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Articles - February - 2018 Issue

Swann: Busy in 2018

Swann:  A Serious Player

Swann: A Serious Player

Swann Auction Galleries, twice a year, sends to its mailing list The Trumpet, it’s announcement of upcoming sales.  The recent issue, Volume 32, Number 2, provides a clear picture of a firm in mid-stride, long important in the book, manuscript, map and ephemera fields, now releasing a robust schedule of events that will appeal to buyers across the spectrum.

 

Here’s the schedule.  It’s quite strong:

 

Icons & Images:  Photographs & Photobooks on February 15th

 

Vintage Posters:  Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection on March 1st

 

Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books on March 8th

 

19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 13th

 

Autographs on March 22nd

 

Printed & Manuscript African Americana on March 29th

 

African-American Fine Art on April 5th

 

Printed & Manuscript Americana on April 12th

 

The Knowing Eye:  Photographs & Photobooks on April 19th

 

Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics on April 26th

 

Graphic Design on May 3rd

 

Old Master Through Modern Prints on May 8th

 

19th & 20th Century Literature on May 15th

 

Contemporary Art on May 22nd

 

Illustration Art on June 5th

 

Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books on June 7th

 

American Art on June 14th

 

Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler III on June 21st

 

Vintage Posters on August 1st

 

Their website is:  www.swanngalleries.com

 

It’s an important site to follow.

Rare Book Monthly

  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.

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