Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2708, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025
Page Size: 267 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
253 Leonardo Levanto.

Cathecismo de la doctrina Christiana, en lengua zaapoteca.

1776 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,000.00
254

Clara y sucinta exposicion del pequeno catecismo impreso en el idioma mexicano.

1819 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,375.00
255 Francisco Sylverio, engraver.

Copper printing plate of a devotional engraving.

circa 1720s-1760s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 813.00
256 Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci.

Idea de una nueva historia de la America Septentrional.

Madrid 1746 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 813.00
257 Jose de Galvez, Marques de Sonora.

A later letter by the famous colonizer of the Californias.

Mexico. Santo Ildefonso 1867, 11 September 1786 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
258

Broadside announcing the resignation of Viceroy Apodaca, Count of Venadito.

Mexico, 5 July 1821 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
259

Volume of independence-era pamphlets by El Pensador Mexicano (the satirical journalist Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi).

Mexico 1812 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,125.00
260

Volume of independence-era pamphlets.

Various places 1820-1824 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,250.00
261

Decree creating the Provincia del Ystmo at Tehuantepec, Mexico's narrowest point.

Mexico 15 October 1823 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
262 Francisco Saverio Clavigero.

Historia Antigua de Megico.

London 1826 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 813.00
263

Regulations for the organization of the National Corps of Engineers.

Mexico 13 March 1828 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
264

Documents on the reconstitution of the state of Oaxaca and the rise of Benito Juarez to power.

Oaxaca, 9 to 13 August 1846 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,125.00
265

Papers of Cosme Furlong, who commanded the defenses of Puebla against the United States.

Various places 1845-1849 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,250.00
266 Benito Juarez.

Presidente de la Republica, a sus conciudadanos. Mexicanos!

Mexico 20 May 1863 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,000.00
267 Benito Juarez.

His signed certificate recognizing a German diplomat in Mexico.

Mexico 1 January 1872 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 585.00
268 Francois Froger.

Relation d'un Voyage . . . aux Cotes d'Afrique, detroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne, et Isles Antilles.

Amsterdam 1699 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
269

Pair of works on Saint Croix, Saint Thomas, and Saint John.

1777-1793 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,250.00
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