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
61	Warren G. Harding; Andrew Mellon	Warren G. Harding Document Signed as President, Appointing a Coast Guard Lieutenant		1922	Not Available	Unknown
62	Benj. Harrison	Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President, Attempting to Restore Law and Order in the American West		1892	Not Available	Unknown
63	Benj. Harrison	Benjamin Harrison Signed White House Engraving - PSA NM-MT 8		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
64	R. B. Hayes; Carl Schurz	Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President, Appointing an Indian Agent for the Lakota Sioux		1880	Not Available	Unknown
65	R. B. Hayes	Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President, Ratifying the 'Treaty of the Metre' - Standardizing Measurements Worldwide		1878	Not Available	Unknown
66		Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President, Appointing a Collector of Customs		1878	Not Available	Unknown
67		Herbert Hoover Document Signed as President		1932	Not Available	Unknown
68		Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Appointing a Master in the Navy		1866	Not Available	Unknown
69		Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President		1868	Not Available	Unknown
70	Andrew Johnson	Andrew Johnson Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
71	Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon B. Johnson Signed White House Dinner Menu		1964	Not Available	Unknown
72	Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Photograph to a Member of the "Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces"		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
73	Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon B. Johnson Oversized Signed Photograph		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
74	Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as Viking Editor, on "books on Pre-Columbian patterns and on Navaho sand paintings"		1976	Not Available	Unknown
75	Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed, Reviewing a Friend's Screenplay: "I do know that some studios have people on the lookout for scripts in N.Y."		1988	Not Available	Unknown
76	Jacqueline Kennedy	Jacqueline Kennedy Signed Cover	Groton, Connecticut	1962	Not Available	Unknown
78	John	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as a Massachusetts Senator		1953	Not Available	Unknown
80		Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis (5) Patriotic Postal Covers: "Champion Prize Envelope – Lincoln & Davis in 5 Rounds"	New York City	1861	Not Available	Unknown
81		Abraham Lincoln Assassination: The New York Herald from April 17, 1865		1865	Not Available	Unknown
82		Abraham Lincoln: 1864 Anti-Lincoln Democratic Campaign Pamphlet – 'Lincoln's Treatment of Gen. Grant and Gen. McClellan'		1864	Not Available	Unknown
83		Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin Albumen Photograph		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
84	Anthony Berger	Abraham Lincoln Carte-de-Visite Photograph by Mathew Brady (ca. February 1864)	Washington, D.C.	1864	Not Available	Unknown
85	Anthony Berger; Alexander Gardner	Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth (2) Original Carte-de-Visite Photographs		1864	Not Available	Unknown
87		Abraham Lincoln: New-York Tribune from March 5, 1861, Covering Lincoln's First Inauguration		1861	Not Available	Unknown
88	Carl Sandburg	Abraham Lincoln: Carl Sandburg Signed Book - Presented to a Prominent Lincoln Scholar	NY	1939	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.