Search Results: Titles starting with N from The Raab Collection

1/3/52. Dwight D. Eisenhower Justice Owen J. Roberts resigned from the Supreme Court to advocate for a Federal Union of democracies, and to unite one group favoring world government and the other favoring Union of the DemocraciesFrom 1951-52, Eisenhower was the Allied Supreme Commander in Europe, which title included the post of head of NATO. In 1952, Turkey joined NATO, and Ike traveled to Ankara, Turkey, to seal with his presence the membership of Turkey in Europe.Justice Owen J. Roberts resigned from the Supreme Court in 1945, and was afterwards instrumental in forming the Atlantic Union, which would advocate for a Federal Union of Democracies, but with a gradual approach to final world union by way of regional unions. Two million people signed a petition that the U.S. and Great Britain unify, others wanted to start with the U.S. and Canada. Roberts said that although he approved of NATO, he thought it was a fine tradition but could not prevent war, and that permanent peace required a federation… Read More

10/1807. Napoleon Bonaparte We have never seen such a handwritten accounting by NapoleonThe Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1807 was a secret agreement between Spain and France for the partition of Portugal. In that Treaty, Spanish King Charles IV and Napoleon I outlined a proposed conquest and partition of Portugal by Spain and France as part of Napoleon's ongoing attempt to isolate England. Consisting of twenty-one articles, seven of which were secret, the treaty divided Portugal into three parts. The north would go to the King of Etruria, the grandson of Charles IV; the central provinces would be awarded to Napoleon, until a general peace could be concluded; and the south, the Algarve, would go to Manuel de Godoy, Charles's first minister. At the conclusion of the peace, Charles IV would be recognized as emperor of Spanish America. The treaty also allowed a French army of 25,000 men and 3,000 cavalry to cross Spain into Lisbon with a 40,000-troop reserve just north of the Spanish-French border at… Read More

23/10/1793. Napoleon Bonaparte Written just days after his first ever promotionOne of only 4 documents of Bonaparte, stretching back a century, we can find during the siege, signed with the early Italian form his signature, BuonaparteThe French Revolution had not only overthrown a monarch, it had pitted Europe against France. Austria and more distantly England saw a revolutionary France as a transcendental threat. So as Paris was engaged in a massive upheaval, it faced an ongoing state of hostilities with its neighbors. This led to a series of executive governments, the most famous of which was the Committee of Public Safety, established in April 1793, after the King had already been beheaded. In July of that year, Maximilien Robespierre was elected to the Committee; and so under his leadership began the Reign of Terror, so named because terror was in fact a policy instrument recognized by the state as an extension of the Revolution, which must be maintained at all costs. This control extended… Read More

08/03/1809. Napoleon Bonaparte Never before offered for sale, acquired in the US from the direct descendants of the recipient residing in the statesThe Battle of Wagram was a decisive battle at the high water mark of Napoleon’s conquests. The Battle pitted Napoleon’s forces against the Austrians and the Fifth Coalition, which was virtually destroyed as a result. In the Treaty of Schonbrunn, Austria was forced to cede one sixth of its population and much territory. Napoleon’s power would never be greater, his star never brighter.General Mouton, the Count of Lobau, was a prominent general and later Marshall of the Empire for Napoleon. Mouton means ""lamb"" in French, the source of Napoleon's now famous statement on Mouton: ""My lamb is a lion."" Napoleon valued Mouton to the extent that for his great Russia campaign he made him senior aide to camp. In 1806 Mouton was a Brigade General. He would remain in Napoleon's service until the end of the Empire, during which time he showed himself to be… Read More

12/11/1810. Napoleon Bonaparte He sends his aide to camp to verify these claims Never before offered for sale, acquired in the US from the direct descendants of the recipient residing in the states.Colonel Gouget was the commander of the dragoons of Napoleon's Paris guard and had been in that position since 1802. In 1810, it was thought to send him to Spain in that capacity, promoting him to adjutant general. However, complaints had surfaced, which Napoleon had shared with his minister of war and his aide to camp, that Gouget was overly harsh to the soldiers under him. And Napoleon took that seriously and disapprovingly.General Mouton, the Count of Lobau, was a prominent general and later Marshall of the Empire for Napoleon. Mouton means ""lamb"" in French, the source of Napoleon's now famous statement on Mouton: ""My lamb is a lion."" Napoleon valued Mouton to the extent that for his great Russia campaign he made him senior aide to camp. In 1806 Mouton was a Brigade General. He would remain in… Read More

14/08/1806. Napoleon Bonaparte He aims to build back the Navy after the defeat of the Trafalgar Campaign and worries about saboteurs in Bordeaux A letter never before offered for sale, acquired from the direct descendants of the recipienthttps://vimeo.com/916159720?share=copy Napoleon’s appeal to his men is legendary. More than almost any other person, he embodied the nationalism of the 19th century; his soldiers revered him and for generations after he was studied for his populist leadership. He was a man of the people. Many books have been written on this subject, movies produced, tracking his magnetic and popular character. Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke for many when he wrote of Napoleon, in his essay focused on the General, ""Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known and the most powerful; and owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated… Read More

1959. Dwight D. Eisenhower Perhaps the most historically important gun to reach the market; Gifts of state are themselves rare, as since an Act of Congress in 1978, they have belonged to the nation and not the recipient; The magnificent shotgun, another one of which was given to President Eisenhower, comes with a copy of the thank you letter from McElroy to Khrushchev Khrushchev’s visit lessened Cold War tensions and was a major reason the Cold War did not turn hot [embed size=""full""]https://player.vimeo.com/490828807[/embed] ProvenanceThis gift was given by the craftsmen in Izhevsk to Premier Khrushchev, who brought it from Moscow and instructed his foreign policy team to present it to Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy, a gift of state meant to symbolize a detente between the two nations. It was retained by McElroy and passed to his son, whose heirs sold it directly to us. It has never before been offered for sale and was not known to have survived.RarityThis is perhaps the most… Read More

22/08/1804. Napoleon Bonaparte This is earliest document we found having reached the market bearing the title ""Napoleon I"", Emperor of the French on it; it was signed just weeks after he gave himself the title and months before his coronation in front of the Pope. Reference for research, publication, and institutions: Raab B13.105The Corsican-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe, and Napoleon returned home from his Egyptian campaign to take over the reigns of the French government and save his nation from collapse. After becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and defeated Austria. In 1802, he established the Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 he established the French empire.On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on… Read More

30/09/1886. Thomas Edison Our gratitude for the assistance of the Papers of Thomas Edison ~ Edison contracts with one of his hand-picked inventors to make improvements in the manufacture of incandescent lamps, and uses this drawing to illustrate his ideasAlbert Keller, who later played a role in manufacturing the phonograph and who invented the jukebox, was assigned to design “a machine whereby one man can form cups and 3000 inside parts in 10 hours, after two days trial of it.”[embed size=""full""]https://player.vimeo.com/video/472334756[/embed]Albert Keller was the assistant to Ezra Gilliland, Edison's best friend, and the two of them joined Edison at his New York and later lamp factory labs in 1885-1887. After Edison began to develop his wax-cylinder phonograph in 1887, Gilliland and Keller set up a factory to manufacture them with Keller as the superintendent. Gilliland became general agent for the phonograph. Keller was also a talented inventor, and created the first really successful and… Read More

Dec-43. Winston Churchill|Franklin D. Roosevelt|Eleanor Roosevelt This great event, sponsored by the British and American governments, was the subject of media reports in both countries and a US government war-time documentary to support the mission, that spans nearly 30 minutes and can be watched below Unique, and also signed by Gen. Bernard Montgomery, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, newsmen covering the event, and dozens of others Compiled by John H. Jones, a British member of the mission, union leader, and future Member of Parliament, and retained by his heirs until its acquisition this year by Raab We are not aware of any other item ever offered for sale carrying signatures of FDR, Eleanor, and Churchill together, let alone this varied and consequential collection of autographs [embed]https://vimeo.com/924542832?share=copy[/embed] In 1943, the US government sent 4 American workers over to the UK as part of a worker exchange. The purpose was to cement desperately needed… Read More

26/05/1945. Americana|Norman Rockwell “Hasten the Homecoming” by revered artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell is a color poster from a Saturday Evening Post cover painting by Rockwell. It appeared on the cover of the Post on May 26, 1945. This is yet another timeless favorite of Rockwell collectors, a classic for all the ages. Excellent.

16/09/1850. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a physician, poet, author and lecturer. But he could not always accommodate those who invited him to speak.Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, September 16, 1850, to someone apparently in Troy, New York, who wanted him to lecture there. “If persuasive eloquence and persevering entreaty could move me from the course which I am obliged to lay down for myself, Mr. Brooks would have sent me to Troy had Troy been remote as ancient Ilium. It is a determination however with me not to accept invitations from a distance during the lecturing season, and it is rarely convenient for me to do so at any other. In the cold season I usually get a severe cold or a lumbago or something of the kind if I attempt to travel, and as I lecture almost daily I am very shy of such encumbrances. In the warm season I am in the country with my family which I am unwilling to leave alone for any considerable excursions. The exceptions I… Read More

14/08/1846. James B. Longacre James Barton Longacre was a portraitist and U.S. Mint engraver, best known for designing the Indian Head cent, which entered commerce in 1859, and for the designs of the Shield nickel, Flying Eagle cent and other coins of the mid-19th century.Autograph Letter Signed, Philadelphia, August 14, 1846, to the publishers Carey & Hart. “I can supply you with the vol. (4.) of National Ports which you request. Please send at half-past 12 o’cl. to my office No. 27 Minor St., up stairs - & say whether it is wanted bound or in numbers.”This is a rare autograph and the first we have had from Longacre.By 1819 Longacre had made a name for himself by providing illustrations for popular biographical books. He portrayed the leading men of his day; support from some of them, such as South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, led to his appointment as chief engraver of the U.S. Mint in 1844. In 1856 he designed the Flying Eagle cent. When that design proved difficult to strike he… Read More