Swann Auction Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

Auctions

American Art
Sale #2614

12pm

EXHIBITION Hours:
Mon, Sep 19th 12pm - 5pm
Tue, Sep 20th 12pm - 5pm
Wed, Sep 21st 12pm - 5pm

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741229413679, -73.9849605

Swann Auction Galleries

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Jeff Hirsch Books

39850 N Dilleys Rd

Wadsworth, IL 60083

(847) 662-2665

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

William Allison Books

6219 Longmont Drive

Houston, TX 77057

(281) 546-2257

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Jeff Bergman Books

Flemington , NJ 08822

(201) 647-1055

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Heartwood Books and Art

4801 N. Federal Hwy, Suite 103B

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308

(954) 565-8020

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Book People

Sacrobosco. Sphaera Mundi. c.1222. From the collection at Senate House Library.

Senate House Library Named as Official Charity Partner for Firsts London

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Returns for 66th Edition

Stevenson Lecture 2026 is 'Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books'

Americana

William P. Dole's Railroad Pass to Travel to Gettysburg on November 18, 1863 and Gettysburg Marshal's Ticket Dated November 19

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day

Louisiana Purchase Signed Documents Sold for $82,394 at RR Auction

Exhibitions

Papyrus of Pasherashakhet (detail), Egyptian, about 375–275 BCE, ink on papyrus

Getty’s Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibition Returns

Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition

New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Rare Books

The Austin-Burnet letter

First Book Printed in the Republic of Texas Heads Texana Auction

Gil Evans’s Jazz Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Women Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Auctions

American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables and the Best Mode of Making Puff Pastes, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards, and Preserves...Together with the rules of Carving at Dinner parties. Exemplified With Cuts by Amelia Simmons (Woodstock, A. Colton, 1831)

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale

£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale

Official Invitations From 1896 Athens Olympics to Auction

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Visual Art

Cover of Action Comics No. 21 drawn by Joe Shuster

Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction

Rediscovered Original 'The Jungle Book' Illustrations to Auction

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Photographs

From The People of India albumen prints

Karsh's Apollo 11, Cabinet Cards, and 'The People of India': The Week in Rare Books

Getty Museum Focuses on Photography and the Black Arts Movement

'Brassaï’s Secret Paris' Opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York