Swann Galleries: The Artists of the WPA, 2727, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
Page Size: 302 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Arthur Rothstein

Arthur Rothstein, Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1937; printed circa 1980.

1937; printed circa 1980. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
52 Mabel Dwight

Mabel Dwight, Lonely House, 1938.

1938 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,016.00
53 Ada (1898) Gabriel

Ada V. Gabriel, Tree-lined Road, circa 1935.

circa 1935. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 412.00
54 Dox Thrash

Dox Thrash, Mount Zion, circa 1939-41.

circa 1939-41. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,810.00
55 Joseph Solman

Joseph Solman, Untitled (Rural House with Sign), circa 1940.

circa 1940. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,524.00
56 Beatrice Mandelman

Beatrice Mandelman, The White Church, circa 1941.

circa 1941. USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 3,810.00
57 Howard Norton Cook

Howard Cook, Greetings from the House of Weyhe, 1929.

1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
58 Todros Geller

Todros Geller, Towers, 1932.

1932 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,206.00
59 James Penney

James Penney, Crosstown Street - Trucks in the Rain, 1935.

1935 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 762.00
60 Fritz Eichenberg

Fritz Eichenberg, City Lights, 1934.

1934 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,079.00
61 Mortimer Borne

Mortimer Borne, L Fulton Street, circa 1935.

circa 1935. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 539.00
62 Ruth Chaney

Ruth Chaney, Elevated, circa 1935.

circa 1935. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 952.00
63 S. L. Margolies

Samuel Margolies, Fifty-Ninth and Fifth, 1936.

1936 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,651.00
64 Adolf Arthur Dehn

Adolf Dehn, Lower Manhattan, 1936.

1936 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 698.00
65 Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott, Cropsey Avenue #2442, Brooklyn, NY, October 1936.

1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
66 Ruth Chaney

Ruth Chaney, Modern Ruins, circa 1936-38.

circa 1936-38. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,270.00
67 Beulah Stevenson

Beulah Stevenson, Brooklyn, NY, circa 1938.

circa 1938. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 4,064.00
68 Leon Bibel

Leon Bibel, Upper Harlem River.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 7,112.00
69 Jules Halfant

Jules Halfant, Harlem Shop, 1937.

1937 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,159.00
70 Charles Surendorf

Charles Frederick Surendorf, Russian Town - San Francisco, 1937.

1937 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 762.00
71 Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott, Grand Street, 605 to 609, Manhattan, April 1937.

April 1937. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,794.00
72 Leon Bibel

Leon Bibel, Railway Station, 1938.

1938 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,143.00
73 Mortimer Borne

Mortimer Borne, East 42nd Street, 1938.

1938 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,206.00
74 Albert (1906) Gold

Albert Gold, Sunday Trolley, circa 1940.

circa 1940. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 571.00
75 Daniel Ralph Celentano

Daniel Ralph Celentano, 125th Street, circa 1940.

circa 1940. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,778.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
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    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
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    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
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    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.