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2. [MILITARY] Joseph "Lightning Joe" Lawton Collins (1896 –1987) Army Chief of Staff during the Korean War. During World War II, he was an Army general, serving in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations. Signed COMMEMORATIVE STAMP SHEET, honoring US Bicentenniel (1975) 8x11. Also signed by Gen. Mark W. Clark (1896-1984) general during World War II and the Korean War and was the youngest lieutenant general (three-star general) in the U.S. Army. Approx. 8-1/2 x 11". VG.............80-120
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3. (ESTATE OF JOHN NIXON) Thomas Willing
(1731-1821) was an American merchant, a Delegate to the
Continental Congress from Pennsylvania and the first president
of the First National Bank of the United States, engaged
in mercantile pursuits, in partnership with Robert Morris,
until 1793. As a member of the Continental Congress in
1775 and 1776, he voted against the Declaration of
Independence. Later, however, he subscribed £5,000 to supply
the revolutionary cause. After the war, he became
president of the Bank of North America (1781–91), preceding
John Nixon, and then the first president of the Bank of the
United States from 1791 to 1807. In August, 1807, he suffered
a slight stroke, and he resigned for health reasons as
president of the bank in November, 1807. Letter signed,
Phila., 1815, sent to Sarah Nixon Cramond
(1774 - 1865) daughter of John Nixon. Also signed by Henry
Nixon (1776-1840), he was the son of John Nixon.
Both Willing and Henry Nixon sign as Executors of the
Estate of John Nixon. John Nixon was
born the son of Sarah Bowles and Richard Nixon, a prominent
Philadelphia shipping merchant and owner of Nixon's Wharf on
the Delaware River. After being educated in the business
rather than in a formal school setting, Nixon inherited his
father's shipping and mercantile business in 1749. He soon
became involved in public affairs, chosen a lieutenant of the
Dock Ward Company in 1756, a warden of the port in 1766, one
of the signers of paper money issued by Pennsylvania in 1767,
and a manager of Pennsylvania Hospital, 1768-1772. In 1765 he
married Elizabeth Davis; together they had five children.
During early conflicts with the mother country, Nixon was an
ardent proponent of the colonies. He signed the
Non-Importation Agreement in 1765 and actively opposed the
Stamp Act. When the Revolutionary War began, he joined the
Committee of Safety, often acting as its chairman. As a
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Third Battalion of Associators (a
unit comprised of wealthy "Silk Stockings"), saw military
action at the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. He commanded
the defenses of the Delaware at Fort Island and the
Philadelphia city guard. Nixon,
however, is best known as the first person to publicly
read the Declaration of Independence, which he did from
the steps of the State House on July 8, 1776. On Monday, July 8, the Declaration of
Independence was "proclaimed" (read aloud) by Col. John
Nixon of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety at the State
House in Philadelphia. It was also read again that evening
before the militia on the Commons. Throughout the city,
bells were rung all day. On that day as well the
Declaration was publicly read in Easton, Pennsylvania, and
Trenton, New Jersey. It was these first public readings
which constituted America's first celebrations of the
Fourth of July. In 1789 Nixon was one
of the organizers and a director of the Bank of Pennsylvania,
organized to supply the United States army with provisions and
supplies. In 1784 he became a director of of the Bank of North
America, the first national bank, serving as its president
from 1792 until his death in 1808...............600-800
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4. [FRANCE] 1758 French document on paper concerning the Marquise de Breteuil, identified as signed with initials [upper left corner]; whose initials? One page, 6-3/4 x 8-3/4". VG...........100-150
5. [FRANCE] Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres (1721-1789) French architect and theoretician. He was born and died in Paris. He published several works on architectural and related subjects, including Architecture of Expression, and The Theatre of Desire at the End of the Ancien Régime; Or, The Analogy of Fiction with Architectural Innovation. Le Camus developed a theory of architecture in which the character of a building should express its destination or the social status of its client. Unlike previous character theories in architecture, Le Camus's theory was based on an explicit analogy between architecture and theatre. His architectural mode of expression followed a temporal progression similar to the dramatic unfolding of a play, and gradations in ornamentation throughout the interior of a building resembled a succession of stage sets in a theatrical performance. Manuscript Document Signed, 1770, 1p, approx. 6-1/2 x 8-1/4. Appears to be signed by at least two others. Fine..............100-150
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[FRANCE] Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d'Auvergne-Lauragais,
(1768-1851) bishop of Arras – cardinal priest of S. Agnese fuori
le mura (received the title on 16 April 1846), died 20 July 1851.
ALS, 1821, 1p, approx. 6-1/4 x 7-3/4". VG...............75-100
See letter
10. Clarence Francis Forestier-Walker (1857-1907) British playwright and novelist and translator. who died at age 49. His most famous play was "Romance of a Harem." He was married to the actress Blanche Clark. Offered here is a small dinner menu card from the Hotel De La Place, signed and he makes a pencil self-portrait sketch, 1894. Approx. 3.5 x 5.5". VG..........50-75
11. [MUSIC] GEORGE HARRY MORETON (1864-1961) English composer and organist. He was taught music by his mother right from the start and was so talented that by the age of 8 years he was playing the organ at his parish church, Saint John the Baptist, in Devonport. He later played at Saint Peter's Church in Plymouth. He continued studying under Mr W G Hannaford and Mr John Hele and and at the age of 10 his mother suggested that he apply for the post of organist at the Stoke Damerel Church. Apparently he got this post thanks to an amusing chance. There was a dispute between the Rector and the then organist because the latter had dismissed a choirboy. Unfortunately, the choirboy was due to be the soloist at the performance of a particular anthem and the Rector was very angry about the dismissal. He invited Mrs Moreton to be the organist but she declined and recommended her son instead, who was duly appointed to the post. But the former organist did not take his own dismissal very kindly and for the first five Sundays, young Harry sat side by side on the stool with the former organist, who refused to unlock the organ because he claimed that he had not been properly discharged. In due course he became an Associate of the College of Organists and in due course a Fellow of the College. AMQS from "Elegiac Romance", approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/4. VG........50-75
See AMQS
12. [MUSIC] Kenny Ascher [b. 1944] American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres; in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. He is widely known for co-writing, with Paul Williams, The Rainbow Connection; music from The Muppet Movie. AMQS, inscribed, from "Rainbow Connection. Approx. 10-1/4 x 4-1/4". VG.............35-45
13. [MUSIC] Baron Armand-Marie
Limnander van Nieuwenhove (1814-1892)
Belgian composer of choral and orchestral works and church
music. Knight of the Order of Leopold, he was the founder and
conductor of the choral chamber ensembles Société Symphonique
and Réunion Lyrique in Belgium. ALS, no date, 1p, approx.
5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG..........50-75
14. [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
See above
15. (Politicians/Public Servants
- James William Fulbright
(1905 –1995) Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to
1975. TLS, 1960. John McClellan (1896
–1977) Senator (1943–1977) from Arkansas. The longest-serving
Senator in Arkansas history. TLS, 1963.
Sol Bloom
(1870 –1949) politician from New York who began his career as
an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher. He
served fourteen terms in the United States House of
Representatives from 1922 until his death in 1949. TLS,
1932. Robert C.
Winthrop (1809—1894) Speaker
of the United States House of Representatives. SIGNED
card, 1889. Herman E.
Talmadge, Sr. (1913 –2002) Governor of
Georgia, U.S. Senate. –TLS, 1960. Mark Hatfield
(1922 – 2011) he served 30 years as a United States
Senator from Oregon. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 color
portrait photograph dated 7/25/01. L.G. Derthick,
US Commissioner of Education, 1958 TLS. Mostly
good to VG...........50-75
16.
[AMERICANA] E.B. Damon writes letter from Hanover, New
Hampshire, 1886, 3pp. plus envelope, to Miss Laura Lotte Ames
of Glens Falls, NY. The young man Damon writes of his
interest in the young lady; & her reply letter written in
a teasing manner. All very good..............50-75
17. [MEDICINE] Guido
Patinus (Guy Patin, 1601-1672)
French doctor and man of letters. Guy Patin was doyen
(or dean) of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1650–1652) and
professor in the Collège de France starting in 1655. His
scientific and medical works are not considered particularly
enlightened by modern medical scholars (he has sometimes been
compared to the doctors in the works of Molière). He is most
well known today for his extensive correspondence: his style
was light and playful (he has been compared to early 17th
century philosophical libertines) and his letters are an
important document for historians of medicine. Patin and his
son Charles were also dealers in clandestine books, and Patin
wrote occasional poetry (such as a quatrain to honor Henric
Piccardt (1636-1712). In 1627 he took the degree of
doctor regent of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris first thesis
presidency December 16, 1627). In many respects, Guy Patin is
regarded as a spirit of the sixteenth century lost in the
Model: S-XVII. [translated from the French]. Whatever
that means! Offered here is a clip signature
written on 3-3/4 x 5/8 in. slip, laid to larger piece of
paper. VG. dated 1627, the year he became a doctor.
Most unusual offering. Far too much time spent
researching this offering. The picture showing is not included
with this autograph............100-150
See autograph
See his
picture
18. [US SENATORS] Autograph album
containing 27 autograph signatures: A.A.
Sargent (1827-1887) Calif., called the
"Senator for the Southern Pacific Railroad". Richard Oglesby
(1824-1899) ILL., Gov. and CW Major General. Newton Booth (1825-1892)
Calif. John H. Mitchell (1835-1905)
Oregon. H.B. Anthony (1815-1884)
RI., also Gov. Timothy O.
Howe (1816-1883) Wisc., also served as
U.S. Postmaster General from 1881 through 1883. John T. Morgan
(1824-1907) Alabama, he was a Confederate General. George Edmunds
(1828-1919) VT. Wm. W.
Eaton (1816-1898) CT. A.S. Merrimon
(1830-1892) NC. John W.
Johnston (1818-1889) Virginia. Francis Cockrell (1834-1915)
MO., Confederate general. Frank
Hereford
(1825-1891) W. VA. William
Henry Barnum (1818-1889) CT. Matt Whitaker Ransom
(1826-1904) NC, Confederate general. Daniel Voorhes
(1827-1897) Ind. Bainbridge
Wadleigh (1831-1891) NH. On same
page with Wadleigh is Edward H.
Rollins (1824-1889) NH. Thomas C. McCreery
(1816-1890) KY. On same page as McCreey is the
signature of David H.
Armstrong (1812-1893) MO. Theordore Fitz Randolph
(1826-1883) NJ, also Gov. James
E. Bailey (1822-1885) Tenn. Alvin Saunders
(1817-1899) Neb., the final and longest serving governor of
the Nebraska Territory, a tenure he served during most of
the American Civil War. William
A. Wallace
(1827-1896) Penn. William
Windom (1827-1891) Minn., also served
as Secretary of the Treasury. Henry
M. Teller (1830-1914)
Colorado. Simon Barclay Conover
(1840-1908) Florida. Cover slightly
scuffed; a few white ink spots on cover [mostly the back
side]. These signatures were likely gathered in the senate
c. 1877-81. None of the signatures are on the other side of
the page................400-600
21. Portrait
of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-1946). Original
etching signed in pencil by the artist Franklin T. Wood
(1887-1945) master graphic artist from Hyde Park, just
outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Franklin enrolled in
the Cowles Art School in Boston, then in 1897 he transferred
to the Art Students League in New York. Like most
aspiring, young American artists, Wood went to Europe to
polish off his artistic training (1903); his home base was
Antwerp, where Charles Verlat had been the guiding
spirit. Verlat, who passed away in 1890, had spread
Thomas Couture's influence to Belgium. Both John Leslie
Breck and Edward Potthast studied under Verlat. The
image area is approx. 15-3/4 x 12 in. plus good margins.
Quality paper; another example of this portrait is in the
Harvard collection. VG.............200-300
See above
23. [STOCK CERTIFICATES] group of 10 stock
certificates for COMPAGNIE
FERMIERE DE LUCHON, all 1925, approx. 7-1/2 x
12-1/4". VG.
Farmer Company Luchon
Country: France
Date: 1925
Genre: Action de 500 Francs
Issue: 3000 action
Activity: Cures
State: UNC (Uncirculed) new document had almost never
circulated. No folds, trace or task.
Description section - Title from the Farmer Company Luchon,
dating from 1925 whose action was worth 500 francs.
Companies registered capital of 1.5 million francs.
Headquarters: Bagneres-de-Luchon. Established in 1924. Hotel
operations and Royal Majestic Bagneres-de-Luchon
All of these have these coupons still
attached. They all look alike. Fine
condition..............200-300 Reserve at $50
24.
[ART] Richard
Huntington (b. 1936) American painter,
printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The Buffalo
News and has written for High Performance magazine, ARTnews,
and Art New England. Most recently, he was a catalog
essayist for the exhibition Artpark: 1974–1984 at UB Art
Gallery, Center for the Arts; Forty: The Sabres and the NHL
at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Duayne Hatchett, Form,
Pattern, and Invention, the catalogue for a retrospective
exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo
(2009). In 2007, Huntington won the Associated Press
First Award for Criticism and earlier, among a number of
residencies, served as visiting critic at the Kennedy Center
for the Arts, Washington, D.C. From 1982 to 1985, he was
Visual Arts Director at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. He
has shown his art nationally and internationally, with
recent solo exhibitions at the Castellani Art Museum,
Niagara University, New York (2008–2009); the Albright-Knox
Collectors Gallery, Buffalo (2008); and the JR Konsthallen,
Linköping, Sweden (2007). In 2010, The Albright-Knox Art
Gallery included his work in the international biennial
Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents. In
2009, The Carey Berkus Studio in San Miguel de Allende,
Mexico, included his work in a group show representing
Mexican and American artists. Huntington holds a BFA
from Syracuse University and a Master of Art and Humanities
from the University at Buffalo. He divides his time between
Buffalo and the town of San Miguel de Allende in central
Mexico. Original lithograph, pencil signed and dated 1973,
titled "Upstairs Rainbow", image 15 x 22" plus
margins. Edition 8/10. This was made while Huntington
was visting artist-in-residence at the Arnot Art
Museum, Elmira, NY. Rare!. A few light foxing spots in
margin area that will not show when matted. Old
masking tape traces outer edges on verso...........150-250
See Huntington
lithograph
See signed area
26.
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
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29.
[ART] Gordon Parks
(1912-2006) American photographer, musician, writer and
film director. He is best remembered for his photographic
essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film
Shaft. Document Signed - ASCAP dated Nov. 11,
1975, 4pp. Signed on page 3. Approx. 8-1/2 x 11 in.
Fine..............100-150
30. [ART] Granville Perkins (1830-1895) American artist and illustrator. ALS, 1886, 2pp., 5x8. PLUS 4-1/4 x 6-1/2 in. photograph mounted VG.............50-75
See page 231. [FILM-THEATRE] Yul Brynner
(1920-1985) Russian-born actor of film and
stage. Signed 8x10 photo.
VG.......60-80
32.
[FILM] Jack Haley
(1897-1979) American vaudevillian, stage, radio, and film
actor, light comedian, singer and dancer best known for his
portrayal of the Tin Man in the classic 1939 MGM film The
Wizard of Oz. Signed bank check, 1974.
VG.............50-75
Collotype offered here from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925.
Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image
sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins.
Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made
paper. These are proof printing. Fine, black impressions, on
cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 1/2 inches), in
excellent condition. Scarce.............100-150
34 . [FRANCE] Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry
(usually known as Joseph Gratry)
(1805-1872) French author and theologian. Gratry was born at
Lille and educated at the École Polytechnique of Paris. After
a period of mental struggle which he has described in
Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, he was ordained priest in 1832.
After a stay at Strasbourg as professor of the Petit
Séminaire, he was appointed director of the Collège Stanislas
in Paris in 1842 and, in 1847, chaplain of the École Normale
Supérieure. He became vicar-general of Orleans in 1861,
professor of ethics at the Sorbonne in 1862, and, on the death
of Barante, a member of the French Academy in 1867, where he
occupied the seat formerly held by Voltaire. Together with
others (abbé Pétitot, curé of Saint Roch, and Hyacinthe de
Valroger) he reconstituted the Oratory of Jesus and of Mary
Immaculate, a society of priests mainly devoted to education.
