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Auction Name
Fine Autographs and Artifacts, featuring The Civil War and Abraham Lincoln
Auction Date
04/09/2025 - 04/09/2025
Sale Number
#715
Total Lots
587
Sold Lots
447
Lots Sold
76.15%
Unsold Lots
140
Total Sales (USD)
1,054,980.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
619,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
939,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
983,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,458,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
72.34%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
63 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Honoring the Late Abraham Lincoln

 1865 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 34,999.00
17 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as President to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Interceding for a "devoted Union man"

 1862 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,258.00
286 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed with Handwritten Velocity Addition Formulas: "c is the velocity of light"

 1952 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 31,251.00
647 Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin Autograph Letter Signed with a Self-Portrait Sketch, Relating a Discussion of "Dope Addiction"

 1965 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 27,500.00
20 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Document Signed - Legal Deposition in a Butter Churn Dispute, with 250+ Words in Lincoln's Hand

 no date but circa 1849. USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 26,488.00
285 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed, with Equations Related to His Work on Unified Field Theory

 1929 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 26,488.00
594 J. R. R. Tolkien Signed

The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle

 1968 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
317 John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth Signature and Original .44 Deringer Pistol

 circa 1864 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,089.00
19 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President for a Treaty Settling Claims of the Hudson Bay Company

 1864 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,613.00
371

Lincoln Assassination: Ford's Theatre Wallpaper Cut from the President's Box

 1866 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 15,344.00
2 George Washington

George Washington Signed Revolutionary War Discharge Certificate (1783)

 1783 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,129.00
758 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed 'Greater Los Angeles Press Club' Program Page (1947)

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 14,949.00
421 Napoleon: Countess Montholon

Napoleon: Countess Montholon Rare Autograph Letter Signed - Napoleon's Last Lover, Reminiscing on the Exiled French Emperor's Life on Saint Helena

 1829 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,589.00
228 Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell Signed Military Document (1653) - Two Months Before Becoming Lord Protector

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,589.00
3 George Washington

George Washington Partial Autograph Document Signed - Full Signature

 1797 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,589.00
21 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing a US Marshal for the Washington Territory

 1861 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,353.00
230 Ho Chi Minh, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh

Notables: Ho Chi Minh, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh Signed Guest Book

 1926-1956 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,789.00
38 Joseph Cross

The Confederate Memoirs of Chaplain Joseph Cross - Original Manuscript for the "First Book' of His Remarkable Civil War Narrative, "Camp and Field: Papers from the Portfolio of an Army Chaplain'

 1861 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 11,731.00
22 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed (1850) - "I am exceedingly hungry about now"

 1850 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,229.00
510 Claude Monet

Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed on the "inauguration of the Flaubert monument"

 1890 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 11,000.00
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    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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