36. [THEATRE] Noel Coward's "WEEK END" - an archive concerning this play by Coward: Andree Mery [translator of this play] signed 1946, contract, 2 pages. A brief TLS, 1961, signed Andree mery mentioning Week End. A 1935 TLS [signature not identified] mentioning Mery and Week End. Two more ALSs by Andree Mery, both 1928, both about Week End. Lastly, a 1929 contract for Week End, signed by several. Nothing is signed by Noel Coward..........75-100

37. [FRANCE] c. 1840 Manuscript document - identified as "To Delegate of Peace Society - speaks about two big nations [France & Germany?", unsigned, 2pp, approx. 8 x 11-1/2". VG..............100-150

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38.  [FRANCE] ANTOINE-ALEXANDRE  BARBIER (1765-1825) Prior to the Revolution, Barbier was a maths and physics teacher, and in 1789, he was the vicar at Dammartin. He accepted the "constitution civile du clergé" and became priest at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre. In 1794 he was given the job of itemising and safeguarding the huge number of books and papers that had been confiscated by the revolutionaries on behalf of the Nation. These books, many of which were falling apart due to insects and poor conservation conditions, were also taking up offices that were required by the local authorities. Having constructed proper shelving for the books and introduced air-flow systems to allow ventilation between the shelves, the monumental task of cataloguing the confiscated works remained. This task required the assistance of specialists: archivists, curators, bibliophiles and librarians were called in to sort through the books, destroy any considered "seditious", sell any that were no longer needed and replace any considered important enough in the public libraries. A large of number of public libraries benefitted from this process, in particular the Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1795, Barbier was seconded to Gaspard Michel Leblond with the task of reducing the huge book depots in Paris and in Versailles, sorting, cataloguing and selling the books stored on these sites. Barbier was also heavily involved in the creation of provincial public libraries and the cataloguing of the books stored therein.  In 1798, Barbier created the bibliothèque du ministère de l'Intérieur, which was designed to hold the collections that formerly belonged to the Académie Française and the Académie  des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres, as well as any works considered worthwhile that had been seized from libraries belonging to émigrés or those condemned to death. This library became the Conseil D'Etat's library in 1799, shortly after 18 Brumaire, and Barbier became its librarian. Putting together a catalogue for the library, he abandoned the traditional alphabetical classification, instead opting for classification by subject-matter.  In 1807, Barbier replaced Louis-Madeleine Ripault and was put in charge of Napoleon's personal libraries at Compiègne, Rambouillet and Trianon as well as the travel libraries that Napoleon took with him whilst on campaign. The first travel library, conceived in July 1808, included texts on a variety of different subjects: novels, history, poetry, and theatre. Barbier was also asked to write numerous reports regarding the history, geography and religious issues of various regions and countries which Napoleon used in his political and military planning.  Barbier was also expected to keep the French Emperor constantly supplied with reading material, along with reports, analyses and commentaries regarding each publication. Napoleon, known to be a voracious reader, complained on a number of occasions about the lack of reading material at his disposal, which led to letters being dispatched to Barbier, reminding him of his duties regarding this matter. In his role as "conseiller littéraire", he was also expected to brief Napoleon when the Emperor was back in Paris. He also served the Empress Josephine in a similar manner, and managed her libraries at the Tuileries, Compiègne, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau, Trianon, Rambouillet and at her other residences. Between 1808 and 1810, he published his Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de goût, which was based on Louis-Mayeul Chaudon's Bibliothèque d'un homme de goût. This catalogue gathered together various critical and analytical extracts from works and periodicals dedicated to literary criticism, adding to and correcting the original work of Chaudon. The goal of this catalogue was to examine both modern and classical literature and separate the "wheat from the chaff", rewrite any critiques that were unmerited, and ensure that books which did not deserve to be forgotten were not, whilst books that were unworthy of remembrance were removed. The catalogue included entries for both French and foreign literature, as well as offering notes on the best editions and most accurate translations, where necessary. Despite his work for Napoleon, Barbier remained principled and incurred the wrath of the Emperor on a number of occasions: as well as being reluctant to forward any works that he considered mediocre (despite the Emperor's continuous desire for new reading material), he also refused to catalogue a number of books dedicated to or concerning Napoleon and his numerous successes. Works that were omitted from the libraries that Barbier curated included Relation de la bataille de Marengo, Vies de Bonaparte, and Histoires de l'Empereur Napoléon, which he argued were written by "second-rate writers", driven by greed and a desire to flatter the Emperor. Napoleon nevertheless insisted that Relation... be inserted into all of his libraries, despite his librarian's reluctance. During the Restoration, Barbier was put in charge of the royal libraries, but was dismissed from the King's service in 1822, for reasons not listed in his biographies (although Muriel Brot hypothesises that this may have been simply due to his prolonged service for Napoleon). Barbier was severely affected by the dismissal and fell ill shortly afterwards, dying in 1825. Offered here is a document signed, 1807, one page, approx. 7 x 9.5".  Appears to be about Certificate of Pension.  We are unable to find any prices for documents signed by Barbier however some of the books he authored have sold at auction for as high as $11,400.  Very good condition........200-300

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43. [MIXED LOT] [1] [BIG BEN CLOCK] Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, Q.C. (1816-1905) British lawyer, amateur horologist, and architect. In 1851 he designed the mechanism for the clock of the Palace of Westminster, responsible for the chimes of Big Ben. He was also responsible for rebuilding the west front, roof, and transept windows of St Albans Cathedral at his own expense. Although the building had been in need of repair, popular opinion at the time held that he had changed the cathedral's character, even inspiring the creation and temporary popularity of the verb "to grimthorpe", meaning to carry out unsympathetic restorations of ancient buildings. ALS, 1898, 1p, to the Editor of the Herts Standard. "Sir, I send you this as you will probably wish to notice this important transaction in some way, and you may as well have an accurate account of it. If you like to send me a proof tomorrow you shall have it back on Wednesday." This probably relates to forwarding an article, most likely about the restoration of the Cathedral at St. Albans, which, aside from Big Ben, was his second most famous undertaking. Approx. 8-1/4 x 3-1/4". VG. [2][SINGER SEWING] WILLIAM E. COOPER - Singer Agent. ALS, New Orleans, 1875, 1p, 4to. on Singer Manufacturing Co. letterhead. "By the burning of the S.S. City of Waco at Galveston, our Invoice of the 28th ult. shipped to that office is an entire loss. Our loss at Aherman Texas has delayed remittances from that point, which were beginning to be good. We are however re-organizing there and will soon be in good shape again..." Mounting traces along left edge. [3] Margaret Prescott Montague [pseudonym Jane Steger] (1878-1955) Am. author. She wrote "The Sowing of Alderson Cree"; "Up Eel River"; "Closed Doors. " She was the first winner of the O. Henry Award (1919) for her "England to America" in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1918. ALS, 1920, 3pp., to the journalist Margaret Marshall. Accompanied by a photograph of her standing outside near house & garden. [4] George Mitchell(b. 1933) American Statesman. Presently serving as special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He was chairman of The Walt Disney Company from March 2004 until January 2007, and was chairman of the international law firm DLA Piper at the time of his appointment as special envoy. For his involvement in the Northern Ireland peace negotiations, Mitchell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1999), and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. TLS, US Senate stationery, Nov. 13, 1980, 1p, 6-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. To Guy Gannett Publishing Co., Portland, Maine, sending thanks for sending him a copy of Harold Boyle's book "Best of Boyle." "I have also sent a note of thanks to Mr. Boyle personally..." In comparison with other Mitchell signatures this does not appear to be an autopen signature. [5] 1839 Bill of Lading - shipped by I.P. Hazard from Providence, Rhode Island to Savannah. Partly-printed, approx. 9 x 2 in. [6] Job R. Tyson (1803-1858) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Signature. [7] William R. Sapp (1804-1875) U.S. Representative from Ohio. Signature. [8] William A. Gilbert ( 1815 - 1875) U.S. Representative from New York. Signature. [9] Document - Abstract of Expenditures for Jefferson Barracks, Missouri in 2nd Quarter of 1890, signed by a Capt. H. Norgud [?]. [10] James Currie (1756-1805), Scottish doctor and editor of Robert Burns. Antique engraved portrait. VG............100-150

44. [THE MUNSTERS]  Butch Patrick  (1953)  American former child actor. Beginning his professional acting career at the age of eight, Patrick is perhaps best known for his role as child werewolf Eddie Munster on the CBS comedy television series The Munsters.  Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo shown as Eddie Munster. Fine...............40-60

45. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 15 signed bank checks, dating 1906-1921...........200-300

46. Stock Certificate for the Oriental Inland Steam Company, Ltd. J. Bourne and John Grimes, Directors and John Mathewson, Director.  Document Signed by all three, April 7, 1858. 8vo. Fine................150-200

48. [FRANCE] Firmin-Léon-Joseph Renouard  (1831-1913)  Bishop of Limoges. ALS, 1912, 2 full pages, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Fine........60-80

51. [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

52. GERMAN WORLD WAR II ARCHIVE - An interesting German archive of 15 documents pertaining to the attempts by one Mrs. Terhaggen to have her enlisted son return home to the family's weaving factory that supplies clothes for German troops, of which the son had become the boss following the father's death on Oct. 10, 1944. She writes on Nov. 14, 1944, on letterhead of the family's factory, "Carl Hesper Nacht", to Obergruppenführer Albert Bormann requesting that her son, a naval officer, be returned home. She states that hers is the last weaving shop open and without her son there to run it, it will undoubtedly have to close. She asks Bormann to rush the request. This appeal must have been forwarded to a senior Kriegsmarine officer who subsequently writes to Admiral KARL-JESCO VON PUTTKAMMER on Dec. 1, 1944. The unidentified officer writes : "...The comments submitted in the petition of the wife Terheggen I first ordered to rush the 15.1.45...The request I give you, Admiral, return with a copy of the reply to Mrs. Terheggen...". Docketed and signed in pencil at bottom by Puttkammer, also Bormann's ink signature is near top of the letter.. Puttkammer (1900-1981) was naval adjutant to Hitler; present at the 20 July Plot, he was injured and awarded the Wounded Badge. He was sent to Berghof to destroy Hitler's papers but was not present during his final days. Additional documents include: an official letter from the Führer's office regarding an elderly woman trying to donate funds "for the reconstruction of Berlin", which are not accepted; another document regarding a court case involving: "...continued infidelity and continued corruption..." of one Richard Mahler, a leader of public health in Berlin. As a result of this, Mahler was removed from his post by Goebbels and given four years in prison; another document discusses cases of fruit sent to Hitler (which made him "very happy"); another concerning empty boxes that need to be returned to a plant as soon as railway barriers are lifted; and questionnaires, etc. In lightly worn condition, overall very good and worthy of proper translation.  Includes another Bormann signed memo, and possibly others that are initialed. 

60. [FILM]  MILTON EBBINS (1912-2008)  talent manager of jazz greats and a Kennedy administration and Rat Pack insider, composer.  Ebbins started his career in the early 1930s as a trumpet player and bandleader. He left his career as bandleader and became a talent manager, rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs for his clients. He also represented actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for 35 years. Ebbins’ partnership with Lawford — who was married to President Kennedy’s sister, Patricia— brought him into close association with The Rat Pack and the Kennedy Clan.  Ebbins produced many of his clients’ film and television projects and was partnered in a company with Lawford that produced TV series, “The Patty Duke Show.” He associate produced the 1950s TV series’ “The Thin Man” starring Lawford and Phyllis Kirk. He also produced two films starring Rat Packers Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. — “Salt and Pepper” (1968) and “One More Time” (1970). He helped set up the original Rat Packer film, “Ocean’s Eleven” and subsequently “Sergeants 3.” He was also involved in the production of “The Longest Day.”  Ebbins helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962, Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly — sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one of the few allowed inside the White House after the JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project about the Kennedy assassination.  Offered  here is a page of handwritten notes written by Ebbins, not signed, approx. 5 x 7-1/4  in.  Mentions Roman Polanski, the writer-Director, including his phone number;  a small picture deal Jerzy Skolomowski - Dir. during 1968 $250,000 per picture etc. VG..............50-75

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61. [FILM]  the following concerns credit billing for the 1965  film 'BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also appearing in this film: Jim Backus, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger, Billy de Wolfe, Charles Lane, Dick Sargent, Ted Bessell, Richard Deacon, Bobby Diamond.  Offered here are 3 handwritten pages written by Milt Ebbins. 8 x 12-1/2 in. Fine...............150-250

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63. [FILM] Joyce Compton (1907 - 1997) American actress. Among her films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Rose of Washington Square, They Drive by Night, Christmas in Connecticut, Mildred Pierce, The Best Years of Our Lives, and Sorry, Wrong Number. ALS, 1966, written on both sides to a fan. Nice letter. VG..........40-60

65. [POLITICS] Misc. lot of politicians: [1] FERRISS, Orange [1814-1894] a Representative from New York. SIGNATURE. [2] BREWER, Francis Beattie [1820-1892] a Representative from New York CLIP SIGNATURE. [3] Howard H. Baker - US senator. TLS, 1982. [4] SWOPE, John Augustus [1827-1910] Representative from Pennsylvania. SIGNATURE. [5] MILLER, Samuel Henry [1840-1918] Representative from Pennsylvania. SIGNATURE. [6] CESSNA, John 1821-1893] Representative from Pennsylvania. SIGNATURE. [7] CHANDLER, Joseph Ripley [1792-1880] Representative from Pennsylvania. SIGNATURE. [8] GILFILLAN, Calvin Willard [1832-1901] Representative from Pennsylvania. SIGNATURE. [9] MOSGROVE, James [1821-1900] Representative from Pennsylvania. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] FISHER, Horatio Gates[1838-1890] Representative from Pennsylvania. CLIP SIGNATURE........75-100

66. [POSTAL HISTORY] James K. Polk. Folded cover addressed to "His Excellency James K. Polk, President of the United States, Washington D.C.", blue "Philadelphia Pa. Apr. 2" circular datestamp, manuscript Free, docket "R.M. Maddock, Penna. Captaincy." Maddock was a Senate Door Keeper.  Very good +.  Scarce cover to Polk during his one-term presidency.........100-200

67. [ART] Albert E. Sterner  (1863-1946)  American artist. Institutions that have exhibited his work include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.  Sterner's awards include the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1941.  Offered here is an unsigned lithograph that comes directly from Sterner's former home.  Image 15 x 10-1/2 in. plus margins.  Some margin staining but image area is very good..............150-200

68. [MUSIC] Sir Walter Parratt KCVO (1841-1924) English organist and composer. From 1882 he the post of organist of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, Windsor. He became Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University in 1908, taking over from Hubert Parry. He had previously been Organist and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He became one of the foremost organ teachers of his day, with many important posts in Britain being filled by his students. He was knighted in 1892. In 1893 he was appointed Master of the Queen's Musick to Queen Victoria, and afterward held the same office under Kings Edward VII and George V. Signature with sentiment. Mounted............40-60

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70. David Rockefeller Jr. (b. 1941) is an American philanthropist and an active participant in nonprofit and environmental areas. TLS, 1988, 1p, to the actress Kitty Carlyle Hart [1910-2007] regarding her becoming co-chairmanship of committee to honor Leonard Bernstein's 70th birthday. VG SIGNED DAVID............25-35

71. MYSTERY LOT of about 93 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; a few autographs; 5 bank checks signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp, and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1838. There is also an 1842 document signed by R.G. Hazard [look him up], and a 1945 TLS by Commodore Badt. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....125-225

72. [ART] ANNI ALBERS (1899-1994) Textile Artist considered the foremost textile artist of the twentieth century. Born in Berlin she studied weaving and taught at the Bauhaus until it was closed in 1933, and afterwards immigrated to the United States where she continued to make innovative textiles and prints From the time she was a young student at the, she created wall hangings that stand on their own as abstract works of art, comparable in their boldness and modernism to some of the bravest paintings of the epoch. In her upholstery, drapery fabrics, and other functional materials. She married the great painter Josef Albers. Brief TLS dtd 2/10/83.................50-75

73. [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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74. 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

75.  [FRANCE] Comte de Marcellus, MARIE-LOUIS MARCELLUS  [1795-1865] he was appointed secretary to the French embassy to the Porte in 1815, and remained there till 1820, when he was ordered to visit the various ports of the Levant and the religious establishment in Palestine. While he was on this mission, the Venus de Milo was discovered, and Marcellus arranged for its purchase and transport to France. He eventually achieved an distinguished diplomatic career. He published works about Greece, Palestine and Chateaubriand. He was a close friend of Chateaubriand and Lamartine.  Offered here are 24 manuscript pages written by Marcellus - translation of The Philippique by Count de Marcellus.  Ink has lightened with age.  Very neat script.......100-150

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76. [MUSIC] Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976)  Ukrainian French pianist who specialized in the works of Frederic Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars.  Signed 1929 Berkeley Musical Association broadside, 5-1/4 x 10-3/4 in.  VG..............50-75

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77. [MUSIC]  Celedonio Romero (1913-1996) was a guitarist, composer and poet, perhaps best known as the founder of The Romeros guitar quartet.  Signed concert program.  Also signed by  Celin Romero (b. 1936)  classical guitarist and member of the guitar quartet the Romeros. He is the eldest son of Celedonio Romero,  who in 1957 left Franco's Spain for the United States with his family.  Four pages; mounting residue on back page.............50-75

78. [MUSIC] Randy Travis (b. 1959) American country music singer, songwriter and actor. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG......25-35

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79. [MUSIC] Natalie Cole (b. 1950) American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of Nat King Cole.  Signed, inscribed color photo. 8x10. VG............25-35

