Swann Galleries: Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books, 2689, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024
Page Size: 282 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 CURRIER, NATHANIEL; and FANNY PALMER.

American Farm Scenes. No. 4

New York 1853 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,420.00
252 CURRIER, NATHANIEL; and FANNY PALMER.

American Winter Scenes. Evening.

New York 1854 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,250.00
253 CURRIER & IVES.

We Trust.

New York 1881 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 688.00
254

(EROTICA -- JAPANESE.) Meiji period shunga scroll depicting 6 different sex acts in the ukiyo-e style.

Japan late 19th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
255

(FOLK ART -- MARINE.) Large 19th-century British Naval "Woolie".

Np later half of the nineteenth century USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,000.00
256

(HAWAII.) Group of 14 eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century engraved or lithographed ethnographic plates.

Vp vd USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 750.00
257 Afong Studio.

(HONG KONG.) Panoramic photograph of Hong Kong Harbor.

Np circa 1870s-1880s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
258

(HUNTING.) Georg Philipp Rugendas (I and II) ; and Tobias Heinrich and Ernst Philipp Thomann von Hagelstein.

[Augsburg circa 1720s-1740s] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
259 Edwin Whitefield.

(ILLINOIS.) View of Galena, Ill.

[New York] 1856 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,430.00
260

(JAPAN.) Two large hand-painted scrolls illustrating Japanese religious and cultural tales.

Japan late Edo/early Meiji period USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 813.00
261 Currier & Ives.

(MISSISSIPPI RIVERBOATS.) Midnight Race on the Mississippi.

New York and Cleveland 1875 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
262 Fishel, Adler & Schwartz.

(MISSISSIPPI RIVERBOATS.) Scene on the Upper Mississippi (Am Ober-Mississippi) .

New York circa 1870 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 875.00
263

(MUGHAL MINIATURES.) Fine pair of Indian miniature paintings.

India nineteenth-century USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 500.00
264

(NATURAL HISTORY.) Large scroll composition of a green parrot perched in a wisteria tree.

Japanese or Chinese 19th century USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
265

(NATURAL HISTORY.) Large quantity of color plates extracted from eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century natural history books.

Vp vd USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 875.00
266 Lucien R. Burleigh.

(NEW YORK.) Gouverneur, N.Y.

Troy, NY 1885 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
267 John Hill; after William Guy Wall.

(NEW YORK CITY.) New York from Weehawk.

New York 1823 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
268 Sigismund Himely; after John W. Hill.

(NEW YORK CITY.) New York.

New York, London, and Paris 1855 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 813.00
269 Nathaniel Currier; and Fanny Palmer.

(NEW YORK CITY.) View of New York. From Brooklyn Heights.

New York 1849 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,375.00
270 John Harrison Curtis.

(OPHTHALMOLOGY.) 2 early nineteenth-century broadsides describing the human eye and its conditions.

London 1835 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
271

(PATNA SCHOOL.) [Muharram Festival Procession].

North India circa 1820 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,250.00
272 John Serz.

(PHILADELPHIA.) Philadelphia.

Philadelphia circa 1860 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 813.00
273 Louis Auburn.

(PHILADELPHIA -- CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.) Group of 4 tinted lithographed views.

Philadelphia 1874 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 344.00
274 Louis Antoine Collas.

(PORTRAITS.) Fine miniatures of a young man and woman in attractive dore bronze standing frames.

Np, but eastern United States 1819 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,500.00
275

(RUSSIAN MILITARY UNIFORM.) Group of 11 hand-colored lithographed plates from

[St Petersburg] 1823-1824 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 715.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
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