Alexander Historical Auctions: Autographs & Historical Militaria 2026 - Day 1, 117b, Chesapeake City
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 31, 2026 - July 31, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1582 | Cunningham Walter | Apollo 7 |
1968 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1583 | Ley Willy | The Conquest of Space |
1949 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1584 | Gagarin Yuri; Titov Gherman | Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 550.00 | |
| 1585 | Gagarin Yuri | Sputnik Space Program |
1958 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 475.00 | |
| 1586 | Gagarin Yuri | Yuri Gagarin |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1587 | Chekhov Anton | I'm Not a Fighter, It's Not in My Nature |
1897 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1588 | Dickens Charles | Ticket to an American Reading by Charles Dickens |
New York | 1868 | USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 1589 | Ibsen Henrik | Henrik Ibsen Letter |
Kristiania | 1899 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 1591 | Maupassant Guy de | Guy de Maupassant Letter |
Paris | 1884 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 1592 | Maupassant Guy de | Guy de Maupassant Letter |
N/A | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 687.50 | |
| 1593 | Housman Alfred E. | Alfred E. Housman Letter |
1928 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1594 | Greely Horace; Reid Whitelaw; Hay John M.; Richardson Albert D.; Smalley George W. | 5 Books, including: New-York Tribune Editors and Correspondents |
New York; Washington, D.C. | 1872; 1885; 1866; 1905 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 200.00 |
| 1595 | Vidal Gore | Gore Vidal on Lincoln's Syphilis |
Salerno | c. 1981 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
| 1596 | Hale Sarah Josepha | Sarah Josepha Hale Letter |
Boston | 1832 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 1597 | O'Faolain Sean (1900–1991) | A.L.S. |
Dublin | 1971 | USD 140.00 - 200.00 | USD 112.50 |
| 1598 | Gates Bill (b. 1955) | Mug Shot |
1977 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 | |
| 1599 | Cabinet Photographs |
19th Century | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 1601 | Taittinger Pierre (1887-1965) | Letters |
1924-1927 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1602 | Getty Jean Paul (1892 - 1976) | S.P. |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 150.00 | |
| 1603 | Gates Bill (b. 1955) | Source Code/> My Beginnings |
New York | 2025 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 1604 | Stock Certificates |
Philadelphia; Wyoming | 1860s; 1921 | USD 140.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1605 | Wallace DeWitt (1889 - 1981); Wallace Lila Acheson | Reader's Digest 50th Anniversary Album |
1972 | USD 140.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1606 | Pan American Airways Stock Certificates |
1970s | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 150.00 | ||
| 1608 | Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition Poster |
New York | 1985 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1611 | Cassatt Mary (1844-1926) | A.L.S. |
ca. 1874 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
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Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Bible, in English. Fine restoration binding in the style of the Queen’s binders.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Magnus Hundt, the elder. First edition of one of the earliest printed books with anatomical illustrations.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Agatha Christie. Cards on the Table. First edition.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned. First edition, first printing.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. First edition, presentation copy.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Bible, in English. Geneva-Tomson-Junius. London: Robert Barker, [colophon 1612]/1611. -
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. -
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.