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FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 1896-1940. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.. Sold for US$191,000 inc. premium

LÉGER, FERNAND. 1881-1955; & THOMAS BOUCHARD. 1895-1984. Extensive archive of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera and ORIGINAL PAINTED CUT-OUTS as filmed with Léger to demonstrate his process of composition.. Sold for US$31,250 inc. premium

MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. 1882-1956. When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co., [1924].. Sold for US$10,000 inc. premium

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159 lots available

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AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN SIBERIA.
Large archive of photographs, negatives and ephemera, including:

Sold for US$4,000 inc. premium

2 —
CARTER WHITE HOUSE.
Official album of 37 White House Press color photographs of the Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter, January 20, 1977,

US$800 - US$1,200

CARTER WHITE HOUSE. Album of official color and black-and-white White House press photographs, clippings, invitations, Christmas cards and photocopies compiled during the Carter Administration, 1977-1980.

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CARTER WHITE HOUSE.
Album of official color and black-and-white White House press photographs, clippings, invitations, Christmas cards and photocopies compiled during the Carter Administration, 1977-1980.

US$800 - US$1,200

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CHINA.
A group of 10 photographs, mostly portraits of Chinese military and political figures, 3 x 5 to 8 1/2 x 11 inches,

Sold for US$3,125 inc. premium

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EICHMANN TRIAL.
Adolf Eichmann. [Jerusalem]: Police d'Israel, [1961].

Sold for US$7,000

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EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D., & DOUGLAS MACARTHUR.
Photograph Signed ("Dwight D Eisenhower" and "Douglas MacArthur"), 7 1/2 x 10 inch silver print,

US$12,000 - US$18,000

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ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. b.1926.
Photograph Signed ("Elizabeth R") and dated 1959

Sold for US$5,000 inc. premium

ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. B.1926. Album containing 43 color and black-and-white White House Press photographs of the Arrival Ceremony for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at The White House, July 7, 1976,

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ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. B.1926.
Album containing 43 color and black-and-white White House Press photographs of the Arrival Ceremony for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at The White House, July 7, 1976,

US$1,500 - US$2,000

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GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948.
Photograph Signed

Sold for US$7,500 inc. premium

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GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948.
Portrait Signed ("M K Gandhi") and

US$3,000 - US$5,000

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GLASNOST.
"OTETS, KUZKIN" (pseud.).
Glasnost ... Gorbachev ... Perestroika. N.p., [c. 1989].

US$2,000 - US$3,000

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HALLIBURTON, RICHARD. 1900-1939.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Richard Halliburton"), 12 pp, 4to, San Francisco, California,

US$2,000 - US$3,000

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IRANI-AMERICAN RELATIONS.
Album containing 33 gelatin silver print photographs, 6 x 8 inches each,

US$1,000 - US$1,500

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KENNEDY, JOHN F. 1917-1963.
STOUGHTON, CECIL B.
A series of 15 albums assembled by White House photographer, Cecil Stoughton,

US$15,000 - US$20,000

[KENNEDY, JOHN F.] DE WELDON, FELIX. 1907-2003. Original plaster maquette of the bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, modeled mid to late 1963, completed early 1964.

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[KENNEDY, JOHN F.]
DE WELDON, FELIX. 1907-2003.
Original plaster maquette of the bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, modeled mid to late 1963, completed early 1964.

Amended

US$200,000 - US$300,000

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KENNEDY, JACQUELINE. 1929-1994.
Typed Letter Signed ("Jacqueline Kennedy"),

US$3,000 - US$5,000

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KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. 1929-1968.
Autograph Letter Initialed ("MLK"),

US$25,000 - US$35,000

18 —
KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. 1929-1968.
Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row, [1963].

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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KOREA.
Album containing 242 photographs documenting the Suribong water/power dam construction project, Kuron River, most 4 x 6 inches,

US$2,000 - US$3,000

20 —
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
CHERONNET, LOUIS.
The Palace of the League of Nations. Paris: L'Illustration, 1938.

