Swann Galleries: Swann Galleries : 1624, 1624,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 1993 - January 01, 1993

Page Size: 277 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
002	(ALLEN PRESS.) Allen, Lewis M.	Printing with the Handpress.	Kentfield, Calif.	1969	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,320.00
003	(ALLEN PRESS.) Byron, Lord	A Venetian Story.	Kentfield, Calif.	1963	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
004	(ANDERSEN, MOGENS.) Holmboe, Vagn	-Moya-: Syv japanske Sange.	(Copenhagen)	(1981)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
006	(ARNOUX, GUY)	Chansons du Marin Francais au Temps de la Marine en Bois.	Paris	1918	USD 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
007	(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	The First [Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha.	Chelsea	1927--1928	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	880.00
008	(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Franklin, Colin	The Ashendene Press.	Dallas	1986	USD 80.00 - 120.00	88.00
009	(AUSTEN, JOHN.) Prevost, Abbe.	Manon Lescaut	London	1928	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
010	BASKIN, LEONARD	Ars Anatomica: A Medical Fantasia.	New York	(1972)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
011	(BASKIN, LEONARD.) Conrad, Joseph	Conrad's Manifesto: Preface to a Career. The History of the Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" with Facsimiles of the Manuscripts. Edited with an Essay by David R. Smith.	Philadelphia	1966	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
012	(BASKIN, LEONARD.) Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy.	New York	1969	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
014	BEARDSLEY, AUBREY	A Book of Fifty Drawings * A Second Book of Fifty Drawings.	London	1897; 1899	USD 150.00 - 250.00	247.00
015	BEARDSLEY, AUBREY	The Story of Venus and Tannhaeuser.	London	1907	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
016	BEARDSLEY, AUBREY	The Uncollected Work.	London	(1925)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
017	BEARDSLEY, AUBREY. Dowson, Ernest	The Pierrot of the Minute.	London	1897	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,430.00
018	(BEARDSLEY, AUBREY.) Jonson, Ben	Volpone: or The Fox.	London	1898	USD 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
019	(BEARDSLEY, AUBREY.) Malory, Sir Thomas	Le Morte Darthur.	(London)	1893--1894	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,870.00
020	(BEARDSLEY, AUBREY.) Malory, Sir Thomas	The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur.	[New York]	1909	USD 400.00 - 600.00	385.00
021	(BEARDSLEY, AUBREY)	The Savoy.	London	1896	USD 400.00 - 600.00	412.00
022	(BEARDSLEY, AUBREY)	The Savoy.	London	1896	USD 600.00 - 900.00	715.00
023	BEERBOHM, MAX	Observations.	London	1925	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
024	BEERBOHM, MAX	Rossetti and His Circle.	London	1922	USD 100.00 - 150.00	247.00
025	BEERBOHM, MAX	Things New and Old.	London	1921	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
026	BEERBOHM, MAX.	Zuleika Dobson	London	1975	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
027	(BELL, ROBERT ANNING.) Shakespeare, William	A Midsummer Night's Dream.	London	1895	USD 400.00 - 600.00	550.00
028	(BIBLE IN ENGLISH)	The Holy Bible . . . the Apocrypha.	London and Edinburgh	[1911?]	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
029	(BIRD & BULL PRESS)	A Babylonian Anthology.	North Hills, Pa.	1966	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
030	(BLACK SUN PRESS.) Laclos, P. A. F. Choderlos de	Les Liaisons Dangereuses.	Paris	1929	USD 300.00 - 500.00	220.00
031	BLAKE, WILLIAM	America: A Prophecy.	(London)	(1963)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	220.00
032	BLAKE, WILLIAM	Europe: A Prophecy.	(London)	(1969)	USD 150.00 - 250.00	165.00
033	BLAKE, WILLIAM	Illustrations of the Book of Job.	New York	1935	USD 400.00 - 600.00	440.00
034	BLAKE, WILLIAM	Jerusalem.	(London)	[1951]	USD 600.00 - 900.00	605.00
035	BLAKE, WILLIAM	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.	(London)	(1960)	USD 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
036	BLAKE, WILLIAM	Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray.	London	1972	USD 600.00 - 900.00	935.00
037	BLAKE, WILLIAM	William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Edited by David V. Erdman and others.	Oxford	1980	USD 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
038	(BLAKE, WILLIAM.) Wicksteed, Joseph	William Blake's Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes.	New York	(1955)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
