AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AUCTION

BERGSON HENRI: (1859-1941) French Philosopher. A major influential Thinker. Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927. A good A.N.S, `Henri Bergson´...

BERGSON HENRI: (1859-1941) French Philosopher. A major influential Thinker. Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927. A good A.N., to both sides of...

RUSSELL BERTRAND: (1872-1970) British Polymath. Philosopher, Mathematician, Historian and a political Pacifist Activist. Awarded with the Nobel pr...

ALEXANDER VIII: (1610-1691) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1689-91. Last Pope taking this Pontifical name. His Papacy only last 15 months. A go...

INNOCENT XII: (1615-1700) Pope of the Roman catholic church 1691-1700. Former Apostolic Nuncio to Poland and Austria.  Innocent XII issued a papal...

PIUS VI: (1717-1799) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1775-99. Rare and attractive L.S., `Pius P.P. VI´, a bold black ink signature, one page, fo...

BENEDICT XV: (1854-1922) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1914-22. A good vintage signed sepia 9 x 14 photograph, incorporating an Apostolic Bles...

PIUS XI: (1857-1939) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1922-39. A large vintage signed 13.5 x 20 photograph, incorporating am Apostolic Blessing, ...

PIUS XII: (1876-1958) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1939-58. L.S., E. Card. Pacelli, one page, folio, Vatican City, 3rd July 1930, to Monsigno...

JOHN XXIII: (1881-1963) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1958-1963. Beatified in 2000 and Canonized in 2014. T.L.S., +Ang Jos. Roncalli, one page...

JOHN XXIII: (1881-1963) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1958-1963. Beatified in 2000 and Canonized in 2014. A highly unusual D.S., + Ange Roncal...

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL: (1581-1660) French Catholic Priest. Venerated both in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. Canonized in 1737 by ...

LIGUORI ALPHONSUS: (1696-1787) Italian Catholic Bishop, Canonized a Saint by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839. Liguori, one of the most widely read Cathol...

BOSCO JOHN: (1815-1888) Don Bosco. Italian Roman Catholic Priest, Educator and Writer. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than pun...

PIO OF PIETRELCINA: (1887-1968) Italian Priest & Mystic, famous for bearing the stigmata for most of his life, causing much controversy. Padre Pio...

TERESA MOTHER: (1910-1997) Albanian Roman Catholic Nun, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1979. Signed First Day Cover commemorating Mother Teresa and fea...

RENDU ROSALIE: (1786-1856) Born Jeanne-Marie Rendu. French Daughter of Charity. Rendu was a worker and organizer of care for the poor during the c...

NIGHTINGALE FLORENCE: (1820-1910) English Pioneer of modern Nursing. A.L.S., Florence Nightingale, two pages, 8vo, South Street, Park Lane, London...

GRIMOD DE LA REYNIERE ALEXANDRE BALTHAZAR LAURENT: (1758-1837) French Gourmand and Gastronome who acquired fame during the reign of Napoleon for h...

CARNARVON EARL OF: (1866-1923) English Aristocrat, best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in th...

CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English Archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. An 8vo Walker's loose leaf book use...

DE LESSEPS FERDINAND: (1805-1894) French Diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal. A.L.S., `Ferd. De Lesseps´, two pages, 8vo, 26th October 1878, ...

FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: A good selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc. by a variety of famous men and women includi...

FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: A good selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc. by a variety of famous men and women includi...

FAMOUS MEN: King George III (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. Ink signature ('George R', as King) on a slim oblong 8vo piece evide...

NADAR: (1820-1910) His real name being Felix Tournachon. French Photographer, Caricaturist and Balloonist. A good A.L.S., Nadar, two pages, on two...

CODY W. F.: (1846-1917) American Showman. Ink signature ('W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" ') and date, 1903, in his hand on a 12mo slip of paper. Some ...

LIPTON THOMAS: (1848-1931) Scottish Merchant and Yachtsman, creator of the Lipton Tea brand. T.L.S., Thomas J Lipton, one page, 8vo, New York, 16t...

ROTHSCHILD NATHAN MEYER: (1777-1836) Jewish German Banker, Businessman and Financier, one of the second generation of the Rothschild Banking Dynas...

DION JULES FELIX DE: (1856-1946) Marquis de Dion de Wandonne. A Pioneer of the automobile industry in France. Dion invented a steam-powered car. H...

DU GAST CAMILLE: (1868-1942) French celebrity of the Belle Epoque, and one of the richest French widows of her time, known for her important and e...

LAFARGE MARIE-FORTUNÉE: (1816-1852) Also known as Marie Capelle. French woman convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning. First perso...

MATA HARI: (1876-1917) Gertrud Margaretha Zelle being her real name. Dutch exotic Dancer, with stage name Mata Hari, who was convicted of being a ...

BERKOWITZ DAVID: (1953- ) American Serial Killer and Arsonist, known as Son of Sam. A.L.S., Hobo Dave, four pages, 4to, n.p. (Sullivan Correctiona...

HOOVER J. EDGAR: (1895-1972) First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Blue fountain pen ink signature ('J. Edgar Hoover') on a...

TEUFEL ERASMUS VON: (c.1480-1552) Baron de Gundersdorf. Austrian General in the service of Emperor Ferdinand I of Habsburg who was present at the ...