Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2732, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026
Page Size: 366 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126

1968 SNCC Engagement Calendar.

1968 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,794.00
127 Lorraine Hansberry.

A Matter of Colour, signed by Martin Luther King and others.

[England 1965] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,255.00
128

Records of the San Fernando Valley Branch of the NAACP.

Pacoima, CA 1969-1970 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 603.00
129

Vote for Thomas E.

Gilmore for Sheriff of Greene County AL circa 1970 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 698.00
130

Stop the Michael Stewart Murder-Cover-Up.

New York 7 November [1983] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 635.00
131 Lewis Putnam.

A Sketch of Hamilton County . . . Coloured People in the City of New-York, 1847

1847 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,255.00
132

Negro Heroes: True Stories Told in Full Color.

New York 1947 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,079.00
133

Group of Brother Voodoo and Black Lightning comics.

New York 1973-1978 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 698.00
134

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

Boston 1846 [1847] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,016.00
135 William Emory Bowman.

Carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Douglass.

Ottawa, IL [April 1866] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,588.00
136

Deed signed as District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds.

[Washington] docketed on 14 October 1885 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 792.00
137

Three Addresses on the Relations Subsisting Between the White and Colored People, 1886

1886 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,064.00
138

Admission card to the funeral of Frederick Douglass.

[Washington] 25 February 1895 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,651.00
139

Souvenir spoon commemorating the life of Frederick Douglass.

[Chicago, IL 1896] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,016.00
140

The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, first edition, first printing.

Chicago 1903 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,700.00
141

The Negro Artisan / The Negro American Artisan.

Atlanta 1902 and 1912 [1913] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
142

D.D. Lewis The Revelator for Understanding: How to Be happy.

New York 1942 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 222.00
143

Pair of stereoviews of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum.

New York circa 1862 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
144

Photograph albums of Louisville's Presbyterian Colored Mission, circa 1898 to 1946

circa 1898 to 1946 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,620.00
145 Harrison Rhodes.

A Black Martha and Her School.

No place 1913 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,206.00
146

Photograph album of an event at Tuskegee Institute.

Tuskegee, AL 1921 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 476.00
147

Autograph album kept at the Kentucky Normal Industrial Institute.

[Frankfort, KY] circa 1925 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 4,064.00
148

Annual Catalogue, Howard University, group of ten.

Washington 1920-1932 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 571.00
149

Autograph album and photographs of a Hampton Institute graduate, 1922-1953

1922-1953 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
150

Photograph of Farm Security Administration educators with migrant farm workers.

Pocomoke, MD 1942 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.