039	BLOK, ALEXANDER	The Twelve. Translated from the Russian by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky.	New York	1931	USD 80.00 - 120.00	77.00
040	BOFA, GUS.	Malaises	Paris	1930	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
041	BOFA, GUS. Malaises	La Symphonie de la Peur.	(Paris)	1937	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
042	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises.) Cervantes, Miguel de	L'Ingenieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche.	Paris	(1926--1927)	USD 150.00 - 250.00	220.00
043	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises.) De Quincey, Thomas	L'Assassinat considere comme un des Beaux-Arts.	Paris	1930	USD 150.00 - 250.00	275.00
044	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises.) Dorgeles, Roland	Syntheses litteraires et extra-litteraires.	(Paris)	1923	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
045	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises.) Poe, Edgar Allan	Histoires Extraordinaires.	Paris	(1941)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
046	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises.) Swift, Jonathan	Voyages de Gulliver.	Brussels	1929	USD 350.00 - 500.00	302.00
047	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises.) Swift, Jonathan	Voyages de Gulliver.	Brussels	1929	USD 150.00 - 250.00	192.00
048	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises)	Group of 3 volumes illustrated by Bofa.	Paris	vd	USD 100.00 - 150.00	55.00
049	(BOFA, GUS. Malaises)	Group of 5 volumes illustrated by Bofa.	Paris	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
050	(BONNARD, PIERRE.) Chauveau, Leopold	Les Histoires du Petit Renaud.	Paris	(1927)	USD 150.00 - 250.00	247.00
051	BRADLEY, WILL	The Queen	Np	circa 1896	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,420.00
052	(BREMER PRESS.) Bacon, Francis	Essays.	(Toelz)	(1920)	USD 200.00 - 300.00	192.00
053	BUNYAN, JOHN	The Pilgrim's Progress.	(Nijmegen)	nd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	132.00
054	BURNE-JONES, EDWARD	The Beginning of the World.	London	1902	USD 100.00 - 150.00	192.00
055	CASANOVA, G.	Funf Episoden	(Vienna)	(1923)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	99.00
056	(CHAGALL, MARC) Longus.	Daphnis and Chloe.	New York	(1977)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	99.00
057	(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Browne, Sir Thomas	16 wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, EACH SIGNED BY ROBINSON.	[West Hatfield, Mass.]	1984	USD 350.00 - 500.00	440.00
058	(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Poe, Edgar Allan	The Black Cat.	(West Hatfield, Mass.)	(1984)	USD 350.00 - 500.00	715.00
059	(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Roadkills	A Collection of Prose and Poetry by John McPhee, Gillian Conoley, Gary Snyder, Madeline DeFrees, William Stafford, and Richard Eberhart.	(Easthampton, Mass.)	1981	USD 350.00 - 500.00	715.00
060	(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Twain, Mark	The Jumping Frog.	(Easthampton, Mass.)	1985	USD 350.00 - 500.00	495.00
061	(CLARKE, HARRY.) Poe, Edgar Allan	Tales of Mystery and Imagination.	London	[1919]	USD 80.00 - 120.00	88.00
062	COQUIOT, GUSTAVE	Les Pantins de Paris.	Paris	1920	USD 100.00 - 150.00	247.00
063	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.	New York	1964	USD 400.00 - 600.00	522.00
064	(CORVINUS PRESS.) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.	Np	(1944)	USD 300.00 - 400.00	467.00
065	COVARRUBIAS, MIGUEL.	Negro Drawings Preface by Ralph Barton.	New York	1927	USD 80.00 - 120.00	440.00
066	COVARRUBIAS, MIGUEL	The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans.	New York	1925	USD 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
067	(CRESSET PRESS)	The Apocrypha according to the Authorized Version.	London	1929	USD 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
068	(CRESSET PRESS.) Bunyan, John	The Pilgrim's Progress.	London	1928	USD 350.00 - 500.00	605.00
069	(DALI, SALVADOR)	The Jerusalem Bible.	Garden City	1970	USD 150.00 - 250.00	660.00
070	DEFOE, DANIEL	The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.	London	1929	USD 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
071	(DERAIN, ANDRE)	Odes Anacreontiques.	Paris	1953	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
072	(DERAIN, ANDRE.) Petronius Arbiter. Le Satyricon	33 engraved plates and numerous woodcut vignettes by Paul Baudier after designs by Derain.	[Paris]	(1951)	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	825.00
