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
232 Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell Signed Check, Handwritten Notebook, and Ephemera

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,538.00
233 Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell Autograph Letter Signed on Teaching Speech to the Deaf

1873 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,835.00
234 Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell Letter Signed

1880 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,709.00
235 Marie Curie

Marie Curie Document Signed - Certificate of Assay for the Emission of Radiation

1931 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,654.00
236 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Handwritten Manuscript on X-Ray Experiments with Sketch of "the first Roentgen Ray lamp in the world"

1896 USD 25,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
237 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Signed Photograph

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
238 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Signed Photograph

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,314.00
239 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Collection of (5) Typed Letters Signed, Dating to His Arrival in Princeton After His Self-Exile from Nazi Germany

1933 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
240 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed, Explaining Special Relativity

1931 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,245.00
241 Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming Autograph Letter Signed: "I am glad that Penicillin is booming in America"

1943 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,126.00
242 Samuel F. B. Morse

Samuel F. B. Morse Autograph Letter Signed, Commenting on the 1864 Election: "If Lincoln is reelected, I shall despair"

1864 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
243 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Handwritten Scientific Notes on Alchemy

no date. USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 24,956.00
244 Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur Handwritten Manuscript on Rabies Experiments with Dogs

1884 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
245 Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta Rare Autograph Letter Signed, Accepting a Diploma for the French Legion of Honour

1826 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
246 Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney Autograph Letter Signed - "You will act [at] your own discretion relative to the Cotton"

1809 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,318.00
249 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed: "I am a pacifist"

1931 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,625.00
254 William F. 'Buffalo

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Autograph Letter Signed - "A storm today came near to putting us out of business"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
255 Sam Houston

Sam Houston Document Signed as Governor of Texas (1860)

1860 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,505.00
256 Frank James

Frank James Autograph Letter Signed on a Pistol

1905 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
260 Bertrand Barere

Bertrand Barere Letter Signed

1791 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
261 Josiah Bartlett

Josiah Bartlett Military Document Signed as Governor of New Hampshire

1791 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 795.00
262 Clara Barton

Clara Barton Typed Letter Signed on the American National Red Cross in Cuba

1899 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,669.00
263 Francis Bernard

Francis Bernard Document Signed

1762 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 446.00
264 John C. Black

John C. Black Letter Signed

1886 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
265 John Wilkes Booth:

John Wilkes Booth: Harper's Weekly from April 29, 1865

1865 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 334.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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