Swann Galleries: Photographic Literature & Photographs, 1864,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 15, 2000 - June 15, 2000
Page Size: 500 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
300 CHIKIRIS, MICHAEL Male figure study

1968

USD 250.00 - 350.00 402.00
301 CHILDREN Group of more than 35 period photographs of kids at a Children's Home, purportedly in California, and the idyllic rural setting in which they lived and learned Circa

1910

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
302 CHILDREN Childhood's Happy Hours New York

1881

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 690.00
303 CHILDREN Playful group of approximately 160 photographs of children and their toys

1860s-1930s

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,610.00
304 (CHINA.) BOXER REBELLION Album of over 145 photographs of the years following the Boxer Rebellion

1911-12

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 3,450.00
305 (CHINA.) MILITARY Pair of fascinating albums, each containing approximately 350 photographs by accomplished amateurs documenting a beleaguered China in the early 1930s;

1931-32

USD 300.00 - 500.00 747.00
306 CINEMA Group of approximately 500 movie stills featuring a galaxy of stars and starlettes

1950s

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,840.00
307 CIRCUS Album containing more than 130 Big Top photographs relating to the Mills Bros. and Hagen Bros. circuses

1950s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 546.00
308 CIVIL RIGHTS Chilling photograph of a Ku Klux Klan christening on Long Island

1920s

USD 300.00 - 400.00 632.00
309 CIVIL WAR Carte-de-visite album containing 22 military portraits

1860s

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,265.00
310 CIVIL WAR Carte-de-visite portrait of former slave Corporal Gordon

1860s

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,380.00
311 CIVIL WAR Full-length portrait of a soldier

1860s

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
312 CIVIL WAR Full-plate tintype of an assembly of young soldiers and their even-younger drummer boy

1860s

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
313 CIVIL WAR Government Bakery, (No. 1) City Point

1864

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
314 CIVIL WAR Quarter-plate ambrotype of 3 handsome lads in their Union kepis;

Early 1860s

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 690.00
315 CIVIL WAR Group of 5 images, comprising 2 ambrotypes and 3 tin types of soldiers in uniform

1860s-70s

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 1,265.00
316 CIVIL WAR Group of 17 cartes-de-visite related to the War between the States

1860s

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,610.00
317 CIVIL WAR Group of 21 carte-de-visite photographs

1860s

USD 500.00 - 600.00 517.00
318 CLASS ALBUM Pre-Civil War album containing 11 photographs of Dartmouth College faculty and students

1859

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
319 COLLS, V. Bustling London street scene, Covent Garden

1930s

USD 500.00 - 600.00 316.00
321 CORNFIELD, JIM Portfolio entitled Fat Tuesday containing 12 stu dio portraits of flamboyant Mardi Gras revelers Los Angeles

1976

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
322 COROT, CAMILLE Le Songeur [cliché-verre]

1853 1921

USD 500.00 - 600.00 575.00
323 COSTER, GORDON Positive/Negative study of a woman

1930s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 517.00
324 CRIMINALS Group of 6 cabinet card portraits of Imperial Russian evil-doers from Tashkent

1880s-90s

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
325 CUBA Volante, Havana

1870s

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 747.00
326 CURTIS, ASAHEL Pair of hand-colored photographs of Northwestern mountain views

1910s 1917

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 488.00
327 CURTIS, EDWARD S. Bound volume containing 110 large-format photogravures from

1903-28

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 10,925.00
328 CURTIS, EDWARD S. Oasis in the Badlands (Red Hawk) Circa

1900

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,495.00
329 CURTIS, EDWARD S. Group of 4 large-format photogravures from Curtis's The North American Indian series

1900-10 1970s

USD 500.00 - 750.00 632.00
330 CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG Studio portrait of George A. Custer in buckskins posing with a rifle

1860s

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,840.00
331 CYANOTYPES Two souvenir cyanotype cotton sheets Circa

1910

USD 150.00 - 250.00 115.00
332 CZECH REPUBLIC Portfolio entitled Jaromir Funke, containing 12 photographs Prague

