Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2721, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 360 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

(ALASKA.) The Cave of Gold, or Broadwell's Claim: A Story of the Klondike, an untraced serial novel, nearly complete in 79 parts

 Cincinnati, OH circa 1898 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,413.00
2

(ALLEGORIES.) An Emblem of America / An Emblem of Europe

 London 21 April 1800 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 594.00
3 Henri Grevedon

(ALLEGORIES.) L'Amerique, Nisida

 Paris [1832] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 297.00
4 William H. Crawford

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Letter on the Chehaw Massacre and Andrew Jackson

 Washington 25 June 1818 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,524.00
5 [Sarah Tuttle]

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Conversations on the Choctaw Mission

 Boston 1830 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 635.00
6 Ebenezer Russell

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Letter from an Illinois frontiersman on the Sauk and Fox, and Potawatomi chief Shabbona

 Yellow Banks, IL [1835?] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
7 Paul Kane

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America

 London 1859 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,048.00
8 George Catlin

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians

 London 1841 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 444.00
9 George Catlin

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and other Customs of the Mandans

 London 1867 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,604.00
10 George Catlin

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) North American Indians

 Philadelphia 1913 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 952.00
11

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Pair of pamphlets in the Santee dialect of Eastern Dakota

 Santee, NE 1894 and 1903 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
12 Frank Rinehart

(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Rocky Bear, Sioux

 Omaha, NE 1899 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
13

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Boston Chronicle, with the Massachusetts Circular Letter, Letters from a Farmer and much more

 Boston 1767-1768 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 Not Sold
14

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The New York Tea Party discussed in an issue of Rivington's New-York Gazetteer

 New York 28 April 1774 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,778.00
15 John Wentworth

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Governor's pass for a British ship to pass Fort William and Mary

 Piscataqua, NH 10 November 1774 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,079.00
16

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) List of casualties at Lexington and Concord, in an issue of Rivington's New-York Gazetteer

 New York 11 May 1775 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,032.00
17 Benjamin Beal

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Unpublished diary of a lieutenant serving in the Invasion of Quebec

 Various places 17 March to 6 December 1776 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 76,200.00
18

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Slip for administering a Revolutionary loyalty oath in New York, early in the war.

 [New York] [1776] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,302.00
19

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Newspaper on the burning of the Royal Arms to celebrate the Declaration of Independence

 New York 25 July 1776 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,064.00
20 Clairac and Nicola

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) L'Ingenieur de Campagne; or, Field Engineer

 Philadelphia 1776 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
21

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) The Art of War

 Philadelphia 1776 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,524.00
22 Richard Price

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty

 Philadelphia 1776 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,524.00
23 George Washington

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Letter anticipating the coming British campaign against Philadelphia

 Morristown, NJ 19 January 1777 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 69,850.00
24 James Mathews

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Letter written by a patriot soldier near occupied Philadelphia

 Great Valley, PA 1777 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
25 Lardner Clark

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Letter from a provision agent sending grain and butter "as much as you please"

 Sussex Court House, NJ 16 April 1777 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 539.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
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