Swann Galleries: Autographs, 2735, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Edward M. Purcell; Felix Bloch | Edward M. Purcell; Felix Bloch — Signed Items |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 77 | Wilhelm Rontgen | Wilhelm Rontgen — Inscription Signed |
1905 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 825.00 | |
| 78 | William Shockley | William Shockley — Signed First Day Cover and Offprint |
1973; 1980; 1957; 1974 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 79 | William Shockley; John Bardeen; Walter Houser Brattain | William Shockley; John Bardeen; Walter Brattain — Photographs Signed |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | |
| 80 | Various | Nobel Laureates in Physics — Group of Signed Items |
1887-2021 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,572.00 | |
| 81 | Julius Robert Oppenheimer | Julius Robert Oppenheimer — Signature |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,159.00 | |
| 82 | Paul Robeson | Paul Robeson — Program for Othello |
c. 1942; 2004 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 825.00 | |
| 83 | Nathan Mayer Rothschild | Nathan Mayer Rothschild — Letter Signed |
1832 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 594.00 | |
| 84 | Charles M. Schwab; James H. Ward | Charles M. Schwab — Signed Letter and Photograph |
1921; ND | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold | |
| 85 | George Washington Goethals; Hudson Maxim; Albert Cushing Read | Group of 6 Signed Items to Yosaku Minami |
1919; c. 1919 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 86 | George Gamow; Oliver Sacks; Glenn T. Seaborg; Reinhold Niebuhr; Mortimer J. Adler | Group of 5 Letters Signed by Scientists |
1959-2015 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 698.00 | |
| 87 | Neil Armstrong | Neil Armstrong — Photograph Signed |
1960s | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,848.00 | |
| 88 | Collins and Kraemer | Space: Discovery and Exploration — Signed by Astronauts |
1993; 1994-95 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,524.00 | |
| 89 | Arthur Orton | Tichborne Claimant — Three Signed Items |
1874; 1882; ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 539.00 | |
| 90 | Cornelius Vanderbilt | Cornelius Vanderbilt — Clipped Signature and date |
1876 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,122.00 | |
| 91 | Arthur Wellesley Wellington | Arthur Wellesley Wellington — Group of 4 Signed Items |
1820; 1844; 1842 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,270.00 | |
| 92 | William Ewart Gladstone; John Jellicoe; David Lloyd George; Herbert H. Asquith; Douglas Haig | World Leaders — Britain — Group of 8 Signed Items |
1938; 1939; 1919 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 476.00 | |
| 93 | Alexandre Millerand; Raymond Poincare; Philippe Petain | World Leaders — France — Three Photographs Signed |
c. 1920 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 539.00 | |
| 94 | Alvaro Obregon; Nicholas Murray Butler; Patrick Joseph Hayes; John J. Pershing; William Gibbs McAdoo; Robert Lansing; Belisario Porras; Epitacio Pessoa; Eleftherios Venizelos; Vittorio Emanuele Orlando; Desire-Joseph Mercier; John Francis Hylan | World Leaders — Group of 12 Photographs Signed |
c. 1919; 1919; 1921 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 698.00 | |
| 95 | William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Eddie Rickenbacker; Richard E. Byrd; Martin Buber; Horace Greeley; Josh Billings; Arnold J. Toynbee; George Abbott; George S. Kaufman; Stephen Samuel Wise; Otis Skinner; Alexander von Humboldt | Miscellaneous — Group of 13 Signed Items |
1892; 1949; 1902 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 594.00 | |
| 96 | Chuck Close; Hillary Clinton | Hillary Clinton; and Chuck Close — Signed Portrait |
2016 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 | |
| 97 | Millard Fillmore | Millard Fillmore — Autograph Letter Signed |
1851 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,079.00 | |
| 98 | James A. Garfield | James A. Garfield — Partly-printed Document Signed |
1874 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 889.00 | |
| 99 | Ulysses S. Grant | Ulysses S. Grant — Autograph Letter Signed |
1883 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,048.00 | |
| 100 | Andrew Jackson | Andrew Jackson — Autograph Letter Signed |
1821 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 8,255.00 |
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Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950 -
Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 JulySotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000. -
Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.” -
Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935 -
June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.