University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 72826, Wilton
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 28, 2026 - July 28, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 258 | Jenifer Daniel of Saint Thomas (1723-1790) | Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer War-Dated LS re: British Property |
1782 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 300.00 | |
| 259 | Livingston Philip (1716-1778) | Philip Livingston Signed "Any man of the least Humanity..." Manuscript Letter |
New York | 1767 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
| 260 | Fayrweather Thomas; Tyng Edward | Harvard Association! 1731 Family Fight Over Estate of Boston Shopkeeper & Landowner |
Boston | 1732 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 261 | Pickering Timothy | Timothy Pickering Tries to Protect Board of War from Unnecessary Distractions |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1779 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 562.50 |
| 262 | Reed Joseph | Joseph Reed, Soon President of Sup. Exec. Council - No More Making Liquor During Revolutionary War to Save Grain |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1778 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 263 | 1st Big Clash Towards Revolution Weeks Before Boston Massacre, 1769-70 Ledger NY 16th Regiment of Foot Signed 200+ Times by Soldiers Who Opposed American Independence! The Battle of Golden Hill |
New York, New York | 1769-1770 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 8,125.00 | |
| 264 | Seymour Thomas;Ellsworth Oliver | Bunker Hill Pay To Company That Defended Boston in "the Late Boston Alarm" One Month After |
Hartford, Connecticut | 1775 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,750.00 |
| 265 | Avery John;Perkins Ezra;Hill Alexander;Titcomb Jonathan | Group Lot of Revolutionary War Related Documents |
Massachusetts;Connecticut | 1775-1830 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 266 | Tay Samuel;Livingston Walter;Riddell John;Curson Samuel | 1776 Group Lot Including a Soldier's Letter, Receipt for Salt Peter, and a Request to Leave the Colonies |
Massachusetts;Connecticut;New York;Virginia;Sint Eustatius | 1776 | USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
| 267 | Hughes Hugh;Meng Christopher;Wright Joseph | Revolutionary War Document Archive |
Connecticut;Virginia | 1780-1782 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 268 | How Ezekiel | 1776 Return Listing Troop Strengths & Officers in Middlesex County Less Than a Month After Independence is Declared! |
Sudbury, Massachusetts | 1776 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 269 | Vail Michael;Burton Josiah | Green Mountain Boys Take Forts Ticonderoga & Crown Point on Lake Champlain |
Crown Point, New York;Manchester, Vermont | 1775-1776 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 270 | Edwards Timothy;Lincoln Benjamin;Harrison Burr;Stewart Charles | Rev. War Group Lot Illustrating Hardships Faced After the Fighting Had Ended |
New York;Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;Virginia | 1782-1783 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 271 | Seymour Thomas; Root Jesse | 1784 Accounting After Rev. War Incl. "granting Freedom of the State to Marquis de Lafayette" & Protecting the Western Frontier |
Hartford | 1784 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 272 | Ellsworth Oliver | O. Ellsworth 1775 Signed Early Rev. War Pay Order For "Riflemen on their March...near Boston" |
Hartford | 1775 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 273 | Wadsworth Peleg | Revolutionary War Court Martial Boldly Signed By Peleg Wadsworth: "Not Guilty" |
Roxbury | 1775 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 274 | Cheever David | One Month After Lexington-Concord and One Month Before Bunker Hill, Massachusetts Committee of Supplies Seeks to Purchase Flour Bound for Boston During Siege |
Watertown | 1775 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 275.00 |
| 275 | 1781 Boston Printed Act Excluding "Negroes, Indians and Mulattoes" from Military Service |
Boston | 1781 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 350.00 | |
| 276 | Hyde Caleb; Quincy Josiah | American Victory at Yorktown Soon! Josiah Quincy Expresses Confidence in Land Values in Western Massachusetts |
Lenox; Braintree | 1781 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 277 | Platt Joseph; Belden Thomas | Start of Revolutionary War 1775 Pay Order for Regiment Training |
Norwalk | 1775 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 278 | Keeler Isaac; Lockwood Eliphalet | (2) Rev. War Documents Related to Two Soldiers Who Wintered at Valley Forge |
Hartford | 1781-1782 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 200.00 |
| 279 | Boston Printed Act to Clothe MA Line of Continental Army |
Boston | 1781 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 175.00 | |
| 280 | Bayard John | John Bayard Signed Pay Order as Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1777 |
Philadelphia | 1777 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 175.00 |
| 281 | Steuben Friedrich Wilhelm von (1730-1794) | Baron Friedrich von Steuben Signed Check |
New York, NY | 1790 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 282 | Thomas Isaiah (1749-1831) | Early Almanac Printing of U.S. Constitution by Isaiah Thomas, 1787 |
Worcester, MA | 1787 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
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Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 702. Munster's Largest 16th Century Edition, with Over 220 Woodcut Maps (1598) Est. $18,000 - $20,000Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 101. Rare Jo Mora "Carte" Showing a NYC-to-Seattle Route through Panama Canal (1933) Est. $900 - $1,100Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 65. The Waldseemuller/Fries "Admiral's Map" (1541) Est. $8,000 - $9,500Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 46. Contains all 30 Plates from Atlas Coelestis in Full Original Color (1742) Est. $16,000 - $18,000Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 129. The First Map to Name New Scotland and Cape Cod (1625) Est. $8,000 - $9,500Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 663. The First Printed Map Devoted to the Pacific in Full Contemporary Color (1589) Est. $7,500 - $9,000Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 629. De Jode's Rare Map of Eastern Asia (1593) Est. $7,500 - $9,000Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 171. De Bry's Influential Map of Colonial North America (1591) Est. $11,000 - $13,000Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 691. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Holy Trinity (1502) Est. $800 - $950Old World Auctions (Sept 16):
