Sale 2313 Lot 138 ALBERS, JOSEF. The Interaction of Color. 80 color screenprints. 330x255 mm; 12 7/8x9 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins, laid into individual folders. Folio, plates and accompanying booklet laid into brown cloth folding box, gentle separation at corners of box; text volume is bound in cloth; matching brown cloth slipcase, minor wear and better than normally encountered. Danilowitz page 20. New Haven, 1963 Estimate $3,000-4,000
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Sale 2313 Lot 138

ALBERS, JOSEF. The Interaction of Color. 80 color screenprints. 330x255 mm; 12 7/8x9 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins, laid into individual folders. Folio, plates and accompanying booklet laid into brown cloth folding box, gentle separation at corners of box; text volume is bound in cloth; matching brown cloth slipcase, minor wear and better than normally encountered. Danilowitz page 20. New Haven, 1963 
Estimate $3,000-4,000

Love this old book I came across while working at the library at Vassar - Anne Cleveland went to VC in the 1930s & went on to be an illustrator. Jean Anderson was class of ‘33 - you should read about her life after Vassar in the medical field. I remember being so excited to see the page on Daisy Chain. Some things still haven’t changed!
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Love this old book I came across while working at the library at Vassar - Anne Cleveland went to VC in the 1930s & went on to be an illustrator. Jean Anderson was class of ‘33 - you should read about her life after Vassar in the medical field. I remember being so excited to see the page on Daisy Chain. Some things still haven’t changed!
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Love this old book I came across while working at the library at Vassar - Anne Cleveland went to VC in the 1930s & went on to be an illustrator. Jean Anderson was class of ‘33 - you should read about her life after Vassar in the medical field. I remember being so excited to see the page on Daisy Chain. Some things still haven’t changed!
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Love this old book I came across while working at the library at Vassar - Anne Cleveland went to VC in the 1930s & went on to be an illustrator. Jean Anderson was class of ‘33 - you should read about her life after Vassar in the medical field. I remember being so excited to see the page on Daisy Chain. Some things still haven’t changed!
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Love this old book I came across while working at the library at Vassar - Anne Cleveland went to VC in the 1930s & went on to be an illustrator. Jean Anderson was class of ‘33 - you should read about her life after Vassar in the medical field. I remember being so excited to see the page on Daisy Chain. Some things still haven’t changed!
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Love this old book I came across while working at the library at Vassar - Anne Cleveland went to VC in the 1930s & went on to be an illustrator. Jean Anderson was class of ‘33 - you should read about her life after Vassar in the medical field. I remember being so excited to see the page on Daisy Chain. Some things still haven’t changed!
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Love this old book I came across while working at the library at Vassar - Anne Cleveland went to VC in the 1930s & went on to be an illustrator. Jean Anderson was class of ‘33 - you should read about her life after Vassar in the medical field.

I remember being so excited to see the page on Daisy Chain. Some things still haven’t changed!

