Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2732, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026

Page Size: 366 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
251		Letter describing the escape of a Civil War camp cook from slavery.	Newport News, VA	1863	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,270.00
252		Letter on the formation of Black regiments in Louisiana.	Young's Point, LA	26 April [1863]	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 762.00
253		Carte-de-visite of Charles Remond Douglass in uniform.	Boston	1864	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 19,050.00
254		General Order authorizing equal pay for African-American troops.	Camp Hamilton, VA	1864	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,064.00
255		Compensation application for soldier in United States Colored Troops.	Maryland	1865	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 381.00
256	Lewis Hazzard.	Letter as a member of the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry.	Petersburg, VA	1864	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 5,080.00
257		Letters from the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry, 1864-1865		1864-1865	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 6,096.00
258		Signed carte-de-visite of a sergeant in the United States Colored Troops,		circa 1864	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,572.00
259		Letters by a lieutenant in the 22nd United States Colored Troops.	Virginia	1864	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
260		Muster rolls from the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry.	Near Richmond, VA	1864	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 2,540.00
261		Pension file of a Rhode Island soldier wounded in Lousiana, 1885-1903		1885-1903	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 412.00
262	A.H. Newton.	Out of the Briars. . . Twenty-Ninth Regiment Connecticut.	Philadelphia	1910	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 825.00
263	Susie King Taylor.	Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the . . . Colored Troops..	Boston	1902	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 3,302.00
264		Large portrait thought to be of a Civil War veteran.	No place	circa 1910s	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 412.00
265		Muster roll for a company of the 10th United States Cavalry "Buffalo Soldier" regiment.	Fort Sill, OK	1872	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 412.00
266		Portrait of Black army lieutenant John R. Rudd.	[Springfield, OH	circa 1898]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,397.00
267		Real Photo postcard of Buffalo Soldier prisoners of Mexico upon their release.	[El Paso, TX?]	1916-06-21	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 476.00
268		Black-themed military sheet music by Eubie Blake and others, 1917-1941		1917-1941	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 1,206.00
269		Letter from a new recruit training to be a sergeant.	Camp Sherman, OH	1917	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
270		Photograph of a military band performing in Paris during the war, circa 1917-1918		circa 1917-1918	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 594.00
271		Group of 3 sentimental patriotic posters depicting Black soldiers, 1918-1919		1918-1919	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 3,302.00
272		Postcard of Julius Ellsberry, who died at Pearl Harbor, circa 1942		circa 1942	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 528.00
273		Early press photo of Pearl Harbor hero Dorie Miler, 17 March 19442		19442	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 889.00
274		Photograph of decorated pilot Charles B.	Hall	1943-07-05	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 571.00
275		Group of candid snapshots of Tuskegee Airmen in uniform, circa 1943-1944		circa 1943-1944	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 571.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.