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    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
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    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 308 - Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to "Just Like a Woman" With Jeff Rosen & JSA Authentication
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 455 - Isaac Newton Admiration For Judaism & Moral Continuity With Christianity! 350+ Words in his Hand - Extraordinary Content!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 219 - 371g Moon Meteorite, Incredible Find - Laâyoune 002
    University Archives
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    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 448 - Scarce Einstein AM on Unified Field Theory, 180+ Words & 11 Equations in His Hand! From His Published Article, "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation"
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 159 - Woodrow Wilson Baseball Signed for WWI Red Cross Fundraiser, Ex. Forbes & PSA Authentic - Finest Known!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 84 - Lee Harvey Oswald ALS to Brother, Trying Desperately to Get out of Russia! Highly Important
    University Archives
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    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 152 - George Washington Signed Discharge for MA Soldier Whose Regiment Was at Bunker Hill!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 88 - Abraham Lincoln Fully Signed Military Appointment for Mexican War Vet & Respected Cavalryman
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 188 - Apollo XI Astronauts & Their Wives Signed Photo, Plus Crew Signed Cover, From Apollo XI Presidential Goodwill Tour Era, Pre-Cert Zarelli
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 265 - Martin Luther King, Jr. TLS Re: "Stride Toward Freedom" Film Rights To Literary Agent Marie Rodell
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 324 - John Lennon Signed Apple Records Check, PSA GEM MT 10! Possibly Finest Known
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 79 - John & Jacqueline Kennedy Signed WH 1963 Christmas Gift Inscribed to Close Friend Joan Braden, PSA Authentic
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    Auction November 24th
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: M. Waldseemüller, Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, 1520. Est: € 250,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: I. Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, 1687. Est: € 100,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: L. Feininger, Collection of 33 comic strips, 1906-1907. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 24th
    Ketterer, Nov. 24:H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 30,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: K. Bodmer, Personal Sketchbook with ca. 80 pencil drawings. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: Collection of 18 Bauhaus postcards “Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923.“ Est: € 40,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 24th
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: Latin Book of hours on vellum, 1505. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: G. Shaw & F. P. Nodder, Vivarium naturae, 1789-1813. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: A. de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943. Est: € 6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 24th
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: Ibn Butlan, Tacuini sanitatis, 1531. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: H. Hesse, Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola, 1927. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 24: Pop Art portfolio Reality & Paradoxes, 1973. Est: € 12,000
  • Doyle
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Auction Info

Auction Name
Americana
Auction Date
11/04/2025 - 11/04/2025
Sale Number
#30940
Total Lots
31
Sold Lots
24
Lots Sold
77.42%
Unsold Lots
7
Total Sales (USD)
35,059.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
25,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
41,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
33,400.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
53,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
65.53%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5 signed Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward, 13 October 1863

Multilingual Passport for the Whaling Ship Sappho

1863 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,800.00
56 Richard Gillsepie (printer), Anderston, Scotland, c. 1825

Portrait of Susan Le Baron March Stockwell (1812-94)

c. 1825 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,096.00
24 After John James Audubon

Author Inscribed Title Plate, from Birds of America Vol. 1;

1844 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,432.00
125 After John James Audubon

Ten Lithographs from the Royal Octavo Edition of Birds of America;

c. 1840 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,536.00
3 Auguste Edouart (1789-1861), dated 1839-42

Nine Framed Silhouettes

1839-42 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,280.00
218 After John James Audubon

Turkey Buzzard (Plate CLI), from Birds of America;

1833 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,152.00
262 After John James Audubon

Racoon (Plate LXI), from Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America;

c. 1845 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,024.00
214 After John James Audubon

Brown headed Worm Eating Warbler (Plate CXCVIII), from Birds of America;

c. 1834 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,024.00
100 After John James Audubon

Black Backed Gull (Plate CCXLI), from Birds of America;

1835 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,024.00
193 After John James Audubon

Sandwich Tern (Plate CCLXXIX), from Birds of America;

1835 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,024.00
36 After John James Audubon

Yellow Redpoll Warbler (Plate CXLV), from Birds of America;

1832 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
199 After John James Audubon

American Redstart (Plate XL), from Birds of America;

c. 1834 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 960.00
72

Auguste Edouart (1789-1861), Boston and Saratoga, 1841-5

1841-5 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 832.00
147

Mermaid and Ship Decorated Horn Tumbler

c. 1840 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 640.00
203 After John James Audubon

