University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Americana, 80724, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 07, 2024 - August 07, 2024
Page Size: 554 items in 23 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
287 Alexander Hosack,

Alexander Hosack, Father of Hamilton's Doctor, Signs Certificate

March 2, 1792 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 89.60
288

1845 Declaration of Independence Broadside Published by Charles Root

ca. 1845 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 687.50
290

Fine Nineteenth-Century Lithograph of Independence Hall, Printed 1856

ca. 1856 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 375.00
291 William Irvine

William Irvine 1785 ALS Conducting Business in Ireland

May 3, 1785 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
292 Lee Family

Lee Family Archive, Including Partial 1776 Letter from Richard Henry Lee to Patrick Henry, 8 items

ca. 1747-1806 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,312.50
293

Two Almanacks for the Years 1776 & 1777 with Post War Issue of "The London Chronicle"

ca. 1776-1777 and June 7, 1791 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,187.50
294 General La Fayette

"General La Fayette" Ball Invitation from Richmond, VA Dating From Lafayette's American Tour!

ca. October 15, 1824 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,375.00
295 Robert Morris

Robert Morris Signed Shares of Stock to Ben Franklin's Grandson, William Temple Franklin

April 18, 1795 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,152.00
296 Henry Mowat

Henry Mowat Leave Pass Signed Aboard "Wretched" H.M.S. Albany

September 5, 1780 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 102.40
297 John Nicholson

PA Comptroller General John Nicholson Signed Bond, Very Rare

June 25, 1787 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,062.50
298 Samuel Osgood

Samuel Osgood Delaware Property Tax Document from 1802

December 24, 1802 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
299

Pennsylvania Vice-President Signs Pay Order for Fellow Member of Supreme Executive Council

January 10, 1789 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
300

Quakers in Philadelphia and London Work to Resolve Land Transaction, 1802

October 20, 1801; March 25, 1802 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
301

Revolutionary War Soldier's Letter With Content Ranging from "Cornwallis in a cold sweat" to "Fornicating" with a Savage!

July 13, [1781] USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
302

Revolutionary War Letter Penned Day of Battle of Pine's Bridge: "Col [Greene]...cut to death"

May 9, 1781 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 1,875.00
303

Rare Request for Payment for Expedition Against Loyalists in South Carolina 1775

December 24, 1775 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
304

Generals, Surgeons and More List of Massachusetts and Connecticut Revolutionary War Veterans, 1789

September 3, 1789 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 325.00
305

1776 Signed By Groton Leaders, Church Investigates War Funds

March 2, 1776 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 384.00
306

Pair of Rev. War NY Militia Docs. Relating to Capt. Jacobus Bruyn

ca. 1775-80 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 576.00
307 T. Pickering

T. Pickering Document Signed Paying the Continental Army at Newburgh

April 28, 1783 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
308

1776 Revolutionary War Officers Later at Valley Forge, Superb Document

January 13, 1776 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 544.00
309

Auditor's Office Considers Suspended Claims from Financing the Revolutionary War

ca. 1790-1792 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 687.50
310 Samuel Osgood and Arthur Lee

Samuel Osgood and Arthur Lee Signed 1787 Board of Treasury Outraged by Massachusetts Decision to Withhold Funds

December 8, 1787 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 3,250.00
311 Oliver Wolcott Jr.

Oliver Wolcott Jr. Appoints Lieutenant of CT Artillery

May 13, 1826 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 87.50
312

Court of Inquiry Investigates Virginia Captain for Profiting from Substitute

May 21, 1781 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 608.00
  • Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second. 1762.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: An impressively extra-illustrated copy; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, P.T. Barnum and many more!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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    Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
    A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding
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