Swann Galleries: PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA - Civil War - Slavery - British Acts of Parliament - New York - Newspapers - Travel & Exploration - Fine American Bindings., 1655,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 07, 1994 - April 07, 1994
Page Size: 409 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
001 (AGRICULTURE.) Deane, Samuel The New England Farmer; or Georgical Dictionary Second Edition. Worcester

1797

USD 100.00 - 200.00 69.00
006 (ALASKA.) Nelson, Edward Report upon Natural History Collections made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881. Washington

1887

USD 100.00 - 150.00 115.00
007 (ALASKA.) Schwatka, Frederick A Summer in Alaska. St. Louis

1893

USD 80.00 - 120.00 115.00
008 (ALASKA.) Turner, L. M. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska. Washington

1886

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
009 (ALASKA.) Whymper, Frederick Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska. New York

circa 1869

USD 80.00 - 120.00 126.00
011 (ALMANACS.) Ames, Nathaniel Group of 6 almanacs for the years 1755, 1760, 1762, 1764, 1765, and 1767. Boston

[1754--1766]

USD 200.00 - 300.00 201.00
012 (ALMANACS.) Group of 5 Rhode Island almanacs from the 1760s. West. An Almanack . . . for 1763. 11 (of 12) leaves. Drake 12808. [1762] * West. The New-England Almanack . . . for 1764. 12 leaves. Drake 12810. [1763] * West. The New-England Almanack . . . for 1765. 12 l Providence

vd

USD 150.00 - 250.00 258.00
013 (ALMANACS.) Group of 6 New-England Almanacks by Benjamin West from the 1770s. For 1773. 12 leaves. Drake 12836. [1772] * For 1774. 12 leaves. Drake 12840. [1773] * For 1775. 12 leves. Drake 12842. [1774] * For 1777. 12 leaves. Drake 12849. [1776] * For 1778. 12 leave Providence

1770s

USD 150.00 - 250.00 201.00
014 (ALMANACS.) Group of 8 Massachusetts almanacs from the 18th-century. Ames. Astronomical . . . for 1752. 8 leaves, title defective. Drake 3090. [1751] * Ames. Astronomical . . . for 1753. 8 leaves, title defective. [1752] * Ames. Astronomical . . . for 1754. 8 leaves. Boston

vd

USD 150.00 - 250.00 172.00
015 (ALMANACS.) Group of 10 Rhode Island almanacs (including one dupliate) from the 1780s-90s. Providence or Newport

vd

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
016 (ANDRADE COLLECTION) Catalogue de la riche Bibliotheque de D. Jose Maria Andrade. Leipzig and Paris

1869

USD 80.00 - 120.00 138.00
017 (ARCHITECTURE.) Shaw, Edward The Modern Architect; or Every Carpenter His Own Master. Boston

1856

USD 100.00 - 150.00 287.00
018 (ASHLEY, WILLIAM H.) Morgan, Dale L., editor The West of William H. Ashley. Plates, folding map. Denver

1964

USD 350.00 - 500.00 316.00
019 BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE History of the Norhwest Coast. San Francisco

1890

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
020 BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE The Works. 39 volumes. San Francisco

1886--1890

USD 300.00 - 400.00 488.00
021 BELKNAP, JEREMY The History of New-Hampshire. Folding map. 3 volumes. Philadelphia

1784--1792

USD 350.00 - 500.00 230.00
022 BERQUIN-DUVALLON Schilderung von Louisiana. Folding map. Weimar

1804

USD 200.00 - 300.00 258.00
023 BEVERLEY, ROBERT Histoire de la Virginie. Paris

1707

USD 100.00 - 150.00 80.00
024 (BIBLE IN ENGLISH) The Holy Bible. New York

1792

USD 100.00 - 150.00 287.00
025 (BLACKS) Commonwealth of Massachusetts . . . John Harris . . . born in the City of Alexandria, State of Virginia . . . is a free coulored [sic] man . . . that the Act of the Congress . . . not having made provision for Persons of Colour . . . that the said John Ha Salem

23 October 1824

USD 100.00 - 150.00 230.00
026 BRADSTREET, ANNE The Works. Charlestown

1867

USD 60.00 - 90.00 126.00
027 (BRAZIL.) Scully, William A New Map of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro

