Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books at Swann Galleries June 3
NEW YORK, New York
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Swann Galleriesâ Thursday, June 3 sale of
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books will feature world cartography with an emphasis on American maps, works from prolific printmakers and ornithologists.
           World maps on offer include offerings of a fine early seventeenth-century
Italian celestial globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores by Giuseppe de Rossi, after an earlier globe created by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam in 1601 ($15,000-20,000); and five double-page engraved maps of the world and continents by Mercator (family) are on offer ($7,000-10,000).
1967 (dated)
1 : 126720
Description
This is an attractive 1967, special edition, Joseph Anthony Aiena re-envisioning of the famous Persac Map or Norman Map , illustrating the plantations on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Natchez. The map is divided into two sections. The left section covers from Natchez to Baton Rouge, and the right section from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Along the way, plantation estates are illustrated and color-coded with the owners duly named. The properties are universally long and thin, assuring all-important river access to all. The map is surrounded by a decorative cotton-themed border.
The Norman / Persac MapOriginally published in 1858, the Norman / Persac Map was drawn by the French landscape painter and real-estate artist Marie Adrien Persac (1823 - 1873). Persac issued the map in partnership with the Benjamin Moore Norman (1809 - 1860). The map is an outgrowth of Persac s travels up and down the Mississippi s