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John Augustine Washington III & Mount Vernon

From the catalogue for our March 30 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana. The sale will feature a run …

News

Was Walter Sickert Really Jack the Ripper?

Though the official identity of Jack the Ripper has never been determined, there are those who believe Walter Sicker…

Photographs & Photobooks

Edgar Allan Poe: Birthday & A Lost Photograph

Today, on what would be Edgar Allan Poe’s 207th birthday, we take a look at an exceedingly rare and unusual lo…

Vintage Posters

Alphonse Mucha: Behind the Magic

Even those unfamiliar with Alphonse Mucha’s name will recognize the tendrils of hair and profusion of del…

Maps & Atlases

On A Previously Unknown First State of de Wit’s Map of the Netherlands

This post was written by Maps & Atlases Specialist Caleb Kiffer in advance of our December 8, 2016 auction of Ma…

Art Press & Illustrated Books

A Bright Light at a Dark Time: The WPA Handicraft Project

One unusual piece in our December 2016 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books was a six-volume folio of texti…

Art Press & Illustrated Books

Le Corbusier’s Color Theory Sample Book

Before the holidays drive you up a wall, let an unusual piece in our December 1, 2016 sale of Art, Press & Illus…

Printed & Manuscript Americana

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

Coming to auction November 17, 2016: Printed & Manuscript Americana Charles L. Taylor married his sweetheart Har…

19th & 20th Century Literature

Signed First Edition of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

This is the first time a signed first edition of The Prophet has appeared at auction. Interestingly, Gibran, th…

Early Printed Books

An Eighteenth Century Pye Recipe

When recipe books come to Swann, the only thing to do is test them out. In our upcoming October 18 sale of Early Pri…