RR Auction: Autographs and Artifacts, 701, Amherst

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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 16, 2024 - October 16, 2024
Page Size: 657 items in 27 pages

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

George Washington Document Signed as President - Ship's Papers for a West Indies Trade Mission

1795 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 26,488.00
2 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four-Language Ship's Passport

1802 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,581.00
3 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State - Act of Congress Organizing Rhode Island's US District Court

1790 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
4 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed on Importing European Wine to Monticello

1816 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,068.00
5 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
6 William Henry

William Henry Harrison Handwritten Manuscript on Rights and Slavery

no date but circa 1840 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,350.00
7 John Tyler and Daniel Webster

John Tyler and Daniel Webster Document Signed as President and Secretary of State for a Whaling Voyage

1841 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,165.00
8 James K. Polk

James K. Polk Document Signed as President, Appointing a Soon-to-Be Hero of the Mexican-American War

1847 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 963.00
9 Franklin Pierce and Jefferson Davis

Franklin Pierce and Jefferson Davis Document Signed as President and Secretary of War

1856 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,805.00
10 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President (August 1861) - Early Military Appointment for Orville E. Babcock, the Future Aide-de-Camp for General U. S. Grant

1861 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 19,319.00
11 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed as an Attorney in Springfield, Illinois

1858 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,589.00
12 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Concluding an Extradition Treaty with Colombia

1871 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 963.00
13 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President

1875 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,078.00
14 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as Commanding General of the U. S. Army

1866 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,553.00
15 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Signed Book - Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1866)

1866 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,336.00
16 James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield Elusive Signed Check as President

1881 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,770.00
17 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Photograph as President

2d 1903 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,033.00
18 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Photograph

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,208.00
19 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Document Signed as President

1906 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 614.00
20 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Photograph as President and First Lady

1941 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 795.00
21 Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman Signed 1945 WWII Victory Proclamation Broadside, in a White House Roof Timber Relic Frame

1945 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,470.00
22 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed to a Former West Point Classmate - "I want no part of any political job"

1947 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,501.00
24 Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson Document Signed as President, Appointing Gen. Earle Wheeler as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
25 Barack Obama

Barack Obama Signed Check - PSA GEM MT 10

1998 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,851.00
27 John Quincy Adams and James Buchanan

John Quincy Adams and James Buchanan Autograph Album with (100+) Signatures from John Tyler's Cabinet and the 28th United States Congress (1844)

1844 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,336.00
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    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Freeman’s | Hindman
    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
    November 14
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.
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    APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE
    Le Neptune Oriental
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    CASSAS
    Eaux fortes de la Sicile et quelques vues d’Espagne
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    CASSINI DE THURY
    Carte générale et particulière de la France.
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    JOUY; GARNERAY
    Vues des côtes de France dans l'Océan et dans la Méditerranée
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    LA PÉROUSE
    Voyage autour du monde
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIERE
    Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    LICENT
    Hoang Ho, Pai Ho, Loan Ho, Leao Ho. Itinéraires suivis dans le bassin du golfe du Pei Tcheuly
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    FRENCH SCHOOL FROM THE 19th CENTURY
    Panorama d’Athènes
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    PEETERS
    Description des principales villes, havres et isles du golfe de Venise
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    PÉRON; FREYCINET
    Voyage de découverte aux terres australes
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    STACKELBERG
    La Grèce : vues pittoresques et topographiques.
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    VALENTINER
    Atlas des Sonnensystems.
  • Forum Auctions
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    The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper
    Ending 7th November, 2024
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). The Thirteen Problems, first edition, The Crime Club, 1932. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Dumb Witness, first edition, 1937. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Berkeley (Anthony). Jumping Jenny, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. £800 to £1,200.
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    The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper
    Ending 7th November, 2024
    Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.
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