Swann Galleries: Printed & Manuscript Americana., 1811,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 07, 1999 - January 07, 1999
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | [DWIGHT, THEODORE, Jr.] | The Northern Traveller; Containing the Routes to Niagara, Quebec, and the Springs . . . Second Edition. | New York | 1826 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 50.00 |
| 102 | DWIGHT, TIMOTHY | Travels; in New-England and New-York. | New Haven | 1821--1822 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 103 | (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Clapp, John | [An Almanack for . . . 1697.] | [New York] | [1697] |
USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 7,500.00 |
| 104 | (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Dodsley, Robert] | The Oeconomy of Human Life. | Boston | 1752 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 175.00 |
| 105 | (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Stevens, Simon | A Journal . . from the Time of His being Taken, near Fort William-Henry . . . with an Account of his Escape from Quebec. | Boston | 1760 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 3,800.00 |
| 106 | (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Waterhouse, Samuel] | The Monster of Monsters . . . By Thomas Thumb, Esq. | [Boston] | 1754 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 107 | (EBERSTADT CATALOGUES) | The Annotated Eberstadt Catalogs of Americana. | New York | 1965 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 275.00 |
| 108 | ELLIS, WILLIAM | Polynesian Researches, during a Residence of nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands. | New York | 1833 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 325.00 |
| 109 | EVANS, CHARLES | American Bibliography. | Vp | 1941--1971 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 750.00 |
| 110 | FERMIN, PHILIPPE | Description Generale, Historique, Geographique et Physique de la Colonie de Surinam. | Amsterdam | 1769 |
USD 500.00 - 750.00 | 275.00 |
| 111 | (FOOTBALL.) Camp, Walter | American Football. | New York | 1891 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 325.00 |
| 112 | FREMONT, JOHN C. | Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842. | Cooperstown | 1846 |
USD 120.00 - 180.00 | 175.00 |
| 113 | (GEORGIA.) White, George | Historical Collections of Georgia. | New York | 1854 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 120.00 |
| 114 | GERSTMANN, ROBERT | Chile. 280 reproductions of Gerstmann's photographs of Chile. | Paris | (1932) |
USD 60.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold |
| 115 | GILLIS, J. M. | The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere. | Washington | 1855 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | 275.00 |
| 116 | GOVENIUS, LARS JOHAN | Fregatten Norrkoepings Expedition 1861--1862. | Goteborg | 1862 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 550.00 |
| 117 | (GRABHORN PRESS) | A California Gold Rush Miscellany. | (San Francisco) | 1934 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 60.00 |
| 118 | (GRABHORN PRESS.) Meyers, William H. | Naval Sketches of the War in California. | New York | 1939 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 175.00 |
| 119 | GREELEY, HORACE; and CLEVELAND, JOHN; compilers | Political Text-Book for 1860. | New York | 1860 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 50.00 |
| 120 | (GUATEMALA.) Backhouse, J. | Autograph Letter Signed, as Under-Secretary of the British Foreign Office, to Rev. J. Prewett, denying a request for a concession. | [London] | 12 April 1833 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 121 | (HAITI.) Etienne, Francis E. | Les Decorations Haitiennes a travers l'Histoire. | Port-au-Prince | 1954 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 60.00 |
| 122 | HALEY, J. EVETTS | The XIT Ranch of Texas. | Chicago | 1929 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 425.00 |
| 123 | HAMILTON, SCHUYLER | The History of the National Flag of the United States of America. | Philadelphia | 1853 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 350.00 |
| 124 | (HARMSWORTH SALE) | Bound volume containing the 19 parts of the Harmsworth sale representing the Americana collections. | London | 1948--1954 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 60.00 |
| 125 | (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) | Catalogus Eorum qui in Universitate Harvardiana . . . ab Ano MDCXLII ad Annum MDCCLXXXVIII. | Boston | 1788 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 130.00 |
| 126 | (HAWAII.) Whitney, Henry M. | The Hawaiian Guide Book. | Honolulu | 1875 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 650.00 |
| 127 | (HAWAII) | Bound volume of sheet music for 21 Hawaiian songs, from various composers. | Vp | circa 1900 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 |
| 128 | HENDERSON, ROBERT W. | Early American Sport: a Chronological Check-list of Books Published prior to 1860. | New York | 1937 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 90.00 |
| 129 | HERNDON, LEWIS; and GIBBON, LARDNER | Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon. | Washington | 1854 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 225.00 |
| 130 | HINTON, JOHN HOWARD | The History and Topography of the United States. | London | 1830 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 131 | HINTON, JOHN HOWARD | The History and Topography of the United States. | Boston | 1834 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 175.00 |
| 132 | HUBBARD, WILLIAM | A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New-England. | Norwich | 1803 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 50.00 |
| 133 | HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER von; and BONPLAND, AIME | Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the Years 1799--1804. | London | 1818--1829 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 425.00 |
| 134 | (ILLINOIS.) Colton, Joseph H. | Colton's Sectional Map of the State of Illinois. | New York | 1868 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 800.00 |
