Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, 23758, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026
Page Size: 171 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Winston Churchill, 1910-1913

Two letters on naval affairs

London, 7 November 1913. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,715.00
152 Winston Churchill, May 1943

Signed Photograph of Winston Churchill

May 1943. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,826.00
153 Winston Churchill, 19 October, 1933

To the future Edward VIII

Westerham, 19 October 1933. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,160.00
154 Winston Churchill, 1942

A large signed photograph of Winston Churchill

Washington, 1942 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,795.00
155 Amelia Earhart, 1929-1933

Three typed letters signed

1929-1933 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,985.00
156 Amelia Earhart, 31 August 1933

A typed letter signed by Amelia Earhart

New York, 31 August 1933. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,795.00
157 Albert Einstein, 12 December 1923

On his inability to visit de Haas in Groningen on his return to Berlin

Lieden,] 12 December 1923. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,096.00
158 Albert Einstein, 1933

A engraved portrait, signed

n.p., 1933 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,445.00
159 Albert Einstein, 1934-1950

Three letters including a complaint of pro-German bias at the New School

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,430.00
160 Albert Einstein, January 1938.

The Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion

January 1938. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,970.00
161 Albert Einstein, 1950-1954

On a mechanical proof for the theory of relativity

Princeton, 22 January 1950-15 September 1954. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 50,800.00
162 Ernest Hemingway, 22 December 1936

Typed letter signed

Key West, 22 December 1936. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,890.00
163 Ernest Hemingway, 16 February 1920

Typed letter signed

Toronto, 16 February 1920. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,096.00
164 Ernest Hemingway, 6 June 1956

Autograph letter signed to Bumby, with a sketch

Cuba, [June 1956]. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,620.00
165 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 6 February 1943

On the Sullivan Brothers

Washington, 6 February 1943. USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 48,260.00
166 Dwight Eisenhower, May 18 1943

Typed letter signed quoting Stephen Decatur

Algiers, 18 May 1943. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,255.00
167 John F. Kennedy, 1 October 1943

On the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Washington 1963 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
168 Martin Luther King Jr., 25 April 1961

On the justification of sit-ins

Atlanta, Georgia, 25 April 1961. USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,620.00
169 Martin Luther King Jr., 12 May 1961

On receiving an honorary degree from the University of Bridgeport.

Atlanta, 1 May 1961. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,715.00
170 Martin Luther King Jr., 27 April 1964

On civil rights for Indigenous Americans

Atlanta, 27 April 1964. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,985.00
171 Martin Luther King Jr., 25 March 1964

On being named Time's Man of the Year.

Atlanta, 25 March 1964. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,700.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.