Gratry was one of the principal opponents of the definition of
the dogma of papal infallibility, but in this respect he
submitted to the authority of the First Vatican Council.
Offered here are 4 ALSs, total of 10 pages, one letter dated
1869. VG.......100-150
35. Henry Clark
Corbin (1842-1909) officer in the United
States Army who served as Adjutant General of the U.S. Army
from 1898 to 1904. He was born in Monroe Township, Ohio,
and was teaching school and studying law when the American
Civil War broke out. Corbin volunteered as a second lieutenant
in the 83rd Ohio Infantry in July 1862 and transferred to the
79th Ohio Infantry the next month. In November 1863 he was
commissioned a major in the 14th Infantry Regiment of United
States Colored Troops. He eventually rose to be lieutenant
colonel and colonel of this regiment, and participated in the
Battle of Decatur and Battle of Nashville. He was mustered out
in March 1866. In May 1866 he was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the 17th Infantry of the Regular Army. He was
promoted to captain in the 38th Infantry, a Buffalo Soldier
regiment, in July 1866. The 38th Infantry was consolidated
with the 41st Infantry to form the 24th Infantry in November
1869. Corbin was appointed to the official staff of
President Rutherford B. Hayes, serving at the White House from
1877 to 1881. He was attending Hayes' successor, James A.
Garfield, when Garfield was shot in 1881, and was present at
his death. He was elevated to Adjutant General of the U. S.
Army with the rank of brigadier general in February 1898. He
was promoted to major general in June 1900. ALS, no
year, 2pp, approx. 5x8 in. Written to Gov. Crosby of NY.
Concerns promotion for Colonel Arnold, who unfortunately is
too old, with little field experience, others with more
experience would come before him. Lightly
toned.................100-150
36.
[MUSIC] Franz Lehár
(1870-1948) Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly
known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best
known is The Merry Widow. Signed postcard size
photograph dated 1935 standing beside the celebrated opera
star Richard Tauber, inscribed, with original handwritten
envelope. VG+.............250-300
37. [MUSIC] Arthur Butterworth (1923-2010) English composer, conductor. AMQS, inscribed, from his third movement of "Symphony No. 4", approx. 10-1/2 x 4-1/2". Two mail fold-lines o/w VG. An especially nice example.........100-150
38. [MUSIC] Arthur Butterworth (b. 1923) English composer, conductor. At 87 he is still active as a composer and an occasional conductor (August 2010). AMQS, inscribed, from his third movement of "Symphony No. 4", approx. 10-1/2 x 4-1/2". Two mail fold-lines o/w VG. An especially nice example.........75-100
39. [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
40. [CZARIST
RUSSIA] 1911 original 1000 Ruble 4-1/2%
Imperialistic Russian bond, with imprinted embossed
revenue stamp. Approx. 10 x 14 in.
VG...................80-120
See above
41. [CZARIST
RUSSIA] 1894 original 125 Ruble 4%
Imperialistic Russian bond, with original coupons.
Approx. 11-1/2 x 16-1/2 in.
VG...................100-150
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above
LOT 42. (AMERICAN THEATER
LOT) Georgia
Caine (1876 –1964) who performed both
on Broadway and in over 80 films in her 51 year career.
SIGNED large Card. Arthur
Hiller Penn (1922 –2010)
American director and producer of film, television and
theater. Penn directed critically acclaimed films
throughout the 1960s such as The Chase and Bonnie and
Clyde. SIGNED, inscribed 4x5 photograph. Wilson Barrett
(1846 –1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. He
presented and acted many works in America. With his
company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest
crowds of English theatregoers ever. A Quote SIGNED, with
unsigned postcard portrait photograph. Selma TAMBER (1907-1991)
Producer - produced several Broadway and Off Broadway
shows, including "Boccaccio 70" and "Viva Madison Avenue."
She also managed artists like Hanya Holm, the
choreographer of "Kiss Me, Kate," "My Fair Lady" and
"Camelot," and helped further the careers of the composers
and lyricists Richard Adler and Stephen Sondheim. Tamber
was born in New York City. In the 1930's, she supervised
various Broadway musicals as the head of the department of
composers and arrangers for the music publisher
Chappell-T. B. Harms, where she worked with composers like
George Gershwin and Cole Porter. . ALS, 1982.
William Jermyn Conlin (1831 –1891) better known by his
stage name William J.
Florence, actor, songwriter, and
playwright. A QUOTE SIGNED February 1879. Jean Dalrymple
(1902 –1998) theater producer, manager, publicist, author
and playwright who was instrumental in the founding of New
York City Center and is best known for her productions
there. SIGNATURE 1960................80-120
LOT 43. (AMERICAN
LITERATURE LOT) Richard
Wilbur (b. 1921) American poet
and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet
Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,
in 1957 and again in 1989. SIGNATURE, inscribed
2000. Theodore Russell
Weiss (1916-2003) American poet, and
literary magazine editor. He edited (with his wife, Renee
Karol Weiss) Quarterly Review of Literature, which
published William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E. E.
Cummings, and Ezra Pound.In 1987, he was the subject of a
documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem,
made by Harvey Edwards. ALS, 1973. Eleanor Clark Warren (1913
–1996) American writer. She was married to Robert Penn
Warren. TLS,1990. Paul
Henry de Kruif 1890 -1971) American
microbiologist and author. He is most noted for his 1926
book, Microbe Hunters. This book was not only a bestseller
for a lengthy period after publication, it has remained
high on lists of recommended reading for science and has
been an inspiration for many aspiring physicians and
scientists. TLS, 1957. George Herbert Palmer
(1842 –1933) American scholar and author. ALS, 1908,
2pp. William
Babcock Weeden (1834-1912) American
Historian, author. ALS,1910, 2pp. James Russell Wiggins
(1903 –2000) managing editor of The Washington Post and
United States Ambassador to the United Nations. After his
tenure as ambassador, Wiggins moved to Brooklin, Maine
where he became editor and publisher of the The Ellsworth
American of Ellsworth, Maine. SIGNED 8x10
photograph; signed in dark area [poor
contrast]..............70-90
LOT
44. Offered here is an archive of materials, approximately
95 items, consisting of 46 letters (personal
and business) and receipts, billheads, memoranda,
envelopes, all relating to the family of John W. Park. JOHN W.PARK (b.
1832) was, for some fifty years, the foremost lawyer in
Coweta Circuit, Georgia. He was one of the organizers of
the Georgia Bar Association, later becoming its president.
During the Civil War, Park was a major in the 1st Georgia
Regiment of Reserves, serving until Lee's surrender at
Appomattox.. Two letters here were written by Park
himself, and some ten envelopes bear his notations and
initials (JWP). A number of letters from family members,
including his son ORVILLE AUGUSTUS PARK (b. 1872), who
graduated from Vanderbilt College Law Department in 1893,
opened practice in Macon, Georgia, and who, for many years
partnered with Andrew W. Lane; in 1898 Orville was elected
Secretary of the Georgia Bar Association and taught at
Mercer College, plus otherletters to him concerning
legal matters, etc. A nice lot from this Confederate
officer. Condition of the material varies from excellent
to fair (majority quite good), with expected folds, some
soiling/ spotting, occasional edge tears/ small paper
losses, etc................200-300
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45. Offered here is a fine, small archive of (12)
19th century letters, dated from 1823 to 1846, all letters
sent to Eli Beatty at the Hagerstown, MD Bank, with
various postal cancels (including Georgetown, DC,
Chambersburg [3], Baltimore [7], and Frederick), with all
letters being brief 1p. ALS's or partly-printed LS's, and
all with financial content. The sizes of the letters
vary some, but generally around 8" x 10", with the
expected folds and seal tears/ hole (none effects the
content of letter), a few with partial panel cut away,
some light toning-- overall in very good condition.
ELIE BEATTY (d. 1859), the institution's cashier and
president, was a prominent citizen of Hagerstown,
Maryland, having served as assistant postmaster, bank
president, and a member of the Hagerstown Academy's board
of directors. Founded on March 12, 1807, the Hagerstown
Bank was originally a business association headed by
Colonel Nathaniel Rochester. During its early years, the
Hagerstown Bank operated from Colonel Rochester's home,
which had been modified to house the institution. The
bank's capital stock was limited to $500,000, divided into
10,000 shares valued at $50 each. One-tenth of the
original stock was "reserved for the use and benefit of
the State of Maryland," while the remaining 9,000 shares
were divided between Hagerstown (5,000 shares), Baltimore
(2,000 shares), and Frederick (1,000 shares). The bank
flourished throughout the antebellum decades, surviving
numerous financial panics and depressions. In May 1810,
the Bank's stock commanded a twenty-five percent premium
and shares were in great demand. While the Williamsport
Bank suspended payment during the 1837 Banking Panic, and
Mineral Bank in Cumberland failed in 1858, the Hagerstown
Bank continued to expand. In 1837, the bank had $126,127
on deposit, $45,500 of which was in specie. The bank also
owned real estate valued at $11,500 and had $214,000 in
circulation.
Among the original officers were Nathaniel
Rochester, President, and Elie Beatty, Cashier. Beatty,
who also served as clerk and teller, received an annual
salary of $500. Before accepting his position with the
bank, Beatty served as Hagerstown's assistant postmaster
under Colonel Rochester. In 1810, Rochester moved to
western New York, where he founded the city of Rochester.
William Heyser succeeded Rochester as president of the
Hagerstown Bank, while Beatty retained his position as
cashier, teller, and clerk. Upon Heyser's death in 1831,
Elie Beatty became president of the bank, with Daniel
Sprigg serving as cashier. Beatty's tenure as president of
the Hagerstown Bank was brief. In 1833, Otho Lawrence was
elected president, and Beatty resumed his position as
cashier. Beatty resigned his position on April 23, 1859,
citing "feeble health and the infirmities of age." Beatty
died on May 5, 1859 at the age of eighty-three.
Beatty's death prompted an outpouring of
sympathy from his friends and business associates. The
Hagerstown Bank's Board of Directors ordered that "the
Bank will be closed and suitably draped in mourning during
the present week" and praised their late cashier's
"unblemished official reputation." At the Hagerstown
Academy, where Beatty served as a trustee, students
pledged to "accompany, in a body, the remains of our
deceased friend to his final resting place and wear the
usual badge of mourning." Beatty was interred at the
Hagerstown Episcopal Church on Saturday, May 7, 1859, his
body accompanied by the directors and officers of the
bank, students from the Hagerstown Academy, and "a large
number of citizens of the town." The Hagerstown Bank
remains in operation as the Hagerstown Bank and Trust
Company.........150-200
46.
Offered here is a 1p. partly- printed document, approx.
7-1/2" x 11-1/8", dated at Chester, C.H., South Carolina,
Feb. 11, 1865, with printed heading: "CAVALRY HORSES FOR
COMMAND OF GENERAL HAMPTON", in which a horse, belonging
to B. Mobley, is appraised by two men chosen by Mr.
Mobley, Capt. Barber, of Co. B., 4th S.C. Cavalry, and by
Gen. Wade Hampton, on behalf of the Quartermaster General
of the Confederate States. The document reads: "1.
CERTIFICATE OF APPRAISEMENT. We, the undersigned, chosen
by B. Mobley & Capt. Barber, on the one part, and by
General WADE HAMPTON on behalf of the
Quartermaster-General of the Confederate States on the
other part, being first duly sworn, do this 11th day of
February, 1865, appraise the following horses, the
property of the said B. Mobley, at the aggregate sum of
Fourteen Hundred dollars, in currency, to wit: One (1)
Grey Horse - $1400.00," signed by the two
appraisers, O. Barber, and Wm. M. McDonald, and by a
witness....[and] "3. RECEIPT FOR HORSES. RECEIVED at
Chester C.H., on the 11th day of February, 1865, of B.
Mobley, the horses set down in the above appraisement, for
the use of the Cavalry of the Confederate States under the
Command of General Hampton, to be paid for at the above
appraisement, upon the presentation of this Voucher at the
office of the Quartermaster-General of South Carolina in
Columbia, by whom the said sum has been advanced for and
in behalf of the Confederate States," signed: "O. Barber,
Capt. Co. 'B', 4th S.C.C." (4th South Carolina
Cavalry). Affixed at lower left is an approx. 5" x
3-1/2" paper, dated May 22, 1867, and signed by B. Mobley,
which reads: "Messrs Hayne & Son will please pay to
Porter & Conner the sum of ten - 64/100 Dollars due me
for a horse sold to Hampton's Cavalry in 1865". An
amazing aspect to this document is the fact that Mr.
Mobley didn't receive his money until after the war!
Apparently Columbia, S.C. fell to Gen. Sherman's forces
before he could be paid, but Gen. Hampton, a true Southern
Gentleman and man of honor, made sure that those who sold
their horses to his command, were ultimately paid, and
there is an attached slip of paper, signed by Mobley,
dated May 22, 1867, - about 2 years after Gen. Johnston
surrendered his forces, in which Mobley directs that the
money, paid by Messrs Hayne & Son (handling these
payments for Gen. Hampton), be paid to "Porter &
Conner" (to whom Mobley likely owed money). The horse was
appraised at $1,400 - a sign of the incredible
depreciation in the value of Confederate currency in Feb.,
1865, and Mobley ultimately received just $10.64 in U.S.
money after the war. Folds, minor edge wear and
small ink erosion holes, toning, otherwise very
good. These documents come with: a 1p. ANS (on
card), dated Washington July 28th 1886, 3 1/2" x
21/4", reading in full: "My Dear Miss Peck I
regret that I cannot put you in the way of obtaining
the letters you ask for & I am very Respy Yrs
Wade Hampton." Mounting traces/ pencil notes on
verso, stray mark on note side, otherwise very good.
WADE HAMPTON (1818-1902)
was a noted Confederate cavalry leader during the American
Civil War and afterwards a politician from South Carolina,
serving as its 77th Governor and as a U.S. Senator. Wade
Hampton, a wealthy planter before the war, raised at his
own expense "Hampton's Legion", at the beginning of the
war; Hampton took part in many major battles of the war,
being wounded five times (including at 1st Manassas and
Gettysburg). He was later attached to J.E.B.
Stuart's cavalry, and after Stuart's death, took command
of Lee's Cavalry, with rank of Major General; Hampton also
joined Gen. Johnston's forces with rank of Lt. General,
and tried to stem Sherman's advance through the
Carolinas. A fine combination of documents related
to this distinguished Confederate
officer................700-900
48. A vintage
photograph, 4-3/4" x 3-3/4", "Slave houses,
Woodlawn." "Woodlawn" is an historic slave
plantation located at Columbia, Howard County, Maryland]
It is a two-story, stuccoed stone house built in 1840
with wood frame portions constructed about 1785. It was
part of a 200-acre farm divided from larger parcels
patented by the Dorsey family. The design reflects the
transition between the Greek Revival and Italianate
architecture styles. The home is associated with Henry
Howard Owings, a prominent Howard County landowner and
farmer, who also served as a judge of the Orphan's Court
for Howard County. Owings purchased the property in 1858
and died at Woodlawn in 1869. The former tobacco farm
produced corn, oats, hay, and pork. The majority of the
property surrounding Woodland and its slave quarters
were subdivided by 1966. Surface
imperfections/spotting, mounting traces on verso--
fairly good overall................40-60
49. [NORTH
CAROLINA] MONTFORT
STOKES (1762-1842) was a
distinguished citizen from North Carolina. At the
age of 13, Stokes enlisted in the U.S. Merchant Marine,
and during the Revolutionary War was captured by the
British and confined on board the British prison ship
"Jersey" for seven months. After the War, Stokes
would hold the rank of major general in the state
militia (1804-1816). In 1816, Stokes would become
U.S Senator and serve until 1823. Later, he would
serve as Governor of North Carolina (1830-1832).
