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These sales contain atlases and individual maps of locations around the world, as well as fine natural history and historical prints and other decorative graphics.
Please contact us to discuss your special collecting interests.
Thomas Hutchins' A New Map of the Western Parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina; Comprehending the River Ohio [etc.], large 3-sheet engraved case map in 32 sections, London, 1778, with manuscript additions circa 1790, sold on June 19, 2008 for a record of $168,000.
Mortier and Jaillot's Le Neptune Francois, bound with Cartes Marines a l’Usage des Armees du Roy de la Grande Bretagne, first edition, Paris and Amsterdam, 1693, sold on December 6, 2007 for a record of $96,000.
John Cowley's A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina drawn from the Original of Col. Mosely’s Survey, a two-sheet pen and ink manuscript map, London, 1737, sold on June 14, 2007 for $360,000.
Martin Waldseemueller, Tabula Terre Nove, double-page wood-engraved map, Strasbourg, 1513, the first map of America to appear in an atlas, sold on June 19, 2003 for $83,900.
John Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain... Together with a Prospect of the Most Famous
Parts of the World, third edition, London, 1676, with fine maps of American interest. Sold on December 11, 2003 for $79,500.
Andre Thevet, Le Nouveau Monde Descouvert et Illustre de Nostre Temps, Paris, 1581, sold on June 17, 2004 for $11,500.
Hartmann Schedel, "Secunda etas Mundi," double-page wood-engraved world map from the Latin language edition of the "Nuremberg Chronicle," Nuremberg, 1493, sold on December 12, 2002 for $13,800.
John Rocque, "A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of
Southwark," massive engraved 24-sheet map, each sheet double-page, London, 1746, sold on December 12, 2002 for $8,050.
Contact the Specialists
Gary Garland, Director
212-254-4710 ext.17
ggarland@swanngalleries.com
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MAPS & ATLASES, NATURAL HISTORY & HISTORICAL PRINTS, EPHEMERA
December 08, 2011
A wide selection of beautiful historic maps & ephemera includes William Faden's The Province of New Jersey, London, 1777, the cover of the catalog.
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MAPS & ATLASES, NATURAL HISTORY & HISTORICAL PRINTS, EPHEMERA
June 02, 2011
The sale includes Maps, Atlases, Books with Plates, Decorative Graphics and Ephemera, including a map of Japan's Suruga Province, circa 1716-35.
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OCEAN LINER AND TRANSPORTATION MEMORABILIA Featuring the Kristin Johnson Collection
February 03, 2011
Offered books, posters, scrapbooks, brochures, photo albums, and postcards, as well as silver, china and crystal from famed ocean liners including the “Normandie.”
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MAPS & ATLASES, TRAVEL BOOKS, NATURAL HISTORY, HISTORICAL PRINTS & EPHEMERA
December 01, 2010
Included Nathaniel Currier's American Country Life. Pleasures of Winter, Large format hand-colored lithographed print, after Fanny Palmer, New York, 1855.
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