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Handwritten draft letter, unsigned, one page both sides, 7.25 x 8.75, November 16, 1789. Draft of a letter to the youngest signatory of the Declaratio

Handwritten manuscript draft of a speech by Jay, unsigned, one page, 8 x 9.75, no date but circa 1801. Draft of a speech delivered by Jay "to t...

ALS, three pages on two sheets, 7.5 x 9, December 22, 1783. Written from Bath, a letter to his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, whom he affectionately call

ALS, one page, 7.75 x 9.25, September 13, 1819. Written from Bedford, a letter to his son Peter concerning the family lands, domestic and financial ma

ALS as Chief Justice of the United States, one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.5, May 20, 1792. Written from Boston, a letter to his wife, Sarah Livingston

American jurist and politician (1785–1861) who served in Congress, as postmaster general, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. ALS, one p

ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhead, January 24, 1908. Letter to a close friend on his fiftieth birthday, in full:

Co-creator of the first commercially produced automobile (1861–1938). TLS signed in pencil, “Duryea,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, April 4

Fascinating grouping of four letters, three signed “W. R. Hearst” and one signed in full, five total pages, dated between 1930 and 1940; the lot consi

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

DS, signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 10.5, May 27, 1918. Document for 'Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Stockholders of ...

TLS in German, signed “Sigm.,” one page both sides, 6 x 8.5, personal letterhead, December 24, 1923. Letter to his niece Lucy, in full (translated):...

LS signed “R. J. Gatling,” two pages, 5.75 x 9, February 21, 1898. Written from Cataract, Indiana, a letter to William J. Dornup, in part: "In ...

French physician and politician (1738–1814) whose name became synonymous with the 'humane' instrument of execution whose use he proposed to ...

ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, September 24, 1874. Letter to an unidentified dean and colleague, in full (translated): &...

TLS in German, signed “C. G. Jung,” one page, 7.75 x 8.5, personal letterhead, September 16, 1950. Letter to Herr R. Schoch, in full (translated): &...

Prominent German Jewish philosopher (1729–1826) and grandfather of composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Untranslated ALS in German, one page, 8 x 5.

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

Highly influential Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951) whose greatest contributions were in the fields of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and l

Born Giulio di Giuliano de Medici in 1478, he served as pope from November 1523 until his death in 1534; the Sack of Rome and English Reformation occu