In 1832, President Andrew Jackson appointed Stokes to
head the Federal Indian Commission where he oversaw the
relocation and resettlement of tribes in the American
southeast (Cherokee, Seneca, Shawnee, and Quapaw).
In order to perform his duties, Stokes moved to Fort
Gibson in Oklahoma, serving until his death in
1842. He is believed to be the only soldier of the
American Revolutionary War to be buried in
Oklahoma. Offered here is a 1p.
partly-printed DS, 8" x 7", dated September 28, 1799, A
State of North Carolina Sheriff's summons commanding
him"... that of the goods and chattels, lands and
tenements of Alexander Fate heretofore Alexander Joyce
if to be found in your bailiwick you cause to be made
the sum of Sixteen pounds Eight Shillings & six
pence Current money...[which] in Salisbury, Samuel
French recovered against him...," signed M. Stokes, and
on verso signed John Fields (Dept. Sheriff), Will
Bushell (Clerk) and Jn. Matlock (Sheriff). JOHN MATLOCK
(c.1753-1838) served in the Revolutionary War, in
Nelson's Company of the 1st Regiment (1776-1779).
He participated in a number of major battles,
including: Brandywine, Germantown, Sandy Hook,
Stony Point, and Whitesell's Mills, being discharged in
1779 with the rank of sergeant. Matlock was given
428 acres for his military service. From 1798 to
1799 he served as High Sheriff.
VG...............150-250
50. [SIGNER] William
Hooper (1742 – 1790)
American lawyer, physician, politician, and a member of
the Continental Congress representing North Carolina
from 1774 through 1777. Hooper was also a signer
of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Offered here is a 1p. partly-printed document, 8" x 6
1/2", dated September 24, 1778, a State of North
Carolina, Anson County Sheriff's summons, reading:
"... You are commanded That of the Goods and
Chattels, Lands and Tenements of Richard Farr you cause
to be made the Sum of Seven pounds three shillings &
eight pence... recovered against him for his Costs of
Suit vs David Looney...," signed H. Giffard (Clerk) and
on the verso initialed W. Ho(oper) and with a few
lines in his hand. HENRY GIFFARD was
an active patriot in the Revolutionary War, serving as
State Militia Commissary. Folds (small edge
breaks), toning-- overall very good. Hooper's
autograph is rare in any form. The Autograph
Collectors Checklist [Manuscript Society] lists Hooper’s
signature as “very rare in any
form.”.............1200-1500
51. [ART] Hermann Richter (1875-1941) artist who lived and painted in California in the early part of the 20th century. He was born in Hamburg Germany, on July 29, 1875, came to the U.S. in 1927, and lived in California for 14 years. He died in San Diego, California on May 03, 1941. Original pastel, signed, approx. 10-1/2 x 8 in. VG..............200-300
52.
[THEATRE EPHEMERA] Lot of 7 early pieces: Program of
Shakespeare's Comedy of TWELFTH NIGHT starring E.H. Sothern
& Julia Marlowe [1905]; a small 1869 broadside for THE
SPIRIT OF '76; 1908 Bath, Maine Columbia Theatre broadside;
1908 Boston Theatre broadside of TAMING OF THE SHREW; 1908
Boston Theatyre broadside of A TEXAS STEER; 1903 Hollis St.
Theatre broadside introducing Maclyn Arbuckle; plus another
from the Boston Theatre............100-150
53.
[CHESS] Authentic 1964 Russian chess magazine once owned by
Bobby Fischer and part of his working library. Fischer,
through a NYC bookshop arranged to sell his chess library to
the Brooklyn Library, sometime during the late 1960s.
Apparently he was in need of money. Years later the
library consigned his books and chess magazines to the Swann
Auction Galleries in NYC for auction where we purchased his
magazines. We guarantee that Fischer once owned this magazine
and this lot will come with a letter of authewnticity
guarantee. VG...............80-120
54.
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
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55. [ART] Lily Cushing (1909-1969)
American painter. Autograph Note Signed "Lily" sent to artist
Walt Kuhn. Postmarked Paris, 1938 she says "Dear Walt - Paris
looks fine but the weather in wintery & wet. Will call you
in a day or so. Lily." Slightly [unimportant]
sun-toned........40-60
56. Victor Andreevich Kravchenko
(1905-1966 in New York) was a Soviet defector who wrote of his
life in the Soviet Union as a Soviet official in his book I
Chose Freedom published in 1946. He also wrote
about his experience under American capitalism. Born into a
Ukrainian family with a non-party, revolutionary father,
Kravchenko became an engineer. An enthusiastic Party member in
the 1920s, he later became alienated by Collectivization in
his native Ukraine, and personal mistreatment during the Great
Purge, although he managed to avoid arrest. During the Second
World War he served as a Captain in the Soviet Army before
being posted to the Soviet Purchasing Commission in
Washington, DC. In 1944 he abandoned his post and
requested political asylum in the United States. The Soviet
authorities, however, demanded his immediate extradition,
calling him a traitor. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies appealed to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt directly on behalf of Stalin
to have Kravchenko returned. He was granted asylum, but
lived under a pseudonym thereafter, fearing assassination by
Soviet agents. Kravchenko's decision to abandon the
Soviet Union condemned family members he left behind to
harassment, imprisonment and worse. Some of his family were
killed. Offered here is his autograph written on
a book page. 5-1/4 x 7.
VG....................50-75
57.
[NAVAL] Original 1833 engraved portrait of Thomas
Macdonough, Jr. (1783-1825) an early-19th-century American
naval officer noted for his roles in the first Barbary War and
the War of 1812. He entered naval life at an early age,
receiving a midshipman's commission at the age of
sixteen. Serving with Stephen Decatur at Tripoli, he was
a member of "Preble's Boys", a select group of U.S. naval
officers who served under the command of Commodore Preble
during the First Barbary War. Macdonough achieved fame during
the War of 1812, commanding the American naval forces that
defeated the British navy at the Battle of Lake Champlain,
part of the larger Battle of Plattsburgh, which helped lead to
an end to that war. The image area itself is approx. 4.5
x 3.5 in. plus margins. A few spots in
margin..............35-35
58.
[THEATRE] Jane Coombs
(1842-1901?) The daughter of a socially prominent New York
family, Jane Coombs sought out the renowned actress Clara
Fisher Maeder for instruction in acting. It was Maeder who
connected her with Fred Niblo and other New York producers
enabling her sudden emergence as a favorite on the eve of the
Civil War. During the 1870s, Coombs may have been
the most highly esteemed tragedienne regularly appearing
on the American stage. She embodied for many an
ideal of feminine dignity. "In classical perfection of
features, in depth and refinement of expression, in perfection
of form and grace of movement, she presents a beautiful
completeness. It is not approach to exaggeration to say she is
the most beautiful woman on the American stage," wrote an 1880
critic for the New York World. While her preeminence was
challenged by Mary Anderson in the 1880s, Coombs enjoyed the
highest approbation when performing the roles of the standard
repertory from Shakespeare to Sheridan as her troupe toured
the continent well into the 1890s. Of contemporary roles, her
most famous was Lady Dedlock and Hortense in the stage
adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House."
In 1885 Coombs and her company departed North America for an
extended tour of Australia. In 1888 she returned, limiting her
presentations to Dickens and "London Assurance." She toured
incessantly until disease halted her in 1898. Though she
recovered, her abilities declined, and the tours ceased in
1900. She had performed without protracted interruption for
forty-four years, her New York debut taking place in 1855-1856
Broadway season as Pauline in "Lady of Lyons." Little is
known about her later life, including her death date. Offered
here is a signed 3 x 2 in. card plus a very nice CDV
photograph. Both VG.............50-75
59.
[THEATRE] Eva Le Gallienne
(1899-1991) English-born American stage actress,
producer, director, translator, and author. A broadway star by
age 21, Le Gallienne consciously ended her work on Broadway to
devote herself to founding the Civic Repertory Theater, in
which she was both director, producer, and lead actress. Noted
for her boldness and idealism, she became a pioneering figure
in the American Repertory Movement, which enabled today's
Off-Broadway. A versatile and eloquent actress herself
(playing everything from Peter Pan to Hamlet), Le Gallienne
also became a respected stage coach, director, producer and
manager. Ms. Le Gallienne consciously devoted herself to the
Art of the Theatre as opposed to the Show Business of Broadway
and dedicated herself to upgrading the quality of the stage.
She ran the Civic Repertory Theatre Company for 10 years
(1926-1936), producing 37 plays during that time. She managed
Broadway's 1100-seat Civic Repertory Theatre at 107 West 14th
Street from 1926-32, which was home to her company whose
actors included herself, Burgess Meredith, John Garfield, J.
Edward Bromberg, Paul Leyssac, Florida Friebus, and Leona
Roberts. Signed 3x5 card. Fine...................25-35
60.
[ART] Clinton King
(1901-1979) American artist, born in Fort Worth, Texas and
received his formal education at the University of Texas and
Princeton. He studied painting from Randall Davey and Robert
Reid and gained early recognition in Texas at the Annual Texas
Artists Exhibitions. He is generally associated with the
regional art of Texas and the Santa Fe Art Colony of New
Mexico until 1940. After 1940 and in to the 1960s, he
exhibited often in Chicago, New York and Paris. King painted
genre scenes, landscapes, portraits and still life. His early
modernist portraits and genre were often compared to Diego
Rivera. King was a modernist, and a Renaissance man of the art
world, whose styles included Realism, Impressionism, and
Abstract Expressionism at various periods in his 40 years of
artistic activity. During his lifetime, King's paintings won
many prizes and are held in many public collections,
including: the Library of Congress; National Collection of
Fine Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa
Fe; Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art; and the Biblioteque
Nationale in Paris. Offered here is his engraving
with aquatint titled HELLAS, done in 1974, image
approx. 17-1/2 x 21-3/4 in. plus margins. This is an
artist proof numbered XXV over XXV. Still contained
in its original mat. The image area is very fine;
there are a few light spots in the margin close to the
image, and just below the signature area. See scan
below. This is a major intaglio and one of the
largest we have ever offered. An important print............400-600
61.
[OLD KENTUCKY] Jacob Van Meter
Jr. (Jacob Vanmetre Jr. 1762-1850) Kentucky
Pioneer. Jacob came to Kentucky with his father's party
as a youth and later inherited his father's homestead. He
continued to live at the old home place until about 1806, when
the farm was sold to the Geohegan family. Jacob Van
Meter was a very religious man and reared his large family of
ten sons and four daughters to take an active interest in the
work of the church. Seven of his ten sons were deacons in the
Baptist church. At the time of his death he was the last
survivor of the old pioneers of the Severn's Valley Baptist
Church of Elizabethtown, having been a member for 78
years. As a Mill Creek church elder he founded the Hill
Grove Baptist Church, 1822, Radcliff, Hardin Co., KY. Offered
here is a 4 page manuscript document that concerns land
transaction[s] with Geohegan dating back to 1781.
Jacob Vanmetre Jr. has signed at the conclusion. On verso
there is a docket with signature of Ben Helm, dated 1811.
Approx. 7-5/8 x 12-3/8 in. Ben
Helm (1767-1858) known as "Kitchen
Knife Whetted on a Brick." (See the Manuscript magazine,
Winter, 1991, p. 24). He was a surveyor, state senator, clerk
of Hardin Co. courts; major in War of 1812; purchased the farm
owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Bush]
Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was a
partner, in the general store business, with Duff Green [later
statesman] in the early frontier days of Kentucky. It is
likely that young Abe Lincoln visited his store often in his
early youth. VG.............200-300
62. Kentucky Pioneer
Document, 1811, written and signed by Ben Helm,
Hardin County [Elizabethtown] Kentucky. Legal matter
concerning: WilliamBush, the brother of Sarah, Abraham
Lincoln's step-mother. Approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/8". Signed on the
verso by Robert Bleakley.Robert Bleakley, opened a store in
Elizabethtown with William Montgomery, another Irishman. Their
establishment is said to have been the first such operation in
the pioneer village that could ready be called a "store."
Montgomery was an Orangeman, who was engaged in the rebellion
In Ireland in 1798. He was arrested and confined in a prison
from which men were taken and executed daily He was released
from prison through the efforts of his aunt, who was married
to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the condition that he
would emigrate to America. Wm. Montgomery and Bleakley opened
adry goods store. In 1806 they hired the father of Abraham
Lincoln [Thomas] to take a flatboat down the Mississippi river
with their merchandise to be sold in New Orleans. They paid
Tom Lincoln 16 pounds gold and a credit of 13 pounds in gold.
Their store account books show Tom Lincoln buying "two twists
of tobacco & one pint of whisky." And thebooks also show
that in May 1806, Thomas went on a buying spree, purchasing
silk, linen, scarlet cloth, dozens of buttons, etc. Earlier
that year he had purchased an aristocratic beaver hat & a
pair of silk suspenders for $1.50. He was, at this time,
courting his future bride Nancy Hanks [Abe Lincoln's mother].
After the wedding he made his home in a cabin close to the
courthouse in Elizabethtown. He then purchased at their store,
knives, forks, spoons, thread, needles, silk & tobacco.
Carl Sandburg wrote about Bleakley and Lincoln.BEN HELM (b.
Fairfax county, Va., May 8, 1767; son of Capt. Thomas Helm,
apioneer settler of Kentucky, who moved from Virginia to the
Falls of Ohio, in the fall of 1779. In 1801-03 Ben Helm
erected the first brick house built there. He became a
surveyor; was state senator, 1796-1800; clerk of the Hardin
county courts, 1800-17; an officer with the rank of major in
the war of 1812; filled various other offices of honor and
trust in Kentucky: purchased the farm owned by Christopher
Bush, father of Mrs. Sarah (Bush) Johnston Lincoln,
step-mother of Abraham Lincoln, and was a partner in a general
store with Duff Green [later, American statesman], conducting
the business as Green & Helm. He died in Elizabethtown,
1858, nearly 91 years old.Apparently William Bush was somewhat
of a troublemaker in the E-town area. He was born in 1763, and
in 1828 he acquired the Knob Creek farm where the Lincolns had
lived, before they left for Indiana. His sister, Sarah, became
the step-mother of the future U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln.
See the article THAT ROGUE, WILLIAM BUSH, by Blaine V. Houmes,
the Iowa physician and collector of Lincolniana. This article
appears in The MANUSCRIPT, Summer 2002. William Bush acquired
land like his parents, and by 1817 had married and built an
attractive brick house [Elizabethtown area], a sign of sure
success. He served on jury duty with Thomas Lincoln, after of
Abraham and acquired the Knob Creek farm where the Lincolns
had lived, before they left for Indiana∞, and later Illinois.
Although prosperous, he was frequently entangled in lawsuits.
His reputation was guarded and he did not enjoy the respect og
other members of the Bush family. Little is known of Lincoln’s
relationship with the Bush family. Lincoln claimed that his
family’s “removal (to Indiana) was partly on account of
slavery, but chiefly on account of the difficulty in land
titles in Kentucky.” Thomas Lincoln was known to be
anti-slavery, and as a young boy Abraham probably observed
slaves being taken in chains to Southern markets, on the road
beside his home. Carl Sandburg and other historians have not
dwlt on the cantankerous nature of the President’s uncle by
marriage,8 let alone the fact that there was a slave-trader in
the family. We wish to give credit to Blaine Houmes for much
of what appears in this description. See pictures of this
article here. Fine............400-600
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63. [ART] Walt
Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an
organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was
America\'s first large-scale introduction to European
Modernism. In 1925, Kuhn almost died from a duodenal ulcer.
Following an arduous recovery, he became an instructor at the
Art Students League of New York. In 1933, the aging artist
organized his first retrospective. During these years, he
began to question his earlier allegiance to European
Modernism. On a 1931 trip to Europe with Marie and W. Averell
Harriman, his staunchest supporters, he declined to join the
Harrimans on their visits to the studios of Picasso, Georges
Braque, and Fernand Léger. Yet neither did he want to align
himself with the anti-Modernist camp of Regionalists like
Thomas Hart Benton and politically-minded social realists. In
the art politics of the day, Kuhn was caught between two
extremes. By the 1940s, Kuhn’s behavior began to take on
unsound characteristics. He became increasingly irascible and
distant from old friends. When the Ringling Brothers Circus
was in town, he attended night after night. He also became
frustrated by the lack of attention his own work was receiving
and was particularly strident about the Museum of Modern
Art\'s support of abstraction and neglect of American art in
the postwar period. In 1948, he was institutionalized, and on
July 13, 1949, he died suddenly from a perforated ulcer.