I’m looking forward to Thursday’s auction of Fine Books at Swann (April 11th). This is definitely one of the most exciting lots I’ve seen since working at Swann - 3 volumes of Audobon books, estimated at $250-300,000! Other notable lots include a single leaf from a 15th c. Latin bible, estimated at $40-50K, 4 Volumes by Charles Darwin ($20-30K), & Boccaccio writings from 1472 ($25-35K).  I am looking forward to seeing how the sale goes! Click here to see the full online 3D catalogue. Sale 2309 Lot 73 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES; and BACHMAN, JOHN. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.Lithographed titles; letterpress plate lists; 150 hand-colored lithographed plates. Elephant folio, 679x542 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, covers spotted and sunned, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, Volume 2 covers detached, Volume 1 rear and Volume 3 front free endpapers chipped and loose. New York, 1845-48 Estimate $250,000-350,000 first edition in book form of Audubon’s second monumental and enduringly popular work of natural history illustration, “the largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America” (Reese). Nissen ZBI 162; Reese 36. Titles and plate lists foxed and creased; varying foxing on plate guards; faint marginal foxing on around a quarter of the plates, small stain through outer margin of plates 12-14, minor marginal streaks or smudges on plates 22, 55, 63, 73, 79, 80, 114 and 135, small but noticeable marginal spot or spots on plates 11, 67, 76, 111, 121, 123, 125, 133, 141, and 150, plate 78 lightly toned and spotted, stripe on back of large-tailed skunk (plate 102) crudely painted.
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I’m looking forward to Thursday’s auction of Fine Books at Swann (April 11th). This is definitely one of the most exciting lots I’ve seen since working at Swann - 3 volumes of Audobon books, estimated at $250-300,000! Other notable lots include a single leaf from a 15th c. Latin bible, estimated at $40-50K, 4 Volumes by Charles Darwin ($20-30K), & Boccaccio writings from 1472 ($25-35K).  I am looking forward to seeing how the sale goes! Click here to see the full online 3D catalogue. Sale 2309 Lot 73 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES; and BACHMAN, JOHN. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.Lithographed titles; letterpress plate lists; 150 hand-colored lithographed plates. Elephant folio, 679x542 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, covers spotted and sunned, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, Volume 2 covers detached, Volume 1 rear and Volume 3 front free endpapers chipped and loose. New York, 1845-48 Estimate $250,000-350,000 first edition in book form of Audubon’s second monumental and enduringly popular work of natural history illustration, “the largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America” (Reese). Nissen ZBI 162; Reese 36. Titles and plate lists foxed and creased; varying foxing on plate guards; faint marginal foxing on around a quarter of the plates, small stain through outer margin of plates 12-14, minor marginal streaks or smudges on plates 22, 55, 63, 73, 79, 80, 114 and 135, small but noticeable marginal spot or spots on plates 11, 67, 76, 111, 121, 123, 125, 133, 141, and 150, plate 78 lightly toned and spotted, stripe on back of large-tailed skunk (plate 102) crudely painted.
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I’m looking forward to Thursday’s auction of Fine Books at Swann (April 11th). This is definitely one of the most exciting lots I’ve seen since working at Swann - 3 volumes of Audobon books, estimated at $250-300,000! Other notable lots include a single leaf from a 15th c. Latin bible, estimated at $40-50K, 4 Volumes by Charles Darwin ($20-30K), & Boccaccio writings from 1472 ($25-35K).  I am looking forward to seeing how the sale goes! Click here to see the full online 3D catalogue. Sale 2309 Lot 73 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES; and BACHMAN, JOHN. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.Lithographed titles; letterpress plate lists; 150 hand-colored lithographed plates. Elephant folio, 679x542 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, covers spotted and sunned, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, Volume 2 covers detached, Volume 1 rear and Volume 3 front free endpapers chipped and loose. New York, 1845-48 Estimate $250,000-350,000 first edition in book form of Audubon’s second monumental and enduringly popular work of natural history illustration, “the largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America” (Reese). Nissen ZBI 162; Reese 36. Titles and plate lists foxed and creased; varying foxing on plate guards; faint marginal foxing on around a quarter of the plates, small stain through outer margin of plates 12-14, minor marginal streaks or smudges on plates 22, 55, 63, 73, 79, 80, 114 and 135, small but noticeable marginal spot or spots on plates 11, 67, 76, 111, 121, 123, 125, 133, 141, and 150, plate 78 lightly toned and spotted, stripe on back of large-tailed skunk (plate 102) crudely painted.
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I’m looking forward to Thursday’s auction of Fine Books at Swann (April 11th). This is definitely one of the most exciting lots I’ve seen since working at Swann - 3 volumes of Audobon books, estimated at $250-300,000! Other notable lots include a single leaf from a 15th c. Latin bible, estimated at $40-50K, 4 Volumes by Charles Darwin ($20-30K), & Boccaccio writings from 1472 ($25-35K).  I am looking forward to seeing how the sale goes! Click here to see the full online 3D catalogue. Sale 2309 Lot 73 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES; and BACHMAN, JOHN. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.Lithographed titles; letterpress plate lists; 150 hand-colored lithographed plates. Elephant folio, 679x542 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, covers spotted and sunned, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, Volume 2 covers detached, Volume 1 rear and Volume 3 front free endpapers chipped and loose. New York, 1845-48 Estimate $250,000-350,000 first edition in book form of Audubon’s second monumental and enduringly popular work of natural history illustration, “the largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America” (Reese). Nissen ZBI 162; Reese 36. Titles and plate lists foxed and creased; varying foxing on plate guards; faint marginal foxing on around a quarter of the plates, small stain through outer margin of plates 12-14, minor marginal streaks or smudges on plates 22, 55, 63, 73, 79, 80, 114 and 135, small but noticeable marginal spot or spots on plates 11, 67, 76, 111, 121, 123, 125, 133, 141, and 150, plate 78 lightly toned and spotted, stripe on back of large-tailed skunk (plate 102) crudely painted.
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I’m looking forward to Thursday’s auction of Fine Books at Swann (April 11th). This is definitely one of the most exciting lots I’ve seen since working at Swann - 3 volumes of Audobon books, estimated at $250-300,000!

