Swann Auction Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, March 24th, 2022

Auctions

Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Sale #2598

EXHIBITION to be announced soon

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741190013679, -73.9849893

Swann Auction Galleries

Visual Art

Frank Frazetta’s Conan the Conqueror (Berserker) cover art

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

'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Production Art to Auction

Einstein Portraits and Nazi Germany Denaturalization Document to Auction

Book People

Ellisland Farmhouse, built by Burns

£12m Project Aims to Save Farm Where Robert Burns Wrote 'Auld Lang Syne'

Bright Young Librarians: Anne Peale

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center's Christina Vortia on Dorothy Porter and Black Children's Books

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

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

Exhibitions

National Archives Loans Historic Documents to Presidential Libraries for America’s 250th Exhibitions 

Special Festive Christmas Displays at Charles Dickens Museum

Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Marked at the Grolier Club

Americana

The musical arrangement for White Christmas

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

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

Inscribed Books by JFK and Ernest Hemingway to Spencer Tracy to Auction

Auctions

Albert Einstein autograph letter signed to Herman Müntz, with equations, probably 1928-29

Einstein Correspondence Sets Record at Stockholms Auktionsverk

'The Hums of Pooh', Poohsticks Illustration, and A. A. Milne Letters to Auction

Pliny the Elder’s 'Natural History' to Auction with $1.2m Estimate

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

Rare Books

William Harvey's Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus

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

'The New Wizard of Oz': Rare Book of the Week

Unpublished Rackham Santa Claus Mystery Solved