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
151 James Charles Sidney

(NEW YORK CITY.) Sidney's Map of Twelve Miles Around New-York with the Names of Property Holders &c. from Entirely New & Original Surveys

Philadelphia 1849 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,524.00
152 Henry F. Walling

(NEW YORK CITY.) Map of the City of New York and Its Environs

New York 1860 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,540.00
153 Frederick W. Beers

(NEW YORK CITY -- BRONX.) Map of the Town of Morrisania, Westchester Co., N.Y.

New York 1860s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
154 R.A. Welcke; after John Bachmann

(NEW YORK CITY.) Fifth Avenue from 42nd Street, Looking North [and] Fifth Avenue from 42nd Street, Looking South

New York 1904 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
155

(NEW YORK CITY.) Massimo Vignelli; and The New York City Transit Authority. Group of two early pocket editions of Vignelli's iconic New York Subway Guide

New York 1974 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 190.00
156 Cornelis de Jode

(NORTH AMERICA.) Americae pars Borealis, Florida, Baccalaos, Canada, Corterealis

Antwerp 1593 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 15,240.00
157 Matthias Quad

(NORTH AMERICA.) Novi Orbis Pars Borealis, America

Cologne 1600 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,794.00
158 Henricus Hondius

(NORTH AMERICA.) America Septentrionalis

Amsterdam 1639 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,168.00
159 Vincenzo Coronelli; and Jean Baptiste Nolin

(NORTH AMERICA.) L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la Partie Septentrionale des Indes Occidentales

Venice 1689 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,064.00
160 Alexis-Hubert Jaillot; after Nicolas Sanson

(NORTH AMERICA.) Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en ses Principales Parties

Paris 1692 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,524.00
161 Jacques Chiquet

(NORTH AMERICA.) l'Amerique Septentrionale qui Fait Partie des Indes Occidentales

Paris 1719 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 539.00
162 Henri Chatelain

(NORTH AMERICA.) Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi

Amsterdam 1719 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
163 Gerard van Keulen

(NORTH AMERICA.) Carte de la Nouvelle France ou se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi Aujour d'hui S. Louis, Aux environs des Quelles se Trouvent les Etats Pais Nations Peuples & de la Floride, de la Louisiane, de la Virginie

Amsterdam [1720] USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,525.00
164 Johann Baptist Homann

(NORTH AMERICA / CARIBBEAN.) Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Floridae, Novae Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae, et Pensylvaniae, nec non Insularum Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali

Nuremberg circa 1720 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,651.00
165

(NORTH AMERICA.) Group of 5 eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century maps

Vp vd USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 603.00
166 Captain James Cook

(NORTH PACIFIC.) Chart of the NW Coast of America and the NE Coast of Asia Explored in the Years 1778 & 1779

London 1784 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
167

(NORTH POLE.) Gerard Valk and Pieter Schenk; after Jansson

Amsterdam circa 1694 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 762.00
168

(ORTELIUS.) Group of 8 hand-colored double-page engraved regional maps by Abraham Ortelius

Antwerp vd USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,112.00
169 Abraham Ortelius

(PACIFIC OCEAN.) Maris Pacifici, quod vulgo Mar del Zur

Antwerp 1592 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,572.00
170 Frederick de Wit; and Louis Renard

(PACIFIC OCEAN.) Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California

Amsterdam 1715 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
171 George-Louis le Clerc, Comte de Buffon

(PACIFIC OCEAN.) Declinaisons et Inclinaisons de l'Aiguille Aimantee

Paris circa 1780 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 528.00
172 John and Charles Walker, engravers

(PACIFIC COAST.) America West Coast: Diego Bay to Cape Mendocino. [and] Cape Mendocino to Vancouver Id

London 1858 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 952.00
173 George Heap, after

(PHILADELPHIA.) The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania

London 1761 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,540.00
174 James Charles Sidney; and Robert Pearsall Smith

Map of the City of Philadelphia Together with All the Surrounding Districts

Philadelphia 1849 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,143.00
175 John Serz

(PHILADELPHIA.) Philadelphia and Environs/und Umgegend

Philadelphia circa 1875 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 603.00
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