Swann Galleries: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, 2743, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 11, 2026 - June 11, 2026
Page Size: 269 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52 Gibson John

The British Governments in Nth. America Laid Down Agreeable to the Proclamation of Octr. 7, 1763

London 1763 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 762.00
53 Crepy Jean-Baptiste; Popple Henry

Carte Generale de l'Amerique Septentrionale

Paris circa 1763 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 762.00
54 Homann Heirs; d'Anville Jean Baptiste; Jefferys Thomas

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis Edita Nunc in Anglia Coloniis in Interiorem Virginiam Deductis nec non Fluvii Ohio Cursu

Nuremberg 1756 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 539.00
55 Lotter Mathias Albrecht

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 762.00
56 Kitchin Thomas

British Dominions in America

London circa 1780 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,651.00
57 Nell Louis

Nell's Topographical Map of the State of Colorado

Denver 1892 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,159.00
58 Braun Georg; Hogenberg Franz

Byzantium, Nunc Constantinopolis

Cologne [1572] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,778.00
59 Homann Johann Baptist

Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch-Kayserlichen Haupt-und Residenz-Stadt Constantinopel

Nuremberg circa 1720 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
60 Munster Sebastian

4 Books, including: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America

Basel circa 1614 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 2,286.00
61 May Bernardo

Plano Pintoresco De La Habana; Mapa Historico Pintoresco Moderno de la Isla De Cuba

Havana circa 1850 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,143.00
62 Sims Joseph P.

Dog Map of the World

Philadelphia 1942 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 4,224.00
63 Fairburn John

A Map of England and Wales, Exhibiting the Roads, Cities, Towns and Principal Villages, with Their Bearing by Compass and Distance from London

London 1797 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
64 Bond Edward A.

New York State Barge Canal Survey

New York 1900 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
65 De Wit Frederick

Totius Europae Littora Novissime Edita. Pascaert Vertoonende alle de See-Custen van Europa

Amsterdam circa 1680 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,556.00
66 Ortelius Abraham

La Florida / Guastecan / Peruviae

Antwerp 1609 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,016.00
67 Stork William

N Books, including: The Bay of Espiritu Santo, in East Florida

London 1769 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,318.00
68 Mitchell Samuel Augustus

Map of Florida According to the Latest Authorities; The West Indies from the Best Authorities

Philadelphia 1836 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,159.00
69 Beaulieu Sebastien de; Cochin Charles-Nicolas

Siege of Arras

Paris 1654 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 349.00
70

View of Georgetown D.C.

Baltimore circa 1855 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,112.00
71 Buchanan James 3rd

The Union Empire of North America

circa 1910 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,588.00
72 Joslin Gilman; Annin WB

Joslin's Six Inch Terrestrial Globe, Containing the Latest Discoveries

Boston 1851 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,159.00
73 Joslin Gilman & Son

How to Use a Globe. Joslin's Terrestrial and Celestial Globes

Boston circa 1880 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 635.00
74 Munster Sebastian; Mercator Gerard; Blaeu Willem; de Wit Frederick; Chatelain Henri; Homann Heirs

6 Books, including: Tabula Europae I

Basel; Amsterdam; Nuremberg circa 1550; circa 1606; circa 1650; circa 1690; circa 1720; 1741 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,302.00
75 Ortelius Abraham

Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica Descriptio

Antwerp 1572 or 1573 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,122.00
76 Braun Georg; Hogenberg Franz

Hierosolyma, Clarissima Totius Orientis Civitas, Judaee Metropolis

Cologne [1572] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000