Swann Galleries: Illustration Art, 2744, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 18, 2026 - June 18, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cole Herbert (1867-1930) | Portrait of Kenneth Grahame |
London | Circa 1920 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 2 | Knowles Reginald Lionel (1879-1950) | Seventy Years a Showman |
London | 1927 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 3 | Shepard Ernest Howard (1879-1976) | Victim decked for the altar |
London | 1922 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 4 | Shepard Ernest Howard (1879-1976) | 9 Books, including: The Golden Age |
London | 1928 | Not Available | USD 3,048.00 |
| 5 | Shepard Ernest Howard (1879-1976) | 12 Books, including: Dream Days |
London | 1930 | Not Available | USD 4,064.00 |
| 6 | Shepard Ernest Howard (1879-1976) | He quickened his pace with shrill whines |
London | 1930 | Not Available | USD 4,224.00 |
| 7 | Shepard Ernest Howard (1879-1976) | As he sat on the grass and looked across the river |
London | 1931 | Not Available | USD 30,480.00 |
| 8 | Shepard Ernest Howard (1879-1976) | Embarking again and crossing over, they worked their way up the stream |
1971 | Not Available | USD 22,860.00 | |
| 9 | Shepard Ernest Howard (1879-1976) | H. Mole lift-operator |
Philadelphia | 1949 | Not Available | USD 8,580.00 |
| 10 | Rackham Arthur (1867-1939) | Toad and the Gaoler's Daughter |
New York | Circa 1937 | Not Available | USD 1,016.00 |
| 11 | Rackham Arthur (1867-1939) | Preparatory sketch of a riverside scene |
Scotland | Circa 1940 | Not Available | USD 792.00 |
| 12 | Moore Inga (1945-) | The Wind in the Willows: Mole rediscovers his former underground home |
Scotland | Circa 1999 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 13 | Doyle Richard (1824-1883) | Pictorial border for Pecopin and Bauldour |
Circa 1840 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 14 | van Muyden Evert (1853-1922) | Les trouvailles de M. Bretoncel |
Paris | 1889 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 15 | van Muyden Evert (1853-1922) | La Sonette de Monsieur Berloquin |
Paris | 1891 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 16 | Cox Palmer (1840-1924) | The Brownies in California |
New York | 1895 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 17 | Christy Howard Chandler (1873-1952) | How my Lord would struggle to forget her! |
1896 | Not Available | USD 4,752.00 | |
| 18 | Christy Howard Chandler (1873-1952) | Already nodding o'er his noonday pipe |
1896 | Not Available | USD 2,112.00 | |
| 19 | Christy Howard Chandler (1873-1952) | I mean to write a tale of love |
1896 | Not Available | USD 726.00 | |
| 20 | Denslow William Wallace (1856-1915) | Once in a while she would pass a house |
Chicago | 1899 | Not Available | USD 25,400.00 |
| 21 | Cadman A | The Pilgrim's Progress |
Circa 1900 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 22 | Knowles Reginald Lionel (1879-1950) | Nature's Own Gardens |
London; New York | 1907 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 23 | Homer: The Story of the Iliad |
London | 1905 | Not Available | USD 285.00 | |
| 24 | Adams Frank (1871-1944) | This is the Rat that ate the Malt, that lay in the house that Jack built. |
London | Circa 1912 | Not Available | USD 1,079.00 |
| 25 | Adams Frank (1871-1944) | Mother Goose had a house, ‘twas built in a wood, where an Owl at the door for sentinel stood. |
London | Circa 1915 | Not Available | USD 1,584.00 |
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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 -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000