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
326

(PHOTOGRAPHY -- INDIA.) A Souvenir of the Marriage of the Nawab Fakhr-ul-Mulk Bahadur's Daughter with the Son of the Nawab Khan Khana Bahadur (Shaban 1313 H)

 South-central India 1896 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 4,318.00
327

(ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY.) [The Great Comet of 1882]

 South Africa circa 1882 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 528.00
328 Underwood & Underwood, E. & H.T. Anthony, Thomas Houseworth & Co., F. Jay Haynes, W.H. Jackson, and others

(PHOTOGRAPHY -- STEREOVIEWS.) Group of approximately 80 high-quality stereograph cards of the American west

 Vp 1870s USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,905.00
329 Carel Christiaan Antony Last; after Karel Jacob de Jonge

(PROCESSION.) Intocht van Frederic-Hendrik te Leiden in 1813. Studenten-Maskarade

 The Hague circa 1850 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
330 Andrew Nichol

(RAILROADS -- A PIONEERING LINE.) Five Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, from Drawings Taken on the Spot

 Dublin; London 1834 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 6,350.00
331

(SAMPLE BOOK -- METALSMITHING.) Company album of over 150 pages of ink and watercolor metalwork samples including locking mechanisms, hinges, handles, hammers, door knobs, bells, casters, cookware, lamps, rat traps, kitchen utensils, bellows, clocks, coff

 Lyon? second half nineteenth century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
332

(SAMPLE BOOK -- RABOLOGY.) Album of 151 detailed graphite sketches of decorative cane or walking stick knobs and handles

 Np early twentieth century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,794.00
333 [Matthew Henry Barker]; and George Cruikshank

(SEAMEN.) Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a Man-Of-War's Man. By an Old Sailor

 London 1826 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 330.00
334 Captain Thomas Williamson; and Samuel Howitt

(SPORTING.) Oriental Field Sports; Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East

 London 1807 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 561.00
335 M.M. Ballou

(SPORTING.) The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports

 Boston 1855 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
336 Adrien Dauzats

(ARCHITECTURE.) Theatre de Bordeaux Coupe sur la Longeur du Batiment

 France 1817 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 349.00
337 Irwin Glass

(ARCHITECTURE.) U of Pa. Class A - Project V. "A Zoological Laboratory"

 Philadelphia 1930s USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,188.00
338 George Bric

(ART DECO -- AVIATION.) Le Morning Post Etablit le Record de Paris a Londres le 26 Octobre 1910

 Paris 1911 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 139.00
339 Eugene Grasset

(ART NOUVEAU -- CALENDAR.) 1896 Belle Jardiniere

 Paris 1895 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 285.00
340 Jacques Barraband

(BIRDS.) Le Perroquet Lori-unicolor. Pl. 125

 Paris 1801-1805 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 528.00
341 John James Audubon

(BIRDS.) Carolina Parrot. Plate 26

 London 1827 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 95,250.00
342 John James Audubon

(BIRDS.) Glossy Ibis. Plate CCCLXXXVII

 London 1837 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
343 John Gould

(BIRDS.) Group of 18 hand-colored lithographed plates from The Birds of New Guinea

 London 1875-1888 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,905.00
344 John Gould

(BIRDS.) Group of 8 hand-colored lithographed plates from The Birds of Great Britain

 London 1862-1873 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
345 Basilus Besler

(BOTANICAL.) Group of 4 hand-colored engraved plates from Hortus Eystettensis

 Eichstatt 1613 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
346 attributed to Jan Van Os

(BOTANICAL.) Bouquet of roses and dahlias

 Np circa 1800 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,716.00
347 Salvatore de Angelis

(BRITISH ROYAL NAVY.) Bombardment of Alexandria of Egypt The 11th July 1882

 Naples 1882 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
348 Amanda Fougere; and Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Lafosse

(COURAGE.) Les Orphelines / The Orphans

 New York 1853 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
349

(DAVID ROBERTS.) Group of 10 tinted lithographed plates with additional hand-coloring from The Holy Land... [and] Egypt and Nubia

 London 1840s USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,320.00
350

(EAST INDIA COMPANY.) Two nicely-drawn ink and gouache caricatures of British officers

 India mid-nineteenth century USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,032.00
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    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
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    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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