A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

(WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA POSTER): American-issued World War II propaganda poster, 20" x 28" color, a tight close-up of a young child, with...

(WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA POSTER): American-issued World War II propaganda poster, 22" x 28" color, showing a tattered American flag flying...

(WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA POSTER): American-issued World War II propaganda poster, 22" x 28" color, shows a shell-shocked infantryman with ...

[WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA POSTER]: American-issued World War II propaganda poster designed by Courtney Allen, 20" x 28" color depicting Ros...

[WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA POSTER]: American-issued World War II propaganda poster designed by R. Moore, 28" x 20" color depicting U. S. tro...

[WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA POSTER]: American World War II propaganda poster designed by Boris Chaliapin, 20" x 28" color depicting Gen. Eise...

[WORLD WAR II RECRUITING POSTER]: American-issued World War II recruiting poster presented by the U.S. Army's recruiting service, 20" x 28&...

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

JOSEF GOEBBELS: (1897 - 1945) Nazi Minister of Propoganda with Hitler from the earliest days, a master of manipulation of the masses who tokk his life

WERNER VON BLOMBERG: (1878 - 1946) Minister of Defense and Supreme Commander of the German Armies early in Hitler's regime, dismisssed by Hitler...

KARL DONITZ: (1891 - 1980) German admiral who headed the U-Boat arm of the German Navy, later succeeded Hitler as Fuehrer after Hitler's suicide...

HEINZ GUDERIAN: (d. 1953) German general and Hitler's Army Chief of Staff, the inventor of the "blitzkrieg" who commanded panzers in t...

FRANZ HALDER: (1884 -1972) One-time German chief of staff until transferred to the reserves by Hitler due to policy disputes. Suspected of plotting ag

ALBERT KESSELRING: (1885 - 1960) Field Marshal in the Luftwaffe and at Nuremburg was tried for war crimes. Death sentence commuted due to ill health.

ALBERT KESSELRING: (1885 - 1960) Field Marshal in the Luftwaffe and at Nuremburg was tried for war crimes. Death sentence commuted due to ill health.

DR. ROBERT LEY: (1890 - 1945) Nazi leader and ardent anti-Semite who as head of the Labor Front ruthlessly enforced slave labor policies. He committed

WILHELM LIST: (1880 - 1971) German field marshal and ardent Hitler supporter, led the 14th Army in Poland, the 12th Army in the Balkans, and as field

ERICH VON MANSTEIN: (1887 - 1973) German field marshal who devised the plan to conquer France, held various commands on the Russian front, sacked by H

HASSO VON MANTEUFFEL: (1897 - 1978) Commander of the 5th. Panzer Army which spearheaded the ill-fated Ardennes offensive of January 1945. After vainly

HASSO VON MANTEUFFEL: (1897 - 1978) Commander of the 5th. Panzer Army which spearheaded the ill-fated Ardennes offensive of January 1945. After vainly

HASSO VON MANTEUFFEL: (1897 - 1978) Commander of the 5th. Panzer Army which spearheaded the ill-fated Ardennes offensive of January 1945. After vainly

ERHARD MILCH: (1892 - 1972) Co-creator with Goring of the Nazi's Luftwaffe, promoted to the rank of field marshal, later tried at Nuremburg and ...

ERHARD MILCH: (1892 - 1972) Co-creator with Goring of the Nazi's Luftwaffe, promoted to the rank of field marshal, later tried at Nuremburg and ...

ERICH RAEDER: (1876 - 1960) Commander and Chief of the German Navy (1933 - 1943) who was largely responsible for its expansion. Retired over growing d

HJALMAR SCHACHT: (1877 - 1970) German financier and banker who engineered the rearmament of Germany. Broke with Hitler and joined the resistance when

GEORG VON KUCHLER: (1881 - 1968) German field marshal who led the drive of the 18th Army to take paris and raise the swastika over the Eifel Tower. Br

U-BOAT COMMANDERS: Excellent poster portraying a U-Boat commander peering through a telescope, 19" x 24", signed by 26 U-Boat captains, ha...

(HIMMLER CONDEMNS KURT LEUDECKE): A highly unusual document, 1p. folio, Berlin, July, 1934, in which Himmler approves a statement condemning the activ

(THERESIENSTADT CAMP MONEY): A complete set of seven pieces of currency, apparently uncirculated, from the notorious Theresienstadt Concentration camp

(DACHAU WAR CRIMES TRIALS): A fine set of ten original photographs, all but one 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" b/w, showing the defendants, military judg...

(DACHAU CANCELED PRISONER`S ENVELOPE): An early Dachau Concentration Camp mailing envelope used by a prisoner in corresponding with his wife in Poland

(ETERNAL JEW COMMEMORATIVE PSTCARD): A color postcard advertising the showing of the anti-Semitic exhibit "The Eternal Jew" and bearing an...

(NAZI ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA): An interesting piece of anti-Semitic propaganda, the Hitler Youth magazine "Die Kameradshaft", 24 pp. 8vo.,...

