Swann Galleries: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, 2706, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 29, 2025 - May 29, 2025
Page Size: 327 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Nicolas Visscher.

Africae Nova Descr.

Amsterdam 1652 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
2 Abraham Ortelius.

Two sixteenth-century engraved maps.

Antwerp 1570s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
3 Abraham Ortelius.

Presbiteri Johannis, Sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.

Antwerp 1579 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 313.00
4 Joel Munsell.

Map of the City of Albany.

Albany 1852 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 469.00
5 Vincenzo Coronelli.

Corso del Fiume dell Amazoni.

Venice circa1690 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 625.00
6 Sebastian Munster.

Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

Basel 1628 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
7 Michael Mercator.

America sive India Nova.

Amsterdam circa1613 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,375.00
8 Abraham Ortelius.

Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

Antwerp 1592 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,250.00
9 Vincenzo Coronelli.

America Settentrionale.

Venice circa1690 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,250.00
10 Nicolas de Fer.

L'Amerique, Meridionale et Septentrionale.

Paris 1726 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
11 Pieter Schenk.

America Septentrionalis Novissima / America Meridionalis Accuratissima.

Amsterdam 1696 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
12 Girolamo Ruscelli.

Teirra Nueva.

Venice 1561 and 1598 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,063.00
13 Nicolas Visscher.

Nova Tabula Geographica Complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem.

Amsterdam circa1696 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
14 Paolo Santini; after D'Anville.

Partie Orientale du Canada, avec la Nouvelle Angleterre,

Venice 1776 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 390.00
15 Theodor de Bry; after Willem Barentsz.

Deliniatio Cartae Trium Navigationum per Batavos ad Septentrionalem Plagem Norvegia

Frankfurt, [1601] USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,750.00
16 John Speed.

Asia with the Islands Adjoyning Described, the Atire of the People, & Townes of Importance.

London 1626 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 438.00
17 Johannes Janssonius.

Mar del Nort.

Amsterdam circa1650 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,125.00
18 Vincenzo Coronelli.

[Engraved globe gore of the Northern Atlantic Ocean].

Venice circa1690 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 938.00
19 Sands & McDougall Limited.

Railway Map of Victoria and Portions of New South Wales and South Australia.

Melbourne 1890 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
20 U.S. Army Air Corps; U.S. Geological Survey.

Air Navigation Map No. 6, New York, N.Y. To Boston, Mass. (Experimental).

Washington, D.C. 1928 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 813.00
21 Amy Drevenstedt.

The Flight of Charles A Lindbergh from New York to Paris

Np, [1927] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
22 Jan Huygen van Linschoten.

A Cidade De Angra. Na Ilha De Iesu Xpoda Tercera Que Esta Em 39 Graos.

Amsterdam 1596 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
23 Captain John Smith.

The Summer Ils.

London, [1624] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 20,000.00
24 Hessel Gerritsz; and Johannes de Laet.

Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia.

[Leiden 1630] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,750.00
25 Robert Dudley.

Carta Particolare dell' Isola di Bermuda sin all' India Occidentale et al Capo S. Romano della Florida.

Florence 1646 [1661] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 688.00
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