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80. [DANCE] Vicente Escudero (1892-1980) Spanish flamenco dancer. He was closely associated with the avant-garde of his time.  Escudero was one of the few theorists of his time to comment on the choreography and presentation of the male flamenco dance and his 'Decalogue' or ten rules for the male dancer are still respected today. As well as being the leading flamenco dancer of his era, he was a talented painter in the style, and his studies of flamenco are frequently exhibited. His work was admired by the Spanish modernist painter Joan Miró. Escudero also appeared in the films Castille On Fire (1960) and With the East Wind (1966).  His first official performance was in 1920 at the Olympia Theatre in Paris. He reached his maturity as a dancer between 1926 and 1936, during which time he toured extensively in Europe and the Americas. His most famous production was El amor brujo Escudero's style brought a new dignity and respect to the male flamenco dance, which had sometimes (though wrongly) been regarded as exaggerated and lacking in artistry.  Mounted print of one of his drawings, signed in ink below.  Overall 4-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. VG...............50-75

81. [MUSIC] Brian Farnon  (1911-2010) Canadian born  actor, known for The Spike Jones Show (1957). Jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35

85. [MUSIC] EUBIE BLAKE [1887-1983] American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. SIGNED 3X5 CARD..........40-60

86. [MUSIC-FILM] Lothar Wallerstein  (1882-1949) American film director, conductor and Opera Director. ALS, 1944, 1p........40-60

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87. [FRANCE] Jean Chrysostome Louis Baron de Muller  (1774-1851) Mayor of Colmar from 1817-1830.  Document signed, 1826, written on both sides, approx. 8 x 12".  Very good for its age..........100-150

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88. [FRANCE] Louis-Léonard de Loménie (1815-1878)  French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works.  Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie française in 1871.  Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie française in 1871.  ALS, no dare, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in.  VG.........80-120


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89. [ART] Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler KCVO RA (1892-1974) British sculptor, and the first sculptor to hold the Presidency of the Royal Academy (from 1956 through 1966). ANS on card, 1957. About 3x5". VG..........25-35

90.  [MUSIC] Lyell Cresswell (born 1944, Wellington, New Zealand) composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht. He moved to Scotland in the 1970s and has lived and worked in Edinburgh since 1985. He received the APRA Silver Scroll for his contribution to New Zealand music in 1979 and he won the Ian Whyte Award for the orchestral work Salm in 1978. In 1979, 1981 and 1988 he received a recommendation by the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. In 2002, Victoria University of Wellington awarded him an honorary D. Mus degree and the inaugural Elgar Bursary. AMQS from his "Cello Concerto", dated 1993. On 6x4" card. Fine........40-60

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92. [ART] Emile Wauters (1846-1933)  Belgian painter. He was born in Brussels. Successively the pupil of Portaels and Jean-Léon Gérôme, he produced in 1868 The Battle of Hastings: the Finding of the body of Harold by Edith, a work of striking, precocious talent.  As his youth disqualified him for the medal of the Brussels Salon, which otherwise would have been his, he was sent, by way of compensation, by the minister of fine arts, as artist-delegate to Suez for the opening of the canal, a visit that was fruitful later on.  In 1870, when he was yet only twenty-two years of age, Wauters exhibited his great historical picture of Mary of Burgundy entreating the Sheriffs of Ghent to pardon the Councillors Hugonet and Humbercourt (Liege Museum) which created a veritable furore, an impression which was confirmed the following year at the London International Exhibition.  It was eclipsed by the celebrated Madness of Hugo van der Goes (1872, Brussels Museum), a picture which led to the commission for the two large works decorating the Lions staircase of the Hotel de Ville Mary of Burgundy swearing to respect the Communal Rights of Brussels, 1477 and The Armed Citizens of Brussels demanding the Charta from Duke John IV of Brabant. His other large compositions comprise Sobieski and his Staff before Besieged Vienna (Brussels Museum) and the Harvest of a journey to Spain and Tangiers, The Great Mosque, and Serpent Charmers of Sokko, and a souvenir of his Egyptian travel, Cairo, from the Bridge of Kasr-el-Nil (Antwerp Museum). His vast panorama probably the noblest and most artistic work of this class ever produced Cairo and the Banks of the Nile (1881), 380 ft. by 49 ft., executed in six months, was exhibited with extraordinary success in Brussels, Munich, and the Hague. He received the Order of Merit of Prussia, and is Commander of the Order of Leopold, and of that of St. Michael of Bavaria, Officer of the Légion d'honneur, among other awards.  ALS, no date, 1p., approx. 4-1/2 x 7". Very Fine condition............100-150

93. [FRANCE] Faletans or Falletans - the same family from Burgundy nobility, directly from the middle ages. It gave its name to a village in Burgundy, and to a county. The family gave to France many high army officers. The 'Marquis de Falletans" has been general of the National Guard under Napoleon; Captain of King's Hunters; and Mayor of the town of Busy. Offered here:  4 manuscript pages [1812], great large watermarked paper, large sums of money - de Faletans. Worthy of research. Not translated. Fine condition.............200-300

94. [FRANCE] Jules Basile Guesde (1845-1922)  French socialist journalist and politician. Guesde was the inspiration for a famous quotation by Karl Marx.  Shortly before Marx died in 1883, he wrote a letter to Guesde and Paul Lafargue, both of whom already claimed to represent "Marxist" principles. Marx accused them of "revolutionary phrase-mongering" and of denying the value of reformist struggles.  This exchange is the source of Marx's remark, reported by Friedrich Engels: "ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste” (“what is certain is that [if they are Marxists], [then] I myself am not a Marxist”).  ALS, no, 1p,  5-1/2 x 7". VG...........100-150
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95. [ART] Charles Meryon (1821-1868) French artist, who worked almost entirely in etching, as he suffered from color-blindness.  He is generally recognised as the most significant etcher of 19th century France. He also suffered from mental illness, dying in an asylum. His most famous work is a series of views of Paris. Offered here is a photogravure 1926 of his etching [1865].  These superb photogravures, there were 20 printed in 1926, are often sold as etchings. You see them all the time offered at around $400 to $800 each. The sellers, obviously are not aware of what they are offering. The original 1865 etching retailed at $1500. Plate size approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/2" plus wide clean margins. A superb example of the original..............100-150

96.  FINE Pension Archive CIVIL WAR Vet PETER HANYAN Badly Burned MOH Winner J. BLACK - Offered here is a large lot of (18) documents/ ALS's/and TLS's [some 35pp. total] pertaining to the pension case of Civil War veteran Peter Hanyan, who served in Co "B" Battalion Engineers, United States Army. Hanyan enlisted Feb. 1864 and was discharged Feb. 1867. Prior to his discharge, Hanyan was severely injured when a lamp in the Post billiard room exploded , setting fire to his clothes, Nov. 1866. He inhaled the flames and was in poor health until he died in 1873.  The pension case instituted by his widow was handled by attorney Darwin W. Esmond of Newburgh, NY.  These documents range in date from 1882 to 1890, with sizes varying from 5 3/4" x 3" to 8" x 12 1/2", with many either from Esmond or directed to him.  Some highlights of this lot include:  (1) an 1882 LS on Department of the Interior Pension Office stationery from Commissioner Wm. W. Dudley, notifying Esmond "... medical evidence is required showing the physical condition of the soldier from his discharge until his death..."; (2) an 1882 Memorandum to Judge Avery (1821-1899) from Esmond, asking "... Can you not hurry up the affidavit which I sent you some time ago, in the 'Estella Hanyan' case..." [with Avery's reply written on the verso of the Memorandum:  "...I have tried hard to obtain what you want.  I think Doct. Monroe of this place attended to ( ? ) some but for the life of me I cant get him to look up his case..."]; (3) TWO letters from General John Charles Black, Civil War Medal of Honor winner, as Department of Interior Commissioner, one with an ink signature and dated 1886, sent to Lewis Beach [a member of the House of Representatives], informing Beach that "... I have caused the evidence in the claim No. 282,766, of the Guardian of the Minor child of Peter Hanyan, late of Co. 'B', U.S. Engr. Battn. to be carefully examined and have personally directed that the claim be disallowed on the ground that the soldier was not in the line of duty when he incurred the injuries alleged to have resulted in his death..." and another lengthy 8pp. review [after another appeal], dated Feb. 14, 1887, with a STAMPED signature of Black, sent to Esmond and ruling again against the appeal:  "... It appears that the soldier on whose account pension is claimed, enlisted on the 24th day of Feb. 1864, and was assigned to Co. B, Battalion United States Engineers, and discharged Feb. 24, 1867, an artificer... The rolls of the above named company show this soldier sick from Nov. 4, 1866, to date of his discharge, Feb. 24, 1867... The present company commander... reports as follows:  'enlisted men now present with the company and who knew Hanyan at the time he was a member, state that on the evening of Nov. 3, 1866, when he was in the Post billiard room, a lamp under which he was sitting exploded, setting fire to his clothing, from which he sustained injuries sufficient to disqualify him from performing duty... The claim was rejected Jany. 21, 1886, on the grounds that the soldier was not in line of duty when he received the injuries alleged to have resulted in his death..."; and (4) a 2pp.ALS, dated 1889, sent to Esmond by Estella Hanyan [Peter's wife], stating:  "... I have been waiting for the last two years and I have not heard anything from you yet about them [pension papers].  I would like to have my Papers.  I have a friend who is going to send Washington to a lawyer for me..." And in a typed, retained copy reply dated Aug. 25, 1890, Esmond wrote to Estella:  "... I am still using every means to get your claim granted and shall never give it up as long as I live..."  So sad, that 17 years after the soldier's death, the widow's lawyer was still trying to obtain a few dollars in pension claim-- being denied because the death was not the result from LINE OF DUTY.

JOHN CHARLES BLACK (January 27, 1839 – August 17, 1915) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman and received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a Union Army lieutenant colonel and regimental commander at the Battle of Prairie Grove during the American Civil War.  On April 14, 1861, Black (along with his brother, William P. Black) entered the Union Army as a private in the 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment on April 14, 1861.  He became sergeant major on April 25, 1861.

After three months of service, the brothers were mustered out of the volunteers and organized Company "K" of the 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment.  John Black became major of the regiment on September 5, 1861  He was wounded in the right arm at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 7, 1862.  In July 12, 1862, John Black was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and became commander of the 37th Illinois Infantry.  Black led his regiment against a fortified Confederate position during the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas on December 7, 1862. The unit suffered heavy casualties and was eventually forced to retreat. Black himself was seriously wounded.  An 1896 review of numerous actions during the war resulted in John Black being awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Prairie Grove.  Black's brother William also received the medal, making them the first of five pairs of brothers to both receive the Medal of Honor as of 2005.

On December 31, 1862, Black was promoted to colonel of the 37th Illinois Infantry Regiment.  He was given temporary command of Brigade 1, Division 2, XIII Corps, Department of the Gulf, between November 11, 1863 and February 11, 1864, of Brigade 3, Division 2, Reserve Corps of the Department of the Gulf between February 3, 1865 and February 18, 1865. and of Brigade 3 Division 2, XIII Corps, Department of the Gulf, between February 18, 1865 and March 5, 1865.

Black resigned his commission in the volunteer service on August 15, 1865. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Black for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from April 9, 1865, for gallant services in the assault on Fort Blakeley, Alabama on that date, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.

WILLIAM WADE DUDLEY (1842–1909), born in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, started life as a soldier in the American Civil War, then became a lawyer, a government official and a Republican campaigner.  After studying at Phillips Academy, Danville in Vermont, and at Russell Military Academy in New Haven, Connecticut, he joined the army as captain of the Richmond City Greys in the 19th Indiana Volunteers of the famed Iron Brigade. After losing 79 percent of his men at the Battle of Gettysburg, and having his right leg amputated on the field, he served as an army inspector and judge advocate.

Following the end of the war he became a civilian lawyer in 1870, then the U.S. marshal for Indiana in 1879, commissioner of pensions under appointment of Presidents James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur in 1881. In 1888 he was appointed Treasurer of the Republican National Committee. He returned to practicing law in 1887.

The documents here are in overall excellent condition, with the expected folds, some minor edge wear/ occasional bent corner, light toning issues..................400-600

97. [MYSTERY LOT] includes:  Warner Bros. pay check, 1985, signed on verso by Mildred Natwick (1905-1994)  Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American stage, film and television actress. Also includes:  1826 Providence, RI, document signed by R.G. Hazard [cancel hole over signature. Roland G. hazard (1801-1888) was an American industrialist, politician, and social reformer. Also a signature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860) was an American author, better known under the pseudonym Peter Parley. Also: H.G. Neville - clip signature with cdv;  a 4-page handout on Socialism;  Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1911;  1921 bank checks signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln.  9  Limerick National Bank checks [Maine];  antique engraved port of Philip Syng Physick;  TLS, 1946 signed by Commander F.T. Williamson, to congressman Phlip J. Philbin;  plus various other pieces. Approx. 85 pieces. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items............80-120

98. [ROYALTY]  Infanta María Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier (1832-1897) was Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Montpensier. She was the youngest daughter of king Ferdinand VII of Spain and his fourth wife Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, the queen-regent, who was also his niece.  Signed and inscribed cabinet photograph, approx.  6-7/8 x 9-3/4 in. Also accompanied by an unsigned 5x7 in. photo. Minor expected faults.  Scarce!...........150-250

99. BRENDA KUHN ARCHIVE - approx. 11 letters by Brenda Kuhn. These are mostly typed ink signed letters, copy replies. She had the habit of signing retained replies for her own records. PLUS approx. 38 letters sent to her from various persons. Also includes about 24 other items plus clippings & envelopes. BRENDA KUHN (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer. The artist, his wife Vera, and their daughter Brenda were very private people. The Archive of American Art at the Smithsonian, Washington DC, has a notebook containing notes written by Brenda Kuhn about her father Walt Kuhn. Included are notes regarding a meeting with Garnett McCoy, Deputy Director of the Archives of American Art, in October, 1974. These items remained in storage for years.............200-300

100. James Gillray (1756-1815), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Offered here are 6 sheets with a total of 29 complete etchings.  All sheets show etchings on bothsides.  Condition varies, with scattered foxing spots.   Gillray is Generally accepted to be the greatest of all English Caricaturists, and the recent exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London, showed the range of his work. Initially he worked for a number of different publishers, but from the 1790's he worked exclusively for Humphreys. Record prices [exceeding $20,000] have been recently made, many selling for $1000 and up. Most of the Gillray images that you see on the market today come from the mid 19th century re-strikeprintings, from the original plates, and often have recent hand-coloring, and are priced much lower than the vintage etchings.  These are called the Bohn edition prints. Henry G. Bohn purchased the original copperplates and began printing Gillray's between 1847 and 1851.  Prices had been climbing steadily since the 1970s, but the auction of the Draper Hill Collection at Phillips auctioneers in London in 2001 pushed prices to new highs: several key prints, including Fashionable Contrasts, fetching more than US$10,000. Since 2002, annual auctions of Caricatures at Bonhams in London, each of which included large selections of Gillray prints, have continued this trend. Escalating prices have also meant that good examples of major works by Gillray can be very hard to come by at any price. Unfortunately for the beginning collector this means that starting a collection now is far more difficult than thirty years ago, when a very good copy of Light expelling Darkness could be had for as little as US$250. A good impression of this print sold in 2006 for over US$9,000, while Fashionable Contrasts also sold in the same year for over US$20,000.  This dramatic increase in prices has also led to unscrupulous sellers attempting to pass off prints from the Bohn Edition as first edition originals, and it can be difficult for those unfamiliar with these practices to tell the difference between a restrike (commonly called "a Bohn") and an original.  To be sure, all of the Gillray etchings offered in this auction are from the c. 1850 Bohn edition. To see more about the Bohn edition click here.

Estimate for all of these etchings.........900-1200

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101. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS No, 175, dated 1808, signed Napoleon in print, 8pp, approx. 5.5 x 8.5". Has to do with Conscription. VG.............80-120

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102. [FRANCE] DECRET De L'AssembleeNationale, 17 June 1791, 3-pages, approx. 7-1/2 x 8-3/4". VG...........80-120

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103. [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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106. [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

107. [CARDINAL] Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (1792-1866) French cardinal and theologian. ALS, 1842, 1p. VG..........100-150

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Portrait of Gousset

108. [FRANCE] Charles Philipon [1800-1861] French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist. He was the editor of the La Caricature and of Le Charivari, both satirical political journals. Brief ALS, 1844, 1p, 5.5 x 8 in. One 1/2" tear at left edge affecting nothing. Rare!..............80-120

109. [ASTRONOMY] Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (1851-1932) French astronomer. He spent many years verifying the positions of 6380 nebulas. He hoped to set a basis for future studies of the proper motion of nebulas; this turned out to be more or less in vain, since distant nebulas will not show any proper motion. However, he did discover approximately 500 new objects. He described a method for adjusting equatorial mount telescopes, which was known as "Bigourdan's method". ALS, 1907, 3pp, 4.5 x 7 in. Fine...........75-100

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110. [ENTERTAINERS] group of 4 signed items:  Amy Grant - signed & inscribed 8x10 photo;  Debbie Reynolds - signed & inscribed 4x5 photo;  Della [Reese] signed 3x5 card; Juliet Mills - signed 3x5 card. All VG............40-60

111. [FRANCE] Alphonse-Marie  Thomas Bérenger (1785-1866), known as Thomas Bérenger or Berenger de la Drôme, was a French lawyer and politician. He was the son of a deputy of the third estate of Dauphiné to the Constituent Assembly, born in Valence. He entered the magistracy and became procureur general at Grenoble, but resigned this office on the Bourbon Restoration. He then devoted himself mainly to the study of criminal law, and in 1818 published La justice criminelle en France , in which with great courage he attacked the special tribunals, provosts' courts or military commissions which were the main instruments of the Reaction, and advocated a return to the old common law and trial by jury . The book had a considerable effect in discrediting the reactionary policy of the government; but it was not until 1828, when Bérenger was elected to the chamber, that he had an opportunity of exercising a personal influence on affairs as a member of the group known as that of constitutional opposition. His courage, as well as his moderation, was again displayed during the revolution of 1830, when, as president of the parliamentary commission for the trial of the ministers of Charles X, he braved the fury of the mob and secured a sentence of imprisonment in place of the death penalty for which they clamoured. His position in the chamber became one of much influence, and he had a large share in the modelling of the new constitution, though his effort to secure a hereditary peerage failed. Above all he was instrumental in framing the new criminal code, based on more humanitarian principles, which was issued in 1835. It was due to him that, in 1832, the right, so important in actual French practice, was given to juries to find "extenuating circumstances" in cases when guilt involved the death penalty. In 1831 he had been made a member of the court of appeal (cour de cassation}, and the same year was nominated a member of the Academy of Political and Moral Sciences (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques). He was raised to the peerage in 1839. This status he lost owing to the revolution of 1848 which ended his career as a politician. As a judge, however, his activity continued. He was president of the high courts of Bourges and Versailles in 1849. Having been appointed president of one of the chambers of the court of appeal, he devoted himself entirely to judicial work until his retirement, under the age limit, on 31 May 1860. He now withdrew to his native town, and occupied himself with his favorite work of reform of criminal law. In 1833, he had shared in the foundation of a society for the reclamation of young criminals, in which he continued to be actively interested to the end. In 1851 and 1852, on the commission of the academy of moral sciences, he had travelled in France and England for the purpose of examining and comparing the penal systems in the two countries. The result was published in 1855 under the title La répression pénale, comparaison du système pénitentiaire en France et en Angleterre. ALS, 1844, 1p, approx. 8-1/2 x 10-3/4". Not translated. VG...........100-150

