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
51		(BIBLE IN NEZ PERCE.) George Ainslie, Johnnim Taaiskt / The Gospel According to John, Translated into the Nez Perces Language	Philadelphia	1876	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,716.00
52		(BIBLE IN OJIBWE.) Iu Otoshki-Kikindiuin / The New Testament . . .	New York	1856	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 349.00
53		(BUSINESS.) Comprehensive file on Chase Manhattan chairman David Rockefeller's visit to Nigeria in 1979	Various places	December 1978 to May 1979	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 349.00
54	George Ulrey	(CALIFORNIA.) Letter from a Gold Rush prospector regarding his Chinese and Spanish friends	Double Springs, CA	25 August 1851	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,143.00
55		(CALIFORNIA.) Britton & Rey, lithographers. Print of a wounded grizzly bear destroying San Francisco, issued in the wake of the 1906 earthquake	San Francisco, CA	1907	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 539.00
56		(CALIFORNIA.) Reports and correspondence of the California Wine Association	San Francisco, CA	1910-1918	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
57	Maurice, Arthur and Sidney Robinson	(CANADA.) Diary of three English brothers seeking their fortune in the Klondike gold rush	Various places	1897-1898	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,826.00
58		(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The History of a Schoolboy, with Other Pieces	New York	1792	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
59		(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The Uncle's Present, a New Battledoor	Philadelphia	[1810]	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 190.00
60		(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The New Instructive History of Miss Patty Proud	New Haven, CT	1813	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 381.00
61	[Benjamin Sands]	(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Metamorphosis; or, A Transformation of Pictures	New York	1824	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 698.00
62	T.D. James's Academy	(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Five Good Reasons for Not Playing Marbles	Philadelphia	1837	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 635.00
63		(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Group of 6 early illustrated American children's books	Various places	1808-1830	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 285.00
64	Danny Lyon	(CIVIL RIGHTS.) For Food . . For Freedom	Atlanta, GA	circa 1962	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,524.00
65		(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Civil Rights Now! pennant from the March on Washington	Washington	1963-08-28	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,778.00
66	Henry C. Dickinson	(CIVIL WAR--PRELUDE.) Letters of a young Virginia attorney on the eve of war	Liberty (now Bedford), VA	1857-1861	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,905.00
67		(CIVIL WAR.) Advertising ephemera for Parr's Patent American Camp Chest	Philadelphia and New York	25 June 1861	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
68	Benjamin F.	(CIVIL WAR.) Butler General Orders No. 106, his farewell to the soldiers of the Department of the Gulf	New Orleans, LA	15 December 1862	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 2,032.00
69	Charles M. Heaton	(CIVIL WAR.) Letters of a clerk in Washington through the war	Washington	1861-1864	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,620.00
70		(CIVIL WAR.) Soldiers' News-Letter, an unrecorded issue of a camp newspaper from near New Orleans	Ship Island, MS	24 May 1862	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,413.00
71	[William H. Emory]	(CIVIL WAR.) A general's manuscript report on the Battle of Mansfield and the failed Red River campaign	No place	circa late 1864	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,254.00
72		(CIVIL WAR--ART.) Letter illustrated with appealing folk art	Madison, MS	13 December 1863	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 254.00
73	Martha M. Wells	(CIVIL WAR--CALIFORNIA.) Letter from the sister of a 16-year-old who had enlisted "to quiet the Mormons"	Sacramento, CA	12 September 1861	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 635.00
74		(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Avalanche Extra, a newspaper broadside shortly before Tennessee secession	[Memphis, TN]	24 April [1861]	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,143.00
75		(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Correspondence of Lt. William Larkin of Virginia, including a commendation at Appomattox	Various places	1861-1865	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 952.00

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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