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Auction Name Fine Autographs & Artifacts Total Sales (USD) 929,173.00
Auction Date May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #741 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 462
Sold Lots 400.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 86.58% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 62 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
189

Thomas Cranmer's Heavily Annotated Religious Book - Quatuor conciliorum generalium [The Four General Church Councils] (1524) - Representing His Scholarly Approach to the English Reformation

N/A Not Available USD 127,680.00
523 Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from the Polish Song 'Wiosna (Spring)'

ND Not Available USD 124,999.00
442

Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed: "I believe I did my duty for the artists"

1920 Not Available USD 26,783.00
486 George

George Orwell Autograph Letter Signed on the Progress of Nineteen Eighty-Four

1947 Not Available USD 24,995.00
11 John Kennedy

John F. Kennedy (2) Typed Letters Signed as President, Recruiting the Chairman of the United Negro College Fund Drive, with Postscript Handwritten Days After Martin Luther King's 1963 Birmingham Campaign

N/A Not Available USD 16,500.00
484 Margaret Mitchell Marsh (Mrs. J. R. Marsh)

Margaret Mitchell Typed Letter Signed on the Genesis of Gone With the Wind, Sent to Its First Reader: "I am writing to thank you for the part you played in the acceptance and publication of my book, now titled 'Gone With The Wind'"

1936 Not Available USD 15,679.00
250 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed to an Opponent Physicist: "I think for the time being that you have surrendered to an impermissible mysticism, forgetting that equations are about quantities"

1920 Not Available USD 15,101.00
528 John Winston Lennon

Beatles: John Lennon Signed Membership Application for The Songwriters Guild of Great Britain (1964)

1964 Not Available USD 13,753.00
13 John F. Kennedy; Fabian Bachrach

John F. Kennedy Signed Photograph to His Presidential Portraitist, Fabian Bachrach

N/A Not Available USD 13,389.00
12 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Handwritten Speech Draft on Hand-Corrected Typescript on the Cold War: "NATO has not developed militarily as was earlier presumed—but it has served its purpose—& Western Europe is still free"

1955 Not Available USD 13,289.00
1 George Washington

George Washington Signature, Cloak Swatch, and Lock of Hair

1769 Not Available USD 12,905.00
288

Kennedy Assassination: Warren Commission (8) Multi-Signed Photograph

N/A Not Available USD 12,500.00
428

Paul Gauguin Autograph Letter Signed from Tahiti - "Society has certainly reserved for me, as an artist, a cruel fate"

1898 Not Available USD 10,799.00
621 Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn Signed Sketch - Abstract Female Form

N/A Not Available USD 10,478.00
6 Calvin Coolidge; Grace Coolidge

Calvin and Grace Coolidge Archive of (100+) Signed Letters Dated Between 1921 and 1933 - Over Half Signed as President and First Lady

1921-1933 Not Available USD 10,208.00
251 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Handwritten Poems: "What was the good Lord thinking when he created women, giving them the face of saints, but shameless from behind?"

N/A Not Available USD 10,208.00
536 John Pasche

Rolling Stones: John Pasche Original 'Tongue and Lips' Logo Artwork

1970 Not Available USD 10,068.00
480

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mary: "Won't bother you with my troubles physical, moral, spiritual, monetary, logistical"

1959 Not Available USD 9,378.00
289

Jack Ruby Carousel Club Archive with (7) Signed Checks, (1) DS for the Employment of a Limbo Dancer, and Other Ephemera

N/A Not Available USD 9,279.00
487 Geo. Orwell

George Orwell Typed Letter Signed: "Since you asked for a copy of my autograph, here it is"

1946 Not Available USD 8,666.00
215

Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Book - Stride Toward Freedom - Presented to the Owner of the Marsalis Mansion Motel

1958 Not Available USD 7,499.00
248 Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Annual Report of the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting

1884 Not Available USD 7,499.00
25 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Autograph Letter Signed as President with (3) Original 'Doodle' Sketches

1981 Not Available USD 7,283.00
203

Pope Leo X Document Signed (1515)

N/A Not Available USD 6,749.00
252 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on Physics and Psychology: "This analogy is useless in physics"

1921 Not Available USD 6,513.00
  • 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