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
76

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Hardee Hat eagle badge, said to be worn at the funeral of a Confederate officer killed by his enslaved people

 No place circa 1855-1863 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
77

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Letters to David Copeland Randolph with inside discussion of the war

 Richmond 1861-1865 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,254.00
78 William H. Tabb

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Letters of a captain in the 14th Mississippi, at Fort Donelson, Jackson, Atlanta, and more

 Various places 1861-1865 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,255.00
79

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Papers of John Quincy Dickinson, a West Virginian Confederate merchant and cavalryman

 Various places 1858-1865 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,302.00
80

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Eugene Blackford

 Richmond, VA 20 June 1861 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
81 W.R. Scruggs

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.). Letter discussing Lee's Maryland Campaign just before the Battle of Antietam

 Richmond, VA 13 September 1862 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 444.00
82

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) The Yankee President, a satirical songsheet composed in Texas

 circa January 1863 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,905.00
83

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Issue of the Richmond Sentinel on the recent Confederate "'mighty victory" at Gettysburg

 Richmond, VA 8 July 1863 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
84 William W. Hunter

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Order to observe President Davis' Day of Prayer in the Savannah Squadron

 Savannah, GA 19 August 1863 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 200.00
85 Jane Steptoe Cobb

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Letter discussing a visit by General Lee's family

 9 October 1863 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
86

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) When will the War be Over?, a broadsheet poem to promote a soldier's home in Houston

 Houston, TX 1 November 1863 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
87 William Dillard

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Pair of letters written as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute during the war

 Lexington, VA 1863 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,079.00
88 Simon S. Bohannan

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Courtship letters of a North Carolina officer

 Various places 1863-1864 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 232.00
89

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Philip Slaughter A Sketch of the Life of Randolph Fairfax, a Private . . Attached to the Richmond

 Richmond, VA 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,079.00
90

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Enlistment form for 131/2-year-old Confederate Marine musician

 Richmond, VA 23 February 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
91 Junius Fowlkes

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Letter written from defenses of Atlanta, predicting a Confederate victory within a year

 5 June 1864 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
92 Robert H. Anderson

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Plea for reinforcements against Sherman's March to the Sea

 Hardeeville, SC 15 December 1864 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 603.00
93 Clarence Morfit

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Letter describing the last looted currency held by the Confederate prison system

 Charlotte, NC 25 April 1865 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 571.00
94

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Group of Confederate currency and obsolete banknotes

 Various places 1860-1872 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 462.00
95 Theodore C. Glazier

(CIVIL WAR--CONNECTICUT.) Soldier's letter on the Emancipation Proclamation

 Alexandria, VA 23 September 1862 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 381.00
96 George F. Edgerton

(CIVIL WAR--CONNECTICUT.) Letters of a soldier stationed just outside occupied New Orleans

 Various places November 1862 to March 1863 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,794.00
97 Homer S. Sackett

(CIVIL WAR--CONNECTICUT.) Description of a deserter being drummed out of camp

 Fort Ellsworth, Alexandria, VA 30 October 1863 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 349.00
98 L.V. Phillips

(CIVIL WAR--ILLINOIS.) The Battle of Stone's River, an unrecorded soldier composition

 No place circa 1863 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 476.00
99

(CIVIL WAR--KENTUCKY.) Resolutions on Federal Relations, Adopted by the Legislature of Kentucky

 [Frankfort, KY] circa 1863 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,032.00
100

(CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) Union-drawn manuscript map of the area southwest of Alexandria very early in the war

 Virginia circa September 1861 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,048.00
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    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
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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