RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Literature

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Boasting almost 1,000 lots, RR Auction's October Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features a robust literature section that includes autographs from authors across the ages—from Goethe to Kafka to Hemingway, a wide assortment of great writers and literary movements are represented. Other highlights in the sale include an important letter by Stephen Hawking, an extremely rare Mao Zedong autograph, a fully signed Led Zeppelin album, a wise autograph quote by Albert Einstein, and a letter by Thomas Jefferson on a political economics textbook. 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 September 2019.
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 Einstein111 - Albert Einstein
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Remarkable and outstanding AQS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 5 x 6.25, 1930. Einstein pens a four-line quote on the 'Art of Life,&#...
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
 
 
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Joseph Guillotin112 - Joseph Guillotin
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Manuscript DS in French, signed “Guillotin,” one page, 8 x 3.25, March 22, 1807. Brief untranslated document. In very good to fine condition, with soi
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Ivan Pavlov113 - Ivan Pavlov
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Rare ALS in German, signed “I. Pawlow,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, December 21, 1904. Letter to a colleague, written from St. Petersburg just days
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Alfred Nobel115 - Alfred Nobel
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ALS in Swedish, signed “A. Nobel,” one page, 5.25 x 8, February 25, 1896. Letter to Oscar Linngstrom about Carl Gustaf de Laval's patent. In ful...
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud116 - Sigmund Freud
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ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 5.25 x 3.5, personal stationery card, September 24, 1928. Written from Berlin-Tegel, an untranslated letter t
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud117 - Sigmund Freud
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ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, personal letterhead, May 26, 1921. Letter to a friend visiting Holland, asking that h
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Pope Pius X118 - Pope Pius X
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Attractive swatch of red fabric removed the vestment of Pope Pius X prior to his beatification at Saint Peter's Basilica on June 3, 1951. The re...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Pope Pius X119 - Pope Pius X
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Exquisite matte-finish 7 x 9.5 portrait of Pope Pius X, affixed to its original 8 x 11.75 mount, inscribed on the mount with a three-line apostolic be
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Fidel Castro120 - Fidel Castro
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DS, in Spanish, one page, 9 x 13, July 14, 1959. Untranslated document directed to Cuban President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, asserting "that th...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Chiang Kai-shek121 - Chiang Kai-shek
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Matte-finish 3.75 x 5.75 head-and-shoulders photo of Chiang Kai-shek, signed in fountain pen in Chinese. Reverse bears a Hu Chung Hsien photography st
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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