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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Anthony McAuliffe286 - Anthony McAuliffe
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Three items: a vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 portrait of McAuliffe in uniform, signed and inscribed in white ink, "To Mr. Kenneth Browne, with be...
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Montgomery of Alamein287 - Montgomery of Alamein
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ALS, one page, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, June 5, 1969. Letter to Ken Browne, in full: "Thank you for your 'John F. Kennedy' air lett...
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Edouard Mortier288 - Edouard Mortier
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LS in French, signed “Le M'al Duc de Trevise,” one page, 8.5 x 11.75, May 25, 1809. Letter to Prince Berthier, in part (translated): "Gener...
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Napoleon: Discours289 - Napoleon: Discours
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Broadside headed "Prefecture de L'Aisne, Guerre Continentale, Discours de l'Empereur au Sénat [Prefecture de L'Aisne, Continen...
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Napoleon: Service du Grand-Chambellan290 - Napoleon: Service du Grand-Chambellan
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Document from Napoleonic France, one page, 9.5 x 14.75, December 1810. Document for the royal household, headed (translated), "House of H.M. Em...
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Napoleon: Service du Grand-Chambellan291 - Napoleon: Service du Grand-Chambellan
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Document from Napoleonic France, one page, 9.5 x 14.75, March 1810. Document for the royal household, headed (translated), "House of H.M. Emper...
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Napoleon's Imperial Guard292 - Napoleon's Imperial Guard
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Partly-printed DS, in French, one page, 15.25 x 15.75, June 7, 1805. Official document for a retirement leave from Napoleon's "Garde Imperi...
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Chester Nimitz293 - Chester Nimitz
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Vintage matte-finish 5 x 7 photo of Nimitz in uniform, signed in the lower border in fountain pen, "C. W. Nimitz," and inscribed in anothe...
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Nicolas Oudinot294 - Nicolas Oudinot
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LS in French, signed “Le M. duc de Reggio,” one page, 8 x 9.75, September 15, 1810. Letter to Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, sending a recommendation f
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Pacific Theater295 - Pacific Theater
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One-of-a-kind World War II photo album scrapbook of an American sailor stationed in the Pacific Theater, measuring 13.25 x 10.5, containing over 350 o
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George S. Patton296 - George S. Patton
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Ink signature, "Censored, G. S. Patton, Lt. Gen'l,” on an off-white 3.75 x 1.25 slip clipped from an envelope. In fine condition, with a ru...
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Revolutionary War297 - Revolutionary War
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Four Revolutionary War–dated documents, each one page, related to Calvin Green, a soldier in the first troop of Col. Elisha Sheldon's famous Lig...
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Revolutionary War298 - Revolutionary War
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Revolutionary War–dated printed booklet entitled "The Triumph of Liberty, and Peace with America: A Poem Inscribed to General Conway," 8 x...
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Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill299 - Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill
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Two Revolutionary War-dated pay orders addressed to Treasurer John Lawrence of Connecticut: one signed "Elizur Tallot" and "Jonth. We...
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Revolutionary War: Jonathan Clapp300 - Revolutionary War: Jonathan Clapp
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Five Revolutionary War-era DSs relating to Major Jonathan Clapp and the Second Regiment of Militia in the County of Hampshire, including: a roll of so
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Eddie Rickenbacker301 - Eddie Rickenbacker
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, February 25, 1966. Letter to Evelyn Byrne, in part: "Of course it must be remembered that due ...
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John Schofield302 - John Schofield
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ALS signed “J. M. Schofield, Maj. Gen'l,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, September 28, 1866. Letter to Union General Oliver Otis Howard, in full: ...
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Nicolas Jean de Soult303 - Nicolas Jean de Soult
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LS in French, signed “M'al duc de Dalmatie,” one page, 8 x 12.25, December 20, 1809. Letter addressed to the minister of war, in part (translate...
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Carl Spaatz304 - Carl Spaatz
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Three items: an off-white 5 x 3 card signed in fountain pen by Carl Spaatz; a vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 photo of Spaatz in his military uniform, sig
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand305 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Partly-printed DS, in French, signed “Charles Maurice,” one page, 7.25 x 9, February 24, 1812. As vice-grand elector, Talleyrand acknowledges receipt
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