Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2708, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | Pair of original drawings of Lincoln and McClellan. |
No place | 1865 and circa 1876 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 500.00 | |
| 129 | Issues of the Independent Chronicle from the period of Shays's Rebellion. |
Boston | September 1786 to April 1787 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 130 | An Act to Prevent Profane Cursing and Swearing. |
[Boston] | 29 June 1798 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 131 | Fitz Henry Lane, lithographer; after A Conant. | View of Newburyport (from Salisbury). |
Boston | circa 1845 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 813.00 |
| 132 | Old Colony Railroad. | Celebration of the Opening of Railroad Facilities to Provincetown . . . Excursion. |
Boston | 15 July 1873 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 133 | Citizens' petition to an early county court regarding riotous behavior on the Sabbath, civil liberties, and slavery. |
Pickering County, MS | 17 June 1799 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 4,000.00 | |
| 134 | Personal letter from Joseph Smith's maternal grandmother Lydia Mack, among papers of his New Hampshire uncle. |
Gilsum, NH | 1777-1822 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 32,500.00 | |
| 135 | Papers of John Silvanus Davis and his daughter Julia, a Welsh Mormon immigrant family in early Salt Lake City. |
Salt Lake City and elsewhere, | bulk 1853-1877 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 | |
| 136 | J.V. Long. | Report of the First General Festival of the Renowned Mormon Battalion. |
[Salt Lake City, UT] | 1855 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
| 137 | "Ieuan" [John Silvanus Davis]. | The Bee-Hive Songster, Being a Selection of Original Songs. |
Salt Lake City, UT | 1868 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 138 | [Carleton E. Watkins, photographer?] | Early view of Salt Lake City. |
Salt Lake City, UT | circa 1870s | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 139 | A New and Compleat Instructer for the Flageolet, to which is Added a Select Collection of Songs Marches &c. |
New York | circa 1799 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,500.00 | |
| 140 | David Claypoole Johnston, illustrator. | The Log House: A Song Presented to the Western Minstrel. |
Boston | 14 March 1826 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 141 | Thomas Moore and L.D. Hoard. | Array Thee Love: the previously unrecorded first music published in Chicago. |
Chicago ; Cleveland, OH | [1849] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 142 | Christopher Plagge. | The Garden City Polka, Composed and Dedicated to the Ladies of the Chicago Philharmonic Society. |
Chicago | 1853 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 143 | Collection of band arrangements for the Temptations and other artists, and related memorabilia. |
Various places | circa 1963-1979 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 813.00 | |
| 144 | General Directions for Building Frigates of the First Class, |
Washington | 23 June 1853 (manuscript notes) | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,000.00 | |
| 145 | Group of 6 large photographs of the United States Naval Academy shortly after the Civil War. |
Annapolis, MD | circa 1869-1870 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 438.00 | |
| 146 | Designs for the 1926 restoration of the USS Constitution. |
Boston | 1926-1927 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,625.00 | |
| 147 | Papers of three generations of the Bill family of Gilsum, NH (cousins of Joseph Smith). |
Various places | 1814-1909 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 6,500.00 | |
| 148 | [Platt D. Babbitt, photographer.] | Half-plate ambrotype view of Niagara Falls. |
Niagara Falls, NY | circa 1850s | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 1,170.00 |
| 149 | Previously untraced song from the Anti-Rent War titled The Grafton Tories! |
No place | circa December 1844 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 563.00 | |
| 150 | Complete run of the Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, better known as Valentine's Manuals. |
New York | 1841-1870 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,750.00 | |
| 151 | Principles and By Laws of the Mitchel Guard, Company A, Irish Rifles. |
New York | 1853 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,375.00 | |
| 152 | Projected Railroads of the Metropolitan Transit Company. |
Albany | 1866 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 625.00 |
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