University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 71625, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 16, 2025 - July 16, 2025

Page Size: 437 items in 18 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
245	Huey P. Newton	Huey P. Newton 1st Ed. "To Die for the People" Inscribed and Signed	ca. 1972	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 3,750.00
246	Rosa Parks	Rosa Parks Signed 1st Edition of Her Memoir: "My Story"	1993-10-02	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 812.50
247		Slavery: The Building of Pennsylvania Hall, Site of Early Abolition Movement	December 23, 1837	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 275.00
248		[Reconstruction] 5 ALS from 1866-1868 TX and AL, with 1 ALS Written 3 Weeks After Start of Civil War from Southerner Abroad	ca. 1861-1868	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
249		Slave Auction Broadside to Pay Off Debts, Ironically Misspells "Slaves"	October 8, 1858	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 3,000.00
250		Nearly 200 Slaves Listed, Important Plantation Inventory of an American Aristocrat in Jamaica	June 16, 1832	USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00	USD 4,375.00
251		Fantastic Slave Hire in 1811 for $21; Then Her Master Gave Her the Option of Going to Liberia or Remaining in Kentucky as a Free Woman	January 1, 1811	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 531.25
252		Slave Runs Away 5 Times, Money Needed for Recapture, Unique!	February 5, 1858	USD 700.00 - 900.00	USD 687.50
253		Partition of 11 Slaves in Kentucky Landowner's Estate, 1820	March 13, 1820	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 687.50
254		Manuscript Document Acknowledging Sale of Two Slaves, Incl. 15 Month Old Child	April 3, 1855	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 350.00
255		Manuscript Document Acknowledging Sale of Two Enslaved Women, 1858	November 27, 1858	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 468.75
256		1858 Petition to Force the Sale of 7 Slaves From an Alabama Estate	April 6, 1858	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 375.00
257	Booker T. Washington	Booker T. Washington TLS to Kansas Senator re: "the matter of race relations"	2003-05-16	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 625.00
258		Founding Father Samuel Adams in Contemporary Newspapers	ca. 1795, 1803	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 325.00
259		1789 Boston Newspaper: 1st Week of HoR Proceedings & Enslaved Man Attempts to Stop a Murder	April 23, 1789	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 100.00
260		Colonial-Era Legal Documents Charging "Fornication" a Crime in 18th Century Massachusetts	ca. 1717/1779	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 531.25
261		Colonial New England Rare 1686 Land Deed	ca. 1686	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 250.00
262	Lafayette	Lafayette ALS: "Maybe we can advance, by several steps, the Restoration of French liberty which proclaimed itself so well forty years ago" Tipped Into Lovely Custom 2-Vol. Biography	January 4, 1829	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
263		Early British Printing of the Declaration of Independence	ca. August-September, 1776	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,500.00
264	Oliver Ellsworth	Oliver Ellsworth Signed 1776 Pay Order for Post Rider	January 7, 1776	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 875.00
265	Oliver Ellsworth	1776 Oliver Ellsworth Signed Pay Order for Continental Express "Hors[e] Hire"	November 4, 1776	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 437.50
266	Oliver Ellsworth	Oliver Ellsworth Signed Pay Order, May 13, 1776, PSA Authenticated	May 13, 1776	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 562.50
267	Peter Force	Peter Force Very Boldy Signed Document as Mayor	February 8, 1838	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 87.50
268	Alexander Hamilton	Alexander Hamilton Transmittal Cover Addressed All in His Hand with Philatelic Handstamp	November 25, 1789	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 937.50
269	John Hancock	John Hancock Docketed Superb Prisoner Exchange Letter, JSA Certified	August 28, 1781	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,125.00

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

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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