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
8026 Franklin Benjamin

Benjamin Franklin Twice-Signed 1,500,000-Livre Promissory Note Binding the United States to Repay France for Funding the Revolutionary War - Printed on Franklina€™s Own Press (1782)

Passy 1782 USD 250,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 484,151.00
8027 Franklin B

Benjamin Franklin Autograph Letter Signed to Denmark's Envoy, Addressing the Capture of a Danish Vessel by an American Privateer (1784)

1784 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
8028 Adams John

John Adams Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to John Hancock, Written While Finalizing the Treaty of Paris Ending the Revolutionary War

Paris 1783 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 37,460.00
8029 Adams John

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed from The Hague, Addressing Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and the Organization of American Diplomacy Following the Treaty of Paris (1784)

The Hague 1784 USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
8030 Adams John; Jefferson Th

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed with Thomas Jefferson Countersignature, Authorizing Negotiations with the Barbary Powers as American Sailors Were Held Captive in North Africa (1785)

London; Paris 1785 USD 125,000.00 - 150,000.00 Not Sold
8031 Witherspoon John

John Witherspoon Autograph Letter Signed to Constitution Signer Thomas FitzSimons, Written One Month After the Signing of the Constitution, Discussing Hard-Money Shortages and Princeton Finances (1787)

1787 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 14,616.00
8032 Middleton Arthur

Arthur Middleton Handwritten Revolutionary War-Era Congressional Resolution on Maintenance of Prisoners of War, with Secret Cipher Key

1782 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,875.00
8033 Stone William J.

Declaration of Independence: Force Print from W. J. Stone's Copperplate (c. 1833)

Washington 1833 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 85,560.00
8034 Clinton Henry

Benedict Arnold Revolutionary Wara€“Dated Handwritten Letter (Copy of Henry Clinton's Letter to Oliver De Lancey)

1783 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
8035 Amherst Jeffrey

Lord Jeffrey Amherst Revolutionary Wara€“Dated Document Signed, Issuing Arms to the First Hessian Troops Sent to America (1776)

1776 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,880.00
8036

Revolutionary War (4) Hand-Drawn Maps

1777-1778 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 10,100.00
8037 George III

King George III Signed Royal Military Commission, Countersigned by Lord George Germain, Appointing Sir Henry Clinton "General in America only" (April 1, 1776)

London 1776 USD 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
8038 Hopkins Esek

Esek Hopkins War-Dated Letter Signed from 'Onboard the Alfred,' Requesting Cannon for the Defense of New England Ports

1776 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
8039 Arnold Benedict

Benedict Arnold War-Dated Letter Signed with Handwritten Loyalist Confession Warning of Enemy Infiltration - Written Three Years Before His Own Defection to the British

New Haven 1777 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 26,050.00
8040 de Gall W.

Captured Hessian Muster Roll (1778)

1778 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8041 Clinton George

George Clinton War-Dated Letter Signed to Delaware Governor Caesar Rodney, Urging Uniform Interstate Provisions for Continental Soldiers and Their Families (1780)

Albany 1780 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
8042 Morris Gouverneur

Gouverneur Morris Twice-Signed Oath of Allegiance Renouncing King George III, Witnessed and Countersigned by Thomas McKean (August 8, 1781)

1781 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 36,978.00
8043

Haym Salomon and Robert Morris Signed Bill of Exchange for Financing the Revolutionary War (October 22, 1782)

Philadelphia 1782 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 23,244.00
8044 Lawrence John

John Lawrence War-Dated Signed Connecticut Pay Order, Issued to a Free Black Soldier and Veteran of Germantown, Monmouth, and Valley Forge (1782)

1782 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,251.00
8045 Clinton George

George Clinton Document Signed as Governor of New York, Appointing Delegates to the Continental Congress (February 3, 1784)

1784 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,754.00
8046 Hartley David 1732-1813

David Hartley the Younger (7) Revolutionary War-Era Handwritten Manuscripts on Peace Negotiations by Britain's Sole Signatory to the Treaty of Paris

1778-1783; 1787 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
8047 Jones John Paul

John Paul Jones Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas Jefferson, Pressing for "Prize-Money" Claims Attached to His Revolutionary War Naval Victories

1786 USD 65,000.00 - 75,000.00 Not Sold
8048

Constitution Signers: Complete Set of (40) Autographs with Founding Fathers George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison

1772-1813 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 190,249.00
8049

Colonial Currency of the Thirteen Colonies (1776)

1776 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 14,075.00
8050 Davies John

Thomas Jeffersona€™s Copy of Sir John Daviesa€™ Le Premier Report (Dublin, 1615), Retaining His Characteristic a€œTJa€ Ownership Markings, Descended from the Library of Sir John and Peyton Randolph

Dublin 1615 USD 85,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
  • 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