RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts Featuring Royalty

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RR Auction’s January Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is sure to impress, boasting over 850 items in a wide variety of genres. We open with a special ‘Royalty’ section, which spans over five hundred years of majestic material—from Spain’s Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella of the 1490s to Britain’s tragic Princess Diana of the 1990s. Our presidential section is similarly robust, highlighted by a Revolutionary War-dated letter by George Washington, a Congressional resolution to honor Ben Franklin signed by Thomas Jefferson, and a page from Theodore Roosevelt’s manuscript for The Winning of the West. Other great autographs in this sale include the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the economist Adam Smith, the abolitionist John Brown, the surrealist Rene Magritte, and many more. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in January 2018.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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A. A. Milne485 - A. A. Milne
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Archive containing one letter signed by A. A. Milne, plus 21 letters written and signed by his wife Daphne, all sent to their friends Vincent and Barb
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Charmian London486 - Charmian London
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Collection of five TLSs by Charmian London, totaling six pages, dated 1920–1922. All are to the psychic Margaret More Oliver, who attempted to pass of
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Jack London487 - Jack London
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Fascinating archive of correspondence between Jack London and his friend Spiro Orfans chronicling a complicated relationship over the course of six ye
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Vladimir Nabokov488 - Vladimir Nabokov
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TLS signed “Sincerely yours, Vladimir Nabokov,” one page on a self-contained 7.25 x 12 aerogramme letter, September 13, 1959. Letter to his French lit
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Eugene O’Neill489 - Eugene O’Neill
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The Commercial Trust Company bank check, 7 x 2.75, filled out and signed by O’Neill, "Eugene G. O'Neill," payable to Mrs. Eugene O'...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau490 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Important Swiss-French philosopher and writer (1712–1778) who held that the individual is essentially good but usually corrupted by society. Untransla
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery491 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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ALS in French, signed “Antoine,” three pages on two sheets, 8.5 x 10.75, Cafe de la Regence letterhead, no date but circa 1929. A love letter to his f
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Estimate : 7,000.00 - 9,000.00
 
 
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery492 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Unsigned technical sketch in pencil accomplished by Saint-Exupery on an off-white 11 x 8.5 sheet, featuring featuring various measurements and arrows,
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger493 - J. D. Salinger
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TLS signed “Jerry,” one page, 8.5 x 11, June 7, 1976. Letter to Joyce Miller, in full: "Years and years ago, I more or less swore off writing m...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger494 - J. D. Salinger
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ALS signed “Jerry,” one page, 8.5 x 11, postmarked May 21, 1950. Written from Westport, Connecticut, a letter to Joyce Miller, in full: "Just t...
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Estimate : 9,000.00 - 11,000.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre495 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Handwritten manuscript in French, unsigned, 11 pages, 8.25 x 10.5, no date. Sartre pens his thoughts on French Algeria, in part (translated): "...
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Estimate : 7,500.00 - 8,500.00
 
 
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George Bernard Shaw496 - George Bernard Shaw
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Questionnaire, signed at the conclusion, “’First serial right’ to International News Service, G. Bernard Shaw, 25 Jany 1948,” three pages on two sheet
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Friedrich von Schlegel497 - Friedrich von Schlegel
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German poet, critic, philologist, and scholar (1772–1829). ALS in French, signed “Schlegel, professeur de Cologne,” one page, 5 x 7.25, November 23, 1
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
 
 
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John Steinbeck498 - John Steinbeck
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Signed book: East of Eden. First edition, limited issue of 1500. NY: Viking Press, 1952. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 602 pages. Signed on the colophon in
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Leo Tolstoy499 - Leo Tolstoy
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Esteemed Russian writer (1828–1910) remembered for his epic realist novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Large and bold ink signature, in Cyrillic,
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Paul Verlaine500 - Paul Verlaine
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Unsigned handwritten quote in French by Paul Verlaine, one page, 4.25 x 5.5, no date. Verlaine pens a line from a French translation of Miguel de Cerv
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Voltaire501 - Voltaire
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Versatile French Enlightenment writer (1694–1778) best remembered for his satirical work Candide. ALS in French, signed “V,” one page, 4.75 x 7.25, No
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Edgar Wallace502 - Edgar Wallace
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British novelist, playwright, and journalist (1875–1932) who produced popular detective and suspense stories. Handwritten manuscript by Wallace, unsig
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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William Butler Yeats503 - William Butler Yeats
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Exceptionally clear vintage matte-finish 7.5 x 9.5 portrait of Yeats in a bust-length pose, signed in fountain pen, "W. B. Yeats." Archiva...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Margaret Atwood504 - Margaret Atwood
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Signed book: The Handmaid's Tale. First edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 311 pages. Signed on t...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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