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
227 Thomas Thompson

(NEW JERSEY.) An Account of Two Missionary Voyages

London 1758 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
228

(NEW JERSEY.) Pair of large group photographs of the Jersey City police department

Jersey City 1887 and 1912 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
229

(NEW YORK.) Journal of the Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York

New York 1764-66 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 444.00
230 Lotus Ingalls

(NEW YORK.) Letter on the establishment of a School for Colored Children in Watertown

Watertown, NY 10 April 1848 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 476.00
231 William Bridges

(NEW YORK CITY.) Map of the City of New-York . . .

New York 1811 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 528.00
232

(NEW YORK CITY.) The Broadway Underground Railway

New York 1872 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,143.00
233

(NEW YORK CITY.) Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge

[Brooklyn, NY] 24 May 1883 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 952.00
234 James J.F.

(NEW YORK CITY.) Gavigan, original architect's rendering for Manhattan's Cherokee Club, watercolor and pencil on paper

circa 1900 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 539.00
235

(NEW YORK CITY.) Miller's Turkish Bath Herald

New York May 1895 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 349.00
236 Caryl Keating

(NEW YORK CITY.) Photo album of an early Montessori educator in the Lower East Side

New York and elsewhere circa 1917-1919 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
237

(NEW YORK CITY.) Al Frueh, Hobohemia postcard

[New York] [1919] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
238

(NEW YORK CITY.) Original design for the Mexico pavilion at the New York World's Fair

1939 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 462.00
239 Joseph Mitchell

(NEW YORK CITY.) First editions of his compiled New Yorker writings, and more

Various places 1943-2008 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
240 Larry Fink

(NEW YORK CITY.) Photographs of Wall Street traders

[New York] circa 1980 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
241 Frank Fortunato

(NEW YORK CITY.) Swank's New York Guide to Drugs, Violence and Prostitution

No place circa 1980 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
242

(NEW YORK CITY.) Come Out: A Liberation Forum for the Gay Community, three original issues

New York 1970-1971 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 349.00
243

(NEW YORK CITY.) Run of programs for the annual Wigstock drag festivals

1990 to 1995 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
244

(NORTH CAROLINA.) Map of Indian boundaries in Georgia and the Carolinas

No place not long after 1802 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,540.00
245

(NORTH CAROLINA.) Letter and satirical poem on a 1772 election in Mecklenburg County, not long before the Mecklenburg Declaration

No place 19 August 1819 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 317.00
246

(OHIO.) Papers of Pearl Nye, canal boat guy

Various places 1890s-1947 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,524.00
247 John Hall

(PENNSYLVANIA.) engraver. William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he Founded the Province of Pensylvania

London 1775 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 462.00
248 David Hoge

(PENNSYLVANIA.) Notebook kept as a Dickinson College student

Carlisle, PA 1789-1790 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
249

(PENNSYLVANIA.) The Accounts of the Guardians of the Poor . . . of Philadelphia

Philadelphia [1804 and 1805] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
250

(PENNSYLVANIA.) Letter from the president of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company concerning a boatmen's strike led by Irish "rioters"

Philadelphia 1843 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
251 John L. Churchill

(PENNSYLVANIA.) The Resources of Kittanning Town and Suburbs, Her Business and Business Men

[Kittanning, PA?] circa 1853 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,188.00
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