Swann Galleries of New York says that a collection of hundreds of artwork, documents, and books sold for $299,995. The item that sold for the most money was a John C. Wolfe painting of the 16th President from 1860, before he had a beard; that went for $40,000.

Among the other items on auction were a 1907 bronze relief plaque that became the model for the U.S. one-cent coin that bears Lincoln's profile and an 1865 bust by Sarah Fisher Ames, for which Lincoln posed just before delivering the Gettysburg Address.

Swann Galleries sold the items on behalf of noted Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, a historian and author who is also a longtime collector of Lincoln materials. Holzer, who has written and edited dozens of books, is the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy at Hunter College in New York City.

The presale estimate of sales was between $158,000 and $236,000.