RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 725, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 777 items in 32 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
257 Camilla, Queen Consort

Camilla, Queen Consort Typed Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
258 Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf Signed Sketch - "Basic Internet Architecture"

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 491.00
259 Madame Chiang Kai-shek

Madame Chiang Kai-shek War-Dated Typed Letter Signed on 'Warphans' and the Refugee ChildrenaEUs Association

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,756.00
260 Michael Dell

Michael Dell Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 368.00
261 Princess Diana and King Charles III

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

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,059.00
262 Porfirio Diaz

Porfirio Diaz Document Signed, Granting Rights to a Gold and Silver Mine

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
263 Thomas Anthony Dooley

Thomas Anthony Dooley III (3) Signed Books

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
264 Stephen A. Douglas and Dred Scott

Stephen A. Douglas and Dred Scott: The Washington Union from September 5, 1858

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
265 Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Signature

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
266 Anthony Eden

Anthony Eden (2) Signed Items - Typed Letter and Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
267 Thomas Edison and Francis Robbins

Thomas Edison and Francis Robbins Upton Signatures

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,165.00
268 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Signature

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 963.00
269 Elizabeth, Queen Mother

Elizabeth, Queen Mother Signed Christmas Card

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
270 Hamilton Fish

Hamilton Fish Autograph Letter Signed to Horace Greeley: "The Democrats were circulating documents altered to suit different latitudes"

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
271 Martin Fleischmann

Martin Fleischmann Typed Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
272 Henry Ford II

Henry Ford II Signed Photograph

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 151.00
273 Bill Gates

Bill Gates Signed Photograph

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 368.00
274 Bill Gates

Bill Gates Signed Book - Source Code: My Beginnings

NY 2025 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
275 John Hancock and Samuel Adams:

John Hancock and Samuel Adams: Vassalborough's Votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
276 Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Signed Print - 'Hillary Conquers Everest' (Ltd. Ed. #455/1953) - 31E x 25E

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
277 J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover Signed Book - The FBI in Peace and War

NY 1943 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 446.00
278 Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins Document Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
279 Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes Visiting Card

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
280 John Jay

John Jay Signature

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,059.00
281 Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen Signed Book - A Personal Autobiography

NY 1967 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 204.00
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
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