Browsing Tag Printed & Manuscript Americana

September 13, 2019

An extensive and detailed record of the Underground Railroad is set to come across the block in our upcoming sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana on September 26. Zachariah…

August 5, 2019

This fall, our Printed & Manuscript Americana auction will be held on September 26, and include manuscript diaries and important archives, ephemera relating to Stanford football,…

July 1, 2019

A season of firsts. The 2019 spring auction season at Swann Galleries delivered an impressive range of sales, rife with auction premiers and record prices. We started our season…

April 19, 2019

Mexican Imprints Bring Significant Interest  in Swann Americana Sale   Our Printed & Manuscript Americana sale on Thursday, April 16 was the…

April 11, 2019

A West Point graduate blazes a trail from San Antonio to El Paso. A guard in one of the country’s most notorious prisons notes the silence of the inmates. A sailing…

March 1, 2019

At Auction April 16 Complete Catalogue   This sale includes a dramatic Texan diary by William Farrar Smith, commanding an expedition to find the best trail from San Antonio…

December 21, 2018

A year of records, debuts and rediscovered works. As we reflect on 2018, we look back at an excellent year of auctions. In April we held our highest-grossing African-American Fine…

July 23, 2018

Featuring The Holzer Collection of Lincolniana At Auction September 27 Complete Catalogue   Latin Americana Latin Americana will feature Juan de la Anunciación’s 1577…

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June 25, 2018

The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering works created as early as the fifteenth century and as recently…

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April 16, 2018

Our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on April 12 was the department’s highest-grossing sale in four years, continuing an upward trajectory as each offering of…