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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, featuring The Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts, featuring The Civil War and Abraham Lincoln Total Sales (USD) 1,054,975.00
Auction Date April 09, 2025 - April 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 619,500.00
Sale Number #715 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 939,100.00
Total Lots 587
Sold Lots 447.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 983,000.00
% of Lots Sold 76.15% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,458,400.00
Unsold Lots 140 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 72.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
63 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Honoring the Late Abraham Lincoln

 1865 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 34,999.00
17 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as President to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Interceding for a "devoted Union man"

 1862 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,258.00
286 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed with Handwritten Velocity Addition Formulas: "c is the velocity of light"

 1952 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 31,251.00
647 Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin Autograph Letter Signed with a Self-Portrait Sketch, Relating a Discussion of "Dope Addiction"

 1965 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 27,500.00
20 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Document Signed - Legal Deposition in a Butter Churn Dispute, with 250+ Words in Lincoln's Hand

 no date but circa 1849. USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 26,488.00
285 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed, with Equations Related to His Work on Unified Field Theory

 1929 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 26,488.00
594 J. R. R. Tolkien Signed

The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle

 1968 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
317 John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth Signature and Original .44 Deringer Pistol

 circa 1864 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,089.00
19 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President for a Treaty Settling Claims of the Hudson Bay Company

 1864 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,613.00
371

Lincoln Assassination: Ford's Theatre Wallpaper Cut from the President's Box

 1866 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 15,344.00
2 George Washington

George Washington Signed Revolutionary War Discharge Certificate (1783)

 1783 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,129.00
758 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed 'Greater Los Angeles Press Club' Program Page (1947)

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 14,949.00
3 George Washington

George Washington Partial Autograph Document Signed - Full Signature

 1797 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,589.00
228 Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell Signed Military Document (1653) - Two Months Before Becoming Lord Protector

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,589.00
421 Napoleon: Countess Montholon

Napoleon: Countess Montholon Rare Autograph Letter Signed - Napoleon's Last Lover, Reminiscing on the Exiled French Emperor's Life on Saint Helena

 1829 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,589.00
21 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing a US Marshal for the Washington Territory

 1861 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,353.00
230 Ho Chi Minh, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh

Notables: Ho Chi Minh, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh Signed Guest Book

 1926-1956 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,789.00
38 Joseph Cross

The Confederate Memoirs of Chaplain Joseph Cross - Original Manuscript for the "First Book' of His Remarkable Civil War Narrative, "Camp and Field: Papers from the Portfolio of an Army Chaplain'

 1861 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 11,731.00
22 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed (1850) - "I am exceedingly hungry about now"

 1850 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,229.00
510 Claude Monet

Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed on the "inauguration of the Flaubert monument"

 1890 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 11,000.00
85 Grant, Garfield, McKinley, and Roosevelt

Seven Presidents and 19th-Century Politicians Autograph Album, with Grant, Garfield, McKinley, and Roosevelt - From the Collection of Sen. Henry G. Davis

 1872 and 1887 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,664.00
42

West Point: 1859 Yearbook Photo Album Signed by (33), including William J. Hardee and Joseph Wheeler

 1859 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,443.00
518 Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Signed 'Marilyn Monroe' Exhibition Poster (Tate Gallery, 1971)

 1971 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,831.00
755 Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini Autograph Letter Signed - Postcard Mailed from Egypt in 1910

 1910 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 9,525.00
10 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed on Cherokee Culture and the 1824 Presidential Election - "Should the people exercise their right of suffrage, & call me to fill that first office in their gift; I will yield to that call"

 1824 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,074.00
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.
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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.