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
201

(CHINA TRADE -- BOTANICAL.) Album of 12 mounted trade watercolors on pith paper.

China late 19th century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
202 Francois Andrew Michaux.

(DENDROLOGY.) A Treatise on the Resinous Trees of North America.

Paris 1819 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
203 William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.

(EQUINE.) Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux.

Antwerp 1657 [1658] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,380.00
204 Samuel A. Kilbourne; and George Brown Goode.

(FISH.) Game Fishes of the United States.

New York 1879 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
205 John Chamberlaine; and Edmund Lodge.

(HANS HOLBEIN.) Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty,

London 1792[-1800] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
206 Achille Deveria; Francois Grenier; and others.

(ILLUMINATED LITHOGRAPHY.) Unique album of richly hand-colored French

France early-to-mid-nineteenth century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
207 Philip Meadows Taylor.

(INDIA.) [Views in India by Lieut. P.M. Taylor, His Highness the Nizams Servant].

India circa 1828 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 22,500.00
208 Company School.

(INDIAN MINIATURES.) Album of exquisitely-drawn Patna Kalam character and costume portraits.

India mid-nineteenth century USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 13,750.00
209 Margaret Dovaston; and Jack Dovaston.

(JUVENILE -- ILLUSTRATED COMMONPLACE.) Dovaston's Weekly; Dovaston's Magazine.

London 1895-1903 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,750.00
210 Antoine-Vincent Arnault.

(NAPOLEON.) Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon.

Paris 1822-1826 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,000.00
211 Thomas and John Doughty.

(NATURAL HISTORY.) The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports.

Philadelphia 1832 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
212 Yves Delage.

(NATURAL HISTORY -- MARINE SPONGE PHYSIOLOGY.) Embryogenie des Eponges.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 750.00
213 William Jardine.

(ORNITHOLOGY.) The Naturalist's Library.

London and Edinburgh 1830s USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 813.00
214 John Webber.

(PACIFIC EXPLORATION.) Views in the South Seas,

London 1808 [but after] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
215

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Bound collection of fine nineteenth-century albumen photographs of New York City, Niagara Falls, and the Bahamas.

Np circa 1870s-1880s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,063.00
216

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Interesting album of approximately 300 photographs compiled by a United States Navy man, including a suite of unknown

Np circa 1920s-1930s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
217 Thomas Birch.

(PORTRAITS.) The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain.

London 1756 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
218 James Gillray.

(SATIRE.) [The Caricatures of Gillray;

London and Edinburgh: 1824-1827 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,375.00
219 Gustave Dore.

(SOCIAL SATIRE.) La Menagerie Parisienne.

Paris 1854 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 469.00
220 Peter and John Dolland.

(TELESCOPES.) Description et Usages de l'Instrument Equatoriale Universel, ou l'Observatoire Portatif.

London circa 1772 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
221 Jacob George Strutt.

(TREES.) Sylva Britannica; or Portraits of Forest Trees. [bound with] Delicaiae Sylvarum;

London 1826; and [1828] USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,000.00
222 Albert Bierstadt; and James Smillie (engraver).

(AMERICAN WEST.) The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak) .

New York 1866 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,000.00
223 Clayton Glass Works.

(AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL ADVERTISING.) Moore Brothers, Clayton, Gloucester Co., New Jersey.

Np circa 1875-1880 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
224 Louis Kurz; and T.M. Fowler.

(AMERICAN CONFLAGRATION.) View of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, as it Appeared When on Fire and Being Totally

Madison, WI 1871 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
225 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES.

Rocky Mountain Sheep, Plate LXXII * Prong-Horned Antelope, Plate LXXVII.

Philadelphia 1845 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,375.00
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