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Auction Name	Live Auction	Total Sales (USD)	89,175.00
Auction Date	February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Sale Number	#22626	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Total Lots	209
Sold Lots	174.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
% of Lots Sold	83.25%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
Unsold Lots	35	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Albert Einstein Signed Offprint on Unified Field Theory, 1929, with Photograph, Provenance to Dora Monness Shapiro	N/A	Not Available	USD 7,533.75
3	Early Winston Churchill Signed Photograph (From a Liberal Dressed For War to a Liberal Pacifist)	N/A	Not Available	USD 4,827.75
15	Zachary Taylor Signed Naval Appointment	N/A	Not Available	USD 3,474.75
8	Mary Baker Eddy Rare Autograph Quote Signed	N/A	Not Available	USD 3,228.75
31	John F. Kennedy Signed Profiles In Courage - Cardinal Edition	N/A	Not Available	USD 2,736.75
110	Charles Dickens	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,998.75
7	Amelia Earhart Encourages the Rise of Canadian Women Aviators in a Fine 1933 TLS on the Ninety-Nines	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,875.75
179	Fred Gwynne Signed Playbill	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,875.75
9	NATHANIEL SALTONSTALL, ONE OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIAL JUDGES	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,752.75
2	Superb Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Portrait Signed a day after his 46th Birthday.	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,629.75
57	Revolutionary War Pay Order	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,629.75
14	William Henry Harrison Pay For Spies	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,506.75
148	Robert Koch	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,506.75
6	"America The Beautiful" Signed By Katherine Bates	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,383.75
12	Andrew Jackson Naval Appointment	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,383.75
25	Theodore Roosevelt 1898 Typed Letter Signed on Rough Riders Recruitment, Framed with Governor's Mansion Invitation	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,383.75
32	Lyndon B. Johnson TLS	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,260.75
54	1776 REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT'S "LOYALTY OATH" a week before the Declaration Of Independence Signing!	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,260.75
53	Robert Treat Paine (Boston Fire Club)	N/A	Not Available	USD 1,137.75
26	Theodore Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed to General Leonard Wood/ Introducing a Trusted Friend	N/A	Not Available	USD 891.75
10	James Monroe	N/A	Not Available	USD 830.25
11	Andrew Jackson 1829 Land Grant	N/A	Not Available	USD 830.25
44	King George IV Signed Cut	N/A	Not Available	USD 830.25
56	Marquis de Lafayette Introduces European Financier David Parish to Chancellor Robert R. Livingston --- ALS, August 1805	N/A	Not Available	USD 830.25
61	Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace	N/A	Not Available	USD 830.25

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.