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Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana

Auction Reports

Auction Name Printed and Manuscript Americana Total Sales (USD) 486,217.00
Auction Date June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 264,050.00
Sale Number #2708 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 392,050.00
Total Lots 267
Sold Lots 209 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 369,250.00
% of Lots Sold 78.28% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 549,400.00
Unsold Lots 58 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 88.50%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
134

Personal letter from Joseph Smith's maternal grandmother Lydia Mack, among papers of his New Hampshire uncle.

1777-1822 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 32,500.00
226 Maturino Gilberti.

Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan

1559 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
101

Papers of naval engineer Harry H. Rousseau, an important force in the construction of the Panama Canal.

bulk 1898-1930 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,250.00
176 Frederick Douglass.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

1845 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,250.00
135

Papers of John Silvanus Davis and his daughter Julia, a Welsh Mormon immigrant family in early Salt Lake City.

bulk 1853-1877 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 13,750.00
175

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letters and diary of a northerner in Mississippi, with vivid descriptions of whippings and slave auctions.

1859-1860 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 13,000.00
19 Charles Smith.

The Monthly Military Repository.

1796-1797 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,500.00
230 Horacio Carochi.

Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracion de los adverbios.

1645 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 10,400.00
100

Papers of diplomat Herbert Squiers: photo albums and letters from postings in Cuba and Boxer Rebellion-era Beijing.

circa 1880s-1912 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,750.00
80

Family letters of Judge George W. Summers, a noted Charleston Unionist.

bulk 1860-1865 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,750.00
3 Thomas McKenney and James Hall.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America.

1848, 1849; and 1854 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,450.00
26 Robert E. Peary.

His designs for a transport sledge built and used on his Greenland expedition.

late 1899 to January 1900 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,750.00
14

The Lottery Magazine with an early British printing of the Declaration of Independence,

1758-1781 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,500.00
20 Fittler & Lerpiniere, after Paton.

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Fittler & Lerpiniere, after Paton. The Memorable Engagement of . . . the Serapis with Paul Jones

12 December 1780 copyright (early restrike) USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,500.00
73

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

1829-1910 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,500.00
147

Papers of three generations of the Bill family of Gilsum, NH (cousins of Joseph Smith).

1814-1909 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 6,500.00
8

Invoice to the Town of Boston for advertising pre-revolutionary content in the Boston Post Boy.

July 1768 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,000.00
11 Samuel Stearns.

The North-American's Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for . . . 1776.

[1775] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 6,000.00
96

Now in the Press . . . The Life and Adventures of a Certain Quaker Presbyterian Indian Colonel.

[1 October 1766] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,000.00
250

Reglas de la Compania de Jesus.

1698 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,000.00
83 Samuel Nott.

Record book kept for 70 years as pastor of the Congregational Church of Franklin.

1782-1852 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,750.00
97

Family photographs and correspondence of Bessie Rockefeller Strong, daughter of John D. Rockefeller.

1882-1905 and undated USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,720.00
112 Isaac Leeser.

Discourses on the Jewish Religion.

5627-5628 [1866-1868] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,250.00
265

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

1845-1849 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,250.00
17 [Christoph Heinrich Korn.]

Geschichte der Kriege.

1776-1777 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,000.00
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