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
298

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

1887 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,038.00
305

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

1931 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,389.00
306

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

1912 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,543.00
307

Thomas Edison Signed Photograph

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
308

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

1887 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,504.00
309

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

1882 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 14,815.00
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 USD 1,004.00
311

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

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,993.00
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 Not Sold
313

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph: "With a strong curse"

1933 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,249.00
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 USD 9,074.00
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 USD 5,294.00
316

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

1933 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,094.00
317

Stephen Hawking Signed Book - The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution

1973 USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 24,956.00
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 USD 2,276.00
319

Alessandro Volta Autograph Letter Signed

no date USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,406.00
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 USD 3,223.00
333

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Oversized Signed Photograph

circa 1908 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
334

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

1867-68 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,756.00
341

Elizabeth Arden Typed Letter Signed

1949 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
342

John Jacob Astor IV Autograph Letter Signed

1904 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,165.00
343

P. T. Barnum Autograph Note Signed

no date USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 596.00
344

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

1968 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
346

Leonid Brezhnev Typed Letter Signed

1947 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 458.00
347

Leonid Brezhnev Signed Photograph

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
  • 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.