5. [FILM & TV] Ben Blue (1901-1975) Canadian-American actor and comedian. Born in Montreal, Quebec, at the age of nine, Blue emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland, where he won a contest for the best impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. Blue established himself as a solo comedian, portraying a bald-headed dumb-bell with a goofy expression. Producer Hal Roach featured him in his "Taxi Boys" comedy shorts, but Blue's dopey character was an acquired taste and he was soon replaced by other comedians. Later in the 1930s he worked at Paramount Pictures, notably in The Big Broadcast of 1938, and later at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in films such as Easy to Wed. In 1950, he had his own short-lived TV series, The Ben Blue Show, and was also a regular on The Frank Sinatra Show. Signed vintage 1930s photo, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2". VG.......50-75

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8.  [FILM] Original vintage photograph of George C. Scott on the set of the film Patton.  He's standing in the rear wearing sun glasses, with camera. Approx. 10x8. Numerous cracks & other faults but in much better condition than above.  Normally we seldom offer unsigned photos but this particular one once owned by Scott himself [his personal collection]..........40-60

10. Joseph Hopkinson [1770-1842] American politician, b. Philadelphia. Son of Francis Hopkinson. Member, U.S. House of Representatives (1815-19). Judge, U.S. district court, eastern district of Pennsylvania (1828-42). Author of the patriotic song "Hail Columbia" (1798), first sung by Gilbert Fox in Philadelphia. ADS, 1828, receiving payment of services from Peter A. Burns who also signs. Approx. 8x4". VG............100-150

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11. [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK [1828-1895] American sculptor; founder & president [1867] of Chicago Academy of Design. Among his works are the Douglas monument in Chicago and a Douglas & Lincoln statue at the capitol in Springfield. He made the famous life mask of Lincoln and cast of his hands as well as a bust of the president from life. ADS, Chicago, 1876. A promissory note filled out by Volk, and since he wrote his name in the body we are calling this signed. The man owed the money has signed at bottom. Nautical vignette. Looks like a bank check...............100-150

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Letter to Lawford
Letter to secretary
Tape reel box
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22. [ART] John Sell Cotman (1782 - 1842) This original etching entitled, Norwich Abbey, was executed in 1810, printed on stiff wove paper, dates to 1838 from the second and final edition printed in London by Henry Bohn. The only difference between the two editions is that Bohn added Roman numeration to the plates in the upper centre margin. Image approx. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2" plus wide margins. VG.........125-175

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23.  [ART] John Sell Cotman (1782 - 1842) This original etching entitled, Kirkstall-Abbey-York, was executed in 1811, printed on stiff wove paper, dates to 1838 from the second and final edition printed in London by Henry Bohn. The only difference between the two editions is that Bohn added Roman numeration to the plates in the upper centre margin. Image approx. 12 x 8-1/2" plus wide margins. VG.........125-175

24. [ART] FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist. Original CHARCOAL DRAWING, signed  "FS" LOWER RIGHT,  approx. 17-3/4 x 12 in. paper. Dated New Hampshire, 1971. Unframed. Comes with biographical information. This is, without doubt, by Solomon and guaranteed to be so without a time limit. Solomon won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artist's as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. We purchased his personal papers and most of his drawings at his estate sale. His work is fairly scarce. The photos shown below DO NOT accompany this drawing and are not for sale. Also, showing below is a copy of Royal Academy of Arts notification that Samuel Courtauld has selected a painting by Solomon for purchase in 1945. Courtauld, who would died two tears later, was the founder of the Courtauld Art Institute in England. Courtauld had formed an important art collection including multiple works by Manet, Cezanne, Renoir etc., which he gave to the Courtauld and the Tate. He had purchased at least 5 paintings by Frederick Solomon and when he saw the painting JACOB at Solomon's exhibition at the JABE Gallery he ordered that the painting be sent to the TATE Gallery but he died a few days later and the purchase never took place. We will include a copy of the Royal Academy/Courtauld purchase document to the winning bidder.........150-250

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25.  [ART] Etienne-Gabriel Bocourt (1821-1882)  French etcher.  Original etching, portrait of the artist Gustave Courbet, image approx. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4" plus margins.  The soft crease in scan below is not that visible in real life. VG............100-150

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26. [ART] Coryn Boel II [1622-1660] Flemish. Original etching, PLATE SIGNED, after painting by A. Schiauone, image approx. 11.5 x 8". Pictures 5 men surrounding woman with child in her lap. Religious scene. Other examples of Boel's etchings are in the collection of the San Francisco Art Museum. Boel was born about 1620/22 in Antwerp. This print is most likely from TENIERS GALLERY, published in Amsterdam in 1755. VG..............100-150

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27. [ART] Alan Crane (1901 - 1969) Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1901, Alan Crane studied at Pratt Institute. His work is represented in the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Carnegie Institute, Metropolitan Museum, New York Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Boston Public Library and Trinity University. Author and illustrator of three children's book, he was also a member of the Salmagundi Club, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, Prairie Print Makers, Audubon Artists, Rockport Art Association, and North Shore Art Association. He received prizes awarded by the Library of Congress, Salmagundi Club and the Rockpot Art Association. All of Crane's lithographs were printed by George C. Miller, New York City. A master of technique and depth of field, Alan Crane's images convey a subtle and refined tonal consonance as they reveal traditional life on Cape Ann, MA and in his wife's native Mexico. Original graphite drawing, unsigned, approx. 10 x 14". This was done on preparation for his lithograph titled "Summer Night" which was in an edition of 40. We believe that the pre-drawings Crane did for his lithographs were never signed, and were not intended to be offered for sale. Excellent condition...........200-300

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37. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATE 129 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "A KEEN-SIGHTED POLITICIAN WARMING HIS IMAGINATION.",  image size approx. 13.5 x 9.5" plus margins. Published  June I5th, 1795  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "LORD ORSNYILLE. This is a satirical picture of Lord Grenville, who at a later period joined in the celebrated Broad Bottom Ministry. The position with regard to the fire appears to have been a favourite one with his Lordship". As usual there is another etching on the verso............100-150

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38. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATE 78 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "ANTISACCHAEITES ; OR, JOHN BULL AND HIS FAMILY LEAVING OFF THE USE OF SUGAR.",  image size approx. 12-1/2 x 15-3/4" plus margins. Published  March 27, 1792 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "QEORGE III. THE QUEEN. THE PRINCESSES.  The Royal Pair sotting an example of economy, which appears by no means agreeable to all the family. Peter Pindar is said to have composed a poem on this subject, which ho destroyed before it was printed." As usual there are other etchings on the verso............200-300

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39. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATE 444 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "GERMAN LUXURY; OR, REPOS A L'ALLEMAND.",  image size approx. 9.5 x 12" plus margins. Published  Jan. 22nd, 1800  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "A satirical print, said to have been intended to tell upon the German Legion, at this time brought into England. " As usual there is another etching on the verso............100-150

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44. [ART] Filippo Morghen (Florence, 1730 - Naples, 1777) accomplished eighteenth century engraver. He studied art in Rome for a period of seven years before settling in Naples where he created etchings and engravings. Filippo Morghen was a leading engraver for the recent archaeological discoveries detailed in the Antiquities of Herculaneum, published in Naples in 1757, and the sole engraver and publisher of Views of Ruins in the Environs of Naples, published in 1766. In fact, reference is made to the discoveries at Herculaneum (then a Spanish possession) in the lower right corner of this portrait engraving of Charles III, King of Spain, where we see ancient pottery and sculpture as well as archeological tools-of-the-trade, such as a shovel and a pick. Filippo Morghen's fine engravings earned him the title of 'Engraver to the King of the Two Sicilies'. He was also the father and teacher of Rafaello Morghen (1758-1833), one of the most influential engravers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Carlos III Hispania Atque Indiarum Rex is based upon a design created by the eighteenth century Italian artist, Camillus Paderni (Naples, c. 1720 - 1770). Original Engraving, portrait of Carlos III Hispania Atque Indiarum Rex (Charles III, King of Spain), image approx. 17 X 12" plus margins. Printed on mid eighteenth century hand-made, laid paper. It is a fine, early impression in excellent condition throughout and an outstanding example of the 18th century portrait engraving. This original engraving stands as a prime example of the famous art of Filippo Morghen. VG............250-350

46. [ART] Portrait of George Washington - original engraving/etching/aquatint by T. Johnson, plate signed & dated 1903 in the plate. This, of course, was done after Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait. Image 11-1/2 x 9-3/4" plus wide margins.  VG. Too large for scanner's window but you can see most of it in scan below............100-150

47. [WM. HOWARD TAFT] ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ETCHING of William Howard Taft, US President and Chief Justice of US Supreme Court. Original etching pencil signed by the artist, Phillips, image 14 x 11" plus wide margins. Image area and margins near image are very good....150-200

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49. [STOCK CERTIFICATE] Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co, stock certificate for one share, 1852, approx. 9-1/4 x 7". VG..............200-300

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53. [ART] ROY CHARLES FOX (1908-1993) American artist. Member of Print Council of America; Rochester Print Club; Cooperstown Art Association; Elmira Art Club. His work is in the permanent collections of Elmira College, Arnot Art Museum, Florida Southern, etc. He exhibited at Audubon Artists 1942-44; Saranac Lake Art League 1943 & 1944; Northwest Print Makers 1944-48; Wawasee Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Laguna Beach AA 1944 & 45; Oakland Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Phila. Print Club 1956; Phila. Etchers 1962; Albany Print Club 1947; Grand Central Galleries (NY) 1946; Corning Glass Center 1965, etc. Offered here is a wood-engraving, unsigned, c. 1940s, approx. 4 x 8 in. plus margins. VG condition..........50-75

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54. [ART] ROY CHARLES FOX (1908-1993) American artist. Member of Print Council of America; Rochester Print Club; Cooperstown Art Association; Elmira Art Club. His work is in the permanent collections of Elmira College, Arnot Art Museum, Florida Southern, etc. He exhibited at Audubon Artists 1942-44; Saranac Lake Art League 1943 & 1944; Northwest Print Makers 1944-48; Wawasee Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Laguna Beach AA 1944 & 45; Oakland Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Phila. Print Club 1956; Phila. Etchers 1962; Albany Print Club 1947; Grand Central Galleries (NY) 1946; Corning Glass Center 1965, etc. Offered here is a wood-engraving, unsigned, c. 1940s, approx. 6 x 4 in. plus margins. Marked "Proof" by Fox. VG condition..........50-75 

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55.  [ART] MARGUERITE PEARSON (1898-1978) Noted American painter. Born in Philadelphia, she made her reputation in the Rockport area of Mass., north of Boston. She studied at the Boston Art Museum School; and Rockport Summer School, under A.T. Hibbard. She was a member of The North Shore Arts Association; Allied Artists of America; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Rockport Art Association; American Artists Professional League; American Federation of Arts. Offered here is an original oil painting on stretched canvas, 25-3/4 x 19-1/2 in. plus frame. Painted in black & white [and therefore grays], obviously to be used as an illustration for some book or publication unknown to us. Unsigned but with Estate Certification on back signed by Martha Blanshet [?], Director, Rockport Art Association, Feb. 19, 1980. She certifies that this unsigned painting is from the Pearson estate. Several slight crack lines in the paint o/w VG. Pearson's paintings are today highly prized...........4000-6000

56. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) American artist, illustrator and author. He studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. A transcendentalist and mystic, Kent painted remote and austere lands, including Newfoundland (1914-15), Tierra del Fuego (1922-23), and Greenland (1929; 1931-32; 1934-35).

Collotype offered here from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925.

Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins. Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made paper. These are proof printing. Fine, black impressions, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce.............100-150

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57. [ART] MORTON GARCHIK  (1929-2009)  American artist. He studied at the School of Visual Arts where he won the First Prize in drawing. Since then he has received many more prizes. He designed of the Book cover of “Gimpel The Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer.  His graphics have appeared in the Seattle Art Museum’s International Exhibitions, the Honolulu Printmakers International, DePaul Univ. 7th Annual Contemporary American Printmakers Exhibition, 7th0 National at Ohio Univ.,  etc. He has had numerous one-man shows in the United States and Canada. In New York his work was represented by the Associated American Artists gallery. The Minnesota Museum of Art and The Library of Congress have acquired examples of his work. Original pencil signed woodcut printed in dark ochre, titled  EMERGING PHILOSOPHER,  numbered 13/200, image approx. 8.5 x 14 in. plus margins. Fine condition.   Garchik had the following to say about this woodcut - The joys and terrors of woodcut are the changing states. Wood is cut away, the image evolves, with the choice of stopping at a point which may be satisfactory, or cutting further [with no possibility of return] in search of a stronger statement latent in the block. This print shares that experience. It contains three separate imprints of many states, adding a dimension of time to the work. VG...........150-200

61. [FILM HISTORY] Bill Asher (1921-2012) American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series.  With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is  credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom. TLS, April 10, 1963, signed by Milton Ebbins, V.P. Chrislaw Productions and Bill Asher [he also signs]. Asher is granted a leave to direct a BEACH PARTY film. It is assumed that the film ended up being  Muscle Beach Party (1964), starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Don Rickles etc. PLUS TLS, 1963, signed by attorney Norma Zarky [see Lot 59 above].  Two signed items - very good condition...........125-175

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63. [ART] George Cruikshank (1792-1878) British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Original Etching - title "Knowest thou, then, this token". Image is approx. 3-1/8 x 5" plus clean margins. Tissue guard still attached. Fine condition.............50-75

64. [ART] Peggy Bacon, one of America's most famous women artists. An ORIGINAL painting by the famous American artist, Peggy Bacon. Done in mixed media, she used ink and what appears to be a combination of watercolor and thinned oil paint. She has signed and dated this work 1971, and titled it THE BABES IN THE WOODS. The mat opening is 14 x 22.5 in. Executed on paper and in fine condition. Prints by Peggy Bacon are fairly common in the market, although expensive, and her paintings are quite scarce as the small number of auction records would indicate. This is a superb example of Bacon's work and should be considered important. Obviously its dark because the bear cubs are in the woods. This is guaranteed authentic and to have been painted and signed by Peggy Bacon, and we will send along a letter stating this. PEGGY BACON [1895-1987] A printmaker, illustrator, and author of children's books, Peggy Bacon later turned exclusively to fine art painting in watercolor, pastel, and oil. Her 1934 book of caricatures, "Off With Their Heads," established her as a leading satirist. Much of her work is satirical and lighthearted and frequently a commentary on the New York art world. She also chose many ordinary events in the lives of city people, giving these pieces a wry twist. She was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut to artist parents and studied at the Art Student's League. There in her drypoints, first completed in 1919, she was especially influenced by the realistic prints of John Sloan and George Bellows, but her style, with flattened forms and hardened contours, was more modern and abstract. In 1920, she married artist Alexander Brook, and during the next decade they were prominent figures in the Woodstock art colony. During the 1920s, she had two one-woman shows in New York and also illustrated and wrote numerous children's books. A satirical work on thirty-nine well known fellow artists, written in 1934 and called "Off With Their Heads," was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation. The book was greatly successful and stirred a demand for her caricatures, but she shied away from those subjects because they were hurtful to the subjects. In the late 1920s, she had began to explore lithographs, etchings, and pastel, but drypoint remained her favorite medium until the 1950s when she concentrated on oil painting. She was financially successful, selling her work well in New York, and she and her husband were part of the group of artists promoted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. In 1940, she and her husband were divorced, and she continued to paint and also wrote novels. Her 1953 mystery, "The Inward Eye," earned the Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Award for best novel of the year. She lived to age ninety-two, spending the later years of her life at Cape Porpoise, Maine..............5000-7000

