Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2732, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | Farm labor agreement signed by formerly enslaved person. |
Huntsville, AL | December 1865 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 6,604.00 | |
| 302 | Freedmen's sharecropping contract. |
Schley County, GA | 1 January 1867 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,794.00 | |
| 303 | Tennessee sharecropper contract. |
Montgomery County, TN | 15 January 1867 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 3,556.00 | |
| 304 | John Roy Lynch. | Clipped signature from an autograph album. |
Natchez, MS, | circa 1873-1883 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 305 | Account of a Black landowner with a local merchant re his cotton crop. |
Tunica, MS | 1887 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 825.00 | |
| 306 | Hymnal Adapted to the Doctrines and Usages of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1909 |
1909 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 635.00 | ||
| 307 | Impressions of a Negro Church, an unpublished manuscript. |
Georgia | circa 1914-1925 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 308 | Small archive of ephemera relating to the Bethel Baptist Church. |
White Plains, NY | 1915-1990 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 381.00 | |
| 309 | The Spoken Word, the first two volumes of Father Divine's magazine, 1934-1936 |
1934-1936 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 698.00 | ||
| 310 | Brothers Beneath the Load: Race Relations Sunday, 11 February 1945 |
1945 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | ||
| 311 | Bill of lading for a slave ship owned by Aaron Lopez, and invoice for slave labor. |
Newport, RI | 1764 and 1767 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,206.00 | |
| 312 | Jotham Briggs. | Deposition on a slave ship's activity on the coast of Africa. |
Bristol, RI | 1801 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 825.00 |
| 313 | Pair of early transfer documents of Maryland enslaved people. |
Maryland | 1726 and 1769 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 429.00 | |
| 314 | Receipt for boarding an enslaved person belonging to notorious slave trader Samuel Vernon. |
Boston | 1778 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 627.00 | |
| 315 | Slander lawsuit by a man accused of "kidnapping Negroes" in New Jersey. |
Salem County, NJ | 1800 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 889.00 | |
| 316 | Deed of an enslaved 17-year-old boy named Isaac to a New York merchant. |
New York | 1804 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,524.00 | |
| 317 | The Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave. |
New York | 1850 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 17,780.00 | |
| 318 | C.W. Larison. | Silvia Dubois (Now 116 Yers Old): A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt her Mistres. |
Ringoes, NJ | 1883 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,794.00 |
| 319 | Isaac D. Williams. | Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. |
East Saginaw, MI | 1885 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 5,080.00 |
| 320 | Issue of the Charleston Courier with a printing of the slave badge ordinance, 14 January 1805 |
1805 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 476.00 | ||
| 321 | Rules and Regulations to be Observ'd & Strickly Attended to by my Negroes, circa early 1800s |
circa early 1800s | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 322 | How to Work Cotton manuscript. |
No place | circa 1850s | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 539.00 | |
| 323 | Cotton and Hay Press circular, with illustration of an enslaved man. |
New York | 18 March 1842 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 412.00 | |
| 324 | Slave auction deed for "a certain Negro boy named Austin." |
Warren County, North Carolina | 1825 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,905.00 | |
| 325 | Letter describing a Georgia slave auction in detail. |
Savannah, GA | 1841 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,651.00 |
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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 AprilSotheby’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.