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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 105 | Warren Charles | Letter describing skirmishing with guerrillas south of New Bern |
New Bern, NC | 1862 | Not Available | USD 1,206.00 |
| 106 | Powell John Lee | Letter describing Sheridan's dramatic return at the Battle of Cedar Creek |
Shenandoah Valley, VA | 1864 | Not Available | USD 762.00 |
| 107 | Elliott Thomas F. | A sergeant's diary on the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns |
1863-1864 | Not Available | USD 2,032.00 | |
| 108 | Hunt Erastus F. | Letters of an Indiana soldier in what soon became West Virginia |
1861 | Not Available | USD 1,905.00 | |
| 109 | Shaw William C. | Autobiography of Major William C. Shaw |
Chicago | circa 1904 | Not Available | USD 508.00 |
| 110 | Miller Joseph G. | Two letters by Iowa sergeant Joseph G. Miller, his portrait, and other family photographs and letters |
circa 1840s-1894 | Not Available | USD 792.00 | |
| 111 | Johnson Hannibal Augustus | Letter on his capture at Gettysburg, and imprisonment at Belle Isle |
Annapolis, MD | 1863 | Not Available | USD 1,206.00 |
| 112 | Williamson Robert S. | Sketch of the Defences of Newbern |
New Bern, NC | circa March 1862 | Not Available | USD 4,572.00 |
| 113 | Abbot Henry L. | Plan of the First Battle of Bull Run |
14 March 1862 | Not Available | USD 1,524.00 | |
| 114 | Portions of Virginia and North Carolina |
New York | 1864 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 115 | Lindenkohl H; Krebs Charles G | Map of the City of Richmond, Virginia |
1864 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 116 | Stevenson John M | Letters describing service under the famous Colonel Tevis |
Alexandria, LA; Morganzia, LA | 1864 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 117 | Dinsmore William J | Letters describing the inn where Colonel Ellsworth was shot |
Georgetown, DC | 1861 | Not Available | USD 2,286.00 |
| 118 | Reception of the Returning Troops! |
Lynn, MA | 1861 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 119 | Tyler | Sons of the Sires of '76 |
Boston | circa October 1861 | Not Available | USD 3,556.00 |
| 120 | Every Able-Bodied Man . . The Time has Come! Let None Who Love their Country Falter! |
Cambridge, MA | 1862 | Not Available | USD 2,540.00 | |
| 121 | Smith Charles A | Letter describing the Battle of Fredericksburg |
Falmouth, VA | 1862 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 122 | Shedd Freeman B | Letter describing the Chancellorsville campaign with the 33rd Mass. |
Stafford Court House, VA | 1863 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 123 | Leach Frank T | Valley Campaign diary, Battle of New Market |
1864 | Not Available | USD 4,064.00 | |
| 124 | Pettit Matilda; Wren John Y; Slack John W; Read T Buchanan; Peppercorn Peter; Ibex; Readel C H; Janvier Francis D | 13 Books, including: Dedicated for the Wheatley Guards |
Camden, NJ; Philadelphia | circa 1861-1865; 1864; 1865; circa 1877 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 125 | Armstrong Henry Watson | Papers of Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith; Life of Watson Smith, Lieutenant-Commander in the United States Navy |
1887-1888 | Not Available | USD 6,864.00 | |
| 126 | Goldsborough Louis M. | Rifled-Guns |
Hampton Roads, VA | 1861 | Not Available | USD 381.00 |
| 127 | Mosman Daniel Francis | Description of the very sloppy capture of a blockade runner heading to Charleston |
1862 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 128 | 9 Items, including: Documents Signed by Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles |
1862-1865 | Not Available | USD 594.00 | ||
| 129 | Shepherd David J. | Diary of an officer of the schooner Abby B |
1864-1865 | Not Available | USD 2,032.00 |
-
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. -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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