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65. [ART] Albert Robida (1848-1926) French painter, etcher, lithographer and writer, Albert Robida became famous both for his whimsical scenes of Paris life and for his highly regarded satirical art. Robida began his artistic career in 1866 when he began contributing his designs to French periodicals. This aspect of his art continued through his life and he established himself as one of the more popular artists of La Vie Parisienne, Le Rire and Fantasio. During the First World War, Albert Robida's suites of lithographs and commentaries, such as Villes Martyres proved to be of prime influence within the arts community. Original etching, "Les Graveurs du XIX Siecle" (Engravers of the 19th Century) as published in Paris by Henri Beraldi and printed Chardon & Sormamin 1891. The etching depicts a full portrait of a woman in full fashionable regalia. For the setting, Robida selects the seaside, as we can see in the background where some sailors are greatly admiring the legs of a bather. "Les Graveurs du XIX Siecle" is a fine example of the etched art by the French artist, Albert Robida. Image approx. 8-3/8 x 5-3/8 plus margins. There are some spots in the margins; slightly toned top edge. All faults will not show when matted properly...........200-300

67. [FRANCE- THEATRE] Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th century operas such as La Tosca (1887) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (1900) is based, and Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that popularized the fedora hat as well. OFFERED HIS IS SARDOU'S PERSONAL ENGRAVED CALLING CARD ON WHICH HE PENS A FEW WORDS. This is accompanied by two ORIGINAL UNSIGNED DRAWINGS, portraits of Victorien Sardou. The artist was Daniel de Losques Thouroude (1880-1915) French humorist, graphic designer, caricaturist and cartoonist, as well as a painter. He was a contributor to the Figaro, and with other political newspapers. He was one of the great poster artists in Paris around 1900. One is pen & ink, image area approx. 3-3/4 x 4-1/2". The othert is a 7-1/2 x 5-1/4" sheet containing pencil sketches..............200-300

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70. [SCIENCE] James Van Allen (1914-2006) American space scientist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him. Signed 17 page article. Signed on the first page. VG............75-100

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71. [FRANCE] Louis Veuillot (1813-1883) French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. A SMALL PART OF A MANUSCRIPT, IN TWO MOUNTED PIECES, ONE SIGNED. About Protestant England. See scan below..............75-100

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74 . [AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING] ORIGINAL auction catalogue for sale No. 3976, May 10 & 11, 1932, the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. { believe Sotheby's now], NY. Offered in this auction are First Editions, Literary and Historical Autograph Letters and Manuscripts / A Portrait From Life of Abraham Lincoln, etc. 86 pages. octavo, plus paper covers. Cover & spine soiled and chipped. Lot 273 is the portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a fullpage illustration. Years ago, when we first got involved in autographs, catalogs and books about autographs were highlt collectible. Interest seems to have waned in recent years, probably due to the internet...........40-60

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75. [FRANCE] LETTRES PATENTES DU ROI [of the king], signed Louis in print, dated 1790, 2pp, approx. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4". VG..........100-150

77. [CARTOON]  Vic Herman  (1919-1999) His Illustrations and cartoon art appeared in newspapers throughout the USA and in top level slicks: The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Liberty, Life, Look, Redbook, and Argosy. He received multiple entries in the "Best of Cartoons of the Year" in the 1940's and 50's.  In his later life, he became interested in "serious" art and fell in love with the people south of the border. He was known as the "Norman Rockwell of Mexico" and "Ambassador With A Brush."  TLS, 1947, 1p. Top corners tipped to another page. .............50-75

81. [MUSIC] CHARLES STROUSE (b. 1928) American composer and lyricist. AMQS on colorful 1985 FDC honoring Jerome Kern - quote from "Bye Bye Birdie" - "Put On A Happy Face". Fine........50-75

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83. [MEXICAN INDEMNITY] Message from The President of the United States [Millard Fillmore], printed government document, House of Rep., Jan. 20, 1852, 3pp. Signed in type by MILLARD FILLMORE & DANIEL WEBSTER. VG.........25-35

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86. [FILM] Billy De Wolfe (1907-1974)  American character actor. He was active in films from the mid-1940s until his death in 1974. He was a good friend of Doris Day from the time of their meeting during the filming of Tea for Two (1950) until his death. His signed 1965 contract to play the part of Mayor Davis in the film "BILLIE" starring Patty Duke. There are 2 signed documents here. VG...........125-175

87. [VERMONT HISTORY] Lewis Richard Morris (1760-1825) United States Representative from Vermont and a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris. Born in Scarsdale, New York, he attended the common schools. He moved to Springfield, Vermont, and from 1781 to 1783 was secretary of foreign affairs. He was a member of the Springfield meeting-house committee in 1785, was tax collector in 1786 and 1787, Windsor County court clerk from 1789 to 1796 and was judge of the same court until 1801. He was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1790 and 1791, and was a member of the convention to ratify the United States Constitution . He was secretary of the constitutional convention in Windsor in 1793. He attended the Vermont ratifying convention in Bennington, where he voted in support of the Constitution. Morris was a brigadier general in the State militia in 1793 and major general of the First Division from 1795 to 1817. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797 and 1803 to 1808, and served as speaker. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1803. His abstention from voting assured Thomas Jefferson's election as President over Aaron Burr in the House of Representatives in February, 1801. DOCUMENT SIGNED, signed twice, 1p. folio, Windsor, Sept. 25, 1794. Court document, toned, tattered etc. Approx. 7-3/4 x 12-1/4". See condition in scan below..........50-75

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88. [FRANCE] Leon Dufourny (1754-1818) French architect  whose works belong to the neo-classical movement of the late eighteenth century.  Leon Dufourny was Commissioner of the French Republic to the King of Naples and made ​​a trip to Sicily from 1787 to 1794 to study the ancient temples Greek.  In 1796 Dufourny was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts and was also appointed Chairman of the Committee of the Fund and the Central administrative board of the Institute of France, and Nivôse Ventôse Year XII (1802).  Around 1800, he seized the castle of Richelieu, confiscated during the Revolution as many emigrated, had been emptied of its furniture collections and then stripped of its materials - before being demolished - the rectangular tray mosaic marble and hard stone of a ceremonial table, completed after a carved wooden base, and preserved from the Louvre (Galerie d'Apollon); a color lithograph nineteenth century this exceptional furniture and a replica of his legs are kept at the Museum of Fine Arts Tours.  ALS, 1806, 1p. approx. 5-1/2 x 5-3/4".........100-150

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90.  [FRANCE] René-François Régnier [1794-1881] Archbishop of Cambrai (France), created cardinal priest 1873; participated in the Conclave of 1878, which elected Pope Leo XIII.  ALS, 1846, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8". VG...........100-150

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92. 18th century engraving of the Monument of King William Rufus, plate size 14-3/4 x 9" plus slim margins. Excellent condition, esp. for its age.........100-150

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93. [FILM]  Gene Autry (1907-1998)  American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.  Nice signed & inscribed 8x10 photo, dated 4-30-85. VG.........150-200

94. [BOXING] Floyd Patterson (1935-2006)  at 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title. He was also the first heavyweight boxer to regain the title. He had a record of 55 wins, 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by knockout. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Olympic Games as a middleweight. An 8x10 photo to which is affixed his signature and address. Mounting traces on verso............50-75

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95. Paul Caruso (1920-2001) was a well-known criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. He represented war hero and actor Audie Murphy on a charge of trying to kill a Burbank dog trainer; also represented Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, Eddie Nash. Fine TLS signed Paul, on his stationery, 1969, to the entertainer Rudy Vallee. Good content..............30-40

96. [TV] Will Hutchins (b. 1930) American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer from Oklahoma, Tom Brewster, in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot, which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo as "Sugarfoot."  VG................25-35

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97. [ENGLAND] Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (1802-1894), known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman.  He was the eldest son of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. ALS, Whitehall, 1855, 1p, folio. To Lord Fortescue. "My Lord. I have the honor to lay before the Queen your Lordships letter of 23rd inst. and I am to inform you that Her Majesty does not disapprove of the undenucutioned [?] promotion & appointment in the 1st ___? Devon ____?  Cavalry....."  Fine.........50-75

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98. [FRANCE] Charles de Bourbon, Count of Charolais (1700-1760) French noble. As a member of the reigni prince of the Blood. A son of Louis III, Prince of Condé, he was made governor of Touraine in 1720. He fought in Hungary in the war against the Ottoman Turks and won distinction at the battle of Belgrade. He was governor of his nephew Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé. In 1728 he became one of the candidates to the hand of wealthy Maria Zofia Sieniawska supported by Louis XV in attempt to gain a strong position in Poland before the Royal Election. He secretly married Jeanne de Valois-Saint Remy, a descendent of Henri II via an illegitimate branch. Their son was Louis-Thomas [1718-1799], who was not legitimated by the king, later was exiled to England. Document Signed, 1744, 1p, approx. 9-1/4 x 13-1/2 in. One middle fold................150-250

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102. Frank Johnson - American Disney animator. Signature in form of return address [Walt Disney Co.]..............20-30

103. [CABINET] Curtis D. Wilbur [1867-1954] 43rd United States Secretary of the Navy. Signature with sentiment.

104. Gehan Al Sadat (b. 1933) widow of Anwar Sadat and as such was first lady of Egypt from 1970 until Sadat's assassination in 1981. Two postage stamps, each signed by her..............30-40

105. Elden le Roy Auker (1910- 2006) American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball noted for his submarine pitching style. Signed card................20-30

106. Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Marshall [1829-1900] British Officer famed for his service in India. Clip signature.............20-30

107. Josiah Gilbert Holland [1819-1881] American writer. Clip signature...........20-30

108. Gilbert Frankau [1884-1952] British novelist. Signature...............20-30

109. WILLIAM R. ALGER [1822-1905] American Unitarian Minister, author. SIGNATURE on album page dated 1879.........20-30

110. Arnold Allan Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle CB, GCVO, TD, VD, JP (1858-1942), known as Viscount Bury from 1891 to 1894, was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician. Signed card............20-30

111 James Allen (1864-1912) was a philosophical writer of British nationality known for his inspirational books and poetry. CLIP SIGNATURE "J. Allen.".............20-30

112. Bertha Behrens (1850-1912) was a German novelist, who used the pen name W. Heimburg. She completed Das Eulenhaus, a posthumous novel by Marlitt in the Gartenlaube, in which periodical most of her novels appeared. Signature in form of return address on back of envelope, 1885 [mounted to larger sheet...........20-30

113. Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE (1887-1969) British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908-1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of appeasement, standing for Parliament and being made a life peer. She was also involved in arts and literature. Her illuminating diaries cover her father's premiership before and during World War I and continue until the 1960s. She was Winston Churchill's closest female friend, and also the grandmother of well-known actress Helena Bonham Carter. Clip signature.....20-30

114. Harold MacGrath [1871-1932] American writer. Signature...........20-30

115. Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949) Austro-Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader. Clip signature.....20-30

116.  [FRANCE] group of French autographs:  [1] Victor Ambroise, vicomte de Lanjuinais (1802-1869) FRENCH politician, becoming a deputy in 1838. His interests lay chiefly in financial questions and in 1849 he became minister of commerce and agriculture in the cabinet of Odilon Barrot. He wrote a Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages du comte de Lanjuinais, which was prefixed to an edition of his fathers Îuvres (4 vols., 1832). 7 LINES IN HIS HAND, SIGNED.  [2] MARIE LECONTE [1869-1947] Fr. actress. ALS, no year on both sides of black bordered card.  [3] Jean Marie Pardessus (1772-1853) French lawyer. His Traité des servitudes (1806) went through eight editions, and his Traité du contrat et des lettres de change (1809) pointed him out as fitted for the chair of commercial law recently formed at the faculty of law at Paris. ALS, no date, 1p, 6 x 7-3/4 in. VG. [4] Charles Wagner (1852-1916) French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping reformed theology. ALS, 1905, 3pp., 4-1/8 x 5-1/8". VG.  [5] Aurelien Scholl (1833-1902) French author and journalist, was born in Bordeaux. He was successively editor of the Voltaire and of the Echo de Paris. He wrote largely for the theatre, and also a number of novels dealing with Parisian life. ALS, nd, 1p. Wants to sue Paul Boiteau. Moderate stain bottom corner; wrinkled.  [6] Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (1839-1908) French geologist. ALS, 1890, 1p, 4-3/8 x 5-1/2".  [7] Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (January 3, 1802-1878) was a French ecclesiastic. ALS, appears to be undated, 1p, 8 x 9-1/4". VG.  [8] Olivier Émile Ollivier (1825-1913) French statesman. Although a republican, he served as a cabinet minister under Emperor Napoleon III and led the process of turning his regime into a "liberal Empire". Brief ALS, no date, 1p, 4 x 5-1/4". VG.  [9] LEON BERNARD [1877-1935] Fr. actor. ALS, no year, on both sides. To Tania Fedor - "Do whatever possible for that." [10] Émile Faguet (1847-1916) French literary critic and author. Clip Signature..........150-200

117. [FILM] Doris Vidor (1913-1978) she was the daughter of Warner Brothers Pictures founder Harry Warner; wife of Charles Vidor, producer-director Mervyn LeRoy and showman Billy Rose. She served for many years as a story director at United Artists. TLS, United Artists Corp, 1961, 2pp, to Bill Asher at Desilu Studios.  Very interesting content letter about the book THE LITTLE PRINCE.  She read the book, liked it but then gives her thoughts on making it into a film, which she doesn't think will work. Interesting. Provenance: Estate of Milton Ebbins, partner of the actor Peter Lawford.............75-100

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118. [ART] CARROLL THAYER BERRY (1886-1978) Maine artist known as "THE DOWN EAST PRINTMAKER. Five charcoal drawings on one sheet, each approx. 2.5 x 3 in. Image areas very good. Smudging in margins. Unsigned...............100-150

