Swann Galleries: MAPS & ATLASES ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS BOTANICAL ENGRAVINGS * CARTOONS BOOKS WITH PLATES & ENGRAVINGS, 1389,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 19, 1985 - December 19, 1985

Page Size: 414 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
302		(EPHEMERA.) Album of approximately 30 leaves, containing hundreds of mounted chromolithograph die-cuts, depicting children, Blacks, flowers, etc.	British(?)	1900	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
303	Fabriano	(FABRIANO.) Group of 5 examples of fine watermarked paper by Fabriano, Inc.	Italian	20th century (several dated 1976)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
304		(FASHION.) Group of 16 pencil drawings, hand-colored with pastel, watercolor, some heightened with white.	European(?)	1920s	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
305	Fumagalli	(FERRARIO.) Group of 13 etchings with aquatint and hand-coloring, extracted from Ferrario's II costume antico e moderno o storio del governo, della milizia, della religione ...	Milan	1817-26	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
306		(GREAT BRITAIN.) Group of 36 (of 108) engraved plates, from Sandby's The Virtuosi's Museum: Select Views in England, Scotland and Ireland.	London	1780	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
307	HILDEBRANDT, EDUARD	Group of 36 color reproductions of Hildebrandt's watercolors of scenes in Asia and the Middle East	Berlin	late 18th century	USD 600.00 - 900.00	550.00
308		(HISTORICAL SCENES.) Group of 7 engravings and photogravures showing historical and social events and 2 genealogical charts.	European and American	18th and 19th century	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
309	HOMER, WINSLOW	Group of 19 wood engravings, extracted from Harper's Weekly, Ballou's, and Gleason's Pictorial.	American	1857-70	USD 200.00 - 300.00	450.00
310		(ILLUSTRATIONS.) Group of 13 pen-and-ink drawings, several with watercolor, one tempera on board, one with gouache.	Vp	19th and 20th century	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
311		(JERUSALEM.) Group of 20 engravings from unidentified work; temples, chapels, sanctuaries and other buildings, with Jesus, the Apostles, and Saints; Greek captions	Np	mid-18th century	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
312	KEULEMANS, J. G.	Group of 9 hand-colored lithographs extracted from Dresser's History of the Birds of Europe, and other publications.		late 18th century	USD 200.00 - 300.00	120.00
313		(LANTERN SLIDES.) Ten Little Nigger Boys.	British	19th century	USD 80.00 - 120.00	225.00
314	MANTEGNA, ANDREA	Group of 14 heliogravure reproductions of etchings and engravings by Mantegna	Paris	1879	USD 60.00 - 90.00	30.00
315	MARCUS, ROGER	A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.		20th century	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
316	MAYER, LUIGI	Group of 11 aquatints with hand-coloring, extracted from various editions of Mayer's Views in Egypt * Palestine * The Ottoman Empire.	London	1802-12	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
317	METZL, ERVINE	Group of 5 caricatures, pen-and-ink on paper, each on sheets approximately 370x270 mm; each signed beneath the image.	American	1920s	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
318	L'Armee Francaise	(MILITARY.) Group of 14 hand-colored lithographs from the Garde Imperiale et L'Armee Francaise	Paris: Ledot	1859	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
319		(MILITARY.) Group of 21 hand-colored engravings from Tompkins's Royal Military Regiments of London's Seventh Regiment	London	1800	USD 150.00 - 250.00	225.00
320	Sutherland, Havell, Dubourg, and others	(MILITARY.) Group of 31 hand-colored etchings with aquatint, from Jenkins's The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies, by Sutherland, Havell, Dubourg, and others after Heath	London	1815	USD 200.00 - 300.00	200.00
321		(MISCELLANEOUS.) Group of approximately 70 photographs, reproductions, engravings, color prints, Japanese woodblock prints, etc.	Vp	most 20th century	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
322		(MISCELLANEOUS ENGRAVINGS.) Group of 5 engravings; 2 harbor scenes, lithographed portrait, architectural engraving, and wood-engraved bird's-eye view of 19th-century New York	Vp	17th-19th century	USD 150.00 - 200.00	40.00
