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
329	R. R. Townes	Vicksburg: Special Orders No. 7, Signed by R. R. Townes (1863) - Paroled Confederates Ordered to March		1863	Not Available	Unknown
330	R. M. Sawyer	Vicksburg: Special Orders No. 96, Signed by R. M. Sawyer (1863) - Organizing a Diversionary "Gunboat and Army Expedition" on the Yazoo River		1863	Not Available	Unknown
340	D. B. Birney	David Bell Birney Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
341	M. Blair	Montgomery Blair Civil War-Dated Document Signed		1861	Not Available	Unknown
342	A. E. Burnside	Ambrose E. Burnside Civil War-Dated Signature		1864	Not Available	Unknown
343	Benj. F. Butler	Benjamin Butler Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
344	John S. Casement	John S. Casement (3) War-Dated Autograph Letters Signed		1862	Not Available	Unknown
347		Civil War: Confederate Generals (3) Cabinet Card and Carte-de-Visite Portraits		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
348	E. W. Jones	Civil War: Confederate Soldier's Letter on the Siege of Petersburg		1864	Not Available	Unknown
349	Lucius Rogers	Civil War Diaries of Lucius Rogers, 33rd Illinois Infantry, 1861–1865		1861-1865	Not Available	Unknown
350	Henry Bacon	Civil War: Signal Station on the Potomac Lithograph		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
352	Augustus Woodbury	Civil War: The Second Rhode Island Regiment: A Narrative of Military Operations by Augustus Woodbury	Providence	1875	Not Available	Unknown
353		Civil War: The Worcester Daily Spy from March 6, 1865, with Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: "With malice toward no one, with charity for all"		1865	Not Available	Unknown
354	Emmett Cole	Civil War: Union Soldier's Letter on Action at James Island/Battle of Secessionville		1862	Not Available	Unknown
355		Civil War: United States Sanitary Commission Report: "Narrative of the Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities"	Boston	1864	Not Available	Unknown
357		Confederate Bond Archive - Lot of (10)		1861-1864	Not Available	Unknown
358		George A. Custer Original Carte-de-Visite Photograph - "Gen Custar"	Washington, D.C.	N/A	Not Available	Unknown
359	Jefferson Davis	Jefferson Davis Signature, Carte-de-Visite, and (2) Confederate Electoral Tickets		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
360	Varina Davis	Varina Davis Autograph Letter Signed on Behalf of Jefferson Davis, Correcting the Record on His Relationship with Robert E. Lee: "He was an honest man, a fearless man, and was my friend"		1883	Not Available	Unknown
361	Jefferson Davis; Alexander Stephens	Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens (2) Signatures		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
362	A. Doubleday	Abner Doubleday Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed, Reporting after Gettysburg: "Your son passed safely through the battle...He ran however great risks, his horse being shot under him in several places"		1863	Not Available	Unknown
364	J. C. Fremont	John C. Fremont Autograph Letter Signed	Prescott, Arizona Territory	1881	Not Available	Unknown
366	C. G. Gordon	Charles 'Chinese' Gordon Document Signed - Promissory Note from Khartoum	London	N/A	Not Available	Unknown
367	H.W. Halleck	Henry W. Halleck War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed, Reprimanding Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant	St. Louis	1861	Not Available	Unknown
368	Winf. Scott Hancock	Winfield Scott Hancock Signature		N/A	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.