RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 1/19, 687, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 14, 2024 - February 14, 2024
Page Size: 533 items in 22 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 American Presidents

American Presidents Signature Collection (35) - complete from George Washington to John F. Kennedy

1811 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 43,161.00
2 John Adams

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretary of the Navy, Recommending a Naval Surgeon Who Served "Under President Washington"

1812 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,000.00
3 John Adams

John Adams Broadside for Presidential Proclamation of a Day of Fasting, Free Franked by Timothy Pickering

1799 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,068.00
4 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed with Free Frank on Monticello Lottery

1826 USD 27,500.00 - 40,000.00 USD 30,819.00
5 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed as President, Paying His White House Butler

1801 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
6 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Signed Free Frank as President

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,548.00
7 James Madison

James Madison Autograph Letter Signed as President, Reflecting on the End of His Term and Mentioning Commodore Stephen Decatur

1817 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,576.00
8 James Monroe

James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed as President, Recommending a Revolutionary War Veteran for a Frontier Post

1819 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,375.00
9 John Quincy

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on News from the French Minister

1817 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,999.00
10 John Tyler

John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed as President to Secretary of the Navy

1844 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,750.00
11 Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed on the Death of the Former First Lady: "My dear wife is no more"

1853 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,504.00
12 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed to His Former White House Secretary

1858 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
14 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President Promoting a Wounded Captain

1864 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,899.00
15 President Abraham Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln Signed Document, Dating to His Issuance of General War Order No. 1 and the Advancement of All Land and Sea Forces

1862 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,230.00
16 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Massive Hesler-Ayres Portrait Printed From an Original Negative

1860 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,981.00
17 Abraham Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln: White House Invitation for Congressional Party on March 1, 1864, the day he filed for Grant's promotion

1864 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,339.00
18 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Rare Oversized Albumen Photograph at His Springfield Home (Summer 1860)

1861 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 13,589.00
20 U. S. Grant Writes

U. S. Grant Writes Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Sending a Petersburg Casualty Report Two Months Before Lee's Surrender

1865 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,664.00
21 President U. S. Grant

President U. S. Grant Writes to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

1870 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,505.00
22 Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Rare Civil War-Era Signed Photograph

circa 1864-1866 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
23 President James A. Garfield

President James A. Garfield Appoints a Maine Postmaster - Exceedingly Rare Presidential Document

1881 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,588.00
24 James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield Civil War-Dated Document Signed for Fitz John Porter's Court Martial

1863 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
25 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Original Sketch by Robert Kastor

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
26 William H. Taft

William H. Taft Typed Letter Signed as President on Controversy with Theodore Roosevelt

1912 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,165.00
27 Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover Typed Letter Signed as President with Rare Autograph Postscript: "I can see a rising tide towards the banks which is going to be perfectly disastrous"

1932 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 6,041.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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