November 13, 2024Caleb KifferMaps & Atlases Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — December 10, 2024 Read more about Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — December 10, 2024 In this December auction we are offering a range of collectible material including regional and decorative world maps spanning 350 years of cartographic printing, beautifully engraved color plates, and more.
Read more about Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — June 13, 2024 May 17, 2024 Maps & Atlases Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — June 13, 2024 This sale is set to include a wide range of historically important and interesting material for map, atlas, natural history and color-plate book collectors across many different categories.
Read more about Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books April 17, 2019 Maps & Atlases Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books At Auction June 6 Complete Catalogue Exhibition Open June 1 – June 6 The exhibition is free to attend and open to the public. We welcome special and educational groups…
Read more about How to Consign to an Auction December 14, 2018 Auctions 101 How to Consign to an Auction Thinking about selling at auction? Allow us to be of assistance. Swann is a third-generation family business and the oldest specialty auction house in New York City, known for our…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books February 3, 2018 Maps & Atlases A Look Inside the Catalogue: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books At Auction June 7 This auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books encompasses a broad range of American and European cartography. Complete Catalogue Maps Highlights…
Read more about Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 8, 2017 Maps & Atlases Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books Maps were so plentiful at our December 5 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books that one could be forgiven for getting lost. Many buyers chose…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books August 31, 2017 Maps & Atlases A Look Inside the Catalogue: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books At Auction December 13 Complete Catalogue Maps An example of Abraham Ortelius’s map of Iceland will be included, famously and prominently featuring one of the most beloved aspects of…
Read more about The Endless Mountains: A Map That Promised More May 26, 2017 Maps & Atlases The Endless Mountains: A Map That Promised More Specialist Caleb Kiffer of our Maps & Atlases department on one of his favorite pieces in our June 7 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books: a…
Read more about On A Previously Unknown First State of de Wit’s Map of the Netherlands November 30, 2016 Maps & Atlases On A Previously Unknown First State of de Wit’s Map of the Netherlands This post was written by Maps & Atlases Specialist Caleb Kiffer in advance of our December 8, 2016 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books. The…
Read more about A Famous Cartographic Blunder: The Island of California May 15, 2015 Maps & Atlases A Famous Cartographic Blunder: The Island of California For more than a century the state of California was thought to be an island. How? Misinformation by way of maps. In Mapping the West: America’s Westward Movement 1524-1890 (2002),…