Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2687, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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201 | Large group of press photographs from the Underwood & Underwood files relating to Theodore Roosevelt. |
Various places | circa 1898-1919 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 4,250.00 | |
202 | Collection of speeches and programs from New York City memorial services for John F. Kennedy. |
New York | 1963-1964 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
203 | Specimen of Printing Types, Cast at the Letter Foundry of Lewis Pelouze. |
Philadelphia | 1849 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,875.00 | |
204 | Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the . . . Route |
Washington | 1855-1860 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,500.00 | |
205 | A Union Army physician describes the first year of occupation in Georgia. |
Georgia, | July 1865 to March 1866 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 16,250.00 | |
206 | Group of early Brown University pamphlets, one inscribed by N. Brown. |
Various places | 1792-1839 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
207 | Issue of the Exeter Watchman, featuring the first known mention of Bigfoot in print. |
Exeter, NH, | 22 September 1818 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,125.00 | |
208 | An Essay on Bridge Building . . . and the Relative Merits of Wood and Iron for Bridges. |
Utica, NY | H.H. | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
209 | Manufacture of Patent Wire Rope. |
Trenton, NJ | circa 1855 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
210 | Newspaper extra sharing the historic first transatlantic cable messages. |
No place | 17 August 1858 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,375.00 | |
211 | Letter describing a conversation with John Brown, hours after his capture at Harpers Ferry. |
Needwood (Rockville, MD?) | 18 October 1859 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,375.00 | |
212 | Issue of the National Police Gazette with a dramatic illustrated coverage of the John Brown execution. |
New York | 10 December 1859 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
213 | The Frederick Douglass Souvenir. |
[Anacostia, DC], | [1896] | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 5,000.00 | |
214 | Two large portraits of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. |
San Francisco and no place | circa 1870s-1880s | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 650.00 | |
215 | The third issue of the Charleston Courier, the state's oldest surviving newspaper. |
Charleston, SC | 12 January 1803 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
216 | Group of promenade cards of the Charleston Earthquake of 1886. |
Charleston, SC, | September 1886 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 563.00 | |
217 | Correspondence of an early baseball club secretary from Oneida, New York. |
Various places, | bulk 1863-1870 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold | |
218 | Minute books of the Lower Naugatuck Valley Industrial Baseball League. |
Various places | 1910-1915 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 4,000.00 | |
219 | The Art of Wave Riding. |
[Hollywood, CA | 1931] | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 2,080.00 | |
220 | Photographs of Norwegian-American tennis star Molla Mallory. |
Various places | circa 1920s | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 531.00 | |
221 | Death on the Striped Pig. |
Boston | [1839] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 813.00 | |
222 | A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World. |
London | 1798 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | |
223 | Outlines Illustrative of the Journal of F****** A*** K*****. |
Boston | 1835 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | |
224 | Group of letters by a clerk with Perry's expedition to Japan. |
Various places, March 1852 to August 1853 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 13,750.00 | ||
225 | Display printing of the Great Seal of the United States. |
Washington, DC | circa 1889-1909 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 3,000.00 |