Lion Heart Autographs: A Landmark Offering of Rare & Important Autograph Letters & Manuscripts—Fresh to the Market and Unseen for Decades, 52026, New York, NY

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Page Size: 284 items in 12 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
200 Mischa Elman (1891-1967)

Collection of autographs

Helsingfors; New York 1937; 1933; 1925; 1910 USD 750.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
201 Georges Enesco (1881-1955)

Introductory remarks for the Young Music-Makers of France

Paris 1948 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 1,037.00
202 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812-1865)

ALS to a lady

1835 USD 450.00 - 500.00 USD 488.00
203 Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

ALS to John Pyke Hullah

1852 USD 250.00 - 300.00 USD 213.50
204 Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)

Victor Records publicity poster

1956 USD 300.00 - 350.00 USD 366.00
205 Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)

Signed photograph and program

Detroit; Sacramento 1934; 1930 USD 650.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
206 Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)

Signed photograph

1956 USD 550.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
207 Myra Hess (1890-1965)

Photograph of hands on music

ND USD 150.00 - 175.00 USD 427.00
208 Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947)

Group of autographs

Nice 1905; 1928; 1908 USD 400.00 - 450.00 USD 610.00
209 Charles E. Ives (1874-1954)

Agreement regarding Symphony No. 3, The Camp Meeting

New York 1946 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 976.00
210 Harold “Hal” Flartey

Jazz Archive

1949-1959 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,392.00
211 Joseph Joachim (1831-1907)

Six measures for violin from Joachim’s arrangement of Johannes Brahm’s Hungarian Dances

Berlin 1903 USD 450.00 - 500.00 USD 1,037.00
212 Joseph Joachim (1831-1907)

Letter to a colleague

Leeds ND USD 350.00 - 400.00 USD 366.00
213 Joseph Joachim (1831-1907)

Signed subscription ticket for the Beethoven Haus Association’s chamber music festival; signed album leaf

Bonn; Berlin 1903; 1902 USD 250.00 - 300.00 USD 732.00
214 Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)

A group of autographs

1915; 1952 USD 650.00 - 700.00 USD 732.00
215 Jan Kubelik (1880-1940); Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)

A group of autographs

London 1901; 1921; 1902 USD 500.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
216 Franz Lehar (1870-1948)

Letter to a director; visiting card with ANS

Vienna; Ischl 1903; ND USD 150.00 - 175.00 Not Sold
217 Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858-1919)

Letter to Pierre Louys

Menton 1902 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
218 Jenny Lind (1820-1887)

Letter to a gentleman

ND USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
219 Jules Massenet (1842-1912)

Concours de 1861 manuscript

1861 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 4,148.00
220 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Letter to Karl Klingemann regarding Pervonte

Dusseldorf 1834 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,416.00
221 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Letter to Karl Klingemann regarding a music festival

Dusseldorf 1835 USD 2,600.00 - 2,800.00 USD 3,050.00
222 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Letter to Karl Klingemann

Berlin 1844 USD 2,600.00 - 2,800.00 USD 4,880.00
223 Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)

Letter to Mrs. Kochanski

New York c. 1934 USD 450.00 - 500.00 USD 549.00
224 Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)

A group of autographs

1952 USD 450.00 - 500.00 USD 488.00
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    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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    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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    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
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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
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