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
126	Johannes Brahms	Johannes Brahms — Autograph Note	1895	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
127	Gaetano Donizetti	Gaetano Donizetti — Autograph Letter Signed	ND	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
128	Tom Caravaglia	Philip Glass — Large Photograph Signed	c. 1985	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
129	Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka	Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka — Autograph Musical Quotation Signed	1844	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
130	Fromental Halevy	Fromental Halevy — Two Signed Items	1842; 1838?	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
131	Ruggiero Leoncavallo	Ruggiero Leoncavallo — Autograph Letter Signed	1897	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
132	Franz Liszt	Franz Liszt — Musical Manuscript Signed and Inscribed	ND	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Unknown
133	Franz Liszt	Franz Liszt — Autograph Letter Signed	1881	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
134	Franz Liszt	Franz Liszt — Autograph Note Signed	ND	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
135	Jules Massenet	Jules Massenet — Group of 6 Signed Items	1876-1912	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
136	Gioachino Rossini	Gioachino Rossini — Document Signed	1824	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
137	Gioachino Rossini	Gioachino Rossini — Autograph Letter Signed	1842	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
138	Anton Rubinstein	Anton Rubinstein — Two Signed Items	1858; 1876	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
139	Anton Rubinstein	Anton Rubinstein — Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and Inscribed	1886	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
140	Stephen Sondheim	Stephen Sondheim — Small Archive of Typed Letters Signed	1983-2008; 1973; 2007	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
141	Gasparo Spontini	Gasparo Spontini — Three Letters Signed	1822; 1848	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
142	Ambroise Thomas	Ambroise Thomas — Group of 4 Signed Items	ND; 1856; 1877; 1886	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
143	Giuseppe Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi — Letter Signed	1855	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
144	Pablo Casals; Cole Porter; Marian Anderson	Pablo Casals; Cole Porter; Marian Anderson — Three Signed Items	ND; 1963	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
145	Ignacy Jan Paderewski; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Edward Elgar; Jascha Heifetz; Camille Saint-Saens	Ignacy Jan Paderewski; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Edward Elgar; Jascha Heifetz; Camille Saint-Saens — Signed Group	1916; ND; 1928	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
146	Enrico Caruso; Josef Hofmann; Amelita Galli-Curci; Fritz Kreisler; Aileen Stanley; Grace La Rue; Albert Spalding	Enrico Caruso; Josef Hofmann; Amelita Galli-Curci; Fritz Kreisler; Aileen Stanley; Grace La Rue; Albert Spalding — Signed Group	1921; 1936; ND	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
147	George Gordon Noel Byron	George Gordon Noel Byron — Autograph Letter Signed	1815	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
148	Agatha Christie	Agatha Christie — Two Autograph Letters Signed	1960s; 1974; 1987	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
149	T.S. Eliot	T.S. Eliot — Four Quartets	1960	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
150	T.S. Eliot	T.S. Eliot — The Waste Land	1961	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	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.