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
202 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed to His Son, Hans Albert: "I felt several times not very well; it is just as with an old Ford (a little tottering)"

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
203 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on the "the creation of tides"

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,760.00
204 Hans Geiger

Hans Geiger Hand-Annotated Calling Card

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
211 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Scarce Calling Card - Featuring His First London Address

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,890.00
212 Carl Jung

Carl Jung Autograph Letter Signed - "I am existing on the sharp point of a hypodermic needle"

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,553.00
213 John Law

John Law Letter Signed, Expressing Confidence Amidst the Downfall of His Financial System: "The negative effects of this inflation can be remedied immediately"

 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
220 Isidor Straus

Titanic: Isidor Straus Typed Letter Signed

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,194.00
226 Jim Younger

Jim Younger Autograph Letter Signed from Minnesota State Prison - "I know the shaddow in the path, I have seen it...but I fear it not"

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,251.00
232 Chief Red Fox

Chief Red Fox Autograph Manuscript Signed - Native American Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand: "Some said he was the last one to die but that not true"

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,234.00
233 Curly, Crow Scout

Curly, Crow Scout Original Cabinet Photograph by D. F. Barry - "General Custer's Scout and only Survivor of that Horrible Massacre"

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
235 Rain in

Rain in the Face Scarce Signed Cabinet Photograph - Issued for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,958.00
236 Sioux Indians

Sioux Indians Archive: Comprehensive Testimony Against Chief John Grass - "John Grass wishes us to remain Indians, and advises the people not to listen to the Agent or the great father"

 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
237 Sitting Bull and One Bull

Sitting Bull and One Bull Signatures - Rare Autographs of the Sioux who Vanquished Custer at Little Bighorn

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,444.00
238 Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor Partial Autograph Letter Signed on Indian Affairs, Foreseeing a "destructive war between that tribe & the whites"

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
245 Charles Francis Adams

Charles Francis Adams Autograph Letter Signed, Offering His Last "John Adams" Autograph

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
246 Arthur James Balfour

Arthur James Balfour Partial Letter Signed

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
247 P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum Autograph Note Signed - "My greatest and best show on earth will visit Cleveland this summer"

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 766.00
248 Clara Barton

Clara Barton Signature as "President, American Red Cross"

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 808.00
249 Clara Barton

Clara Barton Typed Letter Signed on Efforts to Relieve Starvation in Cuba

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 405.00
250 Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway Group of (27) Shareholder Meeting Passes

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
251 Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
252 Montgomery Blair

Montgomery Blair Signature

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 446.00
253 Max Born

Max Born Typed Letter Signed: "You are obviously an autograph hunter"

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
255 Josef Breuer

Josef Breuer Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
256 John Brown:

John Brown: New York Tribune from October 22, 1859

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
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  • <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
    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
  • <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> NEWTON, ISAAC. <i>Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.</i> London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. <i>Theatrum orbis terrarum.</i> 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> BECKMANN, MAX. <i>Apokalypse.</i> Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. <i>Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln.</i> AND: <i>Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln…</i> CHF 30,000 to 50,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. <i>Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten.</i> Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
    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
    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.