Offered here are two letters he wrote on August 4,
1925, from Salzburg, Austria. Both letters are on a
single sheet, his retained copies, written and signed by
him. One one side he writes to the banking firm firm of
Morgan, Harjes & Co., saying that he will be travelling to
London in a few weeks, requests that his account be
transferred to Morgan in London. On the other side, same date,
he writes to the local water department in Maine. Says they
will be travelling in Europe for the summer, they have closed
their place in Ogunquit [Maine], disconnected the water pipes,
will use no water therefore no water bill to pay. The
picture showing here is NOT included.......300-400
65. [GREAT
BRITAIN] mixed lot: [1] Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (1794-1870) British
soldier, peer and long-standing Conservative Member of
Parliament. Hotham was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel
Beaumont Hotham and Philadelphia Dyke. His father died when
he was five years old. Hotham fought at the Battle of
Waterloo in 1815 and later achieved the rank of General. In
1814 he had succeeded his grandfather as third Baron Hotham,
but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a
seat in the House of Lords. SIGNED ADDRESS PANEL postmarked
1834. [2] Thos.
R. Macquoid [1820-1912]
Brit. artist. Clip signature. [3] Caroline Norton (1808-1877) Brit. society beauty, author.
Clip signature. [4] Henry Moore (1831-1895) English marine and
landscape painter. In rendering of wave movement, in
veracity of color and texture, and in subtle atmospheric
effects he has few rivals. He was elected an academician in
1893. CLIP SIGNATURE. Very good example. [5] Alfred Austin (1835-1913) English poet, who was appointed
Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson. SIGNATURE
with sentiment, 1908. VG. [6] James Archibald
Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776-1845) English statesman.
He was commissioned into the 48th Foot in 1790, transferred
to the 7th Foot in 1791, and purchased a Captaincy in the
72nd Foot in 1793. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in
1797 and became Colonel of the 12th Foot six months later.
In 1797 he transferred to the Grenadier Guards, but resigned
his commission in 1801. He then devoted himself to politics,
sitting in parliament as a Tory. His attitude on various
questions became gradually more Liberal, and his support of
Catholic emancipation lost him his seat in 1826. He was then
raised to the peerage as Baron Wharncliffe of Wortley, a
recognition both of his previous parliamentary activity and
of his high position among the country gentlemen. At first
opposing the Reform Bill , he gradually came to see the
undesirability of a popular conflict, and he separated
himself from the Tories and took an important part in
modifying the attitude of the peers and helping to pass the
bill. SIGNED ADDRESS PANEL dated 1826. [7] Edwin Long [1829-1891] Brit. painter. Sig. w/ sentiment.
[8] Thomas
Wakley [1795-1862].
English surgeon. Founder (1823) of The Lancet, weekly
medical paper in which he campaigned for various medical and
public health reforms; M.P. (1835-52). Signed ADDRESS PANEL
postmarked 1835. Mounted. [9] Henry Fawcett [1833-1884] Eng. statesman. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] C. Napier Hemy [1841-1917] Brit. artist. Signature,
1910............100-150
66 [ART] ALBERT STERNER (1863-1946) American artist. STERNER'S
influence is seen in the works of both Rockwell Kent and
George Bellows; he introduced each of them to the technique of
lithography and put them in touch with the master
printer/artist Bolton Brown. In 1915, Sterner rallied a group
of printmakers together to raise the general quality of
American prints. The founders of the Painter-Gravers of
America included, along with Sterner, Childe Hassam, Bellows,
& George Elmer Brown. He became a member of the National
Academy, won a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900;
gold medal at Munich in 1905, a bronze at Buffalo Exposition
in 1901, and Carnegie Prize in 1941. He was President of Soc.
of Illustrators, 1907-09. His work [esp. his mono-prints] has
always been somewhat scarce. Provenence: the Sterner Estate
sale held many years ago at his summer home in Mass. . Signed
& inscribed 5x7 vintage photograph of him. Expected
handling wear over the years.............200-300 See above
67.
(BASEBALL LOT) MILT
PAPPAS "Gimpy" (1939- ) Pitcher -
SIGNED inscribed note paper - JIM
PERRY (1935-) Pitcher - SIGNED 8x10
photograph with sentiment - JAMES
KAAT "Kitty" (1938- ) Pitcher -
ANS on 3x5 card that he is writing a book - KEN KELTNER
(1916-1991) 3rd baseman, responsible for ending DiMaggio's
Hitting Streak - SIGNED 5x7 print photograph - MAX LANIER
(1915-2007) Pitcher, SIGNED 3X5 card............50-75
68. [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
69. [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
70. 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
71. [WORLD WAR II] Hans Baur (1897-1993)
was Adolf Hitler's pilot during his political campaigns of the
1920s and 1930s. He later became Hitler's personal pilot and
leader of the Reichsregierung squadron. Captured by the
Soviets at the end of World War II in Europe, he endured ten
years of imprisonment in the USSR before being released on 10
October 1955 to the French, who then imprisoned him until
1957. ANS, 1983, written on back of postcard. Not
translated. VG...........100-150
72. [ACTORS & ACTRESSES] multiple lot comprised of: [1] [THEATRE] Willis P. Sweatnam (1854-1930) Broadway actor. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, died at the Lambs Club in NYC. The New York Times, November 26, 1930 said, " One of the Best End-Men Who Ever Cracked Jokes in a Minstrel Show. Organized Several Companies. Created a Score of Negro Characters in Comedies." Clip Signature mounted to blank page from autograph catalog. Has sentiment plus "St. James Hotel, New York." [2] [TV]Debbie Watson, (b. 1949) American movie and television actress. Born in Culver City, Los Angeles, she got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck teenage girl Karen Scott in the 1964 sitcom TV series Karen. She then went on to star in the 1965 rural themed sitcom TV series Tammy. Perhaps her best known film appearance was when she portrayed Marilyn Munster in Munster Go Home 1966. Signed [on lined side] 3x5 card. Fine. [3] [FILM] Virginia Madsen (b.1961) American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. Several decades later, she once again became known after an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the 2004 film Sideways. SIGNED, inscribed "To John" 8x10 photo. VG. [4] [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. He writes on 4-7/8 x 3" slip "I am very Virginius Wilson Barrett." [5] [THEATRE] Marshall P. Wilder - vaudeville performer. Signature. [6] [THEATRE] Daniel Frohman (1851-1940) American theatrical producer and manager and an early film producer. CLIP SIGNATURE. [7] [FILM] Nick Stuart[1904-1973] serial star of THE LOST PLANET, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KIDD, etc. Signature, inscribed. Scarce!. [8] [FILM] PATRICIA NEAL - actress. Her signature on imprinted 3 x 5 card. [9] [CINEMA] Leo Chalzel [1901-1953] actor. In Ida Lipino's film "Men In White." Small clipping about him signed in ink, 1938........80-120
73. [MIXED LOT OF AUTOGRAPHS] Comprised of: [1] Edward Martin (1879-1967) Gov. Pennsylvania & US Senator. Signature. [2] Alexandra Danilova (1903-1997) Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen. She had a long intimate relationship with George Balanchine although they never officially married. Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. Fine. [3] Hiram Walbridge (1821-1870) U.S. Rep. from NY. Signature. [4] Peter W. Strader (1818-1881) U.S. Rep. from Ohio. Signature. [5] Charles Stewart (1840-1907) English zoologist and comparative anatomist. Stewart was born in Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving his MRCS in 1862. He was Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1884 to 1900, in succession to William Henry Flower. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 4 June 1896, and he was the president of the Linnean Society from 1890 to 1894. Brief ALS, 1901, 1p. "Dear Sir, I have arranged for the visit of your party on Oct. 5th. Yours truly C. Stewart. VG. [6] Sir Thomas Brooke-Pechell, 2nd Baronet (1753-1826) Major General. Signed address panel postmarked 1833. [7] Moses Norris, Jr. (1799-1855) United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Clip Signature. Click to see signature [8] G. MONOD [Monod, Gabriel-Jean-Jacques. 1844-1912]. French historian. Founder and director of Revue historique (1875); lectured at École des Hautes Études, École Normale Supérieure; professor, Collège de France (1905). Author of Allemands et Français (1872), Études critiques sur les sources de l' histoire mérovingienne (1872-85), etc. ANS, in English. Clipped from a letter but complete in itself. Mounted. No year. [9] Jonathan Chace (1829-1917) US Representative and Senator from Rhode Island. He was also the nephew of famed 19th century abolitionist Elizabeth Buffum Chace and had himself been active in the Underground Railroad during his time in Philadelphia, where he operated a dry goods store. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] Alan Dershowitz (b. 1938) American lawyer, and political commentator. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is known for his career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases. SIGNED 3x5 card.............100-150
Estimate for
all of these etchings.........900-1200
Not showing both sides of each sheet
75. [ART] Richard Black is
a highly regarded printmaker who has made a significant
contribution over the years to the arts in Iowa. For thirty
years he was a professor of art at Drake University where he
founded the Drake University Biennial Print Symposium. The
symposium brought nationally known artists to the state to
demonstrate and lecture on the art of printmaking. Black
himself has been the subject of a one-person exhibition at the
Des Moines Art Center and has been honored with the DRAKE
AWARD for excellence in teaching and artistic achievement.
Black's works are included in many museum collections and have
been shown in invitational and competitive exhibitions all
over the country. Using the intaglio process, Black creates
prints that have a collage-like feeling. Tightly rendered
textures and color patches are layered and structured to
create overall pattern. The work appears to be abstract, but
when closely examined recognizable forms sometimes emerge.
These images are enigmatic and are woven into the intricacy of
the print, there for the viewer to decipher. Black's works are
often inspired by tales and interpretations from The Old
Testament. Original aquatint-etching, signed in pencil,
titled "Blossoms Mid-Air: R", numbered XVIII/XXV, approx.
13-1/8 x 10-1/2" plus clean margins. A superb print...........200-300
76. [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
77.
[MILITARY] Prince Alfons
of Bavaria (German: Alfons Maria Franz von Assisi
Klemens Max Emanuel Prinz von Bayern; 1862-1933)
was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of
Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry. Alfons was born
in Munich, Bavaria. He was the second son of Prince
Adalbert of Bavaria and his wife Infanta Amalia of
Spain. In 1880, as so many young men of his age,
Alfons joined the army and in 1892 became commander of
the Bavarian Schweren-Reiter-Regiment. In 1905 he
reached the rank General of Cavalry, finishing his
career as the commander of 7 K.B.
Chevaulegers-Regiment. ALS, 1893, 1p,
approx. 4-3/8 x 6-1/4 in., plus envelope with red
wax seal on verso. VG.................60-80
Scan
1
Scan
2
78. Bosnia
Humanitarian Aid Airdrop - 1993. Original
aerial leaflet dropped over Bosnia on February 27,
1993, prior to the humanitarian aid airdrop on
February 28, 1993. Two leaflets were prepared
and dropped over Bosnia. They both depict a Hercules
C-130 USAF cargo plane in front of a faint United
States flag. Both leaflets picture crates falling by
parachute marked with a bright red cross, and both are
written in Serbo-Croat text, in Latin script on one
side and Cyrillic on the other side. The leaflet
we are offering here - the C-130 drops three
containers labeled "500 KG." This leaflet was prepared
because of accidents that occurred in Somalia.
Starving people rushed mindlessly into the drop zone
only to be crushed by falling food crates. The
leaflet text is: Danger! For everyone's safety, let
humanitarian aid land before approaching.
Approx. 6 x 3 in. Fine............75-100
One
side
Other
side
79. [ART] Jacques Philippe Le Bas
(Paris, 1707 - 1783) One of the most distinguished
French engravers of the eighteenth century. His talent
for art was noticed at an early age and when he was
fourteen he was apprenticed to M. Herisset, an
engraver of architecture. The young Le Bas soon
outgrew the talents of his master and he was placed
under the painter/engraver, Nicolas Tardieu. Le Bas's
first engraved work was commissioned by de Crozat and
gained for the artist a national reputation. Creating
important engravings of figure studies, landscapes and
architectural studies after such masters as Boucher,
Lancret, Watteau, Rubens. Rosa and Rembrandt, Jacques
Philippe Le Bas became a full Academician of the
French Royal Academy in 1743. In total this great
engraver left an oeuvre of over 300 works of graphic
art. The reputation of Le Bas's engraved art was so
strong that as early as 1745 he began publishing his
own art from his Paris studio at rue de la Harpe. His
influence was also strongly felt as a scholar and
teacher of the fine arts. He taught engraving
techniques to such now well known artists as Cochin,
Moreau, Eisen, Nicholas DeLaunay, Le Mire and
England's Robert Strange and William Ryland. Original
engraving, signed in the plate 1775, image approx.
7-1/8 x 6-1/8 plus "somewhat" thin margins.
VG..........250-300
See
Le Bas engraving
80. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Original vintage photograph of LBJ,
Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel before a crowd
after speaking in behalf of Lyndon B. Johnson.
This vintage photo was taken by the photographer Frank
Mastro, the famed celebrity photographer probably best
remembered for his photos of Marilyn Monroe and Frank
Sinatra. 5x5. Likely unpublished. We own the
original negative. Fine......80-120
See
photo
82. (BRITISH
LITERARY NOTABLES LOT) SIR GEORGE EDWARD GORDON CATLIN
(1896-1979) Philosopher and political
scientist, author husband of novelist Vera Britain. ALS
(1973) 2pp, with small signed photo on verso (Karsh of
Ottawa). WILLIAM
HOWITT (1792-1879) Author & MARY BOBTHAM HOWITT (1799-1888)
Poetess SIGNATURES on sheet (1848). HENRY FESTING JONES (1851-1928)
Biographer, ALS (1920) 3pp. CHRISTINA
A. L. FOYLE (1911-1999) Bookseller
and owner of the celebrated Foyles Bookshop, TLS
(1934). EDMUND C.
BLUNDEN (1896-1974) Poet, Author,
Critic. SIGNED presentation page from his 1929 book
“Near & Far”. ROSAMUNDE
PILCHER (1924) Author of romance
novels. SIGNED 5x8 color portrait. SIR MAX PEMBERTON (1863-1950)
Popular novelist. ALS, 1898..............80-120
LOT 83. (BRITISH
NOTABLES IN SCIENCE/MEDICNE LOT)
WILLIAM
SPOTTISWOODE (1825-1883)
Mathematician and Physicist buried in
Westminster Abbey. SIGNATURE. SIR GEORGE NICHOLLS
(1781-1865) Poor Reformer and
Administrator. ALS, 2pp. ARTHUR CECIL ALPORT
(1880-1959) Physician who first identified the
“Alport Syndrome”. ALS, 1924, 2pp.
GEORGE RICHARDSON
PORTER (1792-1852) Early
Statistician, and Economist, Civil
Servant. ANS, ordering a book (1832).
GEORGE
PEACOCK (1791-1858)
Mathematician, wrote books on the subject, also
Trigonometry. SIGNATURE from ALS. SIR JOSEPH DE COURCY
LAFFAN (1786-1848)
Noated physician who treated troops and was the
personal physician to Queen Victoria. ALS,
1843, written in 3rd
person.............80-120
LOT 84.
(CARTOONIST/ILLUSTRATORS) includes: PERCY CROSBY
(1891-1963) Cartoonist/Illustrator. Signature.
GARY BROOKINS (1947)
Editorial Cartoonist/illustrator. SIGNED
inscribed 3x5 card with his printed portrait.
MIIKE PETERS
(1943) Cartoonist, (2) SIGNED inscribed stationary
sheets. DEAN
YOUNG (b.1938)
Cartoonist. SIGNED inscribed 4x6 Blondie Print
(1980). CHARLES
PLUMB (1899-1982)
Cartoonist/Illustrator “Ella Cinders”.