| 135 | (INDIAN CAPTIVITY.) Rhodes, John | The Surprising Adventures. | New York | 1798 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 140.00 |
| 136 | (INDIAN TERRITORY.) Moore, J. H. | The Political Condition of the Indians and the Resources of the Indian Territory. | St. Louis | 1874 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | 275.00 |
| 137 | (INDIANS) | The Annual Register of Indian Affairs. No. 2. Published by Isaac M'Coy. | Shawanoe Baptist Mission, Indian Territory | 1836 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,200.00 |
| 138 | (INDIANS.) Blish, Helen H. | A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux. | Lincoln | (1967) |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 60.00 |
| 139 | (INDIANS.) Brownell, Charles de Wolf | The Indian Races of North and South America * Frost, John. Indian Wars of the United States. | New York | 1857; 1860 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 90.00 |
| 140 | (INDIANS) | Constitution of the State of Sequoyah. | (Muskogee) | (1905) |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 1,800.00 |
| 141 | (INDIANS) | Creek Treaty [caption title]. | Muskogee | 1901 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 325.00 |
| 142 | (INDIANS) | Journal of the Fifth Annual Session of the General Council of the Indian Territory. | Lawrence, kansas | 1874 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 375.00 |
| 143 | (INDIANS) | Law of Descent and Distribution Governing Lands of the Creek Nation as Held by C. W. Raymond, Judge of the U. S. Court for the Western District of the Indian Territory. | Muskogee | circa 1903 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 250.00 |
| 144 | (INDIANS) | Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology . . . 1897--98. | Washington | 1900 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 60.00 |
| 145 | (INDIANS.) Schoolcraft, Henry | Annual Report of the Acting Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Michigan. | Detroit | 1840 |
USD 500.00 - 750.00 | 375.00 |
| 146 | (INDIANS.) Szwedzicki, C. | Kiowa Indian Art. Facsimile Edition. Introduction by Jamake Highwater. | Santa Fe | (1979) |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 147 | (INDIANS.) Szwedzicki, C. | Pueblo Indian Painting. Facsimile Edition. Introduction by Jamake Highwater. | Santa Fe | (1979) |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 148 | (INDIANS) | Interesting Autograph Letter from Sioux chief Black Bear to his son "Burns", in Sioux, with directions on the making of the first "Ghost Shirt", including two small illustrations of the shirt in the text. | Lincoln | 27 June 1892 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 149 | IVES, JOSEPH C. | Report upon the Colorado River of the West. | Washington | 1861 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 350.00 |
| 150 | (JACKSON, ANDREW) | "An Account of the Bloody Deeds of Gen. Jackson." | Np | circa 1823 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | 4,200.00 |
| 151 | JACKSON, WILLIAM H.; and DRIGGS, HOWARD R. | The Pioneer Photographer: Rocky Mountain Adventures with a Camera. | Yonkers | 1929 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 400.00 |
| 152 | (JESUIT RELATIONS) | Vimont, Barthelemy Relation de ce qui s'est Passe en la Nouvelle France en l'Annee M. DC. XL. | Paris | 1641 |
USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 5,400.00 |
| 153 | (JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY) | Bibliotheca Americana. A Catalogue of Books relating to North and South America. | Providence or Boston | vd |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 250.00 |
| 154 | (JONES COLLECTION) | Adventures in Americana . . . being a Selection of Books from the Library of Herschel V. Jones. | New York | 1964 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 110.00 |
| 155 | KANE, ELISHA KENT | Arctic Explorations. | Philadelphia | 1856 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 50.00 |
| 156 | KANE, ELISHA KENT | Arctic Explorations. | Philadelphia | 1856 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 50.00 |
| 157 | KNOTTS, BENJAMIN | Pennsylvania German Designs. | New York | (1943) |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 158 | LAMBERT, JOHN | Travels through Canada and the United States . . . Second Edition. | London | 1813 |
USD 500.00 - 750.00 | 600.00 |
| 159 | LANDOR, A. HENRY SAVAGE | Across Unknown South America. | Boston | 1913 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 100.00 |
| 160 | LECHEVALIER, JULES | Rapport sur les Questions Coloniales . . . Suite d'un Voyage fait aux Antilles et aux Guyanes pendant les Annees 1838 et 1839. | Paris | 1843--1844 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 175.00 |
| 161 | LEE, GUY CARLETON; and THORPE, FRANCIS NEWTON; editors | The History of North America. | New York | 1903--1907 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 225.00 |
| 162 | LEONARD, H. L. W. | Oregon Territory: containing a Brief, but Authentic Account of Spanish, English, Russian, and American Discoveries on the North West Coast of America. | Cleveland | 1846 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 3,400.00 |
| 163 | LEWIS, HENRY | Das Illustrirte Mississippithal. | Leipzig | 1923 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 200.00 |
| 164 | (LIBERIA.) Carey, Matthew | Letters on the Colonization Society . . . Second [Ninth] Edition. | Philadelphia | 1832, 1834 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 250.00 |
| 165 | (LIBRARY CATALOGUE) | Library Catalogue of Philip G. Van Wyck, Grove Hill, 1839 [manuscript title]. | New York | 1839--1850s |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 60.00 |
| 166 | (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Miers, William; editor | Lincoln Day by Day. | Washington | 1960 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 110.00 |
| 167 | (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) | New York Times. Volume XIV, Number 4231. Headline reads: Our Great Loss. | New York | 17 April 1865 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 225.00 |
