RR Auction: Marvels of Modern Music, 732, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025

Page Size: 461 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
3351	Queen (3) Business Checks Signed by Each Band Member		USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,504.00
3353	Queen Signed 'A Night at the Opera' Tour Program		USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,973.00
3355	Queen Signed 1980 'The Game Tour' Program (Mercury, May, and Deacon)	1980	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 1,880.00
3356	Queen Collection of (19) Concert Color Negatives from the Houston Summit - August 20, 1982	1982	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,880.00
3357	Freddie Mercury Signed Magazine Centerfold Photograph		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,719.00
3358	Freddie Mercury Oversized Photograph by Laurens Van Houten - 'Daffodil' (Ltd. Ed. #6/50)		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
3359	Freddie Mercury Original Christmas Card (ca. 1980s)	1980s	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
3360	Queen Oversized Photograph by Tony Brainsby - 'Bicycle Race' (Ltd. Ed. #8/30)		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 250.00
3361	Queen (2) EMI Publicity Photographs from 1979/1980	1979/1980	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
3364	George and Ira Gershwin Signed Contract with RKO Studios (1936)	1936	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,875.00
3365	Pearl Bailey Document Signed		USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 125.00
3366	Count Basie Document Signed		USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
3367	Sidney Bechet Signed Contract with Columbia Records		USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 138.00
3368	Bix Beiderbecke Signed Photograph		USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,505.00
3369	Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop Sheet Music Posters and Flexi-Disc Record		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
3370	Nat King Cole Trio, Duke Ellington, and Sarah Vaughan 1951 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium Concert Poster (22" x 28")	1951	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
3371	Miles Davis 1988 Pantages Theatre Concert Poster (15" x 22")	1988	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 368.00
3372	Duke Ellington Signed Program		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
3373	George Gershwin Signed Check to Publisher Alfred A. Knopf		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 750.00
3374	Benny Goodman and Norman Granz Document Signed		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
3375	Earl 'Fatha' Hines Typed Letter Signed		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
3376	Billie Holiday Document Signed		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 795.00
3377	Skip James Oversized Photograph by Jim Marshall		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 875.00
3378	Jazz Greats Signatures with Louis Armstrong, Cozy Cole, and Earl 'Fatha' Hines		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
3379	Jerome Kern Signed Photograph		USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold

Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.