Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022

International

Auctions

The Douglas Fairbanks Jr Collection
Sale #A1007

2pm

VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT:
Thirty-minute time slots will be available from:

Fri, Feb 25th 9am - 5pm
Sun, Feb 27th 10am - 2pm
Mon, Feb 28th 9am - 5pm

Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers
Stansted Auction Rooms
Cambridge Road
Stansted Mountfitchet

Essex, UK

51.911322106396, 0.19671245

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Exhibitions

Mort Drucker, The Oddfather (parody of The Godfather), illustration for MAD #155 (EC, 1972). Ink on board . Private Collection

Original MAD Magazine Illustrations Featured in New Norman Rockwell Museum Exhibition

Raymond Briggs' Writing and Drawing Desk Goes on Display for First Time

Exhibition of Book-like Objects Opens at at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rare Books

Arguably the first interactive book published, and certainly the first to use movable tabs, Le Livre Joujou by M. Bres

Firsts London 2024 Highlights

Senate House Library Acquires Rare Illustrated Charles Dickens Work

Protestors Attack Magna Carta Display at British Library

Book Arts

Underdog - The Other Other Bronte starring (left to right) Rhiannon Clements as Anne, Gemma Whelan as Charlotte, Adele James as Emily

World Premiere of New Bröntes Play Opens at National Theatre

The Creative Process of Italy's Most Prolific Small Publisher, Alberto Casiraghy

A New Book Examines 100 Years of the Historic Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library

Americana

Howard Hochhauser, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Ancestry, signs an official agreement with Dr. Colleen Shogan, Archivist of the United States, at a signing event at the National Archives Building

Millions of Historical Records Held by the National Archives to be Digitized and Made Accessible

Benjamin Franklin Book-Related Items to Auction

President Grover Cleveland's Signed Document Approving Utah Statehood Sold for $27,188

Visual Art

Hundreds of Copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to Feature in Anniversary Library Artwork

Original Harry Potter Cover Illustration to Auction with $600,000 Estimate

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Tennis Posters

Photographs

Wartime Letter Written by Queen Elizabeth II With Signed Photogaph to Auction

Wilson Centre for Photography Deposits Collection of Early Photographs at the Bodleian Libraries

Street Photographer Vivian Maier's Vintage Prints, Self-Portraits and Earliest Camera Work to Auction

Auctions

Aldine Imprints, Chekhov’s First Book, Buffon’s Birds: Auction Preview

Four Autograph Letters from Albert Einstein to Mathematics Colleague to Auction

Abraham Lincoln Endorsement and Ronald Reagan's Books to Auction

Maps

Gerrit de Veer, VVaerachtighe Beschryvinghe Uan drie seylagien (Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz, 1598). Engraving, 7.8 x 19.5 in (19.6 x 49.5 cm).

Early Maps, Photographs and Artists’ Books Chart 500 years of the Arctic

Early Baseball Sheet Music, Arrowsmith’s Maps, JFK Presentation Copy: Auction Preview

Rare New Amsterdam Map Helps Reveal Life in New York Before New York

Book People

Fall 2024 ABAA Diversity Initiative Discovery Program

Provenance and Security in the Rare Book Trade ILAB Symposium

Rare Book School Releases Annual Report, Summer Lecture Details, and Tribute to Will Noel

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

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