Swann Galleries: Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books, 2689, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | (CHINA TRADE -- BOTANICAL.) Album of 12 mounted trade watercolors on pith paper. |
China | late 19th century | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 202 | Francois Andrew Michaux. | (DENDROLOGY.) A Treatise on the Resinous Trees of North America. |
Paris | 1819 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 |
| 203 | William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. | (EQUINE.) Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. |
Antwerp | 1657 [1658] | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,380.00 |
| 204 | Samuel A. Kilbourne; and George Brown Goode. | (FISH.) Game Fishes of the United States. |
New York | 1879 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 205 | John Chamberlaine; and Edmund Lodge. | (HANS HOLBEIN.) Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, |
London | 1792[-1800] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 206 | Achille Deveria; Francois Grenier; and others. | (ILLUMINATED LITHOGRAPHY.) Unique album of richly hand-colored French |
France | early-to-mid-nineteenth century | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 207 | Philip Meadows Taylor. | (INDIA.) [Views in India by Lieut. P.M. Taylor, His Highness the Nizams Servant]. |
India | circa 1828 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
| 208 | Company School. | (INDIAN MINIATURES.) Album of exquisitely-drawn Patna Kalam character and costume portraits. |
India | mid-nineteenth century | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 209 | Margaret Dovaston; and Jack Dovaston. | (JUVENILE -- ILLUSTRATED COMMONPLACE.) Dovaston's Weekly; Dovaston's Magazine. |
London | 1895-1903 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 210 | Antoine-Vincent Arnault. | (NAPOLEON.) Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon. |
Paris | 1822-1826 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,000.00 |
| 211 | Thomas and John Doughty. | (NATURAL HISTORY.) The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports. |
Philadelphia | 1832 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 212 | Yves Delage. | (NATURAL HISTORY -- MARINE SPONGE PHYSIOLOGY.) Embryogenie des Eponges. |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 750.00 | ||
| 213 | William Jardine. | (ORNITHOLOGY.) The Naturalist's Library. |
London and Edinburgh | 1830s | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 813.00 |
| 214 | John Webber. | (PACIFIC EXPLORATION.) Views in the South Seas, |
London | 1808 [but after] | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 215 | (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Bound collection of fine nineteenth-century albumen photographs of New York City, Niagara Falls, and the Bahamas. |
Np | circa 1870s-1880s | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,063.00 | |
| 216 | (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Interesting album of approximately 300 photographs compiled by a United States Navy man, including a suite of unknown |
Np | circa 1920s-1930s | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 217 | Thomas Birch. | (PORTRAITS.) The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain. |
London | 1756 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 |
| 218 | James Gillray. | (SATIRE.) [The Caricatures of Gillray; |
London and Edinburgh: | 1824-1827 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 219 | Gustave Dore. | (SOCIAL SATIRE.) La Menagerie Parisienne. |
Paris | 1854 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 469.00 |
| 220 | Peter and John Dolland. | (TELESCOPES.) Description et Usages de l'Instrument Equatoriale Universel, ou l'Observatoire Portatif. |
London | circa 1772 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 221 | Jacob George Strutt. | (TREES.) Sylva Britannica; or Portraits of Forest Trees. [bound with] Delicaiae Sylvarum; |
London | 1826; and [1828] | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 222 | Albert Bierstadt; and James Smillie (engraver). | (AMERICAN WEST.) The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak) . |
New York | 1866 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 223 | Clayton Glass Works. | (AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL ADVERTISING.) Moore Brothers, Clayton, Gloucester Co., New Jersey. |
Np | circa 1875-1880 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 224 | Louis Kurz; and T.M. Fowler. | (AMERICAN CONFLAGRATION.) View of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, as it Appeared When on Fire and Being Totally |
Madison, WI | 1871 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 225 | AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. | Rocky Mountain Sheep, Plate LXXII * Prong-Horned Antelope, Plate LXXVII. |
Philadelphia | 1845 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
