RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 731, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 10, 2025 - November 10, 2025

Page Size: 766 items in 31 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Abigail Adams	Abigail Adams Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed: "The President and Mrs. Adams ask the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Tufts company to dinner"		USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
2	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson Signature to Dr. Bancroft		USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
3	James Madison	James Madison Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Appointing an Agent in Havana: "You will subserve the views of the President in attending to every violation of the laws prohibiting the Slave Trade"		USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Unknown
4	Anna Harrison	Anna Harrison Autograph Letter Signed		USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5	John Tyler and John C. Calhoun	John Tyler and John C. Calhoun Document Signed as President and Secretary of State		USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
6	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Document Signed as President, Commissioning an Assistant Quartermaster		USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
7	U. S. Grant	U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Congratulating the New President of El Salvador		USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
8	President William McKinley	President William McKinley Ceases All Sales of Public Lands in the Hawaiian Islands		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
9	Theodore Roosevelt	Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book as President - Oliver Cromwell		USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
10	Theodore Roosevelt	Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book - American Statesmen: Thomas Hart Benton		USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
11	Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Notables	Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Notables (190+) Signed Letters in Scrapbook		USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
12	Richard Nixon	Richard Nixon Typed Letter Signed to Spiro T. Agnew, Sending the Disgraced VP His Cabinet Chair: "The chair you occupied across from mine at the Cabinet table is, to me, a symbol of the strength and wisdom you brought to that task"		USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
13	Four Presidents	Four Presidents Signed Photograph		USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
19		John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: Colombian Centinel from July 15, 1826 - Reporting on the Presidents' Deaths	1826	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
20	James Buchanan	James Buchanan Document Signed as President - Ratifying an Amended Extradition Document with France		USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
21	George Bush	George Bush Typed Letter Signed: "When NRA attacks our law enforcement people as 'Nazis,' 'lawbreakers' and 'jackbooted thugs,' that is outrageous and cannot be condoned"		USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
22	George Bush	George Bush Oversized Signed Photograph		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
23	George Bush	George Bush Signed Book - Speaking of Freedom (Collector's Edition)		USD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
24	George W. Bush	George W. Bush (2) Signatures		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
25	Frances F. Cleveland	Frances F. Cleveland Signature		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
26	Frances F. Cleveland	Frances F. Cleveland Signed Photograph as First Lady		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
27	President Grover Cleveland	President Grover Cleveland Congratulates Queen Victoria on the Historic Marriage of King George V and Queen Mary of Teck		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
29	Bill Clinton	Bill Clinton Signature and Impeachment Trial Ticket		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
30	Hillary Clinton	Hillary Clinton Signed Book - An Invitation to the White House		USD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
31	Calvin Coolidge	Calvin Coolidge 1929 Calendar (18.75E x 27E)	1929	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown

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.
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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