Fine Selection of Autographs and Manuscripts

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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MARIA CHRISTINA1198 - MARIA CHRISTINA
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(1806 - 1878) Queen of Spain, fourth wife of Ferdinand VII. At the king's death Maria Christina became regent for Isabella II. Manuscript L.S. ...
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(LOUIS XV)1199 - (LOUIS XV)
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(1710 - 1774) King of France whose reign of mismanaged wars and extravagant gifts to his mistresses brought the French economy to near failure. A docu
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(LOUIS XIV)1200 - (LOUIS XIV)
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(1638 - 1715) ""The Sun King"", King of France who undertook a series of wars with neighboring countries, yet is most remembered...
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(HENRY VI)1201 - (HENRY VI)
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(1421 - 1471) King of England who faced and was defeated by Joan of Arc, murdered in the Tower of London by his successor Edward IV. Indentured docume
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(ANNA IVANOVA)1202 - (ANNA IVANOVA)
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(1693 - 1740) Empress of Russia (1730-40), abolished the council that elected her under countenanced a repressive regime which involved itself in war
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(HEADS OF STATE)1203 - (HEADS OF STATE)
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"Three autographs by international heads of state, including: GEORGE IV (autograph on small sheet); PORFIRIO DIAZ (T.L.S.), and ROBERT PEEL (A....
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(ENGLISH DOCUMENTS)1205 - (ENGLISH DOCUMENTS)
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"Good lot of approximately fifteen pieces including invoices, deeds, contracts and wills from various parts of England between 1620 and 1808. M...
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GENERAL WALTER C. SHORT`S GOLD SWORD KNOT1206 - GENERAL WALTER C. SHORT`S GOLD SWORD KNOT
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(1880 - 1949) American general responsible for the air and ground defense of Pearl Harbor. After the Japanese attack, Short and Adm. Husband E. Kimme
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GENERAL WALTER C. SHORT`S DRESS  SWORD BELT1207 - GENERAL WALTER C. SHORT`S DRESS SWORD BELT
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(1880 - 1949) American general responsible for the air and ground defense of Pearl Harbor. After the Japanese attack, Short and Adm. Husband E. Kimme
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ROSENTHAL, JOSEPH1207A - ROSENTHAL, JOSEPH
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American press photographer who covered the Pacific during World War II, took the famous photograph of Marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima. A great
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DOOLITTLE, JAMES H.1208 - DOOLITTLE, JAMES H.
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(d. 1993) American aviator who gained fame both as a racing pilot and as leader of the first air raid on Tokyo during World War II. Candid S.P. 8&q...
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PERSHING, JOHN J.1210 - PERSHING, JOHN J.
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(1860 - 1948) American general ""Black Jack"" Pershing commanded troops sent to capture Pancho Villa, and later was Commander in...
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ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.1211 - ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.
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(1896 - 1974) Soviet Field Marshall, perhaps the greatest general of World War II, he survived crushing poverty and Stalin's purges to command ...
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ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.1212 - ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.
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(1896 - 1974) Soviet Field Marshall, perhaps the greatest general of World War II, he survived crushing poverty and Stalin's purges to command ...
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ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.1213 - ZHUKOV, GEORGI K.
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(1896 - 1974) Soviet Field Marshall, perhaps the greatest general of World War II, he survived crushing poverty and Stalin's purges to command ...
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ABEL, RUDOLF IVANOVICH1214 - ABEL, RUDOLF IVANOVICH
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(1903 - 1971) Soviet spymaster who operated for years in the United States, was captured and eventually exchanged for U-2 pilot Gary Powers. Rare pair
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GRECHKO, ANDREY A.1215 - GRECHKO, ANDREY A.
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(1903 - 1976) Soviet general who desperately resisted the German advance in the south, liberated Kiev and the Ukraine and occupied Prague. Partly-pr
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KONEV, IVAN S.1216 - KONEV, IVAN S.
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(1897 - 1973) Russian field marshal who headed the Kalinin Front and resisted the German assault on Moscow. Later, Konev threw back the German attack
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KONEV, IVAN S.1217 - KONEV, IVAN S.
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(1897 - 1973) Russian field marshal who headed the Kalinin Front and resisted the German assault on Moscow. Later, Konev threw back the German attack
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SUVOROV, ALEXANDER1218 - SUVOROV, ALEXANDER
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(1729 - 1800) Legendary Russian field marshal who vanquished several of Napoleon's generals. A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo., [n.p.], 1784, untranslated. Large...
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VISHINSKY, ANDRE YANUARIEVICH1219 - VISHINSKY, ANDRE YANUARIEVICH
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(1883 - 1954) Soviet general, the highest ranking general under Stalin, he helped organize Stalin's purges and served as the chief Soviet prosec...
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VANDAMME, DOMINIQUE JOSPEH RENE1220 - VANDAMME, DOMINIQUE JOSPEH RENE
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(1770 - 1830) French general in the Napoleonic Wars, he was instrumental in important battles such as Austerlitz, Wagram and Hamburg. Rare L.S. 1p. 4
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ROMMEL, ERWIN J.1221 - ROMMEL, ERWIN J.
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(1891 - 1944) German field marshal whose Afrika Corps threw back repeated British and American assaults in North Africa, later he defended Normandy a
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BEST, WERNER1222 - BEST, WERNER
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(1903 - 1989) Nazi commissioner of occupied Denmark who adroitly avoided carrying out the Final Solution in that country by prohibiting Nazi troops fr
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HIMMLER, HEINRICH1223 - HIMMLER, HEINRICH
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(1900 - 1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of extermination ca...
