Swann Auction Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, July 15th, 2021

Auctions

Focus on Women
Sale #2576

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Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.74119, -73.9849893

Swann Auction Galleries

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

Visual Art

Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Christmas three cel sequence setup

'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Production Art to Auction

Einstein Portraits and Nazi Germany Denaturalization Document to Auction

Vincent Van Gogh’s Still Life 'Romans parisiens' Sold for $63m

Rare Books

The Wizard of Oz signed by Judy Garland

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

Unpublished Rackham Santa Claus Mystery Solved

Single-Owner Collection of H.P. Lovecraft First Editions to Auction

Auctions

15th century incomplete Arabic manuscript of The Four Gospels

Arabic Gospels, Surrealist Chilean Poetry, and Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen: The Week in Rare Books

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

Alan Rickman's 'Die Hard' and Harry Potter Scripts and Personal Books to Auction

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

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

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

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

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

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