RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities, 738, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 26, 2026 - March 26, 2026
Page Size: 93 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4001 King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII Document Signed to the Keeper of the Wardrobe

USD 30,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4002 Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I Letter Signed to the Archbishop of York, Excusing Him from Attending Parliament

USD 20,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4003 Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant Document Signed, Granting Land on Long Island in 1664, Four Months Before Surrendering New Amsterdam to the English

USD 90,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4004 William Penn

William Penn Document Signed, Granting 5,000 Acres to One of Pennsylvania's 'First Purchasers'

USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4005 John Law

John Law Letter Signed, Ordering Currency Manipulation Amidst France's First Paper-Money Experiment

USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Autograph Letter Signed to His Cousin, BA$sle: "The aria will be finished"

USD 400,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4007 Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven Autograph Letter Signed, Directing Payment of His Nephew's Pension

USD 50,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4008 Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert Signed Sheet Music - Op. 96 'Die Sterne von Leitner'

USD 10,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4009 Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Autograph Letter Signed on the Publication of Op. 61, 'Polonaise-Fantaisie'

USD 75,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4010 Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Autograph Letter Signed on the Publication of His Music, Referring to Symphony No. 1 and Clara Schumann

USD 8,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4011 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Signature

USD 10,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4012 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Handwritten Religious Manuscript with Commentary on the Holy Trinity: "We must confess that the father is God, the Son is God, the holy Ghost is God"

USD 15,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4013 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Letter Signed: "There is hardly any one in this country who seems inclined to devote himself to experiments"

USD 4,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4014 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Signed Book - Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams] - A Foundational Text of Psychoanalysis

USD 6,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4015 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed, Recommending Translations of 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis' and 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'

USD 6,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4016 Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi Typed Letter Signed in the Year of 'Satyagraha' (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1906)

USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4017 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed, Six Months Before His 'I Have a Dream' Speech: "I have accepted as many speaking engagements for the next eight or nine months as my schedule will allow"

USD 2,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4018 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing William C. C. Claiborne, Future Overseer of the Louisiana Purchase Transfer, as Governor of the Mississippi Territory

USD 20,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4019 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Brass Drafting Tool (ca. 1800) from His Personal Collection

USD 5,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4020 William McKinley

William McKinley Document Signed as President, Ratifying a Peace Treaty with Spain to End the SpanishaEU"American War

USD 40,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4021 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin and Eleanor RooseveltaEUs (3) Victorian Dining Chairs from Their Manhattan Townhouse at 49 East 65th Street - Gifted Furnishings from Sara Delano Roosevelt

USD 7,500.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4022 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Lot of (9) Diamond-Set Formalwear Accessories - (2) Cufflinks, (4) Vest Studs, and (3) Shirt Studs

USD 10,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4024 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed as a Massachusetts Senator, Sent to His Swedish Mistress, Gunilla von Post

USD 30,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4026 9/11: White

9/11: White House Guided Tour Ticket and Ticket Stub - Both Dated to September 11, 2001

USD 1,000.00 - 0.00 Unknown
4027 Donald Trump

Donald Trump Signed Uncut $2 Dollar Bills - PSA MINT 9

USD 2,500.00 - 0.00 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.