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
117 (FICTION.) [Murray, Judith Sargent Stevens] The Gleaner. By Constantia. Boston

1798

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
118 (FISHERIES.) Goode, George Brown The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Sections 1--3, and 5 (Plate volume) (2 copies). Washington

1884--1873

USD 200.00 - 300.00 230.00
119 [FITZGERALD, WILLIAM] Historic Certainties respecting the Early History of America. By Aristarchus Newlight. London

1851

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
120 (FRAKTUR) Unparthenisches Gesang-Buch. Lancaster

1841

USD 200.00 - 300.00 230.00
121 FRANCHERE, GABRIEL Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814. 3 plates. New York

1854

USD 100.00 - 150.00 230.00
122 FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Washington

1845

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
123 FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES Reports of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Washington

1845

USD 100.00 - 150.00 201.00
124 (FRENCH and INDIAN WAR.) Johnson, William Camp on Lake George, Sept. 9, 1755. Np

[1755]

USD 600.00 - 900.00 3,910.00
125 (FROG LAKE MASSACRE.) Gowanlock, Theresa; and Delaney, Theresa Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear. Parkdale

1885

USD 250.00 - 350.00 161.00
126 GARLAND, HAMLIN The Book of the American Indian. Illustrations by Frederic Remington New York

(1923)

USD 60.00 - 90.00 46.00
127 GASS, PATRICK A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery. Pittsburgh

1807

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,840.00
128 (HAITI.) Roux, P. Almanach Royal d'Hayti pour l'Annee 1815. Cap-Hanri

[1814]

USD 400.00 - 600.00 862.00
129 HALE, EDWARD E. Kanzas and Nebraska. Boston

1854

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
130 HALL, BASIL Travels in North America. 2 volumes in one. Philadelphia

1829

USD 80.00 - 120.00 80.00
132 (HAMILTON, ALEXANDER.) [Coleman, William, editor] A Collection of Facts and Documents relative to the Death of Major-General Alexander Hamilton. New York

1804

USD 80.00 - 120.00 172.00
133 HARDIE, JAMES The American Remembrancer. Philadelphia

1795

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
134 (HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY.) Griffing, L. A National Hymn. Np

[1841]

USD 100.00 - 150.00 80.00
135 (HAWAII) Engraved mounted India proof for two Hawaiian currency notes in the denominations of 3 and 5 kalas, with only the front of the notes shown. Boston

nd

USD 80.00 - 120.00 201.00
136 HAYES, ISAAC I. An Arctic Boat Journey, in the Autumn of 1854. Boston

1860

USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
137 HAZARD SAMUEL Santo Domingo, Past and Present; with a Glance at Hayti. New York

1873

USD 100.00 - 200.00 230.00
138 HORN, GEORG De Originibus Americanis. The Hague

1652

USD 150.00 - 250.00 431.00
141 [HUGHES, W. E.] The Journal of a Grandfather. By W. E. H. Cramp. (Saint Louis)

(1912)

USD 600.00 - 900.00 373.00
142 HUTCHINSON, THOMAS J. Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings. London

1865

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
143 (ILLINOIS) Ledger book for a store in Shelby County, with manuscript notations of debits and credits for the period between 1834 and 1847. Shelby County, Illinois

1834--1847

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
144 (INDIANS.) Copway, George The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation. London

1850

USD 100.00 - 150.00 115.00
145 (INDIANS) Fine albumen photographic bust portrait of Geronimo, Np

circa 1906

USD 400.00 - 600.00 402.00
146 (INDIANS.) [Goodrich, Samuel G.] History of the Indians of North and South America. Boston

1844

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
149 IRVING, JOHN TREAT Indian Sketches . . . during an Expedition to the Pawnee and Other Tribes of American Indians. 2 volumes. London

