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Adams, John (1735-1826) Four Language Ship's Passport, Signed, 12 January 1799, as President.
Lot: 1001Sold for: $4,613$3,750Adams, John (1735-1826) Four Language Ship's Passport, Signed, 12 January 1799, as President. Double folio laid sheet, printed in four columns, each in a different language: French, Spanish, more ...
Adams, John (1735-1826) Signed Legal Brief, 5 December 1770.
Lot: 1002Sold for: $1,845$1,500Adams, John (1735-1826) Signed Legal Brief, 5 December 1770. Single leaf of laid paper, typographical form fulfilled by hand, inscribed on both sides. Signed by Adams on the verso, regarding the more ...
Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) Document Signed, 20 December 1779.
Lot: 1003Sold for: $2,583$2,100Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) Document Signed, 20 December 1779. Single leaf, typographically printed and fulfilled by hand. Authorizing the payment of 822 pounds, four shillings to Deacon Samuel Pool more ...
Addams, Charles (1912-1988) Original Art for a New Yorker Magazine Golfing Cartoon, 16 January 1954.
Lot: 1004Sold for: $4,920$4,000Addams, Charles (1912-1988) Original Art for a New Yorker Magazine Golfing Cartoon, 16 January 1954. Ink and gouache on watercolor paper, in black-and-white, signed in lower right corner, with more ...
American Broadside, A Short Account of the Troubles that our Fore-Fathers met with to obtain this Land.
Lot: 1005Sold for: $861$700American Broadside, A Short Account of the Troubles that our Fore-Fathers met with to obtain this Land. [No place: no printer, [between 1776 and 1801]. Single leaf of laid paper, broadside printed more ...
Armstrong, Neil (1930-2012) Signed Program, Kitty Hawk to Tranquility.
Lot: 1006Sold for: $1,107$900Armstrong, Neil (1930-2012) Signed Program, Kitty Hawk to Tranquility. Beverly Hills, California, 5 December 1969. Bifolium color-printed program for the Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, signed by more ...
Astronaut Signatures; Signed Sheet of Project Mercury Stamps.
Lot: 1007Sold for: $677$550Astronaut Signatures; Signed Sheet of Project Mercury Stamps. Single sheet of fifty four-cent stamps, signed by Malcolm Scott Carpenter (1925-2013); Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. (1927–2004); more ...
Battle of Gettysburg, Contemporary Epistolary Account, 2 August 1863.
Lot: 1008Sold for: $172$140Battle of Gettysburg, Contemporary Epistolary Account, 2 August 1863. Autograph letter written signed by Traves Hensley (1836-1873),two legal-size lined folio sheets inscribed over three pages. To more ...
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (1818-1893) Autograph Letter Signed, London, 10 July 1866.
Lot: 1009Sold for: $492$400Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (1818-1893) Autograph Letter Signed, London, 10 July 1866. Two leaves each inscribed on the recto side only. To a Mr. Schwartz of Liverpool, describing an upcoming more ...
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Autograph Receipt, Signed and Initialed, 31 July 1894.
Lot: 1010Sold for: $123$100Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Autograph Receipt, Signed and Initialed, 31 July 1894. Single card inscribed on one side, memorializing the sale of a painting of Scottish cattle and sheep to Messieurs more ...
California Pictorial Letter Sheet, Hutchings' California Scenes, Methods of Mining
Lot: 1011Sold for: $738$600California Pictorial Letter Sheet, Hutchings' California Scenes, Methods of Mining. San Francisco: Hanna & Co., 1855. Uncolored lithograph printed on pale blue wove paper, depicting twelve methods more ...
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Signed Post Card, First Day Cover, 17 November 1967.
Lot: 1013Sold for: $123$100Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Signed Post Card, First Day Cover, 17 November 1967. Specially printed envelope commemorating the first day of issue of the postage stamped based on Chagall's design for more ...
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914) Signed Check, 2 August 1880.
Lot: 1014Sold for: $461$375Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914) Signed Check, 2 August 1880. Blue paper check for twenty-five dollars, drawn on J.B. Brown & Sons, bankers of Portland, Maine, to a John whose last name is more ...
Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908) Group of Documents.
Lot: 1016Sold for: $584$475Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908) Group of Documents. Signed military commission, 31 August 1893, appointing John H. Janeway Deputy Surgeon General with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, engraved document more ...
Constable, John (1776-1837) Autograph Letter Signed, 16 June 1836.
