Swann Auction Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, December 17th, 2020

Auctions

Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Sale #2555

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741016, -73.984936

Swann Auction Galleries

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Shaw's Books

14932 Kercheval

Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48215

(313) 824-4932

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Johnson Rare Books & Archives

134 N Citrus Avenue

Covina, CA 91723

(626) 967-1888

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

For the Love of Used Books

fortheloveofusedbooks@gmail.com

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

BlissBooks

Excelsior, MN 55331

(952) 237-4525

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

Americana

Detail from 'The Big Book'

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

John Steinbeck’s Manuscript Unpublished Anti-McCarthyism Story to Auction

The North American Indian and Keats's Love Letters Lead Sotheby's Book Week

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

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 People

Emily Porter

Book Collector Emily Porter on Collecting Books About Horses

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

National Library of Ireland Announces Bloomsday 2026 Programme of Events

Visual Art

Censorship is UnAmerican by Josh Gosfield

Political Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Grinch 60th Anniversary Art Leeds Animation and Comic Art Auction

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Opens as World's Largest Illustration Centre

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

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’

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

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