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
194

Franklin D. Roosevelt Document Signed - Approving Biography for Who's Who in America (1918)

no date but circa 1918 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
195

Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed White House Card

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
196

Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President

1936 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
197

Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President

1933 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
198

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Cleveland News Extra from April 12, 1945: "Roosevelt Dead"

1945 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 185.00
199

Theodore Roosevelt Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
200

Theodore Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President

1906 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 575.00
201

Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks Original Glass Negative

1904 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
202

Theodore Roosevelt and Family Original Oversized Pach Bros. Photograph - Pictured at Sagamore Hill in 1903

1903 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 2,148.00
203

William H. Taft Typed Letter Signed: "You say you are a good old Democrat, but even the worst sinner can return, so we still cherish the hope that you may see the light"

1924 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
204

William H. Taft Signed Photograph to a Yale Law Student

1920 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 368.00
205

William H. Taft Signed Photograph as Governor-General of the Philippines

1902 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
206

Harry S. Truman Oversized Signed Photograph

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 368.00
207

Harry S. Truman Twice-Signed Check from the Democratic National Committee

1956 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 368.00
208

Harry S. Truman War-Dated Typed Letter Signed as President, Reflecting on aEUoethese days of so many difficult tasksaEU

1945 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
209

Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed, Praising Eleanor Roosevelt: "I have, as you know, officially proclaimed her the 'First Lady of the World'"

1968 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 491.00
210

Harry and Bess Truman Signed White House Card

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 541.00
211

John Tyler Autograph Endorsement Signed

1830 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 723.00
212

Martin Van Buren Document Signed as President - Scalloped-Top Ship's Pass

1840 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,069.00
213

Martin Van Buren Document Signed

1817 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 491.00
214

Martin Van Buren Document Signed

1816 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 541.00
216

George Washington Partial Handwritten Letter

no date USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,069.00
217

George Washington: Wooden Fragment from the 'Washington Elm' in Cambridge, Massachusetts

1775 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 2,069.00
218

George Washington Original Folk Art Memorial Drawing

19th-century USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
219

George Washington: The Connecticut Courant from December 23, 1799 - "The illustrious General Washington, is no more"

1799 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,165.00
  • 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
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    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
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    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.