(NUREMBURG TRIALS): Rare book Concentration Camps by Eugene Aroneanu, (Nuremburg: Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Das Licht", 1946) in German and lis...

(NAZI SLAVE LABOR IDENTITY CARD): A Nazi-issued work permit given to an "ostarbeiterin", or a slave worker imported from the east, 4pp. 12...

(NAZI SLAVE LABOR WORK PERMIT): A Nazi-issued work permit given to an "ostarbeiterin", or a slave worker imported from the east, 4pp. 12mo...

(S.S. ST. LOUIS INCIDENT): An unusual relic, a menu from the Jewish refugee ship the S.S. St. Louis, printed in both German and English, dated August

MOSHE DAYAN: (1915 - 1981) Israeli general and politician who gained decisive victories in Sinai and Gaza during the Suez War, later planned and comma

(WEST POINT DIMPOLMA): Partly-printed D.S., 1p. folio on vellum, West Point, N.Y., July 4, 1824, a diploma from the U.S. Military Academy conferred up

ISAAC CHAUNCEY: (1772 - 1840) American naval commander who led naval forces on Lakes Ontario and Erie during the War of 1812. A.L.S. 2pp. 4to., &quo...

(NAVAL COMMANDERS): A nice lot of nine autographs by vintage Naval commanders in various formats, includes: O. O. HOWARD (L.S.); ELLBRIDGE T. GERY (T.

(SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR EXECUTION): Stereoview photograph of the execution by strangulation of a prisoner in Havana, a grisly image of the condemned sea

(THE ARMY AND NAVY): An interesting set of oversize, extra-illustrated books entitled The Army & Navy of the United States, by William Walton, B...

(TERMS OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES): An exceedingly rare proof edition of the Conditions of Peace forced on the Axis Powers of World War I. The entire

(WORLD WAR I CORRESPONDENCE): A large grouping of material relative to the wartime experiences of Frank and Lynn Wadsworth. Frank Wadworth was a membe

WOODROW) (WILSON: A pair of rare newspapers printed onboard the U.S.S. GEORGE WASHINGTON as it carried a triumphant Woodrow Wilson from France to the

[WORLD WAR I]: A neat World War I trench relic, half-dollar size French solid-silver coin depicting a maiden sowing seeds across the earth. On the ver

HYMAN G. RICKOVER: (1900 - 1986) American admiral responsible for the construction of the "Nuclear Navy", starting with the submarine Naut...

HYMAN G. RICKOVER: (1900 - 1986) American admiral responsible for the construction of the "Nuclear Navy", starting with the submarine Naut...

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER: (1864 - 1943) Black-American botanist and the son of slaves, Carver worked his way through school to become a leader in agri

JONAS SALK AND ALBERT SABIN: (1914 - 1995) American physician and epidemiologist who developed the first vaccine against poliomyelitis. Good content T

JAMES GORDON BENNETT: (1841 - 1918) American editor of The Herald responsible for sending Stanley to Africa in search of Dr. Livingstone. Lot of two T

EDOUARD BRANLY: (1844 - 1940) French physicist whose invention of the coherer made wireless telegraphy possible. A.N. unsigned on his visiting card, 1

FERDINAND RUDOLF HASSLER: (1770 - 1843) Swiss scientist, the superintendent of the United Coast Survey from 1815-1817, and U.S. gauger under Andrew Ja

ISAAC ISRAEL HAYES: (1832-1881) American explorer who led an Arctic expedition aimed at proving the existence of open seas around the North Pole. Good

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: A neat grouping of eight commemorative FDC's honoring the Mayo Brothers, cancelled Rochester, Sept. 11, 1964, signed by pro...

LINUS PAULING: (1901 - 1994) American chemist and physicist whose investigations into the structure of molecules led to discoveries of how chemicals b

LINUS PAULING: (1901 - 1994) American chemist and physicist whose investigations into the structure of molecules led to discoveries of how chemicals b

LINUS PAULING: (1901 - 1994) American chemist and physicist whose investigations into the structure of molecules led to discoveries of how chemicals b

LINUS PAULING: (1901 - 1994) American chemist and physicist whose investigations into the structure of molecules led to discoveries of how chemicals b

JONAS SALK: (1914 - 1995) American physician and epidemiologist who developed the first vaccine against poliomyelitis. S.P. 8" x 10" b/w, ...

ALBERT SCHWEITZER: (1875 - 1964) Nobel Prize-winning French physician and theologian, a specialist in tropical medicine. A.N.S. at the bottom of a let

ELMER A. SPERRY: (1860 - 1930) American engineer and industrialist, inventor of the gyroscopic compass and stabilizer which revolutionized navigation,

KLIMENT TIMIRYAZEV: (1843 - 1920) Russian physician, a pioneer of physiology. S.P. a small printed photograph on a 6" x 8" page, boldly si...

