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
126	Malcolm Browne	Malcolm Browne. Burning Monk, South Vietnam. 1963.	1963	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 990.00
127	John Rooney	John Rooney. Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston. 1965; printed 1969.	1965; printed 1969.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 889.00
128	Jack R. Thornell	Jack R. Thornell. The shooting of James Meredith during his March Against Fear. June 6, 1966.	June 6, 1966.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
129		45 press photographs documenting political assassinations and attempted assassinations, including Robert Kennedy Jr., President Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and others. 1910-81.	1910-81.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
130	Boris Yaro	Boris Yaro. The Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. 1968; printed 1970.	1968; printed 1970.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
131	Neil Armstrong	Neil Armstrong. NASA--Apollo 11. Buzz Aldrin, Jr. walks on the surface of the Moon. July 1969.	Circa 1980.	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 2,159.00
132		A press photograph of Patty Hearst from the Symbionese Liberation Army. 1974.	1974	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 539.00
133	Alfred Stieglitz	Alfred Stieglitz. The Terminal, from Camera Work Number 36. 1893; printed 1911.	1893; printed 1911.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 5,016.00
134	Karl Struss	Karl Struss. Busy street scene. Circa 1910.	Circa 1910.	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
135	Lewis W. Hine	Lewis W. Hine. On the Hoist, Riveter on the Empire State Building. 1931.	1931	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 17,780.00
136	Paul (1887) Wolff	Paul Wolff. Unemployed people in front of the central offices, New York (near Rockefeller Center). Circa 1932.	Circa 1932.	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 698.00
137	Berenice Abbott	Berenice Abbott. 23rd St. Surface Car. West 23rd St. March 26th, 1936.	1936	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
138	Berenice Abbott	Berenice Abbott. Father Duffy, Times Square. April 14, 1937; printed 1950s.	April 14, 1937; printed 1950s.	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
139	Berenice Abbott	Berenice Abbott. Charles Lane, between West and Washington Streets. 1938.	1938	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 3,556.00
140	Aaron Siskind	Aaron Siskind. Watermelon Man, from the Harlem Document series. 1940; printed circa 1980.	1940; printed Circa 1980.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,397.00
141	Weegee	Weegee [Arthur Fellig]. Opening Night at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. December 2, 1940; printed 1950s.	December 2, 1940; printed 1950s.	USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00	USD 6,858.00
142	Sid Grossman	Sid Grossman. New York - the Eighth Avenue "El" goes down. Circa 1941.	Circa 1941.	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
143	Morris Engel	Morris Engel. Shoeshine, 14th Street. 1947.	1947	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
144	John Albok	John Albok. Two Way Traffic, 96-97 Streets, Madison Ave., NYC. 1947.	1947	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,524.00
145	Louis Faurer	Louis Faurer. N.Y. (Woman with Umbrella). 1948; printed before 1981.	1948; printed before 1981.	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
146	Cornell Capa	Cornell Capa. Pitching Ball, New York. 1948; printed before 2001.	1948; printed before 2001.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,397.00
147	Louis Faurer	Louis Faurer. New York, N.Y. (Woman With Glasses and Balding Man). 1949; printed 1981.	1949; printed 1981.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
148		An archive with approximately 78 photographs documenting the El Morocco Club in New York. 1930s-50s.	1930s-50s.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
149	William Eugene Smith	W. Eugene Smith. Twelve Photos of the Broadway musical "South Pacific." March 24, 1949.	March 24, 1949.	USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00	Not Sold
150	Weegee	Weegee [Arthur Fellig]. Coney Island. 1950.	1950	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,112.00

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.