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
201	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Oeuvres	Paris	1952	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
202	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Oeuvres	Paris	1955	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
203	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Oeuvres	Paris	1957	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
204	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Oeuvres	Paris	1958	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
205	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Sketchbook	New York	1960	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
206	PICASSO, PABLO	PICASSO, PABLO. Toreros	New York	1961	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
207	PICASSO, PABLO	Toros y Toreros. Texte de Luis Miguel Dominguin, et une Etude de Georges Boudaille	(New York)	1961	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
208		PICASSO. L'Oeuvre Grave...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
209	Cirici Pellicer, A.	(PICASSO). Picasso antes de Picasso	Barcelona	1946	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
210		PICTURE BOOKS. UNESCO. Turkey: Ancient Miniatures...	New York, etc.		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
211	POPE-HENNESSY, UNA	Early Chinese Jades	London	1923	USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
212		PRINT-COLLECTOR'S QUARTERLY	New York, London, etc.		USD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
213	Ruskin, John	RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The King of the Golden River	Philadelphia		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
214		(REDOUTE). Hunt Botanical Library	Pittsburgh	1963	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
215		REMBRANDT. Complete Etchings	New York	1925	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
216	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Pony Tracks	New York	1895	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
217	Dodge, T. A.	REMINGTON ILLUSTRATIONS. Riders of Many Lands	New York	1894	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
218	RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE	N. E. La Paysane Pervertie...			USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
219		ROCKWELL, NORMAN: The Album	Garden City	1961	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
220	ROTHENSTEIN, JOHN	Modern English Painters: Sickert to Moore	London		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
221	Combe, William	ROWLANDSON COLOR PLATES. The First [Second, Third] Tour of Doctor Syntax	London		USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
222	Kent, William Winthrop	RUGS. Rare Hooked Rugs	Springfield, Mass.	1941	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
223		RUSSIAN MUSEUMS. Two portfolios of colored reproductions...		1938	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
224	SCHWARZ, CARL BENJAMIN	Sechs Farbige Ansichten von Leipzig	Leipzig	1936	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
225		SCRAPBOOK. Fine scrapbook containing some 250 English engravings and lithographs, chiefly dating from the Regency and Georgian periods	English		USD 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
226		SCULPTURE. Gauthier. Nat Smolin...	Paris, etc.		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
227	Dahlberg, Edward	(SHAHN, BEN). The Sorrows of Priapus	New Directions	1957	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
228	Hackenbroch, Yvonne	SILVER. English and other Silver in the IRWIN UNTER-MYER Collection	New York	1963	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
229		SILVER. Hayward. Huguenot Silver in England, 1688-1727...	London		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
230		SILVER. Hood. American Silver...	London and New York		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
231		SKIRA ART HISTORIES. Peintres du XVIIIe: par Vaudoyer, Benoist, et al...	Paris		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
232	Peter Morse	(SLOAN, JOHN). John Sloan's Prints: a Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters	New Haven	1969	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
233	Maugham, W. Somerset	SLOAN ETCHINGS. Of Human Bondage	New York	1938	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
234	SOYER, RAPHAEL	Homage to Thomas Eakins, Etc.	South Brunswick	1966	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
235	SOYER, RAPHAEL	Self-Revealment, a Memoir	New York	1969	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
236		SPANISH ART. Arte y Decoracion en Espana	Barcelona		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
237	Cook, Walter W. S.; & Gudiol Ricart, Jose	SPANISH ART. Pintura e Imagineria Romanicas	Madrid	1950	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
238		SPANISH PAINTING. (Goldscheider). El Greco...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
239		SPANISH REVOLUTION. Estampas de la Revolucion Espanola, 19 Julio de 1936		1936	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
240		STEINLEN. Group of 14 color lithographs, extracted from GIL BLAS ILLUSTRE			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
241		STEINLEN. Group of 20 color lithographs extracted from GIL BLAS ILLUSTRE			USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
242	STERNER, ALBERT	Handsome pencil portrait of the Duc de Richelieu		1917	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
243		TEXTILES. Bound volume containing 26 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT Relating to commerce in textiles, etc.	London	1690	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
244	UZANNE, OCTAVE	L'Ombrelle, le Gant, le Manchon	Paris	1883	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
245	VASARI, GIORGIO	Opere	Firenze		USD 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
246	Wilde, Oscar	VASSOS LITHOGRAPHS. The Ballad of Reading Gaol	New York	1928	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
247	VEDRES, NICOLE	Un Siecle d'Elegance Francaise. Preface de Leon-Paul Fargue	Paris	1943	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
248		VERVE: an Artistic and Literary Quarterly	Paris	1937	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
249	Racine, Jean	VILLON ETCHINGS. Cantique Spirituel	(Paris)	1945	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
250	WARD, LYND	Prelude to a Million Years: a Book of Wood Engravings	New York	1933	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
251	WARNER, WORCESTER REED	Selections from Oriental Objects of Art . . . most of which have been presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art	Tarrytown	1921	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
252	WATERBURY, FLORENCE	Early Chinese Svmbols and Literature: Vestiges and Speculations, with particular reference to the Ritual Bronzes of the Shang Dynasty	New York	1942	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
253		WEDGWOOD: by Wolf Mankowitz...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
254	WILLIAMS, C. A. S.	Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives: an Alphabetical Compendium of Antique Legends and Beliefs	Shanghai	1932	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
