Swann Galleries: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, 2724, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

(AFRICA.) Sebastian Munster

 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 889.00
2 Willem Blaeu

(AFRICA.) Group of 3 hand-colored double-page engraved regional maps

 Amsterdam circa 1640s-1660s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 476.00
3 Pierre Mortier

(AFRICA.) Carte des Costes de l'Afrique ou est Compris une Partie de Guinee, le Royaume de Benin, l'Isle de St. Thomas, &c.

 Amsterdam circa 1700 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 635.00
4

(AFRICA.) Group of 7 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century case maps

 London 1900 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 603.00
5 J.F. Doescher

(ALABAMA.) Bayou La Batre, Portersville, Hancockville

 Np circa 1900 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 726.00
6 Abraham Ortelius

(AMERICAS.) Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

 Antwerp 1603 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,810.00
7 Michael Mercator

(AMERICAS.) America sive India Nova

 Amsterdam 1609 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,318.00
8 Jodocus Hondius

(AMERICAS.) America

 Amsterdam 1619 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,556.00
9 Henricus Hondius

(AMERICAS.) America Noviter Delineata

 Amsterdam 1636 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,206.00
10 Matthaeus Merian

(AMERICAS.) America Noviter Delineata

 Frankfurt 1631 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,079.00
11 John Speed

(AMERICAS.) America with Those Known Parts in that Unknowne Worlde both People and Manner of Buildings Discribed and Inlarged

 London 1627 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,572.00
12 Willem Blaeu

(AMERICAS.) Americae Nova Tabula

 Amsterdam circa 1642 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,810.00
13 Nicolas Visscher

(AMERICAS.) Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio

 Amsterdam circa 1677 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 952.00
14 Nicolas de Fer

(AMERICAS.) L'Amerique Meridionale, et Septentrionale. Dressee Selon les Dernieres Relations et Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes

 Paris 1705 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,206.00
15 Vincenzo Coronelli

(AMERICAS.) America Settentrionale. [and] America Meridionale

 Venice circa 1690 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,220.00
16 Pieter van der Aa

(AMERICAS.) L'Amerique Selon les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs

 Leiden 1713 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
17 Guillaume Danet

(AMERICAS.) L'Amerique Meridionale et Septentrionale Dressee sur les Nouv.les. Decouv.tes et Dernieres Relations des Meilleurs Navigateurs Decetemps

 Paris 1731 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,143.00
18 Johann Baptist Homann

(AMERICAS.) Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Novissima Repraesentatio

 Nuremberg circa 1725 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 762.00
19

(AMERICAS.) "Wheeler." [Untitled Art Nouveau Buzza Motto-styled pictorial map of the western hemisphere]

 Np late 1920s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
20 Girolamo Ruscelli

(AMERICAN ATLANTIC SEABOARD.) Tierra Nueva

 Venice 1598 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 508.00
21 Johannes Janssonius

(AMERICAN ATLANTIC SEABOARD.) Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia

 Amsterdam 1636 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,778.00
22 Nicolas Visscher

(AMERICAN NORTHEAST.) Nova Tabula Geographica Complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem

 Amsterdam circa 1696 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,056.00
23 Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres

(AMERICAN NORTHEAST.) The Coast of Nova Scotia, New England, New-York, Jersey, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence. The Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John, Antecosty, Sable &c. and Soundings Thereof

 London 1777 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,255.00
24 Antoine Sartine

(AMERICAN NORTHEAST.) Carte Reduite des Cotes Orientales de l'Amerique Septentrionale

 Paris 1780 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,016.00
25 Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues; and Theodore de Bry

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Floridae Americae Provinciae Recens & Exactissima Descriptio

 Frankfurt 1591 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,334.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
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