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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts Total Sales (USD) 990,560.00
Auction Date February 11, 2026 - February 11, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 528,400.00
Sale Number #735 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 749,400.00
Total Lots 547
Sold Lots 477.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 718,800.00
% of Lots Sold 87.20% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,016,200.00
Unsold Lots 70 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 97.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
12

Louisiana Purchase: James Monroe, Robert R. Livingston, and Francois Barbe-Marbois (2) Documents Signed for the Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty

1803 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 82,394.00
317

Stephen Hawking Signed Book - The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution

1973 USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 24,956.00
251

Louisiana: John Law Document Signed, Initiating the Transport of Settlers from France Under His Mississippi Scheme

no date but circa December 1717 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 24,630.00
608

Beatles (2) Signed Parlophone UK First Pressing Single Records of 'Love Me Do'

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,889.00
1

George Washington Document Signed as President - Three-Language Ship's Papers for a Trade Voyage

1794 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,751.00
276

Grigori Rasputin Autograph Letter Signed

1905 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,101.00
309

Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed on the Installation of Electric Lighting in New York City

1882 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 14,815.00
743

Marilyn Monroe Signed Oversized Photograph by Frank Powolny - "It's a pleasure to work with you"

1953 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 14,309.00
31

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing a "Superintendent of Indian Affairs, for the Territory of New Mexico"

1864 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,590.00
305

Marie Curie Document Signed - Radioactivity Results from Curie's Lab

1931 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,389.00
32

Abraham Lincoln Signature as President

1861 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,080.00
6

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State, Promoting Desalination of Sea Water for American Ships

1792 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,344.00
306

Marie Curie Autograph Letter Signed, Dated Shortly After the Reception of Her Second Nobel Prize

1912 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,543.00
52

Harry S. Truman: 'Dewey Defeats Truman' Chicago Tribune Newspaper aEU" Complete Issue

1948 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 10,478.00
612

Beatles: John Lennon Signed Book with Sketches - The Penguin

1965 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,208.00
448

Napoleon's Personally-Owned Book from His Library at St. Helena - L'Art de VA(c)rifier les Dates des Faits Historiques

1818 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,186.00
237

John Hancock Document Signed, Endorsing Castle Island Court Martial Sentences for a Prison Arsonist and Would-Be Escapees

1790 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,250.00
537

Salvador Dali Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch: "Preparing an unprecedented exhibition of my work"

1952 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,196.00
13

Louisiana Purchase: James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed, Preparing to Depart for France to Negotiate the Purchase of New Orleans: "You know how sudden my appointment was"

1803 USD 7,500.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,074.00
314

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed to an Aryan German on the Rise of Nazism (1933): "The people in Germany are not as bad as the behavior of the state..However, there is a great danger"

1933 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,074.00
66

Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev Signed Photograph

1988 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 8,848.00
42

Theodore Roosevelt Archive of (4) Signed Letters to His Cousin, a Fellow Rough Rider, with Rare Medal Collection - Three Letters Signed as President

1898 and 1906 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,785.00
446

Jefferson Davis Document Signed as President of CSA

1863 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,316.00
313

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph: "With a strong curse"

1933 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,249.00
395

Ray Kroc Signed Hamburger Sketch

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 7,871.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.