Swann Galleries: SWANN GALLERIES, INC., AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 1974 at 1:30 PM, Exhibition from February 25th to Time of Sale. ART & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ART HISTORY * ORIENTA, 943,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 28, 1974 - February 28, 1974

Page Size: 336 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		ADVERTISING. Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook	New York	1950	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
2	AESOP	Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec celles de Philelphe	Amsterdam	1736	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
3		AMERICAN ART. Baur, et al. New Art in America: 50 Painters of the 20th Century...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
4		AMERICAN FOLK ART. Stoudt, J. J. Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
5	Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood	AMERICAN SILVER: Garvan and Other Collections in the Yale University Art Gallery	New Haven	1970	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
6	AMMAN, JOST	Group of 3 woodcuts from the WAPPENSTAMMBUCH, As below		1589	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
7		ANTIQUES. Ricketts. Antique Gold and Enamelware in Color...	Garden City	1971	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
8		ANTIQUES. Shull. Victorian Antiques...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
9		ANTIQUES. Weeks & Treganowan. Rugs and Carpets of Europe and the Western World...	New York		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
10		ARCHITECTURE. A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture	Oxford	1850	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
11		ARMS AND ARMOR. Thomas, Bruno. Deutsche Plattnerkunst...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
12	Vianello, Gianni	ARMS AND ARMOR. Anni e Armature Orientali	Milano	1966	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
13		ART. Cassou, Rothenstein, et al. Paintings of the World's Great Galleries...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
14		ART. Kaufmann & Hansl...	New York, etc.		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
15		ART. Lade. August Lucas, sein Leben und seine Werk...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
16		ART. Maison. Art Themes and Variations...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
17		ART. Michel. Romanesque Wall Paintings in France...	New York, etc.		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
18		ART, ETC. Lewisohn. Painters and Personality...	New York, etc.		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
19		ART AUCTIONS. Fogg Art Museum	Boston	1971	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
20	Robert Schmutzler	ART NOUVEAU	New York	1962	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
21		ART REFERENCE. Catalogue of Selected Color Reproductions	New York	1936	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
22	AUDSLEY, G. A.; AND BOWES, J. L.	Keramic Art of Japan	Liverpool & London	1875	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
23		BACON, FRANCIS: Introduction by John Rothenstein	London	1964	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
24	BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES	Les Fleurs du Mal	Paris	1916	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
25	Hans M. Wingler	BAUHAUS: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago	Cambridge, Mass.	1969	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
26		(BERENSON). La Raccolta Berenson. Presentazione di Nicky Mariano: Testo e Catalogo a cura di Franco Russoli	Milano	1963	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
27		BERMAN, EUGENE: edited and with an Introduction by Julien Levy	New York	1954	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
28		BEWICK, THOMAS: an Essay by Llewelyn Powys	Lexington, Ky.	1951	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
29	Blok, Alexander	BIDDLE LITHOGRAPHS. The Twelve	New York	1931	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
30	Mary Howitt, editor	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE QUEENS OF GREAT BRITAIN, From the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Victoria, or Royal Book of Beauty	London	1862	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
31	Mona Wilson	BLAKE, WILLIAM: Life	London	1927	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
32		BLATAS LITHOGRAPHS. Resnick: Ten Original Lithographs by Arbit Blatas	(Paris)	1969	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
33	BLORE, EDWARD	The Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons, comprising the Sepulchral Antiquities of Great Britain	London	1826	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
34	Anet, Claude	(BONNARD, PIERRE). Notes sur l' Amour	Paris	1922	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
35	Veth, D. Giltay	BOOKPLATES. Dutch Bookplates: a Selection of Modem Woodcuts & Wood Engravings	New York	1950	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
36	Jacques Combe	BOSCH, JHERONIMUS	Paris	1946	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
37	Ludwig von Baldass	BOSCH, HIERONYMUS	New York	1960	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
38	BRAQUE, GEORGES	The Intimate Sketchbooks	New York	1955	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
39		BUDDHIST ART. Silva-Vigier, Anil de. The Life of Buddha: Retold from Ancient Sources...	London, etc.		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
40	Katherine S. Dreier	BURLIUK, (DAVID D.)	(New York)	1944	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
41	Diehl, Charles	BYZANTINE ART. Manuel d'Art Byzantin	Paris	1910	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
42	CAHILL, JAMES	Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting	(New York)	1967	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
43		(CALLOT). A Catalogue & Descriptions of the Whole of the Works of the Cete brated Jacques Callot	London	1804	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
44		(CANALETTO). Le Acqueforti del Canaletto, da Rodolfo Palluccini e G. F. Guamati	Venezia	1945	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
45		CARICATURE. Richard Wagner in der Karikatur, von Eduard Fuchs und Ernst Kreowski	Berlin	1907	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
46		CARICATURES. La Menagerie Imperiale, composee des Ruminants, Amphibies, Carnivores, et Autres Budgetivores qui ont devore la France pendant 20 Ans.	(Paris)	1871	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
47	Robert Rey	CARZOU: L'Apocalypse	Paris	1959	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
48	Florent Fels	CARZOU	Geneve	1955	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
49	Ortiz Echague, Jose	CASTLES. Espana: Castillos y Alcazares. Prologo de Justo Perez de Urbel	Madrid	1958	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
50	CATHERWOOD, FREDERICK	Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan			USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
51	CELLINI, BENVENUTO	CELLINI, BENVENUTO. Life	New York	1906	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
52	Brongniart, Alex	CERAMICS. Traite des Arts Ceramiques ou des Poteries	Paris	1854	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
