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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts Total Sales (USD) 990,560.00
Auction Date February 11, 2026 - February 11, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 528,400.00
Sale Number #735 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 749,400.00
Total Lots 547
Sold Lots 477.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 718,800.00
% of Lots Sold 87.20% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,016,200.00
Unsold Lots 70 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 97.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
12

Louisiana Purchase: James Monroe, Robert R. Livingston, and Francois Barbe-Marbois (2) Documents Signed for the Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty

 1803 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 82,394.00
317

Stephen Hawking Signed Book - The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution

 1973 USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 24,956.00
251

Louisiana: John Law Document Signed, Initiating the Transport of Settlers from France Under His Mississippi Scheme

 no date but circa December 1717 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 24,630.00
608

Beatles (2) Signed Parlophone UK First Pressing Single Records of 'Love Me Do'

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,889.00
1

George Washington Document Signed as President - Three-Language Ship's Papers for a Trade Voyage

 1794 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,751.00
276

Grigori Rasputin Autograph Letter Signed

 1905 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,101.00
309

Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed on the Installation of Electric Lighting in New York City

 1882 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 14,815.00
743

Marilyn Monroe Signed Oversized Photograph by Frank Powolny - "It's a pleasure to work with you"

 1953 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 14,309.00
31

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing a "Superintendent of Indian Affairs, for the Territory of New Mexico"

 1864 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,590.00
305

Marie Curie Document Signed - Radioactivity Results from Curie's Lab

 1931 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,389.00
32

Abraham Lincoln Signature as President

 1861 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,080.00
6

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State, Promoting Desalination of Sea Water for American Ships

 1792 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,344.00
306

Marie Curie Autograph Letter Signed, Dated Shortly After the Reception of Her Second Nobel Prize

 1912 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,543.00
52

Harry S. Truman: 'Dewey Defeats Truman' Chicago Tribune Newspaper aEU" Complete Issue

 1948 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 10,478.00
612

Beatles: John Lennon Signed Book with Sketches - The Penguin

 1965 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,208.00
448

Napoleon's Personally-Owned Book from His Library at St. Helena - L'Art de VA(c)rifier les Dates des Faits Historiques

 1818 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,186.00
237

John Hancock Document Signed, Endorsing Castle Island Court Martial Sentences for a Prison Arsonist and Would-Be Escapees

 1790 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,250.00
537

Salvador Dali Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch: "Preparing an unprecedented exhibition of my work"

 1952 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,196.00
13

Louisiana Purchase: James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed, Preparing to Depart for France to Negotiate the Purchase of New Orleans: "You know how sudden my appointment was"

 1803 USD 7,500.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,074.00
314

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed to an Aryan German on the Rise of Nazism (1933): "The people in Germany are not as bad as the behavior of the state..However, there is a great danger"

 1933 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,074.00
66

Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev Signed Photograph

 1988 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 8,848.00
42

Theodore Roosevelt Archive of (4) Signed Letters to His Cousin, a Fellow Rough Rider, with Rare Medal Collection - Three Letters Signed as President

 1898 and 1906 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,785.00
446

Jefferson Davis Document Signed as President of CSA

 1863 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,316.00
313

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph: "With a strong curse"

 1933 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,249.00
395

Ray Kroc Signed Hamburger Sketch

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 7,871.00
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & ManuscriptsAvailable for Immediate Purchase Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD. Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD. Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
    Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000 Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000 Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000 Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000