Price: $12,500 Apollo XI. Signed Photograph of the Apollo XI lunar astronauts crew posing in their space suits against a lunar background, Inscribed by Armstrong and Signed on the mount below, “Best Wishes To James E. Rogan / Neil Armstrong “. Also Signed by M. Collins and Buzz Aldrin. The color photograph measures 14 inches … [ Read More ]
explorers
Clark, William
Price: $12,500 American explorer. Letter Signed, William Clark, two pages, quarto, Superintendency of Indian Affairs, St. Louis, September 27, 1832. To Col. Ira Cottle, regarding Cotle’s claim against the Fox Tribe for 30 cattle stolen in 1816. While the War Department had rejected Cottle’s claim, Clark writes: “Believing your claim to be strictly just, I … [ Read More ]
Cook, Frederick A
Price: $3,750 American arctic explorer; he claimed to have reached the North Pole April 21, 1908 ahead of Peary; denounced by Peary and his claim rejected as fraudulent, on grounds of insufficient evidence, by scientists as Copenhagen. Partly printed Typewritten Document Signed, seven pages, legal folio, Leavenworth, Kansas, July 16, 1926. An Application for Executive … [ Read More ]
Dubuque, Julien
Price: $4,500 Canadian-born pioneer in Iowa; negotiated agreement with Fox Indians for right to work lead mines in Iowa area; first white settler near what is now Dubuque, Iowa. Autograph Document Signed, one page, 3 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches, May 18, 1798. In French. Dubuque signs a three-line promissory note “good for 100 livres…which … [ Read More ]
Franklin, Sir John
Price: $2,750 English arctic explorer; explored the present-day Northwest Territories of Canada, the Yukon and Alaska; discovered the Northwest Passage; lost in the Arctic in 1847. Autographed Sir John Franklin, Letter, incomplete, four very full pages, quarto, HMS Rainbow, Corfu, September 12, 1830. To My dear Children. A very fine and lengthy letter about the character, … [ Read More ]
Lewis and Clark
Price: $27,500 American explorers who led the Expedition (“Voyage of Discovery”) of 1804. A portion of an Autograph Letter written by Meriwether Lewis, Signed in the text , Capt Lewis, circa 1801, and an Autograph Document Signed by William Clark, 1815, framed together as an ensemble. During the late 1790’s Meriwether Lewis was in the … [ Read More ]
Livingstone, David
Price: $8,750 Scottish explorer in Africa. Autograph Document Signed, one page, quarto, Mosambique, March 7, 1864. I hereby certify that Thomas Ward steward served in the Pioneer from the departure from England in 1860 to 15th February 1864 and during that time his conduct has been very good. Somewhat worn appearance. Signed by David Livingstone … [ Read More ]
Shackleton, Ernest H
Price: $6,750 English Antarctic explorer. Autograph Letter Signed, E.H. Shackleton, two pages, small octavo, on an imprinted correspondence card, Royal Societies Club, St. James Street, September 29, 1903. To “Dear Sir.” “I am afraid that until I have seen the President I cannot settle anything about a lecture. I will let you know when he … [ Read More ]
Voyageurs
Price: $2,750 A Partly Printed Contract in which Louis Rocquebrune is engaged by the firm McTavish, McGillivray & Co. and their associates, John Ogilvy and Thomas Thain, “to make the journey both to and from Fort William on the River Kaministiguia; pass through Michilimakinac and go to the Rain Lake, if he is so required … [ Read More ]