Swann Galleries: SWANN Action Galleries, Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 1956, AT 2 P. M., Exhibition from December 3rd To Time of Sale. AMERICANA, TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES, EARLY AMERICAN POETRY, COLONIAL * REVO, 449,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 06, 1956 - December 06, 1956

Page Size: 391 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
325	WEBSTER, NOAH	An Improved Grammar of the English Language	New Haven	1831	USD -	Unknown
326	WEBSTER, NOAH	The Elementary Spelling Book	Watertown, N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
327	Jordan, G. W.	WEST INDIES. The Claims of the British West India Colonists to the Right of Obtaining Necesslary Supplies from America	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
328	WHITEFIELD, GEORGE	WHITEFIELD, GEORGE: Memoirs of [his] Life	New-London	1798	USD -	Unknown
329	WHITEFIELD, GEORGE	The Methodists: an Humorous Burlesque Poem address'd to the Rev	London	1739	USD -	Unknown
330	WILKINSON, WILLIAM	The Federal Calculator, and American Ready Reckoner	Providence	1795	USD -	Unknown
331	WILLIAMS, WILLIAM	God the Strength of Rulers and People, and making them to be so, to each other Mutually	Boston	1741	USD -	Unknown
332	WILLIS, NATHANIEL P.	Paul Fane; or, Parts of a Life Else Untold	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
333	WILMOT PROVISO	Remarkable collection of about 25 speeches, pamphlets, etc.	Washington, etc.	1847	USD -	Unknown
334	WINEBERGER, J. A.	Part I. Department Directory and Register of Officers in the Service of the United States in the City of Washnigton	Washington	1861	USD -	Unknown
335	I. A. Lapham	WISCONSIN: its Geography and Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy	Milwaukee	1846	USD -	Unknown
336	James S. Ritchie	WISCONSIN and its Resources	Philadelphia	1858	USD -	Unknown
337		WISCONSIN. Map of Monroe County, Wisconsin, compiled principally from Government Surveys by G. B. Holden, Sparta, 1858	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
338	WORCESTER, JOSEPH E.	A Gazetteer of the United States, abstracted from the Universal Gazetteer, with Enlargement of the Principal Article's	Andover	1818	USD -	Unknown
339	YOUNG, ANDREW W.	The American Statesman: a Political History exhibiting	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
340	YOUNG, ARTHUR	Rural Economy, or Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry	Burlington, N. J.	1792	USD -	Unknown
341	Atwood, Albert	WEST. The Conquerors: Historical Sketches of the American Settlement of the Oregon Country	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
342	Bashford, James W.	WEST. The Oregon Missions: How the Line was run between Canada and the United States	New York	1918	USD -	Unknown
343	Beauvoir, Comte de	WEST. Pekin, Yeddo, San Francisco: Voyage Autour du Monde. Deuxieme Edition	Paris	1872	USD -	Unknown
344	Bowman, Anna	WEST. The Bear Hunters of the Rocky Mountains	Philadelphia	1880	USD -	Unknown
345	Brady, Cyrus Townsend	WEST. Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
346	Bryant, Edwin	WEST. Rocky Mounatin Adventures	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
347	Cabot, Elsie Pumpelly	WEST. Arizona, and Other Poems	New York	1919	USD -	Unknown
348	Cassin, John	WEST. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America	Philadelphia	1854	USD -	Unknown
349	Cody, William F.	WEST. Buffalo Bill and his Daring Adventures in the Romantic Wild West	Baltimore	1915	USD -	Unknown
350	Cole, George E.	WEST. Early Oregon: Jottings of Personal Recollections of a Pioneer of 1850	Spokane	1905	USD -	Unknown
351		WEST. Colorado: Official Information	Denver	1872	USD -	Unknown
352		WEST. Colorado. Group of 5 souvenir albums, etc.			USD -	Unknown
353		WEST. Colorado. Group of 6 souvenir albums, etc.			USD -	Unknown
