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
245		French-Canadian Fur Trading: Rare Contract for a 'Voyageur'		1811	Not Available	Unknown
246	Richard Peters	Fugitive Slave Act: Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	1842	Not Available	Unknown
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	Unknown
248	Bill Gates	Bill Gates Signed Book - Source Code - PSA GEM MINT 10	Norwalk, CT	2025	Not Available	Unknown
249	Miep Gies	Miep Gies Typed Note Signed		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
250		Jay Gould Document Signed - 'Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway' Stock Certificate		1881	Not Available	Unknown
252	Edmund Hillary; Tenzing Norgay	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Signed Commemorative Cover		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
253	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Oversized Signed Photograph		1926	Not Available	Unknown
254		Independence Hall Wood Relic - Limited Edition		1976	Not Available	Unknown
255	Helen Keller	Helen Keller Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
256	AK	Alexander Kerensky Typed Letter Signed		1955	Not Available	Unknown
257	Coretta	Coretta Scott King Autograph Letter Signed	Bombay, India	1959	Not Available	Unknown
258	Edward, Duke of Windsor	King Edward VIII Signed Souvenir Typescript of His 1936 "Instrument of Abdication"		1936	Not Available	Unknown
259	Hugh Cecil	King Edward VIII Signed Photograph by Hugh Cecil		1936	Not Available	Unknown
260		King George III Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
261		King George IV Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
262		Alfred Kinsey Typed Letter Signed		1951	Not Available	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
266	Currier & Ives; J. L. Magee	Lincoln Assassination (3) Engravings		ND	Not Available	Unknown
267	Norton and Luther	John Wilkes Booth Carte-de-Visite Portrait	Cleveland, Ohio	1864	Not Available	Unknown
268		Lincoln Assassination: Mary Surratt's Hair Taken at Hanging		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
269	Lister	Joseph Lister Autograph Letter Signed		1900	Not Available	Unknown
270	J. Marshall	John Marshall Autograph Document Signed		1830	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.