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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CASTRO, FIDEL301 - CASTRO, FIDEL
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(b. 1927) Cuban revolutionary who led the guerilla campaign against Batista, overthrowing the dictator and replacing him with the first communist gov
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GUEVARA, ERNESTO ""CHE""302 - GUEVARA, ERNESTO ""CHE""
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(1928 - 1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, allied with Fidel and Raul Castro in their successful revolutionary activities, h
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HITLER, ADOLF303 - HITLER, ADOLF
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(1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa a...
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CATHERINE II304 - CATHERINE II
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(1762 - 1796) ""Catherine The Great"", Czarina of Russia who murdered her husband Peter III and proclaimed herself Czarina (176...
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TROTSKY, LEON305 - TROTSKY, LEON
Alexander Autographs
(1879 - 1940) Russian Communist leader who with Lenin organized the Bolshevik October Revolution, defeated by Stalin in their struggle for control of
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MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAV M.306 - MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAV M.
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(1890 - 1986) Soviet politician, a staunch supporter of Stalin who served as Prime Minister and later as Stalin's commissar of foreign affairs,...
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BERIA, LAVRENTY PAVLOVICH307 - BERIA, LAVRENTY PAVLOVICH
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(1899 - 1953) Russian politician, the dreaded head of Stalin's security agency, the NKVD, who oversaw the Great Purge of 1934-38 and ordered th...
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CHARLES I308 - CHARLES I
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(1600 - 1649) King of England and Ireland, convicted of treason and executed. Rare manuscript D.S. ""Charles P"" as Prince of Wa...
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CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.309 - CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.
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(1874 - 1965) British Prime Minister who led England through the Blitz and orchestrated the British liberation of occupied Europe and Germany. Church
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CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.310 - CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.
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(1874 - 1965) British Prime Minister who led England through the Blitz and orchestrated the British liberation of occupied Europe and Germany. Church
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PRINCE CHARLES AND PRINCESS DIANA311 - PRINCE CHARLES AND PRINCESS DIANA
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Excellent Christmas card signed by both Prince Charles and Princess Diana and sent to Diana's grandmother, 10 1/2"" x 7 1/4""...
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HERZL, THEODORE312 - HERZL, THEODORE
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(1860 - 1904) Hungarian Jew, founder of modern Zionism. Sent to Paris as a correspondent, he reported on the Dreyfus affair and was soon appalled by
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HERZL, THEODORE313 - HERZL, THEODORE
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(1860 - 1904) Hungarian Jew, founder of modern Zionism. Sent to Paris as a correspondent, he reported on the Dreyfus affair and was soon appalled by
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BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON314 - BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON
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(1769 - 1821) The ""Little Corporal"" whose brilliance in the field of battle and as Emperor of France has made him perhaps the ...
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BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON315 - BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON
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(1769 - 1821) The ""Little Corporal"" whose brilliance in the field of battle and as Emperor of France has made him perhaps the ...
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PONIATOWSKI, PRINCE JOZEF316 - PONIATOWSKI, PRINCE JOZEF
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(1763 - 1813) French marshal born to a Polish nobility, led forces in Napoleon's ill-fated Russian campaign and in the assault on Moscow, wound...
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MCAULIFFE, ANTHONY317 - MCAULIFFE, ANTHONY
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(1898 - 1975) American Army general who held Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, remembered for his reply to a German surrender ultimatum, &qu...
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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(MCAULIFFE, ANTHONY)318 - (MCAULIFFE, ANTHONY)
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(1898 - 1975) American Army general who held Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, remembered for his reply to a German surrender ultimatum, &qu...
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MCAULIFFE, ANTHONY319 - MCAULIFFE, ANTHONY
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(1898 - 1975) American Army general who held Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, remembered for his reply to a German surrender ultimatum, &qu...
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(WORLD WAR I DIARY)320 - (WORLD WAR I DIARY)
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"A fine content diary of Sgt. George E. Williams of the 26th. Engineers, his notes in a diary published especially for members of the Allied Ex...
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AUDIE MURPHY`S ARMY RELIEF HAT321 - AUDIE MURPHY`S ARMY RELIEF HAT
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AUDIE L. MURPHY (1924 - 1971) Most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II. Among his 33 awards and decorations was the Medal of Honor, also r
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AUDIE MURPHY`S COMBAT INFANTRYMAN`S MEDAL322 - AUDIE MURPHY`S COMBAT INFANTRYMAN`S MEDAL
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AUDIE L. MURPHY (1924 - 1971) Most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II. Among his 33 awards and decorations was the Medal of Honor, also r
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GENERAL WALTER C. SHORT`S DOG TAG323 - GENERAL WALTER C. SHORT`S DOG TAG
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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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BORMANN, MARTIN324 - BORMANN, MARTIN
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(1900 - 1973?) Chief deputy to Rudolph Hess, and upon Hess' bizarre mission to Great Britain, became head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. His ade...
