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Lion Heart Autographs: A Landmark Offering of Rare & Important Autograph Letters & Manuscripts—Fresh to the Market and Unseen for Decades
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | A Landmark Offering of Rare & Important Autograph Letters & Manuscripts—Fresh to the Market and Unseen for Decades | Total Sales (USD) | 378,627.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 256,875.00 |
| Sale Number | #52026 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 297,650.00 |
| Total Lots | 284 | ||
| Sold Lots | 195.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 350,725.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 68.66% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 406,800.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 89 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 93.07% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 188 | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) | Verzweiflung |
ND | USD 42,000.00 - 45,000.00 | USD 82,350.00 |
| 171 | George Washington (1732-1799) | DS safe passage order |
1775 | USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 18,910.00 |
| 66 | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | Manuscript DS |
1787 | USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 | USD 15,860.00 |
| 41 | Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) | Cinq Annees de ma Vie |
1901 | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 14,640.00 |
| 2 | John Adams | DS granting land to John Wilkins Jr. |
1798 | USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 14,030.00 |
| 102 | Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) | DS to Marc Antoine Francois Marie Radon de la Tour |
1787 | USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 14,030.00 |
| 91 | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) | TLS to Samuel Brent Oliver III |
1962 | USD 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 | USD 10,065.00 |
| 57 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | TLS to Lawrence Udell |
1955 | USD 3,250.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 7,625.00 |
| 113 | Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) | ALS to Alleyne Fitzherbert, Baron St. Helens |
1801 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 6,405.00 |
| 6 | John Jacob Astor | DS discharging a mortgage debt |
1828 | USD 1,500.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 5,246.00 |
| 85 | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); James Madison (1751-1836) | Partially printed vellum DS |
1802 | USD 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,124.00 |
| 222 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) | Letter to Karl Klingemann |
1844 | USD 2,600.00 - 2,800.00 | USD 4,880.00 |
| 35 | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) | LS to Dear Sir |
1876 | USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 4,758.00 |
| 266 | Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) | Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from Les vepres siciliennes |
1857 | USD 5,500.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,758.00 |
| 210 | Harold “Hal” Flartey | Jazz Archive |
1949-1959 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,392.00 |
| 86 | Carl Jung (1875-1961) | ALS |
1951 | USD 2,400.00 - 2,600.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 92 | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) | Signed program of the Eighth Annual Address of the National Baptist Laymen's Convention |
1960 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 219 | Jules Massenet (1842-1912) | Concours de 1861 manuscript |
1861 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 247 | Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) | Manuscript of The Wagnerian Illusion |
1899 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 44 | Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) | AMs article on the amnesty bill |
1900 | USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,904.00 |
| 4 | Susan B. Anthony | Signed copy of The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures |
1887 | USD 2,200.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 3,538.00 |
| 220 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) | Letter to Karl Klingemann regarding Pervonte |
1834 | USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,416.00 |
| 187 | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) | ALS to an unknown lady |
1877? | USD 2,400.00 - 2,600.00 | USD 3,294.00 |
| 49 | Georges-Marie Picquart (1854-1914) | AL draft letter to the Minister of War |
1899 | USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 | USD 3,172.00 |
| 131 | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) | A group of eight paperbacks signed or inscribed by Rand |
N/A | USD 2,400.00 - 2,600.00 | USD 3,172.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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 -