1866

USD 150.00 - 250.00 149.00
028 BRINTON, DANIEL G. The Annals of the Cakchiquels. Philadelphia

1885

USD 80.00 - 120.00 115.00
029 (BRITISH ACT OF PARLIAMENT) American Prohibitory Act. An Act to prohibit all Trade and Intercourse with the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachuset's Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pensylvania, and Three Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Car London

1776

USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,150.00
030 (BRITISH ACT OF PARLIAMENT) Transportation of Convicts Atc. An Act for further preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons. London

1718

USD 300.00 - 400.00 316.00
031 (BRITISH ACTS OF PARLIAMENT) An Act for Securing certain Powers and Privileges intended to be granted by His Majesty by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea. (6 George I, c. 20.) [2], 20 pages * An Act for restraining and preventing several unwarrantable Scheme London

1720, 1741

USD 300.00 - 400.00 258.00
032 (BROADSIDE) An Act prohibiting for a limited time the exportation of arms and ammunition, and encouraging the importation of the same. [Philadelphia]

[1794]

USD 350.00 - 500.00 431.00
034 (BROADSIDE) Sale at Auction, By W. K. Reynolds . . . The Hull and Materials of the American Brig Greyhound. [Baltimore?]

circa 1815

USD 400.00 - 600.00 632.00
035 (BROADSIDE) State of Rhode-Island . . . In General Assembly . . . An ACT assessing and apportioning a Rate or Tax of Thirty Thousand Pounds Lawful Money. [Providence?]

[1778?]

USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 2,070.00
036 (BROADSIDE) To the Freeholders and Freemen of the State of Rhode-Island . . . The late Period at which the History of the Life and Character of William Hunter. Providence

1806

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
037 (BROADSIDE) United States Mail Steamers, for New York. The Baltic. Liverpool

July 1854

USD 100.00 - 150.00 201.00
038 BRODER, PATRICIA JANIS The American West: the Modern Vision. Numerous reproductions, many in color. New York

(1984)

USD 300.00 - 400.00 460.00
040 BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, editor Picturesque America. Profusion of engraved plates and reproductions. 2 volumes. New York, Appleton

[1872--1874]

USD 250.00 - 350.00 161.00
041 [BURKE, EDMUND] An Account of the European Settlements in America Fifth Edition, with Improvements. London

1770

USD 100.00 - 150.00 126.00
042 (CALIFORNIA.) Borthwick, J. D. Three Years in California. 8 tinted lithographed plates. Edinburgh

1857

USD 350.00 - 500.00 373.00
044 (CALIFORNIA.) Letts, John M. California Illustrated . . . Fourth Thousand. New York

1853

USD 100.00 - 150.00 149.00
045 (CALIFORNIA.) Ryan, William R. Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848--49. 23 lithographed plates, one supplied in facsimile. 2 volumes. London

1850

USD 200.00 - 300.00 258.00
046 (CANADS) Chisholm's All Round route and Panoramic Guide of the St. Lawrence. Montreal

1872

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
047 (CANADA) Illustrated Guide to the House of Commons of Canada. Ottawa

1875

USD 300.00 - 400.00 201.00
048 (CANADA) London Atlas Map of Manitoba. London

circa 1880

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
051 [CARRINGTON, MRS. HENRY B.] Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Home of the Crows: being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains. Philadelphia

1869

USD 80.00 - 120.00 126.00
052 (CATALOGUES) Group of 10 bookseller's catalogues with strong offerings of Americana. Vp

vd

USD 100.00 - 150.00 316.00
053 CATLIN, GEORGE The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. London

1841

USD 400.00 - 600.00 920.00
054 CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER de Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France. Paris

1744

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,840.00
055 CHASTELLUX, FRANCOIS JEAN, Marquis de Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. London

1787

USD 300.00 - 400.00 546.00
056 CHASTELLUX, FRANCOIS JEAN, Marquis de Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. London

1787

USD 150.00 - 250.00 149.00
057 (CHURCH COLLECTION) A Catalogure of Books relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America, forming a Part of the Library of E. D. Church. Compiled and annotated by George Watson Cole. Numerous reproductions of book leaves from volumes in the collection New York

1907

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,725.00
058 (CIVIL WAR.) Barry, William Farquhar Autograph Military Correspondence signed as Brigadier General USV, announcing the arrival of an ordnance shipment of "Light 12's." Harrison’s Landing

30 July 1862

USD 100.00 - 150.00 149.00
059 (CIVIL WAR) Civil War Songsheets.

