Description
[Auction Catalog]. Swann Galleries Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books Sale 2512, June 6, 2019. Soft cover, unpaginated. Detailed descriptions, estimates and photos for 400 lots.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Notable lots include Lewis Evans’ 1755 General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America in its proof state, annotated, signed and dated two months before the map’s official publication, and another eighteenth-century American rarity, A.P. Folie’s 1792 Plan of the Town of Baltimore, never before seen at auction; George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio; an exquisite copy of John Fisk Allen and William Sharp’s chromolithographs of giant water lilies, Victoria Regia; and a complete run of the first 54 volumes of William Curtis’s lovely hand-colored Botanical Magazine; Several truly scarce sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch imprints, including a map of southern Africa by Petrus Plancius with an inset view of a shipwrecked crew being accosted by giant lobsters, and a run of maps by obscure publisher Pieter Verbiest. Pocket maps include James Turnbull’s 1828 map of Ohio, and a notable example of late-nineteenth century mapmaker Emil Fischer’s Map of Southwestern Colorado; Also includes a stack of marine sketches by Oswald Walters Brierly, nearly all of the 200 chromolithographs of religious Renaissance master paintings published by the Arundel Society, and a hand-painted Art Deco-period aerial photograph of New York City.