In a year that was unlike any in our lifetimes, Swann’s specialists and staff proved to be as resilient and in…
Our Thursday, September 24, 2020 sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana brought an 82% sell-through rate by lot,…
Each summer, tourists, some of them artists, flocked to Northeastern coastal havens to cure urban fatigue, become cl…
You may never have wondered about the birth of the Alaskan film industry. The first Hollywood film studio was launch…
Covering a period of about five centuries and two continents, our auctions of Printed & Manuscript Americana ar…
Any experienced cataloger, scholar, collector, or reader of early printing is accustomed to discovering an array of …
Probably the most common question we get in the Americana department is “I found an original copy of the Decla…
Among the highlights will be an 1836 autograph book with inscriptions by noted early African-American orators Moses …
The value of diaries on the market is largely driven by historical content and the quality of the writing. What coul…
William Sydney Porter, best known to posterity as the author O. Henry, was raised in North Carolina and moved west t…
This sale covers American history from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, with a diploma from the Princeton Class…
Bibliophiles of every denomination—Americana, a…