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119. [ART]  John W. Casilear   (1811-1893)  American landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School.  Casilear was born in New York City. His first professional training was under prominent New York engraver Peter Maverick in the 1820s, then with Asher Durand, himself an engraver at the time. Casilear and Durand became friends, and both worked as engravers in New York through the 1830s.  By the middle 1830s Durand had become interested in landscape painting through his friendship with Thomas Cole. Durand, in turn, drew Casilear's attention to painting. By 1840 Casilear's interest in art was sufficiently strong to accompany Durand, John Frederick Kensett, and artist Thomas P. Rossiter on a European trip during which they sketched scenes, visited art museums, and fostered their interest in painting.   Casilear gradually developed his talent in landscape art, painting in the style that was later to become known as the Hudson River School. By the middle 1850s he had entirely ceased his engraving career in favor of painting full-time. He was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1851, having been an associate member since 1831, and exhibited his works there for over fifty years.  Casilear died in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1893. Today examples of his art are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and Ringwood Manor, Ringwood, NJ. Original engraving, title  "A SIBYL". Engraved  in 1847 for the American Art-Union; after a painting by Daniel Huntington. The American Art Union was a major force in the development and promotion of American art. The print was reissued in 1880 by The American Art Review, the leading art publication of the 1880s, and a devoted supporter of the Etching Revival.  This is the 1880 edition. Image approx. 9 7/8" x 7 5/8".  VG..............100-150

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120.  [ART] Robert Walker Macbeth (1848-1910) Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre. His The Cast Shoewas bought by the Chantrey Bequest in 1890, and is now at Tate Britain. From 1871 Macbeth exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery and the Fine Art Society in London. There were also exhibitions in the regions at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in Birmingham, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery. In the same year (1871) Macbeth was made an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) becoming a full member in 1901. He became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE) in 1880, and an honorary member in 1909. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and in 1883 was elected to be a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). In 1883 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy (RA), becoming a full member in 1903. Original etching, signed in the plate [lower right], approx. 3-1/2 x 5-5/8" plus clean margins. Still has tissue guard showing title "Die Vernon at Judge Inglewood's." Of Macbeth's own design and etched by him. Fine.............50-75

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121. [ART] George Cruikshank (1792-1878) British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Original Etching - title "MEG DODS AND CAPTAIN MAC TURK". Image is approx. 3-1/8 x 5" plus clean margins. Tissue guard still attached. Fine condition......50-75

122. Large original etching, portrait of Abraham Lincoln, unsigned, artist is James S. King [1852-1925] who specialized in portraits, image approx. 18 x 14 in. plus margins. The image and the area surrounding the image, the portion that would show after being matted & framed, is very good. There are numerous faults along edges that will not show. Striking image. James S. King was born in New York City in 1852 and studied at the Art Student's League, National Academy of Design, Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris with Gerome and Bonnat. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America. King was active in exhibiting at the Parrish Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Boston Art Club; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery; and the Society of Independent Artists.............300-400

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123. [FRANCE] Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785-1873)  French poet.   Lebrun was born in Paris. An Ode à la grande armée, mistaken at the time for the work of Écouchard Lebrun, attracted Napoleon's attention, and secured for the author a pension of 1200 francs. Lebrun's plays, once famous, are now forgotten. They are: Ulysse (1814), Marie Stuart (1820), which obtained a great success, and Le Cid d'Andalousie (1825).  Lebrun visited Greece in 1820, and on his return to Paris he published in 1822 an ode on the death of Napoleon, which cost him his pension. In 1825 he was the guest of Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford. The coronation of Charles X in that year inspired the verses entitled La Vallée de Champrosay, which have, perhaps, done more to secure his fame than his more ambitious attempts.  In 1828 appeared his most important poem, Le Voyage en Grèce, and in the same year he was elected to the Academy. The revolution of 1830 opened up for him a public career; in 1831 he was made director of the Imprimerie Royale, and subsequently filled with distinction other public offices, becoming senator in 1853.  ALS, Paris, 1832, 2pp, approx. 5 x 7.5". Fine..............75-100

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125. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of John C. Fremont, 5-1/2 x 7-1/2" image.  VG.......20-30

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126. [NOBEL] J. MICHAEL BISHOP - American Microbiologist. Awarded 1989 NOBEL PRIZE for Physiology and Medicine for his research on cancer -causing genes called oncogenes. SIGNED 5x7 color photograph...........35-45

127. [ART] Willem Frederik de Haas (1830-1880)  Dutch-born American painter. He studied at the Art Academy of his native city, and at The Hague under Johannes Bosboom. He went in 1859 to New York City, where he became known as a painter of coast scenery.  Clip Signature,  4-1/4 x 1".  VG.........30-40

128. [ART] Eric Pape (1870-1938) Called “the Master of the Pageant,” Eric Pape was a painter of historical and archaeological subjects, a landscape painter, art teacher, and illustrator.  Fine ink signature dated 99, on 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" slip........30-40

129. [ART] Frank A. Bicknell  (1866-1943} American artist. Signed card, 3-1/2 x 2-1/4". VG.........30-40

130. Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories. As a journalist he reported on the Indian Famine for Cosmopolitan magazine, and the Spanish-American War for the New York Journal.  ALS, 1892, 1p. Declines invitation.  VG............100-150

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131. [TV] Jane Wyatt (1910-2006) American actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35

132. George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll  (1823-1900) styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer, Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century.  ALS, Nove,  1876, 4pp, concerning publishers to British civil servant Louis Mallet (1822-1890). Approx. 4.5 x 7".  Light discolor from removed mounting traces on verso - not obtrusive. VG.......100-150

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133. SPEECH Of MR. VINTON - On The EMIGRATION Of INDIANS. Delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 20, 1828. [pamphlet] Samuel Finley Vinton, [1792 - 1862]. In the speech Mr. Vinton states, "It so happens, that various tribes of the Indians inhabit greater of less portions of these States; which shut out the white population from thier Territory, and thus cut off from improvement so much of these States as the Indian country embraces. All the States feel a strong and very natural desire to increase thier population; and from this cause, more than from any other single circumstnace, the Indians are every where regarded as a burthen, which all are anxious to throw off as soon as possible." This speech was given two years before the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. 8 x 4-3/4". 1st printing (American Imprints 37025; ). 28 pp. Less foxing than you would experct. Quite nice for such an early pamphlet..............100-150

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135. [ARCHEOLOGIST] Pierre-Amable Floquet [b. 1797] French archeologist & historian who wrote extensively about Normandy. ALS, Paris, 1862, 2pp...........50-75

136. [MORMONISM] Clayton Silas Rice [1883-1972] sometimes referred to as Claton Rice, was a clergyman who served in Utah and Idaho for many years. He authored several books on Mormans, including "The Mormon Way" self-published in 1929. Rice was a theologan of another denomination who traveled and lived in Utah in the early twentieth century. He wrote a curious and interesting account from a non-Mormon perspective. In 1901 the first Presbyterian church building was dedicated. It served the community until it was sold to the Roman Catholic church in 1950. The assignment was difficult for the ministers as they received little support from the Mormon community. Reverend Clayton Rice came to the area in 1908 and used friendliness and community activity as tools to break into Dixie. He loved the desert and enjoyed the people on a social level. He directed plays, coached baseball, taught violin and trained debaters. He was well received, but only a handful attended his sermons. Other ministers also found little success. Rare signed bank check, 1918, The Riggs National Bank, Wash. DC. Nice example..........50-75

137. [PORTRAIT] John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy 1852 & 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. Representative from the Maryland's 4th congressional district. Antique original engraved portrait. Approx. 6.5 x 5 oval" plus margins. Neatly inlaid. VG..........25-35

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138. [NOBEL PRIZE] Tjalling Charles Koopmans (1910-1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. SIGNATURE on slip.......25-35

139. [NOBEL PRIZE] ROSALYN S. YALOW (1921- ), American medical physicist and Nobel laureate, who helped to develop the testing technique known as the radioimmunoassay. Signed/inscribed 3x5 card.....20-30

140. [TEXAS] A.S. Burleson (1863-1937) US Postmaster General and Congressman. SIGNED BOOKPLATE.......25-35

141.  Dover, New Hampshire - 4 manuscript documents signed Mark Walker. Receipts for oak shooks [ship building] purchased by Andrew Rollins. Each dated 1816.............40-60

142. Henry Van Dyke [1852-1933]. American clergyman and writer. Pastor, Brick Presbyterian Church, New York (1883-99); professor, Princeton (1899-1913, 1919-23). U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1913-16). Author of The Reality of Religion (1884), Little Rivers (1895), The Story of the Other Wise Man (1896), The Builders, and Other Poems (1897), Fisherman' s Luck (1899), The Ruling Passion (1901), The Blue Flower (1902), Music, and Other Poems (1904), The Unknown Quantity (1912), The Valley of Vision (1919), The Golden Key (1926), Gratitude (1930), etc. TLS, 1929, 1p. ..............40-60

143. H.G. (Helena Rubinstein. 1870-1965) Polish cosmetics industrialist, founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women. ALS on postcard from Paris to friends. She has signed "H.G." for Helena Gourielli, which she often used for friends and business personnel. VG. Postmarked Dec. 12, 1957...........80-120

144. [ART] Charles Courtry (Paris, 1846 - 1897) French nineteenth century artist, Charles Courtry studied etching techniques in Paris under Flameng and Gaucherel. His first large etching, Le Marche d'esclaves (after Gerome) was exhibited in Paris in 1868. From that date he was a frequent exhibitor and received medals from the Paris Salon in 1874, 1875, 1887 and 1889. In 1881 Charles Courtry was decorated with the Legion d'honneur. Original etching, circa 1870s, titled "LE PLAT DE DELFT," plate signed, after work by Willem Kalf, image approx. 6.5 x 8" plus slim margins. VG...........50-75

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145. Somersworth, New Hampshire - 5 Manuscript documents concerning business matters with Andrew Rollins, dating from 1795 to 1809. One of them [1798] is split in half............50-75

146. [FRANCE] Jean-Antoine Tinseau (1697-1782) French prelate. Tinseau earned a doctorate in theology from the University of Besançon and canon and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Besançon.  In 1743 he became commendatory abbot of Bitaine and in 1745 Bishop of Belley. He was transferred to the diocese of Nevers in 1751. In 1760 Tinseau built a new episcopal palace and in 1762 he replaced by secular priests Jesuits at college and seminary.  ALS, Nevers, 1782, 2pp, approx. 6-1/4 x 7-3/4".  VG.........100-150

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148. [ART] Ignaz Michael Marcel Gaugengigl (1853-1932)  German-American painter and engraver who worked primarily in the United States. He specialized in portraits and historical paintings. He was known as the "Meissonier of Boston", because of his many portraits of the "Boston Brahmins" and their families, and was one of the founders of the Guild of Boston Artists. Most of his works are in private collections.  Signature on 3.5 x 2.5" slip.  Fine example.........50-75

149. Grant Thorburn (1773-1863) American author and seedsman. He founded a business and issued a catalogue selling his seeds, the first in American history. Later he would publish articles and sketches in newspapers and magazines. Clip signature. Mounting stain do show.............20-30

150. [SCIENCE] MIN CHEUH CHANG (1909-1992) American Biologist- With Gregory Pincus and John Rock invented the BIRTH CONTROL PILL They had the idea that perhaps some form of progesterone, the second ovarian hormone, might be used safely birth control. They began to do animal experiments with progestins (artificial progesterones), which in the early 1950's were just becoming available in a form to be taken orally. They collaborated their studies and information with Dr John Rock, a Harvard gynaecologist and infertility expert. Rock was also doing experiments with ovarian hormones but giving them on a short-term basis to women with complex fertility problems.By the mid 1950's they were ready to move into the next stage of their work - testing a contraceptive on humans. CLIPPED SIGNATURE.............20-30

151. IRVIN S. COBB - writer. Clip signature. [stains]............15-20

152. JOHN VANCE CHENEY  (1848-1922)  poet. Signed card..........20-30

153. BARTLEY T. CAMPBELL  (1843-1888)  American writer. Signature.........20-30

154. ELLIS PARKER BUTLER (1869-1937) ANS on correspondent's letter..........20-30

155. EDGAR FAWCETT  (1847-1904)  American writer. Clip signature............20-30

156. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON - American writer. Signed card, 1875. Fair condition.............15-20

157. JAMES G. PERCIVAL [1795-1856] American poet. Clip signature..........20-30

158. MILITARY] General Sir Peter Edgar de la Couer de la Billière (b. 1934) is a former British soldier, who was Director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War. signed card............20-30

159. Samuel Appleton (1766-1853) American merchant and philanthropist, active in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Great Britain. The city of Appleton, Wisconsin was said to have been named in his honor. Clip Signature mounted, 1851........20-30

160. [THEATRE] FRANCIS WILSON [1854-1935] American actor. He began his career in a minstrel show, but by 1878 was playing at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and the next year appeared in M'liss with Annie Pixley. After several years in regular comedy, he took up some opera, most successfully in Erminie (1886). SIGNATURE dated 1891. Mounted............20-30

161. [FILM] EMIL SITKA (1914-1998) American Actor. He spent many years as a comic foil for the Three Stooges, from 1957-1965, first appearing with the Stooges in Half-Wits Holiday. He himself was about to become a Stooge in 1975 when Moe Howard passed away and broke up the trio forever. Sitka started out working odd jobs in mid-'30s Hollywood to support his family. Tiny acting roles were among those jobs. Sitka continued to appear in over 500 short films working with some of Hollywood's brightest stars, including Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, and Red Skelton. SIGNED/inscribed 3x5 card...........20-30

162. LOUISE DRISCOLL (1875-1957) American Poet. She was the author of many works of prose, some of her most famous poems were: Harbury, The Accused, The Highway others. SIGNATURE, with sentiment............20-30

163. HARRIET DOER (1910-2002 ) American Author/Short Story Writer. She started very late in life, . In 1982, she won the Henfield Foundation Award for a group of short stories which led to the publication of her first novel, Stones for Ibarra, two years later. Written under a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the book went on to win the American Book Award for First Fiction. In 1990, she published a book of short stories, Under an Aztec Sun. Her second novel Consider this Senora was released in 1993. In 1995, she published another collection of short stories, Tiger in the Grass: Stories and other Inventions. SIGNATURE/inscribed with unsigned 5x7 portrait photograph...........20-30

164. MARRINER S. ECCLES (1890-1977) American Banker/Businessman. He was one of the leading banking figures in the Intermountain West during the 1920s, was the First chairman of the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors between 1934 and 1948, and later became an international businessman. ANS dtd 8/30/73...........20-30

165. HELGA SANDBURG (1916- ) American Author/Poet; Carl Sandburg. SIGNED/inscribed stationary, March 1973, with sentiment........20-30

166. [OPERA] LAURENCE TIBBETT (1896-1960) Am. Opera Star. SIGNATURE/inscribed on album page,1939. On verso is Paramount Actress Jane Gilbert............20-30

