Auction Reports

Early American

Auction Info

Auction Name
History Auction - rescheduled
Auction Date
12/27/2025 - 12/27/2025
Sale Number
#122725
Total Lots
134
Sold Lots
120.0
Lots Sold
89.55%
Unsold Lots
14
Total Sales (USD)
316,270.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
235,870.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
325,830.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
269,470.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
372,430.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
84.92%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
40 G. Washington

c. 1777 Revolutionary War Autograph Transmittal Address Sheet Signed, "G. Washington, endorsed by him On Public Service, with its Original Red Wax Personal Seal of GEORGE WASHINGTON fully intact, addressed to Brigadier General (William) Smallwood.

c. 1777 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 33,800.00
87

September 9, 1783-Dated Revolutionary War Period, Rare Issue, The Connecticut Courant Newspaper, Edition No. 972, special heading reading: The Last Official Address of his Excellency General Washington -

June 1783. USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 14,300.00
86

c. Jan. 9th, 1800 George Washington Mourning Broadside, Order of Performances / INSTRUMENTAL DIRGE. / PRAYER, By REV. DR. ECKLEY. / HYMN, / Written At The Request... Arrangement By Rev. John S. J. Gardner.

1800 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 14,300.00
21 l Henry Knox

May 23, 1778-Dated ,VALLEY FORGE, General Henry Knox 1778 Revolutionary War Letter Signed From Valley Forge Camp Regarding Resupplying the Army with Artillery, Wagons and Horses + More ...

1778 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,400.00
13 Nathanael Greene

February 23, 1783-Dated Revolutionary War Period, Extraordinary Execution Order Signed by Major General Nathanael Greene, for the Execution of Thomas Nicholson, One of His Soldiers Ordered to be Shot to Death for Desertion.

1783 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,400.00
19 Joshua Humphreys,

Joshua Humphreys, a.k.a. Father of the United States Navy, 1795 Regarding Designing + Constructing the First Frigates of the United States Navy Important Autograph Letter Signed

1795 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 9,750.00
39 RICHARD VARICK

RICHARD VARICK Autograph Letter Signed Demanding Arms and Ammunition - Cannon and Grape Shott, at Albany, August 3rd, 1776

1776 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,450.00
134 Alexander Hesler

c. 1860 Photograph Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

c. 1860 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,800.00
62

October 19, 1776 Published, Rare Revolutionary War Date, Engraved Broadside titled, "Plan of New York Island... Engagement on Woody Heights of Long Island... 27 August 1776, between His Majestys Forces... General Howe... under General Putnam..."

1776 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,150.00
36 SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH

1883-Dated SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, Handwritten and Signed First Four Stanzas of AMERICA, Patriotic Song, My Country Tis of Thee

1883 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,500.00
91 Attributed to EDWARD SAVAGE

c 1793 Mezzotint Engraving titled: George Washington. President of the United States of America. From the Original Portrait Painted at the request of the Corporation of the University of Cambridge in Massachusetts.

c 1793 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,500.00
38 Charles E. Hughes

Treaty of Versailles. A True Copy Dated October 13th, 1923 from Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, (Chief Clerk Signed for Hughes) with Red Embossed Department of State Seal attached by a Red Silk Ribbon

1923 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,175.00
9 Horatio Gates

Major General Horatio Gates October 25th, 1777 Signed Revolutionary War Letter Pardon / Pass to a British Officer to return Unmolested to Canada

1777 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,525.00
92 After John Trumbull

1796 General Washington. Rare Stipple Engraving After John Trumbulls Painting

1796 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,525.00
44

TREE OF LIBERTY Newport, Rhode Island Early Historical Research Document Archive

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,200.00
5 CALVIN COOLIDGE

1932 Rare CALVIN COOLIDGE Autographed Typescript + Two Coolidge Signed Letters

1932 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,200.00
61 JOSEPH WARREN

June 1775 (Dr. JOSEPH WARREN), 4.5 Page Manuscript Period Copy of a Eulogium, An Oration for Major-General Joseph Warren, with Photocopy of the Pennsylvania Magazine Monthly Intelligence report where this Eulogy was published in June 1775.

1775 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,200.00
46 Engraved by William Wollett, After Benjamin West

January 1, 1776-Dated, Original Engraved Print titled, The Death of General Wolfe, Engraved by William Wollett, Published by William Wollett and John Boydell, London, After the original Oil Painting by artist Benjamin West, Framed, Very Fine.

1776 USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 4,550.00
179 engraved by Justus Danckerts,

c. 1684 Hand-Colored American Northeast Map titled, Novi Belgii Noveque Anglinae Nec Son Pennsylvaniae et Partis Virginiae Tabula, with a NEW YORK City view Inset, 3rd state often called "Farm Animal Map,"

c. 1684 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,550.00
65 JOHN LANGDON, Speaker and M. WEARE

August 31, 1781-Dated Revolutionary War, Broadsheet, AN ACT for Supplying the Continental Army with Ten Thousand Gallons of West-India RUM, State of New-Hampshire, Town of Hillsboro Copy,

1781 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,550.00

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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.