International Autograph Auctions Europe SL: Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Manuscripts - Timed Auction, 51226, Malaga
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 12, 2026 - May 12, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 280 | Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) | Letter to Dr. C. W. Saleeby |
London | 1913 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 250.00 |
| 281 | P. T. Barnum (1810-1891) | Letter to Friend Roberts |
Bridgeport, Connecticut | 1851 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 500.00 |
| 282 | Thomas Wentworth Russell; Andre Joseph Lefevre; Jean-Gabriel Daragnes; Lucien Millevoye; Paul Deroulede; Adolphe Messimy; Friedrich Haase; Friedrich Kuchenmeister | Visiting Cards Collection |
ND | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 283 | Vitya Vronsky; Victor Babin; Albert Raymond Alvarez; Karl Goldmark; Ernest Reyer; Gustave Samazeuilh; Adolf A. Berle Jr.; Russell A. Alger; Carl Schurz | Visiting Cards Collection |
ND | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 284 | Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) | Letter to Jeanne Hatto |
Paris | 1916 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 285 | Maurice Ravel; George Enescu; Henri Woollett; Gaston Gabaroche; Marie Leconte; Madeleine Lely | Autograph Page of Composers |
1933 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 286 | Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999); Victoria Kamhi de Rodrigo | Letter to Henri Corbiere |
Madrid | 1959 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 287 | Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) | Signed Cabinet Card Photograph |
Florence | 1906 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 288 | Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) | Letter in Verse to Carlo Clausetti |
Milan | 1904 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 289 | Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) | Letter regarding Musical Score |
ND | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 290 | Franz Liszt (1811-1886) | Letter to Victor Wilder |
Weimar | 1886 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 5,250.00 |
| 291 | Cesar Cui (1835-1918) | Letter to Felix Mottle |
Fontanka | 1894 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 292 | Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) | Letter to Michel Dimitriewitch |
Spasskoye, Nizhny Novgorod | 1905 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 293 | Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) | Letter to Michel Dimitriewitch |
Okrokana | 1907 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 294 | Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) | Signed Postcard Photograph and Letter to Marina Chaliapin |
ND | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 295 | Karl Bohm (1894-1981) | Signed Postcard Photograph |
ND | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 296 | Riccardo Muti (1941- ); Mariss Jansons (1943-2019) | Two Signed Photographs of Conductors |
ND | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 297 | Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982); Philipp Halsman | Signed Photograph to Muriel |
1944 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | Not Sold | |
| 298 | Selma Kurz (1874-1933) | Signed Cabinet Photograph |
Vienna | 1909 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 125.00 |
| 299 | Giuseppina Verdi (1815-1897) | Letter to Cesare Vigna |
Genova | 1877 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 250.00 |
| 300 | Jenny Lind (1820-1887) | Letter to Mrs. Balfour |
ND | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 301 | Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) | A.L.S., Enrico Caruso |
New York | 1903 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 302 | Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) | Signed photograph of Rudolf Nureyev |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 303 | Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) | Signed photograph of Margot Fonteyn |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 304 | Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996) | A.L.S., Tamara Toumanova; A.L.S., Tamara Toumanova |
San Francisco, California | 1937; ND | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
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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.