Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Highlights of Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on December 10 include: 

* F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from November 1900 to April 1902, with 68 pen-and-ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship’s mechanical devices, each monogrammed by Somerville and initialed by commanding officers. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.

* Samuel Lewis and Samuel Harrison, engraver, A Correct Map of the Seat of War, engraved map covering the area east of the Northwest, Indiana, and Michigan Territories, Philadelphia: John Conrad, and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, 1812. 
Estimate $2,000 - $2,500.

* Cornelis Wytfliet, Florida et Apalche, double-page engraved map of the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Bahamas, and Cuba, Louvain, 1597. Estimate $1,500 - $2,000.

* Jacques le Moyne de Morgues and Theodor de Bry, Der Ander Theil / der Newlich Erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von Dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam, letterpress title with engraved border, dedication with armorial arms of George Wilhelm Count Palatine of the Rhine, and folding map of Florida, Frankfurt, 1591 and 1603. Estimate $15,000 - $20,000.

* Heinrich Bunting, Clover Leaf World Map, hand-colored double-page woodblock map of the world in a trefoil of continents, with Jerusalem at the center, Prague, 1592. Estimate $3,000 - $5,000.