RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts, 741, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 George Washington

George Washington Signature, Cloak Swatch, and Lock of Hair

1769 Not Available USD 12,905.00
2 Th: Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State - Act of Congress Organizing Rhode Island's US District Court

1790 Not Available Not Sold
3 Mrs. Madison

Dolley Madison Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed to John Quincy Adams

1838 Not Available USD 1,503.00
4 Louisa Adams

Louisa Adams Hand-Annotated Invitation

1822 Not Available Not Sold
5

Theodore Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed - "What jacks some of our good friends on both sides of the political fence are!a€u

1895 Not Available Not Sold
6 Calvin Coolidge; Grace Coolidge

Calvin and Grace Coolidge Archive of (100+) Signed Letters Dated Between 1921 and 1933 - Over Half Signed as President and First Lady

1921-1933 Not Available USD 10,208.00
7 Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Andrew W. Mellon

Calvin Coolidge and Cabinet Oversized Signed Photograph, with Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon

N/A Not Available USD 1,516.00
8 Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman Collection of (14) Typed Letters Signed on the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Presidential Election, and John F. Kennedy

N/A Not Available Not Sold
9 Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman Archive of (27) Typed Letters Signed, Including (12) as President

1938-1951 Not Available Not Sold
10 John F. Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy Signed Photograph and Robert F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed

N/A Not Available USD 1,516.00
11 John Kennedy

John F. Kennedy (2) Typed Letters Signed as President, Recruiting the Chairman of the United Negro College Fund Drive, with Postscript Handwritten Days After Martin Luther King's 1963 Birmingham Campaign

N/A Not Available USD 16,500.00
12 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Handwritten Speech Draft on Hand-Corrected Typescript on the Cold War: "NATO has not developed militarily as was earlier presumed—but it has served its purpose—& Western Europe is still free"

1955 Not Available USD 13,289.00
13 John F. Kennedy; Fabian Bachrach

John F. Kennedy Signed Photograph to His Presidential Portraitist, Fabian Bachrach

N/A Not Available USD 13,389.00
14 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Document Signed as President, Appointing a Member of the Renegotiation Board

1961 Not Available Not Sold
15 John F. Kennedy; Alfred Eisenstaedt

John F. Kennedy Signed Oversized Photograph

1960 Not Available USD 4,326.00
16 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Handwritten Note as President-Elect - Two Weeks After the 1960 United States Presidential Election

1960 Not Available USD 3,431.00
17 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Document Signed as President, Appointing Lawrence E. Hartwig as Chairman of the Renegotiation Board

1961 Not Available USD 2,148.00
18 John F. Kennedy; Jacqueline Kennedy

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Signed 1960 Presidential Campaign Brochure

1960 Not Available USD 2,756.00
19 John Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Signed 'White House' Menu as President

1962 Not Available USD 3,336.00
20 John Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Signature

N/A Not Available USD 2,756.00
21 John Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed - Announcing His Candidacy for the U.S. Senate

1952 Not Available USD 2,505.00
22 John Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed on His Bid for U.S. Senate

1952 Not Available USD 2,773.00
23 John Kennedy

John F. Kennedy, Jr. Autograph Manuscript Signed - Middle School Essay on Being Accident Prone (1974-75)

1974-1975 Not Available USD 2,269.00
24

John F. Kennedy: Inga Arvad Typed Letter Signed

N/A Not Available Not Sold
25 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Autograph Letter Signed as President with (3) Original 'Doodle' Sketches

1981 Not Available USD 7,283.00
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000