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Auction Name: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
Auction Date: 03/25/2026 - 03/25/2026
Sale Number: #32526
Total Lots: 427
Sold Lots: 415.0
Lots Sold: 97.19%
Unsold Lots: 12

Total Sales (USD): 941,663.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 559,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 763,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 586,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 796,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 118.18%

Top twenty five by sale price

Top twenty five lots by sale price
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
40	T. Jefferson	T. Jefferson Donates Book on War to UVA & Extols "improvement of the human mind... condition of man," One of His Best Letters!	May 16, 1824	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	USD 87,500.00
177	Yousuf Karsh	Yousuf Karsh (40) Bleed Mounted Photographs From 1988 London Exhibition, Ex. Karsh Estate	ca. 1980s	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 34,375.00
425	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein 1927 ALS With 9 Equations Re: Theory of General Relativity; Rejecting Mathematician's Claim That All Spherical Objects Behave The Same!	2027-09-17	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 22,500.00
178	Yousuf Karsh	Yousuf Karsh (28) Bleed Mounted Photographs From 1988 London Exhibition, Ex. Karsh Estate	ca. 1980s	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 22,500.00
142	George Washington	George Washington Signed Revolutionary War Discharge with Badge of Merit to a NJ Corporal for "Six Years faithful Service"	June 5, 1783	USD 14,000.00 - 18,000.00	USD 20,000.00
179	Yousuf Karsh	Yousuf Karsh (22) Large Scale Mounted Photographs for 1988 London Exhibition, One Signed! Ex. Karsh Estate	ca. 1980s	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 20,000.00
41	Jefferson	Rare Jefferson Signed Transmission of Acts of Congress: 1st Penny, Copper Coinage Act, Frontier Protection, Whiskey Rebellion	May 21, 1792	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 17,500.00
42	Jefferson	Jefferson Signed "Death by being Shot" Sentence for American Prisoner Found Guilty at Court Martial	July 14, 1780	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 16,250.00
354	Gandhi	1889 Gandhi Letter - The Earliest We Have Seen, Signed Twice!	January 22, 1889	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 16,250.00
17	D-Day Orders	D-Day Orders Signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, PSA GEM MT 10	[June 6, 1944]	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 16,250.00
143	George Washington	George Washington War-Dated FF Signature to Lord Stirling, His Trusted General, With Washington's Personal Seal	ca. 1778-80	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 16,250.00
353	Mahatma Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi PSA NM-MT 8 Double Hindi / English Signature, With Great Provenance, Finest Known!	n.d.	USD 12,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 13,750.00
416	Lafayette	Lafayette in English on Florida Statehood: "affair of Florida is ending in a compromise... in short time to become one of the states of the Northern Union," Adams-Onis Treaty, Jackson Seminole War. Great Letter!	September 12, 1818	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 13,750.00
391		Alamo Defender James Bowie Clipped Signature, Highest Graded PSA MINT 9!	n.d.	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 12,500.00
288	Walt Disney	Walt Disney TLS re: "Fantasia" & Advice For Aspiring Artists, PSA Encapsulated	ca. May 1941	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 12,500.00
270		Scarce Declaration of Independence Huntington Calligraphic Rendering - One of the Earliest Broadside Reproductions - With Signers' Signatures in Exact Facsimile!	ca. 1820-1824	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 11,875.00
70	Abraham Lincoln	Gorgeous Full Abraham Lincoln PSA Mint 9 Cut Signature	October 10, 1861	USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 11,875.00
369	Ernest Hemingway	Ernest Hemingway Signed & Inscribed 1st Ed. "The Old Man & the Sea"	1952-12-17	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 11,875.00
429	Sigmund Freud	Sigmund Freud Signed Iconic Portrait By Max Halberstadt, Freud's Son-in-Law, Possibly Finest Known!	ca. 1936	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 11,250.00
181	Man Ray	Man Ray Original Abstract Painting Gifted to Yousuf Karsh, Ex. Karsh Estate	ca. 1959	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 11,250.00

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