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
51

(BIBLE IN NEZ PERCE.) George Ainslie, Johnnim Taaiskt / The Gospel According to John, Translated into the Nez Perces Language

 Philadelphia 1876 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,716.00
52

(BIBLE IN OJIBWE.) Iu Otoshki-Kikindiuin / The New Testament . . .

 New York 1856 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 349.00
53

(BUSINESS.) Comprehensive file on Chase Manhattan chairman David Rockefeller's visit to Nigeria in 1979

 Various places December 1978 to May 1979 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 349.00
54 George Ulrey

(CALIFORNIA.) Letter from a Gold Rush prospector regarding his Chinese and Spanish friends

 Double Springs, CA 25 August 1851 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,143.00
55

(CALIFORNIA.) Britton & Rey, lithographers. Print of a wounded grizzly bear destroying San Francisco, issued in the wake of the 1906 earthquake

 San Francisco, CA 1907 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
56

(CALIFORNIA.) Reports and correspondence of the California Wine Association

 San Francisco, CA 1910-1918 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
57 Maurice, Arthur and Sidney Robinson

(CANADA.) Diary of three English brothers seeking their fortune in the Klondike gold rush

 Various places 1897-1898 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
58

(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The History of a Schoolboy, with Other Pieces

 New York 1792 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
59

(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The Uncle's Present, a New Battledoor

 Philadelphia [1810] USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 190.00
60

(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The New Instructive History of Miss Patty Proud

 New Haven, CT 1813 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 381.00
61 [Benjamin Sands]

(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Metamorphosis; or, A Transformation of Pictures

 New York 1824 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 698.00
62 T.D. James's Academy

(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Five Good Reasons for Not Playing Marbles

 Philadelphia 1837 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 635.00
63

(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Group of 6 early illustrated American children's books

 Various places 1808-1830 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
64 Danny Lyon

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) For Food . . For Freedom

 Atlanta, GA circa 1962 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
65

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Civil Rights Now! pennant from the March on Washington

 Washington 1963-08-28 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,778.00
66 Henry C. Dickinson

(CIVIL WAR--PRELUDE.) Letters of a young Virginia attorney on the eve of war

 Liberty (now Bedford), VA 1857-1861 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,905.00
67

(CIVIL WAR.) Advertising ephemera for Parr's Patent American Camp Chest

 Philadelphia and New York 25 June 1861 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
68 Benjamin F.

(CIVIL WAR.) Butler General Orders No. 106, his farewell to the soldiers of the Department of the Gulf

 New Orleans, LA 15 December 1862 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,032.00
69 Charles M. Heaton

(CIVIL WAR.) Letters of a clerk in Washington through the war

 Washington 1861-1864 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,620.00
70

(CIVIL WAR.) Soldiers' News-Letter, an unrecorded issue of a camp newspaper from near New Orleans

 Ship Island, MS 24 May 1862 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,413.00
71 [William H. Emory]

(CIVIL WAR.) A general's manuscript report on the Battle of Mansfield and the failed Red River campaign

 No place circa late 1864 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,254.00
72

(CIVIL WAR--ART.) Letter illustrated with appealing folk art

 Madison, MS 13 December 1863 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
73 Martha M. Wells

(CIVIL WAR--CALIFORNIA.) Letter from the sister of a 16-year-old who had enlisted "to quiet the Mormons"

 Sacramento, CA 12 September 1861 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
74

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Avalanche Extra, a newspaper broadside shortly before Tennessee secession

 [Memphis, TN] 24 April [1861] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,143.00
75

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Correspondence of Lt. William Larkin of Virginia, including a commendation at Appomattox

 Various places 1861-1865 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 952.00
  • <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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    Case Antiques
    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.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.