RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction’s nearly four decades of business continue to grow, achieving record prices for clients around the world.
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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Sigmund Freud194 - Sigmund Freud
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ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, personal letterhead, October 14, 1916. Letter to Austrian writer and lyric poet Arthu
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Ada Lovelace230 - Ada Lovelace
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English mathematician and writer (1815–1852) and the only daughter of Lord Byron, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanic...
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Apollo 15396 - Apollo 15
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Flown aluminum ‘lunar rover license’ plate, 1.25 x .5, marked with the registration number “LRV 001,” with “MOON” as the home state, the year 1971, an
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Book Collection534 - Book Collection
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Massive collection of roughly 2,000 books from the last decade and a half, covering a wide variety of subjects, including sports, fiction, politics, h
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Beatles648 - Beatles
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Absolutely magnificent vintage 7 x 9.5 program photo by Dezo Hoffman of the band looking sharp in their matching iconic collarless suits in the spring
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Beatles: Lennon and Ono649 - Beatles: Lennon and Ono
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Outstanding color satin-finish 7 x 5 candid snapshot photo of Lennon, holding a young Sean, and Ono standing alongside a horse in a snow-covered pastu
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Jefferson and James Madison7 - Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 21 x 16.75, no date. Four-language ship’s papers filled out in the English section only, issued to “William
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Abraham Lincoln29 - Abraham Lincoln
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Highly desirable Springfield Marine and Fire Insurance Company check, 7 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Lincoln, “A Lincoln,” payable to Hurst &...
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Frederick Douglass183 - Frederick Douglass
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ALS, one page, lightly-lined, 5.25 x 8, 1866. Letter to an unidentified gentleman. In full: “You have indeed, been fortunate if until now you have nev
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein190 - Albert Einstein
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Vintage matte-finish 6 x 7.75 portrait of Einstein seated with one hand resting on the arm of a chair, affixed to a 9 x 12 mount, signed and inscribed
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Ferdinand and Isabella193 - Ferdinand and Isabella
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Spanish monarchs best known as the sponsors and patrons of Christopher Columbus. Manuscript DS in Spanish, signed “Yo el Rey,” [I the King] and “Yo el
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Louis Pasteur253 - Louis Pasteur
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ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8, Ecole Normale Supérieure letterhead, September 7, 1867. Letter to Italian sc...
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Apollo 15394 - Apollo 15
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Uncommon Apollo 15 postal cover, 6.5 x 3.75, numbered 212 of 300, carried to the lunar surface aboard the Falcon, signed in the lower left corner by c
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Abraham Lincoln25 - Abraham Lincoln
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Long strip of black mourning crepe, 35 x 5.5, worn by Admiral C. H. Eldredge while guarding Lincoln as he lay in state at New York’s City Hall on Apri
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Estimate : 8,500.00 - 9,500.00
 
 
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Lee Harvey Oswald248 - Lee Harvey Oswald
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Archive of 20 letters from various persons looking for the 'smoking gun' to uncover the truth behind the Kennedy assassination, most typed, ...
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Estimate : 8,500.00 - 9,500.00
 
 
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Jacqueline Kennedy92 - Jacqueline Kennedy
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ALS, two pages both sides, 6.25 x 9.25, black-bordered personal letterhead, September 17, 1964. Mrs. Kennedy urgently appeals to Jim Bishop to relinqu
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Estimate : 7,500.00 - 8,500.00
 
 
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Sitting Bull282 - Sitting Bull
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Extremely rare and highly-sought after ink signature, “Sitting Bull,” on the reverse of an off-white 3.5 x 2.25 business card of noted Native American
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Estimate : 7,000.00 - 8,500.00
 
 
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Franz Liszt616 - Franz Liszt
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Hungarian Romantic era composer and pianist (1811–1886) whose prowess at the keyboard earned him a cachet as perhaps the greatest virtuoso in the hist
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Estimate : 7,500.00 - 8,500.00
 
 
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Beatles639 - Beatles
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Vintage ballpoint signatures, “Beatles, To Sheila, lots of love, Paul McCartney,” “John Lennon,” “Ringo Starr,” and “George Harrison,” on a light blue
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Estimate : 7,500.00 - 8,500.00
 
 
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Abraham Lincoln22 - Abraham Lincoln
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LS signed “A. Lincoln,” one page, 5 x .25, Springfield, Illinois, July 2, 1860. Brief letter to William H. Adams, written in the hand of Lincoln’s pri
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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