RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 737, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 18, 2026 - March 18, 2026

Page Size: 614 items in 25 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
585	Rabindranath Tagore	Rabindranath Tagore Typed Letter Signed on a Lecture Tour: "My readings would consist of selections from my already published works such as 'Gitanjali' and 'The Gardener'"	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
586	Hunter S. Thompson	Hunter S. Thompson Signed Book - Hey Rube	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
587	Emile Zola	Emile Zola Autograph Note Signed on Personal Visiting Card	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
593	Hector Berlioz	Hector Berlioz Autograph Letter Signed on Harold en Italie and "the pianoforte arrangement of my Symphonie fantastique by Liszt"	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
594	Leonard Bernstein	Leonard Bernstein Autograph Orchestration Page Signed for His Symphony No. 3, 'Kaddish'	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
595		Composers (44) Signed Photograph Collection Highlighted by Romantic-era Masters Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini	USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	Unknown
596	Claude Debussy	Claude Debussy Autograph Letter Signed	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
597	Antonin Dvorak	Antonin Dvorak Autograph Musical Quotation Signed - "Melodie a motivy"	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
598	William S. Gilbert	William S. Gilbert Handwritten Synopsis of 'The Pirates of Penzance,' with Extensive Lyrical Quotations	USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	Unknown
599	Edvard Grieg	Edvard Grieg Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from a Lullaby	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
600	Franz Liszt	Franz Liszt Autograph Letter Signed: "Our concert is to take place next Wednesday"	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
601	Jacques Offenbach	Jacques Offenbach Archive of Autograph Musical Sketches from 'La Vie parisienne,' 'OrphA(c)e aux enfers,' and 'Les contes d'Hoffmann'	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	Unknown
602	Giacomo Puccini	Giacomo Puccini Autograph Musical Manuscript from 'La fanciulla del West'	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
603	Giacomo Puccini	Giacomo Puccini Autograph Letter Signed on Madame Butterfly: "It is the first opera ever performed in Japanese costumes at the Opera Comique"	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
604	Maurice Ravel	Maurice Ravel Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from 'Le Tombeau de Couperin'	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
605	Gioachino Rossini	Gioachino Rossini Autograph Letter Signed	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
606	Johann Strauss II	Johann Strauss II Handwritten Musical Manuscript from 'Prinz Methusalem'	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	Unknown
607	Giuseppe Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to His Opera Nabucco	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
608	Richard Wagner	Richard Wagner Autograph Manuscript Signed, Announcing the Premiere of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Unknown
609	Carl Maria von Weber	Carl Maria von Weber Autograph Letter Signed to His Music Publisher, Sending "the Overture in D Minor, the Concertino and the Variations"	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
610	George M. Cohan	George M. Cohan Autograph Quotation Signed: "We won't come back till it's over, over there"	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
611	George and Ira Gershwin	George and Ira Gershwin Document Signed, Allocating Their Earnings from RKO Studios	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
612	John Philip Sousa	John Philip Sousa Autograph Letter Signed, Outlining the Instrumentation of the United States Marine Band	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
613	Beatles Fully	Beatles Fully Signed 'Star Pics' Photograph - Obtained at Edinburgh's ABC Cinema (April 29, 1964)	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
614	Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney	Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Rare Dual-Signed Photograph	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown

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.