Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Printed and Manuscript Americana | Total Sales (USD) | 632,754.00 |
Auction Date | September 24, 2020 - September 24, 2020 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 378,870.00 |
Sale Number | #2546 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 572,330.00 |
Total Lots | 367 | ||
Sold Lots | 293 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 488,920.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 79.84% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 735,230.00 |
Unsold Lots | 74 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 86.06% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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164 | Guest register for the legendary Catskill Mountain House. |
1839-43 and 1846-52 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 45,000.00 | |
192 | Three watercolor studies for the famous "Unfinished Portrait" of Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
1945-04-11 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 40,000.00 | |
240 | James W. Bentley. | Grisly diary of a cavalry officer protecting emigrants on the Overland Trail. |
1865 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 27,500.00 |
272 | Pedro de Arenas. | Vocabulario manual de las lenguas castellana, y mexicana. |
[1611] | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 27,500.00 |
21 | Stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765. |
circa 1765 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 15,000.00 | |
269 | Juan de la Anunciación. | Sermonario en lengua mexicana. |
1577 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
108 | The Law of God. |
[1845-46] | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 | |
148 | The Book of Mormon. |
1841 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 | |
150 | William Billings. | Music in Miniature, Containing a Collection of Psalm Tunes of Various Metres. |
1779 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 8,750.00 |
1 | Pieter Schenck, engraver; after Faber. | Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, Coning Vande Maquas alias Coning Brant. |
circa 1710s] | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
303 | José de Ortega. | Confessonario manual, que en la lengua Cora. |
1732 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 6,750.00 |
273 | Juan de Mijangos. | Primera parte del sermonario, dominical, y sanctoral en lengua mexicana. |
1624 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
319 | Félix Berenguer de Marquina. | Teuctequiquitzquícátzintli nónóhuian . . . Ni quin machiztilia. |
1800 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
28 | Clement Biddle. | Letter seeking Scull's map of Pennsylvania for use by the army at Valley Forge. |
1778 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
307 | Pedro Beltran de Santa Rosa. | Arte de el idioma Maya reducido a succintas reglas y semilexicon Yucateco. |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 6,250.00 | |
287 | Francisco de Florencia. | La estrella de el norte de Mexico. |
1688 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 6,000.00 |
306 | Benito Rinaldini. | Arte de la lengua Tepeguana, con vocabulario, confessionario, y catechismo. |
1743 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,000.00 |
19 | Group of 8 photographs of a performing troupe in New York and Canada. |
circa 1870s | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 5,500.00 | |
278 | Martin de León. | Manual breve, y forma de administrar los santos sacramentos á los Indios. |
1640 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
299 | Pierre Cholonec. | La gracia triunfante en la vida de Catharina Tegakovita, India Iroquesa. |
1724 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
324 | Sebastian Izquierdo. | Practica de los exercicios espirituales de N. Padre S. Ignacio. |
1685 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
91 | Archive of early film photographs, most from the set of The Chechahcos--the first film shot in Alaska. |
circa 1924 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,250.00 | |
119 | Mordecai Noah. | Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews. |
1845 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
308 | Regla y constituciones de las religiosas de la Gloriosa Virgen Sta. Rosa Maria de Lima . . . de la Puebla de los Angeles. |
1746 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 5,000.00 | |
44 | Issue of the Waterford News, published by 3 young Unionist women in Confederate Virginia. |
1864 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,750.00 |