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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts Total Sales (USD) 1,208,360.00
Auction Date January 14, 2026 - January 14, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 608,450.00
Sale Number #733 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 853,300.00
Total Lots 627
Sold Lots 513.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,053,050.00
% of Lots Sold 81.82% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,436,900.00
Unsold Lots 114 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
404

Franz Schubert Rare Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed for 'Das Grab,' D.377 - A 'Lost' Meditation on the Grave

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 156,658.00
394

Frederic Chopin Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 39,726.00
113

Robert Oppenheimer Historic Twice-Signed U.S. Passport (1924) - The 20-Year-Old Harvard Graduate Travels to Europe to Start His Pivotal Studies at Cambridge and Gottingen

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 37,000.00
118

James Cook Signature - Immensely Rare Autograph of the Famed British Explorer

 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 34,769.00
78

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed, Appointing a Second Lieutenant in the Continental Army

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 32,426.00
15

Five Presidents Signed Photograph - Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 25,285.00
414

Beatles Signed Photograph - Taken by Astrid Kirchherr in 1962

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,965.00
116

Thomas Paine Partial Autograph Letter on a Motion by Gouverneur Morris "for fortifying New York"

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 19,456.00
175

Napoleon Document Signed, Establishing the Administrative Structure of Occupied Egypt

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 14,375.00
114

Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed on Photography with Phosphorescence: "His ingenious scheme of combining with the phosphorescent light a flash will no doubt succeed"

 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,183.00
1

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State - Act of Congress Permitting Maryland to Collect Baltimore Port Fees

 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,100.00
93

Cotton Mather Handwritten Sermon: "Will ye wicked plot again to you and call upon you with highest. But alas you may be saved"

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,793.00
338

Ian Fleming: Complete Set of (14) US First Editions of the James Bond Novels

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,503.00
96

Mohandas Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin Signed Book - India in Bondage

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,075.00
3

Abraham Lincoln Partial Autograph Letter as President to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (October 31, 1863)

 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,980.00
248

Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,625.00
92

Queen Mary II Letter Signed to Edmund Andros, Colonial Governor of Virginia, Regarding Economic Acts

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,151.00
301

Joe Shuster Original Sketches of Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen

 USD 7,500.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,785.00
387

George Sand Handwritten Letter to Franz Liszt, Referring to Chopin and Berlioz

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 8,629.00
341

Ernest Hemingway Signed Photograph of Lion and Prey, Taken During a 1934 Safari

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,529.00
4

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President (March 11, 1862)

 USD 6,500.00 - 7,500.00 USD 8,435.00
101

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Signed 1988 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,319.00
655

Babe Ruth Signature - Bright, Bold Example

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,011.00
337

Gustave Flaubert Autograph Letter Signed to His Lover on Writing Madame Bovary: "Oh, Bovary, what a grinding millstone it is for me"

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,753.00
336

F. Scott Fitzgerald Document Signed - Fitzgerald's Last Movie Contract with Twentieth-Century Fox

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,499.00
  • <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> AUGUSTIN (Saint). <i>De civitate Dei.</i> Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. <i>[Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes…</i> Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> TRITHÈME (JEAN). <i>Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique.</i> Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> CAUS (SALOMON DE). <i>La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs.</i> Londres, John Norton, 1612. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). <i>La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique.</i> Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> VONTET (JACQUES). <i>L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits…</i> S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. <i>Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques.</i> Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). <i>Les Chats de Gachet</i> (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). <i>Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes…</i> Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). <i>Le Café-concert.</i> Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000. <b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TERRY (EMILIO)]. <i>Projet de fontaine.</i> Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.