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
176 John L. Lewis

(LABOR.) File of correspondence between the United Mine Workers president and a local leader

 Various places 1942-1959 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
177 John Carbutt

(LINCOLN.) Carte-de-visite of the Abraham Lincoln catafalque car in Springfield

 Chicago [3 or 4 May 1865] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,696.00
178

(LOUISIANA.) 3 photographs of Reconstruction governor Benjamin Flanders

 New Orleans, LA circa 1860 and 1870 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 539.00
179 Nathaniel Morton

(MASSACHUSETTS.) New England's Memorial

 Boston 1826 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 381.00
180 Eliezer Freeman

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Letter describing his pursuit of an escaped servant across Cape Cod with a team of seven Indians

 Eastham, MA 3 August 1725 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 858.00
181 John Porter

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Almanac diary of a Great Awakening minister in southeastern Massachusetts

 [Bridgewater, MA] 1 January to 31 December 1742 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,584.00
182 Daniel Neal

(MASSACHUSETTS.) The History of New-England, Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country

 London 1747 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 561.00
183 Job Marsh

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Ledger of a small-town doctor, including early smallpox inoculations

 Worthington and Hadley, MA 1782-1796 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,432.00
184

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Act of the Massachusetts Senate ordering a tax to suppress Shays's Rebellion

 [Boston] 17 February 1787 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 6,350.00
185 Edward Rawson

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Instructions of the Town of Leicester to their Representatives

 Leicester, MA 25 May 1787 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
186

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Half year of the Boston Gazette shortly before the War of 1812

 Boston 8 January to 28 June 1810 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 603.00
187

(MASSACHUSETTS.) A full year of the Columbian Centinel leading up to the War of 1812

 Boston 2 January to 28 December 1811 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 603.00
188 Jonas Rishel

(MEDICINE.) The Indian Physician, Containing a New System of Practice, Founded on Medical Plants

 New Berlin, PA 1828 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,778.00
189

(MILITARY.) Photo album from a New York National Guard unit called up for service on the Mexican border in 1916

 Various places 1915-1917 and 1925 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
190

(MILITARY.) Operation plan for photographing the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests

 No place circa June-July 1946 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 698.00
191

(MILITARY.) Photograph album of Operation Greenhouse, which tested the first hydrogen bombs

 Hollywood, CA [1951] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,794.00
192

(MILITARY.) Commissions and awards of pioneering military administrator Susan Morrisey Livingstone

 Washington and elsewhere 1985-2003 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
193 Joseph Smith

(MORMONS.) Mortgage deed signed with Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum Smith

 [Nauvoo, IL] 12 March 1840 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 48,260.00
194 J. Goldsmith

(MORMONS.) A Grammar of General Geography, with ownership signature of the prophet's brother William Smith

 London 1822 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,604.00
195

(MORMONS.) Mother Goose's Melodies . . . Found in the Same Stone Box which Holds the Golden Plates of the Book of Mormon

 Boston 1833 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
196 Ebenezer Robinson

(MORMONS.) Summons regarding a property dispute in Nauvoo

 Nauvoo, IL 22 September 1841 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,413.00
197

(MORMONS.) Issue of the New York Weekly Herald featuring the Book of Abraham and facsimile of the papyrus

 New York 9 April 1842 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
199

(MORMONS.) Marriage certificate of a noted patriarch in Nauvoo

 Carthage, IL 29 October 1845 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
200 Lilburn W. Boggs

(MORMONS.) Summons signed by the signer of the infamous the Mormon Extermination Order

 Sonoma, CA 31 August 1847 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 952.00
201

(MORMONS.) Brigham Young and the First Presidency

 Salt Lake City 16 October 1849 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
  • <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.
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