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Auction Name An Astounding Collection of Declaration Signers Total Sales (USD) 530,091.00
Auction Date May 15, 2019 - May 15, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 412,390.00
Sale Number #51519 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 486,765.00
Total Lots 292
Sold Lots 253 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 640,090.00
% of Lots Sold 86.64% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 782,215.00
Unsold Lots 39 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.77%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
35 Arthur Middleton

Arthur Middleton, Scarce Declaration Signer, Rev War-Dated Document, Also Signed by SC Delegates

1781 USD 20,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 42,000.00
224 Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine ALS, Who Suggested that America Should Have a Monarch?

1805 USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 36,000.00
32 Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch, Declaration Signer, Bold Rare Full Signature, Significant Provenance

1995 USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 30,000.00
56 George Taylor

George Taylor, Declaration Signer, Signs a Rev War-Dated Petition re: Service in the Continental Army.Likely the Finest Known of This Rare Signer with Spectacular Provenance Going Back Near 100 years

1775 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 30,000.00
28 Francis Lightfoot Lee

Francis Lightfoot Lee, Declaration Signer, Very Rare ALS a "... chest containing bottled spirit..."

1770 USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 21,600.00
194 Lincoln & Herndon

Lincoln & Herndon, Their Final Exchange of Communications, Important

USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,000.00
119

Rare Force Engraving of the Declaration of Independence Printed in 1848

1848 USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 15,600.00
2 John Adams

John Adams Effusively Thanks Translator George Alexander Otis for a Translation of Archbishop de Pradt's Europe

1820 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,000.00
30 Francis Lewis

Francis Lewis, Declaration Signer Magnificent ALS Re: Wine Delivery

1761 USD 2,600.00 - 2,800.00 USD 10,200.00
114 David Crockett

David Crockett Finest Known Signature and Display - Perfect!

1836 USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,200.00
283 George Washington

George Washington Boldly Signed Rev War DS For a Weapons Specialist, known as a Matross

1783 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,200.00
284 G. Washington

G. Washington DS Re: Harvard Man, who Fought at the Battle of Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton and Saratoga. Fabulous Society of Cincinnati Doc!

1784 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,200.00
12 Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Superb Signed Document as President of the Supreme Exec Council of the Commonwealth of PA

1786 USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 9,000.00
64 John Witherspoon

John Witherspoon, Declaration Signer from NJ, Signs an Ornate Princeton Diploma

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,400.00
193 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signed Note Recommending Appointment of a New Hospital Chaplain

1863 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,400.00
107 Mark Twain

Mark Twain Short Story Written out Entirely in Twain's Hand with a Character Modeled on Huck Finn

1885 USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,000.00
7 Samuel Chase

Samuel Chase, Declaration Signer, Signs a Boldly Penned Rev War-Dated ALS

1775 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,800.00
75 Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Signed Man On The Moon Official Red Number NASA Photo! Among the Finest Known, With Zarelli LOA

1969 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,600.00
189 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signed Civil War Military Appointment, in Phenomenal Condition

1863 USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,500.00
108 Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland on God and Country as President: "...if I did not believe in God I should be sick at heart"

1893 USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 USD 6,000.00
66 George Wythe and Benjamin Harrison

George Wythe and Benjamin Harrison Declaration Signers, Rev War-Dated Document Signed 3x by Harrison & 1x by Wythe, Superb!

1783 USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,700.00
223 Oppenheimer to Groves

Oppenheimer to Groves Re: Origins of the Atomic Bomb & the Code Name "Trinity", Fantastic!

1962 USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,700.00
104

Civil War Archive with Gettysburg Sword of Heavily-Decorated & Wounded Captain

1861 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,400.00
137 Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman a Rare Manuscript Page from the Nobel Prize Winning Physicist at the Dawn of the Computer Age, He Uses Runge-Kutta Methods to Approximate Solutions to Differential Equations,

1969 USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,400.00
26 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Boldly Signed Four-Languages Ship's Passport

1801 USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 4,800.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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