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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | Hayward George | Plan of the City of New York in North America; Plan of the City of New York & Its Environs |
New York | 1854-1855 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 635.00 |
| 103 | Colton G.W. & C.B. | Map of the City & County of New York |
New York | 1885 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,794.00 |
| 104 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | New York |
London | 1840 | USD 250.00 - 300.00 | USD 381.00 |
| 105 | Beers F.W. | Map of New York and Vicinity |
New York | 1867 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 222.00 |
| 106 | Watson Gaylord | The Traveller's Steamboat and Railroad Guide to the Hudson River |
New York | 1857; 1865 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 571.00 |
| 107 | Currier & Ives | The City of New York |
New York | 1892 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,620.00 |
| 108 | Bird's-Eye View of the Great Suspension Bridge, Connecting the Cities of New York and Brooklyn |
New York | 1883 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 952.00 | |
| 109 | Buhring E. | The Great East River Suspension Bridge |
Messina | 1880s | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 285.00 |
| 110 | Varin Raoul | New York from the North River 1839 |
New York | 1930 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 222.00 |
| 111 | Bruce Wallace; Hammond CS; Bayne E Byron; Nostrand George J; Radcliffe WH | 6 Books, including: The Picturesque Hudson |
New York | 1889; 1894; 1909; 1912; circa 1930; 1940 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 825.00 |
| 113 | American Automobile Association | Official Maps and Routes of the American Automobile Association |
New York | 1906 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 603.00 |
| 114 | Chatelain Henri | Carte Contenant le Royaume du Mexique et la Floride |
Amsterdam | circa 1720 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 462.00 |
| 115 | Homann Johann Baptist | Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Floridae, Novae Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae, et Pensylvaniae |
Nuremberg | circa 1720 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 698.00 |
| 116 | Seutter Matthaeus; Lotter Tobias Conrad | Mappa Geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Flordam Terrasque Adjacenteds |
Augsburg | circa 1740 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 889.00 |
| 117 | Cresswell Samuel Gurney | Chart of the Northwest Passage |
London | 1854 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,540.00 |
| 119 | L'Isle Guillaume de | Le Plan de Paris, ses Faubourgs et ses Environs |
Amsterdam | circa 1740 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,079.00 |
| 120 | Heap George | An East Perspective View of the City of Philadelphia |
London | 1778 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,572.00 |
| 121 | A Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain |
Washington, D.C. | 1899 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 3,556.00 | |
| 122 | Piranesi Giovanni Battista | Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo |
Rome | circa 1774 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 4,224.00 |
| 123 | Kirilov Ivan | Imperii Russici Tabula Generalis quo ad Fieri Potuit Accuratissime Descripta |
St. Petersburg | 1734 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,604.00 |
| 124 | Buy de Mornas Claude; Desnos Louis Charles | Atlas Methodique et Elementaire de Geographie et d'Histoire |
Paris | 1761 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 |
| 125 | Lotter Tobias Conrad | Mappa Geographica Totius Insulae et Regni Siciliae |
Augsburg | circa 1730 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 635.00 |
| 126 | Horsburgh James; Bateman John | To the Hon.ble The Court of Directors of the United East India Company |
London | 1813 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,080.00 |
| 127 | NASA | Apollo Manned Lunar Landing / Goss Mission Profile |
Washington, D.C. | 1969 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 5,588.00 |
| 128 | Waldseemuller Martin | Duodecima Asiae Tabula |
Strassburg | 1513 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
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