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RR Auction: Marvels of Modern Music

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Auction Name Marvels of Modern Music Total Sales (USD) 484,079.00
Auction Date December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 295,900.00
Sale Number #732 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 450,900.00
Total Lots 461
Sold Lots 256.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 528,000.00
% of Lots Sold 55.53% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 798,500.00
Unsold Lots 205 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 60.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3470

Leonard Cohen Autograph Letter Signed to His Hydra Muse, Marianne Ihlen

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 46,926.00
3008

Beatles Early Signed Photograph (c. 1962)

1962 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 26,294.00
3005

Beatles Signed Bank of England 5-Pound Banknote

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 24,370.00
3307

Jerry Garcia Handwritten Lyrics to 'The Maker'

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 20,870.00
3007

Beatles (4) Signed Photographs - A Rare Single-Signed, Uninscribed Quartet

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,248.00
3002

Beatles Signed Rare Color Magazine Photograph (ca. Mid-1963)

1963 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,709.00
3251

Mick Jagger Handwritten 19-Song Rolling Stones Concert Set List - Sporthalle in Cologne, Germany (June 2, 1976)

1976 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,774.00
3227

Jimi Hendrix Experience Document Signed (1968) - Hendrix, Redding, and Mitchell Direct Payment of Royalties to their Management Team

1968 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 14,513.00
3019

John Lennon Signed Royalties Contract for 'Dear Prudence'

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,271.00
3004

Beatles Signed 1963 PYX Program with Classic Color Dezo Hoffman Cover

1963 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,654.00
3006

Beatles Rare, Early Signed 1962 Parlophone Promo Card - The First to Feature Ringo Starr

1962 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,229.00
3293

The Who Signed Polydor Mini Promotional Poster (11.5" x 16.25")

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,478.00
3031

Paul McCartney Signed 'McCartney Productions' Business Check - Two Months After Announcing His Beatles Departure

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,668.00
3229

Jimi Hendrix Signature

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,499.00
3221

Bob Dylan Oversized Signed Photograph (Ltd. Ed. #IV/IV) - Biograph, 1965

1965 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,883.00
3407

Cream Signed Photograph

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,881.00
3230

Jimi Hendrix (2) Negative Film Strips from the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival

1970 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,264.00
3035

George Harrison Autograph Letter Signed to EMI Records - Dated Four Months Before the Beatles Breakup

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,248.00
3351

Queen (3) Business Checks Signed by Each Band Member

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,504.00
3254

Rolling Stones Signed Photograph - Dated to September 1970 During Their European Tour

1970 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,243.00
3409

Edie Sedgwick Original Sketchbook with (8) Drawings - Horses, Humans, and Dogs

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 4,996.00
3353

Queen Signed 'A Night at the Opera' Tour Program

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,973.00
3395

Buddy Holly: Joe Mauldin Archive of (19) Early Letters and Postcards Dated to The Crickets' 1957-1958 Concert Tours - "Last night Buddy finished singing the last song and the kids like to have torn the theatre apart"

1957-1958 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 4,886.00
3017

Beatles Signed Photograph Album - Dated to Blokker, Netherlands, on June 6, 1964

1964 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 4,760.00
3258

Rolling Stones and Andy Warhol (14) Promotional Photographs for 'Love You Live'

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,441.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000