RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 713, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 12, 2025 - March 12, 2025
Page Size: 628 items in 26 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
230 John D. Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, and Jabez A. Bostwick

John D. Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, and Jabez A. Bostwick Document Signed

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,269.00
231 Marie Curie's

Marie Curie's Scientific Pamphlets - 'Fundamental Properties of the Elements' and 'Etude des Trajectoires des Rayons'

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,845.00
232 Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie Autograph Letter Signed, Replying to a Bacteriologist's Inquiry on Radium

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,250.00
233 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed to an Athenaeum Club Member

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
234 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Signed Stock Certificate for the 'Edison Manufacturing Company,' with Scarce Full Signature

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,106.00
235 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Signed Check

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,276.00
236 Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich Autograph Letter Signed

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
237 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph to a Noted Peace Activist

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,881.00
238 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Draft Signed on Prison Reform: "The disastrous effect of our penal system does not lie in the punishment itself, but in the subsequent destiny of the punished"

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
239 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed, Declining to Comment on "those who write about the Theory of Relativity"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
240 Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton Autograph Letter Signed to His Future Rival, Nathaniel Cutting

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
241 Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel Personal Calling Card

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
242 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed, Sending an Update on His Injured Son

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
243 Henry M. Stanley

Henry M. Stanley Autograph Letter Signed on American Interloping with the 1895 Venezuela Crisis

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
245

Rain in the Face Incredibly Rare Signed Cabinet Photograph - Signed at the 1893 World's Fair

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,250.00
246 Red Cloud

Red Cloud Signature and Photograph

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,075.00
250 Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew Document Signed

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
251 George Bancroft

George Bancroft Document Signed

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
252 Richard E. Byrd

Richard E. Byrd Lengthy Typed Letter Signed on His Famed Antarctic Expedition

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
254 Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf Signed Sketch - 'Basic Internet Architecture'

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 795.00
255 Clementine Churchill

Clementine Churchill Autograph Letter Signed on the Tragic Death of John Winant

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
256 Mickey Cohen

In My Own Words

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 1975 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
257 Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
258 Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
259 Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 345.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: Dürer (Albrecht) Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, 4 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremberg, Hieronymus Andreae for Agnes Dürer, 1528. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 26 fine hand-painted miniatures, 17th century dark brown morocco, [Lyon], [c. 1475 and later c. 1490-1500]. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Brontë (Emily) The North Wind, watercolour, [1842]. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, April 11th 1912. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: [Austen (Jane)] Emma: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, for John Murray, 1816. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, one of 95 copies, signed by the artist, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: America.- Ogilby (John) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World..., all maps with vibrant hand-colouring in outline, probably by an early hand, 1671. £15,000 to £25,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Iceland.- Geological exploration.- Bright (Dr. Richard )and Edward Bird. Collection of twenty original drawings from travels in Iceland with Henry Holland and George Mackenzie, watercolours, [1810]. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beckford (William) [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline Lamb's copy with her signature and notes, 1786. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, first edition containing the 6 suppressed poems, first issue, contemporary half black morocco, Paris, 1857. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beardsley (Aubrey).- Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1896. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Douglas (Lord Alfred) Sonnets, first edition, the dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author to his wife Olive Custance, The Academy, 1909. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Crowley (Aleister) The Works..., 3 vol. in 1 (as issued)"Essay Competition" issue on India paper, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1905-07. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices, one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite, bound in dark purple goatskin, Paris, 1902. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Pellar (Hans) Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo' [together with] a published copy of the first edition of the book, 1923. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Cretté (Georges, binder).- Louÿs (Pierre) Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 2 vol., one of 99 copies, with 2 original drawings, superbly bound in blue goatskin, gilt, Paris, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
  • Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
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