Swann Galleries: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History, 2677, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 22, 2024 - August 22, 2024
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | MANLEY, DELARIVIER "DELIA" (circa 1663-1724) | Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean. |
London: | 1709 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 594.00 |
2 | JAMES MILLS PEIRCE (1834-1906) | Photograph of a Harvard mathematician whose defense of homosexuality was published in 1897. |
[Cambridge, MA], | circa 1860s. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
3 | GAUDENZIO MARCONI (1841-1885) | Group of three male physique nude studies. |
Circa 1870s. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,250.00 | |
4 | JEREMIAH GURNEY & SON (active 1860-1874) | Portrait of the American writer Walt Whitman (1819-1892). |
1871 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
5 | WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) | Address panel Signed, addressed in holograph to writer and progressive activist Edward Carpenter: |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
6 | NAPOLEON SARONY (1821-1896) | Portrait of Irish poet and playwrite Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). |
1882 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 | USD 5,750.00 | |
7 | OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) | Program from the St. James's Theatre first run of his play "Lady Windermere's Fan," with a cast photo. |
[London]: | 1892 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 938.00 |
8 | OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) | Salome. Drame en un Acte. |
London: | 1920 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | USD 250.00 |
9 | GUGLIELMO PLUSCHOW (1852-1930) | Standing figure with drapery. |
1890s-1910s. | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,430.00 | |
10 | WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931) | Male figure seated. |
Circa 1900-1910. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,250.00 | |
11 | WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931) | Male figure with floral head wreath. |
Circa 1900-1910. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,250.00 | |
12 | WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931) | Seated figure with flowers on terrace wall. |
Circa 1900-1910. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,250.00 | |
13 | RENEE VIVIEN (1877-1909) | First edition of Sapho, with an ALS bound-in. |
Paris: | 1903 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
14 | ADOLF BRAND (1874-1945) & KONRAD LINKE (Dates Unknown) | Der Eigene: Ein Buch fur Kunst und Manliche Kultur. Vol VI. |
Charlottenburg [Berlin]: | 1906 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
15 | FRANZ VON BAYROS (1866-1924) | The Abduction of Ganymede by Jupiter. |
USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,430.00 | ||
16 | EDWARD PERRY WARREN (1860-1928) ARCHIVE | Extensive correspondence of the noted art collector and author of "A Defence of Uranian Love." |
Various places | 1906-1912. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,750.00 |
17 | CHARLES EVERETT JOHNSON (1866-?) | Miss Simplicity. |
1901 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 875.00 | |
18 | JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941) | Group of 3 postcards depicting the famed female impersonator. |
USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 625.00 | ||
19 | JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941) | Pair of postcards depicting him in male and female attire for "The Crinoline Girl." |
No place, | circa 1914 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 625.00 |
20 | JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941) | Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "A reminder of / Julian / Eltinge," full-length portrait by Albert Witzel, |
1918 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
21 | PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN | Photograph of female impersonator Karyl Norman, known as The Creole Fashion Plate. |
1923 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
22 | JOHN C. PAYNE (1872-1952) | Brochure depicting the singer as an impersonator of opera singer Sissieretta Jones, the "Black Patti." |
Los Angeles, CA, | 21 November 1913. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
23 | LILI ELBE (1883-1931) | Le Mail, Beaugency, France. |
1923 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 6,240.00 | |
24 | (THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN IN THE WORLD) | Painter, sculptor, and dancer Paul Swan with his sculpture of Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson. |
1927 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
25 | PAUL SWAN (1884-1972) | Self-Portrait of the artist as a young woman. |
Circa 1920s | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 8,750.00 |