October 18, 2022Kelsie JankowskiEarly Printed Books October 2022 Sale of Early Printed Books Brings the Highest-Grossing Auction for the Category at Swann Read more about October 2022 Sale of Early Printed Books Brings the Highest-Grossing Auction for the Category at Swann The October 13, 2022 sale of Early Printed Books at Swann Galleries was the highest-gorssing auction of books in the auction house’s history at $1.1 million.
Read more about 2021: Year in Review December 22, 2021 Swann 2021: Year in Review As we close out another successful year at Swann we look back at our record-filled sales.
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: Early Printed Books—At Auction October 14, 2021 September 22, 2021 Books & Manuscripts Upcoming Highlights: Early Printed Books—At Auction October 14, 2021 This October’s Early Printed Books sale featuring travel, medicine, and science offers another chance for rare book buyers to travel through time and around the world to shop for historically and culturally significant works and objects. We are pleased to present a curated selection of Renaissance and early modern printing, including scholarly editions of Greek and Latin classics; manuscripts and early printing; a curated selection of medical works; and books that document global contributions to our shared culture.
Read more about Science Leads Fall 2019 Early Printed Books October 29, 2019 Books & Manuscripts Science Leads Fall 2019 Early Printed Books Our Thursday, October 24 sale of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books saw a full auction room and active bidding on the internet and phones with a particular interest in publications by scientists, as well as incunabula, bibles and manuscript publications.
Read more about Fall 2019: Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books September 8, 2019 Early Printed Books Fall 2019: Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books A choice selection of incunabula brings to auction infrequently seen editions of Johannes Jacobus Canis’s 1476 guide to the study of civil and canon law; Albertus Magnus’s comprehensive lapidary De mineralibus, Pavia, 1491; and Philippus Beroaldus’s philosophical tract on happiness, De felicitate opusculum, Bologna, 1495.
Read more about Records & Results: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books March 11, 2019 Books & Manuscripts Records & Results: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books Illuminated Manuscripts Lead Early Printed Books at Swann Coinciding with Rare Book Week in New York City, our spring offering of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books…
Read more about Swann Galleries’ Guide to Rare Book Week 2019 in NYC February 26, 2019 Early Printed Books Swann Galleries’ Guide to Rare Book Week 2019 in NYC Rare Book Week kicks off March 5 in NYC. We gathered a selection of our favorite events happening throughout the week, as well as several not-to-be-missed exhibitions. See you there!…
Read more about 2018: Year in Review December 21, 2018 Swann 2018: Year in Review 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 Art…
Read more about Records & Results: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books October 19, 2018 Early Printed Books Records & Results: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books Jean de Mandeville Reaches $100K in Early Printed Books Auction Philippine Imprint sets record Our auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books garnered eager interest from bibliophiles, exceeding the…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books August 11, 2018 Books & Manuscripts A Look Inside the Catalogue: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books Including Philippine Imprints At Auction October 16 Complete Catalogue The material in this characteristically diverse sale ranges from incunabula to early twentieth-century works on rocketry and space flight. …
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books January 14, 2018 Books & Manuscripts A Look Inside the Catalogue: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books This sale on March 8 will feature an extensive selection of early Spanish books on a variety of subjects including agriculture, heraldry and genealogy, history, horses, law, literature, medicine, theology…
Read more about Records & Results: Early Printed Books October 20, 2017 Books & Manuscripts Records & Results: Early Printed Books Our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books garnered eager interest from bibliophiles, exceeding the sale’s high estimate and earning more than half a million dollars.…