167. FRED de CORDOVA (1910-2001) American Director/Producer. He started his career as a director in the 1940s, directing B-movies including Here Come the Nelsons, with Ozzie, Harriet and sons, and Bedtime for Bonzo, with Ronald Reagan. But during the television boom in the '50s and '60s, he began directing and producing television programs, including My Three Sons and variety shows with Jack Benny, George Gobel, Burns and Allen, and the Smothers Brothers. Mr. De Cordova began producing The Tonight Show in 1970, eight years after Carson became the show's star, and became executive producer in 1984. ANS dtd 3/6/89................20-30

168. [THEATRE-FILM] Eric Portman [1901-1969] distinguished English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s. Signed 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 1940s photo. Minor creasing. Signed in dark area so contrast is good...........30-40

169. [MAINE] John S.C. Abbott (1805-1877) American historian, pastor, and writer, from Brunswick, Maine. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies. ALS, Brunswick, Me., Nov. 23, 1852, 1p, 4to. Re: his fee for lecturing. VG.........50-75

170. [ENGLAND] Sir Edward Hay Drummond-Hay (1815-1884) British naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator. He was born in England and was a Colonel of the 5th West India Regiment from 1854 to 1863. From 1839 to 1850 he was the President of the British Virgin Islands From 1850 to 1855 he was the Governor of Saint Kitts. From 1856 to 3 July 1863 he was the Governor of Saint Helena. In September 1860, the governor received a visit from His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who was an officer in the Royal Navy serving on the H.M.S. Euralus. ALS, St. Helena, 29 Jan. 1861, 4pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4". To John Bell. Mentions, in this letter, the visit of Prince Alfred. Fine..............60-80

171. Princess of Ludwig Ferdiinand -Infanta Paz of Spain (María de la Paz de Borbón y Borbón) (Madrid, June 23, 1862 - Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich, December 4, 1946) was an infanta of Spain. A daughter of Queen Isabella II of Spain, she married her first cousin Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria. She lived for the rest of her life in Germany, dedicating her time to her family, charity work and writing poetry. She wrote a book of memoirs: Through Four Revolutions: 1862-1933. Very brief autograph note signed Paz.............25-35

172. US Senators - 5 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Homer E. Capehart [Ind]; John Marshall Butler [Md]; Wallace F. Bennett [Ut]; Quentin N. Burdick [ND]; Styles Bridges [NH]...........35-45

173. [FILM - MUSIC] Frank Ramsey Adams (1883-1963) American author, screenwriter, composer. Adams wrote plays, musical comedies, and lyrics for popular songs, such as "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now". He composed the stage scores for the musicals "The Time, the Place, and the Girl", "The Girl Question", "A Stubborn Cinderella", "The Goddess of Liberty", and "The Price of Tonight". His chief musical collaborators included Joe Howard, Harold Orlob and Will Hough. TLS, 1934, 1p. Written on Paramount Pictures letterhead he says he is no longer running the theatre in Whitehall, Mich., "I still keep a finger in the motion picture pie. Maybe you will be in the business yourself one of these days." VG.......50-75

174. [BRITAIN] Ward, Mary Augusta. Known as Mrs. Humphry Ward. [1851-1920]. English novelist, b. Tasmania. Niece of Matthew Arnold; m. (1872) Thomas Humphry Ward. In her best known novel, the spiritual romance Robert Elsmere (1888), envisioned a vigorous Christianity, divested of the miraculous element and fulfilling the social gospel. Founded (1890) settlement in London which developed into Passmore Edwards Settlement (1897); opponent of woman suffrage. Author of other novels, including David Grieve (1892), Marcella (1894), Lady Rose' s Daughter (1903), The Case of Richard Meynell (1911), Missing (1917), Harvest (1920). CLIP SIGNATURE...........20-30

176. [AMERICANA] mixed lot: [1] Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939) was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporter and commentators he was famous for a fast talking delivery style. Floyd Gibbons lived a life of danger of which he often wrote and spoke. Signed 3x5 card. VG. [2] 1839 Bill of Lading - shipped by I.P. Hazard from Providence, Rhode Island to Charleston. Partly-printed, approx. 8-1/8 x 2-3/8 in. [3] HENRY B.F. MacFARLAND [1861-1921] President Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia [1900-1910]. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1920. [4] Charles Grenfill Washburn (1857-1928) U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1906-11. ALS, n.d., 3pp. To Judge Dewey. [5] Montville, Ohio, John V. Whitney's Farmer's Records account book, 1843-1851. Some notes regarding town activities. Mostly financial matters. 70+ pages, 6 c 7-1/2. [6] Jackson Orr (1832-1926) Civil War officer, businessman, and two-term Republican U.S. Representative from western Iowa. Continuing westward, he spent the last five decades of his life in Colorado. From 1861 to 1863, he served in the Union Army as captain of Company H, 10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted to large slip. [7] BENJAMIN ALTMAN (1840-1913) American merchant, art collector, and philanthropist, born in New York City. After a public school education, he worked in the small store established by his father on the Lower East Side. Altman worked in small stores after the death of his father, but in 1865 he opened a dry goods store of his own in New York City. His business steadily increased in scale and became one of the largest department store enterprises in the world; in 1913 it was incorporated under the name of B. Altman & Co. Altman's art collection, valued by experts at $15 million at the time of his death, was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Signed 1905 Chemical National Bank check. Nice clear signature. [8] Henry Clay Hansbrough (1848-1933) politician who served as the first United States Representative from North Dakota, as well as a Senator from North Dakota. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted to slip. [9] Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War - printed government document, EX. Doc. No. 15, REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR - A statement of the expenditures at the national armories. Signed IN TYPE Jefferson Davis. Jan. 6, 1854, 3pp. 33d Congress, 1st Session, US Senate. [10] Gerry Spence (b. 1929) is a trial lawyer in the United States. He has had more multi-million dollar verdicts without an intervening loss than any other lawyer in the US. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit, MI. Spence did not lose a criminal case in the over 50 years he practiced law. Signed, inscribed 10x8 photo. Spence first gained national attention and is most well known for the Karen Silkwood case. Fine. [11] Charles Benjamin Farwell (1823-1903) U.S. Representative and Senator from Illinois. Nice SIGNATURE. [12] James Kerr Kelly (1819-1903) American politician born in Pennsylvania. He was a United States Senator for Oregon from 1871 to 1877, and later Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Prior to his election to the Senate he had been elected to both houses of the local legislature, serving in the Territorial House and State Senate, and was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention in 1857. Clip Signature. [13] John Bach McMaster (1852-1932) American historian. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the college of the City of New York in 1872, worked as a civil engineer in 1873-1877, was instructor in civil engineering at Princeton University in 1877-1883, and in 1883 became professor of American history in the university of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War (1883 sqq.), a valuable supplement to the more purely political writings of Schouler, Von Hoist and Henry Adams. His A School History of the United States (1897) was an extremely popular textbook for many years. MOUNTED SIGNATURE. BOLD.............100-150

177. Ted Key (1912- 2008) Am. cartoonist,best known as the creator of the comic strip Hazel. Large signature. 3 mail folds.

178. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 4 beautiful color hand-tinted outdoor scenes plus 2 smaller hand-tinted scenes, one of which is full-masted sailing ship. which is 3x2. The larger photos are 7x5. All VG...........80-120

179. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 8 b/w vintage photos of outdoor country & woods scenes. One is a dam and two are snow scenes. Approx. 9 x 6.75 to 9.75 x 7.5. All VG...............100-150

180. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 5 outdoor scenes not color tinted. From 6.5 x 4.5 to 9.5 x 5......80-120

182. [MUSIC] WILLY EICKEMEYER [1879-1925] German composer & pianist. CLIP SIGNATURE.

183. Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford (1751- 1812) son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, was a British peer. From 1757 until his accession in 1777, he was styled Lord Guernsey. He was an artist of some repute. Eleven of his paintings, part of the Oppe Collection, are held on behalf of the National Museum by the Tate Gallery. CLIP SIGNATURE [toned/mounted]........20-30

184. [MUSIC] Jack Beeson (b. 1921) American composer. He is known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! andThe Sweet Bye and Bye. Beeson studied privately with Béla Bartók. SIGNATURE/INSCRIBED with sentiment, 2000.............20-30

186. [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett [1846-1904] Brit. actor. AQS Hamlet 1896.....20-30

187. [THEATRE] Robert Woodruff Anderson (b. 1917) is an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known as the author of Tea and Sympathy, which made its Broadway debut in 1953 and was made into an MGM film in 1956. Both versions starred Deborah Kerr and John Kerr. Anderson wrote the screenplays for 1959's The Nun's Story and 1966's The Sand Pebbles. He was Oscar-nominated for the The Nun's Story as well as the 1970 screen version of his play I Never Sang for My Father. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 6.5 x 10" photo. He also signs & describes this particular photo. Dated 2000................25-35

188. Jarmila Novotna [1907-1994] Czech soprano. Signature in return address clipped from envelope........20-30

189. [NOBEL] Rosalyn S. Yalow (b. 1921) is an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.  SIGNED/INSCRIBED 3x5 card..........20-30

190. [WW II] Horst Petzchler - German Ace. Signed card. Fine...........20-30

191. [MUSIC] Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885) German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career. DEFECTIVE ALS, 1863 setting time for tea, 1863. Large section of letter has been cut away.

192. Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life in the second half of the 20th century. Nice SIGNATURE..........20-30

193. [MEXICO] P. Ortiz Rubio (1877-1963) Mexican politician. He served as president from 1930 to 1932.   SIGNATURE.....20-30

194. Lloyd Morris (1893-1954) American teacher, critic, and man of letters, best known for his biography of Hawthorne "The Rebellious Puritan. He was one of the foremost social historians of his generation. Lengthy TLS, NY, 1944, 2pp., regarding life at the famous Mac Dowell Colony in the 1920's; and being with the poet Edward Arlington Robinson. A remarkable letter about the generosity of Robinson and another writer there, who was not wanted there, and the relationship of Robinson and this writer. Lightly toned in parts..........50-75

195. Elliot Richardson (1920-1999) American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, and resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. TLS, 1984, 1p..........25-35

196. John Watson - Pseudonym Ian Maclaren [1850-1907]. Scottish clergyman and author. Presbyterian minister, Liverpool (1880-1905); won reputation with Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), followed by other "kailyard school" portrayals of humble Scottish life as Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie (1896); also wrote religious works, including The Upper Room (1896), Children of the Resurrection (1912). ALS, 1899, 2pp. ...............40-60

197. [NOBEL PRIZE] FREDERICK C. ROBBINS (1916-2003) American Physiologist -He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John F. Enders, Ph.D., and Thomas H. Weller, M.D., for discovering a method of growing poliovirus in a test tube; up until that time, the virus had to be studied in monkeys, which were expensive to use and difficult to handle. Their achievement resulted in the development of effective poliomyelitis vaccines and also paved the way for the ultimately successful development of vaccines for other major scourges of childhood, particularly measles and German measles, a major cause of birth defects. ANS on 3x5 card........................20-30

199. [NASA] William H. Pickering (1910-2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............50-75

200. [FILM] William Cagney (1905-1988) American Producer/ Actor. He was the brother of actor James Cagney, and began his career in the film industry as an assistant producer at Warners as part of his brother's contract. Later he went on to head William Cagney Productions, a studio designed to promote James' career and give him more artistic opportunities. During the 1930s, William tried his hand at acting, and in 1950, played James's brother in "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye." Offered here is a typed Agreement with Samuel Goldwyn Productions concerning use of facilities for the filming of "A Lion Is In The Streets.'' On Cagney Productions stationary, dtd September 30, 1952 1p. This movie was released in 1953, with James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Jeanne Cagney, Lon Chaney Jr. VG and Rare!.............75-100

202. [FILM] Hume Cronyn (1911-2003) Canadian-born actor who was married to Jessica Tandy. TLS, 1957, 1p. Mentions the play "The Man In The Dog Suit" not yet finished. To M. Abbott Van Nostrand, the publisher of plays. VG...........40-60

204. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was a radical American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. Signature sending holiday greetings dated 1965. At some period in time this was laid against something else causing off-set on the card.......75-100

See above

See his portrait

205. [FILM] Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) actress. Signed 3x5 card. Fine........20-30

207. (FRENCH LITERATURE) PIERRE DESCAVES - 3 to 4 pages of autograph notes unsigned and approx. 36 news clippings on Henri Troyat [French author]. Including a program from "Le Vieux Colombier." Descaves' file on Troyat....................50-75

208. (SPORTS LOT) MICHAEL SPINKS (1956- ) Boxer, Heavyweight Champion, SIGNED, 8x10 photograph, with sentiment.  DARRELL ROYAL (1924-2012) Football Player, coach - TLS, 1971.  TOM WEISKOPF (1942- ) American Golfer - SIGNED 8x10 color photograph, inscribed.  NANCY LOPEZ (1957-  ) American Golfer - SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph.   HAZEL HOTCHKISS WRIGHTMAN (1886-1974) American Tennis Star - ANS, no date,  sending birthday greetings.   STANLEY DANCER (1927-2005) American harness racing driver and trainer. He was the only horsemen to drive and train three Triple Crowns in horse racing. In total, he drove 23 Triple Crown winners. TLS, ny, nd with SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 reprint of cover of Sports Illustrated with him on cover.  ROD LAVER, MBE (1938- )  Australian former professional tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles. SIGNED 6x8 print of him playing tennis, with titles............100-150

209. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs:  [1] Lahaye, Louis-Marie de. Viscount de Cormenin [1788-1868] French lawyer and political writer. Member of Chamber of Deputies (1828-46, 1848); opposed to Louis-Philippe; appointed councilor of state (after 1848). Author of Droit administratif (1821), Les Entretiens de village (1846), etc. ALS, no date, 1p, 5 x 7.5 in.   [2] Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis [1866-1934]. French diplomat. Son of Marcelin Berthelot. Entered diplomatic service (1889); adviser to Briand and active in Allied liaison during World War I; secretary general of ministry of foreign affairs (1920-21, 1925-32). TLS, 1925, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. To the poet Aime Giron.  [3] GUSTAV SIMON - Paris dramatist. ALS, 1911, 2pp. Blue pencil word underlined on front.  [4] LEON RIOTOR - FR. AUTHOR. ALS, 1928, 1p. re: about adapting novel for film.  [5] Pierre Girault de Nolhac (1859-1936) French historian, art historian and poet. ALS, no yr., 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine.  [6] Séverin Faust (1872-1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. ALS written on back of picture postcard, not postmarked VG   [7] Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart (1859-1942), French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1907 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ALS, 1920, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in.  [8] Pierre François Hercule de Serre (1776-1824) Minister of Justice [1818-21]. ALS, Paris, no date, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG.  [9] Paul Ferrier (1843-1928) French dramatist. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he secured real success with two short pieces, Chez l'avocat and Les Incendies de Massoulard. Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations (1876); L'Art de tramper les femmes (1890), with M. Najac. One of Ferrier's biggest successes was the production with Fabrice Carré of Josephine vendue par ses sÏurs (1886), an opera bouffée with music by Victor Roger. His opera libretti include La Marocaine (1879), music of Jacques Offenbach; Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1896) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of A Messager; La Fille de Tabarin (1901), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. Only minor faults.  [10] Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891) French novelist. His novels deal with crime, the police, and Parisian life. They had a high circulation, and the greater part of them have been translated into English. ALS, 1880, 1p. Moderate foxing throughout.......200-300

210. Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), American poet, born in Birmingham, England. He went to the U.S. in 1891 and became a citizen in 1902. Starting in 1895 Guest wrote a column in the Detroit Free Press, and his verse and sketches of a simple, colloquial quality won him a wide audience. The verse, "Home," beginning "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home," was one of his earliest successes. His books include A Heap o' Livin' (1916), Over Here (1918), When Day Is Done (1921), Rhymes of Childhood (1924), All in a Lifetime (1938), and Living Years (1949). TLS, 1933, 1p, turning down a request..............50-75

211. [SIGNATURES OF WRITERS] Mixed lot: [1] Hervey Allen [1889-1949] Am. author. Signature. [2] [THEATRE] Joseph Anthony (1912-1993) American playwright and director. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anthony's first Broadway credit was as the author of the 1934 play A Ship Comes In. Three years later he debuted as an actor and appeared in Lady in the Dark, Peer Gynt, and Camino Real, among others. He ultimately directed numerous Broadway productions, including The Rainmaker, The Most Happy Fella, The Best Man, Rhinoceros, Mary, Mary, 110 in the Shade, and the infamously ill-fated David Merrick-produced musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's. He was nominated for a Best Director Tony Award five times but never won. GREAT SIGNATURE ON HIS MONOGRAMMED CARD. Fine. [3] Edmund Clarence Stedman [1833-1908] Am. poet. Signature 1892 [4] Richard Aldington [1892-1962] Brit. writer. Signature 1921. [5] Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. Brief ANS on 3.5 x 2 in. card. [6] Dorothy Canfield Fisher [1879-1958] reformer, writer. Signature. [7] Edwin Markham [1852-1940] Am. poet. Sig. (mount. trace show thru). [8] Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942) Am. novelist. Clip signature. [9] Frederick Palmer (1873-1958) American journalist and writer. He was born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The New York Press hired Palmer in 1895 as its London correspondent; and this opportunity evolved into a long career. General John Pershing persuaded him to take on the task of press accreditation for the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). In this period, he was accorded the rank of Colonel. ANS, 1920. [10] Max O'Rell was the pen name of Léon Paul Blouet (1848-1903) French author and journalist. Max O'Rell was a ready and amusing speaker, and his easy manner and his humorous gift made him very successful on the platform. He lectured often in the United Kingdom and still more often in America. Signature on card dated 1890, with sentiment..........100-150

212. Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Signed presentation/edition page removed from the book "GOODBYE WISCONSIN". Fine......25-35

213. [ART] Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet PRA (1836-1919) English painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy.  Signed card dated 1899. Approx. 3-3/4 x 2-7/8".  Fine example.........50-75

214. [SCIENCE] Edward Neville da Costa Andrade [1887-1971]. English physicist. Professor, Artillery Coll., Woolwich (1920-28), U. of London (1928-50). Author of The Structure of the Atom, The Mechanism of Nature, etc. SIGNATURE on card......20-30

215. {CABINET] James Wilson (1835-1920) Scotland-born United States politician who served as US Secretary of Agriculture from 1897-1913. SIGNED CARD............20-30

216. [NOBEL PRIZE] Mairead Maguire (b. 1944) co-founded Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, in Northern Ireland. She received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Betty Williams, in 1977 (the prize for 1976) for their efforts. SIGNED 3x5 card dated 7/9/94..........20-30

217. [BRITAIN] Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan (1760-1837) succeeded to his title on 24 February 1811, following the death of his uncle James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan. Robert Brudenell was a keen cricketer who made eight known appearances in major cricket matches between 1790 and 1793. He was an early member of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), for whose team he played most of his matches [1]. He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Marlborough in both the Parliaments of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from 1797 until 1802. Signed address panel dated June 10, 1821. Toned; dark stain just touches 1st letter "C" of his signature.............20-30

218. [BRITAIN] Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850) was the tenth child and seventh son of George III and Queen Charlotte. He held the title of Duke of Cambridge from 1801 until his death. He also served as Viceroy of Hanover on behalf of his brothers George IV and William IV. His granddaughter, Mary of Teck was the Queen George V of consort. Signed address panel addressed to his sister Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. No date......20-30

219. George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. SIGNATURE, inscribed, with sentiment, 1930...........20-30

220. Fanny Heaslip Lea [1884-1955] writer. Signed card...........20-30

221. Geo. William Childs [1829-1894] Am. publisher. Sig./inscribed 1890............20-30

222. Lord William Pitt LENNOX [1799-1881] English writer; present as spectator at Waterloo [1815]; novelist; edited the "Review" newspaper [1858]. Clipped mounted signature.........20-30

223. Alfred Turner [1852-1932] Am. painter. Signed card. Fine...........20-30

224. Gertrude Beals [1868-1952] Am. painter. Clip signature............20-30

225. [FILM] Bruce Bennett (1906-2007)  American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter.  During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix.  He moved to Los Angeles in 1929 after being invited to compete for the Los Angeles Athletic Club and befriended actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who arranged a screen test for him at Paramount. In 1931, MGM, adapting author Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Tarzan adventures for the screen, selected Herman Brix to play the title character. Unfortunately, Brix broke his shoulder filming the 1931 football movie Touchdown, which also prevented his entry into the 1932 Olympics, still holding the world record for shot put. Swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced Brix and became a major star. After Ashton Dearholt convinced Burroughs to allow him to form Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc., and make a Tarzan serial film, Dearholt cast Brix in the lead. Pressbook copy has it that Burroughs made the choice himself, but, in fact, in his biography, Brix confirmed that Burroughs never even saw him until after the contract was signed, and then only briefly. The film was begun on location in Guatemala, under rugged conditions (jungle diseases and cash shortages were frequent). Brix did his own stunts, including a fall to rocky cliffs below. The Washington Post quoted Gabe Essoe's passage from his book Tarzan of the Movies: "Brix's portrayal was the only time between the silents and the 1960s that Tarzan was accurately depicted in films. Brief ALS, 2001 mentioning he is 95 years old. VG.......50-75

See his picture

226. Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866) American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853. Manuscript document signed by him and his wife Mary E. Sparks, receiving property as executor of will, dated Cambridge, Dec. 15, 1850. Text of document is brief. VG............50-75

Portrait of Sparks

227. Howard Cosell (1918-1995) American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things."  TLS, no date, 1p., to "Dear IDS People."  "Frank, Don, and I are delighted that you're joining our notable list of sponsors on ABC's NFL Monday Night Football...." VG.........50-75

228. Jos. Hiller (1748-1814) American clockmaker, silversmith, and engraver. He enlisted to fight in the Revolutionary War, rising to major. In 1789, President George Washington appointed Hiller the first Collector of the Port of Salem; he served until 1803. Fine condition with professional repair to top right corner. In 1780 he moved from Boston to Salem, Mass. and set up shop. He was noted as one of the first major clockmakers in Revolutionary times, and also known as an engraver of many celebrated prints. CLIP SIGNATURE as Collector. VG..........50-75

229. (AMERICAN ARTISTS - 20th Century) - DON BACHARDY (1934- ) celebrated Portrait Artist, SIGNED, inscribed 5x7 photograph print of artist Kent Twitchell's portrait of him which he painted on his house, with return address signed envelope.  CHARLES BANKS WILSON (1918-2013) SIGNED large postcard reprint of his portrait of "Jim Thorpe" signed on front.  CONRAD BUFF (1886-1979)  Artist and illustrator of children's books. ALS, 1975. ALPHAEUS PHILEMAN COLE (1876-1988) Painter, Engraver and etcher. When he died at age 112, he was recorded as the oldest living artist in history, ALS, 1975.  WARREN KIMBLE - Celebrated Folk Artist.  SIGNED 6x8 reprint one of his lighthouse, sailing ship scenes, signed on front.  BERNARD FRAZIER (1906-1996) American Sculptor,  TLS 1948.  HARRIET C. EDEN (1903-? ), known for her expressionist landscape painting.  SIGNED original  still life  drawing, dated 1935, on verso of postcard.  RALPH FASANELLA (1915-1997) Painter. Self taught whose large, detailed works depicted urban working life and post WWII in America  SIGNED postcard reproduction on verso from his "Mill Series."................100-150

230. Alfred Wigan [1814-1878] Brit. Victorian actor. Sig. address panel.............20-30

231. Ivor Brown [1891-1974] British journalist. Signed card............15-20

232. Gilbert Wakefield [1756-1801] Eng. scholar, politician. Soiled signature..........20-30

233. Sir Lewis Casson [1875-1969] Eng. actor. ANS, nd...........20-30

234. [MUSIC] Joseph Schuster [1903-1969] Russian Cellist. Sig. card............20-30

235. Julian Hawthorne [1846-1934] Am. writer, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Clip Signature..........20-30

236. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) American realist author and literary critic. He was known for the Christmas story Christmas Every Day and for the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham. CLIP SIGNATURE - good example............20-30

237. [TENN] Henry Clay Evans (1843-1921) U.S. Representative from Tennessee. Born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania , Evans moved to Wisconsin in 1844, with his parents, who settled in Platteville, Grant County. He attended the common schools and a business school in Madison. He was graduated from a business training school at Chicago in 1861. During the Civil War, Evans enlisted on May 6, 1864, as a corporal in Company A, 41st Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and served until September 24, 1864. He settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1870 and engaged in the manufacture of freight cars. Evans was elected mayor in 1881, serving two terms. He organized the public-school system of Chattanooga and served as first school commissioner. Evans was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891 ). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He was First Assistant Postmaster General 1891-1893. Evans was elected Governor of Tennessee in 1894 on the face of the returns, but a legislative recount rejected certain votes and declared his Democratic opponent, Peter Turney, elected. He was appointed Commissioner of Pensions April 1, 1897, and served until May 13, 1902, when he resigned to enter the diplomatic service. He was appointed United States consul general to London, England, May 9, 1902, retiring in 1905. He was chosen commissioner of health and education of Chattanooga in 1911. He died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 12, 1921. He was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, Tennessee. CLIP SIGNATURE......20-30

238. Reginald De Koven [1859-1920] Am. music critic, composer. Sig. 1907...........20-30

239. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. Signed card with sentiment, dated Nov. 27, 1896. Very fine example..............20-30

240. [FRANCE] Raymond Jean-François Marie Lacave Laplagne (1786-1857) He takes the name of Baron Lacave La Plagne Barris in 1825. Lawyer. President of the Court of Cassation. Pairs of France. Senator. Executor of Louis-Philippe I. He was named peer of France October 30, 1837.  He was a grand officer of the Legion of Honor.  ALS, Paris, 1823, 2-1/2 lengthy pages, plus address leaf. Seal tear affects nothing.........100-150

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241.  [ART] CARROLL THAYER BERRY (1886-1978) Maine artist known as "THE DOWN EAST PRINTMAKER. Six charcoal drawings on one sheet, each approx. 2.25 x 3 in. Image areas very good. Smudging in margins. Unsigned...............100-150

See Berry drawings above

242. [ART] Edward H. Potthast (1857-1927)  American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England. His work is included in many major museums in the United States. Clip Signature, top corner missing. About 4-3/4 x 2-1/4".........50-75

See Potthast autograph

243. [ART] William Holbrook Beard  (1825-1900)  American painter. Beard was born in Painesville, Ohio. He studied abroad, is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting, and in 1861 moved to New York City, where, in 1862, he became a member of the National Academy of Design. Beard was a prolific artist. His humorous treatment of bears, cats, dogs, horses and monkeys, generally with some human occupation and expression, usually satirical, gave him a great vogue at one time, and his pictures were largely reproduced.  Clip Signature, about 3-3/4 x 3/4"...........25-35

244. [ART] Samuel Colman  (1832-1920) American painter, interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River. Clip Signature, about 3-3/4 x 3/4"...........25-35

245.  [BASEBALL] Harry Lavagetto - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60

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246.  [BASEBALL] Mel Ott - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60

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247.  [BASEBALL] Bucky Walters - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60

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248.  [BASEBALL] John Mize - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60

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249.  [BASEBALL] Robert Doerr - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60

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253.  [BASEBALL] Joe "Flash" Gordon - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60

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254.  [ART] William Bradley - original 19th century etching, unsigned as was the custom at this time, 6.5 x 10 in. plus margins. From Magazine of Art. Title CADER IDRIS FROM THE DOLGELLY ROAD. Wonderful detailed vista with cows in forefront and mountains in background. VG.............40-60

Bradley etching

255. Walter Wellman (1858-1934) American journalist, explorer, and aëronaut. In 1892 Walter marked with a monument the presumed landing place of Christopher Columbus on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. In 1894 he led a polar expedition east of Svalbard to latitude 81° N. He led another expedition to latitude 82° N through Franz Josef Land in 1898 and 1899.   Signed 1909 bank check for $2,000. Fine............40-60

256. [MUSIC] Antoine  Elwart (1808-1877) French  composer , musicologist and writer on music. He received the Cross of Spain by Charles III, King of Prussia.  He received the Legion of Honour in 1873 in the hall of the Conservatory , a distinction to which he answered in a tone of humor "Vive la République!". And say "You know, I did a cantata to celebrate the glory of Charles X, he did not decorate, I celebrated musical virtues of Louis Philippe, he did not decorated; j 'I sang the benefits of the Empire, the Emperor did not decorated, I've never done anything for the Republic, and she decorates, it is just that I know he will! ".  ALS, 186?, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Slight stain upper right corner.........50-75

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257. [ART] Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965)  American artist, illustrator, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs. Born in Russia he is said to have fought as a White Russian. During 1919 he arrived in New York City, where he worked in an engraving shop. Over the course of his career, he illustrated some 50 books, several of which he wrote, most notably As I See.  During his lifetime, however, Artzybasheff was probably known best for his magazine art. He illustrated the major American magazines Life, Fortune, and Time (including more than 200 Time Magazine covers over a 24-year span between 1941 and 1965.[1]) During World War II, he also served an expert advisor to the U.S. Department of State, Psychological Warfare Branch. Original wood-engraving, not signed, c. 1930, image approx. 7.5 x 5 plus margins. VG.............50-75

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His portrait

258. [WW II] Vern Haugland [1908-1984] World War II Associated Press War Correspondent. Signed and inscribed 10x8 photo showing Haugland, bed-ridden being decorated with the Silver Star by General Douglas Mac Arthur. Haugland writes "With Gen. Mac Arthur at Port Moresby, New Guinea, Oct. 9, 1942...." He signed in 1963. Additional bio. information about Haugland is included...............80-120

