RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

American clockmaker (1785–1859). Ink signature, “Seth Thomas,” on the reverse of a 4.5 x 3 Rockhill & Wilson advertising card. A vertical bend t...

English mathematician and astronomer (1801–1892) who established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. ALS signed “G. B. Airy,” one page bo

Influential French physicist (1775–1836) who pioneered the discovery and understanding of electromagnetism; a unit of electric current was named in hi

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 in Danish, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, Carlsberg letterhead, September 25, 1962. Letter to Kay Holkenfeldt declining to write a tribute of the Danish a

Noted Scottish surgeon and physiologist (1774–1842) who described such disorders as Bell’s palsy and who wrote prolifically on human anatomy and neuro

LS signed “Ch. Darwin,” five pages on three sheets, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, April 4, 1866. Letter to Rudolf Suchsland, the son of German publisher

ALS signed with his prominent ‘umbrella’ signature, “Thomas A. Edison,” one page, 5 x 8, October 26, 1881. Letter to Edward W. Bok, in full: “I take p

Partly-printed DS, signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page, 8 x 3.5, February 19, 1917. Promissory note in which Edison promises to pay “to the order of Ni

Partly-printed DS, signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page, 15 x 8, August 19, 1899. Stock certificate issued to Edison for one hundred shares of capital s

Important theoretical physicist (1880–1953) who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanic

ALS in German, signed “Einstein,” one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.75, September 19, 1932. Letter to his longtime friend Wander Johannes de Haas, a Germ

TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.25 x 9.75, November 29, 1921. Letter to the publisher Ulrico Hoepli declining a request for an endors

British physicist and chemist (1791–1867) best known for his development of the first dynamo and the discovery of electromagnetic induction. ALS signe

Distinguished matte-finish 7 x 9.25 photo of Ford in a handsome suit and tie, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Helen Hayes, from Henry Ford.”

Uncommon TLS, one page, 6 x 8, Ford Motor Company letterhead, August 1, 1939. Letter congratulating dealer Floyd Ostrom for reaching an impressive goa

Russian physicist (1908–1968) who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into ‘superfluidity.’ Uncommon 5 x 6.75 cardstock head-and-shou

German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (1742–1799) known for his studies in experimental physics and posthumously published notebooks. ALS in Germ

Exceptional LS in Swedish, nine pages on five sheets, 8 x 12.75, August 19, 1743. Untranslated letter written on behalf of the “Consistorium Academicu

ALS signed “Sam’l F. B. Morse,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, August 8, 1854. Letter to prominent businessman Samuel Colgate. In part: “I write you once more