RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring World War II, 719, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 11, 2025 - June 11, 2025

Page Size: 840 items in 34 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
208	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Handwritten Scientific Calculations		no date but circa 1950	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 19,899.00
209	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Signed Photograph (1928)		1928	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
210	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on a World Court: "Do you believe that such an allpowerful institution would be free of corruption and partiality?"		1954	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
211	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed, Declining to Comment on "those who write about the Theory of Relativity"		1921	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
212	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on His Personal 'Prussian Academy of Sciences' Visiting Card		1924	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 7,500.00
213	Gilbert	Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - 'The Most Dangerous Toy in History'			USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 14,196.00
214	Kurt Godel	Kurt Godel Typed Letter Signed on His "Princeton Lectures on Undecidable Propositions"		1963	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
215	Werner Heisenberg	Werner Heisenberg Typed Letter Signed to a Noted Physicist and Science Historian		1969	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,503.00
216	Samuel F. B. Morse	Samuel F. B. Morse Autograph Letter Signed on Attending the Historic Coronation of Queen Victoria		1838	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
217	Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur Handwritten Manuscript on Rabies Experiments: "Do dogs exist (as a race or individually) that are naturally immune to rabies?"		1884	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
218	Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur Signed Print (1886)		1886	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,069.00
224	Thomas Robert Malthus	Thomas Robert Malthus Autograph Letter Signed on the Population Question: "I quite approve of your emigration plan"		1831	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
225	David Ricardo	David Ricardo Rare Autograph Letter Signed on British Banking: "The small note bill has passed the House of Commons"		1822	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
226	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Ludwig Wittgenstein Rare Autograph Letter Signed as a Primary School Teacher, Dated Shortly After the Publication of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus		no date [circa August 1924]	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,375.00
234	Jim Younger	Jim Younger Autograph Letter Signed from Minnesota State Prison - "I never told Cole any thing of this"		1901	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,318.00
240	Chevaliere d'Eon	Chevaliere d'Eon Autograph Letter Signed on Her Change of Fortune After the French Revolution		1799	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
241	Lee Harvey Oswald	Lee Harvey Oswald Signed Mother's Day Card Sent to Marguerite Oswald in 1959 (Warren Commission Exhibit No. 266)		1959	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 7,485.00
247	William Armstrong, 1st Baron	William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong Signed Photograph			USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
248	Charles Babbage:	Charles Babbage: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (First American Edition)	Philadelphia	1832	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 334.00
249	David Ben-Gurion	David Ben-Gurion Autograph Letter Signed on Sigmund Freud		1957	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
250	Claude Bernard	Claude Bernard Autograph Letter Signed		1869	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
251	Annie Besant	Annie Besant Uncommon Autograph Letter Signed		1908	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
252	British Prime Ministers	British Prime Ministers (4) Multi-Signed Photograph			USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 303.00
253	Paul Broca	Paul Broca Autograph Letter Signed			USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
254	Luther Burbank	Luther Burbank Signed Photograph			USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00

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

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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