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Auction Info

Auction Name
Printed and Manuscript Americana
Auction Date
11/20/2025 - 11/20/2025
Sale Number
#2721
Total Lots
360
Sold Lots
315.0
Lots Sold
87.50%
Unsold Lots
45
Total Sales (USD)
715,831.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
504,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
745,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
590,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
872,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
82.07%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
17 Benjamin Beal

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Unpublished diary of a lieutenant serving in the Invasion of Quebec

 17 March to 6 December 1776 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 76,200.00
23 George Washington

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Letter anticipating the coming British campaign against Philadelphia

 19 January 1777 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 69,850.00
193 Joseph Smith

(MORMONS.) Mortgage deed signed with Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum Smith

 12 March 1840 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 48,260.00
156

(FREEMASONRY.) Manuscript of Connecticut Masonic rituals

 circa 1797-1819 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 17,780.00
206 Ebenezer Rand

(MORMONS.) Letters with a non-Mormon perspective on Nauvoo in the 1840s and beyond

 1865 and [1872?] USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 13,970.00
175 Jeremiah B. Taylor

(KANSAS.) Letterbook of a frontier missionary with tales of friendly Indians and unfriendly Confederate guerrillas

 1839-1887 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,065.00
286 [Benjamin Rush]

(SPORTS--GOLF.) Sermons to Gentlemen upon Temperance and Exercise

 1772 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,430.00
143 [Smith]

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) A Declaration . . .

 1764 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,525.00
78 William H. Tabb

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Letters of a captain in the 14th Mississippi, at Fort Donelson, Jackson, Atlanta, and more

 1861-1865 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,255.00
69 Charles M. Heaton

(CIVIL WAR.) Letters of a clerk in Washington through the war

 1861-1864 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,620.00
38 Herman Daggett

(ANIMAL RIGHTS.) The Rights of Animals: An Oration, Delivered at the Commencement of Providence-College

 1792 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 6,604.00
194 J. Goldsmith

(MORMONS.) A Grammar of General Geography, with ownership signature of the prophet's brother William Smith

 1822 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,604.00
9 George Catlin

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and other Customs of the Mandans

 1867 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,604.00
255

(POLITICS.) [Elkanah Tisdale,] The Gerry-Mander, first appearance of this loathsome creature

 26 March 1812 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,600.00
130

(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) Eleazar Huntington, In Congress July 4th. 1776

 circa 1820-24 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,350.00
291 Guy R.

(TRAVEL.) Love. Extensive letters and photographs of an American diplomat in Morocco and Ethiopia

 1907-1910 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,350.00
184

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Act of the Massachusetts Senate ordering a tax to suppress Shays's Rebellion

 17 February 1787 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 6,350.00
256 [Theodorus Bailey]

(PRESIDENTS--1802.) Authentic Information Relative to the Conduct of the Present & Last Administrations

 1802 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 6,096.00
209 John Taylor

(MORMONS.) Letter enclosing the clipped signature of Brigham Young and the First Presidency

 7 January 1882 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,842.00
292 Brooke Russell [Astor]

(TRAVEL.) Diary as a young American girl in Peking and on the "grand tour."

 1 January to 8 November 1913 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,334.00
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