Swann Galleries: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, 2724, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
351

(ETHIOPIAN MYSTICISM.) Illuminated talismanic scroll with writing in Ge'ez

Ethiopia nineteenth century USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
352 Thomas Newton; and William Darton

(GAMES.) The New Game of Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished, for the Amusement of Youth of Both Sexes

London January 18th, 1810 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
353

(GAMES.) Group of 9 eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century engraved juvenile game boards

London vd USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
354 Gaspard Fossati

(HAGIA SOPHIA.) Plate 25, l'Exterieur de la Mosquee, avant sa Restauration

London 1852 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
355 Gaspard Fossati

(HAGIA SOPHIA.) Group of 3 hand-colored tinted lithographed interior views of Istanbul's grand mosque from Fossati's "Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid"

London 1852 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
356

(INDIA.) Group of 3 attractive paintings by Mughal artists

India eighteenth and nineteenth centuries USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
357

(JAPAN.) Group of 6 ukiyo-e color woodblock triptychs

Japan mid-nineteenth century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
358

(JAPANESE / RUSSIAN TRADE RELATIONS.) Imperial Russian Navy Admiral Yevfimiy Putyatin's diplomatic fleet at Osaka Bay

Japan -1854 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
359

(MUGHAL MINIATURES.) Group of 9 Indian or Persian paintings

India nineteenth-century USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
360 Thomas McKenney; and James Hall

(NATIVE AMERICANS.) No-Way-Ke-Sug-Ga. Otoe

Philadelphia 1842 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
361 Karl Bodmer

(NATIVE AMERICANS.) Pehriska-Ruhpa, A Minatarre or Big-Bellied Indian

Paris, Coblenz and London [1839-1842] USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
362 Ruth Louise Gilman

(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Down Memory Lane Edition [Pictorial History of Laconia, New Hampshire]

New Hampshire 1936 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
363

(NOTGELD.) Large collection comprising thousands of wonderfully-illustrated notes of post-World War I German and Austro-Hungarian municipal replacement currency

Germany and Austria-Hungary 1918-1922 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
364

(PERSIAN MINIATURE -- SAFAVID DYNASTY.) Khusrau Before the Palace of Shirin

Iran sixteenth century USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
365

(SATIRE.) Group of 8 mostly hand-colored etched and engraved nineteenth-century British socio-political cartoons

London vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
366 Currier & Ives

(SEASON'S GREETINGS.) Merry Christmas [and] Happy New Year

New York circa 1870s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
367 Currier & Ives

(TOBACCO.) A Sociable Smoke

New York 1880 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
368 Currier & Ives; and Thomas Worth

(TOBACCO.) Everybody's Friend [and] The Smokers Promenade

New York 1876 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
369 John Emslie

(TRAINS.) Locomotive Engine

London 1848 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
370

(TROMPE L'OEIL.) Hand-drawn "collage" of images mimicking printed maps, natural history engravings, scenic views, playing cards, genre vignettes, bank notes, and other paper ephemera

[Vienna] [circa 1820s] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
371

(VUES D'OPTIQUE.) Group of 15 hand-colored engraved European vues

Mostly Paris late eighteenth-early nineteenth century USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
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