Swann Galleries: Printed & Manuscript Americana: Semiquincentennial Edition, 62526, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 334 | Stock certificate from the Republic of Texas; Banknote; Naval appropriation pay voucher |
New Orleans, LA | 1840-1841 | Not Available | USD 1,079.00 | |
| 335 | Kirby Walter Bradnee | Photo album from a New York National Guard unit activated for service on the Mexican border |
1915-1917; 1925 | Not Available | USD 396.00 | |
| 336 | Andre Charles (1842-1912) | Photographs of the Government Observatory and surrounding scenery in Ogden |
Ogden, UT | [May 1878] | Not Available | USD 698.00 |
| 337 | Public Ledger of Philadelphia |
Philadelphia | 1848 | Not Available | USD 3,048.00 | |
| 338 | Curtis George William (1824-1892) | Petition to the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York; Equal Rights for Women |
[20 July 1867] | Not Available | USD 952.00 | |
| 339 | Rill John C. | Report of Operations, Standard Gauge Railways |
1917-1919 | Not Available | USD 2,159.00 | |
| 340 | Pershing John J. | My Experiences in the World War |
New York | 1931 | Not Available | USD 462.00 |
| 341 | Jeffries Keith | Letter from a USS Arizona seaman |
1940 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 342 | Steichen Edward | Battle Flag; Nats Over Aleutians; Nats Fly High |
Washington | 1942-1945 | Not Available | USD 952.00 |
| 343 | Scrapbook from the USS Raleigh |
1936-1943 | Not Available | USD 762.00 | ||
| 344 | Kirkpatrick P.C.; Roman G. | Saga of the James O'Hara |
1943-1944 | Not Available | USD 476.00 | |
| 345 | Albums of a naval lieutenant in Guam |
Guam | 1943-1946 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 346 | Artillery colonel's scrapbook |
1944-1946 | Not Available | USD 952.00 | ||
| 347 | Papers and maps of an officer with an attack transport at Okinawa |
1944-1945 | Not Available | USD 889.00 | ||
| 348 | MacArthur Douglas | Proclamation No. 1, to the People of Korea |
Yokohama | 1945 | Not Available | USD 6,864.00 |
| 349 | Raymond Robert (circa 1751-circa 1824); Opie Amelia | A Dialogue between Robert Raymond and a Black Man by the Name of Sambo, a Native of the Island of Antigua; A Short and Simple Description of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich |
1774-circa 1824 | Not Available | USD 4,826.00 | |
| 350 | Bennett Christian | Illustrated letter from an American sailor |
Rio de Janeiro | 1855 | Not Available | USD 825.00 |
| 351 | Sherman Bezalel (1896-1971) | Posters promoting a Havana lecture in support of Soviet Jews |
Havana | 1941 | Not Available | USD 1,397.00 |
| 352 | Constituciones de la Real Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala |
Madrid | 1687 | Not Available | USD 1,206.00 | |
| 353 | Fuente la Pena Antonio de; Nieremberg Juan Eusebio | Convite de alabanzas divina |
Guatemala | 1738 | Not Available | USD 1,016.00 |
| 354 | Caxiga y Rada Agustin de la | Breve relacion del lamentable estrago, que padecio . . . Goathemala con el terremoto |
Mexico | 1751 | Not Available | USD 2,286.00 |
| 355 | Monardes Nicolas | Dos libros . . . cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de la medicina |
Seville | 1569 | Not Available | USD 1,143.00 |
| 356 | Carta de poder |
Mexico City | 1589 | Not Available | USD 3,302.00 | |
| 357 | Vallejo Luis | Sermon que predico . . . en la muerte de su virey don Fr. Garcia Guerra |
Mexico | 1612 | Not Available | USD 3,302.00 |
| 358 | Summario de las indulgencias, concedidas por nuestro muy S.P. Papa Gregorio XIII |
Mexico | 1625 | Not Available | USD 6,350.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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