Swann Galleries: Autographs, 2735, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026

Page Size: 185 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Alfonso V, King of Aragon & Sicily	Alfonso V — Vellum Document Signed	1435	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
27	Roald Amundsen	Sydpolen: Den Norske Sydpolsfaerd med Fram 1910-1912 — Signed	1912; 1913	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
28	Susan B. Anthony	Susan B. Anthony — Photograph Signed and Dated	1887	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
29	Benedict XV, Pope	Benedict XV — Photograph Dated and Signed	1914	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
30	Benedict XV, Pope	Benedict XV — Photograph Dated and Signed	1917	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
31	James Buchanan Brady	James Buchanan Brady — Typed Document Signed	1909	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
32	Andrew Carnegie	Andrew Carnegie — Photograph dated and Signed	1919; 1918	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
33	Andrew Carnegie	Andrew Carnegie — Typed Letter Signed	1901	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
34	Chiang Kai-Shek	Chiang Kai-Shek — Signature	1964	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
35	Winston S. Churchill	Winston S. Churchill — Typed Letter Signed	1946	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
36	Charles Cornwallis	Charles Cornwallis — Autograph Letter Signed	1789	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
37	Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre	Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre — Autograph Letter Signed	1839	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
38	Charles Darwin	Charles Darwin — Letter Signed	1876	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
39	Benjamin Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli — Small archive of 8 Autograph Letters	1834-48	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
40	Benjamin Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli — Two Autograph Letters Signed	1859; 1871	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
41	Amelia Earhart	Amelia Earhart — Signature	N/A	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
42	Thomas A. Edison	Thomas A. Edison — Document Signed	1881	USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	Unknown
43	Thomas A. Edison; Hudson Maxim	Thomas A. Edison; and Hudson Maxim — Photograph Signed	1921	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
44	Thomas A. Edison	Thomas A. Edison — Brief Typed Letter Signed	1911; 1912	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
45	Edward VII	Edward VII — Brief Autograph Letter Signed	1850; 1883	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
46	Ferdinand I	Ferdinand I — Letter Signed and Inscribed	1835	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
47	Henry Ford	Henry Ford — Signature	1934	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
48	Warren Hastings	Warren Hastings — Three items, each Signed	1774; 1776; 1782	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
49	Charles Evans Hughes	Charles Evans Hughes — Group of 5 Photographs Signed	1921	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
50	Alfred Kinsey	Alfred Kinsey — Four Typed Letters Signed	1949-51	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Unknown

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.