RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 725, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 777 items in 32 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
372 George S. Patton

George S. Patton Typed Letter Signed on Hunting and Raising Children

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
373 Robert Stobo

French and Indian War: Certified True Copy of Robert Stobo's Letter from Captivity at Fort Duquesne, Following George Washington's Only Surrender

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,748.00
399 John V. Bedell:

John V. Bedell: Archive of (8) Civil War-Dated Autograph Letters Signed on Ironclad Gunboats, Marches, and Battles

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
400 Pappy Boyington and Masajiro Mike' Kawato

Pappy Boyington and Masajiro 'Mike' Kawato Signed Book - Baa Baa Black Sheep

Fresno, CA 1958 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
401 Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar Buckner Signature

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
402 Charles H. Burd

Charles H. Burd Archive - Union Soldier Held at Libby Prison, Shot in the Head at Bull Run: "He says he went away a democrat, a pro-slavery man, he comes back a rank abolitionist"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
403 Benjamin Butler

Benjamin Butler Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
404 Benjamin Butler

Benjamin Butler Signature

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
408

Civil War: Confederate Generals (3) Cabinet Card and Carte-de-Visite Portraits

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
409

Civil War: Confederate Soldier's Letter on the Siege of Petersburg

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
410

Civil War: (9) Issues of the New York Herald (JanuaryaEU"June 1861)

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
411

Civil War: Union Generals (11) Cabinet Card and Carte-de-Visite Portraits

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
413

Civil War: Union Soldier's Letter on Action at James Island/Battle of Secessionville

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
414

Civil War: Union Soldier's Letter on the Siege of Vicksburg: "The slaughter was awful on the rebel side, their dead and wounded was laid in heaps all over the battle field"

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 446.00
415 Mark W. Clark

Mark W. Clark Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
417

Confederate Bond (1863)

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
418

Confederate Enlistment Document (1864)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 470.00
419 Elizabeth B. Custer

Elizabeth B. Custer Autograph Letter Signed on George A. Custer's Little Bighorn Memorials: "Our heroic dead will not be forgotten"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,240.00
420 George A. Custer

George A. Custer Hand-Addressed Envelope to "Mrs. Genl. Custer"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,715.00
421 George A. Custer

George A. Custer Carte-de-Visite Photograph - Custer's Last Portrait

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 908.00
422 Elizabeth B. Custer and John Burroughs

Elizabeth B. Custer and John Burroughs Signed Book - Wake-Robin

Boston 1899 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 368.00
423 [George A. Custer]

[George A. Custer] Broadside Circular of the "Congratulatory Order from General Custer" (April 9, 1865): "You have passed through the series of battles which to-day resulted in the surrender of the enemy's entire army"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
424 [George A. Custer]

[George A. Custer] Ephemera Lot with The Illustrated Weekly (July 15, 1876), Reporting on the Battle of the Little Bighorn

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
425 [George A. Custer]

[George A. Custer] General Orders No. 181, Listing Custer's Promotion to 1st Lieutenant (November 1, 1862)

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
427 Varina Davis

Varina Davis Autograph Letter Signed on Behalf of Jefferson Davis, Correcting the Record on His Relationship with Robert E. Lee: "He was an honest man, a fearless man, and was my friend"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
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  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
  • Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
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    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.
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    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.