Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2721, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202 | (MORMONS.) Brigham Young |
Salt Lake City, UT | 20 January 1849 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 2,286.00 | |
| 203 | Orson Pratt | (MORMONS.) A Series of Pamphlets Liverpool |
England | 1851 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 952.00 |
| 204 | Parley P. Pratt | (MORMONS.) Key to the Science of Theology |
Liverpool, England | 1855 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 444.00 |
| 205 | [Orson Pratt] | (MORMONS.) The True Faith, and 7 other tracts |
[London] | [1856-1857] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 206 | Ebenezer Rand | (MORMONS.) Letters with a non-Mormon perspective on Nauvoo in the 1840s and beyond |
Carthage, IL | 1865 and [1872?] | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
| 207 | C.W. Hyde | (MORMONS.) Patriarchal blessing granted to Peter Hansen, with Hansen's citizenship certificate |
Salt Lake City, UT | 1868 and 1876 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 208 | George A. Smith | (MORMONS.) Letter cutting off Wilford Woodruff's free tickets to the Salt Lake Theatre |
Salt Lake City, UT | 20 October 1874 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 762.00 |
| 209 | John Taylor | (MORMONS.) Letter enclosing the clipped signature of Brigham Young and the First Presidency |
Salt Lake City, UT | 7 January 1882 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,842.00 |
| 210 | Hiram Clawson | (MORMONS.) Letter arranging a 4th of July dinner for polygamist inmates |
Salt Lake City, UT | 26 June 1886 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 4,826.00 |
| 211 | Anderson & Crandal | (MORMONS.) Temple Memorial, a composite photograph in memory of Brigham Young |
Springville, UT | 1893 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 212 | (MORMONS.) Wilford Woodruff and the First Presidency. Letter reining in the salaries of Stake officials |
Salt Lake City, UT | 18 March 1898 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 952.00 | |
| 213 | Heber H. Thomas | (MORMONS.) Mammoth portrait of Joseph F. Smith and the First Presidency |
Ogden, UT | 1902 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 444.00 |
| 214 | Joseph F. | (MORMONS.) Smith and the First Presidency. Letter refusing to seal a widow to her wayward late husband |
Salt Lake City, UT | May 23 1902 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 215 | Joseph F. | (MORMONS.) Smith and the First Presidency. Letter on the excommunication of Nathan Tanner |
Salt Lake City, UT | 1903-10-14 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 635.00 |
| 216 | Joseph F. | (MORMONS.) Smith and the First Presidency. Letter explaining why membership in secret societies is prohibited |
Salt Lake City, UT | 1911 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 444.00 |
| 217 | (MORMONS.) The Evening and the Morning Star, reprint of the first 14 issues printed in Independence |
[Independence, MO] | circa 1913 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 218 | (MORMONS.) Autograph album started which on mission in Chicago in 1925, featuring 5 Apostles |
Various places | mostly 1925, a few 1929-1957 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,270.00 | |
| 219 | Jedediah MORSE | The American Gazetteer |
Boston | 1797 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 825.00 |
| 220 | (MUSIC.) Volume of American sheet music including several notable pieces |
Various places | 1835-1841 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 825.00 | |
| 221 | (MUSIC.) Volume of sheet music including 6 Stephen Foster pieces and numerous other minstrel songs |
Various places | 1831-1855 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 698.00 | |
| 222 | (MUSIC.) Zip Coon, A Popular Negro Song |
New York | circa late 1834 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold | |
| 223 | (MUSIC.) Vaudeville scrapbooks and photo album kept by Ruby Painter of the Victoria Trio |
Various places | 1911-1921 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,488.00 | |
| 224 | (MUSIC.) Personal photograph collection and other papers of the important jazz singer Helen Ward |
Various places | circa 1915-1980 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,716.00 | |
| 225 | (MUSIC.) Papers of Ellis Stratakos, a Greek-American jazz bandleader in Mississippi |
Various places | 1937-1954 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 226 | (MUSIC.) Early correspondence of jazz producer Nesuhi Ertegun with a fellow jazz maniac |
Various places | 1942-1946 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