| 168 | (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) | Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. | Columbus | 1860 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 325.00 |
| 169 | (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) | Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. | Columbus | 1860 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 275.00 |
| 170 | (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) | Wide-Awake Pictorial. For November, 1860. | New York | 1860 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 275.00 |
| 171 | LYELL, CHARLES | Travels in North America, in the Years 1841--2. | New York | 1845 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 450.00 |
| 172 | MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER | Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America. | London | 1801 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,600.00 |
| 173 | MACOMB, JOHN N. | Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers. | Washington | 1876 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 174 | (MAINE) | Convention at Alfred. | Np | 1819 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 450.00 |
| 175 | MARCY, RANDOLPH B. | The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions. | New York | 1859 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 5,000.00 |
| 176 | THE MARINER'S CHRONICLE: containing Narratives of the most Remarkable Disasters at Sea. | New Haven | (1834) |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 177 | (MASONRY.) Dove, John | The Virginia Text Book of Royal Arch Masonry. | Richmond | 1853 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 110.00 |
| 178 | McCALLA, WILLIAM L. | Adventures in Texas, chiefly in the Spring and Summer of 1840. | Philadelphia | 1841 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,200.00 |
| 179 | MacCARTHY, JOSEPH HENRI AUGUSTE de | Ode aux Souverains de l'Ancien Monde sur la Croisade Actuelle. | Du Nouveau Monde | 1806 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 180 | McMURTRIE, DOUGLAS C. | A History of Printing in the United States . . . Volume II [all published]. | New York | 1936 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 70.00 |
| 181 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Broadsides, Ballads, &c. Printed in Massachusetts, 1639--1800. | (Boston) | 1922 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 |
| 182 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Francis, Convers. | Cambridge | 1830 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 183 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Map of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. | Hartford | 1845 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 60.00 |
| 184 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Political and Moral Justice: or the Principles of a Free Government. | [Boston] | [1808] |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 200.00 |
| 185 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. | (Boston) | 1797 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 90.00 |
| 186 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Diary and Account book kept by George Gilbert, a school teacher in various small towns in Massachusetts. | Massachusetts | 1840s--1850s |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 175.00 |
| 187 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Manuscript coroner's book of procedural rules, giving the form and sequence that was to be followed by a jury of persons investigating questionable deaths. | Amesbury | 15 December 1733 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 300.00 |
| 188 | (MASSACHUSETTS) | Signed Document regarding the sale of property in Newbury, with the signatures of important early Newbury residents. | Newbury | 20 March 1665 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 650.00 |
| 189 | MATHEWS, A. E. | Pencil Sketches of Colorado. | [New York] | 1866 |
USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 9,500.00 |
| 190 | MATHEWS, A. E. | Pencil Sketches of Colorado. | [Denver] | [1961] |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 50.00 |
| 191 | (MEXICAN WAR) | Executive Documents. 2nd Session, 30th Congress. | Washington | 1848--1849 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 350.00 |
| 192 | (MEXICO.) Anderson, Lawrence | The Art of the Silversmith in Mexico 1519--1936. | New York | 1941 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 110.00 |
| 193 | (MEXICO) | Calderon de la Barca, Frances Erskine Inglis. Life in Mexico, during a Residence of Two Years in that Country. | London | 1843 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 50.00 |
| 194 | (MEXICO.) Diaz y Tirado, Joseph Atanasio | Sermon . . . que con el motivo de las actuales Guerras contra los Franceses. | Puebla | 1795 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 60.00 |
| 195 | (MEXICO.) Gallegos, Joseph | Sacerdote Grande . . . Clemente XIV, Elogio Funebre. | Mexico | 1775 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 250.00 |
| 196 | (MEXICO.) Gutierrez Davila, Julian | El Sabio con el Corazon en la Diestra. | Mexico | 1727 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 110.00 |
| 197 | (MEXICO.) Ignacio de la Rocha, Juan | El Caracter de la Augustissima Isabel Farnesio, Reyna Catholica de Espana. Elogio Historico-Funebre. | Mexico | 1767 |
USD 120.00 - 180.00 | 200.00 |
| 198 | (MEXICO.) Inigo, Josef | Funeral Gratitud . . . a las solemnes exequias . . . Senor Doctor D. Andres de Arce Quiros y Miranda. Engraved episcopal coat of arms in preliminaries. | Puebla | 1774 |
USD 120.00 - 180.00 | 250.00 |
| 199 | (MEXICO.) Ita y Parra, Bartolome Felipe | El Arrebatado de Dios, El Senor D. Phelippe V. Oracion Funebre. | Mexico | 1747 |
USD 120.00 - 180.00 | 90.00 |
| 200 | (MEXICO.) Mayer, Brantz | Mexico; Aztec, Spanish and Republican. | Hartford | 1851 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 70.00 |
