Swann Auction Galleries

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

Auctions

An American Century: The Collection of Dr. James & Debra Pearl & Fine Photographs
Sale #2659

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741229413679, -73.9849605

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In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Visual Art

Teamwork Builds Ships Color lithograph poster by William Dodge Stevens

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology

Leslie Ragan Calendar Art for the New York Central Railway to Auction

Americana

The Wizard of Oz script

'Over the Rainbow' Song Contract and Mervyn LeRoy's Script for 'The Wizard of Oz' to Auction

Gordon Lightfoot Set Lists and Writing Desks to Auction

Anne Rice's Personal Library to Auction

Book People

Cover of Book Curses book

Book Curses, Literary Tourism, and Academic Spies: November Books Roundup

Desert Wind Rare Books' Christian Fassbender on the Occult Book Market, CABS, and Collecting King Arthur

Campaign Hope to Return 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

Photographs

Irving Penn, Picture of Self, Cuzco, 1948

Photos of Truman Capote and Joan Didion in Major Irving Penn Retrospective

'Ansel Adams: A Legacy' Photographs Sold for $4.6m

Historic Pre-Civil War Photograph of an Interracial Couple to Auction

Auctions

The Jefferson letter

Thomas Jefferson 1790 Letter as First Secretary of State Sells for $41,590

Johnny Rotten Handwritten Lyrics and Beatles Ephemera to Auction

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments to Auction

Book Arts

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

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

Incline Press Launch New Letterpress Edition of 'The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy'

Maps

The Bay of Pigs map annotated by Fidel Castro

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

Andreas Bureus' Rare Map of Nordic Countries Goes Under the Hammer

Harry Potter's The Marauder's Map to Auction

Rare Books

Music sketch of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

Burt Bacharach Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Caxton Chaucer Leaf: Rare Book of the Week

Imaginary Books To Go On Show at Grolier Club

Exhibitions

Kings Library tower in the British Library

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

David King’s Small Press Publications and Zines Celebrated in New Exhibition

Bodleian Libraries’ Kafka Archive Debuts in the US