Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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An important early map of the Arabian Peninsula from the 1486 Ulm Ptolemy
Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector
[MAP - ARABIA]
PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS; JOHANN REGER; and JOHANNES SCHNITZER. Sexta Asie Tabula. [Ulm: Johann Reger, 1486]. Second issue. Hand-colored woodcut map, printed text on verso. 16 ½ x 22 3/8 inches (42 x 57 cm). Framed. Losses and wear along the central fold, staining, a closed tear at the lower edge, the tear and the central fold are reinforced with paper on the verso.
This map of the Arabian Peninsula first appeared in the Ulm Ptolemy of 1482, printed by Lienhard Holl. It was the fourth atlas ever printed, and the first to be published outside of Italy. It was a lavish production, printed on Italian paper, with the oceans colored deep blue by pigments containing Lapis Lazuli. It was so expensive that Holl went bankrupt, and the publication of the atlas and the printing of Johannes Schnitzer's woodcut maps was soon taken over by Roger Reger, who produced this map for his 1486 edition. Reger's maps are partly discernable by the tan color of their seas, resulting from a purple wash that has faded to brown over the past five hundred years.
Sold for $28,800
Estimated at $3,000 - $4,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector
[MAP - ARABIA]
PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS; JOHANN REGER; and JOHANNES SCHNITZER. Sexta Asie Tabula. [Ulm: Johann Reger, 1486]. Second issue. Hand-colored woodcut map, printed text on verso. 16 ½ x 22 3/8 inches (42 x 57 cm). Framed. Losses and wear along the central fold, staining, a closed tear at the lower edge, the tear and the central fold are reinforced with paper on the verso.
This map of the Arabian Peninsula first appeared in the Ulm Ptolemy of 1482, printed by Lienhard Holl. It was the fourth atlas ever printed, and the first to be published outside of Italy. It was a lavish production, printed on Italian paper, with the oceans colored deep blue by pigments containing Lapis Lazuli. It was so expensive that Holl went bankrupt, and the publication of the atlas and the printing of Johannes Schnitzer's woodcut maps was soon taken over by Roger Reger, who produced this map for his 1486 edition. Reger's maps are partly discernable by the tan color of their seas, resulting from a purple wash that has faded to brown over the past five hundred years.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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