US$1,000 - US$1,500

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MAO ZEDONG. 1893-1976.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966.

Sold for US$68,750 inc. premium

MAO ZEDONG. 1893-1976. Tian Xiao Guang, ed. Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [China]: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [1964].

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MAO ZEDONG. 1893-1976.
Tian Xiao Guang, ed.
Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [China]: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [1964].

US$12,000 - US$18,000

NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING. National List of Persons known to be or suspected of being engaged in the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Narcotics, September 25, 1953.

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NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING.
National List of Persons known to be or suspected of being engaged in the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Narcotics, September 25, 1953.

US$2,500 - US$3,500

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NEHRU, JAWAHARLAL. 1889-1964.
Portrait photograph signed ("Jawaharlal Nehru") and dated "Nov. 1952" in mount, 9 x 7 1/2 inch bromide print

Sold for US$1,500 inc. premium

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. Exchange Place at New Street. Original "humpback" style street sign, 1920s, in blue enameled porcelain over steel with white letters, set in cast iron frame with bracket.

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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
Exchange Place at New Street. Original "humpback" style street sign, 1920s, in blue enameled porcelain over steel with white letters, set in cast iron frame with bracket.

Sold for US$18,750 inc. premium

NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS. 1913-1994. National PGA Hole-in-One Contest Sectional Champion 1961 Richard M. Nixon. German Florn clock embedded in a marble and steel base with L. G. Balfour Company label on green felt bottom,

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NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS. 1913-1994.
National PGA Hole-in-One Contest Sectional Champion 1961 Richard M. Nixon. German Florn clock embedded in a marble and steel base with L. G. Balfour Company label on green felt bottom,

Sold for US$5,625 inc. premium

OSWALD, LEE HARVEY. 1939-1963. Autograph Letter Signed ("Lee H. Oswald"), 1 p, Dallas, TX, February or March, 1963, to Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Part USA, and E[lizabeth] G[urley] Flynn, National Chairman of the Communist Party.

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OSWALD, LEE HARVEY. 1939-1963.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Lee H. Oswald"), 1 p, Dallas, TX, February or March, 1963, to Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Part USA, and E[lizabeth] G[urley] Flynn, National Chairman of the Communist Party.

US$50,000 - US$70,000

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. 1858-1919.
Typed Letter Signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, 1 p, 4to, October 1, 1908, Washington, D.C.,

Sold for US$625 inc. premium

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RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTERS.
Sovetskii politicheskii plakat 1917-1967 gg [The Soviet Political Poster 1917-1967]. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1967.

Sold for US$500 inc. premium

TRUMAN, HARRY S. 1884-1972. Activities of the Nationalities Division Democratic National Committee in the Election of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben W. Barkley 1948.

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TRUMAN, HARRY S. 1884-1972.
Activities of the Nationalities Division Democratic National Committee in the Election of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben W. Barkley 1948.

US$1,000 - US$1,500

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U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHY.
BRENKUS, CHUCK, photographer.
A group of 75 photographs of U.S. Navy "Seabees" in Okinawa

US$1,200 - US$1,800

VIETNAM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT. HETTENBACH, STEPHEN AND ROBERT YAGURA, DESIGNERS. Hell No! Nobody Goes! End the War. Palo Alto, CA: Nowels Publications (Menlo Park) for Midpeninsula Observer, October 16, 1967.

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VIETNAM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT.
HETTENBACH, STEPHEN AND ROBERT YAGURA, DESIGNERS.
Hell No! Nobody Goes! End the War. Palo Alto, CA: Nowels Publications (Menlo Park) for Midpeninsula Observer, October 16, 1967.

US$5,000 - US$8,000

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APOLLO 11—ARMSTRONG'S FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON.

