RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

Color postcard depicting the Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., 5.5 x 3.5, signed in fountain pen, “Alexander Graham Bell.” Collector’s notation on the

TLS, one page, 8 x 10, personal Beinn Bhreagh letterhead, October 31, 1916. Letter to Professor W. M. Davis in Cambridge, presumably noted Harvard geo

Matte-finish 3 x 4.75 photo of Bohr, signed in the lower border in blue ink. In fine condition.

ALS signed “C. Darwin,” one page both sides, 5 x 7.75, June 1 [1844]. Letter to an unidentified gentleman, most likely entomologist Henry Denny. In fu

ALS, one page both sides, 6.25 x 8.5, March 6, 2002. Letter to a gentleman interested in tracing ancestry. In part: “Eventually it should be possible

Color postcard depicting Ilfracombe harbor, 5.5 x 3.5, nicely signed in fountain pen, “Thomas A Edison.” Collector’s notation to reverse indicates tha

German scientist and pioneer of chemotherapy (1854–1915) who was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1908. ALS in Ge

AQS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” dated October 2, 1954, written beneath a TLS sent to him by Pastor Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann, one page, 8.25 x 11.75

TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, July 15, 1954. Letter to representatives from the British pharmaceutical company Al

TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 6.75 x 9.25, blindstamped personal Princeton letterhead, July 12, 1953. Letter to H. M. Raphaelian. In full: “I th

Physician and scientist (1860–1904) awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903, best known for his pioneering use of phototherapy for

Scottish bacteriologist (1881–1955) who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his role in the discovery and isolation of penicillin. Extremely d

Uncommon matte-finish 5.5 x 3.5 postcard photo of Henry Ford whispering in Thomas Edison’s ear, signed in fountain pen by Ford. In fine condition. For

German theoretical physicist (1901–1976) awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of quantum mechanics. TLS in German, signed “Heisenb

LS in Italian, one page both sides, 8 x 11, August 11, 1631. Antonio del Turco, a goldsmith, writes to Florentine patrician Alessandro Caccini, reques

German nuclear physicist (1907–1973) who made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes and received the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with M

German medical scientist (1843–1910) regarded as the father of bacteriology. He isolated the tuberculosis bacillus and the anthrax virus, and received

German pharmacologist and psychobiologist (1873–1961) who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936. Untranslated ALS in German, s

Uncommon matte-finish 6.5 x 9 head-and-shoulders photo of the telecommunications innovator in formal attire, signed at the bottom in fountain pen, “Gu

Italian physicist (1841–1912) best known for inventing an improved form of direct-current electrical generator, or dynamo. Booklet entitled ‘Sopra Una