Early American: History Auction, 72625, Rancho Santa Fe

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 26, 2025 - July 26, 2025
Page Size: 143 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
55 James Smillie

James Smillie Drawn Color View Engraving of HOBOKEN

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
56

1824 "The Spectator" Book with "John Floyd" Bookplate Son of John Floyd, Sr., Governor of Virginia (1849-1852)

1824 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
57

"CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA." Signed by "L.Q. Washington" the Man Who later Warned South Carolina's Governor Pickens about the Reinforcement of Fort Sumter!

USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
58

Cabinet Card Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) the British Poet and Poet Laureate of England

USD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
60

Group Lot of Unused Assorted Union Civil War Covers

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
61

Grant's Memoirs, Johnson and Buel's Battles & Photograph

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
62

Promissory Payment Note, Town of Paris, Maine No. 6 for $25 with accompanying Notice of Authorization of Issuance

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Unknown
63

1862 Letter from Owners Glidden & Williams in Boston regarding the California Packet Clipper Ship "Geo. Raynes"

1862 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
65

"The Queen's Neutrality Proclamation during the existing hostilities between the United States and the States calling themselves the Confederate States of America... the States in rebellion" February 1, 1862 Civil War Date British Imprint

1862 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
66 John P. Hale

Senator John P. Hale's Speech "Frauds in Naval Contracts". His Daughter Lucy Hale was Secretly Betrothed in 1865 to John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's Assassin !

1865 USD 350.00 - 450.00 Unknown
67

1865 Gideon Welles Union Naval General Order Awarding Two Medals of Honor For Additional Acts of Gallantry

1865 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
68

1862 Civil War Letter to U.S. Minister to Prussia "Norman B. Judd" Recommending a Prussian Officer for Commission in the Union Army and Signed the Prussian Foreign Minister President Lincoln Approved the Officer's Army Commission

1862 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
69 Lt. Commander Fitch

1864 Letter From Lt. Commander Fitch on USS "Moose" of the Mississippi Squadron Regarding Safety of Storing Gunpowder

1864 USD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
70 J.S. Copley

June 21, 1862 VIRGINIA Civil War Union Pass Issued by the Provost Marshal's Office Signed by Lt. J.S. Copley

1862 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
71

July 7, 1862-Dated General Orders No. 74, A Resolution to Encourage Enlistments in the Regular Army and Volunteer Force

1862-Dated USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
72 David Hunter

1862 Civil War "Special Orders" No. 205 From Major General David Hunter at Hilton Head, Port Royal, S.C.

1862 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
73

Company C, First Regiment, Maryland Veteran Volunteer Infantry Soldiers Memorial Battle Front Royal May 23, 1862

1862 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
74

April 5, 1864 Civil War General Banks' Field Orders No. 2 Red River Campaign - Signal Corps Department of the Gulf

1864 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
75 John L. Hodson

Civil War Issued General Order No. 35 by John L. Hodson Adjutant General of the State of Maine About Recruitment

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
76 Augustus Davis

1864 District of Maine Civil War Recruiting Circular No. 30, Issued by Augustus Davis, Captain and Provost Marshal Stating in Part "Now is the time for prompt action."

1864 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
77

Partially-Printed Posthumous Payment for A Dead Soldier

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
78 John L. Hodson

February 18, 1865 General Order No. 3 by John L. Hodson, Adjutant General of the State of Maine, Cash Bounty for Military or Naval Service of the United States

1865 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
79

34-Star Flag Civil War Patriotic Postally Used Envelope

USD 240.00 - 280.00 Unknown
80 G.P. Putnam

"BRIG. GEN. A.E. BURNSIDE" Print by G.P. Putnam

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
81 J.H. Buffords

1861 "Departure of the Lynn Light Infantry for the Defense of Washington. April 16, 1861" by J.H. Buffords, Boston

1861 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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