As on the previous days, the bidding book for the geography auction was full to bursting on Thursday. Coupled with numerous telephone and live bidders, the auction continued into the evening and the auction season ended with a very good result. As has been the case recently, the atlas section was the highest-turnover section of the geography catalogue. Here, a collector’s atlas with maps by Dutch cartographers and publishers such as Blaeu, Visscher and Janssonius, published around 1660, fetched € 36,000 (estimate € 20,000/lot 1489). Four volumes (of five) of the German edition of J. Janssonius’ ‘Novus Atlas’ with 314 old coloured engraved maps, were sold to a telephone bidder for € 28,000 (estimate € 25,000/lot 1476). A magnificently coloured copy of Münster’s ‘Cosmographia’ from 1628 fetched the estimated price of € 16,000.
Another item that attracted strong bidding was a border-coloured world map in Mercator projection with extensive marginal illustrations in copperplate engraving by P. Kaerius at J. Janssonius, published in Amsterdam in 1632, which sold for € 10,000 (estimate € 8,000, lot 1485). All results and the post-auction sale are now available on our website.
We would like to thank all bidders and consignors for participating in our autumn auctions and for placing their trust in our company.
