COLLECTION ON THE BLOCK SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
INCLUDES THE 1674 BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF NY (EX-MALCOLM FORBES COLLECTION) TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11

(NY) Swann Auctions, the oldest rare book auction house in the nation will sell Part I of the Eric C. Caren Collection on September 15, 2011. Mr. Caren has collected for almost half a century. He sold his first collection of rare and historical newspapers to form the nucleus of the permanent collection of the half billion dollar Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue, DC ten years ago. Now having multiple items for every event, historical figure and genre in Modern history from Columbus to the Present, he has arranged for a series of at least 3 single owner auctions to take place in NYC at Swann in order to “thin the hoard”. The sales will be entitled “How History Unfolds on Paper- Selections from The Eric C. Caren collection”. Mr. Caren will still maintain The Caren Archive (approximately one million items strong) and he continues as CEO of Retro-Graphics Publishing, which offers amongst other things, reproductions of rare items for museum shops around the nation including The Smithsonian, The Baseball Hall of Fame, The Holocaust Memorial Museum, etc.

Highlights of Part I on September 15 will include the following:

1) Charles II’s letter taking possession of NY from the Dutch in 1674. Mr. Caren was made aware of the irony that it is being sold almost 10 years to the day of 9/11. Of this coincidence Mr. Caren says” I love New York but this piece is so precious that it is time to find it a better home. Only 100 men were needed to Garrison all of NYC in 1674 and now it is the greatest city in the world and Americans showed that they would come back even stronger after any tragedy or attack!”
2) The First Printed Baseball Scorecard dated 1866
3) An Extraordinarily Rare Illustrated Broadside of a Slave Ship from 1789
4) Rare Printings of The Bill of Rights and The Declaration of Independence
5) Photos of The Dalton Gang and The James-Younger Gang
6) The First American Engraved Map of The Battle of Yorktown from 1782
7) A Fine Group of Rock, Vietnam War and Counter Culture Posters from the 1960’s
8) Rare Original Plans of The Lusitania and a Rare Broadside on The Titanic
9) The Earliest Non-Newspaper Printing of Lewis and Clark Expedition Report 1805
Plus- An Incredible Thomas Edison Archive on the Light Bulb and the Pearl Street Station (NY) which was the first commercial use of the great invention!

The collection also contains rare material relating to Colonial America, The American Revolution, The Civil War, Social, Political and Military History in the form of newspapers, broadsides, posters, photography, pamphlets, books, etc.

For More Info. Contact Rick Stattler at Swann-212-254-4710 or go to www.swanngalleries.com- Full Color catalog available.