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Auction Name Civil War & African American History: Wm. T. Sherman Collection Total Sales (USD) 919,209.75
Auction Date May 14, 2024 - May 14, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 222,960.00
Sale Number #51424 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 364,450.00
Total Lots 213
Sold Lots 211.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 224,220.00
% of Lots Sold 99.06% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 376,200.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 244.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
127

Sherman's Copy of Barnard's "Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign"

 1866 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 177,120.00
101 Ulysses S. Grant

Sherman's Annotated Grant's Memoirs

 1885-1886 USD 7,500.00 - 15,000.00 USD 86,100.00
199

Enslaved Drummer Boy "Redeemed"

 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 45,510.00
213

Rare Recruitment Broadside For Colored Soldiers

 [1863] USD 7,500.00 - 12,500.00 USD 29,520.00
95

Gen. Sherman's "March to the Sea" Map

 1865 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 27,060.00
210 Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass' "Men of Color to Arms! Now or Never!"

 [June 1863]. USD 12,500.00 - 17,500.00 USD 25,830.00
143

Abraham Lincoln Signed Officer's Commission

 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 23,370.00
79

Sherman Family Bible, Extensively Inscribed by General and Mrs. Sherman

 [1860?]. USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 20,910.00
225 Einstein

Historic Einstein Signed Program from Lincoln University Visit

 3 May 1946. USD 12,500.00 - 17,500.00 USD 18,450.00
156

Ulysses S. Grant Signed w/ Rank CDV

 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 15,375.00
7 George Washington

George Washington Signed Discharge

 4 January 1783. USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 12,915.00
203

[CIVIL WAR] Black Soldier & Wife

 USD 2,250.00 - 2,750.00 USD 12,300.00
3 [HANCOCK, John]

[HANCOCK, John] Washington's Spy, Officer's Commission

 10 January 1777 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,070.00
202

Sergeants of the 62nd United States' Colored Troops

 n.d. USD 2,250.00 - 2,750.00 USD 10,455.00
1 Benjamin Franklin

Early Benjamin Franklin Signed Document. Philadelphia, 15 May 1733.

 15 May 1733. USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 10,147.50
81 William Tecumseh Sherman

Gen. Sherman's West Point Cadet Book

 1839 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 8,917.50
92 William Tecumseh Sherman

Ellen Sherman's Deluxe Presentation Copy Gen. Sherman's Memoirs

 1875 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,610.00
93 Col. S.M. Bowman and Lt.-Col. R.B. Irwin.

Gen. Sherman's Annotated "Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography"

 1865 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,610.00
99 Adam Badeau.

Gen. Sherman Inscribed "Military History of Ulysses S. Grant"

 1868-1881. USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,302.50
107

Sheridan's Memorial, Inscribed by Sherman

 1890 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 7,380.00
94 William Tecumseh Sherman

Atlanta Inscribed by Gen. Sherman

 1882 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,765.00
194

Portrait of Lyman Beecher, Unpublished

 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,765.00
204

[CIVIL WAR] Black Soldier CDV

 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 6,457.50
218

Enslaved Guide of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

 n.d. USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 6,457.50
82 William Tecumseh Sherman

Gen. Sherman's Annotated West Point Registry

 1868 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 6,150.00
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    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.