• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.
    Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000.
  • Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Peter Max, Portrait of Mary Tyler Moore (Versions 1,2, 5, 6), 2001. Estimate $10,000-15,000
    DOYLE: The iconic screen-used wall-mounted "M" from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Estimate $5,000-8,000
    DOYLE: The Mary Tyler Moore Show by Al Hirschfeld. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Annie Leibovitz presents Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke for Vanity Fair. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    DOYLE: Al Hirschfeld presents Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in the CBS Wednesday Night Lineup. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    DOYLE: Richard McKenzie, Portrait of Mary Tyler Moore. Estimate $1,000-2,000
    Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Three Original Bill Hargate Costume Designs for The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Estimate $600-800
    DOYLE: The famous Bonnie and Clyde "Wanted" broadside. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE: Ticket to the Final Episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show Estimate $400-600
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University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books, and Artwork

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books, and Artwork Total Sales (USD) 1,009,281.25
Auction Date June 04, 2025 - June 04, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 794,240.00
Sale Number #60425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,085,010.00
Total Lots 479
Sold Lots 455 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 898,540.00
% of Lots Sold 94.99% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,217,210.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
115

Picasso, Dali, Chagall, Calder, Braque, Miro, Giacometti, Moore, Lautrec & Many Others - Sensational & Gigantic Collection of Master Heirloom Prints, Nearly 50K Pcs! An Almost $20 Million Retail Value!

19th/20th C. USD 90,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 137,500.00
31 [THOMAS JEFFERSON]

Jefferson's Owned & Signed 6 Vol. Set of Cicero's Orations, Used to Write Declaration Of Independence, With 1829 Auction Catalog & Bill Where It Last Sold!!

ca. 1695-1699 USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 112,500.00
104 G. Washington

G. Washington Twice Signed 4pp Raising Thousands of Troops, "supposing all the men alive, 142 engaged for the War", Evokes Henry "Lighthorse" Lee, Hazen, Webb, Lamb, 1780, Superb!

February 20, 1780 USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,500.00
492 Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein ALS On Theory of "Relativity" With His Orig. Wheel Sketch On Thermodynamic Energy! Archive, 1927-1930, 5 Pcs, 100+ Words

February 1927 - June 1930 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 28,125.00
73 R. Reagan

R. Reagan "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall!" Slabbed & Graded Perfect 10, with Large Certified Piece of Wall

[June 12, 1987] USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 25,000.00
105 George Washington

George Washington Signed Discharge for Brave Soldier Who Wintered at Valley Forge, Was Shot, and Taken Prisoner By British!

June 7, 1783 USD 17,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 16,250.00
202 Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 Red Number Photo - Only Image of Him on Lunar Surface!

ca. July, 1969 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 USD 13,750.00
46 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signed Appointment of U.S. Consul at Rio de Janeiro, Superb Signature!

January 7, 1863 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 11,250.00
11 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Eisenhower's Signed D-Day Orders to His Troops, PSA GEM MINT 10!

[June 6, 1944] USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,625.00
460 J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger TLS to Publishers about "Franny and Zooey": "I honestly don't enjoy butting in"

1961-05-27 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,625.00
461 J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger Signed Contract for "Franny and Zooey", Stipulating "no photographs"

1964-02-25 USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,625.00
44 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, PSA Gem Mint 10, "Command of a Brigade" Endorsement to Stanton!

ca. 1863 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,000.00
285 Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed 1st Edition of "Stride Toward Freedom," With Outstanding Association

n.d. USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,000.00
494 Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

Einstein Signed Ltd. Ed. of "Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist." Closest He Has Come to Writing An Autobiography!

ca. 1949 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,000.00
121 Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Walt Disney Signed Dye Transfer Print of Mickey Mouse With Phil Sears COA

n.d. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,375.00
305 John Hancock

John Hancock Signed Rare Naval Commission for Sailor on Frigate Protector

December 5, 1780 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
323

Indians & Slaves Listed in U.S. Census of 1800 Listing More Than 5 Million Americans

ca. 1801 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
427 Emily Bronte.

Emily Bronte Rare 1st American Edition of Wuthering Heights, Published Only 5 Months After the Virtually Unobtainable London 1st Edition

ca. 1848 USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
45 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Superb Large Full Signature, JSA Certified, Handsomely Framed!

n.d. USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
47 Superb Abraham Lincoln

Superb Abraham Lincoln Signed Military Commission For Future Commander at Fort Laramie, Fought at Bloody Kansas and Mormon War!

August 19, 1861 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,750.00
48 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Abraham Lincoln Bold Full Signature, Handsomely Displayed!

n.d. USD 6,500.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,125.00
49 Lincoln

Lincoln Signed Autograph Request Note, PSA MINT 9 Encapsulated

January 28, 1861 USD 6,500.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,125.00
487 Thomas Edison

Rare Thomas Edison Manufactured Self-Winding Stock Ticker Ca. Early-1900s

ca. 1915-1929 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,125.00
33 Thomas Jefferson as President

Jefferson Free Frank Cover as President from Letter Where He Ranted Against Newspaper "Misinformation", PSA MINT 9

June 12, 1807 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,500.00
128 Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso PSA GEM MT 10 Rare ALS Addressed to Art Collector, Patron & Financial Advisor

1961-07-20 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,875.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.
    Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000.
  • Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Peter Max, Portrait of Mary Tyler Moore (Versions 1,2, 5, 6), 2001. Estimate $10,000-15,000
    DOYLE: The iconic screen-used wall-mounted "M" from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Estimate $5,000-8,000
    DOYLE: The Mary Tyler Moore Show by Al Hirschfeld. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Annie Leibovitz presents Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke for Vanity Fair. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    DOYLE: Al Hirschfeld presents Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in the CBS Wednesday Night Lineup. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    DOYLE: Richard McKenzie, Portrait of Mary Tyler Moore. Estimate $1,000-2,000
    Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Three Original Bill Hargate Costume Designs for The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Estimate $600-800
    DOYLE: The famous Bonnie and Clyde "Wanted" broadside. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE: Ticket to the Final Episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show Estimate $400-600