RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities

TLS signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison letterhead, February 19, 1924. Letter to Charles A. Janke at the Bell

Significant handwritten notes in pencil, unsigned, one page, 4.75 x 8, no date. Carter writes the measurements of the four shrines of the tomb of Tuta

ALS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8 x 10.75, August 18, 1933. Letter to Belgian artist Marie Destree-Danse regarding expert violinmaker J

Signed book: The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution. First edition, first printing. London: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1973. Hardcover wi

ALS signed “Jonath. Swift,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 9, March 22, 1734. Letter of recommendation for his friend Thomas Sheridan, to the Duke of Dor

Rare handwritten manuscript from a draft of An American Dictionary of the English Language, unsigned, one page both sides, 8 x 10, no date but circa 1

Rare, boldly penned ALS signed “Edgar A. Poe,” one page, 7.25 x 9.75, September 21, 1843. Poe writes from Philadelphia to Elwood Evans, in full: “I ha

ALS signed “Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain,” one page, 4.5 x 6.75, February 14 [1871]. Letter to an unidentified gentleman, in full: “I am only too pro

Definitive autographed first edition of Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855…1888, limited to 600 copies printed for the author’s use, p...

ALS in French, signed “Renoir,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, no date but circa October 1890. Letter written from his new workshop.