Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Plate Books

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  • Location New York, NY 10010
Dates

Sale Starts

Tue
Dec 10
12pm

Sale Ends

Tue
Dec 10
(AFRICA.) Abraham Ortelius. Africae Tabula Nova.

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The property described in this catalogue, as amended by any posted notices or ora...
 Description & Details

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...

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