Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — June 13, 2024 Catalogue & Bidding From Havana to hallucinogenic mushrooms and Mercator to menswear, this sale is set to include a wide range of historically important and interesting material for collectors across many different categories. There is a fine contingent of New York City maps, battle plans, and bird’s-eye views; decorative maps of all corners of the globe, including the famed Leo Belgicus, maps of the “New World,” maps of colonial North America, a map of Turkey from 1486, eighteenth-century plans of Cartegena, and a startling archive of 16 consecutive issues of a rare pre-fire Chicago land development periodical. In the natural history section, we are graced with the beauty of several aquatints by John James Audubon as well as a set of the first octavo edition of his Birds of America, a complete folio of Robert Thornton’s spectacular Temple of Flora, truly uncommon plates from Bishop John Henry Hopkins’ Vermont Drawing Book of Flowers; and Jacob P. Giraud’s Description of Sixteen New Species of American Birds with hand-colored lithographs by Nathaniel Currier—a book published in 1841 and whose legendary rarity was already described by nineteenth-century bibliographers. Lot 21: Laurent Fries, after Martin Waldseemuller, Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula, double-page woodcut map of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, and southeast North America, Lyon, 1535. Estimate $5,000 to $7,000. Lot 23: Captain Cornelius Martin Wohlers and F.A. Pingeling (engraver), See, und Land Carte eines Theils von Europa, Africa, und Nord-America von der Nord-See an zur equinoctial Line, large engraved chart of the Northern Atlantic Ocean showing parts of Europe, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and North America, Hamburg, 1784. Estimate $5,000 to $7,000. Lot 40: Martino Martini and Joannes Blaeu, Pecheli Sive Peking, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Prima, double-page engraved map of China, inland from Bohai Bay including Beijing, Tianiin, and eastern Hebei province with cartouche illustrations and the Great Wall, Amsterdam, 1655. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000. Lot 56: Isaak de Graaf, Manuscript chart of Java, the Java Sea, Bali, and parts of Borneo, Sumatra, and Sulawesi, ink and watercolor on alarge panel of vellum, signed upper center, Amsterdam, circa 1743. Estimate $110,000 to $120,000. Lot 72: Claes Janszoon Visscher, after Hessel Gerritsz, Nova XVII Provinciarum, Germaniae Inferioris Tabula, Leonis Effigie, Accurate Delineata, large engraved map of Belgium and the Netherlands zoomorphically styled as a formidable lion, Amsterdam, 1630. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. Lot 98: Jacob Barnitz Bacon, Pier Map of the City of New York, Surveyed and Drawn for the New York Corn Exchange, hand-colored lithographed wall map of lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn coastline, 2 sheets joined, New York: Adolphus Ranney, 1857. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000. Lot 113: Amy Drevenstedt, The Flight of Charles A Lindbergh from New York to Paris, in His Mono-plane “The Spirit of St. Louis” on May 20-21, map, lithographed in four colors, 1927. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500. Lot 147: J.M. Wing & Co, The Land Owner. A Journal of Real Estate, 16 issues with 31 loosely inserted mostly double-page or folding maps lithographed in black, brown, or green, profusely illustrated text and business advertisements, Chicago, 1869-71. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500. Lot 166: Jacob Post Giraud, Jr. and Nathaniel Currier, A Description of Sixteen New Species of North American Birds, Described in the Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, Collected in Texas, 1838, 8 finely hand-colored lithographed plates by Currier after Abraham Halsey, 18 leaves of letterpress text including the title-page, New York: George F. Nesbitt, 1841. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. Lot 169: Robert John Thornton, New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, Comprehending the Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, featuring 30 botanical plates, London: For the publisher by T. Bensley, 1799-1807. Estimate $50,000 to $70,000. Lot 216: John James Audubon, White Heron. Plate CCCLXXXVI, hand-colored aquatint and engraved plate from Audubon’s “Birds of America”, London: Robert Havell, 1837. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000. Keep in Touch Sign-up for Email Updates Download the Swann Galleries App Share Facebook Twitter May 17, 2024Author: Caleb KifferCategory: Maps & Atlases Tags: Amy Drevenstedt Audubon Claes Janszoon Visscher Cornelius Martin Worlers Decorative Maps Isaak de Graf Jacob Barnitz Bacon Jacob Post Giraud Joannes Blaeu John James Audubon Laurent Fries Maps Maps & Atlases Maps and Atlases Maps of Chicago Maps of New York City Martino Martini Nathaniel Currier Previous Specialist Pick: Devon Eastland on Wuthering Heights vs. David Copperfield Next Meagan Gandolfo on Pop Art Printmakers Recommended Posts 2010-19: The Decade in Review Swann January 13, 2020 Schedel’s Map: The Last View of the Old World Maps & Atlases November 28, 2017 2018: Year in Review Swann December 21, 2018