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Swann Galleries: Rare and important Travel Posters

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Auction Name Rare and important Travel Posters Total Sales (USD) 403,565.00
Auction Date October 26, 2017 - October 26, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 302,000.00
Sale Number #2459 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 433,700.00
Total Lots 238
Sold Lots 169 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 405,300.00
% of Lots Sold 71.01% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 582,900.00
Unsold Lots 69 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
33 ADOLPHE MOURON CASSANDRE (1901-1968)

NORMANDIE / MAIDEN VOYAGE.

1935 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
181 JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)

WHERE IS THIS BOWER BESIDE THE SILVER THAMES?

1930 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,500.00
207 HANSON PUTHUFF (1875-1972)

THE CHIEF TO CALIFORNIA / CAJON PASS.

Circa 1936. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,625.00
180 JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)

THENCE TO HYDE PARK, WHERE MUCH GOOD COMPANY, AND MANY FINE LADIES.

1930 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 10,400.00
6 JAMES SCRIMGEOUR MANN (1883-1946)

WHITE STAR LINE / R.M.S.

Circa 1911. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,750.00
28 WILLEM FREDERICK TEN BROEK (1905-1993)

NEW YORK EXPOSITION MONDIALE / HOLLAND - AMERICA LINE.

1938 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,750.00
196 ERVINE METZL (1899-1963)

BY THE NORTH SHORE LINE.

1923 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,750.00
97 EMIL CARDINAUX (1877-1936)

ZERMATT.

1908 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 9,375.00
107 ALFONS WALDE (1891-1958)

COME FOR WINTER SPORTS TO AUSTRIA.

Circa 1935. USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 7,500.00
134 ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953)

MARSEILLE / PORTE DE L'AFRIQUE DU NORD.

1929 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 7,250.00
194 DESIGNER UNKNOWN

SUNSET LIMITED / FROM WINTRY BLASTS TO SUNNY CLIMES.

Circa 1896. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,000.00
159 PAUL COLIN (1892-1986)

TWA / TRANS WORLD AIRLINE.

Circa 1950. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,500.00
225 FRANK SOLTESZ (1912-1998)

FLY TWA TO AND ACROSS AMERICA.

Circa 1952. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,500.00
151 JUPP WIERTZ (1881-1939)

A PLEASANT TRIP TO GERMANY.

Circa 1935. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,000.00
198 EARL HORTER (1883-1940)

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES.

1927 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,000.00
226 DAVID KLEIN (1918-2005)

NEW YORK / FLY TWA.

Circa 1960. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,980.00
201 JOSEPH BINDER, JOHN ATHERTON & ALBERT STAEHLE

NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR. Group of 3 posters.

1939 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,720.00
96 DESIGNER UNKNOWN

ZERMATT.

Circa 1910. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,750.00
152 OTTOMAR ANTON (1895-1976)

IN 2 DAYS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC / HAMBURG - AMERIKA LINIE.

Circa 1936. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,750.00
49 ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953)

ALGER / LA VILLE BLANCHE.

1920 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,680.00
86 DESIGNER UNKNOWN

LAGO DI COMO.

Circa 1900. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,500.00
197 IVAR GULL (DATES UNKNOWN)

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD / THE GATEWAY TO AMERICA.

1929 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,500.00
58 PERCIVAL (PERCY) ALBERT TROMPF (1902-1964)

VISIT MT. BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK / THIS SUMMER.

Circa 1920s. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,250.00
130 ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953)

MONACO MONTE - CARLO.

Circa 1920. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,250.00
136 ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953)

SAINTE - MAXIME.

1929 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,250.00
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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