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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | Johannes Brahms | Johannes Brahms — Autograph Note |
1895 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,016.00 | |
| 127 | Gaetano Donizetti | Gaetano Donizetti — Autograph Letter Signed |
ND | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 128 | Tom Caravaglia | Philip Glass — Large Photograph Signed |
c. 1985 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 508.00 | |
| 129 | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka — Autograph Musical Quotation Signed |
1844 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 130 | Fromental Halevy | Fromental Halevy — Two Signed Items |
1842; 1838? | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | |
| 131 | Ruggiero Leoncavallo | Ruggiero Leoncavallo — Autograph Letter Signed |
1897 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,413.00 | |
| 132 | Franz Liszt | Franz Liszt — Musical Manuscript Signed and Inscribed |
ND | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,794.00 | |
| 133 | Franz Liszt | Franz Liszt — Autograph Letter Signed |
1881 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,794.00 | |
| 134 | Franz Liszt | Franz Liszt — Autograph Note Signed |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 135 | Jules Massenet | Jules Massenet — Group of 6 Signed Items |
1876-1912 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 136 | Gioachino Rossini | Gioachino Rossini — Document Signed |
1824 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 726.00 | |
| 137 | Gioachino Rossini | Gioachino Rossini — Autograph Letter Signed |
1842 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,016.00 | |
| 138 | Anton Rubinstein | Anton Rubinstein — Two Signed Items |
1858; 1876 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,159.00 | |
| 139 | Anton Rubinstein | Anton Rubinstein — Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and Inscribed |
1886 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,270.00 | |
| 140 | Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Sondheim — Small Archive of Typed Letters Signed |
1983-2008; 1973; 2007 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 141 | Gasparo Spontini | Gasparo Spontini — Three Letters Signed |
1822; 1848 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 142 | Ambroise Thomas | Ambroise Thomas — Group of 4 Signed Items |
ND; 1856; 1877; 1886 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 571.00 | |
| 143 | Giuseppe Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi — Letter Signed |
1855 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 144 | Pablo Casals; Cole Porter; Marian Anderson | Pablo Casals; Cole Porter; Marian Anderson — Three Signed Items |
ND; 1963 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 476.00 | |
| 145 | Ignacy Jan Paderewski; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Edward Elgar; Jascha Heifetz; Camille Saint-Saens | Ignacy Jan Paderewski; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Edward Elgar; Jascha Heifetz; Camille Saint-Saens — Signed Group |
1916; ND; 1928 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 889.00 | |
| 146 | Enrico Caruso; Josef Hofmann; Amelita Galli-Curci; Fritz Kreisler; Aileen Stanley; Grace La Rue; Albert Spalding | Enrico Caruso; Josef Hofmann; Amelita Galli-Curci; Fritz Kreisler; Aileen Stanley; Grace La Rue; Albert Spalding — Signed Group |
1921; 1936; ND | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,016.00 | |
| 147 | George Gordon Noel Byron | George Gordon Noel Byron — Autograph Letter Signed |
1815 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,048.00 | |
| 148 | Agatha Christie | Agatha Christie — Two Autograph Letters Signed |
1960s; 1974; 1987 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,318.00 | |
| 149 | T.S. Eliot | T.S. Eliot — Four Quartets |
1960 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,413.00 | |
| 150 | T.S. Eliot | T.S. Eliot — The Waste Land |
1961 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 4,826.00 |
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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. -
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