RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

Signed book: Etudes sur les Maladies des Vers a Soie [Studies on Diseases of Silk Worms]. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1870. Softcover, 6.25 x 9.5, 322 pa

ANS in French, signed “L. P.,” one page on a 3 x 2 card, no date. Brief note, in full (translated): "Thank you. I do not see that too many repl...

Czech anatomist and physiologist (1787–1869) who was one of the most well-known scientists of his time. Partly-printed DS in Czech, signed “Dr. J. Pur

ALS in German, signed “A. Schweitzer,” one onionskin page, 8.5 x 11, October 20, 1954. Letter to Dr. Austin Smith at the Journal of the American Medic

ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, personal letterhead, June 10, 1912. Letter to a fellow doctor, in full (translated): "Sim...

ANS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 5.25 x 3.5, personal letterhead, March 5, 1930. Note on a “Prof. Dr. Freud” card featuring the address of his

French naturalist, mathematician, and author (1707–1788). Vellum manuscript DS in French, signed “Buffon,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.5 x 1

Scottish moral professor and a respected pioneer of political economy (1723–1790) whose magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, is considered the first mo

Jewish American educator and philanthropist (1781–1869). Corn Exchange Bank check, 6.75 x 2.5, filled out in another hand, payable to Rebecca Gratz fo

Born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari (1765-1846), he served as pope from 1831 to 1846. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he opposed democratic a