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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Auction Reports

Auction Name	Fine Autographs and Artifacts	Total Sales (USD)	1,208,360.00
Auction Date	January 14, 2026 - January 14, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	608,450.00
Sale Number	#733	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	853,300.00
Total Lots	627
Sold Lots	513.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	1,053,050.00
% of Lots Sold	81.82%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	1,436,900.00
Unsold Lots	114	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	84.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
404	Franz Schubert Rare Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed for 'Das Grab,' D.377 - A 'Lost' Meditation on the Grave	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	USD 156,658.00
394	Frederic Chopin Autograph Letter Signed	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 39,726.00
113	Robert Oppenheimer Historic Twice-Signed U.S. Passport (1924) - The 20-Year-Old Harvard Graduate Travels to Europe to Start His Pivotal Studies at Cambridge and Gottingen	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 37,000.00
118	James Cook Signature - Immensely Rare Autograph of the Famed British Explorer	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 34,769.00
78	John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed, Appointing a Second Lieutenant in the Continental Army	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 32,426.00
15	Five Presidents Signed Photograph - Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 25,285.00
414	Beatles Signed Photograph - Taken by Astrid Kirchherr in 1962	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 19,965.00
116	Thomas Paine Partial Autograph Letter on a Motion by Gouverneur Morris "for fortifying New York"	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 19,456.00
175	Napoleon Document Signed, Establishing the Administrative Structure of Occupied Egypt	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 14,375.00
114	Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed on Photography with Phosphorescence: "His ingenious scheme of combining with the phosphorescent light a flash will no doubt succeed"	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 12,183.00
1	Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State - Act of Congress Permitting Maryland to Collect Baltimore Port Fees	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 12,100.00
93	Cotton Mather Handwritten Sermon: "Will ye wicked plot again to you and call upon you with highest. But alas you may be saved"	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,793.00
338	Ian Fleming: Complete Set of (14) US First Editions of the James Bond Novels	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,503.00
96	Mohandas Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin Signed Book - India in Bondage	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,075.00
3	Abraham Lincoln Partial Autograph Letter as President to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (October 31, 1863)	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 10,980.00
248	Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 10,625.00
92	Queen Mary II Letter Signed to Edmund Andros, Colonial Governor of Virginia, Regarding Economic Acts	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 9,151.00
301	Joe Shuster Original Sketches of Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen	USD 7,500.00 - 8,000.00	USD 8,785.00
387	George Sand Handwritten Letter to Franz Liszt, Referring to Chopin and Berlioz	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 8,629.00
341	Ernest Hemingway Signed Photograph of Lion and Prey, Taken During a 1934 Safari	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,529.00
4	Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President (March 11, 1862)	USD 6,500.00 - 7,500.00	USD 8,435.00
101	Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Signed 1988 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,319.00
655	Babe Ruth Signature - Bright, Bold Example	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 8,011.00
337	Gustave Flaubert Autograph Letter Signed to His Lover on Writing Madame Bovary: "Oh, Bovary, what a grinding millstone it is for me"	USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	USD 7,753.00
336	F. Scott Fitzgerald Document Signed - Fitzgerald's Last Movie Contract with Twentieth-Century Fox	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 7,499.00

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.