RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 713, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 12, 2025 - March 12, 2025
Page Size: 628 items in 26 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed on Franklin Pierce's Government and an Audience with Pope Pius IX

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
27 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed on the Eve of War - "Even if there be no purpose to bring on civil war, will not halting, blundering, arrogant imbecility stumble on it?"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
28 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed to His Former White House Secretary, Referring to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jefferson Davis

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,126.00
29 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed, Alluding to the Lincoln-Douglas Debates: "If Douglas is defeated and the party overthrown in Illinois I do not see how we are to retain a northwestern state"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,265.00
30 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Document Signed as President for a Treaty with Russia, Related to US Neutrality in the Crimean War

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,251.00
31 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Naval Document Signed as President

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,034.00
32 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed on Franklin Pierce: "I recollect him as a radical & inflexible Democrat in all his votes"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
33 James Buchanan

James Buchanan (2) Documents Signed for the Treaty of Tientsin, Negotiated with China

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 17,858.00
34 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President - Ten Days After the Battle of Fort Sumter

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,229.00
35 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing Eli Whitney III as American Commissioner to the 1862 London Exhibition of Industry

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 13,589.00
36 Abraham Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln: The Civil War Scrapbook of Abraham Jonas, State Legislator, Valued Friend of Lincoln, Father of Union and Confederate Soldiers - Containing (120+) Pages of Period Clippings and Publications (Both Sides of the Conflict)

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,109.00
37 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Autograph Letter Signed on His Campaign for Congress and a Potential Vice Presidency: "I am a democrat in the enlarged and proper sense of the term"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
38 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President - Sending a Letter to the King of Greece, George I

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,034.00
39 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Civil War-Dated Handwritten Statement Directed to Henry Halleck for a Potential North Carolina Campaign

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
40 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed as President, Honoring the Union's War Dead While Declining to Attend an Army of the Cumberland Reunion

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,756.00
41 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Signed Check as President to "Mrs. U. S. Grant," Endorsed by First Lady Julia Dent Grant

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,670.00
42 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Letter Signed as President to the Newly Elected President of Peru

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,290.00
43 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Letter Signed as President on Immigration: aEUoeWe do not treat any other people as we do the ChineseaEU

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 17,379.00
44 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President for Johnstown Flood Relief

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
45 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Typed Letter Signed: "The Benjamin Harrison to whom you refer was the nephew of my grandfather, President William Henry Harrison"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
46 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Document Signed as President, Sending a "letter of felicitations to His Majesty Edward VII"

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,189.00
47 Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Typed Letter Signed on the United States' "fatuous refusal to enter the League of Nations"

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
48 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
49 President Dwight D. Eisenhower

President Dwight D. Eisenhower Appoints Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,970.00
50 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Original Sketches as a Massachusetts Senator

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,151.00
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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