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Auction Info

Auction Name
Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Date
12/23/2025 - 12/23/2025
Sale Number
#122325a
Total Lots
110
Sold Lots
86.0
Lots Sold
78.18%
Unsold Lots
24
Total Sales (EUR)
14,360.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
18,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
23,695.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
25,175.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
31,360.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
45.79%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99874720 Signed ; Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna

Original photograph Signed Autograph Che Guevara

1959 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 1,547.80
99854573 Signe ; Napoleon Bonaparte

Brevet de capitaine signe Bonaparte

1803 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,309.09
99874608 Kasmiri

Koran Prayer decorative manuscript page

1868 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 872.00
99922536

Firma autografa di Lucio Fontana --- Concetto Spaziale - I Quanta (1959)

EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 817.50
99859789 General comte Henri-Gatien Bertrand, grand marechal du palais de Napoleon Ier

Correspondance sur son fils Henri au colonel Bergere, commandant en second de l'Ecole d'application

1834 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 670.35
99964164 Pope Pio VI - Manuscript

Bolla Pontefica di Pio VI

1770 EUR 225.00 - 275.00 EUR 485.05
99644878 Victor Barbaudy

[Manuscrit calligraphie des souvenirs d'enfance de Victor Barbaudy + carnets de dessins originaux]

1939 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 437.09
99886821 Albert Schweitzer

Lettre autographe signee

1935 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 370.60
99867090 President Gamal Abdel Nasser

uEgypt - Middle East - EXTREMELY RARE AND HISTORICALLY CRITICAL: Gamal Abdel Nasser's Complete 1957

1957 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 328.09
98829945 Anoniem

Original Manuscript from a Latin Bible - [France - ca. 13th century]

1250 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 316.10
99814366 sovrano Regno d'Italia + primo ministro

Vittorio Emanuele e Benito MUSSOLINI

1927 EUR 190.00 - 210.00 EUR 294.30
99866958 Anonyme [Aristote] [Saint Thomas d'Aquin]

Manuscrit philosophique en latin du 17e siecle avec gravures

1696 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 294.30
99874220 Jalal al-Din Rumia (after)

Mathnavi

1778 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 272.50
99892021 Unknown

Qur'an - Bihar India

1425 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 220.18
99970389 Cardinale Francesco Maria Banditi

Breve Apostolico con sigillo plumbeo

1788 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 218.00
99929410 Varios Autores

1740 - Monjas de Barcelona de la orden de San Jeronimo ceden unos terrenos a perpetuidad

1740 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 218.00
99883832 Albert & Wanda Vulliez

[manuscrits et tapuscrits] Proces de Nuremberg -- "Crimes economiques" & Dossier Pierre Laval

1946 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 196.20
99953874 Mussolini

Documento STORICO RISERVATO (1926) -- Firmato Autograficamente da BENITO MUSSOLINI come MINISTRO

1926 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 185.30
99830298 Singed ; Che Guevara

Departamento La Cabana ,Carta Firmada Por El Che Guevara ,Rara 18 de Abril

1959 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 180.94
99924331 Signe ; Louis Philippe

Dispense d'Alliance signe avec sceau

1846 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 179.85

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  • 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.
  • 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 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    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