RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

ALS, one page, 7 x 7.75, January 19, 1772. Addressed from Caroline, Virginia, a handwritten letter to an unidentified recipient discussing the sale of

ALS signed “Rich'd Stockton,” one page both sides, 8.25 x 12.25, May 3, 1771. Handwritten letter to a "Mr. Hunt," consisti...

Original portrait painting of Margaret Todd Kellogg, the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, who commissioned her niece Katherine Helm to paint this por

Attractive 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite head-and-shoulders portrait of Lincoln, signed in ink, "Robert T. Lincoln." Reverse bears a "Colle...

LS signed "Frederick Douglass," one page, 8.25 x 10.25, September 21, 1889. Letter to Ebenezer Bassett, the United States' first Afric...

Civil War-dated DS, signed "I am, Dear Sir, Yours Truly, Fred'k Douglass, Rochester, Sept. 6th 1864," one page, 5 x 8, August 25, 1864...

LS signed “M. K. Gandhi,” four pages on two sheets, 5.5 x 8.75, Sevagram, Wardha, C.P. letterhead, December 10, 1940. Letter to Dist

Rare vintage matte-finish 8.5 x 6.5 photo of Keller and her assistant, Polly Thomson, seated in their home in Forest Hills, New York, with other guest

Signed book: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Hardcover with custom quarter-leather slipcase, 6.25 x 9,...

Magnificent Santini scarf of the flag of South Africa, with the black isosceles triangle featuring an image of Nelson Mandela and a white facsimile si

Signed book: The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India. Later printing. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25, 231 pages. Signed on the...

Unsigned handwritten notes by Booker T. Washington for an address given before the Birmingham Lyceum on March 30, 1899, one page, 8.5 x 11, penned on

ALS signed “Benjamin N. Cardozo,” two pages, 8 x 10.5, State of New York Court of Appeals letterhead, November 28, 1919. Early lette

TLS in German, signed “Diesel,” one page, 8.5 x 11.5, personal letterhead, February 11, 1911. TLS in German, signed “Diesel

Permission slip signed “Francis Crick,” one page, 8.5 x 14, October 18, 1983, reproducing his letter of April 20, 1983 to Paul Rifki

Vintage matte-finish 7.5 x 7.25 photo of Thomas and Mina Edison together in his study, matted to an overall size of 12 x 13.5, boldly signed and inscr

Early, fully operational three-rotor Enigma I electromechanical cipher machine made for the German military in Berlin in 1935 (most likely by Heimsoet

Handsome vintage matte-finish 9.25 x 11.75 photo of Senator Marconi wearing his captain's hat, signed and inscribed in the lower border in Itali...

ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page, 4.5 x 3.5, January 28, 1885. Important letter about his research on a rabies vaccine,

Rare ALS, one page, 8 x 11, February 26, 1783. Letter written from Birmingham, recommending the noted Unitarian minister William Hazlitt. In full: &...