US$6,000 - US$9,000

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AVIATION.
BURCHAM, MILO. 1903-1944.
A group of 69 photographs, most 8 x 10 inches, mostly gelatin silver prints with a few color,

US$800 - US$1,200

AVIATION—HOWARD HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY. BRENKUS, CHUCK, photographer. An archive of approximately 317 photographs, the majority related to Hughes Aircraft Company, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 to 15 1/4 x 20 inches (most 8 1/2 x 11 in),

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AVIATION—HOWARD HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY.
BRENKUS, CHUCK, photographer.
An archive of approximately 317 photographs, the majority related to Hughes Aircraft Company, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 to 15 1/4 x 20 inches (most 8 1/2 x 11 in),

US$10,000 - US$15,000

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CRANE, MARGARET, INVENTOR—THE FIRST HOME PREGNANCY TEST.
Original Predictor home pregnancy test prototype, 1968.

Sold for US$11,875 inc. premium

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CRYPTOGRAPHY.
FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM F. 1891-1969.
The Index of Coincidence and Its Applications in Cryptography. Publication No. 22. Paris: Librairie Militaire Universelle, 1922 [1921].

Sold for US$400 inc. premium

EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Autograph Note Signed ("A. Einstein"), in German, 8 lines on the verso of a 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 inch printed visiting card of Einstein from Zurich,

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Autograph Note Signed ("A. Einstein"), in German, 8 lines on the verso of a 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 inch printed visiting card of Einstein from Zurich,

Sold for US$11,250 inc. premium

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Albert"), 2 pp recto and verso,

Sold for US$11,250 inc. premium

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 2 pp recto and verso, 8vo, January 30, 1929,

Sold for US$6,250 inc. premium

EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. A group of material related to Albert Einstein and the family of Adolph Stern, 1929-1932, Caputh, Germany and Los Angeles, California, comprising:

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
A group of material related to Albert Einstein and the family of Adolph Stern, 1929-1932, Caputh, Germany and Los Angeles, California, comprising:

US$3,000 - US$5,000

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 1 p, 4to, March 1, no year,

Sold for US$3,125 inc. premium

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 1 pp, 8vo, August 22, 1940,

Sold for US$6,875 inc. premium

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GRAF ZEPPELIN.
A small, 2 x 8 inches, piece of the exterior cotton-canvas fabric of the Graf Zeppelin from its first transatlantic flight in 1928; a

US$3,000 - US$5,000

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HINDENBURG DISASTER.
Manuscript Log Sheet

US$12,000 - US$18,000

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HINDENBURG DISASTER.

Sold for US$1,187.50 inc. premium

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LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974.
Photograph Signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh") and dated July 11, 1927,

US$2,000 - US$3,000

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LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974.
Typed Letter Signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 2 p, 4to, March 6, 1940,

Sold for US$1,625 inc. premium

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1 — AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN SIBERIA. Large archive of photographs, negatives and ephemera, including:

2 — CARTER WHITE HOUSE. Official album of 37 White House Press color photographs of the Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter, January 20, 1977,

3 — CARTER WHITE HOUSE. Album of official color and black-and-white White House press photographs, clippings, invitations, Christmas cards and photocopies compiled during the Carter Administration, 1977-1980.

4 — CHINA. A group of 10 photographs, mostly portraits of Chinese military and political figures, 3 x 5 to 8 1/2 x 11 inches,

5 — EICHMANN TRIAL. Adolf Eichmann. [Jerusalem]: Police d'Israel, [1961].

6 — EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D., & DOUGLAS MACARTHUR. Photograph Signed ("Dwight D Eisenhower" and "Douglas MacArthur"), 7 1/2 x 10 inch silver print,

7 — ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. b.1926. Photograph Signed ("Elizabeth R") and dated 1959

8 — ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. B.1926. Album containing 43 color and black-and-white White House Press photographs of the Arrival Ceremony for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at The White House, July 7, 1976,

9 — GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948. Photograph Signed

10 — GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948. Portrait Signed ("M K Gandhi") and

11 — GLASNOST. "OTETS, KUZKIN" (pseud.). Glasnost ... Gorbachev ... Perestroika. N.p., [c. 1989].

