RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
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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Claude Debussy757 - Claude Debussy
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Desirable ALS in French, one page, 4.5 x 5.25, personal letterhead, September 1, 1910. Letter to a gentleman in which Debussy indicates that he is onl
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Edvard Grieg758 - Edvard Grieg
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Important Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907) whose works, often with a strong nationalistic flavor, include such repertory staples as the inci
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Gustav Mahler759 - Gustav Mahler
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Handwritten musical manuscript, unsigned, one page, 10.5 x 13.5, no date but circa 1907. A sketch leaf from Mahler’s adaptation of Carl Maria von Webe
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy760 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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Fantastic ADS in French, one page, 7.5 x 10, May 26, 1845. Superlative autograph document in which Mendelssohn sells “the property of my Oeuvre 67 (Bo
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Niccolo Paganini762 - Niccolo Paganini
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ALS in Italian, signed “N. Paganini,” one page both sides, 8.75 x 10.25, July 1, 1828. Letter to a Genoa-born ship owner and merchant Agostino Samengo
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Giacomo Puccini763 - Giacomo Puccini
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Boldly penned ALS in French, one page, 5 x 5.5, June 5, 1898. Letter to “Cher maitre,” identified at the top in pencil as the accomplished composer Ju
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Sergei Rachmaninoff764 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
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TLS, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, July 22, 1922. Letter to Berthold Neuer at the Knabe Piano Company. In part: “Even when I am in Europe you have no respite f
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Maurice Ravel765 - Maurice Ravel
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Rare pearl-finish 5.5 x 7.5 photo of sculptor Leon Leyritz’s Art Deco bust of Ravel, signed and inscribed in fountain pen to a flautist in the Clevela
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Maurice Ravel766 - Maurice Ravel
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Stunning autograph musical manuscript signed “Maurice Ravel,” one page, 10.5 x 13.75, no date. Ravel pens the complete theme of his most famous work,
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Arnold Schonberg767 - Arnold Schonberg
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Austrian-born composer (1874–1951) whose development of the ‘twelve-tone’ system proved to be one of the most far-reaching innovations in the history
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Robert Schumann768 - Robert Schumann
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Highly important German composer and pianist (1810–1856) whose distinctively lyrical musical language, especially evident in his keyboard works and ar
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Gaspare Spontini769 - Gaspare Spontini
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Highly desirable AMQS on an off-white 10 x 6.75 sheet of musical manuscript paper, signed at the bottom in black ink, “Spontini, 6 Mai 1845, Paris.” S
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Johann Strauss II770 - Johann Strauss II
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Partly-printed DS, signed “Johann Strauss,” one page, 11.5 x 4.5, September 9, 1875. A payment of 450 marks to August Cranz, who was the original publ
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Igor Stravinsky771 - Igor Stravinsky
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ALS in French, signed “Stravinsky,” one page both sides, 4 x 2.75, January 2, 1920. Letter to Pierre Montreux and his wife in Paris, two of his friend
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Richard Wagner772 - Richard Wagner
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Magnificent 2.25 x 3.75 carte-de-visite portrait of the composer in profile, signed vertically on the right side in bold black ink, “Richard Wagner.”
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Richard Wagner773 - Richard Wagner
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Hand-corrected proof in German, three adjoining pages, 5.75 x 13, November 9, 1872, with an ANS signed “RW” affixed at the conclusion. The galley proo
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Carl Maria von Weber774 - Carl Maria von Weber
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German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist, and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school (1786–1826). Autograph music
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Alexander von Zemlinsky775 - Alexander von Zemlinsky
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Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (1871-1942). TLS in German, one page, 8.75 x 11, Society for Private Musical Performances letterhead, Januar
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Julius Benedict776 - Julius Benedict
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German-born composer and conductor (1804–1885). ALS in German, one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, April 29, 1844. Untranslated letter as conductor of the
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Hector Berlioz777 - Hector Berlioz
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Partial handwritten letter in French, lacking the final leaf with the signature, one page, 5.25 x 7.5, no date [but circa 1858]. Letter to “Mr. Mory,”
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