RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifacts Featuring John F. Kennedy, 729, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 12, 2025 - November 12, 2025
Page Size: 818 items in 33 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
698 Jules Massenet

Jules Massenet Signed Photograph with Autograph Musical Quotation from 'Manon'

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
699 Modern Violinists

Modern Violinists Collection of (29) Signed Items

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
700 Opera Group

Opera Group Lot of (10) Signed Items

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
701 Eugene Ormandy

Eugene Ormandy Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
702 Ignace J. Paderewski

Ignace J. Paderewski Signature

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
703 Pianists

Pianists Group Lot of (20) Signed Items

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 303.00
704 Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky Autograph Musical Quotation Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
705 Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff Signature

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 405.00
706 Fritz Reiner

Fritz Reiner (2) Items - Signature and Autograph Musical Quotation Signed

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
707 Sig Romberg

Sig Romberg Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from 'One Alone'

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
708 Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich Signed Photograph

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 138.00
709 Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss Signature

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
710 Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Signature

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 334.00
711 Virgil Thomson

A Virgil Thomson Reader.

Boston 1981 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
712 Violinists Group

Violinists Group Lot of (14) Signed Items

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
713 Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong Signed Photograph

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
714 Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong Signed Photograph

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
715 Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 405.00
716 Band Leaders

Band Leaders Group Lot of (10) Signed Items

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
718 Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling (2) Signed Items - Photograph and Autograph Musical Quotation

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
719 Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael Signed Photograph

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
720 Nat King

Nat King Cole Signed Program

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 168.00
721 Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Autograph Letter Signed on Porgy and Bess

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
722 Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini Signed Photograph with 'PInk Panther Theme' Musical Quotation

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
723 Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from 'Moon River'

USD 200.00 - 400.00 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.