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

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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
51 [Charles Magnus].

(CIVIL WAR.) [One Hundred Miles Around Richmond].

[New York early 1860s] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 531.00
52 Engineering Bureau, U.S.

(CIVIL WAR.) War Department. Central Virginia Showing Lieut. Gen'l. U.S. Grant's Campaign and Marches

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 281.00
53 John B. Bachelder.

(CIVIL WAR.) Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg July 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 1863.

Boston 1876 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,000.00
54 Jean Baptiste Nolin.

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Carte du Canada et de la Louisiane qui Forment la Nouvelle France

Paris 1756 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,188.00
55 Johann Baptist Homann.

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae.

Nuremberg circa 1730 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,250.00
56 Johann Baptist Homann.

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi seu Provinciae Ludovicianae.

Nuremberg circa 1720 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,750.00
57 Edward Wells.

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) A New Map of North America

Oxford 1704 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 875.00
58 Robert Laurie & James Whittle.

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) A New and Correct Map of the British Colonies in North America.

London 1794 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 750.00
59 S. Stiles & Co.; for William Lester.

(CONNECTICUT.) A Map of Norwich, From Actual Survey.

New York 1833 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,000.00
60 Anna Siele.

(CONTINENTS.) Asiae Descriptio Nova; Europae Descriptio Nova; [and] Africae Nova Descriptio.

London [1663] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 438.00
61 Matthaeus Seutter.

(CONTINENTS.) Asia * Africa * Europa * Novus Orbis sive America.

Augsburg circa 1730 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 2,250.00
62 Semyon Aleksandrovich Mukhin; and Thomas Best Jervis.

(CRIMEA.) ...Military Topographical Map of the Krima Peninsula...

London 1854 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 531.00
63 Bouquillard Lithographers.

(CRIMEAN WAR.) La Crimee. Sebastopol.

Paris 1854 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
64 Georg Braun; and Franz Hogenberg.

(DENMARK.) Danorum Marca, vel Cimbricum, aut Daniae Regnum.

Cologne 1580s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
65 Arnold Colom.

(EAST INDIES.) Oosterdeel van Oost Indien.

Amsterdam circa 1658 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,500.00
66 Melchisedec Thevenot; after Joao Teixeira.

(EAST INDIES.) [China, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malay Peninsula,

Paris 1664 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,750.00
67 (EMANUEL BOWEN.)

Two hand-colored engraved maps.

London 1740s USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,063.00
68 Cornelis Danckerts.

(ENGLAND.) Accuratissima Angliae Regni et Walliae Principatus.

Amsterdam circa 1690 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 344.00
69 Herman Moll.

(ENGLAND.) The South Part of Great Britain Called England and Wales.

London circa 1730 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 344.00
70 Sebastian Munster.

(EUROPA REGINA.) [Map of Europe as a noble personification].

Basel circa 1570 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,063.00
71 Jodocus Hondius; and Gerard Mercator.

(EUROPE.) Nova Europae Descriptio.

Amsterdam 1606 or after USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 938.00
72 Herman Moll.

(EUROPE.) To Her Most Sacred Majesty Carolina Queen of Great Britain, France & Ireland, This Map of Europe...

London circa 1730 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
73 Pieter van der Aa.

(FLORIDA.) Two small engraved maps of the American southeast, each with a decorative cartouche vignette.

Leiden circa 1700-1710 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,430.00
74

(FLORIDA.) Group of 3 early engraved maps.

Vp vd USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 910.00
75 John Speed.

(FRANCE.) France Revised and Augmented, the Attires of the French and Situations of Their Chiefest Cityes Observed.

London circa 1665 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 594.00
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