Swann Galleries: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, 2706, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 29, 2025 - May 29, 2025
Page Size: 327 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
276 Emile-Alain Seguy.

Papillons.

Paris [1925] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,000.00
277 Emile Belet.

La Vegetation Sous Marine. Algues et Goemons.

Paris 1900 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
278 Ulisse Aldrovandi.

Two seventeenth-century woodcut-illustrated ornithological volumes.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
279 John James Audubon.

The Birds of America.

New York 1856 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,000.00
280 John Cassin.

Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America.

Philadelphia 1853-1855 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 750.00
281 Francois Andrew Michaux; and Thomas Nutta

The North American Sylva;

Philadelphia 1871 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,250.00
282 David Claypoole Johnston.

Four early American cartoon portfolios.

Boston 1830s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,860.00
283

Album of 12 mounted trade watercolors on pith paper.

China, late 19th century USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,300.00
284

Two early nineteenth-century illustrated titles of British manner and dress.

London vd USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
285

[Petite Galerie Dramatique, ou Recueil de Differents Costumes d'Acteurs des Theatres de la Capitale].

Paris 1796-mid 1830s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
286 Jose Maria de Andueza.

Isla de Cuba Pintoresca.

Madrid 1841 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
287 Reverend W. Houghton.

British Fresh-Water Fishes.

London 1879 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 469.00
288 Karl Bodmer; and Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied.

Travels in the Interior of North America.

Paris, Coblenz and London 1839-1841 USD 400,000.00 - 500,000.00 Not Sold
289 John Boydell; and Shearjashub Spooner.

[The American Edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works

New York 1852 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
290 M.M. Ballou.

The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports.

Boston 1855 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 688.00
291 Karl Bodmer.

Group of five aquatint and engraved plates from Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied's

Paris, Coblenz and London, [1839-1842] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,063.00
292 John James and John Woodhouse Audubon.

Mink, Plate XXXIII

Philadelphia 1844; 1848 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 469.00
293 Seligman

Group of 6 hand-colored engraved plates after Mark Catesby or George Edwards from

Nuremberg 1760s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
294 John Gould.

Selection of 45 hand-colored lithographed plates from Gould's

London vd USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
295 John James Audubon.

American Swift. Plate CLVIII.

London 1833 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
296 John James Audubon.

Glossy Ibis. Plate 358.

New York 1860 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
297 John James Audubon.

Great White Heron. Plate 368.

New York 1860 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,000.00
298 John James Audubon.

Two chromolithographed plates from the Bien edition of

New York 1860 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 938.00
299 John James Audubon.

Two chromolithographed plates from the Bien edition of

New York 1860 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
300 John James Audubon.

Two chromolithographed plates from the Bien edition of

New York 1860 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 594.00
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