RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities, 726, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
September 20, 2025 - September 20, 2025
Page Size: 92 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7001 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed Communicating Acts for the First United States Census and Rules for Granting Citizenship to Immigrants

USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
7002 Thomas Jefferson's

Thomas Jefferson's Brass Parallel Calipers (ca. 1800)

USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
7003 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Louisiana Purchase: "The great question upon the Louisiana Treaty was decided before I got here"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
7004 Abraham Lincoln

"If his allegation be true, burn this without answering it" - Abraham Lincoln Seeks to Refute Debate Claims Made by Opponent Stephen Douglas Regarding a Fellow Republican's Stance "against the admission of any more Slave States"

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Unknown
7005 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Filled Out and Signed Check (1859) - Lost and Found on the Streets of Washington, D.C., and the Subject of Washington Post Headlines in 1944

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7006 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Endorsement Signed as President, Calling for the Reappointment of Alexander J. Dallas III

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
7007

Abolition: 'Engrossed Bill' Draft of the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, Prohibiting Slavery in All U.S. Territories

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
7010 William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed on His 'March to the Sea' and Women's Service in the Union Army: "Our race cannot bear children and be subject to the alarms & vicissitudes of war"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
7011 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (2) Typed Manuscripts Signed as President on the Red Cross Response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with Clara Barton ALS: "The country has gone wild over this disaster and relief"

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7012 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, Committing to Opening a Second Front Against Nazi Germany

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7013 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Broadside of Proclamation No. 1, Issued in Occupied Germany during World War II: "We come as conquerors, but not as oppressors...We shall obliterate Nazi-ism"

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
7014 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed on the "defeat of the Nazi hordes in battle" and victory in Europe: "A continent has been liberated"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Unknown
7015 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Israel's

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Israel's Secret Atomic Weapons Program - Letter Affirming a U.S.-Israel Accord "for collaboration concerning the peaceful uses of atomic energy"

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Unknown
7016 Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower

Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph - Allied Leaders Stress Postwar Unity at the Virginia State House (March 8, 1946)

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
7017 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Hand-Illuminated Signed Quotation: "This was their finest hour"

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
7018 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill World War II-Dated Signed Photograph, Shown with Cigar and Naval Anti-Aircraft Gun

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
7019 Hugh Dowding

Battle of Britain: Secret Dispatch Signed by Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (1941), with Hand-Colored Maps and Mimeograph Draft

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
7020 Hugh Dowding

Hugh Dowding World War II-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, on Preparing His "Dispatch on the 'Battle of Britain'"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
7021 Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed, Enclosing a Report on His Near-Fatal Wound and Alluding to Patton's Liberation of Paris

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
7022 Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg 'Schutzbrief' Document Signed, Saving a Hungarian Jew During World War II, with Jewish Badge Exemption Document and Residency Permit

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
7023 Wernher von

Wernher von Braun Autograph Letter Signed to Walter Dornberger, Emphasizing the Goals of Operation Paperclip: "To make available to the West our experience gathered over long, painstaking years"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
7024

Historic 1953 Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Bottle of Wine - The Vintage Poured at the AdenaueraEU"Khrushchev Meeting That Freed 10,000 German POWs

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7025 King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII Document Signed to the Keeper of the Wardrobe, Directing "Crimson velvett for a gowne" to Sir Robert Curson

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Unknown
7026 Thomas Cranme

Thomas Cranmer's Heavily Annotated Religious Book - Quatuor conciliorum generalium [The Four General Church Councils] (1524) - Representing His Scholarly Approach to the English Reformation

USD 175,000.00 - 200,000.00 Unknown
7027 Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette Document Signed, Ordering Payment for Extravagant Royal Household Expenditures Amidst the French Revolution

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
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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.