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
164 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph to a Member of the Intergovernmental Refugee Commission

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

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed, Thanking Baron Edmond de Rothschild for His Generosity: "Your words as a great Jewish guide whose intelligence is entirely at the service of his goodness will accompany me forever"

 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
171 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed 'Bust Sculpture' Photograph (1942)

 1942 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
172 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed and First English Edition of Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

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

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed - PSA MINT 9

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

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on Refugee Immigration: "In general, it is impossible to advocate successfully on anyone's behalf before that person is in the country"

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,760.00
175 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on a World Court: "Do you believe that such an allpowerful institution would be free of corruption and partiality?"

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,250.00
207 Alexander Graham

Alexander Graham Bell Autograph Quotation Signed and Thomas A. Watson Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,166.00
208 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed and Signature in Book on Erasmus Darwin - Once the Property of Virginia Woolf

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
209 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison World War I-Dated Typed Letter Signed on Submarine Explosives

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,033.00
210 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (2) Documents Signed - Meeting Minutes for Thomas A. Edison, Inc. and the Edison Manufacturing Company

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,419.00
211 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Electric Vehicle Registration (1914) for His Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham...an early example of an electric car, powered by Edison nickel-iron batteries

 1914 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,030.00
212 Richard Gatling

Richard Gatling Signed Photograph

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
213 Gilbert U-238

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - 'The Most Dangerous Toy in History'

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,860.00
214 Joseph Guillotin

Joseph Guillotin Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,859.00
215 Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber Signed Photograph - The Nobel Prize-Winning 'Father of Chemical Warfare'

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,411.00
216 Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,411.00
217 Guglielmo Marconi:

Guglielmo Marconi: Official Act for Establishing a Chain of Imperial Wireless Stations (1912)

 1912 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
218 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Signature

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 28,200.00
219 [Isaac Newton]

[Isaac Newton] Sketch of a "Manubrium or Winch"

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
220 Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed: "I am pleased formally to offer you a membership in the Institute for Advanced Study"

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,445.00
221 Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov Autograph Letter Signed: "Only marriage, a family of one's own, makes a man's life complete"

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
223 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Signature - "Better late than never!"

 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,753.00
224 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Typed Letter Signed (1898) - The Year That He Caused an Earthquake in Manhattan

 1898 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
225 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Signed Waldorf-Astoria Menu (1899), Listing the Special Roast Entree, "Mignons de Filet A la Tesla"

 1899 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,816.00
  • <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
  • <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.
    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.