RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 735, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 11, 2026 - February 11, 2026
Page Size: 547 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
298

John D. Rockefeller and Henry M. Flagler Document Signed - Standard Oil Trust Stock Certificate

1887 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,038.00
305

Marie Curie Document Signed - Radioactivity Results from Curie's Lab

1931 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,389.00
306

Marie Curie Autograph Letter Signed, Dated Shortly After the Reception of Her Second Nobel Prize

1912 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,543.00
307

Thomas Edison Signed Photograph

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
308

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Early Stock Certificate for the Edison Phonograph Company

1887 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,504.00
309

Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed on the Installation of Electric Lighting in New York City

1882 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 14,815.00
310

Thomas Edison Document Signed - Edison Phonograph Works Meeting Minutes, Approving the Purchase of 18th-Century English Mahogany Cabinets

1920 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,004.00
311

Thomas Edison Signature: "The world is richer for thoughts you pour into it"

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,993.00
312

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on Prewar Politics: "When one thinks of Europe, one appreciates America!"

no date but circa June 1937. USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
313

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph: "With a strong curse"

1933 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,249.00
314

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed to an Aryan German on the Rise of Nazism (1933): "The people in Germany are not as bad as the behavior of the state..However, there is a great danger"

1933 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,074.00
315

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed, Proposing a World Government as the Solution to Atomic Warfare: "Not unilateral disarmament"

1948 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,294.00
316

Albert Einstein: 1933 Royal Albert Hall Ticket Stub - His Last Public Appearance in Europe

1933 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,094.00
317

Stephen Hawking Signed Book - The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution

1973 USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 24,956.00
318

Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed, Sending Thanks for a Donation to the Institute for Advanced Study: "We expect to use the money for a distinguished visiting lecturer"

1964 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,276.00
319

Alessandro Volta Autograph Letter Signed

no date USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,406.00
325

Vilfredo Pareto Autograph Manuscript Signed on Intellectuals: "The Ancients already said that there is nothing worse than the reign of philosophers. We can assert as well that nothing would be worse than the reign of intellectuals"

no date but circa1917 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,223.00
333

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Oversized Signed Photograph

circa 1908 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
334

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Signed Book - True Tales of the Plains

1867-68 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,756.00
341

Elizabeth Arden Typed Letter Signed

1949 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
342

John Jacob Astor IV Autograph Letter Signed

1904 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,165.00
343

P. T. Barnum Autograph Note Signed

no date USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 596.00
344

David Ben-Gurion Autograph Letter Signed, Commenting on Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

1968 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
346

Leonid Brezhnev Typed Letter Signed

1947 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 458.00
347

Leonid Brezhnev Signed Photograph

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
  • 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.
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000