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Auction Name: Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Date: 12/21/2025 - 12/21/2025
Sale Number: #122125b
Total Lots: 46
Sold Lots: 14.0
Lots Sold: 30.43%
Unsold Lots: 32

Total Sales (EUR): 16,059.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 15,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 18,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 71,235.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 81,290.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 19.76%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99816958		Superb photo signed and inscribed "To Evelyn" with the inscription "Much Love & thanks from Diana"	1992	EUR 5,000.00 - 5,500.00	EUR 3,325.59
99863519		Ethiopische gebedsrol	1790	EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00	EUR 3,298.34
99773466	Signe ; Napoleon Bonaparte	Nomination de Thomas Riboud - Canton de Bourg	1804	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,880.25
99816999		Signed ; WILHELM II (1859-1941, German Emperor) --- 1891 --- Signed portrait dedicated to Captain	1891	EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,689.50
99817329	Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French chemist)	Important Autograph Letter Signed about the Creation of the Pasteur Institute	1888	EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,362.50
99660374	Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna	Original photograph Signed Autograph Che Guevara	1960	EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00	EUR 1,062.75
99899523	VAUBAN (1633-1707) [Marechal de France de Louis XIV]	Lettre signee de la Citadelle de Lille	1693	EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 872.00
99817668	George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)	Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Arthur STREET	1939	EUR 650.00 - 750.00	EUR 555.90
99817033	Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002)	Autograph Letter Signed to "Dearest Ava", Lady WAVERLEY	1958	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 436.00
99817298	Gustave Dore (1832-1882) [French Painter]	Autograph Letter Signed with initials to 'My dear Leleux'	1871	EUR 425.00 - 475.00	EUR 408.75
98729603	Signed ; Louis Armstrong (1900-1971) & Juliet Pannett	Charcoal Portrait and Signed Photo	1956	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 382.59
99964129	Charles II de Savoie	Rare lettre signee au Sieur de Longecombe avec son sceau rouge	1540	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 327.00
99879119	Italian scriptorium of the Middle Ages	Breviary illuminated leaf on vellum Italy Very big initial with burnished gold and colours	1450/1480	EUR 350.00 - 400.00	EUR 283.40
99817607		Handwritten document related to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Hand colored coat of arms in the	1582	EUR 225.00 - 275.00	EUR 174.40
99842163		A pair of book covers in the Renaissance style, or 'Tavolette di Biccherna' cura late 19th century		EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
99817247	Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980)	Autograph Letter Signed to Gaby Goldscheider	1974	EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
99817240	Arthur Rackham (1867-1939, Illustrator)	Collection of 8 Original Early Sketches by Arthur Rackham	1896	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
99817310	Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974) [Messageries Maritimes]	Autograph letter and rare 1st english edition of his book 'Hashish'	1935	EUR 475.00 - 525.00	Not Sold
99817571	Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [Novelist & Poet]	Fine Autograph letter signed in full marked 'Private' to 'Dear Sir Charles'	1922	EUR 850.00 - 950.00	Not Sold
99917320	George SAND	13 lettres autographes signees a son ami de jeunesse	1849	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold

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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.