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
126

(CONSTITUTION.) The Scots Magazine for 1787, featuring the United States Constitution

Edinburgh 1787 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
127 Michel Guillaume St. Jean de CREVECOEUR

Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain

Paris 1787 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
128

(CRIME.) The Narcotic Review, to Suppress the Use of Habit Forming Drugs

Chicago 1935-11-01 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
129

(CURRENCY.) U.S. Treasury Department, Specimens

Washington circa 1874-1876 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,540.00
130

(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) Eleazar Huntington, In Congress July 4th. 1776

[Hartford, CT?] circa 1820-24 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,350.00
131

(DELAWARE.) Schedule of Expenditures for the Maintenance of the Poor of New-Castle County, two annual reports

Wilmington, DE [1801 and] 1803 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
132

(DEMOCRACY.) Crusade for Freedom: Help Truth Fight Communism press kit in support of Radio Free Europe

New York September [1950] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 476.00
133 John Trumbull

(DIPLOMACY.) Letter concerning the resolution of Jay's Treaty, written as secretary to John Jay

London 13 December 1794 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 495.00
134 [Charles Leslie]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Religion of Jesus Christ the only True Religion

Boston 1719 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 476.00
135 [Thomas Prince?]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Vade Mecum for America; or, A Companion for Traders and Travellers

Boston 1732 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 561.00
136 Thomas a Kempis

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Christian Pattern

Germantown, PA 1749 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,397.00
137

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Pennsylvania Gazette, issue discussing the French and Indian War

Philadelphia, PA 19 March 1754 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 762.00
138 Thomas Barton

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Unanimity and . . . after General Braddock's Defeat.]

[Philadelphia] [1755] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
139

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.) True and Impartial State of the Province of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia 1759 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,143.00
140 Jared Eliot

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Essays Upon Field-Husbandry in New England

Boston 1760 [1761] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,302.00
141

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Vollstandiges Marburger Gesang-Buch

Germantown, PA 1762 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
142 [William Livingston]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Philosophic Solitude: or, The Choice of a Rural Life: A Poem

Boston 1762 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 508.00
143 [Smith]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) A Declaration . . .

[Philadelphia] 1764 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,525.00
144 William Goddard

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Partnership . . . of the Pennsylvania Chronicle

Philadelphia 1770 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
145 Philip Freneau

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) A Poem on the Rising Glory of America

Philadelphia 1772 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,556.00
146 John Hill

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Old Man's Guide to Health and Longer Life with Rules for Diet, Exercise, and Physic

Philadelphia 1775 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 952.00
147 [William Goddard]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Prowess of the Whig Club, and the Manoeuvres of Legion

Baltimore, MD [1777] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,302.00
148 [Anthony Benezet]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Serious Considerations on Several Important Subjects

Philadelphia 1778 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
149 Richard Hakluyt

(EARLY EXPLORATION.) The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

London 1600 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,318.00
150

(EARLY EXPLORATION.) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World

London 1671 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
  • 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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