CLYDE W. TOMBAUGH: American astronomer and the discoverer of Pluto. S.P. 10" x 8" b/w, a reprint of a very early photo showing Tombaugh as...

(SCIENTISTS): A nice lot of three signed postal covers, includes: a cover honoring Albert Einstein with attractive image, signed by JONAS SALK and ALB

(SCIENTISTS): A nice lot of eight vintage scientific autographs in various formats, includes: FRIDJOF NANSEN (bold pencil sig, mounted); HENRY A. WARD

(SOVIET PHYSICISTS): Scarce war-date D.S. 1p. 4to., "Institute of Problems of Physics of the Academy of Science", Moscow, Apr. 26, 1944, a...

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

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

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

BEN ABRUZZO AND MAXIE ANDERSON: Aviators who made the first round the world trip in a balloon. Signed book, Double Eagle, by Charles McCarry, Boston,

RICHARD E. BYRD: (1888 - 1957) American aviator and explorer, first to fly over the South Pole and established the base "Little America". ...

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

JAMES H. DOOLITTLE: (1896 - 1993) American aviator who gained fame both as a racing pilot and as leader of the first air raid on Tokyo during World Wa

JAMES DOOLITTLE: (1896 - 1993) American aviator who gained fame both as a racing pilot and as leader of the first air raid on Tokyo during World War I

PAUL DU CHAILLU: (1831 - 1903) American explorer of Central Africa who brought back numerous specimens, including the first gorillas to come to the Un

GORDON FULLERTON: (b. 1936) American pilot Fullerton who also served on the support crews for the Apollo 14, 15, 16, and 17 lunar missions. D.S. 1p. 8

ISAAC ISRAEL HAYES: (1832-1881) American explorer who led an Arctic expedition aimed at proving the existence of open seas around the North Pole. Fine

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...

EDWARD V. RICKENBACKER: (1890 - 1973) American aviator and World War I ace credited with 26 "kills", later president of Eastern Air Lines....

EDWARD V. RICKENBACKER: (1890 - 1973) American aviator and World War I ace credited with 26 "kills", later president of Eastern Air Lines....

EDWARD V. RICKENBACKER: (1890 - 1973) American aviator and World War I ace credited with 26 "kills", later president of Eastern Air Lines....

(APOLLO ASTRONAUTS): Exceptional NASA-issued S.P. 10" x 8" color, an image of a well-illuminated full moon signed by twelve Apollo program...

(APOLLO 9): S.P. 10" x 8" b/w, a glossy NASA photo showing the crew of Apollo 9 in space suits TRAINING WITHIN AN ALTITUDE CHAMBER, boldly...

NEIL ARMSTRONG: (b. 1930) American astronaut and commander of the Apollo 11 mission, the first man to walk on the Moon. Excellent S.P. 10" x 13...

NEIL ARMSTRONG: (b. 1930) American astronaut and commander of the Apollo 11 mission, the first man to walk on the Moon. S.P. 10" x 8" colo...

EDWIN A. "BUZZ" ALDRIN: American astronaut and pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar module who walked the Moon with Neil Armstrong. Bold black ink...

ALAN BEAN: American astronaut who flew on Apollo 12 and in the Skylab mission. S.P. 8" x 10" color official NASA photo showing Bean kneeli...

ALAN BEAN: American astronaut who flew on Apollo 12 and in the Skylab mission. Excellent S.P. 10" x 8" color, a NASA photo showing Bean ad...

ALAN BEAN: American astronaut who flew on Apollo 12 and in the Skylab mission. Fine S.P. 14" x 11" b/w bearing two NASA photographs of the...

FRANK BORMAN: American astronaut who served in the Gemini and Apollo programs. Excellent S.P. 8" x 10" color, showing Borman half-length s...

FRANK BORMAN: (b. 1928) American astronaut who served in the Gemini and Apollo programs. S.P. 8" x 10" color photo showing the crew of Apo...

FRANK BORMAN: (b. 1928) American astronaut who served in the Gemini and Apollo programs. S.P. 8" x 10" color photo showing the crew of Apo...

SCOTT CARPENTER: (b. 1925) American astronaut, America's second man in space who flew around the earth three time in Aurora &, May 24, 192. ...

MICHAEL COLLINS: (b. 1930) American astronaut, Command Module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission. Excellent S.P. 8"" x 10"" color, ...

CHARLES CONRAD: (1930 - 1999) American astronaut who served as pilot on two Gemini missions and commanded the Apollo 12 flight. S.P. 8" x 10&qu...

CHARLES CONRAD: (1930 - 1999) American astronaut who served as pilot on two Gemini missions and commanded the Apollo 12 flight. S.P. 8" x 10&qu...

DAVE SCOTT AND ALAN SHEPARD: Excellent S.P. 10" x 8" color showing ALAN SHEPARD beaming as the Distinguished Service Medal is pinned to hi...

CHARLES M. DUKE JR.: (b. 1935) American astronaut who piloted the LEM on the Apollo 16 mission. S.P. 10" x 8"" color photo showing an...