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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 180 | Anderson Alexander | Masonic membership certificate from New Hampshire |
Concord, NH | 1813 | Not Available | USD 396.00 |
| 181 | Hamilton Alexander | His first report as Secretary of the Treasury |
New York | 1789 | Not Available | USD 825.00 |
| 182 | New-England Palladium |
Boston | 1804 | Not Available | USD 792.00 | |
| 183 | Willson James Renwick | Fragments of the History of Bawlfredonia |
1819 | Not Available | USD 825.00 | |
| 184 | Peters William T.;Peters Hugh Florien;Mallery Garrick | The College Experience of Ichabod Academicus |
circa 1850 | Not Available | USD 889.00 | |
| 185 | Carte-de-visite of pioneering Burmese medical student Shaw Loo |
Cleveland, OH | circa mid-1860s | Not Available | USD 495.00 | |
| 186 | Papers of Syrian-American immigrant Assad Joseph Fogaley |
1930-1963 | Not Available | USD 1,254.00 | ||
| 187 | Harada Toichiro | Nyuyoku |
Tokyo | 1914 | Not Available | USD 508.00 |
| 188 | DeWitt J.L. | Civilian Exclusion Order No. 16 |
San Francisco, CA | 1942 | Not Available | USD 603.00 |
| 189 | New York Japanese American Directory |
New York | 1948-1949 | Not Available | USD 571.00 | |
| 190 | 1951 Hokubei Mainichi Year Book |
1951 | Not Available | Not Sold | ||
| 191 | Jefferson Thomas | Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies |
Charlottesville, VA | 1829 | Not Available | USD 8,890.00 |
| 192 | Montefiore Joshua (1762-1843) | Commercial and Notarial Precedents |
Philadelphia | 1803 | Not Available | USD 2,286.00 |
| 193 | Lacey Henry | The Principal Events in the Life of Moses |
Philadelphia | 1817 | Not Available | USD 381.00 |
| 194 | Pond S.B.; Webb George J.; Reiff Anthony | 4 Books, including: Jerusalem, a Hymn; We Wept When We Remembered Zion; The Sorrowing Jew; Hebrew Maiden |
Philadelphia; New York; Boston | 1837-1869 | Not Available | USD 317.00 |
| 196 | Rosen, Joseph A.; Brown, David A.; Warburg, Felix M. | 3 Books, including: Founding a New Life for Suffering Thousands; The New Exodus; Sixty Million Dollars and Eleven Years |
New York; Philadelphia | 1925 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 197 | Van Westrop, Henry | High Holy Days 1943 5704 |
1943 | Not Available | USD 1,524.00 | |
| 198 | Jewish Parents! Do You Want Your Child to: Be Happy, Be Faithful Jews, Be Good Americans |
New York | circa 1940s | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 199 | Hughes, James | A Report of the Causes Determined by the late Supreme Court for the District of Kentucky |
Lexington, KY | 1803 | Not Available | USD 10,795.00 |
| 200 | Psychological warfare leaflets for distribution behind the North Korean lines |
Korea | 1952-1953 | Not Available | USD 3,048.00 | |
| 201 | Daily Advertiser |
New York | 1789 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 202 | Journal of the First Session of the Senate of the United States of America |
New York | 1789 | Not Available | USD 55,880.00 | |
| 203 | Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America |
Hartford, CT | 1791 | Not Available | USD 1,270.00 | |
| 204 | The Laws of the United States of America |
Philadelphia | 1796-1797 | Not Available | USD 635.00 | |
| 205 | Acts Passed at the First [Second, Third] Session of the Fifth Congress |
Philadelphia | 1797-1799 | Not Available | USD 571.00 |
-
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