RR Auction: Decoding History: Kryptos, Enigma, and the Rosetta Stone, 730, Amherst

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 14 items in 1 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2001 Jim Sanborn

The Complete Secrets of Kryptos: Jim Sanborn's Private Archive

 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 962,500.00
2002

Rosetta Stone: Archive of 19th-Century British Working Papers, Decoding the Lost Language of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics

 19th-Century USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 113,799.00
2003 Jean-Francois Champollion

Jean-Francois Champollion Amazing Autograph Letter Signed with Hieroglyphic Illustrations:

 1826 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
2004 Jean-Francois Champollion

Jean-Francois Champollion Handwritten Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Manuscript, Explaining the Figurative, Symbolic, and Phonetic Nature of the Symbols

 no date but circa 1828-1830 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
2005 Howard Carter

Howard Carter Signed Book Set - The Tomb of Tutankhamen

 London 1923-1933 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
2006 Claude Philibert Dabry de Thiersant

Claude Philibert Dabry de Thiersant: Military Phrasebook in Chinese, French, and English (1859)

 Paris and London 1859 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
2007

China: Secret British Military Reconaissance Reports on Kwangtung and Fukien Provinces

 Hong Kong 1926-1928 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
2008 Mata Hari

Mata Hari World War I-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Her Wartime Efforts: "I know that during long nights I am in their mind, as they are in mine"

 1916 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,384.00
2009 Thomas H. Dyer

Thomas H. Dyer Signature

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 275.00
2010 Herbert Yardley

Herbert Yardley Signed Return Receipt

 1943 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
2011 Moe Berg

Moe Berg Hand-Notated Spy Manuscript on Atomic Chain Reactions (1944) - Penned by a Physicist Who Shared Intelligence on Nazi Germany's Nuclear Weapons Program

 1944 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,309.00
2012 William Friedman

William Friedman Typed Letter Signed

 1949 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,283.00
2013 David Balme

David Balme Signed Photograph

 1941 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
2014 Alan Turing

Alan Turing Signed Book - The Distribution of Prime Numbers (Turing's Own Copy)

 Cambridge 1932 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
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    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000