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
101	W. & B. Forman	EXOTIC ART	London	1959	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
102	Jean-Paul Crespelle	FAUVES, THE	New York	1962	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
103	FERGUSON, GEORGE	Signs and Symbols in Christian Art		1954	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
104		FIREARMS. Blair, Claude. European & American Arms...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
105		FLINT COLOR PLATES. The Song of Songs which is Solomon's...	London	1909	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
106		FLORIDA ARCHITECTURE OF ADDISON MIZNER		1928	USD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
107		FORAIN: Album. 50 mounted plates reproducing Forain's captioned drawings of French life "fin de siecle"		1900	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
108		FRENCH ART. Les Albums d'Art Druet 20: Bonnard: 24 Phototypies...	New York, Paris, Geneva		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
109		FRENCH ART. Wilenski. Modern French Painters, INSCRIBED...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
110	Bissell, Charles S.	FURNITURE. Antique Furniture in Suffield, Conn., 1670-1835		1956	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
111	Burr, Grace H.	FURNITURE. Hispanic Furniture from the 15th through the 18th Century	New York	1964	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
112	Luther, Clair F.	FURNITURE. The Hadley Chest	Hartford	1935	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
113	Macquoid, Percy	FURNITURE. A History of English Furniture--The Age of Oak...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
114	Palardy, Jean	FURNITURE. The Early Furniture of French Canada	Toronto	1965	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
115		FURNITURE. Fales, Bishop, & Nelson. American Painted Furniture, 1660-1880...	New York	1972	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
116	John Aldam Heaton, editor	FURNITURE AND DECORATION IN ENGLAND DURING THE 18TH CENTURY	London		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
117	GABRIEL, MABEL M.	Masters of Campanian Painting	New York	1952	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
118	Sue, Eugene	GAVARNI ILLUSTRATIONS. Le Juif Errant	Paris	1845	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
119	GILLRAY, JAMES	GILLRAY, JAMES. Works	London	1850	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
120	GIOTTO	The Legend of St. Francis	New York	1931	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
121		GLASS. Revi. American Cut and Engraved Glass...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
122		GLASS. Wakefield. 19th Century British Glass...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
123		GOYA: The Complete Etchings	New York	1943	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
124		(GRUENEWALD). The Drawings of Mathis Gothart Nithart, called Gruene wald	New York	1948	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
125	HAUSER, ARNOLD	The Social History of Art	New York	1952	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
126	HILLIER, JAMES	Utamaro: Colour Prints and Paintings...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
127	HIND, ARTHUR M.	An Introduction to History of Woodcut, with a Detailed Survey of Work Done in the Fifteenth Century	Boston	1935	USD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
128	HINTON, JOHN HOWARD	The History and Topography of the United States of North America	Boston	1834	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
129		HIROSHIGE. The Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido...	Honolulu	1966	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
130		ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT. Handsome modern example, being a testimonial to Louis Satenstein, head of American Bookbindery Stratford Press at the Hotel Astor, May 10, 1924		1924	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
131		ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray...	London, New York, Buenos Aires		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
132	Rowland, Benjamin	INDIA. The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain	Baltimore	1955	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
133	Sivaramamurti, C.	INDIAN ART. South Indian Bronzes	(New Delhi)	1963	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
134		INDIAN ART. Kramrisch. The Art of India...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
135		INDIAN PAINTING. Randhawa, M. S. Kagra Valley Painting...	New Delhi and Bombay		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
136	Kenzo Tange and Noboru Kawazoe	ISE: PROTOTYPE OF JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE	Cambridge	1965	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
137	Captain F. Brinkley, editor	JAPAN: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese	Boston	1897	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
138	Laurence Binyon and J. J. O'Brien Sexton	JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS	New York	1923	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
139	J. Hillier	JAPANESE MASTERS OF THE COLOUR PRINT: A Great Heritage of Oriental Art	Phaidon	1954	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
140	Florian, J. P. Claris de	JAPANESE ILLUSTRATIONS. Fables Choisies, Illustrees par des Artistes Japonais, sous la Direction de P. Barboutau	Tokio & Paris		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
141	Clay Lancaster	JAPANESE INFLUENCE IN AMERICA	New York	1963	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
142		JAPANESE PRINTS. The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints	Chicago	1955	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
143	Langdon Warner	JAPANESE SCULPTURE OF THE TEMPYO PERIOD: Masterpieces of the Eighth Century	Cambridge	1959	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
144		KENT, ROCKWELL. N. by E.	New York	1930	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
145	Madeleine Giteau	KHMER SCULPTURE AND THE ANGKOR CIVILIZATION	London	1965	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
146	KIDDER, J. EDWARD, JR.	Masterpieces of Japanese Sculpture	Tokyo & Rutland	1961	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
147	KIDDER, J. EDWARD	Prehistoric Japanese Arts: Jomon Pottery	Tokyo & Palo Alto	1968	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
148		KING, ALEXANDER: Presents Peter Altenberg's Evocations of Love	New York	1960	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
149	Eric Dickinson and Karl Khandalavala	KISHANGARH PAINTING	(New Delhi)	1959	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
