RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities, 738, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 26, 2026 - March 26, 2026

Page Size: 93 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
4001	King Henry VIII	King Henry VIII Document Signed to the Keeper of the Wardrobe	USD 30,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4002	Queen Elizabeth I	Queen Elizabeth I Letter Signed to the Archbishop of York, Excusing Him from Attending Parliament	USD 20,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4003	Peter Stuyvesant	Peter Stuyvesant Document Signed, Granting Land on Long Island in 1664, Four Months Before Surrendering New Amsterdam to the English	USD 90,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4004	William Penn	William Penn Document Signed, Granting 5,000 Acres to One of Pennsylvania's 'First Purchasers'	USD 5,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4005	John Law	John Law Letter Signed, Ordering Currency Manipulation Amidst France's First Paper-Money Experiment	USD 5,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4006	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Autograph Letter Signed to His Cousin, BA$sle: "The aria will be finished"	USD 400,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4007	Ludwig van Beethoven	Ludwig van Beethoven Autograph Letter Signed, Directing Payment of His Nephew's Pension	USD 50,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4008	Franz Schubert	Franz Schubert Signed Sheet Music - Op. 96 'Die Sterne von Leitner'	USD 10,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4009	Frederic Chopin	Frederic Chopin Autograph Letter Signed on the Publication of Op. 61, 'Polonaise-Fantaisie'	USD 75,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4010	Johannes Brahms	Johannes Brahms Autograph Letter Signed on the Publication of His Music, Referring to Symphony No. 1 and Clara Schumann	USD 8,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4011	Isaac Newton	Isaac Newton Signature	USD 10,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4012	Isaac Newton	Isaac Newton Handwritten Religious Manuscript with Commentary on the Holy Trinity: "We must confess that the father is God, the Son is God, the holy Ghost is God"	USD 15,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4013	Charles Darwin	Charles Darwin Letter Signed: "There is hardly any one in this country who seems inclined to devote himself to experiments"	USD 4,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4014	Sigmund Freud	Sigmund Freud Signed Book - Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams] - A Foundational Text of Psychoanalysis	USD 6,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4015	Sigmund Freud	Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed, Recommending Translations of 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis' and 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'	USD 6,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4016	Mohandas Gandhi	Mohandas Gandhi Typed Letter Signed in the Year of 'Satyagraha' (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1906)	USD 2,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4017	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed, Six Months Before His 'I Have a Dream' Speech: "I have accepted as many speaking engagements for the next eight or nine months as my schedule will allow"	USD 2,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4018	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing William C. C. Claiborne, Future Overseer of the Louisiana Purchase Transfer, as Governor of the Mississippi Territory	USD 20,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4019	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson Brass Drafting Tool (ca. 1800) from His Personal Collection	USD 5,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4020	William McKinley	William McKinley Document Signed as President, Ratifying a Peace Treaty with Spain to End the SpanishaEU"American War	USD 40,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4021	Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt	Franklin and Eleanor RooseveltaEUs (3) Victorian Dining Chairs from Their Manhattan Townhouse at 49 East 65th Street - Gifted Furnishings from Sara Delano Roosevelt	USD 7,500.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4022	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Franklin D. Roosevelt's Lot of (9) Diamond-Set Formalwear Accessories - (2) Cufflinks, (4) Vest Studs, and (3) Shirt Studs	USD 10,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4024	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed as a Massachusetts Senator, Sent to His Swedish Mistress, Gunilla von Post	USD 30,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4026	9/11: White	9/11: White House Guided Tour Ticket and Ticket Stub - Both Dated to September 11, 2001	USD 1,000.00 - 0.00	Unknown
4027	Donald Trump	Donald Trump Signed Uncut $2 Dollar Bills - PSA MINT 9	USD 2,500.00 - 0.00	Unknown

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.
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.