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259. Edward Everett (1794-1865) American politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. He also taught at Harvard University and served as president of Harvard. His signature as President of Harvard on portion cliiped from a larger document, 1947. Mounting traces on verso at corners..........40-60

260. [MUSIC] H. Maurice Jacquet (1886-1954) French composer, conductor, known for his musical compositions and operas, he collaborated with Preston Sturgis, the actor and playwright. AMQS from his composition "Romanitza" the opera. Written and signed on 6 x 4/5 album page. VG............60-80

261. Mr. Rush [Richard Rush, 1780-1859] he was the 8th US Secretary of the Treasury [1825-29] and the 8th Attorney General of the United States. ALS, London, Sept. 14, 1819, 1p, 8x10 in. This is written in the 3rd Person. "Mr. Rush has the honor to present his compliments to.......Le Roy and Bayard, and, in requesting that they will be so kind as to send to the post office the enclosed letter directed to Mr. Davidson, ventures to hop, that they may find it convient to place at the disposal of that gentleman the sum mentioned in the letter of Mess. Morlands, Auriol and company, within the space of a week or two after it may get to hand." VG..........75-100

262. [MUSIC] Attila Molnar [b. 1970] Hungarian composer and jazz musician. AMQS from his "Hugarian Fantasy for Violin and Piano." Approx. 3x5. VG.........50-75

264. [MUSIC] Antoine Elwart (1808-1877) French  composer, musicologist.  He received the Cross by Charles III of Spain, King of Prussia decorates meanwhile Cross of the Red Eagle. He received the Legion of Honor in 1873 in the hall of the Conservatory , a distinction to which he answered in a tone of humor "Vive la Republique!".  ALS, 186?, 2pp, red pencil marking on front page which can be erased. VG...........50-75


265. [FRANCE] Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890)  French critic and man of letters.  Imbued by family tradition with legitimist sympathies, he began by attacking the followers of the encyclopaedists and their successors. In the Assemblée nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation. Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in volume form: Contes et reveries d'un planteur de choux (1845); Causeries du samedi (1857-1860); Nouveaux samedis (1865-1881), &c. But the most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. Pontmartin died at Avignon on 29 March 1890.  ALS, Paris, no year, 1p., to Marie-Louis Marcellus (1795-1865) noted French diplomat and write. VG.........50-75

266. [FRANCE] Anatole de Monzie (1876-1947) French administrator, encyclopaedist (Encyclopédie française), political figure and scholar.  ALS, no date, 2pp. First page has light sunned marks............40-60


267. [FRANCE] Alfred Jean François Mézières (1826-1915)  French journalist, politician and historian of literature. ALS, no date, 1p. VG...........50-57

268. [FRANCE] Eugène Manuel (1823–1901), French poet and man of letters.  ALS, 1868, 3pp. VG..........50-75

271. [FRANCE] Charles-François Turinaz (1838-1918)  He was bishop of Moutiers-Tarentaise from 1873 to 1882, and Bishop of Nancy in 1882 to 1918. ALS, 1906, 4pp. VG.............100-150

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272. [MUSIC] Arthur Butterworth (b. 1923) English composer, conductor and teacher. His works include six symphonies, the sixth having its première in St Petersburg by St Petersburg State Capella Orchestra on 15 November 2009. In the summer of 2008 Butterworth returned to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to conduct a recording of his Fourth Symphony (1986) and his Viola Concerto (1988) with the English viola player, Sarah-Jane Bradley. He has also composed eight concertos, several other large orchestral scores and a considerable amount of 'serious' music for brass (almost totally neglected by the brass band movement). At 87 he is still active as a composer and an occasional conductor (August 2010). Signed, inscribed 1-page copy of part of his Fourth Symphony. Signed on front and verso, 2011. One middle fold. VG..........50-75

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273. [MUSIC] Robert Baksa [b. 1938] American composer. AMQS from his "Trumpet Concerto."....40-60

275. [FRANCE] Maurice Maindron (1857- 1911)  French entomologist. Maurice Maindron was the son of the engineer and sculptor Hippolyte Maindron.  In 1875, already a keen naturalist and entomologist, he attended the Laboratory of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle where Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais presented him to Émile Blanchard and there he was hired to arrange the Hymenoptera in the museum's collections. Before the age of 20, he sailed with Achille Raffray to New Guinea (1876–1877).He joined the Société entomologique de France in 1878 then embarked on a series of missions that took him to Senegal (1879), to India (1880–1881), to Indonesia (1884–1885), to Obock and Somalia (1893). In 1896 he collected in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia he was gain in India (1900–1901) and again in Senegal (1904).  Many of these missions were, at least in part, financed by the Museum, and the material was added to the collections. Other specimens were sold to collectors and dealerships. ALS, 1893, 1p...............50-75


276. [FRANCE] Émile Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French Republic.  ALS, no date, 3pp, 4-1/8 x 5-1/4". Fine.............50-75

277. [MUSIC] Tristan Keuris (1946-1996) Dutch composer. Rare AMQS from his "String Quartet No. 2", dated 1994, inscribed.........40-60

278.  [MUSIC] Edward Gregson [b. 1945] English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He has made a major contribution to the repertoire of brass and wind bands and ensembles including for brass. AMQS, inscribed, from his 1979 "Trombone Concerto". 6x4. VG.............50-75

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279. [MUSIC- THEATRE] Gertrude "Gertie" Millar (later Countess of Dudley) (1879-1952) English actress and singer of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. Beginning her career at age 13, Millar was a prominent star of musical comedies for two decades. She married composer Lionel Monckton, who composed many of her shows and songs that she made famous. After Monckton died in 1924, Millar married the 2nd Earl of Dudley. As a child, Millar performed in London pantomimes, beginning with Babes in the Wood at the St. James Theatre in Manchester, at the age of 13. She started out as a singer and dancer in the music halls of Yorkshire. Later, she moved to London where she was soon earning good notices and better pay appearing in variety show bills. By 1897, she was playing the role of Phyllis Crosby in A Game of Cards at Shodfriars Hall, Boston, England. Next she toured in The New Barmaid in the role of Dora; in The Silver Lining; and as Sadie Pinkhose, the "other woman", in The Lady Detective. In 1899, she played Dandini in Cinderella at the Grand Theatre, Fulham. In the new century, she starred in a series of hit musical comedies produced by George Edwardes. In 1900, she played Isabel Blythe in the touring production of The Messenger Boy. Edwardes's next show was The Toreador in 1901 at the Gaiety Theatre in London. Lionel Monckton, one of the show's composers, had seen Millar in The Messenger Boy and requested that she be given the role of the bridesmaid Cora in the new musical, singing "Keep Off the Grass". She made the song popular and earned a second song, "Captivating Cora", and a third, "I'm not a simple little girl". These hits, and her featured role in A Country Girl (1902), established Millar in London. The Gaiety Theatre closed for renovations in 1902, and the last show at the old theatre was The Linkman; or, Gaiety Memories. Millar starred as Morgiana. She married Monckton in 1902, and he continued to write hit songs for her in subsequent shows. Millar became one of the most photographed women of the Edwardian period. She had top billing as the Hon. Violet Anstruther in The Orchid, the show that opened the new Gaiety (1903; introducing the songs "Little Mary", "Liza Ann", and "Come with me to the zoo"). She starred as Rosalie in The Spring Chicken (1905; singing "Alice sit by the fire" and "The Delights of London") and as Lally in The New Aladdin (1906). She next starred as Mitzi in The Girls of Gottenberg (1907; singing the duet "Two Little Sausages", with Edmund Payne, and the Wagnerian parody "Rhinegold"). Soon afterwards, Edwardes cast her as Franzi at the Hicks Theatre in the English-language production of Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream, 1908) by Oscar Straus. Although Millar was able to sell the light musical comedy songs composed for her at the Gaiety, Oscar Straus's music was too demanding for her small voice, and she was sent to New York to star in the Broadway production of The Girls of Gottenberg. After she returned to London, some of Millar's biggest successes were still in front of her. They included the title role of the hit Gaiety musical, Our Miss Gibbs (1909), with Millar introducing the songs "Moonstruck", "Yorkshire", and "Our farm", all written for her by Monckton. Monckton and Millar then moved to Edwardes' newest theatre, the Adelphi, where she played the title role, Prudence Pym, in another international hit, The Quaker Girl (1910). In this, she popularised the songs "The Quaker Girl", "The Little Grey Bonnet", and "Tony from America". After this, she returned to continental operetta, playing Lady Babby in Edwardes's English language version of Franz Lehár's Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love, 1912) at Daly's Theatre . In this role, the musical demands were light and the show was a moderate success. She returned to the Adelphi to play Nancy Joyce in The Dancing Mistress (1912), and back at Daly's she played Kitty Kent in The Marriage Market (1913). This was followed by the role of Nan in a major revival of A Country Girl (1914). She also played Sallie Denbigh in The House of Bondage, a 1914 film. SIGNED postcard size photograph from the play "The Girls of Gottenberg", dated 1908. Approx. 3-1/8 x 5-1/4". VG.........50-75

280. [MUSIC] Pierre Luboshutz [1891-1971] Russian-American pianist. Signed card, with sentiment written in different hand.......25-35

282. [MUSIC] Frederick Martin  Reiner (1888-1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music. Signed album page...........40-60

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284. [MUSIC] Arthur Butterworth (b. 1923) English composer, conductor. At 87 he is still active as a composer and an occasional conductor (August 2010). AMQS, inscribed, from his third movement of "Symphony No. 4", approx. 10-1/2 x 4-1/2". Two mail fold-lines o/w VG. An especially nice example.........75-100

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285. [MUSIC] Anton van Rooy [1870-1932] Dutch bass-baritone. He had a voice of enormous proportions and is most remembered for his association with the music dramas of Richard Wagner, especially the Ring Cycle, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and Parsifal. ALS, no date, 2pp, about 4-3/4 x 6-1/2". Written in pencil. Not translated. Wrinkled..........50-75

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286. [MUSIC] Perry Como [1912-2001] Smerican singer & TV personality. Signed, inscribed sheet music from "Glendora." Signed on cover picturing Como. In good condition except for missing bottom right corner edge........25-35

287. [MUSIC] Burrill Phillips (1907-1988) American composer, teacher, and pianist. AMQS from "Scena da Camera" for Violin and Cello, 8-1/4 x 2-3/4". Wrinkled.....40-60

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288. [THEATRE] Rosemary Harris (b. 1927) Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. SIGNED & inscribed 3.5 x 5.5 in. photo.............20-30

289. [THEATRE] George Graves (1876-1949) English comic actor who created The Gazeka, a mythical beast. He introduced it as a bit of by-play in the musical, The Little Michus at Daly's Theatre, London, in 1905. As a result, Graves's little idea became a fad of the season and a competition was mounted to encourage artists to give sketches of what the beast might look like. Charles Folkard won the competition and the Gazeka suddenly appeared in the form of various items of novelty jewellery, charms, etc, and was taken up by Perrier , the sparkling water makers, for a series of advertisements. The Gazeka also featured in a special song and dance in the entertainment Akezag, at the London Hippodrome at Christmas, 1905. ALS, no date, 1p..............25-35

291.  Kim Hunter (1922- 2002) American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Lengthy TLS, 1980, signed Kim, 1p. Fine.........35-45

292. JOHN SAVAGE (1779-1863), Democratic-Republican Congressman from New York from 1815 to 1819; Chief Justice of the N, Y. Supreme Court 1823 to 1837. DS dated May 21, 1830, as Chief Justice authorizing Thomas G. Fletcher to practice before the Court. Nice paper seal and remnants of ribbon. 11 X 7-3.4 in. VG...........40-60

293. [CABINET] CLINTON P. ANDERSON (1895-1975), Sec. of Agriculture under Truman. Congressman and then Senator from New Mexico. LS as Chairman on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy congratulating long-term Senate employee on 50 years of service. FINE..........25-35

294. Roger Wolcott (1847-1900), Governor of Massachusetts 1896-1900. ALS, 1999, 1p.......35-45

295. {NAPOLEON III} A copy of Napoleon's decree issued at Tuilerie Palace May 21,1864 restoring French citizenship to a merchant. This is a certified true copy signed by the Asst. Mayor of the City of Bordeaux. 12 x 8" with stamped seal. With a translation............40-60

296. Eddie Albert [1906-2005] Am. actor. Signed 3x5 card........20-30

297. Mike Douglas [1925-2006] TV Show Host. Signed 3x5 card......20-30

298. Buddy Hackett [1924-2003] Comedian. Signed 3x5 card.......20-30

299. Steve Allen [1921-2000] Tonight Show host. Signed 3x5 card......20-30

300. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) American physicist, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was born at Philadelphia. After graduating at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1825, he acted as assistant professor there for some time, and as a lieutenant in the corps of engineers he was engaged for a short time in the erection of coastal fortifications. He occupied the post of professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1828 to 1841 and again from 1842 to 1843. He spent the years 1836 to 1838 in Europe on behalf of the trustees of what, in 1848, was to become Girard College. Abroad, he examined European systems of education and, on his return, published a very valuable report. In 1843, on the death of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, he was appointed superintendent of the United States coast survey. He succeeded in impressing the United States Congress with a sense of the great value of this work and by means of the liberal aid it granted, he carried out a singularly comprehensive plan with great ability and most satisfactory results. By a skillful division of labour, and by the erection of numerous observing stations, the mapping out of the whole coast was completed. In addition, a vast mass of magnetic and meteorological data was collected. His autograph in the form of a FREE FRANK SIGNATURE [used in place of stamp on envelope]. Actual size 2-5/8 x 1-1/4 in. Mounted to another sheet; handly any margins; condition - stained..............50-75

301. Luigi, Count Cibrario (1802-1870) Italian statesman and historian. He won a scholarship at the age of sixteen, and was teaching literature at eighteen. His verses to King Charles Albert, then prince of Savoy-Carignano, on the birth of his son Victor Emmanuel, attracted the prince's attention and proved the beginning of a long intimacy. As a writer and historian, his most important work during his lifetime was his Economia politica del medio evo (Turin, 1839), which enjoyed great popularity at the time, but is now of little value. His Della schiavitù e del servaggio (Milan, 1868 -1869) gave an account of the development and abolition of slavery and serfdom. Among his historical writings the following deserve mention: ALS, 1865, 1p. NOT TRANSLATED. 5 x 5.5"....................75-100

302. [ART] John Chamberlain (b.1927) American sculptor. He is best known for creating sculptures from old automobiles (or parts of) that bring the Abstract Expressionist style of painting into three dimensions. His works have been exhibited around the world and have been included in the São Paolo Bienal (1961, 1994), the Venice Biennale (1964), the Whitney Biennial (1973, 1987) and Documenta, Kassel, Germany (1982) and he has had over 100 solo shows, traveling exhibitions, and retrospectives. Typed Letter Signed, 1982, 1p. "I have a show opening November 27, 1982 at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. You are all personally invited to attend..." VG..............40-60