Other notable lots include a single leaf from a 15th c. Latin bible, estimated at $40-50K, 4 Volumes by Charles Darwin ($20-30K), & Boccaccio writings from 1472 ($25-35K). 

I am looking forward to seeing how the sale goes!

Click here to see the full online 3D catalogue.

Sale 2309 Lot 73

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES; and BACHMAN, JOHN. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.Lithographed titles; letterpress plate lists; 150 hand-colored lithographed plates. Elephant folio, 679x542 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, covers spotted and sunned, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, Volume 2 covers detached, Volume 1 rear and Volume 3 front free endpapers chipped and loose. New York, 1845-48 
Estimate $250,000-350,000 

first edition in book form of Audubon’s second monumental and enduringly popular work of natural history illustration, “the largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America” (Reese). Nissen ZBI 162; Reese 36. 
Titles and plate lists foxed and creased; varying foxing on plate guards; faint marginal foxing on around a quarter of the plates, small stain through outer margin of plates 12-14, minor marginal streaks or smudges on plates 22, 55, 63, 73, 79, 80, 114 and 135, small but noticeable marginal spot or spots on plates 11, 67, 76, 111, 121, 123, 125, 133, 141, and 150, plate 78 lightly toned and spotted, stripe on back of large-tailed skunk (plate 102) crudely painted.

African Americana Auction at Swann

Link above to a great post about our upcoming African Americana auction at Swann Galleries on  3/21. There are some amazing historical pieces in the sale - I’ve included some below that stuck out to me. For any history buffs out there, you should check out the 3D catalogue! http://www.swanngalleries.com/3dcat/2308/

Lot 14: Slave made wooden cradle, Estimate $6,000-8,000 

 Lot 52:broadside advertising the sale of an entire plantation and its one hundred and eleven slaves ”Under Decree in Equity. . Plantation or Tract of Land Called “Richfield”…A Gang of About 111 Negroes..” Estimate $25,000-35,000 

Lot 479: MILLIE CHRISTINE (The Two Headed Lady) Carte-de-visite. Estimate $1,500-2,500 

Lot 81: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, Estimate $18,000-22,000 

Some of my favorite lots in our upcoming 20th Century Illustration auction at Swann.  You can see the whole catalogue online here: http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=U
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Some of my favorite lots in our upcoming 20th Century Illustration auction at Swann.  You can see the whole catalogue online here: http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=U
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Some of my favorite lots in our upcoming 20th Century Illustration auction at Swann.  You can see the whole catalogue online here: http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=U
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Some of my favorite lots in our upcoming 20th Century Illustration auction at Swann.  You can see the whole catalogue online here: http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=U
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Some of my favorite lots in our upcoming 20th Century Illustration auction at Swann.  You can see the whole catalogue online here: http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=U
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Some of my favorite lots in our upcoming 20th Century Illustration auction at Swann. 

You can see the whole catalogue online here: http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=U

swanngalleries: Go Wild this holiday with this signed poster by legendary children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.  An unprecedented collection of original works by Mr. Sendak will be on auction January 24.  Our 20th Century Illustrations show will also feature works by Dr. Seuss, Edward Gorey, and Beatrix Potter.
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Go Wild this holiday with this signed poster by legendary children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.  An unprecedented collection of original works by Mr. Sendak will be on auction January 24.  Our 20th Century Illustrations show will also feature works by Dr. Seuss, Edward Gorey, and Beatrix Potter.