Swann Galleries

Engraved gores for a 42-inch globe
Hemingway Manuscript, Brontë First Editions, Early Burmese Photographs: Auction Preview
December 4, 2023
At ALDE on Monday, December 4, 421 lots from the Bibliothèque Gastronomique Daniel Morcette, including a 1497 Strasbourg edition of the
Lot 135: C.L. Hawkins, Chicago the Greatest Inland City in the World, color-lithographed perspective map of Chicago looking west from Lake Michigan, Chicago, 1938. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Maps of the American Continent and Revolutionary War Lead Swann Auction
November 20, 2023
Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books sale on December 7 is set to include a wide assortment of maps and graphics
Renée Haas design binding for Marc Chagall's Bible
Browning's Keats, Complete Curtis, Haydn Manuscript: Auction Preview
November 6, 2023
Busy week coming up in the sale-rooms; here's what I'll be watching:
"Scotland for your holidays" poster showing train on the Forth Bridge
Steinbeck Rarities, Einstein Letters, and Ricky Jay Collection: Auction Preview
October 23, 2023
Bonhams New York holds a sale titled John Steinbeck: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection, featuring 107 lots of rare Steinbeckiana collected by the author's sister Mary and her son-in-law…
Lot 210: John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, first edition, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to the founding editor of The New Yorker Magazine
Inscribed John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, and Eric Ambler First Editions to Auction
October 12, 2023
Swann Galleries' October 26 Fine Books & Autographs auction features a selection of signed first editions, 19th and 20th century classics, as well a
Hypnerotomachia in a binding for Jean Grolier
Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Shakespeare First Folio, and Fortsasiana
October 9, 2023
At Chiswick Auctions on Monday, October 9, 490 lots of Autographs & Memorabilia, including a signed 1964 Beatles promo photograph (£5,000–7,000), a 1933 Einstein letter to the provost of Oriel…
Albert Einstein, typed letter signed, to Melanie Serbu. 9 October 1928.
Einstein-Serbu Correspondence to Auction
October 6, 2023
At the age of 19, young Romanian Melanie Serbu struck up a 20-year correspondence with Albert Einstein.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection: Lot 32: Juan Rufo, La Austriada, Madrid, first edition, 1584. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000; Lot 18: Pedro de Espinosa, Primera Parte de las Flores de Poetas Ilustres de España, Dividida en los Libros, first edition, Valladolid, 1605. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Works on the History of Psychiatry to Auction at Swann
October 4, 2023
The fall Early Printed Books auction at Swann Galleries on October 12 will feature lots from three important collectors, including more from Ken Rapoport, as well as works on the history of…
Illustration from Maria Sibylla Merian
Women’s Suffrage Collection and a Pennyroyal Caxton Bible: Auction Preview
October 2, 2023
On Tuesday, October 3, the Christie's New York sale A Century of Art: Photographs from the Gerald Fineberg Collection will close: the 113 lots include August Sander's Der Maler Anton Räderscheidt (…
Lot 46: Papers of the Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, including diaries, correspondence, lecture notes and more, 1877–1920. Estimate $50,000 to $75,000.
Robert Peary Papers and American Revolution Lead Americana Auction
September 25, 2023
Leading Swann Galleries' September 28 Americana auction is a large archive of papers from polar explorer Robert Peary including supply lists for his Gre