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
271

Tennessee Couple Sells a Slave to Merchants for $900

October 12, 1853 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 531.25
272 Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington Submits a Piece to the New York Tribune

2006-12-07 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 437.50
273 Elijah Clarke

Georgia Revolutionary War Hero Elijah Clarke Certifies Service for Land Grants

January 25, 1786 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
274 Henry Dearborn

Henry Dearborn Signed Letter to James Taylor, Secretly Preparing for War with Britain

February 10, 1809 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
275 William Ellery

William Ellery Collects Customs On Slave Ships in Newport, 4 Sheets, 1 Signed

ca. 1794-1799 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
276 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Manuscript Bond to Raise a New Regiment in the 4th Connecticut Battalion

December 31, 1776 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,250.00
277 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth Signed Order for 3,000 Stand of Arms at Start of Revolutionary War

November 13, 1775 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,000.00
278 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Pay Order of Gunpowder for Troops, PSA Encapsulated

August 25, 1776 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 625.00
279 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Pay Order to Revolutionary Colonel One Day Before Independence! PSA Encapsulated

July 3, 1776 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
280 Fisher Chart

Fisher Chart Map of the Delaware Bay & River 1776

ca. 1776 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,750.00
281 Gov. William Greene

Siege of Louisbourg: Colonial Gov. William Greene Signed 1745 Warrant

April 9, 1745 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 500.00
282 John Hancock

John Hancock & Samuel Adams Broadside, "Act for better regulating the Militia" Rare

March 21, 1783 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 768.00
283 Esek Hopkins

Esek Hopkins Signed Re: Maj. Gen. Heath "Party of Indians of the Oneida Tribe" Trading Guns & Swords. Fantastic!

February 17, 1781 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,250.00
284 Stephen Hopkins

Declaration Signer Stephen Hopkins Early 1738 Indenture for Land in Scituate

January 15, 1738 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,250.00
285 Francis Hopkinson

Francis Hopkinson Rev. War Dated Bill of Exchange Made Out to Jedidiah Huntington, Brigadier General in the Continental Army

December 28, 1779 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,216.00
286 Admiral Richard

Admiral Richard Howe ALS re: "provision for the wounded & disabled Flag Officers"

January 13, 1795 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 437.50
287 Sentiments

Anti-Federalist Sentiments on the Recently Ratified Jay's Treaty as Published in the Independent Chronicle

August 13, 1795 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 225.00
288 Robert Morris

Robert Morris PSA MINT 9 Signature, 3.5" Long!

n.d. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 625.00
289

Notorious Philadelphia Quaker Embezzler Gives 1730 Account with Estate

May 31, 1730 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 256.00
290 Timothy Pickering

Timothy Pickering DS 5 Days after Siege of Gibraltar. PSA Mint 9

November 7, 1779 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 200.00
291

1788 Map of Southeastern United States & Spanish Provinces of East & West Florida

ca. 1788 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,187.50
292

A 1st Ed. Copy of "The Boston Pamphlet," a Printing of Several Key Documents from Boston's Decisive Steps Toward Revolution in 1772

ca. 1772 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
293

Revolutionary War 1775 Report of Personnel, "Return of Colo. Starks Quarter Guard"

October 16, 1775 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 375.00
294

Spoils Taken by the Revolutionary War Privateer, "True American," & List of Investors in the Venture

March 25, 1779 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,937.50
295

Manuscript Copy of War-Dated Resolve By John Hancock to Enlist Men to Guard the Powder Magazine

September 29, 1779 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,375.00
  • 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
  • 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