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Auction Name Autographs Total Sales (USD) 802,500.00
Auction Date October 16, 2013 - October 16, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 165,500.00
Sale Number #416 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 165,500.00
Total Lots 1665
Sold Lots 1074 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 260,400.00
% of Lots Sold 64.50% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 260,400.00
Unsold Lots 591 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 308.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
699 Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven: Excessively rare ink signature, "L. v.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 25,428.00
31 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: War-dated ALS as president, signed "A. Lincoln,"

1862 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 23,115.60
1321 Sports and Celebrities Collection

Sports and Celebrities Collection: Huge lifetime autograph collection over 8,000 signatures amassed over almost 50 years from 1960-2008,

USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 20,546.40
217 Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp: Exceedingly rare and very early handwritten endorsement, signed

USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 19,102.80
225 Ferdinand and Isabella

Ferdinand and Isabella: Spanish monarchs best known as the sponsors and patrons of Christopher Columbus.

USD 750.00 - 750.00 USD 19,077.60
208 Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Independence: Scarce engraved broadside, "In Congress, July 4, 1776…

 1776 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 17,299.20
1 George Washington

George Washington: Partly-printed DS as president, signed "Go: Washington,"

1795 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 14,700.00
759 Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin: Collection of four ALSs, all signed "Janis,"

1965 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 13,576.80
6 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson: ALS as president signed "Th: Jefferson,"

1804 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 13,045.20
37 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant: Striking original painting of U. S. Grant by Freeman Woodcock Thorp,

 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 10,540.80
733 Beatles

Beatles: Vintage ballpoint signatures, "Love, Paul McCartney (Beatles)," "George Harrison," "Ringo Starr xxx," and "John Lennon,"

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 8,785.20
5 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson: Conclusion of an ALS signed "Th: Jefferson,"

USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 8,460.00
240 Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

Israeli-Palestinian Agreement: Program for the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian Agreement, held on September 13, 1993

 1993 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 8,460.00
236 John Hancock

John Hancock: Revolutionary War-dated partly-printed DS,

1776 USD 900.00 - 900.00 USD 8,294.40
535 Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire: Influential nineteenth-century French writer (1821-1867)

USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 7,198.80
584 Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro: Highly regarded French painter (1830-1903),

 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 7,198.80
56 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt: Vintage matte-finish 6.5 x 4.5 photo of Roosevelt on the deck of the steamship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, posing with her Captain and crew, signed

USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 6,868.80
757 Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II album signed on the front cover in blue ballpoint by John Bonham and Jimmy Page and on the inside gatefold by Robert Plant.

USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 6,450.00
261 Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur: ALS in French, signed "L. Pasteur,"

1885 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 6,355.20
734 Beatles

Beatles: Vintage glossy 8 x 10 Valex photo, signed on the reverse in blue ballpoint by George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and twice by John Lennon;

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 6,133.20
223 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein: Choice Princeton Bank & Trust Company uncancelled check

 1937 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 5,986.80
280 Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg: Scarce DS, in German and Swedish, quickly signed with an ink scribble (as he commonly did on documents of this type),

1944 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 5,776.80
394 George S. Patton

George S. Patton: ALS signed "George Patton," four pages on two adjoining sheets

 1909 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 5,676.00
556 F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Rare TLS signed "Scott Fitzgerald,"

1939 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 5,407.20
26 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Civil War-dated handwritten endorsement of a prisoner's release signed as president,

 1864 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 4,915.20
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
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    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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