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
515 Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Letter Signed

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 394.00
516 Truman Capote

Truman Capote Autograph Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 325.00
517 James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper Autograph Letter Signed

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 424.00
518 Robert Frost

Robert Frost Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,575.00
519 L. Ron

L. Ron Hubbard Typed Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
520 Jack London

Jack London Autograph Letter Signed on Police Judges: "The trouble is that they are very small and insignificant cogs in a large and powerful machine"

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 656.00
521 Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker Signed Book- The Viking Portable Library

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
522 Robert Ripley

Robert Ripley Signed Book - Believe It or Not!

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
523 Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss Signed Sketch in Book - The King's Stilts

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,283.00
524 Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 596.00
525 Thomas W. Streeter

Thomas W. Streeter: The Streeter Collection (8 Volumes)

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
526 Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty (10) Signed Unused Book Pages

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
527 Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Signed Book - Our Town (Ltd. Ed. of 2000, Presentation Copy)

2000 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
529 Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner Autograph Note Signed on Calling Card

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,520.00
530 Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy Autograph Note Signed on Calling Card

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
531 Edouard Manet

Edouard Manet Handwritten Note on Calling Card

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
532 Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini Signed Postcard Photograph with Autograph Musical Quotation from 'La Tosca'

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
533 Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann Autograph Note Signed on Calling Card

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,625.00
534 Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi (8) Hand-Annotated Calling Cards, with Envelope and Telegram

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,039.00
535 Franz Joseph

Franz Joseph Haydn Engraved Visiting Card

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,336.00
536 Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz Signature

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
537 Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold Autograph Musical Quotation Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 446.00
538 Fritz Kreisler

Fritz Kreisler (6) Signed Items

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
539 Franz Lehar

Franz Lehar Autograph Note SIgned

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
540 Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini Autograph Note Signed on Calling Card

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
  • 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
    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
  • 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.