University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 50626, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 06, 2026 - May 06, 2026
Page Size: 430 items in 18 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
386 Dick Winters; Lewis Nixon III; Harry Welsh

Band of Brothers Photo Signed by Dick Winters, Lewis Nixon III, and Harry Welsh

n.d. USD 400.00 - 0.00 USD 1,125.00
387 Jacob Beser

Jacob Beser Signed Check

1969 USD 400.00 - 0.00 USD 125.00
388 Theodore Van Kirk

Dutch Van Kirk Signed Enola Gay Photo

1945 USD 400.00 - 0.00 USD 687.50
389 Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Letter Signed

Tilsit, Russia 1807 USD 1,500.00 - 0.00 USD 2,125.00
390 Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito Signed Photo

1962 USD 300.00 - 0.00 USD 437.50
391 Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

Partial Document Signed by Edmund Burke

1782 USD 400.00 - 0.00 USD 875.00
392 Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Edmund Burke Autograph Letter Signed

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England 1796 USD 3,000.00 - 0.00 USD 2,750.00
393 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Letter Signed

London 1947 USD 4,000.00 - 0.00 USD 2,750.00
394 Charles II (1630-1685)

Charles II Signed Military Appointment Form

Paris, France 1652 USD 1,500.00 - 0.00 USD 1,500.00
395 Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022); Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Signed Christmas Card

ca. 1957 USD 1,000.00 - 0.00 USD 1,750.00
396 Francis I (1494-1547)

King Francis I Signed Letter

Lyon, France 1522 USD 600.00 - 0.00 USD 1,375.00
397 Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed

Yeravda Central Prison in Poona (now Pune), India n.d. USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 USD 4,062.50
398 King Kamehameha IV (1834-1863); Princess Kaahumanu (1838-1866)

Hawaiian Royal Patent Signed by Kamehameha IV and Princess Kaahumanu

1855 USD 1,500.00 - 0.00 USD 2,250.00
399 Queen Lili'uokalani (1838-1917)

Queen Lili'uokalani Document Signed

Honolulu, Hawaii 1892 USD 2,400.00 - 0.00 USD 4,062.50
400 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)

Marquis de Lafayette Autograph Letter Signed

Paris 1822 USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 USD 5,625.00
402 Ferdinand; Isabella

Letter signed by Ferdinand and Isabella

Tortosa, Spain 1496 USD 7,000.00 - 0.00 USD 5,625.00
403 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

Letter signed by Alexis de Tocqueville

Paris, France 1849 USD 600.00 - 0.00 USD 937.50
404 Joseph Bushnell Ames; Walt Louderback (1887-1941)

Under Boy Scout Colors

ca. 1916-1917 USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 USD 1,250.00
405 Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950); James H. Pierce (1900-1983)

Tarzan the Invincible

New York n.d. USD 600.00 - 0.00 USD 2,750.00
406 Samuel L. Clemens (1835-1910); Mark Twain

Autograph letter signed by Samuel Clemens

New York, NY 1895 USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 USD 4,062.50
407 James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

The Headsman manuscript fragment

ca. 1832-1833 USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 USD 1,375.00
408 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens

London, England 1861 USD 1,200.00 - 0.00 USD 1,375.00
409 Ian Fleming (1908-1964)

Moonraker

New York n.d. [ca. mid 20th century] USD 4,000.00 - 0.00 USD 8,750.00
410 Ian Fleming (1908-1964)

Goldfinger

New York ca. 1959 USD 1,000.00 - 0.00 USD 875.00
411 Robert Frost

Selected Poems

New York ca. 1932 USD 300.00 - 0.00 USD 416.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000