A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 1

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: (1769 - 1821) The "Little Corporal" whose brilliance in the field of battle and as Emperor of France has made him perh...

A. Q. FOUQUIER-TINVILLE: (1746 - 1795) French Revolutionary lawyer, the public prosecutor of the brutal Revolutionary Tribunal. Very rare A.L.S. &qu...

JACOB DEVERS` INSIGNIA AND RIBBONS: (1887 - 1979) American army general and commander of army forces in North Africa, also led the landings in souther

(JAPANESE SURRENDER OF THE PHILIPPINES): A superb archive of material related to the Japanese surrander of the Philippines, all likely obtained near o

LAVRENTY PAVLOVICH BERIA: (1899 - 1953) Russian politician, the dreaded head of Stalin's security agency, the NKVD, who oversaw the Great Purge ...

IVAN SEROV: (1905 - 1963) "Ivan the Terrible", feared Russian spy and KGB director, appointed chief by Malenkov in 1954. Disappeared in 19...

GEORGI K. ZHUKOV: (1896 - 1974) Soviet Field Marshall, perhaps the greatest general of World War II, he survived crushing poverty and Stalin's p...

REINHARD HEYDRICH: (1904 - 1942) "The Hangman", Nazi head of the dreaded SS and architect of the "Final Solution", his assassina...

HEINRICH HIMMLER: (1900 - 1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of...

ADOLF EICHMANN: (1906 - 1962) Nazi military officer charged by Hitler with the destruction of the Jewish race, present at the Wannsee Conference where

RUDOLF HESS: (1894 - 1987) Nazi German Deputy Fuehrer and second in command after Goering, Hess was one of Hitler's closest confidantes and frie...

ERWIN J. ROMMEL: (1891 - 1944) German field marshall whose Afrika Corps threw back repeated British and American assaults in North Africa, later he de

(CONCENTRATION CAMP LIBERATION PHOTOGRAPHS): Important grouping of thirteen original black and white photographs taken by an American soldier circa ea

(NAZI AND HOLOCAUST PHOTO ALBUM): A clothbound photo album, 14 leaves, oblong 4to. dated 1939 on the inside front cover above the name of the original

(NAZI LEADERS OF POLAND): Lot of two signed photographs of Nazi leaders of occupied Poland, includes: HANS FRANK (1900-1946), Nazi occupational Govern

(PASSPORTS FOR JEWISH HOLOCAUST REFUGEES): A pair of Nazi German passports belonging to Solomon and Blime Laufer, two Austrians of Jewish descent, iss

[WORLD WAR I- MUSTARD GAS ATTACK]: A great World War I archive from American soldier Pvt. 1st Class Thomas Knowles, Co. C, 101st U. S. Engineers, Amer

(WORLD WAR I PHOTO ALBUM): A great World War I photo album compiled by Corp. Lonnie J. Everton, 116th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force, while in

WORLD WAR ONE AEROPLANE RELIC: A great aviation related war-date relic display consisting of: a 3" x 6" swatch of an olive green fabric th...

(WORLD WAR I DIARY): Soldier's diary written in pen and pencil, approx. 170pp+. 8vo., by Private C. A. Barr of Altoona Pa., documenting his serv...