Books & Manuscripts

June 6, 2024

Highlights from Swann's June 25 timed Autographs Sale.

June 4, 2024

Featured in the June 13, 2024, auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books is Lot 166: Jacob Post Giraud, Jr. & Nathaniel Currier’s A…

May 17, 2024

This sale is set to include a wide range of historically important and interesting material for map, atlas, natural history and color-plate book collectors across many different…

May 15, 2024

Devon Eastland, specialist for our Focus on Women auction, touches on the special nature of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and the differences between Brontë's female characters…

April 26, 2024

Swann's May 23 auction, Focus on Women

April 3, 2024

Collectors of Don Quixote have fastened on to the complex parameters of published editions like true bibliomaniacs. Tracking down each morsel of minutiae appeals to those of us…

April 2, 2024

In celebration of the changing of the seasons we're sharing a selection of works coming up for auction this month at Swann that are sure to inspire.

March 27, 2024

Swann’s March 21, 2024 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana proved once again to be a success among institutions and collectors alike. The sale brought $967…

March 15, 2024

This spring’s newly minted sale will bring together a range of collecting areas, including early printed books, artist’s books, literature from the seventeenth century through to…

March 5, 2024

This civil rights rally was held in Columbus, OH, a few months after the March on Washington and just as the congressional fight for the Civil Rights Act approached the final…