NEW YORK, NY.- This spring’s newly minted sale will bring together a range of collecting areas, including early printed books, artist’s books, literature from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth, and more. The sale will be a timed online auction opening for bidding on Monday, March 25 at 10 am Eastern and will begin closing on Thursday, April 11 at 12 pm Eastern. Bidding is available on the Swann Galleries App and on live.swanngalleries.com. Exhibition hours are 12 pm to 5 pm on Saturday, April 6, and Monday, April 8 through Wednesday, April 10.

Early printed books are led by a burst of Don Quixote from Ken Rapaport’s collection, including the 1608 third Madrid Cuesta edition containing the definitive version of the text, part one only. The work is expected to bring $80,000 to $120,000. Additional highlights include an illuminated Book of House in Latin from France circa 1475-1500 ($40,000-50,000); Guido de Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum, London, 1509 ($10,000-15,000); and Johann Bayer’s Uranometria, Omnium Asterismorum Continens Schemata, Nova Methodo Delineata, Aereis Laminis Expressa, Ullm, 1661 ($7,000-10,000).

A special section of books from legendary New York theater critic and dramaturge Michael Feingold’s estate will feature signed copies of works with a dramatic flair. Of special note is a signed copy of August Wilson’s Three Plays, dedicated to Feingold, who worked closely with Wilson while the playwright was developing Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for the stage ($400-600). Also of note is Feingold’s copy of a first limited edition of his book After, 1993 ($1,000-1,500); a limited edition artist’s proof copy of James Joyce’s Bride-Ship and Gulls, New York, 1991 ($2,000-3,000); and first limited edition of Henrik Ibsen’s Poems, New York, 1987 ($2,000-3,000).

Highlights from the library of the late Stanley DeForest Scott, sold to benefit the Library of the Grolier Club, is a complete set of Captain James Cook’s Voyages in eight volumes ($30,000-50,000); a first edition of Jacob Christoph Trew’s Plantae Selectaw quarum Imagines ad Exemplaria Naturalia, Nuremberg, 1750-73 ($30,000-50,000); and a unique, voluminously extra-illustrated printing of Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, New York, 1896, by Napoleon Bonaparte and William Milligan Sloane ($25,000-35,000).

Noteworthy lots from the literature section include a signed and inscribed first edition of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, Paris, 1934 ($8,000-12,000); a first edition of William Faulkner’s Turn About, Ottawa, 1939, inscribed by the publisher ($8,000-10,000); and a first London paperback edition of J.K. Rowling’s The Philosopher’s Stone, London, 1997 ($6,000-8,000).

Art, press and illustrated works include a signed and inscribed limited edition of Ten Works by Ten Painters, Hartford, 1964 ($12,000-18,000); a very rare and essentially complete set of Feuillet’s d’Art, Paris, 1919-22 ($8,000-12,000); and a limited edition of Robert Motherwell’s Three Poems, New York, 1987-88 ($7,000-10,000), among a selection of noteworthy titles.

Other highlights across the bibliophilic spectrum will include illustrated books, and titles in science, medicine, and travel along with first edition high spots by Charles Dickens, James Baldwin, H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, and others.