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
51 Thomas Jefferys

(CANADA.) A New Map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain with the Adjacent Parts of New England and Canada

London 1755 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 349.00
52 James Wyld

(CANADA.) The Province of Canada

London circa 1850 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.00
53 Johannes Van Keulen

(CAPE COD.) Pas-Kaart Vande Zee Kusten Inde Boght van Niew Engeland

Amsterdam 1702 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 825.00
54 Nicolas Visscher

(CARIBBEAN.) Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali ac Regiones Adiacentes

Amsterdam circa 1682 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
55 Heinrich Scherer

(CARIBBEAN.) Archipelagi Americani Delineatio Geographica

Munich circa 1700 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 285.00
56

(CARIBBEAN ISLANDS.) Group of 5 eighteenth-century engraved maps

Vp vd USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
57 Johann Baptist Homann

(CARTOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS.) Sphaerarum Artificialium Typica Repraesentatio Novissime Adumbrata

Nuremberg circa 1720 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 349.00
58 Petrus Apianus

(CELESTIAL.) Volvelle from Astronomicum Caesareum

Ingolstadt 1540 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,048.00
59 Andreas Cellarius

(CELESTIAL.) Coeli Stellati Christiani Haemisphaerium Prius

Amsterdam 1661 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,432.00
60 Andreas Cellarius

(CELESTIAL.) Haemisphaeria Sphaerarum Rectae et Obliquae Utriusque Motus

Amsterdam 1708 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
61 Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr; and Johann Baptiste Homann

(CELESTIAL.) Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe in quo Loca Stellarum Fixarum

Nuremberg circa 1730 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 412.00
62

(CELESTIAL.) Group of 4 seventeenth-to-eighteenth-century engraved plates relating to astronomical observation

Vp vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,651.00
63

(CELESTIAL.) Group of 8 eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century astronomical charts

Vp vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 476.00
64

(CELESTIAL.) United States Navy and Hydrographic Office

Washington, D.C. 1908 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
65 Asa Smith

(CELESTIAL.) 3 wood engraved astronomical charts

New York circa 1850 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 101.00
66 John Speed

(CHESAPEAKE.) A Map of Virginia and Maryland

London 1676 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,794.00
67 Johannes van Keulen

(CHESAPEAKE.) Pas Kaart van de Zee Kusten van Virginia

Amsterdam 1687 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,376.00
68 Pierre Mortier

(CHESAPEAKE.) Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, la Nouvelle Jarsey Orient et Occidentale

Amsterdam circa 1700 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,286.00
69 John Senex

(CHESAPEAKE.) A New Map of Virginia Maryland and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey

London 1719 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
70 Emanuel Bowen

(CHESAPEAKE.) A New and Accurate Map of Virginia & Maryland

London 1747 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,016.00
71 John Mount and Thomas Page

(CHESAPEAKE.) Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West New Jersey

London circa 1773 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,524.00
72 Antoine Sartine; after Anthony Smith

(CHESAPEAKE.) Carte de la Baie de Chesapeake et de la Partie Navigable des Rivieres James, York, Patowmack, Patuxeo, Patapsco, North-East, Choptauk et Patomack

Paris 1778 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,524.00
73 Pelletreau & Raynor

(CHICAGO -- GREAT FIRE.) Map of Chicago, Showing the Burnt District

New York circa 1871 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 317.00
74 Abraham Ortelius

(CHINA.) Chinae, Olim Sinarum Regionis, Nova Descriptio

Antwerp 1595 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
75 Samuel Purchas

(CHINA.) The Map of China

London 1625 [1626] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,905.00
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