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
151

(FAMILY PAPERS.) Papers of the Milford-Jones-Banta family of Ohio and Indiana

Various places 1831-1930 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,188.00
152

(FAMILY PAPERS.) Photograph albums and papers from the family of W.G. Fargo, founding partner of Wells Fargo

1865-1888 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
153 Jean-Francois Janinet

(FRANKLIN.) Benjamin Franklin

17 Janvier 1706 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
154

FRANKLIN. The Way to Wealth; or, Poor Richard Improved

Paris 1795 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 594.00
155

(FREEMASONRY.) The Constitutions of the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons

Worcester 1792 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 698.00
156

(FREEMASONRY.) Manuscript of Connecticut Masonic rituals

[Connecticut] circa 1797-1819 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 17,780.00
157 [James Callender]

(HAMILTON.) The History of the United States for 1796

Philadelphia 1797 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,810.00
158

(HAWAII.) Vladimir Ossipoff

[Honolulu] 1961-1970 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,397.00
159 George Bickham

(HISTORY.) A Short Description of the American Colonies Belonging to the Crown of Great Britain

London 1747 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 444.00
160

(ILLINOIS.) Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago

[Chicago] [1868] USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 317.00
161

(IMMIGRATION.) Manuscript forms for bringing Dutch emigrants to America during the Federal era

[Baltimore?] circa 1780s-1790s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,206.00
162

(IMMIGRATION.) Diary kept by an American seaman working on a passenger ship from Liverpool to New York

Various places 21 May to 9 July [1848] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,318.00
163

(IMMIGRATION.) America: A Journal for Americans, Devoted to Honest Politics and Good Literature

Chicago 1889-1891 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
164

(IOWA.) Ackerman & Bro., Pair of early carte-de-visite views of the town of Independence

Independence, IA 1 September 1864 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
165 [Samuel B.H. Judah]

(JUDAICA.) Gotham and the Gothamites, a Medley

New York 1823 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
166

(JUDAICA.) Group of early Jewish-themed sheet music

Various places 1837-1869 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
167

(JUDAICA.) Patriarchal Times, Comprising Interesting Events, Incidents, and Characters

Philadelphia [1847] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
168

JUDAICA.) The Pentateuch, Called the Five Books of Moses (School and Family Edition

Milwaukee, WI 1884 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
169

(JUDAICA.) Order of Service at the Dedication of the Synagogue of the Congregation "B'nai Jeshurun," on Madison Avenue

New York 1885 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,397.00
170

(JUDAICA.) Papers of Meyer Mintz, a New Jersey campaigner for Jewish refugees and Zionist causes

Various places circa 1910-1948 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,794.00
171

(JUDAICA.) Group of 3 pamphlets on international aid for Jews

Various places 1925 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
172

(JUDAICA.) Tired of Giving? / Notice to the World

[Newark, NJ] circa 1926-28 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 762.00
173

(JUDAICA.) [They Need Your Help] Canadian relief poster in Yiddish

[Montreal, QB] 1936 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,206.00
174

(JUDAICA.) Posters promoting a Havana lecture in support of Soviet Jews

[Havana] 1941-11-26 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
175 Jeremiah B. Taylor

(KANSAS.) Letterbook of a frontier missionary with tales of friendly Indians and unfriendly Confederate guerrillas

1839-1887 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,065.00
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