RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 697, Amherst

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Auction Report
Auction Date
August 14, 2024 - August 14, 2024
Page Size: 819 items in 33 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
352

Confederate Civilian Letter from December 1863: %0UII can buy nothing for Confederate Notes - Everything is now looking gloomy%0U

1863 Not Available USD 368.00
353 David G. Farragut

David G. Farragut War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed One Week After the Battle of Mobile Bay, Affirming the Delivery of Over 200 "rebel prisoners"

1864 Not Available USD 2,198.00
354 Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest Document Signed

1870 Not Available USD 1,283.00
355 Gustavus Fox

Gustavus Fox War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, Discussing the Battle of Cherbourg

1864 Not Available USD 656.00
356 Joseph Hooker

Joseph Hooker War-Dated Autograph Note Signed

1862 Not Available USD 250.00
357 O. O. Howard

O. O. Howard Autograph Letter Signed on the Army of the Cumberland

1874 Not Available USD 303.00
358 Joseph E. Johnston

Joseph E. Johnston Autograph Letter Signed: "If the President will allow me the privilege of earning a subsistence in the U.S. nothing will ever tempt me to expatriation"

1865 Not Available USD 939.00
359 Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee War-Dated Endorsement of a Confederate Court Martial

1864 Not Available USD 2,756.00
360 George G. Meade

George G. Meade War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on False Publications: "I should like to know who the correspondent is & where he obtained his information"

1863 Not Available USD 368.00
361 John S. Mosby

John S. Mosby Autograph Letter Signed on the "Annual Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac"

1900 Not Available USD 875.00
362 William Preston

William Preston War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Jefferson Davis: "The President is looking thin, worn & much older"

1863 Not Available USD 963.00
363 Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw Signature - Celebrated Commander of the All-Black 54th Massachusetts

Not Available USD 4,230.00
364 William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed: "Spies and Guerillas, murderers under the assumed title of Confederate Soldiers and deserters...should be hung quick"

1864 Not Available USD 4,859.00
365 J. E. B. Stuart War-Dated

J. E. B. Stuart War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Fitzhugh Lee, Mentioning General James Longstreet and Discussing Field Logistics and Battle Preparations Days Before the Start of the Overland Campaign

1864 Not Available USD 9,075.00
366 Union Soldier's

Union Soldier's Letter Before the Start of the Overland Campaign, with Mentions of Grant, Meade, and Sedgwick: "Gigantic preparations are being put forth"

1864 Not Available Not Sold
367 Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes War-Dated Letter Signed on the CSS Alabama, a %0UIPirate%0U Vessel to Be Seized %0UIif found in Cuban waters%0U

1862 Not Available USD 963.00
368 John Ancrum Winslow

John Ancrum Winslow Autograph Letter Signed - Four Days Before Lee's Surrender

1865 Not Available USD 334.00
369 Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Handwritten Speech Draft on World War I: "By this unity of action maintained from the first lines of our front to the rear, the most distant of nations involved in the war quickly take on this sustained pace from which victory emerges"

no date but circa 1918. Not Available Not Sold
370 John J. Pershing

John J. Pershing Signed Typed Speech Draft Honoring the Commander of WWI%0Uas American Expeditionary Forces

1919 Not Available USD 656.00
371 Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto Photograph Signed in German and Japanese (1938)

1938 Not Available USD 4,125.00
372 Napoleon

Napoleon Letter Signed to His Chief of Staff (1811)

1811 Not Available USD 2,550.00
373 Napoleon

Napoleon Letter Signed to Minister of the Interior

1802 Not Available USD 19,460.00
375 Duke of Wellington

Duke of Wellington Autograph Letter Signed on Territorial Disputes Arising From the Fall of the Napoleonic Empire

1816 Not Available USD 334.00
378 John Thomas

CSS Alabama: John Thomas War-Dated Letter on the Capture of the Express

1863 Not Available USD 368.00
379 Lord Jeffrey Amherst

Lord Jeffrey Amherst Autograph Letter Signed

1789 Not Available USD 303.00
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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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