Swann Galleries

"Keep Calm and Carry On" poster
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
Sutro Baths / On the Shore of the Pacific Ocean
Vintage Posters at Swann on August 27
New York — Swann Galleries’ summer offering of Vintage Posters on Thursday, August 27 is set to bring an assortment of material, from war propaganda to advertisements for summer destinations and sp
Oscar Wilde Autograph note
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Before we get to the upcoming sales, some notes from last week:
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations Led Swann's Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale at $125k
New York — Swann Galleries’ sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts on
Audre Lorde in Her Home Study
LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History at Swann August 13
New York — The second annual offering of a specialty sale of LGBTQ
Illuminated Cicero manuscript from 1442
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
A busy week coming up in the salerooms!
Salvador Dalí, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann Galleries on July 30
New York — Fine Books & Manuscripts come to auction at Swann Galleries on Thursday, July 30.
Wyeth title page illustration for Stevenson's "The Black Arrow"
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Another busy week coming up in the auction rooms:
N.C. Wyeth, The Black Arrow
Literary Illustrations from Children’s Classics Shine at Swann July 16
New York — Swann Galleries’ Thursday, July 16 sale of Illustration Art is set to feature a standout offering of works from literary classics, magazine story illustrations, original advertising desi
bookplates
For Sale: “Tremendous Trove” of Vintage Bookplates
Pictorial or armorial, bookplates provide booksellers and book collectors with literal paper trails when trying to decode a volume’s provenance.