RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 739, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 15, 2026 - April 15, 2026
Page Size: 519 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 John Adams

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed as President to Historian George R. Minot on His History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

1798 Not Available Unknown
2 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Letter Signed as Secretary of State - Transmitting President James Monroe's Ruling on the Illegal Importation of African Slaves

1820 Not Available Unknown
3 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed as a Congressman-Elect

1831 Not Available Unknown
4 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed, Criticizing False Allegations Against His Protege: "Col. James K. Polk's moral character stands without a single blot upon it, and unimpeachable in truth"

1844 Not Available Unknown
5 John Tyler

John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed as President to the Secretary of the Navy, Sending a Naval Fleet to the Gulf of Mexico to Prepare for a Military Response to His Texas Annexation Treaty

1844 Not Available Unknown
6 Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor Letter Signed - "Order No. 51" from His Baton Rouge Headquarters

1827 Not Available Unknown
7 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Document Signed as President, Appointing Secretary of State Jeremiah Black Amidst the Secession Crisis

1860 Not Available Unknown
8 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Examines Debate Claims Made by Opponent Stephen Douglas, Verifying a Republican Ally's Stance "against the admission of any more Slave States" – "If his allegation be true, burn this without answering it"

1858 Not Available Unknown
9 Abraham Lincoln; Mary Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signed Free Frank as President, Addressed and Signed by Mary Todd Lincoln

1862 Not Available Unknown
10 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signature as President (February 20, 1864)

1864 Not Available Unknown
11 Thomas Hicks

Abraham Lincoln 1860 Campaign Lithograph First State Proof

1860 Not Available Unknown
13

Ford's Theatre Unused 'Orchestra' Ticket, Stamped April 14, 1865 - The Date of Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

Washington, D.C. 1865 Not Available Unknown
15

Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin Original 1860 'Proceedings of the Republican National Convention' Pamphlet

1860 Not Available Unknown
17 Ulysses S. Grant

U. S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed to Gen. William T. Sherman, Preceding the 1868 Election, Docketed by Sherman: "About the grade of General of the Army in case he is elected President"

1868 Not Available Unknown
18

U. S. Grant Signed Portrait Engraving

N/A Not Available Unknown
19 Mathew Brady

U. S. Grant Signed Photograph - Oversized Mounted Albumen Portrait

Washington D.C. 1876 Not Available Unknown
20 Ulysses S. Grant

U. S. Grant Civil War–Dated Autograph Letter Signed, Announcing Rep. Washburne's Arrival at His City Point Headquarters for a Gold Medal Presentation

1865 Not Available Unknown
21 Ulysses S. Grant

U. S. Grant Letter Signed as President, Appointing John P. Newman to "examine into the accounts of consular officers of the United States"

1873 Not Available Unknown
22 Ulysses S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Appointing a Postmaster

1874 Not Available Unknown
23 Ulysses S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Granting Daniel Sickles Permission to Negotiate with Spain

1870 Not Available Unknown
24 Ulysses S. Grant

U. S. Grant War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed - Evacuating Sick Soldiers After the Holly Springs Raid

1862 Not Available Unknown
25 Ulysses S. Grant

U.S. Grant Archive of (20) Documents Signed as President, with Several Pardon Warrants from His Last Days in Office

1869; 1876; 1877 Not Available Unknown
26 Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Archive of (20) Documents Signed as President, with Warrants for Pardons, Treaties, and Diplomatic Correspondence

1877; 1878; 1879; 1880; 1881 Not Available Unknown
27 James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield Signature as President - Dated a Day Before His Assassination

1881 Not Available Unknown
28 James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Abraham Lincoln - "Our odd President is doing that odd thing"

1865 Not Available Unknown
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.