305. [FRANCE] Jean Marie Pardessus (1772-1853) French lawyer. His lectures were published under the title Cours de droit commercial (4 volumes, 1813-1817). In 1815 Pardessus was elected deputy for the department of Loir-et-Cher, and from 1820 to 1830 was constantly re-elected; then, however, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Louis Philippe, and was deprived of his office. After the publication of the first volume of his Collection des lois maritimes antérieures au XVIIIème siècle (1828) he was elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.  He continued his collection of maritime laws (4 vols., 1828-1845), and published Les us et coutumes de la mer (2 volumes, 1847). BRIEF ALS, 1842, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine..........75-100

306. [FRANCE] Paul Thureau-Dangin (1837 – 1913), member of the Académie française (1893, later Perpetual Secretary), was a historian of the reign of Louis-Philippe and also of the revival of Catholic thought (in the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England) in nineteenth century Britain. Thureau-Dangin reconciled his liberal Catholic position with support for republican ideals.  ALS, 187?, 1p, 5-1/4 x 7-1/4".  One inche slice top edge o/w VG...........50-75

307. [FRANCE] Alfred Croiset  (1845-1923)  French classical philologist. He was the brother of Maurice Croiset.  Croiset became professor of Greek eloquence at the Sorbonne in 1885, and has also authored La poésie de Pindare (2nd edition 1886) and Histoire de la littérature grecque (5 bands, from 1887 to 1899, several later editions). Brief  ALS, Paris, 1899 on black-bordered correspondence card, 4.5 x 3.5". Repaired with archival tape - was separted at some time..........40-60

308. [ART] LOUIS MEYNELL (b. 1868) American) Etching, plate signed and dated 1904, image about 5 x 3-1/4" plus margins. VG..........40-60

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312. Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper de Blowitz (1825- 1903) Bohemian journalist. He left home at the age of fifteen to travel, acquiring a wide range of languages in the process. When financial constraints led him to plan emigration to America, he met by chance M. de Falloux , the French minister responsible for public education, and was appointed professor of foreign languages at the Tours Lycée in around 1849. He thereafter transferred to the Marseilles Lycée. He resigned his professorship there in 1859 when he married in order to devote himself to literature and politics. He became famous, both as a journalist and for his insights into diplomacy. ALS, 1891, 3pp, 4.5 x 7 in.  Moderate sunning along left edge on first page; runs into text................30-40

314. [FRANCE] Nicolas de Lamoignon - Nicolas Lamoignon-Bâville (1648-1724) was a French official said to have been accused by Voltaire of instigating the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He made himself famous by the measures he adopted against the Protestants, and by the manner in which he associated himself with the religious policy of Louvois, of which the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was the culminating point. But it is without proof that Voltaire accused him of having instigated this revocation. "I never counselled the revocation of the Edict of Nantes", he wrote to his brother in 1708. On the contrary he considered that "in religion hearts must be attacked, for it is there that it resides", and immediately after the revocation he sent for Bourdaloue to come and evangelize the Protestants of Montpellier. From 1702 to 1704 he helped in the repression of the uprising of the Camisards, occasioned in the Cevennes by English and Calvinistic influences.Document Signed, 1710, 4-pages, 8-1/4 x 12". Tattered edges; slight unimportant small missing pieces. "Very Rare".............125-225

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316. [FRANCE] offered here are 2 documents from France: one dated 1783, signed by Jean Francois Joly De Fleury [1718-1802] State councillor who was fired in 1783, the year of this letter which speaks of Countess of La Rochefoucault. 1-page, about 6-3/4 x 8-1/4". PLUS another document 1701, 4pp, about 8.5 x 12. Identified as being about the grandfather of de Fleury..........100-150

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320. [ART] Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications. When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow. Life there became difficult, and his father secured permission from Lenin and the Politburo to take his son to London in 1921. Young Liberman was educated in Russia, England, and France, where he took up life as a "White Émigré" in Paris.  He began his publishing career in Paris with the early pictorial magazine Vu, where he worked under Lucien Vogel and with photographers such as Brassaï, André Kertész, and Robert Capa. After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Condé Nast Publications, rising to the position of editorial director, which he held from 1962-1994. Only in the 1950s did Liberman take up painting and, later, metal sculpture. His highly recognizable sculptures are assembled from industrial objects (segments of steel I-beams, pipes, drums, and such), often painted in uniform bright colors. Prominent examples of his work are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Tate Gallery, and the Guggenheim Museum. His massive work "The Way", a 65 feet x 102 feet x 100 feet  structure, is made of eighteen salvaged steel oil tanks, and became a signature piece of Laumeier Sculpture Park, and a major landmark of St. Louis, Missouri. Offered here is a large back & white lithograph, Signed A. Liberman 65, edition 7/35, approx. 35 x 24 in. flush, very good condition except for a tiny 1/4 in. tear into the upper left edge, only noticeable with close examination.............600-800

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321.  [ART] Jacques Villon (1875 - 1963) A painter and printmaker, Villon was known for his Cubist-style works, and is especially noted by art historians for "his creation of a purely graphic language for Cubism. He first came to the attention of the American public when his work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show, which introduced modernism to the United Sates. All of his work sold at this exhibition. He was from a cultured family in the Normandy region of France, and was much influenced by his maternal grandfather, Emile Nicolle, who gave him early artistic training. Villon was born with the name of Gaston Emile Duchamp, and was the older brother of artists Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. Honoring the French medieval poet, François Villon, and so as not to be confused artistically with his siblings, he changed his name to Jacques Villon. Jacques Villon died in his studio on June 9, 1963, and three years later, Marcel Duchamp, his last surviving brother, organized an exhibition of his work, which was held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. In 1922 Villon was commissioned by the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune to produce a series of color aquatints after 38 major 19th and 20th century paintings. These included works after Braque, Matisse, Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Cezanne, Dufy, Modigliani, Bonnard and numerous others. Villon collaborated with these master artists and signed these prints so that they provided the public with access to works which otherwise would not be available. Color aquatint, signed in the plate (not pencil signed), 1923, title "NATURE MORTE", after Georges Braque, mat opening size 25-1/2 x 9 in. Framed. Not examined out of frame but appears to be without faults...............1000-1500

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322. [ART REFERENCE] Benezit, E., ed DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DES PEINTRES, SCULPTEURS, DESSINATEURS ET GRAVEURS De tous les temps et de tous le pays par un groupe d'ecrivains specialistes francais et etrangers.Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976. 10 vols. n. Each approx.. 700 pages. Text in French - many illustrations of signatures & monograms. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Extremities very good. Interiors and exteriors clean; all quite sound. An impressive set. Very good+/No dust jacket. A MUST HAVE set for the serious art collector or dealer....................Minimum Bid..........$250

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327. Paul Zindel Jr. (1936-2003) American playwright, novelist.  Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

328. [PHOTOGRAPHY - NASA] WILLENE WHISENHANT - one of the important photographers at NASA at the beginning. ORIGINAL vintage color 10x8 photo showing Alan Shepard lying down in space suit with technicians around him. Whisenhant has written caption in ink below "MA-9 - Backup - Shepard." NASA S-63-3888. VG. Provenance: Ex-collection of the photographer.........100-200

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330. [FILM] Ernest Borgnine [1917-2012] American actor. Academy Award winner. Signed, inscribed 5x7 color photo. VG............35-45

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331. [MUSIC] Baroness Jacqueline Fontyn [b. 1930] contemporary Belgian composer, pianist and music educator. She was born in Antwerp, and has received the title of baroness from the King of Belgium in recognition of her many artistic contributions. AMQS on 6x4 card. VG.......35-45

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332. [FILM] Kim Novak  (b. 1933)  American actress. Signed, inscribed 4.5 x 7 photo. VG...............25-35

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334. Small collection: includes: Ira Allen Haynes [1859-1955] American General who served in Hawaii in 1899. He commanded the 64th F.A. Brigade, Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La. [1917]; served in France [1918-1919]; later commanded 9th Coast Artillery District, San Francisco. Signed Riggs Nationa Bank check dated 1920. ¥ Gordon G. Heiner [1869-1943] American General who commanded coast defenses Honolulu, Hawaii [1923-26]. Signed Rigs bank check, 1900. Plus 5 color lithographed stereocards showing life in Hawaii [c. 1905]...............50-75

335. Edwin Markham (1852-1940)  American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.  Signed broadside of his poem "Lincoln, The Man of the People", dated 1928. Approx. 8-1/2 x 14".  Top portion not showing in scan below. One middle fold o/w VG.............50-75

338. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Original 1953 International News Photo taken by the legendary photographer, Al Muto, of President Eisenhower. Approx. 7 x 9-1/8". Caption attached to backside. VG.................100-150

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339. [ART] André Berne-Joffroy (1915-2007) Former Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Iimportant art critic in France. He was responsible for many of the important Paris exhibitions of modern art during the 1950-1980 era. He is also credited with the rediscovery of the Italian artist Michelangelo Caravaggio [1571-1610], who had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Infamous while he lived, Caravaggio was forgotten almost immediately after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered. Despite this, his influence on the new Baroque style that eventually emerged from the ruins of Mannerism, was profound. It can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernini, and Rembrandt , and artists in the following generation heavily under his influence were called the "Caravaggisti" or "Caravagesques", as well as Tenebrists or "Tenebrosi" ("shadowists"). Andre Berne-Joffroy, said of him: "What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting." Offered here are 23 manuscript pages written by Berne-Joffroy [UNSIGNED]. He has written on the front "Exposition de Peinture Surrealiste Lima 1954." Written in French. Very rare! Excellent condition...........150-200

340. [FRANCE] approx. 17 signed petitions to save the Olympia Music Hall in Paris [1970]. Signed by musicians, dancers etc. Each 8.5 x 11. All VG. Needs research..........100-150

341. Lumber Trade in the St. Germain-En-Laye Forest - 4 Manuscript documents written in both sides of official Royal watermarked paper. Three have 3 different revenues [one has 2 revenues]. Very fresh condition. Approx. 7 x 10 in. each. Many signatures. These date 1822-1841.............100-150

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344. [FRANCE] Gay, Jean-Baptiste-Sylvère. Vicomte de Martignac [1778-1832] French politician. Royalist in sympathy; appointed attorney general of Limoges (1819); member of Chamber of Deputies (1821-32); appointed councilor of state (1822); created vicomte (1824). As minister of interior and virtual head of the cabinet (1828-29), superintended final attempt to reconcile monarchy with the people; removed by kin 206. g for making concessions to the left. Author of Bordeaux au mois de Mars 1815 (1830) and Essai sur les révolutions d' Espagne et l' intervention française de 1823 (1832).  ALS, 1829, 1p. Re: conveying the President on behalf of the King? VG. Approx. 6 x 7-3/4".............100-150

346. [FILM] Fayard Nicholas (1914-2006) American choreographer, dancer and actor. He, along with his brother Harold, made up The Nicholas Brothers tap-dance duo who starred in the MGM musicals. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO.........30-40

348. Herb Shriner (1918-1970) American humorist, radio personality and television host. Shriner was known for his homespun monologues, usually about his home state of Indiana. He was frequently compared to humorist Will Rogers. Signed photo, 5x7. ANY FAULTS ARE VERY MINOR.............25-35

350. PETER DRUCKER (1909- 2005) American Writer/Teacher. He is also a consultant specializing in strategy and policy for businesses and social sector organizations. He has consulted with many of the world's largest corporations as well as with nonprofit organizations, small and entrepreneurial companies, and with agencies of the U.S. government. He has also worked with free-world governments such as those of Canada, Japan, and Mexico. He is the author of thirty-one books which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thirteen books deal with society, economics, and politics; fifteen deal with management. ANS on 3x5 card dtd 1985...............20-30

351. George Maharis - actor. TLS, 1979..........25-35

352. James R. Killiam [1904-1988] Pres. MIT. SP, 5x7..........25-35

353. Victoria Holt - British novelist. TLS, 1973, 1p..........25-35

354. George Davidson (1825-1911) American geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer.   In 1845, he began his career as clerk to Bache who was superindentent of the United States Coast Survey. He founded the Davidson Observatory in San Francisco, which was the first astronomical observatory on the Pacific coast of North America. ALS, 1888, 4pp. To Mrs. Snead. Long heartfelt letter about the loss of Mrs. Snead daughter. VG..............75-100

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355. Sir Frederick McCoy, KCMG, FRS [1817-1899] Irish palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia. Last 4 pages of an ALS, no date. Ink has lightened on last name. Mounting trace along edge on last page. Very small punchhole............30-40

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356. [FOOTBALL] Ara Parseghian (b. 1923) American collegiate football coach. He served as head coach for three teams, most notably the University of Notre Dame team from 1964-1974. During his 11 seasons as head coach of the Fighting Irish (known popularly as "the Era of Ara"), he compiled a 95-17-4 record, for a .836 winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame coach of the modern era. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............25-35

357. [MEDICINE] Ernest Besnier (1831 - 1909) French dermatologist and medicinal director of the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. He introduced histopathology and parasitology to the clinic, and originated the term biopsy for tissue samples. He was the first to describe the chronic skin changes of sarcoidosis, and gave it the name lupus pernio. He founded the medical journal Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie with Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon . He attempted to balance the differences between the French and Viennese approaches to dermatological medicine, and in 1881 with Doyon, translated Moritz Kaposi's famous book on skin diseases (Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten in Vorlesungen für praktische Ärzte und Studirende) from German into French (Leçons sur les maladies de la peau). The eponymous Besnier's prurigo is named after a type of atopic dermatitis that he described. ALS, 1902, 1p, 4-3/8 x 7". Not translated. Fine...........75-100

358. [MEDICINE] Denton Arthur Cooley (b.1920) is a pioneering American heart surgeon. SIGNED 1970 picture removed from magazine. PLUS Dr. Willem Johan (Pim) Kolff (b.1911) is a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Signed & inscribed magazine picture...............25-35

359. [MINN] Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928 in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program. SEC. OF AGRICULTURE. ALS, 2004, 1p...........25-35

360. [MEDICINE] William Sharpey [1802-1880] British anatomist and physiologist. He was one of the founders of modern physiology in Great Britain and the first to occupy a chair of physiology in a British medical school. Joseph Lister was one of his pupils. SIGNED fragment removed from letter. No date...............50-75

361. [FILM] Edward Chodorov (1904-1988) Broadway playwright and he was the author or the producer of over 50 motion pictures. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 11, 1935, 1p. To Samuel Goldwyn Inc., Hollywood, Cal., giving authorization to Vernopn D. Wood to accept delivery of any and all checks and/or sums of money payable to Chodorov. Lightly toned at right edge affecting nothing............50-75

