RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 739, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 16, 2026 - April 16, 2026
Page Size: 519 items in 21 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
271

Andrew Mellon Signed Oversized Photograph

N/A Not Available USD 303.00
272 A. W. Mellon

Andrew Mellon Typed Letter Signed to Philanthropist Nathan Straus, Recognizing "what you have been able to accomplish in alleviating suffering, promoting health and saving human life"

1928 Not Available USD 275.00
273 K. Metternich

Klemens von Metternich Autograph Letter Signed

1820 Not Available USD 275.00
274 Momoro; Etienne Jean-Baptiste Maillard; Denis-Guillaume Bourgain; Dubois; Houzeau

Antoine-Francois Momoro Document Signed on the 'Elixir of Life'

1794 Not Available USD 500.00
275 Sir Moses Montefiore

Moses Montefiore Signature

1842 Not Available USD 275.00
276 Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Signed Prayer Slip

N/A Not Available USD 996.00
277 Peter Bevelin

Charlie Munger Signed Book - Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

Malmo, Sweden 2007 Not Available USD 2,276.00
278

New York: Land Grant in the Name of Queen Anne of England (1703)

1703 Not Available USD 656.00
279 Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Autograph Letter Signed

1885 Not Available USD 1,099.00
281 Wm. A. Pinkerton

William A. Pinkerton Typed Letter Signed

1890 Not Available Not Sold
282

Pope Pius X Signature

N/A Not Available USD 824.00
283

Pope Pius XI Oversized Signed Photograph

N/A Not Available USD 405.00
284

Princess Diana and King Charles III Signed Christmas Card (1983)

1983 Not Available USD 1,000.00
285

Prohibition: 1923 Liquor Prescription for Whiskey

Chicopee, Massachusetts 1923 Not Available USD 275.00
287 Victoria

Queen Victoria Document Signed

1845 Not Available USD 303.00
288 A. H. Rostron

Arthur Rostron Autograph Letter Signed to a Titanic Disaster Photographer

1926 Not Available USD 2,874.00
289 Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Signed 'Hospital Fund' Leaflet

N/A Not Available Not Sold
290 William H. Seward

William H. Seward Civil War-Dated Signed Department of State Circular on Small Arms Contraband

1861 Not Available USD 446.00
291 Robert Spring

Robert Spring: George Washington Forgery

N/A Not Available USD 656.00
292 James B. Pond; Henry M. Stanley

Henry M. Stanley Signed Check

1890 Not Available USD 250.00
293 Henry M. Stanley; David Livingstone

Henry Stanley and David Livingstone (2) Items - Signature and Hand-Addressed Envelope Panel

N/A Not Available Not Sold
294 Edwin M. Stanton

Edwin M. Stanton Civil War-Dated Signature

1864 Not Available USD 275.00
295 William T. Stead

William T. Stead Autograph Quotation Signed and Typed Letter Signed

1903 Not Available USD 250.00
296

Clement Studebaker, Jr. Typed Letter Signed

1914 Not Available Not Sold
297 Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Pamphlet (1856): "The Crime Against Kansas"

NY 1856 Not Available Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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