RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 733, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 14, 2026 - January 14, 2026

Page Size: 627 items in 26 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
353	Hunter S. Thompson Archive: Early Draft of Better Than Sex, Prepared for Random House (c. 1992-1994), with Signed First Edition	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
354	Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed on His Voyages Extraordinaires	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,805.00
355	Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed, Commenting on His Early Works: "I have in my portfolio tragedies, dramas, comedies, Italian comedies, melodramas, and vaudevilles in prose and verse, which will never see the light of day"	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,223.00
356	H. G. Wells Handwritten Letter on His "Best Book," Commenting on The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and Dr. Moreau	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,498.00
357	Thomas Wyatt Document Signed - Excessively Rare Autograph of the 16th-Century English Poet, Who Introduced the Sonnet to English Literature	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
358	Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: Le Mariage de Figaro	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
359	Edgar Rice Burroughs Document Signed for Tarzan Films by RKO	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 1,260.00
360	Raymond Chandler Signed Contract for 'The Big Sleep' - Initialed 13 Times!	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
361	Raymond Chandler Document Signed, Outlining Terms for an Agency Contract	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
362	Raymond Chandler Document Signed for Paramount Pictures	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 368.00
363	Jean Cocteau Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 829.00
364	Jean Cocteau Signed Sketch	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 596.00
365	Jean Cocteau Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to Picasso	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
366	Charles Dickens Signature	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 1,880.00
367	Ian Fleming: Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, Adventures 1"3 (First Editions)	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
368	Robert Frost Signature	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,073.00
369	Erle Stanley Gardner Signed Book - The Case of the Waylaid Wolf	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 446.00
370	Ernest Hemingway Handwritten To-Do List	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,004.00
371	James Hilton Signed Book - Goodbye, Mr. Chips	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 969.00
372	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Autograph Quotation Signed - Handwritten Section from the Wartime Poem 'Union and Liberty'	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 138.00
373	Julia Ward Howe Autograph Quotation Signed	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 963.00
374	Julia Ward Howe Autograph Manuscript Signed for a Poem Honoring Henry Ward Beecher	USD 750.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
375	Henrik Ibsen Signature	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 446.00
376	Stephen King Signed Souvenir Typescript from Cujo	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 988.00
377	D. H. Lawrence Handwritten Poem on the Publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,251.00

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.