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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 204 | Dey Anthony;Sumner William H.;Curtis George W. | Rare Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company Labor Scrip |
New York City | 1830 | USD 800.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 205 | Hoover J. Edgar | J. Edgar Hoover TLS: "… the Communist trials in New York … required my presence there" |
Washington, D.C. | 1955 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 206 | Hoover J. Edgar | J. Edgar Hoover TLS: 1957 "the Little Rock situation" Great Civil Rights, Integration Content |
Washington, D.C. | 1957 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 207 | Meyer Lansky's Birthday Book w/ "Meyer" Inscription on his Birthday! Ex. Lansky Family with Provenance from his Grandson! |
N/A | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | ||
| 208 | Messick Hank | Meyer Lansky's Personally Owned Copy of "Lansky" Ex. Lansky Family with Provenance from his Grandson! |
New York, NY | ca. 1971 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 209 | Prohibition-Era Drug Store Archive: 180pp of Permits, Applications, Prescriptions of Opium, Heroine & More |
Walpole, NH | 1916-1933 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 210 | Rockefeller John D.; Flagler Henry M.; Freeman Joel F. | Rockefeller & Flagler Signed Green Standard Oil Stock Certificate |
New York, NY | 1890 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 211 | Rockefeller John D.; Flagler Henry M.; Freeman Joel F. | Rockefeller & Flagler Signed Scarce Brown Standard Oil Stock Certificate |
New York, NY | 1888 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 212 | Woolworth Frank | Woolworth Leases a Storefront in 1912 Just Months Before Consolidating his 596 Stores! |
Webster, MA | 1912 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 213 | Richards Samuel Jr.; Williams William; Moore William | Free African-American Veterans & Poor in Late 18th C. New England |
Hartford, CT; Windham, CT; Boston, MA | 1780-1792 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 214 | May Jesse; Harrison Thomas | Georgia Requires Tavern Owners to Swear Not to Provide Liquor to Slaves or Free Blacks |
Decatur County, GA | 1845-1846 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 215 | Grist Richard | Georgia Farmer Writes to Guardian of Free Black Man |
Early County, GA | 1830 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 216 | Cole George W.; Dorsey Mary Elizabeth | Georgia Slaveowners & Freedpeople Adjust to the End of Slavery |
Webster County, GA; Clayton County, GA | 1867 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 217 | Griggs Samuel | Black Voters, 1846! New York Abolitionist Farmer Condemns State’s Attitude |
Levanna, NY | 1846 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 218 | Barton Clara | Clara Barton 3x Signed Receipt for Hospital Dividend! |
Glen Echo, MD | 1911 | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 219 | Wallace Walter Benjamin | Racist Doctor's Letter with Coal Miner's Strike Content in Indian Territory: "As for Lehigh it is just as full of n**** as ever and just as undesirable a place to live in now as one would imagine" |
Lehigh, Indian Territory | 1900 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 221 | Teresa Mother | Mother Teresa Signed "Peace, Justice, Progress" Unique United Nations First Day Cover |
New York, NY | 1970 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 222 | Parks Rosa; Collins Paul | Rosa Parks Boldly Signed Portrait |
circa 1997 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 223 | Parks Rosa | Rosa Parks Signed First Edition of "My Story" |
New York | 1992 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 224 | Division & Valuation of Slaves in Wills & Estates |
1800-1864 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | ||
| 225 | Holloway Catherine P.; Wright John G.; Kinney Jefferson | Antebellum Prenuptial Agreement Protects Bride’s Slaves from Control of Husband or His Creditors |
Augusta County, Virginia | 1831 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 226 | Barron Henry A. | Values of Slaves Letter Discussing Legal Strategy on a Case Involving Ownership |
Barron's, Virginia | 1824 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 227 | Redman Mary; Boynton James S. | Widow & Slaveowner Attempts to Distribute Slaves Among Heirs During Civil War |
Butts County, Georgia | 1861-1862 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 228 | Jones Samuel B. | South Carolina Minister Helps Slaveowner Seek Compensation from State for Impressed Slave |
Cokesbury, South Carolina | 1863 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 229 | Five Slaves in Georgia! Estate Inventory Lists & Values |
Fayette County, Georgia | ca. 1833-1837 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | 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