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
151 Howard Stansbury.

(AMERICAN WEST.) [Maps to] Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah,

[Philadelphia 1852] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
152 Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives.

(AMERICAN WEST.) Report Upon the Colorado River of the West.

Washington, D.C. 1861 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 375.00
153 Pomponius Mela; and John Reynold, ed.

(ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.) De Situ Orbis Libri Tres.

Eton 1761 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 344.00
154 Christoph Weigel.

(ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.) Descriptio Orbis Antiqui.

Nuremberg circa 1720 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,000.00
155 Alexander Jamieson.

(CELESTIAL.) A Celestial Atlas Comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens.

London 1822 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,063.00
156 COLTON, G.W. & C.B.

General Atlas of the World.

New York 1877 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,080.00
157

(CHINA.) Panoramic topographical manuscript guidebook to ancient hidden Chinese villages and temples.

Np eighteenth century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
158

(CHINA.) Manuscript geography of China and Korea.

Np eighteenth century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,250.00
159 James Cowles Prichard.

(ETHNOGRAPHY.) The Natural History of Man;

London 1848; 1851 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,063.00
160 Various cartographers.

(EUROPE.) Composite portfolio of approximately 55 seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century engraved regional maps

Vp vd USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 7,250.00
161 Jacques le Moyne de Morgues; and Theodor de Bry.

(FLORIDA.) Der Ander Theil / der Newlich Erfundenen Landschafft Americae,

Frankfurt 1591 [1603] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 10,000.00
162 Giacomo Gastaldi, mapmaker.

(GEOGRAPHY -- PTOLEMAIC.) La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino.

Venice 1548 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 25,000.00
163 Tomas Lopez.

(GEOGRAPHY.) Atlas Elemental, Moderno, o Coleccion de Mapas Para Ensenar a los Ninos Geografia.

Madrid 1792 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,000.00
164 Charles Francois Delamarche; after Vaugondy.

(GEOGRAPHY.) Atlas d'Etude, pour l'Instruction de la Jeunesse.

Paris 1797 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,125.00
165 Antoine Pherotee de La Croix.

(GEOGRAPHY.) Nouvele Metode pour Aprendre la Geographie Universele... Seconde Edition.

Lyon 1705 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,375.00
166 [Benjamin Martyn].

(GEORGIA.) Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia.

London 1733 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,000.00
167 F.A. Somerville.

(ILLUSTRATED SHIP'S LOG -- HONG KONG and SINGAPORE.) Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902.

Vp 1900-1902 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,000.00
168 F.A. Somerville.

(ILLUSTRATED SHIP'S LOG.) Log of H.M.S. Terrible and H.M.S. Hannibal 1st January, 1899 to 1st Nov., 1900.

Vp 1899-1900 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,125.00
169 Fawcett Wray, midshipman.

(ILLUSTRATED SHIP'S LOG.) Logs of H.M.S. Temeraire, Cruiser, Rodney, and Volage, January 1889 to May 1893.

Vp 1889-1893 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,000.00
170

(JAPANESE GEOGRAPHICAL and ASTRONOMICAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS.) Nice group of 17th-19th century woodblock-illustrated books.

Japan vd USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,600.00
171

(KOREAN GEOGRAPHY.) Late nineteenth-century woodblock atlas of Korea.

Korea 1894 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,750.00
172

(MANUSCRIPT -- SCIENCES AND GEOGRAPHY.) [Traite et Abrege de la Geographie et des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles].

Np seventeenth century? USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,000.00
173 James Felix Jones; and R. Hughes Thomas, ed.

(MIDDLE EAST.) Memoirs by Commander James Felix Jones, I.N.

Bombay 1857 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,000.00
174 Pieter Heyns; and Philip Galle.

(MINIATURE ORTELIUS.) Le Miroir du Monde Reduict.

Antwerp 1579 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,250.00
175 Pietro Maria Marchetti, ed.

(MINIATURE ORTELIUS.) Il Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio.

. Brescia 1598 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,750.00
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