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
26 Gerard Mercator; and Jodocus Hondius

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum Nova Descriptio

Amsterdam circa 1613 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
27 Robert Laurie; and James Whittle

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States of America, viz: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia: with the Bordering Indian Countries, and the Spanish Possessions of Louisiana and Florida

London 1794 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,651.00
28 Abraham Ortelius

(ASIA.) Asiae Nova Descriptio

Antwerp 1603 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 825.00
29 John Speed

(ASIA.) Asia with the Islands Adjoyning Described, the Atire of the People, & Townes of Importance

London 1676 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,143.00
30 Nicolas de Fer

(ASIA.) l'Asie Divisee Selon l'Etendue de ses Principales Parties

Paris [1696; 1728] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,334.00
31 Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg

(ASIA.) Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae tam Orientalis quam Occidentalis in Particularibus Territoriis una cum Delineatione Totius Imperii Russici Imprimis Siberiae Accurate Ostensa

Stockholm 1730 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,286.00
32

(ASIA.) Group of 10 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century regional case maps

London 1912 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,651.00
33 Laurent Fries; after Martin Waldseemuller

(ATLANTIC -- NEW WORLD.) Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula

Lyon 1535 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,890.00
34 Johannes Janssonius

(ATLANTIC.) Mar del Nort

Amsterdam circa 1650 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
35

(AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND.) Group of 5 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century regional maps

Vp vd USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
36 A. Sachse & Co.; and W.E.C. Harrison

(BALTIMORE.) Panoramic Views of Baltimore

Baltimore 1880 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
37 Willem Blaeu

(BERMUDA.) Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, Alias Barmudas

Amsterdam circa 1635 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 429.00
38 Henricus Hondius

(BERMUDA.) Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, Alias Barmudas

Amsterdam circa 1633 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
39 John Speed. [Roger Rea edition]

(BERMUDA.) Mappa Aestivarum / A Mapp of the Sommer Ilands Once Called the Bermudas

London circa 1665 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
40 E. & G.W. Blunt

(BERMUDA.) Bermudas, Drawn from Actual Surveys, and Improved by Blunt's Coast Pilot

New York 1842 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 476.00
41

(BERMUDA.) Group of 18 seventeenth-to-twentieth-century engraved or lithographed maps

Vp vd USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,143.00
42 [Jacques Nicolas Bellin]; and Jean Lattre

(BOSTON.) Plan de la Ville et du Port de Boston Capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre

Paris [1760s-1770s] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,050.00
43 Joseph Frederick Wallet des Barres

(BOSTON.) [Boston Bay]

London November 13th, 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,255.00
44 Union Engraving Co.; after Henry Pelham and Francis Jukes

(BOSTON.) A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs

Boston 1907 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,270.00
45 James Charles Sidney, civil engineer; and Robert Pearsall Smith

(BOSTON.) Map of the City and Vicinity of Boston Massachusetts

Boston 1852 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,905.00
46

(BOSTON.) Alexander Williams & Co. Map of Boston and the Country Adjacent

[Boston] circa 1875 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 139.00
47 John Bachmann

(BOSTON.) Bird's Eye View of Boston

New York 1850 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,778.00
48 John Ross MacDonald

(BOSTON.) [Fish-eye map of Boston]

Np circa 1965 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
49

(BRITISH EMPIRE.) Collection of 10 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century geography-themed souvenir flags and handkerchiefs with 2 similarly-related board games

[London] vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 825.00
50 Pierre Mortier

(CANADA.) Le Canada ou Partie de la Nouvelle France, Contenant la Terre de Labrador la Nouvelle France, les Isles de Terre Neuve, de Nostre Dame, &c.

Amsterdam circa 1700 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 889.00
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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