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Bill Wilson's working draft manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book".
Auction 997048 | Lot: 1001 | May 5, 2018

Sold For: $2,400,000.00
Francis H. C. Crick Nobel Prize Medal and Nobel Diploma. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6093 | Lot: 34001 | Apr 11, 2013

Sold For: $2,270,500.00

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$3,405,750 or more
Chas. W. Pressler and A. B. Langermann. Map of the State of Texas.
Auction 6281 | Lot: 60161 | Dec 2, 2023

Sold For: $705,000.00
Declaration of Independence, Engraved and Printed by William Stone.
Auction 6080 | Lot: 34018 | Apr 11, 2012

Sold For: $597,500.00
The Declaration of Independence: Rare July 1776 Broadside Printing by Ezekiel Russell of Salem, Massachusetts-Bay, the Colony's Authorized Edition, Sent to an Ipswich Pastor to be Read to His Congregation.
Auction 6154 | Lot: 49032 | Apr 5, 2016

Sold For: $514,000.00
Francis Peyton Rous: Nobel Prize Medal, Diploma, and Related Materials.
Auction 6149 | Lot: 49210 | Nov 4, 2015

Sold For: $461,000.00
Van Gogh, Vincent. Extraordinary autograph letter signed ("Vincent"), in French, 4 pages (8 x 5 ¼ in.; 203 x 133 mm.), on grid paper, "Saint-Remy de Provence," 20 January 1890 to "M. & Mme. Ginoux" (Joseph Ginoux and Marie Ginoux-Julien); with envelope addressed in Van Gogh's hand to: Monsieur Ginoux, Cafe de la gare, Place Lamartine, Arles; spotting, repair to page fold.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1131 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $336,000.00

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$504,000 or more
Jefferson, Thomas. Highly important autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson") as President, 1 page (9 ¾ x 7 ? in.; 248 x 200 mm.), "Washington," 15 January 1802, "to the honorable President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Georgia"; browned; page folds reinforced and margins extended.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1042 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $300,000.00
Georg Wittig Nobel Prize Medal in Chemistry Received in 1979, Together with Four Additional Medals.
Auction 6165 | Lot: 49227 | Oct 19, 2016

Sold For: $274,000.00
Szilard, Leo. Highly important typed letter signed, 2 pages (11 x 8 ½ in.; 279 x 216 mm.), "New York," 25 January 1939 to Lewis L. Strauss, a partner in the international banking firm Kuhn, Loeb and Company who played a pivotal role in shaping nuclear policy in the United States; date of letter boldly circled in red pencil with arrow, received stamp dated 26 January 1939 at top right corner of first page; slight marginal browning.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1265 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $240,000.00

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$360,000 or more
[Slavery - Thirteenth Amendment]. Historic engrossed copy of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution signed by 125 members of Congress.
Auction 997024 | Lot: 1099 | Jun 11, 2015

Sold For: $180,000.00
Einstein, Albert.
Auction 997021 | Lot: 1076 | Dec 16, 2014

Sold For: $180,000.00

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$270,000 or more
Jefferson, Thomas, as President.Highly important manuscript signed ("Th: Jefferson") of his Address entitled "My Friends & Children Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation." 4 pages. [Washington], 10 January 1806.
Auction 997017 | Lot: 1055 | Jul 11, 2014

Sold For: $180,000.00
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
Auction 997022 | Lot: 1097 | Dec 17, 2014

Sold For: $170,000.00
Medieval Tally Sticks. A collection of 21 original wooden tally sticks.[Westminster, c. 1250-60].
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1151 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $168,000.00
Lexington & Concord: An Exceedingly Rare and Important Contemporary Broadside Reporting on the Events Which Ignited the American Revolution.
Auction 6172 | Lot: 43004 | May 13, 2017

Sold For: $162,500.00
George III, King of Great Britain. Highly important series of nearly 140 autograph letters, mostly signed ("G. R."), some 146 pages, nearly all quarto, Kew Windsor and elsewhere, 1766-68 and 1782-83, to the 2nd Earl of Shelburne with the majority written to Lord Shelburne as leader of the government negotiating peace with American after the War of Independence one written in pencil, nearly all with integral blanks, a few with address leaves, some written on paper with the distinctive ribbed watermark of the Montgolfier Brothers' factory (also favored by Marie Antoinette), the second letter with traces of formerly have been bound, one or two other early letters slightly browned, but overall in fine and fresh condition.
Auction 997013 | Lot: 1119 | Dec 19, 2013

Sold For: $159,900.00
Monroe, Marilyn. Autograph letter signed ("Marilyn"), in pencil, 2 pages, (10.5 x 7.25 in.; 267 x 184 mm.), Los Angeles [no date], on Hotel Bel-Air letterhead stationery, to her mentor, Lee Strasberg.
Auction 997005 | Lot: 1244 | May 30, 2013

Sold For: $156,000.00

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$234,000 or more
[Map]. Jacob De Cordova. J. De Cordova's Map of the State of Texas (1849).
Auction 6109 | Lot: 34081 | Mar 15, 2014

Sold For: $149,000.00

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$223,500 or more
Abraham Lincoln's 1840 desk.
Auction 997021 | Lot: 1146 | Dec 16, 2014

Sold For: $144,000.00
Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: [W Clowes and Sons for] John Murray, 1859. Octavo (7 ? x 4 ? in.; 200 x 124 mm.), Half-title verso with quotations by Whewell and Bacon, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32- page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 at the end (Freeman's form 3); a few light spots in first leaves. Publisher's blind panelled green grained cloth (with Edmonds & Remnants ticket), spine gilt (Freeman's variant 1), brown-coated endpapers, in a green-cloth drop-box; slight rubbing on joints with a bit of color restoration at top of upper joint, ? inch tear in top edge of upper cover.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1234 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $144,000.00

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$216,000 or more
Washington, George. Extraordinary autograph letter signed twice ("G. Washington" and "G. Wn.") as President, 2 pages (9 ¼ x 7 ¾ in.; 235 x 197 mm.), "Philadelphia," 6 May 1792 to Thomas Paine; integral blank; marginal split to horizontal fold.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1090 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $132,000.00
Beethoven, Ludwig von. Autograph letter signed ("Beethoven") in pencil, in German, 3 pages, (5 ½ x 8 ½ in.; 140 x 216 mm.), [no place, no date], to Tobias Haslinger (a friend and business partner of Beethoven's publisher, Sigmund A. Steiner); browning and some marginal chipping.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1198 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $132,000.00
Churchill, Winston. Incredible large photograph inscribed to Joseph Stalin.
Auction 997016 | Lot: 1047 | Jun 13, 2014

Sold For: $126,000.00

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$189,000 or more
Reagan, Ronald. Remarkable archive. Over 350 candid photographs (majority unpublished),128 letters.
Auction 997032 | Lot: 1156 | Apr 18, 2016

Sold For: $120,000.00
Lincoln, Abraham. Historic autograph letter signed ("A. Republican" and "A. Lincoln"), 2 pages (8 x 10 in.; 203 x 254 mm.), Springfield, Illinois, 9 March 1858.
Auction 997016 | Lot: 1146 | Jun 13, 2014

Sold For: $120,000.00
R. M. S. Titanic: A Remarkable Final Dinner Menu from the Night the Ship Famously Struck the Fatal Iceberg.
Auction 6142 | Lot: 48179 | Nov 7, 2015

Sold For: $118,750.00
[Slavery]. Wederstrandt Family Archive of Correspondence, Documents, and Plantation Ledgers Regarding Their Ownership of Three Plantations in Louisiana.
Auction 6149 | Lot: 49017 | Nov 4, 2015

Sold For: $118,750.00
Marx, Karl (Heinrich). Remarkable autograph letter, in English, 2 pages (8 x 6 ¼ in.; 203 x 159 mm.), Edinburgh, Scotland, 1847 to Archibald Alison; chipped at corners; mounting remnant at right margin on verso.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1194 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $114,000.00

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$171,000 or more
[Schlick Scientific Archive.] Important archive of (56) signed letters written by nine of the great figures of 20th century physics and philosophy, including 7 Nobel Prize winners, to Moritz Schlick, German physicist, philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. As leader of the European school of positivist philosophers known as the Vienna Circle, Moritz Schlick surrounded himself with luminaries in the fields of philosophy, physics and mathematics. The members of the Circle were united in their hostility to the abstractions of metaphysics, by the grounding of philosophical statements on empirical evidence, by faith in the techniques of modern symbolic logic and by belief that the future of philosophy lay in becoming the handmaiden of science.
Auction 997005 | Lot: 1231 | May 30, 2013

Sold For: $108,000.00
Gauguin, Paul. Autograph letter signed ("P. Gauguin") in French, 3 pages, (8 ¼ x 5 ¼ in.; 210 x 133 mm.), [1882], to Camille Pissarro; light, scattered staining.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1123 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $108,000.00

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$162,000 or more
[Mark Twain]. Samuel L. Clemens's Personally Owned Williams No. 6 Typewriter.
Auction 6260 | Lot: 47289 | Feb 22, 2023

Sold For: $106,250.00
Abraham Lincoln Political Debates with Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858.
Auction 997001 | Lot: 1063 | Nov 15, 2012

Sold For: $102,000.00
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Autograph letter signed twice.
Auction 997032 | Lot: 1008 | Apr 18, 2016

Sold For: $100,000.00
Sherman, William T. Historic autograph letter signed, 24 April 1865.
Auction 997024 | Lot: 1131 | Jun 11, 2015

Sold For: $96,000.00
Beethoven, Ludwig van.
Auction 997022 | Lot: 1002 | Dec 17, 2014

Sold For: $96,000.00
Jefferson, Thomas. Highly important autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson") as President, 1 page (9.75 x 7.9 in.; 248 x 200 mm.), Washington, 15 January 1802.
Auction 997016 | Lot: 1123 | Jun 13, 2014

Sold For: $96,000.00
Alexander II. The original autograph love letters for one of the most tragic and compelling romances in history, that of Tsar Alexander II and Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, together with an important archive of family papers and photographs (many signed and annotated). (81) Autograph letters unsigned (as always) between the Tsar Alexander II and his mistress, Catherine Michailovna Dolgoruka, (later his morganatic wife Princess Yurievskaya). Together over 200 pages, largely in French (with a few in Russian), 57 of the letters written by the Tsar between August 27, 1866 and March 20, 1879 (33 translated into English), and 24 of the letters by the Princess between October 8, 1866 and August 19, 1880 (20 translated into English).
Auction 997005 | Lot: 1132 | May 30, 2013

Sold For: $96,000.00

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$144,000 or more
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Important autograph letter signed ("Beethoven"), in German, 1 page, (6 x 9.75 in.; 216 x 178 mm.), [Vienna], 2 December [1805], written to Friedrich Sebastian Mayer (bass baritone singer); slight browning.
Auction 997005 | Lot: 1168 | May 30, 2013

Sold For: $96,000.00

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$144,000 or more
[Poe, Edgar Allan]. Collection of Poe memorabilia including his fiancée's engagement ring, a lock of his hair, family correspondence, photographic portraits, including one of Poe, and a silver spoon; all enclosed in a half morocco clamshell box with elaborately tooled spine, raised bands, red morocco labels, inset red morocco label on front cover. The letters and photographs are in an album within the box, inside the box there are three recesses housing the gold ring, the lock of hair and the spoon.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1114 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $96,000.00
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776. Two volumes, quarto (11 x 8 ? in.; 280 x 207 mm.), Half title in volume 2, blank leaf present at end of volume 1, publisher's advertisement leaf at end of volume 2; clean and crisp. Contemporary polished tree calf, spines gilt; joints cracked, spines worn at head and foot.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1158 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $96,000.00

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$144,000 or more
Thomas Jefferson: The President Writes to Georgia Governor John Milledge Regarding the Removal of the Cherokees from Georgia as a Consequence of the Louisiana Purchase.
Auction 6172 | Lot: 43067 | May 13, 2017

Sold For: $93,750.00

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$140,625 or more
Gershwin, George.
Auction 997022 | Lot: 1053 | Dec 17, 2014

Sold For: $90,000.00

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$135,000 or more
Gauguin, Paul. Autograph letter signed, in French, 3 pages, (9 ? x 5 ? in.; 244 x 149 mm.), French Establishments in Oceania, Public Works and Land Registry, Office of the Chief of Service, Papeete 12 January 1899, to Daniel de Monfried; corner chipped.
Auction 997004 | Lot: 1124 | Dec 18, 2012

Sold For: $90,000.00

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$135,000 or more
Washington, George. Autograph letter signed ("G. Washington") as President
Auction 997001 | Lot: 1116 | Nov 15, 2012

Sold For: $90,000.00
Bizet, Georges.
Auction 997022 | Lot: 1019 | Dec 17, 2014

Sold For: $87,500.00
Lincoln, Abraham.
Auction 997021 | Lot: 1140 | Dec 16, 2014

Sold For: $87,500.00
Lee, Robert E. Historic manuscript document signed of Lee's historic General Order No. 9 signed.
Auction 997024 | Lot: 1092 | Jun 11, 2015

Sold For: $87,000.00

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$130,500 or more

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