A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 1

HENRY HOWARD MOLYNEAX: (1831 - 1890) 4th Earl of Carnavon, an English statesman who introduced the British North America Act, which made Canada a conf

THEODORE HERZL: (1860 - 1904) Hungarian Jew, founder of modern Zionism. Sent to Paris as a correspondent, he reported on the Dreyfus affair and was so

THEODORE HERZL: (1860 - 1904) Hungarian Jew, founder of modern Zionism. Sent to Paris as a correspondent, he reported on the Dreyfus affair and was so

DAVID BEN-GURION: (1886 - 1973) Israeli politician, proclaimed the independence of Israel in 1948, headed the provisional government, and was later Pr

[ISRAELI PRIME MINISTERS AND PRESIDENTS]: A wonderful grouping of twelve autographs by Israeli Prime Ministers and Presidents in various formats, incl

MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLAVI: (1919 - 1980) Shah of Iran enthroned at the insistence of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, built Iran's economy and a...

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

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

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

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

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...

ALBERT EINSTEIN: (1879 - 1955) American physicist whose Theory of Relativity and studies of mass and energy relationships revolutionized the field of

ALBERT EINSTEIN: (1879 - 1955) American physicist whose Theory of Relativity and studies of mass and energy relationships revolutionized the field of

JOSEPH-IGNACE GUILLOTIN: (1738 - 1814) French physician and politician, a defender of capital punishment who proposed the use of the beheading machine

ANDRE AMPERE: (1775 - 1836) French mathematician, chemist and physicist who formulated the basis for electrodynamics and developed a law on the force

JEAN M. CHARCOT: (1825 - 1893) French neurologist and world-renowned teacher whose most famous student was Sigmund Freud. Scarce A.L.S. "Charco...

THOMAS A. EDISON: (1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the

THOMAS A. EDISON: (1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the

GEORGE W. GOETHALS: (1858 - 1928) American army officer and engineer appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to supervise construction of the Panama Canal. A.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER: (1875 - 1965) French physician and theologian, a specialist in tropical medicine. Very fine content A.L.S. 1p. 4to., Lambarene, Apr

HOWARD R. HUGHES: (1905 - 1976) American industrialist and aviator, an eccentric billionaire who controlled RKO, founded the Hughes Tool Corp., and bu

DOUGLAS CORRIGAN: Wrong-Way Corrigan", American aviator of the Thirties who set out in his plane promising to fly west and ended up making a tr...

DOUGLAS MAWSON: (1882 - 1958) British Antarctic explorer, a member of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, accompanied Edgeworth David's sledding...

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: (1902 - 1974) American aviator who, in his "Spirit of St. Louis", was the first to fly solo non-stop across the Atla...

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: (1902 - 1974) American aviator who, in his "Spirit of St. Louis", was the first to fly solo non-stop across the Atla...

AMELIA EARHART: (1897 - 1937) American aviator, the first woman to cross the Atlantic, first solo across the Atlantic and first Hawaii-Mainland solo;

ORVILLE WRIGHT: (1871 - 1948) American inventor and a pioneer of flight, Wright, with his brother Wilbur, made the first successful flight of a motor-

(APOLLO 11 SIGNED "INSURANCE" COVER): Exceedingly rare commemorative postal cover signed by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, NEIL ARMSTRONG...

APOLLO 15 MOON-FLOWN $20 BILL: An excessively rare, superb Apollo 15 relic, a United States $20.00 bill, signed by the entire crew of Apollo 15, inclu

APOLLO 15 FLOWN JAPANESE FLAG: An exceptional Apollo 15 flown relic, a 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" cloth Japanese flag carried aboard the Apollo 15 mi...

(APOLLO 11): A superb Apollo 11 association piece, an official oversize NASA collage photo 13" x 11" color, commemorating the historic Apo...