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
126

(ST. AUGUSTINE.) Two eighteenth-century engraved plans.

Vp vd USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 469.00
127 John Speed.

(TARTARY.) A Newe Mape of Tartary.

London 1626 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
128

(TARTARY.) Large group 24 of seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century engraved maps of northern Asia.

Vp vd USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
129

(TEXTILE MAP.) [New Netherland in 1626].

French circa 1900 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
130

(TITLE PAGES.) Group of 12 seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century engraved allegorical atlas title pages.

Vp vd USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
131 Samuel Breese.

(UNITED STATES.) Harper's Cereographic Map of the United States

New York 1847 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
132 James Hamilton Young; and Joseph Hooper Brightly; for Samuel Augustus Mitchell.

(UNITED STATES.) National Map of the American

Philadelphia 1843 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
133 John Russell.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia

London 1795 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
134 John Stockdale.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Plan of the City of Washington.

London 1798 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 594.00
135 W.W.

(WISCONSIN -- RAILROADS.) Rose, lithographers. [Corporate bond advertisement].

[Watertown, WI? circa 1853] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
136 James Gillray.

(WORLD -- SATIRE.) The Plumb-Pudding in Danger;__or__State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper.

London 1805 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
137 James Gillray.

(WORLD -- SATIRE.) Phaeton Alarm'd!

London 1808 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
138 Heinrich Bunting.

(WORLD.) [Clover Leaf World Map]. Tabule Wsseho Okrsslku Zemskeho W Spusobu Listu Deteloweho.

Prague 1592 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,500.00
139 Girolamo Ruscelli.

(WORLD.) Orbis Descriptio.

Venice circa 1598 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 618.00
140

(WORLD.) [Engraved double-hemispheric world map with portraits of important early navigators].

Frankfurt 1631 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
141 Heinrich Scherer.

(WORLD.) Two double-page engraved decorative world maps.

Munich 1700 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
142 Jean Boisseau.

(WORLD.) Nouvelle et Exacte Description de la Terre Universelle.

Paris 1636 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,500.00
143 Johannes van Loon; and Moses Pitt.

(WORLD.) Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula.

Oxford 1680 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,750.00
144 Carel Allard.

(WORLD.) Planisphaerium Terrestre, sive Terrarum Orbis.

Amsterdam 1696 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
145

(WORLD.) Two early engraved world maps.

Vp vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 750.00
146

(WORLD.) Group of 5 eighteenth-century engraved double-hemispheric world maps.

Vp vd USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
147

(WORLD.) Group of 5 seventeenth-to-eighteenth-century engraved world maps.

Vp vd USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 750.00
148 Aaron Arrowsmith.

(WORLD.) Map of the World on a Globular Projection,

London 1794 (corrections to 1808) USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,500.00
149 Alexandre Vuillemin.

(WORLD.) Planisphere Elementaire et Illustre Iniquant La Description Geographique Des Parties Connues De La Terre.

Paris 1858 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
150

(WORLD.) Group of 7 large nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century lithographed case maps.

Vp vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,750.00
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