Key Lots from December 5th Auction

Lot 165

John Bonner (1643-1726) and William Price (ca. 1685-1771)

A New Plan of ye Great Town of Boston in New England in America

Copperplate engraving

Sheet size: 19 3/16” x 24 5/8”; Boston: Francis Dewing, 1769

Estimate: $250,000 - 300,000

Guidance: Northeast Auctions February 23-25, 2007. Lot 421. $220,500

Reference: Page 148, Plate 86 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Lot 166

Henry Popple

A Map of the British Empire in America...

London: William Toms, 1733

First Edition; Ten maps: twenty sheets; Each measuring: 24 1/4” x 43 1/4”; Hung as a whole:

125 1/4” x 87 1/2”.

Estimate: $120,000 - 150,000

From the collection of Charles Frasier

Reference: Page 152, Plate 90 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Historic Maps, Rare Books, Natural History Engravings & Watercolors, Color Plate Books, American and European Paintings

Lot 167

Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry

A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia, containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

Engraving with original hand color: two sheets,

each app. 31” x 49”

London, 1751 (1775)

Estimate: $60,000 - 70,000

Reference: Page 158, Plate 92 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Lot 169

John Mitchell

"A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America."

Engraving; 53" x 77"

3rd edition, c. 1773

Estimate: $200,000 - 250,000

Reference: Page 164, Plate 96 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Lot 172

Christopher Colles (1739 - 1816)

A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America

New York: 1789

Quarto, original boards, paper label, as issued, with remnants of the original tie-strings. Engraved titlepage by C.

Tiebout and 83 engraved plates (34-39 missing, like all copies, as never published) by the same; copy of Colles’s

Prospectus and advertisement pasted to inside cover; enclosed in full solander case, spine gilt in 6 compartments

Estimate: $100,000 - 150,000

Reference: Page 205, Plate 130 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Lot 173

Alexander von Humboldt

Carte Generale du Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne depuis le Parallele de 16 jusqu’au Parallele de 38 (Latitude Nord)

Dressee Sur des Observations Astronomiques et sur l’ensemble des Materiaux qui existoient a Mexico, au commencement de l’annee

1804, 1811

Estimate: $40,000 - 50,000

 Lot 174

Abraham Bradley, Jr.

Map of the United States, Exhibiting the Post-Roads, the situations, connexions & distances of the Post-Offices...

Engraving with original hand color

Sheet size: 38 3/4" x 53"

Philadelphia, 1804

Literature: Schwartz and Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, pl 136.

Estimate: $80,000 - 90,000

Reference: Page 222, Plate 136 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Lot 175

John Melish

Map of the United States with Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions

Copperplate engraving with original hand color

Engraved by J. Vallance and H.S. Tanner; 4th state

Philadelphia: John Melish, June 16, 1820

43 1/2” high x 56 1/2” long

Estimate: $60,000 - 70,000

Reference: Page 233, Plate 145 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Lot 177

John Disturnell (1801-1877)

Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico...

31 1/2 x 43 1/2 inches

Line engraving with full original color

Folds into small case: 3 7/8” x 5 7/8”, with symbol of Mexican Republic and the English title, Map of the Republic of Mexico.

Published by J. Disturnell. New York

New York, 1846

Estimate: $90,000 - 110,000

Guidance: Neal Auction June 25, 2011. Lot 197. $107,550

Reference: Page 274, Plate 170 in Schwartz’s The Mapping of America

Lot 178

Hans Holbein and Sebastian Munster

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis

Woodcut

14 3/4 x 22 inches

Basle, 1537

Estimate: $25,000 - 30,000