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
227 Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta Rare Autograph Letter Signed, Accepting a Diploma for the French Legion of Honour

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,750.00
250 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed On Carl Jung's Growing Influence in America - "The Jungian modification, which I reject, has found many followers there"

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
251 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed: "I don't believe I've ever suggested that childhood neuroses can protect against psychosis"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
252 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Signed Check from Liveright Publishing - Royalties for 'A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis'

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,000.00
258 Peter Martyr

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera and Oviedo - The Earliest Voyage Collection to Focus on the New World (c. 1534)

c.1534 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
259 Peter Martyr

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera Autograph Document Signed - The First European Historian of
the New World

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
265 Titanic -4

Titanic (4) White Star Line Pre-Launch Promotional Items (1910-1911)

1910-1911 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,074.00
271 John Sutter

John Sutter Autograph Note Signed

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
278 1st United

1st United States Congress: The Pennsylvania Packet from September 25, 1789

1789 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 541.00
279 John Abbott

John Abbott Letter Signed

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,464.00
280 Charles Francis

Charles Francis Adams Autograph Letter Signed, Offering His Last "John Adams" Autograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
281 Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew Typed Letter Signed: "I know that you too have experienced difficult times in your public career"

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 334.00
282 American History

American History Artifacts (23) with Keys, Nails, and Flag Fragment

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 8,659.00
283 AOL Time

AOL Time Warner Unissued Stock Certificate

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
284 Austro-Daimler Stock

Austro-Daimler Stock Certificate

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
285 George Bancroft

George Bancroft Document Signed

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
286 Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel Handwritten Note on Calling Card, Regretting Being Unable to Examine a "Telegraphoscope"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 275.00
287 William Bingham

William Bingham Signed 'Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road' Stock Certificate

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
288

Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company Bond

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
289 David D. Buick

David D. Buick Signed 'Buick Oil Company' Stock Certificate

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
290 Al Capone

Al Capone Original 1931 Photograph - PSA Type I

1931 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 875.00
291 Al Capone

Al Capone Original 'Mugshot' Photograph - PSA Type IV

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
292 Al Capone

Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type III

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 368.00
293 Al Capone

Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type III

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 303.00
294 Richard Cardinal

Richard Cardinal Cushing Signed Book - The World's Cardinal

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 151.00
  • 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
  • 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.