Swann Auction Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, October 20th, 2022

Auctions

Fine Photographs
Sale #2618

12pm

EXHIBITIONS
Mon, Oct 17th 12pm - 5pm
Tue, Oct 18th 12pm - 5pm
Wed, Oct 19th 12pm - 5pm

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741229413679, -73.9849605

Swann Auction Galleries

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Paradou Books / Art + Lit

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Maya Jones Books

Cerrillos, NM 87010

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Johnson Rare Books & Archives

134 N Citrus Avenue

Covina, CA 91723

(626) 967-1888

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Dale Steffey Books

315 South Arbutus Drive

Bloomington, IN 47401

(812) 333-2903

Visual Art

From Superman #75

Original Art from 'The Death of Superman' to Auction

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Maps

London in the 18th Century

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Rare Books

Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez by Luis Ramírez de Lucena

Oldest Surviving Book on Chess to Auction with £100,000 Estimate

Grabhorn Press 'Leaves of Grass': Rare Book of the Week

Sacred Hindu Shikshapatri Text On Tour to Mark Bicentenary

Book People

Penelope Jencks' statue of Margaret Fuller in situ pre-restoration

Life-Size Bronze Sculpture of Margaret Fuller Donated to Concord Free Public Library

Final Antiquariaat Junk Stock Sold at Auction for £1m+

Book Collector Kierra Duncan on Multiple Editions of Black Diasporic Writers

Exhibitions

A spread from the short story Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

National Library of Scotland’s Centenary Tour Heads to Shetland

Photographs

Edward Steichen’s Balzac, The Open Sky, 11 P.M. (1908) (estimate: $700,000–$1m)

Edward Steichen’s 'Balzac' Leads Photography Masterworks Auction

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Auctions

Nelson's Order of Battle for Trafalgar

Horatio Nelson's Trafalgar Order of Battle Sold for $189,888 at Auction

Virginia Woolf Letter Dismissing Her Work to Auction

Queen Elizabeth I Letter, Stuyvesant Land Grant, and Jefferson–Madison Appointment to Auction