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Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana

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Auction Name Printed and Manuscript Americana Total Sales (USD) 726,375.00
Auction Date April 15, 2021 - April 15, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 478,100.00
Sale Number #2564 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 709,150.00
Total Lots 388
Sold Lots 342 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 542,450.00
% of Lots Sold 88.14% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 804,950.00
Unsold Lots 46 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 90.24%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
254

The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

 1830 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 68,750.00
22 Bernard Romans, artist.

An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775.

 1776 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 32,500.00
15

A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston.

 1770 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 22,500.00
315 William Sydney Porter, a.k.a.

Illustrations for a lost mining memoir, drawn long before his fame as an author.

 circa 1883-84 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 16,250.00
375 Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma.

Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del Chocolate.

 1631 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
279

Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization.

 1857-82 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,500.00
154

Account of a French ship's naval battle with the British off Pensacola.

 1781 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,000.00
141

Pact to enforce New York's "Agreement of Non-Importation" during the heyday of the Sons of Liberty.

 1769 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,375.00
256 W.W. Phelps.

Early letter by the pioneering church publisher, just months after the burning of the Book of Commandments.

 1833 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,375.00
359 Alonso de Molina.

Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana * Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana.

 1571 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,750.00
218 Anthony Benezet.

The Pennsylvania Spelling-Book.

 1776 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,125.00
292 H.K. Bush-Brown, sculptor.

Bust of Ulysses S. Grant as a general.

 1885 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 8,125.00
222 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces.

 1779 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,500.00
60

Constitution of the United States.

 circa 1832 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,500.00
374 "Juan Focher" [Jean Foucher].

Itinerarium Catholicum proficiscentium, ad infideles covertendos.

 1574 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,500.00
142 John Hodgson; reporter.

The Trial of William Wemms . . . for the Murder of Crispus Attucks.

 1770 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,250.00
124

Treaty Entered into between the United States and the Cherokee Nation.

 1836 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,000.00
14 [After Benjamin Wilson.]

The Repeal, or The Funeral of Miss Ame-stamp.

 circa March 1766 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,750.00
297

Documents on the contested 1876 election in South Carolina which ended Reconstruction.

 1876-1877 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,750.00
17 Bufford, lithographer; after Champney.

Boston Massacre, March 5th 1770.

 1856 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,500.00
267 John E. Alden.

Letter documenting his exploration of hundreds of mountains and lakes in the Adirondack Mountains.

 1888 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 5,500.00
120 J.H. Bufford's, lithographers.

Set of 5 prints depicting the "Abandonment of the Whalers in the Arctic Ocean,

 1872 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,250.00
306

Receipt book kept by a widowed Charleston boarding house keeper.

 1793-1843 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 5,250.00
319

Extensive papers of William McKay, who went west from Iowa to Colorado as a mining agent.

 1872-81 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,250.00
376 Franco, artist.

Elaborate oil portrait of Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, the influential Bishop of Puebla.

 circa mid-18th century? USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,250.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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