University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books - Just In Time For The Holidays!, 121124, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024

Page Size: 518 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
377	Five "Band of Brothers" Legends Signed Armband: Winters, Nixon III, Lipton, Speirs, & Compton	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 7,500.00
378	World Wars I and II Archive: Photos, POW Diary and More	various	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 500.00
379	Early 16th C. Italian Manuscript, Possibly Detailing Area Around the Palio di Siena	ca. January 1511	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 200.00
380	Four 18th & 19th Century Documents from UK and America: A Will, Letter, Ledger & Cover!	various	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
381	3 Vols. of "THE NEWGATE CALENDAR" or "The Malefactors' Bloody Register", Filled with 18th & 19th C. True Crime Tales!	ca. 1824-1828	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 281.60
382	19th C. Uncut French Transformation Playing Cards, Napoleonic Imagery: Jeu des Drapeaux & Jeu de Grotesque	ca. 1800s	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 544.00
383	Incredible Autograph Album Collected By Margot Asquith! Royalty, Politicians, Writers, Actors, Musicians & More, 90+ Signers, ca. 1900-1931. Ex-Forbes	ca. 1901-1931	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 2,500.00
384	Ancient Egyptian Display: Artifacts from the Sphinx and Great Pyramid at Giza!	n.d.	USD 700.00 - 800.00	USD 1,125.00
385	Large Piece of the Berlin Wall, With COA	1989-11-09	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 832.00
386	Leon Blum ALS Written From Vichy Prison: "My health... conscience and nerves... [are] good" - Ex-Forbes	June 9, [n.y.] but probably 1941/42	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
387	Castro Letter To Khrushchev for Creating the Powerful Cuba-Russia Alliance	1960-05-27	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 25,000.00
388	Catherine II Boldly Signed 7th Russo-Turkish War-Dated Doc Re: "wages to Carpenters at the Kherson Admiralty" Addressed to Ex-Lover Potemkin	January 22?, 1789	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,432.00
389	Winston Churchill TLS on the Killing of a British Officer: "...it seems... difficult to conceive any motive... even on the assumption... that she was a German of Bolshevik spy..."	2020-01-21	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,687.50
390	Churchill and Montgomery Defend Nazi General: Archive of Reginald Paget, Defense Lawyer for Erich von Manstein	various	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,000.00
391	Winston Churchill ALS to Arthur Steel-Maitland Discusses Neville Chamberlain	2027-10-18	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 3,250.00
392	Winston Churchill Signed Portrait by Walter Stoneman	ca. 1941	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 7,500.00
393	Winston Churchill TLS Accepting Honorary VP Office of Westminster Chamber of Commerce, Framed	1954-03-14	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,375.00
394	Churchill With Sketch, D. L. George, Clemenceau, Baldwin, Poincare & Other British & French Notables! 6-Pc Archive, ca. 1900-1947. Ex-Forbes	ca. 1900-1947	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 3,500.00
395	Winston Churchill, Iconic Original Print by Philippe Halsman, With Period Contact Sheet	[ca. 1951]	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 875.00
396	Future King Edward VII Envisions Son's Future In Steam Engine Age - Remarkable ALS	"Thursday Evening"	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
397	Edward VII & Alexandra 1902 Coronation Archive 22 Tickets	2002-08-09	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,408.00
398	George III Appoints German Soldier to His Son's Command	March 1, 1806	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 256.00
399	George IV Elegant Signature	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 150.00
400	George V DS Signed Superb DSO Presented to Highly Decorated Officer Aboard WWI Minelayer	2017-10-01	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 225.00
401	William IV Huge & Bold Signature, 8.5" Long!	n.d. but ca. 1834-1835	USD 140.00 - 200.00	USD 75.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD