Swann Galleries: SWANN GALLERIES, INC., AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 1964, AT 2 P. M., Exhibition From September 14th To Time of Sale. IMPORTANT AMERICAN MAPS, AMERICANA AND , 652,

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Auction Date
September 17, 1964 - September 17, 1964
Page Size: 338 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
301 MRS. ELIZA R. STEELE. A Summer Journey in the West New York

1841

 USD - Unknown
302 Levy, Gertrude Rachel STONE AGE RELIGION. The Gate of Horn: a Study of the Religious Conceptions of the Stone Age. and their Influence upon European Thought New York

1946

 USD - Unknown
303 STRONG, MOSES M. History of the Territory of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1848 Madison

1885

 USD - Unknown
304 Moore, Charles SUICIDE. A Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide London

1790

 USD - Unknown
305 TEXAS. Homes in Texas on the Line of the International & Great Northern R. R. 1880-'81 Buffalo

1880

 USD - Unknown
306 THOMSON, CHARLES An Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British Interest Philadelphia

1867

 USD - Unknown
307 THURSTON, GATES P. The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of Aboriginal Society Cincinnati

1890

 USD - Unknown
308 THWAITES, REUBEN G. Two volumes, as below. from his edition of Early Western Travels Cleveland

1904

 USD - Unknown
309 TOEPFFER, RODOLPHE Le Docteur Festus... Paris

1861

 USD - Unknown
310 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY Did He Steal It? Princeton

1952

 USD - Unknown
311 UNITED STATES ARMY AND NAVY; their Histories, from the Era of the Revolution to the Close of the Spanish-American War Akron

1899

 USD - Unknown
312 VALLE, PIETRO della Les Fameux Voyages Paris

1664

 USD - Unknown
313 His grandson J. Niles Hubbard VAN CAMPEN, MAJOR MOSES. Sketches of Border Adventures in [his] Life and Times Fillmore

1893

 USD - Unknown
314 Roussel, J. VERSAILLES and FONTAINEBLEAU. Monographie des Palais & Parcs de Versailles et des Trianons...

USD - Unknown
315 VICTOR, MRS. FRANCES F. The River of the West: Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon Hartford

1870

 USD - Unknown
316 VICTOR, MRS. FRANCES F. All Over Oregon and Washington San Francisco

1872

 USD - Unknown
317 Green, Bennett W. VIRGINIA. Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech Richmond

1899

 USD - Unknown
318 Mitchill, Samuel L. VIRGINIA. A Tour through Part of Virginia in the Summer of 1808 New-York

1809

 USD - Unknown
319 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A Collection of the Speeches of the President to Both Houses of Congress Boston

1796

 USD - Unknown
320 WASHINGTON, GEORGE Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress New-York

1796

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321 Kleynhov, F. F., M.D. (WASHINGTON, GEORGE). Ode ad Doctissimum Virum Johannem Kinkerum quum Magni Washingtonis, Pie Defuncti, Memoriam Amstelaedami

1800

 USD - Unknown
322 WATSON, ELKANAH Men and Times of the Revolution, including Journals of Travels in Europe and America New-York

1856

 USD - Unknown
323 WEST. Bonner. Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth...

USD - Unknown
324 WEST. Gunnison. The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints...

USD - Unknown
325 WEST. Johnson and Winter. Route Across the Rocky Mountains...

USD - Unknown
326 WEST. Kirkpatrick. Timothy Flint. Cleveland, 1911...

USD - Unknown
327 WEST. Pine. Beyond the West. Buffalo, 1873...

USD - Unknown
328 WEST. Williams. Narrative of a Tour to the Oregon Territory in 1841-2...

USD - Unknown
329 WESTERN BIOGRAPHY. Vestal. Jim Bridger, Mountain Man. 1946...

USD - Unknown
330 WESTCHESTER COUNTY Directory 1864 Albany

1864

 USD - Unknown
331 WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass Philadelphia

1888

 USD - Unknown
332 Davies, J. WINES. The Innkeeper and Butlers' Guide, or a Directory in the Making and Managing of British Wines London

1808

 USD - Unknown
333 Draper, Lyman C. WISCONSIN. Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin: its Growth, Progress Madison

1857

 USD - Unknown
334 Tuttle, Charles R. WISCONSIN. An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin . . . from its First Exploration down to 1875 Boston

1875

 USD - Unknown
335 WITHERS, ALEXANDER Chronicles of Border Warfare, or a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia Cincinnati

1895

 USD - Unknown
336 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM Poems in Two Volumes London

1807

 USD - Unknown
337 ZEISBERGER, DAVID History of the North American Indians

1910

 USD - Unknown
338 ZOOGRAPHIA ROSSO-ASIATICA, sistens Omnium Animalium in Extenso Imperio Rossico et Adjacentibus Maribus Observatorum Petropoli

1811

 USD - Unknown
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Heritage Auctions
    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.
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    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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