Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Ortelius' important map of the Americas
Estate / Collection: Estate of Clarice Borio
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ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. [Antwerp:] Ab. Ortelius, 1587 [but with the verso text indicating inclusion in an edition from 1603-1612]. Ortelius' third plate, first state. Copper engraved map with hand-coloring, Latin text on verso with the third line from the bottom of the text starting with "Promittit & Postellus." 14 x 19 1/4 inches (35.5 x 49), with wider margins; framed. Minor abraded area in upper left margin away from image, a few marginal spots.
Ortelius' seminal map of the Americas, from the third plate with the western bulge of South America reduced. The map is further updated from the 1570 and 1579 plates now including the naming of California and the Native American name Wingandkoa on the east coast of North America and the inlet above it thought to be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay. Burden 64.
Sold for $2,304
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: Estate of Clarice Borio
[MAP-AMERICAS]
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. [Antwerp:] Ab. Ortelius, 1587 [but with the verso text indicating inclusion in an edition from 1603-1612]. Ortelius' third plate, first state. Copper engraved map with hand-coloring, Latin text on verso with the third line from the bottom of the text starting with "Promittit & Postellus." 14 x 19 1/4 inches (35.5 x 49), with wider margins; framed. Minor abraded area in upper left margin away from image, a few marginal spots.
Ortelius' seminal map of the Americas, from the third plate with the western bulge of South America reduced. The map is further updated from the 1570 and 1579 plates now including the naming of California and the Native American name Wingandkoa on the east coast of North America and the inlet above it thought to be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay. Burden 64.
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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