Autographs of Genius: Darwin, Dickens, Gershwin, Jefferson, Mendelssohn, Napoleon, Paganini, Rand, Voltaire, Washington
Lion Heart Autographs’ Spring 2025 auction, with nearly 250 lots, is our biggest to date, packed with rare, unusual & fascinating autographs in all subject areas!
Highlights include one of the largest collections of VIOLINISTS, STRING QUARTETS and CELLISTS ever offered; rare examples of HEIFETZ; KREISLER; PAGANINI; THIBAUD; VIEUXTEMPS; VIOTTI; YSAYE; famous 19th- & 20th-century violinists. Also BERLIOZ; BIZET; Cesar FRANCK; “Woody” GUTHRIE; JANACEK; LEDBELLY; 8pp ALS by LISZT; rare ALS by MALIBRAN; 2 magnificent MENDELSSOHN ALSs; EUBIE BLAKE & HARRY TRUMAN letters re the gift to the Truman Library; WAGNER letter re his notorious “Judaism in Music.”
HISTORY: J.Q. ADAMS ALS convening the Senate to certify the election of Andrew Jackson; BEN-GURION; PICQUART & CLEMENCEAU; Ruth Bader GINSBURG; US GRANT; Andrew JACKSON on prisoners from the Battle of New Orleans; gigantic SP of FM MONTGOMERY; historic TLS from NANSEN to LENIN; important DS of NAPOLEON; POTEMKIN; personal papers of a French Resistance fighter executed by the Nazis; St Francis DE SALES; WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON.
SCIENCE: Unpublished DARWIN letter; JUNG; LUMIERE; MARCUSE; MONTESQUIEU; ROUSSEAU; VOLTAIRE; rare letter by economist David RICARDO to Jean-Baptiste SAY; SHACKLETON ALS re Antarctic postage stamps.
LITERATURE: Ambrose BIERCE; John LE CARRE; 5 DICKENS items; 3 Ayn RAND items; GB SHAW; rare, early ALS of STENDAHL; ALS of ZOLA to TURGENEV.
SPORTS: Spectacular 1928 Baseball Writers of America menu signed by many NY Yankees including Babe RUTH; Lou GEHRIG; Benny BENGOUGH; Joe “Bullet” BUSH; “Jumping Joe” DUGAN; Hinkey HAINES; Waite HOYT; Miller HUGGINS; Herb PENNOCK and Jacob RUPPERT; plus George M. COHAN, Eddie COLLINS; Johnny DUNDEE; Kenesaw M. LANDIS; Tris SPEAKER and Jimmy WALKER.
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY: DEGAS; DELACROIX; Baron HAUSSMANN to NAPOLEON III; two RODIN items; Saul STEINBERG; original drawing by TENNEIL; unique album of cabinet photographs of Gilbert & Sullivan actress Venie CLANCEY
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