- Lot 2
"America the Beautiful"
Katherine Lee Bates, n.d.
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 17,500Closed - Lot 4
Thanking a little girl for the gift of a hat
Ambrose Burnside, 11 January 1863
EstimateUSD 400 - 600Price realisedUSD 875Closed - Lot 5
Requesting a copy of the songs of the Jubilee Singers
Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), 20 March 1893
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 2,375Closed - Lot 6
A rare contemporary broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence: the Goodspeed-Sang-Streeter copy.
Continental Congress, 1776
EstimateUSD 700,000 - 900,000Price realisedUSD 930,000Closed - Lot 7
"I WANT YOU!"
James Montgomery Flagg, 1917
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 10
On French recognition of American independence
Benjamin Franklin, 20 July 1778
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 11
Possibly the earliest illustrated American political pamphlet
John S. J. Gardier, 1795
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 12
The pirated edition of Howl
Allen Ginsberg, 1979
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 13
Introducing a French volunteer and friend of Lafayette to Congress
Alexander Hamilton, 5 July 1778
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 23,750Closed - Lot 14
Anthony Wayne donates funds for the "Sufferers in Boston"
John Hancock, 25 November 1775
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 47,500Closed - Lot 15
On the burning of Washington
Andrew Jackson, 7 October 1814
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 16
Written soon after the conclusion of "Jay's Treaty"
John Jay, 21 February 1795
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 17
Appointing the first governor at New Orleans
Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1804
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 18
On defending New York's City's harbor and the state's frontier
Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1808
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 37,500Closed - Lot 19
Funding for the Post Office
Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1790
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 20
On British raids on the Chesapeake during the War of 1812
Thomas Jefferson, 9 November 1813
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 21
Writing as President
Andrew Johnson, 6 October 1867
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 43,750Closed - Lot 23
His farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee, 10 April 1865
EstimateUSD 50,000 - 80,000Price realisedUSD 50,000Closed - Lot 24
To Stuart, shortly before his death
Robert E. Lee, 2 May 1864
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 23,750Closed - Lot 25
On exchanged prisoners of war
Robert E. Lee, 7 August 1862
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 26
A carte-de-visite photograph signed as President
Abraham Lincoln, 1864
EstimateUSD 50,000 - 80,000Price realisedUSD 68,750Closed - Lot 27
On George McClellan: "the likeness is perfect."
Abraham Lincoln 13 March 1862
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 28
Appointing a brigade surgeon for the Union Army
Abraham Lincoln, 21 February 1862
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 29EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed
- Lot 30
The Spirit of St. Louis, inscribed to Sherman Fairchild
Charles Lindbergh, 1953
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 2,000Closed - Lot 31
On the Gideon edition of the Federalist
James Madison, 24 February 1818
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 32
History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1855
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 33
A billing dispute over drawings for the Capitol
James Monroe, 16 July 1822
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 34
On his secret aid pledge to Hanoi
Richard Nixon, 14 May 1977
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 35
A 'censored' London edition of Common Sense
Thomas Paine, 1776
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 36
Writing about Abraham Lincoln: "He fought in his time for social and industrial justice; and we are making the same fight in our time."
Theodore Roosevelt, 8 December 1912
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 37
"... the more I see, the better satisfied I am that I am an American..."
Theodore Roosevelt, 5 September 1881
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 38
The Book of Mormon
Kirtland, Ohio, 1837
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 39
An early newspaper printing of "The Star Spangled Banner."
Francis Scott Key, 1814
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 40
The first sheet music of the "Star Spangled Banner" to feature an American flag
A. Bacon & Co., [c. 1816]
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 41
Connecticut cedes its Western Reserve to the Northwest Territory
John Marshall, 9 June 1800
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 42
Tesla's editorial troubles
New York, 1900
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 43
Tesla writes to his first biographer
New York, 1903
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 44
Letters from inventors
Tesla, Marconi, and more
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 45
An eloquent reflection on his public career
George Washington, 2 December 1797
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 125,000Closed - Lot 47
To Rochambeau on a proposed expedition to the Penobscot
George Washington, 10 April 1781
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 48
A French intelligence map of New York Harbor
Comte de Barras, William Ledyard et al, 1781
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 52,500Closed - Lot 49
Preparing to return to camp at Newburgh
George Washington, 18 March 1782
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 50
One of the most famous radio broadcasts of all time
Orson Welles, 1938
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 51
The First Public Printing of the United States Constitution
Dunlap & Claypoole, 19 September 1787
EstimateUSD 120,000 - 180,000Price realisedUSD 125,000Closed - Lot 52
On the U.S.S. Maine disaster
Woodrow Wilson, 19 May 1913
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed