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
101		(CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) Manuscript map of a naval expedition to Ochlockonee Bay in Florida		circa late March 1863	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 3,960.00
102		(CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) H. Lindenkohl Map of the City of Richmond, Virginia	No place	1864	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 825.00
103	Charles G.	(CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) Krebs, lithographer; Middle Virginia and North Carolina	No place	circa 1865	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 635.00
104		(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Papers of ambitious young captain W.W. Rockwell of the New Orleans provost guards		1862-1864	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,286.00
105	Edwin F. Kenrick	(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Letters as a 39th Massachusetts soldier on the death of Lincoln	Various places	1864-1865	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 1,079.00
106		(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) The Springfield Musket	Springfield, MA	1864	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 508.00
107	Cornelius Agnew	(CIVIL WAR--MEDICINE.) Correspondence relating to his leadership of the Sanitary Commission during the war	Various places	1861-1865	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 4,826.00
108		(CIVIL WAR--MEDICINE.) The Soldiers' Guide to Health [wrapper title]	Philadelphia	1862	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,524.00
109	Earnest Halphin	(CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.) Coming at Last! Oh Yes Sir, the Rebels are Coming at Last!	Baltimore, MD	1862	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 285.00
110	Susan McFarland Parkhurst	(CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.) Group of 12 pieces of sheet music composed by an American woman	New York	1864-1865	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 1,079.00
111		(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Letters of Henry and Lucy Coe on the the Battle of Kessler's Cross Lanes and Lincoln assassination	Various places	1861 and 1865	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 762.00
112	Henry Mosler, lithographer	(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Camp of the 6th Ohio Battery, on Field Shiloh	Cincinnati, OH	circa 1862	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,716.00
113	Martin Register Andrews	(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Diary kept with the Signal Corps in eastern Tennessee	Various places	18 March 1864 to 20 January 1865	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 698.00
114		(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Letter describing an abusive secessionist woman and a "Camp on Back River"		9 June 1864	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 508.00
115		(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) $100 Reward: A Few Good Men Wanted to Join the Excelsior Guards	[Philadelphia]	circa August 1861	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,286.00
116		(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) 20 Men Wanted! To Complete Company I, Chippewa Guards	[Philadelphia?]	circa July 1861	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,778.00
117	C.F. May	(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Defenders of Our Union: 109 Commanders of the Union Army	New York	1862	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,016.00
118	[Timothy H. O'Sullivan]	(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) [View of Gettysburg from Cemetery Hill]	Gettysburg, PA	[July 1863]	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 698.00
119	John B. Bachelder	(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) The Retreat: The Wagon Trains of the Army of the Potomac en Route from Chickahominy	Boston	1863	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 412.00
120		(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) Portfolio of lithograph portraits by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. and others	Cincinnati, OH	circa 1863	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,794.00
121		(CIVIL WAR--PRISONS.) Receipt issued to a Union soldier by the commander of Libby Prison	Richmond, VA	14 November [1862]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
122		(CIVIL WAR--PRISON.) A woman writes to a Union officer about a recent death at Andersonville	Albion, NY	27 January 1865	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
123	David McClure	(CONNECTICUT.) His debate society manuscript from Yale, and a manuscript sermon	Connecticut	1768-1769 and 1799	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
124	Lucius B.	(CONNECTICUT.) Bradley	Watertown, CT	1850-1856	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
125		(CONNECTICUT.) Commencement invitation and program from Yale's Skull and Bones Society	[New Haven, CT]	26 June 1879	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 317.00

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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