150	Yone Noguchi	KORIN	London	1922	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
151		KRESS COLLECTION. Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art	Phaidon	1964	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
152	LAFITAU, J. F.	De Zeden der Wilden van Amerika . . .	Amsterdam	1751	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
153		LAROUSSE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHOLOGY	New York	1959	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
154	LEE, RUTH WEBB	Victorian Glass: Specialties of the 19th Century...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
155		LEGRAND COLOR PLATES. Voyages & Glorieuses Decouvertes des Grands Navigatueurs & Explorateurs Francais	Paris		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
156		LEONARDO DA VINCI. Foreword and Notes by Ludwig Goldscheider	London	1944	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
157		LEONARDO DA VINCI. Color plates and hundreds of other illustrations	New York	1956	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
158	Verlaine, Paul	(LOBEL-RICHE). Sagesse Amour	Paris	1936	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
159	McCRACKEN, HAROLD	Frederic Remington, Artist of the Old West...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
160	MACQUOID, PERCY	A History of English Furniture	London & New York		USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
161	John Rewald	MAILLOL	London	1939	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
162	MALRAUX, ANDRE	The Voices of Silence	Garden City	1953	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
163		MANET ET LES IMPRESSIONNISTES. Au Musee du Louvre	Paris	1948	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
164		MANZU, GIACOMO: Sculptor...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
165	(MARCEAU, MARCEL)	Quelques Attitudes de Marcel Marceau	Paris	1960	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
166	MARCKS, GERHARD	Vierundzwanzig Zeichnungen. Einfuhrung von Wolfgang Schone	Krefeld	1949	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
167		MARINI, MARINO: Scultore. Da Umbro Apollonio...	Milano		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
168	MASSON, ANDRE	Le Plaisir de Peindre	(Nice)	1950	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
169	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	Purely for My Pleasure	Garden City	1963	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
170	MAUPASSANT, GUY DE	Pierre et Jean: the Two Brothers	Philadelphia	1889	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
171		MELLON COLLECTION. Painting in England, 1700-1850: Collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon	Richmond	1963	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
172	MERIDA, CARLOS	Carnavales de Mexico	Mexico	1940	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
173	MERIDA, CARLOS	Estampas del Popul-Vuh	Mexico	1943	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
174	MERIDA, CARLOS	Trajes Regionales Mexicanos. Introduccion y Texte Explicativo de Salvador Echeverria	Mexico	1945	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
175		METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. Group of 70 issues of the monthly BULLETIN	New York	1960	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
176	MEYER, AGNES E.	Chinese Painting as Reflected in the Thought and Art of Li Lung-Mien, 1070-1106	New York	1923	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
177		MICHELANGELO. Drawings: 103 Drawings in Facsimile	New York	1965	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
178	Maurice Raynal	MODERN PAINTING	(Geneva)	1953	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
179	MODIGLIANI, AMEDEO	Forty-Five Drawings	New York	1959	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
180		MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. Group of 15 publications...	New York		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
181		MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. A Collection of 25 Museum of Modem Art publications	New York		USD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
182		NATURAL HISTORY COLOR PLATES. Portielje, A. F. J. Dierenleven in Artis...	Zaandam	1939	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
183	NOGUCHI, ISAMU	A Sculptor's World	New York	1968	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
184		NUMISMATICS. Grueber & Keary. English Coins in the British Museum: Anglo Saxon...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
185		ORIENTAL ART. Forman, W. & B. Art of Far Lands...	(London)	1959	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
186		ORIENTAL ART. The Way of Buddha	(Bombay)	1958	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
187		ORIENTAL ART. Lalit Kala...	(New Delhi)		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
188		ORIENTAL ART. Ball. Decorative Motives of Oriental Art...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
189		ORIENTAL ART. Prasad. Geeta Govind in Basohli School of Indian Painting...	New Delhi, etc.		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
190	Max Tilke	ORIENTAL COSTUMES: their Designs and Colors	New York	1922	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
191	OZENFANT, AMEDE	Art: I. Bilan des Arts Modemes en France...	Paris	1928	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
192	Hamilton, G. H.	PELICAN HISTORY OF ART. The Art and Architecture of Russia...	Baltimore		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
193		PENNSYLVANIA. Raymond, Eleanor. Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania...	New York		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
194		PERSIAN ART. Pope, A. U. Persian Architecture: the Triumph of Form and Color...	New York		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
195	Ledlie Irwin Laughlin	PEWTER IN AMERICA: its Makers and Their Marks	Boston	1940	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
196		PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON	London	1812	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
197	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Works	Paris & New York	1932	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
198	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Oeuvres	Paris	1942	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
199	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Oeuvres	Paris	1949	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
200	PICASSO	PICASSO, PABLO. Oeuvres	Paris	1951	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
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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.

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.