323		(MISCELLANEOUS ENGRAVINGS.) Group of approximately 125 engravings, lithographs, photogravures, etchings, etc., some after Cuitt, Wheatly, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshank et al., depicting rural scenes, architecture or ruins, portraits of women; various si	European and American	18th and 19th century	USD 200.00 - 300.00	70.00
324		(NEW TESTAMENT.) Group of 44 engraved plates of scenes from the New Testament	Possibly The Hague	1728-39	USD 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
325	Jane Austen, T. H. Benton, Daniel Webster, Goethe, Byron and others	(NOTABLES.) Group of over 200 engravings and photogravures, 190x140 mm and smaller, some clipped, most extracted from volumes.		19th century	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
326	OSBORNE, ADYLEE	Eleanor Roosevelt * Al Smith * Herbert Hoover. Group of 3 caricatures, bust portraits, pastel on paper, each on 570x450 mm sheet.	American(?)	1940s	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
327		(PARIS.) Group of 83 lithographs of street, historical and garden scenes featuring the outstanding architecture of 19th-century Paris.	Paris, Charpentier	1860	USD 300.00 - 500.00	400.00
328		(PATTERNS.) Group of 72 pencil drawings, most with classical motif, sizes range from 90x160 to 330x290 mm; some amateurish, others quite good.	British(?)	early 19th century	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
329		(PERSIAN LEAVES.) Group of 5 illuminated leaves, most showing a man and a woman drinking together on a terrace or patio		Late 19th-20th century	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
330		(PERSIAN LEAVES.) Another group of 5.			USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
331		(PERSIAN LEAVES.) Another group of 5.			USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
332	Holbein, van Dyke, and Kneller	(PORTRAITS.) Group of 72 engravings of European and English royalty, nobility, artists, religious figures, etc., several after Holbein, van Dyke, and Kneller		17th-19th century	USD 300.00 - 500.00	100.00
333	Dr. C. H. Stacker's Worm Eradicator	(POSTER.) For the Removal of Worms From Horses.	Greenbush, Mass.	1920s	USD 50.00 - 75.00	30.00
334		(POSTERS.) Group of 3 advertising broadsides, each with vignettes illustrating vaudeville acts and theater performances, circuses, parades and other shows each printed in black ink on both sides of various colored papers, from 700x170 to 710x260 mm.	American	1920s	USD 150.00 - 200.00	120.00
335		(POSTERS.) Sells Floto-Circus * same title, different scene. Two color lithographed posters, approximately 480x650 mm each, good margins.	Erie, Pa.	1900	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
336		(PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.) Group of approximately 80 engravings, photogravures, woodcut vignettes, drawings, watercolors, etc.	American and European	mostly 19th century	USD 150.00 - 250.00	80.00
337		(SCANDINAVIA.) Group of approximately 70 engravings, etchings and lithographs of landscapes, seascapes, ports, and castles in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc., including some views after Claude Le Lorraine.	Mostly European	late 18th-late 19th century	USD 150.00 - 250.00	120.00
338	SCHULZ, CHARLES M.	Peanuts cartoon, in 4 frames, overall 140x690 mm, full margins.	American	copyright 1958	USD 400.00 - 600.00	275.00
339		(SHAKESPEARE.) Group of approximately 525 engravings and some photogravures, 70x80 to 160x260 mm, most on 8vo and 4to sheets.		18th-early 20th century	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
340	SIMPSON, WILLIAM	Group of 40 hand-tinted lithographs from The Seat of the War in the East, Second Series.	London	1855	USD 200.00 - 250.00	110.00
341		(SKETCHES.) Group of 39 pencil, pen-and-ink and watercolor sketches, 50x65 to 260x100 mm, most mounted to scrapbook leaves and with captions in sepia ink, many signed or credited by scrapbook compiler.	American(?)	1850s-70s	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
342		(SOUTH AMERICA.) Group of 9 engraved plates extracted from one or more works by Freycinet including 3 scenes in or off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, 3 plans of Montevideo and Rio, a folding map of the Province of Rio de Janeiro, and 2 plates of mills.	Paris	1825-39	USD 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
