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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78 | San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council | An Arsenal of Answers in the Field of Inter-Group Relations and Civil Rights |
San Francisco | circa 1952 | Not Available | USD 1,079.00 |
| 79 | King Martin Luther Jr. | Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story |
New York | 1958 | Not Available | USD 16,510.00 |
| 80 | Lo Monaco Louis | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: We Shall Overcome |
New York | 1963 | Not Available | USD 412.00 |
| 81 | Broadside for an exhibition featuring an early stereopticon of the Southern Rebellion |
Philadelphia | 1861 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 82 | Group of patriotic paper cuffs and collars |
Philadelphia | circa 1861 | Not Available | USD 825.00 | |
| 83 | Baxter D.W.C. | The Volunteer's Manual; Independent Rangers! Company Arrangement |
Philadelphia | [1861] | Not Available | USD 444.00 |
| 84 | The Compound Aromatic Stomach Belt |
Philadelphia | circa 1861 | Not Available | USD 381.00 | |
| 85 | McClellan George;Brackett;Scott Winfield | 5 Books, including: Manual of Bayonet Exercise |
Philadelphia;Cincinnati;Washington;New York | 1852;1854;1855;1861 | Not Available | USD 1,143.00 |
| 86 | Stickle John R. | Letter describing the Battle of Malvern Hill |
9 July 1862 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 87 | Powers Edward | Letters of a quartermaster's clerk |
1862-1864 | Not Available | USD 412.00 | |
| 88 | Kinsman Josiah Burnham (1824-1912) | Letter on the wild reception for Benjamin Butler |
Lowell, MA | 11 January 1863 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 89 | Ripley S.K. | Telegraph message reporting on Sherman's capture of Atlanta |
Jamestown, VA | 3 September 1864 | Not Available | USD 528.00 |
| 90 | Wallace Lew | Letter allowing passage to the front to historian Benson Lossing |
Baltimore, MD | 5 December 1864 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 91 | Guernsey;Allen | Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization; Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion |
New York | 1861-1865;1866 | Not Available | USD 3,048.00 |
| 94 | Ingersoll Robert Green (1833-1899) | Extract from Col. R. G. Ingersoll's Speech at the Soldier's Re-Union |
Chicago | [1876] | Not Available | USD 1,270.00 |
| 95 | Miller Francis Trevelyan | The Photographic History of the Civil War |
New York | 1911 | Not Available | USD 858.00 |
| 96 | Waud Alfred | 3 items, including: Pencil sketch of a Wisconsin colonel |
Washington | circa November-December 1862 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 97 | Military Ball at Drum Barracks |
Los Angeles, CA | 1864 | Not Available | USD 1,016.00 | |
| 98 | Purvis George Edward | Letter describing Nashville a few days before Union occupation |
Nashville, TN | 1862 | Not Available | USD 571.00 |
| 99 | Page Mann | Description of 2000 captured Union soldiers being marched to prison |
Charlottesville, VA | 1862 | Not Available | USD 1,397.00 |
| 100 | Stuart J.E.B. | Telegraph message inviting Confederate women to attend his cavalry review |
Culpeper Court House, VA | 1863 | Not Available | USD 698.00 |
| 101 | Bridgford David B. | Pre-printed pass from the Army of Northern Virginia |
Orange, VA | 1863 | Not Available | USD 285.00 |
| 102 | 34 items, including: Confederate currency, obsolete banknotes, and other southern financial paper |
1838-1865 | Not Available | USD 10,160.00 | ||
| 103 | Sketch of Capt. Edward Barker Ross |
circa 1912 | Not Available | Not Sold | ||
| 104 | Seth | Letter describing the capture of Beaufort and Battle of New Bern |
Beaufort, NC | 1862 | Not Available | USD 1,905.00 |
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