RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 739, Amherst
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 16, 2026 - April 16, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 245 | French-Canadian Fur Trading: Rare Contract for a 'Voyageur' |
1811 | Not Available | USD 405.00 | ||
| 246 | Richard Peters | Fugitive Slave Act: Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
Philadelphia | 1842 | Not Available | USD 250.00 |
| 247 | [Mohandas Gandhi] Arrest Order Following His Salt March: "Gandhi will be arrested and interned by the Bombay Government on Sunday" |
Cocanada | 1930 | Not Available | USD 2,756.00 | |
| 248 | Bill Gates | Bill Gates Signed Book - Source Code - PSA GEM MINT 10 |
Norwalk, CT | 2025 | Not Available | USD 656.00 |
| 249 | Miep Gies | Miep Gies Typed Note Signed |
N/A | Not Available | USD 250.00 | |
| 250 | Jay Gould Document Signed - 'Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway' Stock Certificate |
1881 | Not Available | USD 250.00 | ||
| 252 | Edmund Hillary; Tenzing Norgay | Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Signed Commemorative Cover |
N/A | Not Available | USD 500.00 | |
| 253 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Oversized Signed Photograph |
1926 | Not Available | USD 656.00 | |
| 254 | Independence Hall Wood Relic - Limited Edition |
1976 | Not Available | USD 491.00 | ||
| 255 | Helen Keller | Helen Keller Signature |
N/A | Not Available | USD 723.00 | |
| 256 | AK | Alexander Kerensky Typed Letter Signed |
1955 | Not Available | USD 541.00 | |
| 257 | Coretta | Coretta Scott King Autograph Letter Signed |
Bombay, India | 1959 | Not Available | USD 541.00 |
| 258 | Edward, Duke of Windsor | King Edward VIII Signed Souvenir Typescript of His 1936 "Instrument of Abdication" |
1936 | Not Available | USD 1,880.00 | |
| 259 | Hugh Cecil | King Edward VIII Signed Photograph by Hugh Cecil |
1936 | Not Available | USD 2,351.00 | |
| 260 | King George III Signature |
N/A | Not Available | USD 795.00 | ||
| 261 | King George IV Signature |
N/A | Not Available | USD 250.00 | ||
| 262 | Alfred Kinsey Typed Letter Signed |
1951 | Not Available | Not Sold | ||
| 263 | Jusuf Hoggia | Tobias Lear: Manuscript Copy of a Letter to Lear by Jusuf Hoggia, on Modifications to a Treaty with Tunis |
1805 | Not Available | USD 125.00 | |
| 264 | Byron Berkeley Johnson; John Carroll Power; W. J. Ferguson | Abraham Lincoln (6) Early Books on the Assassination and Aftermath |
Cincinnati / New York; Paris; Washington, D.C.; Springfield, Illinois; Waltham, Massachusetts; Boston & New York | 1865; 1866; 1890; 1914; 1930 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 265 | John Gilmary Shea; Smith Stimmel | Abraham Lincoln (5) Early Books on His Legacy and Assassination |
Boston, MA; New York; Minneapolis, MN | 1865; 1928 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 266 | Currier & Ives; J. L. Magee | Lincoln Assassination (3) Engravings |
ND | Not Available | USD 303.00 | |
| 267 | Norton and Luther | John Wilkes Booth Carte-de-Visite Portrait |
Cleveland, Ohio | 1864 | Not Available | USD 853.00 |
| 268 | Lincoln Assassination: Mary Surratt's Hair Taken at Hanging |
N/A | Not Available | USD 605.00 | ||
| 269 | Lister | Joseph Lister Autograph Letter Signed |
1900 | Not Available | USD 303.00 | |
| 270 | J. Marshall | John Marshall Autograph Document Signed |
1830 | Not Available | USD 2,746.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000