| CHRISTIE'S FRANK S. STREETER LIBRARY 2 HARDBACK VOLUME COLLETION IMPORTANT NAVIGATION, PACIFIC VOYAGES, CARTOGRAPHY, SCIENCE VOLUME I CONTAINS A-J 350 PAGES AND 291 LOTS VOLUME II CONTAINS K-Z 322 PAGES AND 261 LOTS B-7 S-5 ( TWO VOLUMES IN MINT UNUSED CONDITION ) ( $16,421,820.00 SALE ) HIGHLIGHTS: 166 $824,000 £414,070 €610,370 $250,000-350,000 US Private Sir Robert Dudley, Arcano del Mare, Florence, 1661 148 $779,200 £391,558 €577,185 $400,000-600,000 US Private Joseph F. Wallet Des Barres, The Atlantic Neptune, London, 1774-1779 349 $768,000 £385,929 €568,888 $80,000-120,000 US Trade Peter Martyr, The Decades of the newe worlde or west India, London, 1555 426 $576,000 £289,447 €426,666 $50,000-70,000 European Private Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimes, London 1626 243 $456,000 £229,146 €337,777 $40,000-60,000 US Trade Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, London, 1589 178 $288,000 £144,724 €213,333 $60,000-90,000 US Trade Martín Fernández de Enciso, Suma de geographia, Seville, 1519 325 $288,000 £144,724 €213,333 $100,000-150,000 US Private Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, History of the Expedition, Philadelphia, 1814 101 $264,000 £132,663 €195,555 $90,000-120,000 US Private Samuel de Champlain, Les Voyages del a Nouvelle France occidentale, Paris, 1632 534 $264,000 £132,663 €195,555 $40,000-60,000 US Private Edward Wright, Certain Errors in Navigation, London, 1657 254 $228,000 £114,573 €168,888 $25,000-35,000 UK Trade John Harrison, The Principles of Mr. Harrison’s Time Keeper, with Plates of the Same, London, 1767 "The sale of the Frank S. Streeter Library: Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography, Science, which consisted of an evening session on April 16 and two day sessions on April 17, was one of the landmark sales that find their way straight into the annals of the book collecting community. The Streeter Library auction gloriously exceeded expectations by doubling the high presale estimate. 16th and early 17th century travel accounts sold consistently well, with considerable attention especially paid to the many early English works. Most notable among these were Peter Martyr's The Decades of the Newe World, originally owned by Roger North who had sailed with Sir Walter Raleigh to Guiana in 1617, and the superb set of Samuel Purchas's Purchas his Pilgimes. Several important atlases achieved record prices, notably the very fine copy of Robert Dudley's Arcano del Mare and Joseph W. Wallet Des Barres's The Atlantic Neptune. |
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