Swann Auction Galleries

Thursday, December 8th, 2022

Auctions

Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Sale #2624

12pm

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th St

New York, NY

40.741229413679, -73.9849605

Swann Auction Galleries

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Visual Art

Al Milgrom, The Amazing Spider-Man #194 cover with Black Cat's first appearance

Black Cat’s Debut Leads Heritage’s January Comics & Comic Art Auction

Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Rare Books

Washington Irving's politics notebook

Washington Irving Manuscripts and Tolkien Presentation Copy to Auction

Handbag Bible: Rare Book of the Week

Friends of the Nations’ Libraries Donates 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

Book Arts

Blue-Green Abelard

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Americana

Samuel Gerock’s pocket-sized almanac for the year 1777

Archive of First-Person Revolutionary War Accounts Donated to the Museum of the American Revolution

Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, and George Washington Autograph Documents to Auction

Manuscript Leaf from First Draft of 'Atlas Shrugged' to Auction

Exhibitions

The Good Old Game of Innocence Abroad. Salem, Mass., Parker Brothers, ca. 1901. From the Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane.

Mark Twain's Humor Explored in New Exhibition

Notre-Dame's Library of Medieval Manuscripts on Display

Charles Dickens Museum Celebrates Centenary By Displaying Previously Unseen Items

Photographs

The Lee & LEE exhibition

Photographs by Lee Miller and Kate Winslet at Bonhams

New Exhibition Focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson's Final Years in the Pacific

James Baldwin Centennial Marked with Rare Photographs in New Exhibition

Maps

F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902,

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Sponsored

reading a book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Auctions

Group of seven notebooks of Eric Morecambe's manuscript joke ideas

Penzler Mysteries, Tolkien Letter, Morecambe's Jokes: Auction Preview

Complete Kelmscott Press Collection Sold For $690,000

John Harris Cover Art, Pan Am Poster, Sondheim's Thesauruses: 2024 Auction Sleepers

Book People

From lecture two of the Sandars Lectures 2024

2024 Sandars Lectures on Bibliography Now Available Online

California Rare Book School Releases 2025 Courses Details

Antiquarian Bookseller Wins 'Action Against Climate Change' Award