University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 72926, Wilton
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 29, 2026 - July 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 388 | Fish Hamilton (1808-1893) | Pair of Hamilton Fish Handwritten Letters to Future Presidential Candidate |
New York, NY | 1860; 1867 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 389 | Goldwater Barry (1909-1998) | (5) Barry Goldwater 50th Anniversary of Arizona Statehood First Day Covers |
Phoenix, AZ | 1962 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 390 | Greeley Horace (1811-1872) | Horace Greeley ALS: "I have done all I can, and the result is nothing" |
1860 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 391 | Dealer's Lot of 35 Cut Signatures of Civil War-Era Notables! |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | ||
| 392 | NY Politicians & Notables Collection: Conkling, Seymour, Tilden & More! |
New York, NY | 1860; 1873 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 393 | Seymour Horatio (1810-1886); Fish Hamilton (1808-1893) | Hamilton Fish & Horatio Seymour ALSs to Famed Attorney |
Utica, NY; Garrison, NY | 1860 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 394 | McLean John (1785-1861); Miller Samuel (1816-1890); Waite Morrison (1816-1888); Cardozo Benjamin (1870-1938); Frankfurter Felix (1882-1965); Burton Harold (1888-1964) | Supreme Court Dealer's Lot of 6: Waite, McLean, Frankfurter & More! |
1815-1946 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 395 | Webster Daniel (1782-1852); Seward William (1801-1872) | William Seward & (2) Daniel Webster Signed Cut Displays - Great Group! |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 396 | Wright Silas (1795-1847) | S. Wright Important ALS on Jacksonian Dems, Corruption, Patriotism & "principles of our fathers" and "factitious effects of an unscrupulous opposition" |
Washington, DC | 1834 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 397 | Berners-Lee Tim (b. 1955) | Tim Berners-Lee Signed 1st Edition Book "This Is For Everyone" |
London | 2025 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 398 | Edison Thomas | Edison Sends Samples of Platinum & Iridosmine (included) in Hopes of Securing More for Use to Develop the Lightbulb! |
Menlo Park, New Jersey | 1879 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 399 | Edison Thomas | Thomas Edison TLS Reminiscing on Early Days in Newark |
Orange, New Jersey | 1929 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 400 | Einstein Albert (1879-1955) | Albert Einstein AM Formalizing Final Approach To Unified Field Theory: “I want to try to show that a truly natural choice for field equations exists,” PSA Slabbed |
ca. 1940s | USD 18,000.00 - 24,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 401 | Einstein Albert | Einstein Defends the Theory of Relativity Against a Proponent of Universal Time! Fantastic ALS |
Berlin, Germany | ca. July 1920 | USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | Unknown |
| 402 | Einstein Albert (1879-1955) | A. Einstein TLS "the general theory of relativity" Rejecting Lande's Quantum Mechanics Interpretation As Related - Part of Much Larger Rift In Physics Community! |
Princeton, New Jersey | 1935 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 403 | Einstein Albert | Albert Einstein TLS to Turkish Physicist Studying Unified Field Theory |
Princeton, New Jersey | 1953 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 404 | Einstein Albert | Albert Einstein Envelope to Critic of Theory of Relativity, PSA Slabbed |
Berlin, Germany | 1920 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 405 | Einstein Albert | Einstein Requests Ride to Visit with Prominent Jewish Philanthropist, Henry Morgenthau, Sr. |
Princeton, New Jersey | 1940 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 406 | Freud Sigmund (1856-1939) | Sigmund Freud 1921 ALS: "I could still accept you for analysis… you must have at least four months for it" |
Vienna, Austria | 1921 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 407 | Heimlich Henry J. (1920-2016) | H. Heimlich Signed Early Broadside on his Life-Saving Heimlich Maneuver, Still Pending Trademark! |
1976 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 408 | Hill Archibald V. (1886-1977) | Archibald Hill TLS to Robert Chambers |
London, UK | 1929 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 409 | Jacobi Jolande; Adler Gerhard; Freeman John | Carl Jung's "Man and His Symbols" Collaborators: 3 TLSs From Jacobi, Adler, Freeman |
1960-1961 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
| 410 | Middeldorpf Albrecht Theodor (1824-1868) | Prussian Surgeon Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf ALS Dated 3 Months Before His Death |
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia | 1868 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 411 | Pauling Linus | Nobel Winner Linus Pauling Signed 1931 Offprint of a Groundbreaking Paper! |
1931 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 412 | Robitzek Edward Heinrich (1912-1984) | E. H. Robitzek, Physician Who Developed Cure for TB, Archive of 3 ALS & Signed Pamphlets |
1952; 1956; 1978 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
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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