RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science and Technology

TLS signed “Kind regards, Yours sincerely, Margaret Thatcher,” one page, 8.25 x 11.75, Prime Minister letterhead, November 29, 1989. Letter to the Bis

ALS, one page both sides, 6 x 8.25, House of Commons letterhead, January 6, 1970. Letter to Miss Brett and Miss Watson, in full: "First, a happ...

TLS signed “Yours ever, Margaret,” one page, 5.75 x 8.25, 10 Downing Street letterhead, October 10, 1988. Letter to Monty Modlyn, in full: "Tha...

Signed book: The Path to Power. First edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 656 pages. Signed on a 10 Downing Stree

Crystal-clear matte-finish 5 x 7 photo of Tito, signed in fountain pen and dated January 29, 1961. In fine condition.

Twice-signed partly-printed DS, filled out entirely in his own hand and signed “Jon'th Trumble, Assist.,” and then again within the text, "...

Two partly-printed DSs, each signed "W. M. Tweed," one page, 8 x 9.75, dated 1867 and 1869. Both are official City of New York expense doc...

German greeting card offering New Year's wishes for 1962, 6 x 8.25, signed inside in fountain pen, "W. Ulbricht." In very fine conditi...

TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, Supreme Court of the United States, Chambers of the Chief Justice letterhead, December 14, 1954. Letter to author Irving Ston

ALS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.75, personal letterhead, August 24, 2000. Letter to William Santora, in full: "You ask various questions concerning t...

TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11.75, Dokumentationszentrum letterhead, May 8, 1983. Letter to someone interested in his work, in part: "I wish to thank...

Partly-printed DS, signed “Oliv. Wolcott, Sec'y of the Treas'y,” one page, 9.5 x 15.25, August 4, 1825. Petition regarding Benjamin May, mas...

Revolutionary War–dated manuscript DS, signed “Oliv: Wolcott Jun'r,” one page, 8.25 x 6.25, July 22, 1782. Pay order issued to Treasurer John La...

Exceptional thrice-signed ADS, signed twice "E. Hand" and once "Edw. Hand,” one page both sides, 6.5 x 8.25, February 1778. Series of...

Revolutionary War–dated partly-printed DS, one page, 15.5 x 13, March 23, 1776. The Council of the Massachusetts-Bay appoints Noah Whitman as "...

Partly-printed DS in French, signed “Rochambeau,” one page, 11.25 x 8.75, October 26, 1762. Untranslated official French and Indian War soldier'...

Manuscript DS in French, signed “Le cte. de Rochambeau,” one page, 8.25 x 13.5, 1771. Untranslated military promotion, approved at the conclusion by R

J. B. Brown & Sons Bankers check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Chamberlain, "Joshua L. Chamberlain," payable to Horace P. Cha...

LS signed “Jeffer. Davis,” one page, 7.5 x 9, February 2, 1854. Letter to A. M. Newman, in full: "I have received your letter of the 5th ulto. ...

Small fragments of red, white, and blue silk and linen from a flag of the USS Hartford, the flagship of Admiral David G. Farragut during the Civil War

Early ALS signed "T. J. J.," three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 10, January 1, 1846. Letter to his sister Laura Jackson Arnold, writ...

ALS signed “W. T. Sherman,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9.75, Head Quarters Armies of the United States letterhead, December 1, 1869.

ALS, one page, 5 x 8, April 22, 1903. Letter to George Bicknell, in part: "I hope you will pardon the delay in returning your book. It is due t...

Choice matte-finish 8 x 10 photo of the MacArthur family boarding a Pan American Airways jet, signed in fountain pen, "Douglas MacArthur,"...

Rare early 19th-century paper 'peepshow' device in its original 8.75 x 6.5 x .5 box, featuring six hand-colored engravings; when expanded to...

ADS, signed “Jn. Bradstreet,” one page, 7.75 x 4.5, November 18, 1758. Pay order submitted to "Abraham Mortier or in his absence to his clerk,&...

Field-procured, dark brown narrow leather waist belt measuring approximately 34? and 1.5? wide with a brass, die-struck, lead-filled oval belt plate w

ALS in French, signed “Bertrand,” one page both sides, 5 x 7.75, July 10, 1836. Untranslated letter to Monsieur Raynal, also addressed on the reverse

Uncommon 11 x 8.5 cardstock photo of the front of the Enola Gay during ground operations, signed in the lower border in blue ballpoint by crew members

Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets and Bockscar pilot Charles Sweeney shaking hands just before Sweeney's flight to Nagasaki, s...

Glossy 8 x 10 paperstock photo of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud, signed in blue felt tip, "Paul Tibbets—Pilot." In fine condition.

Large ink signature, "Ed. S. Godfrey,” at the head of a 7.5 x 10.5 table of contents page removed from the Encyclopedia Britannica. In fine con...

Uncommon ink signature, "D. Hunter, Maj. General,” on an off-white 5 x 2.5 sheet affixed to a larger album page with attached biography. In ver...

ALS in German, one page, 5.5 x 8.5, November 13, 1889. Letter to "the Expedition of the German Peasants Federation." In part (translated):...

Two untranslated letters in French: an ALS signed “Ed: Mortier,” one page, 4.5 x 7.25, November 12, 1802; and an LS signed “Le Mal. Duc de Trevise,” o

Matte-finish 6 x 8.5 photo of the Mountbatten of Burma in uniform, signed in the lower border in fountain pen, "Mountbatten of Burma, A. F.&quo...

Set of seven ink signatures of Royal Navy Officers belonging to the staff of Horatio Nelson, each on individual off-white slips affixed to a pair of t

ALS signed “Wm. Vandever,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, April 17, 1891. Letter to General Henry M. Cist, in full: "Replying to the ...

Three Civil War–dated DSs, signed “S. Williams,” each one page, 7.75 x 10, dated October–December 1861. Special Orders issued from the headquarters of

Large original color 28 x 40 War Manpower Commission poster published in 1942 by the US Government Printing Office (1942-O-468382), featuring a large

Group of four original World War II posters related to food: an original color 22 x 28 Office of Price Administration poster published in 1943 by the

Two original World War II posters related to relief efforts: an original red-and-black 21 x 28 Office of War Information poster for the American Red C

Two identical original color 14.25 x 21.75 Office of War Information posters (No. 31) published in 1943 by the US Government Printing Office (1943-O-5

Appealing collection of 18 ‘Ace’ playing cards, each 2.5 x 3.5, individually signed on the face in ink or felt tip by an aviation pioneer or World War

Amazing vintage glossy 10.5 x 8 full-length photo of Earhart seated inside an aircraft, smiling as she looks over a diagram, signed over her leg in fo

Vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 Vaughan & Freeman postcard photo of Johnson in a head-and-shoulders pose and wearing aviator goggles, signed in f...

National Aviation Hall of Fame commemorative cover, 9.5 x 4.25, with a color cachet honoring a Century of Flight, 1903–2003, signed in silver ink, &...

Rare untranslated ALS in French, signed “Pierre G. Latecoere,” one page both sides, 5.5 x 3.75, personal letterhead, January 3, 1936. In fine conditio

Complete set of the nine flown fabric presentations created by the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum with fabric removed during re

Desirable 11 x 13.75 print of a Life Magazine illustration of Charles Lindbergh done by great American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson entitled '...