RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document and Autograph Auction

LS in Italian, signed “G. Card. Pecci Ves.o di Perugia,” one page, 7.5 x 10.5, January 14, 1855. Untranslated letter to Monsignore Edoardo Borromeo Ar

Vintage glossy 3.75 x 5.5 photo affixed to a 7.25 x 10 mount, signed on the mount in fountain pen, “Jo. Bapt Card. Montini, Archbishop Mediolanum.” In

ALS in Italian, signed “G. M. Card. Mastai A V,” one page, 8 x 11.5, November 10, 1845. Letter to the secretary of state of the papal ministery Camill

Pope, born Francesco Xaverio Castiglione (1761–1830), who served a mere twenty months, from 1829 to 1830. ALS in Italian, signed “Francesco Saverio Ve

Pope, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (1876–1958), who reigned from 1939 until his death. TLS in Italian, signed “E. Card. Pacelli,” one

Sweden’s only ruling Queen (1626–1689) who converted to Catholicism and abdicated the throne in 1654. Manuscript DS in Latin, signed “Christina,” one

Four ALSs, in German, all signed “Dein Karl,” each a single page in length, dated between 1980–81, all to clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Ch

Christmas card measuring 5.5 x 6.5 closed, with an image on the front of the Sleeping Ariadne in the Gardens at ‘Kijkuit.’ Inside bears a pre-printed

TLS, one page, 5.25 x 7.25, personal letterhead, December 26, 1923. Letter to Sally McCampbell. In full: “Thank you for the beautiful hen and the larg

New Zealand-born physicist and chemist (1871–1937) who discovered the concept of radioactive half-life; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in