Featured Sale Items

In this issue: This Holiday Season bring joy to your friends and family with specially selected gifts from our gallery they will treasure year round. We feature a miniature globe and a big world map, a Tiffany transatlantic cable specimen, as well as interesting prints and objects primarily on a winter theme.

We offer a discount on our featured items through January 20. Contact us for further assistance and gift selection ideas relating to any profession or pastime. Availability of items below subject to prior sale. You can also view them on our website.

Each item is also specially curated for perfect gift giving for the early Holiday shopper.

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Sale prices in effect through January 20, 2025.

In The Earth and its Inhabitants, the peoples of the world are connected as a leporello — their printed images connected in a single strip, folded back-and-forth like an accordion. Produced in Germany, the globe is in English for the export market. Regularly $7,500, holiday price $6,750. More information.

Samuel Dunn’s A General Map of the World or Terraqueous Globe, is a large engraving with a central double hemisphere map surrounded by numerous fascinating astronomical diagrams and charts. Published in London in 1799. Regularly $7,500, holiday price $6,400. More information.

In front of the bull and bear boxers is a 4-inch section of the first transatlantic telegraph cable as successfully laid between Ireland and Newfoundland in 1858. It operated for a short period of time but broke after a few weeks. Cyrus Field, the visionary financier and promoter who spearheaded the ambitious, years-long effort sold remnants of the 1858 cable to Tiffany & Co., who in turn made them into 4-inch souvenirs. Tiffany added a brass label with their name as seller, and their guarantee of authenticity. The extant Tiffany specimen shown above, in fine condition, is holiday priced $2,200. Stand sold separately. A detail of the brass band added by Tiffany is shown below, laid on an 1872 map of the world by Augustus Mitchell. Map sold separately, see below. More information.

Above with detail, a world map on Mercator’s Projection. It was published in 1872 by the prolific Philadelphia map publisher S. Augustus Mitchell, as stated in the title “exhibiting the American continent as its center.” The first successful Atlantic Cable (1866) and the French Cable (1869), both crossing the Atlantic, are indicated by lines. Regularly $350, sale price $300. More information.

Have a happy holiday on ice and bring the rink inside with this charming Victorian winter ice skating scene of Central Park, New York City. It was published in 1874, a year after the park’s construction was completed. Regularly $1,400. Holiday sale price $1,200. More information.

Get in the mood for more snow in New York City with George Stimmel’s winter scene of the Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge. Men are shown shoveling snow under elevated train tracks leading to the bridge as children play behind a group of parked cars. Watercolor c. 1960. Regularly $950, holiday price $800. More information.

Another American artist, Woldemar Neufeld, takes a view Under Queensboro Bridge, in a color printed linocut. The suspension bridge stands out in black against muted tones and a bright red barge steams up the river. In the far distance looking north are the Hell Gate Bridge and the Triborough Bridge. Regularly $1,900, holiday price $1,700. More information.

Green Around the Gills: If winter in the Caribbean is more your speed, a variety of tropical game fish including blue marlin and tuna are shown swimming in pale green waters in George Annand’s pictorial map The Islands of the Bahamas, published in 1951. Regularly $950, holiday price $800. More information.