RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, Featuring Revolutionary and Civil War, 721, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025
Page Size: 690 items in 28 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk Signed Book - Man Unfolding

NY 1972 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
252 Col. Harland Sanders

Col. Harland Sanders Signed Book - Finger Lickin' Good

Carol Stream, IL 1974 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 454.00
253 Dred Scott

Dred Scott Decision: "Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford" (1857)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
254 Jared Sparks

Jared Sparks Signed Carte-de-Visite Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
255 Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Pamphlet (1856): "The Crime Against Kansas"

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
256 Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Pamphlet (1860): "The Barbarism of Slavery"

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
257 Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher (2) Signed First Day Covers

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
258 Charles Thomson

Charles Thomson Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed (1779), Warning Against British Raids "adjacent to Long Island and other places in possession of the enemy"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,138.00
259 Titanic: Millvina Dean

Titanic: Millvina Dean Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 269.00
260 Jonathan Trumbull

Jonathan Trumbull Revolutionary WaraEU"Dated Autograph Document Signed (1775), on the Arrest and Confinement of Philip Skene

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
261 Getulio Vargas

Getulio Vargas Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
262 Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa (2) Signed Items - Photograph and 'Solidarity' Sheet

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
263 Earl Warren

Earl Warren Signed Book - The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren

NY 1959 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 300.00
264 Oliver Wolcott

Oliver Wolcott Autograph Document Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 353.00
265 Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed, Certifying an Oath of Allegiance to "defend the said United States against the said George the third"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 56,039.00
266 Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold Revolutionary WaraEU"Dated Handwritten Letter (Copy of Henry Clinton's Letter to Oliver De Lancey)

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
267 Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold Autograph Letter Signed (c. 1785), Disparaging the "New States, where Poverty, Anarchy, and Confusion are marching hearty strides"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,500.00
268 John Burgoyne

John Burgoyne War-Dated Letter Signed to Major General William Heath, Seeking to Relocate a Captured Lieutenant from the Saratoga Surrender (March 26, 1778)

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,694.00
269 Charles Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed (1780), Outlining His Strategy for the South After the Capture of Charleston

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 22,468.00
270 Thomas Gage:

Thomas Gage: True Copy Manuscript of Gage's Appointment as General and Commander in Chief in North America

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
271 Nathanael Greene

Nathanael Greene Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed (1780): "Arnold's late treasonable conduct has thrown us all into confusion"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 29,948.00
272 Nathanael Greene

Nathanael Greene Rare War-Dated Letter Signed as Quartermaster General

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,106.00
273 [King George III]

[King George III] Baptist Noel Turner Autograph Draft Proposal for Settling the American Colonies (c. 1775)

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
274

Revolutionary War: 1780 Northumberland County Multi-Signed (30+) Petition for Protection from Native American Attacks

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,999.00
275

Revolutionary War (4) Hand-Drawn Maps

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
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