Swann Galleries: Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection, 2739, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 07, 2026 - May 07, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | William J. Brennan, Jr; Potter Stewart; Byron White; Hugo Black; Abe Fortas; William O. Douglas; John Marshall Harlan II; Earl Warren; Tom C. Clark | Large color Photograph Signed |
c. 1966 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 52 | Abe Fortas; Potter Stewart; Byron White; Thurgood Marshall; John Marshall Harlan II; Hugo Black; Earl Warren; William O. Douglas; William J. Brennan, Jr. | Photograph Signed |
c. 1968 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,016.00 | |
| 53 | Sandra Day O'Connor; Lewis F. Powell, Jr.; John Paul Stevens; Antonin Scalia; Thurgood Marshall; William J. Brennan, Jr.; William H. Rehnquist; Byron R. White; Harry A. Blackmun | Large Photograph Signed |
1987 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,413.00 | |
| 54 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg; David Souter; Clarence Thomas; Stephen Breyer; Antonin Scalia; John Paul Stevens; John Roberts; Sandra Day O'Connor; Anthony Kennedy | Color Photograph Signed |
c. 2005 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,064.00 | |
| 55 | Charles Lewis Tiffany | Photograph Signed |
1892 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,079.00 | |
| 56 | William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed | Lithographic bust portrait Signed and Inscribed |
1858 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 952.00 | |
| 57 | Henry Wells; William Fargo | Partly-printed Document Signed |
1864 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 58 | Edward Windsor; Wallis Windsor | Large Photograph Signed |
1941 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,064.00 | |
| 59 | Wilbur Wright | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
ND | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 | |
| 60 | Orville Wright | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
ND | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 4,224.00 | |
| 61 | Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Photograph Signed |
1912 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,397.00 | |
| 62 | Chester A. Arthur | Large Photograph Signed |
ND | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 5,842.00 | |
| 63 | Chester A. Arthur | Photograph Signed |
1881 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 5,334.00 | |
| 64 | James Buchanan | Photograph Signed |
1864 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 5,588.00 | |
| 65 | George H.W. Bush; George W. Bush | Color Photograph Signed |
1999 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 66 | Grover Cleveland; David R. Francis; William L. Wilson; Hilary A. Herbert; Julius S. Morton; Daniel S. Lamont; Richard Olney; John G. Carlisle; Judson Harmon | Large Photograph Signed |
c. 1896 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,159.00 | |
| 67 | Calvin Coolidge; James J. Davis; Herbert Hoover; William Marion Jardine; Hubert Work; Curtis D. Wilbur; Harry S. New; Frank B. Kellogg; Andrew Mellon; John Garibaldi Sargent | Large Photograph Signed |
1925 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 68 | Dwight D. Eisenhower; Joseph Dodge; Oveta Culp Hobby; Sherman Adams; Sinclair Weeks; Douglas McKay; Arthur E. Summerfield; Ezra Taft Benson; Martin P. Durkin; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; Harold Stassen; Herbert Brownell, Jr.; George M. Humphrey; Richard Nixon | Photograph Signed |
1953 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,413.00 | |
| 69 | Millard Fillmore | Photograph Signed |
1862 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 5,334.00 | |
| 70 | James A. Garfield | Photograph Signed |
1866 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 5,080.00 | |
| 71 | Lucretia Garfield | Photograph Signed |
1882 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 72 | Charles Guiteau | Photograph Signed |
1882 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,032.00 | |
| 73 | Ulysses S. Grant | Photograph Signed |
1881 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,810.00 | |
| 74 | Julia D. Grant | Photograph Signed |
ND | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,112.00 | |
| 75 | Warren G. Harding; Andrew Mellon; Harry M. Daugherty; Edwin Denby; Henry Cantwell Wallace; James J. Davis; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Albert B. Fall; William H. Hays; John W. Weeks; Charles Evans Hughes | Large Photograph Signed |
c. 1921 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,302.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.