RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

Superb vintage pearl-finish 10 x 8 photograph of Edison, Ford, Herbert Hoover, and other dignitaries at the 1929 dedication of Ford’s Greenfield Villa

Distinguished vintage matte-finish 7.25 x 10 portrait by Walter Scott Shinn of New York, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, “To

Notarized DS, signed “Thomas A. Edison,” four pages, 8 x 13, March 11, 1910. Legal document concerning a case between Edison and his companies against

Exceedingly rare and very early handwritten endorsement, signed “W. S. Earp, Const,” on the reverse of a subpoena from the state of Missouri. The subp

TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8 x 10, Saranac Lake, N. Y., July 27, 1936. Letter to Mrs. R. H. Pretzfeld. In full (translated): “I ha

TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 5.5 x 6.5, Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study letterhead, February 16, 1955. Letter to a Ball State libraria

TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists letterhead, April 29, 1947. Letter to Miss Fishel. In full: “I

Last Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1871 as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Vintage 6.5 x 4 photo of Pierrefonds Castle,

French cardinal (1763–1839), closely associated with the family of Napoleon Bonaparte. Manuscript DS (true copy), in French, signed “J. Card Fesch,” o

Father (1889–1980) of Jewish World War II diarist Anne Frank, and the only member of his family to survive the concentration camps. ALS, on a 5.5 x 4