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

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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
  • Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T). The Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T)]. CLARK. The Military Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: HOMMAIRE DE HELL, Ignace-Xavier. LAURENS, Jules. Voyage en Turquie et en Perse
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: POSTEL, Guillaume. De la République des Turc
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES. EMPIRE OTTOMAN.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant T. Emile. L'Art Arabe
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES. Histoire de l'art Egyptie
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT, contes arabes
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: SCHLEGEL, Hermann et A. H. VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie - Planches
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: THEVENOT, Melchisédec. Relation de divers voyages curieux
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11:
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    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
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    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
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