Bibliophiles of every denomination—Americana, autographs, art books, archives, atlases, ephemera, literature, maps—can find their niche at Swann Galleries. Originally founded in New York as a book auction house, we hold regular specialized sales devoted to books, printed material and manuscripts.
Among the highlights of Thursday’s auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana is an extraordinary archive of letters written by George Washington Carver between 1925 and 1937. This lot contains…
Our annual auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana, held on March 21, featured an outstanding array of material devoted to the Civil War, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights…
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation, steel engraving by J.W. Watts, Connecticut, 1864. “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” declares the extraordinary document brought…
Tuesday’s sale of Revolutionary Americana from the Allyn Kellogg Ford Collection, followed by a sale of Autographs, broke over 15 auction records, and doubled the low estimate for the sale as…
Our 16th annual Printed & Manuscript African Americana auction was the most successful to date. The top lot, which sold for $43,200, was Charles Harris Wesley’s published and unpublished writings, correspondence,…
One of only five known copies of Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, and bound by Douglass at the North Star offices…
The March 10th Printed & Manuscript African Americana auction includes a very unusual carved ballast stone, which was recovered from the wreck of a 16th-century slave ship in 1992. This…
Among the highlights of our 15th annual auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana is an incredible archive comprising James Amos Porter’s African-American Art History Reference materials. The lot contains…
