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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Jean Jacques Régis de Cambaceres266 - Jean Jacques Régis de Cambaceres
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LS in French, signed “Cambaceres,” one page, 5.75 x 7.25, July 6, 1812. Letter to "the Altesse Imperiale madame la Princesse Pauline, Duchesse ...
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Pierre Cambronne267 - Pierre Cambronne
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Partly-printed DS, in French, signed "Cambronne, Commdng," one page, 16 x 12.75, December 22, 1804. Service record for 2nd Lt. Charles Doz...
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Lazare Carnot268 - Lazare Carnot
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LS in French, signed “Carnot,” one page, 7.75 x 11.5, Ministry of the Interior letterhead, June 13, 1815. Letter to a prefect who had written asking f
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Louis Nicolas Davout269 - Louis Nicolas Davout
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LS in French, signed “Duc D'auerstadt,” one page both sides, 8.25 x 12.25, November 29, 1808. Letter concerning the dissolution of the Grande Ar...
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Report on de Grasse's French Fleet270 - Report on de Grasse's French Fleet
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Manuscript report in French, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 7 x 9.5, about the French fleet's voyage under Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse a...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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George Dewey271 - George Dewey
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ALS, one page, 6 x 9.5, The Berkeley–Waiontha letterhead, August 25, 1907. Letter to J. W. Crawford, in part: "Please send me the amount of Joh...
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Enola Gay272 - Enola Gay
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VHS tape of the documentary 'Enola Gay: The First Atomic Mission' presented by Greenwich Workshop, signed on the cardboard sleeve in black f...
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Joseph Fouche273 - Joseph Fouche
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LS in French, signed “Fouche,” one page, 7 x 9, June 29, 1801. Letter to the commissary general of police at Toulon, returning to him, properly stampe
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Charles ‘Chinese’ Gordon274 - Charles ‘Chinese’ Gordon
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ANS signed “C. G. Gordon,” one page on a 3.5 x 5.5 postcard, no date but postmarked May 13, 1881. Note to "Monsieur Boulger" in London, in...
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Emmanuel de Grouchy275 - Emmanuel de Grouchy
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ALS signed "Emml. Grouchy," one page, 4.5 x 7.5, personal letterhead, November 28, 1801. Letter to General Jean-Louis Debilly, explaining ...
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