University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 72926, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 29, 2026 - July 29, 2026
Page Size: 390 items in 16 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
256 Hooper William (1742-1790)

William Hooper Boldest Signature on Nice Document: "Damage...against...our Lord the King"

Salisbury District 1768 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
257 Hopkinson Francis (1737-1791)

Declaration Signer Francis Hopkinson Signs Debt Certificate That Passes to American Agent in Martinique

1779 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
258 Jenifer Daniel of Saint Thomas (1723-1790)

Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer War-Dated LS re: British Property

1782 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
259 Livingston Philip (1716-1778)

Philip Livingston Signed "Any man of the least Humanity..." Manuscript Letter

New York 1767 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
260 Fayrweather Thomas; Tyng Edward

Harvard Association! 1731 Family Fight Over Estate of Boston Shopkeeper & Landowner

Boston 1732 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
261 Pickering Timothy

Timothy Pickering Tries to Protect Board of War from Unnecessary Distractions

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1779 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
262 Reed Joseph

Joseph Reed, Soon President of Sup. Exec. Council - No More Making Liquor During Revolutionary War to Save Grain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1778 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
263

1st Big Clash Towards Revolution Weeks Before Boston Massacre, 1769-70 Ledger NY 16th Regiment of Foot Signed 200+ Times by Soldiers Who Opposed American Independence! The Battle of Golden Hill

New York, New York 1769-1770 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
264 Seymour Thomas;Ellsworth Oliver

Bunker Hill Pay To Company That Defended Boston in "the Late Boston Alarm" One Month After

Hartford, Connecticut 1775 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
265 Avery John;Perkins Ezra;Hill Alexander;Titcomb Jonathan

Group Lot of Revolutionary War Related Documents

Massachusetts;Connecticut 1775-1830 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
266 Tay Samuel;Livingston Walter;Riddell John;Curson Samuel

1776 Group Lot Including a Soldier's Letter, Receipt for Salt Peter, and a Request to Leave the Colonies

Massachusetts;Connecticut;New York;Virginia;Sint Eustatius 1776 USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
267 Hughes Hugh;Meng Christopher;Wright Joseph

Revolutionary War Document Archive

Connecticut;Virginia 1780-1782 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
268 How Ezekiel

1776 Return Listing Troop Strengths & Officers in Middlesex County Less Than a Month After Independence is Declared!

Sudbury, Massachusetts 1776 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
269 Vail Michael;Burton Josiah

Green Mountain Boys Take Forts Ticonderoga & Crown Point on Lake Champlain

Crown Point, New York;Manchester, Vermont 1775-1776 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
270 Edwards Timothy;Lincoln Benjamin;Harrison Burr;Stewart Charles

Rev. War Group Lot Illustrating Hardships Faced After the Fighting Had Ended

New York;Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;Virginia 1782-1783 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
271 Seymour Thomas; Root Jesse

1784 Accounting After Rev. War Incl. "granting Freedom of the State to Marquis de Lafayette" & Protecting the Western Frontier

Hartford 1784 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
272 Ellsworth Oliver

O. Ellsworth 1775 Signed Early Rev. War Pay Order For "Riflemen on their March...near Boston"

Hartford 1775 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
273 Wadsworth Peleg

Revolutionary War Court Martial Boldly Signed By Peleg Wadsworth: "Not Guilty"

Roxbury 1775 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
274 Cheever David

One Month After Lexington-Concord and One Month Before Bunker Hill, Massachusetts Committee of Supplies Seeks to Purchase Flour Bound for Boston During Siege

Watertown 1775 USD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
275

1781 Boston Printed Act Excluding "Negroes, Indians and Mulattoes" from Military Service

Boston 1781 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
276 Hyde Caleb; Quincy Josiah

American Victory at Yorktown Soon! Josiah Quincy Expresses Confidence in Land Values in Western Massachusetts

Lenox; Braintree 1781 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
277 Platt Joseph; Belden Thomas

Start of Revolutionary War 1775 Pay Order for Regiment Training

Norwalk 1775 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
278 Keeler Isaac; Lockwood Eliphalet

(2) Rev. War Documents Related to Two Soldiers Who Wintered at Valley Forge

Hartford 1781-1782 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
279

Boston Printed Act to Clothe MA Line of Continental Army

Boston 1781 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
280 Bayard John

John Bayard Signed Pay Order as Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1777

Philadelphia 1777 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
  • 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