Swann Auction Galleries

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Auctions

American Art
Sale #2575

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

40.741016, -73.984936

Swann Auction Galleries

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Book Arts

Reconstructed fragment of a bronze military diploma from Sardinia, issued by the emperor Trajan to a sailor on a warship. 113/14 CE

New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions

Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'

Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title

Rare Books

Auctioneum book specialist Caitlin Riley with the copy of The Hobbit

First Edition of 'The Hobbit' Found in House Clearance to Auction

Willa Cather, William Wordsworth, and Architectural Archive: The Week in Rare Books

Melbourne Rare Book Fair: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Book People

Joshua Shelley

Young Book Collector Joshua Shelley on Jewish Presses, Daniel Deronda, and Arnold Zweig

The National Library of Scotland Celebrates Birthday Bash with 'Beano'

ABA Enlarges National Book Collecting Prize for Young Collectors

Sponsored

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Exhibitions

(L) Lafcadio Hearn, trans., Chin Chin Kobakama (The Toothpick Samurai). Tokyo: Hasegawa Takejirō, 1903. (R) Joumana Medlej, Anthropocene, Book I. London: Joumana Medlej, 2024.

Japanese Crêpe-Paper Books Lead Beinecke Fall Exhibition Line-Up

Miriam Margolyes Launches New 'Showtime!' Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum

Handwritten Letters by Elizabeth II to Feature in New Exhibition on the Queen's Fashion

Photographs

Bill Cunningham, Municipal Building, built 1914

Photographer Bill Cunningham’s Archive Acquired by The New York Historical

Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Americana

Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Auctions

1942 war bonds poster issued by Kroger, featuring two small children in gas masks

First Superman, American Atlas, Washington Letter: Auction Preview

Washington Irving’s Original Handwritten Manuscript of 'Legend of the House of Omeya' to Auction

Cecil B. DeMille's Ten Commandment Tablets Sold for $325,000

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries

Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Visual Art

Mary Blair, Cinderella, Cinderella at parents' grave concept painting

Mary Blair Leads Original Disney Production Art Sale

Jane Austen's Illustrators Celebrated in New Anniversary Exhibition

Eric Carle's Food Drawings on Display