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
76

(CHINA.) [Panoramic view of Mount Emei under heaven]

Np nineteenth century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,302.00
77

(CHINA and JAPAN.) Two eighteenth-century double-page engraved maps

Paris vd USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
78 Richard Collinson, surveyor; and J. & C. Walker, engravers

(CHINA.) China Sheet II Eastern Coast From Hong Kong to Chelang Pt.

London 1849 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 476.00
79 Joseph Schedler

(CIVIL WAR.) Military Map of the Middle and Southern States Showing the Seat of War During the Great Rebellion in 1861

New York; Paris; London circa 1861 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,016.00
80

(CIVIL WAR.) United States War Department, Engineer Bureau. Portions of Virginia and North Carolina, Embracing Richmond & Lynchburg, VA, and Goldsboro & Salisbury, N.C.

New York 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,206.00
81 Henri Justel; and Rene Michault, engraver

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Costes et Rivieres de Virginie, de Mariland et de Nouvelle Angletere

Paris 1674 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 412.00
82 Nicholas de Fer

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, la Floride, la Virginie, Pensilvanie, Caroline, Nouvelle Angleterre et Nouvelle Yorck, l'Isle de Terre Neuve, la Louisiane, et le Cours de la Riviere de Misisipi

Paris 1705 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
83 Johann Baptist Homann

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae Implantata Anglorumque Coloniis Florentissima

Nuremberg circa 1730 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,651.00
84 Johann Baptist Homann

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA -- MIDDLE ATLANTIC.) Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali

Nuremberg circa 1730 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 792.00
85 Johann Baptist Homann

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi seu Provinciae Ludovicianae

Nuremberg circa 1720 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,286.00
86 John Senex

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) North America Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Society at London, and the Royal Academy at Paris

London 1710 [but circa 1750] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,794.00
87 Herman Moll

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA -- THE CODFISH MAP.) To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers... This Map of North America... is Most Humbly Dedicated

London circa 1720 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,048.00
88 Herman Moll

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France Under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoyning Territories of England and Spain

London circa 1720 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,048.00
89 Herman Moll

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA -- THE BEAVER MAP.) A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America

London 1715 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,795.00
90 Johannes Covens and Cornelius Mortier

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Carte Nouvelle de l'Amerique Angloise Contenant la Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline, Pensylvania, Nouvelle Iorck, N: Iarsey, N: France, et les Terres Nouvellement Decouerte

Amsterdam circa 1722 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,524.00
91 Covens & Mortier; after Henry Popple

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements Adjacent Thereto

Amsterdam circa 1742 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,159.00
92 Thomas Kitchin

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) A New and Accurate Map of the British Dominions in America, According to the Treaty of 1763; Divided into the Several Provinces and Jurisdictions

London circa 1766 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,159.00
93 Bowles family; after Lewis Evans

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America

London circa 1770 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,048.00
94 Mathias Albrecht Lotter

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Carte Nouvelle de L'Amerique Angloise Contenant tout ce que les Anglois Possedent sur le Continent de L'Amerique Septentrionale... les Treize Provinces Unies

Augsburg [1776] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,079.00
95 Homann Heirs; after Jean Baptiste d'Anville and Thomas Jefferys

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis Edita Nunc in Anglia Coloniis in Interiorem Virginiam Deductis nec non Fluvii Ohio Cursu

Nuremberg 1777 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,079.00
96 Antonio Zatta

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) Le Colonie Unite dell' America Settentrle

Venice 1778 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,048.00
97 Robert Laurie; and James Whittle; after Lewis Evans

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.) A New and General Map of the Middle Dominions Belonging to the United States of America

London 1794 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 825.00
98 Matthew Albert Lotter; after Claude Joseph Sauthier

(COLONIAL NEW YORK.) A Map of the Provinces of New-York and New-Jersey, with a part of Pennsylvania and the Province of Quebec

Augsburg 1777 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,143.00
99 Major Samuel Holland

(COLONIAL NEW YORK.) The Provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the Province of Quebec

London 1794 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,794.00
100 Emanuel Bowen

(COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND.) A New and Accurate Map of New Jersey, Pensilvania, New York and New England With the Adjacent Countries

London [1747] USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,122.00
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