Swann Auction Galleries

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

Auctions

Modern & Post-War Art
Sale #2553

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741016, -73.984936

https://www.swanngalleries.com/departments/modern-post-war-art

Rare Books

Pirating and Publishing promo image

Virtual Book Talk: Robert Darnton and John Buchtel on Feb. 3

ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography: Call for Submissions

Peter Harrington Announces New Catalogue: Fifty Fine Items

Book People

Miriam Borden

Bright Young Collectors: Miriam Borden

Video Fridays: Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman

YCBA Chief Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Elisabeth Fairman, to Retire

Americana

Thomas Eckert letter and portrait

The Huntington Acquires Telegraph History Archive

The Restoration of a 1774 Congressional Pamphlet Found in a Paper Bag

Collecting & Repatriation

Auctions

Poe letter 1843

Poe Letter to Autograph Seeker up for Auction

Turgenev Letter to be Auctioned

“Declaration” Sells at Christie’s Americana Week for $990,000

Maps

Dr. John Snow used this map to further demonstrate that cholera was not caused by foul city air but by something in the water.

Maps in the Time of Cholera

British Library Makes 40,000 Historical Maps Available Online

The Legendary Vladi Collection of Historical Maps at Guernsey’s

Book Arts

West Dean College bookbinders at work

Saving the Art of Bookbinding in the UK

Video Fridays: Women Paper Artists

Center for Book Arts to Host Virtual Reception for Three New Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Fire Mulberry Street building

Museum of Chinese in America Marks One Year Since Fire

Collecting the History of Magazines

17th-Century Medical Books Examined in Contagion on the Page

Sponsored

Pablo Neruda

‘Democratized’ Book, Map, and Manuscript Auctions Promise Finds in All Price Ranges

Potter & Potter to Auction Science, Americana, and more at October Sale

Visual Art

Marion Post Wolcott’s Waiting in a transport line

Swann to Offer Curated Sale on the Artists of the WPA

The Winter Show, Online Edition, Runs January 22-31

Video Fridays: Betye Saar: Call and Response

Photographs

Charles Aubry, Untitled (A Study of Leaves)

National Gallery Acquires its First Charles Aubry Photograph

Steichen's Personal Copy of Stieglitz's Camera Work Heads to Auction

A Fresh Look at Ansel Adams