RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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RR Auction celebrates Presidents’ Day in February 2018! Our featured section boasts autographs from every American president, including a variety of virtually unobtainable examples—an Abraham Lincoln land grant, a James A. Garfield autograph letter as president, and a Theodore Roosevelt speech are among the highlights. Other top items include: Olympic medals and torches; artistic autographs from the likes of Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir; literary letters by Proust, Kafka, Dickens, and Voltaire; and autographs of music icons such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Woody Guthrie. 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 February 2018.
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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Nelson Mandela243 - Nelson Mandela
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Signed book: Long Walk to Freedom. Collector’s Edition. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000. Leatherbound hardcover, 6.25 x 9.5, 558 pages. Signed on the
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Nelson Mandela244 - Nelson Mandela
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Signed book: Long Walk to Freedom. First edition, first printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 558
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
 
 
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Nelson Mandela245 - Nelson Mandela
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Desirable 5 rand proof coin depicting Mandela issued by the South African Mint in 2000, presented in its original 5 x 5.5 CD-style plastic case, signe
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Nelson Mandela246 - Nelson Mandela
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Desirable felt tip signature and inscription, "To Gila Katz, Compliments, N. Mandela, 20.8.91,” on an off-white 7 x 7.5 sheet, also signed by E...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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William Randolph Hearst247 - William Randolph Hearst
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Interesting TLS signed “W. R. Hearst,” two pages, 8.5 x 10, personal letterhead, September 15, 1942. Letter to Warner Bros. director Raoul Walsh, in p
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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William Randolph Hearst248 - William Randolph Hearst
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Amusing ANS signed “WRH,” penned at the bottom of a letter requesting that Hearst assist in a rodent problem, one page, 8.5 x 10.75, May 19, 1936. In
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Daniel Bernoulli249 - Daniel Bernoulli
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Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700–1782) known for his applications of mathematics to fluid mechanics. ALS in French, one page, 7.25 x 9.75, July
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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John Dalton250 - John Dalton
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English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (1766-1844) best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory. Third-person
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Thomas Edison251 - Thomas Edison
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Tremendous partly printed DS, signed “Thomas Alva Edison,” six total pages, 7.75 x 12.75, October 28, 1882. A patent application for the “Improvements
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Thomas Edison252 - Thomas Edison
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ALS signed “Edison,” one page, 8 x 10.5, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works letterhead, no date. Letter to "F.L.P.," probably...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein253 - Albert Einstein
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Superlative matte-finish 7.5 x 9.75 portrait of Einstein in a plaid sweater, signed in green ink, “Albert Einstein, 1935.” Attractively suede-matted a
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Estimate : 7,500.00 - 8,500.00
 
 
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Robert Koch255 - Robert Koch
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German medical scientist (1843–1910) regarded as the father of bacteriology. He isolated the tuberculosis bacillus and the anthrax virus, and received
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Estimate : 7,500.00 - 8,500.00
 
 
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Robert Oppenheimer256 - Robert Oppenheimer
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Brilliant American physicist (1904-1967) who directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and who spearheaded the Manhattan Project, leading
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert258 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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French polymath (1717–1783) known for his contributions in the realms of mathematics, physics, philosophy, and music theory; he served as co-editor of
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud259 - Sigmund Freud
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ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 5.5 x 9, personal letterhead, August 31, 1929. Letter to Dr. Dorian Feigenbaum, in full (translated): “I will
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Estimate : 14,000.00 - 16,000.00
 
 
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau260 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Important Swiss-French philosopher and writer (1712–1778) who held that the individual is essentially good but usually corrupted by society. ALS in Fr
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Adam Smith261 - Adam Smith
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Scottish moral professor and a respected pioneer of political economy (1723–1790) whose magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, is considered the first mo
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Mother Teresa262 - Mother Teresa
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Printed prayer slip with an image of Mother Teresa holding a child, 6.25 x 3.25, signed at the bottom in blue ballpoint, “God bless you, M Teresa mc.”
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Elijah Muhammad263 - Elijah Muhammad
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Two items: a TLS signed "Elijah Muhammad," two pages, 8.5 x 11, July 31, 1965, to Judge H. B. Daniels, in part: "In the Name of Almig...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Pope Benedict XVI264 - Pope Benedict XVI
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Born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger in 1927, he served as Pope from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Since his resignation, Benedict holds the title Pop
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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