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
301 Erik Satie; and Charles Martin

(ART DECO -- SPORT and LEISURE.) Sports & Divertissements

Paris 1914 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
302 Charles MacFarlane

(ASIA MINOR.) Constantinople in 1828. A Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and Provinces: With an Account of the Present State of the Naval and Military Power, and of the Resources of the Ottoman Empire

London 1829 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 924.00
303 Rev. Francis Orpen Morris

(BIRDS.) A History of British Birds

London circa 1860 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 889.00
304 Jinkyu Sai

(BOTANICAL -- IKEBANA.) Rikka Shodo Shu

Kyoto? 1684 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
305 Francois Andrew Michaux

(BOTANICAL.) The North American Sylva, or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia

Paris 1819 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
306 Charles Mason Hovey; and William Sharp

(BOTANICAL -- POMOLOGY.) The Fruits of America, Containing Richly Colored Figures and Full Descriptions of all the Choicest Varieties Cultivated in the United States

Boston and New York 1852-1856 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
307

(BOTANICAL -- SPECIMEN BOOK.) Working specimen album collected by the family of Mr. W.A. Myrick compiling over 200 different mounted American plant pressings, most with affixed labels or captions variously dated 1890-1937 and many marked with places of or

Np circa 1850s through the early twentieth century USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
308 D.B. de Malpiere

(CHINA.) La Chine, Moeurs, Usages, Costumes, Arts et Metiers, Peines Civiles et Militaires, Ceremonies Religieuses, Monuments et Paysages, d'Apres les Dessins Originaux

Paris 1827 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 462.00
309

(CINDERELLA STAMPS.) Large collection of over 400 primarily American advertising labels and poster stamps

Vp circa 1910-1915 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 698.00
310

(DRAWINGS -- SINGAPORE, PENANG, SOUTH AFRICA.) Assembled album containing over 80 ink sketches and watercolor drawings of various places, including Singapore, Penang, South Africa (Umgeni, Umlalaas, Zululand), St. Helena Island, etc.

Vp 1860s-1880s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 22,860.00
311 (Lord John Elphinstone

INDIA.) Farewell address on the official departure of Lord Elphinstone as governor of the Madras district of India (1837-1842)

Madras 29 August, 1842 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 27,940.00
312 Koto Okura

(JAPAN.) The Russo-Japanese War

Tokyo 1904 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 330.00
313 John Claudius Loudon

(LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.) Observations on Laying Out Farms in the Scotch Style, Adapted to England

London 1812 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,778.00
314 Nicolas Vergnaud

(LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.) L'Art de Creer les Jardins... Nouvelle Edition

Paris 1839 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,794.00
315

(MILITARY.) Manuscript volume detailing the manufacture and maintenance of explosives and ammunition

England mid-nineteenth century USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 698.00
316

(MUSIC.) Collection of early nineteenth-century engraved music scores

Vp vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 363.00
317 Vinzenz Kinzl

(NATURAL HISTORY -- MONKEYS.) Versuch einer Vollstandigen Naturgeschichte... die Affen

Prague 1788 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,048.00
318 Georges Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon; and William Smellie, ed.

(NATURAL HISTORY.) A Natural History, General and Particular; Containing... a General History of Man... To Which is Added a History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, Embracing the Recent Discoveries of Eminent Naturalists

London 1816-1827 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 762.00
319 Georges Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon

(NATURAL HISTORY.) [Ouvres Completes de Buffon - Plates only]

Paris circa 1850 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
320

(NATURAL SCIENCES -- JUVENILE.) Group of 5 nicely illustrated titles

Vp vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 825.00
321 [Pierre-Francois Hugues d'Hancarville]

(NAUGHTY.) . Two illustrated works of phallic worship and eroticism in classical antiquity

Paris 1790s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 889.00
322 Christian Tonsberg

(NORWAY.) Norske Nationaldragter

Christiania (Oslo) 1852 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
323

(PEEPSHOWS.) Group of 3 hand-colored novelty viewers

Np, but British and German late-eighteenth-to-mid-nineteenth century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 627.00
324 Augustus Loftus, Esq.

(PHOTOGRAPHY -- AUSTRALIA.) Views of Government House Sydney, 1880

Sydney 1880 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 285.00
325 Arturo Boote

(PHOTOGRAPHY -- ARGENTINA.) Leporello album of 18 mounted albumen prints of scenes both in town (Buenos Aires) and the countryside

Np late nineteenth century USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,254.00
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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