University Archives: Rare Signed Manuscripts, Books, Photos, And Relics, 22124, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 21, 2024 - February 21, 2024
Page Size: 417 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
234

Pair of Rev. John Wesley Reverse Glass Portraits

n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
236 Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley Article in May 1773 Magazine, 4 Months Before Publication of Her Book of Poems

ca. May 1773 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
237 George Whitefield

1739 George Whitefield's Answer to the Bishop of London's Pastoral Letter

ca. 1739 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 350.00
239

Wounded Knee Albumen Print of "The Medicine Man", Jan. 1, 1891

January 1, 1891 USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 812.50
240

Wounded Knee Albumen Print of "Burial of the Dead", Jan. 1, 1891

January 1, 1891 USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 750.00
241

Broadside Signed "Samuel Adams" IN TYPE as Governor of Massachusetts

February 28, 1797 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 154.00
242

Declaration Signer Samuel Chase Signed Payment Voucher, Jan 1, 1807

January 1, 1807 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
243 Col. Elijah Clarke

Col. Elijah Clarke Signed MDS Certifying a 1785 Georgia Land Bounty

December 6, 1785 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
244

Nice Lot of Five Colonial Currency Notes Incl. 1776

ca. 1770 to 1779 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 812.50
245

3 Colonial Currency Notes from PA & DE (1773-1777), Plus 1783 Nova Constallation

ca. 1773-1783 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 531.25
247

Ratification and Implementation of the Massachusetts State Constitution, the Oldest Continuously Functioning Constitutional Compact

June 16, 1780 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
248 William Craik

William Craik 11pp ALS Re: First Session of the New Maryland Government Under the Constitution!

November 13, 1789 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,062.50
249

1st Miniature Engraving of Declaration of Independence After L.H. Bridgham, 1836 - Less Than 6" High!

ca. 1836 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,000.00
250

Fabulous Scarce Reprint of Dunlap Declaration of Independence, 50+ years old

ca. 1970 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
251 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth Writes and Signs 1777 Pay Order for Militia Paymaster

November 3, 1777 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 375.00
253 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth Signs 1776 Pay Order . He was Constitution Architect and Supreme Court Chief Justice

January 24, 1776 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
254 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth Writes and Signs Pay Order 1775! Constitution Architect and Supreme Court Chief Justice

January 26, 1778 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
255 John Hancock

John Hancock Boldly Signed For Sailor POW for 15 Mos. Rare Naval Commission. Unique Format!

December 5, 1780 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,312.50
256 John Hancock

John Hancock 1767 Signed Ship's Receipt, PSA MINT 9

September 28, 1767 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,304.00
257 Udney Hay

Udney Hay, Former Q. Gen of Ft. Ticonderoga, 2 ALS Re: Gun Boats & Raising Militia

ca. 1778-1780 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
258 William Johnson

William Johnson, 1st Baronet 1764 Signed Receipt for Provisions "for the use of the Indeans at Johnson Hall"

December 25, 1764 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,250.00
260

Minutemen at Lexington Concord! 8 Military DS From 4 Different Massachusetts Colonial Govs Re: Thomas Turner Sr. & Son

ca. 1756 - 1772 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,304.00
261 Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine's Defense of the American Revolution, Signed by Jewish Pioneer for Elective Office

Philadelphia, Printed: London, Reprinted, ca. 1782 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,536.00
262

Very rare Revolutionary War broadside "...an enemy whose paths are marked with blood..."

January 26, 1777 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
263 Elijah Day

Rebellion Leader Elijah Day ALS

August 29, 1786 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,250.00
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.
    ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    30th May 2024
    Forum, May 30: Potter (Beatrix). Complete set of four original illustrations for the nursery rhyme, 'This pig went to market', 1890s. £60,000 to £80,000.
    Forum, May 30: Dante Alighieri.- Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus). Opera, second edition, Rome, 1468. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum, May 30: Distilling.- Brunschwig (Hieronymus). Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, first edition of the so-called 'Grosses Destillierbuch', Strassburg, 1512. £22,000 to £28,000.
    Forum, May 30: Eliot (T.S.), W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, & others. A Personal Anthology for Eric Walter White, 60 autograph poems. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum, May 30: Cornerstone of French Enlightenment Philosophy.- Helvetius (Claude Adrien). De l'Esprit, true first issue "A" of the suppressed first edition, Paris, 1758. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    30th May 2024
    Forum, May 30: Szyk (Arthur). The Haggadah, one of 125 copies, this out-of-series, Beaconsfield Press, 1940. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 30: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 30: Japan.- Ryusui (Katsuma). Umi no Sachi [Wealth of the Sea], 2 vol., Tokyo, 1762. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, May 30: Computing.- Operating and maintenance manual for the BINAC binary automatic computer built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation 1949, Philadelphia, 1949. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, May 30: Burmese School (probably circa 1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c.1870s]. £8,000 to £12,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
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