RR Auction: America’s 250th Anniversary Auction, 757, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 08, 2026 - July 08, 2026
Page Size: 74 items in 3 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8001 Otis James

James Otis: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (Third Edition, 1766)

Boston; London 1766 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,378.00
8002 Dickinson John

John Dickinson: An Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great-Britain over the Colonies in America (First Edition, 1774)

Philadelphia 1774 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,879.00
8003 Turner Baptist Noel (1739-1836)

[King George III] Baptist Noel Turner Autograph Draft Proposal for Settling the American Colonies (c. 1775)

c. 1775 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
8004 Hancock John; Adams Samuel

John Hancock and Samuel Adams Letter Signed on American Radicals' Disaffection with British Colonial Policies and "notorious Violations of their Property" (1766)

1766 USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 180,315.00
8005 Hancock John

John Hancock War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as Chairman of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Urgently Summoning a Delegate to a Committee Meeting in Cambridge (1774)

1774 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,496.00
8006 Adams John

John Adams Handwritten Letter on the Eve of Revolution, Declaring that "Britain has neither Troops nor Money" to fight America while calling Boston Tories "Enemies of Mankind"

1774 USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
8007 Warren Joseph

Joseph Warren Autograph Document Signed - Medical Bill to Col. Elisha Doane for Medicines and Attendance, Endorsed by His Brother Dr. John Warren

1773 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
8008

Joseph Warren: Manuscript Draft Eulogy for the Patriot General Killed at Bunker Hill, Published in the Pennsylvania Magazine During Thomas Paine's Editorship (1775)

1775 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,565.00
8009 Lewis Francis

Francis Lewis Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on NYC's Reaction to the Battles of Lexington and Concord: "This City in a violent ferment" (April 26, 1775)

1775 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
8010 Henry Patrick

Patrick Henry Autograph Document Signed, Valuing an Enslaved Woman and Child in a Financial Settlement During the Revolutionary Era (1776a€“1777)

1777 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 18,089.00
8011 Dawes William

William Dawes Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed, Issuing Rations to Continental Army Recruits Five Years After His Midnight Ride with Paul Revere

Worcester 1780 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
8012 Revere Paul

Paul Revere Autograph Document Signed, Receiving Payment from a Wealthy Patron of His Silver Shop

Boston 1792 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 34,371.00
8013 Hancock John

John Hancock Signed 1765 Faneuil Hall Lottery Ticket

Boston 1965 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 19,899.00
8014 Washington George

George Washington Signed 1768 Mountain Road Lottery Ticket - One of About 25 Examples Known

1768 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 52,805.00
8015 Washington George

George Washington Revolutionary War-Era Handwritten Manuscript Fragment on Raising "a large standing army for the defence of the Rights and liberties of America"

c. 1777 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,889.00
8016 Washington George

George Washington War-Dated Letter Signed, Penned in the Hand of Alexander Hamilton Four Days Before the Battle of Germantown, Addressing the Philadelphia Campaign, Burgoyne's Northern Collapse, and the Road to Saratoga (1777)

Pennsylvania 1777 USD 750,000.00 - 800,000.00 Not Sold
8017 Washington George

George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Letter Signed to Brig. Gen. Potter, Planning a War "to be carried on against the Savages...against the Indians of the Six Nations"

1779 USD 175,000.00 - 200,000.00 Not Sold
8018 Washington George

George Washington War-Dated Letter Signed to Major Benjamin Tallmadge with Original Franked Address Panel, Directing Culper Ring Intelligence Courier Routes and Referencing Founding Spy Abraham Woodhull (1779)

Philadelphia 1779 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 99,850.00
8019 Williams Joseph

Washington Headquarters: Orderly Book of the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment with the Newburgh Address and Proclamation of Peace (1782-1783)

Newburgh 1782-1783 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 33,258.00
8020 Hamlin Africa

Washington Headquarters: Orderly Book of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment with the Proclamation of Peace and Founding Texts of the Society of the Cincinnati (1782-1783)

Newburgh 1782-1783 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 30,215.00
8021 Carlile John

George Washington: John Carlile Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed from Washington's Headquarters, Announcing Congress's Order to Disband the Continental Army

Newburgh 1783 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
8022 Hancock John

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Letter Signed to Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase, and Charles Carroll, Announcing George Washington's Arrival at Philadelphia in 1776 and the Exhaustion of the Congressional Treasury

1776 USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 Not Sold
8023 Thomson Chas

Charles Thomson Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed, Appointing Naval Agents for Privateering Prizes (1776)

Philadelphia 1776 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,311.00
8024 Franklin B

Benjamin Franklin Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Peace Negotiations with Great Britain: "Every thing seems to be rejected by your mad Politicians that would lead to Healing the Breach" (1777)

1777 USD 125,000.00 - 150,000.00 Not Sold
8025 Hancock John

John Hancock War-Dated Document Signed, Commissioning the Schooner Liberty for Privateering Against Great Britain - "Colonies" Amended to "States" Reflecting American Independence

Philadelphia 1778 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 31,291.00
  • 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