RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 737, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 18, 2026 - March 18, 2026

Page Size: 614 items in 25 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
585	Rabindranath Tagore	Rabindranath Tagore Typed Letter Signed on a Lecture Tour: "My readings would consist of selections from my already published works such as 'Gitanjali' and 'The Gardener'"	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
586	Hunter S. Thompson	Hunter S. Thompson Signed Book - Hey Rube	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
587	Emile Zola	Emile Zola Autograph Note Signed on Personal Visiting Card	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
593	Hector Berlioz	Hector Berlioz Autograph Letter Signed on Harold en Italie and "the pianoforte arrangement of my Symphonie fantastique by Liszt"	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
594	Leonard Bernstein	Leonard Bernstein Autograph Orchestration Page Signed for His Symphony No. 3, 'Kaddish'	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
595		Composers (44) Signed Photograph Collection Highlighted by Romantic-era Masters Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini	USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	Unknown
596	Claude Debussy	Claude Debussy Autograph Letter Signed	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
597	Antonin Dvorak	Antonin Dvorak Autograph Musical Quotation Signed - "Melodie a motivy"	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
598	William S. Gilbert	William S. Gilbert Handwritten Synopsis of 'The Pirates of Penzance,' with Extensive Lyrical Quotations	USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	Unknown
599	Edvard Grieg	Edvard Grieg Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from a Lullaby	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
600	Franz Liszt	Franz Liszt Autograph Letter Signed: "Our concert is to take place next Wednesday"	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
601	Jacques Offenbach	Jacques Offenbach Archive of Autograph Musical Sketches from 'La Vie parisienne,' 'OrphA(c)e aux enfers,' and 'Les contes d'Hoffmann'	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	Unknown
602	Giacomo Puccini	Giacomo Puccini Autograph Musical Manuscript from 'La fanciulla del West'	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
603	Giacomo Puccini	Giacomo Puccini Autograph Letter Signed on Madame Butterfly: "It is the first opera ever performed in Japanese costumes at the Opera Comique"	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
604	Maurice Ravel	Maurice Ravel Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from 'Le Tombeau de Couperin'	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
605	Gioachino Rossini	Gioachino Rossini Autograph Letter Signed	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
606	Johann Strauss II	Johann Strauss II Handwritten Musical Manuscript from 'Prinz Methusalem'	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	Unknown
607	Giuseppe Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to His Opera Nabucco	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
608	Richard Wagner	Richard Wagner Autograph Manuscript Signed, Announcing the Premiere of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Unknown
609	Carl Maria von Weber	Carl Maria von Weber Autograph Letter Signed to His Music Publisher, Sending "the Overture in D Minor, the Concertino and the Variations"	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
610	George M. Cohan	George M. Cohan Autograph Quotation Signed: "We won't come back till it's over, over there"	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
611	George and Ira Gershwin	George and Ira Gershwin Document Signed, Allocating Their Earnings from RKO Studios	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
612	John Philip Sousa	John Philip Sousa Autograph Letter Signed, Outlining the Instrumentation of the United States Marine Band	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
613	Beatles Fully	Beatles Fully Signed 'Star Pics' Photograph - Obtained at Edinburgh's ABC Cinema (April 29, 1964)	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
614	Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney	Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Rare Dual-Signed Photograph	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown

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.
Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.