Swann Galleries: Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books | Total Sales (USD) | 611,786.00 |
| Auction Date | December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 385,200.00 |
| Sale Number | #2689 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 548,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 282 | ||
| Sold Lots | 256 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 416,900.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 90.78% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 594,700.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 26 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 102.87% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | (PERRY -- U.S./JAPANESE DIPLOMACY.) Reconnoissance of the Anchorage of Ura-Ga & Reception Bay, |
September 1853 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 47,500.00 | |
| 162 | Giacomo Gastaldi, mapmaker. | (GEOGRAPHY -- PTOLEMAIC.) La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino. |
1548 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
| 207 | Philip Meadows Taylor. | (INDIA.) [Views in India by Lieut. P.M. Taylor, His Highness the Nizams Servant]. |
circa 1828 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
| 91 | (MANUSCRIPT MAPS -- CHINA, KOREA and JAPAN.) Two fine eighteenth-century French manuscript charts of the East China Sea, |
circa 1745 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 | |
| 191 | Pierre-Joseph Redoute. | (BOTANICAL.) Les Liliacees (volumes 3 and 4) . |
1807-1808 | USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 214 | John Webber. | (PACIFIC EXPLORATION.) Views in the South Seas, |
1808 [but after] | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 195 | (BRITISH MILITARY -- INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857.) [A Week With the Camel Corps]. |
1858 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 | |
| 208 | Company School. | (INDIAN MINIATURES.) Album of exquisitely-drawn Patna Kalam character and costume portraits. |
mid-nineteenth century | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 282 | Thomas Moran; and Louis Prang & Co. | (YELLOWSTONE.) Yellowstone Lake. |
1875 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 10,625.00 |
| 161 | Jacques le Moyne de Morgues; and Theodor de Bry. | (FLORIDA.) Der Ander Theil / der Newlich Erfundenen Landschafft Americae, |
1591 [1603] | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
| 173 | James Felix Jones; and R. Hughes Thomas, ed. | (MIDDLE EAST.) Memoirs by Commander James Felix Jones, I.N. |
1857 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
| 85 | (KOREAN GEOGRAPHY.) Group of 4 manuscript maps of Korean provinces after Jeong Sanggi, heavily annotated in Chinese. |
late eighteenth century | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 8,125.00 | |
| 76 | British Admiralty, Hydrographic Office. | (GALAPAGOS -- DARWIN.) Pacific Ocean - Galapagos Islands Surveyed by Captn. Robt. FitzRoy |
1841 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
| 226 | AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. | Shoveller Duck. Plate CCCXXVII. |
1836 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
| 160 | Various cartographers. | (EUROPE.) Composite portfolio of approximately 55 seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century engraved regional maps |
vd | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 7,250.00 |
| 246 | CURRIER & IVES. | The Danger Signal. |
1884 [1890] | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 6,750.00 |
| 65 | Arnold Colom. | (EAST INDIES.) Oosterdeel van Oost Indien. |
circa 1658 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
| 142 | Jean Boisseau. | (WORLD.) Nouvelle et Exacte Description de la Terre Universelle. |
1636 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
| 148 | Aaron Arrowsmith. | (WORLD.) Map of the World on a Globular Projection, |
1794 (corrections to 1808) | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
| 158 | (CHINA.) Manuscript geography of China and Korea. |
eighteenth century | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 | |
| 174 | Pieter Heyns; and Philip Galle. | (MINIATURE ORTELIUS.) Le Miroir du Monde Reduict. |
1579 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 178 | Egbert Viele; and Eugene Quackenbush. | (NEW YORK CITY.) Topographical Atlas of the City of New York |
1874 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 167 | F.A. Somerville. | (ILLUSTRATED SHIP'S LOG -- HONG KONG and SINGAPORE.) Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902. |
1900-1902 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,000.00 |
| 181 | Jose Espinosa y Tello. | (PACIFIC NORTHWEST.) Atlas Para el Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana |
1802 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,000.00 |
| 175 | Pietro Maria Marchetti, ed. | (MINIATURE ORTELIUS.) Il Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio. |
1598 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,750.00 |
