Swann Galleries: PHOTOGRAPHY. PART I: 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS., 1385,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 14, 1985 - November 14, 1985
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADAMS, ANSEL | Bristle Cone Pine, White Mountains | 1950s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 150.00 | |
| 2 | ADAMS, ANSEL | Freeway Interchange | 1960s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 110.00 | |
| 3 | ADAMS, ANSEL | Gravestone, Northern California | Circa 1936 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 450.00 | |
| 4 | ADAMS, ANSEL | Mexican Girl, Pescadero, California | 1958 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 100.00 | |
| 5 | ADAMS, ANSEL | Papago Indian Boy, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Arizona | Circa 1950 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 275.00 | |
| 6 | ADAMS, ANSEL | Slide Lake, Teton Region, Wyoming | 1950s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 350.00 | |
| 7 | ADAMS, ANSEL | Stump, Northern California Coast | 1950s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 175.00 | |
| 8 | Group of 11 ethnographic studies of natives of Sierra Leone | Circa 1900 |
USD 60.00 - 90.00 | 140.00 | ||
| 9 | Group of 9 studies of destroyed buildings and streets of Mouzaiaville | 1860s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 150.00 | ||
| 10 | ALINARI, FRATELLI | Firenze: Arco trionfale all Porta S. Gallo | Florence | early 1850s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 250.00 |
| 11 | Group of 3 carte-de-visite albums containing together 243 cartes of members of the American Pharmaceutical Association and their families | Circa 1864-71 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,000.00 | ||
| 12 | RINEHART, WINTER, and others | Group of 8 miscellaneous card views | Pasadena | 1870s-90s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 175.00 |
| 13 | An album of 49 mounted studies of an unidentified ranch community | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 500.00 | |||
| 14 | ATGET, EUGENE | Musee Carnavalet | 1898 |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 15 | Group of 9 views of Melbourne and Adelaide | 1890s |
USD 60.00 - 90.00 | 100.00 | ||
| 16 | BALDUS, EDOUARD-DENIS | Study of the ruins of the amphitheater at Nimes | 1850s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 250.00 | |
| 17 | BALDUS, EDOUARD-DENIS | Group of 5 architectural and monument studies of Paris | 1860s-70s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 18 | A pair of albums containing together 61 mounted landscape and architectural studies | 1880s-90s |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 650.00 | ||
| 19 | BARNARD, GEORGE | Rossville Gap, Georgia | Circa 1863 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 175.00 | |
| 20 | BERNHARDT, SARAH | Group of 9 cabinet cards of Bernhardt | Paris | 1880s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 175.00 |
| 21 | An album of 60 mounted views of Italy | English | 1870s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 60.00 | |
| 22 | Group of 27 photographs of black men, women, and children | 1860s, Circa 1900 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 200.00 | ||
| 23 | BRADY STUDIO | Portrait of Thomas Clark | New York | 3 November 1863 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 250.00 |
| 24 | BRADY STUDIO | Group of 8 mounted albumen photographs | 1860s-circa 1880 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 200.00 | |
| 25 | BRADY STUDIO | Fine group of 13 cartes-de-visite | 1860s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 200.00 | |
| 26 | BRASSAI | Circa 1935 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 130.00 | ||
| 27 | Group of 39 architectural and landscape studies of cathedrals, beauty spots, public buildings, etc | 1860s-circa 1900 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 28 | Two albums containing together approximately 160 mounted landscape and architectural studies of England and Scotland | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 29 | CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET | Portrait of Sir Alfred, Lord Tennyson the "Dirty Monk" portrait | Circa 1865 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 375.00 | |
| 30 | Group of 19 studies of the building of the MIRAMICHI BRIDGES | 1872-74 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 500.00 | ||
| 31 | CAPEL-CURE, ALFRED | Cathedral, Nantes | 1856 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 100.00 | |
| 32 | CAPEL-CURE, ALFRED | Study of Ely Cathedral | 1860 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 175.00 | |
| 33 | BLACK MUSICIAN | 1870s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 475.00 | ||
| 34 | CARD PLAYERS | 1870s |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 90.00 | ||
| 35 | CIVIL WAR | 1860s |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 110.00 | ||
| 36 | FAMILY PORTRAITS | 1850s |
USD 70.00 - 100.00 | 30.00 | ||
| 37 | INVENTION | 1850s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 475.00 | ||
| 38 | JEWELRY | 1860s |
USD 50.00 - 75.00 | 60.00 | ||
| 39 | JEWELRY | 1840s-70s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 90.00 | ||
| 40 | MILITARY | American | late 1840s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 475.00 | |
| 41 | MILITARY | 1850s |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 130.00 | ||
| 42 | MUSICIAN | Circa 1845 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 | ||
| 43 | OUTDOOR SCENE | USD 200.00 - 250.00 | 175.00 | |||
| 44 | PAINTING | 1840s |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 70.00 | ||
| 45 | PORTRAITS | 1850s |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 60.00 | ||
| 46 | PORTRAITS | 1840s-60s |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 250.00 | ||
| 47 | PORTRAITS | 1840s-60s |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 48 | PORTRAITS | 1850s-60s |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | 60.00 | ||
| 49 | PORTRAITS | 1850s-90s |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 400.00 | ||
| 50 | SUITOR | 1850s |
USD 50.00 - 75.00 | 90.00 | ||
