Remarkable Rarities

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- Hosted LIVE at the Royal Sonesta Boston on September 23rd, 2023, RR Auction's annual Remarkable Rarities sale brings one hundred extraordinary autographs and artifacts to auction. Bid in person, by phone, or online in this premier annual event. The auction embodies the whole of modern human history: from the scientific breakthroughs of Enlightenment to the age of the atomic bomb; from the founding of the United States through the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement; and from the Apollo moon landings to the Apple iPhone. Highlights include rare printings of Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Papers and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; a first edition of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates signed by Abraham Lincoln; Harry Houdini's personally-owned escape act props; custom-engraved revolvers presented to J. Edgar Hoover; rare Albert Einstein autographs; and Apollo 17 moonwalker Gene Cernan's flown EVA cuff checklist.

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Lot #6001 John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on

6001. John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on Debt Defaults Under Treaty of Paris: "The Morals of the People of America have been proved to be defective"

Sold For: $28,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $15,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6002 John Adams Signed Books - A Defence of

6002. John Adams Signed Books - A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Inscribed to His Cousin

Sold For: $81,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $40,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6003 John Adams Broadside for Presidential

6003. John Adams Broadside for Presidential Proclamation of a Day of Fasting

Sold For: $9,375 (w/BP)

Estimate: $6,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6004 Abigail Adams Autograph Letter Signed as

6004. Abigail Adams Autograph Letter Signed as First Lady on French Revolution: "National Degradation and unparalled corruption"

Sold For: $26,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6005 Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary War-Dated

6005. Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed for Drafting and Payment of Virginia State Militia (Sole Surviving Copy)

Sold For: $15,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6006 Thomas Jefferson: First Edition of Notes

6006. Thomas Jefferson: First Edition of Notes on the State of Virginia (Edmund Randolph's Copy, Signed and Annotated)

Sold For: $275,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $100,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6008 Thomas Jefferson: Rare Silk Broadside of

6008. Thomas Jefferson: Rare Silk Broadside of First Inaugural Address (1801)

Sold For: $13,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6009 Haym Salomon and Robert Morris Rare

6009. Haym Salomon and Robert Morris Rare Signed Bill of Exchange for Financing the Revolutionary War

Sold For: $23,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6010 Exceedingly rare circa 1796 map of New

6010. Exceedingly rare circa 1796 map of New York City, chronicling the post-Revolution development of Manhattan

Sold For: $16,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $12,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6011 Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist

6011. Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist Papers (Extremely Rare Original 1788 First Edition Printing, Vol. II)

Sold For: $27,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6012 John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter

6012. John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed as 20-Year-Old on Newly Drafted US Constitution (1787)

Sold For: $40,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $7,500+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6013 John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter

6013. John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on Slave Trade

Sold For: $31,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $25,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6014 Abraham Lincoln Signed First Edition of

6014. Abraham Lincoln Signed First Edition of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (One of Four Known Signed in Ink, to Former Law Apprentice N. M. Broadwell)

Sold For: $593,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $100,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6015 Abraham Lincoln Signed Check as

6015. Abraham Lincoln Signed Check as President to Black Personal Valet at White House, "William Johnson (Colored)," one of three known checks from Lincoln to Black people

Sold For: $100,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $30,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6018 Abraham Lincoln Assassination: (2)

6018. Abraham Lincoln Assassination: (2) Ford's Theatre Front-Row Tickets from April 14, 1865 (ex. Forbes Collection)

Sold For: $262,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $100,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6019 U. S. Grant Document Signed as President

6019. U. S. Grant Document Signed as President to End Ku Klux Klan Violence

Sold For: $4,063 (w/BP)

Estimate: $2,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6020 Theodore Roosevelt Handwritten

6020. Theodore Roosevelt Handwritten Manuscript on Native American Frontier Justice

Sold For: $9,375 (w/BP)

Estimate: $8,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6021 President Theodore Roosevelt Signed

6021. President Theodore Roosevelt Signed Document Insuring the Construction of the Panama Canal (1904)

Sold For: $15,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $1,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6022 Watergate: Peter W. Rodino's Impeachment

6022. Watergate: Peter W. Rodino's Impeachment Hearing Gavel and a Resolution 803 Booklet Signed by (26) Members of the House Judiciary Committee

Sold For: $10,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $3,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6023 D-Day: Winston Churchill Signed

6023. D-Day: Winston Churchill Signed Photograph for an HMS Kelvin Navigator (June 1944)

Sold For: $10,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6024 Charles de Gaulle Letter Written On the

6024. Charles de Gaulle Letter Written On the Day Germany Invaded Poland

Sold For: $18,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6026 Chou En-lai Rare Typed Letter Signed

6026. Chou En-lai Rare Typed Letter Signed Asking for Recognition and Relief of Communist China

Sold For: $93,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $80,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6027 Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed

6027. Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed (Early in Struggle for Indian Independence)

Sold For: $20,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $15,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed

Lot #6030 Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Book -

6030. Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Book - Why We Can't Wait (Letter from Birmingham Jail)

Sold For: $10,625 (w/BP)

Estimate: $4,000+

Auction #669 - September 23, 2023

Closed