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
203

Card for a Custer City hotel and ticket office for the "Sidney Short Route stagecoach to Deadwood.

Custer City, Dakota Territory circa 1876 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 500.00
204 P.E. Larson, photographer.

A Morning Call in a Beer Hall.

Goldfield, NV circa 1906 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
205

Group of Nevada mining town ephemera, including broadsides, prospectuses, and a photograph.

Various places 1906-1939 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 715.00
206

Minutes of the Henderson Yoakum chapter of the Freemasons, 9 years after statehood.

Moscow, TX 26 October 1854 to 14 July 1888 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 813.00
207

Issue of the Daily Union Vedette, Utah's first daily newspaper.

Camp Douglas, Utah Territory 29 February 1864 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 469.00
208

Album of the Mazama Club's 1914 ascent of Mount Rainier.

Mount Rainier, WA, 1914-08-01 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,040.00
209 Peiser [after Peterson & Brother].

(WEST--WASHINGTON STATE.) Peiser [after Peterson & Brother]. Seattle in 1878 panorama.

Seattle 1878 [circa 1890s copy print] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
210 Fred C. Nelson.

The Flying Instructor's Manual (Claire Chennault's own signed copy).

[San Antonio, TX?] circa 1926-1928 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
211

The rescue of downed American airmen near Japan-held China, with one of the blood chits that told their story.

China, August-September 1943 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,430.00
212

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: Dorie Miller Received the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor.

Washington 1943 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 3,250.00
213 E. Simms Campbell.

Salute to Negro Troops . . . Pageant on the Negro's Contribution to America.

Jersey City, NJ 1942-05-17 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
214

Five original photographs of Japanese soldiers from their occupation of Attu Island.

1942-1943 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
215

Group of aerial views of Hiroshima and Tokyo taken weeks after the end of fighting.

[San Francisco, CA] 28 October 1945. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
216 O Tuk Jun.

Narrative by a Japanese Army officer stationed in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped.

circa October 1947 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 938.00
217

Field Information Agency Technical Handbook for . . . Field Teams.

[Frankfurt, Germany], 6 September 1945 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
218 Hermann Burmeister.

Reise nach Brasilien durch die Provinzen von Rio de Janeiro und Minas Geraes,

Berlin 1853 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
219 Senefelder, lithographer; after Zollner.

D. Pedro Primo, Imperador do Brazil.

No place circa 1827? USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
220 Juan Ignacio Molina.

Compendio de la historia geografica, natural y civil del reyno de Chile.

1788, 1795 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,750.00
221 Pedro Gonzalez de Agueros.

Descripcion historial de la provincia y archipielago de Chiloe, en le reyno de Chile.

1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,500.00
222

Republica de Colombia o noticia de sus limites . . . e historia.

Bogota 1837 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
223

Photo album of a 1904 trip to Cuba.

Cuba 1904 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,063.00
224 Crispijn van de Passe.

Early engraved portrait of Christopher Columbus.

[Amsterdam 1598] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
225 Marian Neal.

Diary of a Carnegie aid investigator in Haiti.

Haiti 1950 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 938.00
226 Maturino Gilberti.

Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan

Mexico 1559 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
227 Pope Gregory XIII.

Indulgencia plenissima a manera de jubileo de nuestro Sactissimo Senor Gregory pp. XIII

Mexico 1582 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
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