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Signed book: DNA. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7.75 x 9.5, 446 pages. Signed on the title page in black ballp

Signed book: The Double Helix. NY: Signet, 1968. Paperback, 4.25 x 7, 141 pages. Signed on the title page in blue ballpoint, “James D. Watson.” In fin

American lawyer and journalist (1764-1846). ALS, one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.5, December 31, 1836. Letter to S. W. Pomeroy, Jr. concerning a long du

Souvenir typescript, one page on a 3.75 x 7 card bearing four affixed postage stamps. King Edward VIII’s farewell address, which famously concludes, “

Unsigned Elizabethan-era manuscript DS, one page, 17.25 x 4.5, November 8, 1586. Period copy of a document appointing a commission to judge a land dis

Manuscript DS, signed “O. Ellsworth,” one page, 8 x 6.5, August 1, 1776. Pay order for Doctor Joseph Coit and Robert Patrick “all for purchase &...

Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, and an English nobleman and soldier (1670–1710). LS signed “E. Essex,” one page, 6.25 x 8.75, circa late 1600s. Le

Archduke of Austria and a Prince of Hungary and Bohemia (1863–1954). Original 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet portrait of Eugen in profile, signed at the bottom of

Vintage ink signature, “F. Franco,” on an off-white 6.25 x 3.5 card with a commemorative postage stamp affixed to the middle of the card. In fine cond

S.G.S. Associates business check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Gambino, payable to Rialto Florist, Inc. for $200, June 14, 1957,

FDC with a cachet honoring Lal Bahadur Shastri, signed in black ink by Gandhi and in blue ink by one other. In fine condition.

Vintage fountain pen signature, “D. Lloyd George,” on an off-white 5 x 3 card bearing typed biographical information and an affixed photo. Encapsulate

Personal check, 8.25 x 3.25, filled out in type and signed by Getty, “J. Paul Getty,” payable to Medical Center Prescription Pharmacy for $4.61, July

Color glossy 14 x 11 photo of Gorbachev with Ronald Reagan, signed in blue felt tip, “M. Gorbachev.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered cr

Felt tip signature, “M. Gorbachev,” on an off-white 6.75 x 5.75 cardstock sheet bearing an affixed glossy photo. In fine condition.

German chemist (1879–1968) who won the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission. ALS in German, one page, lightly-lined, 5.75 x 8.25, Sep

Private secretary (1838–1905) to and, later, biographer of Abraham Lincoln who also served as secretary of state under McKinley and Roosevelt. Ink sig

Two items: TLS, signed “E. P. Hillary,” one page, 8.5 x 11, mountain letterhead, dated January 8, 1995. Letter to a collector reads, in part: “I suppo

Glossy 8 x 10 head-and-shoulders photo of the determined-looking Hillary, signed vertically in black felt tip. In very fine condition.

ALS, one page both sides, 6.75 x 9.75, August 10, 1964. Letter to historian James Shotwell. In part: “In recent years I have refrained from writing to