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
177 Jack Ohman

...Relax. I'll worry about the FDA approval later... 1985.

1985 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
178 Jack Ohman

Tell me again, Charles - they fought the revolution to be free from royalty? 1985.

1985 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
179 Jack Ohman

...Da! Da! We talk more! 1985.

1985 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
180 Russell Patterson

It was so romantic! They met on a double date! 1944.

1944 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
181 Russell Patterson

Stop squirming, Susie - I told you it would take a lot of pluck, if you want beautiful eyebrows. 1945.

1945 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,905.00
182 Mike Peters

OK...I'll stop doing algebra in your church, if you stop telling me to pray in my school... 1985

1985 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
183 Mike Peters

CIA Counter Intelligence. 1985.

1985 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
184 Mike Peters

Mr. Secretary, the Russian delegation has arrived... 1983.

1983 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
185 William Steig

The Time Reader as seen by Wm. Steig. Circa 1950.

Circa 1950. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,905.00
186 William Steig

Drudge. Circa 1940.

Circa 1940. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,112.00
187 William Steig

He who gets slapped. Circa 1940.

Circa 1940. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,206.00
188 William Steig

Unused title page illustration for Gorky Rises. Circa 1980.

Circa 1980. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 4,572.00
189 Theophile Alexandre Steinlen

L'epouvantable sinistre du Quartier Latin / The terrible disaster in the Latin Quarter. 1884.

1884 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 35,560.00
190 Unknown artist signed S. Swan

"Look for the Union Label." 1985.

1985 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
191 Harold Morton Talburt

See! We'll quit feeding her. 1958.

1958 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
192 H. Weston Taylor

Do hurry, Ronald! We'll be frightfully late! Circa 1930.

Circa 1930. USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
193 Tomi Ungerer

Drawing for Dover Books. Circa 1970.

Circa 1970. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,905.00
194 Arthur Henry Young

2 political cartoons: Diploma Day for Graduate Politicians and Figure at a Podium. Circa 1915.

Circa 1915. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 429.00
195 Tore Asplund

November Sycamore. 1960.

1960 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 952.00
196 Howard Baer

United Nations Club, dance hall in Kumming. 1945.

1945 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
197 Rudolf Bauer

Toddler toasting with Champagne, circa 1920.

circa 1920. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 508.00
198 Hans (1907) Michaelis

A Jeep in Japan. 1950.

1950 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
199 Hans (1907) Michaelis

Barceloneta, Las Corts. Circa 1955.

Circa 1955. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
200 Hans (1907) Michaelis

Impressions of Cuba. 1949.

1949 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
201 Austin Eugene Briggs

She stood there motionless - lovely and waiting. 1955.

1955 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 412.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.