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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | William Faulkner | William Faulkner — A Fable Signed |
1954 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,143.00 | |
| 152 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Oliver Wendell Holmes — Autograph Quotation Signed |
1885 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,016.00 | |
| 153 | Julia Ward Howe | Julia Ward Howe — Autograph Letter Signed |
1897 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 429.00 | |
| 154 | Victor Hugo; John Quincy Adams; Fitz-Greene Halleck | Victor Hugo; and John Quincy Adams — Two Autograph Manuscripts Signed |
1842; 1838 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 155 | Washington Irving | Washington Irving — Autograph Manuscript |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | |
| 156 | Rudyard Kipling | Rudyard Kipling — Autograph Quotation Signed |
1896 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 157 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie |
1847; 1846 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 889.00 | |
| 158 | Charles Mackay | Charles Mackay — Group of 4 items Signed |
1880s; 1894 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 159 | W. Somerset Maugham | W. Somerset Maugham — The Narrow Corner Signed and Inscribed |
1932 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | |
| 160 | Andre Maurois | Andre Maurois — Autograph Manuscript Signed |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 161 | Herman Melville | Herman Melville — Signature on verso of engraved print |
1863-91 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 162 | Margaret Mitchell | Margaret Mitchell — Gone with the Wind Signed |
1936 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 163 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Nietzsche — Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
1884-1900 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 40,640.00 | |
| 164 | Eugene O'Neill | Eugene O'Neill — Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
1946 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 571.00 | |
| 165 | Walter Scott | Walter Scott — Two items Signed |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,452.00 | |
| 166 | George Bernard Shaw | George Bernard Shaw — Autograph Note Signed on postcard |
1909 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 792.00 | |
| 167 | George Bernard Shaw | George Bernard Shaw — Autograph Letter Signed on postcard |
1917 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 660.00 | |
| 168 | Rabindranath Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore — Autograph Letter Signed |
1915 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 | |
| 169 | Thornton Wilder; Rockwell Kent | Thornton Wilder — The Bridge of San Luis Rey Two copies Signed |
1929; 1963 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 170 | Erskine Caldwell; G.K. Chesterton; Walter de la Mare; Alexandre Dumas fils; Laurence Housman; Aldous Huxley; Archibald MacLeish; John Masefield; Arthur Miller; Eugene O'Neill; Siegfried Sassoon; Booth Tarkington; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Saint Ouen; A.W. Cr | Group of 12 books, each Signed or Signed and Inscribed |
1933; 1928; 1849; 1930; 1954; 1922; 1964; 1931; 1927; 1917; 1868; 1773; ND | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,778.00 | |
| 171 | Max Beerbohm; Lytton Strachey; Alfred Tennyson; G.K. Chesterton; Walter Crane; Robert Hichens; Richard Le Gallienne; Elisabeth Beerbohm; Herbert Beerbohm Tree; Constance Beerbohm | Group of 10 items Signed or Signed and Inscribed |
1896-1915; 1923; ND; 1885; ND; circa 1897 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 172 | Carl Andre | Carl Andre — Group of 10 Autograph Notes Signed on postcards |
1976-82 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 889.00 | |
| 173 | Thomas Hart Benton | Thomas Hart Benton — Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed |
1954 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,904.00 | |
| 174 | Maurits Cornelis Escher | Maurits Cornelis Escher — Archive of 8 items Signed |
1963-70 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 | |
| 175 | Maurits Cornelis Escher | Maurits Cornelis Escher — Brief Autograph Note Signed |
1967 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 5,842.00 |
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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