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
276 George W. and Walter S. Bromley

(NEW YORK CITY -- QUEENS.) Atlas of the City of New York Borough of Queens, Long Island City, Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, Far Rockaway

Philadelphia 1909 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
277 G.M. Asher

(NEW YORK -- REFERENCE.) A Bibliographical and Historical Essay on the Dutch Books and Pamphlets Relating to New-Netherland

Amsterdam 1854-1867 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 222.00
278 Abbe Prevost

(NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA.) Histoire Generale des Voiages, ou Nouvelle Collection de Toutes les Relations de Voiages par Mer et par Terre ...

Paris 1757 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,032.00
279 Captain James Cook

(PACIFIC EXPLORATION.) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

[London] [1784] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,413.00
280 George W. and Walter S. Bromley

(PHILADELPHIA.) Group of 3 elephant folio early twentieth-century cadastral atlases

Philadelphia vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 792.00
281 Thomas Jefferys

(REFERENCE.) The American Atlas

London 1976 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
282 Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres

(REFERENCE.) The Atlantic Neptune, Published for the Use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain. [Series I-IV]

Barre, MA 1966 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,452.00
283 Joris van Spilbergen

(TRAVEL -- EAST INDIA COMPANY.) Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum

Leiden 1619 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 11,430.00
284 Jan Huygen van Linschoten

(TRAVEL -- SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NAVIGATION.) Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Orientales... Le Grand Routier de Mer... Description de l'Amerique

Amsterdam 1619 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 30,480.00
285 Levinus Hulsius

(TRAVEL -- NEW WORLD.) Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Grundliche Volkommene Entdeckung aller der West Indianischen Landschafften... Durch Antonium de Herrera

Frankfurt 1623 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
286 Adam Olearuius; and John Davies, translator

(TRAVEL.) The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia... Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and Other Adjacent Countries... Whereto are Added the

London 1662 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
287 Captain John Smith

(TRAVEL.) The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America; Beginning About the Yeere 1593, and Continued to this Present 1629; [and] The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer

Richmond 1819 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 396.00
288 John Hawkesworth

(TRAVEL.) A New Voyage, Round the World... Performed by Captain James Cooke

New York 1774 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,413.00
289 Edward Cooke

(TRAVEL.) A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World

London 1711 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,651.00
290 [Daniel Defoe]

(TRAVEL.) A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed Before

London 1725 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 539.00
291 Thomas Bankes

(TRAVEL -- ILLUSTRATED.) A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. Including All the Late Important Discoveries made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators of Various Nations, in the Different Hemispheres

London circa 1790 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 508.00
292 Issac Weld

(TRAVEL.) Travels Through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the years 1795, 1796, and 1797

London 1799 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 698.00
293 John Melish

(TRAVEL). Travels in the United States of America, in 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811; Including...Travels Through Various Parts of Great Britain, Ireland, and Upper Canada

Philadelphia 1812 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,302.00
294 William Winterbotham

(UNITED STATES.) An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies

London 1795 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 3,810.00
295 D.B. Warden

(UNITED STATES.) A Statistical, Political & Historical Account of the United States of North America; from the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Day

Edinburgh 1819 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 190.00
296 John Melish

(UNITED STATES.) A Geographical Description of the United States, with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions

Philadelphia 1816 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 198.00
297 John Melish

(UNITED STATES.) A Geographical Description of the United States, with the Contiguous Countries... A New Edition, Greatly Improved

Philadelphia 1822 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 190.00
298 John Howard Hinton

(UNITED STATES -- ILLUSTRATED.) The History and Topography of the United States

Philadelphia, New York, and Boston 1830-1832 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,143.00
299

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) United States Government. Maps of the District of Columbia and the City of Washington

Washington, D.C. 1852 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
300 John James Audubon

(ANIMALS.) The Quadrupeds of North America

New York 1854 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,540.00
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