SIGNATURE mounted to larger card . JOHN CULLEN MURPHY
(1919-2004) Cartoonist/Illustrator “Prince
Valiant”. SIGNED card inscribed with his
portrait affixed. ROBERT F. “Bo” BROWN
(1906-1996) Cartoonist, in The New Yorker, Saturday
Evening Post others. ALS (1990) on verso of
letter received. GARY
PATTERSON – Cartoonist.
ALS (2001) on one of his greeting cards of his
famous “Cat”................80-120
85. [BASEBALL GREATS] signed
cards or notes of: Bobby Doerr - HOF [2], Allie Reynolds
(1917-1994), Bullet Bob Turnley, Jim Carfish Hunter
(1946-1999) HOF, Enos Slaughter (1916-2002) HOF, Charles
Gehringer (1903-1993) HOF, Eddie Matthews (1931-2001) HOF,
Whit Wyantt (1907-1999), and Tommy Henrich (1913-2009). All
VG..............80-120
86. 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.
NOTE: Albert Bormann (1902-1989) served as an adjutant to Adolf Hitler, and
was the younger brother of Martin Bormann. Hitler
was fond of Bormann and found him to be trustworthy. In
1938, Bormann was assigned to a small group of adjutants
who were not subordinate to Martin Bormann. The
relationship between Martin and Albert became so caustic
that Martin referred to him not even by name but as "the
man who holds the Führer's coat". Further in 1938,
Bormann became Chief of Main office I: Persönliche
Angelegenheiten des Führers (Personal Affairs of the
Führer) of the Kanzlei des Führers. In that job, Bormann
handled much of Hitler's routine correspondence. He
became private secretary for Hitler.
Karl-Jesco Otto Robert von
Puttkamer (1900-1981)
German rear admiral who was naval adjutant to Nazi
Germany's leader Adolf Hitler during World War II.
Puttkamer was injured on 20 July 1944 when the bomb
exploded during the July 20 Plot attempt to kill Hitler
and was awarded the Wound Badge (20 July 1944). On
20 April 1945, Hitler told his staff, "the situation
during the last few days has changed to such an extent
that I am forced to reduce my staff". Puttkamer was
ordered by Hitler to leave the Berlin Führerbunker. On 23
April, Puttkamer and several others were flown by aircraft
to the Obersalzberg. Puttkamer was ordered to the Berghof
to destroy Hitler's papers there. Therefore, Puttkamer was
not with Hitler during his final few days in the
Führerbunker. Following the German surrender on 8 May
1945, Puttkamer was held in captivity until May 1947. He
died aged 80 in Munich.....................
300-500
88.
[ART] Achille Isidore Gilbert
(1828-1899) French. The title of this etching is THE ARTS
OF WAR. Etching, image size 11 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, after a
fresco by Sir Frederick Leighton, 1881, "Published London
April 1, 1881 by The British and Foreign Artist
Association", and "Entered according to act of Congress in
the year 1881 by Knoedler and Co. in the office of the
Librarian of Congress at Washington", publishers
blindstamp l.r. and "The Arts of War" l.r. Over all
size 8-1/4 x 13 in. VG..................150-200
See above
89.
90. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL [1806-1881] American Party congressman from New York 1845-47; State Supreme Ct. Justice; author & historian. Document Signed, 1851, 5+pp., all handwritten, concerning the settlement of a law suit arising from an estate. 8x13 in. Philip R. Yonge of Darien, George, one of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of John Fraser late of East Florida. The suit is against Thomas Napier of the City of New York. VG............40-60
91. LEVANDER, HAROLD. Gov. of Minnesota 1967-71. Letter as governor dated Nov. 28, 1987 sending photo and expressing warm sentiments concerning addressee's ill son. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text...........20-30
92. BRODIE, ALEXANDER O. Gov of Arizona Territory 1902-05 (predating statehood). LS March 24, 1903 to the President endorsing the "good character, ability and moral qualities" of a job-seeker. Small marginal tears not affecting text. (This is probably a retained copy)............20-30
93. WILLIAMS, JACK. Governor of Arizona 1967-75. Dated Nov. 20, 1967, Williams expresses sympathy and encloses an autographed photo. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text. Some off-print from ink signature when folded..........20-30
94. DOCKING, ROBERT S. Governor of Kansas 1967-75. Letter dated Nov. 20, 1967, sending autographed photo and expressing regret for addressee's son's illness.....20-30
95. Linwood Holton - Gov. of Virginia. TLS, 1970. 1p., as governor........20-30
96. [MARYLAND] Thomas G. Pratt (1804- 1869) was a lawyer and politician from Annapolis, Maryland. He was the 27th Governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. Senator from 1850 to 1857. SIGNED PARTLY-PRINTED DOCUMENT, 1845, appointing Justices from Frederick, Md., 5th Election Commission. 15-3/4 x 10 in. Edge tattering & folds but in generally good condition.........50-75
97. [MINN] S.J.R. McMillan (1826-1897) American politician. He was a Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota. McMillan 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. He graduated from Western University of Pennsylvania in 1846, later studying the law on his own as was the custom of the day. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1879, 5X8 in. Signed receipt for Vol. One of the Official Register of the United States for 1879...........30-40
98. [SCIENCE] DANIEL I. ARNON (1910-1994) American Plant Physiologist - one of the 20th century's leaders in the field of photosynthesis. ALS dtd 8/22/89.......35-45
102. [FRANCE] Edmond Desbonnet (1867 - 1953) French academic and photographer who championed physical culture. He made physical education fashionable in belle époque France through the publication of fitness journals and by opening a chain of exercise clubs. BRIEF ALS, 1927 [?], 1P. To the autograph collector and writer, Felix Bonafe. Edge toned............25-35
103. [THEATRE] Ernest Blum (1836-1907) French dramatist. Brief ALS, no date, 1p.......50-75
104. [THEATRE] Francesco Dall'Ongaro [1808-1873] Italian writer, poet and dramatist. He was educated for the priesthood, but abandoned his orders, and taking to political journalism founded the Favilla at Trieste in the Liberal interest. In 1848 he enlisted under Garibaldi, and next year was a member of the assembly which proclaimed the republic in Rome. On the downfall of the republic he fled to Switzerland, then to Belgium and later to France, taking a prominent part in revolutionary journalism; it was not till 1860 that he returned to Italy, where he was appointed professor of dramatic literature at Florence. Subsequently he was transferred to Naples, where he died on the in 1873. His patriotic poems, Stornelli, composed in early life, had a great popular success; and he produced a number of plays, notably Fornaretto, Bianca Cappello, Fasma and Il Tesoro. His collected Fantasie drammatiche e liriche were published in his lifetime. Rare ALS, no year, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. Fine condition...........75-100
105. [FRANCE] Georges-François-Xavier-Marie 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. His personal calling card on which he writes about 10 lines on both sides about the poet Kemp, signed "G." VG.....40-60
106. [FRANCE] Claude Vasconi (b. 1940) French architect. After designing two key projects as a young architect, Les Halles in the centre of Paris and the building of the Préfecture in Cergy-Pontoise, he became one of the most sought-after architects in France, with major projects in Montpellier, Strasbourg and Saint-Nazaire. Signed card postmarked with stamp he designed..............40-60
107. [FRANCE] Pauline Marie Armande Craven née de La Ferronnays (1808-1891) French author. Mrs. Craven's family life was depicted in the Le Récit d'une Soeur as especially tender and intimate. She suffered several severe bereavements in the years following her marriage. The Cravens lived abroad until 1851. In the same year Keppel Richard Craven died. His son's diplomatic career appeared unsuccessful. He stood unsuccessfully for election to Parliament for Dublin in 1852 after which he retired to private life. The family went to live in Naples in 1853. Mrs. Craven then began to write the history of the family life of the la Ferronays between 1830 and 1836. Its focus was the love story of her brother Albert and his wife Alexandrine. This book, the Le Récit d'une Soeur (1866, Eng. trans. 1868), was enthusiastically received and was awarded a prize by the French Academy. Strained circumstances made it vital that Mrs. Craven earn money by writing. Anne Sivrin appeared in 1868, Fleurange in 1871, Le Mot d'énigme in 1874, Le Valbriant (Eng. trans., Lucia) in 1886. Among her miscellaneous works are La Sceur Natalie Narischkin (1876), Deux Incidents de la question catholique en Angleterre (1875), Lady Georgiana Fullerton, sa vie et ses ceuvres (1888). Mrs Cravens charming personality won her many friends. She was a frequent guest of Lord Palmerston, Lord Ellesmere and Lord Granville. Before his death in 1884, her husband translated her correspondence with Lord Palmerston and her correspondence with the Prince Consort into French. She died in Paris on April 1, 1891. Two ALSs, no dates, brief 1p. written in 3rd person & a brief 4-page ALS. Two Letters..........50-75
108. [SCIENCE] Mathias-Marie Duval [1844-1907] French professor of
anatomy and histology born in Grasse. He was the son of botanist
Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810-1883). Duval is remembered for research
involving placental development in mice and rats, and was the
first to identify trophoblast invasion in rodents. With
Austrian-American gynecologist Walter Schiller (1887-1960),
Schiller Duval bodies are named, which are structures found in
endodermal sinus tumors. ALS, 1889, 1p, about 5 x 8". Fine............50-75
111. [FRANCE] Paul Ginisty (1855-1932
) French writer, journalist. Regular columnist for the magazine
Gil Blas. Two ALSs, neither has date year, 1-page & 2-pages.
Speaks of "Crime & Punishment". Both VG...........75-100
112. [FRANCE] Émile Auguste
Étienne Martin Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the
father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French
Republic. His works include: Études sur Aristophane (1867), Le
Romantisme des classiques (1882), and the controversial
Catholicisme et socialisme (1850). As a result, Napoleon III
forced him into exile between 1851 and 1859. He later became a
professor at the Collège de France and in 1881 became a lifetime
member of the French senate. A street bearing his name is
located in Paris's VIIe arrondissement bordering the Champs de
Mars. ALS, 1869, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated.
One soiled corner.........50-75
113. [THEATRE] Fritz Williams [1869-1930] Am. actor very popular at turn of the century. Appeared on Broadway from 1899-1930. Signed cabinet photograph dated '98. VG.......40-60
See above
114. [MUSIC] Albert Hague (1920-2001) German-born songwriter and composer. AMQS, dated 1982. Believed to be from his "How The Grinch Stole Christmas." ..........40-60
See above
116.
[BASEBALL] Rudy York -
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
117.
[BASEBALL] William Barney
McCosky - 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
118.
[BASEBALL] Cecil Travis
- 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
119.
[BASEBALL] Roy Weatherly -
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
120.
[BASEBALL] Frank McCormick -
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
121.
[BASEBALL] Terry Moore -
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
122.
[BASEBALL] Tom Henrich -
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
123.
[BASEBALL] James Tabor -
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
124.
[BASEBALL] Stanley
Hack - 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
125.
( DUKES OF BEAUFORT LOT) Duke of
Beaufort is a title in the Peerage of England. It was
created by Charles II in 1682 4
SIGNATURES Henry
Somerst (1844-1803) 5th Duke - Master
of the Horse to Queen Charlotte, Lord Lt. of
Leistershire and Brecknockshire, CLIPPED SIGNATURE.
HENRY CHARLES SOMERSET (1766-1835)
6th Duke Tory member of Parliment, Lord Lt. of Monmouthsire,
Gloucestershsire, HIgh Steward of Bristol CLIPPED SIGNATURE.
HENRY SOMERSET,
Maj. (1792-1853)7th Duke - British Military Soldier, Aide de
Camp to the DUKE of WELLINGTON in Portugal and Spain. Member
of Palrlimen, LORD OF the ADMIRALTY, HIgh Steward of Bristol
- SIGNED ADDRESS PANEL. Captain Henry Charles FitzRoy SOMERSET (1824-1899)
8th Duke- Briish Soldier and Politician-Aide de Camp to the
Duke of WELLINGTON and also Viscount HARDINGE, Member of
Parliment, Master of the horse to QUEEN VICTORIA, Privy
Counsellor. CLIPPED SIGNATURE, from
ALS...........75-100
126.
(AMERICAN JOURNALIST/BROADCASTERS) Lowell Thomas (1892
–1981) American writer, broadcaster, and traveler,
best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous,
TLS, 1932. Bernard Shaw
(1940) American journalist, news anchor for CNN from 1980.
SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. Willard
Scott (1934) best known for his
TV work on The Today Show and as the creator and original
portrayer of Ronald McDonald, (two) SIGNED, inscribed
7x9 photographs.............60-80
127.
[MUSIC] John White (1936 - ) English
experimental
composer and
musical
performer. He
invented the
early British
form of
minimalism
known as
Systems music,
with his early
Machines. AMQS
from his work
"Piano Sonata
No. 95".
Approx. 10-1/2
x 4-1/4". Two
folds o/w
VG..........75-100
See above
128.
[ENGLAND] Joseph Parker
(1830-1902) English Nonconformist (Congregational) divine.
Age stains......20-30
129. [FILM] Ann Sothern [1909-2001] American actress. Signed, inscribed 10x8 photo. Accompanied by vintage sheet music from the film "let's Fall In Love" starring Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern. Both VG............40-60
130. [FRANCE] 1786
DECLARATION DU ROI, by Louis XVI.
Concerning CLERGY, signed Louis [in print]. 8 pages, 7-1/2 x 10
in. Very fresh condition, unusual vignette at
head...............80-120
131. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS DE LA
REPUBLIQUE, dated Year XI [1803],
16 pages., approx. 5.5 x 8.5". Identified
as being about Colonies. Signed Bonaparte in
print. VG............100-150
132. [ART] Samuel
Colman (1832-1920) American painter,
interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his
paintings of the Hudson River. Clip Signature, about
3-3/4 x 3/4"...........25-35
133. [ART] William
Holbrook Beard (1825-1900)
American painter. Beard was born in Painesville, Ohio. He
studied abroad, is associated with the Düsseldorf school of
painting, and in 1861 moved to New York City, where, in 1862, he
became a member of the National Academy of Design. Beard was a
prolific artist. His humorous treatment of bears, cats, dogs,
horses and monkeys, generally with some human occupation and
expression, usually satirical, gave him a great vogue at one
time, and his pictures were largely reproduced. Clip
Signature, about 3-3/4 x 3/4"...........25-35
134. [ART] William Cave Thomas
(1820-1906) British artist. ALS, nd, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in.
VG............50-75
135. [ART] Edward
H. Potthast (1857-1927) American
Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people
at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and
New England. His work is included in many major museums in the
United States. Clip Signature, top corner missing.
About 4-3/4 x 2-1/4".........50-75
136.
[ENGLAND] Charles Manners-Sutton,
1st Viscount Canterbury GCB, PC (1780-1845) was a British Tory
politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from
1817 to 1835. Franking Signature on address panel
1834............25-35
137.
[ENGLAND] Charles Wood,
1st Viscount Halifax, GCB, PC (1800-1885), known as Sir Charles
Wood, 3rd Bt between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig
politician and Member of Parliament. He served as Chancellor of
the Exchequer from 1846 to 1852. Franking Signature on address panel
183[?]............25-35
138. [FILM] Dorothy Malone (b. 1925) Academy
Award-winning actress American. DOCUMENT SIGNED, a contract
dated April 23, 1979, 4pp., a one year contract with
Contemporary-Korman Ltd. Also signed by Tom Korman of the famous
agency. Signed on last page. VG...........75-100
139. James R. Roosevelt, known as "Rosey" [1854-1927] was the older half-brother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He served as Secretary of the United States Legation in Vienna and as Secretary of the Embassy in London. RARE DOCUMENT FRAGMENT SIGNED, May 1, 1913. Also signed by Warren Delano. Approx. 7-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. VG...........60-80
140. MYSTERY LOT of about 74 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1815. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....80-120
141. [FILM] Luis Trenker (1892-1990)
German-language South Tyrolean (Austrian-Italian) film
director, architect, and actor. The style he had developed
in the thirties was not limited to nationalistic,
folkloristic and heroic clichès, however; his impersonation
of a hungry, downtrodden immigrant in depression era New
York was regarded as one of the seminal scenes for future
Italian neorealism by the likes of Roberto Rossellini.
