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
176 John L. Lewis

(LABOR.) File of correspondence between the United Mine Workers president and a local leader

Various places 1942-1959 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
177 John Carbutt

(LINCOLN.) Carte-de-visite of the Abraham Lincoln catafalque car in Springfield

Chicago [3 or 4 May 1865] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,696.00
178

(LOUISIANA.) 3 photographs of Reconstruction governor Benjamin Flanders

New Orleans, LA circa 1860 and 1870 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 539.00
179 Nathaniel Morton

(MASSACHUSETTS.) New England's Memorial

Boston 1826 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 381.00
180 Eliezer Freeman

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Letter describing his pursuit of an escaped servant across Cape Cod with a team of seven Indians

Eastham, MA 3 August 1725 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 858.00
181 John Porter

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Almanac diary of a Great Awakening minister in southeastern Massachusetts

[Bridgewater, MA] 1 January to 31 December 1742 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,584.00
182 Daniel Neal

(MASSACHUSETTS.) The History of New-England, Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country

London 1747 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 561.00
183 Job Marsh

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Ledger of a small-town doctor, including early smallpox inoculations

Worthington and Hadley, MA 1782-1796 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,432.00
184

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Act of the Massachusetts Senate ordering a tax to suppress Shays's Rebellion

[Boston] 17 February 1787 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 6,350.00
185 Edward Rawson

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Instructions of the Town of Leicester to their Representatives

Leicester, MA 25 May 1787 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
186

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Half year of the Boston Gazette shortly before the War of 1812

Boston 8 January to 28 June 1810 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 603.00
187

(MASSACHUSETTS.) A full year of the Columbian Centinel leading up to the War of 1812

Boston 2 January to 28 December 1811 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 603.00
188 Jonas Rishel

(MEDICINE.) The Indian Physician, Containing a New System of Practice, Founded on Medical Plants

New Berlin, PA 1828 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,778.00
189

(MILITARY.) Photo album from a New York National Guard unit called up for service on the Mexican border in 1916

Various places 1915-1917 and 1925 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
190

(MILITARY.) Operation plan for photographing the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests

No place circa June-July 1946 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 698.00
191

(MILITARY.) Photograph album of Operation Greenhouse, which tested the first hydrogen bombs

Hollywood, CA [1951] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,794.00
192

(MILITARY.) Commissions and awards of pioneering military administrator Susan Morrisey Livingstone

Washington and elsewhere 1985-2003 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
193 Joseph Smith

(MORMONS.) Mortgage deed signed with Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum Smith

[Nauvoo, IL] 12 March 1840 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 48,260.00
194 J. Goldsmith

(MORMONS.) A Grammar of General Geography, with ownership signature of the prophet's brother William Smith

London 1822 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,604.00
195

(MORMONS.) Mother Goose's Melodies . . . Found in the Same Stone Box which Holds the Golden Plates of the Book of Mormon

Boston 1833 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
196 Ebenezer Robinson

(MORMONS.) Summons regarding a property dispute in Nauvoo

Nauvoo, IL 22 September 1841 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,413.00
197

(MORMONS.) Issue of the New York Weekly Herald featuring the Book of Abraham and facsimile of the papyrus

New York 9 April 1842 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
199

(MORMONS.) Marriage certificate of a noted patriarch in Nauvoo

Carthage, IL 29 October 1845 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 444.00
200 Lilburn W. Boggs

(MORMONS.) Summons signed by the signer of the infamous the Mormon Extermination Order

Sonoma, CA 31 August 1847 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 952.00
201

(MORMONS.) Brigham Young and the First Presidency

Salt Lake City 16 October 1849 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 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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