RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Sports and Encapsulation, 727, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025

Page Size: 726 items in 30 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
240	Battle of	Battle of Antietam: Lyman Nicholas Handwritten 'Battlefield' Letter - "The enemy's sharp shooters picked our men off like sheep"	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,125.00
241		Civil War: Bullet-Damaged Book with Bullet Fragment from the Battle of Pleasant Hill	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,505.00
242		Civil War: 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment Identification Tag - Belonging to a Sergeant of 'The Fighting Fifth'	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 795.00
243	John W. Wilbur	Civil War: John W. Wilbur Diary and Letter Collection with Vicksburg Battlefield Relic and Allen & Wheelock 'Pepperbox" Revolver - "Vicksburg is ours"	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,294.00
244	Jefferson Davis	Jefferson Davis Signed Cabinet Photograph	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,880.00
245	Vicksburg: Special	Vicksburg: Special Orders No. 7, Signed by R. R. Townes (1863) - Paroled Confederates Ordered to March	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
246	Vicksburg: Special	Vicksburg: Special Orders No. 96, Signed by R. M. Sayer (1863) - Organizing a Diversionary "Gunboat and Army Expedition" on the Yazoo River	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
247	George Dewey	George Dewey Historic Letter Signed on "Trying Times" and the 1898 Battles of Manila and Manila Bay - "From May 1 to Aug. 13, the least trying of which was the two engagements"	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
248	Morris Jeppson	Enola Gay: Morris Jeppson Signed and Annotated 'Little Boy Bomb' Blueprints (24" x 18")	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,654.00
249	George S. Patton	George S. Patton Signed Photograph: "This picture which I have never before seen was taken on the beach at Gilla, Sicily...We were actually under fire"	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
250	George S. Patton's	George S. Patton's World War II-Dated North Africa Campaign Neutrality Zone Map, Sent by Moroccan Resident-General Charles NoguI!s (1942)	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 1,749.00
251	Horatio Nelson	Horatio Nelson Document Signed "on board the Victory off Cadiz," Two Weeks Before the Battle of Trafalgar	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
253	Louis-Alexandre Berthier	Louis-Alexandre Berthier Autograph Letter Signed	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
254	Omar Bradley	Omar Bradley Signed Photograph	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 303.00
255	Earle D. Chesney	Earle D. Chesney Sketchbook - 35 Original Drawings by the Navy Cartoonist	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 405.00
256		Civil War: Union Officers (50+) Autograph Album	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,505.00
257		Civil War Officer ID Stencil	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 368.00
258	Alexander Drabik	Alexander Drabik Signed Commemorative Cover	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
259	Morris Jeppson	Enola Gay: Morris Jeppson Autograph Letter Signed on the Hiroshima Mission	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
260	Fighter Pilots	Fighter Pilots (3) Signed Bookplates	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
261	Fighter Pilots	Fighter Pilots Signed Book - Hellcat	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 138.00
262	Flying Tigers	Flying Tigers Signed Book - Chennault's Flying Tigers	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 334.00
263	Flying Tigers	Flying Tigers Signed Book - The Pictorial History of the Flying Tigers	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 300.00
264	Joe Rosenthal	Iwo Jima: Joe Rosenthal Signed "Type III" Flag-Raising Photograph and Signed AP News Photo Envelope	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,625.00
265	Charles W. Lindberg	Iwo Jima: Charles W. Lindberg Signed Photograph	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 204.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.