RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities, 726, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 20, 2025 - September 20, 2025
Page Size: 92 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7028 Marie Antoinette and Sisters

Marie Antoinette and Sisters Signed Hand-Painted Devotional Miniature Book

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
7029 Adam Smith

Adam Smith Autograph Letter Signed on a Student's Sickness - One Year After Publishing The Theory of Moral Sentiments

USD 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
7030 Haym Salomon and Robert Morris

Haym Salomon and Robert Morris Signed Bill of Exchange for Financing the Revolutionary War (October 22, 1782)

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
7031 Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine Handwritten Manuscript on Revolutions and the Rights of Man: "We can scarcely conceive a more diabolical System of Government than has been generally established over the World"

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
7032 John Hancock

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed (1776) - Continental Congress Resolution Appealing to the King of Spain "to join with the United States in a war against Great Britain"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 52,500.00
7033 John Jay

John Jay Handwritten Letter Draft, Defending His Treaty with Great Britain: "I believe it will be fairly and literally executed, unless new courses of irritation and disgust should arise"

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
7034 Gilbert Stuart

Gilbert Stuart Signed Receipt for His 1822 'Lewis-Wilson Portrait of George Washington' - On Current Display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
7035 Napoleon

Napoleon Archive of (29) Letters Signed to His Adopted Son, Prince EugA"ne de Beauharnais, Detailing Military Strategy in the War of the Fifth Coalition: "The army is maneuvering in all directions against the enemy"

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 87,500.00
7036 Napoleon

Napoleon War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to His Sister, Pauline Bonaparte - "The only nation you should never receive in your home is the English as long as we are at war"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
7037 Etienne Charavay

Dreyfus Affair: Etienne Charavay Handwritten Manuscript and Graphological Notes from the 1894 Dreyfus Affair Court-Martial

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
7038 Karl Marx

Karl Marx Autograph Note Signed, Returning an Errant Letter Sent to the Rothschilds - Marxism Meets Capitalism

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
7039 Max Weber

Max Weber Archive of (5) Autograph Letters Signed on German Politics and the End of World War I: "The present Kaiser must abdicate in the interest of the Reich and the dynasty"

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
7040 Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin Autograph Letter Signed - "I am living through a period of universal condemnation"

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,750.00
7041 Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen Autograph Letter Signed, Signed Photograph, and Signed Book - Sun Sends His Manifesto of the Chinese Republic, Putting Forth His Nationalist Ideology: "China for the Chinese"

USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 250,000.00
7042 Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai Typed Letter Signed on US Policy Toward China: "I know for sure that there has been no anti-American propaganda"

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
7044 Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Autograph Letter Signed from the Italian Coast: "The days are of exceptional beauty; there is here a mixture of ocean, forest, and mountain climate"

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
7045 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on His 80th Birthday

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,250.00
7046 Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed: "I know enough of journalism to appreciate the fact that errors are at times inevitable"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
7047 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed on Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement: "You are telling the world that the right of Negroes cannot be trampled in any community without impairing the rights of every other American"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,813.00
7048 Johann Sebastian

Johann Sebastian Bach Document Signed as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas Church

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 125,000.00
7049 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Handwritten Musical Manuscript from the 'Antretter Serenade in D'

USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 212,500.00
7050 Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven Handwritten Musical Quotation

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 30,000.00
7051 Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Autograph Letter Signed on His Travels: "I'm leaving in 15 or 20 days"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 28,750.00
7052 Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from 'Aida' - Presentation Prepared for His Publisher, Ricordi

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
7053 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Autograph Letter Signed on Orchestrating an Overture-Fantasia: "Provided the wind players' lips and the string players' fingers aren't completely exhausted by the end, the effect will, in my view, be colossal"

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.