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 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
  • 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.