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

Auction Details

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
303		(WASHINGTON FAMILY.) Papers relating to a Washington family estate and George Washington nephew-in-law Andrew Parks	Highlands, WV	1832-1835	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 317.00
304		(WEST.) Buffalo Bill's Wild West: America's National Entertainment, Led by the Famed Scout and Guide	Hartford, CT	circa 1884	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 825.00
305		(WEST.) Cyanotype of members of the Buffalo Bill Wild West troupe in a Vin Fiz promotional wagon	[Hamilton, OH]	[25 June 1912]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 508.00
306		(WEST--ARIZONA.) Letter describing a conversation with stagecoach robber Pearl Hart, a gunfight at a baseball game, and more	Bisbee, AZ	23 October 1899	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 698.00
307		(WEST--ARIZONA.) Photographs of Fort Apache in Arizona and Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico	Arizona	1905	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 698.00
308		(WEST--ARIZONA.) Album of early photographs of the Tempe Normal School and environs	Tempe, AZ	circa 1903-1908	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 476.00
309	Ray Manley	(WEST--ARIZONA.) Group of photographs of Western performers done for Western Ways	Tucson, AZ	circa 1950	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
310		(WEST--COLORADO.) Group of press photographs of public housing in Denver	Denver, CO	1939-1989	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 412.00
311		(WEST--NEW MEXICO.) Hermann Stieffel, early watercolor view of the ruins of a Spanish mission in the Manzano Grant	Manzano, NM	circa 1860-1867	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 5,080.00
312	Thomas Lamb Eliot	(WEST--OREGON.) Family letters by the Portland clergyman and founder of Reed College	Portland, OR and elsewhere	circa 1886-1932	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
313	Miguel Barragan	(WEST--TEXAS.) El Presidente . . a sus conciudadanos, ordering that Texans be absorbed into the government	Mexico	1835	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,016.00
314	Edward Bailey	(WEST--TEXAS.) Letter by a merchant hoping to avoid "Mexican cruisers"	Velasco, TX	19 November 1835	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 539.00
315		(WORLD WAR ONE.) G. Paterson Love, Grand Military Ball, Copley-Plaza Ballroom	[Boston]	[27 April 1918]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
316		(WORLD WAR ONE.) Arthur Mole & Group of 5 patriotic "living photographs"	Chicago	1918	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,270.00
317		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Scrapbook kept by a machinist on the aircraft carriers Lexington and Enterprise	Various places	1940-1944	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,079.00
318		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Group of Signal Corps photographs of the attack on Pearl Harbor	Hawaii	1941-12-07	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,905.00
319		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Five original photographs of Japanese soldiers from their occupation of Attu Island	Attu, AK	1942-1943	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 285.00
320		(WORLD WAR TWO.) The earliest issues of "The Gator News"		1942-1945	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,524.00
321		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Photographs of Nash & Evans, vaudeville performers on the USO circuit	Various places	1936-1943	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,016.00
322		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Group of photographs of Roosevelt at Allied leadership conferences during the war	Various places	1943-1945	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 825.00
323	Arthur K. Baker	(WORLD WAR TWO.) Diary of a bomber in New Guinea and the Philippines who completed his 35 missions with distinction		1942-1945	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,159.00
324	John Martin	(WORLD WAR TWO.) Diary of a nose gunner on a bomber over Germany	Various places	4 February to 27 May 1944	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,794.00
325		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Papers and maps of Lt. Herbert Allen aboard the USS Tyrrell at Okinawa	Various places	1936-1946	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,524.00
326		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Group of aerial views of Hiroshima and Tokyo taken weeks after the end of fighting	Various places	September-October 1945	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,159.00
327		(WORLD WAR TWO.) Family photographs and correspondence relating to Iwo Jima flag-raiser Ira Hayes of the Gila River Indian Community		1955-1977	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,143.00

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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