RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring World War II, 743, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 10, 2026 - June 10, 2026
Page Size: 427 items in 18 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill Rare Early Signed Photograph (c. 1915, A. H. Poole of Waterford)

Waterford 1915 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 11,646.00
2 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed on the Death of His Valet in Khartoum: "He seems to have eaten some poisonous food"

1907 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 14,949.00
3 Churchill Winston; Churchill Randolph; George V; Alfonso XIII

Winston Churchill (5) ‰UISecret‰U Autograph and Typed Letters Signed, Offering Candid Political Advice to His First Cousin, with (9) Related Letters from Randolph Churchill, Alfonso XIII, and George V

1886; 1890; 1909-1917; 1916 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
4 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed: "You would have been wiser to hold it under the auspices of the Free Trade League"

1904 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,276.00
5 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill: First Edition Set of His Magnum Opus, The World Crisis (6 Volumes)

London 1923-1931 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,781.00
6 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed on Britain's Failure to Rearm in the Face of Accelerating German Military Expansion (1937)

1937 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,079.00
7 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill Handwritten Working Draft for A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Documenting the "rivalry of England & Holland upon the seas"

1939 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
8 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill: First Edition Set of The Second World War (6 Volumes), Signed by His Military Assistant Secretary Ian Jacob

London 1948-1954 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,375.00
9 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed to Charles de Gaulle on Their Wartime Alliance and ‰UIthe greatest peril I have ever known‰U

1950 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 50,908.00
10 Churchill Winston

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed: "Am most obliged to you for all the help you have given in the Constituency"

1955 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,756.00
14 Mussolini Benito

Benito Mussolini Signed Photograph

Rome 1928 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,145.00
15 Mussolini Benito

Benito Mussolini Handwritten Manuscript for His Fascist Newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia - Weeks Before His March on Rome and Rise to Power

1922 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,611.00
16 Mussolini Benito;Vittorio Emanuele III

Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele III Document Signed - Removing an Officer's Rank for Disciplinary Reasons

San Rossore 1928 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 723.00
17 Strasser Gregor

Gregor Strasser Autograph Letter Signed

1926 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 808.00
18 Strasser Gregor

Gregor Strasser Typed Letter Signed, Reflecting on "an ugly little struggle with ugly little people"

Essen 1926 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 405.00
19 Chamberlain Neville

Neville Chamberlain Typed Letter Signed to Ava Wigram, a Prominent Political Hostess

1934 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 303.00
20 Chamberlain Neville;Chamberlain Anne

Neville and Anne Chamberlain (2) Signed Photographs

1938;1940 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
21 Chamberlain Neville

Neville Chamberlain WWII-Dated Typed Letter Signed on Churchill's 'House of Many Mansions' Address

London 1940 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
22 Maginot Andre (1877-1932)

Andre Maginot Autograph Quote Signed - "To desire peace at any price will surely bring the country to war"

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 491.00
23 Maginot Andre (1877-1932)

Andre Maginot Autograph Letter Signed - "I take the liberty of counting on you"

1927 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 275.00
24 Keynes John Maynard (1883-1946)

John Maynard Keynes Typed Letter Signed, Rejecting a Propaganda Role with the 'Nordische Gesellschaft'

1925 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
25 de Gaulle Charles

Charles de Gaulle WWII-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Gen. Weygand, from Exile in London on June 20, 1940: "I shall join any French resistance movement that may be organised"

1940 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,991.00
26 de Gaulle Charles

Charles de Gaulle Signed Photograph

1944 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,395.00
27 de Gaulle Charles

Charles de Gaulle Autograph Letter Signed on Europe's New Order: "The League of Nations is no longer a source of security"

1934 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
28 Wilhelmina

Queen Wilhelmina Document Signed

1934 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
  • 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