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