• Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000
  • Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500
    Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, featuring The Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts, featuring The Civil War and Abraham Lincoln Total Sales (USD) 1,054,975.00
Auction Date April 09, 2025 - April 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 619,500.00
Sale Number #715 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 939,100.00
Total Lots 587
Sold Lots 447 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 983,000.00
% of Lots Sold 76.15% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,458,400.00
Unsold Lots 140 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 72.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
63 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Honoring the Late Abraham Lincoln

1865 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 34,999.00
17 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as President to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Interceding for a "devoted Union man"

1862 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,258.00
286 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed with Handwritten Velocity Addition Formulas: "c is the velocity of light"

1952 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 31,251.00
647 Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin Autograph Letter Signed with a Self-Portrait Sketch, Relating a Discussion of "Dope Addiction"

1965 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 27,500.00
20 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Document Signed - Legal Deposition in a Butter Churn Dispute, with 250+ Words in Lincoln's Hand

no date but circa 1849. USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 26,488.00
285 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed, with Equations Related to His Work on Unified Field Theory

1929 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 26,488.00
594 J. R. R. Tolkien Signed

The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle

1968 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
317 John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth Signature and Original .44 Deringer Pistol

circa 1864 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,089.00
19 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President for a Treaty Settling Claims of the Hudson Bay Company

1864 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,613.00
371

Lincoln Assassination: Ford's Theatre Wallpaper Cut from the President's Box

1866 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 15,344.00
2 George Washington

George Washington Signed Revolutionary War Discharge Certificate (1783)

1783 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,129.00
758 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed 'Greater Los Angeles Press Club' Program Page (1947)

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 14,949.00
3 George Washington

George Washington Partial Autograph Document Signed - Full Signature

1797 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,589.00
228 Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell Signed Military Document (1653) - Two Months Before Becoming Lord Protector

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,589.00
421 Napoleon: Countess Montholon

Napoleon: Countess Montholon Rare Autograph Letter Signed - Napoleon's Last Lover, Reminiscing on the Exiled French Emperor's Life on Saint Helena

1829 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,589.00
21 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing a US Marshal for the Washington Territory

1861 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,353.00
230 Ho Chi Minh, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh

Notables: Ho Chi Minh, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh Signed Guest Book

1926-1956 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,789.00
38 Joseph Cross

The Confederate Memoirs of Chaplain Joseph Cross - Original Manuscript for the "First Book' of His Remarkable Civil War Narrative, "Camp and Field: Papers from the Portfolio of an Army Chaplain'

1861 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 11,731.00
22 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed (1850) - "I am exceedingly hungry about now"

1850 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,229.00
510 Claude Monet

Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed on the "inauguration of the Flaubert monument"

1890 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 11,000.00
85 Grant, Garfield, McKinley, and Roosevelt

Seven Presidents and 19th-Century Politicians Autograph Album, with Grant, Garfield, McKinley, and Roosevelt - From the Collection of Sen. Henry G. Davis

1872 and 1887 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,664.00
42

West Point: 1859 Yearbook Photo Album Signed by (33), including William J. Hardee and Joseph Wheeler

1859 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,443.00
518 Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Signed 'Marilyn Monroe' Exhibition Poster (Tate Gallery, 1971)

1971 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,831.00
755 Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini Autograph Letter Signed - Postcard Mailed from Egypt in 1910

1910 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 9,525.00
10 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed on Cherokee Culture and the 1824 Presidential Election - "Should the people exercise their right of suffrage, & call me to fill that first office in their gift; I will yield to that call"

1824 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,074.00
  • Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.
    Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    New York Book Week
    12-26 June
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD