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
56	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as President, Defending His Proposal for a National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware	1963	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,038.00
57	Lyndon B. Johnson Rare Early Autograph Letter Signed as a 20-year-old School Principal in Cotulla, Texas (1928)	1928	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
59	Richard Nixon's Hutschenreuther Porcelain Bald Eagle Sculpture		USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,283.00
60	Jimmy Carter Typed Letter Signed to Fidel Castro, "President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba"	1989	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,078.00
61	Jimmy Carter Autograph Letter Signed (1991) - Handwritten on His Old White House Letterhead	1991	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 795.00
62	Ronald Reagan Signed White House Card		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,709.00
63	Ronald Reagan Signed Check	1989	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,165.00
64	Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Signed Photograph	1988	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 3,336.00
65	Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Cabinet Oversized Signed Photograph		USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,888.00
66	Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev Signed Photograph	1988	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 8,848.00
67	Donald Trump Signed $2 Dollar Bill	1976	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 5,375.00
68	Five Presidents Signed Photograph - Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush	1991	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 3,336.00
69	Four Presidents Signed Photograph	1981	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,949.00
75	John Adams: Manuscript Proclamation of an Act of Congress, Restoring Trade with St. Domingo	1799	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
76	John Quincy Adams Free-Franked Address Panel to His Wife	1803-1808.	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,059.00
77	John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay Document Signed	1826	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,165.00
78	Chester A. Arthur Document Signed as President, Appointing a Master in the Navy	1882	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 875.00
79	James Buchanan Partial Autograph Letter Signed on His Election as President: "This was neither sought nor deserved by myself"	1856	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 1,059.00
80	James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed as Secretary of State	1846	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 656.00
81	George Bush Signed Baseball		USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 1,283.00
82	George Bush Signed 1985 Inauguration Invitation	1985	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 405.00
83	George Bush Signed Proclamation as President for "Country Music Month, 1991"	1991	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
84	George and Barbara Bush (5) Signed Photographs		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 334.00
85	George and Barbara Bush Signed White House Christmas Card Print (1990)	1990	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
86	George W. Bush Signed Baseball		USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 334.00

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.