University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 61726, Wilton
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 17, 2026 - June 17, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 259 | Reed Joseph | Joseph Reed Pay Order to Son of Liberty, Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant |
Philadelphia | 1779 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 260 | Just Before George Washington's Arrival, Returns for Capt. Lathrop's Men at the Start of the Siege of Boston! |
Roxbury | 1775 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 1,500.00 | |
| 261 | Weare Meschech | Meschech Weare Signed Pay Warrant Issued to Constitution Signer John Langdon |
Exeter, New Hampshire | 1783 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 350.00 |
| 263 | Cavallaro Carmen;Hudson Dean;Mooney Art;Paxton George;Spivak Charlie;Dorsy Jimmy;Kiffle Karl;Morrow Buddy;Martin Freddy;Thornhill Claude | Group of Eleven Signed Photos of Big Band Musicians |
1946;1948 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 87.50 | |
| 264 | Clay Henry;Smith Kate;Walcott Jersey Joe;Byrd Harry F. | Autographs by Four Notables |
Washington D.C. | 1975 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 87.50 |
| 265 | Benchley Peter | Peter Benchley Signed Original Jaws Sketch |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 406.25 | |
| 266 | Berlin Irving | Irving Berlin Signed Presentation Copy, "Songs from 'Follow the Fleet,'" 1936 Rogers & Astaire Musical Comedy |
New York, New York | ca. 1936 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 267 | David Bowie 1976 BMI Citation of Achievement Award For "Golden Years" |
ca. 1976 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 275.00 | ||
| 268 | Carlin George D. | George Carlin Signed 1968 Consent Document - One of His Earliest Known Signed Items! |
1968 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 375.00 | |
| 269 | Enesco Georges | George Enescu Signed Presentation Photo |
1933 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 500.00 | |
| 270 | Newman Paul;Sondheim Stephen;Rosenquist James | Paul Newman, James Rosenquist, Stephen Sondheim Signed Books |
1995 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 562.50 | |
| 272 | Fonteyn Margot; Nureyev Rudolf; Ashton Frederick | Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev Signed Program From 1968 Performance of "Marguerite and Armand" |
New York, NY | 1968 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 687.50 |
| 273 | Fonteyn Margot; Nureyev Rudolf | Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev Signed Still From "Swan Lake" |
ca. 1960s | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 625.00 | |
| 274 | Hepburn Katharine; Nijinsky Kyra | Katharine Hepburn (2) TLS & Booklet Gifted by Daughter of Vaslav Nijinsky |
Roma | 1981; 1992; 1954 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 307.20 |
| 275 | Houdini Harry | Houdini TLS to Lifelong Friend W. Goldston Recommending a Magician in "mental card tricks" to the Magician's Club |
Saint Louis, Missouri | 1924 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 276 | Hughes Howard R | Howard Hughes Signed 1958 Contract, PSA/DNA - In Archive Re: $7 Million Loan; RKO Flops "The Conqueror" & "Jet Pilot" |
New York City; Los Angeles, California | 1956-1959 | USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
| 277 | King B B; Washington Fats | B.B. King Signed Handwritten "Everything But You" Lyrics - Virtually Unknown Classic Blues Song |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 812.50 | |
| 278 | Laurel Stan | Stan Laurel Signed Envelope, PSA Authenticated & Slabbed! |
Paris, France | 1951 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 225.00 |
| 279 | Laurel Stan | Stan Laurel ALS On Meeting French President "he would probably have me deported – or send me to Stalin for a Xmas present!” |
Paris, France | 1950 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 325.00 |
| 280 | Lee Bruce | Bruce Lee 3pp Best ALS on Principles of Yin and Yang: "you need your opponent to complete the… whole" |
ca. August 1964 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 37,500.00 | |
| 281 | Leigh Vivien | Vivien Leigh ALS With Movie Content |
1940 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 5,312.50 | |
| 282 | de Dienes Andre | Marilyn Monroe PSA Type II Photo, from Andre de Dienes' 1945 "Family Circle" Photo Shoot |
Hollywood, Calif. | 1945, printed 1970s | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 283 | Nathan Isaac | Exceedingly Rare Isaac Nathan 1833 Signed Poem |
1833 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 284 | Presley Priscilla | Priscilla Presley Signed Oversized Wedding Photo, PSA Authentic |
1967 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 200.00 | |
| 285 | Ringling Al;Ringling Charles;Ringling Henry | (3) Ringling Bros. Checks, Ca. 1912-1913, Signed By Al, Charles, & Henry |
Baraboo, Wisconsin | 1912-1913 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 687.50 |
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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 -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000