Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on May 29 include: 

* Haasis & Lubrecht's The American Union Railroad Map Of The United States, British Possessions, West Indies, Mexico, And Central America, large wax-engraved map of the United States illustrating the mass network of 19thcentury railroad lines. New York, 1871 (estimate $4,000-$6,000).

* Mahlon Blaine's Book Row Of America, lithographed map of Broadway and Fourth Avenue between 14th Street and Astor Place. New York, 1968 (estimate $500-$700).

* New York Electric Vehicle Association, Electric Automobile Charging Stations Route Maps, 17 pages and two lithographed folding maps with red overprinting. New York, 1915 (estimate $600-$900.)

* Nicolas Visscher's Africae Nova Descr., hand-colored double-page engraved map of the African continent ornamented with an emblematic title cartouche and four carte-a-figures and city plan border panels. Amsterdam, 1652. (estimate $2,000-$3,000).

* Karl Bodmer's Travels In The Interior Of North America, a unique unbound set with four volumes including an engraved meteorological chart, 81 hand-colored aquatint and engraved plates captioned in German, English, and French, and engraved folding map, Paris, Coblenz and London, 1839-41 (estimate $400,000 to $500,000).