RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifacts Featuring John F. Kennedy, 729, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 12, 2025 - November 12, 2025
Page Size: 818 items in 33 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 George Washington

George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Letter Signed to Lord Stirling, Preparing His Defense of Philadelphia and a Raid on Staten Island (1777): "You may judge whether it will be prudent to make an attack"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
2 George Washington

George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed, Discharging a Patriot with the "Badge of Merit"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 24,079.00
3 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Transmitting an Act of Congress Organizing Rhode Island's US District Court, Weeks After Ratification of the Constitution

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,151.00
4 James Madison and James Monroe

James Madison and James Monroe Document Signed, Appointing Peace Commissioners after the Second Barbary War

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
5 James Monroe

James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed, Remarking on His Presidential Qualifications: "My public life ought to speak for itself"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
6 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed, Preceding a Duel: "It is difficult to find an appropriate epithet for a character who descents to stoke falsehoods in a situation, where the honour of a man is at stake"

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
7 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Document Signed - Pay Order Issued During the 1828 Presidential Campaign

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
8 John Tyler

John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed on "the China Treaty"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,538.00
9 John Tyler

John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed to President James Buchanan, Petitioning for an Officer's Promotion, Citing His Brother "who fell before the gates of Mexico, a more glorious death a soldier never died"

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,001.00
10 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed on the Eve of War - "Even if there be no purpose to bring on civil war, will not halting, blundering, arrogant imbecility stumble on it?"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
11 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed on Franklin Pierce: "I recollect him as a radical & inflexible Democrat in all his votes"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
12 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Endorsement as President, Approving the Parole of Two Confederate "Conscripts "poor men with families"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,668.00
13 Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin 1860 Presidential Campaign Ferrotype Token

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,411.00
14 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Autograph Letter Signed on His Campaign for Congress and a Potential Vice Presidency: "I am a democrat in the enlarged and proper sense of the term"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
15 James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield Document Signed as President for the Ratification of "a treaty relating to Chinese immigrationaEU

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,353.00
16 Theodore Roosevelt

Big Game Hunting (Ltd. Ed. #60/1000)

NY 1899 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,355.00
17 Woodrow Wilson

George Washington

NY 1896 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
18 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President to Alfonso Lopez, President of Colombia, Suggesting an Inter-American Conference on the Maintenance of World Peace

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
19 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Mayo Brothers

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Mayo Brothers Signed Photograph

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,134.00
21 Jacqueline Kennedy

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington 1789 to John F. Kennedy 1961.

Washington, D.C. 1961 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,149.00
22 Jacqueline Kennedy's

Jacqueline Kennedy's Black Wool BouclA(c) Swing Coat

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
23 Jacqueline Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed as First Lady, Imagining the JFK Library in Early 1963: "There must be a private part...where he can work "as that will be his office "& he will be writing a book or something"

1963 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 12,500.00
30 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Handwritten Speech Draft on Hand-Corrected Typescript on the Cold War: "NATO has not developed militarily as was earlier presumed "but it has served its purpose "& Western Europe is still free"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
31 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Signed Photograph by Fabian Bachrach - Presented to the Arkansas Governor Behind the 1957 Little Rock Crisis

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
32 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as President - Written Four Days After His Famous 'Report to the American People on Civil Rights' Speech

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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