RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 731, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - November 10, 2025
Page Size: 766 items in 31 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed: "The President and Mrs. Adams ask the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Tufts company to dinner"

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,723.00
2 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Signature to Dr. Bancroft

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,746.00
3 James Madison

James Madison Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Appointing an Agent in Havana: "You will subserve the views of the President in attending to every violation of the laws prohibiting the Slave Trade"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 15,000.00
4 Anna Harrison

Anna Harrison Autograph Letter Signed

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,553.00
5 John Tyler and John C. Calhoun

John Tyler and John C. Calhoun Document Signed as President and Secretary of State

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,503.00
6 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Document Signed as President, Commissioning an Assistant Quartermaster

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,625.00
7 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Congratulating the New President of El Salvador

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,613.00
8 President William McKinley

President William McKinley Ceases All Sales of Public Lands in the Hawaiian Islands

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,853.00
9 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book as President - Oliver Cromwell

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,963.00
10 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book - American Statesmen: Thomas Hart Benton

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,321.00
11 Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Notables

Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Notables (190+) Signed Letters in Scrapbook

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
12 Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon Typed Letter Signed to Spiro T. Agnew, Sending the Disgraced VP His Cabinet Chair: "The chair you occupied across from mine at the Cabinet table is, to me, a symbol of the strength and wisdom you brought to that task"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,799.00
13 Four Presidents

Four Presidents Signed Photograph

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,674.00
19

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: Colombian Centinel from July 15, 1826 - Reporting on the Presidents' Deaths

1826 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 500.00
20 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Document Signed as President - Ratifying an Amended Extradition Document with France

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,283.00
21 George Bush

George Bush Typed Letter Signed: "When NRA attacks our law enforcement people as 'Nazis,' 'lawbreakers' and 'jackbooted thugs,' that is outrageous and cannot be condoned"

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
22 George Bush

George Bush Oversized Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
23 George Bush

George Bush Signed Book - Speaking of Freedom (Collector's Edition)

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 151.00
24 George W. Bush

George W. Bush (2) Signatures

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 875.00
25 Frances F. Cleveland

Frances F. Cleveland Signature

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
26 Frances F. Cleveland

Frances F. Cleveland Signed Photograph as First Lady

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
27 President Grover Cleveland

President Grover Cleveland Congratulates Queen Victoria on the Historic Marriage of King George V and Queen Mary of Teck

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,283.00
29 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Signature and Impeachment Trial Ticket

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 446.00
30 Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Signed Book - An Invitation to the White House

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 138.00
31 Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge 1929 Calendar (18.75E x 27E)

1929 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
  • 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
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    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
  • Case Antiques
    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.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    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.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.