Swann Galleries: Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books, 2689, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024
Page Size: 282 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Abraham Ortelius.

(AFRICA.) Africae Tabula Nova.

Antwerp circa 1590 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 938.00
2 Giovanni Battista Ramusio.

(AMERICAS.) Universale Della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata.

Venice 1606 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,063.00
3 Leonard von Euler.

(AMERICAS.) Tab: Geogr: Americae ad Emendatiora Quae Adhuc Prodierunt Exempla.

Berlin circa 1750 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 938.00
4 F. Fried.

(AMERICAS.) Carte de l'Amerique,

Vienna 1818 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
5 Robert Morden.

(AMERICA.) Group of 3 engraved maps.

London 1693 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,235.00
6 Pieter Schenk; and Gerard Valk.

(AMERICAN EAST COAST.) Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.

Amsterdam circa 1694 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,375.00
7 Joseph Bouchette.

(AMERICAN NORTHEAST.) Map of the Provinces of Upper & Lower Canada with the Adjacent Parts of the United States

[London 1815] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 910.00
8 Samuel Lewis; and Samuel Harrison, engraver.

(AMERICAN NORTHEAST -- WAR OF 1812.) A Correct Map of the Seat of War.

Philadelphia; and Baltimore [1812] USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,750.00
9 Cornelis Wytfliet.

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Florida et Apalche.

Louvain 1597 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,000.00
10 Gerard Mercator; and Jodocus Hondius.

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nova Descriptio.

Amsterdam circa 1636 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,625.00
11 Johannes de Laet.

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Florida, et Regiones Vicinae.

Leiden 1630 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,500.00
12 Willem Blaeu.

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.

Amsterdam circa 1640 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 750.00
13 Pieter Schenk; and Gerard Valk.

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.

Amsterdam circa 1694 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,125.00
14 Mark Catesby; and Johann Michael Seligmann.

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium.

Nuremberg 1755 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,500.00
15 New York and Savannah Steam Navigation Company.

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST -- TRAVEL.) New York and Georgia Lines of Internal Improvement &

New York circa 1850 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 813.00
16 Robert Sayer and John Bennett.

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) The Theatre of War in North America, with the Roads and a Table of Distances.

London 1776 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,500.00
17 Willem Blaeu.

(ASIA.) Asia Noviter Delineata.

Amsterdam circa 1640 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,000.00
18 John Speed.

(ASIA.) Asia with the Islands Adjoyning Described, the Atire of the People, & Townes of Importance.

London 1626 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,063.00
19 Johannes Covens & Cornelius Mortier; after Guillaume de L'Ilsle.

(ASIA.) L'Asie Divisee en Ses Principales Regions.

Amsterdam circa 1730 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
20

(ASIA.) Group of 6 seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century engraved maps.

Vp vd USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 375.00
21 Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville.

(ASIA -- EAST AND SOUTHEAST.) Seconde Partie de la Carte d'Asie Contenant la Chine

Paris 1752 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 625.00
22 Laurie & Whittle.

(AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE.) A New Map of the Emperor's Dominions, Exhibiting The Post Roads of Germany, Hungary

London 1799 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 469.00
23 Ernest Clegg.

(AVIATION -- PICTORIAL.) Map Showing the Overland and Overseas Flights of Charles A. Lindbergh.

New York 1928 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
24 Amy Drevenstedt.

(AVIATION -- PICTORIAL.) The Flight of Charles A Lindbergh

Only one other example in auction records. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,188.00
25 Henry F. Walling.

(BOSTON.) Map of the City of Boston and Its Environs.

New York 1866 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 688.00
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