Swann Galleries: Focus on Women, 2704, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austen, Jane (1775-1817) | Pride and Prejudice, the Peacock Edition. |
London | 1894 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 2 | Barberis, Philippus de (born circa 1426) | Opusculum de Vaticiniis Sibillarum. |
Oppenheim | circa 1514. | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,125.00 |
| 3 | Bingham, Sophia (1787-1852) | Ladies' Copies. |
Boston | ca. 1800 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 4 | Bochorakova-Dittrichova, Helena (1894-1980) | Z Meho Detstvi Drevoryty. |
Prague | 1929 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Bronte Sisters. | The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. |
London | 1893 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 6 | Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2003) | Maud Martha, inscribed first edition. |
New York | 1953 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,063.00 |
| 7 | Butler, Octavia E. (1947-2006) | Kindred, first edition. |
Garden City, NY | 1979 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 813.00 |
| 8 | Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879) | Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women. |
London | 1926 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 9 | Clinton, Kaysen, Lebowitz, and Sontag. | Four signed books by 20th-century women authors. |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 688.00 | ||
| 10 | Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965) | Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece |
London | 1934 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 11 | D'Orsay, Anna-Quintina-Albertine 'Ida' Grimod (1802-1882) | Education of a 19th C. French Noblewoman |
Pisa | circa 1827. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 12 | Eliot, George [aka Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880) | Middlemarch. |
Edinburgh and London | 1871-1872. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 13 | Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) | Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. |
Boston. New York | 1844 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) | Woman in the Nineteenth Century. |
New York | 1845 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,250.00 |
| 15 | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) | The Fore Runner, Fifteen Old Stock Volumes, Including Repeats |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,500.00 | ||
| 16 | Gilot, Francoise & Carlton Lake | Life with Picasso, presentation copy with original drawing. |
New York | 1964 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 17 | Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965) | A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition. |
New York | 1959 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 18 | Hanscom, Adelaide (1875-1931) & Blanche Cumming; Omar Khayyam. | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. |
New York | 1912 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | Harden, Sylvia von. | Die Italienische Gondel, Inscribed Ltd. Edition Signed by Harden and Otto Dix. |
Berlin | 1927 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 20 | Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, illus. (1809-1871) | Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Gentle Boy. |
Boston; New York & London | 1839 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 21 | Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) | Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. |
Philadelphia | 1942 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 469.00 |
| 22 | Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) | Moses Man of the Mountain, first edition. |
Philadelphia | 1939 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
| 23 | Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) | Mules and Men, first edition. |
Philadelphia | 1935 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 24 | Jesenska, Milena (1896-1944) | Two First Editions. |
Prague | 1926, 1927 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 25 | Jones, Gayl (b. 1949) | Corregidora, first edition. |
New York | 1975 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 813.00 |
![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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/148a7ca4-9746-44c9-a75e-86229b6f10d2.png "<b>Forum, July 17:</b> 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: 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/863855a8-4b41-4512-b168-a4a3eab5d6a6.png "<b>Forum, July 17:</b> 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.")
