• Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
  • Finarte, July 4-5: FERMI, ENRICO. Letters, 1923. €30,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The comedy, 1477. €45,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The Comedy [Commentary by Christophorus Landinus]. Addition: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in Latin and Italian], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ASTRONOMIA - CALENDARIO - REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES (MÜLLER, JOHANN, OF KÖNIGSBERG) Kalendarium, 1483. €5,000 to €7,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: CATERINA II DI RUSSIA, Parchment diploma granted by Catherine II of Russia, 1778. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: VICO, GIAMBATTISTA New Science Principles, 1725.
  • Bonhams, June 25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. $200,000 - $300,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Gersdorff, Hans Von. 1455-1529. Feldtbuch der wundartzney. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Pare, Ambroise. C.1509-1590. La Methode Curative des Playes, et Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraits des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles. $25,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Reisch, Gregor. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bright, Richard. 1789-1858. Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo. C. 1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Vicq D'Azyr, Felix. 1748-1794. Traite d'antomie et de physiologie. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Croce, Giovanni Andrea Della. 1509?-1775. Chirurgia libri septem... $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bruno Da Longburgo. 1200-1286. La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Schwann, Theodor. 1810-1882. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Cowper, William. 1666-1709. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life… $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bidloo, Govard. 1649-1713. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. $6,000 - $9,000
  • Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Audubon Birds of America, 1st Octavo Edition; 5 vols plus Journals, ex. J.J. Pringle. $4,000 to $4,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: American Ornithology Plates Folio in 2 Vols, A. Wilson and C. Bonaparte. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 23 CP Railroad Photographs c. 1883 by O.B. Buell. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Cormac McCarthy, Signed 1st Editions, The Passenger & Stella Maris Box Set. $1,700 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Oliver Buell Cabinet Photograph, Chief Crowfoot. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Colton's Atlas of the World, 1856, in Two Volumes; plus Africa / Mahdist War Map. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1805 Thomas Jefferson Inaugural Speech. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Barflies and Cocktails, Harry McElhone, First Edition Mixology Book. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1861 U. S. Grant Broadside Proclamation, Paducah, KY. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 2 John Overton Signed Letters, 1803, re: TN Statehood. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Simon Wastell "Microbiblion or The Bibles Epitome: in Verse" 1629. $600 to $700.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Thomas Lewis Family Letter Archive; Boston, Massachusetts. $400 to $500.

University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books and Memorabilia, 41024, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 10, 2024 - April 10, 2024
Page Size: 351 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
288 Robert Louis Stevenson

A short letter from Robert Louis Stevenson, requesting several books from a bookseller. 2pp (front and back), measuring 4" x 6.25",

Wensleydale, Bournemouth, ca. October 1884 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 875.00
289 Walt Whitman

A true signed Author's Edition, Second Issue of "Two Rivulets; Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India" signed by Walt Whitman

Camden ca. 1876 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,687.50
290 Walt Whitman

A signed copy of Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days & Collect."

Philadelphia ca. 1887 USD 2,600.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,500.00
291 Gregory Peck.

A 35th Anniversary Edition of "To Kill A Mockingbird" signed by actor Gregory Peck.

New York ca. 1995 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 625.00
292 T.S. Eliot

A signed first, limited edition of T.S. Eliot's "Religious Drama: Medieval and Modern."

New York ca.1954 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
293 Ann Durell and Marilyn Sachs,

A signed, first edition copy of The Big Book for Peace edited by Ann Durell and Marilyn Sachs, created in collaboration with thirty children's book authors and illustrators

New York ca. 1990 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 275.00
294

A suppressed passage from Alexander Pope's poem entitled "Of the characters of women."

London Tuesday, October 11, 1904 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
295 E.B. White

E.B. White TLS: "It's delightful to be published by a house whose taste is so elevated nobody has ever turned on 'Gunsmoke'"

Friday, November 26, 1965 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 384.00
296 Evelyn Brooks White

A 1p typed letter signed by American writer Evelyn Brooks White (1899-1985) as "E B White" at lower right. May 4, 1970

Monday, May 4, 1970 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 562.50
297 Helen Cody Wetmore.

Copy of "Last of the Great Scouts" by Helen Cody Wetmore.

Chicago ca. 1899 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 2,375.00
298 Emmett Dalton

A cut section of grid-lined paper, signed by notable outlaw Emmett Dalton (1871-1937).

no place [Hollywood, CA], n.d. USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 225.00
299 Edwin F. Johnson

A rebound, second edition copy of Edwin F. Johnson's "Railroad to the Pacific: Northern Route. Its General Character, Relative Merits, Etc."

[New York ca. 1854 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
300

A photograph of one-time desperado Frank James (1843-1915), the elder brother of the notorious Jesse James.

N.p. ca. 1930s USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 275.00
301 Henry Clay

An autograph letter written by Henry Clay discussing his health and his reluctant return to the Senate. 1p, measuring 8" x 10",

Ashland [Lexington, Kentucky] November 19, 1841 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 531.25
302

An official program and scorecard for the 1967 World Series, Fenway Park, signed on page 40 by Senator Robert F. Kennedy as "Robert Kennedy".

Boston, MA. ca. 1967 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,500.00
303 Robert F. Kennedy

Typed Letter Signed, on "The Attorney General" letterhead, Washington D.C., dated "April 16, 1964,"

Washington D.C. Thursday, April 16, 1964 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
304

Very rare invitation to the September 26, 1986 investiture ceremony of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia,

Friday, September 26, 1986 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 437.50
305

A black and white photograph signed by nine Supreme Court justices of the Warren Court. Measuring 13.75" x 10.25" (sight),

Washington, D.C. ca. October 1967 - June 1969 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
306

Signed Check no. 75, measuring 4.5" x 7", New York, NY, January 31, 1814

New York, NY January 31, 1814 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 225.00
307 Theodore Roosevelt III

A typed letter from Theodore Roosevelt III (1887-1944), eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, to Sargent David Friesel. 1p, measuring 7.25" x 10.5", New York City, dated March 9, 1926

New York City Tuesday, March 9, 1926 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 937.50
308 William M. "Boss" Tweed

A brief letter on monogrammed letterhead from William M. "Boss" Tweed (1823-1878) to lawyer and State Committee member Peter Cagger (1814-1868).

Albany, New York February 6, 1868 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 437.50
309 Dr. Christiaan Barnard

Dr. Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001). Print of a human heart signed in blue ballpoint by the South African cardiac surgeon

n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 875.00
310 Howard Carter

Howard Carter (1874-1939). Autograph Note Signed, "Howard Carter", 1p, 7" x 4.5",

N.p. Thursday, March 27, 1930 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 2,048.00
311 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (1847-1931). Check Signed, "Thos A Edison", at verso, with his characteristic umbrella paraph, 1p, 8.25" x 3.875",

Orange, New Jersey July 28, 191[?] USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,062.50
312 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (1847-1931). Autograph Letter Signed, "Edison", 1p, 7.875" x 9.75",

N.p. September 6, [n.y.] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,062.50
  • Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.
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