RR Auction: August 2016 Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction

ALS signed “A. Burr,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, August 16, [no year, but circa 1810]. Letter to Thomas Smith, confirming receipt of papers from Smi

American planter and second governor of Maryland (1745—1819) who worked closely with the founding fathers during the nation’s birth, and served as a d

An interesting and important archive of 14 seventeenth-century documents from Plymouth , Massachusetts. Documents range in date from 1669–17

English-born Quaker (1644–1718) and founder of the colony that became the state of Pennsylvania. Vellum manuscript DS, signed “Wm. Penn,” one page, 16

Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches (1869-1940). Rare color 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Union Station in Washington D.C.,

Wonderful set of four TLSs signed in pencil, each one page, three measure 7.25 x 10.5 and one 6.75 x 11.75, dated between 1938 and 1949. All four lett

Signed book: The Story of My Life. Later printing. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25, 441 pages. Signed on the half-title page i...

Signed book: The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom. Limited first edition, numbered 236/425. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. Hardcover with sl

Exceptional TLS as president signed “N. Mandela,” three pages, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, April 29, 1999. Letter to Helen Suzman, in part: “Wit

Signed book: One Step Behind. First edition. Rivonia, South Africa: Zebra Press, 2000. Paperback, 5.75 x 9, 208 pages. Signed and inscribed on the hal

Superb color satin-finish 14 x 9 photo of the justice of the Supreme Court affixed to its original 18 x 14 mount, signed on the mount in ink by Warren

ALS signed “J. Marshall,” one page, 7.25 x 8.75, April 18, 1798. Letter to James H. Hooe, a prominent Virginia landowner and Washington family acquain

ALS signed “Paul,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 6.75, personal letterhead, August 14, 1911. The 18-year-old Getty writes a letter to his fa

German steel manufacturer (1854–1902) who took over leadership of the family business in 1887. Untranslated TLS in German, signed “F. A. Krupp,” four

Partly-printed DS, signed “Henry Wells” and “Wm. G. Fargo,” one page, 12 x 8.5, May 1, 1866. Handsomely engraved certificate for three shares of capit

Exceptional ALS, one page, 5.25 x 7.5, black-bordered letterhead, September 22, 1881. Addressed to the Executive Mansion, a letter to J. Stanley Brown

Extremely bold ink signature, “Charles Darwin, July 6th 1870,” on an off-white 3.25 x 5.5 sheet of Down, Beckenham, Kent letterhead. In very good to f

Superlative matte-finish 10.5 x 15.5 bust-length portrait of Edison in a suit and bow tie, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To George F. Morriso

Edison Botanic Research Corporation business check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Edison, “Thos. A. Edison,” payable to Jerome Os

Classic bold ink signature, “Thomas A. Edison,” on an off-white 3 x 2.25 card. Attractively double-matted and framed to an overall size of 14 x 16. In