112. [FRANCE] Charles Adrien Casimir Barbier de Meynard [1826-1908] nineteenth-century French historian and orientalist. His studies focused on the early history of Islam and the Caliphate. Among his other works, he completed Julius von Mohl's translation of Ferdowsi's Shahnama, with the French title Livre des Rois. This was the first European translation of the pivotal work made available to a wide audience. De Meynard also translated numerous works by al-Masudi, ibn Khordadbeh and other Caliphate-era historians. He studied the history of Zoroastrianism, editing the Dictionnaire Géographique de la Perse, and wrote about the then-nascent Bahá'í Faith. He was involved in the edition of the 19th Century edition of Crusader sources in Arabic with French translations, the Recueil des Historiens des Croisades. ALS, 1901, 4pp, 5-1/4 x 8-1/8". VG...........75-100

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114. [FRANCE] C. Droguelot - document signed, 1784, 1p., 5-3/4 x 7-1/2". This document concerns Charles-Robert Boutin in some manner. We do know that Boutin was Paymaster of the Navy; General Receiver of Finances of Touraine; King's Commissary of La Compagnie Des Indes. Also, in 1762, Boutin, with Querdisien Tremais, interferred with Canada's Francois Bigot's operations with the Jewish merchant Abraham Gradis, and with Bigot's dishonest fur trade in Canada. François Bigot is often seen as a man of marked mercenary tendencies. Not translated - content unknown. Very good condition.....75-100

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115. [FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHY] DISDERI [1819-1889] original CDV photo of General Fleury, Ambassador in Russia. VG.............50-75

116. FRANCE] Pierre Louis Parisis - Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of Langres from 1835 to 1851. He was one of the strongest right wing figures in the French Catholic Church of his era. In 1847 he formed the Archconfraternity of Reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of Sunday to promote Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ. He is also noted for his efforts within the Assembly of 1848 for establishing the ecclesiastical college of St. Dizier and for his discussions concerning the educational reforms. He was a member of the commission which prepared the draft project for the Falloux Laws increasing the Catholic clergy's influence in French education. ALS, 1855, 1p, 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 in. Addressed to De Loisne. Not translated. VG............75-100

118. [ART] Marie-Clementine de Rochechouart-Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzes [ 1847-1933] French feminist sculptor, she was the 1st French woman to get a driver's licence. Her work was shown in various salons and she was President of the Union des Femmes Paintres et Sculpteurs. ALS, 1910, 1p. Re: an evening of poetry.............75-100

120. [ART] Maurice Delcourt [1877-1917] Fr. artist. ALS, no date, 2pp, 4.5 x 6". Speaks about his wood engravings in a magazine. VG...........50-75

121. [THEATRE] Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (1847-1928)  English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Her career lasted nearly seven decades. Signed 3 x 1-3/4 in. card dated June 7, 1887. Fine.....40-60

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122. [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] WILLENE WHISENHANT - early NASA photographer. Offered here is an original b/w vintage photograph of astronaut Gordon Cooper strapped in centrifuge at Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pa. NASA S-63-3978. The photographer writes "Gordo Cooper in Centrifuse" below image. Provenance: from the personal files of Willene Whisenhant, the photographer. Fine.........100-150

126. [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, 1p. 7.5 x 12.25 in., Windsor, April 9, 1795. Court document, quite toned & rough edges. Picture of him is NOT included..................100-150

127. Clarence Bl. Moore (1852-1936) American archaeologist and writer. He is more commonly known as C.B. Moore. He studied and excavated Native American sites in the southeastern United States. He traveled in nearly every part of Europe, in Asia Minor, and in Egypt; crossed the Andes and went down the Amazon River in 1876; and made a trip around the world in 1878–79 before returning home when his father died in 1878. He became the president of the family company, Jessup & Moore Paper Company. He spent a majority of the 1880s as the president and earned millions during his tenure. By the late 1880s he was eager to pursue his lifelong interest in archaeology and turned over company management to others.  From 1892 to 1894, he performed excavations at St. Johns Shell Middens in Florida. Between 1897 and 1898, he also dug at the Irene Mound (outside Savannah, Georgia) and exhumed seven human skeletons. He accessed many of these sites by water in his steamboat named the Gopher. Over a period of 20 years he explored Indian mounds in nearly all the Southern States. His writings, for the most part published by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, include "Some Aboriginal Sites in Louisiana and in Arkansas" (1913).  In 1990, in his honor, the Lower Mississippi Valley Survey of Harvard University, in conjunction with the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, created the C. B. Moore Award for Excellence in Southeastern Archaeology by a Young Scholar.  ALS, 1907, 1p, 5-5/8 x 9-1/4 in. To  Peter A. Brannon, Dir. Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.  Moore sends some materials to Brannon. Fine condition................80-120

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128. Lloyd  Bridges   (1913-1998)  American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.  Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........50-75

129. [POLITICS] mixed lot of poltical autographs: [1] Isaac Hill - Gov. NH. Clip signature. [2] JONES, James Kimbrough [1839-1908] Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. CLIP SIGNATURE [3] DORSEY, Stephen Wallace, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Benson, Rutland County, Vt., February 28, 1842; during the Civil War served in the Union Army. CLIP SIGNATURE [4] DAVIS, Cushman Kellogg, a Senator from Minnesota; born in Henderson, Jefferson County, N.Y., June 16, 1838; moved with his parents to Waukesha, Wis.; attended the public schools, Carroll College in Waukesha; graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Waukesha; during the Civil War served as first lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 and 1862; assistant adjutant general 1862-1864; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1865; member, State house of representatives 1867; United States district attorney 1868-1873; Governor of Minnesota 1874-1875; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1886; reelected in 1892 and again in 1898, and served from March 4, 1887, until his death on November 27, 1900; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Territories (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses); member of the commission which met in Paris, France, in September 1898 to arrange terms of peace after the war between the United States and Spain; died in St. Paul, Minn.; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Mounted CLIP SIGNATURE. [5] George Truitt [1756-1818] American farmer and politician from Murderkill Hundred, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware. He began his political career as a delegate to the convention which ratified the United States Constitution of 1787. He then served five years in the State House from the 1788/89 session through the 1791/92 session and again in the 1794 session. He then served most of two terms in the State Senate, from the 1803 session through the 1807 session. In 1807 he was elected Governor of Delaware, beating Joseph Haslet the Democratic-Republican Party candidate. Truitt took office January 19, 1808 and served until January 15, 1811. Like other Governors, Truitt was concerned about issues like slavery , penal reform, and public education. A new issue arose during his term, however. Due to increasing tensions with Great Britain, the U.S. government had directed Delaware to create and equip a militia of 1300 men. The General Assembly, in turn requested Federal fortification of Wilmington, New Castle, Port Penn, Reedy Island, and Lewes. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted. [6] Henry E. Burnham (1844-1917) US States Senator from New Hampshire. SIGNATURE. [7]Samuel James Renwick McMillan (1826-1897) Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Senate in the 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, and 49th United States Congresses from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1887. He had also been a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1864 to 1875 and served as Chief Justice from 1874-1875. Clip Signature........40-60

130. [FILM] Charles Farrell (1901-1990) notable American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Lucky Star. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1952, 4pp. Contract with William Morris Agency. Signed on final page. VG...........75-100

131. Marta Mitrovich  (1909-2002) American poet and actress. Born in Yugoslavia, Mitrovich lived in London during World War II and the Blitz, relocating in 1941 to the US, where her career as a stage and screen actress included the 1953 version of Titanic. In the mid-1970s (the actual date varies depending on whom you talk to) she founded the current incarnation of Laguna Poets, California’s longest running weekly poetry series, bringing major poets like Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others to read in Orange County. Mitrovich’s passion for poetry was the spark that ignited Laguna Poets and the dozens of readings that imitated it (knowingly and unknowingly) around Orange County and LA, and was matched only by her passion for free speech. (In the 1950s, she told the House UnAmerican Activities Committee to “stuff it.”).  Mitrovich retired in to Garbo-like seclusion in 1990, disappearing near-entirely.  ALS on postal card, 1972, signed "Marta."  Poetry content.............50-75

132. Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943) was a U.S. educator and legal scholar. He served as President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933. Signed, inscribed photograph of a portrait drawing, approx. 8x11 overall. VG...........50-75

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133. [ENTERTAINMENT] Rip Taylor (b. 1934) American comedian and actor. Document Signed, Jan. 10, 1984, 1p. Ending management with the Milton B. Suchin Co. Signed twice as "Rip Taylor." VG..........50-75

134.   (AMERICAN FILM STARS LOT)     John Phillip Law (1937-2008)  SIGNED 5x7 photograph – Betty FURNESS (1916-1994). TLS dated May 16, 1990 - Richard Maximillian Ney (1916- 2004) ALS  1992, with SIGNED, inscribed 4x4 photograph - Eddie Mayehoff (1909 –1992)  TLS, 1990, with SIGNED print stock photograph, inscribed (folds)  - Peter Lind Hayes (1915-1998-) &. Mary Healy (1918-  ) ANS, by both on postcard, with Norman Rockwell portraits of them on front - Harold John Russell (1914  2002) SIGNED, inscribed 5x7 photograph (signed in dark area in red ink)  - Nina Foch (1924- 2008). Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph............80-120

135.  [BASEBALL] Charles Ruffing - 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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136. [FILM] Leonid Kinskey (1903-1998) Russian -born actor who enjoyed a long career. Kinskey is best known for his role as Sascha in the film Casablanca (1942). Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he fled the Russian Revolution and acted on stage in Europe and South America before arriving in New York City in 1921. He joined the road production of Al Jolson's musical Wonder Bar, before making his first film appearance, in the 1932 Trouble in Paradise. His looks and accent helped him land supporting roles in numerous movies, including Duck Soup and Nothing Sacred, and on television, well into the 1960s. It is said that he got perhaps his best-known role, Sascha in Casablanca, because he was a drinking buddy of star Humphrey Bogart. Kinskey was in the pilot episode for Hogan's Heroes, but turned down a regular role in the series because he thought the subject matter was being taken too lightly. TLS, 1989, on 3x5 card, talks about visit to Russia in 1970. Signed with intials; full signature with inscription on verso. VG.........30-40

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137. [POLITICIANS] mixed lot of autograph signatures: [1] ANDERSON, John Alexander [1834-1892] Representative from Kansas SIGNATURE. [2] BELFORD, James Burns [1837-1910] Representative from Colorado. SIGNATURE. [3] HOLMES, Adoniram Judson [1842-1902] Representative from Iowa; entered Milton College, Milton, Wis., but left in 1862 to enter the Union Army, where he served in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, until the close of the Civil War. SIGNATURE. [4] MILLER, Killian [1785-1859] Representative from New York SIGNATURE. [5] LORE, Charles Brown [1831-1911] Representative from Delaware; during the Civil War served as commissioner of the draft for New Castle County, Del., in 1862; attorney general of Delaware 1869-1874. SIGNATURE. [6] MADDEN, Martin Barnaby [1855-1928] Representative from Illinois. SIGNATURE. [7] PAYSON, Lewis Edwin [1840-1909] Representative from Illinois. SIGNATURE [8] BUDD, James Herbert [1851-1908] Representative from California; served as lieutenant colonel on the Governor's staff in 1873 and 1874; deputy district attorney in 1873 and 1874; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Stockton; served as first lieutenant in the California National Guard and was promoted to major of the line. SIGNATURE. [9] CAMPBELL, James Edwin [1843-1924] Representative from Ohio. SIGNATURE. [10] BENNETT, Henry [1808-1868] Representative from New York. SIGNATURE...........75-100

138. [MUSIC] Jack  Beeson (1921-2010)  American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! and The Sweet Bye and Bye. ALS, 1974, written on same sheet with AMQS. Approx. 13.5 x 4", with one fold. Excellent example...........80-120

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139. James B. Longacre (1794-1869) American engraver, b. Delaware Co., Pa. Known for his work in The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (4 vols., 1834-39); chief engraver, U.S. Mint (1844-69). Original portrait engraving of William Wirt (1772-1834) was an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence. Image size 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 in. plus clean margins. VG.........25-35

140. James B. Longacre (1794-1869) American engraver, b. Delaware Co., Pa. Known for his work in The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (4 vols., 1834-39); chief engraver, U.S. Mint (1844-69). Original portrait engraving of Otho Holland Williams (1749-1794) was a Continental Army officer from Maryland in the American Revolutionary War. He entered service volunteering at a Lieutenant in 1775 and eventually rising to the rank of Brigadier General. Image size 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 in. plus clean margins. VG.........25-35

141. James B. Longacre (1794-1869) American engraver, b. Delaware Co., Pa. Known for his work in The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (4 vols., 1834-39); chief engraver, U.S. Mint (1844-69). Original portrait engraving of Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) American anatomist and physician. Image size 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 in. plus clean margins. VG.........25-35

142. [MIXED LOT] [1] [PHILADELPHIA] C. TOWER - noted trial lawyer. LS, Phila., 1885, 1-1/2 pages, 4to. To William Henry Rawle, praising Rawle's oration of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall [1884] at Washington. Continues with compliment of Rawle on his address : The Case of the Educated Unemployed," delivered before the Harvard College Phi Beta Kappa Society. Excellent letter. [2] IRA A. HAYNES [1859-1955] General, U.S. Army. He served in Hawaii [1899]. Signed 1920 Riggs National Bank check. [3] KEEPER OF THE PRIVY PURSE) - Sir Thos. (Myddleton) Biddulph [1809-1878] He entered the Army as a Cornet (1st Life Guards) in 1826. On his promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1857 he went on half pay. He was later appointed Master of the Queen's Household, and then Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall. In 1867 he was appointed Keeper of the Queen's Privy Purse. Sir Thomas had enjoyed the Queen's trust and confidence for 27 years, but there had been one occasion when he had threatened to resign, because of rows with John Brown, the Queen's personal gillie and favourite. It is on record that the Queen made gentle fun of Sir Thomas behind his back: with roars of laughter she told Sir Henry Ponsonby how shocked Sir Thomas had been by the design for a medal of the Ashanti campaign and she quoted his comment, "Roman soldiers with nothing - nothing at all - but helmets on." However, Sir Thomas was not without a sense of humour: in 1871, when the Queen was gravely ill with an abscess on her arm, Lady Churchill wanted to send for all her children. "Goodness", said Sir Thomas, "that would have killed her at once!" Two [2] ALSs, 1874 and 1876, each 1p. [4] [US CONGRESSMEN] album page signed on both sides by: RIDGELY, Edwin Reed, (1844 - 1927) Ks; SIMS, Thetus Willrette, (1852 - 1939) Tenn; CLARDY, John Daniel, (1828 - 1918) Ky. Signed on the other side by: BOTKIN, Jeremiah Dunham, (1849 - 1921) Kan; GREENE, William Laury, (1849 - 1899) Neb; SKINNER, Harry, (1855 - 1929). VG. [5] [STOCK CERTIFICATE] JOHN F. SHAFROTH (1887-1967) distinguished naval officer, comdr. battleship division that bombarded Japan in 1945. DS, 1928, North American Edison Co. [6] [SCIENCE] Alembert, Jean Le Rond [1717-1783]. French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. Son of Mme. de Tencin and of the chevalier Destouches; member of Academy of Sciences (1741); wrote Traitéde dynamique (1743) containing "d' Alembert' s principle,"Traitéde l' équilibre et du mouvement des fluides (1744), Réflexions sur la cause générale des vents (1747) containing his discovery of partial differential equations; explained precession of equinoxes, rotation of Earth' s axis; associated with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie (1746-54), writing Discours préliminaire for Vol. I (1751); member (1754) of French Academy; wrote six volumes of Histoire des membres de l' Académie (1785-87); author also of Éléments de musique (1752), Mélanges de littérature, d' histoire et de philosophie (1753); published collected Opuscules mathématiques (1761-80). ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, c. 1853. Clean. [7] LADD, George Washington, a Representative from Maine; born in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, September 28, 1818; attended the common schools and Kents Hill Seminary; engaged in the drug business in Bangor, Maine; later engaged in the lumber, commission, and wholesale grocery business in Bangor; was also interested in railroad development; elected as a Greenback candidate to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; died in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, January 30, 1892; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. SIGNATURE. [8] LAMPORT, William Henry, a Representative from New York; born in Brunswick, N.Y., May 27, 1811; moved with his parents to Gorham, Ontario County, in 1826; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; supervisor of Gorham in 1848 and 1849; sheriff of Ontario County 1850-1853; member of the State assembly in 1854; moved to Canandaigua in 1864; president of the village of Canandaigua in 1866 and 1867; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; retired to Canandaigua, N.Y., where he died July 21, 1891; interment in the West Avenue Cemetery. CLIP SIGNATURE, mounted. [9] [ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN] H.D. Hawley - Singer Sewing Co. Agent. ALS, on illust. sewing machine letterhead, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 4, 1871, written on both sides of 8.5 x 11 in. sheet. To the Singer Manufacturing Company about a Lady La Velle who was unhappy with Singer for not exchanging her sewing machine, which she had used for a year, for a brand new model. Gives background on the woman's history. "She had a spite against a Policeman their" (in Brunswick) "and once upon a time as he was passing her window, She having prepared with a Mug of her dear Virgin water took the liberty of transfering it to the head of the Policeman. Cause of her being in New York, a choice was given her to go to the penitentiary or leave the State." As usual with almost all Singer letters there are mounting traces on verso along one edge. Small loss to one corner. Front side Back side [10] [OPERA] Jess Thomas [1927-1993] Am. lyric and Wagnerian tenor. In 1963, he joined the cast of the Metropolitan Opera appearing in 95 performances for 15 years. Amongst the highlights of his career with the Metropolitan Opera was appearing at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in the first performance of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra with Leontyne Price. Signed photo, 4 x 5-3/4". Also signed with initials with sentiment on verso. Edge crack. [11] 1814 Gov. Doc., 2pp, Report of the Committee of Ways and Means. [12] Six. bank checks dated 1923...........80-120

