RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 735, Amherst

Auction Details

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
298

John D. Rockefeller and Henry M. Flagler Document Signed - Standard Oil Trust Stock Certificate

1887 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
305

Marie Curie Document Signed - Radioactivity Results from Curie's Lab

1931 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
306

Marie Curie Autograph Letter Signed, Dated Shortly After the Reception of Her Second Nobel Prize

1912 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
307

Thomas Edison Signed Photograph

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
308

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Early Stock Certificate for the Edison Phonograph Company

1887 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
309

Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed on the Installation of Electric Lighting in New York City

1882 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
310

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Edison Phonograph Works Meeting Minutes, Approving the Purchase of 18th-Century English Mahogany Cabinets

1920 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
311

Thomas Edison Signature: "The world is richer for thoughts you pour into it"

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
312

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on Prewar Politics: "When one thinks of Europe, one appreciates America!"

no date but circa June 1937. USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
313

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph: "With a strong curse"

1933 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
314

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed to an Aryan German on the Rise of Nazism (1933): "The people in Germany are not as bad as the behavior of the state..However, there is a great danger"

1933 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
315

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed, Proposing a World Government as the Solution to Atomic Warfare: "Not unilateral disarmament"

1948 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
316

Albert Einstein: 1933 Royal Albert Hall Ticket Stub - His Last Public Appearance in Europe

1933 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
317

Stephen Hawking Signed Book - The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution

1973 USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
318

Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed, Sending Thanks for a Donation to the Institute for Advanced Study: "We expect to use the money for a distinguished visiting lecturer"

1964 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
319

Alessandro Volta Autograph Letter Signed

no date USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
325

Vilfredo Pareto Autograph Manuscript Signed on Intellectuals: "The Ancients already said that there is nothing worse than the reign of philosophers. We can assert as well that nothing would be worse than the reign of intellectuals"

no date but circa1917 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
333

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Oversized Signed Photograph

circa 1908 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
334

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Signed Book - True Tales of the Plains

1867-68 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
341

Elizabeth Arden Typed Letter Signed

1949 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
342

John Jacob Astor IV Autograph Letter Signed

1904 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
343

P. T. Barnum Autograph Note Signed

no date USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
344

David Ben-Gurion Autograph Letter Signed, Commenting on Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

1968 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
346

Leonid Brezhnev Typed Letter Signed

1947 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
347

Leonid Brezhnev Signed Photograph

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
  • Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T). The Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T)]. CLARK. The Military Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: HOMMAIRE DE HELL, Ignace-Xavier. LAURENS, Jules. Voyage en Turquie et en Perse
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: POSTEL, Guillaume. De la République des Turc
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES. EMPIRE OTTOMAN.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant T. Emile. L'Art Arabe
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES. Histoire de l'art Egyptie
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT, contes arabes
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: SCHLEGEL, Hermann et A. H. VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie - Planches
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: THEVENOT, Melchisédec. Relation de divers voyages curieux
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    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
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    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.