Lot 606. Important, Early Atlas of Japan with 75 Woodcut Maps in Printed Color (1837) Est. $2,000 - $2,300 -
Koller, Sep. 16: FRANZÖSISCHE REVOLUTION - ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE - Extrait des Procès-Verbaux de L'Assemblée Nationale, Des 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 Août & premier Octobre 1789.Koller, Sep. 16: MOURADJA D'OHSSON, IGNACE. Tableau général de l'Empire Othoman, divisé en deux parties dont l'une comprend la Législation Mahométane, l'autre l'histoire de l'Empire Othoman [... ]Koller, Sep. 16: BOTANIK - Blackwell, Elisabeth. A curious herbal, containig five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick.Koller, Sep. 16: SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Physica Sacra. Iconibus Aeneis illustrata procurante & sumtus suppeditante.Koller, Sep. 16: HAIMONSKINDER – Eyn schön lustig Geschicht, wie Keyser Carle der groß, vier gebrüder, Hertzog Aymont von Dordons Süne [...]Koller, Sep. 16: KRÄUTERBÜCHER - HORTUS SANITATIS - [H]ortus Sanitatis. De herbis et plantis. De animalibus et reptilibus. De avibus et volatilibus. De piscibus et natalibus…Koller, Sep. 16: GAUGUIN, PAUL, MALER (1848-1903). Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Couvert. An den Künstler und Freund Daniel de Monfreid in Paris. -
Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
24th September 2026Forum, Sep. 24: A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark, 1746 [bound with] A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, [c.1755]. £30,000 - £50,000Forum, Sep. 24: Gafurius (Franchinus). De Harmonia Musicorum Instrumentorum Opus, first edition, Milan, Gotarto da Ponte, 1518. £20,000 - £30,000Forum, Sep. 24: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, first impression, 1937. £10,000 - £15,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
24th September 2026Forum, Sep. 24: Stackelberg (Otto Magnus v). Costumes et Usages des Peuples de la Grece Moderne, first edition, Rome, 1825. £15,000 - £20,000Forum, Sep. 24: Piranesi (Giovanni Battista). Le Antichita Romane, 4 vol., Rome, Bouchard and Gravier, 1756. £10,000 - £15,000Forum, Sep. 24: Henry VIII's Primer.- Church of England.- The Primer, set foorth by the Kynges maiestie and his clergie…,, first edition, by Richard Grafton printer to the Princes grace, 1545; bound with 2 others, similar. £10,000 - £15,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
24th September 2026Forum, Sep. 24: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, fifth edition, ink inscription in the author's hand laid down to half-title, 1869. £6,000 - £8,000Forum, Sep. 24: Siebold (P.F. von) J.G. Zuccarini and F.A.W. Miquel. Flora Japonica, 2 vol., first edition, Leiden, for the author, 1835-70. £6,000 - £8,000Forum, Sep. 24: Illuminated manuscript facsimile.- Constitution Of India (The), Dehra Dun, Survey of India Offices, [c. 1950]. £3,500 - £5,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
24th September 2026Forum, Sep. 24: Mao Tse-tung. Quotations of Chairman Mao, prototype edition, Shenyang, compiled and printed by the Political Department, Air Force Division of Shenyang Military Region, 1963. £3,000 - £4,000Forum, Sep. 24: Richardson (John). Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 4 vol., first edition, Norwich, Josiah Fletcher, 1829-37. £4,000 - £6,000Forum, Sep. 24: Mite (The), the printer/publisher's own copy with the original type and printing blocks for all three of its editions (1891, 1893 & 1896), Grimsby, Ernest A. Robinson, 1891. £3,000 - £4,000. -
Leland Little, September 11: Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1894-1971), Large Archive with Letters from Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.Leland Little, September 11: Harry S. Truman, Scarce Autograph Letter Signed as 33rd U.S. President.Leland Little, September 11: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910), Autograph Quotation Signed.Leland Little, September 11: The History of North America, the Extremely Scarce Deluxe "Edition of the Presidents."Leland Little, September 11: Scarce First Edition of Krafft's The American Distiller.Leland Little, September 11: Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.Leland Little, September 11: A Signed Limited Edition of Love in the Time of Cholera.Leland Little, September 11: The Extremely Scarce Limited and Extra-Illustrated Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens.Leland Little, September 11: A Beautifully Bound Limited Edition of Émile Zola's The Rougon-Macquart.Leland Little, September 11: The Elaborately Bound and Extremely Scarce The Shakespeare Gallery.Leland Little, September 11: Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, A Signed Limited Edition Four Volume Set.Leland Little, September 11: Signed Limited Edition of Salmon-Salmon with a Chapter on Iceland. -
Sotheby’s
Original Film Posters
10 September 2026Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: The Invisible Man (1933). Extremely Rare US Leader Press One Sheet. £20,000 to £26,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: You Only Live Twice (1967). Italian Advance Quattro Fogli. £10,000 to £15,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: A Dog's Life (1918). Extremely Rare US One Sheet. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: La Belle et la Bête/Beauty and the Beast (1946). French Style A Grande. £12,000 to £18,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). US Lenticular Prototype One Sheet. £10,000 to £15,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: Théâtre d’Ombres (1897). Exceptionally Rare French Poster. £8,000 to £12,000.