RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 735, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 11, 2026 - February 11, 2026
Page Size: 547 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
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
5

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State, Granting a Pension to a Revolutionary War Officer "shot through the body at the battle of Monmouth"

1791 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
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
7

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Granting Land to Former President of the Confederation Congress Elias Boudinot

1804 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
8

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as President, Appointing a Midshipman in the United States Navy

1804 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,670.00
9

Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky's Electors Cast Their Votes in the 1800 Presidential Election

1800 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,431.00
10

James Madison Autograph Letter Signed on US Constitution, Declining to Opine on "Numerous Amendments"

1833 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
11

James Madison Signed Check as President (1815)

1815 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,175.00
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
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
15

John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing a Marshal of the United States

1829 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,756.00
16

James Monroe Letter Signed as Secretary of State, to Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, Transmitting Census Data

1811 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
17

James Monroe and John Quincy Adams Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing the U.S. Consul to Cape Verde

1818 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,223.00
18

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Louisiana Purchase: "The great question upon the Louisiana Treaty was decided before I got here"

1803 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
19

Andrew Jackson Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed as President, Urging the Nomination of a Diplomat to Mexico

1830 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
20

Andrew Jackson Document Signed as President, Appointing the Receiver of Public Moneys for St. Louis

1837 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,334.00
21

William Henry Harrison Autograph Letter Signed on the Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812

1820 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,630.00
22

William Henry Harrison Document Signed as Governor of the Indiana Territory, Appointing a Militia Major in the Year of Tecumeh's Defeat

1811 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,038.00
23

William Henry Harrison Document Signed - Four Months Before the 1836 Presidential Election

1836 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,020.00
24

John Tyler Document Signed as President, Appointing a Naval Officer for the District of New York

1844 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,886.00
25

James K. Polk Document Signed as President, Exchanging Ratifications of the Treaty of Wanghia - The First Formal Treaty Between China and the United States

1845 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
26

James K. Polk Document Signed as President, Appointing a Professor of Mathematics in the Navy

1848 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,441.00
27

James K. Polk and James Buchanan Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing the White House Architect's Son as U.S. Attorney

1845 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,336.00
28

Zachary Taylor Document Signed as President, Appointing a Justice of the Peace for Washington, D.C.

1849 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,278.00
29

Zachary Taylor Document Signed as President - Unissued Four-Language Ship's Pass

no date USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,276.00