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EICHMANN, ADOLF325 - EICHMANN, ADOLF
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(1906 - 1962) Nazi military officer charged by Hitler with the destruction of the Jewish race, present at the Wannsee Conference where the "&q...
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EICHMANN, ADOLF326 - EICHMANN, ADOLF
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(1906 - 1962) Nazi military officer charged by Hitler with the destruction of the Jewish race, present at the Wannsee Conference where the "&q...
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HITLER, ADOLF327 - HITLER, ADOLF
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(1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa a...
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YAMASHITA, TOMOYULI328 - YAMASHITA, TOMOYULI
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(1885 - 1946) Japanese general of World War II, the ""Tiger of Malaysia"" led forces in the capture of Malaya and Singapore and...
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(JAPANESE INTERNMENT POSTER)329 - (JAPANESE INTERNMENT POSTER)
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"A rare relic from one of the darker periods in our nation's history, a 13"" x 22"" printed broadside from the Western ...
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(OAK LEAF KNIGHTS CROSS WINNERS)330 - (OAK LEAF KNIGHTS CROSS WINNERS)
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An exceptionally rare, extraordinary collection of signed biographies with photos of various Knights Cross with Oak Leaves recipients, contained withi
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(NAZI LEADERS)331 - (NAZI LEADERS)
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"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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(VINTAGE SOVIET SPY CAMERA)332 - (VINTAGE SOVIET SPY CAMERA)
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"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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EINSTEIN, ALBERT333 - EINSTEIN, ALBERT
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(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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EDISON, THOMAS A.334 - 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.335 - 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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FREUD, SIGMUND336 - FREUD, SIGMUND
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(1856 - 1939) Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, he theorized that repressed and forgotten impressions underlie all abnormal men
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CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON338 - CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON
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(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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EDISON, THOMAS A.339 - 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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JUNG, CARL G.340 - JUNG, CARL G.
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(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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LUMIERE, AUGUSTE341 - LUMIERE, AUGUSTE
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(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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SCHWEITZER, ALBERT342 - SCHWEITZER, ALBERT
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(1875 - 1965) French physician and theologian, a Nobel Prize winner and specialist in tropical medicine. Good, late A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo., Lambarene, Sept
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(FATHERS OF THE SOVIET ATOMIC BOMB PROGRAM)343 - (FATHERS OF THE SOVIET ATOMIC BOMB PROGRAM)
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An important and rare collection of five documents signed by leaders of the Soviet atomic bomb program, with some reference to the securing of funds a
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LINDBERGH, CHARLES A.344 - LINDBERGH, CHARLES A.
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(1902 - 1974) American aviator who, in his ""Spirit of St. Louis"", was the first to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocea...
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WRIGHT, ORVILLE345 - WRIGHT, ORVILLE
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(1871 - 1948) American inventor and a pioneer of flight, Wright, with his brother Wilbur, made the first successful flight of a motor-driven airplane
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EARHART, AMELIA346 - EARHART, AMELIA
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(1897 - 1937) American aviator, the first woman to cross the Atlantic, first solo across the Atlantic and first Hawaii-Mainland solo; lost in an arou
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BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS346A - BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS
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(1821 - 1890) British explorer who entered the forbidden city of Harer, explored Somaliland and the Lake Tanganyika region, described Brigham Young a
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(VIN FIZ RELIC - FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT)347 - (VIN FIZ RELIC - FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT)
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An exciting and historic aviation relic, a 2"" x 2"" section of the wing fabric of the Wright EX biplane ""Vin Fiz&quo...
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(APOLLO 11 SIGNED ""INSURANCE"" COVER)348 - (APOLLO 11 SIGNED ""INSURANCE"" COVER)
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Exceedingly rare commemorative postal cover signed by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, NEIL ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL COLLINS and EDWIN ""BUZZ&quo...
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(ASTRONAUT SIGNED SPACE TRAVEL BOOK)349 - (ASTRONAUT SIGNED SPACE TRAVEL BOOK)
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A fantastic signed book, Space Travel, World Book, Chicago, 1990, with the signatures of 22 astronauts, most of whom have added their various missions
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MOONWALKERS SIGNED PHOTO COLLECTION350 - MOONWALKERS SIGNED PHOTO COLLECTION
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A great lot of twelve individually-signed photographs of American astronauts who walked upon the Moon, all but one being portraits of the particular a
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