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
26 Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed on Franklin Pierce's Government and an Audience with Pope Pius IX

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
27 Franklin Pierce

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?"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
28 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed to His Former White House Secretary, Referring to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jefferson Davis

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,126.00
29 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed, Alluding to the Lincoln-Douglas Debates: "If Douglas is defeated and the party overthrown in Illinois I do not see how we are to retain a northwestern state"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,265.00
30 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Document Signed as President for a Treaty with Russia, Related to US Neutrality in the Crimean War

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,251.00
31 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Naval Document Signed as President

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,034.00
32 James Buchanan

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

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
33 James Buchanan

James Buchanan (2) Documents Signed for the Treaty of Tientsin, Negotiated with China

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 17,858.00
34 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President - Ten Days After the Battle of Fort Sumter

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,229.00
35 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing Eli Whitney III as American Commissioner to the 1862 London Exhibition of Industry

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 13,589.00
36 Abraham Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln: The Civil War Scrapbook of Abraham Jonas, State Legislator, Valued Friend of Lincoln, Father of Union and Confederate Soldiers - Containing (120+) Pages of Period Clippings and Publications (Both Sides of the Conflict)

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,109.00
37 Andrew Johnson

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"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
38 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President - Sending a Letter to the King of Greece, George I

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,034.00
39 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Civil War-Dated Handwritten Statement Directed to Henry Halleck for a Potential North Carolina Campaign

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
40 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed as President, Honoring the Union's War Dead While Declining to Attend an Army of the Cumberland Reunion

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,756.00
41 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Signed Check as President to "Mrs. U. S. Grant," Endorsed by First Lady Julia Dent Grant

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,670.00
42 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Letter Signed as President to the Newly Elected President of Peru

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,290.00
43 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Letter Signed as President on Immigration: aEUoeWe do not treat any other people as we do the ChineseaEU

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 17,379.00
44 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President for Johnstown Flood Relief

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
45 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Typed Letter Signed: "The Benjamin Harrison to whom you refer was the nephew of my grandfather, President William Henry Harrison"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
46 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Document Signed as President, Sending a "letter of felicitations to His Majesty Edward VII"

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,189.00
47 Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Typed Letter Signed on the United States' "fatuous refusal to enter the League of Nations"

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
48 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
49 President Dwight D. Eisenhower

President Dwight D. Eisenhower Appoints Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,970.00
50 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Original Sketches as a Massachusetts Senator

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