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Books & Manuscripts

Auction Highlights: Focus on Women — May 15, 2025

This year’s Focus on Women gathers together important archives, first edition books, fine art, craft art, vern…

Fine Books

Auction Highlights: Fine Books — April 22, 2025

From Holy Land travel books to signed Picasso illustrations, fine bindings to first editions—this auction spans cent…

Books & Manuscripts

Auctions 101: Consigning Your Rare Book Collection At Auction

How do you assess your rare book collection and know if it’s right for sale at auction? At Swann Galleries, we…

Fine Art

Auction Highlights: Fine Books — October 24, 2024

This fall’s sale promises to tempt with bibliographic rarities from before the invention of movable type through the…

Books & Manuscripts

Specialist Pick: Devon Eastland on Wuthering Heights vs. David Copperfield

Devon Eastland, specialist for our Focus on Women auction, touches on the special nature of Emily Brontë’s Wut…

Fine Books

Auction Highlights: Focus on Women — May 23, 2024

Swann’s May 23 auction, Focus on Women

Books & Manuscripts

A Brief Publishing History of Don Quixote

Collectors of Don Quixote have fastened on to the complex parameters of published editions like true bibliomaniacs. …

Fine Books

Auction Highlights: Fine Books — April 11, 2024

This spring’s newly minted sale will bring together a range of collecting areas, including early printed books, arti…

Focus On Women

What’s in a Sale: Focus on Women

Swann held its first sale dedicated to the accomplishments of women on July 15, 2021. The sale, curated by senior sp…

Books & Manuscripts

Devon Eastland’s Specialist Picks: What to Watch in the October 12, 2023 Auction

Devon Eastland shares her picks for the October 12, 2023, sale of Early Printed books. Gothic Novels If you’ve read …

Books & Manuscripts

Auction Highlights: Early Printed Books — October 12, 2023

The fall Early Printed Books auction on October 12, 2023, will feature lots from three important collectors, includi…