Swann Galleries: Fine Photographs, 2729, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 12, 2026 - February 12, 2026

Page Size: 290 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	Max Yavno	Max Yavno. Two men in a doorway. 1947.	1947	USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	USD 2,286.00
52	Eadweard Muybridge	Eadweard Muybridge. Mills' Seminary, Seminary Park, Alameda Co., Cal. 1872.	1872	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 12,700.00
53	Imogen Cunningham	Imogen Cunningham. A Swift. 1939.	1939	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 12,700.00
54	Dain L. Tasker	Dain L. Tasker. X-Ray of Hanging Fuchsia. 1930s.	1930s.	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
55	Adam Clark Vroman	Adam Clark Vroman. "Our Home on the Mesa" (Moqui Town, Arizona). 1895.	1895	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
56	Karl Struss	Karl Struss. Sunrise, Lake Arrowhead. 1926.	1926	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
57	Wynn Bullock	Wynn Bullock. Untitled (dreaming). Circa 1960.	Circa 1960.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,651.00
58	Anne Wardrope Brigman	Anne Brigman. Jack and Charmain London. Circa 1910.	Circa 1910.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,032.00
59		Pleiades Constellation. By Palomar Observatory and possibly printed by Ansel Adams before 1955.	before 1955.	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,544.00
60	Imogen Cunningham	Imogen Cunningham. Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. 1923; printed circa 1970s.	1923; printed Circa 1970s.	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
61	Edward Weston	Edward Weston. Eroded Rock, Monterey Coast. 1931.	1931	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
62	Will Connell	Will Connell. Mickey Mouse, from In Pictures. 1936.	1936	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
63	Bob Willoughby	Bob Willoughby. Portrait of Marilyn Monroe. 1952.	1952	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
64		Moving the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the "Spruce Goose." 1946.	1946	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
65		Eugene Ely's historic first airplane landing on a U.S. Navy warship, the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. January 18, 1911.	1911	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
66	Edward H. Mitchell	Edward H. Mitchell. Group of 4 agricultural exaggeration postcards featuring California produce. 1909-10.	1909-10.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 254.00
67	George Fiske	George Fiske. Dancing on Overhanging Rock, Glacier Point, Yosemite (Kitty Tatch). Circa 1905.	Circa 1905.	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
68		3000 convicts in San Quentin watching "Alias Jimmy Valentine" in the prison yard, a play addressing convict life and redemption. 1911.	1911	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
69	Edward (1911) Clark	Edward Clark. Gangster Mickey Cohen sits with L.A. papers that denounce him. 1949.	1949	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
70		Muscle Beach crowd. Circa 1950.	Circa 1950.	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
71	Marion Post Wolcott	Marion Post Wolcott. San Francisco from Bernal Heights. 1982.	1982	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
72	James N. Doolittle	James N. Doolittle. In the Poppy Fields. Circa 1936.	Circa 1936.	USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00	USD 3,556.00
73	Linnaeus Tripe	Linneaus Tripe. Amerapoora. Gautama's Shrine, from Burma Views. 1855; printed circa 1857.	1855; printed Circa 1857.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
74	George G. Rockwood	George G. Rockwood. Portrait of Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Circa 1854; printed 1895.	Circa 1854; printed 1895.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
75	Roger Fenton	Roger Fenton. General Bosquet. 1855; published 1856.	1855; published 1856.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,270.00

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

Forum Auctions
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
Forum Auctions
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.

Forum Auctions
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.

Forum Auctions
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.