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
208 Cerf Vint

Vint Cerf (4) Signed Items

N/A USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 666.00
209 Darwin Charles

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed to Mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley on Seed Germination Experiments (1856)

1856 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,364.00
210 Edison Thomas

Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed to Francis Upton on Incandescent Lamp Filaments

1885 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,088.00
211 Edison Thomas

Thomas Edison Signed Imperial Cabinet Photograph

New York N/A USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,781.00
212 Edison Thomas

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Wartime Aniline Oil Supply Contract (1915)

1915 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,165.00
213 Edison Thomas

Thomas Edison Autograph Note Signed to a Noted Boston Scientific Instrument Maker - "Please send catalogue"

Menlo Park N/A USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,283.00
214 Einstein Albert

Albert Einstein Document Signed (1940) - Affidavit of Support for His Immigrant Cousin, Ursula Einstein, Fleeing from Nazi Germany

Princeton 1940 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,350.00
215 Einstein Albert

Albert Einstein (2) Autograph Letters Signed on His Unified Field Theory Collaboration: "Your electron is possible if one considers the Hamilton-Function"

1928 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
217 Marconi Guglielmo

Guglielmo Marconi Signed Photograph to "my future sister Helen"

New York 1901 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 963.00
218 Pasteur Louis

Louis Pasteur Signed Booklet of His French Academy Induction Address (1882)

1882 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,251.00
219 Raman C V

C. V. Raman Signed Photograph

1954 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
220 Burbank Luther; Steinmetz Charles P; Jehl Francis

Scientific and Edison Associates (3) Signatures - Luther Burbank, Charles P. Steinmetz, and Francis Jehl

1909 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
222 Young C A

Charles August Young Signed Photograph

Montreal N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
225

Isidor Straus (2) Documents Signed - Abrast Realty Company Stock Receipts

1911-1925 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,375.00
227 Barry David Francis

Chief Gall Original Photograph by D. F. Barry - "Master Mind and the leader of the Indians in the Custer fight"

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 889.00
228 Geronimo

Geronimo Signature - JSA 9

N/A USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,901.00
229 Capone Al

Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type IV

c. 1960s USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
230 Hoffa James R; Holmes Robert

Jimmy Hoffa and Robert Holmes Signed Photograph

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,411.00
231 Hoffa James R; Hoffa Josephine; Crancer Barbara Ann; Gibbons Harold J; English John T

Jimmy Hoffa Signed 1965 'Testimonial Dinner' Program

New York City 1965 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
232 Hoover J Edgar

J. Edgar Hoover Signed Photograph

1942 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
234 Mata Hari

Mata Hari War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as a€œMarguerite Lady Mac-Leoda€

Paris 1916 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,363.00
235 Mata Hari

Mata Hari Signed Photograph as "Lady MacLeod" (October 1916)

Paris 1916 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,655.00
236

Prohibition: 1923 Liquor Prescription for Whiskey

Chicopee, Massachusetts 1923 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 558.00
237 Lee Robert E.;Lee Mary Custis

Robert E. Lee Signed Carte-de-Visite Photograph, Additionally Inscribed by Mary Custis Lee

Richmond, Virginia 1868 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,670.00
238 Lee Robert E.

Robert E. Lee Letter Signed, Accepting a Donation to Washington College's Library

Lexington, Virginia 1867 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,106.00
  • 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.