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
110 McKinley & Roosevelt

McKinley & Roosevelt Signed 1901 Autograph Album Commemorating Inauguration, Plus Harrison- 97 Signatures Total!

ca. 1901 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,500.00
111 William McKinley & Congressmen

William McKinley & 250+ Congressmen Signed Mid-Term 1884 Album - Includes Both Black Members of HR, as well as Civil War Generals, Future Governors, Ministers & Cabinet Members!

ca. March 7, 1884 - April 24, 1884 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,750.00
112 William McKinley

William McKinley Signed Executive Mansion Card, Plus "Last Picture" Press Photo

n.d. USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 687.50
113 William McKinley

William McKinley ALS Re: Congressional Speeches, Probably Addressed To Local OH Postmaster

February 22, 1879 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
114 William McKinley

William McKinley 1896 TLS, Large & Bold Signature!

February 20, 1896 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 416.00
115 James Monroe

James Monroe Land Grant for 160 Acres Sold at Vincennes

April 24, 1820 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 512.00
116 James Monroe

James Monroe Signed As President Land Grant Near "mouth of the "Great Miami river"

September 28, 1819 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
117 Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon Signed Silver Certificate PSA Gem Mint 10, Authenticated by Patricia Nixon, PSA Gem Mint 10 Letter! Fantastic, One of a Kind Grouping!

1953-02-23 USD 700.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
119 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce PSA MINT 9 ALS As Pres. Re: Burial Instructions Of Family Member At Mt. Auburn Cemetery!

n.d. but ca. February 1857 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 875.00
120 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Clipped Signature

n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
121 Sarah Polk

Sarah Polk ALS Sending "autograph letter of my lamented husband"

June 11, 1857 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 531.25
122 Reagan PSA

Reagan PSA MINT 9 ALS as President: "The White House...hasn't looked so nice in 20 years..."

n.d. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,750.00
123 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Re: Pronunciation of Reagan, Plus Irish Troubles!

n.d. USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,125.00
124 Reagan

Reagan On Vietnam, "whose side God was on in that war" & Joe Louis to Civil Rights Leader!

n.d. USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,062.50
125 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan 2p ALS Outlining Studio Contract with Warner Bros., PSA Encapsulated

January 26 [early 20th century] USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 687.50
126 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan ANS on Typed Speech "Business, Ballots, and Bureaus", PSA Authenticated

n.d. [ca. May 1959] USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 531.25
127 Reagan White House

Reagan White House Letter to Friends Sam & Bertha Sisco

1987-11-23 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
128 Edith Roosevelt

Edith Roosevelt Free Frank, PSA/DNA Slabbed & Graded NM-MT 8

1930-06-17 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 87.50
129 FDR

FDR Rare Citation for Legion of Merit to Soviet Colonel Vlasenko

n.d. [ca. 1943] USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
130 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt TLS on WH Stationery Re: Investments: "I am enough of a Dutchman to suggest that I leave this amount intact... [and] get a few additional dollars"

1941-11-24 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 562.50
131 FDR

FDR Signed Letter to Business Manager re: Keeping the Number of Patients Up at Warm Springs

2029-11-13 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 531.25
132 Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt Type 1 & Photo Archive feat. Pershing & Smith!

ca. 1920-1939 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
133 T. Roosevelt

T. Roosevelt PSA GEM MT 10 ALS ca. 1890s

n.d., "Tuesday a.m." USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,000.00
134 Theodore Roosevelt

Fantastic Theodore Roosevelt on Horseback Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition

ca. 1910 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
135 Helen Taft

Helen Taft Free Frank, PSA/DNA Encapsulated & Graded

1935-03-13 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 87.50
  • 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