RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 735, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 11, 2026 - February 11, 2026
Page Size: 547 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

George Washington Document Signed as President - Three-Language Ship's Papers for a Trade Voyage

1794 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,751.00
5

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State, Granting a Pension to a Revolutionary War Officer "shot through the body at the battle of Monmouth"

1791 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
6

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State, Promoting Desalination of Sea Water for American Ships

1792 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,344.00
7

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Granting Land to Former President of the Confederation Congress Elias Boudinot

1804 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
8

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as President, Appointing a Midshipman in the United States Navy

1804 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,670.00
9

Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky's Electors Cast Their Votes in the 1800 Presidential Election

1800 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,431.00
10

James Madison Autograph Letter Signed on US Constitution, Declining to Opine on "Numerous Amendments"

1833 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
11

James Madison Signed Check as President (1815)

1815 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,175.00
12

Louisiana Purchase: James Monroe, Robert R. Livingston, and Francois Barbe-Marbois (2) Documents Signed for the Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty

1803 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 82,394.00
13

Louisiana Purchase: James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed, Preparing to Depart for France to Negotiate the Purchase of New Orleans: "You know how sudden my appointment was"

1803 USD 7,500.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,074.00
15

John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing a Marshal of the United States

1829 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,756.00
16

James Monroe Letter Signed as Secretary of State, to Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, Transmitting Census Data

1811 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
17

James Monroe and John Quincy Adams Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing the U.S. Consul to Cape Verde

1818 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,223.00
18

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Louisiana Purchase: "The great question upon the Louisiana Treaty was decided before I got here"

1803 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
19

Andrew Jackson Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed as President, Urging the Nomination of a Diplomat to Mexico

1830 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
20

Andrew Jackson Document Signed as President, Appointing the Receiver of Public Moneys for St. Louis

1837 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,334.00
21

William Henry Harrison Autograph Letter Signed on the Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812

1820 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,630.00
22

William Henry Harrison Document Signed as Governor of the Indiana Territory, Appointing a Militia Major in the Year of Tecumeh's Defeat

1811 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,038.00
23

William Henry Harrison Document Signed - Four Months Before the 1836 Presidential Election

1836 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,020.00
24

John Tyler Document Signed as President, Appointing a Naval Officer for the District of New York

1844 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,886.00
25

James K. Polk Document Signed as President, Exchanging Ratifications of the Treaty of Wanghia - The First Formal Treaty Between China and the United States

1845 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
26

James K. Polk Document Signed as President, Appointing a Professor of Mathematics in the Navy

1848 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,441.00
27

James K. Polk and James Buchanan Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing the White House Architect's Son as U.S. Attorney

1845 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,336.00
28

Zachary Taylor Document Signed as President, Appointing a Justice of the Peace for Washington, D.C.

1849 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,278.00
29

Zachary Taylor Document Signed as President - Unissued Four-Language Ship's Pass

no date USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,276.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £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.