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
271		Andrew Mellon Signed Oversized Photograph		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
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	Unknown
273	K. Metternich	Klemens von Metternich Autograph Letter Signed		1820	Not Available	Unknown
274	Momoro; Etienne Jean-Baptiste Maillard; Denis-Guillaume Bourgain; Dubois; Houzeau	Antoine-Francois Momoro Document Signed on the 'Elixir of Life'		1794	Not Available	Unknown
275	Sir Moses Montefiore	Moses Montefiore Signature		1842	Not Available	Unknown
276	Mother Teresa	Mother Teresa Signed Prayer Slip		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
277	Peter Bevelin	Charlie Munger Signed Book - Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger	Malmo, Sweden	2007	Not Available	Unknown
278		New York: Land Grant in the Name of Queen Anne of England (1703)		1703	Not Available	Unknown
279	Florence Nightingale	Florence Nightingale Autograph Letter Signed		1885	Not Available	Unknown
281	Wm. A. Pinkerton	William A. Pinkerton Typed Letter Signed		1890	Not Available	Unknown
282		Pope Pius X Signature		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
283		Pope Pius XI Oversized Signed Photograph		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
284		Princess Diana and King Charles III Signed Christmas Card (1983)		1983	Not Available	Unknown
285		Prohibition: 1923 Liquor Prescription for Whiskey	Chicopee, Massachusetts	1923	Not Available	Unknown
287	Victoria	Queen Victoria Document Signed		1845	Not Available	Unknown
288	A. H. Rostron	Arthur Rostron Autograph Letter Signed to a Titanic Disaster Photographer		1926	Not Available	Unknown
289	Albert Schweitzer	Albert Schweitzer Signed 'Hospital Fund' Leaflet		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
290	William H. Seward	William H. Seward Civil War-Dated Signed Department of State Circular on Small Arms Contraband		1861	Not Available	Unknown
291	Robert Spring	Robert Spring: George Washington Forgery		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
292	James B. Pond; Henry M. Stanley	Henry M. Stanley Signed Check		1890	Not Available	Unknown
293	Henry M. Stanley; David Livingstone	Henry Stanley and David Livingstone (2) Items - Signature and Hand-Addressed Envelope Panel		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
294	Edwin M. Stanton	Edwin M. Stanton Civil War-Dated Signature		1864	Not Available	Unknown
295	William T. Stead	William T. Stead Autograph Quotation Signed and Typed Letter Signed		1903	Not Available	Unknown
296		Clement Studebaker, Jr. Typed Letter Signed		1914	Not Available	Unknown
297	Charles Sumner	Charles Sumner Pamphlet (1856): "The Crime Against Kansas"	NY	1856	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.