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
164 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph to a Member of the Intergovernmental Refugee Commission

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
170 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed, Thanking Baron Edmond de Rothschild for His Generosity: "Your words as a great Jewish guide whose intelligence is entirely at the service of his goodness will accompany me forever"

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
171 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed 'Bust Sculpture' Photograph (1942)

1942 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
172 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed and First English Edition of Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
173 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed - PSA MINT 9

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,654.00
174 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on Refugee Immigration: "In general, it is impossible to advocate successfully on anyone's behalf before that person is in the country"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,760.00
175 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on a World Court: "Do you believe that such an allpowerful institution would be free of corruption and partiality?"

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,250.00
207 Alexander Graham

Alexander Graham Bell Autograph Quotation Signed and Thomas A. Watson Autograph Letter Signed

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,166.00
208 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed and Signature in Book on Erasmus Darwin - Once the Property of Virginia Woolf

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
209 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison World War I-Dated Typed Letter Signed on Submarine Explosives

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,033.00
210 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (2) Documents Signed - Meeting Minutes for Thomas A. Edison, Inc. and the Edison Manufacturing Company

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,419.00
211 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Electric Vehicle Registration (1914) for His Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham...an early example of an electric car, powered by Edison nickel-iron batteries

1914 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,030.00
212 Richard Gatling

Richard Gatling Signed Photograph

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
213 Gilbert U-238

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - 'The Most Dangerous Toy in History'

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,860.00
214 Joseph Guillotin

Joseph Guillotin Autograph Letter Signed

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,859.00
215 Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber Signed Photograph - The Nobel Prize-Winning 'Father of Chemical Warfare'

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,411.00
216 Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier Autograph Letter Signed

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,411.00
217 Guglielmo Marconi:

Guglielmo Marconi: Official Act for Establishing a Chain of Imperial Wireless Stations (1912)

1912 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
218 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Signature

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 28,200.00
219 [Isaac Newton]

[Isaac Newton] Sketch of a "Manubrium or Winch"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
220 Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed: "I am pleased formally to offer you a membership in the Institute for Advanced Study"

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,445.00
221 Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov Autograph Letter Signed: "Only marriage, a family of one's own, makes a man's life complete"

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
223 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Signature - "Better late than never!"

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,753.00
224 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Typed Letter Signed (1898) - The Year That He Caused an Earthquake in Manhattan

1898 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
225 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Signed Waldorf-Astoria Menu (1899), Listing the Special Roast Entree, "Mignons de Filet A la Tesla"

1899 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,816.00
  • 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