Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2717, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfonso X of Castile | Astronomicae Tabulae in Propriam Integritatem Restitutae |
Paris | 1545 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 889.00 |
| 2 | Alfonso X of Castile | Tabule Astronomice Divi Alfonsi Regis Romanoru[m] et Castelle |
Venice | 1521 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 627.00 |
| 3 | Magister Anianus | Compotus Manualis |
Paris | 1526 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 3,302.00 |
| 4 | Petrus Apianus | Cosmographiae Introductio |
Venice | 1533 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 5 | Petrus Apianus | La Cosmographia |
Antwerp | 1575 | USD 2,400.00 - 3,400.00 | USD 2,794.00 |
| 6 | Petrus Apianus | Instrument Buch-durch Petrum Apianum erst von New Beschriben |
Ingolstadt | 1533 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,620.00 |
| 7 | Andrea Argoli | De Diebus Criticis et de Aegrorum Decubitu Libri Duo |
Padua | 1639 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 381.00 |
| 8 | Andrea Argoli | Ephemerides |
Leiden | 1659 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 9 | Andrea Argoli | Pandosion Sphaericum |
Padua | 1644 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 825.00 |
| 10 | Francisco Suarez de Arguello | Ephemerides Generales de los Movimientos de los Cielos |
Madrid | 1608 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | Aristarchus of Samos | De Magnitudinibus et Distantiis Solis et Lunae Liber |
Pesaro | 1572 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 12 | Astronomy Manuscript. Astronomia, hoc est, Coelorum, Sideriemque Scientia |
France | circa 1675 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,397.00 | |
| 13 | Mashallah ibn Athari | Tractatus de Compositione Astrolabii Messehalath, A Section from a Larger Work |
Strasbourg | 1512 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 14 | Charles Babbage | The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, Author's Presentation Copy to Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) |
London | 1838 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 8,255.00 |
| 15 | Francesco Barozzi | Cosmographia in Quatuor Libros Distributa |
Venice | 1585 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,206.00 |
| 16 | James Bassantin [or Bassendyne] | Astronomia I. Bassantini Scoti |
Paris | 1599 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,556.00 |
| 17 | James Bassantin [or Bassendyne] | Astronomia I. Bassantini Scoti |
Paris | 1599 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,794.00 |
| 18 | Gabriele Beati | Sphaera Triplex: Artificialis, Elementaris, ac Caelestis |
Rome | 1662 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 762.00 |
| 19 | Tobias Beutel | Nun folget Eine aussfuhrliche Beschreibung des erschienenen Cometen |
Leipzig | 1665 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,270.00 |
| 20 | Hartmann Beyer | Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera |
Frankfurt | 1549 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 381.00 |
| 21 | Hartmann Beyer | Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera |
Frankfurt | 1549 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 412.00 |
| 22 | Hartmann Beyer | Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera |
Wittenberg | 1550 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 412.00 |
| 23 | Giuseppe Biancani | Sphaera Mundi, seu Cosmographia, Demonstrativa, ac Facili Methodo Tradita |
Bologna | 1620 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,794.00 |
| 24 | Giovanni Bianchini | Tabule |
Venice | 1526 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,397.00 |
| 25 | Bible in Latin. Old and New Testament. Biblia Sacra |
Nuremberg | 1527 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,397.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
