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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 230 | Camden Calvert & King | Rare 1788 Slave Trade Letter Requesting Payment for "Cargos of Slaves...such a valuable Property" |
London | 1788 | USD 2,600.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 231 | Hill Richard | Madeira Wine Merchant Distributes Slaves in Will |
Madeira | 1761; 1762 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 232 | Cox Gabriel; Moragne Isaac; Martin E. C. | Hiring Out Slaves for 1843 from a South Carolina Estate |
McCormick County, South Carolina | 1843 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 233 | Barraud Otway B.; Lewis David William | Family Seeks Information on Compensation for Slaves Lost in Revolutionary War at Ft. Morris - They Were Owned by Morris! |
Norfolk, Virginia; Milledgeville, Georgia | 1839 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 234 | Ritche Moses; Rowell Alexander H. | Slaveowners Sell Individual & Groups of Slaves Across the Antebellum South |
North Carolina; South Carolina; Virginia | 1833; 1848; 1849 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 235 | Conrad G. W.; Moore A. B.; Avery J. C. | Individuals & Railroads Hire Slaves; Slaveowner Faces Legal Trouble for Allowing Slave to Hire Himself |
North Carolina; Texas; Alabama | 1852; 1857; 1861 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 236 | Oliver Egbert O. | Texas Slaveholder Seizes Slaves from Fellow Slaveholders to Prevent Their Being Sold Out of the State |
Texas | 1851 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 237 | McCann Joshua; Anderson Henry | Commissioners Divide Slaves Among Heirs in Southern Georgia |
Thomas County, Georgia | 1843 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 238 | Jones Edward | Treasury Department Official Seeks Runaway Slave in Philadelphia |
Washington, D.C. | 1810 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 239 | Slone Joshua | Guardian Accounts for Hire of Slaves to Support Minor Ward |
Wilcox County, Alabama | 1835 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 240 | Goldthwaite George | Contested Slaves - Alabama Judge Decides Possession |
Wilcox County, Alabama | 1850 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 241 | Spanheim Friedrich | Friedrich Spanheim the Younger ALS In French, Greek & Latin: "I lost several moments chastising the ignorance, and the calumny, of my defamer" |
Leiden | 1684 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 242 | Stone Lucy;Blackwell Henry | Lucy Stone Archive of Letters and Ephemera w/ Suffrage Content |
Boston;Dorchester | 1870-1887 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 243 | Turtle Samuel | Revolutionary War Pay Order to Samuel Pillsbury, Said to Have Rowed B. Arnold to the HMS Vulture |
Newburyport, Massachusetts | 1780 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 244 | Thomas Isaiah | Early Printing of Articles of Confederation by Isaiah Thomas, 1782 |
Worcester, Massachusetts | 1782 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 246 | Scott Joseph | Boston Massacre, Just Days After: “As to the Party that fired on our people they remain in Jail for there tryall” - Virtually Unique on the Market! |
Boston, Massachusetts | 1770 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 247 | Burr Aaron | Aaron Burr PSA Slabbed Certified 2x Signed 1788 Bank Check |
New York, New York | 1788 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 248 | Burr Aaron | Aaron Burr Signed Manhattan Company Check |
New York, New York | 1800 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 249 | Clinton George;Barlo Edmund | G. Clinton Signed Rev. War Appointment Plus 2 Docs. Listing Prisoners and Court Martials |
Poughkeepsie, New York;New London, Connecticut | 1779-1780 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 250 | Clymer George | George Clymer, Dec. & Constitution Signer, PSA Slabbed NM-MT 8 Signed Check A Few Months After Becoming Bank President! |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1803 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 251 | Colden Cadwallader (1688-1776) | Citation Issued in the Last Weeks Before the NY Provincial Congress Convenes in 1775 |
City of New York | 1775 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 252 | Ellery William (1727-1820) | William Ellery Collects Customs On Slave Ship in Newport, Oct. 1793 |
Newport | 1793 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 253 | Franklin Benjamin (1706-1790) | Ben Franklin Free Frank Signature to William Greene, PSA Slabbed |
1763 | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 254 | Hamilton Alexander (1757-1804) | Alex. Hamilton LS: "very important objects in the business," Just After Having Passed His Bill For Fed. Assumption of All State Debts, He Continues His Work to Strengthen Union! |
Philadelphia | 1790 | USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 255 | Hancock John | J. Hancock Re: Nathaniel Gorham and Fellow Declaration Signer Elbridge Gerry, Winning Election |
Boston | 1789 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 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