RR Auction: Decoding History: Kryptos, Enigma, and the Rosetta Stone, 730, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 14 items in 1 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2001 Jim Sanborn

The Complete Secrets of Kryptos: Jim Sanborn's Private Archive

 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 962,500.00
2002

Rosetta Stone: Archive of 19th-Century British Working Papers, Decoding the Lost Language of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics

 19th-Century USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 113,799.00
2003 Jean-Francois Champollion

Jean-Francois Champollion Amazing Autograph Letter Signed with Hieroglyphic Illustrations:

 1826 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
2004 Jean-Francois Champollion

Jean-Francois Champollion Handwritten Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Manuscript, Explaining the Figurative, Symbolic, and Phonetic Nature of the Symbols

 no date but circa 1828-1830 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
2005 Howard Carter

Howard Carter Signed Book Set - The Tomb of Tutankhamen

 London 1923-1933 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
2006 Claude Philibert Dabry de Thiersant

Claude Philibert Dabry de Thiersant: Military Phrasebook in Chinese, French, and English (1859)

 Paris and London 1859 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
2007

China: Secret British Military Reconaissance Reports on Kwangtung and Fukien Provinces

 Hong Kong 1926-1928 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
2008 Mata Hari

Mata Hari World War I-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Her Wartime Efforts: "I know that during long nights I am in their mind, as they are in mine"

 1916 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,384.00
2009 Thomas H. Dyer

Thomas H. Dyer Signature

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 275.00
2010 Herbert Yardley

Herbert Yardley Signed Return Receipt

 1943 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
2011 Moe Berg

Moe Berg Hand-Notated Spy Manuscript on Atomic Chain Reactions (1944) - Penned by a Physicist Who Shared Intelligence on Nazi Germany's Nuclear Weapons Program

 1944 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,309.00
2012 William Friedman

William Friedman Typed Letter Signed

 1949 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,283.00
2013 David Balme

David Balme Signed Photograph

 1941 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
2014 Alan Turing

Alan Turing Signed Book - The Distribution of Prime Numbers (Turing's Own Copy)

 Cambridge 1932 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
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