Swann Galleries: Fine Photographs, 2738, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 30, 2026 - April 30, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roger Fenton | Group of 5 Crimean War Photographs |
Circa 1855 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 2 | George N. Barnard | Battlefield of New Hope Church, GA. No. 2, from Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign |
1866 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,159.00 | |
| 3 | Samuel (1834) Bourne | A selection of 6 photographs from India |
Circa 1863-66 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,540.00 | |
| 4 | Antonio Beato | Antonio Beato/ Peter E. Bergheim — An album of 27 photographs of Upper Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine |
1862-75 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 1,905.00 | |
| 5 | The Scourged Back |
Circa 1863; printed 1970s | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,188.00 | ||
| 6 | An African American couple |
Circa 1870 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | ||
| 7 | A pair of rare double exposure sixth plate tintypes |
1870s | USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 5,334.00 | ||
| 8 | A quarter plate tintype of young boy with a New Year l'Shana Tovah message in Hebrew |
1870s | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,397.00 | ||
| 9 | A beautiful Japanese album with 100 hand-colored photographs |
1880s | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,397.00 | ||
| 10 | Eadweard Muybridge | Men Wrestling, plate 332, from Animal Locomotion |
1887 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,224.00 | |
| 11 | Eadweard Muybridge | Woman Dancing (Fancy), plate 187 * Crossing brook on stepping-stones with fishing pole and a basket, plate 177, from Animal Locomotion |
1887 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 12,700.00 | |
| 12 | Timothy H. O'Sullivan | Black Canon, Colorado River, From Camp 8. Looking Above |
1871 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 4,826.00 | |
| 13 | A transcontinental American album featuring approximately 150 photographs |
Circa 1870s | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,810.00 | ||
| 14 | A remarkable album with 152 photographs of 16 cities in the United States and Canada documenting a period of immense urban growth |
1872-73 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,810.00 | ||
| 15 | William Henry Jackson | Canon of the Rio Las Animas |
Circa 1881 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 6,858.00 | |
| 16 | Arthur C. Pillsbury | A suite of 5 orotones featuring scenes of Yosemite Valley |
Circa 1900-20 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,048.00 | |
| 17 | Arthur C. Pillsbury | A triptych of three Yosemite scenes, including Gates of Yosemite and two images of the Falls |
Circa 1900-20 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 18 | A handsome album with approximately 350 photographs, including travels to primarily Cuba and Mexico, but also Maine and the White Mountains |
1909-10 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 19 | Edward S. Curtis | The Vanishing Race |
1904 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 5,808.00 | |
| 20 | Edward Sheriff Curtis | The Vanishing Race |
1904 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,048.00 | |
| 21 | Edward Sheriff Curtis | The Piki Maker, plate 432 * Hupa Mother and Child, plate 450 * A Zuni Woman, plate 614, from The North American Indian |
1903; 1906; 1923 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 22 | Edward Sheriff Curtis | A Walpi Man, plate 424 from The North American Indian |
1921 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,048.00 | |
| 23 | Laura Gilpin | Evening in Navajo Land |
1933 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 | USD 5,080.00 | |
| 24 | Arthur Rothstein | Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma * Skull, Badlands, South Dakota |
1936; printed circa 1980 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,524.00 | |
| 25 | Edward Weston | Texas Springs, Death Valley |
1938 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 5,334.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000