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
428

Andrew J. Volstead Signed Photograph

1919 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
430

Morrison R. Waite Signed Oversized Photograph as Chief Justice of the United States

1874 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
431

John Wanamaker Autograph Letter Signed, Arranging a Temperance Speech

1880 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
432

James D. Watson Signed Book - The Double Helix

1968 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 334.00
433

James D. Watson Signed Book - The Double Helix

2009 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 313.00
434

James D. Watson Signed Book - Molecular Biology of the Cell

1989 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
435

James D. Watson Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
436

Daniel Webster Letter Signed as Secretary of State

1841 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 334.00
437

Henry Wells and William Fargo Signed 'American Express Company' Stock Certificate

1865 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 550.00
438

George Westinghouse Document Signed, Selling Air Brakes to a Railroad Builder

1901 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
443

Marquis de Lafayette: "Justice for Traitors" Document Recording the Auction Sale of Lafayette's Confiscated Property

1795 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
446

Jefferson Davis Document Signed as President of CSA

1863 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,316.00
448

Napoleon's Personally-Owned Book from His Library at St. Helena - L'Art de VA(c)rifier les Dates des Faits Historiques

1818 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,186.00
449

Napoleon Letter Signed

1809 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,583.00
450

Napoleon Document Signed - Requesting a Police Report on an A%0migrA(c)

1801 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,276.00
451

Napoleon and French Ministers Signatures

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,069.00
452

Napoleon Letter Signed, Ironically Remarking on the Stature of New Draftees: "Height is not necessary"

1809 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,336.00
453

Napoleon: Frederick, Duke of York Letter Signed Acknowledging "the Death of General Bonaparte"

1821 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,968.00
454

Horatio Nelson Autograph Letter Signed, on the Promotion of Future Rear Admiral Francis Collier: "I cannot get a Lieut. made"

1801 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
455

Hyman G. Rickover Collection of (24) Cold War-Dated Typed Letters Signed, The Majority Written Aboard Naval Submarines Following First Sea Trials

1961-1969 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,613.00
462

John V. Bedell: Archive of (8) Civil War-Dated Autograph Letters Signed on Ironclad Gunboats, Marches, and Battles

1861-1864 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 596.00
463

Charles H. Burd Archive - Union Soldier Held at Libby Prison, Shot in the Head at Bull Run: "He says he went away a democrat, a pro-slavery man, he comes back a rank abolitionist"

1861 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 723.00
464

Ambrose E. Burnside Signed Photograph

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 963.00
466

Jean-Baptiste Carrier Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
467

Civil War-Era Toy Drum

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 248.00
  • 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.