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Auction Name Rare Autograph and Manuscript Auction Total Sales (USD) 124,337.00
Auction Date October 17, 2024 - October 17, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #101724 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 168
Sold Lots 142 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 84.52% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 26 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion for To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!

1864 Not Available USD 17,374.00
2 Ben Franklin

Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second.

1762 Not Available USD 5,566.00
11 Gio. Ant. Magnini,

[Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620

1620 Not Available USD 5,566.00
4 James Lawrence

Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence "Don't give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812

1812 Not Available USD 5,197.00
15 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Ships Paper

1807 Not Available USD 5,197.00
10

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper

1804 Not Available USD 4,828.00
3

An impressively extra-illustrated copy of Dibdin's famed work on collecting; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare's 1623 First Folio!

1842 Not Available USD 4,459.00
9

Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, Johnston, Alexander H. Stephens, P.T. Barnum and many more!

1881 Not Available USD 3,475.00
5 Ernest Hemingway

Rare Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera

Not Available USD 3,229.00
42 CHURCHILL

CHURCHILL'S BRILLIANT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR SIGNED BY HIM IN VOLUME VI. In Custom Clam Shelled Cases

1948-1953 Not Available USD 3,229.00
84 Charles Dickens Copy of Robert Burns.

Charles Dickens Copy of Robert Burns. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect from the Library of Charles Dickens

[1797] Not Available USD 2,829.00
6 VOLTAIRE

VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg

Not Available USD 2,491.00
14 Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed

1862 Not Available USD 2,491.00
8

LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!

1895 Not Available USD 2,368.00
12 Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry grants the "proportion of land allowed a private of the Continental Line for three years service"

1785 Not Available USD 2,245.00
13 Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams Document Signed as Governor of Massachusetts 1796

1796 Not Available USD 2,245.00
62 Lincoln

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

1863 Not Available USD 2,245.00
155 Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson and Brooklyn Dodgers, 1948-49 autographs

Not Available USD 1,753.00
115 Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse Carte-de-Visite, Signed.

Not Available USD 1,630.00
67 George S. Patton

George S. Patton, Signed Letter to His Father.

1908 Not Available USD 1,507.00
154 Honus Wagner

Honus Wagner Signed Postcard

1950 Not Available USD 1,384.00
159

Autograph Album With Very Rare HOF Canadian Hockey Players Signatures of Nels Stewart, 'Babe' Siebert, Boxers, Olympic Athletes, Politicians, and Many Other Notable Public Figures, 1930-32

Not Available USD 1,384.00
26 Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon Uncommon ALS

1983 Not Available USD 1,230.00
114 Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton Signed book from his library...American Steam Boat Inventor

1803 Not Available USD 1,138.00
74 Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill Signed Portrait

Not Available USD 1,076.00
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    Carte générale et particulière de la France.
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    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
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    Hoang Ho, Pai Ho, Loan Ho, Leao Ho. Itinéraires suivis dans le bassin du golfe du Pei Tcheuly
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    Voyage de découverte aux terres australes
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
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    La Grèce : vues pittoresques et topographiques.
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
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    Atlas des Sonnensystems.
  • Forum Auctions
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    The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper
    Ending 7th November, 2024
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). The Thirteen Problems, first edition, The Crime Club, 1932. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Dumb Witness, first edition, 1937. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Berkeley (Anthony). Jumping Jenny, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. £800 to £1,200.
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    The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper
    Ending 7th November, 2024
    Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.
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  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Freeman’s | Hindman
    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
    November 14
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.
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