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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 390 | Kennedy Robert F. Jr. | RFK Jr. Rare ALS During Incarceration in Puerto Rico |
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico | 2001 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 391 | Marshall John | John Marshall Just Before Chief Justice: Impressment of 2 U.S. Seamen on British Naval Vessels! |
Washington | 1800 | USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,625.00 |
| 393 | Waite Morrison Remick | M.R. Waite Supreme Court Justice on Official Life & Being "acknowledged leader of the bar" |
Lyme, CT | 1879 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 394 | Burger Warren; Brennan William J Jr; Stewart Potter; White Byron R; Blackmun Harry A; Powell Lewis F Jr; Stevens John P | Warren Burger Court Justices in Bicentennial Supreme Court Booklet, 7 Live Sigs., With JSA LOA |
Washington, D.C. | ca. 1976 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 395 | Arago Francois 1786-1853 | Francois Arago ALS Mentioning Fellow Astronomer & Brother-in-Law Claude-Louis Mathieu |
Metz | 1843 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 396 | Babbage Charles 1791-1871 | Charles Babbage ALS Pulling Strings While Developing Difference & Analytical Engines, With Rare Mathematical Wax Seal! |
ca. 1820s-1840s | USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 397 | Barnard Christiaan 1922-2001 | Christiaan Barnard Signed Early Manuscript For Medical Thriller "The Donor" - Hearts, Kidneys & Medical Dilemmas! |
ca. 1995 | USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 398 | Becquerel Jean Antoine 1878-1953; Becquerel Henri 1852-1908; Teisserenc de Bort Leon 1855-1913 | French Physics, 4 Generations! 50+pp Archive Re: Henri Becquerel, His Grandfather Antoine Cesar, His Father Alexandre-Edmond, & His Son Jean Antoine! |
Fontainebleau | ca. 1906-1946 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 399 | Becquerel Henri 1852-1908 | Henri Becquerel ALS With Publishing Content |
1891 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 400 | Butenandt Adolf 1903-1995 | Nobel Winner Adolf Butenandt, 30+pp Speech Manuscript Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Max Planck Society |
Berlin; Munich | 1961 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 401 | Chadwick James 1891-1974 | James Chadwick AQS: "As I know more of mankind I expect less of them…" |
1952 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 402 | Watson J D; Crick F H C; Wilkins M H F; Stokes A R; Wilson H R; Franklin Rosalind E; Gosling R G | Execeptionally Scarce Offprint Announcing Crick & Watson's Double-Helix Model Signed by Crick, et al. |
London | 1953 | USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
| 403 | Curie Pierre 1859-1906 | Pierre Curie 3x Signed ALS: "I was at the laboratory yesterday" - Dated 6 Months After Nobel Prize Win |
Paris | 1904 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 404 | de Broglie Louis (1892-1987) | Louis de Broglie TLS Re: Goos-Hanchen Shift In Laser Beam Experiment! |
College Park, Maryland | 1972 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 468.75 |
| 405 | Edison Thomas A. | Thomas Edison SP - A “living immortal” on the Occasion of Receiving an Honorary Degree! |
1930 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,375.00 | |
| 406 | Einstein Albert | A. Einstein SP to Japanese Steel Employee, Whose Downfall Later Came After Atomic Bomb- Fantastic Provenance! |
New York, NY | 1921 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
| 407 | Fleming J. A. | J.A. Fleming Describes his Work Alongside Edison, Marconi, & de Forest in Developing Wireless Telegraphy |
circa 1930s | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,875.00 | |
| 408 | Freud Anna (1895-1982) | Anna Freud TLS on Her Father & His Physician: "So far every historical account… about my father personally has contained some mistakes" |
London, England | 1972 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 409 | Marconi Guglielmo | Marconi SP by a Rio, Brazil Studio Taken in the Last Years of His Life |
Sao Paolo | 1935 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 687.50 |
| 410 | Steffansson Vilhjalmur; Pauling Linus; Millikan Robert A. | Science & Exploration Dealer's Lot of (3) SBs Inscribed to Yousuf Karsh, Ex. Karsh Estate |
New York; San Francisco; New York | 1945; 1970; 1950 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 593.75 |
| 411 | Newton Isaac (1642-1726/27) | Sir Isaac Newton PSA Rare & Desirable Signature As "Newton" |
ca. 1700-1708 | USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 | |
| 412 | Paget James (1814-1899) | English Surgeon & Pathologist James Paget ALS |
London | 1853 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 413 | Pavlov Ivan | I. Pavlov ALS w/ Scientific Content to a Swedish Doctor |
St. Petersburg | 1914 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 6,875.00 |
| 414 | Shapley Harlow (1885-1972) | Harlow Shapley Philosophical ALS Re: "World-Line" Formula Describing "Expanding Universe"! |
ND | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 415 | Sharpey-Schafer Edward (1850-1935) | Edward Sharpey-Schafer TLS to Fellow Scientist |
Edinburgh | 1931 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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