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
101

(NETHERLANDS.) Group of 4 double-page engraved maps, all with attractive original hand-coloring.

Vp vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 563.00
102 Arnoldus Montanus; or John Ogilby.

(NEW ENGLAND.) Novi Belgii Quod Nunc Novi Jorck Vocatur, Novae Angliae & Partis Virginiae.

Amsterdam or London 1671 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,750.00
103 William B.

(NEW ENGLAND.) Fowle. Large mid-nineteenth-century lithographed broadside of two important seventeenth-century woodcut maps.

[Boston] 1846 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 531.00
104 Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein.

(NEW ORLEANS.) Group of 6 finely-detailed manuscript plans.

[New Orleans] circa 1880 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,500.00
105 Currier & Ives.

(NEW ORLEANS.) The City of New Orleans, and The Mississippi River. Lake Pontchartrain in Distance.

New York 1885 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,500.00
106 M. de V. Martin.

(NEW YORK.) Map of Norwich Village Chenango County, N.Y.

Philadelphia 1856 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 469.00
107 Koch & Co.

(NEW YORK CITY.) Map of the City of New York: With an Alphabetical List of Streets

New York late 1840s USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
108 William Hooker; and Humphrey Phelps.

(NEW YORK CITY.) Map of the City of New York, with the Latest Improvements.

New York 1832 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 750.00
109 Joseph Hutchins Colton.

(NEW YORK -- LONG ISLAND.) Map of Long Island.

New York 1863 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 813.00
110 Pieter Schenk; and Gerard Valk.

(NORTH AMERICA.) America Septentrionalis.

Amsterdam circa 1694 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,375.00
111 Tobias Conrad Lotter after Guillaume de L'Isle.

(NORTH AMERICA.) America Septentrionalis.

Augsburg circa 1772 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 875.00
112 Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

(NORTH AMERICA.) Group of 4 double-page engraved maps with strong original hand-color.

Paris circa 1780 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 313.00
113

(NORTH AMERICA.) Group of 3 eighteenth-century engraved maps.

Paris. Paris. Venice 1719. circa 1790. circa 1740 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 938.00
114 [Rigobert Bonne].

(NORTH AMERICA -- RUSSIAN TEXT.) Two double-page engraved maps with all toponyms printed in Cyrillic.

St. Petersburg? circa 1790 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
115 Matthaeus Seutter.

(PARIS.) Le Plan de Paris, ses Faubourgs et ses Environs.

Augsburg circa 1740 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 938.00
116

(PERRY -- U.S./JAPANESE DIPLOMACY.) Reconnoissance of the Anchorage of Ura-Ga & Reception Bay,

Np September 1853 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 47,500.00
117

(POCKET MAPS.) Group of 4 nineteenth-century engraved maps.

Vp vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 625.00
118 Henry F.

(RHODE ISLAND.) Walling. Map of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Boston 1855 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
119 Abraham Ortelius.

(RUSSIA.) Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.

Antwerp 1584 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 780.00
120 Blaeu family.

(RUSSIA.) Russiae, vulgo Moscovia Dictae Partes Septentrionalis et Orientalis.

Amsterdam circa 1640 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
121 John Speed.

(RUSSIA.) A Map of Russia.

London 1676 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,040.00
122 Gerard Mercator; and Jodocus Hondius.

(SCOTLAND.) Scotiae Regnum.

Amsterdam circa 1630 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 344.00
123 Kellogg & Bulkeley.

(SERIO-COMIC MAP.) Pictorial War Map.

Hartford, CT circa 1870 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 618.00
124

(SOUTH AMERICA.) Group of 6 eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century engraved maps

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 594.00
125 John Speed.

(SPAIN and PORTUGAL.) Spaine Newly Described with Many Adictions, both in the Attires of the People & the

London 1676 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 813.00
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