12 — HALLIBURTON, RICHARD. 1900-1939. Autograph Letter Signed ("Richard Halliburton"), 12 pp, 4to, San Francisco, California,

13 — IRANI-AMERICAN RELATIONS. Album containing 33 gelatin silver print photographs, 6 x 8 inches each,

14 — KENNEDY, JOHN F. 1917-1963. STOUGHTON, CECIL B. A series of 15 albums assembled by White House photographer, Cecil Stoughton,

15 — [KENNEDY, JOHN F.] DE WELDON, FELIX. 1907-2003. Original plaster maquette of the bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, modeled mid to late 1963, completed early 1964.

16 — KENNEDY, JACQUELINE. 1929-1994. Typed Letter Signed ("Jacqueline Kennedy"),

17 — KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. 1929-1968. Autograph Letter Initialed ("MLK"),

18 — KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. 1929-1968. Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row, [1963].

19 — KOREA. Album containing 242 photographs documenting the Suribong water/power dam construction project, Kuron River, most 4 x 6 inches,

20 — LEAGUE OF NATIONS. CHERONNET, LOUIS. The Palace of the League of Nations. Paris: L'Illustration, 1938.

21 — MAO ZEDONG. 1893-1976. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966.

22 — MAO ZEDONG. 1893-1976. Tian Xiao Guang, ed. Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [China]: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [1964].

23 — NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING. National List of Persons known to be or suspected of being engaged in the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Narcotics, September 25, 1953.

24 — NEHRU, JAWAHARLAL. 1889-1964. Portrait photograph signed ("Jawaharlal Nehru") and dated "Nov. 1952" in mount, 9 x 7 1/2 inch bromide print

25 — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. Exchange Place at New Street. Original "humpback" style street sign, 1920s, in blue enameled porcelain over steel with white letters, set in cast iron frame with bracket.

26 — NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS. 1913-1994. National PGA Hole-in-One Contest Sectional Champion 1961 Richard M. Nixon. German Florn clock embedded in a marble and steel base with L. G. Balfour Company label on green felt bottom,

27 — OSWALD, LEE HARVEY. 1939-1963. Autograph Letter Signed ("Lee H. Oswald"), 1 p, Dallas, TX, February or March, 1963, to Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Part USA, and E[lizabeth] G[urley] Flynn, National Chairman of the Communist Party.

28 — ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. 1858-1919. Typed Letter Signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, 1 p, 4to, October 1, 1908, Washington, D.C.,

29 — RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTERS. Sovetskii politicheskii plakat 1917-1967 gg [The Soviet Political Poster 1917-1967]. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1967.

30 — TRUMAN, HARRY S. 1884-1972. Activities of the Nationalities Division Democratic National Committee in the Election of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben W. Barkley 1948.

31 — U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHY. BRENKUS, CHUCK, photographer. A group of 75 photographs of U.S. Navy "Seabees" in Okinawa

32 — VIETNAM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT. HETTENBACH, STEPHEN AND ROBERT YAGURA, DESIGNERS. Hell No! Nobody Goes! End the War. Palo Alto, CA: Nowels Publications (Menlo Park) for Midpeninsula Observer, October 16, 1967.

34 — APOLLO 11—ARMSTRONG'S FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON.

35 — AVIATION. BURCHAM, MILO. 1903-1944. A group of 69 photographs, most 8 x 10 inches, mostly gelatin silver prints with a few color,

36 — AVIATION—HOWARD HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY. BRENKUS, CHUCK, photographer. An archive of approximately 317 photographs, the majority related to Hughes Aircraft Company, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 to 15 1/4 x 20 inches (most 8 1/2 x 11 in),

37 — CRANE, MARGARET, INVENTOR—THE FIRST HOME PREGNANCY TEST. Original Predictor home pregnancy test prototype, 1968.

