RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Literature

Two items: first-rate 3.5 x 5.5 head-and-shoulders postcard portrait signed "A. Dreyfus" in the lower white border; and a brief untranslat...

Mixed and incomplete collection of valuable vintage lead toy soldiers, including: seven horses, two riders, two carts, and two smaller French soldiers

Manuscript DS, in French, signed “Le Marechal de L'Empire,” one page, 8.75 x 13.75, November 10, 1805. The Prince de Furstenberg having become t...

Revolutionary War-dated LS, one page, 8 x 12.75, July 13, 1778. Letter to "The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy,&...

ALS in French, signed “Eugene Napoleon,” one page both sides, 8 x 12.25, October 19, 1809. Untranslated letter to Napoleon. In very good to fine condi

LS in French, signed “J. Bernadotte,” one page, 8 x 12.5, February 24, 1805. Letter about a sum of 10,000 francs granted to the director of artillery.

LS in French, one page, 7.75 x 12, December 31, 1806. Letter to Marshal Jean Lannes, advising him that he had sent an order to Brigadier General Girar

Scarce ALS in French, signed “Bessieres,” one page, 7.25 x 9.25, April 28, 1809. Letter to an unknown recipient, almost certainly Marshal Jean Lannes,

Color semi-glossy 7.25 x 9.25 photo of Bradley wearing his military uniform in a bust-length pose, signed and inscribed on the mount in black felt tip

Ink signature, "A. E. Burnside, Maj. Gen'l,” on an off-white 3.25 x 2 sheet. Matted and framed with an engraving to an overall size of 11.2...

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 ...

Partly-printed DS, in French, signed "Cambronne, Commdng," one page, 16 x 12.75, December 22, 1804. Service record for 2nd Lt. Charles Doz...

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

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...

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...

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...

VHS tape of the documentary 'Enola Gay: The First Atomic Mission' presented by Greenwich Workshop, signed on the cardboard sleeve in black f...

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

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...

ALS signed "Emml. Grouchy," one page, 4.5 x 7.5, personal letterhead, November 28, 1801. Letter to General Jean-Louis Debilly, explaining ...

Two handwritten drafts of letters in pencil by Groves, one signed “L. R. G.,” on opposite sides of a single 7.25 x 10.5 sheet of personal letterhead,

Commemorative cover with a cachet honoring the U.S. Navy, postmarked aboard the USS Leary on June 15, 1961, signed in black ballpoint, "John H....

LS signed “H. Knox, Sec'y of War,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 12.25, August 13, 1792. Written from the War Department, a letter to Nathaniel Ap...

LS in French, signed "Alex. Lameth," one page both sides, 7.25 x 9.5, no date but circa 1806–1809. Untranslated letter as prefect of the D...

ALS in French, signed “Lefebvre,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, October 2, 1806. Letter to Napoleon, whom he asks the favor of appointing his first aide-de-c

Two photos of the German naval officer (1881–1966) who earned the nickname ‘Sea Devil’ for his legendary maritime exploits during World War I: a vinta

ALS signed “N. Lyon, Capt. 2'd Inf'y, R.A.Q.M.,” one page, 8 x 10, September 30, 1851. Letter to Major General Thomas S. Jesup, in full: &qu...

ALS in French, signed “Macdonald,” one page both sides, 11.25 x 8.25, March 16, 1810. Untranslated autograph letter by Macdonald, penned at the conclu

ALS in French, signed “Le G'al Marbot,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.5 x 8.5, no date. Letter concerning a conspiracy against Bonaparte...

LS in French, signed “Duc de Raguse,” one page both sides, 8.75 x 11, August 31, 1808. Letter to a colonel, in part (translated): "As you have ...

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...

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...

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...

Broadside headed "Prefecture de L'Aisne, Guerre Continentale, Discours de l'Empereur au Sénat [Prefecture de L'Aisne, Continen...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Revolutionary War–dated printed booklet entitled "The Triumph of Liberty, and Peace with America: A Poem Inscribed to General Conway," 8 x...

Two Revolutionary War-dated pay orders addressed to Treasurer John Lawrence of Connecticut: one signed "Elizur Tallot" and "Jonth. We...

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

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 ...

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: ...

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...

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

Partly-printed DS, in French, signed “Charles Maurice,” one page, 7.25 x 9, February 24, 1812. As vice-grand elector, Talleyrand acknowledges receipt