143.  (BRITISH SCIENCE/MEDICINE NOTABLES) SIR OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE (1851-1940) Physicist, writer who was noted for his work on the “Wireless Telegraph” also his work on the improvement of motor cars when he invented the “electric spark ignition. ” SIGNATURE with sentiment.   LYON PLAFAIR, 1st Baron Playfair (1818-1898) Scottish scientist, politician Gentleman Usher to Prince Albert and Sec. to the Dept of Science. SIGNED address panel (1873).  SIR GEORGE HOWARD DAWIN (1845-1912) Astronomer and geophysicist, he was the 2nd son of Charles Darwin. His most significant work is of the evolution of the Earth-Moon System. SIGNATURE.   NICHOLAS CARLISLE (1771-1821) Antiquary, topographer. Most noted for his work of topographical records of Ireland. RARE ALS (1823) he died young. On inside on 2nd page is a letter written pencil by Thomas Thomson, a scathing letter written in pencil, which is apparently the well known Antiquarian/Archivist (1768-1852) about a personal family history. Thomson worked at the General Register House in Edinburgh where this letter was addressed  by Carlisle.  ALEXANDER GORDON, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827) Scottish Nobleman who achieved great success in creating the “Gordon Setter” having popularized the 200 year old breed and formulized the breed in 1820. Clipped SIGNATURE mounted to card..............75-100

144. [TV] [Peter Lawford] - actor.  Handwritten note [not in Lawford's hand], signed P.F., to Patty Duke, Beverly Hills Hotel. "Dear Patty.  Am delighted at the prospect of our forthcoming venture. I know it will be great fun and most rewarding. Looking forward to meeting you - P.L."  Probably written in the hand of Lawford's secretary Bonnie Williams.  The project he is talking about was the Patty Duke Show on television. Dated 5/9/62..............50-75

145. Rene Auberjonois (b. 1940) American film, television, and theater actor. He is well known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the film version of M*A*S*H. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. VG.......25-35

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146. [FILM] Richard Farnsworth (1920-2000) American actor and stuntman. His film career began in 1937; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982) and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Signed 10x8 photo. VG...........30-40

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147. Robert James Waller (b. 1939) American author, also known for his work as a photographer and musician. Several of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list including 1992's The Bridges of Madison County which was the top best-seller in 1993. Both that novel and his 1995 novel, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, have been made into motion pictures. Signed 8x10 photo. VG............25-35

148. [FILM] Cecil M. Hepworth (1974-1953) English film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Walton Studios. TLS, 1944, 1p. Rejection letter to author saying he doesn't remember a great deal but he is willing to answer a few questions..........40-60

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149. Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (1822 - 1858) was a noted American sculptor active in Italy. Bartholomew was born in Colchester, Connecticut. After apprenticeships as a bookbinder and dentist, his first employment was as a dentist in Hartford, but he soon abandoned it for painting and (after learning that he was color-blind) sculpture. In 1844 he studied at the National Academy of Design's antique class in New York City, from 1845-1848 directed the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, contracting a severe case of smallpox circa 1847, then studied for another year in the National Academy of Design and sailed for Europe. From 1851 onwards he lived in Rome and died in Naples of bronchitis. Bartholomew is known for his bas reliefs, marble busts and statues, and medallions in the neo-classical style. His earliest recorded work is a medallion of poet Lydia Sigourney (1847). Among his best-known works are Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry (1851, now in the Metropolitan Museum), Eve, Campagna Shepherd Boy (Peabody Institute), Genius of Painting, Youth and Old Age, Evening Star, Eve Repentant (Wadsworth Atheneum), Washington and Flora, A Monument to Charles Carroll (near Baltimore), Bellsarius at the Porta Pincinia, and Ganymede. Many of his works are now held by the Wadsworth Atheneum. CLIPPED SIGNATURE from letter mounted. Irregular shape slightly affected signature.........20-30

150. [THEATRE] Gertie Millar [1879-1952] Eng. singer/actress. Sig. w/sentiment 1908..........15-20

154. [ART] Pietro Annigoni (1910 - 1988) Italian portrait and fresco painter, who became world famous after painting Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Signed 3x5 card [light green]. VG..........25-35

155. [FILM] James Blakeley (1907-2010) British actor, appearing in 13 films from 1934 and1940, including The Captain Hates the Sea (1934), Paris in the Spring (1935), The Gay Desperado (1936) and The Shadow Strikes (1937), and acted alongside such stars as Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Ida Lupino and Fred MacMurray. Signed 3x5 card.......15-20

156. George Wharton Pepper (1867-1961) American lawyer, law professor, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and founded the law firm of Pepper Hamilton. Pepper, born to upper-class parents of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1889. He was admitted to the bar in 1889. From 1892 to 1895, he edited and published the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (then called the American Law Register and Review) with his friend, William Draper Lewis. In the early 1900s, a court appointed Pepper receiver for the Bay State Gas Company, a bankrupt Massachusetts utility. Pepper then sued a number of nationally-known businessmen, including William Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers, and Thomas W. Lawson, for enriching themselves at the expense of the utility. During the public debate over the expansion of advertising in the 1920s, Senator Pepper argued for a "nationwide code of regulation," described in a 1929 speech to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America . He pointed out that in preserving natural beauty, no national economic benefit was lost&emdash;-real estate values would increase without the addition of billboards . Pepper voiced what was then the general public fear: that if billboards became mainstream, advertising would become too obtrusive. Pepper prevailed upon President Calvin Coolidge's to name fellow Pennsylvanian Owen Josephus Roberts special counsel to investigate the Teapot Dome scandal of Warren G. Harding's administration. Pepper was briefly the oldest living (former) senator. TLS, 1937, 1p, to Dr. Charles D. Hart. "Dear Charley. I shall miss you on the 16th. I should like you to know, however, how much I appreciate the friendly letter you wrote me before you went South. I hope you will have a happy vacation and return refreshed for doing the important work that you do so well." Fine............25-35

157. [PENN] George H. Earle (1890-1974) American politician. He served as the U.S. Minister to Austria from 1933 to 1934, and as the 30th Governor of Pennsylvania from 15 January 1935 to 17 January 1939. In 1943, when Earle was a United States Navy Lieutenant Commander and the President's special emissary to the Balkans, he "...presented a plan to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Earle believed might end the war in Europe early. The German ambassador and the head of the German secret service secretly proposed to Earle that German troops could surround Hitler's headquarters and turn Hitler over to the Allies as a war criminal. German troops then would be repositioned to defend against the Russian military. The plot was never approved." TLS, as Gov., 1937, 1p. To Charles D. Hart, President, March of Scouting. Regrets that he can't attend "The March of Scouting" to be held in Philadelphia. VG..............25-35

159. [THEATRE] Julia Marlowe (1866-1950) English born American actress. AQS dated 1927, approx. 6 x 7-3/4".......50-75

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160. [AMERICANA MIXED LOT] [1] [HARVARD] Thomas Hill (1818-1891) American Unitarian clergyman, mathematician, scientist, philosopher and educator. Taught to read at an early age, Hill read voraciously and was well regarded for his capacious and accurate memory. He was taught botany by his father, took a delight in nature and devised scientific instruments, one of which was designed to calculate eclipses and was subsequently awarded the Scott Medal by the Franklin Institute. Though not formally educated in his youth, Hill briefly attended the Lower Dublin Academy in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania and the Leicester Academy in Massachusetts, now the Leicester campus of Becker College, leaving in 1837. He earned his A.B. and D.Div. from Harvard University in 1843 and 1845 respectively. Hill was president of Antioch College from 1860 to 1862 until the Civil War forced the college to shut down; he then held the presidency of Harvard University from 1862 to 1868. Ink signed form letter, Harvard College, Nov. 1, 1865, 1p, 5x8", filled in by Hill. Sent to Paul Willard, concerning meeting of the Law School. VG. [2] Asbury Dickins [1780-1861] Secretary of the U S. senate. He lived his early life in Philadelphia, and afterward spent several years in Europe. In 1801 he was associated with Joseph Dennie in founding the "Port Folio" at Philadelphia. He was a clerk in the treasury department under Secretary Crawford from 1816 till 1833, and while there composed and read Secretary Crawford's successful vindication of himself against the charges preferred by Ninian Edwards, then minister to Mexico. He was chief clerk of the state department in 1833'6, and became secretary of the United States senate in 1836, an office that he retained until 1861. He published an oration on Washington (Philadelphia. 1800; New York. 1825). Heavily browned CLIP "Free" SIGNATURE as Secretary of the Senate. Accompanied by 1853 government document, Report of The Secretary of the Senate. Amount paid for documents, books, and maps or purchased for distribution by order of the Senate since the 1st May, 1832. Signed in type Asbury Dickins. 17 pages. [3] [OHIO] Album page signed by 3 Ohio Congressmen [all on same side]: CAMPBELL, Lewis Davis, (1811 - 1882) served in the Union Army as colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 and 1862; appointed by President Andrew Johnson as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico on May 4, 1866; WADE, Edward, (1802 - 1866); LEITER, Benjamin Franklin, (1813 - 1866). VG. [4] Album page signed on both sides by: THORNBURGH, Jacob Montgomery, a Representative from Tennessee; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as a private and was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, July 11, 1863 / BAGLEY, George Augustus, a Representative from New York. On the other side: WRIGHT, Hendrick Bradley, a Representative from Pennsylvania / NEAL, Henry Safford, a Representative from Ohio. VG. [5] EUGENE ERNST PRUSSING (1855-?). American author and lawyer; author of GEORGE WASHINGTON, IN LOVE AND OTHERWISE (1925) and THE ESTATE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, DECEASED (1927). Document Signed, The Riggs National Bank, Washington, D.C., Bank check with vignette of bank. 1921. Clear signature. [6] Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War - printed government document, Mis. Doc. No. 66, Estimate - Experiments On Gun Metal. Signed IN TYPE Jeff'n Davis. Feb. 24, 1857, printed on both sides. 34th Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives. [7] Benjamin F. Rice (1828-1905) Republican politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1868 to 1873. Rice was born in East Otto, New York, on May 26, 1828; his schooling was private. He studied law, and upon his admission to the bar began practice in Irvine, Kentucky , in which state's house of representatives he served from 1855 to 1856. In 1856 he served as a presidential elector for the Republican ticket; in 1860 he moved to Minnesota, where he began service as a Union captain during the Civil War. Eventually he gained promotion to the rank of major in position of judge advocate with the 3rd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment. In 1864 Rice settled in Little Rock, Arkansas and resumed his law practice. He was active in organizing the Republican Party in the state, and was appointed the chair of a committee which in 1868 prepared the state's code of practice. Upon readmission of Arkansas to the Union, Rice was elected to the Senate, serving from 1868 to 1873 and holding at one point the chairmanship of the Committee on Mines and Mining. Clip Signature as USS, mounted. Rice signature [8] SAM FREEMAN (1743-1831) American jurist from Maine. He was an active patriot during the Revolutionary struggle; was secretary of the Cumberland County convention in 1774, secretary of the provincial congress [John Hancock was president] in 1775, member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1776 and 1778. From 1776 - 1805 he was also postmaster of Portland. The historian William Willis described Freeman: "We believe no other man ever held so many responsible trusts at one time, and none was ever more faithful in the discharge of his duties." Signed court document, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Portland [then Maine], 1807, 8 x 9 in. Stephen Longfellow [so stated in text] witnessed Freeman's signature. He was the father of the famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Nice signature of Freeman as Clerk. [9] [MISSOURI] Edwin Dean - Agent for the Singer Manufacturing Co. ALS, St. Louis, on wonderful Singer letterhead, July 27, 1867, 1p, 8x10 in. Sewing machine business. Mounting traces on verso along one edge. [10] [CIVIL WAR] JOHN MANNING JR. [1830-1899] Representative from North Carolina; enlisted in the Chatham Rifles in 1861; was made first lieutenant, later becoming adjutant of the Fifteenth Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers, and served throughout the Civil War. CLIP SIGNATURE. Click to see Manning......100-150

161. Ken Murray (1903-1988) American entertainer and author. ISP, 5 x 7......20-30

162. [MUSIC]  Mary Wilson (b.1944)  American vocalist, best known as a founding member of the Supremes.  Signed League of Cities 67th Annual Banquet, 1996 card,  5.5 x 8.5 in. Fine.............40-60

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163. [MUSIC]   EXILE,  American band from Kentucky.  They began as The Exiles and  shortened their name to Exile in 1973.  Photograph signed by 6 members.  Over the years there are been many members of this band.  8x10 in. VG.......50-75

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164. Jesse Stuart  (1908-1984) American writer who is known for writing short stories, poetry, and novels about Southern Appalachia. Born and raised in Greenup County, Kentucky, Stuart relied heavily on the rural locale of northeastern Kentucky for his writings.  Stuart was named the poet laureate of Kentucky in 1954.  Offered here are 2 signed 3x5 cards [one is also inscribed] plus a note dated 1981 from Mrs. Stuart.  Three items........50-75

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165. [BASEBALL]  New York Mets 2002 Spring Training Roster  Signed by 8 Mets players: Bobby Valentine, Charlie Hough, John Stearns, Al Leiter, John Franco, Gary Mathews Jr., Tony Tarasco, Mookie Wilson. Approx. 8.5 x 14", one middle fold...........60-80

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166.  [FILM] MARTHA SCOTT [1912-2003] actress. In both The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, she played Charlton Heston's mother. ISP, 8 x 10............30-40


167. [BRITISH NAVAL] WILL CHAMBERS - Rear Admiral. ALS, no date but c. 1807, 1p, folio. To Phitt Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh's docket on verso reads "Rear Adm. Chamber's advising that he will wait on me being just come to Town." The text area is very good but there are marginal faults.........50-75

168. [CARTOON] Ted Key (1912-2008) American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon panel Hazel,which was later the basis for a television series of the same name. Signed, inscribed 3x6" original drawing of Hazel, dated 1973, accompanied by envelope with signature in return address......60-80

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169. [FRANCE]  1698 French Mystery document on vellum, signed, approx. 6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. VG.......80-120

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170. Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)  38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. His signature below picture of the Capitol in Washington D.C.  Approx. 8x10 in.  On thick paper stock. VG.............100-150

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171. Theodore Roosevelt - US President.  Typed Letter Signed with a stamped signature frequently used during Roosevelt's administration as governor of New York, 1899-1900. Pencil notations on the letter.............50-75

173. [FRANCE] Adolphe Perraud (1828-1906)  French Cardinal and academician. His calling card as Le Cardinal Perraud on which he pens 13 lines on both sides. Accompanied by original envelope addressed to Edmond de Morsier. About reunion; mentions Leon XIII.  Don't think he signed. VG.........50-75

174. [MUSIC] Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (1843-1917)  French composer. Pessard was born and died in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won 1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on February 21, 1867. From 1878 to 1880 he was inspector of singing at Paris Schools, in 1881 he became professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatory.  After 1895 he was a critic and director.  He composed many comic operas and operettas, as well as masses. ALS, 1916, 2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. VG............60-80

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175. [FRANCE] Dumoutier (Pierre) General. Born at Riom (Puy-de-dome) May 8, 1750; died at Saint-Pierre de la Martinique October 10, 1819. His military career continued from 1789 to the May 10, 1810, when he retired. He was admitted to the Invalides with the grade and the treatments as a chief of the brigade of the army of the Rhin, June 24, 1795. LEAVED THE Invalides the 17 September 1796. Major of the place of Lille (i3 December 1796) he was dismissed by the executive Director, 23 September 1799. Major of arms at the Guadeloupe under Richepance, 9 December 1801. Returned to France for reasons of health, April 1, 1803. [translation from French]. Document Signed Signed, 7th Year [1795?], 1p, approx. 7-1/2 x 11-1/2"...........80-120

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176. [FRANCE] Francois-Joseph Belanger (1744 – 1818)  French architect and decorator working in the Neoclassic style. Bélanger designed and constructed numerous hôtels particuliers for Parisian aristocrats and bankers. He designed the Château de Méréville for Jean-Joseph de Laborde, 1784–86.  He designed interiors for the Hôtel Baudart de Saint-James, 12 Place Vendôme, and influenced garden designs of the epoch.  Rare document signed, 1816, 1 page., 7-1/4 x 9-3/4". Very fine condition.............100-150

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177. [FRANCE]  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874)  French politician.  His opposition to the policy of President Louis Napoleon, especially his Roman policy, led to his moving the impeachment of the president and his ministers. The motion was defeated, and next day (13 June 1849) he headed what he called a peaceful demonstration, and his enemies armed insurrection.  Ledru-Rollin himself escaped to London where he joined the executive of the revolutionary committee of Europe, with Lajos Kossuth and Giuseppe Mazzini among his colleagues. He was accused of complicity in an obscure attempt (1857) against the life of Napoleon III of France, and condemned in his absence to deportation. Émile Ollivier removed the exceptions from the general amnesty in 1870, and Ledru-Rollin returned to France after twenty years of exile. Though elected in 1871 in three departments he refused to sit in the National Assembly, and took no serious part in politics until 1874 when he was returned to the Assembly as member for Vaucluse.  ALS, 1861, 2pp,  5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in.  VG............80-120