53	Chaffers, William	CERAMICS. Marks & Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain	Los Angeles	1946	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
54		CERAMICS. The F. S. Mackenna Collection of English Porcelain	Leigh-on-Sea	1972	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
55	Pugh, P. D. Gordon	CERAMICS. Staffordshire Portrait Figures, and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era	New York	1971	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
56		CERAMICS. Ormsbee. English China and its Marks...	New York		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
57		CERAMICS. Group of 6 volumes, as below, in the FABER MONOGRAPHS ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN	London and New York		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
58		CERAMICS. Group of 7 volumes, as below, in the FABER MONOGRAPHS ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN	London		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
59		CERAMICS. Group of 8 volumes, as below, in the FABER MONOGRAPHS ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN	London		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
60		CERAMICS. Group of 9 volumes, as below, in the FABER MONOGRAPHS ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN	London		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
61	CHAGALL, MARC	The Jerusalem Windows	New York & Monte Carlo	1962	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
62	CHAGALL, MARC	The Ceiling of the Paris Opera: Sketches, Drawings, and Paintings	New York	1966	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
63	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The Canterbury Tales	New York	1930	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
64	CHINESE JADE, ANCIENT AND MODERN	Descriptive Catalogue	Berlin	1925	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
65	William Cohn	CHINESE PAINTING	London & New York	1948	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
66	Charles D. Weber	CHINESE PICTORIAL BRONZE VASES OF THE LATE CHOU PERIOD	Ascona	1968	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
67	CLELAND, T. M.	"Progress" in the Graphic Arts	Stamford	1949	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
68	Guye, Samuel; & Michel, Henri	CLOCKS WATCHES. Time & Space: Measuring Instruments from the 15th to the 19th Century	New York	1971	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
69		COLORED ART REPRODUCTIONS. Reau. Tableaux du Musee Vienne			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
70	Lindley, John	COLORED BOTANIC PLATES. Ladies' Botany: a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany	London	1827	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
71	Nettl, Paul	COLORED COSTUME PLATES. Der Prager Kaufruf	Prag	1930	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
72		COLORED COSTUME PLATES. Group of 30 fine color plates by Doepler and others	(Berlin)		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
73		COLORED ENGRAVINGS. Group of 3 fine hand-colored engravings, as below		1800	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
74		COLORED NATURAL HISTORY PLATES. Der Naturfreund, oder Beitrage zur Schlesischen Naturgeschichte	Breslau	1815	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
75	COOKE, E. W.	Sixty Five Plates of Shipping and Craft	London	1829	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
76	Maurice Hamel	COROT AND HIS WORK	Glasgow	1905	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
77		COSTUME. Boehn, Max von. Die Mode . . . im Mittelalter...	Munchen		USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
78	Floerke, Hanns	COSTUME. Die Moden der Italienischen Renaissance	Munchen	1917	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
79	Geszler, J.	COSTUME. Die Moden des XIX	Wien	1898	USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
80	Klein, Ruth	COSTUME. Lexikon der Mode: Drei Jahrtausende Europaischer Kostiimkunde	Baden-Baden	1950	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
81		COSTUME. Moreau und Freudenberg. Trois Suites d'Estampes pour servir a l'Histoire des Modes et du Costume des Francais	Berlin	1920	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
82	Steenfadt, K.	COSTUME. Lehrbuch der Modemen Zuschneidekunst und Mode fur Damen- und Kinder-Garderobe	Frankfurt	1905	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
83	Weiss, Hermann	COSTUME. Kostumkunde: Geschichte der Tracht und des Gerathes vom 14ten Jahrhundert bis auf die Gegenwart	Stuttgart	1872	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
84	(Barker, M. H.)	CRUIKSHANK COLOR PLATES. Greenwich Hospital: a Series of Naval Sketches Illustrative of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man	London	1826	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
85	DAUMIER, HONORE	Hand-colored lithograph--La Vieille Methode, showing schoolmaster and recalcitrant pupil	Paris		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
86		DELACROIX: Texte de Jean Cassou	(Paris)	1947	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
87	Salmon, Andre	(DERAIN, ANDRE). Le Calumet	Paris	1920	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
88	(DERAIN, ANDRE)	Heron de Villefosse. Eloge des Pierreries	(Paris)	1947	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
89	DE TOLNAY, CHARLES	History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: a Handbook	New York	1943	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
90	Saintine, X. B.	DORE ILLUSTRATIONS. Le Chemin des Ecoliers: Promenade de Paris a Marly-le-Roy en suivant les Bords du Rhin	Paris	1861	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
91		DRAWINGS FROM NEW YORK COLLECTIONS. I--The Italian Renaissance...		1965	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
92	Crary, Mary	DULAC COLOR PLATES. The Daughters of the Stars	London	1939	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
93	DUPAS, JEAN	Charming original art deco lithograph, depicting a beautiful lady in flowing dress, feeding two deer with exotic curved horns; pigeons hovering in foreground			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
94	Karl-Adolf Knappe	DURER: the Complete Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts	New York	1965	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
95	ELSHEMUS, LOUIS M.	The Art Reformer: a Monthly of Saccharine (?) Satire	New York		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
96	Schack, William	(EILSHEMIUS, LOUIS M.). And He Sat Among the Ashes: a Biography	New York	1939	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
97		ENGRAVINGS. Victor Hugo Fiction: Gallery of Engravings	Philadelphia	1895	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
98	Richard Buckle	EPSTEIN, JACOB: Sculptor	(London)	1963	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
99	ERNST, MAX	At Eye Level: Poems and Comments...	Beverly Hills	1949	USD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
100		ETCHINGS OF LANDSCAPES. Three large oblong etchings	American		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown

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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.

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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.

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