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Auction Name Early American History Auctions - online 3/8 Total Sales (USD) 489,450.00
Auction Date March 30, 2024 - March 30, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 366,100.00
Sale Number #33024 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 513,100.00
Total Lots 204
Sold Lots 172 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 498,200.00
% of Lots Sold 84.31% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 694,800.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.45%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
207

April 14, 1865 ORIGINAL TELEGRAM To Genl. U.S. GRANT Re: Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

1865 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 91,000.00
145 SAMUEL ADAMS,

Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS, April 1775, Printed by and for Charles Reak + Saml. Okey Newport, RI.

1775 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,100.00
122 PAUL REVERE

June 22, 1775 PAUL REVERE Engraved KING PHILIP Bond Signed CAPT JOSEPH LEE, Boston TEA PARTY Patriot

1775 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 19,500.00
10 DAVID BUSHNELL

DAVID BUSHNELL Signed Continental Army First Corps of Sappers + Miners Document Payment Document

c.1781 USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 15,600.00
160

1797 Rare Engraved Hand-colored Print of GENERAL WASHINGTON: LATE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS

1797 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,000.00
229 James Montgomery Flagg

Original 1917 Uncle Sam Recruiting Poster By James Montgomery Flagg, I WANT YOU Color Poster 30 x 40

1917 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,700.00
126

1777 Revolutionary War Massachusetts Broadside Announcing Pay + Bounty Money for Enlisting Soldiers

1777 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,750.00
158

1798 Broadside, General Washington's Letter, Declaring his Acceptance of the Command of the Armies

1798 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,750.00
1 JOHN ADAMS and TIMOTHY PICKERING

1797 President JOHN ADAMS and TIMOTHY PICKERING Signed Impressive Four Language Ship Papers

1797 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,800.00
15 CALVIN COOLIDGE

1932 ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT OF CALVIN COOLIDGE - SETTLING THE WAR DEBTS, Signed Important Archive

1932 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,800.00
43 President JOHN JAY

1779 Continental Congress President JOHN JAY Signed First Commander of the Marechaussee Appointment

1779 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,800.00
106

June 21, 1759 Province of Pennsylvania, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printed 50s Note PMG graded Choice Fine-15

1759 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,800.00
150

(Congress Voting the Declaration of Independence) Engraved by Edward Savage After Robert Edge Pine

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,800.00
23 Eleazar Huntington

c. 1820 Rare Eleazar Huntington Engraved, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Printed Broadside

c.1820 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,150.00
110

Colonial Currency, NEWMAN PLATE NOTE, Sept. 11, 1769, South Carolina, Fifty Pounds, PMG Ch. Fine-15

1769 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,150.00
18 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER

1870 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER Signed Kansas Document, Promissory Note - One of Only Two Known !

1870 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,500.00
174 WILLIAM BLIGH

1792 WILLIAM BLIGH, H.M.S. BOUNTY, A Voyage to the South Sea... for conveying the Bread-Fruit...

1792 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,500.00
218

1807 AFRICA - AMERICA Anti-Slavery Reverse Painted Mezzotint Print on Glass in its Original Frame

1807 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,850.00
34 JOHN BRADFORD

July 1, 1776 Historic JOHN BRADFORD Boston Naval Agent ALS to JOHN HANCOCK, Docket in Hancock's Hand

1776 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,525.00
55 John D. Rockefeller + Henry M. Flagler

John D. Rockefeller + Henry M. Flagler Signed Standard Oil Trust Company Stock Certificates

1888 and 1897 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 5,525.00
144

(1774) A CORRECT VIEW OF THE LATE BATTLE AT CHARLESTOWN June 17th 1775. Robert Aitken, Sculp

1774 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,200.00
217

Abraham Lincoln Photograph From Alexander Hesler's Original Negative Signed Geo(rge) B. Ayres Phila.

c. 1881 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,200.00
37 Robert Howe

1780 Rev. War Continental Army Maj. Gen.l Robert Howe Autograph Letter Signed Re: Fall of Charleston

1780 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,550.00
14 GEORGE CLYMER

1793 GEORGE CLYMER ALS to US Treasurer Samuel Meredith Re Alexander Hamilton + The Whiskey Rebellion

1793 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,225.00
28 ADMIRAL FRANCIS MUNROE RAMSAYS

1852 ADMIRAL FRANCIS MUNROE RAMSAYS First Naval Midshipman Commission, Signed by MILLARD FILLMORE

1852 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 4,225.00
  • Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
    London auction, 11 June
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    Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000
    Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000
    Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000
    Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000
    Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
  • Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE BAL FIRST BINDING. $12,000 - $18,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY in wrappers. SIGNED BY PUZO. $3,000 - $5,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HUGHES, Langston. Scottsboro Limited. 1932. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN. $6,000 - $8,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HOMANN, Johann Baptist, HOMANN HEIRS, and Georg Matthäus SEUTTER. [Composite Atlas]. [maps dated between 1728-1765]. $30,000 - $40,000.
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  • Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary
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