RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 745, Boston

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 15, 2026 - July 15, 2026
Page Size: 355 items in 15 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
170 Nightingale Florence

Florence Nightingale Autograph Letter Signed: "I hope you are flourishing & are a David killing the Goliath Typhoid"

1894 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,381.00
171 Owen Robert (1771-1858)

Robert Owen Autograph Letter Signed: "Wishing to live as long as I can benefit my fellow men"

1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 303.00
172 Parks Rosa L

Rosa Parks Signed Souvenir Typescript

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 368.00
173 Chrysler Walter P

Walter Chrysler Typed Letter Signed on the Early Expansion of Chrysler Motor Corporation

1924 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,709.00
174 Gates Bill

Bill Gates Signed Book - Source Code

London 2025 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
175 Giannini Amadeo P (1870-1949)

Amadeo Giannini (2) Typed Letters Signed

1932; 1945 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 454.00
176 Jobs Steven

Steve Jobs Signed Apple Computer Check to the People's Computer Company (July 4, 1976) - Representing the Dawn of the Microcomputer Revolution

1976 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 66,550.00
177 Kroc Ray A (1902-1984)

Ray Kroc Signed McDonald's Breakfast Coupon Card - 'Be Our Guest'

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,553.00
179 Darwin Charles

Charles Darwin Signature in On the Origin of Species (Second Edition, 1860)

London 1860 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
180 Edison Thomas

Thomas Edison War-Dated Document Signed - Trust Disbursement for His Son, Charles Edison

New York 1917 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,516.00
181 Edison Thomas

Thomas Edison Autograph Note Signed on Phonograph Records

1921 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 660.00
182 Einstein Albert

Albert Einstein Signature to Pianist Andor Foldes

1943 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,208.00
183 Einstein Albert

Albert Einstein Signed Book - Philosopher-Scientist (Ltd. Ed. #176/750)

Evanston, Illinois 1949 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,208.00
184

[Alfred Nobel] Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget Stock Certificate

1937 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 413.00
185 Pasteur Louis

Louis Pasteur Autograph Letter Signed

1886 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,125.00
186 Pasteur Louis; Champollion Eugene-Andre

Louis Pasteur Signed Engraving by Eugene-Andre Champollion

1889 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,553.00
187 Rontgen W C

Wilhelm Rontgen Autograph Letter Signed to Prince Alfons of Bavaria

Cadenabbia, Italy 1909 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,628.00
188 Volta Alessandro

Alessandro Volta Autograph Document Signed as "Royal Professor at the University of Pavia"

Pavia 1799 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,086.00
189 Wesson D B

Daniel B. Wesson Autograph Letter Signed to Colta€™s Arms Company, Seeking Coordinated Opposition to a Firearms Industry Bill (1880)

Springfield, Massachusetts 1880 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
190 Burke Edmund (1729-1797)

Edmund Burke Autograph Letter Signed

1789 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,500.00
191 Hume David (1711-1776)

David Hume Autograph Document Signed, Payable to Dramatist John Home

London 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,120.00
192 Plekhanov Georgi (1856-1918)

Georgi Plekhanov Letter Signed - The 'Father of Russian Marxism'

1890 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 303.00
193 Amundsen Roald (1872-1928)

Roald Amundsen Signed Photograph

Nome, Alaska 1924 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,756.00
194 Carnarvon (1866-1923)

Lord Carnarvon Autograph Letter Signed - The Financier of the Excavation of King Tut's Tomb

1892 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
195 Carver Jonathan

Jonathan Carver: Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (First Edition)

London 1778 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.