073	(DIGNIMONT, ANDRE.) Carco, Francis	Group of 3 volumes illustrated with colored etchings by Dignimont.	Paris	vd	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
074	(DIGNIMONT, ANDRE.) Lorrain, Jean	La Maison Philibert	Paris	1925	USD 100.00 - 150.00	99.00
075	(DIGNIMONT, ANDRE)	Group of 5 volumes illustrated by Dignimont.	Paris	vd	USD 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
076	(DOVES PRESS)	Catalogue Raisonne of Books Printed and Published at The Doves Press .	Hammersmith	1908	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
077	(DOVES PRESS) Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.	London: A Paper Read at a Meeting of the Art Workers Guild . . . March 6 1891.	[Hammersmith]	(1906)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
078	(DOVES PRESS.) Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Essays.	Hammersmith	1906	USD 200.00 - 300.00	192.00
079	(DOVES PRESS.) Mackail, J. W.	William Morris: An Address Delivered . . . before the Hammersmith Socialist Society.	Hammersmith	1901	USD 100.00 - 200.00	143.00
080	(DOVES PRESS.) Shakespeare, William	The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra.	(Hammersmith)	(1912)	USD 500.00 - 750.00	522.00
081	(DUFY, RAOUL.) Mallarme, Stephane	Madrigaux.	Paris	1920	USD 300.00 - 400.00	495.00
082	(DULAC, EDMUND.) Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Tanglewood Tales.	London	[1918]	USD 300.00 - 400.00	412.00
083	(DULAC, EDMUND.) Rosenthal, Leonard	The Kingdom of the Pearl.	New York	[1920]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	220.00
084	EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON	Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders.	Philadelphia	1916	USD 250.00 - 350.00	357.00
085	(ELSTON PRESS.) Langland, William	The Vision of William concerning 'Piers the Plowman'.	(New Rochelle)	(1901)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
086	(ELSTON PRESS.) Morris, William	Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery.	(New Rochelle)	(1902)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
088	(ERAGNY PRESS.) Flaubert, Gustave	Un Coeur Simple.	(London)	(1901)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	143.00
090	(ESSEX HOUSE PRESS.) Browning, Robert	Flight of the Duchess.	London	1905	USD 150.00 - 250.00	192.00
091	(ESSEX HOUSE PRESS.) Shakespeare, William	The Poems.	(London)	(1899)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	467.00
093	FORAIN, JEAN LOUIS	La Comedie parisienne * Deuxieme Serie.	Paris	1892	USD 150.00 - 250.00	330.00
094	(FRANCOISE)	La Plus Vieille Histoire du Monde. Mise en Images par Francoise [Seignobesc].	Paris	[1931]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	121.00
096	(FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK.) Herold, A. Ferdinand	La Guirlande d'Aphrodite.	Paris	1919	USD 80.00 - 120.00	143.00
097	(FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS)	Group of 3 volumes.	Paris	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
098	(FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS)	Group of 4 volumes.	Paris	vd	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
099	GAUGUIN, PAUL.	Noa Noa.	(Stockholm)	(1947)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
101	(GEHENNA PRESS.) Burns, Robert	The Jolly Beggars. A Cantata.	Northampton, Mass.	1963	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
102	(GEHENNA PRESS.) Conrad, Joseph	Conrad's Manifesto: Preface to a Career.	Philadelphia	1966	USD 80.00 - 120.00	77.00
106	(GEHENNA PRESS)	Group of 6 pieces of ephemera, including framing labels and a Smith Gallery announcement.	(Northampton, Mass.)	vd	USD 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
108	GIBSON, CHARLES DANA	London, As Seen by . . . Gibson.	New York	1897	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
109	(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) Bannet, *vor	The Amazons.	(London)	1948	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
110	(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) Cibber, Colley	An Apology for the Life of.	(Waltham St. Lawrence)	1925	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
111	(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) De Chair, Somerset	The Silver Crescent.	(London)	(1943)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
112	(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) Dunsany, Edward Plunkett	Lord Adrian: A Play in Three Acts.	Waltham Saint Lawrence	(1933)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00

Heritage Auctions
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December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.