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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
26 Gerard Mercator; and Jodocus Hondius

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum Nova Descriptio

Amsterdam circa 1613 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
27 Robert Laurie; and James Whittle

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States of America, viz: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia: with the Bordering Indian Countries, and the Spanish Possessions of Louisiana and Florida

London 1794 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,651.00
28 Abraham Ortelius

(ASIA.) Asiae Nova Descriptio

Antwerp 1603 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 825.00
29 John Speed

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

London 1676 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,143.00
30 Nicolas de Fer

(ASIA.) l'Asie Divisee Selon l'Etendue de ses Principales Parties

Paris [1696; 1728] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,334.00
31 Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg

(ASIA.) Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae tam Orientalis quam Occidentalis in Particularibus Territoriis una cum Delineatione Totius Imperii Russici Imprimis Siberiae Accurate Ostensa

Stockholm 1730 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,286.00
32

(ASIA.) Group of 10 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century regional case maps

London 1912 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,651.00
33 Laurent Fries; after Martin Waldseemuller

(ATLANTIC -- NEW WORLD.) Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula

Lyon 1535 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,890.00
34 Johannes Janssonius

(ATLANTIC.) Mar del Nort

Amsterdam circa 1650 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
35

(AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND.) Group of 5 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century regional maps

Vp vd USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
36 A. Sachse & Co.; and W.E.C. Harrison

(BALTIMORE.) Panoramic Views of Baltimore

Baltimore 1880 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
37 Willem Blaeu

(BERMUDA.) Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, Alias Barmudas

Amsterdam circa 1635 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 429.00
38 Henricus Hondius

(BERMUDA.) Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, Alias Barmudas

Amsterdam circa 1633 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
39 John Speed. [Roger Rea edition]

(BERMUDA.) Mappa Aestivarum / A Mapp of the Sommer Ilands Once Called the Bermudas

London circa 1665 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
40 E. & G.W. Blunt

(BERMUDA.) Bermudas, Drawn from Actual Surveys, and Improved by Blunt's Coast Pilot

New York 1842 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 476.00
41

(BERMUDA.) Group of 18 seventeenth-to-twentieth-century engraved or lithographed maps

Vp vd USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,143.00
42 [Jacques Nicolas Bellin]; and Jean Lattre

(BOSTON.) Plan de la Ville et du Port de Boston Capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre

Paris [1760s-1770s] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,050.00
43 Joseph Frederick Wallet des Barres

(BOSTON.) [Boston Bay]

London November 13th, 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,255.00
44 Union Engraving Co.; after Henry Pelham and Francis Jukes

(BOSTON.) A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs

Boston 1907 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,270.00
45 James Charles Sidney, civil engineer; and Robert Pearsall Smith

(BOSTON.) Map of the City and Vicinity of Boston Massachusetts

Boston 1852 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,905.00
46

(BOSTON.) Alexander Williams & Co. Map of Boston and the Country Adjacent

[Boston] circa 1875 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 139.00
47 John Bachmann

(BOSTON.) Bird's Eye View of Boston

New York 1850 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,778.00
48 John Ross MacDonald

(BOSTON.) [Fish-eye map of Boston]

Np circa 1965 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
49

(BRITISH EMPIRE.) Collection of 10 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century geography-themed souvenir flags and handkerchiefs with 2 similarly-related board games

[London] vd USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 825.00
50 Pierre Mortier

(CANADA.) Le Canada ou Partie de la Nouvelle France, Contenant la Terre de Labrador la Nouvelle France, les Isles de Terre Neuve, de Nostre Dame, &c.

Amsterdam circa 1700 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 889.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000