Swann Galleries: Autographs, 2735, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Edward M. Purcell; Felix Bloch | Edward M. Purcell; Felix Bloch — Signed Items |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 77 | Wilhelm Rontgen | Wilhelm Rontgen — Inscription Signed |
1905 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 78 | William Shockley | William Shockley — Signed First Day Cover and Offprint |
1973; 1980; 1957; 1974 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 79 | William Shockley; John Bardeen; Walter Houser Brattain | William Shockley; John Bardeen; Walter Brattain — Photographs Signed |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 80 | Various | Nobel Laureates in Physics — Group of Signed Items |
1887-2021 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 81 | Julius Robert Oppenheimer | Julius Robert Oppenheimer — Signature |
ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 82 | Paul Robeson | Paul Robeson — Program for Othello |
c. 1942; 2004 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 83 | Nathan Mayer Rothschild | Nathan Mayer Rothschild — Letter Signed |
1832 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 84 | Charles M. Schwab; James H. Ward | Charles M. Schwab — Signed Letter and Photograph |
1921; ND | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Unknown | |
| 85 | George Washington Goethals; Hudson Maxim; Albert Cushing Read | Group of 6 Signed Items to Yosaku Minami |
1919; c. 1919 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 86 | George Gamow; Oliver Sacks; Glenn T. Seaborg; Reinhold Niebuhr; Mortimer J. Adler | Group of 5 Letters Signed by Scientists |
1959-2015 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 87 | Neil Armstrong | Neil Armstrong — Photograph Signed |
1960s | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 88 | Collins and Kraemer | Space: Discovery and Exploration — Signed by Astronauts |
1993; 1994-95 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 89 | Arthur Orton | Tichborne Claimant — Three Signed Items |
1874; 1882; ND | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 90 | Cornelius Vanderbilt | Cornelius Vanderbilt — Clipped Signature and date |
1876 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 91 | Arthur Wellesley Wellington | Arthur Wellesley Wellington — Group of 4 Signed Items |
1820; 1844; 1842 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 92 | William Ewart Gladstone; John Jellicoe; David Lloyd George; Herbert H. Asquith; Douglas Haig | World Leaders — Britain — Group of 8 Signed Items |
1938; 1939; 1919 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 93 | Alexandre Millerand; Raymond Poincare; Philippe Petain | World Leaders — France — Three Photographs Signed |
c. 1920 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 94 | Alvaro Obregon; Nicholas Murray Butler; Patrick Joseph Hayes; John J. Pershing; William Gibbs McAdoo; Robert Lansing; Belisario Porras; Epitacio Pessoa; Eleftherios Venizelos; Vittorio Emanuele Orlando; Desire-Joseph Mercier; John Francis Hylan | World Leaders — Group of 12 Photographs Signed |
c. 1919; 1919; 1921 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 95 | William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Eddie Rickenbacker; Richard E. Byrd; Martin Buber; Horace Greeley; Josh Billings; Arnold J. Toynbee; George Abbott; George S. Kaufman; Stephen Samuel Wise; Otis Skinner; Alexander von Humboldt | Miscellaneous — Group of 13 Signed Items |
1892; 1949; 1902 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 96 | Chuck Close; Hillary Clinton | Hillary Clinton; and Chuck Close — Signed Portrait |
2016 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 97 | Millard Fillmore | Millard Fillmore — Autograph Letter Signed |
1851 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 98 | James A. Garfield | James A. Garfield — Partly-printed Document Signed |
1874 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 99 | Ulysses S. Grant | Ulysses S. Grant — Autograph Letter Signed |
1883 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 100 | Andrew Jackson | Andrew Jackson — Autograph Letter Signed |
1821 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown |
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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 AprilSotheby’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.