Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books

Swann Auction Galleries Sale #2743: Our bi-annual globe-trotting sale of maps takes us to all the places: from Cairo to California and Michigan to Moscow, we've got you covered if you're interested in the history of drilling for oil in Venezuela in 1924 or need to know how Sri Lanka looked in 1513. A complete uncolored 1601 edition of the Ortelius Theatrum and the first printed map of Washington, D.C. are only two of the highlights.

Animals by Audubon, Botanicals by Besler, a wonderfully illuminated journal of an American missionary couple in China circa 1933, and a delightful group of wagon train pioneers of the American West painted by William Henry Jackson when he was in his 90s are just a few of the non-cartographic offerings rounding out the sale.