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
8051 Hill Aaron

Shaysa€™ Rebellion: Aaron Hill Letter Signed for the Selectmen of Cambridge - "We were then & still are of opinion, that the Constitution & The laws provide for every case"

1787 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,991.00
8052

Constitution: Manuscript Draft of a Treatise on the Constitution and Bill of Rights (c. 1787), Taking Aim at Slavery and the 'Three-fifths Compromise'

c. 1787 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,125.00
8053 Thomson Charles

Charles Thomson Document Signed as Secretary of the Continental Congress, Appropriating $100,000 for the Establishment of Permanent Capital Buildings

1784 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 13,949.00
8054

Constitution: Manuscript Meeting Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of Connecticut (c. 1787)

c. 1787 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
8055

US Constitution: Debates, Resolutions and Other Proceedings of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (First Edition, 1788)

Boston 1788 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
8056 Hancock John

John Hancock Broadside for the Selection of Massachusetts' Electors in the First Presidential Election

Boston 1788 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,775.00
8057 Jefferson Thomas

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed Communicating Acts for the First United States Census and Rules for Granting Citizenship to Immigrants

1790 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
8058 Paine Thomas

Thomas Paine Handwritten Manuscript on Revolutions and the Rights of Man: "We can scarcely conceive a more diabolical System of Government than has been generally established over the World"

c. 1791-1792 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
8059 Jefferson Thomas

Thomas Jefferson Signed First Edition of the 1791 U.S. Census, Accounting for Free Whites and Slaves - "Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States"

Philadelphia 1791 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 75,020.00
8060 Hamilton Alexander

Alexander Hamilton Signed Treasury Department Circular on the Interpretation of the Coasting Act

1792 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,089.00
8061 Adams Samuel

Samuel Adams Letter Signed on His First Day as Governor of Massachusetts on "the first principles of a Federal Government," Lashing Out Against Judicial Overreach in Support of States' Sovereignty

Boston 1793 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,035.00
8062 Jay John

John Jay Autograph Letter Signed, Writing Home While En Route to London to Negotiate the Jay Treaty

1794 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,375.00
8063 Monroe James

James Monroe Handwritten Manuscript Draft on International Affairs and the Jay Treaty

1794 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
8064 Jay John

John Jay Handwritten Letter Draft, Defending His Treaty with Great Britain: "I believe it will be fairly and literally executed, unless new courses of irritation and disgust should arise"

1795 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
8065 Monroe James

James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed on Rumors of the Jay Treaty: "Reports of what has been concluded between that gent'n & the B[ritish] admn makes it of great importance that I should be advised on the subject"

1795 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
8066 Washington George

George Washington Document Signed as President, Appointing a Customs Collector in South Carolina

1795 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,878.00
8068

Book of Common Prayer with Rare Double Fore-Edge Paintings of George Washington, Martha Washington, and Revolutionary War Scenes

Oxford 1809 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,086.00
8069 Adams John

John Adams Letter Signed, Declaring "Negro Slavery an Evil of Colossal Magnitude" Months Before the Missouri Compromise

1819 USD 200,000.00 - 250,000.00 Not Sold
8070 Lafayette Marquis de

Thomas Jefferson Franking Signature and Marquis de Lafayette Autograph Letter Signed in Custom-Bound Book - Lafayette in Virginia

Baltimore 1928 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,250.00
8071 Jefferson Thomas; Madison James

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing Aaron Burra€™s Stepson to the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans After the Louisiana Purchase (1804)

Washington 1804 USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
8072 Jefferson Thomas

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed as President, Discussing Western Expansion and Dismissing Reports of Indian Hostilities as "entirely falsea€

Washington 1806 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
8073 Jefferson Thomas

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed as President, Bypassing Secretary of State James Madison to Personally Assure Spaina€™s Representative of a€œan honest friendship with Spaina€

Washington 1801 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 29,915.00
8074 Madison James

James Madison Autograph Letter Signed on US Constitution, Declining to Opine on "Numerous Amendments"

1833 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,499.00
8076 Lafayette Marquis de

Marquis de Lafayette Autograph Letter Signed, Corresponding with Jefferson, Monroe, and the President

N/A USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,709.00
  • 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