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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 155 | Easton John; Hough Franklin | A Narrative of the Causes which Led to Philip's Indian War |
Albany, NY | 1858 | Not Available | USD 1,905.00 |
| 156 | Hubbard William | The History of the Indian Wars in New England |
Roxbury, MA | 1865 | Not Available | USD 1,016.00 |
| 157 | Peters Samuel A. | A General History Of Connecticut |
London | 1781 | Not Available | USD 4,826.00 |
| 158 | Group portrait of the incoming members of Yale's Skull and Bones Society |
New Haven, CT | circa 1910s | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 159 | Bossom Alfred C. | Morgan Memorial Building and the Colt Gallery |
Hartford, CT | 1907 | Not Available | USD 952.00 |
| 160 | Bradley Lucius B. | Ledger of a Connecticut animal trap manufacturer |
Watertown, CT | 1850-1856 | Not Available | USD 139.00 |
| 161 | Adams John | A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America |
London | 1787-1788 | Not Available | USD 12,700.00 |
| 162 | The United States Constitution |
Philadelphia | 1787 | Not Available | USD 1,452.00 | |
| 163 | Lloyd Thomas | Debates of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania on the Constitution Proposed for the Government of the United States |
Philadelphia | 1788 | Not Available | USD 8,255.00 |
| 164 | House version of the Bill of Rights |
New York | 1789 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 165 | Crevecoeur Michel Guillaume St. Jean de | Letters From an American Farmer |
London | 1783 | Not Available | USD 1,397.00 |
| 166 | Crevecoeur Michel Guillaume St. Jean de | Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain |
Paris | 1787 | Not Available | USD 1,270.00 |
| 167 | Binder of paper currency and other financial paper |
1779-1928 | Not Available | USD 1,016.00 | ||
| 168 | Act for Establishing the Temporary and Permanent Seat of the Government of the United States |
New York | 1790 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 169 | Prince Thomas | A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals |
Boston | 1736 | Not Available | USD 825.00 |
| 170 | Campbell John | A Treatise of Conversion, Faith and Justification |
Boston | 1743 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 171 | Barton Thomas (1730-1780) | Unanimity and Public Spirit |
Philadelphia | 1755 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 172 | Anderson John | An Almanack, and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1776 |
Newport, RI | [1775] | Not Available | USD 317.00 |
| 173 | Ogilby John; Montanus Arnoldus | America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World |
London | 1671 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 174 | Eliot Thomas Lamb | Family letters by the Portland clergyman and founder of Reed College |
circa 1886-1932 | Not Available | USD 476.00 | |
| 175 | De Bry Theodore;Laudonniere Rene | Der ander Theyl de Newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae . . . in Floridam |
Frankfurt | 1591 | Not Available | USD 4,572.00 |
| 176 | Briggs Richard | The New Art of Cookery |
Philadelphia | 1798 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 177 | Krafft Michael | The American Distiller; or, The Theory and Practice of Distilling |
Philadelphia | 1804 | Not Available | USD 2,286.00 |
| 178 | Janinet Jean-Francois | Benjamin Franklin, ne a Boston le 17 Janvier 1706 |
Paris | 1789 | Not Available | USD 2,540.00 |
| 179 | Franklin Benjamin | Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Philadelphia | 1868 | Not Available | USD 2,159.00 |
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