Swann Galleries: Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection, 2739, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 07, 2026 - May 07, 2026
Page Size: 126 items in 6 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph Signed

1903 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,810.00
102 Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph Signed

ND USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,168.00
103 Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Photograph dated and Signed

1902 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
104 Quentin Roosevelt; Edward S. Curtis

Photograph Signed and Inscribed

1904 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,032.00
105 William Howard Taft; Franklin MacVeagh; George Woodward Wickersham; George von Lengerke Meyer; James Wilson; Charles Nagel; Walter L. Fisher; Frank Harris Hitchcock; Henry Lewis Stimson; Philander C. Knox

Large Photograph Signed

1911 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,540.00
106 Harry S. Truman; Clinton Anderson; Lewis Schwellenbach; John Blandford; Julius Krug; John W. Snyder; William H. Davis; Leo Crowley; Henry A. Wallace; Abe Fortas; Robert E. Hannegan; Henry L. Stimson; James F. Byrnes; Fred M. Vinson; Tom C. Clark; James Fo

Large Photograph Signed

1945 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,556.00
107 Harry S. Truman; Bess W. Truman

Photograph Signed

ND USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 762.00
108 Donald J. Trump

Color Photograph Signed

2000 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,350.00
109 Woodrow Wilson; Vittorio Orlando; David Lloyd George; Georges Clemenceau; Raymond Poincare; Robert Cecil; Jan Smuts; Makino Nobuaki; K.V. Willington Koo; Edward M. House; Roman Dmowski

Group of 4 Photographs Signed

1919 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,240.00
110 Woodrow Wilson; William Gibbs McAdoo Jr.; James Clark McReynolds; Josephus Daniels; David Franklin Houston; William Beauchop Wilson; William Cox Redfield; Franklin Knight Lane; Albert Sidney Burleson; Lindley Miller Garrison; William Jennings Bryan

Large Photograph Signed

1913 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,540.00
111 Woodrow Wilson; Joseph Patrick Tumulty; Thomas W. Brahany; Rudolph Forster; David Lawrence; C.C. Brainerd; Mira Webster Richards; James P. Hornaday; George T. Odell; John P. Gavit; Gus J. Karger; John E. Nevil; Arthur B. Krock; K. Foster Murray; Gilson Ga

Photograph Signed

1914 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
112 Gerald R. Ford; Bill Clinton; Jimmy Carter; George H.W. Bush; Al Gore

Color Photograph Signed

1993 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
113 John Nance Garner; Henry A. Wallace; Harry S. Truman; Richard Nixon; Lyndon B. Johnson; Hubert Humphrey

Photograph Signed

ND USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,032.00
114 Stephen Crane

Photograph Signed and Inscribed

1897 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
115 Charles Dickens

Photograph dated and Signed

1868 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,890.00
116 William Faulkner

Photograph Signed and Inscribed

1957 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
117 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Photograph Signed

ND USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,620.00
118 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Signed Photograph

1880 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
119 Jack London

Photograph Signed

1903 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,810.00
120 George Bernard Shaw

Photograph Signed and Inscribed

1931 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,143.00
121 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Photograph Signed

ND USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
122 Leo Tolstoy

Photograph dated and Signed

1900 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,826.00
123 Mark Twain

Large Photograph Signed and Inscribed

1905 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,430.00
124 Mark Twain

Photograph Signed and Inscribed

1870; ND USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,064.00
125 Jules Verne

Photograph Signed and Inscribed

1900 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 4,064.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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.