RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring The Founding Fathers

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Beginning with a selection of fantastic early American history—the Founding Fathers and Revolutionary War—RR Auction’s July Fine Autograph and Artifact sale boasts over 1,000 lots. Top items include a 1776 autograph letter by General George Washington, a document from rare Declaration signer George Taylor, a book from the personal library of Thomas Jefferson, and a manuscript by John Jay, tracking claims by New York’s Loyalists. An additional special highlight of the auction is an exceedingly rare autograph letter by Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, dated 1543. Other lots of significance are letters by Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Horatio Nelson, Lord Byron, and Barack Obama. 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 July 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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Albert Camus601 - Albert Camus
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ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, Nouvelle Revue Francaise letterhead, January 5. [no year]. Untranslated letter written from Cabris, Alpes Mariti
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Lord Byron602 - Lord Byron
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LS in Italian, signed “N. B.,” one page, 8 x 9.75, July 12, 1823. Written in the hand of Count Pietro Gamba, Byron's secretary and the brother o...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens603 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Signed book collection: The Writings of Mark Twain, including 24 of 25 volumes. Author's Edition de Luxe, numbered 69/620. London: Chatto & ...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens604 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Superb 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Clemens seated at a small desk, by Wm. Rutherford of Bath, NY. Reverse is imprinted with the photographer...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Charles L. Dodgson605 - Charles L. Dodgson
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ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” one page, 4.75 x 6.25, June 22, 1892. Written from Christ Church, Oxford, a letter to Mrs. Mallalieu, in full: "Tha...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle606 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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Unique and playful double fountain pen signature, "How I ought to graph, Arthur Conan Doyle, How I do graph, Arthur Conan Doyle,” on an off-whi...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald607 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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ANS, one page, 5 x 5.5, September 16, 1922. Wonderful note from Fitzgerald, in full: "An autograph for Edward LeBaron Howard, from one who beco...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Gustave Flaubert608 - Gustave Flaubert
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ALS in French, signed “Gu. Flaubert,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, [dated January 4, 1865, in the hand of Caroline Commanville, his literary executor]. Lett
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Stefan George609 - Stefan George
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German symbolist poet (1868–1933) and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, and Charles Baudelaire. ALS in German, signed “St. G.,” on
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Maxim Gorky610 - Maxim Gorky
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Important Russian writer (1868–1936), who was a founder of the socialist realism literary method. Extraordinary matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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