University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books - Just In Time For The Holidays!, 121124, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024

Page Size: 518 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
452	Henry Clay Sends Free Frank to Hamilton's Son	December 24 [n.y.]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 230.40
453	Dewitt Clinton Develops NY Infrastructure in this Signed Check for "Filling Collect Lots" PSA Authenticated	November 28, 1814	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 87.50
454	Charles E. Hughes Court Photo Signed by Nine Justices, ca. 1933	ca. 1933	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 6,875.00
455	Reverdy Johnson Signed Carte-de-Visite by Alexander Gardner	n.d.	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
456	John Marshall Entirely on Slave Dealings as Chief Justice: "The negroes were sold to him at his particular request..."	June 25, 1823	USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	USD 13,750.00
457	William Seward LS on U.S. Ministers During Paraguayan War, 1868	August 5, 1868	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 325.00
458	W. Taft & L. Brandeis Signed Photo Showing Supreme Court Justices at White House Dedicated to "Abe the Newsboy"	n.d.	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 1,625.00
459	Earl Warren Supreme Court Photo Signed by All Nine Justices, ca. 1965-1967	ca. October 4, 1965 - June 12, 1967	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,500.00
460	Daniel Webster Signed & Personally Owned "History of the Rebellion & Civil Wars in England" Featuring His Bookplate	n.d.	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 2,000.00
461	Daniel Webster Signed 3 Bank Checks & Promissory Notes	ca. 1831-1835	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 468.75
462	Alexander Graham Bell LS Gifting $75,000 to Association Benefitting the Deaf	2006-03-15	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 8,750.00
463	Jean-Baptiste Biot ALS Mentioning Auguste Laurent's Laboratory! Two Giants of French Science	November 18, 1851	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 150.00
464	Vint Cerf "Father of the Internet" Signed Sketch	ca. November 1977	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 350.00
465	Harvey Cushing TLS Calling for "more good general practitioners and fewer...half-baked investigators"	2029-02-01	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,875.00
466	Albert Einstein Signed Photo, Among Best Extant! Signed for Pioneer of History of Science - Extraordinary!	ca. 1947	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 17,500.00
467	Albert Einstein & Ilya Ehrenburg at Princeton ca. 1946, Lot of 3 Photographs	ca. 1947	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
468	Albert Einstein 1947 Full Signature In Handsome Display	1947	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	USD 3,750.00
469	Albert Einstein in University of Berlin Office ca. 1920, Gorgeous Gelatin Silver Print	ca. 1920	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,088.00
470	Halsman Original Photostat of Einstein, Unique and Direct from Original Print	n.d.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 200.00
471	Richard Feynman Personally Owned Polaroid of O-Rings, Ex-Sotheby's	ca. 1986	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
472	Robert Fulton Signed Payment Note for Six Dollars, Framed	August 15, 1808	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,875.00
473	Robert H. Goddard Signed Print Holding Gyroscope Stabilizer	ca. 1916	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
474	Sir Edmund Hillary, First Everest Mountain Climber, Great Signed Photograph	n.d.	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 1,062.50
475	Carl Jung TLS Re: "Man and His Symbols": "my contribution to the planned work will be very small, if there will be any at all"	1960-09-20	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
476	Carl Jung Signed Envelope to His Mentee	1943-01-01	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD

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