16.8 x 23.1 cm)
Estimate: $10,000 - $13,000
Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas
Sold for: $9,000
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 758

Subject: Atlases

Depot de la Marine

Le Pilote des Iles Britanniques, Publie d'Apres les Ordres du Vice-Amiral Decres, Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, par le Depot General de la Marine, 1804

Size: 20.1 x 25.8 inches (51.1 x 65.5 cm)
Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500
Impressive French Sea Atlas of Coasts of Britain
Sold for: $2,350
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 760

Subject: Atlases

Finley, Anthony

A New American Atlas, Designed Principally to Illustrate the Geography of the United States of North America..., 1826

Size: 13.5 x 19.4 inches (34.3 x 49.3 cm)
Estimate: $2,400 - $3,000
Scarce Finley Atlas Only Published in One Edition
Sold for: $1,800
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 761

Subject: Atlases

An Historical Atlas; in a Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods..., 1830

Size: 13 x 16.3 inches (33 x 41.4 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,500
An Unusual Atlas with Dark Clouds Covering the Unknown Parts of the World
Sold for: $1,500
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 768

Subject: Atlases

White, Ruth Taylor

[Lot of 2] Our U.S.A. - A Gay Geography [and] United Air Lines - A Gay Geography of the Main Line Airway, 1938

Size: See Description
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,300
Ruth Taylor's Pictorial Atlas & Brochure
Sold for: $1,200
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 770

Subject: Geography Books

Blome, Richard

Description des Isles et Terres que l'Angleterre Possede en Amerique avec de Nouvelles Cartes de Chaque Isle && des Terres, 1715

Size: 3.8 x 6.1 inches (9.7 x 15.5 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,300
French Edition of Blome's Work on British Colonial Interests in North America with 6 Maps
Unsold
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 772

Subject: Exploration & Surveys, West Indies

Aa, Pieter van der

De Gedenkwaardige en al-om Beroemde Voyagien der Spanjaarden na West-Indien..., 1706

Size: 9.6 x 14.8 inches (24.4 x 37.6 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
Van der Aa's Compilation of Explorations in the West Indies with 20 Maps
Sold for: $2,750
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 774

Subject: Exploration & Surveys, China

Voyage dans l'Interieur de la Chine, et en Tartarie, fait dans les Annees 1792, 1793 et 1794, par Lord Macartney..., 1804

Size: 8.5 x 11.4 inches (21.6 x 29 cm)
Estimate: $1,600 - $1,900
Atlas Volume to the Macartney Embassey to China Complete with 3 Maps and 38 Plates
Sold for: $1,100
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 778

Subject: Exploration & Surveys, Northwestern North America

Beechey, Frederick William

[2 Volumes] Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom..., 1831

Size: 5.6 x 8.8 inches (14.2 x 22.4 cm)
Estimate: $1,400 - $1,700
Beechey's Important Account of the Northwest Coast
Unsold
Closed on 11/15/2017

Auction 165, Lot 781

Subject: History Books

Chaves, Geronimo de

Chronographia, o Reportorio de los Tiepos, el Mas Copioso y Preciso q Hasta Ahora ha Salido..., 1566

Size: 5.6 x 8.1 inches (14.2 x 20.6 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Rare Western and Eastern Hemisphere Maps
Sold for: $1,500
Closed on 11/15/2017
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