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
176 George Anson

(PHILIPPINES.) Carte du Canal des Isles Philippines par Lequel Passe le Galion de Manille

Amsterdam 1749 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
177 Abraham Ortelius

(RUSSIA.) Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio

Antwerp 1573 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 858.00
178 Gerard Mercator; and Jodocus Hondius

(RUSSIA.) Russia cum Confinijs

Amsterdam circa 1630 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 429.00
179 Anon

(RUSSIA.) Nova Tabula Geographica Imperii Russici in Gubernia Divisi

Np 1787 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,064.00
180 Isidore-Laurent Deroy

(SAN FRANCISCO.) Vue de San-Francisco / Vista de San-Francisco

Paris circa 1860 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,032.00
181 William Vallance Gray; and Charles Braddock Gifford

(SAN FRANCISCO.) Bird's Eye view of the City & County of San Francisco, 1869

San Francisco 1868 [1869] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
182 Harrison Godwin

(SAN FRANCISCO.) Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest

San Francisco 1927 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,905.00
183

(SCANDINAVIA.) Group of 5 seventeenth-and-early-eighteenth-century engraved regional maps

Vp vd USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 924.00
184 James Imray & Son

(SINGAPORE.) East India Archipelago [Western Route to China Chart No.2]

London 1880 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
185 Theodore de Bry; after Jodocus Hondius

(SOUTH AMERICA -- EL DORADO.) Neuwe Landtaffel, in Welcher Eigentlich, und Warhafftiglich Furgestelt Wird, das Gewaltige und Goldtreiche Kunigreich Guiana

Frankfurt 1599 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,794.00
186 Willem Blaeu

(SOUTH AMERICA.) Group of 4 hand-colored double-page engraved regional maps

Amsterdam circa 1640 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 660.00
187 Vincenzo Coronelli; and Jean Baptiste Nolin

(SOUTH AMERICA.) L'Amerique Meridionale ou la Partie Meridionale des Indes Occidentales

Venice 1689 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 889.00
188

(SOUTH AMERICA.) Group of 7 early-twentieth-century regional case maps

Vp vd USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
189 Laurent Fries

(SOUTHEAST ASIA.) Tabula Nova Indiae Orientalis & Meridionalis

Vienne 1541 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,270.00
190 John Thornton

(SOUTHEAST ASIA.) A Chart of the Easternmost Part of the East Indies and China, from Cape Comarine to Japan, with all the Adjacent Islands

London circa 1703 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,858.00
191 Theunis Jacobsz

(SWEDEN.) Two double-page engraved charts of Sweden's coastline

Amsterdam circa 1660 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
192 Martin Waldseemuller

(TARTARY.) Octava Asie Tabula

Strasbourg 1513 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 603.00
193 British Admiralty

(TASMANIA.) Chart of Van Diemens Land by M. Flinders 1798-9. South Coast, Sheet VI

London 1814 [1843] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 571.00
194

(TEXTILE MAPS.) Group of 9 nineteenth-and-twentieth-century maps of various geographic locations printed on cloth

Vp vd USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 952.00
195

(TIERRA DEL FUEGO.) Two decorative engraved maps of South America's southernmost tip

Amsterdam vd USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 698.00
196 Ranzan Takai

(TOKYO.) Kaisei Oedo Oezu - [Illustrated Map of Edo, Revised in the Ansei Period]

Tokyo circa 1860 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
197

(UNITED KINGDOM.) Group of 8 nineteenth and early-twentieth-century regional case maps

Vp vd USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.00
198 Jean Lattre

(UNITED STATES.) Carte Des Etats-Unis De L'Amerique Suivant le Traite de Paix de 1783. Dediee et Presentee A.S. Excellence Mr. Benjamin Franklin Ministre Plenipotentiaire des Etats-Unis le l'Amerique pres la Cour de France, Ancien President de la Pensilva

Paris 1784 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,350.00
199 Charles Delamarche

(UNITED STATES -- ORDINANCE OF 1784.) Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale

Paris 1785 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,079.00
200 William Faden

(UNITED STATES.) The United States of North America with the British Territories and Those of Spain, According to the Treaty of 1784

London 1796 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,334.00
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