Swann Galleries: Fine Photographs, 2725, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Page Size: 307 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Felix Teynard.

Sebouah, Temple - Vue Generale du Pylone, Nubie.

1851-52. USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,159.00
2 James E. McClees.

Pennsylvania landscape.

1853-59. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
3 John Dillwyn Llewelyn.

Caswell Bay.

Circa 1854. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
4 Francis Frith.

The Pyramids of Dahshoor, from the East.

1857 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 13,970.00
5 Francis Frith.

Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives.

1858 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,096.00
6 Samuel Bourne.

A group of 17 photographs depicting historical landmarks in Delhi.

1860s. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,540.00
7 George N. Barnard.

2 photographs, from Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign.

1866 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,524.00
8 Platt D Babbitt.

Niagara in Winter.

Circa 1870. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,794.00
9 Eadweard Muybridge.

Tutokanula, Valley of the Yosemite.

1872 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,366.00
10 Fratelli Alinari.

Arancia, Citrus Aurantium, Firenze [bitter orange].

1870s. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,168.00
11

A magnificent album titled Aegypten [Egypt] with more than 120 photographs, including numerous portraits and views by Sebah and some by Felix Bonfils.

USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,842.00
12

An album with approximately 158 photographs of Mexico by Waite, Scott, and Briquet.

Circa 1880-1904. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,808.00
13

An album featuring more than 125 photographs, primarily from Hong Kong, including 4 documenting Queen Victoria's birthday review parade.

Circa 1893. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,556.00
14

An Ohio album titled "A Collection of Recollections Presented in Views" with more than 100 cyanotypes.

Circa 1898-1910. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 924.00
15 Carleton E. Watkins.

Agassiz Column from Union Point, Yosemite.

Circa 1878. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,048.00
16 Eadweard Muybridge.

A selection of 3 plates from Animal Locomotion.

1887 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,905.00
17 Richard Lesesne.

Florida landscape.

Circa 1900. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,056.00
18 Edward S. Curtis.

Canon de Chelly.

1904 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 11,430.00
19 Edward S. Curtis.

The Vanishing Race.

1904 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,780.00
20 Edward S. Curtis.

A selection of 6 photogravures from The North American Indian.

1905-28. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,905.00
21 Edward S. Curtis.

The Hunter, Lake Pomo, plate 474 from The North American Indian, Portfolio 14.

1924 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
22

A suite of 8 microphotographs of elegant ice crystals.

Circa 1920. USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
23 Imogen Cunningham.

Snake in Bucket.

1920s. USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
24 Edward Weston.

Pepper No. 30

1930; printed circa 1980 by Cole Weston. USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 4,064.00
25 George Kendall Warren.

A selection of three oval photographs of Harvard University and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Circa 1863. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
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