1860s

USD 200.00 - 300.00 201.00
061 (CIVIL WAR.) Graham, J. D. Messages . . . in Relation to the Intersection of the Boundary Lines . . . being a Portion of Mason and Dixon's Line. Second Edition. Chicago

1862

USD 60.00 - 90.00 57.00
062 (CIVIL WAR) Group of approximately 100 pieces of manuscript or partly printed documents relating to the 1st Regiment of Light Artillery, Rhode Island Volunteers; consisting principally of ordnance records and receipts during residency at White House Station and Potts Vp

1862

USD 150.00 - 250.00 920.00
063 (CIVIL WAR.) Guernsey, Alfred; and Alden Henry Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War. Chicago

(1866--1868)

USD 100.00 - 150.00 149.00
064 (CIVIL WAR) Harper's Weekly. Volumes 5--9, with complete coverage of the Civil War. New York

1861--1865

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 5,520.00
065 (CIVIL WAR.) Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Army Life in a Black Regiment. Boston

1870

USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
066 (CIVIL WAR.) Kendall, Amos Secession. Letters of Amos Kendall; also, his Letters to Col. Orr and Prest. Buchanan. Washington

1861

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
067 (CIVIL WAR) New York Monuments Commission . . . Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg [called New York at Gettysburg]. Albany

1900

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
068 (CIVIL WAR.) Semmes, Admiral Raphael Memoirs of Service Afloat. Baltimore

1869

USD 80.00 - 120.00 126.00
069 (CIVIL WAR.) Stevens, C. A. Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac 1861--1865. Plates. St. Paul

1892

USD 100.00 - 150.00 115.00
071 (CIVIL WAR---BROADSIDE) The Eighty-First Ohio. Cincinnati

1862

USD 80.00 - 120.00 230.00
072 (CIVIL WAR---CONFEDERATE IMPRINT) [Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Thomas Robert.] The Practice of War . . . By C. F. Pardigon. Richmond

1863

USD 200.00 - 300.00 431.00
073 (CIVIL WAR---CONFEDERATE IMPRINT) General Orders No. 3 . . . An Act to provide for the appointment of a General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States. Richmond

6 February 1865

USD 150.00 - 250.00 172.00
074 (CIVIL WAR---CONFEDERATE IMPRINT Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1862. [Richmond]

[1862]

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
075 (CIVIL WAR---CONFEDERATE IMPRINT.) Stark, A. W. Instruction for Field Artillery. Richmond

1864

USD 250.00 - 350.00 632.00
076 (CIVIL WAR---LEE'S FAREWELL ADDRESS) General Orders No. 9. Small lithographed broadside. Baltimore

1866

USD 150.00 - 250.00 92.00
077 (CIVIL WAR---LETTERS) Fine group of 21 letters from Private William R. Wilder, a member of an unidentified Illinois cavalry unit, to members of his family. Vp

1862--1865

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,495.00
078 (CIVIL WAR---NEWSPAPERS) Group of 16 different issues of the New York Herald, each with news of the war; condition generally fine. New York

1861--1863

USD 250.00 - 350.00 230.00
079 (CIVIL WAR---NEWSPAPERS) Group of 17 different issues of the New York Times or New York Herald, New York

1861--1862

USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,035.00
080 (CIVIL WAR---NEWSPAPERS) Gruop of 20 different copies of the New York Times issued during the second half of 1861, each carrying news of the war; condition generally fine. New York

1861

USD 300.00 - 400.00 172.00
083 (CLIPPER SHIP SAILING CARDS) Group of 4 cards printed in color and in black and white; issued by the commission merchants Sutton & Company (3) and William T. Coleman, for voyages from New York to San Francisco. For the ships: Napier (illuminated crossed cannons, with the name of the New York

circa 1850--1865

USD 600.00 - 900.00 517.00
084 (COAST SURVEY) Report of the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast [and Geodetic] Survey. Annual volumes for 1854, 1858, 1866--87. Washington

1855--1889

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
085 (COLOMBIA.) Monsalve, Diego Colombia Cafetera. (Barcelona)

(1927)

USD 80.00 - 120.00 80.00
086 (COLORADO) History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado. Chicago

1880

USD 150.00 - 250.00 161.00
087 CONDER, JOSIAH The Modern Traveller . . . North America. London

1829--1830

USD 100.00 - 150.00 92.00
088 (CONNECTICUT) The Connecticut Magazine. Hartford

1895--1907

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
089 (CONNECTICUT) Manuscript Charter and subsequent minutes of meetings or the Parish Library of North Society in Lyme, Connecticut. 25 pages, including a list of the society's founders and a catalogue of the books held. For the period between 1790 and 1797 * Manuscript Mi Lyme

1790--1855

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,380.00
090 (COOKERY) The Experienced American Housekeeper, or domestic Cookery. New York

[1838]

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
091 (COOKERY.) Glasse, Hannah The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. Alexandria

1805

USD 400.00 - 600.00 517.00
092 (COOKERY.) [Rundell, Maria] The American Domestic Cookery . . . By an Experienced Housekeeper. New York

1823

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
093 COOPER THOMAS Some Information respecting America. London

1794

USD 200.00 - 300.00 575.00
095 (DAKOTA TERRITORY) General and Private Laws and Memorials and Resolutions of the Territory of Dakota, passed at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly. Yankton

1862

USD 100.00 - 150.00 138.00
096 DANA, RICHARD HENRY Two Years Before the Mast. New York

1840

USD 500.00 - 750.00 345.00
097 DARBY, WILLIAM A Tour from the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory. New York

1819

USD 200.00 - 300.00 287.00
098 [D'ARUSMONT, FANNY WRIGHT] Views of Society and Manners in America . . . By an Englishwoman. New York

1821

USD 80.00 - 120.00 138.00
099 DE BRY, THEODORE Portraits to the Life and Manners of the Inhabitants of that Province in America called Virginia. New York

1841

USD 100.00 - 150.00 287.00
100 (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) Engraved text of the Declaration surrounded by a hand-colored engraved floral wreath in which are set the symbols of the original thirteen colonies, portraits of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, all surmounted by the American eagle and banners. Lyon

19th century

USD 100.00 - 150.00 287.00
101 (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. New York

1815

USD 100.00 - 150.00 115.00
102 DE ROSS, FREDERICK Personal Narrative of Travels in the United States and Canada. 13 (of 14) maps and plates. London

1827

USD 100.00 - 150.00 201.00
103 DUNBAR, SEYMOUR A History of Travel in America. Maps and plates. 4 volumes. Indianapolis

(1915)

USD 200.00 - 300.00 172.00
104 DUYCKINCK, EVERT A. National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans. New York

(1862)

USD 80.00 - 120.00 230.00
106 (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Shepard, Thomas The Sincere Convert. Boston

1742

USD 150.00 - 250.00 287.00
107 (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Walter, Nehemiah Discourses on the whole LVth Chapter of Isaiah. Boston

1755

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
108 EASTMAN, MARY HENDERSON The American Aboriginal Portfolio. Philadelphia

(1853)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 373.00
109 ELIOT, JOHN A Biographical Dictionary . . . of the First Settlers and other Eminent Characters . . . in New-England. Salem

1809

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
110 EMORY, WILLIAM H. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego in California. Washington

1848

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
111 EMORY, WILLIAM H. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California. Washington

1848

USD 150.00 - 250.00 126.00
112 EMORY, WILLIAM H. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California. Washington

1848

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
113 EMORY, WILLIAM H. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Washington

1857

USD 100.00 - 200.00 126.00
114 EVANS, CHARLES American Bibliography. New York and Worcester

1941--1962

USD 300.00 - 400.00 747.00
115 FAY BERNARD Notes on the American Press at the End of the Eighteenth Century. New York

1927

USD 60.00 - 90.00 46.00
116 FEARON, HENRY BRADSHAW Sketches of America: a Narrative of a Journey of 5000 Miles through the Eastern and Western States of America. London

1819

USD 100.00 - 150.00 138.00
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