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Auction Name Rare Autographs, Photographs & Books Total Sales (USD) 944,063.25
Auction Date January 06, 2022 - January 06, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 512,240.00
Sale Number #10622 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 630,640.00
Total Lots 534
Sold Lots 524 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 541,140.00
% of Lots Sold 98.13% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 666,240.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 141.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
327 A. Einstein Signed

A. Einstein Signed Manuscript & Equations Tied to General Relativity Theory and Quantum Physics, Being Kaluza's Theory of Electricity

 Ca. 1938 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 87,500.00
36

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1st Ed. War Dept. Printing, Bound with 200+ Gen. Orders Jan-Aug. 1863

 Ca. 1863 USD 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 USD 28,125.00
55 George Washington

George Washington Settles Accounts with Former Foe Turned Friend, 1762

 Ca. July 1762 USD 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 USD 20,000.00
329 Feynman

Feynman Handwritten Manuscript Re: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

 March 29, 1985 USD 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 USD 20,000.00
527 George Washington

George Washington Rev. War Free Frank to Gen. Knox, PSA/DNA Slabbed & Graded NM 7 Knox Was "Commandant of West Point" at the Time

Ca. 1793 USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 20,000.00
446 JFK

JFK Signed Check with Ironic Connection, PSA/DNA Slabbed & Graded NM-MT 8

 July 11, 1959 USD 15,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 18,750.00
449 Martin Luther

Martin Luther King Signed Print from The March on Washington, PSA/DNA Slabbed and Graded Mint 9

 No date USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 18,750.00
178 Thomas Paine

"Pennsylvania Magazine" Issue "declaring the United Colonies free and independent STATES", Printed July, 1776. edited by Thomas Paine, Important Americana!

 Ca. June 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 17,500.00
444 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Blood-stained Leather Swatch from Dallas Limo. CAG Encapsulated

November 22, 1963 USD 1,500.00 - 1,700.00 USD 17,500.00
463 Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson ADS as 25-Year-Old Sheriff of Ford County, Kansas on the Eve of the Royal Gorge RR War, PSA/DNA Slabbed & Graded Mint 9!

 April 14, 1879 USD 27,500.00 - 30,000.00 USD 17,500.00
455 A. Lincoln

A. Lincoln ALS RE: Real Estate Sale to Cover Debt PSA/DNA Slabbed and Graded PSA Mint 9

 March 25, 1852 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,250.00
180 Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Orders Pistols! Exceptional Irony As He was Killed in a Duel by One.

December 12, 1792 USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,500.00
400 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein ALS & Unique Unpublished Photo on Hamburg-American Line Postcard Encapsulated NM 7 by PSA/DNA

 Ca. 1931-1932 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,500.00
32 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Inscribed and Signed "Why England Slept", His 1st Book!

 Ca. September 1940 USD 7,500.00 - 8,500.00 USD 11,250.00
149 M.L. King Jr.

Superb M.L. King Jr. Signed Record Cover From His "The American Dream" Speech at Syracuse University. With PSA/DNA LOA

 July 13, 1961 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,250.00
21 U. S. Grant

Superb U. S. Grant CDV Signed with Rank

 n.d. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,625.00
24 T. Jefferson

T. Jefferson Forwards Multiple Dispatches "by the return of post to Mr. Madison", Including on Re: Florida & Napoleon

 September 13, 1808 USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,625.00
157 John Newton,

John Newton, Author of "Amazing Grace", Rare ALS Re: Sermons & Recent Injury

March 5, 1794 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,625.00
298 Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler Signed Wire Transfer from Argentina Where Many Nazi's Escaped to, Following WWII

 December 13, 1952 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,625.00
333 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla 1919 TLS to a Fellow Inventor

April 14, 1919 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,625.00
75 Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin Signed Photo, "First Lunar Landing"

 n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 8,750.00
202 J. Peter Zenger

J. Peter Zenger Fantastic "Freedom of the Press" Archive of 6 Docs & Newspapers

 Ca. 1721-1748 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,125.00
213 George Gershwin

George Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue" Signed & Dedicated Musical Quote

 November 22, 1926 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,125.00
535

Wright Flyer Kitty Hawk Flown Fabric CAG Certified and Slabbed

 December 17, 1903 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,125.00
330 Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman Signed Copy of the Rogers Commissions Recommendations

 n.d. USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,000.00
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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