Lot: 1017Sold for: $3,567$2,900Constable, John (1776-1837) Autograph Letter Signed, 16 June 1836. Single leaf of wove writing paper inscribed on one page. To Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850),President of the Royal Academy, more ...
Cornwallis, Charles Marquis (1738-1805) and John Langdon (1741-1819) Two Signed Documents.
Lot: 1018Sold for: $523$425Cornwallis, Charles Marquis (1738-1805) and John Langdon (1741-1819) Two Signed Documents. The Cornwallis note a postcard, addressed to Robin Lawless (1724-1806),assistant at the London bookselling more ...
Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Autograph Letter Signed, Ville-d'Avray, 2 July [1861].
Lot: 1019UnsoldCorot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Autograph Letter Signed, Ville-d'Avray, 2 July [1861]. Single leaf of wove paper inscribed over one page. To an unnamed recipient, stating that the artist more ...
Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918) Romanov Family Photo Album.
Lot: 1022Sold for: $800$650Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918) Romanov Family Photo Album. Large-format album with large black-and-white portraits of the royal family assassinated by the Bolsheviks during the February more ...
Deeds, Connecticut, 1699-1920s.
Lot: 1023UnsoldDeeds, Connecticut, 1699-1920s. Approximately 100 deeds, documents, letters, receipts, and other ephemeral material from the late 17th through the early 20th century, mostly from the Hine family of more ...
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, 28 December 1864.
Lot: 1024Sold for: $1,599$1,300Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, 28 December 1864. Single sheet of Gad's Hill Place writing paper, with mourning edging, one page. To actor, dramatist, and lessee of the Adelphi more ...
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Photograph Signed, Boston, 6 March 1868.
Lot: 1025Sold for: $13,530$11,000Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Photograph Signed, Boston, 6 March 1868. A very large example of a print from the Jeremiah Gurney and Son daguerreotype taken in New York in 1867 specifically to be more ...
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Clipped Signature.
Lot: 1026Sold for: $369$300Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Clipped Signature. Small square of paper with Edison's signature in pencil, 3 x 2 1/4 in. more ...
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Two Signed Copies of Stockholder Meeting Minutes, Edison Storage Battery Company, 1925 and 1926.
Lot: 1027Sold for: $1,046$850Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Two Signed Copies of Stockholder Meeting Minutes, Edison Storage Battery Company, 1925 and 1926. Two separate typed documents, each three pages, signed by Thomas and more ...
Execution Broadsides, Three Examples, London, Mid-19th Century.
Lot: 1028Sold for: $1,599$1,300Execution Broadsides, Three Examples, London, Mid-19th Century. Life, Trial, Confession & Execution of Catherine Wilson, the Female Poisoner who was executed at Newgate, on Monday, Oct. 20th [1862], more ...
Farragut, David Glasgow (1801-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, from the U.S. Flagship Hartford
Lot: 1029Sold for: $431$350Farragut, David Glasgow (1801-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, from the U.S. Flagship Hartford, off New Orleans, 1 May 1862. Single leaf inscribed over one page of lined wove paper. To Surgeon Stewart more ...
Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Beer Broadside, To the Voters of Oxford.
Lot: 1030Sold for: $615$500Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Beer Broadside, To the Voters of Oxford. [Oxford, Mississippi: Oxford Eagle, 1950]. Single leaf broadside, regarding the Oxford attempt to ban beer, with a letter from more ...
Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874) Document Signed, 27 August 1850.
Lot: 1031Sold for: $431$350Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874) Document Signed, 27 August 1850. Partially printed document fulfilled by hand, nominating Thomas H. Sill Deputy Postmaster for Erie, Pennsylvania, sealed and more ...
Fitch, Thomas (1700-1774) Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving.
Lot: 1032Sold for: $1,476$1,200Fitch, Thomas (1700-1774) Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving. New Haven: by James Parker & Co., 21 February 1760. Broadside issued by Fitch as Governor of Connecticut to commemorate the defeat more ...
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Autograph Poem Signed, A Considerable Speck.
Lot: 1033Sold for: $3,690$3,000Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Autograph Poem Signed, A Considerable Speck. Single leaf inscribed on one side with the text of the poem in Frost's hand, written in brown ink, signed at the end, matted more ...
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Autograph Working Manuscript, Our Hold on the Planet
Lot: 1034Sold for: $3,198$2,600Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Autograph Working Manuscript, Our Hold on the Planet. Single leaf of unlined wove paper, inscribed on one page, in brown ink, with changes to the text that reflect the more ...