Swann Auction Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Auctions

Illustration Art
Sale #2541

Featuring N.C. Wyeth, Hilary Knight, Erté, Leslie Ragan & more

1pm

Previewing Online Only

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741016, -73.984936

Swann Auction Galleries

Auctions

Dream Days cover from the Holmes auction

Kenneth Grahame's Illustrators' Archive to Auction

Voltaire and Fontaine Lead Château de Tournay Library Auction

Rare Book - Dallas

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

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’

Book People

Utah artist Rob Buchert examines a freshly printed sheet of his recreation of the 1776 Declaration of Independence from the press. Every copy was printed one sheet at a time, by hand, on paper he made himself using 18th century methods

Letterpress Printer Rob Buchert Produces "Most Accurate" Dunlap Broadside Reproduction

Book Collector Emily Porter on Collecting Books About Horses

‘In defence of visibly used books' Wins Bodleian Book Collecting Prize

Rare Books

Encyclopaedia Britannica

'Encyclopaedia Britannica': Rare Book of the Week

Private Press: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Rabbi Papers, Needlework Album, and Annapolis Map: The Week in Rare Books

Exhibitions

Jerry Pinkney, illustration for More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others by Julius Lester (Dial Books)

Influence of Music on the Work of Jerry Pinkney Exhibition Opens

Beauties of My Style

Muted Volumes: Book-Objects, Patterned Papers, and the Closed Stacks of Buhr

Photographs

Jean-Claude Sauer, Cocktail dresses known as “Homage to Pop Art”, Fall/Winter1966 haute couture collection. Published in LIFE magazine, September 1966

International Center of Photography Focuses on Yves Saint Laurent and Photography

Signed Authors’ Photographs: Five Rare Photos for Collectors

Center for Creative Photography Acquires Nine Photography Archives

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

Visual Art

Unidentified artist, Rosenwald Tarot, Italy, Florence, ca. 1500

New Exhibition Explores History and Impact of Tarot Since the Renaissance

Political Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Grinch 60th Anniversary Art Leeds Animation and Comic Art Auction

Maps

Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1601

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Americana

Francis Scott Key’s The Star-Spangled Banner in The Analectic Magazine. Vol. IV. No. 23 (Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, November 1814)

First Magazine Appearance of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' Leads Liberty & Legacy Auction

Washington, Franklin, and King George III Lead 'Spirit of '76: America's 250th Anniversary' Auction

Original Working Manuscript of 'Alcoholics Anonymous' Ends Jim Irsay Auction with $2m Estimate