Long Haired Squirrel (Plate XXVII), from Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America;

1844 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 640.00
105 FRANK WESTON BENSON

Two Framed Prints: The Start and Bluebills

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 614.40
57

Portrait of Susan Le Baron March Stockwell (1812-94)

1864 and 1867 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 588.80
156 After John James Audubon

Oregon Flying Squirrel (Plate XV), from Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America;

c. 1844 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 537.60
148 After John James Audubon

American Cross Fox (Plate VI), from Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America;

1843 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 486.40
39 J. Giles

The Great International Caledonian Games Held at Jones Woods New-York City, July 1st 1867

1867 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 384.00

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  • Swann
    Printed & Manuscript Americana
    November 20, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 9
    George Catlin. O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and other Customs of the Mandans. London, 1867.
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 17
    Benjamin Beal, Unpublished diary of a lieutenant serving in the Invasion of Quebec, 1776.
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 23
    George Washington, Autograph Letter Signed anticipating the coming British campaign against Philadelphia, 1777.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript Americana
    November 20, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 35
    Matthias C. Sprengel, Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, the first published appearance of the American flag, [1784].
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 120
    Portfolio of lithograph Civil War portraits by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. and others. Cincinnati, OH, circa 1863.
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 130
    Eleazar Huntington, engraver. Early broadside engraving of the Declaration of Independence, circa 1820-24.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript Americana
    November 20, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 175
    Jeremiah B. Taylor, Letterbook of a frontier Baptist missionary in Kansas with tales of friendly Indians and unfriendly Confederate raiders, 1839-1887.
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 188
    Jonas Rishel, The Indian Physician, Containing a New System of Practice, Founded on Medical Plants, 1828.
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 201
    Brigham Young and the First Presidency of the LDS, Commission issued to two Church representatives, 1849.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript Americana
    November 20, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 293
    Kuonraden's Vart (Kuonrad's Travels), an illustrated western travel memoir set to verse, circa 1914.
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 311
    Hermann Stieffel, Early watercolor view of the ruins of a Spanish mission in the Manzano Grant. Manzano, NM, circa 1860-67.
    Swann, Nov. 20: Lot 343
    Vida de San Felipe de Jesus, protomartir del Japon, y patron de su patria Mexico.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
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    Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Audebert, Jean-Baptiste — Louis-Pierre Vieillot. Oiseaux dorés ou à reflets métalliques, Paris, 1801-1802. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: [Hugo, Victor] — Charles Hugo, François-Victor Hugo ou Auguste Vacquerie. Portrait de Victor Hugo. Daguerréotype réalisé à Jersey vers 1852-1853. €20,000 to €30,000.
    Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Orbigny, Alcide d'. Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale... Paris, Pitois-Levrault et Cie et Strasbourg, Levrault, 1834-1847. €10,000 to €15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Chelidonius, Benedictus. Passio Jesu Chriti. [1526?]. Maroquin bleu de Niédrée. 37 bois inspirés par Dürer. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Cassini de Thury, César-François. Carte générale de la France faite en 1744. Paris, 1756-1788. 178 cartes entoilées, réunies dans 28 emboîtages. €15,000 to €20,000.
  • Freeman’s, Nov. 13: HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Three Stories and Ten Poems. First edition, inscribed to his cousin, Ruth White Lowry. $60,000-80,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: CURTIS, Edward S. The North American Indian... Portfolio and two text volumes. $20,000-30,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: A Superb Illuminated Manuscript of Tennyson’s Le Morte d'Arthur, ca. 1910, by Alberto Sangorksi and in an exceptional Riviere binding. $40,000-50,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: A Remarkable Epistle from Robert Burns to Frances Dunlop, containing all lines of the first version of "Written in Friars Carse Hermitage" and 12 lines of the first version of "First Epistle to Robert Graham Esq." $20,000-30,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses. First edition, limited issue, one of 100 copies signed by Faulkner. $10,000-15,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. First English edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Maugham, in the rare suppressed dust-jacket. $40,000-50,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: An Excessively Rare First Issue and Previously Unrecorded Copy of Shakespeare’s Third Folio. $40,000-60,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: AUDUBON, John James. Louisiana Heron, Ardea Ludoviciana. (Plate CCXVII). $30,000-40,000
    Freeman’s, Nov. 13: HERBERT, Frank. Dune, 1965. First edition, inscribed by Herbert. $8,000-12,000