RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities - bidstart 1/19, 707, Amherst

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 22, 2024 - February 22, 2024
Page Size: 48 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4001 George Washington

George Washington Excessively Rare Check Signed as President, Filled Out by Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott Jr. - PSA MINT 10

1795 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 135,473.00
4002 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed as President on "the Western road" - The First Federally Funded Highway

1808 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
4003 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Letter Signed as President on Fort Pillow Massacre of Black Soldiers by Rebels

1864 USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 Not Sold
4004 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Handwritten Manuscript on Security in the Middle East: "All of these different conflicts are concentrated in ancient Persia, now Iran"

circa 1951. USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
4005 Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine Autograph Letter Signed - Likely to President Jefferson

1806 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
4006 Brigham Young

Brigham Young Rare Complete Set of Signed 1849 Mormon Currency 'White Notes'

1849 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,749.00
4007 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Handwritten Manuscript Criticizing Religion and the Papacy

USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 45,375.00
4008 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Handwritten Scientific Notes on Alchemy

no date USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
4009 Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Rare Autograph Letter Signed, Trading Work for Art

1781 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
4010 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed on 'On the Origin of Species' and 'Voyage of the Beagle'

circa 1862-69 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
4011 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Handwritten Manuscript on X-Ray Experiments with Sketch of "the first Roentgen Ray lamp in the world"

circa 1896 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
4012 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed for Electric Meter Patent - Used in Developing the Electric Light

1881 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,250.00
4013 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed for Light Bulb Patent: "Improvements in and connected with Electric Lamps"

1881 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,625.00
4014 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed, Explaining Special Relativity

1931 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
4015 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed Seeking Support for a Jewish Academy, Weeks Before Hitler's Rise to Power

1932 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 11,136.00
4016 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Rare Typed Letter Signed Writing His Famous E=Mc2 Equation

1946 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 68,708.00
4017 Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein Autograph Letter Signed to Piero Sraffa, Who Inspired the 'Philosophical Investigations'

1949 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
4018 King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII Rare Document Signed (1541)

1541 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
4019 Napoleon

Napoleon Lengthy Handwritten Manuscript on the French Directory, Prepared for His Memoirs

no date. USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
4020 Napoleon

Napoleon Handwritten Manuscript on the Capture of Malta, Prepared for His Memoirs

no date. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,501.00
4021 Napoleon

Napoleon Document Signed During Egypt Campaign (1799)

1799 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,000.00
4022 Karl Marx

Karl Marx Autograph Letter Signed on the French Edition of Das Kapital: "The revolutionary spirit of the book is revealed only gradually"

1872 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Not Sold
4023 Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Historically Important Signed Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book) - Autographed for the Wife of Pakistan's Foreign Minister, with Photo Proof

Peking 1966 USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 250,000.00
4024 Chou En-lai and Chen Yi

Chou En-lai and Chen Yi Signed Dinner Menu for Pakistan's Foreign Minister

1966 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 46,279.00
4025 Chou En-lai

Chou En-lai Rare Signed Photograph - The First We Have Ever Offered

1967 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 33,275.00
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    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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