Page 7 - Swann Galleries - The Trumpet - Winter / Spring 2013

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FINE BOOKS APRIL 11
Coinciding as always with the opening of the NewYork Antiquarian Book Fair, this auction is comprised of
choice works from many fields.There is a substantial selection of incunabula chiefly from the collection of
Kenneth Rapoport, early illustrated books and calligraphy and writing manuals. Noteworthy items include
Boccaccio, Genealogiae deorum gentilium,Venice, 1472; Plato, Opera,Venice, 1491;Arrighi, Regola da imparare
scrivere . . . et il modo di temperare le penne, Venice, 1533; Aemilius, Biblicae historiae artificiossime depic-
tae, Biblische Historien, figürlich fürgebildet, Frankfur t am Main, 1537; the small-format Bible in Hebrew
printed by Rober t Estienne, Paris, 1544-46; Nunes, De arte atque ratione navigandi, Coimbra, 1573;
Frederik III, King of Denmark, Lex Regia, Det er: Den Souveraine Konge-Lov , Copenhagen, 1709; Jackson,
An Essay on the Invention of Engraving and Printing in Chiaro Oscuro , London, 1754; a hand-colored copy
of Beketov, Opisanie v Litsakh Torzhestva, proiskhodivshago v 1626 Godu , Moscow, 1810; and Darwin et
al., Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, London, 1839.
Audubon and Bachman, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Folio Edition, NewYork, 1845-48. $250,000 to $350,000.
Group of 38 photographs of Buffalo Soldiers and African Americans in
theWest, 1870-1905. $4,000 to $6,000.At auction March 21.
This year’s sale of African Americana covers almost
300 years of history, from slavery and abolition,
through the Civil War, Reconstruction and into
the 20th century. High spots include the earliest
American engraving of a slave ship’s hold, 1789;
a commemorative Prince Hall Masonic medallion,
1807; the earliest appearance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
serialized in The National Era magazine, in 1851-52;
and a copy of John Brown’s Provisional Constitution for
the People of the United States, 1858, which has not
appeared at auction in the past 30 years.
Other notable highlights include the only known
letter from a black soldier in the Civil War, de-
scribing a battle; a collection of 38 photographs
of Buffalo Soldiers and the Wild West; the origi-
nal manuscript notes for Booker T. Washington’s
Throw Down Your Bucket speech; and, as always,
numerous engravings, books and prints.
Twentieth-century material includes a collection of
Pullman porter items; an almost complete run of
the Colored American Magazine, 1905; 1920s film
posters; a contemporary charcoal portrait of Marcus
Garvey; the rare Harlem Renaissance magazine Fire
(signed by all contributors); autographed Mar tin
Luther King items; and the earliest known Black
Panther material from Lowndes County, Alabama.
PRINTED & MANUSCRIPTAFRICANAMERICANA MARCH 21
Colored Draft Men / Off to Camp Dodge,
Iowa, broadside poster, 1918.
$4,000 to $6,000.