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Auction Name Important Selection of Autographed Documents, Manuscripts, Books and Photos Total Sales (USD) 233,850.00
Auction Date October 02, 2019 - October 02, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 251,200.00
Sale Number #100219 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 302,080.00
Total Lots 240
Sold Lots 196 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 381,700.00
% of Lots Sold 81.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 457,630.00
Unsold Lots 44 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 51.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Czar Peter I of Russia

Peter the Great Discusses Cannons With Great Knowledge, Among the Finest Examples Known, Includes 5 Lines In His Hand!

 March 23, 1715 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 24,000.00
63 Walt Disney

Walt Disney TWICE SIGNED, Pre-IPO Stock Cert, Possibly Unique

December 29, 1955 USD 26,000.00 - 28,000.00 USD 22,800.00
119 John F. Kennedy

JFK's Official Schedule For Texas, The Day Of The Assassination, Incredible!

 November 20 1963 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,400.00
232 George Washington

Rev War Washington Signature on Envelope Addressed to Villefranche of West Point

Ca. 1780 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,400.00
77 Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein Erotic Drawing Collection, Soviet Film Director and the Father of Montage

 c.1930 USD 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,200.00
9 Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong Superb Signed "Giant Step" Inscription W. Enormous Apollo 11 Photo

n.d. USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,600.00
129 Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee's Original Iconic Jump Rope for Footwork Training

 n.d. USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,100.00
240 John Witherspoon

John Witherspoon, Declaration Signer, as President of Princeton University

 December 10, 1773 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,800.00
83 Richard Feynman

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman Uses Runge-Kutta Methods to Approximate Solutions to Differential Equations

 Ca. 1970s - 1980s USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 4,200.00
107 Joseph Hewes

Joseph Hewes, Declaration Signer, Rare ADS with Perfect Signature

 June 5, 1765 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,600.00
82 King of Aragon Ferdinand II

Ferdinand & Isabella Order Mayor To Investigate Town Land Seizure

 July 12, 1503 USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,360.00
40 Czarina Catherine II of Russia

Catherine the Great Gorgeous DS

 1790 USD 2,600.00 - 2,800.00 USD 3,120.00
166 Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald Hand Addressed Envelope to His Mother

 March 7, 1962 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,120.00
8 Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong Signed Spectacular Limited Ed. Lithograph

Ca. 1969 USD 2,400.00 - 2,600.00 USD 2,880.00
194 Slavery

Magnificent 1818 Runaway Slave Broadside: $30 Rewa

 March 21, 1818 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,880.00
214 Titanic

Original Huge 1912 Photograph Showing "Titanic" Emergency Boat 1 in the North Atlantic, Taken by Rescue "Carpathia" Passenger

 [April 15, 1912] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,880.00
42 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Lengthy TLS to Publisher Re: "Marlborough: His Life and Times"--his Ancestor's Biography

 July 13, 1933 USD 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,640.00
110 Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini Signed Large Gelatin Silver Photograph

n.d. USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,640.00
193 William Shirley

Bahamian Governor William Shirley writes of espion

 August 27, 1762 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,400.00
4 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Very Lengthy ALS Regarding Secret Masonic Penalties: "the penalties of having their throats cut from ear to ear - of cutting open the left Breast and tearing out the heart

 December 8, 1832 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,280.00
24 Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon DS Renewing Military Appointment of Provençal Soldier Assigned to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia's Army

 December 30, 1812 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,280.00
71 Thomas Alva Edison

Imaginatively displayed Thomas Edison signed photo

 1920s USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,280.00
208 James E. B. Stuart

J.E.B. Stuart Signs Pay Receipt Just Before His Capture of John Brown

 September 30, 1859 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,280.00
75 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gen. Eisenhower’s Signed D-Day Orders to His troops in a Limited Numbered First Edition of His "Crusade in Europe"

 1948 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,160.00
201 Stocks and Bonds

Pepsi-Cola 1919 Stock Certificate, Signed by Caleb Bradham

 1919 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,160.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • 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
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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