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HIMMLER, HEINRICH1224 - HIMMLER, HEINRICH
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(1900 - 1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of extermination ca...
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HIMMLER, HEINRICH1225 - HIMMLER, HEINRICH
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(1900 - 1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of extermination ca...
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SCHACHT, HJALMAR1226 - SCHACHT, HJALMAR
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(1877 - 1970) German financier and banker who engineered the rearmament of Germany. Broke with Hitler and joined the resistance when Germany went to
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(IRON CROSS FIRST CLASS MEDAL AND ARCHIVE)1227 - (IRON CROSS FIRST CLASS MEDAL AND ARCHIVE)
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Iron Cross, First Class with pin back and presentation case, awarded to Paul Schiefelbein in Berlin on Oct. 10, 1924. Accompanying the medal is the aw
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(AUTHENTIC JEWISH STAR)1228 - (AUTHENTIC JEWISH STAR)
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"An authentic cloth Star of David from the Holocaust, which was worn on the outerwear by Jews in order to make them more easily identifiable to...
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(S.S. ST. LOUIS INCIDENT)1229 - (S.S. ST. LOUIS INCIDENT)
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"An unusual relic, being a menu from the Jewish refugee ship the S.S. St. Louis, printed in both German and English, dated July of 1938. On M...
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(BUCHENWALD AND NAZI WAR CRIMINALS)1230 - (BUCHENWALD AND NAZI WAR CRIMINALS)
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"A most important collection of over 200 signatures of Buchenwald administrators, staff members, generals and top army officers captured by uni...
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(DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP LETTERS)1231 - (DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP LETTERS)
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"An interesting group of three letters, each over 3pp. 8vo., on official Dachau Concentration Camp stationery, written by Aubau Natenek, prison...
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(LITTMANNSTATT CAMP MONEY)1232 - (LITTMANNSTATT CAMP MONEY)
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"An uncommon group of three pieces of currency issued in the Jewish ghetto of Littmannstatt, all bearing the Star of David and Menorah, issued ...
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(NAZI SLAVE LABOR IDENTITY CARD)1233 - (NAZI SLAVE LABOR IDENTITY CARD)
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A Nazi-issued work permit given to an ""ostarbeiterin"", or a slave worker imported from the east, 4pp. 12mo., [n.p.], May 11, 1...
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(HENRY FORD ANTISEMITIC PUBLICATION)1234 - (HENRY FORD ANTISEMITIC PUBLICATION)
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"Henry Ford's anti-Semitic book The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem (Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn Publishing Nov. 1920)...
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(ETERNAL JEW COMMEMORATIVE POSTCARD)1235 - (ETERNAL JEW COMMEMORATIVE POSTCARD)
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"A color postcard advertising the showing of the anti-Semitic exhibit ""The Eternal Jew"" and bearing the infamous caricatu...
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(HENRY FORD`S THE INTERNATIONAL JEW)1236 - (HENRY FORD`S THE INTERNATIONAL JEW)
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Rare printing, a 16pp. 12mo. outline of Ford's anti-Semitic tract The International Jew, reissued later by the Christian Nationalist Crusade in ...
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(BROOKLYN, N.Y. HITLER YOUTH ANTISEMITIC PAMPHLET)1237 - (BROOKLYN, N.Y. HITLER YOUTH ANTISEMITIC PAMPHLET)
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"A most unusual anti-Semitic book ""Der Madelshaft"", 32pp. 8vo., Berlin, 1937, in German, printed for the benefit of the ...
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(RENOWNED AVIATORS)1238 - (RENOWNED AVIATORS)
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An excellent pair of signed posters, each 26"" x 7 1/2"", bearing the color portraits, names, specific aircraft and pencil signa...
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(MILITARY AVIATORS)1239 - (MILITARY AVIATORS)
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A fine grouping of 16 S.P.'s, each 8"" x 10"" b/w, includes four Flying Tigers, JIM SWETT, WALTER KRUPINSKI, GUNTHER RALL, H...
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(PEARL HARBOR)1240 - (PEARL HARBOR)
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A newspaper account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as reported in the Boston Traveler, Boston, Dec. 8, 1941, 41 pp. folio. In this "&q...
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(WAR OF 1812)1241 - (WAR OF 1812)
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JERIMIAH BROWN HOWELL (1771 - 1822) Democratic-republican Senator from Rhode Island. Fine content A.L.S. 3pp. 4to., Washington, May 12, 1812 to James
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(MEXICAN WAR)1242 - (MEXICAN WAR)
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"Lot of three letters and documents relative the American military occupation of Vera Cruz in 1847 including an L.S. of Col H.G. WILSON as Gov...
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(ANTI-VIENTAM WAR PLACARD)1242A - (ANTI-VIENTAM WAR PLACARD)
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"An interesting piece, a one color printed poster measuring approximately 16"" x 20"" announcing a march in Washington to u...
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EDISON, THOMAS A.1243 - EDISON, THOMAS A.
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(1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the greatest invento
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EDISON, THOMAS A.1244 - EDISON, THOMAS A.
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(1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the greatest invento
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EDISON, THOMAS A.1245 - EDISON, THOMAS A.
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(1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the greatest invento
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ADAMS, ISAAC1246 - ADAMS, ISAAC
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(1802 - 1883) American printing pioneer who with his brother Seth developed a mechanical press capable of printing large sheets, especially suitable
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BARROW, JOHN1247 - BARROW, JOHN
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(1764 - 1848) Founder of the Royal Geographical Society and promoter of the arctic expeditions of Franklin and Ross. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Admiralty, Dec.
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