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
399

Nelson Mandela Signed Book - The Nobel Prize Annual for 1993

1993 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,200.00
400

William Mayo Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
401

Cyrus McCormick, Jr. Typed Letter Signed

1908 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
402

J. Pierpont Morgan Typed Letter Signed, Donating a William Shakespeare Biography to a Hundred College Libraries

no date USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,464.00
403

Samuel Morse War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to a Famed Confederate Swordmaker

1863 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 723.00
404

Mother Teresa Typed Letter Signed: "Jesus said 'When I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink"

1996 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 723.00
405

Mother Teresa Signed First Day Cover

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
406

James Nasmyth Autograph Letter Signed - "I am preparing for a work on the Lunar surface"

1871 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
407

Jawaharlal Nehru Signed Photograph

1940 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 575.00
408

Daniel O'Connell (2) Signed Items - Handwritten Quote and Free Frank

1838 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 413.00
410

Rosa Parks Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
411

William Pitt the Younger Document Signed as Prime Minister of Great Britain

1788 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 275.00
412

Princess Diana Signed Birthday Luncheon Admission Ticket

1991 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,336.00
413

Queen Victoria Document Signed - Approving a Prison Sentence for a "Riotous" Sailor

1874 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 541.00
414

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (4) Signatures

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
415

Yitzhak Rabin Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed

1974 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
416

Red Cloud: The New-York Tribune from June 8, 1870

1870 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 248.00
417

John Ross Autograph Letter Signed

1827 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
418

Charles M. Schwab Signed Oversized Photograph

1920 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 275.00
419

Albert Schweitzer Autograph Letter Signed

1964 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
421

Ernest Shackleton Signed Check

1911 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,221.00
422

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Signed Photograph

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
423

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Letter Signed

1799 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
424

Norman Thomas Typed Letter Signed on Hoover and FDR: "He didn't really end the depression or the terrific unemployment. It was the war that radically changed the picture"

1966 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
427

Cornelius Vanderbilt II and William H. Vanderbilt Document Signed

1873 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • 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.