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	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
30	Franklin Pierce Document Signed as President, Appointing an Inspector of Revenue for the Port of San Pedro, California	1853	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,081.00
31	Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing a "Superintendent of Indian Affairs, for the Territory of New Mexico"	1864	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 13,590.00
32	Abraham Lincoln Signature as President	1861	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 12,080.00
33	Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President, Endorsing Former Ohio Governor David Tod	1865	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 7,499.00
34	Mary Todd Lincoln Autograph Letter, Inaugural Gown Relic, and Hair Strands	[1864]	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,298.00
35	Abraham Lincoln: Ford's Theatre	1865	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,496.00
36	President U. S. Grant Corresponds with Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, Following the Opening of the Suez Canal	1870	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,385.00
37	U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Appointing a Second Lieutenant in the Revenue Service	1876	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,458.00
38	U. S. Grant Signature		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 929.00
40	Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President	1891	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,836.00
41	William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt Original 1900 Campaign Poster (22.5E x 15.5E)		USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,950.00
42	Theodore Roosevelt Archive of (4) Signed Letters to His Cousin, a Fellow Rough Rider, with Rare Medal Collection - Three Letters Signed as President	1898 and 1906	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 8,785.00
43	Theodore Roosevelt Signed White House Card		USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,709.00
44	Theodore Roosevelt Document Signed as President, Appointing an Assistant Surgeon	1906	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,516.00
45	Theodore Roosevelt Signed Oversized Pach Bros. Photograph as President	1904	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 4,886.00
46	William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson (2) Signed 1913 Inaugural Parade Photographs	1913	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,078.00
47	Woodrow Wilson Signed Book as President - The President's War Message	1917	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,750.00
48	Woodrow and Edith Wilson (2) Signed Passport Applications - Preparing for the Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles	no date but circa 1918	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,756.00
49	Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Photograph as President	1926	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,078.00
50	Harry S. Truman Archive of (27) Typed Letters Signed, Including (12) as President	1938 and 1951	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
51	Harry S. Truman Oversized Original Painting by Norman Garbo	1937	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 400.00
52	Harry S. Truman: 'Dewey Defeats Truman' Chicago Tribune Newspaper aEU" Complete Issue	1948	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 10,478.00
53	John F. Kennedy Signed Photograph to His Presidential Portraitist, Fabian Bachrach	1959	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
54	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed on Danger in Vietnam (1954): "We would have firmly urged the French then, instead of now when it may be too late, to grant final independence to the Vietnamese in order to win their support"	1954	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,756.00
55	John F. Kennedy Signature		USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,880.00

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.