University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 111925, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 John Adams

John Adams Signed Receipt, Handsomely Displayed

December 31, 1813 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,937.50
2 Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams Hand Addressed Cover to Daughter-in-Law, PSA Encapsulated

n.d. USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 625.00
3 J. Q. Adams

J. Q. Adams ALS from Berlin as Minister to Prussia

November 17, 1798 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,250.00
4 Chester Arthur

Chester Arthur Signed Postal Appointment 3 Weeks Before End of Presidential Term

February 13, 1885 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 531.25
5 Joe Biden

Joe Biden Signed Photo During Osama bin Laden Raid with JSA COA

ca. May, 2011 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 812.50
6 J. Buchanan Civil

J. Buchanan Civil War Dated ALS From Wheatland to Baptist Clergyman, PSA MINT 9!

December 30, 1861 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 812.50
7 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Senate Resolution to Treasury Secretary As Civil War Looms!

February 7, 1861 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 562.50
8 President James Buchanan

President James Buchanan Presents Award for Steam Plow

January 1860 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 325.00
9 J. Buchanan

J. Buchanan Handwritten Note Supplied by Contemporary Autograph Dealer During Presidency!

ca. August 1855 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
10 Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush Signed Habitat for Humanity Drawing

ca. 1989-1993 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 200.00
11 George W. Bush

Rare George W. Bush ALS As Pres. Signed Twice! PSA Mint 9

January 6th, 2007 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,750.00
12 Four Presidents

Four Presidents Bold Signed Cut! Carter, Reagan, Ford & Bush! Incredibly Unique!

n.d. USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,250.00
13 George W. Bush

George W. Bush 9/11 Typescripts w/ Bin Laden Mugshot and Iconic Speech! Two Tragic & Defining Events of 9/11. BAS Slabbed!

2001-09-11 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 937.50
14 Bush & Quayle

Bush & Quayle Signed Inauguration Oath

1989-01-20 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
16 Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland PSA ALS Re: 1890 Address Before Southern Expats In NYC Where He Said "Washington was the most thorough American that ever lived"

February 28, 1890 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
17 Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Signed Book Page, Beckett Certified

ca. 2014 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 112.50
18 Clinton 9

Clinton 9 Days Before Impeachment Trial Thanks Supporter for "Thoughts and Prayers" & states "The new year is rich with possibility."

1999-01-05 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 USD 375.00
19 B. Clinton

B. Clinton "I...have some problems...over the tax issue" After Only Election Loss is Confident "We Can Turn Things in Our Direction"

1981-11-24 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
20 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Signed 1st Ed. Book "My Life" Inscribed to Daughter of Robert McNamara

2008-08-04 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 437.50
21 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Impeachment Signed House Report Typescript

n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 875.00
22 Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge TLS Days After His Son's Death & Funeral

2024-07-11 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
23 Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge DS Appointing Vice Consul to China

2024-11-08 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 325.00
24 Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge TLS Thanking Fellow Lawyer A Few Days After Securing VP Spot in 1920 Presidential Election

2020-11-05 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 175.00
25 D-Day Orders

D-Day Orders Signed By Eisenhower To His Troops, Outstanding PSA GEM MT 10!

[June 6, 1944] USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,250.00
26 Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower Signed Limited Edition of "Mandate for Change"

ca. 1963 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,250.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000