RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 747, Boston

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 12, 2026 - August 12, 2026
Page Size: 695 items in 28 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Taylor Zachary

Zachary Taylor Letter Signed as Commander of the 1st U.S. Infantry at Fort Crawford (1833)

 1833 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
27 Taylor Zachary

Zachary Taylor Signature as Army Commander in Texas

 1845 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,059.00
28 Fillmore Millard

Millard Fillmore Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed - Accepting a Dinner Invitation from John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams

 1840 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
29 Fillmore Millard

Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed (1861)

 1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
30 Pierce Franklin

Franklin Pierce Letter Signed as President - Introducing Future Confederate General Braxton Bragg

 1855 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,059.00
31 Pierce Franklin

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed

 Concord, New Hampshire 1867 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 596.00
32 Pierce Franklin

Franklin Pierce Signed Clemency Document as President

 1855 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,553.00
33 Pierce Franklin; Davis Jefferson

Franklin Pierce and Jefferson Davis Document Signed as President and Secretary of War, Appointing an Artillery Major

 1857 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
34 Buchanan James

James Buchanan Document Signed as Secretary of State

 Washington, District of Columbia 1847 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 723.00
35 Lincoln Abraham

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Document Signed as President, Appointing an Artillery Lieutenant

 1861 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,335.00
36

Abraham Lincoln: Harpera€™s Weekly Consecutive Seven-Issue Run Documenting the Assassination, Funeral, Booth Manhunt, and End of the Civil War (April 15a€“May 27, 1865)

 1865 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,388.00
37 Thomas Benjamin P.

Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin P. Thomas (Ltd. Ed. #250/500)

 NY 1952 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
38 Johnson Andrew

Andrew Johnson Autograph Letter Signed as Tennessee Senator on Democratic Party Divisions Before the Election of 1860

 Greeneville, Tennessee 1859 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
39 Johnson Andrew

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President

 1866 USD 750.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
40 Johnson Andrew

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President for a "Rebel Pardon"

 1867 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
41 Grant Ulysses S

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Cutting Duties on Portuguese Imports

 1871 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,613.00
42 Grant Ulysses S

U.S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed as President to the a€œMembers of the Cabineta€ - Endorsing a New Civil Service Publication

 1869 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,360.00
43 Hayes R B

Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed as President

 1881 USD 750.00 - 800.00 USD 1,411.00
44 Hayes Rutherford B

Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President, Appointing an Infantry Major

 1879 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 5,065.00
45 Hayes Rutherford B

Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President, Sending a Letter to the Czar of Russia

 1879 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 541.00
46 Garfield J A

James A. Garfield Letter Signed as Ohio Congressman

 1880 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 656.00
47 Garfield J A

James A. Garfield Autograph Letter Signed Requesting Campaign Support from Senator John Sherman (1874)

 1874 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 723.00
48 Arthur C A

Chester A. Arthur Letter Signed as Republican Vice Presidential Nominee (1880)

 1880 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 470.00
49 Arthur Chester A

Chester A. Arthur and Robert Todd Lincoln Document Signed as President and Secretary of War, Appointing a Cavalry Captain

 1884 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,553.00
50 Cleveland Grover

Grover Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed as President

 1895 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 446.00
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.