1979

USD 400.00 - 500.00 402.00
333 DAVIS, JEFFERSON Portrait of Jefferson Davis

1879

USD 100.00 - 150.00 80.00
334 DAVIS, DR. L. C. Business Depression

1934

USD 500.00 - 600.00 632.00
335 DE COCK, LILIANE Evening scene near Taos, New Mexico

1960s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 460.00
336 DELACROIX, EUGENE 'Tigre en arret [cliché-verre]

1853 1921

USD 500.00 - 600.00 488.00
337 DEVINE, JED Flowers in a porcelain vase * Still life Circa

1981

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
338 DIRIGIBLES Group of approximately 35 photographs of the wreck of the English dirigible, R101 in France

1930

USD 500.00 - 700.00 488.00
339 DIRIGIBLES Group of 200 American and European photographs depicting military and commercial lighter-than-air vessels

1910s-20s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
340 DOUGLAS, J. C. Old St. Ives, Unmeshing Circa

1900

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
341 DUPAIN, REX Bodybuilder

1998

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
342 EDISON, THOMAS ALVA 3/4-length portrait of a pleased-looking inventor

1910s

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
343 EDWARDS, RON Reagan shot

1981

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
344 EICKEMEYER, RUDOLF The Singing lesson Circa

1900

USD 100.00 - 200.00 149.00
345 EROTICA Two women embracing passionately, with a mirror providing a supplementary view Circa

1930

USD 400.00 - 500.00 345.00
346 EROTICA Group of 19 something-for-everyone erotic and risque photographs

1960s-70s

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
347 EROTICA Titillating group of 22 photographs

1880s-90s

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
348 EROTICA Group of more than 130 photographs of men involved in all sorts of activities which do not require clothing

1940s-60s

USD 600.00 - 800.00 1,610.00
349 EROTICA Group of approximately 1,000 American and European erotic photographs

1920S-60S

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,955.00
350 FAR EAST Album of approximately 95 photographs of India, Java, Singapore, Madras, and more Circa

1900

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,840.00
351 FEININGER, ANDREAS Kosher butcher, New York City

1950s

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 805.00
352 FEININGER, ANDREAS New York street scene * New York abstraction

1940s 1950s

USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
353 FLAHERTY, ROBERT Group of 3 Eskimo portraits Circa

1900

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
354 FRANCE Barbizon School-style study of a figure in a pastoral landscape

1860s

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 690.00
355 FRANCE Album entitled Paris et ses Environs containing 52 pho tographs of Paris and Versailles Circa

1890

USD 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
356 FRANCE Group of approximately 40 cabinet cards of Parisian and other French monuments

1880s

USD 200.00 - 300.00 126.00
357 GARDNER, ALEXANDER 'John Brown, the Hero of Harper's Ferry. Circa

1859

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 920.00
358 GENTHE, ARNOLD Portrait of Isadora Duncan Circa

1910

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
358A GARA, EMMERICH Leonard Bernstein

1950s

USD 400.00 - 500.00 1,725.00
358B GARA, EMMERICH Arturo Toscanini

1950s

USD 400.00 - 500.00 1,955.00
359 GERMANY Wartime scene of children climbing on an oversized statue near the Reichstag

1945

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
360 GOLDBECK, EUGENE O. Indoctrination Division, Air Training Command, Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Texas

1947

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 805.00
361 GOLDBECK, EUGENE O Living Air Service Insignia

1940s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 373.00
362 GONTCHAROVA, NATALIA Pair of photographs of Gontcharova's costume designs for the Ballets Russes.

1916 1930s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
363 GUATEMALA Album of 48 snapshots of an American family's visit to Guatemala

1889-90

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
364 HAAS, ERNST India Circa

1960

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
365 HAND-COLORED Traveling salesman's samples of crayon portraits Circa

1900

USD 200.00 - 300.00 258.00
366 HAWAII Pair of panoramic photographs of Hawaii

1940s

USD 300.00 - 500.00 805.00
367 HILL, A. W. A Symphony in Grey.

