University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 61726, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 17, 2026 - June 17, 2026
Page Size: 391 items in 16 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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