Swann Galleries

Letters of Gold Rush miner Warren H. Porter, with the report of his fatal shooting by an outlaw, 17 items, 1850-55. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
Gold Rush Letters and Diaries Lead Swann's Americana Auction
Printed & Manuscript Americana comes to Swann Galleries on November 21 featuring items of mining interest from Alaska, California, Colorado, and Nev
Phoebe Anna Traquair illumination for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 38
Traquair Illuminated Leaves, Amulet Prayer Roll, Twain Photograph, Mormon Missionary Diary: Auction Preview
At Chiswick Auctions on Tuesday, November 19, 315 lots of Fine Photographs, with a 1985 Robert Mapplethorpe self-portrait expected to lead the way at £30,000–50,000. Irving Penn's "Three Rissani…
Full set of Description de l’Egypte with original wooden case
Stendahl's Annotations, Presidential Autographs, Anne Rice's Books: Auction Preview
Here's what I'll be watching this week:
Louisa May Alcott, one of three autograph letters signed to Ellen Humphreys
Louisa May Alcott Letters and Early Hemingway Photo Album to Auction
Swann Galleries' Fine Books sale on October 24 includes three original letters written by
Leaf from Valentina Tereshkova's ground practice journal
Early Hemingway, Mars Globe, Tereshkova Notebook: Auction Preview
Chiswick Auctions sells 296 lots of Photographica on Wednesday, October 23, including the deluxe "Museum Edition" of 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography (1998–2004), expected to sell for £5…
Leslie Ragan, The New 20th Century Limited / New York Central System, 1939. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
Leslie Ragan Calendar Art for the New York Central Railway to Auction
Posters designed by Leslie Ragan for the New York Central Lines railroad come up fo
Detail of moths from Albin's natural history of British insects
Toulouse-Lautrec Posters, African Glaciers, Book of Mormon: Auction Preview
At Bonhams online on Tuesday, October 8, 139 lots of Posters, including two by Toulouse-Lautrec which share the top estimate at €30,000–40,000: the 1892 Reine de Joie, and the 1895 poster The Chap…
Ernst Haas, Yellow Cab, chromogenic print, 1952, printed 2017. Estimate $3,000 to $4,500
New York Photographs and Posters in 400th City Anniversary Auction
The work of Margaret Bourke-White, Berenice Abbott, William
c.1662 Blaeu engraved world map
Apple Poster Signed by Steve Jobs, Margaret Bourke-White Photograph, Buffon’s Birds: Auction Preview
At Artcurial on Tuesday, September 24, 120 lots of Livres & Manuscrits, including Buffon's
Opening from the Cranach Press Hamlet (1930)
Fine Printing, Confucius in English, Freud Letter: Auction Preview
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, August 20, 199 lots of 15th-18th Century Printing, Americana & Fine Books, including a 1682 edition of Grotius' Rights of War & Peace ($1,500–2,500);…