RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring The Founding Fathers

Important TLS signed “N. Mandela,” two pages, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, November 30, 1998. Letter concerning peace in the Middle East, in part

Astor Trust Company check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Altman, "Benjamin Altman," payable to Astor Trust Co. for ...

Fascinating ALS signed “Paul,” five pages, 5 x 6.25, The Plaza, New York letterhead, August 19, 1933. Letter to his mother, Sarah Catherine McPherson

Uncommon twice-signed partly-printed DS, one page both sides, 13.5 x 9.5, August 20, 1863. A declaration of dividends made payable between August 10 a

American soldier and pharmacist (1838-1898) who founded the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation; Lilly enlisted in the Union Army and was

Nephew (1881–1955) of tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds, who made his own name as the founder of the US Foil Company; today, his company's 'Rey...

Partly-printed DS, one page, 11.5 x 7.5, February 1, 1889. Stock certificate issued to Rockefeller for five hundred shares in the Northwest Equipment

German-born banker (1788–1855) in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies who founded the Rothschild banking family of Naples. LS in Italian, signed “Carlo Bo

English-American industrialist (1768-1835) called the 'Father of the American Industrial Revolution,' known for importing British textile te...

Department store magnate (1838–1922) who also served as Postmaster General from 1889 to 1893. ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Bellefo

Retail pioneer (1852-1919) who founded the iconic chain of five-and-ten-cent stores that bear his name. Unusual fine disbound book for a meeting of th

Youngest of the three sons of Johann Bernoulli, who studied law and mathematics (1710–1790). He succeeded his father as professor of mathematics at th

TLS in German, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, October 11, 1935. Letter to "Architect Jensen," thanking him for flowers and congratulations on his ...

ALS in German, three pages both sides, 5.75 x 8.25, April 5, 1955. Long letter to Nobel Prize–winning physicist James Franck in Chicago, who had just

Rare ALS in French, signed “P. Curie,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, Ecole Municipale de Physique letterhead, December 30, 1899. Let

ALS signed “C. D.,” one page, 5.5 x 2.75, personal "Mrs. C. Darwin" letterhead with the "s" struck through, January 1, [no year]...

TLS signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page, 7.75 x 10.5, From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison letterhead, July 12, 1923. Letter to Mrs. Frederic C. Hir

Scarce ALS in Italian, one page, 5 x 8, Reale Accademia d'Italia letterhead, November 19, 1938. Letter to an "illustrious senator," th...

Automotive pioneer (1863–1947) who founded the Ford Motor Company and championed the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. La

DS, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8 x 10.5, April 19, 1950. Official letter from Didier Publishers of New York, in full: "We are preparing fo...

TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, embossed personal letterhead, January 14, 1954. Letter to Walter Stern, in full: "I ag...

English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor,

German medical scientist (1843–1910) regarded as the father of bacteriology. He isolated the tuberculosis bacillus and the anthrax virus, and received

ALS in German, signed “Planck,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, September 23, 1925. Significant letter to physicist Wilhelm Wien, about t

Nobel Prize-winning German physicist (1858–1947) who pioneered the understanding of quantum theory. ALS in German, signed “M. Planck,” one page, 5 x 4

American medical researcher (1906–1993) best known for developing a practical oral polio vaccine. AMS, signed on a title sheet, "Albert B. Sabi...

German philosopher and cultural critic (1892–1940) who made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory and Western Marxism. Substantia

Romanian philosopher and essayist (1911–1995) who was awarded the prestigious Rivarol Prize in 1950 for his first French book, A Short History of Deca

ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 5.5 x 3.5, no date but postmarked June 8, 1938. Letter to Oscar Philipp in London, in full (translated): &q...

Influential German philosopher (1770-1831) who espoused a dialectical method by which an idea (thesis) was challenged by its opposite (antithesis) and

Important German philosopher (1889–1976) whose Being and Time was a fundamental text in the development of existentialism. Handwritten draft of a lett

Rare TLS in German, signed “Wilh. Reich,” one page both sides, 9 x 12, lnternationales Institut fur Sexual Okonomische Forschung letterhead, August 14

Manuscript DS in Spanish, signed by Ferdinand, "Yo el Rey [I the King]," and by Isabella, "Yo la Reyna [I the Queen]," one page,...

Printed act, ten pages, 6.25 x 10, entitled "An Act for Exposing to Sale divers Castles, Houses, Parks, Lands and Hereditaments, Belonging to t...

King of France (born in 1423) who reigned from 1461 until his death in 1483. Vellum manuscript DS, in French, signed “Louis,” one page, 12.25 x 9.5, M

Large ink signature, "Elizabeth R., July 10th 1975,” on an off-white 10.75 x 7.75 guest book page affixed to a slightly larger sheet. In fine c...

Royal Christmas and New Year's card from 1955, with a gilt-embossed crown on the front, measuring 14 x 8 open, featuring a charming photo of Que...

Signed book: Eternal Hope. London: Macmillan, 1878. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.5, 227 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in black ink to Prin

Manuscript document, one page, 5.25 x 16, July 2, 1857. Page from an accounting ledger for the Mormon Perpetual Emigrating Fund, headed, "Trial...

Manuscript document, one page, 5.25 x 16, July 2, 1857. Page from an accounting ledger for the Mormon Perpetual Emigrating Fund, headed, "Trial...

Italian pope (1881–1963), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who ascended the papal throne in 1958 and served until his death. As the guiding force behind

ALS in German, signed “Martinus Luther D,” one page both sides, 8 x 12, [circa September 1, 1543]. An extensive, uncommonly well-preserved letter to G

Youngest child and only daughter (1926–2011) of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva; later known as Lana Peters, she caused an intern

Partly-printed vellum DS in Spanish, one page, 16 x 12, 1758. Untranslated certificate for the Royal Trade Company of Barcelona, number 1173 for 250 p

DS, in Spanish, one page, 8.5 x 13, June 29, 1960. Ministerial decree, No. 144, in which Castro accepts the resignation of Navio Pablo Bruno Alfonso C

Fantastic matte-finish 5.5 x 7 photo of Chiang Kai-shek in uniform, signed in ink in Chinese. Reverse bears a Wu Chung-Yee credit stamp. In fine condi

ALS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 6.5, Villa Kazbeck letterhead, April 14, 1903. Letter to Arthur Elliot on

Three items related to Churchill's publication of the biography Marlborough: His Life and Times, including: a TLS signed "Yours sincerely, ...

World War I-dated TLS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 8 x 10, embossed Ministry of Munitions of War letterhead, May 30, 1918. Letter to Henry

Exceedingly rare pin-pricked manuscript note from an unknown French Huguenot prisoner, one page, 7.75 x 6.25, no date but circa 1686. The message read