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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Sir Isaac Newton | The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended |
London | 1728 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,651.00 |
| 152 | Jofrancus Offusius | Ephemerides Anni Salutis Humanae 1557 |
Paris | 1557 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 153 | Thomas Oliver | A New Handling of the Planisphere, Divided into Three Sections |
London | 1601 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 6,604.00 |
| 154 | David Origanus | Astrologia Naturalis |
Marseille | 1645 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 155 | David Origanus | Ephemerides Novae Annorum XXXVI Incipientes ab Anno 1595 |
Frankfurt | 1599 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,428.00 |
| 156 | Blaise Francois Pagan | Les Tables Astronomiques du Comte de Pagan |
Paris | 1658 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 157 | Blaise Francois Pagan | La Theorie des Planetes |
Paris | 1657 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 158 | Janus Pannonius & Johannes Schoener | Two Quarto Works Bound Together |
Basel | 1518 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,651.00 |
| 159 | Caspar Peucer | De Dimensione Terrae et Geometrice Numerandis Locorum |
Wittenberg | 1554 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 698.00 |
| 160 | Caspar Peucer | Elementa Doctrinae de Circulis Coelestibus et Primo Motu |
Wittenberg | 1553 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 889.00 |
| 161 | Caspar Peucer | Elementa Doctrinae de Circulis Coelestibus et Primo Motu |
Wittenberg | 1569 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,651.00 |
| 162 | Caspar Peucer | Hypotyposes Orbium Coelestium |
Strasbourg | [1568] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 163 | Caspar Peucer | Hypotheses Astronomicae, seu Theoriae Planetarum |
Wittenberg | 1571 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 635.00 |
| 164 | Georg von Peurbach | Novae Theoricae Planetarum |
Venice | 1534 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 924.00 |
| 165 | Georg von Peuerbach | Novae Theoricae Planetarum |
Venice | 1545 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 792.00 |
| 166 | Georg von Peurbach | Theoricae Novae Planetarum |
Cologne | 1581 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 762.00 |
| 167 | Georg von Peurbach | Tractatus super Propositiones Ptolemaei de Sinubus & Chordis |
Nuremberg | 1541 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,016.00 |
| 168 | Alessandro Piccolomini | Della Sfera del Mondo |
Venice | 1553 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 698.00 |
| 169 | Alessandro Piccolomini | De Sphaera Libri Quatuor, ex Italico in Latinum Sermonem Conversi |
Basel | 1568 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,079.00 |
| 170 | Alessandro Piccolomini | La Prima Parte delle Theoriche overo Speculationi dei Planeti |
Venice | 1568 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 603.00 |
| 171 | Alexandre-Gui Pingre | Etat du Ciel |
Paris | 1754 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 317.00 |
| 172 | Petrus Pitatus [aka Pietro Pitati] | Almanach Novum ad Annos Undecim Incipiens ab Anno Christ |
Venice | 1552 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 285.00 |
| 173 | Petrus Pitatus [aka Pietro Pitati] | Almanach Novum ab Anno Scilicet 1552 ad Annum 1556 Computatum |
Tubingen | 1553 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 174 | Bartholomaeus Pitiscus | Trigonometriae |
Frankfurt | 1612 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,016.00 |
| 175 | Pliny the Elder | Liber de Mundi Historia |
Leipzig | 1573 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 792.00 |
![<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.")