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178. [FRANCE] Joseph Auguste Emile Vaudremer (1829-1914) French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris.  He designed several typical 19th century buildings in Paris : lycées (including the Lycée Buffon), churches (including Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil, and Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge) and the Prison de la Santé.  In 1867 he was elected to the seventh seat of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, architecture section, succeeding Alphonse de Gisors.  ALS, 1882, 2pp,  4 x 5-1/4 in.  VG..........80-120

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179. Lee Meriwether (b. 1935)  American actress, former model, and the winner of the 1955 Miss America pageant. She is perhaps best known for her role as Betty Jones, Buddy Ebsen's secretary and daughter-in-law in the long-running 1970s crime drama, Barnaby Jones. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35

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180. [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

181. [FRANCE] 1810 Manuscript Document Signed, identified as "Marquise d'Anhalt. Our research identifies this person as Favras Caroline Hedwig of Anhalt-Schauenbourg (Marquise de) ( 1759-1841). Approx. 6-3/4 x 4-1/4" with very nice red wax seal still intact. See both side's below. Certainly worthy of research. Excellent condition.........100-150

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182. [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

183. [MUSIC] Ludwig Karpath (1866-1936)  Austrian writer on music.  Karpath was with numerous composers such as Johannes Brahms , Pietro Mascagni , Giacomo Puccini , Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma , Max Reger and Siegfried and Cosima Wagner , as well as musicians such as Arthur Nikisch , Hans Richter and Felix Mottl friends. Strauss dedicated to him in 1924 to be Ballet whipped cream. In several publications, he devoted himself to these people as gourmet , he also published a cookbook.  ALS,  1920, written on verso of portrait postcard of him, also signed on front. Pretty good condition for its age.........60-80

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184. Will Durant (1885-1981) was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, written in 1926, which one observer described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy". Signed 1946 bank check...............40-60

185. [MUSIC] Eberhard Eyser (1932 - ) Germany composer. AMQS from his "King of Hearts." Approx. 9.5 x 4.5". VG..........50-75
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186. [MAINE] Frederick G. Payne (1904-1978) American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Maine from 1953 to 1959. He previously served as the 60th Governor of Maine from 1949 to 1953. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1950, appointing Earl W. Davis of Harrison, Maine, as elected a Representative in the 95th Legislature of the State of Maine. Approx. 9.5 x 14"; one fold..........25-35

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187. [AMERICANA MIXED LOT] [1] an 1852 engraving of the Indiana Institute for the Education of the Blind. [2] R.C. Winthrop (1809-1894) Am. lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Clip signature. Mounting trace show thru. [3] Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900)American Congregational clergyman of considerable note. He was pastor of the Harvard Congregational church of Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1845-1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York, from 1846 until shortly before his death. He was a conservative in theology, and an historical writer of considerable ability. From 1848 to 1861, he was associate editor of the New York Independent , which he had helped to establish; from 1887 to 1897 he was president of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, and he was prominent in the Long Island Historical Society. Brief ALS, Brookyn [NY], May 14, no yr. Re: Sunday School meeting. Letter appears to have been cropped along left edge, although no loss of text.. [4] Rose Eytinge (1838 - 1911) was an American actress and author, born in Philadelphia. From 1862 to 1869 she played in various theatres in New York City and then went abroad with her second husband, Col. George H. Butler, Consul General to Egypt. SIGNED CARD, 4 x 2-7/8". [5] [MICHIGAN] STRICKLAND, Randolph, a Representative from Michigan; born in Dansville, N.Y., February 4, 1823; attended the common schools; moved to Michigan in 1844 and taught school in Ingham County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in De Witt, Clinton County, Mich.; moved to St. Johns, Clinton County, and continued the practice of law; elected prosecuting attorney for Clinton County in 1852, 1854, 1856, 1858, and 1862; member of the State senate in 1861 and 1862; provost marshal of the Sixth Congressional District 1863-1865; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1856 and 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; died in Battle Creek, Mich., May 5, 1880; interment in De Witt Cemetery, De Witt, Mich. SIGNED album page. Large signature, St. Johns, Mich. [6] [PENN] John Heinz [1938-1991] US Senator from Penn. He died in a tragic plane crash. TLS, 1986, 1p. Routine content [sending autograph]. [7] 1839 wood-engraving - View of Lowell, Mass. [8] John Sherman Cooper - US senator from Ky. Clip signature. [9] Alexander Wiley (1884-1967) was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963. Signed 1948 FDC honoring Wisc. Statehood............80-120

188. [MUSIC] Charlotte Mellot Joubert - French Opera singer, noted on the world stage at the turn of the century. Made early recordings. ALS on 4-1/4 x 2-3/4" card, dated 1934. Written on both sides. Includes envelope. VG..........35-45

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191. [ART] Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-1889)  English mezzotint engraver. His engravings helped to popularise the works of painters like John Phillip and Sir John Everett Millais. He was made a Royal Academician.  ALS, June 11, no year, 1p., about setting up a time for a meeting. VG...........50-75

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192. [FRANCE] Émile Hilaire Amagat (1841-1915)  French physicist.   His doctoral thesis, published in 1872, expanded on the work of Thomas Andrews, and included plots of the isotherms of carbon dioxide at high pressures.  Amagat published a paper in 1877 that contradicted the current understanding at the time, concluding that the coefficient of compressibility of fluids decreased with increasing pressure.  He continued to publish data on isotherms for a number of different gases between 1879 and 1882,  and invented the hydraulic manometer, which was able to withstand up to 3200 atmospheres, as opposed to 400 atmospheres using a glass apparatus.  In 1880 he published his Law of Partial Volumes.   Amagat was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences on 9 June 1902.  A unit of number density, amagat, was named after him.  The French Academy of Sciences gave him the posthumous award of the Prix Jean Reynaud for 1915.   ALS, Paris, no date, 2pp, 4.5 x 7 in. Very fine...........100-150

193. [FRANCE] Germaine Beaumont real name Germaine Battendier  (1890-1983) French  journalist and novelist. Virginia Woolf's translator.  ALS, 1962, 1p, to Mrs. Robert Kemp, about the death of her husband.  Kemp was a noted critic. With envelope.  Fine................60-80

195. [FRANCE] Jean de La Varende (1887-1959)   French writer. He wrote novels, short stories, biographies and monographies, in particular on the subject of Normandy. He initially tried to become a marine officer like his father, but gave up due to his weak heart. He was elected into the Académie Goncourt in 1942.  He received the 1938 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Centaur of God.[2] His 1936 novel Leather-Nose was the basis for the 1952 film Leathernose, directed by Yves Allégret.  Short ALS, dated ?, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. Fine................50-75

196. [FRANCE] Frantz Funck-Brentano [1862-1947] Luxembourgian-French historian and librarian. ALS, 1890, 1-1/4pp...........50-75

Portrait of Brentano

199. [FRANCE] Philippe Erlanger [1903-1987] Fr. historian. At the end of the 1930s, shocked by the interference of the fascist governments of Italy and Germany in the selection of films for the Mostra del cinema di Venezia, Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, decided to create an international cinematographic festival in France, on the proposal of Philippe Erlanger and the support of the British and Americans. ALS, 1956, written on both sides to Robert Kemp, the French journalist and literary critic. Fine............75-100

200. Edward S. Martin (1856-1939) American writer, humorist, editor. A founder of The Harvard Lampoon and co-founder and first editor of the original "LIFE" magazine. ALS, 1900, 2pp. VG..........50-75  

201. Phyllis Schlafly [b.1924] Am. political activist. Signed card........15-20

202. Julian Hawthorne [1846-1934] Am. writer. Signature..........20-30

203. Robert Stack [1919-2003] actor. ANS, nd. re: his autobiography..........20-30

204. JOHN T. CONNOR - Sec. Commerce. TLS, 1972................20-30

205. Raoul Bott (1923- 2005) mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. Brief ALS, 2002, 1p............35-45

206. [NOBEL] Paul Boyer [1918- ]biochemist. He is one of the laureates . He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)". ANS, N.D, WITH ENVELOPE POSTMARKED 2002...............25-35

207. Steve Forbes [b. 1947] ran for president. ISP, color 8x10.....20-30

208. [BRITAIN] Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) English travel writer and historian. The town of Kinglake in Victoria, Australia, and the adjacent National Park are named after him. ALS, 1868, 3pp, regarding some volumes from one of his works. he mentions Lord George Paget. Last page mounted..............40-60

209. [NOBEL PRIZE] MARTIN L. PERL (1927- ) American Physicist - 1995 Nobel Prize for Physics. He surprised the physics world in 1975 with his discovery of a new elementary particle known as the tau lepton. The tau resembles the electron, the carrier of electrical current. The tau differs in that it is 3,500 times heavier than the electron and survives less than a trillionth of a second. The electron is stable. SIGNED 4x6 photograph..................25-35

210. SIDNEY SHELDON (1917-2007 ) American Author/Novelist. ANS ny nd. "Who can make this world a better place."...............20-30

211. [GOLF] Patty Berg (1918-2006) a founding member and then leading player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. SIGNED/INSCRIBED 8 x 10 photo..............30-40

212. Joel Benton (1832 - 1911) American poet. He was born in 1832 in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York. As well as producing poetry, he wrote Emerson As A Poet (1882), The Truth About Protection (1892), Greeley on Lincoln (1893), In the Poe Circle (1899) and The Life of Phineas T. Barnum. He died in 1911 in Poughkeepsie. ALS, 1905, 1p, about 5x8". VG..........25-35

213. [RELIGION] Lawrence Pearsall Jacks [1860-1955]. English clergyman, philosopher, and writer. Unitarian minister (from 1887); professor of philosophy (1903-31) and principal (1915-31), Manchester Coll., Oxford. Editor of Hibbert Journal (1902-43). Author of Alchemy of Thought (1910), the Smokeover series of allegorical stories, My Neighbour the Universe (1928), Education through Recreation (1932), The Revolt against Mechanism (1934), etc. ALS, 1924, 2pp. Good content. Accompanied by his book "The Faith Of A Worker" (1925) inscribed "To Mary Ely from the writer, Christmas 1925." Letter is also to Ely. Both VG.............50-75

215. [ENGLAND] Jesse Collings [1831-1920]. English politician. Mayor of Birmingham (1878-80); M.P. (1880-1918); took part in Joseph Chamberlain' s municipal reform from Joseph Arch' s land-reform movement; used slogan "Three acres and a cow"; undersecretary to home department (1895-1902). ALS, 1883, 1p. VG.............25-35

216.   (MIXED NOTABLES LOT) Rose Mary Woods (1917 –2005) was Richard Nixon's secretary from his days in Congress in 1951, through the end of his political career. Before H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman became the operators of Nixon's presidential campaign, Woods was Nixon's gatekeeper. TLS, 1963. With trimmed photo of her at her desk, with portrait of Nixon above it.  William M. Batten (1909–1999) American businessman. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the J. C. Penney Company, and Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.  TLS, 1989.  Robert Leslie Shapiro ( b. 1942) American civil litigator most recognized for being part of the defense team which successfully defended O.J. Simpson. TLS, 2001.  George Howard Herbig (1920 – 2013) astronomer.  He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.  His specialty was stars at an early stage of evolution (a class of intermediate mass pre–main sequence stars are named Herbig Ae/Be stars after him and the interstellar medium. He was perhaps best known for his discovery, with Guillermo Haro, of the Herbig-Haro objects; bright patches of nebulosity excited by bipolar outflow from a star being born.  ALS, 2001.   Oscar Terry Crosby (1861-1947) American Electrical Engineer, Author, Traveler and Public Servant - collector of an important group of Khotanese texts. He began his career as an electrical engineer, having a particular interest in high-speed electric loco¬motion. He became the first president of the Potomac Electric Power Company in Washington, D.C., and was later president of the Washington Traction and Electric Company, the Trenton (N.J.) Street Railway Company, and the Wilmington-Philadelphia Traction Company. During World War I he served as assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of loans to the Allies and, as United States commissioner of finance, presided over the Inter-Allied Council for War Purchases and Finance.  ALS, 2pp, 1930.  Don Messick (1926 –1997) American voice actor best known for his work for Hanna-Barbera. His best remembered vocal creations include Scooby-Doo, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones, Astro the dog in The Jetsons, Muttley the dog in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, Gears, Ratchet and Scavenger in The Transformers, Papa Smurf in The Smurfs, and Dr. Benton Quest in Jonny Quest. He also did the voice of Snip in the Rankin/Bass 1979 movie Jack Frost.  TLS, 1989.   Harriet Andersson (b. 1932)  Swedish actress, best known outside Sweden for being part of director Ingmar Bergman's stock company. She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality. She disdains the use of makeup. SIGNED trimmed postal receipt.  Laura Capon Fermi (1907–1977) Italian-born writer and political activist, and the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi.  She met Enrico Fermi while she was a student in general science at the University of Rome. She published a book about her life with Enrico, Atoms in the Family, the same year he died.  ANS,1961.............100-150

217. [FRANCE] 1784 Manuscript Document signed Pierre Fabri, from Geneva. About Isaac Vernet and Boutin [had to do with Abraham Gradis, Jewish merchant]. Approx. 6-1/4 x 8". VG......75-100

219. [FRANCE] Philippe Berthelot (1866-1934) was an important French diplomat, son of Marcellin Berthelot. He was a republican (as opposed to monarchists and the Far-right leagues at that time).  He entered the French diplomatic service in 1889 and joined the foreign office in 1904. In 1920, he became secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the rank of ambassador. After a violent campaign of Far-right leagues he was forced to step aside from 1922-1925 because of his involvement in the scandal opposing Banque Industrielle de Chine, controlled by his brother, and Banque d'Indochine (linked to Paul Doumer).  ALS,  1919, 2pp, 4x6 in. with envelope. VG...........50-75

221. [FRANCE - MUSIC] Aimable Antoine-Elie-Elwart  was a composer , musicologist and French musicologist born in 1808 and died in 1877.  ALS, 186?, 1p, 5x8 in. VG...........50-75

222. [FRANCE] Henri Bremond (1865-1933)  French literary scholar, sometime Jesuit, and Catholic philosopher, one of the theological modernists.  ALS, not dated, 1p,  approx. 6 x 8 in.   VG............50-75

223. [FRANCE] Raymond Gerome (1920-2002) was a Belgian born, Fren\ch stage and screen actor.  He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bucher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he leant his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas.  Lengthy TLS, 1945, Les Spectacles du Palais, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. Good+.........50-75

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224. [MUSIC] Jean Michel Jarre  (b. 1948) French composer, performer, and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient, and new-age genres, and known as an organizer of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks. His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygene. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as well as a musician.  As of 2004 Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums. He was the first Western musician officially invited to perform in the People's Republic of China, and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event. Offered here is a signed & inscribed sheet, 6-3/4 x 8-1/4 in.  He mentions his famous song Oxygene.  on the verso is the autograph of Mick Jagger  [obtained in 1977].  In 1979, Jean Michel Jarre was chosen by Paris mayor to give a free outdoor concert on Place de La Concorde for the 14th of July, which is National Day in France. Instead of the hundred thousand people the authorities were excepting (there was no reference point), a million  Parisians came around their biggest square. Jarre made a superb light show, using buildings and fountains as backdrops. In the audience was Mick Jagger who immediately after the show, ran to see Jean Michel, and offered him to work with the Rolling Stones. It never happened as  Jarre had great advertising after the show, that was a bash to everything in the music world. He told the press eventually he needed a complete year to realize what he had done that day of July. Mick Jagger's autograph is one of the most sought after in rock and roll.  SUPERB!...............300-400

225. [FRANCE]  Paul  Richer (1849-1933)  French anatomist, physiologist, sculptor and anatomical artist who was a native of Chartres. He was a professor of artistic anatomy at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1898). Richer was an assistant to Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière, and from 1882 to 1896 was chief of the laboratory at the Salpêtrière Hospital. With Charcot he performed research of hysteria and epilepsy, and also performed studies of medicine and its relationship to art.  In 1903, Richer was appointed to the chair of artistic anatomy at the École des Beaux-Arts, and in 1907-08 was president of the Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine (French Society for the History of Medicine). His sculptures can be found in museums throughout Europe, including the Musée d'Orsay.  ALS, 1891, 2 full pages, 4.5 x 7". VG..............75-100

227. [CARDINAL] Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald (1787- 1870) French cardinal (1841). Born at Millau, he was the son of the philosopher Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald. He was condemned by the council of state for a pastoral letter attacking Dupin the elder's Manuel de droit ecclsiastique . In 1848 he held a memorial service for those who fell gloriously in defence of civil and religious liberty. In 1851 he nevertheless advocated in the senate the maintenance of the temporal power of the Pope by force of arms. ALS, no date, 1p, 7-1/2 x 5-3/4 in., signed at the beginning and at the end. Sunned along the left edge. See scan below..............75-100

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228. [FRANCE] Elisabeth de Mac Mahon (1834-1900) was a first lady of France in 1873-1879. She was married to President Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta.  She married Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta, in 1854. Her spouse became president in 1873. As first lady, Elisabeth de Mac Mahon established and participated in representation, decorated the Presidential Palace, hosted balls were she mixed the old and new aristocracy, dressed in the latest fashion and became the president in the French Red Cross, were she started a charity project in making baby clothing for the poor.  Elisabeth de Mac Mahon is known to have exerted influence upon the affairs of state during the presidency of Mac-Mahon. Her opinion about various political ministers and officials were respected, and she supported the claims of the count of Chambord on the throne of France. She played a part in the 16 May 1877 crisis. ALS, no date, 2-1/2 pages,  5-1/4 x 8 in. Fine. Picture of her is not included here..............80-120

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Her picture

230.  [FT. KNOX, KENTUCKY]  13 letters from soldier Alvin O. Crook, to his mother and father at Frankport, S.D. All with envelope marked "Free".  Sent while he was stationed at Ft. Knox, 1942. He was member of Co. H, 43rd Regt. Unread.........50-75

