Historical Documents

GOLDA MEIR (1898-1978) Prime Minister of Israel. Signed card, as Prime Minister. VG. $100-150

ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA (1794-1876) Mexican military leader and President; victorious at Battle of the Alamo; defeated and taken prisoner by Sam H

ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA LS, as President of Mexico, signed "A L Sta Anna", 1p, Oct 14, 1847, 4to, untranslated. Marginal chipping, wri...

BENITO JUAREZ (1806-72) Mexican statesman & national hero; exiled by Santa Anna, but returning to lead revolution against him; ended French domi...

(Kamehameha III) King of Hawaiian Islands (1825-54); secured from U.S. (1842) and from Great Britain (1843), recognition of independence of Hawaii. Br

CHIANG KAI-SHEK (1887-1975) Chinese general & statesman. SP, b/w, 3 1/2"X5 1/2", smiling portrait. Signed in Chinese. VG. $200-300

RAUL CASTRO Cuban military leader; brother of Fidel, and possible successor. DS, as Minister of Defense, 2pp, Sept 13, 1963, 4to, Havana, an honorary

NICHOLAS II (1868-1918) Last Czar of Russia; shot with his entire family after the revolution. Letter of State, signed as Czar, 2pp, Feb 13, 1913, fol

NICHOLAS II DS, as Czar, 1p, Nov 23, 1906, folio, granting the award of Saint Stanislav 2nd Degree to Prussian Major Hermann Moedebeck, for his &quo...

NICHOLAS II DS, as Czar, 4pp , Jan 1, 1908, folio, granting several awards, including the Saint Stanislav 1st Class to the Secretary of the Duma (Cong

GRIGORI RASPUTIN (1872-1916) Russian peasant monk and court favorite who wielded a strange power over Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra; preached

CATHERINE II (1729-96) Empress of Russia (1762-96), known as "Catherine the Great"; greatly expanded the domain of the Russian Empire. DS,...

PAUL I (1754-1801) Czar of Russia (1796-1801), son of Catherine the Great; hated by his people for his cruelty and manaiacal obsession with a military

NICHOLAS I (1796-1855) Czar of Russia. DS, as Czar, 1 1/2pp (single sheet), April 16, 1832, legal folio, St Petersburg, granting the Second Rate Order

MARIA FEDEROVNA Russian Empress, wife of Czar Paul I (1754-1801). LS, from tutelar Ivan Savrasov, 1p, 1827, 4to, re activities in a special educationa

ALEXANDER I (1777-1825) Czar of Russia, defeated Napoleon. DS, as Czar, 1 1/2pp, Aug 30, 1825, legal folio, granting awards, Anna 2nd Class with Diamo

ALEXANDER II (1818-81) Emperor of Russia (1855-81); greatest achievement was probably the emancipation of the serfs (1861); made important contributio

LEON TROTSKY (1879-1940) Russian Communist leader; organized the Red Army; expelled from the Soviet Union after Stalin came to power. Typed DS, as hea

LEON TROTSKY DS, signed in light purple pencil, 1p, 1923, oblong 8vo, to the secretariate of air forces, re a special detachment of the air force, wit

PYOTR A KROPOTKIN (1842-1921) Russian anarchist and philosopher; became foremost leader and theorist of anarchist movement; developed theory of &quo...