Page 8 - Swann Galleries - The Trumpet - Fall - Winter 2012

MAPS &ATLASES, NATURAL
HISTORY & HISTORICAL
PRINTS, EPHEMERA
DECEMBER 6
We are pleased to offer one of the
finest collections of maps relating
to Japan in the West. Gathered by
Dr. Stephen and Michiko Levine
over 40 years, the collection shows
the emerging knowledge of Japan
through four centuries.
Highlights from the rest of the sale
include maps and atlases of American
subjects, and a fine selection of books
about birds, all with splendid plates.
Ortelius /Teixeira,
Japoniae Insulae Descripto,
first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas,
Antwerp, 1595. $5,000 to $7,500.
DEPARTMENTS
We are delighted to be reinstating our Old Master
Drawings auction this January to coincide with Master
Drawings week in NewYork.This sale will include fine
drawings by artists who worked in Europe between the
15
th and 19th centuries. For inquiries, please contact
fine art specialistToddWeyman.
Also in January, we will offer work by 20th-century
illustrators andcar toonists,includingSorel,Hirschfeld
and Arno. A private collection of works by the
late Maurice Sendak contains over 50 signed books
and illustrations. Contact: George Lowry, ext 15,
UPCOMING IN JANUARY
Phone:
212-254-4710
Fax:
212-979-1017
African-American Fine Art
African Americana
Americana
Autographs
15
th-18th Century Books,
Medical, Scientific &Travel Books
19
th & 20th Century Literature
Art & Illustrated Books
Maps & Atlases
Photographs & Photobooks
Prints & Drawings,
Paintings & Contemporary Fine Art
Vintage Posters
Fine &VintageWriting Instruments
Business hours:
Nigel Freeman ext 33
Wyatt Houston Day ext 300
Rick Stattler ext 27
MarcoTomaschett ext 12
Tobias Abeloff ext 18
John Larson ext 61
Christine von der Linn ext 20
Gary Garland ext 17
Daile Kaplan ext 21
ToddWeyman ext 32
Nicholas D. Lowry ext 53
Rick Propas ext 304
10-6
Monday through Friday
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS
DECEMBER 11
An excellent assortment of photobooks includes
Robert Frank’s
The Lines of My Hand
, 1972;
Alvin
Langdon Coburn’s
The Cloud
,
with six platinum prints,
1912;
Jack Smith’s groundbreaking
The Beautiful Book
,
1959;
and Christian Boltanski’s
Les Modeles,
1979.
Featured vintage prints are a suite of four snowflakes
by W.A. Bentley, 1903-10; Edward Steichen’s
Mrs.
Steichen and the Steichen Children
,
Voulangis, France,
1908;
Harry Callahan’s
Cape Cod
, 1973;
and Robert
Adams’s view of
Southwest from the South Jetty
,
Oregon, 1990-95.
Get ready to be carried away!
Our specialized December posters
sale features a private collection
of movie posters from a specific,
peculiar and most engaging genre
of imagery: monsters with maidens
caught in their clutches.While not
all of the posters depict monsters
(
there are robots and even some
heroes,too) the theme of a beautiful
woman slung over the arm of some
villain is campy iconography sure to
capture imaginations for a number
of reasons, from the psychological
to the primal.
MONSTERSWITH MAIDENS:A FILM POSTER COLLECTION
DECEMBER 18
Alvin Langdon Coburn,
The Cloud
,
with poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley,
one of 60 signed copies, Los Angeles, 1917. $25,000 to $35,000.
Le Jour ou laTerre S’Arreta
, 1951.
$1,200 to $1,800.