Swann Galleries

Swann Galleries Auction House Offering Photographs, Posters, Prints & Drawings, Books, Maps, Autographs, and African-American Fine Art.

Swann was founded in 1941 as an auction house specializing in Rare and Antiquarian Books and is now the largest specialist auctioneer of Works on Paper in the world. Swann conducts approximately 40 sales a year, with departments devoted to Books, Autographs, Maps & Atlases, Photographs & Photobooks, Prints & Drawings, Vintage Posters, African-American Fine Art and Illustration Art.

05/18/2026

Two incredible ski posters feature in the Gooding Family Collection of Posters.

Browse the complete offering and register to bid at the link in our hip.

Printed & Manuscript Americana catalogue prep in progress 📜🇺🇸👨🏻‍⚖️
05/15/2026

Printed & Manuscript Americana catalogue prep in progress 📜🇺🇸👨🏻‍⚖️

05/06/2026

It’s a full circle moment in the Thursday, May 7 sale of Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection with autographs by John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, and Boston Corbett.

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05/05/2026

Featured in the Thursday, May 7 sale of Important Signed Photographs from a Family Collection is a signed portrait of Albert Einstein.

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04/28/2026

A look at a group of rare Nimslo 3D photographs from 1983…

Featured in the April 30 Fine Photographs auction.

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04/21/2026

Dive into the wonderful world of Oz…

Grace Meschery-McCormack, cataloguer for our books and manuscripts department, compares W.W. Denslow and John R. Neill’s illustrations of L. Frank Baum’s magical world and its cast of characters.

Learn more about the works featured in the video at the link in our bio.

Works at auction April 23.

04/20/2026

The history of bookbinding…

Devon Eastland shares about the history of bookbinding. Learn more about the lots featured in the video and up for auction on April 23 at the link in our bio.

At auction this week is a signed first edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. Estimate $1...
04/19/2026

At auction this week is a signed first edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000.

Learn more about the lot and register to bid at the link in our bio.

Old Master Through Modern Prints are at auction tomorrow, April 16!Browse the complete catalogue and register to bid at ...
04/15/2026

Old Master Through Modern Prints are at auction tomorrow, April 16!

Browse the complete catalogue and register to bid at the link in our bio.

04/03/2026

When artists joined the fight against polio…

Nicholas D. Lowry discusses MoMA’s late 1940s campaign and exhibition of artists’ posters designed to educate about the fight against polio.

Works are at auction April 7. Learn more at the link in our bio.

Address

104 E 25th Street Fl 6
New York, NY
10010

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm

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+12122544710

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