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

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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
76 British Admiralty, Hydrographic Office.

(GALAPAGOS -- DARWIN.) Pacific Ocean - Galapagos Islands Surveyed by Captn. Robt. FitzRoy

London 1841 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 7,500.00
77

(GAMES.) Group of 5 eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century engraved juvenile game boards.

London vd USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,500.00
78 Vincenzo Coronelli.

(GREAT LAKES.) La Louisiana, Parte Settentrionalle.

Venice circa 1690 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,000.00
79 Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy.

(GREAT LAKES/CANADA.) Partie de l'Amerique Septent qui Comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada.

Paris circa 1799 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 688.00
80

(HAWAII.) Group of 7 eighteenth-century engraved maps and coastal elevation charts.

Vp vd USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
81 John Speed.

(HOLY LAND.) Canaan.

London 1676 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,250.00
82 John Speed.

(IRELAND.) The Kingdome of Irland Devided into Severall Provinces, and then Againe Devided into Counties.

London circa 1676 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,375.00
83

(ITALY and SICILY.) Two appealingly decorative seventeenth-century engraved maps.

London * Amsterdam 1669, circa 1650. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 594.00
84 Matthaeus Seutter.

(JAPAN.) Regni Japoniae Nova Mappa Geographica... Delineata ab Engelberto Kaempfero.

Augsburg circa 1740 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,125.00
85

(KOREAN GEOGRAPHY.) Group of 4 manuscript maps of Korean provinces after Jeong Sanggi, heavily annotated in Chinese.

Np late eighteenth century USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,125.00
86 Michael Aitzinger; and Frans Hogenberg.

(LEO BELGICUS.) Leo Belgicus.

Cologne 1588 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,900.00
87 Georg Braun; and Franz Hogenberg.

(LONDON.) Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.

Cologne [1572] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
88

(LONDON.) Group of 12 nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century case maps.

London vd USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,250.00
89 Robert Sayer and Co.

(LOW COUNTRIES.) A New Map of the Netherlands or Low Countries,

London 1793 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
90

(MANUSCRIPT MAPS.) Small archive of 15 eighteenth-century hand-drawn surveys of property tracts in central Pennsylvania.

Vp eighteenth century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 313.00
91

(MANUSCRIPT MAPS -- CHINA, KOREA and JAPAN.) Two fine eighteenth-century French manuscript charts of the East China Sea,

Np circa 1745 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 21,250.00
92 David Squier, deputy surveyor general.

(MANUSCRIPT MAPS -- SOUTH CAROLINA.) [Manuscript survey of 137,740 acres in eastern Aiken

Np 1793 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,625.00
93 John Mason.

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Map of Gloucester, Cape Ann. Shewing the Roads, Harbours, Rivers, Coves, Islands & Ledges Surrounding

Boston 1830 [1831] USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 875.00
94 Matthaeus Seutter.

(MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES.) Pensylvania Nova Jersey et New York.

Augsburg circa 1750 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,750.00
95 [William Seiffert?]

(MILAN.) Pianta di Milano.

German? circa 1860 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
96 John H. Campbell & Co.

(MINING -- PENNSYLVANIA.) Connellsville Coal and Coke Region

[Pittsburgh] 1883 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 750.00
97 C.T. Rainey.

(MINING -- PENNSYLVANIA.) Rainey's Map of Monongahela River Coal Region from Pittsburgh to West Virginia Line.

Pittsburgh 1896 [revised 1906] USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 219.00
98

(MISCELLANEOUS MAPS.) Group of 12 seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century double-page engraved maps.

Vp vd USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
99 John Ross.

(MISSISSIPPI RIVER.) Course of the River Mississipi, From the Balise to Fort Chartres.

London 1775 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,750.00
100 Samuel Herbert Maw.

(MONTREAL.) La Cite de Montreal.

Quebec 1942 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 750.00
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