Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2721, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 360 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
227 Thomas Thompson

(NEW JERSEY.) An Account of Two Missionary Voyages

London 1758 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
228

(NEW JERSEY.) Pair of large group photographs of the Jersey City police department

Jersey City 1887 and 1912 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
229

(NEW YORK.) Journal of the Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York

New York 1764-66 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 444.00
230 Lotus Ingalls

(NEW YORK.) Letter on the establishment of a School for Colored Children in Watertown

Watertown, NY 10 April 1848 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 476.00
231 William Bridges

(NEW YORK CITY.) Map of the City of New-York . . .

New York 1811 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 528.00
232

(NEW YORK CITY.) The Broadway Underground Railway

New York 1872 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,143.00
233

(NEW YORK CITY.) Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge

[Brooklyn, NY] 24 May 1883 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 952.00
234 James J.F.

(NEW YORK CITY.) Gavigan, original architect's rendering for Manhattan's Cherokee Club, watercolor and pencil on paper

circa 1900 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 539.00
235

(NEW YORK CITY.) Miller's Turkish Bath Herald

New York May 1895 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 349.00
236 Caryl Keating

(NEW YORK CITY.) Photo album of an early Montessori educator in the Lower East Side

New York and elsewhere circa 1917-1919 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
237

(NEW YORK CITY.) Al Frueh, Hobohemia postcard

[New York] [1919] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
238

(NEW YORK CITY.) Original design for the Mexico pavilion at the New York World's Fair

1939 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 462.00
239 Joseph Mitchell

(NEW YORK CITY.) First editions of his compiled New Yorker writings, and more

Various places 1943-2008 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
240 Larry Fink

(NEW YORK CITY.) Photographs of Wall Street traders

[New York] circa 1980 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
241 Frank Fortunato

(NEW YORK CITY.) Swank's New York Guide to Drugs, Violence and Prostitution

No place circa 1980 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
242

(NEW YORK CITY.) Come Out: A Liberation Forum for the Gay Community, three original issues

New York 1970-1971 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 349.00
243

(NEW YORK CITY.) Run of programs for the annual Wigstock drag festivals

1990 to 1995 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
244

(NORTH CAROLINA.) Map of Indian boundaries in Georgia and the Carolinas

No place not long after 1802 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,540.00
245

(NORTH CAROLINA.) Letter and satirical poem on a 1772 election in Mecklenburg County, not long before the Mecklenburg Declaration

No place 19 August 1819 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 317.00
246

(OHIO.) Papers of Pearl Nye, canal boat guy

Various places 1890s-1947 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,524.00
247 John Hall

(PENNSYLVANIA.) engraver. William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he Founded the Province of Pensylvania

London 1775 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 462.00
248 David Hoge

(PENNSYLVANIA.) Notebook kept as a Dickinson College student

Carlisle, PA 1789-1790 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
249

(PENNSYLVANIA.) The Accounts of the Guardians of the Poor . . . of Philadelphia

Philadelphia [1804 and 1805] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
250

(PENNSYLVANIA.) Letter from the president of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company concerning a boatmen's strike led by Irish "rioters"

Philadelphia 1843 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
251 John L. Churchill

(PENNSYLVANIA.) The Resources of Kittanning Town and Suburbs, Her Business and Business Men

[Kittanning, PA?] circa 1853 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,188.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    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.
  • 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.
    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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