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
126

(CONSTITUTION.) The Scots Magazine for 1787, featuring the United States Constitution

Edinburgh 1787 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
127 Michel Guillaume St. Jean de CREVECOEUR

Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain

Paris 1787 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
128

(CRIME.) The Narcotic Review, to Suppress the Use of Habit Forming Drugs

Chicago 1935-11-01 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
129

(CURRENCY.) U.S. Treasury Department, Specimens

Washington circa 1874-1876 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,540.00
130

(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) Eleazar Huntington, In Congress July 4th. 1776

[Hartford, CT?] circa 1820-24 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,350.00
131

(DELAWARE.) Schedule of Expenditures for the Maintenance of the Poor of New-Castle County, two annual reports

Wilmington, DE [1801 and] 1803 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
132

(DEMOCRACY.) Crusade for Freedom: Help Truth Fight Communism press kit in support of Radio Free Europe

New York September [1950] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 476.00
133 John Trumbull

(DIPLOMACY.) Letter concerning the resolution of Jay's Treaty, written as secretary to John Jay

London 13 December 1794 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 495.00
134 [Charles Leslie]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Religion of Jesus Christ the only True Religion

Boston 1719 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 476.00
135 [Thomas Prince?]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Vade Mecum for America; or, A Companion for Traders and Travellers

Boston 1732 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 561.00
136 Thomas a Kempis

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Christian Pattern

Germantown, PA 1749 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,397.00
137

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Pennsylvania Gazette, issue discussing the French and Indian War

Philadelphia, PA 19 March 1754 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 762.00
138 Thomas Barton

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Unanimity and . . . after General Braddock's Defeat.]

[Philadelphia] [1755] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
139

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.) True and Impartial State of the Province of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia 1759 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,143.00
140 Jared Eliot

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Essays Upon Field-Husbandry in New England

Boston 1760 [1761] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,302.00
141

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Vollstandiges Marburger Gesang-Buch

Germantown, PA 1762 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
142 [William Livingston]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Philosophic Solitude: or, The Choice of a Rural Life: A Poem

Boston 1762 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 508.00
143 [Smith]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) A Declaration . . .

[Philadelphia] 1764 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,525.00
144 William Goddard

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Partnership . . . of the Pennsylvania Chronicle

Philadelphia 1770 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
145 Philip Freneau

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) A Poem on the Rising Glory of America

Philadelphia 1772 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,556.00
146 John Hill

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Old Man's Guide to Health and Longer Life with Rules for Diet, Exercise, and Physic

Philadelphia 1775 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 952.00
147 [William Goddard]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Prowess of the Whig Club, and the Manoeuvres of Legion

Baltimore, MD [1777] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,302.00
148 [Anthony Benezet]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Serious Considerations on Several Important Subjects

Philadelphia 1778 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
149 Richard Hakluyt

(EARLY EXPLORATION.) The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

London 1600 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,318.00
150

(EARLY EXPLORATION.) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World

London 1671 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
  • 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
  • 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.