• Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.
    Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
  • Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300.
  • Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo.

RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Sports and Encapsulation, 727, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
Page Size: 726 items in 30 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
105 Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,145.00
106 Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV Single-Signed Baseball - Rare Autographed Format from the Head of the Catholic Church

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
107 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Photograph - Handsome Portrait of 'Montgomery, Alabama's Rev. Martin Luther King' (PSA NM-MT 8)

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,513.00
109 Marie Curie

Marie Curie Twice-Signed Document

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,196.00
110 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed to an Editor, Ensuring that "the name of the Trichoptera are correctly spelt"

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
112 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Annual Report Extract of the Edison Electric Light Company of Europe (1895)

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,503.00
113 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Poem Signed with Quantum Theory Calculations

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
114 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Handwritten Draft Paragraph on the Theory of Relativity: "The general field laws are not sufficiently determined by the general principle of relativity alone"

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
115 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed 'Type I' Photograph, Pictured During His First Visit to the California Institute of Technology

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
116 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph to Economist and Executor Otto Nathan

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
117 Albert Einstein:

Albert Einstein: 1933 Royal Albert Hall Ticket Stub - His Last Public Appearance in Europe

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
118 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed 'Light's Golden Jubilee' Air Mail Cover - PSA NM-MT 8

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
119 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Note Signed: "You can tell at first glance that they weren't chosen like presidents!" - PSA MINT 9

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,654.00
120 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed - PSA GEM MINT 10

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,040.00
125 Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer Autograph Letter Signed After His Visiting Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy (1955) - PSA MINT 9

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,470.00
126 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Signature

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,499.00
127 Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Autograph Letter Signed on a Philosophical Mix-up: "The reviewer has the malicious audacity to claim that I deliberately imitated Kant's style to play a joke on the public!"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
128 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Typed Letter Signed - PSA NM-MT 8

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,129.00
129 1899 Peary

1899 Peary Relief Expedition Photograph Archive (175) with Incredible Arctic Imagery and Rare Photos of Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,746.00
130 Nimrod Expedition:

Nimrod Expedition: Ernest Shackleton and Shore Party (16) Signatures

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,038.00
131 Henry M. Stanley: Robert Henry Nelson

Henry M. Stanley: Robert Henry Nelson Letter and Document Archive for the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
133

Bechunaland Chiefs and Colonial Administration Archive of (30+) Letters and Documents

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
134 James Bowie

James Bowie Signature - The Famed Knife Fighter and Alamo Defender - PSA MINT 9

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,641.00
135 David Crockett

David Crockett Signature, Certified by His Son

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
136 Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson Twice-Signed Photograph - "Will be along some of these days, Brother Bat" - Exceedingly Rare Portrait of the Dodge City Lawman

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 10,316.00
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  • Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950