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
220

George Washington: Arnold Friberg Signed Print - "The Prayer at Valley Forge"

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 541.00
226

Woodrow Wilson War-Dated Document Signed as President - Appointing a Medical Director in the Navy

1917 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 625.00
227

Woodrow Wilson Document Signed - Princeton University Diploma

1907 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
228

Woodrow Wilson Document Signed as President, Appointing a Postmaster

1914 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 334.00
229

Woodrow Wilson Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
230

Woodrow Wilson War-Dated Document Signed as President

1917 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 541.00
231

Woodrow Wilson Typed Letter Signed as President: "My public duties demand my constant and exclusive attention"

1914 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 405.00
237

John Hancock Document Signed, Endorsing Castle Island Court Martial Sentences for a Prison Arsonist and Would-Be Escapees

1790 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,250.00
244

Francis Scott Key Document Signed - Approving the Election of the New Episcopal Diocese of Maryland

no date (ca.1830) USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
245

Louisiana Purchase: Contemporary Copy of James Monroe and R. R. Livingston's Announcement of the Louisiana Purchase

1803 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,336.00
251

Louisiana: John Law Document Signed, Initiating the Transport of Settlers from France Under His Mississippi Scheme

no date but circa December 1717 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 24,630.00
261

Neville Chamberlain World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed on "Difficult Days," Four Days After His Resignation as Prime Minister

1940 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,395.00
262

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed, Preparing to Deliver an "Annual Presidential Address"

1901 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,914.00
269

King Francis I Archive of (11) Letters Signed, Tending to Judicial, Diplomatic, and Political Issues in 16th-Century France

16th-Century USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
270

King Francis I Document Signed (1542)

1542 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
272

King Louis XIV Autograph Note Signed to Pontchartrain

1715 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,453.00
273

King Louis XV Letter Signed to the Elector of Bavaria on His Impending Royal Marriage: "It is an increase to the joy I feel at the agreement of my marriage with the Infanta of Spain"

1721 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 939.00
274

Princess Diana and King Charles III Typed Letter Signed

1981 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,553.00
275

Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and King Charles III Signed Visitor's Book

1949 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,569.00
276

Grigori Rasputin Autograph Letter Signed

1905 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,101.00
282

Saint John Bosco Document Signed

1934 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,670.00
283

Joseph Smith Signed Currency - $3 Kirtland Safety Society Banknote

1837 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,050.00
289

Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed - "Education is truly the foundation of progress"

1942 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
291

Wallenberg's Inspiration: Valdemar Langlet Signed 'Protection Letter' Passport from the Swedish Red Cross (1944)

1944 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,263.00
292

Malcolm X Signed Page for Alex Haley's Playboy Interview - PSA MINT 9

1963 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,845.00
  • 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.