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Royalty
France
Emperor Napoleon III - superb autograph letter signed from prison,
railing against the government’s hypocrisy,
condemning its faint praise for his uncle, Emperor Napoleon I, and
confidently predicting his own future rule, 8-10-1841, unframed
Great Britain
King Edward VIII - The Duke of Windsor - cacheted cover
commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, boldly signed by Edward
with his title, Duke of Windsor, unframed
The Netherlands
Queen Beatrix -
beautiful photograph of Queen Beatrix
and her consort, the late Prince Claus, unframed
World Leaders
Germany
Adolf Hitler -
scarce early Nazi party document
expelling a member for failure to attend an SA meeting, signed by Hitler and
Nazi party Supreme Court president
Walter Buch, 3-31-1927, unframed
Philippines
Carlos P.
Romulo - typed letter signed 1-15-1959, unframed
World Military
Germany
Hermann
Göring -
copy of Carin Göring, the
biography of Göring’s first wife, with beautiful World War II-date
inscription and signature by Göring, 1944
Reinhard Heydrich -
Heydrich’s personal copy of Nazi Führer
Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf,
with the bookplate from Heydrich’s
library, signed by Heydrich
Heinrich Himmler - rare and important association book, inscribed and
signed in 1943 to Adolf Hitler's former bodyguard, SS brigadier general
Ulrich Graf, who likely saved Hitler's life
Great Britain
Garnet Wolseley - excellent content autograph letter signed by
Britain’s premier Victorian-era military figure
discussing Napoleon’s horse, buried in England, and the failure of
Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard to achieve complete victory at Shiloh,
5-8-1891, unframed
Holocaust and
WWII Related Items
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Pre-World War II letter from an inmate at Dachau, saying “My longing for you
all is indescribable,” 7-31-1938, unframed
● Letter from an inmate at Sachsenhausen,
saying that he had “already
become accustomed to the thought that I will be here for still a longer
time,” 4-14-1940, unframed
● Late-war dated letter from an inmate at Dachau, 12-10-1944, unframed
● War-dated manuscript letter from a Polish inmate at Dachau,
1-18-1942, unframed
Miscellaneous
World History Fields
Art and Entertainment
Sir Alec Guinness - typed letter signed by the Academy
Award-winning actor mentioning his role in Hotel Paradiso, 5-12-1956,
unframed
Authors
Brendan Behan - typed letter signed to the editor of The
Atlantic Monthly expressing his eagnerness to write an article,
5-18-1958, unframed
T. S. Eliot - typed letter signed declining to publish the poems
of Howard Nemerov, later a Pulitzer Prize winner, 10-26-1955, unframed
John Masefield - autographed letter signed discussing whaling and
mentioning the works of Herman Melville and Frank Thomas Bullen, 2-14-1956,
unframed
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