Signed vintage postcard photo. VG...............40-60
See photo
142.
[ARCHIVE] From the Papers of Philip Joseph Philbin
(1898-1972) the Democratic U.S. Congressman from
Massachusetts. Large group of approx. 92 signed letters to
Philbin; 1 TLS from Philbin; approx. 150 telegrams and
carbon copies of letters. Unread for
content.........100-150
143. [SHOW BIZ] Judy Canova (1913-1983) American comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955. DOCUMENT SIGNED, CONTRACT, NOV. 1, 1957, 3PP, WITH THE WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY. VG............50-75
144. [SCOTLAND] Archive of
approx. 70 letters & documents from a Law firm in
Scotland. Most, if not all, dated 1885. Unchecked for
autographs - and content. Mostly VG.......100-150
145.
MYSTERY LOT of about 86 pieces
from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents;
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 1804. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like
researching items.....150-250 Reserved at $75
146. [FRANCE] Eugène Brieux
(1858-1932), French dramatist. ALS, n.d., 1p, 4-1/4 x
5-1/2 in. VG..........60-80
147. [FRANCE] Stephen-Jean-Marie Pichon
(1857-1933) French politician of the Third Republic.
The Avenue Stéphen-Pichon in Paris is named after him.
He served as French Minister to China (1897–1900), including
the period of the Boxer Uprising. An associate of Georges
Clemenceau, he served several times under Clemenceau and
others as Minister of Foreign Affairs, a role in which he
proved amiable, but not particularly effective. His most
notable service was under Clemenceau during the latter part of
the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919,
but, like most of the other foreign ministers at the
conference, Pichon was largely sidelined by the more forceful
figure of his head of government. ALS, 1907, 1p, 4-3/4
x 7 in. VG..............75-100
149. [FRANCE] Charles Étienne Louis Ganderax (
1855-1941) French journalist and theater critic, he was
co-director of the Literary Review of Paris with Henri Meilhac
, of the French Academy. He worked in Parliament,
Figaro, the Blue Book. ALS, 1917, PLUS a letter by his
daughter.................80-120
150. [BASEBALL] Joseph Moore - 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
151. [ART] Peter Grippe (1912 - 2002) American sculptor, printmaker, and painter. His "Monument to Hiroshima" series (1963) used found objects cast in bronze sculptures to evoke the chaotic humanity of the Japanese city after its incineration by atomic bomb. Other Grippe Surrealist sculptural works address less warlike themes, including that of city life. However, his expertise extended beyond sculpture to ink drawings, watercolor painting, and printmaking (intaglio). He joined and later directed Atelier 17, the intaglio studio founded in London and moved to New York at the beginning of World War II by its founder, Stanley William Hayter. Today, Grippe's 21 Etchings and Poems , a part of the permanent collection at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is available as part of the museum's virtual collection. ALS, 1992, 1p. Plus signed & inscribed gallery exhibition brochure from 1991. Two pieces. VG..........50-75
152. Edmund
Muskie (1914-1996) Governor of
Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States
Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under
Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981. Muskie was the Democratic
nominee for Vice President in the 1968 presidential election,
and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for
President in 1972. Signed color photo of Lincoln statue,
signed in person at Bates College in Maine. Condition:
the 2 white lines above Lincoln's head are not in the photo
[scanner problem]; white speck below his knee is flaw, and
also finger print near bottom are also flaws. Still a
nice example..........40-60
153. [MUSIC] Leonardo Balada [b. 1933] American composer. AMQS from his 1986 Opera "Christopher Columbus. Very nice. Approx. 8 x 7. Inscribed to a collector. VG..........75-100
See AMQS
154. [OPERA] Lucrezia Bori (1887-1960) celebrated Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano. TLS, THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD, 1944, 1p, 4to. Fund raising form letter sent to members signed in ink by Bori and Elizabeth Holton. Mail folds............50-75
155.
[MUSIC] JEFF VON DER SCHMIDT
is Conductor and Founding Artistic Director of Southwest Chamber
Music. A two-time Grammy Award-winning conductor, he has led
numerous performances of standard 20th century composers as well
as world and local premieres of new work. Mr. von der Schmidt
has received six Grammy nominations, including consecutive 2003
and 2004 Grammy Awards as conductor for the Complete Chamber
Music of Carlos Chávez Volumes and 2. His performance was
nominated for Best Classical Album in 2005 for the Complete
Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez, Volume 3 by both mainstream and
Latin Grammys. Recent projects include leading cultural
exchanges at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and the Royal
University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, featuring Aura,
a major new composition by Grawemeyer Award-winning composer
Chinary Ung; and a complete cycle of the chamber music of Carlos
Chávez with Southwest Chamber Music and the Tambuco Percussion
Ensemble at the UNAM Center in Mexico City in May 2007.
His successful 2003 performance at the Library of Congress, with
soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson in Richard Felciano’s An American
Decameron, was greeted with a standing ovation. He has led
cycles of the Los Angeles works of Arnold Schoenberg at Cooper
Union in New York City and at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in
Vienna, where Southwest Chamber Music was the first American
ensemble to perform at the Center since its relocation from the
University of Southern California. Signed [endorsed on verso] 1984 Warner Bros.
pay check. VG..............25-35
See check
See
signature on verso
157. [FILM] William
Caskey Swaim is an American television
and film actor, best known for having played Staff Sergeant
Harry Fitz in the 1978-1979 television series, Project
U.F.O. Signed Warner bros. check made out to Swaim in
1985, endorsed by him on the verso. VG.........25-35
159. [Signatures] mixed lot of signatures in various forms: [1] Josiah Flynt (1869-1907) Am. sociologist and author. Sig. card, 1901 [2] Charles P. Taft [1897-1983] Republican Party politician and the son of President William H. Taft. Signed card, 1936. Click to see Taft [3] Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey PC (1797-1869) styled Lord Paget 1812 and 1815 and Earl of Uxbridge between 1815 and 1854, was a British peer and Whig politician. He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1839 and 1841. CLIP SIGNATURE - soiled. [4] Delbert Mann [1920-2007] TV & film director. Sig/inscribed card. [5] George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon KG, GCB, PC (1800-1870) English diplomat and statesman. HE WAS BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY UNDER 4 PRIME MINISTERS. Signed card, 4 x 2.5 in. VG. [6] Admiral Maurice Frederick FitzHardinge Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge of Bristol, GCB PC, DL (1788-1867) was a former Royal Navy First Sea Lord and former First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria. CLOSELY CROPPED SIGNATURE. There is slight loss due to the crop. [7] Vincent Astor (1891-1959) businessman and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Astor family. He had a highly developed social conscience. He was 20 when his father died and having inherited a massive fortune, Vincent Astor dropped out of Harvard University . He set about to change the family image from that of miserly, aloof slum landlords who enjoyed the good life at the expense of others. CLIP SIGNATURE. [8] Andrew R. Forsyth [1858-1942] Scottish mathematician. Signature. [9] [BRITAIN] Graham Wallas [1858-1932]. English political scientist. Lecturer, London School of Economics (1895-1923); professor, U. of London (1914-23); member of Fabian Society (1886-1904); on London County Council (1904-07); known for contributions to development of empirical basis and scientific methods in social sciences. Author of Life of Francis Place (1898), Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), The Art of Thought (1926). CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (1802- 1894), known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman. He was the eldest son of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. In 1835 he entered Lord Melbourne's cabinet as Secretary at War, and effected some valuable administrative reforms, especially by suppressing malpractices detrimental to the troops in India. Signed undated address panel "Grey.".........100-150
160. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (1801-1872), French historian and biographer. The general catalogue of printed books for the Bibliothèque Nationale contains no fewer than seventy-seven works (145 volumes) published by Capefigue during forty years. ALS, no date, 1p. VG. Not translated...........50-75
161. [THEATRE] Clement Scott (1841-1904) was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 1800s. Small signed photograph, 1-1/2 x 3 in. G-VG......25-35
162. [FRANCE] E. Legouve (Gabriel-Jean-Baptiste-Ernest-Wilfrid Legouve) (1807-1903) writer; author of novel Édith de Falsen (1840) and plays Louise de Lignerolles (1848), Adrienne Lecouvreur (with Scribe, 1849), Bataille de dames (1851), Un Jeune Homme qui ne fait rien (1861). ALS, no date, to the poet de Ratisbonne, 1p. Not translated...........75-100
163. [FRANCE] Count de Froissard - ALS, 1816, 1p, 6-1/2 x 8-1/4". Not translated.
Identified as "was there around Napoleon in 1814. Speaks about
the 1816 election." VG..........75-100
See letter
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contemporary abstract art. There are 356 lots in this
auction and all are pictured.
164. [TV] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) Canadian actress known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions. She was twice married to actor George C. Scott. SIGNED 1961 contract to act in The Play of The Week: "No Exit." She was paid $650. 4 pages; signed on pg. 1 and pg. 4. Unique.......50-75
165. Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (1811-1876) 19th century pastor in the Reformed Church in America. He led the Dutch immigrants who founded the city of Holland, Michigan in 1846 and played an important role in establishing the school that would become Hope College. Signed Autograph Card, dated Chicago, 1872......25-35
166. [MILITARY] Lyman Louis Lemnitzer [1899-1988] American Army General, who served as
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then
served as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO from 1963 to 1969. Signed bank check, 1957. VG example............50-75
167. [FILM] Lew Ayres (1908 1996) American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr. Kildare in several movies. Signed 3x5 card..........2O-30
168. STELLA ADLER (1902-1989) Actress, Director, Teacher. She opened the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. Among those to study at the conservatory were Marlon BRANDO Robert De NERO, Warren BEATTY, and Candice BERGEN, Adler is viewed as one of the foremost influences on contemporary acting. TLS dtd 5/12/89 signed "Stella"................40-60
169. [FRANCE]
Nestor Roqueplan
(1805-1870) French writer, journalist, and theatre director.
Roqueplan was considered a dandy, and witty and caustic as a
writer. On 20 November 1857 Roqueplan succeeded Émile
Perrin as director of the Opéra-Comique, and held the position
until 19 June 1860, when he was replaced by Alfred
Beaumont. The first new work to be presented under
Roqueplan was Ambroise Thomas's 3-act Le carnaval de Venise on 9
December. At the beginning of 1859 Roqueplan brought suit
against Le Figaro for harassment regarding his directorship.
According to The Literary Gazette of London, the Figaro had
described Roqueplan as "a species of Pasha, lolling upon a
couch, smoking a cigar, and desirous only of escaping from all
the details of his administration." Not long thereafter came the
triumphant premiere of Meyerbeer's Le pardon de Ploërmel, but
despite its success, his financial difficulties increased.
Eventually the constant money problems caused him to retire from
opera management. ALS, not dated, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4".
VG.........50-75
171. [FRANCE] Leon Levy said Brunswick (1805-1859) French playwright. He started as a journalist before turning to the theater. He is the author of many comedies with Jean-François Bayard , Emile Vanderburch , Dumersan or Arthur Beauplan . But with Adolphe de Leuven know it, for twenty years, his greatest successes, notably through booklets comic operas of Adolphe Adam (Brewer Preston, The Postilion of Longjumeau , King of yvetot). He has also published under the pseudonym Leo Lhérie. Brief ALS, no date, 1p.............50-75
172. [FRANCE] Auguste Armand Ghislain Marie Joseph Nompar de Caumont de LLa Force (1878-1961), 12th Duke of La Force, was a French duke and historian. Specialising in the 17th century (he was himself a descendent of the 1000-year-old Caumont de la Force family), his work allowed him to reconstruct events in which his ancestors had taken part. He was elected a member of the Académie française on 19 November 1925. ALS, [1899?], 1-1/2 pages. VG.............50-75
173. [FRANCE] Louis-Antoine-François
de
Marchangy
(1782-1826) French writer. ALS, Paris, 1824,
lengthy 3pp, 7-1/2 x 9-3/4 in. Not translated.
VG..........100-150
174. [FRANCE] Yves
Guyot (1843-1928) French
politician and economist. He was born at Dinan. Educated al
Rennes, he took up the profession of journalism, coming to
Paris in 1867. He was for a short period editor-in-chief of
L'Independent du midi of Nîmes, but joined the staff of Le
Rappel on its foundation, and worked subsequently on other
journals. He took an active part in municipal life, and
waged a keen campaign against the prefecture of police, for
which he suffered six months' imprisonment. He entered the
chamber of deputies in 1885 as representative of the Ier
arrondissement of Paris and was rapporleur general of the
budget of 1888. He became minister of public works under the
premiership of PE Tirard in 1889, retaining his portfolio in
the cabinet of Charles de Freycinet until 1892. Although
of strong liberal views, he lost his seat in the election of
1893 owing to his militant attitude against socialism. ALS,
Paris, 1907, 1p, approx. 5.5 x 8.5". VG........50-75
177. [FRANCE] Judith Cladel
(1873-1958) She was the friend and biographer of the great
sculptor, Rodin. She also wrote on the sculptures of Maillol,
and some plays for the theatre. ALS, 1955, 1p. with last
line and signature on verso. 8-1/4 x 5-1/4.
Fine............50-75
178.
[FRANCE] Roch-Ambroise Cucurron
Sicard (1742-1822) French abbé
and instructor of the deaf. Born at Le Fousseret, in the
ancient Province of Languedoc (now the Department of
Haute-Garonne), and educated as a priest, Sicard was made
principal of a school for the deaf at Bordeaux in 1786, and
in 1789, on the death of the Abbé de l'Épée, succeeded him
at a leading school for the deaf which Épée had founded in
Paris. He later met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling
in England, and invited him to visit the school. Sicard's
chief works were his Eléments de grammaire générale (1799),
Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) and
Traité des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets
(1808). The Abbé Sicard managed to escape any serious harm
in the political troubles of 1792, and became a member of
the Institute in 1795, but the value of his educational work
was hardly recognized till shortly before his death at
Paris. In 1803 Sicard became a member of the Académie
française, occupying Seat 3 as the successor to the
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, who was a diplomat. Offered
here is either a manuscript or a letter written by Sicard,
doesn't appear signed but his name appears on the text at
bottom of page 3. No date that we can see. Approx.
