RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 6/21, 695, Amherst

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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 10, 2024 - July 10, 2024
Page Size: 970 items in 39 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 George Washington

George Washington Signed Revolutionary War Discharge Certificate (1783)

1783 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 26,250.00
2 George Washington

George Washington Hand-Addressed Envelope Panel

no date but circa 1776 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
3 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed as President on "the Western road" - The First Federally Funded Highway

1808 USD 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
4 James Madison

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

1833 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
5 James Madison and James Monroe

James Madison and James Monroe Document Signed as President and Secretary of State

1812 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,756.00
6 James Monroe

James Monroe Document Signed as Secretary of State, Giving Instructions for Engaging the Enemy

1812 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
7 James Monroe

James Monroe Document Signed as President, Appointing "Francis S. Key" as Midshipman

1823 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
8 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on War of 1812: "Europe is passively submitting to be reshackled with the manacles of feudal and papal tyranny"

1816 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
9 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed, Relating to the Loss of a Troop Transport Ship in the Second Seminole War

1838 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,165.00
10 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed as Secretary of State

1818 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 963.00
11 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Signed Free Frank to His Nephew

1837 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,283.00
12 Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Signed Check

1860 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
13 Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Document Signed, Certifying the Election of Governor DeWitt Clinton

1817 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,256.00
14 John Tyler

John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed on the Abolition of Slavery in Washington, D.C.

1836 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
15 James K. Polk

James K. Polk Autograph Letter Signed as President

1847 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,505.00
16 James K. Polk

James K. Polk Document Signed as President

1846 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,436.00
17 Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed on the Missouri Compromise and Dred Scott Case

1857 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
18 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President - PSA GEM MT 10

1863 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,941.00
19 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Noted Signed as President to Surgeon General Joseph Barnes (1865) - PSA NM-MT 8

1865 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,941.00
20 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President (1864) - Approving a Sawmill for Jacksonville, Florida

1864 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,006.00
21 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Document Signed as President for a "Chief Engineer in the Navy"

1864 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,480.00
23 U. S. Grant Signed

U. S. Grant Signed Photograph

Philadelphia. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,520.00
24 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Civil War-Dated Letter Signed During the Vicksburg Campaign, Sent to Wisconsin Gov. Edward P. Salomon

1863 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,709.00
26 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed, Authorizing a Cotton Shipment from Mississippi

1863 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,276.00
27 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,283.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
  • Sotheby’s
    10 September 2024
    The Shem Tov Bible
  • Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000
    Koller, Sep. 18: Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
    Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
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