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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)	N/A	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	N/A	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

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.