Auctions offer a moment where the sometimes-incalculable significance of an object is quantified. The price is reached through collaboration: specialists, consignors, the market, and finally, bidders convene in the room,…
“These are the times which try men’s souls…” so begins Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis, arguably his second most famous work. Tomorrow, in our annual fall Americana auction, Swann will…
On November 6, Swann will auction The Latin Americana Library of Dr. W. Michael Mathes. The catalogue for the auction begins with a biography of the sale’s namesake, written by…
The Bay Psalm Book is often described as the first book printed in America. Issued in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640, it was certainly the first book printed in the English…
Crime material has been selling well at auction lately, and today’s sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana offers a rare and fascinating lot related to Robert Stroud, known as the…
Today is opening day at Yankee Stadium, which got us thinking about a few lots in tomorrow’s auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana. Swann doesn’t sell baseball cards, but we…
We will be offering an early Mexican manuscript cookbook in our October 10 Printed & Manuscript Americana auction. We don’t know the author, we don’t know the date, but…
Swann’s April 16 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana featured documents and books from as early as 16th-century colonial America through 20th-century material relating to explorers, sports, politics and more. The top…
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…
Thursday’s sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana /Ocean Liner Memorabilia saw an unusually high number of registered bidders. The American Revolution and Civil War sections of the Americana sale attracted…
Swann kicked off its fall season in grand style with the first installment of The Eric Caren Collection: How History Unfolds on Paper. This sale–just a portion of Caren’s vast and…
Tomorrow’s auction of the Eric C. Caren Collection represents the collector’s efforts to represent every major event in modern history on paper. The diverse assortment of compelling manuscripts, posters, pamphlets, books,…
Early in our fall 2011 season, Swann will offer the first in what will be at least three auctions of historic material from the personal collection of Eric C. Caren,…
Yesterday’s Printed & Manuscript Americana auction sold 90% of its offerings. Selling above their pre-sale estimates were lots pertaining to the American Revolution, American Indians, the Civil War, Latin America,…
Ann Corio was one of the leading burlesque striptease dancers of the 1930s. She then transitioned into straight acting roles on film and the stage in the 1940s and 50s,…
James Beebee Brinsmade Jr.’s diary offers intimate details of what life was like on Yale University’s campus in the 1840s. Brinsmade’s two-volume diary appears at auction today in the Printed…
From its inception, Central Park has been one of the defining features of New York City. Its original transformation from a rocky pasture to a landscaped urban park was driven…
Labor union banners from the collection of Scott Malloy appear in the Printed & Manuscript Americana auction on September 30th. A painted silk banner for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and…
