RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 737, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 18, 2026 - March 18, 2026
Page Size: 614 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
172 Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming Autograph Letter Signed: "You seriously underestimate the number of autograph pests"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
173 Leon Foucault

Leon Foucault Autograph Letter Signed - Scarce Handwritten Letter from the Inventor of the Foucault Pendulum

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
174 Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss Autograph Letter Signed to Astronomer Wilhelm von Struve

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
175 Eduard Heine

Eduard Heine Hand-Addressed Mailing Panel - German Mathematician

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
176 Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Typed Letter Signed on a Translation of Max Born's Obituary - Connecting the Pioneers of Quantum Mechanics

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
177 John Hunter

John Hunter Third-Person Autograph Letter Signed - Early Promoter of Scientific Methods in Medicine

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
178 Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner Autograph Letter Signed, Regarding a "veterinary surgeon of the highest reputation"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
179 Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier Document Signed - Influential French Chemist

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
180 Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Pierre Louis Maupertuis Signed - Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences' Membership Diploma Presented to Scottish Mathematician James Stirling (1747)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
181 James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell Autograph Letter Signed, Requesting a Copy of George Eliot's Middlemarch on His Return to Cambridge

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
182 Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev Autograph Letter Signed - Coveted Handwritten Letter from the Russian Chemist and Inventor

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
183 William T. G. Morton

William T. G. Morton Autograph Letter Signed - The Pioneer of Surgical Anesthesia

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
184 Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel Autograph Letter Signed: "For each letter you get, I receive at least two hundred, and in different languages"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
185 Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer Autograph Letter Signed

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
186 Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur Handwritten Manuscript on Rabies Experiments: "Do dogs exist (as a race or individually) that are naturally immune to rabies?"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
187 Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (2) Signed Items - Autograph Letter and Book on Silkworm Disease

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
188 Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov Autograph Letter Signed: "I would like to talk to you about work and dogs"

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
189 Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov Twice-Signed Autograph Letter as a Medical Student

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
190 Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley Partial Autograph Letter Signed - Scarce Letter from the Discoverer of Oxygen

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
191 Wilhelm Rontgen

Wilhelm Rontgen Autograph Letter Signed - The Discoverer of X-rays

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
192 Wilhelm Rontgen

Wilhelm Rontgen Letter Signed from the Year of His X-ray Discovery, Preparing to Defend His University's Botanical Garden

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
193 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
194 Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta Autograph Letter Signed

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
195 John Wallis:

John Wallis: A Treatise of Algebra, Both Historical and Practical (1685)

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
196 James D. Watson

James D. Watson (2) Signed Items - Typed Letter and Draft of His Book Manners for Science (Avoid Boring People)

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown