Swann Galleries: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, 2743, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 11, 2026 - June 11, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | Visscher Nicolas; Schenk Pieter; Sanson Guillaume; Villalpando Juan Baptista; Visscher family; Stoopendaal Daniel | 5 Books, including: Terra Sancta, sive Promissionis, olim Palestina |
Amsterdam | 1659; circa 1700; circa 1670; circa 1645 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,206.00 |
| 78 | Lawrence H.J. Heinie | Map Showing Isle of Pleasure, Scale Two Fingers to the Drink |
Houston, TX | 1931 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,794.00 |
| 79 | Ortelius Abraham | Italiae Veteris Specimen |
Antwerp | 1608 or 1612 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,079.00 |
| 80 | Dai Nihon Dochu Kotei Saiken Ki; Kaiho Dochu Zu |
Japan | 1857; 1808 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | |
| 81 | Jeong Sanggi | Group of 4 manuscript maps of Korean provinces |
eighteenth-nineteenth century | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,302.00 | |
| 82 | Wiggin C.P. | MacLean & Lawrences Sectional Map of Kansas Territory |
Pittsburgh | 1857 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 83 | Burr David H. | Map of the County of Suffolk |
New York | 1829 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,159.00 |
| 84 | Mather William; Smith J. Calvin | Geological Map of Long & Staten Islands with the Environs of New York |
New York | 1842 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 85 | Hondius Colette | Gerardus Mercator Natus Rupelmundae... Iudocus Hondius Natus in Pago Flandriae |
Amsterdam | circa 1613 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,206.00 |
| 86 | Carta Particular de la Parte sur del Seno Mexicano que Comprehende las Costas de Yucatan |
Madrid | 1808; 1821 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 889.00 | |
| 87 | Farmer John | Map of the State of Michigan and the Surrounding Country |
Detroit | 1844 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 10,160.00 |
| 88 | Homann Heirs; Seutter Matthaeus; Lotter Tobias Conrad | 6 Books, including: Palaestina seu Terra olim Sancta |
Nuremberg; Augsburg | 1744; 1750; circa 1730 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 825.00 |
| 89 | Rathbun Franklin Root; American Bank Note Company; McAlvin J.H.; Farley John M.; Martin Luther R.; Mix Peter | 6 Books, including: A Chart of Owasco Lake Cayuga Co., N.Y. |
Auburn, NY; New York; Indianapolis; Schoharie | 1903; 1887; 1871; circa 1915; 1870; circa 1845 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 |
| 90 | Fisk Harold | Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River |
Vicksburg | 1944; 1940 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,064.00 |
| 91 | Michurin Ivan Fyodorovich | Plan Imperatorskago Stolichnago Goroda Moskvy |
St. Petersburg | 1739 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,980.00 |
| 92 | Cram George F | Sectional Map of Nebraska |
Chicago | 1872 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,159.00 |
| 93 | Blaeu Willem | Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova |
Amsterdam | 1642 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,286.00 |
| 94 | Montanus Arnoldus; Ogilby John | Novi Belgii Quod Nunc Novi Jorck Vocatur, Novaequae Angliae & Partis Virginiae |
Amsterdam; London | 1671 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,143.00 |
| 95 | Danckerts Justus | Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non Pennsylvaniae et Partis Virginiae Tabula |
Amsterdam | circa 1684 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 5,080.00 |
| 96 | Seutter Matthaeus | Recens Edita Totius Novi Belgii in America Septentrionali |
Augsburg | circa 1735 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,651.00 |
| 97 | Lotter Tobias Conrad; Mead Braddock | A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England |
Augsburg | 1776 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 2,794.00 |
| 98 | Dodge Jacob Richard | Township and Rail Road Map of New Hampshire |
Nashua | 1854 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 952.00 |
| 99 | Searle S W | Price, Lee & Co.'s New Map of the City of New Haven |
New Haven | 1888 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 285.00 |
| 100 | Ogilby John; Montanus Arnoldus | Novum Amsterodamum |
London | 1671 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 539.00 |
| 101 | Burgis William | The South Prospect of the City of New York in America |
London | 1761 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,540.00 |
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