RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring WWII

Scarce manuscript DS, signed “Will Hooper, DAR,” one page both sides, 7 x 11.75, September 5, 1764. Legal document from the Salisbury District of Nort

Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island (1707-1785) who served as the colony's governor in the 1750s and 1760s. Manuscript D...

Revolutionary War-dated partly-printed third-person ADS, signed “Rob. Treat Paine,” one page, 10.75 x 17.5, July 1780. Writ filled out by "Robe...

Uncommon manuscript DS, signed “Benj'n Rush,” one page, 9.25 x 15.5, October 10, 1793. A petition to the "President & Directors of the ...

ALS signed “H. Clay,” one page, 8 x 10, October 26, 1826. Letter to Dr. Lyons, in part: “I have communicated to the President the wish expressed in yo

American politician and reformer in Rhode Island (1905–1854) best known for leading the Dorr Rebellion in 1841–42. ALS signed “T. W. Dorr, for State C

Wife (1757–1854) of founding father Alexander Hamilton, who became co-founder and deputy director of the first private orphanage in New York City. She

Glossy 10 x 8 photo Robert and Ethel Kennedy walking with the family dog and their eight children, signed in black felt tip, "Robert F. Kennedy...

Father (1889–1980) of Jewish World War II diarist Anne Frank, and the only member of his family to survive the concentration camps. Two items: a gloss

Exceptional vintage matte-finish 9.25 x 12.75 studio portrait of Helen Keller in a lovely profile pose, signed and inscribed in the lower border in pe

Color limited edition 19.75 x 26 artist's proof lithograph entitled 'The Window' from Mandela's 'My Robben Island' suite, nu...

Significant TLS signed “N. Mandela,” one page, 8.25 x 11.75, personal letterhead, February 2, 2007. Letter on the impact and influence of Mohandas Gan

Signed book: Long Walk to Freedom. Later printing. South Africa: Macdonald Purnell, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 630 pages. Signed and

Beautiful limited edition set of six small-format lithographs entitled ‘The Struggle Series,’ numbered 176/950, each measuring 5.75 x 8.25, signed on

Magnificent color glossy 10 x 15 official portrait of the important South African president, neatly signed in white ink during his term in office, &...

American educator (1900-1970) who defied state law in Tennessee by teaching the theory of evolution, precipitating the famous 'Monkey Trial'...

Official color matte-finish 13.75 x 9 photo of the Burger Court affixed to its original 17.5 x 13.5 mount, signed on the mount in ink by all nine Supr

Exceptional vintage matte-finish 16 x 11 group portrait of the Hughes Court by the Harris & Ewing Studio, signed in the lower border in fountain...

TLS signed “Wm. H. Davidson,” one page, 8.5 x 7.25, Harley-Davidson Motor Co. letterhead, April 17, 1962. Letter to Horace E. Fritz, in full: "...

Group lot of material from publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst, consisting of three pages of handwritten notes and a carbon copy of an eight-pag

Sought-after partly-printed DS, signed “Jno. D. Rockfeller,” one page, 16 x 7.75, January 22, 1885. Stock certificate for one hundred shares in the St

French physicist (1859–1906), best known for his pioneering investigation of radioactivity, who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife,

Partial ALS signed “C. Darwin,” one page, 7 x 4.25, no date but circa 1880. The close of a letter in which Darwin requests three publications, in full

TLS signed “Thos. A Edison,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, November 17, 1922. Letter to one of his salesmen, Hal Starrett, in full: "...

Unusual assortment of pencil instructions written by Thomas Edison, signed “E,” “Edison,” and “TAE,” five pages, 5 x 8, no date. This grouping of note

DS, signed "Thos. A. Edison," one page, 8 x 11, no date. The concluding page from the Minutes Book for a company board meeting, which affi...

Edison Botanic Research Corporation check, 8.5 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed with his 'umbrella' signature by Edison, "Tho...

ANS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 4.5 x 6.75, no date. Below a printed facsimile poem celebrating his fiftieth birthday (dated March 14, 1929), Eins

TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blind-stamped Princeton letterhead, February 5, 1939. Letter to noted physician and medical w

Fountain pen signatures, "Edwin Hubble" and "Grace Hubble," on an off-white 8 x 10.26 guestbook page kept by Natalie Hays Hammon...

German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859) who wrote Kosmos, a massive five-volume study which attempted to unify the various branches of man's ...

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1838–1916) who, as a result of his research into the effects of supersonic velocity, lent his name to the ratio of

Brilliant American physicist (1904–1967) who directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and who spearheaded the Manhattan Project, leading

Archive of sixteen letters from Dr. George Papanicolaou to veterinarian, dog breeder, and eugenicist Leon Whitney, comprising thirteen TLSs and three

German doctor and politician (1821–1902), dubbed the 'Father of Pathology,' who founded the field of social medicine. ALS in German, one pag...

Italian Pope (1881–1963), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who ascended the papal throne in 1958 and served until his death. As the guiding force behind

Attractive hand-illuminated apostolic benediction, signed "Pius PP XI, Peramanter in Domino," one page, 10.25 x 14.5, November 19, 1930. A...

DS in Spanish, one page, 8.5 x 13, October 2, 1959. Ministerial decree No. 2077, which reads (translated): "The city of Havana has been chosen ...

British politician (1869–1940) who served as prime minister from 1937 to 1940, and is remembered for his foreign policy of appeasement toward Nazi Ger

Lengthy typed working manuscript, unsigned, twenty-four lightweight carbon pages, 7.5 x 9.5, no date but circa March 1944. Manuscript draft of an impo

Amazing vintage matte-finish 9 x 11 three-quarter-length portrait of the seated Churchill taken in 1920 by Edward Russell of Russell & Sons, aff...

British politician (1718–1792) who held a number of important positions, but remains best known as the namesake of the sandwich. ALS signed “Sandwich,

ALS, one page, 6.75 x 8.5, December 19, 1948. Letter of endorsement written while Nehru was interim Prime Minister and deeply involved in trying to cr

Empress of Russia (1872–1918) as the spouse of Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Russian Empire, from their marriage on November 26, 1894 until his f

Dual-sided manuscript DS, signed twice “George R.,” one page, 11.75 x 18.75, December 30, 1763. Warrant issued to Henry Lord Holland, the Paymaster Ge

ALS, signed “Diana x,” written inside a 5 x 7 greeting card, no date. Letter to her friend Janet, quite possibly her personal beautician, Janet Filder

King of Bavaria (1864–1886) whose extravagant tastes, generous patronage of the arts, and penchant for exquisite castles (one of which, Neuschwanstein

ALS signed “Diana,” one page both sides, 6 x 4, Kensington Palace letterhead, June 30, 1993. Letter to interior designer Dudley Poplak, in full: &qu...

Desirable 1959 Royal Christmas and New Year's card with their crests embossed on the front, measuring 16 x 8.25 open, featuring a printed image ...

Queen consort (1836-1885) of Hawaii as wife of King Kamehameha IV. Vintage 2.5 x 4.25 carte-de-visite portrait of Queen Emma in a lovely half-length p