RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 703, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 13, 2024 - November 13, 2024

Page Size: 668 items in 27 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	George Washington	George Washington Document Signed for the Potomac Company, an Early Investment in American Infrastructure		1787	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 13,589.00
2	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson Historic 1790 Letter Signed on Entering "the Duties of the Department of State"		1790	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 41,590.00
4	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed, Appointing a Founder as Commissioner of Loans		1804	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 6,070.00
5	James Madison and James Monroe	James Madison and James Monroe Document Signed as President and Secretary of State		1817	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,273.00
6	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Pardoning a Mutiny Leader		1861	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 10,456.00
7	U. S. Grant Document	U. S. Grant Document Signed as President		1870	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 875.00
8	U. S. Grant Document	U. S. Grant Document Signed as President		1876	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,516.00
9	Grover Cleveland	Grover Cleveland Document Signed as President - Thanksgiving Proclamation		1894	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,269.00
10	William McKinley	William McKinley Document Signed as President - Thanksgiving Proclamation		1898	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,553.00
11	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Dwight D. Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed on Bikini Atoll Atomic Bomb Tests: "The forthcoming tests are designed as a military experiment, with particular regard to the effect of the bomb on navel vessels"		1946	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
12	Jacqueline Kennedy	Jacqueline Kennedy Emotional Letter to Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing: "I was so hostile to God after he took Jack. You, more than anyone, brought me back to Him"		1969	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 24,159.00
14	John F. Kennedy and Robert	John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy Document as President and Attorney General - Commuting the Sentence of a Narcotics Trafficker		1963	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,229.00
15	John and Robert Kennedy	John and Robert Kennedy Original Oversized Photograph by Jacques Lowe	Los Angeles	1960	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,241.00
16	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Signed Book - Profiles in Courage, Dedicated to the Screenwriter of Navy Log: 'PT 109'	NY	1956	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 10,001.00
17	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Oversized Signed Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Presented to Influential Advisor Clark Clifford			USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 16,096.00
18	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed to a Fellow PT-109 Survivor		1944	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
19	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Document Signed as President, Appointing CIA Director John A. McCone - Key Figure in the Cuban Missile Crisis		1961	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 9,981.00
22	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as President to Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer on the "swearing-in ceremonies of General Maxwell Taylor"		1962	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,001.00
23	President John F. Kennedy	President John F. Kennedy's Personal Copy of The Constitution of the United States of America - From the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy	Washington, D.C.	1953	USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 19,456.00
24	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy 'Wanted For Treason' Handbill		1963	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 9,006.00
25	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Signed Photograph to His Sister: "It only took five easy lessons"		circa 1942	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 7,499.00
26	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed, Thanking a Journalist for Reviewing While England Slept		1940	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,973.00
29	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed, Three Months After Announcing His Congressional Campaign		1946	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 8,848.00
30	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed, Two Months After Announcing His First Campaign for Congress		1946	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 9,525.00
31	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Choate Physics Lab Handwritten and Signed Worksheet (c. 1935), with a Physics Lab Page by Lem Billings		no date but circa 1935.	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD