University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 50626, Wilton
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 06, 2026 - May 06, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 232 | John Penn (1741-1788) | John Penn Signed Legal Document Endorsement |
Granville County, North Carolina | 1785 | USD 1,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 233 | July 4, 1776 Receipt for Troop Provisions |
Southboro, Massachusetts | 1776 | USD 4,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 13,750.00 | |
| 234 | Ezekiel Tophand Revolutionary War Pay Order |
Hartford, Connecticut | 1782 | USD 3,500.00 - 0.00 | USD 4,375.00 | |
| 235 | Petition to Thomas Gage Concerning the Ship Peggy |
Boston, Massachusetts | 1775 | USD 1,200.00 - 0.00 | USD 1,875.00 | |
| 236 | Samuel Leighton (1740-1802) | Samuel Leighton Pay Receipt |
Kittery | 1776 | USD 500.00 - 0.00 | USD 275.00 |
| 237 | Titus Watson (1746-1821) | Titus Watson Encouragement Pay Order |
Hartford, Connecticut | 1777 | USD 400.00 - 0.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 238 | James Watson (1750-1806) | James Watson Encouragement Pay Order |
Hartford, Connecticut | 1777 | USD 400.00 - 0.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 240 | James Chamberlain (1745-1819) | Receipt for Horse for Revolutionary War |
York County | 1780 | USD 400.00 - 0.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 241 | Tobias Fernald (1744-1784) | Revolutionary War Pay Order Signed by Lt. Col. Tobias Fernald |
1777 | USD 300.00 - 0.00 | USD 275.00 | |
| 242 | George Ross Jr. (1730-1779) | George Ross 1761 DS as King's Attorney |
ca. 1761 | USD 400.00 - 0.00 | USD 2,250.00 | |
| 243 | Friedrich von Steuben | Von Steuben ADS Addressed to B. Walker |
1790 | USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 5,625.00 | |
| 244 | Paul McCartney; John Lennon; George Harrison; Ringo Starr | The Beatles Photo Signed on 1st Trip to "Ed Sullivan Show" |
London, England | ca. 1963 | USD 15,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
| 245 | John Lennon (1940-1980) | John Lennon Cut Autograph |
n.d. | USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 2,250.00 | |
| 246 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan Signed Postcard Photo |
ca. 1962 | USD 10,000.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 247 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan Handwritten Lyrics For "Wiggle Wiggle" |
ca. 1990 | USD 35,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 31,250.00 | |
| 248 | George Gershwin (1898-1937); Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) | George & Ira Gershwin Signed "Girl Crazy" Songwriting Contract |
New York, New York | ca. 1931 | USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
| 249 | Tom Hanks | Tom Hanks Signed "Forrest Gump" Typescript |
n.d. | USD 300.00 - 0.00 | USD 375.00 | |
| 250 | Harry Houdini (1874-1926) | Harry Houdini Signed 1922 Houdini Picture Corporation Stock Certificate |
1922 | USD 3,500.00 - 0.00 | USD 3,500.00 | |
| 251 | Harry Price | H. Price Archive on Fraudulent Seance and Houdini’s Library |
ca. 1929 | USD 600.00 - 0.00 | USD 812.50 | |
| 252 | Walter Franklin Prince | W.F. Prince on H. Houdini and the Margery Case |
Boston | 1926 | USD 500.00 - 0.00 | USD 687.50 |
| 253 | Walter Lantz (1899-1994) | Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker Creator, Lot of 2 Including Sketch |
New York | ca. 1948, 1980 | USD 300.00 - 0.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 254 | John Bonham; Robert Plant; Jimmy Page; John Paul Jones | Rare Led Zeppelin Signed Photo - Bonham, Plant, Page & Jones |
ca. 1970s | USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 5,000.00 | |
| 255 | Marilyn Monroe | M. Monroe Signed Check for Car Rental to Premiere of "Prince and the Showgirl" |
1957 | USD 4,000.00 - 0.00 | USD 4,062.50 | |
| 256 | Marilyn Monroe PSA Type 1 Photograph, Candid Moment at 1955 Friars Club Fundraising Dinner |
New York, New York | ca. 1955 | USD 700.00 - 0.00 | USD 500.00 | |
| 257 | Marilyn Monroe PSA Type 1 Photograph, Filming on "Bus Stop" Set |
ca. 1956 | USD 600.00 - 0.00 | USD 275.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.