Five Rare Books for Collectors: Maps
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 - $1,500.
Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on June 13 include:
* 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.
* 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.
* Isaak de Graaf, Manuscript chart of Java, the Java Sea, Bali, and parts of Borneo, Sumatra, and Sulawesi, ink and watercolor on a large panel of vellum, signed upper center, Amsterdam, circa 1743. Estimate $110,000 to $120,000.
* 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.
