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
7028 Marie Antoinette and Sisters

Marie Antoinette and Sisters Signed Hand-Painted Devotional Miniature Book

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7029 Adam Smith

Adam Smith Autograph Letter Signed on a Student's Sickness - One Year After Publishing The Theory of Moral Sentiments

USD 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 Unknown
7030 Haym Salomon and Robert Morris

Haym Salomon and Robert Morris Signed Bill of Exchange for Financing the Revolutionary War (October 22, 1782)

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7031 Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine Handwritten Manuscript on Revolutions and the Rights of Man: "We can scarcely conceive a more diabolical System of Government than has been generally established over the World"

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Unknown
7032 John Hancock

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed (1776) - Continental Congress Resolution Appealing to the King of Spain "to join with the United States in a war against Great Britain"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Unknown
7033 John Jay

John Jay Handwritten Letter Draft, Defending His Treaty with Great Britain: "I believe it will be fairly and literally executed, unless new courses of irritation and disgust should arise"

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
7034 Gilbert Stuart

Gilbert Stuart Signed Receipt for His 1822 'Lewis-Wilson Portrait of George Washington' - On Current Display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
7035 Napoleon

Napoleon Archive of (29) Letters Signed to His Adopted Son, Prince EugA"ne de Beauharnais, Detailing Military Strategy in the War of the Fifth Coalition: "The army is maneuvering in all directions against the enemy"

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
7036 Napoleon

Napoleon War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to His Sister, Pauline Bonaparte - "The only nation you should never receive in your home is the English as long as we are at war"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7037 Etienne Charavay

Dreyfus Affair: Etienne Charavay Handwritten Manuscript and Graphological Notes from the 1894 Dreyfus Affair Court-Martial

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
7038 Karl Marx

Karl Marx Autograph Note Signed, Returning an Errant Letter Sent to the Rothschilds - Marxism Meets Capitalism

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
7039 Max Weber

Max Weber Archive of (5) Autograph Letters Signed on German Politics and the End of World War I: "The present Kaiser must abdicate in the interest of the Reich and the dynasty"

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
7040 Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin Autograph Letter Signed - "I am living through a period of universal condemnation"

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
7041 Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen Autograph Letter Signed, Signed Photograph, and Signed Book - Sun Sends His Manifesto of the Chinese Republic, Putting Forth His Nationalist Ideology: "China for the Chinese"

USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 Unknown
7042 Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai Typed Letter Signed on US Policy Toward China: "I know for sure that there has been no anti-American propaganda"

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
7044 Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Autograph Letter Signed from the Italian Coast: "The days are of exceptional beauty; there is here a mixture of ocean, forest, and mountain climate"

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7045 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on His 80th Birthday

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
7046 Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed: "I know enough of journalism to appreciate the fact that errors are at times inevitable"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
7047 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed on Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement: "You are telling the world that the right of Negroes cannot be trampled in any community without impairing the rights of every other American"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
7048 Johann Sebastian

Johann Sebastian Bach Document Signed as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas Church

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Unknown
7049 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Handwritten Musical Manuscript from the 'Antretter Serenade in D'

USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 Unknown
7050 Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven Handwritten Musical Quotation

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
7051 Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Autograph Letter Signed on His Travels: "I'm leaving in 15 or 20 days"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7052 Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from 'Aida' - Presentation Prepared for His Publisher, Ricordi

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7053 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Autograph Letter Signed on Orchestrating an Overture-Fantasia: "Provided the wind players' lips and the string players' fingers aren't completely exhausted by the end, the effect will, in my view, be colossal"

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.
  • 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.