Swann Galleries: Printed & Manuscript Americana: Semiquincentennial Edition, 62526, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
Page Size: 380 items in 16 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
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    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
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    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000