231. 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

232. [MUSIC] Hugo Herrmann  (1844-1935) German violinist and composer. In 1909 he came to the United States to become Concertmaster of the Cincinnatti Sympathy Orchestra. ANS, 1903, written on postcard. VG...........35-45

233. [MUSIC] Yvette Horner (b. 1922 in Tarbes)  French accordionist. ALS, no date on 3x5 card. VG. On the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille occurred Horner 1989 with the Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Quincy Jones  she gave in the Palais des Congrès de Paris, a concert with Marcel Azzola and the Orchestre Philharmonique Européen led by Hugues Reiner...........25-35

234. [FRANCE] Jules Tannery (1848-1910) French mathematician. Tannery discovered a surface of the fourth order of which all the geodesic lines are algebraic. He was not an inventor, however, but essentially a critic and methodologist. He once remarked, "Mathematicians are so used to their symbols and have so much fun playing with them, that it is sometimes necessary to take their toys away from them in order to oblige them to think." He notably influenced Pierre Duhem, Paul Painlevé, Jules Drach, and Émile Borel to take up science.  His efforts were mainly directed to the study of the mathematical foundations and of the philosophical ideas implied in mathematical thinking. Tannery was "an original thinker, a successful teacher, and a writer endowed with an unusually clear, brilliant and attractive style." ALS, Paris, 190?, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in.
Written to Louis Olivier (1854-1910) Director of the Revue Scientifique. Fine...........75-100

235. [FRANCE] Juliette Adam (1836-1936)  French author and feminist. She established a salon which was frequented by Gambetta and the other republican leaders against the conservative reaction of the 1870s. In the same interest, she founded the Nouvelle Revue in 1879, which she edited for eight years, and retained influence its administration until 1899.   She published writings by Paul Bourget, Pierre Loti, and Guy de Maupassant as well as Octave Mirbeau's novel Le Calvaire.  She became involved in the Avant-Courrière (Forerunner) association founded in 1893 by Jeanne Schmahl, which called for the right of women to be witnesses in public and private acts, and for the right of married women to take the product of their labor and dispose of it freely.  Adam wrote the notes on foreign politics, and was unremitting in her attacks on Bismarck and in her advocacy of a policy of Revanchism.  She is generally credited with the authorship of papers on various European capitals signed "Paul Vasili," which were, in reality, the work of various writers. The most famous of her numerous novels is Païenne (1883). Her reminiscences, Mes premières armes littéraires et politiques (1904) and Mes sentiments et nos idées avant 1870 (1905), contain much interesting gossip about her distinguished contemporaries.  ALS, Paris, 1887 [?], 1p, approx. 8 x 5 in.  Written to Louis Olivier (1854-1910) Director of the Revue Scientifique.  VG...........75-100

236. [FRANCE] Ludovic Vitet (1802 - 1873)  French dramatist and politician.  He was born in Paris. He was educated at the École Normale. His politics were liberal, and he was a member of the society "Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera." On the triumph of liberal principles in 1830 Guizot created an office especially for Vitet, who became inspector-general of historical monuments. In 1834 he entered the Chamber of Deputies, and two years later was made a member of the Council of State. He was consistent in his monarchist principles, and abstained from taking any part in politics during the second empire. The disasters of 1870-71 reawakened Vitet's interest in public affairs, and he published in the Revue des deux mondes his optimistic "Lettres sur le siège de Paris."  ALS, 1869, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8 in., Signed Vitet. From the archives of Claudius Popelin. VG.........50-75

237. [FRANCE] Louis Antoine François de Marchangy (1782-1826) French lawyer, author and politician. He was a passionate supporter first of Napoleon and later of the Bourbons, and an impressive force in the courtroom. He was a Deputy from 1822 to 1824.  In 1813 he published his first work, la Gaule poétique, a two-volume study of the history of France in terms of its poetry, speeches and beaux-arts. This book made his reputation. Six editions were published between 1813 and 1826. ALS, no date, brief 1p,  4-3/4 x 7-1/4 in. PLUS a lengthy 1p. letter by Countess de Marchangy..............80-120

238. [FRANCE] Dr Leon SIMON (1798-1867)  He founded together with Dr Paul Curie (grandfather of Pierre Curie), the first Medical Homeopathical Magazine of Paris.  ALS, [1856]. 2+ pages, 4-1/4 x 6-1/4 in. VG.............50-75

239. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an Anglican churchman, and the author of poems, historical novels, children's books and essays. Charles Darwin attached portions of a laudatory letter from Kingsley to the second edition of Origin of Species. His books for children were among his most influential works, especially The Heroes, a Greek mythology for young people.  His autograph signature written on portion of an address panel [envelope]. Good example..............25-35

241. FRED THOMPSON - pencil signed, mounted hand-tinted lake/shore scene. Titled "Quiet Waters." Overall size 5 x 12. Fine..............75-100

242. [FRANCE] Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Craven (1808 – 1891)  French author.  ALS, no yr., 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG.........60-80

243. [FRANCE] Antonio Georges Lopisgich  (1854 - 1913) French Artist. ALS, 1893, 1-1/2pp, 5 x 8 in. VG..............75-100

245. [FRANCE] Gaston Calmette (1858-1914) French journalist. In January 1914 Calmette, who had been editor of the newspaper Le Figaro since 1902, launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis in 1911. During this campaign, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Caillaux's second wife Henriette , fearing that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how he was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage, entered Calmette's office on 16 March 1914 and shot him four times. Calmette died instantly. Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted. MARCEL PROUST dedicated Swann's Way, the first volume of his novel In Search of Lost Time, to Calmette 'as a testimony of deep and affectionate recognition'. Offered here is Calmette's called card which he signed and has written 3 lines. Fine. Below is his portrait & an illustration of the murder..........50-75

Calmette portrait

The murder

246. [FRANCE] André   Soubiran (1910-1999) French physician and writer. He is known for his war diary I was a doctor with the tanks, and especially The Diary of a woman in white who asks company of abortion in the 1960s , describing its reality.  Can't make out the date, 1p.  Written to thecritic, Robert Kemp. VG............50-75

247. [CARDINAL] Georges Grente (1872-1959) French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Le Mans from 1918 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. TLS, 1957, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2". The Cardinal is not happy about the joke made by Robert Kemp, the critic. VG.............60-80

248.  [France] Misc. group of items from France. Worthy of research, many are accompanied with biographical information in either English or French. [1] Maurice Donnay [1859-1945] dramatist. Signature. [2] Rene Cagnat [1852-1937] historian. ALS, 1896, 2pp. [3]Auguste Chavannes [1810-1879] Zoologist. ALS, 1867, 1p. [4] Jean-Marie Magnaud [1848-1926] jurist, feminist pioneer. ALS, 1906, 1p. [5] Amable Pierre Floquet [1797-1881] historian, ALS, 2pp. [6] Henri Leroy-Beaulieu [1842-1912] publicist and historian. His signature on page from book. [7] Emile Perrin [1814-1885] Director of Paris Opera. ALS, 1878, 2pp. [8] Pierre De La Gorce [1846-1934] historian. ALS, 1p. [9] Charles Laubry [1872-1960] physician. ALS, 1p. [10] Charles Louvet [1806-1882] Minister of Commerce. ALS, 1p. ...............200-300

249. [FRANCE] Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy  (1805-1866) was the second bishop of Algiers, from 25 February 1846 to 16 November 1866.  He erected, July 11, 1846, the hatch Staouëli an abbey and inaugurated on May 9, 1850, the first chapel of Notre-Dame de Santa Cruz in Oran. He started the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Africa in 1858.  He is also known for a famous sermon in the cathedral of Algiers during the Lent of 1853, on the relationship between Islam and Jesus Christ.  Two ALS, 1851 and 1853, both 1-page. One speaks of Algeria. Included also is letter from his brother. Three letters.............80-120

250. [FILM] Ann Miller (1923-2004) American dancer, singer and actress. She is remembered for her work in Hollywood musical films of the 1940s and '50s. Signed, inscribed 8x10 dated 2001. VG..........40-60

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251.  [FILM] Billy Bob Thornton  (b. 1955- ) American actor.  Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35

252. Brian Blessed (1936 - ) is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals".  Signed 3x5 photo. VG.........25-35

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253. [MUSIC] Heinz Bongartz (1894-1978, Dresden)  German conductor and composer. He was the first artistic manager of the Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden Philharmonic Concert Halls) under the East German regime.  Signed 4 x 6 portrait photograph. Excellent.........50-75

254. Edmund Blunden [1896-1974] English, poet, author. Signed Presentation/edition page from his book "Near & Far" 1929. Fine.............25-35

LOT 255.    (BRITISH SCIENCE/MEDICINE NOTABLES LOT)   JOSEPH HUME (1777-1855) Scottish Doctor/Politician  who knowledge of chemistry provided a means to recover damp gunpowder for use again. He also later in life worked to improve the fortunes of the working class.  SIGNED address panel (1826).  BERNARD HOLLANDER (1864-1934) Psychiatrist, author.  SIGNATURE, with sentiment,  SIR ALFRED BRIAN PIPPARD (1920-2008) Physicist.  He demonstrated the reality, as opposed to the mere abstract concept, of Fermi surfaces in metals by establishing the shape of the Fermi surface of copper through measuring the reflection and absorption of microwave electromagnetic radiation. He also introduced the notion of coherence length in superconductors.  ALS (2002) with SIGNED 4x6 photo on verso.   SIR WILLIAM RICHARD GOWERS (1845-1915) Neurologist known for “The Gowers’ Tract and Parkinson’s Disease researchers.  SIGNATURE from ALS.   JOHN FLETCHER MOULTON, Baron Moulton (1844-1921) Mathematician, Judge Considered at the time one of the 12 most intelligent men in England Leading in his promotion of medical studies . ALS,  1895, 3pp. SIR JOHN HUGES BENNETT (1812-1875) Physician, physiologist, pathologist. Noted for being the first in description of Leukemia as a blood disorder. Clip
 SIGNATURE..............100-150

LOT 256.  (BRITISH SCIENCE/MEDICINE NOTABLES LOT)   SIR MICHAEL FOSTER (1836-1907) Physiologist. SIGNATURE.   SIR ASTLEY PASTON COOPER,1st Baronet (1768-1841) Surgeon and Anatomist who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatome and pathology. Surgeon to King George IV, King William IV, Queen Victoria.  SIGNATURE from ALS [soiled].  THOMAS WILLIAM COKE,1st Earl of Leicester  (1754-1842) famous for his advanced methods of animal husbandry. SIGNED address panel (1837).  GEORGE COMBE (1788-1858) Noted for his writings on Phrenology and lectures. SIGNATURE from ALS (1829). SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE (1833-1915) Chemist, author He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies. The mineral Roscoelite was named for him.  ALS, 1883, 1p............80-120

LOT 257.  (BRITISH ARCHITECTS/DESIGNERS LOT)  ALFRED CHARLES BOSSOM, Baron BOSSOM (1881-1965) Architect, MP, many works in US. TLS, 1951.   SIR SAMUEL MORTON PETO, 1st Baronet (1809-1889) Entrepreneur and major contractors in England of the 19th Century such as Reform club, The Oxford and Cambridge Club, Lyceum and St. James’s Theater, Hungerford Market others. SIGNATURE (large).  GEORGE DODD (1783-1827) Noted Bridge Builder, he was responsible for the Waterloo Bridge that crosses the Thames, in London.  RARE SIGNATURE.   SIR EDWIN HARDY AMIES (1909-2003) Fashion Designer most noted as dress designer for Queen Elizabeth II .  TLS, 1971 [mounting traces on verso,  and SIGNED 8x10 color photograph of Amies...............80-120

LOT 258.  (ORGANIST/COMPOSERS LOT)    WILLIAM ROGERS CHAPMAN (1855-1935) American composer, organist, conductor. CLIP SIGNATURE.   GEORGE F. HUNTLEY (1859-1913) British Composer/Organist.  SIGNATURE with sentiment.  JULIUS HARRISON (1885-1963) British Composer, organist.  SIGNATURE  (1921).  Rev. WILLIAM O’NEIL (1813-1883) Irish Clergyman, Composer of church music, glees and songs and a prominent organist of his time.  CLIP SIGNATURE...................75-100

LOT 259. [MUSIC]  AMERICAN CLASSICAL COMPOSERS - includes:  FREDERICK SHEPHERD CONVERSE  (1871-1940) composer &  ARCHIBALD T. DAVISON (1883-1961) Composer, musicologist  & T.W. SURCETTE (1883-1961) author of music. ALL3 have SIGNED a decision of judges sheet in pencil. ROBERT SUTTON WHITNEY (1904-1986) Composer/Conductor.  SIGNED greeting card  (1984).  DEEMS TAYLOR  (1885-1966) Composer.  TLS (1942).   LOUIS CHARLES ELSON (1848-1920) Composer, critic. SIGNED card.   PAUL NORDOFF (1909-1977) Composer and music therapist. TLS (1941) signed “Paul”.  WILLIAM SHUMAN (1910-1992) Pulitzer Prize Composer.  TLS (1982) mounting traces...........60-80

261. [FILM] Joan Bennett (1910-1990) American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies such as The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945).  Signature......20-30

262. [MUSIC] David Lee Shire (b. 1937) American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the movie The Taking of Pelham 123 and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film, Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). AMQS, inscribed from his celebrated song "It Goes Like It Goes." Approx. 10-1/2 x 4-3/4". Two mail fold lines o/w VG..........75-100

See AMQS above

263. [FILM] Elizabeth McGovern  (b. 1961) American actress.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 movie still from "Ragtime", with ANS on verso describing the scene. One ling soft crease which shows when held at an angle o/w VG.  Unusual...........35-45

See above
See verso

265.  Benjamin Perley Poore (1820-1887) was a prominent American newspaper correspondent, editor, and author in the mid-19th century. One of the most popular and prolific journalists of his era, he was an active partisan for the Whig and Republican parties. ALS, Boston, 1840, 1p, ragged right edge. Military content concerns 1st Regt. Infantry, 1st Brigade...........60-80

See Poore letter

266. [Music] Jeanne Granier - Fr. opera singer. Painted by Toulouse-Lautrec. Signature.

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267. [OPERA] Marie Stone [1847-?] American opera star who appeared in the 1880s with the Bostonians. Signed card, with sentiment..............20-30

269. (NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS LOT)  HERBERT CHARLES BROWN (1912-2004) Chemistry (1979) SIGNED 4x6 card.   HERBERT A. HAUPTMAN (1917-2011) Economics (1985) SIGNED 4x5 photograph.  WERNER ARBOR (1929) Physiology and Medicine (1978) SIGNED FDC.   NORMAN RAMSEY (1915-2011) Physics (1989) SIGNED printed letter, with sentiment............70-90

270. (THEATER ACTRESSES LOT) VIVIAN DUNCAN (1897-1986) of the famous Duncan Sisters.  SIGNED, counter check document, inscribed.  BESSIE CLAYTON (1878-1950) SIGNATURE.    ANDREA McARDLE (1963) Annie Star ANS, with (2) signed postcard photos signed on verso.   INA CLAIRE (1893-1985) ANS on card, mounted to larger sheet.  MARIE WAINWRIGHT (1853-1923) She played the first “Josephine” in HMS PINAFORE SIGNATURE(1892) toned & soiled.  JULIA MARLOWE (1865-1950) SIGNATURE.    BLANCHE WHIFFEN (Mrs. Thomas Whiffen) (1845-1936) SIGNATURE (1902).......50-75

271. [WRITERS] Mixed Lot: [1] Dorothy Canfield Fisher [1879-1958] reformer, writer. Signature. [2] J. G. Holland [1819-1881] Am. poet, novelist. Sig. w/sentiment. [3] Park Godwin [1816-1904] Am. journalist. Signature, 1866. [4] Glenway Westcott [1901-1987] Am. writer. Sig. presentation page from book. [5] John Hall Wheelock [1886-1978] Am. poet. Sig. in return address. [6] Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891) was a prolific and popular American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War and features in Harper's Magazine. He was a Charter Trustee of Vassar College. Signature DATED 1877. [7] Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) American poet, critic, and essayist was born at Hartford, Connecticut. SIGNATURE WITH SENTIMENT. [8] George V. Hobart [1867-1926] American Playwright. Signature with sentiment, New York, 1908. [9] William Henry Irwin (Will) (1873 - 1948) was a U.S. author, writer and journalist. For the Bohemian Club, he wrote the Grove Play The Hamadryads in 1904. Signature. [10] Rex Beach [1877-1949]. American writer. Fine SIGNATURE.............100-150

272. [MUSIC] John Mellencamp (b. 1951) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35

273. [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). Signed, inscribed vintage 8x10 photo. THERE ARE CONDITION PROBLEMS: a 1 inche tear coming in from left edge; long crease mark bottom right corner; other faults are minor at best. See scan below...............60-80

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274. [MUSIC] Melissa Manchester (b. 1951) American singer-songwriter. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG..........25-35

277. LORD ERIC ASHBY (1904-1992) BARON Ashby of Brandon. English Botanist - Deeply involved in experimental botany and environmental issues, he was one of the early leaders of the warnings of the destruction of the environment Published numerous books and papers on the subject. One of the most respected of scientists in his lifetime. President and Vice Chancellor of Queen's College. Created Baron in 1973, by Queen Elizabeth II. ALS with postmarked 6/26/89 envelope.........25-35

278. [MUSIC] Louis Kentner [1905-1987] Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire. SIGNATURE on album page, 1942............25-35

281. [MUSIC] Timothee Adamowski [1858-1943] Polish born American conductor, composer and violinist. Signature. Fine........25-35

287. [RUSSIA] Konstantin A. Umansky (1902-1945) Soviet diplomat. In 1936, Umansky was posted to Washington, D.C. where he was an Adviser at the Soviet Embassy. When the diplomatic mission of Alexander Troyanovsky was completed, Umansky acted as chargé d'affaires of the embassy, when on 11 May 1939, Umansky was appointed by Joseph Stalin as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States and he presented his Letters of Credence to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 6 June 1939, becoming, at the time, the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C. TLS, 1943, as newly appointed Ambassador to Mexico. On 25 January 1945, Umansky was to have travelled to San José in Costa Rica to present his Letters of Credence to Costa Rican President Teodoro Picado Michalski, however the Mexican Air Force plane which he was aboard crashed on take-off in Mexico City, killing the Ambassador, his wife (Raisa Umanskaya) and three embassy officials...........75-100

