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 Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
112

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to the Theory of Relativity and Mortiz Schlick, "who has made valuable contributions to the Theory from a...philosophical standpoint"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
113

Robert Oppenheimer Historic Twice-Signed U.S. Passport (1924) - The 20-Year-Old Harvard Graduate Travels to Europe to Start His Pivotal Studies at Cambridge and Gottingen

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
114

Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed on Photography with Phosphorescence: "His ingenious scheme of combining with the phosphorescent light a flash will no doubt succeed"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
115

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on the First Psychoanalytic Journal and Its Editor, Carl Jung

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
116

Thomas Paine Partial Autograph Letter on a Motion by Gouverneur Morris "for fortifying New York"

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
117

Thomas Paine: The Writings of Thomas Paine, with Common Sense, The Crisis, and Rights of Man (1792)

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
118

James Cook Signature - Immensely Rare Autograph of the Famed British Explorer

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
120

Sam Houston Document Signed as Governor of Texas

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
123

[Mustafa Kemal Ataturk] Official Letter of State to the President of Peru, Announcing His Re-election as President of Turkey

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
125

Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type IV

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
126

Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type I

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
127

Al Capone Original Photograph - PSA Type II

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
128

Vint Cerf Signed Sketch of the "Internet ca. 1977"

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
129

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Autograph Letter Signed

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
130

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Signed Ticket to 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World'

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
131

Clarence Darrow Autograph Letter Signed: "I have been a freethinker nearly all my life but that in no way effects my feeling toward those of all or no religious beliefs"

USD 750.00 - 800.00 Unknown
132

John DeLorean Signed Check

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
133

DNA: Watson and Crick (2) Signatures

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
134

James D. Watson Signed Business Card with DNA Sketch

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
135

Thomas Edison Signature

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
136

Albert Einstein Etching (Ltd. Ed. #2/150)

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
137

Bill Gates Signed Book - Source Code: My Beginnings

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
138

J. Paul Getty Signed Check

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
139

Jane Goodall (2) Signed Photographs

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
140

Jane Goodall (2) Signed Items

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
  • 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.