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 Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4028 Donald Trump

Donald Trump (4) Signed Items from the 2025 Presidential Inauguration - Portrait, Program, and Invitations

USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4029 The Execution

The Execution of Charles Guiteau: Original Rope Section of Hanging Noose and Original Execution Invitation Card, with Handwritten Letter of Authenticity from Warden John S. Crocker

USD 6,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4030 Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald Signed Application for Enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps

USD 10,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4031 Napoleon

Napoleon Autograph Endorsement Signed (8 Lines), on a Claim by Pope Pius VII for the Maintenance of French Troops

USD 40,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4032 Horatio Nelson

Horatio Nelson Signed "Order of Battle" for Trafalgar - The Defining Naval Engagement of the Napoleonic Wars

USD 40,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4033 Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen Autograph Letter Signed While Exiled in London: "I shall be pleased to go with you to the place and do the translation for you"

USD 6,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4034 T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Autograph Letter Signed, Probing Legal Opinions Before the Arab Revolt: "Are you a pro-Jerusalemito, or an anti-Jerusalemite? And do you like Jemal Pasha's schemes of land settlement, or are you a legalist?"

USD 20,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4035 Winston Churchill and Montgomery of Alamein

Winston Churchill and Montgomery of Alamein Signed Photograph - "Taken during the Battle of the Rhine, 23 March 1945"

USD 20,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4036 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Handwritten Working Draft for A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Documenting the "rivalry of England & Holland upon the seas"

USD 20,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4037 Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (4) Typed Letters Signed, Preparing to Publish Books on Stalin and Lenin While Exiled in Mexico

USD 6,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4038 Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin Document Signed, Mediating a Bureaucratic Dispute in the USSR to Preserve Unity in the Red Army

USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4039 Hermann Goring

Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Goring's Retained Typed Manuscript Signed, Preparing His Final Statement to the War Crimes Tribunal: "I stand on what I have done"

USD 20,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4040 Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai Typed Letter Signed, Organizing "transportation of supplies to the Communist Liberated AreasaEU

USD 30,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4041 Slave Trade:

Slave Trade: Archive of (22) Documents Chronicling the Transatlantic Trade of Aaron Lopez and Jacob Rodrigues Rivera

USD 15,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4043 Abner Doubleday

Abner Doubleday Autograph Letter Signed on Oliver Otis Howard and His "Criminal" Falsehoods Concerning the Battles of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville

USD 1,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4045 Brigham Young

Brigham Young Letter Signed on President Buchanan, the Possible Statehood of Utah, and a New Edition of the Book of Mormon: "We trust now that it will go into more general circulation"

USD 40,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4046 Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton Autograph Manuscript Signed on Submarine Construction and Warfare: "This engine pursued to perfection will to a certainty totally annihilate the existing military marine system and give liberty to the seas"

USD 40,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4047 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed on "Electric Lighting" in Europe

USD 4,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4048 Thomas Edison's

Thomas Edison's Handwritten Experimental Notebook - 130 Pages on the Development of Domestic Rubber

USD 50,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4049 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Early Autograph Laboratory Notes Signed with Sketches of the "Speaking Telegraph" (1877)

USD 10,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4050 Marie Curie

Marie Curie Autograph Letter Signed, Certifying "instruments for Radiochemistry"

USD 6,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4051 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Typed Letter Signed (1898) - The Year That He Caused an Earthquake in Manhattan

USD 6,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4052 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on the Statics of Gravitation, the Constancy of the Speed of Light, and Max von Laue's Discovery of X-ray Diffraction - "The most wonderful thing that I have ever seen!"

USD 8,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4053 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Handwritten Scientific Manuscript on the Unified Field Theory

USD 40,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4054 Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi Typed Letter Signed to Samuel Goudsmit: "I had a letter from the Guggenheim people asking, whether or not I considered you a first rate physicist"

USD 3,000.00 - 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.