Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2687, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Letters from a New Hampshire man visiting North Carolina and then joining the Sanitary Commission. |
Various places | 1859-1864 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 77 | Letters from an officer of the Colored Troops, including their occupation of Richmond. |
Various places | 1862-1865 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,750.00 | |
| 78 | Caricature of General Benjamin Butler with his Colored Troops. |
No place | 1867 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,000.00 | |
| 79 | Carte-de-visite album of mostly Confederate Civil War notables including Davis and Lee. |
Various places | circa 1861-1868 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,500.00 | |
| 80 | Group of documents regarding Confederate seizures of liquor and goods in western Virginia. |
Rockingham County, VA | 1862-1863 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 688.00 | |
| 81 | Letter hoping for a chance to draw the Colored Troops into their "slaughter pen." |
Chaffin's Farm, VA | 17 November 1864 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 | |
| 82 | A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. |
Louisville, KY, | [1866] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,210.00 | |
| 83 | Company K, First Alabama Regiment; or, Three Years in the Confederate Service. |
Prattville, AL | 1885 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,375.00 | |
| 84 | Issue of "The Connecticut Fifth," a regimental newspaper. |
Winchester, VA, | 22 March 1862 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 488.00 | |
| 85 | View taken from near Confederate-occupied Fort Barrancas in Pensacola. |
[Pensacola, FL | circa April 1861] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 86 | Diary of a Shell Rock woman searching for her soldier son. |
Various places | 6 October to 16 December 1864 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,750.00 | |
| 87 | Fort Dodge Republican broadside extra on blue paper. |
Fort Dodge, IA, | 26 March 1862 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 88 | Letters of a Kentucky Copperhead. |
Various places | 1857-1885 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,600.00 | |
| 89 | A Brief Review of the Politics of Kentucky, from 1861 to '63. |
No place | circa March 1863 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 688.00 | |
| 90 | Letters of an East Bridgewater artillery sergeant. |
Various places | 1853-1864 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,080.00 | |
| 91 | Volume of transcribed letters by a lieutenant in the 36th Massachusetts. |
Various places, | 4 September 1862 to 13 October 1863 (transcribed circa 1900?) | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,000.00 | |
| 92 | Diary of a Civil War hospital worker, describing Lincoln, contrabands and more. |
City Point, VA and elsewhere | 1864-1865 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 7,000.00 | |
| 93 | Soldier-Health: Army Edition. |
New York | circa 1862 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 94 | Photographs and veteran's medal of Michigan soldier William T. Brain. |
Various places | 1861-circa 1892 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 95 | Group of Civil War sheet music. |
Various places | 1861-1865 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 625.00 | |
| 96 | Pair of letters by the admiral concerning the doomed effort to capture Charleston by sea. |
Wabash off Port Royal, DSC, | 20 January and 20 May 1863 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 97 | Pair of large photographs of Monitor-class vessels and their crews on the James River. |
No place | circa 1864-1865 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 594.00 | |
| 98 | "Nine Months' Men . . . Come Forward Immediately" recruitment broadside. |
Concord, NH | 3 [October?] 1862 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 938.00 | |
| 99 | [Engineer Company, 12th New York State Militia, Camp Anderson] |
[May 1861] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 100 | Scene in the German Quarter, Syracuse, on the Morning of the Departure of Capt. Jenny's Company, |
Syracuse, NY, | 30 January 1862 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
