RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 731, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - November 10, 2025
Page Size: 766 items in 31 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed: "The President and Mrs. Adams ask the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Tufts company to dinner"

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,723.00
2 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Signature to Dr. Bancroft

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,746.00
3 James Madison

James Madison Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Appointing an Agent in Havana: "You will subserve the views of the President in attending to every violation of the laws prohibiting the Slave Trade"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 15,000.00
4 Anna Harrison

Anna Harrison Autograph Letter Signed

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,553.00
5 John Tyler and John C. Calhoun

John Tyler and John C. Calhoun Document Signed as President and Secretary of State

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,503.00
6 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Document Signed as President, Commissioning an Assistant Quartermaster

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,625.00
7 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Congratulating the New President of El Salvador

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,613.00
8 President William McKinley

President William McKinley Ceases All Sales of Public Lands in the Hawaiian Islands

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,853.00
9 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book as President - Oliver Cromwell

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,963.00
10 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book - American Statesmen: Thomas Hart Benton

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,321.00
11 Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Notables

Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Notables (190+) Signed Letters in Scrapbook

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
12 Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon Typed Letter Signed to Spiro T. Agnew, Sending the Disgraced VP His Cabinet Chair: "The chair you occupied across from mine at the Cabinet table is, to me, a symbol of the strength and wisdom you brought to that task"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,799.00
13 Four Presidents

Four Presidents Signed Photograph

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,674.00
19

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: Colombian Centinel from July 15, 1826 - Reporting on the Presidents' Deaths

1826 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 500.00
20 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Document Signed as President - Ratifying an Amended Extradition Document with France

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,283.00
21 George Bush

George Bush Typed Letter Signed: "When NRA attacks our law enforcement people as 'Nazis,' 'lawbreakers' and 'jackbooted thugs,' that is outrageous and cannot be condoned"

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
22 George Bush

George Bush Oversized Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
23 George Bush

George Bush Signed Book - Speaking of Freedom (Collector's Edition)

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 151.00
24 George W. Bush

George W. Bush (2) Signatures

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 875.00
25 Frances F. Cleveland

Frances F. Cleveland Signature

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
26 Frances F. Cleveland

Frances F. Cleveland Signed Photograph as First Lady

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
27 President Grover Cleveland

President Grover Cleveland Congratulates Queen Victoria on the Historic Marriage of King George V and Queen Mary of Teck

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,283.00
29 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Signature and Impeachment Trial Ticket

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 446.00
30 Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Signed Book - An Invitation to the White House

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 138.00
31 Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge 1929 Calendar (18.75E x 27E)

1929 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000