University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 111925, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
271

Tennessee Couple Sells a Slave to Merchants for $900

 October 12, 1853 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 531.25
272 Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington Submits a Piece to the New York Tribune

 2006-12-07 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 437.50
273 Elijah Clarke

Georgia Revolutionary War Hero Elijah Clarke Certifies Service for Land Grants

 January 25, 1786 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
274 Henry Dearborn

Henry Dearborn Signed Letter to James Taylor, Secretly Preparing for War with Britain

 February 10, 1809 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
275 William Ellery

William Ellery Collects Customs On Slave Ships in Newport, 4 Sheets, 1 Signed

 ca. 1794-1799 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
276 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Manuscript Bond to Raise a New Regiment in the 4th Connecticut Battalion

 December 31, 1776 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,250.00
277 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth Signed Order for 3,000 Stand of Arms at Start of Revolutionary War

 November 13, 1775 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,000.00
278 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Pay Order of Gunpowder for Troops, PSA Encapsulated

 August 25, 1776 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 625.00
279 Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Pay Order to Revolutionary Colonel One Day Before Independence! PSA Encapsulated

 July 3, 1776 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
280 Fisher Chart

Fisher Chart Map of the Delaware Bay & River 1776

 ca. 1776 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,750.00
281 Gov. William Greene

Siege of Louisbourg: Colonial Gov. William Greene Signed 1745 Warrant

 April 9, 1745 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 500.00
282 John Hancock

John Hancock & Samuel Adams Broadside, "Act for better regulating the Militia" Rare

 March 21, 1783 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 768.00
283 Esek Hopkins

Esek Hopkins Signed Re: Maj. Gen. Heath "Party of Indians of the Oneida Tribe" Trading Guns & Swords. Fantastic!

 February 17, 1781 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,250.00
284 Stephen Hopkins

Declaration Signer Stephen Hopkins Early 1738 Indenture for Land in Scituate

 January 15, 1738 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,250.00
285 Francis Hopkinson

Francis Hopkinson Rev. War Dated Bill of Exchange Made Out to Jedidiah Huntington, Brigadier General in the Continental Army

 December 28, 1779 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,216.00
286 Admiral Richard

Admiral Richard Howe ALS re: "provision for the wounded & disabled Flag Officers"

 January 13, 1795 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 437.50
287 Sentiments

Anti-Federalist Sentiments on the Recently Ratified Jay's Treaty as Published in the Independent Chronicle

 August 13, 1795 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 225.00
288 Robert Morris

Robert Morris PSA MINT 9 Signature, 3.5" Long!

 n.d. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 625.00
289

Notorious Philadelphia Quaker Embezzler Gives 1730 Account with Estate

 May 31, 1730 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 256.00
290 Timothy Pickering

Timothy Pickering DS 5 Days after Siege of Gibraltar. PSA Mint 9

 November 7, 1779 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 200.00
291

1788 Map of Southeastern United States & Spanish Provinces of East & West Florida

 ca. 1788 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,187.50
292

A 1st Ed. Copy of "The Boston Pamphlet," a Printing of Several Key Documents from Boston's Decisive Steps Toward Revolution in 1772

 ca. 1772 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
293

Revolutionary War 1775 Report of Personnel, "Return of Colo. Starks Quarter Guard"

 October 16, 1775 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 375.00
294

Spoils Taken by the Revolutionary War Privateer, "True American," & List of Investors in the Venture

 March 25, 1779 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,937.50
295

Manuscript Copy of War-Dated Resolve By John Hancock to Enlist Men to Guard the Powder Magazine

 September 29, 1779 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,375.00
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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