4-1/2 x 7-1/4". VG.............100-150
Page 1
Pages 2
& 3
See his
portrait
179. [THEATRE] CADET - Ernest Alexandre Honore Coquelin (1848 -1909)
French actor. Also called Coquelin cadet, to distinguish him
from his brother. He graduated with the first prize in comedy
and made his debut in 1867 at the Odeon. The next year he
appeared with his brother at the Theatre Francais and became a
societaire in 1879. He played a great many parts, in both the
classic and the modern repertoire, and also had much success
in reciting monologues of his own composition. He wrote Le
Livre des convalescents (1880), Le Monologue moderne (1881),
Fairiboles (1882), Le Rire (1887), Pirouettes (1888). He died
within days of his famous older brother Constant. ALS, Paris,
1903, 1p, 4-3/8 x 7". VG. Not translated. Signed
"Cadet."...........40-60
180. [BRITISH] William Waldegrave
Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne KG, GCMG, PC (1859-1942) British politician
and colonial administrator. Like his father, he became a
Liberal Unionist in 1886 when William Ewart Gladstone proposed
Irish Home Rule. He retained his seat till 1892, when he was
elected for Edinburgh West. In 1895 he was appointed
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies by his father-in-law
Lord Salisbury, where he became junior to the Colonial
Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. During the difficult period
before the outbreak of the Second Boer War he progressed
rapidly. In November 1900 Selborne was sworn of the Privy
Council and made First Lord of the Admiralty under Salisbury,
with a seat in the cabinet, an office he retained when Arthur
Balfour became Prime Minister in 1902. In 1905 he succeeded
Lord Milner as High Commissioner for South Africa and governor
of the Transvaal and Orange River colonies. He assumed office
at Pretoria in May of that year. He had gone out with the
intention of guiding the destinies of South Africa during a
period when the ex-Boer republics would be in a transitional
state between crown colony government and self-government, and
letters patent were issued granting the Transvaal
representative institutions. But the Liberal Party came into
office in Britain the following December, before the new
constitution had been established, and, the decision was now
taken to give both the Transvaal and Orange River colonies
self-government without delay. Lord Selborne accepted the
changed situation, and the experiment proved successful. He
ceased to be governor of the Orange River Colony on its
assumption of self-government in June 1907, but retained his
other posts until May 1910, retiring on the eve of the
establishment of the Union of South Africa. The despatch,
dated 7 January 1907 and known as the Selborne Memorandum, in
which he reviewed the situation in its economic and political
aspects, was a comprehensive statement of the dangers inherent
in the existing system and of the advantages likely to attend
union. The document had in fact been compiled by Lionel Curtis
and other members of Milner's Kindergarten. The force of its
appeal had a marked influence on the course of events, while
the loyalty with which Lord Selborne co-operated with the
Botha administration was an additional factor in reconciling
the Dutch and British communities. He returned to England with
his reputation, according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica,
"as a statesman enhanced by the respect of all parties, and
with a practical experience, second only to that of Lord
Milner, of British imperialism in successful operation." His
experience made him a valuable ally in the movement among the
Unionist party at home for Tariff Reform and Colonial
Preference, to which he could now give his full support. In
1915 Selborne returned to government during the First World
War when he became President of the Board of Agriculture in
the war time coalition of Liberal prime minister H. H. Asquith
. He resigned the following year and did not hold high
political office again. The Selborne Committee on Church and
State from 1914 to 1916 was chaired by Lord Selborne. Letter SWigned, Downing
Street, 1896, 2pp. To E. Bruce Low regarding an appointment.
Stationery has the embossed Colonial Office seal. VG........50-75
181. [FILM] Diane Ladd (b.
1935) American actress, film director. She has
appeared in over 120 roles, on television, and in miniseries
and feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
(1974), Wild at Heart (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Ghosts of
Mississippi (1996), Touched by an Angel (1997) (TV), Primary
Colors (1998), 28 Days (2000), and American Cowslip (2008).
She is the mother of actress Laura Dern, by her ex-husband,
actor Bruce Dern. Ladd has won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA and
has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. ALS, 1982, written on her 6 x
4-1/2 correspondence card. She fills the page with
opinions & thoughts. VG..........50-75
182. [FILM
HISTORY] Bill Asher
(1921-2012) American television and film producer, film
director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific
early television directors, producing or directing over two
dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher
introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from
a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964,
he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his
then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early
success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of
TV-land," and is credited in one magazine article for
'inventing' the sitcom. TLS, April 10, 1963, signed by
Milton Ebbins, V.P. Chrislaw Productions and Bill Asher [he
also signs]. Asher is granted a leave to direct a BEACH PARTY
film. It is assumed that the film ended up being Muscle
Beach Party (1964), starring Frankie Avalon, Annette
Funicello, Don Rickles etc. PLUS TLS, 1963, signed by
attorney Norma Zarky [see Lot 59 above]. Two
signed items - very good condition...........125-175
See
Agreement
See Norma
Zarky letter
183. James Walker
(1794-1874) president of Harvard
University. He graduated at Harvard in 1814, studied
theology at Cambridge, and was pastor of the Unitarian church in
Charlestown for twenty-one years. During this period he was
active in his parochial duties and in advocating the cause of
school and college education, lectured extensively and with
success, and was a close student of literature and philosophy.
In 1831-39 he was an editor of the "Christian Examiner." He
resigned his pastorate in July, 1839, the following September
became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in
Harvard, was elected its president in 1853, and held office till
his resignation in 1860. He devoted the remainder of his life to
scholarly pursuits, and left his valuable library and $15,000 to
Harvard. Autograph Signature dated Cambridge Dec. 1866,
written in 5-1/4 x 6-1/4 in. alum page. VG..............40-60
184. [FILM] John Carroll [1906-1979] American actor. SIGNED, inscribed printed portrait picture, 5 x 7. VG......25-35
See Carroll
187.
[FRANCE]
Louis-Antoine-François de Marchangy (1782-1826) French writer. He
rose to fame as both a literary figure and a
prominent prosecutor for the Restoration government.
His most famous case was his prosecution of the four
sergeants of La Rochelle who were executed in 1822
for their part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the
government. His summary for the prosecution lasted
five hours and was published as a 196-page book. In
numerous other cases, he supported the repressive
conservative government against the liberal
opposition. ALS, Paris, 1823, written on both sides
plus postmarked address leaf with intact red wax
seal. Quite nice. Not translated - content not
known. VG...............80-120
188. [FRANCE] Jacques Raillon (1762-1835)
Bishop of Dijon and Archbishop of Aix
(-Arles-Embrun) , France. He made a famous funeral
speech at Notre Dame for Marshall Lannes. ALS, [1807], 1p,
4-1/4 x 3-1/8". VG..........75-100
See above
189. [FILM] Glenda Jackson,
CBE (b.1936) British Labour Party politician and former
actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973).
BRIEF TLS, 1991, on her stationery, sends autographs.
Fine..........25-35
See Jackson
letter
190.
[BASEBALL] group of signed pictures of
"Whitey" Wietelmann, Pedro Guerrero, Bill
McCool, Steve Howe, Bobby Castilo, Gary Redus, Bob
Welch, Steve Yeager, Steve Garvey, Dusty
Baker, Ron Cey, & Joe Black. None larger than
5x7 in. Condition mostly very
good..............100-150
191. [ART] Samuel
Cousins RA (1801-1887) English
mezzotint engraver. He was born at Exeter. In 1885 he was
elected a full member of the Royal Academy, to which he later
gave in trust £15,000 to provide annuities for superannuated
artists. One of the most important figures in the history of
British engraving. ALS, 1855, 1p. approx. 4-1/2 x
7-1/4 in. VG........100-150
See above
192. DAN T. MOORE -
Lt. Col., aide to Theodore Roosevelt during his first term of
office. Died in Texas. It was not until October, 1917, when he
was World War I commander of the 310th Field Artillery at Camp
Meade, Md., that Colonel Moore learned that a blow struck by him
in a friendly sparring bout with President Theodore Roosevelt in
1905 had caused blindness in one of his opponent's eyes.
Distressed at the news, he said, in part: "But could you ask for
any better proof of the man's sportsmanship than the fact that
he never told me what I had done to him, never told anybody else
that I know of - at least, it never got around to me till I saw
in the papers the other day that he had said that he lost the
sight of his eye while boxing with a captain of artillery who
was his aide. He didn't name anybody then, but I knew that he
must have meant me, for I happen to have been the only boxing
aide he had who was in the artillery." Signed 1919 Riggs
National Bank check.............75-100
193. (LORD
CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND LOT) SIGNATURES
in Various Forms - Edward
Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards
PC (1781 –1875). Rounell
Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne PC
(1812–1895) He served twice as Lord Chancellor of Great
Britain. Clipped SIGNATURE - Charles
Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714 –1794)
English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to
hold the title of Earl of Camden. Richard
Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury PC, QC (1800
– 1873) Charles
Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham
PC KC (1781 –1851) He was twice Lord Chancellor. Thomas Erskine, 1st
Baron Erskine ( 1750 - 1823) He served as Lord
Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807. Richard Burdon Haldane,
1st Viscount Haldane (1856 –1928), was an influential Liberal
Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and
philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905
and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were
implemented. Raised to the peerage as Viscount Haldane in
1911, he was Lord Chancellor between 1912 and 1915, when he
was forced to resign because of his supposed and unproven
German sympathies..............80-120
194.
[MUSIC] Isaac Stern (1920
– 2001) American violinist and conductor. Signed 1961 Israel cover, dated 1980. 7 x 4
in. Fine...............60-80
195. [MUSIC] Yehudi Menuhin, Baron
Menuhin, OM, KBE (1916-1999) American-born British and
Swiss violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing
career in the United Kingdom. He is widely considered one of the
greatest violinists of the 20th century. Signed 1983 special
music cover. Approx. 6-1/4 x 4-1/2 in. Fine.........80-120
See above
196.
[FRANCE] Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des
Barreaux (1599-1673) French poet. His
great-uncle, Geoffroy Vallée, had been hanged in 1574 for the
authorship of a book called Le Flau de la Joy. His nephew
appears to have inherited his scepticism, which on one occasion
nearly cost him his life; the peasants of Touraine attributed to
the presence of the unbeliever an untimely frost that damaged
the vines, and proposed to stone him. His authorship of the
sonnet on "Penitence", by which he is generally known, has
been disputed, notably by Voltaire. Des Barreaux was
apparently bisexual. Although he was later known as one of the
lovers of Marion Delorme, a famous courtesan, he also was the
lover of the freethinking poet Théophile de Viau, called the
"King of Libertines" by Jesuit prosecutors. During his
imprisonment in 1623–25 on charges of writing atheistic poems
with homosexual allusions, de Viau addressed a poem to Vallée,
"The Complaint of Théophile to his friend Tircis", reproaching
Des Barreaux for doing little to help him. After de Viau's
death in 1626, a contemporary biographer of high society,
Tallement des Réaux, referred to Des Barreaux as de Viau's
widow, "thus indicating that their physical relationship was
common knowledge at the time." Subsequently, Des Barreaux was a
lover of the libertine poet Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin, the
so-called "King of Sodom", "a consummate gentleman" whose
aristocratic rank and social connections protected him from
prosecution for his witty, homosexually themed writings.
In his Pensées, Pascal refers to him in a passage about those
who renounce reason and "become brute beasts". A
French mystery document on vellum, either written and signed
"Vallee" or about him. Approx. 7-3/4 x
1-3/4". Right edge affixed to back of an 1809 showing 3
signatures not identified. Worthy of research.
VG............200-300
197. [MUSIC - FRANCE] Philippe Gaubert
(1879-1941) French musician who was a distinguished
performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer,
primarily for the flute. ALS, 1930, 1p, 8-1/4 x
10-1/2 in. VG..........50-75
200. QUAYLE FAMILY - signed cards by
Dan Quayle [V.P.], and his wife Marilyn Quayle, plus 1995
Season's Greeting card [unsigned]. All
fine..............40-60
202. Aleksandra Danilova (1903-1997) Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen. Signed picture dancing, removed from some publication........25-35
203. Aleksandra Danilova (1903-1997) Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen. ALS, 1990, 1p.........25-35
205. [MUSIC] Leopold Dancla (1822-1895), Violinist and composer of chamber
music. ALS, no date, on both sides of 4 x 5-1/4"
page...........40-60
206. [FRANCE] LOI De
La REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE,
No, 1546, Year VI
(1798), 24 pages, 7-1/2 x
10". Concerns the
creation of Income Tax
during the French
Revolution. Edges
toned on last
page..........100-150
See above
208. [MUSIC] Roy Clark (b. 1933)
American country music musician and performer. He is best
known for hosting Hee Haw Show. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.
VG.............25-35
216. [FILM] Hume Cronyn (1911-2003) Canadian-born actor who was married to Jessica Tandy. TLS, 1957, 1p. Mentions the play "The Man In The Dog Suit" not yet finished. To M. Abbott Van Nostrand, the publisher of plays. VG...........40-60
218. [THEATRE] George Graves (1876-1949) English comic actor who created The Gazeka, a mythical beast. He introduced it as a bit of by-play in the musical, The Little Michus at Daly's Theatre, London, in 1905. As a result, Graves's little idea became a fad of the season and a competition was mounted to encourage artists to give sketches of what the beast might look like. Charles Folkard won the competition and the Gazeka suddenly appeared in the form of various items of novelty jewellery, charms, etc, and was taken up by Perrier , the sparkling water makers, for a series of advertisements. The Gazeka also featured in a special song and dance in the entertainment Akezag, at the London Hippodrome at Christmas, 1905. ALS, no date, 1p..............25-35
219. [THEATRE] Ignacio Martinetti [? - 1931] American actor, director, composer, conductor. He made his Broadway debut in 1900. In 1905 he appeared in Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland". His career ended in 1930 with "Fifty Million Frenchmen." Signed, inscribed cabinet photograph from 1890s. 4 x 6-1/2". Photo by Morrison, Haymarket Theatre. VG for its age...........40-60
220. Kim Hunter (1922- 2002)
American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both
an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best
Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in
the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Lengthy TLS, 1980, signed Kim, 1p. Fine.........35-45
221. Eliza (Buckminster) Lee (1792-1864) American author, the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; was well educated by her father and brother, Joseph Stevens Buckminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston; became a writer; and was unusually felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote, notably: Sketches of New England Life (1837); Naomi, or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (1848); and memoirs of her father and brother (1849). She translated from the German, wrote a life of Richter (1842), and published an historical novel, Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism (1858). ALS, 1843, 2pp. To Phillips Brooks, the famous American clergyman and author. Letter says she is sending the poem Brooks asked for [poem not present here].............75-100
222. [ART] MARGUERITE PEARSON (1898-1978) Noted American painter. Born in
Philadelphia, she made her reputation in the Rockport area of
Mass., north of Boston. She studied at the Boston Art Museum
School; and Rockport Summer School, under A.T. Hibbard. She was
a member of The North Shore Arts Association; Allied Artists of
America; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Rockport Art
Association; American Artists Professional League; American
Federation of Arts. Offered here is
an original oil painting on stretched
canvas, 25-3/4 x 19-1/2 in. plus frame. Painted in black &
white [and therefore grays], obviously to be used as an
illustration for some book or publication unknown to us.
Unsigned but with Estate Certification on back signed by Martha
Blanshet [?], Director, Rockport Art Association, Feb. 19, 1980.
She certifies that this unsigned painting is from the Pearson
estate. Several slight crack lines in the paint o/w VG.
Pearson's paintings are today highly prized...........4000-6000
223. [MUSIC] Vladimir Ashkenazy [b. 1937] Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Clip signature from envelope...........20-30
226. Anson Burlingame
(1820-1870) American lawyer, legislator, and diplomat, born in
New Berlin, Chenango County, New York. In 1823 his parents (Joel
Burlingame and Freelove Angell) took him to Ohio, and about ten
years afterwards to Michigan. Apart from his official duties as
an elected official, Burlingame was also famous for disgracing
Representative Preston Brooks after the Congressman physically
assaulted Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the US Senate.
