Swann Galleries: Illustration Art, 2723, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025
Page Size: 337 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
227 Davis Meltzer

3 illustrations: Magnetosphere of Jupiter, Lo's flux tube and torus, and Jupiter's cloud cover. 1983.

1983 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 952.00
228 Davis Meltzer

7 quasar and black hole illustrations 1980.

1980 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
229 Gustav Michelson

Floral-crowned beauty with mirror. Circa 1920.

Circa 1920. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
230 Barse Miller

A.R.C. 'Christmas Message' Broadcast from Radio Tokyo. 1945.

1945 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
231 Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell

Dancing soldiers. 1898.

1898 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,452.00
232 Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell

A Spring Pig. 1893.

1893 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 924.00
233 Herbert Paus

Keep going faster, can't you? 1933.

1933 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
234 Herbert Paus

Dressage lesson. 1941.

1941 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 603.00
235 Thomas Mitchell Peirce

Seated woman with fan and rose. Circa 1910.

Circa 1910. USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
236 Hal Phyfe

Flapper / starlet portrait. Circa 1920.

Circa 1920. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
237 Jerry Pinkney

Vice President Spiro Agnew. Circa 1970.

Circa 1970. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
238 George Quaintance

Valentine for Betty & Bob. Circa 1930.

Circa 1930. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
239 Robert O. Reid

Skiing accident. 1940.

1940 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 762.00
240 Robert O. Reid

Dates unknown, Summer Boarders Taken. 1940.

1940 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 698.00
241 Norman Rockwell

Out of the blackness Wolf launched himself, straight for the trespasser's throat. 1918.

1918 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 33,020.00
242 Arnold Roth

15 illustrations for Time Magazine. Circa 1980.

Circa 1980. USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 USD 762.00
243 Robert Sauber

Albert Einstein (The Watchmaker.)

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
244 Mead Schaeffer

Sailing ship. 1935.

1935 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,079.00
245 Ernest Howard Shepard

Vicar's Wife. 'I'm afraid I cannot offer you more than twenty-eight pounds a year.' 1921.

1921 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 412.00
246 Robert Sherry

Waco UPF-7. Circa 1970.

Circa 1970. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
247 Ben Stahl

Hornblower watched the bridge as they approached. 1946.

1946 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 429.00
248 Herbert Morton Stoops

WWI French soldiers. Circa 1940.

Circa 1940. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 698.00
249 Frederic Stanley

Boy with rifle and dog. Circa 1940.

Circa 1940. USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 990.00
250 Gustaf Adolf Tenggren

You mean if I was a good Soviet citizen, I'd immediately marry you. 1934.

1934 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,540.00
251 Saul Tepper

The Lantern Man. 1938.

1938 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
  • 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. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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