RR Auction: Rare Manuscripts, Documents, and Autographs

Partly-printed DS, signed “Gordon W. Lillie,” one page, 8.5 x 3.75, January 23, 1912. Promissory note from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s

Judge advocate in the trial of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination conspiracy and a prosecutor in Andrew Johnson’s impeachment hearings (1815–1900). Bank

TLS, two pages, 8 x 10, Isham, Lincoln, and Beale letterhead, January 30, 1888. Letter to DeWitt Ray at the Chicago Herald. In part: “I beg, as a matt

Suffragist, reformer, and editor of The Agitator and the Woman’s Journal (1820–1905). ALS, six pages on three sheets, two of which are adjoining, 5 x

Inventor of photographic equipment, along with his brother, Auguste. In 1893 they developed a cine camera, the cinématographe, and showed the f...

Scottish engineer and road builder (1756–1836). Rare ALS signed “Jn Loudon McAdam,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 6.25, December 30, 1819.

Fabled queen of Louis XVI of France (1755–1793) whose public execution, along with that of her husband, was the most grisly, visible, and powerful sym

Manuscript DS, one page, 7 x 12.5, March 3, 1847. Contract between Menefee and Sealy for the use of a slave. In part: “Contract made…between G. B. Sea

American psychiatrist (1893–1990) who pioneered a scientific approach to psychiatry and advocated the prevention of crime through psychiatric treatmen

British philosopher and civil servant (1806–1873) who was an influential contributor to social and, political theory, and political economics. ALS sig

Nobel Prize–winning physicist (1868–1953) who was the first to isolate the electron and measure its charge. TLS signed “R. A. Millikan,” one page, 8.5

Partial self-contained notarized DS, one lightly-lined page, 8 x 10.25, May 17, 1867. Final page of a longer legal document, with Morgan attesting to

American statesman (1752–1816) and signer of the Constitution from Pennsylvania who authored several sections of that document, including the well-kno

TLS signed “M. Teresa mc,” one page on the reverse of a prayer slip depicting hands holding a small baby, 3.25 x 5.5, stamped Missionaries of Charity

Brother-in-law of Napoleon (1767–1815) who was a marshal in Napoleon’s regime and who reigned as King of Naples from 1808 to 1815. Partly-printed LS i

LS in French, signed “Np,” one page, 7.25 x 9, May 13, 1815. Letter to Joseph Fouche duc d’Otrante, minister of police during the Hundred Days. In ful

Manuscript DS, in French, signed “Accorde, Np,” one page, 8.25 x 12.75, March 20, 1811. Report to Napoleon by Alexandre Berthier. In part (translated)

Fantastic and full endorsement signature, “Napoleon,” on the front of a partial self-contained untranslated manuscript document, one page, both sides,

Untranslated LS in French, signed “Napole,” one page, 7 x 8.5, September 10, 1807. Untranslated letter to his son, Prince Eugene Napoleon, detailing m

President of the French Second Republic and as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire (1808–1873). Original 2.25 x 3.75 carte-de-visite p