RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 713, Amherst

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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
203 Edith Bolling

Edith Bolling Wilson Signed White House Card

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 300.00
204 Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Signed Check

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 963.00
205 Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Signed White House Card

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 543.00
206 John Hancock

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed as President of Congress (1777)

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,981.00
207

Journal of Congress: First Edition of the Proceedings of the First and Second Continental Congress (Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1, 1776)

Philadelphia: 1778 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,520.00
208 James Iredell

James Iredell Autograph Endorsement Signed - Rare Document from an Original Supreme Court Justice

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,810.00
209 Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek Signature

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,251.00
210 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Signed War-Dated Photograph (1942)

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,110.00
211 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Early Typed Letter Signed on the Art of War and His Book, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,248.00
212 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed on Francisco Franco's Spanish Civil War Hostages

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
213 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,703.00
214 Charles de

Charles de Gaulle War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed Twice

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
215 King Charles III

King Charles III Autograph Letter Signed to His Royal Protection Officer

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
216 King Louis XV

King Louis XV Autograph Letter Signed to His Favorite Grandson, Ferdinand I

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,880.00
217 Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (13) Period Engraved Portraits from the 18th and 19th Centuries

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 916.00
218 Princess Diana and King Charles III

Princess Diana and King Charles III Signed Christmas Card (1986)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,619.00
220 Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II Document Signed on the Recall of a Canadian Diplomat

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 815.00
221 Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II Oversized Signed Photograph (1969)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
222 Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II Autograph Letter Signed

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,611.00
223 Queen Mary I

Queen Mary I Rare Letter Signed (1556)

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
225 Helen Keller

Helen Keller Autograph Letter Signed (Early, c. 1890)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,756.00
226 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Signature - Dated to His 1966 Speech at the Stockholm Opera House

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,499.00
227 Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela Signed Lithograph - 'The Courtyard' (Ltd. Ed. #1/10)

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,886.00
228 Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela Signed Baseball

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,441.00
229 John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller Signed Stock Transfer Document to His Private Secretary

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,283.00
  • 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 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 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 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.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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    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
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    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
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€
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