38 — CRYPTOGRAPHY. FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM F. 1891-1969. The Index of Coincidence and Its Applications in Cryptography. Publication No. 22. Paris: Librairie Militaire Universelle, 1922 [1921].

39 — EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Autograph Note Signed ("A. Einstein"), in German, 8 lines on the verso of a 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 inch printed visiting card of Einstein from Zurich,

40 — EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Autograph Letter Signed ("Albert"), 2 pp recto and verso,

41 — EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 2 pp recto and verso, 8vo, January 30, 1929,

42 — EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. A group of material related to Albert Einstein and the family of Adolph Stern, 1929-1932, Caputh, Germany and Los Angeles, California, comprising:

43 — EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 1 p, 4to, March 1, no year,

44 — EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 1 pp, 8vo, August 22, 1940,

45 — GRAF ZEPPELIN. A small, 2 x 8 inches, piece of the exterior cotton-canvas fabric of the Graf Zeppelin from its first transatlantic flight in 1928; a

46 — HINDENBURG DISASTER. Manuscript Log Sheet

47 — HINDENBURG DISASTER.

48 — LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974. Photograph Signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh") and dated July 11, 1927,

49 — LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974. Typed Letter Signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 2 p, 4to, March 6, 1940,

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1 —
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN SIBERIA.
Large archive of photographs, negatives and ephemera, including:

2 —
CARTER WHITE HOUSE.
Official album of 37 White House Press color photographs of the Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter, January 20, 1977,

3 —
CARTER WHITE HOUSE.
Album of official color and black-and-white White House press photographs, clippings, invitations, Christmas cards and photocopies compiled during the Carter Administration, 1977-1980.

4 —
CHINA.
A group of 10 photographs, mostly portraits of Chinese military and political figures, 3 x 5 to 8 1/2 x 11 inches,

5 —
EICHMANN TRIAL.
Adolf Eichmann. [Jerusalem]: Police d'Israel, [1961].

6 —
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D., & DOUGLAS MACARTHUR.
Photograph Signed ("Dwight D Eisenhower" and "Douglas MacArthur"), 7 1/2 x 10 inch silver print,

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ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. b.1926.
Photograph Signed ("Elizabeth R") and dated 1959

8 —
ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. B.1926.
Album containing 43 color and black-and-white White House Press photographs of the Arrival Ceremony for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at The White House, July 7, 1976,

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GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948.
Photograph Signed

10 —
GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948.
Portrait Signed ("M K Gandhi") and

11 —
GLASNOST.
"OTETS, KUZKIN" (pseud.).
Glasnost ... Gorbachev ... Perestroika. N.p., [c. 1989].

12 —
HALLIBURTON, RICHARD. 1900-1939.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Richard Halliburton"), 12 pp, 4to, San Francisco, California,

13 —
IRANI-AMERICAN RELATIONS.
Album containing 33 gelatin silver print photographs, 6 x 8 inches each,

14 —
KENNEDY, JOHN F. 1917-1963.
STOUGHTON, CECIL B.
A series of 15 albums assembled by White House photographer, Cecil Stoughton,

15 —
[KENNEDY, JOHN F.]
DE WELDON, FELIX. 1907-2003.
Original plaster maquette of the bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, modeled mid to late 1963, completed early 1964.

16 —
KENNEDY, JACQUELINE. 1929-1994.
Typed Letter Signed ("Jacqueline Kennedy"),

17 —
KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. 1929-1968.
Autograph Letter Initialed ("MLK"),

18 —
KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. 1929-1968.
Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row, [1963].

19 —
KOREA.
Album containing 242 photographs documenting the Suribong water/power dam construction project, Kuron River, most 4 x 6 inches,

20 —
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
CHERONNET, LOUIS.
The Palace of the League of Nations. Paris: L'Illustration, 1938.

