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April 19, 2019|Kelsie Jankowski|Printed & Manuscript Americana

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Mexican Imprints Bring Significant Interest in Swann Americana Sale Our Printed & Manuscript Americana sale on Thursday, April 16 was the house’s third straight sale is the category to finish over $1,000,000, bringing several significant records.…

April 11, 2019 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Manuscript Diaries Tell Tales of a Growing America

A West Point graduate blazes a trail from San Antonio to El Paso. A guard in one of the country’s most notorious prisons notes the silence of the inmates. A…

March 1, 2019 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Upcoming Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana

At Auction April 16 Complete Catalogue This sale includes a dramatic Texan diary by William Farrar Smith, commanding an expedition to find the best trail from San Antonio to…

December 21, 2018 | Swann

2018: Year in Review

A year of records, debuts and rediscovered works. As we reflect on 2018, we look back at an excellent year of auctions. In April we held our highest-grossing African-American Fine Art…

July 23, 2018 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Featuring The Holzer Collection of Lincolniana At Auction September 27 Complete Catalogue Latin Americana Latin Americana will feature Juan de la Anunciación’s 1577 Sermonario en lengua mexicana and other…

June 25, 2018 | Swann

2017-18 Year in Review

The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering works created as early as the fifteenth century and as recently as last year.…

April 16, 2018 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on April 12 was the department’s highest-grossing sale in four years, continuing an upward trajectory as each offering of Americana and African Americana…

April 6, 2018 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Dream vs. Reality in the Civil War

Personal correspondence and manuscript material are always a highlight in our auctions of Printed & Manuscript Americana. On April 12, we’ll be offering a selection letters from Thomas Belknap, a clerk…

January 30, 2018 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Our April 12 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana illustrates the multifaceted tapestry of American history, featuring a cypress twig cut by General Lafayette at George Washington’s tomb, attractively framed in…

October 7, 2017 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Hoards of history-lovers came out to attend the preview for our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on September 28. The sale featured a trove of unique material, much of which…

September 26, 2017 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Diary of a Syrian-American Woman, 1908

On a trip to her homeland, a young Syrian-American woman named Mary Arbeely kept a diary recording her attempts to connect with her ancestors while feeling deeply homesick. The diary,…

September 25, 2017 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

A Nineteenth-Century Honolulu Gossip Rag

The book arrived in Honolulu by ship from San Francisco on New Year’s Day, 1863, and soon caused a stir throughout the city. It begins by revealing the author’s intent…

September 8, 2017 | Prints & Drawings

Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata

Some people made such an impact on history that we see them in multiple sales each season, across widely disparate genres. One such figure was Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who…

June 16, 2017 | Swann

Records & Results: Spring 2017

The spring 2017 season at Swann Galleries marked the 75th anniversary of our first auction. On March 27, 1942, Benjamin Swann held an auction dedicated to rare and antiquarian books.…

April 27, 2017 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

On Thursday, April 27, our tenth consecutive auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana exceeded $700,000. Much of the top material was unique or extremely rare, including diaries, letters and archives, many…

April 24, 2017 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

The Cherokee Messenger

The complete set of The Cherokee Messenger, Oklahoma’s earliest periodical, will be coming to auction in our Printed & Manuscript Americana sale on April 27. Only one other complete set…

April 12, 2017 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Edith Brevoort: Diary of a Wealthy Manhattan Orphan

From the catalogue for our April 27 sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana. The sale will feature a year-long manuscript diary of wealthy Manhattan orphan Edith Brevoort. Edith Henry Brevoort (1832-1891)…

December 19, 2016 | Swann

Records & Results: Fall 2016

Fall 2016 has been a successful season at Swann. In 13 sales, we set more than 50 auction records and offered 4,497 lots, including a rediscovered illustration by Dr. Seuss, a…

November 15, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

“Scattered, Knew Not Where To Go:” Civil War Correspondence

Coming to auction November 17, 2016: Printed & Manuscript Americana Charles L. Taylor married his sweetheart Harriet Tuttle in August, 1862 and days later went to join the 16th…

October 6, 2016 | Early Printed Books

A Monumental Collection: Early Adventure Literature from the Estate of Timothy Treacy

This year we are honored to offer material from the collection of Timothy Treacy. So prolific was Treacy as a collector that material from his estate can be found in multiple…

J. Mortimer Lichtenauer, diary of an American art student in Paris, 125 manuscript pages, Paris, 13 October 1897 to 23 April 1898.

June 20, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript African Americana

J. Mortimer Lichtenauer: The Diary of an American Art Student in Paris

Every now and then we have an item come in that seems tailor-made for a Swann auction. In Tuesday’s sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana we offer the diary kept by J. Mortimer Lichtenauer,…

From a pair of issues of the Saturday Globe with color cartoons on the immigration issue, Utica, NY, 27 August 1904.

June 16, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Early 20th-Century Cartoons With Familiar Political Content

Normally an editorial cartoon from the early 20th century would not make the threshold for a Swann auction, but we found this pair from the Saturday Globe too timely to…

February 3, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

The Arctic Collection of Ray Edinger

Our upcoming Printed & Manuscript Americana auction features materials from The Arctic Collection of Ray Edinger. Mr. Edinger wrote the piece below, outlining his collection from its inception. Lot…

February 2, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

A Tale of Captivity and Daring Escape: Jeanette DeCamp Sweet and the Dakota War of 1862

In August of 1862 Jeanette DeCamp Sweet, a young mother who had settled in Minnesota the year before with her husband, was taken prisoner during the Dakota War, also known…

February 1, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Art & Intrigue: A Work By Revolutionary War Spy John André

Everyone loves a good spy thriller, and in the case of British Army officer Major John André, it seems everyone loved a spy. Our upcoming auction of Printed & Manuscript…

January 29, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Art & Intrigue: A Work By Revolutionary War Spy John André

Everyone loves a good spy thriller, and in the case of British Army officer Major John André, it seems everyone loved a spy. Our upcoming auction of Printed & Manuscript…

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