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
26 C.D. Barstow.

(BOSTON -- BUNKER HILL.) Plan Showing the Redoubt, Breastwork and Rail-Fence & Grass-Protection of the Americans

[Boston 1876] USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 406.00
27 Arnold Colom.

(BRITISH ISLES.) Pascaarte van t' Canaal.

Amsterdam circa 1658 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
28 John Speed.

(BRITISH COUNTIES.) Group of 4 double-page engraved British county maps.

London circa 1627 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 406.00
29 Joan Blaeu.

(BRITISH COUNTIES.) Group of 10 double-page engraved maps.

Amsterdam circa 1660 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
30

(BRITISH ROADS.) Group of engraved strip maps.

London circa 1680. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 531.00
31

(BRITISH EMPIRE.) Group of 7 early twentieth-century imperialist propaganda maps.

Vp vd USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,250.00
32 Loring Danforth.

(BUFFALO.) Pocket Map of the City of Buffalo.

[Buffalo] 1846 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 488.00
33

(CALIFORNIA.) Group of 3 eighteenth-century engraved maps.

Vp vd USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
34 Cornelis Wytfliet.

(CANADA.) Nova Francia et Canada.

Louvain 1597 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
35 Hendrick Doncker.

(CANADA.) Pas-Caert van Terra Nova, Nova Francia, Nieuw-Engeland en de Groote Rivier van Canada.

Amsterdam circa 1678 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
36 Vincenzo Coronelli.

(CANADA.) Canada Orientale Nell' America Settentrionale.

Venice circa 1690 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,063.00
37 Homann Heirs; after Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

(CANADA.) Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada.

Nuremberg 1755 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 469.00
38 Covens & Mortier; after Guillaume de L'Isle.

(CANADA.) Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.

Amsterdam circa 1730 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
39 Pierre Mortier.

(CANADA.) Carte Particuliere de l'Amerique Septentrionale

Amsterdam circa 1700 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 594.00
40 Pierre Mortier.

(CANADA.) Le Canada ou Partie de la Nouvelle France,

Amsterdam circa 1700 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,000.00
41 Jonathan Carver.

(CANADA.) A New and Correct Map of the Province of Quebec with the Adjacent States and Provinces.

London 1794 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 938.00
42 HH Lloyd; for the Geological Survey of Canada.

(CANADA.) Map of the Eastern Townships and Adjacent Portions of the Province of Quebec.

Toronto 1875 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,500.00
43 John Speed.

(CARIBBEAN.) A Map of Jamaica / Barbados.

London 1676 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 625.00
44 Johannes Covens; and Cornelius Mortier.

(CARIBBEAN.) Teatre de la Guerre en Amerique

Amsterdam circa 1725 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
45 Gerard Van Keulen.

(CARIBBEAN -- U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.) Nieuwe en Aldereerste Afteekening van 't Eyland St. Thomas.

Amsterdam 1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,500.00
46

(CASE MAPS.) Group of 9 early-twentieth-century folding maps of Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Vp vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 813.00
47

(CASE MAPS.) Group of 8 miscellaneous nineteenth-and-twentieth-century folding maps.

Vp vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,063.00
48

(CITY PANORAMAS -- INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS.) Group of 3 miniature chromolithographed panoramas of industrial American cities.

Buffalo; and Detroit 1888, 1889, 1890 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 594.00
49 James T. Lloyd.

(CIVIL WAR.) Lloyd's Map of the Southern States.

New York 1861 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,000.00
50 Charles Magnus.

(CIVIL WAR.) Magnus' Historical War Map. One Hundred & Fifty Miles Around Richmond.

New York 1864 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 553.00
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