RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 703, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 13, 2024 - November 13, 2024

Page Size: 668 items in 27 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	George Washington	George Washington Document Signed for the Potomac Company, an Early Investment in American Infrastructure		1787	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 13,589.00
2	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson Historic 1790 Letter Signed on Entering "the Duties of the Department of State"		1790	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 41,590.00
4	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed, Appointing a Founder as Commissioner of Loans		1804	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 6,070.00
5	James Madison and James Monroe	James Madison and James Monroe Document Signed as President and Secretary of State		1817	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,273.00
6	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Pardoning a Mutiny Leader		1861	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 10,456.00
7	U. S. Grant Document	U. S. Grant Document Signed as President		1870	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 875.00
8	U. S. Grant Document	U. S. Grant Document Signed as President		1876	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,516.00
9	Grover Cleveland	Grover Cleveland Document Signed as President - Thanksgiving Proclamation		1894	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,269.00
10	William McKinley	William McKinley Document Signed as President - Thanksgiving Proclamation		1898	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,553.00
11	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Dwight D. Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed on Bikini Atoll Atomic Bomb Tests: "The forthcoming tests are designed as a military experiment, with particular regard to the effect of the bomb on navel vessels"		1946	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
12	Jacqueline Kennedy	Jacqueline Kennedy Emotional Letter to Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing: "I was so hostile to God after he took Jack. You, more than anyone, brought me back to Him"		1969	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 24,159.00
14	John F. Kennedy and Robert	John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy Document as President and Attorney General - Commuting the Sentence of a Narcotics Trafficker		1963	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,229.00
15	John and Robert Kennedy	John and Robert Kennedy Original Oversized Photograph by Jacques Lowe	Los Angeles	1960	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,241.00
16	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Signed Book - Profiles in Courage, Dedicated to the Screenwriter of Navy Log: 'PT 109'	NY	1956	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 10,001.00
17	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Oversized Signed Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Presented to Influential Advisor Clark Clifford			USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 16,096.00
18	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed to a Fellow PT-109 Survivor		1944	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
19	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Document Signed as President, Appointing CIA Director John A. McCone - Key Figure in the Cuban Missile Crisis		1961	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 9,981.00
22	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as President to Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer on the "swearing-in ceremonies of General Maxwell Taylor"		1962	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,001.00
23	President John F. Kennedy	President John F. Kennedy's Personal Copy of The Constitution of the United States of America - From the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy	Washington, D.C.	1953	USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 19,456.00
24	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy 'Wanted For Treason' Handbill		1963	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 9,006.00
25	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Signed Photograph to His Sister: "It only took five easy lessons"		circa 1942	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 7,499.00
26	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed, Thanking a Journalist for Reviewing While England Slept		1940	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,973.00
29	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed, Three Months After Announcing His Congressional Campaign		1946	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 8,848.00
30	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed, Two Months After Announcing His First Campaign for Congress		1946	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 9,525.00
31	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Choate Physics Lab Handwritten and Signed Worksheet (c. 1935), with a Physics Lab Page by Lem Billings		no date but circa 1935.	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold

Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000

Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000

Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000

Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 746. Speed's Dual Atlas of Britain & the World with 96 Maps (1676). Est. $70,000 - $85,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 9. Visscher's Superb Double-Hemisphere World Map with Representations of the Elements (1658). Est. $4,750 - $6,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 58. One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1554). Est. $5,000 - $6,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 745. A Complete Example of Ortelius' Atlas of Ancient Geography (1624). Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 73. First English Map to Show California as an Island (1625). Est. $16,000 - $19,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 156. Bachmann's Dramatic View of the Mid-Atlantic Region (1861). Est. $1,800 - $2,200

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 741. Early Announcement of Continental Congress' Declaration of Independence (1776). Est. $9,000 - $11,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 695. The First Printed Map Devoted to the Pacific (1589). Est. $8,000 - $9,500

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 733. Superb Image of the Presentation of Jesus in Hand Color (1502). Est. $700 - $850

Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
Lot 52. Produced by the Psychological Warfare Branch to Encourage Surrender (1945). Est. $200 - $230

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