RR Auction: The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz, 742, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026
Page Size: 158 items in 7 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6001

James Monroe Endorsement Signature as President-Elect, Approving a Construction Contract for the Cumberland Road ("United States Western Road") - America's First Federally Funded Highway

1817 Not Available USD 10,125.00
6002

James Monroe Letter Signed as President to the U.S. Congress, Forwarding a Treaty with "the Creek Nation of Indians"

1821 Not Available USD 5,760.00
6003 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed on the 1805 Cherokee Treaty, Suggesting "marking trees as far as the late purchase from the Cherokees extends, to be in readiness to enter the land as soon as Congress ratifies the treaty"

1805 Not Available USD 6,875.00
6004

Andrew Jackson Rare Presidential Endorsement Signature - Approving the Sale of Creek Nation Lands

1834 Not Available USD 11,075.00
6005

Andrew Jackson Letter Signed on the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson - The Creek Nation Cedes 23 Million Acres in Land

1814 Not Available USD 11,519.00
6006 Will'm Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison (4) Letters Signed to the Secretary of War, Warning of Indian Hostilities on the Indiana Frontier

1808; 1809; 1810 Not Available Not Sold
6007

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Proclaiming an Infamous Treaty with "the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians"

1867 Not Available USD 3,161.00
6008

Andrew Johnson Letter Signed as President, Appointing a "Commissioner to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes of Montana Territory"

1868 Not Available Not Sold
6009 J. A. Garfield

James A. Garfield Letter Signed, Investigating an Interpreter's Claim as to the "relation between the Romany language and that of the Cheyenne Indians"

1875 Not Available Not Sold
6010

Theodore Roosevelt Presidentially Signed Foreword Page for 'The North American Indian' by Edward S. Curtis

1906 Not Available Not Sold
6011 Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Letter Signed as Inspector General on Military Authority Over Indian Affairs (1799)

1799 Not Available Not Sold
6012 B. Howard

Benjamin Howard Autograph Letter Signed: "The Indians have been trying for some time to strike at our frontier but my Rangers have made many of them pay for their curiosity"

1812 Not Available USD 896.00
6013

Santa Fe Trail: S. S. Waldo Autograph Letter Signed (1840) - "Starting my wagons to Santa Fe"

1840 Not Available Not Sold
6014 William Wilson

William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed on an Overland Journey with the American Fur Company and Trade with the Indians, with Wagon Train Sketch

1843 Not Available USD 4,675.00
6015

William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed: "My wheat crop, the only cash article of produce, in this part of the country, has been a compliet failure"

1848 Not Available USD 2,550.00
6016

Gold Rush: The Daily Alta California Current Price Market Sheet - Listing Opium, Morphine, and Arsenic (San Francisco, 1850)

San Francisco 1850 Not Available USD 506.00
6017 P. J. Norton

Gold Rush: P. J. Norton Collection of (21) Handwritten Letters on Mining Life in California, 1851-1863

1851; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1860; 1863 Not Available USD 8,043.00
6018 L. Fitch, Jr.

Gold Rush: Luther Fitch, Jr. Autograph Letter Signed - The Young Doctor on "much sickness" Among Miners at Foster Bar, California

1852 Not Available Not Sold
6019

Henry Wells and William Fargo Document Signed - American Express Company Stock Certificate

1863 Not Available USD 1,739.00
6020 P. D. Morris

Montana Gold Rush: P. D. Morris Archive of (10) Autograph Letters Signed - A Civil War Deserter's Letters Home from the Montana Gold Fields: "There is gold in this country"

1864; 1865 Not Available USD 8,813.00
6021

Wells Fargo Express Company Shipping Label

circa 1870s–1890s Not Available Not Sold
6022

Stagecoach: 1881 Northwestern Overland Mail Company Pass

1881 Not Available Not Sold
6023

Stagecoach: 1893 California & Nevada Stage Co. Pass

1893 Not Available Not Sold
6024

John Muir Autograph Letter Signed: "I'm glad you all came unscathed through the battle of the trainrobbers"

1896 Not Available Not Sold
6027

George A. Custer Signed Photograph of a Prize Elk from the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873

1873 Not Available USD 13,800.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600.
  • Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: A signed note written by Thomas Alva Edison to an unknown recipient, in which he shares his thoughts on Guglielmo Marconi, regarded as the inventor of the radio. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare 1931 TN Grasslands Steeplechase Book, Gallatin. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: War of 1812 related Broadside, Petersburg Volunteers. $700 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: 2 World War I Posters, “Our Colored Fighters” and “No Slacker”. $800 to $1,000.