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Freeman's | Hindman: Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Auction Name	Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln	Total Sales (USD)	5,024,634.00
Auction Date	May 21, 2025 - May 21, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	2,443,600.00
Sale Number	#6441	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	3,675,100.00
Total Lots	136
Sold Lots	130	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	2,783,600.00
% of Lots Sold	95.59%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	4,205,100.00
Unsold Lots	6	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	119.49%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
122		$100,000 Reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. 20 April 1865.	1865	USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	USD 762,500.00
2	LINCOLN, Abraham	Lincoln's Autograph Sum Book Leaf, signed twice, Pigeon Creek, Spencer County, Indiana, ca. 1824	ca. 1824	USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00	USD 521,200.00
108		Orchestra ticket stub for Our American Cousin, 14 April 1865.	1865	USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	USD 381,500.00
55	HESLER, Alexander	Oval Bust Portrait by Alexander Hesler, signed ("A. Lincoln"), ca. 3 June 1860.	1860	USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	USD 254,500.00
33	LINCOLN, Abraham	Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") to Jesse O. Norton, 16 February 1855.	1855	USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00	USD 229,100.00
8	LINCOLN, Abraham	The Adams Handbill, The Only Known Surviving Copy Of Lincoln's First Printed Work, 5 August 1837.	1837	USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	USD 178,300.00
21	LINCOLN, Abraham	The "Bass-Ackwards" Manuscript, Lincoln's Frontier Ribaldry		USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	USD 178,300.00
105	LINCOLN, Abraham	First Printing of Lincoln's Celebrated Second Inaugural Address, 1865.	1865	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	USD 165,600.00
139		Lincoln Family Locks of Hair		USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 127,500.00
56	LINCOLN, Abraham	Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") to Joshua Reed Giddings, 26 June 1860.	1860	USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	USD 114,800.00
107		Advance ticket for the April 14, 1865 Performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre.	1865	USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	USD 108,450.00
7	LINCOLN, Abraham	Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as Postmaster, to Blair and Rives, 3 November 1835.	1835	USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	USD 95,750.00
74		First Official Broadside Printing of The Emancipation Proclamation		USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 95,750.00
112		Mose Sandford Autograph Letter signed on the transportation of Lincoln's body to the White House, 17 April 1865.	1865	USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00	USD 89,400.00
121		$30,000 Reward. Description of John Wilkes Booth! ca. 16 April 1865.	1865	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 60,800.00
32	LINCOLN, Abraham	Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") to Richard Yates, 14 January 1855.	1855	USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	USD 57,600.00
44	LINCOLN, Abraham	The Doheny Copy of the Lincoln and Douglas Debates, Inscribed by Lincoln.		USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 57,600.00
65		Lincoln White House drinking glasses, ca. 23 July 1861.	1861	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 57,600.00
123	TOWNSEND, Edward Davis	Autograph letter signed ("E.D. Townsend"), and signed invitation for Embalmer Charles D. Brown, 20 April 1865.	1865	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 57,600.00
6	LINCOLN, Abraham	Lincoln's "National Debt", One of his Earliest Extant Documents, 19 October 1833.	1833	USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00	USD 51,200.00
81	LINCOLN, Abraham	Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("A. Lincoln") by Alexander Gardner, 9 August 1863.	1863	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	USD 51,200.00
58		Engraved portrait signed ("A. Lincoln"), 18 February 1861.	1861	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	USD 44,800.00
5	[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) and William F. BERRY (1811-1835)]. MATHENY, Charles R.	Partially printed document, signed ("C.R. Matheny"). Lincoln's property is seized. 7 May 1834.	1834	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 38,400.00
37	LINCOLN, Abraham	Small archive related to the Bullock Land Transaction, Springfield, Illinois, 1855-1859.	1855-1859.	USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	USD 38,400.00
95	LINCOLN, Abraham	Autograph note signed ("AL") to Mary Todd Lincoln, regarding Tad's toys, 20 May 1864.	1864	USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	USD 38,400.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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