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Books and Manuscripts (48)

 

Lot 1
The Landing at Plymouth Imagined

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $189
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 2
Document signed by Charles II

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,071
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 3
Document signed by Samuel Pepys and King James II

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 4
Sir Henry Vane, fifth Governor of the Massachusetts colony

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $315
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 5
A manuscript deposition signed by Governor John Endecott

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $2,394
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 6
Signed by the penultimate Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,008
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 7
Signed by Richard Bellingham as Governor

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,512
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 8
The Last Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 9
Military Appointment for the Great Grandson of Mayflower Pilgrims

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $473
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 10
Printed document signed by Massachusetts Bay Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $378
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 11
Governor Thomas Pownall issues orders during the French and Indian War

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $403
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 12
The Colonial Governor pays his Secretary

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $504
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 13
Document signed by Edmund Andros Governor as Governor of the Dominion of New England

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $5,355
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 14
Signed by the namesake of Bowdoin College

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $403
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 15
Signed by the husband of Mary Bradbury - A convicted witch who managed to escape the gallows

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $756
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 16
Document signed by William Hathorne, the prosecutor of the Quakers

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 17
Signed by a character in The Crucible

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $945
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 18
Signed by a Superior Court Judge of the Salem Witch Trials

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,197
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 19
Signed by two notorious Salem Witch Trials magistrates in 1691

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $5,670
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 20
The 1691 signature of the Salem Witch Trials first Prosecutor

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $756
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 21
Foreman of the jury that convicted Rebecca Nurse

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,071
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 22
Signed by the Chief Justice of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in the Salem Witch Trials

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 23
Nathaniel Saltonstall, Salem Witch Trials Judge

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 24
Signed by the clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer during the Salem Witch Trials

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $882
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 25
Signed by one of the ten founders of Sandwich, Massachusetts

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $252
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 26
The first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $504
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 27
Autograph document signed by Daniel Gookin

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $945
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 28
An uncommon 17th century Boston court document relating to a divorce case

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $6,300
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 29
Early indenture for land on the Boston waterfront

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 30
Colonists push westward in the years before King Philip's War

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $819
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 31
Early land sale document signed for lots on Spectacle Island signed by Joseph Dudley

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 32
With the rare signature of Constant Southworth, William Bradford’s stepson

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 33
Walter Barefoot, the "litigious rogue," document signed

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $756
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 34
The 1682 deed of sale for what became East Boston

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $5,985
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 35
Laying out the road from Cohasset to Hingham in 1685

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $756
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 36
Document signed by William Bradford the Younger The scarce signature of an important figure in colonial New England

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $2,835
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 37
Sworn true copy signed by Elisha Cooke of a deed of gift signed by John Irish

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $189
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 38
A seventeenth-century Boston bond

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $189
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 39
Elisha Cooke Senior passes judgement

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 40
Document signed by Elisha Hutchinson

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $189
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 41
Legal document signed by Ephraim Savage

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $403
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 42
Deed of sale for a section of Tiverton in Massachusetts Bay now part of Rhode Island

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 43
Signed by Sheriff Samuel Gookin and Elisha Hutchinson

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $403
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 44
An early signature of Jonathan Belcher

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $403
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 45
Son of Judge Elisha Hutchinson

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 46
Making rum in Boston in 1734

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $409
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 47
Bill of sale for two pipes of Madeira Wine

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $189
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 48
An important letter from the only repenting judge of the Salem Witch Trials

Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

Sold for $4,725
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000