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
251

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) Rand, McNally, & Company. Enlarged Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide

Chicago 1891 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
252 William Bartlett

(AMERICANA.) The History of the United States of America

New York [1856] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 635.00
253 James Murray

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) An Impartial History of the Present War in America

Newcastle upon Tyne, and other places [1778--1780] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,640.00
254 Francois Soules

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Histoire des Troubles de l'Amerique Anglaise

Paris 1787 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,206.00
255 Thomas Anburey

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Travels Through the Interior Parts of America. In a Series of Letters by an Officer

London 1789 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 660.00
256 John Marshall

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington

Philadelphia [1832] USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 561.00
257 Louis Francois Jauffret

(ANIMAL ATLAS.) Zoographie des Diverses Regions, Tant de L'Ancien que du Nouveau Continent

Paris 1800 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,432.00
258 Captain William Edward Parry

(ARCTIC.) Two nineteenth-century narratives of Arctic exploration

London 1820s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,159.00
259 Captain John Franklin

(ARCTIC.) Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827 ... Illustrated by Numerous Plates and Maps

London 1828 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,651.00
260 John Thomson

(ATLAS.) A New General Atlas, Consisting of a Series of Geographical Designs, on Various Projections, Exhibiting the Form and Component Parts of the Globe

Edinburgh 1817 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,540.00
261

(ATLAS IN CHINESE.) Commercial Press, Ltd. New Atlas of the World

-1918 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,270.00
262 Benedictus Montanus Arias, et al

(BIBLICAL COMMENTARY.) Critici Sacri, sive, Annotata Doctissimorum Virorum in Vetus ac Novum Testamentum

[Amsterdam] [circa 1698] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,143.00
263 John Bachmann

(CIVIL WAR.) Panorama of the Seat of War

New York 1861 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,700.00
264 Pelham Chandler (b. 1795)

(CYPHERING BOOK.) Early nineteenth-century manuscript album of sailor's practical lessons

Duxbury, MA 1814-1815 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,778.00
265 Sebastian Munster

(EARLY MODERN GEOGRAPHY.) Cosmographei, Oder Beschreibung Aller Lander

Basel 1558 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,970.00
266 Nicolas Sanson

(EUROPE.) L'Europe

Paris 1647 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
267 Thomas Salmon; and Herman Moll

(GEOGRAPHY.) Modern History; or, The Present State of All Nations . . . Third Edition

London 1744-46 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,032.00
268 Thomas Salmon

(GEOGRAPHY.) The Universal Traveller: or, a Compleat Description of the Several Foreign Nations of the World

London 1753-1755 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
269 Richardson & Lord

(GEOGRAPHY -- JUVENILE.) Modern Atlas Adapted to Morse's New School Geography

Boston 1822 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
270 Tomaso Porcacchi; and Girolamo Porro, engraver

(ISOLARIO.) L'Isole Piu Famose del Mondo

Venice 1686 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,556.00
271 Abraham Ortelius

(MINIATURE ORTELIUS.) Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Praecipuarum Orbis Regionum Delineationes, Minoribus Tabulis Expressas, Brevioribusque Declarationibus Illustratas, Continens

Antwerp 1601 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,334.00
272 Bernard Schotanus van Sterringa; and Menso Alting

(NETHERLANDS.) Uitbeelding der Heerlijkheit Friesland

Leeuwarden 1718 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
273 Shepard Kollock

(NEW JERSEY.) The Petitions and Memorials of the Proprietors of West and East-Jersey, to the Legislature of New-Jersey, Together with a Map of the State of New-Jersey, and the Country Adjacent

New York circa 1784 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,159.00
274

(NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE.) The Constitutions of the United States and the State of New-York; Together with the Rules and Orders, Standing Committees, and List of Members of the Senate and Assembly

Albany 1829 and 1830 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
275

(NEW YORK CITY.) The Citizens' Association of New York, Council of Hygiene and Public Health; and Egbert Viele

New York 1866 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,900.00
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