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
277 Samuel Stanhope Smith

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion

New Brunswick, NJ 1810 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
278 Charles Colcock Jones

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Suggestions on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes

Philadelphia 1847 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,016.00
279

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) The Constitution of the United States of America

Philadelphia 1854 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
281

SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) The Declaration of Independence and Constitution (featuring the new 13th Amendment

New York 1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 594.00
282

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) The Frederick Douglass Souvenir

[Anacostia, DC] [1896] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,270.00
283 Albert S. Berger

(SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.) Letter describing hard fighting near Pasig--in both prose and verse

Manila, Philippines 20 April 1899 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
284 [John A. Whipple]

(SPORTS--BASEBALL.) Team portrait of the Harvard baseball team

[Cambridge, MA] [1867] USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,302.00
285

(SPORTS--BOXING.) Stanley Kubrick, portrait of boxer Rocky Graziano

No place [27 October 1949] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 594.00
286 [Benjamin Rush]

(SPORTS--GOLF.) Sermons to Gentlemen upon Temperance and Exercise

Philadelphia 1772 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,430.00
287 William H. Tabb

(TENNESSEE.) Letters and diary written as a student at Cumberland College shortly before the war

Mostly Lebanon, TN 1856-1860 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
288 Jonathan Carver

(TRAVEL.) Travels through the Interior Parts of North America

London 1778 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 952.00
289 John Ledyard

(TRAVEL.) Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

Hartford, CT 1783 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
290

(TRAVEL.) Francois Jean de Chastellux

Paris 1786 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 349.00
291 Guy R.

(TRAVEL.) Love. Extensive letters and photographs of an American diplomat in Morocco and Ethiopia

Various places 1907-1910 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,350.00
292 Brooke Russell [Astor]

(TRAVEL.) Diary as a young American girl in Peking and on the "grand tour."

Peking, China 1 January to 8 November 1913 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,334.00
293 [Alexander Cap]

(TRAVEL.) Kuonraden's Vart (Kuonrad's Travels), an illustrated western travel memoir set to verse

No place circa 1914 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,302.00
294

(VIRGINIA.) To the Plain, Honest, Independent Republicans of this District, a Virginia political broadside

Norfolk, VA April 1809 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,286.00
295

(VIRGINIA.) Broadside seeking to quell a "general panic" at a Loudoun County bank

Leesburg, VA 21 April 1834 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 726.00
296

(VIRGINIA.) Papers of James H. Reid and the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Various places 1827-1885 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,752.00
297

(VIRGINIA.) Contracts and correspondence regarding the Eureka manganese mine up through the Great Depression

Various places 1917-1932 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 429.00
298

(WAR OF 1812.) Thomas Western's Plan of Defence

[New York] [1812] USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 603.00
299

(WAR OF 1812.) Orderly book of the Halifax Light Infantry on active duty in Boston, with an earlier Halifax tavern ledger

Halifax and Boston, MA, bulk 1814-1815 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,079.00
300

(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Thomas's Massachusetts . . Almanack for 1797 featuring Washington's Farewell Address Worcester

MA [1796] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,397.00
301

(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Newspaper featuring the news of Washington's death

New Brunswick, NJ 24 December 1799 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
302

(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) [Nicholas-Eustache Maurin, Early lithograph of Washington from the Pendleton shop

[Boston] circa 1828 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 571.00
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