19th & 20th Century Art

Date(s)

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

Auctions

Street Address

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010

Swann Auction Galleries Sale #2731

40.741171263679, -73.98499415

19th & 20th Century Art

Event Times

12pm

Exhibitions

Paper conservator Jen Snowden working on Francis Austen’s mathematics coursebook from the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth.

Manuscripts Relating to Jane Austen's Brothers on Display for First Time

The Huntington's 'Stories from the Library' Features Octavia E. Butler’s Notebooks and Charlotte Brontë’s Letters

Mary, Queen of Scots’ Last Letter to Go On Display

Auctions

Part of Michael Baggott's personal library

Book Collection of Silver and Antiques Expert Michael Baggott to Auction

Leonard Cohen Letter to Marianne Ihlen and Hendrix Signatures Lead RR Auction's 'Marvels of Modern Music' Sale

Jane Austen Letter, Middlemarch in Parts, Stowe Manuscript: Auction Preview

Photographs

Unidentified photographer, Hester Street, West from the Southwest Corner of Norfolk Street, New York City, ca. 1898.

New York Melting Pot Photographs Go On Display

Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week

First Retrospective of Photographer Paddy Summerfield at the Bodleian

Americana

Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea with inscription to Spencer Tracy

Hemingway Presentation Copy of 'The Old Man and the Sea' Inscribed to Spencer Tracy Sold for $83K

Bing Crosby 'White Christmas' Musical Arrangements and Scripts to Auction

Rufus King's Draft Constitution and Apple's Foundation Document to Auction

Visual Art

Charlie Mackesy, Your next step (estimate: £5,000-£7,000)

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Opening Bid of $10m for Frank Frazetta’s 'Conan the Conqueror (Berserker)' Cover Art

'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Production Art to Auction

Book People

Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter

Fine Books' 10 Best Books About Books 2025

Are the Movie Adaptations of 'Pride and Prejudice' Ruining the Book: Part II

Williams College Librarian Anne Peale on Institutional Collecting and George Mason’s Constitution Draft

Rare Books

Robert Frost: A collection of five Christmas Poems for 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963

Christmas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Christ Church and Bodleian Libraries Secure Rare Copy of 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland'

Books, Manuscripts, and Photographs from Royal Society of Medicine Library to Auction

Book Arts

The six shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize in their special bindings

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Printing Press That Aided Chilean Independence Goes on Show

Antique Bookcases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

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

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