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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Auction Highlights: Focus on Women — May 23, 2024
Swann’s May 23 auction, Focus on Women
A Brief Publishing History of Don Quixote
Collectors of Don Quixote have fastened on to the complex parameters of published editions like true bibliomaniacs. …
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…
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…
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 …
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…