343		(TRADE CARDS.) Album containing 357 trade cards, most chromolithographed, representing various products and manufacturers, including several for the 1876 International Centennial Exhibition; plus 18 laid in; together, 375 cards.		1870s-1900	USD 300.00 - 500.00	250.00
344		(TRADE CARDS.) Group of 4 albums, containing approximately 400 trade cards, chromolithographed die-cut figures, several valentines, calling cards, flowers, etc., all mounted to leaves.	American	1850s-90s	USD 200.00 - 300.00	120.00
345		(VUES OPTIQUE.) Group of 12 hand-colored engravings, town and city views in France and Italy, title engraved in lower margins, and in reverse in upper margins.	Vp	1750s	USD 200.00 - 300.00	325.00
346	ALLEN, THOMAS	A New and Complete History of the County of York.	London	1828-31	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
347	Fowles, Joseph	(AUSTRALIA.) Sydney in 1848; Illustrated by Copper-plate Engravings of the Principal Streets, Public Buildings, Churches, Chapels, etc., from Drawings by Fowles.	Sydney	1848	USD 200.00 - 300.00	225.00
348	BEWICK, THOMAS	The Fables of Aesop and Others, with Designs on Wood ...	Newcastle	1823	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
349	BEWICK, THOMAS and JOHN	Select Fables; with cuts, designed and engraved by ...	Newcastle	1820	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
350		(BIBLE.) Preceptive Illustrations of the Bible.	London	1839	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
351		(BIBLICAL HISTORY.) Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments.	Amsterdam	1700	USD 300.00 - 400.00	200.00
352	BREE, CHARLES	A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles.	London	1859, 1863, [i.e., 1867]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	225.00
353	BROCKEDON, WILLIAM	Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps, by which Italy Communicates with France, Switzerland and Germany.	London	1828-29	USD 200.00 - 300.00	100.00
354	BUTLER, SAMUEL	Hudibras ... with Dr. Grey's Annotations.	London	1819	USD 80.00 - 120.00	40.00
355	CHARLES VI	Relation de L'Inauguration Solemnelle de sa Sacree Majeste Imperiale et Catholique, Charles VI.	Gand: Augustin Graet	1719	USD 80.00 - 120.00	225.00
356	CHENEY, MARY MOULTON	Chapter Thirteen of the First Epistle to the Corinthians Written by Paul the Apostle designed and lettered by ...	Minneapolis	1903	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
357	CHORIS, M. LOUIS	Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde.	Paris	1822	USD 300.00 - 400.00	350.00
358	Jan Luyken	(CHRISTIANITY.) Bound volume of 66 plates, engraved by Jan Luyken.	Dutch	early 18th century?	USD 200.00 - 300.00	80.00
359	Z. M. Willem III	Gecostumeerde Historische Optocht bij de Viering van het 25-jarig Regeerings-Jubile Z. M. Willem III.	Amsterdam	1874	USD 60.00 - 90.00	150.00
360	Fils & Cie	Recueil des Costumes de la Bretagne & des autres Contrees de la France par Charpentier Pere	Nantes	1829-31	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,200.00
361	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE and ROBERT	Gallery of Comicalities.	London	late 19th century	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
362	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE	The Comic Almanack for 1837-1847.	London	1836-46	USD 70.00 - 100.00	60.00
363	CUVIER, BARON	The Animal Kingdom arranged according to its organization ...	London	1834	USD 200.00 - 300.00	375.00
364	DETEILLE, EDOUARD; and RICHARD, JULES	Types et Uniformes L'Armee Francaise.	Paris	1885-89	USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,200.00
365		DIE DRESDENER GALLERIE: Eine Auswahl der vorzueglichsten Meisterwerke.		1860	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
366	DORE, GUSTAVE	(Poems.) 9 mounted engraved China-proof plates by Dore; and large woodcut head- and tailpieces by J. Moyr Smith.	London	1870	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
367	Earl of Clarendon, John Evelyn, Samuel Pepys	(EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOK.) Classic Memoirs.	London	1901	USD 70.00 - 100.00	80.00
368		GAVARNI. Le Diable a Paris.	Paris	1845	USD 60.00 - 90.00	60.00
369		GAVARNI. Le Diable a Paris: Paris et les Parisiens.	Paris	1845-46	USD 100.00 - 150.00	90.00
370		GAVARNI. Le Diable a Paris: Paris et les Parisiens.	Paris	1845-46	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
371	GIBSON, CHARLES DANA	Drawings.	New York and London	1897	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
