RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities, 750, Boston

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 24, 2026 - September 24, 2026
Page Size: 81 items in 4 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5035 Wamshas; Suppans; Porspas; Rawson

New York Indian Chiefs Signed Land Cession Deed, Selling Long Island Acreage to the Van Cortlandt Family (1703)

New York 1703 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 45,375.00
5036 Boone Daniel

Daniel Boone Autograph Document Signed for the Purchase of a Boat

1787 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,811.00
5037 Boone Daniel

Daniel Boone Autograph Letter Signed as Deputy Surveyor, Referencing Land a€œ20 Miles from Boonesborrougha€ (1784)

1784 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
5038 Travis William Barret

William Barret Travis Document Signed - 1834 Texas Colonization Petition, a Legal Flashpoint on the Road to the Alamo

Austin 1834 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
5039 Crockett David

David Crockett Signature

N/A USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,000.00
5041 Stanford Leland

Leland Stanford Signed Bond of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California - A Security Used to Finance the First Transcontinental Railroad

California 1868 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
5043 Shackleton Ernest

Ernest Shackleton Signed Photograph and British Antarctic Expedition Shore Party Signatures

1907-1909; 1912 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,499.00
5044 William III; Mary II; Phips William; Fletcher Benjamin; Stoughton William

King William's War: Archive of Letters and Documents Signed by King William III, Queen Mary II, and Colonial Governors of North America, for "the Preservation and Defence of Albany its Frontiers, against the French"

1692-1700 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
5045 Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette Autograph Endorsement Signed as Queen of France, Approving a Financial Agreement (July 1779)

1779 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,983.00
5046 Napoleon

Napoleon Letter Signed from Moscow, with the Emperor's Autograph Lines of Text, Addressed to Marshal Berthier Three Days Before the Retreat (October 16, 1812)

Moscow 1812 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 21,156.00
5047 Nelson Horatio

Horatio Nelson Signed "Order of Battle" in Preparation for Trafalgar - The Defining Naval Engagement of the Napoleonic Wars

1805 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 49,220.00
5048 Nelson Horatio

Horatio Nelson Autograph Letter Signed, Announcing His Promotion to Commodore from Gibraltar Bay - A Scarce Pre-Amputation Autograph

Gibraltar Bay 1796 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,744.00
5049 Cook James

James Cook Autograph Letter Signed, Outfitting the HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery for His Final Voyage in 1776

1776 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 45,375.00
5050 Richthofen Manfred Freiherr von

Manfred von Richthofen (a€˜The Red Barona€™) Signed Photograph

1918 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,640.00
5051 Flagg James Montgomery; Pennell Joseph; Riesenberg Sidney H.; Reuterdahl Henry; Treidler Adolph; Yohn Frederick Coffay; Halstead Frances Adams; Rice Burton; Smith Jessie Willcox; Raleigh Henry Patrick; Bull Charles Livingston; Groesbeck Dan Sayre; Richard

World War I Poster Collection - (36) American Propaganda Posters, Highlighted by James Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam: "I Want YOU!"

1917-1918 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,309.00
5052 Churchill Winston S.

Winston Churchill War-Dated "Most Secret" Typed Letter Signed to Bernard Montgomery, Concerning Operation Overlord, the Normandy Invasion (April 1944)

London 1944 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 56,863.00
5054 Wallenberg Raoul

Raoul Wallenberg Signed Schutz-Pass #0005 with Extremely Rare Complete Signature with Photo of Budapest Doctor Whose Life He Saved

1944 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
5055 Goring Hermann

Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Goring Document Signed, Summoning a Witness to Address the Killing of 'Great Escape' POWs "to refute the accusation, that Goering committed war crimes"

1946 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 21,339.00
5057 Oppenheimer J. R.

Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed to a Manhattan Project Shop Technician on His a€œcontribution to the development of the atomic bomb," with Los Alamos Employees' Handbook

Santa Fe 1945 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,844.00
5060 Lewis Robert A.

"My God what have we done"a€”Captain Robert A. Lewis's Mission-Used Enola Gay Logbook, with His Harrowing Eight-Page In-Flight Account of the Devastating 'Little Boy' Bomb Drop over Hiroshima

1945 USD 500,000.00 - 600,000.00 Not Sold
5061 Hun G. T.

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb: Original 1947 Survivor's Eyewitness Manuscript by Korean Officer G. T. Hun

1947 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
5062 Newton Isaac

Isaac Newton Signature

N/A USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,160.00
5063

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Signed Program from Edison's 70th Birthday Testimonial Dinner

West Orange, New Jersey 1917 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,313.00
5064

Thomas Edison and Francis R. Upton Signed Promissory Note from Edison Lamp Co., with Handsome Light Bulb Vignette

Newark, N.J. 1888 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,109.00
5065 Einstein Albert

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed to His Son Eduard from His English Refuge amid Nazi Threats (1933) - a€œThere were plans for my assassinationa€

1933 USD 10,000.00 - 150.00 USD 16,444.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Reason and Revolution:
    Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection
    Part I
    Live Sale 20 October
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Copernicus, Nicolaus. De revolutionibus orbium colestium, Nuremberg, 1543, first edition.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Newton, Isaac, Sir. Autograph manuscript worksheet, Cambridge, probably May 1694.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Euclid. Praeclarissimus Liber Elementorum in Artem Geometrie, Venice, Ratdolt, 25 May 1482, first edition of the first substantial mathematical work to appear in print, Durazzo copy.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Galilei, Galileo. Sidereus nuncius …, Venice, 1610, first edition of the foundation of modern astronomy.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Kepler, Johannes. Astronomia nova aitiologitos …, Prague or Heidelberg, 1609, first edition, contemporary vellum, the Chasles copy.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Cellarius, Andreas. Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus ..., Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1661, brilliantly handcolored.
  • Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Bible, in English. Fine restoration binding in the style of the Queen’s binders.
    Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Magnus Hundt, the elder. First edition of one of the earliest printed books with anatomical illustrations.
    Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Agatha Christie. Cards on the Table. First edition.
    Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned. First edition, first printing.
    Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. First edition, presentation copy.
    Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Bible, in English. Geneva-Tomson-Junius. London: Robert Barker, [colophon 1612]/1611.
  • Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026
    Gonnelli: Document bearing Napoleon's autograph signature. 1797. Starting bid € 900
    Gonnelli: Manuscript Libro de giustitiati nella città di Ferrara. 1441-1717. Starting bid € 9.000
    Gonnelli: Anonymous Jewish Siddur in Hebrew. Germany, 15th century. Starting bid € 1.200
    Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026
    Gonnelli: Chagall, Drawings for the Bible. 1960 Starting bid € 1.200
    Gonnelli: Duchamp, Le Surrealisme en 1947. Starting bid € 2.600
    Gonnelli: Valturio, [De re militari]. 1483. Important provenance. Starting bid € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026
    Gonnelli: Ketham, Fasciculus medicine. 1500. Starting bid € 10.000
    Gonnelli: Ketham, Fasciculus medicie. 1522. Starting bid € 10.000
    Gonnelli: Kepler, Harmonices mundi libri V. 1619. Starting bid € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026
    Gonnelli: Kepler, Tabulae Rudolphinae. 1627. Starting bid € 8.000
    Gonnelli: Kondakov, ISTORIYA I PAMYATNIKI VIZANTIISKOI EMALI. [Histoire et monuments des emaux byzantins]. 1892. Starting price € 5.000
    Gonnelli: Strada, Imperatorum Romanorum. 1559. Starting bid € 12.000