Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2701, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 22, 2025 - April 22, 2025
Page Size: 361 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Addison, Charles G. (1812-1866) & William Thackeray, illus. (1811-1863)

Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East

London 1838 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 625.00
2 Amico, Bernardino (ca. 1596); illus. Jacques Callot (1592-1635)

Trattato delle Piante e Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa Disegnate in Jerusalemme

Florence 1620 [1619 on colophon] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
3 Anonymous, attributed to Noe Bianco.

Viaggio da Venetia al Sancto Sepulchro et al Monte Sinai

Venice 1518 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
4 Belon, Pierre (1517-1564)

Les Observations de plusieurs Singularitez & Choses Memorables, Trouvees en Grece, Asie, Iudee, Egypte, Arabie, & autres Pays Estranges

Paris 1554 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
5 Belon, Pierre (1517-1564)

Plurimarum Singularium et Memorabilium Rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, Judaea, Arabia, aliisq. Exteris Provinciis ab Ipso Conspectarum Observationes

Antwerp 1589 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 406.00
6 Benard, Nicolas (fl. circa 1617)

Le Voyage de Hierusalem et autres Lieux de la Terre Sainte

Paris 1621 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
7 Benjamin of Tudela (1130-1173)

Itinerarium D. Beniaminis, cum Versione & Notis

Leiden 1633 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
8 Berdini, Vincenzo (fl. mid-17th century)

Historia dell'Antica, e Moderna Palestina, Descritta in Tre Parti

Venice 1642 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
9 Bonfils, Felix (1831-1885)

Souvenir d' Orient, album of photographs

Ales, France 1878 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
10 Bruce, James (1730-1794)

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile

London 1790 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
11 Bruijn, Cornelis de (1652-1726/7)

Reizen Door de Vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia

Delft 1698 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
12 Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (1784-1817)

Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Collected during his Travels in the East

London 1831 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,250.00
13 Burton, Richard F. (1821-1890)

Sindh and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus

London 1851 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 688.00
14 Chamchian, Mikayel (1738-1823)

History of Armenia from B.C. 2247 to the Year of Christ 1780

Calcutta 1827 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,188.00
15 Champollion, Jean-Francois (1790-1832)

Grammaire Egyptienne, ou Principes Generaux de l'Ecriture Sacree Egyptienne

Paris 1836- [1841] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
16 Champollion, Jean-Francois (1790-1832)

Precis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens, ou Recherches

Paris 1828 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,188.00
17

Chunghwa Post & China National Aviation Corporation

[?China] circa 1933 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,500.00
18 Cotovicus, Johannes [aka Johannes van Cootwijk] (d. 1629)

Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum

Antwerp 1619 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 813.00
19 Crouch, Nathaniel (born c. 1632)

Two Journeys to Jerusalem

London 1683 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
20 Dapper, Olfert (1636-1689)

Naukeurige Beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant

Amsterdam 1677 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 813.00
21 Deshayes, Louis (1600-1632)

Voiage de Levant Fait par le Commandement du Roy en l'annee 1621

Paris 1624 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,375.00
22 Dornbush, Miss; ed. Richard Tully (b. 1750)

Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa

London 1816 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 469.00
23 Eggs, Ignatius (1618-1702)

Neue Jerosolymitanische Pilger-Fahrt

Augsburg 1699 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
24 Fuller Thomas (1608-1661)

A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine

London 1650 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
25 Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von (1541-1610)

Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palaestinae, Syriae, aliarumque Regionum Orientalium

Nuremberg 1621 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
  • Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper  17th July 2025 Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper  17th July 2025
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800