1835

USD 200.00 - 300.00 126.00
150 [JAMES, JOSEPH; and MOORE, DANIEL] A System of Exchange with almost All Parts of the World, to which is added, the India Directory, for Purchasing the Drugs and Spices of the East-Indies, &c. New York

1800

USD 200.00 - 300.00 546.00
151 JEWITT, JOHN R. Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of . . . Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston. New York

circa 1830

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
152 JEWITT, JOHN R. Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings . . . during a Captivity of nearly Three Years among the Savages of Nootka Sound. Ithaca

1849

USD 80.00 - 120.00 115.00
154 (JONES, HERSCHEL V.---COLLECTION) Adventures in Americana 1492--1897. Numerous reproductions. 3 volumes, including Check-List compiled by Wilberforce Eames. New York

1928--1938

USD 150.00 - 250.00 287.00
155 (JONES, HERSCHEL V.---COLLECTION) Adventures in Americana . . . Being a Selection of Books from the Library of Herschel V. Jones. New York

1928

USD 120.00 - 180.00 172.00
156 KANSAS CITY ILLUSTRATED Numerous tinted lithographed plates. Kansas City

circa 1877

USD 350.00 - 500.00 546.00
158 KNEELAND, SAMUEL The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California . . . Third Edition, Boston

1872

USD 500.00 - 750.00 316.00
159 [KRAITSIR, CHARLES V.] The Poles in the United States of America. Philadelphia

1837

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
161 (KU KLUX KLAN) Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Conditon on Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. Washington

1872

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
162 LAMAR, MIRABEAU B. Verse Memorials. New York

1857

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 488.00
163 [LAMBART, RICHARD, 6th earl of Cavan] A New System of Military Discipline, Founded upon Principle. Philadelphia

1776

USD 500.00 - 750.00 488.00
165 (LEDGERS) Group of 4 manuscript leder books for various 19th-century American businesses. Vp

1853--1880s

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
166 (LEGAL) The Opinion of Judge Cooper on the Sentence of a Foreign Court of Admiralty. Philadelphia

1810

USD 100.00 - 150.00 126.00
168 LEWIS, MERIWETHER; and CLARK, WILLIAM History of the Expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri. Large folding map as frontispiece (rehinged and repaired at hinge without loss), 5 maps. 2 volumes. Philadelphia

1814

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 12,650.00
171 (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) Ford's Theatre . . . Our American Cousin. Washington

14 April 1865

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,300.00
173 (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) Photograph album containing 117 copy photos of extant photographs of Lincoln. Np

Nd

USD 80.00 - 120.00 287.00
174 (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Raymond, Henry J. The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln Plates. New York

1865

USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
175 (LINCOLN ASSASSINATION.) Pitman, Benn The Assassination of President Lincoln * Harris, T. M. Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspireacy. New York, Boston

1865, (1892)

USD 100.00 - 150.00 172.00
176 [LOOMIS, AUGUSTUS W.] Scenes in the Indian Country. 3 plates. Philadelphia

(1859)

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
177 (LOUISIANA.) Livingston, Edward Introductory Report to the Code of Prison Discipline. London

1827

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
178 McKENNEY, THOMAS Memoirs, Official and Personal. New York

1846

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
179 MACOMB, JOHN N. Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859. Washington

1876

USD 400.00 - 600.00 546.00
180 MACOMB, JOHN N. Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859. Washington

1876

USD 350.00 - 500.00 747.00
181 (MAGAZINE) The Christian's Scholar's, and Farmer's Magazine. Complete run of this bi-monthly magazine which first appeared in April 1789 and discontinued in March 1791. Elizabeth

1789--1791

USD 200.00 - 300.00 230.00
183 (MASONIC.) Calcott, Wellins A Candid Disquisition of the Principles and Practices of . . . Free and Accepted Masons. Boston

1772

USD 100.00 - 150.00 287.00
184 (MASSACHUSETTS.) Barber, John Warner Massachusetts Historical Collections . . . relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts. Plates and illustrations. Worcester

