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
151	William Faulkner	William Faulkner — A Fable Signed	1954	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
152	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes — Autograph Quotation Signed	1885	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
153	Julia Ward Howe	Julia Ward Howe — Autograph Letter Signed	1897	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
154	Victor Hugo; John Quincy Adams; Fitz-Greene Halleck	Victor Hugo; and John Quincy Adams — Two Autograph Manuscripts Signed	1842; 1838	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Unknown
155	Washington Irving	Washington Irving — Autograph Manuscript	ND	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
156	Rudyard Kipling	Rudyard Kipling — Autograph Quotation Signed	1896	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
157	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie	1847; 1846	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
158	Charles Mackay	Charles Mackay — Group of 4 items Signed	1880s; 1894	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
159	W. Somerset Maugham	W. Somerset Maugham — The Narrow Corner Signed and Inscribed	1932	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
160	Andre Maurois	Andre Maurois — Autograph Manuscript Signed	ND	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
161	Herman Melville	Herman Melville — Signature on verso of engraved print	1863-91	USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	Unknown
162	Margaret Mitchell	Margaret Mitchell — Gone with the Wind Signed	1936	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
163	Friedrich Nietzsche	Friedrich Nietzsche — Photograph Signed and Inscribed	1884-1900	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Unknown
164	Eugene O'Neill	Eugene O'Neill — Photograph Signed and Inscribed	1946	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
165	Walter Scott	Walter Scott — Two items Signed	ND	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
166	George Bernard Shaw	George Bernard Shaw — Autograph Note Signed on postcard	1909	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
167	George Bernard Shaw	George Bernard Shaw — Autograph Letter Signed on postcard	1917	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
168	Rabindranath Tagore	Rabindranath Tagore — Autograph Letter Signed	1915	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
169	Thornton Wilder; Rockwell Kent	Thornton Wilder — The Bridge of San Luis Rey Two copies Signed	1929; 1963	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
170	Erskine Caldwell; G.K. Chesterton; Walter de la Mare; Alexandre Dumas fils; Laurence Housman; Aldous Huxley; Archibald MacLeish; John Masefield; Arthur Miller; Eugene O'Neill; Siegfried Sassoon; Booth Tarkington; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Saint Ouen; A.W. Cr	Group of 12 books, each Signed or Signed and Inscribed	1933; 1928; 1849; 1930; 1954; 1922; 1964; 1931; 1927; 1917; 1868; 1773; ND	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Unknown
171	Max Beerbohm; Lytton Strachey; Alfred Tennyson; G.K. Chesterton; Walter Crane; Robert Hichens; Richard Le Gallienne; Elisabeth Beerbohm; Herbert Beerbohm Tree; Constance Beerbohm	Group of 10 items Signed or Signed and Inscribed	1896-1915; 1923; ND; 1885; ND; circa 1897	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
172	Carl Andre	Carl Andre — Group of 10 Autograph Notes Signed on postcards	1976-82	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
173	Thomas Hart Benton	Thomas Hart Benton — Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed	1954	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
174	Maurits Cornelis Escher	Maurits Cornelis Escher — Archive of 8 items Signed	1963-70	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
175	Maurits Cornelis Escher	Maurits Cornelis Escher — Brief Autograph Note Signed	1967	USD 600.00 - 900.00	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.