Price: $125,000 AN EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT SIGNED BY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POPES OF MEDIEVAL TIMES [1159-1181]. Pope Alexander III. Document Signed, as Pope, one page, folio [28 by 24 inches], on vellum, Rome, May 25, 1163. The Pope’s signature appears beneath the text between the sign of the Rota and the Benevalete sign; countersigned and dated … [ Read More ]
religion
Catholic Church
Price: $17,500 Document Signed, by Cardinal St. Praxedis, Antonio Ciocchi del Monte, one page, oblong folio, 330 by 470 mm. [13 by 18 inches], [ca. 1528]. On vellum. Two vertical folds damp-stained in the upper portion, affecting the illuminated border and two letters of the heading; some rubbing of the painted surfaces, otherwise in fine … [ Read More ]
Herzl, Theodor
Price: $12,500 Founder of Zionism. Autograph Letter Signed, Th. Herzl, one page, octavo, January 4, 1889. To Esteemed Doctor. “If it’s all right with you, I’ll come to you this afternoon at half past three, to work a little. If my messenger doesn’t find you at home, but hears that you are already in Vienna, … [ Read More ]
Illuminated Manuscript
Price: $2,500 Page from a Bible, Italy, 15th Century, 9 inches wide by 12 inches high. Matted in cream; in an antiqued wooden frame measuring 15 inches wide by 18 1/2 inches high. This item is associated with the following category in our inventory: Religion
Roosevelt, Theodore
Price: $15,000 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, on White House stationery, dated from Oyster Bay, New York, July 2, 1908. With original envelope to the Rev. William Potts George, in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The President sends an expression of his very deep appreciation of the action of the New York Preachers Meeting … [ Read More ]
Tapis, Father Esteban
Price: $8,750 Presidente of the missions in Alta California from 1803 to 1812. Autograph Letter Signed, one half page, small quarto, Mission of Santa Barbara, November 14, 1804. To Jose Dario Rouset. Father Tapis discusses new regulation which pertain to the use of Holy Oil in the Mass and requests that the mission be allowed … [ Read More ]
Young, Brigham
Price: $8,750 American Mormon leader; directed and superintended the mass migration of the Mormons to Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah; first governor of the Territory of Utah. A partly printed fifty-cent Mormon currency note, issued to N.K. Whitney and Signed by Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Thomas Bullock. Measuring 3 * inches wide … [ Read More ]