RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Military

ALS, one page, 4.25 x 6.75, personal Waldemere letterhead, August 17, 1881. Letter to influential magnate and philanthropist Cornelius Vanderbilt, in

Two items: an ink signature," "Harvey S. Firestone," on an off-white 5 x 3 card; and an ALS signed "Harvey S. Firestone," o...

Son of auto pioneer Henry Ford (1893–1943) who succeeded his father as head of the Ford Motor Company. TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, Ford Motor Company

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, May 19, 1936. Letter to David Wetherhorn, in part: "I am sending you a book on amateur telesco...

ANS in pencil, signed “WRH,” one page, 7.5 x 3.5, no date. A handwritten note on a typed question posed to Hearst, "Is it OK to get the valves ...

Collection of six Post-Dispatch business checks, each 8 x 3.25, filled out in another hand and signed by Pulitzer, dated between 1880 and 1882. In ove

Influential French physicist (1775–1836) who pioneered the discovery and understanding of electromagnetism; a unit of electric current was named in hi

French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician (1786–1853). ALS in French, signed “F. Arago,” one page, 8 x 10.25, August 25, 183

French chemist (1748–1822) whose contributions include the analysis of ammonia and prussic acid, and the discovery of the bleaching properties of chlo

ALS signed “G. W. Carver,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, September 24, 1934. Letter to "M...

Inventor of the Colt revolver and founder of the Colt Firearms Company (1814–1862). ALS signed “Sam. Colt,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, handsome Colt'...

Choice unsigned 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Darwin by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, showing the revered natura...

ALS signed “Ch. Darwin,” one page, 5 x 8, Down, Beckenham, Kent, Railway Station letterhead, November 11, 1881. Letter to Julius Frazelle Galbraith, i

LS signed "Ch. Darwin," five pages on three sheets, 5 x 8 (last page slightly smaller), personal letterhead, April 4, 1866. Letter to Rudo...

TLS in German, signed “Diesel,” one page, 8 x 11, personal letterhead, October 25, 1911. A reply to the "Minutes of directors meetings" be...

Signed book: The Double Helix. Later printing. NY: Atheneum, 1968. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.5, 226 pages. Signed on the title page in black

Scottish bacteriologist (1881–1955) who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his role in the discovery and isolation of penicillin. Autograph p

TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped Princeton letterhead, February 24, 1939. Letter to Dr. Joseph Cohn in New York,

French physician and politician (1738–1814) whose name became synonymous with the 'humane' instrument of execution whose use he proposed to ...

British mathematician, astronomer, and inventor (1792–1871) known for his discoveries related to the moons of Saturn and Uranus and for his pioneering

Handwritten responses by Oppenheimer to a series of four questions from "Whole World Inquiry," one page, 8.25 x 12.25, April 24, 1958. The...

Pioneer of quantum physics (1900–1958) who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945 after being nominated by Albert Einstein. ALS signed “W. Pauli,

Handwritten notes in French by Pasteur, unsigned, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date. In very good to fine condition, with light overall wrinkling and cre

Russian physiologist (1849–1936) best known for his investigation of conditioned reflex through the use of experiments involving salivating dogs. He w

Italian physician, naturalist, and poet (1626-1697). ALS in Italian, one page, 7.75 x 10.5, no date. Untranslated letter to Italian physician and anat

Partly-printed DS, signed “Geo. Westinghouse, Jr.,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.5 x 14, February 21, 1893. Contract between the Westinghous

Psychoanalyst and writer (1861–1937) who was the muse of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud. ANS in German, signed “L. A. S.,” one page, 4.75 x 4, postmarked

French polymath (1717–1783) known for his contributions in the realms of mathematics, physics, philosophy, and music theory; he served as co-editor of

TLS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 6 x 8.75, personal letterhead, September 10, 1924. Letter to a "Dear Colleague," in part (transla...

Two ALSs in German, signed "Freud," both on personal letterhead, 6 x 8.75, dated 1923. A pair of very moving and intimate letters from Fre...

Unsigned handwritten quotes in French, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, no date. Heidegger pens two quotations from the work of French poet and philosopher Paul

Tremendously influential philosopher (1711–1776) considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. ALS, one page, 7.2

Extremely rare ALS in English, one page, 4.5 x 7, October 1, 1879. Written from 41 Maitland Park Road in London, a letter to Collet Dobson Collet, in

Central figure of modern philosophy (1724–1804) best known for The Critique of Pure Reason. Extremely rare ALS in German, signed “I. Kant,” one page,

French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment (1689–1755), best known for his theory of the separ

German idealist philosopher (1775–1854) of the Romantic period, who later turned to religious philosophy and mythology, influencing existentialism and

Important and highly influential German philosopher (1788–1860) best known for his often pessimistic works exploring the nature of reality, will, and

Early educator and instructor of the deaf (1742–1822) ALS in French, signed "L'abbe Sicard," one page, 7.25 x 9, no date. Letter to Mr...

TLS signed “God bless you, M Teresa mc,” one page on the reverse of a 6.25 x 3.25 prayer slip, October 2, 1991. Written from Calcutta, a letter to Eve

Born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari (1765–1846), he served as pope from 1831 to 1846. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he opposed democratic a

TLS in Polish, signed “Karol card Wojtyla,” one page on the reverse of a 5.75 x 4 postcard showing the cavern below the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec, D

Desirable woodblock-print diploma from the 1975 Polish Festival of Sacrosong, 9 x 13, signed in the center in bold ink, "Karol card. Wojtyla,&q...

Interesting woodblock-print diploma from the 1976 Polish Festival of Sacrosong issued to "Wlodzimierza Piotrowskiego," 9.5 x 13.75, signed...

TLS in Polish, signed “Karol card Wojtyla,” one page, 8.25 x 5.75, Kuria Metropolitalna letterhead, June 10, 1978. In full (translated): "The V...

Physician and clergyman (1824–1898) who became the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee and the first vice-chancellor of the University

TLS signed “D. Ben–Gurion,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, The Winthrop Hotel letterhead, May 19, 1942. Brief letter to Jacob Greenberg, in full: "Thank ...

Wonderful glossy 3.5 x 5.5 Rotary Photo postcard of Churchill as a young man, boldly signed in the lower border in fountain pen, "Winston S. Ch...

DS, in Spanish, three pages, 9 x 13, May 12, 1959. Official decree relating to adjusted tariffs and tax benefits for imported automobile parts made du

Influential British statesman (1804–1865) associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League; an immensely important figure in c

Disbound printed booklet entitled “The Humble Additional and Explanatory Petition and Advice, of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses now assembled in