354	Connelley, W. E.	WEST. War With Mexico, 1846-47	Kansas City, Mo.	1907	USD -	Unknown
355	Cotton, Judge Alfred J.	WEST. Cotton's Keepsake: Poems on Various Subjects	Cincinnati	1858	USD -	Unknown
356	Cushing, Caleb	WEST. Arguments in Behalf of the United States with Supplement and Appendix	Washington City	1868	USD -	Unknown
357	Custer, General George A.	WEST. Popular Life of	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
358	Davis, George Wesley	WEST. Sketches of Butte (from Vigilante Days to Prohibition)	Boston	1921	USD -	Unknown
359	Dobie, J. Frank	WEST. Coronado's Children	Dallas	1930	USD -	Unknown
360	Dodge, Richard Irving	WEST. The Black Hills: a Minute Description of the Routes, Scenery, Soil, Climate, Timber, Gold, Geology, Zoology, etc.	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
361	Emory, Lt. Col. W. H.	WEST. Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California	Washington	1848	USD -	Unknown
362	Everitt, E. B.	WEST. Tour of the St. Elmo's, from the Nutmeg State to the Golden Gate	Meriden, Conn.	1883	USD -	Unknown
363		WEST. Fremont, Jessie Benton Souveniors of My Time	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
364	Fremont, John Charles	WEST. Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and to Oregon & North California in 1843-44	Washington	1845	USD -	Unknown
365	Fremont, John Charles	WEST. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842	Washington	1845	USD -	Unknown
366	Fremont, John Charles	WEST. Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842, and to Oregon and North California in 1843-44	Washington	1845	USD -	Unknown
367	Fremont, John Charles	WEST. Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842, and to Oregon and North California in 1843-44	Washington	1845	USD -	Unknown
368	Fremont, John Charles	WEST. Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842, and to Oregon and North California in 1843-44	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
369	Fremont, John Charles	WEST. Geographical Memoir upon Upper California, in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California	Washington	1848	USD -	Unknown
370	Froebel, Julius	WEST. Aus Amerika: Erfahrungen, Reisen und Studiem Zweite wohlfeile Ausgabe	Leipzig	1858	USD -	Unknown
371	S. M. Barrett., editor	WEST. Geronimo's Story of His Life	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
372	Gordon, H. L.	WEST. Legends of the Northwest	St. Paul	1881	USD -	Unknown
373	Gray, William H.	WEST. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849, from Personal Observation and Authentic Information	Portland	1870	USD -	Unknown
374	Greeley, Horace	WEST. An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
375	Hall, Sam S.	WEST. Diamond Dick, the Dandy from Denver	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
376	Hayden, E. V., M.D.	WEST. Notes Explanatory of a Map and Section Illustrating the Geological Structure of the Country Bordering on the Missouri River, from the Mouth of the Platte River to Fort Benton	Philadelphia	1857	USD -	Unknown
377	Hilzinger, J. C.	WEST. The Skystone: a Romance of Prehistoric Arizona	London-New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
378	Hittell, Theodore H.	WEST. The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California	New York	1911	USD -	Unknown
379	Huret, Jules	WEST. En Amerique: De San Francisco au Canada	Paris	1905	USD -	Unknown
380	Jenney, Walter P.	WEST. The Mineral Wealth, Climate and Rain-Fall, and Natural Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota	Washington	1876	USD -	Unknown
381	L. L. Hamline, editor	WEST. The Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West	Cincinnati	1843	USD -	Unknown
382		WEST. The Leading Industries of the West	Chicago and Nebraska	1883	USD -	Unknown
383	Lee, Daniel; and Frost, J. H.	WEST. Ten Years in Oregon	New-York	1844	USD -	Unknown
384		WEST. Letters from Golden Latitudes	St. Paul	1885	USD -	Unknown
385	Ludlow, William	WEST. Report of a Reconnoissance of the Black Hills of Dakota, made in the Summer of 1874	Washington	1875	USD -	Unknown
386	McNemee, A. J.	WEST. "Brother Mack," the Frontier Preacher	Portland	1924	USD -	Unknown
387	Manning, William Ray	WEST. The Nootka Sound Controversy		1905	USD -	Unknown
388	Marshall, William I.	WEST. History vs. The Whitman Saved Oregon Story	Chicago	1904	USD -	Unknown
389	Mason, Richard Lee	WEST. Narraitve of Mason in the Pioneer West, 1810	New York	1915	USD -	Unknown
390	Milburn, William Henry	WEST. The Pioneers, Preachers and People of the Mississippi Valley	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
391	Miller, Joaquin	WEST. The Danites in the Sierras	Chicago	1889	USD -	Unknown
392	Myrick, Herbert	WEST. Cache la Poudre: the Romance of a Tenderfoot in the Days of Custer	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
393	Nicolay, C. G.	WEST. The Oregon Territory .... Account of that Country and its Inhabitants	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
394		WEST. Oregon Indemnity: Claim of the Chief Factors and Chief Traders, Hudson's Bay Company		1892	USD -	Unknown
395		WEST. Ortiz-Mine Grant	New York	1880	USD -	Unknown
396	Revere, Joseph Warren	WEST. A Tour of Duty in California, including a Description of the Gold Region	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
397	Riddle, George W.	WEST. History of Early Days in Oregon	Riddle	1920	USD -	Unknown
398	Riddle, Jeff C.	WEST. The Indian History of the Modoc War, and the Causes that led to it		1915	USD -	Unknown
399	Ruxton, George F.	WEST. Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains	New York	1848	USD -	Unknown
400	Simpson, Charles	WEST. Life in the Mines; or, Crime Avenged, including Thrilling Adventures among Miners and Outlaws	Chicago	1898	USD -	Unknown
401	Simpson, Thomas	WEST. Narrative of the Discoveries of the North Coast of America effected by the Officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1836-39	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
402		WEST. Smet, Pierre Jean de. Missions de l'Oregon, et Voyages dans les Montagnes Rocheuses en 1845 et 1846	Paris	1848	USD -	Unknown
403	Smet, Pierre Jean de	WEST. Missien van den Oregon en Reizen naeh die Rotsbergen en den Bronnen der Colombia	Gent	1849	USD -	Unknown
404	Smet, Pierre Jean de	WEST. Lettres Choisies, 1855-61	Bruxelles-Paris	1876	USD -	Unknown
405	Smet, Pierre Jean de	WEST. Lettres Choisies	Bruxelles-Paris	1877	USD -	Unknown
406	Smet, Pierre Jean de	WEST. New Indian Sketches	New York	1886	USD -	Unknown
407	Smet, Pierre Jean de	WEST. Voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses, chez les Tribus Indiennes du Vaste Territoire de l'Oregon	Lille-Paris	1887	USD -	Unknown
408	Stenholt, L. A.	WEST. Sitting Bull, [text in Norse]	St. Paul	1917	USD -	Unknown
409	Sulzer, Robert F.	WEST. Planting the Outposts: 35 Years among the Children of the Plains	Philadelphia	1913	USD -	Unknown
410		WEST. Tacoma Illustrated. With a profusion of views and portraits	Chicago-Tacoma	1889	USD -	Unknown
411	Twiss, Travers	WEST. The Oregon Territory: its History and Discovery	New-York	1846	USD -	Unknown
412	Tyson, Thornton Kelly	WEST. Pioneer Home Missionary	Kansas City, Mo	1915	USD -	Unknown
413	Victor, Frances Fuller	WEST. All Over Oregon and Washington: Observations on the Country	San Francisco	1872	USD -	Unknown
414	Victor, Frances Fuller	WEST. The Early Indian Wars of Oregon, compiled from the Oregon Archives and Other Original Sources; with Muster Rolls	Salem	1894	USD -	Unknown
415	Welch, Charles A.	WEST. History of the Big Horn Basin		1940	USD -	Unknown

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Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.