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
52 Herman "Kofi" Bailey, artist.

Poor People's Campaign 1968, SCLC.

 Atlanta, GA 1968 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 780.00
53 Currier & Ives.

(CIVIL WAR.) Currier & Ives. A Startling Announcement.

 New York, [1862] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,430.00
54

Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue . . . for the Year Ending June 20, 1863.

 Washington 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
55 William Raymond Lee.

Letter to famed Richmond Unionist spy Elizabeth Van Lew, reflecting on the war.

 Roxbury, MA 18 April 1868 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,000.00
56

Letters home by two commanders of the 16th Alabama, concluding with the fight against Sherman near Atlanta.

 Various places 1861-1864 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
57 Earnest Halphin.

Coming at Last! Oh Yes Sir, the Rebels are Coming at Last!

 Baltimore 1862 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
58 Laura V. Arnold.

Letter by a patriotic Confederate woman while serving as a nurse to her wounded brother.

 American Hospital [Staunton, VA] 12 July 1863 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
59

Pair of artistic depictions of the new South Carolina state palmetto flag.

 No place circa 1861-1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
60

Seal of the Confederacy, painted on silk.

 No place circa 1863-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
61 James T. Aldrich.

Letter to college president Robert E. Lee, requesting words of counsel and encouragement

 Barnwell, SC 11 September 1869 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
62

Final letter to the doomed Private Edmund E. Doane, with Brown & Alexander embalmer's pass and receipt.

 Various places, May-November 1864 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
63 Archibald S. Corken.

Diary of a private at Vicksburg, including his thoughts on the Fort Pillow Massacre.

 Various places, 30 November 1863 to 1 November 1864 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 845.00
64 David F. Smith.

Letter describing the Louisiana Tigers ransacking a Maryland store and desecrating flags.

 29 September 1862 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 625.00
65

Carte-de-visite album including John Wilkes Booth and Union officers, apparently compiled by Gov. Andrew.

 No place circa 1861-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,750.00
66

Military hospital patient card and other papers for Albert Davis of the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.

 Various places 1864-1888 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
67

Correspondence of Clinton Fisk on the formation of 33rd Missouri, including a manuscript recruiting circular.

 St. Louis and elsewhere 1862-1863 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
68 Susan McFarland Parkhurst.

Group of 12 pieces of sheet music composed by an American woman.

 New York 1864-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
69

Papers of naval captain, including manuscript maps of the Charleston and Savannah defenses, and monitor drawings.

 Various places 1861-1865 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,375.00
70

Testimony of the British officers of a captured Charleston blockade runner, Emilie.

 Philadelphia circa July 1862 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 500.00
71

Navy Department order regarding the first Navy Medals of Honor.

 [Washington], 3 April 1863 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
72

Identification tag of a Northfield soldier.

 No place circa 1862-1865 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,235.00
73

Civil War diary and letters of Capt. William Wood of the 9th New York (Seward's Pets) and other family papers

 Various places 1829-1910 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,500.00
74 Henry K. Sikes.

Long run of letters by a descendant of Henry Knox, serving in the 1st New York Rifles.

 Various places 1862-1865 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,680.00
75

Documents on the early months of the Washington Grays, including a satirical account of the officer's mess.

 Various places 1861-1862 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
76

Letter and papers regarding the transport of an Ohio sergeant's body home from Chickamauga for burial.

 Nashville and Chattanooga, TN 16 February 1864 and undated USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
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  • <b><center>Sotheby's<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts & More<br>Available for Immediate Purchase</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ian Fleming. <i>Casino Royale,</i> London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. <i>Winnie The Pooh,</i> United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000. <b><center>Sotheby's<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts & More<br>Available for Immediate Purchase</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> L. Frank Baum. <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,</i> Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Man Ray. <i>Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934,</i> Hartford, 1934. $7,860. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Thomas Pennant. <i>Zoologia Britannica,</i> Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.