Auction Details
We are pleased to announce our latest auction catalog featuring fine autographs and manuscripts in all fields of collecting. The auction will be in two parts and will include a live auction to take place at the Shelburne Murray Hill Hotel, 303 Lexington Ave. (@37th. St.) New York, NY on March 2, 2002 with an absentee auction closing March 6, 2002 at 10:00pm Eastern Time.
Dozens of lots shall include prominent figures and events of the Civil War and the American Revolution, including a proposal in the hand of Signer Arthur Middleton calling for the death penalty for people caught trading with the British; fine Civil War correspondences and images; a letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson detailing the faculty recruitment efforts for the University of Virginia. Of particular interest are documents from the estate of Judge Irving Kaufman who tried and sentenced Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to death for espionage in 1951 including his appointment as District Judge for the Southern District of New York signed by Harry Truman as well as his appointment to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals signed by John and Robert Kennedy. We are also pleased to offer a fine selection of material concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy including candid snapshots taken on November 22, 1963, suits worn by Jack Ruby, as well as fine content documents and letters of Kennedy, Oswald and Ruby. As usual we will also offer lots sold on an absentee basis, closing Wednesday, March 6, 2002 at 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time.
We will hold a public viewing for lots offered in the live auction on Friday, March 1, 2002 at the Shelburne Hotel from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. and Saturday, March 2, 2002 from 9 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. Viewings at our offices may be arranged by appointment.
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1248 - CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTONAlexander Autographs
(1864 - 1943) Black-American botanist and the son of slaves, Carver worked his way through school to become a leader in agricultural research and fou
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1249 - GOETHALS, GEORGE W.Alexander Autographs
(1858 - 1928) American army officer and engineer appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to supervise construction of the Panama Canal. Uncommon A.L.S. as Ch
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1250 - KEEN, WILLIAM W.Alexander Autographs
(1837 - 1932) American surgeon, a pioneer in brain surgery. Rare T.L.S. 2pp. 4to., Philadelphia, Dec. 18, 1897 to ""Margaret"",...
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1251 - LIEBIG, JUSTUS VONAlexander Autographs
(1803 - 1873) German chemist considered the father of agricultural chemistry, he discovered the chemical workings of various plants, their derivation
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1252 - MILLIKAN, ROBERT A.Alexander Autographs
(1868 - 1953) American physicist, first to isolate the electron and measure its charge, investigated cosmic rays, Nobel Prize winner for physics (192
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1253 - NEWCOMB, SIMONAlexander Autographs
(1835 - 1909) American astronomer and mathematician who secured the adoption of a system of astronomical constants, first president of the American A
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1254 - SCHWEITZER, ALBERTAlexander Autographs
(1875 - 1964) Nobel Prize-winning French physician and theologian, a specialist in tropical medicine. A.N.S. at the bottom of a letter from a Dutch n
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1255 - STEINMETZ, CHARLES P.Alexander Autographs
(1865 - 1923) American electrical engineer who the law of hysteresis and the theory of alternating current. Partly-printed D.S. ""Charles...
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1256 - TIMIRYAZEV, KLIMENTAlexander Autographs
(1843 - 1920) Russian physician, a pioneer of physiology. Very rare I.S.P. 2 1/2"" x 3/12"" b/w, with mat 6"" x 9&quo...
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1257 - (SCIENTISTS & EXPLORERS)Alexander Autographs
"A nice grouping of seven autographs by explorers and scientists in different formats, including: EDWARD TELLER (S.P.); ALEX AGASSIZ (A.L.S.); ...
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