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
369	B. B. Hotchkiss	Benjamin Hotchkiss Autograph Letter Signed		1874	Not Available	Unknown
370	J. Joffre	Joseph Joffre Signed Photograph		1919	Not Available	Unknown
371	J. E. Johnston	Joseph E. Johnston Civil War-Dated Signature	Columbia	1865	Not Available	Unknown
372		Fitzhugh Lee Typed Letter Signed		1903	Not Available	Unknown
373	Fitzhugh Lee	Fitzhugh Lee Signature	Fort Sam Houston, Texas	1902	Not Available	Unknown
375	Mahone	William Mahone Autograph Quotation Signed on the Civil War: "Illustrative of American valor and patriotism of equal sincerity on either side"	Petersburg, Virginia	1869	Not Available	Unknown
376	M. F. Maury	Matthew F. Maury Letter Signed on the Repair of Chronometers		1863	Not Available	Unknown
377	Geo. B. McClellan	George B. McClellan Document Signed		1879	Not Available	Unknown
378	Geo. B. McClellan	George B. McClellan Civil War-Dated Signature		1863	Not Available	Unknown
379	Geo. G. Meade	George G. Meade Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
380	Thomas Francis Meagher	Thomas Francis Meagher Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
381	C. W. Nimitz	Chester Nimitz Typed Letter Signed and (2) Signed Photographs		1957; 1945	Not Available	Unknown
382		John Pegram Original Carte-de-Visite Photograph	Baltimore, Maryland	N/A	Not Available	Unknown
383	A. Pleasanton	Alfred Pleasanton Signature	New York City	1868	Not Available	Unknown
384	Ernest T. Pyle	Ernie Pyle Signed Check		1931	Not Available	Unknown
385	J.F.R.; Samuel Evans	John F. Reynolds Civil War-Dated Autograph Endorsement Signed		1862	Not Available	Unknown
386	John Sedgwick	John Sedgwick Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
387	William H. Seward	William H. Seward (2) Signed Items - Autograph Letter and Free Frank	Washington	1857	Not Available	Unknown
388	W. T. Sherman	William T. Sherman Signature		1873	Not Available	Unknown
389	W. T. Sherman	William T. Sherman Signed Check		1876	Not Available	Unknown
390	F. Sigel	Franz Sigel Autograph Quotation Signed	New York	1888	Not Available	Unknown
392		George H. Thomas Signed Photograph		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
394	Henry Warner Slocum; Irvin McDowell; Henry J. Hunt; Daniel Sickles; Oliver O. Howard; John Pope; John Lorimer Worden; Benjamin F. Butler	Union Officers (8) Signatures, with Slocum, McDowell, and Sickles		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
396	Joseph A. Dean; Daniel Steward; William Hurst	Vicksburg: 5th United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment (3) Documents	Vicksburg, Miss.	1865; 1866	Not Available	Unknown
400	Seneca Ray Stoddard	John Brown's Grave Stereoview Photograph by Seneca Ray Stoddard	Glens Falls, New York	1890	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.