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Sale Name: RARE AUTOGRAPHS, MANUSCRIPTS, ARTWORK, COMIC ART
Auction Date: 05/26/2021 - 05/26/2021
Year of Sale: 2021
Sale Number: #52621
Total Lots: 403
Sold Lots: 390
Lots Sold: 96.8%
Unsold Lots: 13
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 660,029.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 493,150.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 633,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 515,650.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 661,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 99.79%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 625,833.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
242	Isaac Newton	Isaac Newton Scientific Autograph Manuscript Relating to the Principia, One of Very Few Known!	Ca. 1715-25	USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	118,750.00
107	Albert Einstein	Einstein 3 Pages of Equations Unified Field Theory “I want to try to show that a truly natural choice for field equations exists.” He Formalizes his Final Approach, Association To Theory of Relativity	Ca 1940s	USD 60,000.00 - 70,000.00	67,100.00
199	Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet, Andrew Johnson	Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet, Andrew Johnson, Senators, Congressman, Over 220 Sign an Album	January 28, 1862	USD 12,000.00 - 14,000.00	37,500.00
108	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein “The Elusive Moment of Truth” Signed Portrait – One of the Most Iconic Photographs of Einstein Ever Taken, Among His Last Signed, In The Year Of His Death	Ca. 1955	USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00	34,375.00
195	Vladamir Lenin	Vladamir Lenin TLS as Chairman of the Workers' and Peasant's Defense Council to Later Executed People's Commissariat in Pivotal Year 1919	December 19, 1919	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	20,000.00
384		George Washington Signed Three-language Ship's Papers for the "Hiram", Quasi-War Related	November 25, 1794	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	15,000.00
404	Woodrow Wilson	Woodrow Wilson Finest of Few Known ALS as President!	May 19, 1913	USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00	13,750.00
380		Signed Act of Congress Permanently Establishing U.S. Postal Service, and Death Penalty for Robbing the Mails	May 8, 1794	USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00	12,500.00
322	Salinger	Salinger Fantastic Signed Letter Re: Annoying Roommates and a "Depressive" Young Man	May 5, 1972	USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	8,125.00
176	Jack Kerouac	Jack Kerouac's Personal Advanced Copy Gifted by Hefner "The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader", W. Hefner TLS. Ex: Kerouac Estate	Ca.1965	USD 900.00 - 1,000.00	8,125.00
408		Wright Flyer Fabric Flown at Kitty Hawk	December 17, 1903	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	6,875.00
389	John Wesley	John Wesley ALS to Fellow Methodist Regarding Children's School	July 12, 1788	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	5,937.50
253	Rosa Parks	Rosa Parks Signed Photo Showing Her Being Fingerprinted	[December 1, 1955]	USD 600.00 - 700.00	5,000.00
266	Yitzhak Rabin	Yitzhak Rabin Hand Drawn Signed Map of Israel	[Ca. 1993]	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,687.50
139	John Hancock	John Hancock Signs Commission for Lexington/Concord Minuteman & Bunker Hill Veteran	June 27, 1791	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	4,375.00
366	Harry S. Truman	Truman 21 Page Corrected Manuscript on the Presidency, Evoking Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson & Both Roosevelts, Ex-Forbes	Ca.1958	USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	4,375.00
171	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Signed & Inscribed Large Framed Photo, W. Important Association	Ca. 1963	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	4,375.00
186	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Martin Luther King, Jr. Questions Wisdom of "Black Power" Slogan & Movement	Ca. July 1966	USD 400.00 - 500.00	4,375.00
394		Arminian Magazine 20 Volumes 1778-1797 Complete Set	Ca. 1778-1797	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,062.50
196	John Lennon	John Lennon: The Beatles Years Lyric Portfolio, Complete Set	Ca.1995	USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	4,062.50
62	Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl	Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl Signed EP Record	[Ca. 1989]	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,500.00
125		Forbes Collection Balance, 110+ Pcs Deaccessioned from the Malcolm Forbes Collection	16th-20th Century	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	3,500.00
54		Famed Explorer William Clark Signed Provisions Return for 82 Men	n.d.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	3,500.00
388	Charles Wesley	Charles Wesley Manuscript Hymn Inspired by the Book of Ruth	Ca. 1760	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	3,500.00
192	Robert E. Lee	Robert E. Lee Signed Cdv, Unusual Vannerson & Jones	Ca. 1864	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,500.00

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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000