1920s

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
368 HINE, LEWIS W. Child laborers, Sweetwater, Tenn Circa

1910

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
369 HOOVER, HERBERT Group of 25 photographs relating to Presidentelect Hoover's goodwill tour of South America

1928-29

USD 300.00 - 500.00 373.00
370 HUMOR Hilarious group of 15 photographs and 4 contact sheets from a photo essay How to Lose a Job! that appeared in Hit magazine, depicting the antics of a not-too-bright bikini-clad secretary

1948

USD 200.00 - 300.00 138.00
371 HORVAT, FRANK Portfolio entitled Frank Horvat I, containing 4 fashion studies Paris

1981

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 977.00
372 HOXIE, GEORGE Nude with head draped in silky fabric

1940s

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
373 INDUSTRIAL Album entitled Rubber Plantation Machinery containing 18 photographs of machines produced by Bertram's Ltd., Edinburgh

1920s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
374 INDUSTRIAL Album containing more than 70 photographs depict ing the construction of a power facility in the Waukegan area (near Chicago)

1926

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
375 INDUSTRIAL Archive of over 475 photographs relating to the Walsh Construction Company of Davenport, Iowa and their New York area operations before, during and after World War II

1923-47

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
376 JACKSON, WILLIAM HENRY Group of 15 unmounted prints of Colorado and New Mexico

1880s

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
377 JACOBI, LOTTE Portrait of Margaret Mead

1950s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
378 JAPAN Group of 21 brightly colored photographs of interiors and exteriors of Buddhist and Shinto temples in Nikko

1890s

USD 400.00 - 500.00 316.00
379 JAPAN Group of 21 brightly colored photographs of Japan

1890s

USD 400.00 - 500.00 690.00
380 JONES, KEN Casualty of Gulf War

1993

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
381 JUDAICA Group of 7 touching photographs of the forced move ment of Russian Jews from their homes

1914

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,380.00
382 JUDAICA Jewish Synagogue, Prague

1870s

USD 500.00 - 600.00 632.00
383 JUDAICA Poignant presentation album entitled A Vision Come True, containing 50 vintage photographs of the diverse immigrant popula tion of Israel Circa

1948

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,610.00
384 JUNG, THEODOR, attributed to Landscape with barren trees. *Destitute family awaiting relief Late

1930s

USD 300.00 - 400.00 201.00
386 KASTEN, BARBARA Architectural site #8

1980s

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 3,910.00
387 KEPES, GYORGY Abstraction * Head of woman in op-art background

1930s

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,092.00
388 KHALIP, YAKOV The Light FutureA-Communism

1940s

USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 805.00
389 KHALIP, YAKOV Sailors of Baltika

1940s

USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 1,495.00
390 KODAK Group of 42 No. 2 Kodak snapshots

1890s

USD 250.00 - 350.00 287.00
392 LEON, ALBERT Moss covered rocks * Botanical study Circa

1928

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
393 LEVINSTEIN, LEON Contact sheet with variant images of a police man on duty

1950s

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
394 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Photographic copy of a drawing by Thomas Nast titled Lincoln entering Richmond, Va. April 4th, 1865,

1868

USD 300.00 - 500.00 287.00
395 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Large chromolithograph portrait of Pres. Lincoln

1864

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 690.00
396 LIPNITZKI Jean Cocteau and Arthur Honegger

1929

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
397 LOGGING Group of 7 photographs of Oregon lumberers and their felled trees

1870-90

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
398 LOUISE, RUTH HARRIET Greta Garbo

1920s

USD 600.00 - 900.00 575.00
399 LUMMIS, CHARLES View of the Cochiti Tablita (corn dance)

1888

USD 400.00 - 500.00 690.00
400 LYNES, GEORGE PLATE Picnic at Tintagel, New York City Ballet Circa

1952

USD 600.00 - 900.00 460.00
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