288. [THEATRE] Josephine Victor [1885-?] turn of the century actress, appearing in Britain, America, and on Broadway. She was married to theatre manager Freancis Reid. She appeared in many of Channing Pollock's plays. AQS, 1908. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever."......25-35

289. [MEDICINE] Sir Roy Calne (b. 1930) pioneer of liver transplantation and performed the first such operation in Europe in 1968. HIS SIGNATURE OF UNIV. OF CAMBRIDGE CLINICAL SCHOOL STATIONERY. Folds.........20-30

290. Walker Percy (1916-1990) Southern author. Signed 3x5 card.....40-60

291. Wm. Benton [1900-1973] US Sen. from Ct. TLS, 1951...........20-30

293. [FILM] Madge Bellamy (1899-1990) American film actress who was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her career declined in the sound era, and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s. In San Francisco in 1943, Bellamy was accused of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting (or shooting at) her wealthy lover Stanwood Murphy. The incident generated much publicity and effectively ended her already fading career. ALS. signed Madge B., 1973, 3pp. About writing her autobiography, and thanking the recipient for volunteering to help her. VG............50-75

295. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 13, 1953, 6pp. Her contract with the William Morris Agency for 3 years. Signed on last page; also signed by her agent............50-75

302. Harry Reasoner [1923-1991] American journalist. Brief TLS, 1971, thanks to a viewer. On American Broadcasting Co. letterhead. Fine............25-35

303. Jim Hagerty (1909-1981) served as the only White House Press Secretary from 1953 to 1961 during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Signed & inscribed 7x9 photo. VG...........20-30

307. STUART CHASE (1888-1985) American Economist/Consumer Activist/Man of Letters. From 1922 to 1939, Chase was a director of the New York-based Labor Bureau, Inc., an organization that furnished research, accounting, and other professional services to labor unions and cooperatives and published a newsletter.Chase and Frederick John Schlink were the founders of Consumers' Research. Schlink established Consumers' Research, Inc. They published the famous book Your Money's Worth(1927), a controversial exposé of the advertising and pricing practices used by manufacturers of consumer products. This work was widely distributed through the Book-of-the-Month Club In 1929, two months after the Wall Street crash, the organization began to publish its findings both as consumer pamphlets and in a regular bulletin that compared and assigned ratings to consumer products. These reports were eventually published in the Handbook of Buying. By 1930, membership in Consumers' Research, Inc. had reached twelve thousand.. He was the author of hundreds of papers and articles for over 60 years. ANS dtd Dec 1980.................30-40

308. Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a novelist and historian from London. His sister-in-law was Annie Besant. ALS, 1882, 1p. Mounted to another sheet.........50-75

309. Robert (Smythe) Hichens (1864-1950) English journalist and novelist. He wrote lyrics for music, stories, and collaborated in successful plays. He is best remembered now, perhaps, for his satire on Oscar Wilde, The Green Carnation (1894), his novels that were made into films &emdash; The Garden of Allah (pub. 1904) and The Paradine Case (pub. 1933) &emdash; and the story "How Love Came to Professor Guildea", which has been frequently anthologized. His novel "Felix" (1902) is an early fictional treatment of hypodermic morphine addiction. ALS, 1907, 1p............80-120

310. [EARLY FILM] Odette Myrtil [1898-1978] French born American actress. One of the highlights of her career was acting the title role of Odette in Jerome Kern's :The Cat and the Fiddle" [1931], written especially for her. Written in TLS form, a document dated 1936, re: contract with Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. 1-page, she signs at bottom "Approved and Accepted." VG.......50-75

311. [BALLET] Dame Merle Park (b. 1937) prima ballerina. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1954 and became a soloist in 1958. In her career, she was partnered by Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Signed color 5x7 photo. VG.............40-60

312. Cyril Ritchard (1897-1977) actor. Signed 7x9 photo. Corner creases and old ink price written on backside.........30-40

314. [NY] David B. Hill (1843-1910) American politician from New York who was Governor of New York from 1885 to 1891. During his tenure as Governor, William Kemmler was executed in the electric chair, the first inmate in the country ever to be put to death in this manner. He served as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1892 to 1897. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1892, but lost to Grover Cleveland, who later won the presidential election. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1902 bank check, National Commercial Bank, Albany, NY. VG.........40-60

315. [OPERA] CESARE SIEPI (1923- ) Italian Basso - He was based mainly at La Scala and from 1950 at the Metropolitian Opera in New York. He is particularly noted for his Mozard roles, and with the Italian repertory, especially Don Giovanni and Mefistofele. He is condidered one of the greatest Bassos after WW2. He created Nonno Innocenzo in Pizzetti's L"Oro. SIGNED Christmas card dtd 1991...............25-35

316. [MUSIC] Allan Blank (b. 1925) American composer. AMQS from his "Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet."........40-60

317. [MUSIC] Simon Bainbridge (b. 1952) British composer. AMQS, inscribed from his "Viola Concerto" [1976]...........40-60

318. [MUSIC] Burrill Phillips (1907-1988) American composer. AMQS, inscribed..........40-60

319. [MUSIC] Frederic Goossen (1927-2011) American composer. AMQS, inscribed from his "Aria", dated 1993........40-60

320. [MUSIC] Arthur Frackenpohl (b. 1924) American composer. AMQS from "Natural Minor Blues".......40-60

321. [MUSIC] Allen Brings (b. 1934) American composer, pianist. AMQS from "Viola and Piano.".......40-60

322. [MUSIC] Rudolf Kelterborn (b. 1931) Swiss musician and composer. AMQS from his "Nuovi Canti" dated 1993..........40-60

323. [MUSIC] Tina Davidson (b. 1952) American composer. AMQS from "Fire on the Mountain"......40-60

324. [MUSIC] Jeergen Jerslid (1913-2004) Danish composer. AMQS, inscribed, from his "Frantasia Per Arpa Sola" [1977], dated 1993..........40-60

325. [MUSIC] Haflioi Hallgrimsson (b. 1941) Icelandic composer and cellist. AMQS from his "Poemi" 3rd movement.........40-60

326. [MUSIC] Paul Hayden (b. 1956) American composer. AMQS from his "Hambridge Quavers" [1989]........40-60

327. [MUSIC] Wilhelm Maler (1902-1976) German composer. Signature on album paper [light blue]......25-35

329. 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

330. [CABINET] WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH (1917-1990) American Cabinet Official - Smith was one of several wealthy Republicans who urged Ronald Reagan to run for governor and was a leading backer of Reagan's successful 1966 bid. As governor, Reagan appointed Smith as a member of the University of California Board of Regents. Smith remained a strong backer of Reagan's political aspirations and was a member of Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" during the 1980 presidential campaign. Following President Reagan's inauguration in 1981, Smith became attorney general; he served until his resignation in 1985. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 color portrait with sentiment...........25-35

331. DOUGLAS FRASER (1916-2008) Am. Labor Leader. President of Chrysler, President of the United AutoWorkers (1979-1983). SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph..........25-35

332. [MUSIC] Richard Bonynge (b. 1930) Australian conductor and pianist. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo, 2001. VG........25-35

333. [MUSIC] Jane Glover CBE (b.1949) British-born conductor and music scholar. Signed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35

334. [NOBEL PRIZE] JAMES TOBIN (1918-2002) American Economist - 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. His career as an economist began in 1939. He did research and writing in several fields: macroeconomic theory and policy; money and banking; public finance; consumer behavior; welfare economics; rationing; portfolio selection and asset markets ("q" ratio), economic growth; investment and capital accumulation; inequality and public policy to ameliorate poverty (negative income tax); econometric method ("tobit analysis"); international monetary system ("tobin tax"). SIGNED 1982 FDC honoring State Birds/Flowers. CLEAN.............25-35

335. [BALLET] DAME PEGGY VAN PRAAGH (1910-1990) Australian Ballerina/Choreographer. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph, 1982. VG.......25-35

338. Kathleen Norris [1880-1966] American novelist. At least two of her novels were made into films: My Best Girl (1927), starring Mary Pickford and Manhattan Love Song (1934), which was released under the title Change of Heart, starring Janet Gaynor. Signed 3-page biographical form from the Cyclopedia of American Biography. Signed at conclusion, August 28, 1916.............50-75

Portrait of Norris

339. Clinton Scollard [1860-1932] was a prolific American poet and occasional writer of fiction. He was a Professor of English at Hamilton College, and collaborator and husband of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse. Brief ALS, 1895. Two lines in his hand............25-35

340. George William Childs [1829-1894] American publisher who co-owned the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper with financier Anthony Joseph Drexel. ALS, May 28, 1861, 1p, asking that certain publication be sent to the historian Henry Loomis......25-35

341. Kuno Francke [1855-1930] American (German-born) educator and historian. Most of his career was spent at Harvard University where he eventually became a professor of history and German culture and curator of the Germanic Museum. He played an important role in his time as the foremost German-American cultural ambassador. ALS, 1914, 2 full pages. "...It is not entirely sure that I shall be here next winter. If the war is over by that time - frant God that it will..."........40-60

342. [NJ] Harold (Giles Hoffman) (1896-1954) Republican who served as the 41st Governor of New Jersey, from 1935 to 1938. He also served two terms representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931. He is probably best known for being one of the most corrupt Governors of that State. As governor, Hoffman secretly visited convicted Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in his death row cell on the evening of October 16, 1935 with Anna Bading, a stenographer and fluent speaker of German. Hoffman urged the other members of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals , then the state's highest court, to visit Hauptmann. Despite Governor Hoffman's doubt regarding Hauptmann's guilt, Hoffman was unable to convince the other members of the Court to re-examine the case, and Hauptmann was executed on April 3, 1936. On March 18, 1954, Governor Robert B. Meyner uncovered a significant embezzlement scheme perpetrated by Hoffman, and suspended him from his position of Employment Security Division Director. Three months later, in June 1954, Hoffman died in a New York City hotel room of a heart attack. Just before dying, the disgraced former governor wrote a confession and admitted that he had embezzled over $300,000 from the state. TLS, 1942, 1p, signed Harold. To Danny Sullivan. Sullivan is in the hospital going to have an operation...........35-45

343. [THEATRE] Dame Anna Neagle [1904-1986) popular English stage and motion picture actress and singer. Signed sheet music from "A Broken Doll." Signed on cover picturing her & Michael Wilding. VG............40-60

344. Henry Festing Jones (1851-1928) friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler. His biography of Butler, entitled Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir, won the inaugural James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 1919. ALS, 1924, 4pp. 4.5 x 7 in.........50-75

345. Liz Smith [b. 1923] American gossip columnist. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG......25-35

346. [NOBEL] DAVID BALTIMORE - Am. Microbiologist. Awarded 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for research on how certain viruses effect the genes of cancer cells. SIGNED 5x7 portrait photograph. Poor contrast - signed in dark area............................25-35

347. [ENGLAND] Horace Annesley Vachell [1861-1955] prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works. Brief one-sentence ALS, 1916.......25-35

348. [CINEMA] CARA WILLIAMS (BARRYMORE) (1925- ) American Actress - At 17, Williams was signed to a 20th Century Fox contract, but few of her subsequent film roles were large enough to attract notice. Her fortunes improved when she replaced Judy Holliday in the Broadway production of Born Yesterday (1950); thereafter, her film and TV roles increased in size and prominence. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of a sex-starved farm woman in The Defiant Ones (1958). By virtue of her flaming red hair and acute comic timing, Williams was touted as "the new Lucille Ball" on the CBS sitcoms Pete and Gladys (1961) and The Cara Williams Show (1964). She was married to John Barrymore, Jr. and had a son. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph with sentiment............20-30

349. [SCIENCE] GEORGE ROCHESTER (1908-2002) British Physicist He became one of the founding figures of modern particle physics when, in the 1940s, he discovered the existence of nuclear matter heavier than the previously known particles such as protons and neutrons. Brief ALS, 1992.............25-35

350. [NOBEL PRIZE] Robert M. Solow (born 1924) American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961 and the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ("Nobel Prize") in 1987. ALS written on back of color photo taken in 1987. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. Fine........................35-45

351 [SCIENCE] JOHN C. BASILAR (1904-1991) American Chemist. He discovered optical inversion & explained stereo specificity in complex inorganic reactions. While teaching a general chemistry course, he realized that isomerism could exist among inorganic compounds. He went on to train several generations of coordination chemists Basilar is known as the "FATHER of American coordination chemistry." Considered one of the 75 leading chemist in history. TLS dtd 5/27/83......................35-45

352. [NOBEL] THOMAS CECH - American Chemist. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discoveries about the catalytic properties of RNA. SIGNED 4x6 photograph............25-35

353. John Gunther (1901-1970) American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books. Signed, inscribed 4 x 6 photo. VG.......50-75  

354. Leon Gellert (1892-1977) Australian poet. TLS, 1934, 1p.........40-60

355. Francis A. March (1825- 1911) American polymath, academic, philologist, and lexicographer. He is considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon. March applied the methods of studying the Latin and Greek classics towards the study of English literature, and led the way for the first scientific study of the English language. He graduated from Amherst College in 1845, and received a M.A. degree from Amherst in 1848. After studying law and teaching for three years, he became instructor at Lafayette College. March occupied the chair of English language and comparative philology at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1857 to 1907. It was the first post of its kind. March was one of the first professors to advocate and teach English in colleges and universities. In addition to English, March also taught French, German, Greek, Latin, botany, "mental philosophy", political economy, the Constitution, and law. He also served as president of the American Philological Association (1873-1874; 1895-1896), the Spelling Reform Association (after 1876), and the Modern Language Association (1891-1893). March was the first American superintendent over the volunteer reading program of the Oxford English Dictionary, thus providing valuable support to James Murray in the compilation of this monumental work. ALS, no year, 1p, to the widow of a friend, offering assistance. 4 x 6-1/4". VG...........50-75

356. Samuel Hopkins Adams [1871-1958] Am. writer. Signature........15-20

359. Baron Ashburton [1774-1848] Brit. politician. Signature......15-20

360. Irving Bacheller [1859-1950] Am. writer. ANS on small card...........20-30

361. Ralph A. Benson [1828-1886] Brit. Cricket player. Signature......20-30

362. [FILM] Ross Hunter (1920-1996 ) Hollywood film producer. After serving in Army intelligence during World War II, Hunter signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures and acted in a number of B-movie musicals. Success followed when he transisioned to become a film producer attaining a staff producer post at Universal Pictures in 1953 on the strength of his previous credits as a theatrical producer and director. Hunter was known for producing what were considered "light" films starring actresses including Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, and Julie Andrews. He was also known for melodramas such as Imitation of Life with Lana Turner and Airport. In the early 1970s, after flopping with the 1973 version of Lost Horizon, he worked for Paramount Pictures on a string of television movies. TLS on AIRPORT stationery, 1p, letter of recommendation for Mr. Al M. Ellis. VG..............25-35

363. [FRANCE] Jules Favre (1809-1880) French statesman. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans faction. ANS, 1878, on 3-3/4 x 2-1/8" card, mounted to slip. VG.........25-35

364. George Grote [1794-1871] Brit. historian. Clip signature...........20-30

366. CLAUDE AVELINE [1901-1992] Fr. writer. SIGNATURE with sentiment............20-30

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367. [MUSIC] Johnny Desmond (1919-1985) American popular music singer.  Signed vintage album page...........25-35

368. J. Robert Schrieffer - Am. Nobel physicist. Signature.........20-30

369. [NOBEL] Paul A. Samuelson (b.1915) American neoclassical economist. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970, the second year of the Prize. Signed 3x5 card [on lined side]...........20-30

370. Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. (1856- 1910) served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1903 to 1909. His father, also named Henry Martyn Hoyt, served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883. Hoyt  Jr. was born in Wilkes-Barre and graduated from Yale University in 1878 and the law school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881. After a career spent in private practice as a lawyer in Pennsylvania, starting in Pittsburgh and then in banking he became an assistant attorney general in 1897 and then, in 1903, was appointed Solicitor General by Theodore Roosevelt. After the end of Roosevelt's term in office he became a counselor to Secretary of State Philander C. Knox. Hoyt died in 1910.  Five [5] signed bank checks, Riggs National Bank, 1912. VG...........50-75

371. [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

372. [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

373. Margaret Deland (1857-1945) American author. TLS, Cambridge, Mass., 1933, 1p. To Kenneth Whittemore who apparently was also a writer. VG...........35-45

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

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

377.  George Ade [1866-1944] American writer. Signature.............20-30

378. [MEDICINE] James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938) British physician. Crichton-Browne was regarded as an expert on all aspects of medicine, public health and social reform. He supported a campaign for open-air treatment of tuberculosis, housing reform for the working-classes, and hygiene with respect to venereal disease. Along with Ferrier and neurologist John Hughlings Jackson, he founded "Brain", a journal dedicated to neurology and neuropsychiatry. He also assisted naturalist Charles Darwin with illustrated work when Darwin was writing his "Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals". In 1883 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and was knighted in 1886. ALS, 1925, 2pp. VG............50-75

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379. Maximilian Schell [return address]

380. Cliff Robertson

381. Eileen Heckart

382. Dean Jagger (1903-1991)

383.  Ben Johnson (1918-1996)

384. George Opdyke (1805-1880) was an entrepreneur and the Mayor of New York (1862 to 1863) during the American Civil War. Signed bank check 1863, as Mayor. VG...........40-60

385. 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

387. [CABINET] Arthur E. Summerfield (1899-1972) the 54th Postmaster General of the US. TLS, 1955, lengthy full page extending invitation to the President of the Air Mail Society to attend the ceremony at the White House commerating the issuance of Atoms For Peace Stamp. VG......50-75

390. Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965) born in Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he was a conservationist and author of children's stories . Thornton Waldo Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers. Signed 3x5 card to which a US posrage stamp has been affixed. Signature partly over the stamp. VG..........30-40

