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With over 1,000 lots up for bidding, our May Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is the biggest thus far in 2020. Highlights include a book boldly signed by Mao Tse-Toung, a rare handwritten letter by Sun Yat-sen, a letter by Karl Marx concerning the publication of Das Kapital in translation, a letter by Claude Monet about Queen Victoria's state funeral, and a battlefield message from the Revolutionary War's 'Swamp Fox,' Francis Marion. A special Civil War section boasts the thoroughbred racing saddle of George Custer, and autographs of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, and more. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in May 2020.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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272 - Albert EinsteinRR Auction
Fascinating ALS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.25 x 5.75, no date [January 1950]. Letter to Rudolf Ehrman, who had bee
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273 - Richard FeynmanRR Auction
Signed book: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! First edition, later printing. NY: W. W. Norton, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 350 ...
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274 - Robert FultonRR Auction
Original ink sketch of a side-facing view of a gentleman with surrounding mechanical diagrams accomplished by Fulton on an off-white 2.5 x 2.5 clipped
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275 - Joseph GuillotinRR Auction
Manuscript DS in French, signed “Guillotin,” one page, 8 x 3.25, March 22, 1807. Brief untranslated document. In very good to fine c
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277 - Louis PasteurRR Auction
ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page, 5 x 7.5, Institute Pasteur letterhead, February 4, 1891. In full (translated): "Milord
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278 - Erich FrommRR Auction
Typescript of a chapter from Erich Fromm's 1950 book Psychoanalysis and Religion, entitled "Freud and Jung," ten pages, 8.25 x 11, wit...
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279 - Karl MarxRR Auction
Exceedingly rare ALS in French, one page, 4.25 x 5.25, January 13, 1872. Letter to "Dear Citizen," apparently the publisher Maurice Lach...
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281 - Pope John XXIIIRR Auction
Color matte-finish 7 x 8.75 photo of Pope John XXIII in his papal robes, affixed to its official 11 x 15 mount embossed with his official seal, signed
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282 - Pope Pius XRR Auction
Large ink signature, "Pius PP. X,” on an off-white 9.75 x 2 slip below a handwritten Latin blessing. Affixed to a slightly larger card. I...
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