21 —
MAO ZEDONG. 1893-1976.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966.

22 —
MAO ZEDONG. 1893-1976.
Tian Xiao Guang, ed.
Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [China]: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [1964].

23 —
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING.
National List of Persons known to be or suspected of being engaged in the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Narcotics, September 25, 1953.

24 —
NEHRU, JAWAHARLAL. 1889-1964.
Portrait photograph signed ("Jawaharlal Nehru") and dated "Nov. 1952" in mount, 9 x 7 1/2 inch bromide print

25 —
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
Exchange Place at New Street. Original "humpback" style street sign, 1920s, in blue enameled porcelain over steel with white letters, set in cast iron frame with bracket.

26 —
NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS. 1913-1994.
National PGA Hole-in-One Contest Sectional Champion 1961 Richard M. Nixon. German Florn clock embedded in a marble and steel base with L. G. Balfour Company label on green felt bottom,

27 —
OSWALD, LEE HARVEY. 1939-1963.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Lee H. Oswald"), 1 p, Dallas, TX, February or March, 1963, to Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Part USA, and E[lizabeth] G[urley] Flynn, National Chairman of the Communist Party.

28 —
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. 1858-1919.
Typed Letter Signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, 1 p, 4to, October 1, 1908, Washington, D.C.,

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RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTERS.
Sovetskii politicheskii plakat 1917-1967 gg [The Soviet Political Poster 1917-1967]. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1967.

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TRUMAN, HARRY S. 1884-1972.
Activities of the Nationalities Division Democratic National Committee in the Election of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben W. Barkley 1948.

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U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHY.
BRENKUS, CHUCK, photographer.
A group of 75 photographs of U.S. Navy "Seabees" in Okinawa

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VIETNAM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT.
HETTENBACH, STEPHEN AND ROBERT YAGURA, DESIGNERS.
Hell No! Nobody Goes! End the War. Palo Alto, CA: Nowels Publications (Menlo Park) for Midpeninsula Observer, October 16, 1967.

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APOLLO 11—ARMSTRONG'S FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON.

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AVIATION.
BURCHAM, MILO. 1903-1944.
A group of 69 photographs, most 8 x 10 inches, mostly gelatin silver prints with a few color,

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AVIATION—HOWARD HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY.
BRENKUS, CHUCK, photographer.
An archive of approximately 317 photographs, the majority related to Hughes Aircraft Company, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 to 15 1/4 x 20 inches (most 8 1/2 x 11 in),

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CRANE, MARGARET, INVENTOR—THE FIRST HOME PREGNANCY TEST.
Original Predictor home pregnancy test prototype, 1968.

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CRYPTOGRAPHY.
FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM F. 1891-1969.
The Index of Coincidence and Its Applications in Cryptography. Publication No. 22. Paris: Librairie Militaire Universelle, 1922 [1921].

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Autograph Note Signed ("A. Einstein"), in German, 8 lines on the verso of a 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 inch printed visiting card of Einstein from Zurich,

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Albert"), 2 pp recto and verso,

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 2 pp recto and verso, 8vo, January 30, 1929,

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
A group of material related to Albert Einstein and the family of Adolph Stern, 1929-1932, Caputh, Germany and Los Angeles, California, comprising:

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 1 p, 4to, March 1, no year,

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), 1 pp, 8vo, August 22, 1940,

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GRAF ZEPPELIN.
A small, 2 x 8 inches, piece of the exterior cotton-canvas fabric of the Graf Zeppelin from its first transatlantic flight in 1928; a

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HINDENBURG DISASTER.
Manuscript Log Sheet

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HINDENBURG DISASTER.

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LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974.
Photograph Signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh") and dated July 11, 1927,

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LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974.
Typed Letter Signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 2 p, 4to, March 6, 1940,