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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(NAZI LEADERS)331 - (NAZI LEADERS)
Alexander Autographs
"Unusual D.S. 2pp. 8vo., Munich, Feb. 10, 1936, a printed program for a concert given in honor of the 1936 Olympics, bearing a blind-embossed N...
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Estimate : 750.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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(VINTAGE SOVIET SPY CAMERA)332 - (VINTAGE SOVIET SPY CAMERA)
Alexander Autographs
"A scarce and intriguing relic, a miniature Soviet spy camera, ca. 1930s-1940s, measuring just 3"" x 2"", and featuring a s...
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Estimate : 750.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT333 - EINSTEIN, ALBERT
Alexander Autographs
(1879 - 1955) American physicist whose Theory of Relativity and studies of mass and energy relationships revolutionized the field of physics. T.L.S.
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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EDISON, THOMAS A.334 - EDISON, THOMAS A.
Alexander Autographs
(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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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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EDISON, THOMAS A.335 - EDISON, THOMAS A.
Alexander Autographs
(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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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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FREUD, SIGMUND336 - FREUD, SIGMUND
Alexander Autographs
(1856 - 1939) Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, he theorized that repressed and forgotten impressions underlie all abnormal men
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON338 - CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON
Alexander 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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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
 
 
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EDISON, THOMAS A.339 - EDISON, THOMAS A.
Alexander Autographs
(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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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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JUNG, CARL G.340 - JUNG, CARL G.
Alexander Autographs
(1875 - 1961) Swiss psychiatrist in association with Freud, a founder of analytic psychology who developed theories of the collective unconscious and
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Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
 
 
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LUMIERE, AUGUSTE341 - LUMIERE, AUGUSTE
Alexander Autographs
(1862 - 1954) French motion picture pioneer and co-inventor with his brother of the Lumiere process of color photography and the Cinematographe, an e
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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