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
298		Henrietta Szold Typed Letter Signed		1931	Not Available	Unknown
300	Millvina Dean; Bertram Vere Dean; Eva Hart; Edith Haisman	Titanic Survivors (4) Multi-Signed Photograph		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
301	W. M. Tweed; A. Oakey Hall	William M. 'Boss' Tweed and A. Oakey Hall (2) Documents Signed		1869	Not Available	Unknown
302	Alfred R. Wallace	Alfred Wallace Autograph Letter Signed on Horticulture		1911	Not Available	Unknown
303	Thomas J. Watson; Thomas J. Watson, Jr.	Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Jr. (2) Typed Letters Signed		1940; 1961	Not Available	Unknown
304	D. Webster	Daniel Webster Autograph Letter Signed on a Contested Ship Seizure: "		1822	Not Available	Unknown
305	Dan'l Webster	Daniel Webster Signed Free Frank to Jared Sparks		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
306	Gideon Welles	Gideon Welles Document Signed as Secretary of the Navy - Civil War Naval Discharge Certificate		1863	Not Available	Unknown
307	Gideon Welles; John B. Montgomery; John C. Howell; Peirce Crosby	Gideon Welles (2) War-Dated Letters Signed as Secretary of the Navy		1863	Not Available	Unknown
308	Henry Wells; Wm. G. Fargo; Alex Holland	Henry Wells and William Fargo Document Signed		1865	Not Available	Unknown
314	Stephen Decatur	Stephen Decatur Autograph Letter Signed from Aboard the USS United States (September 11, 1811)		1811	Not Available	Unknown
315	Jefferson Davis	Jefferson Davis Autograph Letter Signed to General Robert E. Lee During the Siege of Petersburg (July 8, 1864)		1864	Not Available	Unknown
316	Jefferson Davis	Jefferson Davis Civil War-Dated Letter Signed to the Confederate States Congress, Making Appropriations for War	Richmond	1862	Not Available	Unknown
317	Jefferson Davis	Jefferson Davis Civil War-Dated Letter Signed to the Confederate Congress, on an "appropriation required by the Bureau of Indian Affairs"	Richmond	1864	Not Available	Unknown
318	Jefferson Davis; James A. Seddon	Jefferson Davis Civil War-Dated Letter Signed to the Senate of the Confederate States, Promoting Officers	Richmond	1864	Not Available	Unknown
319	Jefferson Davis; Robert Toombs	Jefferson Davis Civil War-Dated Document Signed as President of the Confederate States - Letter of Marque for the Privateer Phenix		1861	Not Available	Unknown
320	Jefferson Davis; Burton N. Harrison; James H. Nash	Robert E. Lee: Jefferson Davis's Initialed File Copy of Lee's Nomination as General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States		1865	Not Available	Unknown
321	R. E. Lee; Mary Custis Lee	Robert E. Lee Signed Photograph - Rare Full-Length Example Dated Nine Months After the Civil War	Richmond, Virginia	1866	Not Available	Unknown
322	R. E. Lee	Robert E. Lee Document Signed - Washington College Certificate in Mathematics		1869	Not Available	Unknown
323	R. E. Lee	Robert E. Lee Document Signed		c. 1837–1838	Not Available	Unknown
324	R. E. Lee; James P. Smith	[Robert E. Lee] Civil War-Dated General Order No. 85, Issued to Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early		1863	Not Available	Unknown
325	John A. Parker	John A. Parker War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed		1865	Not Available	Unknown
326	William Tecumseh Sherman	William T. Sherman Civil War-Era Autobiographical Autograph Manuscript Signed, Documenting His 'March to the Sea' and the War's End: "Received the surrender of Johnston's Army being one of the closing acts of the Great War"		1865	Not Available	Unknown
327	William T. Sherman	William T. Sherman Hand-Drawn Map of the Union Plan of Attack at Vicksburg		1872	Not Available	Unknown
328	W. T. Sherman	William T. Sherman Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed, Directing Gen. Kilpatrick to Burn Railroad Depots, Bridges, Sawmills, and Other Southern Infrastructure		1865	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.