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
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

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.