RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities - bidstart 9/2, 700, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
September 28, 2024 - September 28, 2024
Page Size: 91 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5001 Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine: 1776 Philadelphia Edition of Common Sense, Published by W. and T. Bradford

Philadelphia 1776 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
5002 Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Document Signed for "firewood for the Pennsylvania guards"

1787 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
5003 John Hancock

John Hancock Rare Revolutionary War-Dated Triple-Signed Document, Countersigned by Samuel Adams

1779 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
5004 John Hancock

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

1782 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
5005 John Hancock

John Hancock Letter Signed to Arthur St. Clair, Ordering Him to Take Charge at Ticonderoga

1777 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
5006 George Washington

George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Letter Signed: "From the intelligence I have just received, it would seem that the Enemy mean to evacuate"

1779 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
5008 John Adams

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on Classical Education and American Politics: "Our People are the shrewdest and most sagacious, that I know: but yet they are so easily deceived"

1810 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Unknown
5009 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Addressed from New York to Thomas Mifflin, President of Pennsylvania (May 1790)

1790 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
5010 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Informing New Hampshire President Josiah Bartlett of Vermont's Admission Into the Union

1791 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
5011 James Madison

James Madison Letter Signed to George Clinton, Affirming His Election as Vice President

1805 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Unknown
5012 James Madison

James Madison Autograph Letter Signed, Explaining His and Thomas Jefferson's Decision to Decline Involvement in the 1824 Presidential Election: "The public will be sufficiently enabled to decide understandingly on the subject"

1823 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
5013 John Quincy Adams and Albert Gallatin

War of 1812: John Quincy Adams and Albert Gallatin Letter Signed with $6 Million European Loan Document Archive

Ghent 1814 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
5014 John Tyler, James K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor

Four Presidents from the 1840s: Multi-Signed Autograph Book with John Tyler, James K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor

1840s USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
5015 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signed Check - PSA MINT 9 - to a Springfield book publisher, who he approached about publishing his historic debates with Stephen Douglas

1859 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
5016 Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed, Couriered by the War Department

circa1863-1864. USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
5017 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Ordering Pennsylvania to Furnish Additional Troops for aEUoethe present rebellionaEU (September 4, 1863)

1863 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
5018

Lincoln Assassination: Ford's Theatre 'Our American Cousin' Playbill (First Printing, April 14, 1865) - From the Collection of Stage Manager John B. Wright

1865 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
5019 Edward D. Townsend

Lincoln Assassination: Edward D. Townsend Autograph Letter Signed on Imprisonment of Conspirators: "Place the four state prisoners, Arnold, Mudd, Spangler and O'Laughlin under such restraint...as shall make abortive any attempt at escape"

1865 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
5020

Lincoln Assassination: Rare Original Reward Broadside Poster for John Wilkes Booth and Conspirators: "$100,000 Reward! The Murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large"

1865, USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 Unknown
5024 Abraham and Mary Lincoln

American Presidents (7) Multi-Signed Autograph Book Dated from 1864 to 1909, Highlighted by the Rare Dual Signatures of Abraham and Mary Lincoln

1864-1909 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
5025 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Proclaiming a "Treaty with Comanche Bands and Kiowa Tribe of Indians"

1866 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
5026 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Invoking Military Force to Suppress Insurrection in South Carolina

1876 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
5027 Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President, Ordering Troops to Pennsylvania at the Start of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877

1877 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
5028 James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield Document Signed as President, Ratifying the 1880 Treaty of Madrid

1881 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
5029 William McKinley

William McKinley Document Signed as President, Proclaiming the End of the SpanishaEU"American War

1899 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
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  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
    Gonnelli
    Futurism
    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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