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
186	Marie Curie	Marie Curie Document Signed		1907	Not Available	Unknown
187	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on Piccard's Experiments in the "electrical neutrality of matter"		1925	Not Available	Unknown
188	Heinrich Heine	Heinrich Heine Hand-Addressed Mailing Panel		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
189	Gregor Mendel	Gregor Mendel Document Signed	Brno	1868	Not Available	Unknown
190	Samuel F. B. Morse	Samuel F. B. Morse Autograph Letter Signed: "If Lincoln is reelected, I shall despair"		1864	Not Available	Unknown
191	Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur Signed Photograph	Paris	N/A	Not Available	Unknown
192	Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur Autograph Letter Signed on an Illustration of His Rabies Patients		1886	Not Available	Unknown
198	Sigmund Freud	Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on "the relationship of medical studies to psychoanalysis"		1936	Not Available	Unknown
205	Howard Carter; Gaston Maspero	Howard Carter Document Signed, Approving a Pay Raise for a Tomb Guard		1902	Not Available	Unknown
211	Lucy Duff-Gordon	Lucille Duff-Gordon Autograph Letter Signed: "If I had time to play 'Bridge,' I should have time to do many things that w'd interest me more"		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
212	Edward J. Smith	Edward J. Smith Document Signed		1895	Not Available	Unknown
225	Walter C. Brenner	The Ford Theatre Lincoln Assassination Playbills Book - Signed by Walter C. Brenner (Ltd. Ed. #72/75)	Philadelphia	1937	Not Available	Unknown
226	Alexander Hesler	Abraham Lincoln Oversized Mounted Albumen Beardless Portrait (After Alexander Hesler)	Princeton, Ill	1857	Not Available	Unknown
227	Mata-Hari	Mata Hari Autograph Letter Signed, Preparing "a new dance"		1913	Not Available	Unknown
233		P. T. Barnum Autograph Letter Signed - "What a showman you would have made!"		1890	Not Available	Unknown
234	A. Burr	Aaron Burr Signed Check		1800	Not Available	Unknown
235		Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type I		1931	Not Available	Unknown
236		Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type I		1920s	Not Available	Unknown
237		Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type I		1932	Not Available	Unknown
238	Andrew Carnegie; Louise Whitfield Carnegie	Andrew Carnegie Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
239	Antonio Ciocchi del Monte	Catholic Church: Ecclesiastical Indulgence Signed by Cardinal Antonio Ciocchi del Monte		c. 1528	Not Available	Unknown
241	S. P. Chase	Salmon P. Chase Autograph Quotation Signed		1871	Not Available	Unknown
242	Marlborough	John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough Letter Signed		1718	Not Available	Unknown
243	Edmund Hillary; John Hunt; Thor Heyerdahl; Vivian Fuchs	Explorers Signed First Day Cover with Hillary, Hunt, Heyerdahl, and Fuchs		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
244		Alexander Fleming Typed Letter Signed		1950	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.