362. [ART] WALT KUHN (1877-1949), American painter. After studying in many European countries, he helped organize the famous Armory Show (International Exhibition of Modern Art, New York City, 1913). He is noted chiefly for his vigorous studies of circus performers, chorines, and trapeze athletes. His Blue Clown (1931, Whitney Museum, New York City) is the most popular example of his work. He also did a number of brilliant still lifes, as well as designs for musical reviews. Kuhn helped introduce the techniques and theories of modern art to the American public and to many American artists. Offered here are twenty-seven handwritten letters-   twenty-five [25] letters are from 1943,  one is 1940 & the last is 1948, the year before Walt died. Most are two pages on 8 x 11 in. sheets. The majority of the letters were written from  Ogunquit, Maine where the Kuhn's owned a home with a studio. At the end of 1948 he had a nervous breakdown. In some of his letters he starts to wonder about his mental abilities. Walts' letters run the gamut  of  town gossip to art gossip mentioning names of artists who summered in Ogunquit, war activity near Ogunquit off Boone Island, descriptions of the areas where he paints, his feelings about tourists, how his painting is going, his art patrons and dealers. A Colliers article about Walts' paintings is mentioned in a few letters and a copy of the article goes with the group. One letter is answering a question from a Chicago woman about a version of the 1913 Armory Show held there. The only archive of Kuhn's letters still in private hands......12,000-18,000

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363. Waldegrave - 8th Earl [1788-1859] Brit. naval Vice-Adm. Clip signature.......25-35

364. Eliza (Buckminster) Lee (1792-1864) American author, the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; was well educated by her father and brother, Joseph Stevens Buckminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston; became a writer; and was unusually felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote, notably: Sketches of New England Life (1837); Naomi, or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (1848); and memoirs of her father and brother (1849). She translated from the German, wrote a life of Richter (1842), and published an historical novel, Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism (1858). ALS, 1843, 2pp. To Phillips Brooks, the famous American clergyman and author. Letter says she is sending the poem Brooks asked for [poem not present here[.............75-100

365. Thomas J. Dodd [1907-1971] US Sen. TLS, 1961 re: World Peace......25-35

366. BILL BLASS (1913-2002) Am. Fashion Designer. ISP, 8X10......25-35

367. [CABINET] HOWARD "Bo" CALLAWAY- American Politician - United States Representative, Georgia, and Secretary of the Army under Presidents Nixon and Ford. SIGNED/Inscribed 5x7 photograph............25-35

368. James Caleb "Cale" Boggs (1909-1993) a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U.S. Representative from Delaware, two terms as Governor of Delaware, and two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. He was known b y his middle name. SIGNED/INSCRIBED 8x10 photo, 1983.................20-30

369. [FILM & TV] Hazel Court (1926-2006) English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG....25-35

370. [FRANCE] Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797-1886) French mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the one-dimensional unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations or Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering . Although his surname was Barré de Saint-Venant in non-French mathematical literature he is known simply as Saint-Venant. His name is also associated with Saint-Venant's principle of statically equivalent systems of load, Saint-Venant's theorem and for Saint-Venant's compatibility condition, the integrability conditions for a symmetric tensor field to be a strain. In 1843 he published the correct derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations for a viscous flow and was the first to "properly identify the coefficient of viscosity and its role as a multiplying factor for the velocity gradients in the flow". Although he published before Stokes the equations do not bear his name. In 1868, at 71 years old, he was elected to succeed Poncelet in the mechanics section of the Académie des Sciences. In 1869 he was given the title 'Count' (comte) by Pope Pius IX. ALS, 1861, 2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". There is a tear coming up from botton edge that touches the signature but no loss of paper. See scan.........100-150

371. [SPORTS] Multiple lot comprised of the following figures from the World of Sports: [1] BICYCLING] REGGIE MCNAMARA - member US Bicycling Hall of Fame. Signed [lined side] and inscribed 3x5 card. 1950. [2] [GOLF] Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998) was a dentist who gave up his practice to become a professional golfer on what is now the PGA Tour in the 1940s. At the time, a career as a dentist would quite likely have been more lucrative. During his playing career, Middlecoff won 40 professional tournaments, including the 1955 Masters and U.S. Open titles in 1949 and 1956. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average in 1956. He played on three Ryder Cup teams: 1953, 1955, and 1959. In 1986, Middlecoff was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. SIGNED 1957 FIRST DAY COVER HONORING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [UN COVER]. Stamp-addressed; one middle fold crease. [3] BONNIE BLAIR - won 2 Golds in speed skating. SP, color 4 x 5-1/2. [4] John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900-1982) American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. In 1939, Gaver was appointed head trainer for Greentree Stable, a position he would hold for the next thirty-eight years. During his time with Greentree, John Gaver conditioned seventy-three stakes-winning horses. Signed 1981 bank check. [5] [GOLF] Ken Venturi (b.1931) was a prominent PGA Tour professional during the late 1950's and early 1960's. His signature on 1965 cover bearing golf sticker. Type addressed. [6] [GOLF] Marlene Hagge (b.1934) professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002. Her signature on 1961 cover bearing golf sticker. Type addressed. Several spots show.........50-75

372. [FILM] Fay Bainter (1893-1968) American film and stage actress. Bainter quickly achieved success, and in 1938 she became the first performer nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actress, for White Banners (1937), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938), winning for the latter. Since then, only nine other actors have won dual nominations in a single year. She was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Children's Hour (1961). ALS, no date, 1p. To Franklyn Lenthall - actor, director, producer, curator of the Boothbay Theater Museum [Maine]. "My dear Mr. Lenthall - How can I thank you for your wonderful letter - It helps a lot - I shall keep on trying until I get something to please everyone - Good luck to you - Please don't give up - Sincerely Fay Bainter." Written on Hotel Astor, NYC, letterhead. VG...........80-120

373. [REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE] COREY ALLEN (1934-2010) American Actor/Director. He began acting while attending UCLA. A proponent of "The Method," Allen found himself in the company of several like-minded young actors in his first film of consequence, (1955) Allen played Buzz in the film REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, the high-school ringleader who dies horribly during the "chickin run" with JAMES DEAN. Though Buzz became a comparatively sympathetic character before his screen demise, producers tended to think of Allen as a surly, punkish type, and cast him accordingly. Frustrated with being typecast, Allen turned director in 1962. Corey Allen's theatrical-film directorial efforts have hardly been Oscar calibre (have you seen The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio?), but his TV work has proven quite impressive, enough so to earn him an Emmy award. SIGNED/Inscribed 8x10 photograph............30-40

378. [FRANCE] Guillaume-René Meignan (1817-1896) French Catholic apologist and scriptural exegete, Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal. ALS, 1887, 1-1/5 pp, 8vo. Not translated. VG........100-150

379. [MAINE] R.P.D. (Robert Pinckney Dunlap. 1794-1859) was the 11th Governor of Maine and a U.S. Representative from Maine. ALS, Washington, March 11, 1846, 1p. Signed with initials. Concerns papers of a case that had been found. The case "Greely & Dunn." VG.............40-60

380. [THEATRE] Channing Pollock (1880-1946) American playwright, critic and writer of film scenarios. TLS, 1936, 1p. Small foxing stains........25-35

381. [ROYALTY] Princess Stephanie of Monaco (born 1965) member of the royal family of Monaco. She is the youngest child of Grace Kelly and Rainier III of Monaco. SIGNED 1978 FDC honoring American Quits. Clean & attractive.............30-40

382. [NOBEL] Dr Edwin Gerhard Krebs (born 1918) American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman winner of Nobel Prize in medicine in 1994 and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. SIGNED soft cover pamphlet about him. Not published with cover.............20-30

384. [FRANCE] Jacques Raillon (1762-1835) Bishop of Orleans; also of Dijon; also Archbishop of Aix.  Letter Signed, Paris, 1813, 1p, approx. 8x10". To Monseigneur.  This churchman lived through the troubling history of France's Catholicism Revolution; Napoleon's problems with Pius VII; return of the monarchy, etc.  He made a famous funeral speech at Notre-Dame for Marshall Lannes. VG...........100-150

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388. [THEATRE] Jean Herve [1884-1966] French comedy actor, teacher and director. SIGNED, INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH, to the actress Tania Fedor, dated 1924. Photographer was Paul Mejat. Over all size 5-1/4 x 8-3/4". VG.............50-75

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389. [POETRY] Mary E. Ireland - American Poet at turn of the century. Signed holograph poem "Home On Furlough", 1p, 32 lines. Fine.......25-35

390. [FRANCE] HENRY JOUIN [b.1841] Fr. writer. ALS, 1900, written on correspondence card. Bottom right corner trimmed. To Aimi Giron. Not translated.........................50-75

391. Jilly (Cooper) OBE (b. 1937) is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels the Rutshire Chronicles. BRIEF TLS, 1979, 1p............25-35

392. [FILM] Harry Dean Stanton (b. 1926) American actor of film and television. SIGNED & INSCRIBED PHOTO, 4x6". VG...........25-35

393. [FILM] Dana Wynter (b. 1931) German-born United States actress, who was raised in England and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than four decades beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. SIGNED 8x10 vintage photo...........25-35

394. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835 - August 10, 1908), American poet, story-writer and critic. Signed card dated 1901........20-30

395. [TV] Robert Urich (1946-2002) American film, television and stage actor and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, Urich starred in a record 15 television series.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........40-60

396. [FRANCE] Eugène Mouton (1823-1902) French writer of comic, adventure, and fantastical literature, and is considered an early writer of science fiction. He wrote under the name Mérinos. The son of a military officer father and a Creole mother, he lived in Guadeloupe until the age of ten. In 1848 he became a magistrate; his career progressed upward for the next 20 years, and he rose to the rank of prosecutor. During his time in Rodez he helped to implement one of the first mobile libraries in France. He wrote for various newspapers, and his first story was published in 1857 when L'Invalide à la tête de bois (The Invalid with the Wooden Head) appeared in Le Figaro under the pen name of Mérinos. His subsequent success caused him to resign from the magistracy in 1868 in order to devote himself to writing. His principal works are Les lois pénales en France (1868), Nouvelles et fantaisies humoristisques (1873 and 1876), Voyages et aventures du Marius Cougourdan (1879), and Histoire de l'invalide à la tête de bois (1887). ALS, PARIS, 1889, 4pp, 4.5 x 7". VG. Speaks about his work and drawings............75-100

397. [NOBEL PRIZE] Robert C. Merton (b. 1944) American economist, university professor and Nobel laureate in economics. Signed & inscribed, 2001, softcover booklet "Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later," 66 pp, publ. 1997. VG.............25-35

398. [Pakistan] Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI [1893-1985] Pakistani politician, diplomat, international jurist, and scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, known for drafting the Pakistan Resolution, for his representation of Pakistan at the United Nations, and serving as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. SIGNED CARD, DATED NOV. 22, 1939.............20-30

399. [FRANCE] Jacques Tarride (1903-1994) French actor, director. He was the son of the actor Abel Tarride and the brother of the director Jean Tarride. Great friend of Sacha Guitry who was godfather to his son. ALS, 1992, written on both sides. Approx. 6x7. VG. Content about "les Nouveai L Riches".........50-75

400. [ART] LOUIS MEYNELL (b. 1868) American) Etching, plate signed and dated 1903, image about 3-1/8 x 5" plus margins. VG..........40-60

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401. [ART] Original 18th  century portrait of John Colet (1467-1519) the  English churchman and educational pioneer.  Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Colet wanted people to see the scripture as their guide through life. Furthermore, he wanted to restore theology and rejuvenate Christianity. Colet is an important early leader of Christian humanism as he linked humanism and reform. Colet influenced Erasmus, a key figure in Christian humanism. During his time abroad he became acquainted with Budaeus (Guillaume Budé) and Erasmus, and with the teaching of Savonarola. On his return to England in 1496 he took orders and settled at Oxford, where he lectured on the epistles of Saint Paul, replacing the old scholastic method of interpretation with one more in harmony with the new learning. Due to their influences, when he arrived back in England, he returned more than just a humanist; he returned a Christian reformer. His methods did much to influence Erasmus, who visited Oxford in 1498, and who later received an annuity from Colet. This original mezzotint portrait is by Richard Houston (1721?–1775)  who was an Irish mezzotint engraver, whose career was mostly in London.  Born in Dublin about 1721, he became a pupil of John Brooks, who was also the master of James McArdell and Charles Spooner. He came to London about 1747, and some of his early plates bear the address "near Drummond's at Charing Cross". In debt to Robert Sayer the print-seller, he was arrested and confined to the Fleet prison; according to Sayer this in order that he might know where to find the dissipated Houston. He was released in 1760, on the accession of George III. As a free agent he was commissioned by Carington Bowles.  Cropped and mounted many years ago, the image is approx. 10-1/4 x 7-3/4" plus margins. VG...............200-300

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402. [ART] Original 18th  century portrait of Martin Bucer (early German: Martin Butzer) (1491-1551) the Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices. Bucer was originally a member of the Dominican Order, but after meeting and being influenced by Martin Luther in 1518 he arranged for his monastic vows to be annulled. He then began to work for the Reformation, with the support of Franz von Sickingen. Bucer's efforts to reform the church in Wissembourg resulted in his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, and he was forced to flee to Strasbourg. There he joined a team of reformers which included Matthew Zell, Wolfgang Capito, and Caspar Hedio. He acted as a mediator between the two leading reformers, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, who differed on the doctrine of the eucharist. Later, Bucer sought agreement on common articles of faith such as the Tetrapolitan Confession and the Wittenberg Concord, working closely with Philipp Melanchthon on the latter. Bucer believed that the Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire could be convinced to join the Reformation. Through a series of conferences organised by Charles V, he tried to unite Protestants and Catholics to create a German national church separate from Rome. He did not achieve this, as political events led to the Schmalkaldic War and the retreat of Protestantism within the Empire. In 1548, Bucer was persuaded, under duress, to sign the Augsburg Interim, which imposed certain forms of Catholic worship. However, he continued to promote reforms until the city of Strasbourg accepted the Interim, and forced him to leave. In 1549, Bucer was exiled to England, where, under the guidance of Thomas Cranmer, he was able to influence the second revision of the Book of Common Prayer. He died in Cambridge, England, at the age of 59. Although his ministry did not lead to the formation of a new denomination, many Protestant denominations have claimed him as one of their own. He is remembered as an early pioneer of ecumenism. This original mezzotint portrait is by Richard Houston (1721?–1775)  who was an Irish mezzotint engraver, whose career was mostly in London.  Born in Dublin about 1721, he became a pupil of John Brooks, who was also the master of James McArdell and Charles Spooner. He came to London about 1747, and some of his early plates bear the address "near Drummond's at Charing Cross". In debt to Robert Sayer the print-seller, he was arrested and confined to the Fleet prison; according to Sayer this in order that he might know where to find the dissipated Houston. He was released in 1760, on the accession of George III. As a free agent he was commissioned by Carington Bowles.  Cropped and mounted many years ago, the image is approx. 10-1/4 x 7-3/4" plus margins. VG...............200-300

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