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Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana

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Auction Name Printed and Manuscript Americana Total Sales (USD) 957,290.00
Auction Date September 29, 2022 - September 29, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 534,250.00
Sale Number #2615 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 799,150.00
Total Lots 396
Sold Lots 344 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 609,700.00
% of Lots Sold 86.87% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 913,300.00
Unsold Lots 52 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 104.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
260

Extensive archive of personal and family papers of Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.

1791-1914, bulk circa 1836-1877 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 281,000.00
1 George Catlin.

Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio.

1844 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 25,000.00
336 Alonso de Molina.

Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mexicana.

1555 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 20,000.00
59

Charleston Mercury Extra . . . The Union is Dissolved!

20 December 1860 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 18,750.00
55 John Richard.

Sketchbook kept by a well-known soldier/artist during the last months of the war.

1865 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 16,250.00
75

Large archive of Lt. Palmer Judkins of the 60th Indiana Volunteers, at Vicksburg and beyond.

bulk 1862-1865 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,000.00
151 ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

Observations on Certain Documents . . . in which the Charge of Speculation against Alexander Hamilton . . .

1797 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,500.00
293

A Mexican compilation of key documents relating to Goliad and the Alamo.

circa April 1836 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,250.00
66 E.W. Drummond.

Diary of a Maine transplant to Savannah, captured at Fort Pulaski and imprisoned in New York.

27 January to 13 September 1862 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
74

Scrapbook kept by Abraham Jonas, an early Jewish settler of Quincy, IL who had sons fighting on both sides.

1860-1863 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 9,375.00
79

Secessionist recruitment broadside issued in the wake of the Baltimore Riot to the "People of Baltimore!"

21 April 1861 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,375.00
335 María Antonia Martínez.

Early manuscript cookbook titled "Libro de Cosina."

1827 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
99

Don't Unchain the Tiger!

24 July 1863 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,125.00
196 Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Voice of Truth.

1844 1845 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,125.00
367

Reglas de la Compañia de Jesus.

1698 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,125.00
241

Notebooks kept by analytical chemist Thomas Hall Garrett during the Civil War and beyond.

1861-1869 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,280.00
152

Papers of Charles Dana, who launched Hawaii's first bank in 1854--with a letter on a bedroom scandal in the royal family.

1849-1874 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 7,250.00
157 Isaac Leeser, translator.

The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, Carefully Translated

1853–54 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,000.00
230

Composite photograph titled "Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1867 and 68."

1868 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,750.00
197

Reply of Joseph Smith to the Letter of J. A. B--- of A---n House, New York.

1844 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,500.00
337 [Juan de la Anunciación.]

[Sermonario en lengua mexicana.]

1577 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,500.00
21

Papers of critic and curator Charles M. Kurtz.

1885-1910 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,250.00
45

Cabinet card of Ko K'un-hua, Harvard's first professor of Chinese language.

circa 1879-1882 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 6,250.00
194 [Robert P. Crawford.]

[An Index, or Reference, to the Second and Third Editions of the Book of Mormon.]

1842 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,250.00
369 Augustin de Quintana.

Confessonario en lengua Mixe,

1733 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,250.00
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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