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Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books at Swann Galleries June 3 NEW YORK, New York Subject Line Please provide verification code 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. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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). ....