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Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana

Auction Reports

Auction Name Printed and Manuscript Americana Total Sales (USD) 715,831.00
Auction Date November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 504,500.00
Sale Number #2721 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 745,500.00
Total Lots 360
Sold Lots 315.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 590,800.00
% of Lots Sold 87.50% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 872,200.00
Unsold Lots 45 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
17 Benjamin Beal

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Unpublished diary of a lieutenant serving in the Invasion of Quebec

 17 March to 6 December 1776 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 76,200.00
23 George Washington

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Letter anticipating the coming British campaign against Philadelphia

 19 January 1777 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 69,850.00
193 Joseph Smith

(MORMONS.) Mortgage deed signed with Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum Smith

 12 March 1840 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 48,260.00
156

(FREEMASONRY.) Manuscript of Connecticut Masonic rituals

 circa 1797-1819 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 17,780.00
206 Ebenezer Rand

(MORMONS.) Letters with a non-Mormon perspective on Nauvoo in the 1840s and beyond

 1865 and [1872?] USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 13,970.00
175 Jeremiah B. Taylor

(KANSAS.) Letterbook of a frontier missionary with tales of friendly Indians and unfriendly Confederate guerrillas

 1839-1887 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,065.00
286 [Benjamin Rush]

(SPORTS--GOLF.) Sermons to Gentlemen upon Temperance and Exercise

 1772 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,430.00
143 [Smith]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) A Declaration . . .

 1764 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,525.00
78 William H. Tabb

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Letters of a captain in the 14th Mississippi, at Fort Donelson, Jackson, Atlanta, and more

 1861-1865 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,255.00
69 Charles M. Heaton

(CIVIL WAR.) Letters of a clerk in Washington through the war

 1861-1864 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,620.00
9 George Catlin

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and other Customs of the Mandans

 1867 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,604.00
38 Herman Daggett

(ANIMAL RIGHTS.) The Rights of Animals: An Oration, Delivered at the Commencement of Providence-College

 1792 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 6,604.00
194 J. Goldsmith

(MORMONS.) A Grammar of General Geography, with ownership signature of the prophet's brother William Smith

 1822 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,604.00
255

(POLITICS.) [Elkanah Tisdale,] The Gerry-Mander, first appearance of this loathsome creature

 26 March 1812 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,600.00
130

(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) Eleazar Huntington, In Congress July 4th. 1776

 circa 1820-24 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,350.00
184

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Act of the Massachusetts Senate ordering a tax to suppress Shays's Rebellion

 17 February 1787 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 6,350.00
291 Guy R.

(TRAVEL.) Love. Extensive letters and photographs of an American diplomat in Morocco and Ethiopia

 1907-1910 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,350.00
256 [Theodorus Bailey]

(PRESIDENTS--1802.) Authentic Information Relative to the Conduct of the Present & Last Administrations

 1802 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 6,096.00
209 John Taylor

(MORMONS.) Letter enclosing the clipped signature of Brigham Young and the First Presidency

 7 January 1882 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,842.00
292 Brooke Russell [Astor]

(TRAVEL.) Diary as a young American girl in Peking and on the "grand tour."

 1 January to 8 November 1913 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,334.00
311

(WEST--NEW MEXICO.) Hermann Stieffel, early watercolor view of the ruins of a Spanish mission in the Manzano Grant

 circa 1860-1867 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,080.00
57 Maurice, Arthur and Sidney Robinson

(CANADA.) Diary of three English brothers seeking their fortune in the Klondike gold rush

 1897-1898 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
107 Cornelius Agnew

(CIVIL WAR--MEDICINE.) Correspondence relating to his leadership of the Sanitary Commission during the war

 1861-1865 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,826.00
210 Hiram Clawson

(MORMONS.) Letter arranging a 4th of July dinner for polygamist inmates

 26 June 1886 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,826.00
332

(CUBA.) Estatutos de la Liga General de Base Ball de la Isla de Cuba

 14 November 1889 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
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    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
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