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	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
321		Bounty for Confederate Deserter Turned Union Spy, Fascinating!		March 12, 1864	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 750.00
322		Civil War Images and Letter of Boston Brothers Who Served in Union Army and Navy		ca. 1861-1865	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 300.00
323		Showman and Aeronaut Sketches Camp of 20th Pennsylvania in Chambersburg		June 1861	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
324		Union Soldier Details Experience at Battle of Seven Pines & Seven Days Battles		July 6, 1862	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 300.00
325		Gettysburg! Battle Flag Captured During the Civil War: Confederate General Forwards Flag Captured Up the Chain of Command to President Jefferson Davis		July 13 - August 10, 1863	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
326		Framed Whole Plate Tintype of Young Confederate Soldier		ca. 1862	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 325.00
327		Civil War Soldier Hand-Painted Ambrotype Identified as William Oliver		ca. Civil War era	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
328		Civil War, "Children of The Battlefield" Print, Rare		n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 112.50
329		"Champion Prize Envelope, Lincoln & Davis in 5 Rounds" - Complete Set of Patriotic Covers Depicting 2 Presidents as Pugilists!		ca. 1861	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 937.50
330		Freed Slaves Celebrate First 4th of July in North Carolina, Great Content!		July 3, 1865	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 562.50
331		Union P.O.W. ALS Describing His Capture at First Bull Run, Likely Held at Libby Prison		November 12, 1861	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 200.00
332	John J. Elwell	John J. Elwell Archive, Good Friend and Rumored Lover of Clara Barton		ca. 1862-1898	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
333	Troops	Black Troops Near Cincinnati, Fantastic Correspondence: "They are by far the best workmen"		ca. 1862-64	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 687.50
334	Gen. McPherson	Gen. McPherson Allows Confederate Slave to Pass Through Lines		July 7, 1863	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,375.00
335		Civil War Medicine Archive		ca. 1862-1865	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
336		War of 1812, Dewitt Clinton Pays $15K for NY Defense! PSA Mint 9. Incredible NY History!		May 31, 1813	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 200.00
337		Appeal to the Army of TN from the "Rebel Girls" of Murfreesboro, Condemning Lt. Col. Parkhurst's Cruel Treatment		ca. 1863-1864	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 687.50
338		"Immortelle for our Fallen Heroes" Pro-Southern Manuscript Post-Confederate Surrender, Likely Written by a Woman		ca. April 1865	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
339		General Order No. 2, Making Genl. Beauregard Second-in-Command of Army of TN		March 16, 1865	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 375.00
340		Letter to Col. Otey, A.A.G. to Gen. Beauregard Re: Charges Against 2 Cavalrymen		March 13, 1865	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 175.00
341		Early Connecticut Archive of Burton-Burdick Families, 150pp. ca. 1770-1920s, Includes Deeds, Bible, CDVs, Letters, Ephemera		ca. 1770-1920s	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 437.50
342	George Custer	George Custer Handwritten Envelope to Fiancee Libbie, December 15, 1863, PSA/DNA		December 15, 1863	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 1,750.00
343		George Custer's Killer, Spotted Rabbit - Rare Photograph		Post Civil War	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 468.75
344	Jefferson Davis	Jefferson Davis to R.E. Lee During Siege of Petersburg Regarding Guns		July 8, 1864	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
345	Jimmy Doolittle	"Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders" Signed by Jimmy Doolittle and 27 of His Doolittle's Raiders!	New York:	1980., ca. 1980s	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,062.50

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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