1839

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
185 (MASSACHUSETTS.) Barber, John Warner Massachusetts Historical Collections . . . relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts. Plates and illustrations. Worcester

1839

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
187 (MASSACHUSETTS) Speeches of the Governors of Massachusetts, from 1765 to 1775. Boston

1818

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
188 MATHEWS, MARY Ten Years in Nevada. 2 portrait plates. Buffalo

1880

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
189 [MAUBERT de GOUVEST, JEAN HENRI] Lettres Iroquoises. Irocopolis

1755

USD 300.00 - 400.00 316.00
190 (MEXICO.) Andrade, Vicente de P. Ensayo Bibliografico Mexicano del siglo XVII . . . Tercera edicion. Mexico

1899 [1971]

USD 80.00 - 120.00 92.00
191 (MEXICO.) Diaz del Castillo, Bernal The Memoirs . . . containing a True and Full Account of the Discovvery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. London

1844

USD 150.00 - 250.00 258.00
192 (MEXICO.) Gamarra, Johann. Benedict. Diaz de Elementorum recentioris Philosophiae volumen alterum Physicen cum Generalem. Mexico

1774

USD 500.00 - 750.00 316.00
193 (MEXICO.) Garate, Roman Zulaica Los Franciscanos y la Imprenta en Mexico en el siglo XVI. Mexico

1939

USD 100.00 - 150.00 115.00
194 (MEXICO.) Garcia Icazbalceta, Joaquin Bibliografia Mexicana del siglo XVI. Profusion of reproductions. Mexico

1886

USD 250.00 - 350.00 517.00
195 (MEXICO.) Garcia Icazbalceta, Joaquin Bibliografia Mexicana del siglo XVI. Mexico

1954

USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
196 (MEXICO.) Humboldt, Alexander von Researches concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America. London

1814

USD 300.00 - 400.00 546.00
197 (MEXICO.) Medina, Jose Toribio La Imprenta en Guadalajara de Mexico (1793--1821.) Santiago

1904

USD 150.00 - 250.00 258.00
198 (MEXICO.) MEDINA, Jose Toribio La Imprenta en la Puebla de Los Angeles. Santiago

1908

USD 300.00 - 400.00 488.00
199 (MEXICO.) Medina, Jose Toribio La Imprenta en Mexico (1539--1821). Santiago

1908--1912

USD 350.00 - 500.00 546.00
200 (MEXICO.) Moraly y Castillo de Altea, Anselmo de Platicas doctrinales de contricion, confesion, y satisfaccion. Puebla de los Angeles

1796

USD 200.00 - 300.00 201.00
201 (MEXICO.) Pimental, Ivan Sermon que en la solemne fiesta, que celebro al humano Seraphin llagado Imagen viva de Christo. Mexico

1683

USD 300.00 - 400.00 258.00
202 (MEXICO) Proceso instructivo formado por la Seccion del Gran Jurado de la Camara de Diputados del Congreso General. Mexico

1833

USD 200.00 - 300.00 126.00
203 (MEXICO.) Robles, Antonio de Resguardo contra el olvido, en el breve compendio de la vida admirable, y virtudes heroycas del Illmo. Sr. Dr. D. Alonso de Cuevas Davalos. Mexico

1757

USD 300.00 - 400.00 201.00
205 (MEXICO.) Sartorius, C. Mexico: Landscapes and Popular Sketches. London

1858

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,220.00
206 (MEXICO.) Sartorius, C. Mexiko: Landschaftsbilder und Skizzen aus dem Volksleben. Darmstadt

1855

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 805.00
208 (MEXICO.) Seguin, Paschasio de Galicia, reyno de Christo Sacramentado, y Primogenito de la Iglasia entre las gentes. Mexico

1750

USD 300.00 - 400.00 546.00
209 (MEXICO.) Totten, George Oakley Maya Architecture. Profusion of plates. Washington

(1926)

