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
351

(ETHIOPIAN MYSTICISM.) Illuminated talismanic scroll with writing in Ge'ez

 Ethiopia nineteenth century USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,556.00
352 Thomas Newton; and William Darton

(GAMES.) The New Game of Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished, for the Amusement of Youth of Both Sexes

 London January 18th, 1810 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 297.00
353

(GAMES.) Group of 9 eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century engraved juvenile game boards

 London vd USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,318.00
354 Gaspard Fossati

(HAGIA SOPHIA.) Plate 25, l'Exterieur de la Mosquee, avant sa Restauration

 London 1852 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
355 Gaspard Fossati

(HAGIA SOPHIA.) Group of 3 hand-colored tinted lithographed interior views of Istanbul's grand mosque from Fossati's "Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid"

 London 1852 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
356

(INDIA.) Group of 3 attractive paintings by Mughal artists

 India eighteenth and nineteenth centuries USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,064.00
357

(JAPAN.) Group of 6 ukiyo-e color woodblock triptychs

 Japan mid-nineteenth century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,096.00
358

(JAPANESE / RUSSIAN TRADE RELATIONS.) Imperial Russian Navy Admiral Yevfimiy Putyatin's diplomatic fleet at Osaka Bay

 Japan -1854 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,318.00
359

(MUGHAL MINIATURES.) Group of 9 Indian or Persian paintings

 India nineteenth-century USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 594.00
360 Thomas McKenney; and James Hall

(NATIVE AMERICANS.) No-Way-Ke-Sug-Ga. Otoe

 Philadelphia 1842 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 858.00
361 Karl Bodmer

(NATIVE AMERICANS.) Pehriska-Ruhpa, A Minatarre or Big-Bellied Indian

 Paris, Coblenz and London [1839-1842] USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,270.00
362 Ruth Louise Gilman

(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Down Memory Lane Edition [Pictorial History of Laconia, New Hampshire]

 New Hampshire 1936 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
363

(NOTGELD.) Large collection comprising thousands of wonderfully-illustrated notes of post-World War I German and Austro-Hungarian municipal replacement currency

 Germany and Austria-Hungary 1918-1922 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,206.00
364

(PERSIAN MINIATURE -- SAFAVID DYNASTY.) Khusrau Before the Palace of Shirin

 Iran sixteenth century USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 12,700.00
365

(SATIRE.) Group of 8 mostly hand-colored etched and engraved nineteenth-century British socio-political cartoons

 London vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 889.00
366 Currier & Ives

(SEASON'S GREETINGS.) Merry Christmas [and] Happy New Year

 New York circa 1870s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 924.00
367 Currier & Ives

(TOBACCO.) A Sociable Smoke

 New York 1880 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 528.00
368 Currier & Ives; and Thomas Worth

(TOBACCO.) Everybody's Friend [and] The Smokers Promenade

 New York 1876 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
369 John Emslie

(TRAINS.) Locomotive Engine

 London 1848 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
370

(TROMPE L'OEIL.) Hand-drawn "collage" of images mimicking printed maps, natural history engravings, scenic views, playing cards, genre vignettes, bank notes, and other paper ephemera

 [Vienna] [circa 1820s] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,413.00
371

(VUES D'OPTIQUE.) Group of 15 hand-colored engraved European vues

 Mostly Paris late eighteenth-early nineteenth century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 444.00
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    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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