RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities, 726, Amherst

Composers (44) Signed Photograph Collection Highlighted by Romantic-era Masters Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini

Edgar Allan Poe Autograph Letter Signed - In the Year of 'The Raven,' Poe Invites a Poet to His East Village Boarding House

Louisa May Alcott Autograph Letter Signed on "My 'Little Women'" and Her Resemblance to Jo March - "'Jo' is not myself any more than the others are my sisters, only suggestions of the four real girls"

Leo Tolstoy Autograph Letter Signed on the Doukhobors, Assisting in Their Emigration to Canada: "They consider military service incompatible with a Christian life...The government could not tolerate this and initiated a persecution"

Arthur Conan Doyle Handwritten Manuscript Page from the Sherlock Holmes Story 'The Crooked Man'

F. Scott Fitzgerald Autograph Letter Signed on The Great Gatsby and the Influence of H. L. Mencken

Jack London 'White Fang' Archive, with Autograph Letter Signed and Publishing Agreement: "I've got an idea of writing a story, a companion book to the 'Call of the Wild'"

George Orwell Autograph Letter Signed on Tuberculosis and Finishing Nineteen Eighty-Four: "I'd done about half my novel & shan't touch it again till I'm well"

Jack Kerouac Archive of (6) Signed Letters to Editor Ellis Amburn: "Not 'all' of my novels, but 'most' of them, covered the beat generation"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Autograph Letter Signed, One Month After Breaking His Leg at BarA"ges

Paul Gauguin Autograph Letter Signed on His Art and Travels: "If I don't make it to Tonkin I will try to work outside of painting for some time"

Pablo Picasso Original Artwork for Lucien Clergue's 1960 Photobook, Poesie der Photographie

Rene Magritte's Mid-1940s Sketchbook, 'Le Probleme du Fantome' - Featuring Nearly 50 Original Drawings

Nicolaus Copernicus: Second Edition of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres] - A Landmark of Human Thought, Proposing a Heliocentric Theory of the Universe

Isaac Newton Handwritten Manuscript on Religion, Outlining His Heretical Views: "All the worship here given to Christ represents his human nature"

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed on Experiments with Carnivorous Plants: "The plant is certainly to a certain extent graninivorous also somewhat graminivorous, though mainly insectivorous"

Louis Pasteur Handwritten Notes on the Silkworm Epidemic

Marie Curie Document Signed - Radioactivity Results from Curie's Lab

Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed on Seeking Automotive Battery Material at a Canadian Nickel Mine

Thomas Edison (2) Documents Signed in Electric Battery Development Archive, Acquiring Rights to the 'Lalande-Chaperon Cell' to Power His Great Inventions: the Phonograph and Electric Light

Albert Einstein Important Handwritten Manuscript: "The Essence of the Theory of Relativity"

Albert Einstein Autograph Manuscript Signed on the Unified Field Theory, with (9) Handwritten Mathematical Equations

Werner Heisenberg Autograph Letter Signed from Aboard the RMS 'Queen Mary' - The Theoretical Physicist Voyages Home After His 1954 American Lecture Tour and His Final Visits with Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi

Albert Schweitzer Archive of (12) Letters and Notes on Philosophy, Aphorisms, and Nuclear Weapons: "Einstein wanted to make the dangers of atomic weapons clear to the world"

Nikola Tesla Typed Letter Signed, Expressing Pre-War Concern for Czechoslovakia Amid "these threatening European conditions"