RR Auction: Rare Manuscripts, Documents, and Autographs

British orator and statesman (1811–1889). Five ALSs, 4.5 x 7.25, each three or four pages on two adjoining sheets, dated between 1863 and 1878. Bright

German chemist (1811–1899) who discovered the elements cesium and rubidium and who developed the laboratory burner that now bears his name. ALS in Ger

Manuscript DS, signed “Edward Burles, Com in Chief,” one page, 8 x 4.25, December 15, 1835. Honorable discharge for William Blount reads, in part: “Wi

British civil servant and colonial administrator (1688-1729) who served as governor of New York and New Jersey. Manuscript DS, signed “W. Burnet,” one

ALS, one page, 5 x 8, January 29, 1893. Letter to a gentleman. In part: “For work on Natl. His’y of birds, get Minot’s Birds of New England, or Stearn

Inventor, manufacturer, and railway constructor who patented a type of canal lock and improved the process for manufacturing pig and wrought iron. Ori

Miner who founded Hurley, Wisconsin, originated the American Fibre Co., and developed Mexican mining interests through the Hidalgo Smelting Co. Origin

Texas settler, military figure, Captain of the Gonzales-Seguin Rangers, and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence (1798–1842). He is somet

Prominent American politician (1782–1850) who served as secretary of war under Monroe and vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, a

Distinguished French physician and researcher (1863–1933) who made a number of important discoveries in bacteriology and who developed the first antid