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

395. [MUSIC] Dick Dale (b. 1937) American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG..........25-35

396. John Fiske (1842-1901) American philosopher and historian. ALS, 1890, 1p, not able to accept invitation due to his lecturing. VG.........50-75

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

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

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

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

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

407. [ENGLAND] John Mason Good (1764-1827) English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects. In the autumn of 1784, he began to practise as a surgeon at Sudbury in Suffolk. There he was an acquaintance of Nathan Drake, a fellow writer and student of Shakespeare. n 1794 John Good became a member of the British Pharmaceutical Society, and in that connection, and especially by the publication of his work, A History of Medicine (1795), he did much to effect a greatly needed reform in the profession of the apothecary. OFFERED HERE is clip signature. Accompanied by a clip signature of Nathan Drake (1766-1836) English essayist and physician. Drake's works include several volumes of literary essays, and some papers contributed to medical periodicals, but his most important production was Shakespeare and his Times, including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on his Genius, and Writings; a new Chronology of his Plays; a Disquisition on the Object of his Sonnets; and a History of the Manners, Customs and Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry and Elegant Literature of his Age (2 vols., 1817). Click below to see portrait of Nathan Drake, which does NOT come with this lot. Two signatures..........40-60

Portrait of Nathan Drake

408. [OPERA] John Dudley [1905-1994] Between December 1940, when he made his debut as a student in Louise , and May 1944, he appeared in 235 performances at the Metropolitan Opera House and elsewhere, taking 28 roles in 24 different operas. He may be heard on several recordings of live Met productions. SIGNED, inscribed [someone tried to erase name inscribed to], 8x10 vintage photo. Photograph by James Abresch, NYC...........35-45

409. [IOWA] HAROLD E. HUGHES - Senator from Iowa; born near Ida Grove, Ida County, Iowa, February 10, 1922; attended the public schools and the University of Iowa; Army combat rifleman in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy during the Second World War; engaged in motor transportation business; elected to Iowa State Commerce Commission 1959-1962; Governor of Iowa 1963-1968; executive committee, National Governors Conference 1965-1967; chairman Democratic Governors Conference 1966-1968; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1968 and served from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1975; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974; briefly sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1971; served on the Commission on the Operation of the Senate 1975-1976; consultant to the Senate Judiciary Committee 1975-1976; president, The Hughes Foundation; chairman, Harold Hughes Centers for Alcoholism and Drug Treatment; was a resident of Des Moines, Iowa, before moving to his retirement home in Glendale, Ariz., where he died on October 23, 1996; remains were cremated. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO AS SENATOR. Fine....................25-35

410. [EDGAR A. GUEST] Lot of 3 soft-cover books from his library, each signed & inscribed to Guest. Inludes: "Rainbow Ribbons" poems by Juanita Elliott; "Philosophic Phantasies" by William Wallace Ellis; "Recitations" by Zilla Vollmer Tietgen. 1946-1952. G-VG........50-75

411. RAYMOND ROBINS [1873-1954] Am. Social economist. Colonel Robins had a colorful career. At the age of 17 he worked in coal and lead mines, and went to the Klondike in search of gold. There, as a minister and a social worker, he founded a church and a hospital. He studied law in Washington, D.C. and became a social economist. As his fame and reputation grew, he was much in demand as a speaker in universities and colleges. Colonel Robins served as an economic advisor to five presidents. He was honored with the title of colonel for his work with the American Red Cross in Russia during the First World War. When the Russian Revolution broke out, he was the sole Allied representative in Russia. Through his work with the Red Cross, he became acquainted with Lenin and Trotsky, and debated endlessly with Lenin the virtues of democracy as opposed to communism. In 1918, Mrs. Robins plated an acorn on the Chinsegut grounds as the Colonel met with Lenin in Russia. When Mrs. Robins told the Colonel of the planting, he responded, "If it grows, we will call it the Lenin Oak." The Lenin Oak stands majestically on the grounds today. Chinsegut Hill became the residence of Colonel and Mrs. Robins. In 1932, Colonel and Mrs. Robins gave their property to the Federal Government as a Wildlife Refuge, Forest Preserve and Agricultural Experiment Station. TLS, 1927, 1p, 4to. To Miss Chase, Buffalo, NY. re: a lecture he will give. "My subject will be THE NEXT STEP IN CIVILIZATION -- THE OUTLAWRY OF WAR...." Edges toned with some chipping. The body and signature are very good..........20-30

412. Alice Muriel Williamson (1869 - 1933) British novelist. Born Alice Muriel Livingston, she married Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) in 1894 and many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C.N. Williamson. A number of their novels cover the early days of motoring and can also be read as travelogues. Under the pseydonym Alice Stuyvesant she wrote "The Hidden House" serialised in The Cavalier 1913-1914. Alice apparently said of her husband "Charlie Williamson could do anything in the world except write stories": she said of herself "I can't do anything else." She continued to write after her husband's death in 1920. ALS, no year, 3 full pages. To Miss Marshall [journalist]. Nice content............50-75

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

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

416. 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

417. [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

418. [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

419. [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

420. [MASS] Henry Joseph Gardner [1819-1892] Governor of Massachusetts from 1855-58. Gardner was the candidate of the Know-Nothing movement, and was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know-Nothing candidates in the Massachusetts elections of 1854. In line with the nativist and anti-Catholic politics of the Know-Nothing movement, Gardner proposed an amendment to the Massachusetts state constitution banning appropriations of tax funds to Catholic schools, which was passed by the state legislature and ratified after it was approved by referendum. During Gardner's term in office, Anthony Burns was arrested in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Edward G. Loring, a Suffolk County probate judge who also as served U.S. commissioner of the Circuit Court in Massachusetts, ordered that Burns be forced back into slavery in Virginia, outraging abolitionists and the increasingly antislavery public in Massachusetts. Under the pressure of a public petition campaign spearheaded by William Lloyd Garrison , the legislature passed two Bills of Address calling for Judge Loring to be removed from his state office, in 1855 and 1856, but in both cases Gardner declined to remove Loring. (A third Bill of Address to remove Loring from office was later approved by Gardner's Republican successor, Nathaniel Prentice Banks.) SIGNATURE........20-30

421. [FILM] Martin Landau - American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations) and Space:1999. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture and his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994) earned him the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe. He continues to perform in film and television and heads the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio. Signature matted with portrait. Overall 12x16. Mat has bumped corners...........35-45

423. [NY] BEACH, Lewis, a Representative from New York; born in New York City March 30, 1835; was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York; took up residence in Orange County, N.Y., in 1861; member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee 1877-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, until his death at his home, "Knoll View," Cornwall, Orange County, N.Y., August 10, 1886; chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Forty-ninth Congress); interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. CLIP SIGNATURE.........15-20

424. [BASEBALL] Masato Yoshii (b. 1965 in Aridagawa, Wakayama, Japan) retired baseball player who is currently a pitching coach for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in the Japanese Pacific League. He pitched in the Major Leagues from 1998-2002. Signed & inscribed 3x5 card........10-15

425. Beatrice (BOYD) TLS, May 31, 1979. To Charles "Buddy" Rogers. Written 2 days after Mary Pickford died. Well composed uplifting words: "rejoice for Mary's having achieved this life, in having run her course and completed all that God willed for her here......" With envelope...........20-30

427. Hiram Corson (1828-1911) American professor of literature. ALS, Utica, NY, 1907, 4 pages, 4to. To Miss Whiting. Begins by saying he has sent a photo of him taken by Frederick Robinson "It is regarded as the most artistic photograph taken of me..." Followed by good content. Two file holes o/w VG..............40-60

431. [MAINE] Burton M. Cross [1902-1998] Maine's 61st and 63rd Governor. ALS. 1972, full 1-page. Fine letter about himself and his opinions about a negative outlook for Maine and the Federal government. VG...........40-60

432. [NOBEL PRIZE] Arthur L. Schawlow (1921-1999) American physicist. He is best remembered for his work on lasers, for which he was awarded a 1981 Nobel Prize. HIS STATIONERY SIGNED, 1982, inscribed in type to collector..............25-35

434. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY [1925-2008] Conservative author & conservative commentator. Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century," according to George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement. ISP, 5x7. VG.......35-45

435. [MARYLAND] Augustus Williamson Bradford (1806-1881) he was the 32nd Governor of Maryland  from 1862 to 1866. He served as governor during the Civil War and paid a heavy price for his devotion to the Union.  In February 1861, Governor Thomas H. Hicks appointed Bradford one of Maryland’s delegates to the Washington Peace Conference, where he made a speech supporting the Union. Following the conference, the Union Party named Bradford as its candidate for governor, opposing the Democratic candidate General Benjamin C. Howard. Bradford defeated Howard by approximately 30,000 votes and took office on January 8, 1862.  During his term, he violently opposed the Federal government’s interference in Maryland’s elections, upheld the dignity of the State government and defied the harsh and arbitrary military occupation, and went to great lengths to keep the State in the Union. At the same time he upheld the Federal government's authority although he differed with its methods.  In September 1862, he was one of the many northern governors to attend the Loyal War Governors' Conference in Altoona, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, the Confederates invaded Maryland three times. During the last of these, Bradley T. Johnson’s raiders visited Bradford’s home in July 1864, and during his absence, burned it to the ground together with all his furniture, library, and papers. This action was partially in retaliation for Union General David Hunter’s burning of the home of Governor John Letcher of Virginia, and partially because of Bradford’s "uncompromising spirit and strong leanings."  During his four years in office, Augustus Bradford released Samuel Green (freedman) from jail on the condition he leave the state. Green was an African-American slave and minister, who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.  DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1865, Mechanics Bank, approx. 7-1/8 x 2-3/4.  Has the usual "slice cancel". VG example.............50-75

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436.  Floyd Dell [1887-1969] Am. journalist, novelist. In 1908 Dell moved on to Chicago where he became editor of the Friday Literary Review and a leader of the Chicago Renaissance. In his position at FLR, Dell promoted the work of Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg and other Chicago writers. Relocating to New York in 1913, Dell became managing editor of Max Eastman's radical magazine The Masses, and a leader of the pre-war bohemian community in Greenwich Village. Nice CLIP SIGNATURE.............40-60

437.  [ART] Esther [Bensusan] Pissaro [1870-1951] British wood engraver & artist. She was married to Lucien Pissaro [1863-1944] artist and son of the famed artist, Camile Pissaro. ALS, 1923, 1p, concerning a certain work of art that her husband never did, but the recipient of letter would be welcomed if they came to England. Her letters are not common. One mail fold o/w excellent condition................50-75

438. [THEATRE] Aline MacMahon  (1899-1991)  American actress. Her career began on stage in 1921. She worked extensively in film and television until her retirement in 1975. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944). Document Signed, The Theatre Guild Inc., NYC, 1945, 1p. Signed contract to act in radio performance of "Storm Over Patsy", for run of an hour, and she will be paid $750. VG............50-75

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439. [ENGLAND] John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-97), British jurist, eldest son of the jurist Sir John Taylor Coleridge, born in Ottery Saint Mary, and educated at the University of Oxford. He began practicing law in 1846 and was elected to Parliament in 1865. Three years later he was appointed solicitor general and in 1871 became attorney general. He was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1873, was raised to the peerage in 1874, and was chief justice of the Court of the Queen's Bench from 1880 to 1894. ANS, 1872......20-30

441. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: McNamara [MI], Long [HI], McClellan [Ark], McGee [WY], Miller [IA], Morse [OR], Moss [UT], Pastore [RI], Prouty [VT], Morton [KY]. All have mounting residue at top & bottom edge. Mostly on verso but with some show-thru.............50-75

442. [OHIO] Wayne L. Hays (1911-1989), American politician whose strong rule of the House Administration Committee extended to even the smallest items; in the mid-1970s, lawmakers avoided crossing Hays for fear that he would shut off the air conditioning in their offices. [1][2] He resigned from Congress after a much publicized sex scandal in 1976. TLS, 1976, 1p..................20-30

443. [NOBEL PRIZE] MELVIN CALVIN [1911-1997] chemist most famed for discovering most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle (along with Andrew Benson), for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Signed multi-page printout titled "Intermediates in the photosynthetic cycle: a commentary by Melvin Calvin."............25-35

444. [STOCK CERTIFICATES] group of 10 stock certificates for COMPAGNIE FERMIERE DE LUCHON, all 1925, approx. 7-1/2 x 12-1/4". VG.

445. [MUSIC] Charles C. Knox [b. 1929] American composer. He is particularly noted for his music for brass instruments and chamber music, among his over 100 compositions to date. Some of his music includes: Sing We to Our God Above for chorus and organ (1970); Festival Procession for chorus, brass quartet and organ (1972); His Praises We'll Sing for treble chorus and organ (1991, later arranged for mixed voices), etc. ALS, 2011, 1p. Fine.......35-45

446. [ENGLAND] Herbert Marsh (1757–1839) was a bishop in the Church of England. CLIP SIGNATURE [1821] as the Bishop of Peterborough. Mounted to large paper. VG...........20-30




447. [MUSIC] Helen Pickens (1910-1984) with her two sisters Patti Pickens and Jane Pickens a popular radio and recording vocal trio in the 1930s.  ALS, nd, on Pickens Sister stationery, 2pp. VG...........25-35

449. Edna Bryner [1866-1967] American writer. Signature, 1929............20-30

 

450. [ITALY] Cesare Mori [1871-1942] was a prefect (prefetto) before and during the Fascist period in Italy. He is known in Italy as the Iron Prefect (Prefetto di Ferro) because of his iron-fisted campaigns against the Mafia on Sicily in the second half of the 1920s. SIGNED CARD, Rone, dated June 21, 1932. Approx. 4.5 x 3.5".........25-35

451. Clara Louise Burnham [1854-1927] American writer. Signature, 1890............20-30

452. (Colonial Philadelphia ) THOMAS P. COPE (1768-1854) American Merchant, Quaker, Philanthropist, Author, he was the son of Caleb Cope. He was originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He became one of Philadelphia's wealthiest citizens, and a politician. He authored "Passages from the Writings of William Penn", also his daughter wrote "Philadelphia Merchant, the Diary of Thomas P. Cope." - PAUL BECK (1760-1844) Revolutionary War Soldier, Wealthy Philadelphia Merchant and philanthropist. He joined the Revolutionary War and was an associate of General Thomas Miflin, and the Clymers. He protected the home of Declaration of Independence SIGNER James Wilson, and is mentioned in the summary of "The Lives of The Signers". He was one of Philadelphia's most eminent personalities and philanthropists. - EDWARD THOMSON (1810-1870) Prominent Philadelphia Bishop, Physician. He was against Methodism., but years later converted and in 1831 became a traveling preacher He was appointed President of Wesleyan University and was for 16 years. He later became Bishop. SIGNATURES of ALL THREE, mounted to a larger piece of very old paper.............50-75

455. [FILM] Heinz Woester (1901-1970) was a Swiss film and television actor. Signed, inscribed postcard photo. Condition very good; minor corner crack..........25-35

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456. [THEATRE] Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906) distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise. AQS, dated London July 16, 1873, written on 8x3 in. card. Fresh condition..........30-40

457. William Farquhar Payson [1876-1939] American writer. ANS, 1935............20-30



458. John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC, FRS (1834-1913) English banker, biologist, archaeologist and Liberal politician. Signed printed poscard accepting position as steward at Annual Dinner, 1899...........20-30

459. [DELAWARE] Bill Roth (1921-2003) U.S. Senator from Delaware. Signed & inscribed color 8x10 photo.............25-35

461. [KENTUCKY] Wendell Ford (b. 1924) the longest-serving US senator in Kentucky history. Signed & inscribed color 8x10 photo..........25-35

462. BEVERLY BAYNE [1894-1982] actress. Brief ALS, n.d.......35-45

463. Clifford Bax (1886-1962) versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer. He also was a translator, for example of Goldoni. The composer Arnold Bax was his brother, and set some of his words to music. A fold open card signed...........20-30

464. Sir Francis Palgrave [1788-1861] English historian. Clip signature mounted to card.........20-30

465. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876- 1977) American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933-1953. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. To date, she remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming. She was a staunch supporter of prohibition during the 1920s. Clip signature.........20-30

467. George William Curtis (1824-1892)American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of old New England stock. CLIP SIGNATURE with sentiment...........20-30

468. William T. Moncrieff [1794-1857] English dramatist. Signature in form of return address............20-30

469. Quida [1839-1908] British novelist. Clip signature. Ink is light............20-30

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470.   New London, Connecticut document dated 1826, concerning General William North. This is signed by Jeremiah G. Brainard, Mayor of New London.  The document states that General North has appeared before him, that he is known and respected. William North (1755-1836) was an American soldier and politician, born at Pemaquid, Maine. He entered the Continental Army in 1775, and served under Benedict Arnold in the unfortunate expedition to Canada in that year. He was appointed in May 1777 as captain in Henry Jackson's 16th Massachusetts Regiment, with which he participated in the Battle of Monmouth. In 1779 he became aide-de-camp to Baron Steuben, whom he greatly aided in introducing his system of discipline in the Continental Army. Later he accompanied Steuben to Virginia, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.  North was appointed as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sloss Hobart and served from May 5, 1798, to August 17, 1798. This document only concern Gen. North and is not signedc by him.  Approx. 8 x 12 in.  There are newspaper clippings glued to back.  Some edge ware..............200-300

471. [ART] Peter Blume (1906-1992) American painter and sculptor. His first major recognition came in 1934 with a first prize for South of Scranton at a Carnegie Institute International Exhibition. Signed 3x5 card. VG.........20-30

472. Leonard Merrick [1864-1939] British Playwright. Clip signature..............20-30

473. Charles Doughty [1843-1926] English poet. Clip signature..............20-30

476. [FRANCE] Louis-François Chamillart, Marquis de la Suze ( 1751 - 1833 ) was a French politician. He was allowed to sit at the Chamber of Peers in 1815. ALS, 1791, written from Chateau des Tuileries, to certified services of La Plasse "Marechal des Logis des Rois."  1p, 7-3/4 x 12-1/4 in.  VG...............100-150