Swann Galleries: Fine Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books | Total Sales (USD) | 1,052,022.00 |
| Auction Date | October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 594,200.00 |
| Sale Number | #2717 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 874,700.00 |
| Total Lots | 384 | ||
| Sold Lots | 333.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 718,600.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 86.72% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,058,200.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 51 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 99.42% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 146 | Sebastian Munster | Chaldaica Grammatica |
1527 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 107,950.00 |
| 360 | Pablo Picasso | Six Signed Proofs of Original Etchings Made to Illustrate an Edition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata |
1934 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 |
| 344 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | Author's Album Containing Retained Copies of Letters |
January 1951-June 1956 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 33,020.00 |
| 291 | Book of Hours. Illuminated Prayerbook Manuscript in Latin |
mid- to late-15th century | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 24,130.00 | |
| 338 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind |
1936 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 20,320.00 |
| 124 | Michael Maestlin | Epitome Astronomiae |
1582 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 |
| 342 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
1998-10-01 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 |
| 108 | Johannes Kepler | Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanane |
1635 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 |
| 109 | Johannes Kepler | De Cometis Libelli Tres |
1609 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 |
| 306 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
1886 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 370A | Christopher Wool | Black Book |
1989 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 380 | L. Frank Baum | The Magic of Oz, Cast Signed Copy |
1919 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 370 | Francesca Woodman | Some Disordered Interior Geometries |
1981 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
| 330 | James Joyce | Ulysses |
1922 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 276 | Andrea Palladio | The Architecture of Palladio in Four Books |
1742 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 12,065.00 |
| 51 | Nicolaus Copernicus | De Revolutionibus, A Fragment |
1566 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 10,160.00 |
| 324 | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
1940 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 10,160.00 |
| 334 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
1960 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 10,160.00 |
| 11 | Aristarchus of Samos | De Magnitudinibus et Distantiis Solis et Lunae Liber |
1572 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 35 | Wenceslaus Faber de Budweis [aka Wenzel Faber von Budweis] | Opusculum Tabularum Utile Verarum Solis & Lune Coniunctionum |
[about 1498-99] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 |
| 309 | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
1886 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 |
| 371 | Armory Show: Four Complete Bound Catalogues from the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art |
February-May 1913 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 | |
| 14 | Charles Babbage | The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, Author's Presentation Copy to Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) |
1838 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 8,255.00 |
| 198 | Johannes de Sacrobosco | Sphaera Mundi |
4 October 1490 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,255.00 |
| 6 | Petrus Apianus | Instrument Buch-durch Petrum Apianum erst von New Beschriben |
1533 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,620.00 |
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