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
510

Rudyard Kipling Autograph Letter Signed

1928 Not Available USD 250.00
511

Willy Ley Signed Book - Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel

NY 1952 Not Available USD 600.00
512 Henry W. Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph Letter Signed

1872 Not Available USD 250.00
513 Henry W. Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph Letter Signed on 'Sea-Pieces'

1878 Not Available USD 303.00
514 Henry W. Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Signature

1875 Not Available Not Sold
515 Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland Autograph Letter Signed

1925 Not Available USD 446.00
516 W. Scott

Sir Walter Scott Document Signed

Edinburgh 1821 Not Available USD 250.00
518

Jared Sparks Autograph Letter Signed, Praising the 'History of Democracy' as "a historical analysis of the principles of free governments , & a detailed account of their various & multiplied operations in this country"

1855 Not Available Not Sold
519

Bram Stoker Autograph Letter Signed

Philadelphia 1909 Not Available USD 1,283.00
520 A. Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Letter Signed

1872 Not Available USD 541.00
522 John G. Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier Autograph Letter Signed to Rev. Phillips Brooks

1888 Not Available USD 250.00
523 Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from the Polish Song 'Wiosna (Spring)'

Paris ND Not Available USD 124,999.00
524

Franz Joseph Haydn Document Signed - Publishing Contract for His Final Oratorio, 'The Seasons' (1801)

ND Not Available Not Sold
525 P. Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Autograph Note Signed: "This charming soprano, full of taste and feeling, was certainly the most beautiful event of the concert"

1888 Not Available USD 3,438.00
526 Paul McCartney; George Harrison; John Lennon; Ringo Starr

Beatles Signatures - Obtained at the Granada Theatre in Tooting (June 1, 1963)

N/A Not Available Not Sold
528 John Winston Lennon

Beatles: John Lennon Signed Membership Application for The Songwriters Guild of Great Britain (1964)

1964 Not Available USD 13,753.00
529 John Lennon

Beatles: John Lennon Signed Matchbook

N/A Not Available USD 2,496.00
530 Eric Clapton; Jack Bruce; Ginger Baker

Cream Signed 'Supreme Ballroom' Handbill (July 15, 1967)

Ramsgate, England N/A Not Available Not Sold
531 Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan Signed 'Train Tracks' Giclee Print (Ltd. Ed. #171/295) - Released in the Original 2008 'Drawn Blank' Series

2008 Not Available USD 5,375.00
534 Mick Jagger; Brian Jones; Keith Richards; Charlie Watts; Bill Wyman

Rolling Stones Signatures with Manager Andrew Loog Oldham

N/A Not Available Not Sold
535 Mick

Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger Autograph Letter Signed to His Chauffeur

c. 1980s Not Available USD 1,790.00
536 John Pasche

Rolling Stones: John Pasche Original 'Tongue and Lips' Logo Artwork

1970 Not Available USD 10,068.00
537 Eric Clapton; Jeff Beck; Paul Samwell-Smith; Jim McCarty; Chris Dreja; Keith Relf

The Yardbirds Signature with Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck

N/A Not Available USD 1,689.00
538 Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Twice-Signed Autograph Manuscript on Religion: "Every time I read of the great ones—Confucious, Lao-Tze, Gautama, Moses, Jesus—I cannot help thinking that the atheists are losing something great"

1935 Not Available Not Sold
539

Ignace J. Paderewski Signed Photograph

N/A Not Available USD 303.00
  • 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