255	WILLIAMS, HUGH W.	Select Views in Greece, with Classical Illustrations	London	1829	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
256		ZEN PAINTING: by Yasuichi Awakawa...	(Tokyo)		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
257	ZIMMER, HEINRICH	The Art of Indian Asia: its Mythology and Transformations		1955	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
258	ZOCCHI, GIUSEPPE	Views of Florence	New York	1967	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
259	Paul S. Wingert	ZORACH, WILLIAM: the Sculpture	New York	1938	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
260	F. Febre et T. Johnson	ALBUM DE LA COMEDIE FRANCAISE	Paris London	1879	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
261		ALHAMBRA. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra...	London	1842	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
262	Thierry	ARCHITECTURE. Recueil d'Escaliers en Pierre, Charpente, Menuiserie et en Fonte, a l'usage des Ouvriers en Batiments	Paris		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
263		ART-JOURNAL, THE. Fine run, from 1849 through 1870, lacking only 1855	London		USD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
264		ARTISTIC COUNTRY SEATS: Types of Recent America Villa and Cottage Architecture	New York		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
265		ARTISTIC HOMES: a Series of Interior Views of a number of the Most Beautiful and Celebrated Homes in the United States, with a Description of the Art Treasures contained therein	New York		USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
266		BAPTISTRY OF FLORENCE. Le Tre Porte del Battistero di San Giovanni di Firenze	Firenze	1821	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
267		BARTOLOZZI AND OTHERS. Italian School of Design: One Hundred and Fifty-Two	London	1835	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
268	BENEZIT, E.	Les Peintres Anciens et Modernes: leur Vie, leur Oeuvre	Paris	1900	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
269	BENEZIT, E.	Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs & Graveurs de tous les Temps et de tous les Pays	Paris	1924	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
270		(BERENSON AND VALENTINER). Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings and some Art Objects	Philadelphia		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
271	BOSC, ERNEST	Dictionnaire de l'Art, de la Curiosite et du Bibelot	Paris	1883	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
272	BROWNE, JOHN	The History of the Meropolitan Church of St. Peter, York	London	1848	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
273	BUCHANAN, WILLIAM	Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution	London	1824	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
274	CADORIN, LODOVICO	Studii Teorici e Pratici di Architettura e di Ornata per la Erezione Principalmente delle Fabbriche in Terra Cotta, adattati ai bisogni del Secolo	(Venice)	1840	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
275	CANOVA, ANTONIO	Opere Scelte, incise da Reveil, e dilucidate da Domenico Anzelmi	Napoli	1842	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
276		CHINESE COSTUMES: Illustrations Hand Painted	Peking	1932	USD 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
277		COPPER PLATE MAGAZINE, OR MONTHLY CABINET Of Picturesque Prints, consisting of Sublime and Interesting Views in Great Britain and Ireland	London		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
278	Corrado Ricci	CORREGGIO, ANTONIO ALLEGRI DA: His Life, his Friends, and his Time	London	1896	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
279		CRYSTAL PALACE. The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue [of] The Industry of All Nations, 1851	London	1852	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
280		CRYSTAL PALACE. The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue [of] the Industry of All Nations, 1851	London	1852	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
281	DALY, CESAR	L'Architecture Privee au XIXme Siecle sous Napoleon III	Paris	1864	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
282		DAVID D'ANGERS, P.-J. L'Oeuvre de	Paris	1873	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
283		ELGIN MARBLES, FROM THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS	London	1818	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
284		EXHIBITION OF 1862. The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, 1862	London & New York	1862	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
285		FALTI [FALDA!], G. B. Romanorum Fontinalia, sive nitidissimorum perenniumque	Norimbergae	1685	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
286	FRY, JOHN HEMMING	Greek Myths, and Other Symbols: from a Group of Paintings by Fry		1927	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
287	Arthur T. Bolton, editor	GARDENS OF ITALY: with Historical and Descriptive Notes by E. March Phillipps	London	1919	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
288	Fanny Field Hering	GEROME: the Life and Works of Jean Leon Gerome	New York	1892	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
289		GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE ART: Collection of the late THOMAS FORTUNE RYAN	New York	1933	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
290		GREAT BRITAIN ILLUSTRATED: a Series of Original Views from Drawings by William Westall, engraved by and under the direction of Edward Finden	London	1830	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
291	HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM	Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases of Greek Workmanship	Naples	1795	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
292	HENDSCHEL, A.	Blatter aus A. Hendschel's Skizzenbuch	Frankfurt	1875	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
293	A. L. Baldry	HERKOMER, HUBERT VON: A Study and a Biography	London	1901	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
294		IDEES NOUVELLES DE LA MODE ET DES ARTS. Group of 8 issues of this splendid monthly			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
295		ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Group of 6 bound volumes, as below	London		USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
296		IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, LONDON. Proceedings for the Establishment of a Royal School of Applied Design for Women	(London)	1894	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
297	Rosenthal, Ludwig	INCUNABULA. Incunabula Xylographica et Chalcographica	Munchen	1892	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
298	M. P. Fabricius	KREMLIN DE MOSCOU: Esquisses et Tableaux, Autrefois et Aujourd'hui	Moscou	1883	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
299	LAMPE, LOUIS	Signatures et Monogrammes des Peintres de Toutes les Ecoles	Bruxelles		USD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
300	LANDON, C. P.	Annales du Musee et de l'Ecole Modeme des Beaux-Arts...	Paris: Landon		USD 60.00 - 100.00	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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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
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.