Swann Galleries: Illustration Art, 2744, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 18, 2026 - June 18, 2026
Page Size: 318 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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