372	GIBSON, CHARLES DANA	The Gibson Book: A Collection of the Published Works.	New York	1907	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
373	GIBSON, CHARLES DANA	New Cartoons.	New York	1916	USD 100.00 - 150.00	50.00
374	GIBSON, CHARLES DANA	Sketches and Cartoons.	New York	1900	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
375	GILPIN, WILLIAM	Group of 11 volumes, each illustrated with engraved plates, mostly aquatints, some color.	London		USD 300.00 - 400.00	175.00
376	GODEFROY, F.	Spectacle Historique, Divise Par Periodes de Vingt Cinq Ans.	Paris	1750	USD 80.00 - 120.00	40.00
377		GRANDVILLE. Un Autre Monde: Transformations, Visions, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations ...	Paris	1844	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
378	M. P. J. Stahl	GRANDVILLE. Scenes de la Vie Privee et Publique des Animaux.	Paris	1842, 1844	USD 250.00 - 350.00	130.00
379	GREIG, T. WATSON	Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century.	Edinburgh	1900	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
380	HANSTEEN, CHRISTOPHER	Untersuchungen ueber den Magnetismus der Erde... Erster Theil: Die Mechanischen Erscheinungen des Magneten [ALL PUBLISHED].	Christiana [Oslo]	1819	USD 150.00 - 200.00	70.00
381	HERING, GEORGE	The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy.	London	1847	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
382	HEY, MRS. REBECCA	The Spirit of the Woods, illustrated by Coloured Engravings.	London	1837	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
383	HOARE, SIR RICHARD COLT	A Collection of Forty-eight Views of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats ... in North and South Wales.	London	1800	USD 100.00 - 150.00	40.00
384	Horne, Rev. Thomas Hartwell	(HOLY LAND.) Landscape Illustrations of the Bible.	London	1836	USD 40.00 - 60.00	100.00
385		KIRBY'S WONDERFUL AND ECCENTRIC MUSEUM; or a Magazine of Remarkable Characters, including all the Curiosities of Nature and Art.	London	1803-15	USD 150.00 - 250.00	130.00
386	LEECH, JOHN	A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England.	London	1847	USD 80.00 - 120.00	30.00
387	LEECH, JOHN	A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England.	London	1860?	USD 80.00 - 120.00	30.00
388	LEECH, JOHN	A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of Rome.	London	1852	USD 70.00 - 100.00	30.00
389	LEUTHOLD, H. F.	Voyage Pittoresque de la Suisse dessine et grave par les meilleures artistes Wetzel, Corrodi, Weber, Burri, Straub, Oppermann, et de Ruf.	Zurich	1850	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	1,600.00
390	MAPEI, CAMILLO	Italy: Classical, Historical, and Picturesque.	Glasgow	1847	USD 300.00 - 500.00	250.00
391	MARIA ISABELLA, QUEEN OF SPAIN, Guattani, Giuseppe Antonio	Pompa Funebre per le Solenni Esequie di Maria Isabella di Braganza, Regina delle Spagne, e delle Indie, fatte celebrare in Roma da S. M. C. L'Augusto Consorte Ferdinando VII.	Rome	1820	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
392	MECHAM, CLIFFORD HENRY	Sketches & Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, from Drawings made during the Siege; with Descriptive Notices by George Couper.	London	1858	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
393	MEYRICK, SIR SAMUEL RUSH; and SKELTON, JOSEPH	Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection ... at Goodrich Court.	London	1830	USD 250.00 - 350.00	225.00
394	MILTON, JOHN	Paradise Lost.	London	1827	USD 60.00 - 90.00	300.00
395	M'KENNEY, THOMAS L.; and HALL, JAMES	History of the Indian Tribes of North America with Biographical Sketches of the Principal Chiefs.	Philadelphia	1842	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,600.00
396	MORRIS, F. O.	A History of British Butterflies.	London	1865	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
397	MORRIS, F. O.	A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland.	London	1880	USD 80.00 - 120.00	150.00
398		(NAPOLEON.) Tableaux Historiques des Campagnes d'ltalie, depuis l'An IV jusqu'a la Bataille de Marengo [etc.].	Paris	1806	USD 150.00 - 200.00	130.00
399	Valentine, David Thomas	(NEW YORK.) Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York.	New York		USD 400.00 - 600.00	600.00
400	PARDOE, JULIA	The Beauties of the Bosphorus.	London	1840	USD 80.00 - 120.00	70.00
401		(PARIS.) [Les Nouveaux Magasins du Printemps.]	Paris	1924	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.