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
788 Jackson Andrew

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed, Preceding a Duel: "It is difficult to find an appropriate epithet for a character who descents to stoke falsehoods in a situation, where the honour of a man is at stake"

1806 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
789 Madison James; Monroe Jas.

James Madison and James Monroe Document Signed, Appointing Peace Commissioners after the Second Barbary War

1816 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,991.00
790 Buchanan James

James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed on Franklin Pierce: "I recollect him as a radical & inflexible Democrat in all his votes"

1852 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
791 Monroe Jas.

James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed, Remarking on His Presidential Qualifications: "My public life ought to speak for itself"

1815 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
792 Johnson Andrew

Andrew Johnson Autograph Letter Signed on His Campaign for Congress and a Potential Vice Presidency: "I am a democrat in the enlarged and proper sense of the term"

1851 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
793 Pierce Franklin

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed on the Eve of War - "Even if there be no purpose to bring on civil war, will not halting, blundering, arrogant imbecility stumble on it?"

1861 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
794 Jackson Andrew

Andrew Jackson Autograph Document Signed - Pay Order Issued During the 1828 Presidential Campaign

1828 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
796 Pissarro C.

Camille Pissarro Autograph Letter Signed on the Sale of Artwork

1888 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
797 Picasso

Pablo Picasso Signed Sketch on Postcard to Man Ray - "Man v. Toro"

1957 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
798

Sioux Indians Archive: Comprehensive Testimony Against Chief John Grass - "John Grass wishes us to remain Indians, and advises the people not to listen to the Agent or the great father"

1868; 1881 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
799 Polk James K.

James K. Polk Document Signed as President, Exchanging Ratifications of the Treaty of Wanghia - The First Formal Treaty Between China and the United States

1845 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
800 George III

King George III Twice-Signed Document with Instructions to Negotiate an End to the Russo-Turkish War

1791 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,654.00
801 Liliuokalani

Queen Liliuokalani Autograph Musical Quotation Signed

N/A USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,544.00
802 Louis XVI

King Louis XVI Endorsed Document, Paying Expenses from the FAªte de la FA©dA©ration, Commemorating the Fall of the Bastille

1791 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
803 James II

King James II Autograph Letter Signed, Preparing for Exile in France and Securing Safe Passage for "our dearest consort the Queene"

1688 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,353.00
804 Buchanan James

James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed, Defending His Presidency: "The Charleston authorities were directly notified over & over again that if they attacked Fort Sumter I should consider this attack as the commencement of a civil war"

1861 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,623.00
805 Audubon John J.

John J. Audubon Handwritten Draft of His 'Ornithological Biography' Entry on the Wild Turkey, the First Plate in The Birds of America

1831 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
806 Edison Thomas

Thomas Edison's Handwritten Experimental Notebook - 130 Pages on the Development of Domestic Rubber

c. 1929 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
807 Fulton Robert

Robert Fulton Autograph Manuscript Signed on Submarine Construction and Warfare: "This engine pursued to perfection will to a certainty totally annihilate the existing military marine system and give liberty to the seas"

London 1804 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
810

Western Movie Posters and Lobby Cards - Collection of 1,100+ from the Golden Age of Old West Cinema, Highlighted by Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Whip Wilson, and Lash LaRue

N/A USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,749.00
  • 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.