| 51 | TINTYPES | 1860s-circa 1900 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 52 | TINTYPES | 1860s-circa 1900 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 53 | Group of 24 topographical, architectural, and agricultural studies | 1870s-80s |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 54 | CHENEY, ROBERT HENRY | Cloisters, Hereford | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 55 | CHENEY, ROBERT HENRY | Exeter Cathedral | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 140.00 | ||
| 56 | CHENEY, ROBERT HENRY | Trentham | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 57 | CHENEY, ROBERT HENRY | Vale Royal | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 58 | Man Cheong Oi Ting, Canton, China | 1890s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 250.00 | ||
| 59 | Group of 19 unmounted studies of Chinese life | 1870s-80s |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 600.00 | ||
| 60 | Amherst College, Class of 1861 | 1861 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 130.00 | ||
| 61 | Amherst College, Class of 1867 | 1867 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 400.00 | ||
| 62 | Harvard, Class of 1855 | 1855 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 150.00 | ||
| 63 | Princeton, Class of 1865 | 1865 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 500.00 | ||
| 64 | CONSTANTIN, D. | Group of 21 studies of the ruins of classical Greece | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 225.00 | ||
| 65 | ND, VAN MOL SOEURS; F. GEISE; T. MOEGLE; A. JAGER; PAUL ALBERT, et al | Group of approximately 85 European and North African costume studies | 1880s-90s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 250.00 | |
| 66 | CROSIER, FRANCOIS | La Reunion, Zanzibar, lies Comores, Diego-Suarez | 1880s |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 120.00 | |
| 67 | Group of 4 views of the Crystal Palace | Circa 1857 |
USD 60.00 - 90.00 | 140.00 | ||
| 68 | Havana-Florida and Western North Carolina, 1887 | 1887 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 750.00 | ||
| 69 | DE MEYER, BARON ADOLPH | Portrait of Daisy Fellowes | Late 1920s |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | 1,400.00 | |
| 70 | EARL OF CAITHNESS AND MR. BEMBRIDGE | London | 1864 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 150.00 | |
| 71 | Two albums containing together approximately 55 studies of Port Said | 1870s-80s |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 500.00 | ||
| 72 | EICKEMEYER, RUDOLF, JR. | England | 1925 |
USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 3,000.00 | |
| 73 | ENGLISH SCHOOL | 1850s |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 50.00 | ||
| 74 | ENGLISH SCHOOL | 1860s-80s |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 200.00 | ||
| 75 | An album of 43 views of Eton College and environs | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 275.00 | |||
| 76 | An album of approximately 250 small mounted views of Italy, France, Greece, and Switzerland | 1868-71 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 50.00 | ||
| 77 | FAMIN, P. & CIE; PORTIER, C. et al | Souvenir d'Algerie | 1880 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | 275.00 | |
| 78 | FENTON, ROGER | Officers of the 71st Regiment | Manchester | April 5th, 1856 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 175.00 |
| 79 | FENTON, ROGER | Zouaves | Manchester | March 25th, 1856 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 325.00 |
| 80 | FENTON, ROGER | Group of 10 studies of Ely Cathedra | Circa 1857; printed 1870s |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 81 | FIORILLO, L. | Photographic Album of the Queen's Jubilee Celebration at Alexandria | Alexandria | 1897 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 80.00 |
| 82 | Group of 22 architectural and landscape studies of Paris, Chamonix, Poitou, Rouen, Nice, etc | 1860s-80s |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 83 | A group of 4 albums containing together approximately 390 studies of farm houses | Circa 1900 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 325.00 | ||
| 84 | FREMONT, GEN. JOHN C. | Two card views from REESE'S CALIFORNIA VIEW SERIES | 1888 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 80.00 | |
| 85 | GARREAUD, EMILIO, Y CA | Views of Chile | 1870s |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,600.00 | |
| 86 | Group of 28 views of Germany, Switzerland, Russia, etc | 1870s-90s |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 87 | A mixed family scrap album kept by descendants of Midwestern photographer WILLIAM H. GILHOUSEN | 1860s-1940s |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 50.00 | ||
| 88 | GLOEDEN, WILHELM VON | Frontal nude study | 1901 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 550.00 | |
| 89 | GLOEDEN, WILHELM VON | Full-length nude study | 1902 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 | |
| 90 | GRANT, ULYSSES S. | Group of 8 photographs taken at the time of Grant's funeral | 1886 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 91 | GUTCH, JOHN WHEELEY GOUGH | Two salt prints | 1850s |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 275.00 | |
| 92 | HAAS | All Sport: Plaza Hotel-Arrowhead Inn, Madison Square Garden | 1912 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 90.00 | |
| 93 | HINE, LEWIS W. | Boys in packing room | 1908 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 375.00 | |
| 94 | HINE, LEWIS W. | Fisher boys playing truant on their father's smacks | 1909 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 400.00 | |
| 95 | HINE, LEWIS W. | Fourteen-year-old spinner in Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West, Texas | 1913 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 425.00 | |
| 96 | HINE, LEWIS W. | Jo Bodeon, a "back-roper" in mule room | 1909 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 450.00 | |
| 97 | HINE, LEWIS W. | Room 21 in Shanty #2 | Circa 1910 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 150.00 | |
| 98 | HINE, LEWIS W. | Group of 14 photographs documenting the National Child Labor Committee exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition | San Francisco | 1914 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 900.00 |
| 99 | A good mixed topographical family album | 1860s-80s |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | 350.00 | ||
| 100 | An album of 125 topographical | 1890s |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 400.00 |
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