Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 2708, New York

Auction Details

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
52 Herman "Kofi" Bailey, artist.

Poor People's Campaign 1968, SCLC.

Atlanta, GA 1968 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
53 Currier & Ives.

(CIVIL WAR.) Currier & Ives. A Startling Announcement.

New York, [1862] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
54

Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue . . . for the Year Ending June 20, 1863.

Washington 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
55 William Raymond Lee.

Letter to famed Richmond Unionist spy Elizabeth Van Lew, reflecting on the war.

Roxbury, MA 18 April 1868 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
56

Letters home by two commanders of the 16th Alabama, concluding with the fight against Sherman near Atlanta.

Various places 1861-1864 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
57 Earnest Halphin.

Coming at Last! Oh Yes Sir, the Rebels are Coming at Last!

Baltimore 1862 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
58 Laura V. Arnold.

Letter by a patriotic Confederate woman while serving as a nurse to her wounded brother.

American Hospital [Staunton, VA] 12 July 1863 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
59

Pair of artistic depictions of the new South Carolina state palmetto flag.

No place circa 1861-1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
60

Seal of the Confederacy, painted on silk.

No place circa 1863-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
61 James T. Aldrich.

Letter to college president Robert E. Lee, requesting words of counsel and encouragement

Barnwell, SC 11 September 1869 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
62

Final letter to the doomed Private Edmund E. Doane, with Brown & Alexander embalmer's pass and receipt.

Various places, May-November 1864 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
63 Archibald S. Corken.

Diary of a private at Vicksburg, including his thoughts on the Fort Pillow Massacre.

Various places, 30 November 1863 to 1 November 1864 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
64 David F. Smith.

Letter describing the Louisiana Tigers ransacking a Maryland store and desecrating flags.

29 September 1862 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Unknown
65

Carte-de-visite album including John Wilkes Booth and Union officers, apparently compiled by Gov. Andrew.

No place circa 1861-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
66

Military hospital patient card and other papers for Albert Davis of the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.

Various places 1864-1888 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
67

Correspondence of Clinton Fisk on the formation of 33rd Missouri, including a manuscript recruiting circular.

St. Louis and elsewhere 1862-1863 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
68 Susan McFarland Parkhurst.

Group of 12 pieces of sheet music composed by an American woman.

New York 1864-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
69

Papers of naval captain, including manuscript maps of the Charleston and Savannah defenses, and monitor drawings.

Various places 1861-1865 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
70

Testimony of the British officers of a captured Charleston blockade runner, Emilie.

Philadelphia circa July 1862 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Unknown
71

Navy Department order regarding the first Navy Medals of Honor.

[Washington], 3 April 1863 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
72

Identification tag of a Northfield soldier.

No place circa 1862-1865 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
73

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

Various places 1829-1910 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
74 Henry K. Sikes.

Long run of letters by a descendant of Henry Knox, serving in the 1st New York Rifles.

Various places 1862-1865 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
75

Documents on the early months of the Washington Grays, including a satirical account of the officer's mess.

Various places 1861-1862 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
76

Letter and papers regarding the transport of an Ohio sergeant's body home from Chickamauga for burial.

Nashville and Chattanooga, TN 16 February 1864 and undated USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
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