USD 80.00 - 120.00 258.00
210 (MEXICO.) Velasquez de Cardenas, Carlos Celedonio Breve practica y regimen del Confessonario de Indios, en Mexicano, y Castellano; para instruccion del confessor principiante. Mexico

[1761]

USD 350.00 - 500.00 230.00
211 (MEXICO.) Villalobos, Joaquin Antonio de Sermon que en las funerales . . . Antonio de Xauregui Barzena. Puebla de los Angeles

1727

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
212 (MEXICO.) Wagner, Henry R. Nueva Bibliografia Mexicana del Siglo XVI. Mexico

1940

USD 250.00 - 350.00 172.00
213 (MEXICO.) Wroth, Lawrence The Book Arts in Early Mexico. Illustrated. Cambridge

1945

USD 60.00 - 90.00 103.00
215 (MILITARY) Regulations for the Government of the Ordnance Department. Washington

1839

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
216 (MILITARY) Strategos: the American Game of War. Incredible boxed game created by Lieutenant C. A. L. Totten of the United States Army, and designed to be used in teaching strategies involved in warfare. New York

1880

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,300.00
219 (MINING) Prospectus of the Missouri Iron Company and Missouri and Iron Mountain Cities. Hartford

1837

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
221 (MINNESOTA.) Le Due, W. G. Minnesota Year Book for 1852. St. Paul

[1851]

USD 150.00 - 250.00 316.00
222 (MINNESOTA) Minnesota: Its Place Among the States, being the First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Statistics, for the Year ending January 1st, 1860. Hartford, Minnesota

1860

USD 200.00 - 300.00 138.00
224 (MISSOURI) History of St. Louis, Commercial Statistics, Improvements of the Year. St. Louis

1854

USD 600.00 - 900.00 747.00
225 MITCHELL, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS A General View of the United States. Philadelphis

1846

USD 100.00 - 150.00 258.00
226 MITCHELL, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS Mitchell's Traveller's Guide through the United States. Philadelphia

1839

USD 200.00 - 300.00 345.00
227 MONTULE, EDOUARD de A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies in 1817. 6 plates, scattered text illustrations. London

1821

USD 100.00 - 150.00 172.00
228 MORE, CHARLES ALBERT, Comte de A French Volunteer of the War of Independence. Portrait frontispiece. Paris

1897

USD 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
230 (MORMONS.) Gunnison, J. W. The Mormons . . . in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Philadelphia

1856

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
232 MUIR, JOHN The Yosemite. Plates. New York

1912

USD 150.00 - 250.00 172.00
233 MURATORI, LUIS ANTONIO Il Cristianesimo felice nelle Missioni de' Padri della Compagnia de gesu nel Paraguai. Venice

1752

USD 150.00 - 250.00 258.00
234 MURRAY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS Travels in North America during the Years 1834--1836. London

1839

USD 200.00 - 300.00 230.00
235 MURRAY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS Travels in North America during the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836, including a Summer Residence among the Pawnee Tribe. Edinburgh

1900

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
236 (NAVAL.) Cooper, James Fenimore The History of the Navy of the United States. Map and plan. 2 volumes. Philadelphia

1839

USD 250.00 - 350.00 230.00
239 (NEW YORK.) Smith, William History of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII . . . . with a Continuation . . . to the Commencement of the Year 1814. Albany

1814

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
240 (NEW YORK) Third Annual Report . . . Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History . . . Revised Edition. Albany

1850

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
241 (NEW YORK.) [Vandewater, Robert J.] The Tourist: or, Pocket Manual for Travellers on the Hudson River . . . Fifth Edition, Enlarged and Improved. New York

1836

USD 80.00 - 120.00 149.00
242 (NEW YORK---INDIANS) Manuscript Deposition Signed, John Depeyster, regarding the whereabouts of an Indian deed previously drawn up with the Six Nations of Indians.

1734

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,840.00
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