Maps of the American Continent and Revolutionary War Lead Swann Auction
Lot 135: C.L. Hawkins, Chicago the Greatest Inland City in the World, color-lithographed perspective map of Chicago looking west from Lake Michigan, Chicago, 1938. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books sale on December 7 is set to include a wide assortment of maps and graphics chronicling the advancement of knowledge of the world from the 16th through the 20th century. Featured themes will be maps of the American continent from its early colonial settlement, and the period of growth and expansion in the West, all the way to some of the earliest established commercial airline flight paths in 1929.
Highlights include a set of unassembled engraved gore segments which construct Vincenzo Coronelli’s enormous 42-inch terrestrial globe from 1688. Several unique manuscript maps will also be on offer, including a neatly detailed hand-drawn account of an extensive hike from New York City through New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania in the summers of 1860 and 1861 by a recent engineering graduate of the Brooklyn Collegiate Polytechnic Institute, only months before beginning his career as a Navy paymaster during the Civil War.
Other lots include:
- Lot 196: Philipp Cluver, Introductio in Universam Geographiam tam Veterem, quam Novam, 55 double-page or folding engraved maps and diagrams, 2 printed folding tables, Amsterdam, 1683. Estimate $1,500 to $2,000
- Lot 74: William Cammeyer, Jr., A New Map of the Hudson River, hand-colored strip map of the Hudson river from New York City to Glen Falls, Albany, 1829. Estimate $700 to $1,000
- Lot 29: Pieter Goos, Paskaerte van Nova Granada en t’Eylandt California, double-page chart of California, Amsterdam, 1666. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000
- Lot 109: Carington Bowles, Bowles’s Map of the Seat of War in New England, double-page Revolutionary War-period map of New England, London, 1776. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000
- Lot 70: Cornelis de Hooghe / Cornelius de Horen, Hollandt, double-page map of Holland, Antwerp, 1565. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000
- Lot 16: Giovanni Maria Cassini, La Nuova Olanda e La Nuova Guinea, double-page engraved map of Australia and New Guinea, Rome, 1798. Estimate $1,800 to $2,200
- Lot 146: Margaret Whiting Spilhaus, Australia, color-lithographed pictorial map of Australia, London, 1929. Estimate $600 to $900
