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
172	Alexander Fleming	Alexander Fleming Autograph Letter Signed: "You seriously underestimate the number of autograph pests"	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
173	Leon Foucault	Leon Foucault Autograph Letter Signed - Scarce Handwritten Letter from the Inventor of the Foucault Pendulum	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
174	Carl Friedrich Gauss	Carl Friedrich Gauss Autograph Letter Signed to Astronomer Wilhelm von Struve	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
175	Eduard Heine	Eduard Heine Hand-Addressed Mailing Panel - German Mathematician	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
176	Werner Heisenberg	Werner Heisenberg Typed Letter Signed on a Translation of Max Born's Obituary - Connecting the Pioneers of Quantum Mechanics	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
177	John Hunter	John Hunter Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed - Early Promoter of Scientific Methods in Medicine	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
178	Edward Jenner	Edward Jenner Autograph Letter Signed, Regarding a "veterinary surgeon of the highest reputation"	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
179	Antoine Lavoisier	Antoine Lavoisier Document Signed - Influential French Chemist	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
180	Pierre Louis Maupertuis	Pierre Louis Maupertuis Signed - Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences' Membership Diploma Presented to Scottish Mathematician James Stirling (1747)	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
181	James Clerk Maxwell	James Clerk Maxwell Autograph Letter Signed, Requesting a Copy of George Eliot's Middlemarch on His Return to Cambridge	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
182	Dmitri Mendeleev	Dmitri Mendeleev Autograph Letter Signed - Coveted Handwritten Letter from the Russian Chemist and Inventor	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
183	William T. G. Morton	William T. G. Morton Autograph Letter Signed - The Pioneer of Surgical Anesthesia	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
184	Alfred Nobel	Alfred Nobel Autograph Letter Signed: "For each letter you get, I receive at least two hundred, and in different languages"	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
185	Robert Oppenheimer	Robert Oppenheimer Autograph Letter Signed	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
186	Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur Handwritten Manuscript on Rabies Experiments: "Do dogs exist (as a race or individually) that are naturally immune to rabies?"	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
187	Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur (2) Signed Items - Autograph Letter and Book on Silkworm Disease	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
188	Ivan Pavlov	Ivan Pavlov Autograph Letter Signed: "I would like to talk to you about work and dogs"	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
189	Ivan Pavlov	Ivan Pavlov Twice-Signed Autograph Letter as a Medical Student	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
190	Joseph Priestley	Joseph Priestley Partial Autograph Letter Signed - Scarce Letter from the Discoverer of Oxygen	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
191	Wilhelm Rontgen	Wilhelm Rontgen Autograph Letter Signed - The Discoverer of X-rays	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
192	Wilhelm Rontgen	Wilhelm Rontgen Letter Signed from the Year of His X-ray Discovery, Preparing to Defend His University's Botanical Garden	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
193	Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
194	Alessandro Volta	Alessandro Volta Autograph Letter Signed	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
195	John Wallis:	John Wallis: A Treatise of Algebra, Both Historical and Practical (1685)	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Unknown
196	James D. Watson	James D. Watson (2) Signed Items - Typed Letter and Draft of His Book Manners for Science (Avoid Boring People)	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	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.