Swann Galleries: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History, 2677, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 22, 2024 - August 22, 2024
Page Size: 446 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 MANLEY, DELARIVIER "DELIA" (circa 1663-1724)

Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean.

London: 1709 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 594.00
2 JAMES MILLS PEIRCE (1834-1906)

Photograph of a Harvard mathematician whose defense of homosexuality was published in 1897.

[Cambridge, MA], circa 1860s. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3 GAUDENZIO MARCONI (1841-1885)

Group of three male physique nude studies.

Circa 1870s. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,250.00
4 JEREMIAH GURNEY & SON (active 1860-1874)

Portrait of the American writer Walt Whitman (1819-1892).

1871 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
5 WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

Address panel Signed, addressed in holograph to writer and progressive activist Edward Carpenter:

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
6 NAPOLEON SARONY (1821-1896)

Portrait of Irish poet and playwrite Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

1882 USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 USD 5,750.00
7 OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)

Program from the St. James's Theatre first run of his play "Lady Windermere's Fan," with a cast photo.

[London]: 1892 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 938.00
8 OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)

Salome. Drame en un Acte.

London: 1920 USD 350.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
9 GUGLIELMO PLUSCHOW (1852-1930)

Standing figure with drapery.

1890s-1910s. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,430.00
10 WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931)

Male figure seated.

Circa 1900-1910. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,250.00
11 WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931)

Male figure with floral head wreath.

Circa 1900-1910. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
12 WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931)

Seated figure with flowers on terrace wall.

Circa 1900-1910. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,250.00
13 RENEE VIVIEN (1877-1909)

First edition of Sapho, with an ALS bound-in.

Paris: 1903 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,625.00
14 ADOLF BRAND (1874-1945) & KONRAD LINKE (Dates Unknown)

Der Eigene: Ein Buch fur Kunst und Manliche Kultur. Vol VI.

Charlottenburg [Berlin]: 1906 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,250.00
15 FRANZ VON BAYROS (1866-1924)

The Abduction of Ganymede by Jupiter.

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,430.00
16 EDWARD PERRY WARREN (1860-1928) ARCHIVE

Extensive correspondence of the noted art collector and author of "A Defence of Uranian Love."

Various places 1906-1912. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,750.00
17 CHARLES EVERETT JOHNSON (1866-?)

Miss Simplicity.

1901 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
18 JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941)

Group of 3 postcards depicting the famed female impersonator.

USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 625.00
19 JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941)

Pair of postcards depicting him in male and female attire for "The Crinoline Girl."

No place, circa 1914 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 625.00
20 JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941)

Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "A reminder of / Julian / Eltinge," full-length portrait by Albert Witzel,

1918 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
21 PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN

Photograph of female impersonator Karyl Norman, known as The Creole Fashion Plate.

1923 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
22 JOHN C. PAYNE (1872-1952)

Brochure depicting the singer as an impersonator of opera singer Sissieretta Jones, the "Black Patti."

Los Angeles, CA, 21 November 1913. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,250.00
23 LILI ELBE (1883-1931)

Le Mail, Beaugency, France.

1923 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,240.00
24 (THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN IN THE WORLD)

Painter, sculptor, and dancer Paul Swan with his sculpture of Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson.

1927 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
25 PAUL SWAN (1884-1972)

Self-Portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Circa 1920s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,750.00
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  • Koller Auctions
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    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000
    Koller, Sep. 18: Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
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    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
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