This was done by goading Brooks to publicly challenge him to a
duel, and then proposing conditions so intimidating that Brooks
backed down. CLIP SIGNATURE..............25-35
228. [MUSIC] PIERRE BEAUDET - noted French Canadian composer. Signed & inscribed, Montreal 1989, edition of his book CHANSONS ET POEMES RETROUVES. Hard cover - pages not numbered. VG..................35-45
231. Edmund Blunden, MC [1896-1974] English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Signed in ink limited edition page [proof page] from the "hand-set edition of Near & Far," 6-1/4 x 9-1/2". Fine...........30-40
232. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970 ) Son of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Associated with New York Central management and managed family interests for many years. Turned to sports in later years and was namesake of 'Vanderbilt Cup.' His signature on 5x3 slip. Top portion of slip has oil stain that shows but does not touch signature. .....25-35
233. Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) American socialite, heir, businessman, and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. He was the favorite grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who left him $5 million, and the eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, who left him close to $70 million. In his turn he succeeded them as head of the New York Central and related railroad lines in 1885. Signature on 4-3/4 x 2-1/4" slip. Different col9or inl "Yours respectfully" above signature. Faint fold line; slightly soiled...........50-75
234. [NOBEL PRIZE] ILYA PRIGOGINE
(1917-2003) Belgian Chemist - is best known for extending
the second law of thermodynamics to systems that are far from
equilibrium, and demonstrating that new forms of ordered
structures could exist under such conditions. He called these
'dissipative structures' because they cannot exist independently
of their environment. According to the second law of
thermodynamics, ordered systems disintegrate into disordered
ones. However, showed that the formation of dissipative
structures allows order to be created from disorder in
non-equilibrium systems. These structures have since been used
to describe phenomena such as the growth of cities and the
physics of car traffic. Awarded 1977 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
SIGNED 3-1/2 x 5 color photograph...............35-45
235. US Senators - 5 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Homer E. Capehart [Ind]; John Marshall Butler [Md]; Wallace F. Bennett [Ut]; Quentin N. Burdick [ND]; Styles Bridges [NH]...........35-45
236. Ted Key (1912- 2008) Am. cartoonist,best known as the
creator of the comic strip Hazel. Large signature. 3 mail
folds.................20-30
237. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 4 beautiful color hand-tinted outdoor scenes plus 2 smaller hand-tinted scenes, one of which is full-masted sailing ship. which is 3x2. The larger photos are 7x5. All VG...........80-120
238. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 8 b/w vintage photos of outdoor country & woods scenes. One is a dam and two are snow scenes. Approx. 9 x 6.75 to 9.75 x 7.5. All VG...............100-150
239. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 5 outdoor scenes not color tinted. From 6.5 x 4.5 to 9.5 x 5......80-120
240. Benjamin Altman (1840–1913) American businessman who in 1865 founded B. Altman & Co., opening a store on Third Avenue and 10th Street in NYC. In 1906, he moved the business to Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. Benjamin Altman died without heirs. Shortly before the death, he founded the Altman Foundation. Until 1985, it owned B. Altman & Co., which latter closed the last store in 1990. Altman was an avid collector of Rembrandt paintings and china, much of which he acquired through art dealer Joseph Duveen. Upon his death, he donated the collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Signed Chemical National Bank check, 1906. VG.................80-120
241. [MUSIC]
WILLY EICKEMEYER [1879-1925] German composer & pianist.
CLIP SIGNATURE........20-30
242. Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford (1751-
1812) son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, was a British
peer. From 1757 until his accession in 1777, he was styled Lord
Guernsey. He was an artist of some repute. Eleven of his
paintings, part of the Oppe Collection, are held on behalf of
the National Museum by the Tate Gallery. CLIP SIGNATURE
[toned/mounted]........20-30
243. [MUSIC] Jack Beeson (b. 1921) American composer. He is known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! andThe Sweet Bye and Bye. Beeson studied privately with Béla Bartók. SIGNATURE/INSCRIBED with sentiment, 2000.............20-30
246. [THEATRE] Herbert Marshall (1890-1966) English actor. Brief ALS, Comedy
Theatre. "My dear C.V. Mary Merrall asks me to pass on this play
to you. So here goes. Yours truely Herbert Marshall."
.............40-60
247. [MUSIC] Herman D. Koppel (1908-1998) composer and pianist of Jewish origin. Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. He wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets. AMQS from his composition "Concerto For Oboe and Orchestra" Op 82 (1970). On 6x4 card. One cannot consider the history of twentieth century Danish music without coming in contact with Koppel. VG...........40-60
248.
(Opera Lot) VIRGILIO
BELLATI (1869-1917) Italian Opera Baritone
and conductor. He made in 1892 at La Pergola in Florence in
Pescatori di Perle. He enjoyed excellent reputation and had a
long career. In 1894 he performed in the new opera of
Leoncavallo "I Medici" at the Dal Verme in Milan and later in
Naples in the role of Poliziano. In 1896 he was the first
Schaunard in Genoa at the Politeama Genovese. In 1899 he took
part in a very long tour in the United States. In 1901 he was
cast in the first of the new Scala opera of Mascagni "The Masks"
His career ended in 1917, the year of his death. SIGNED
early Postcard Photograph [poor contrast]. Harry Dearth (
? -1933) English Opera Star - a high basso. Active
in opera, oratorio and concerts, Dearth made more than 225
recordings, mostly fascinating ballads. CLIPPED SIGNATURE.
H. GREGORY HAST
(1862-1944) English tenor who founded the
Meister Glee-Singers in 1890. He was a member of the choirs of
both Westminister Abbey and the Temple Church. Hast became a
noted recitalist following his St. James's Hall debut in 1898
touring in both America and Europe. SIGNATURE.
Anton Schott (1846
- 1913) German dramatic tenor. e began his studies with Agnes
Schebest-Strauss, and by the end of the year had already
appeared at the Munich Opera. The following year saw him engaged
as leading lyric tenor of the Berlin Opera. In 1880 he made his
London debut, in the title role of Rienzi; two years later he
went to Italy with Angelo Neumann's company to appear in the
works of Richard Wagner. He made his American debut at the
Metropolitan Opera on, 1884, singing the title role of Wagner's
Tannhäuser; it marked the beginning of Leopold Damrosch's first
season of German opera with the company. SIGNATURE, 1889.
Luigi Ravelli (1848-?)
Italian Opera Singer. SIGNED card, 1881. Ruggero Raimondi
(1941) Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared
in motion pictures. SIGNED 4x6 photo in “Tosca”. Frances Lillian Bible
(1919 –2001) American operatic mezzo-soprano who had a
thirty-year long career at the New York City Opera between 1948
and 1978. SIGNED album page. Marguerite
Piazza (1921 -2012) American soprano,
entertainer and philanthropist. SIGNATURE from address
return on envelope (large signature). Marcia
Baldwin (1939- ) Met Opera
mezzo soprano. SIGNED Album page.............100-150
249.
[MUSIC] Carl Ehrenberg
(1878-1962) German composer. TLS, 1937, 1p. In German.
VG.............30-40
250.
[MUSIC] Juan Bautista Plaza Alfonso
(1898-1965) was a classical composer. He began studies in
medicine at the Central University of Venezuela but, with time,
left in order to dedicate himself to music. His first teacher
was Jesus Maria Suárez. He studied in Rome from 1920 and 1923
and obtained the title of professor of sagrada (sacred)
composition. After his return to Venezuela he was named Master
of Chapel at Caracas Cathedral and carried out this position
until the year 1948. In the Caracas Superior Music School he
taught music history and appreciation to composer Antonio Lauro
and singer Morella Muñoz. A Note Signed, Bogata, 1964. Approx. 4
x 4". VG..........30-40
251.
[NOBEL PRIZE] FREDERICK
C. ROBBINS (1916-2003) American
Physiologist -He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine with John F. Enders, Ph.D., and Thomas H.
Weller, M.D., for discovering a method of growing
poliovirus in a test tube; up until that time, the virus
had to be studied in monkeys, which were expensive to use
and difficult to handle. Their achievement resulted in the
development of effective poliomyelitis vaccines and also
paved the way for the ultimately successful development of
vaccines for other major scourges of childhood,
particularly measles and German measles, a major cause of
birth defects. ANS on 3x5
card........................20-30
252. [TV] Sid Caesar (1922-2014) Emmy award winning American comic
actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s
television series Your Show of
Shows and Caesar's Hour. Signed
3x5 card. Fine.........25-35
253. (FRENCH LITERATURE) PIERRE DESCAVES - 3 to 4 pages of autograph notes unsigned and approx. 36 news clippings on Henri Troyat [French author]. Including a program from "Le Vieux Colombier." Descaves' file on Troyat....................50-75
254. {CABINET] James
Wilson (1835-1920) Scotland-born United
States politician who served as US Secretary of Agriculture from
1897-1913. SIGNED CARD............20-30
256. Calvin Klein
(b. 1942) American fashion designer who launched
the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in
1968. Signed 8x10 photo [youthful image].
Fine.............25-35
257. [OPERA] Elizabeth Harwood (1938-1990)
English lyric soprano. She enjoyed an operatic career
lasting for over two decades and worked with such
conductors as Colin Davis and Herbert von Karajan. She was
one of the few English singers of her generation to be
invited to sing in productions at the Salzburg Festival
and La Scala, Milan, as well as at the Metropolitan
Opera. ANS, with envelope postmarked 1981. 7x9
in. Mail folds............20-30
258. [MUSIC] George Crumb
(b. 1929) American composer of avant-garde music.
Signed 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. slip plus envelope addressed in his
hand, signed in the return address portion. Two signed
pieces. VG..........30-40
259. [DANCE] Antonio Ruiz Soler (1921-1996) Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer and dance director. During appearances in the United States he danced in Ravel's "Boléro" in New York City and appeared in several Hollywood movies, including "Ziegfeld Girl" (1941), "Hollywood Canteen" (1944) and "Honeymoon" (1947). Signed, inscribed 1983 photo, 5x7 in. Slight creasing top edge which doesn't show much on front..............35-45
260. [MAINE] John Baldacci
(b. 1955) the 73rd Governor of Maine
from 2003 to 2011. A Democrat, he also served as a
member of the United States House of Representatives
from 1995 to 2003. TLS, 1997, 1 full page,
about cutting Medicare................20-30
261.
[ENTERTAINMENT LOT] includes: David Niven
(1910-1983) signed card; Red
Skelton (1913-1997) small photo signed
on verso; Caesar Romero (1907-1994)
signed 5x7 photo; Leon
Belasco (1902-1988) autograph
note signed 1982; Belita
(1923-2005) signed & inscribed card; Don Beddoe
(1903-1991) ANS; Lina Basquette
(1907-1994) 4x5 photo signed on verso; Whitt Bissell
(1909-1996) signed & inscribed card; Joyce Matthews (1919-1999)
signed, inscribed stationary...........80-120
262. [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
See Landau
264. JIM BEAM SPIRAL STAKES 1982 - menu
signed on the back side by the baseball great Stan Musial
(1920-2013) and comedian Marty Allen.
5 x 7 in. Fine............50-75
265. Jerry
Reed Hubbard
(1937-2008) American country music singer,
guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor
who appeared in more than a dozen films. His
signature songs included "Guitar Man," "U.S.
Male", "A Thing Called Love," "Alabama Wild
Man," "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're
Hot" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best
Male Country Vocal Performance), "Ko-Ko Joe",
"Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down" (the
theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and
the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), "The
Bird," and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the
Shaft)". Signed 8x10 photo.
VG............50-75
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266. [US POLITICIANS] TLSs by US
senators: Wm. Spong, Harold E. Hughes, William
Proxmire, Ernest Hollings, Birch Bayh. ALSO
congressmen Carl Albert, and 7 others. These date
1969-1972.............100-150
267. [CABINET] Harold Brown (b. 1927) American
scientist, was U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981
in the cabinet of President Jimmy Carter. SIGNED 5X7 color
photo. VG............25-35
268. [FILM] Richard Brooks (1912-1992) Hollywood film writer, director,
producer. In the 1940s he wrote the screenplays for the
critically acclaimed Key Largo and Brute Force. He won his only
Oscar in 1960 for his screenplay for Elmer Gantry, although he
was nominated for the films Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Professionals (1966), and In Cold Blood
(1967). SIGNED 5 x 3-1/2 photo 1987. .........50-75
269. [TV] SOUPY SALES (1926-2009 ) American Entertainer/Comedian - One
of the most popular kiddie-show hosts of his day, Soupy Sales's
daily satirical show was as popular with parents as it was with
the younger set. He even had a hit dance record, "The Mouse,"
during the show's run. His recordings are an extension of the
zany show. While some bemoaned his use of slapstick and
double-entendre jokes, his popularity has never waned, as shown
by the success of his current stand-up act and the release of
several video tapes with scenes from his old show.
SIGNED/Inscribed 8x10 photograph.........25-35
270. Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell (b.1913)
English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first
Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980. The
first name of the fictional scientist Bernard Quatermass,
the hero of several BBC Television science-fiction serials
of the 1950s, was chosen in honor of Lovell. Signed picture
portrait., 8 x 11-3/4". VG.............35-45
271. [BASEBALL]
Robin Roberts [1926-2010] Baseball hall of Fame. Signed 1p.
form, no date, 8.5 x 11. Sent by a Sports company in Wellesley,
Mass. regarding the signing of baseballs. The players were given
a number of choices to respond to - Roberts has checked "Send me
a sample of the finished product, and he signs and writes in
Florida address. Mail creases and 2 file holes at
top..........35-45
272. [BASEBALL] Bob Lemon [1920-2000] Baseball Hall of Fame. Signed 1p. form, no date, 8.5 x 11. Sent by a Sports company in Wellesley, Mass. regarding the signing of baseballs. The players were given a number of choices to respond to - Lemon has checked "I am interested in your offer. Please send a ball for me sign so that I can see the finished product. " Mail creases............35-45
273. Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) American journalist, historian and adventure writer. His most well-known work is "Indian Fights and Fighters". Brady's first major book "For Love of Country" whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy. AQS, 1901, on 3-3/4 x 2-3/8" card........20-30
274. [ENGLAND] Sir Nicolas C. Tindal (1776-1846) celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended Queen Caroline at her trial for adultery in 1820. ALS, 1836, written on both sides of 7x9 in. sheet. Light toning; old mounting remains along one edge on back do not affect text......50-75
275. Alfred L. Atherton Jr. (1921 - 2002) United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt in 1979-1983. TLS, 1979, 1p..........20-30
276. [THEATRE] Victor Mapes (1870-1943) American playwright. Brief ALS, 1907, 1p. VG.......25-35
277. Lowell Thomas [1892-1981] Am. writer/broadcaster. Clip signature.........20-30
278. Peter Benchley [1940-2006] author
"JAWS". ANS ON 3X5 CARD.....25-35
279. (20th CENTURY BRITISH
LITERATURE LOT) [1] Michael
Francis Gilbert, CBE (1912-2006) British
writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers, ALS, 1992, 2pp
[2] Geoffrey Edward West Household
(1900-1988) prolific British novelist who
specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue
Male (1939). ALS, 1973, with small signed
photograph [3] Anthony
Armstrong (1897-1976) Anglo-Canadian
writer, dramatist and essayist. SIGNATURE on
stationary [4] A. J. P.
Taylor FBA (1906-1990) English historian
who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.
Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to
millions through his television lectures. His combination of
academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard
Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age”. TLS
1982 [5] John Arden
(1930-2012) English Marxist playwright who at his death was
lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of
the late 1950s and early 60s”. SIGNATURE
[6] Pamela Snow (1912 –1981) English novelist,
playwright, poet, literary and social critic, wife of Lord
Charles Percy Snow. TLS, 1972...........75-100
280. ROBERT C. WINTHROP (1809-1894) American Statesman/Politician - He
studied law under Daniel Webster, was admitted (1831) to the
bar, and was (1835-41) a Whig member of the Massachusetts
legislature. He served (1842-50) in the U.S. House of
Representatives, becoming SPEAKER of the US Hse of Rep. in 1847.
Appointed (1850) to the Senate to complete Daniel Webster's
unexpired term, he was defeated (1851) for reelection by Charles
Sumner. He was generally considered a moderate in the sectional
disputes leading up to the Civil War. He gained a reputation as
an orator and was the chief speaker at the laying of the
cornerstone of the Washington Monument (1848) and again (1885)
at its dedication. After 1851 he chiefly devoted himself to
literary and philanthropic work. Winthrop College in South
Carolina was named in his honor. His writings include The Life
and Letters of John Winthrop (1864-67), Washington, Bowdoin, and
Franklin (1876), and Memoir of Henry Clay (1880). SIGNATURE
& last few lines clipped from letter..........20-30
281. [ART] Ignaz
Michael Marcel Gaugengigl
(1853-1932) German-American painter and engraver who
worked primarily in the United States. He specialized in
portraits and historical paintings. He was known as the
"Meissonier of Boston", because of his many portraits of the
"Boston Brahmins" and their families, and was one of the
founders of the Guild of Boston Artists. Most of his works are
in private collections. Signature on 3.5 x 2.5"
slip. Fine example.........25-53
282. [ENGLAND] Gathorne
Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
(1814-1906), known as Gathorne Hardy until 1878, was a prominent
British Conservative politician. He held office in every
Conservative government between 1858 and 1892 and notably served
as Home Secretary from 1867 to 1868 and as Secretary of State
for War from 1874 to 1878. Signed address posal
panel, postmarked 1867. Tipped to page...........25-35
283. [THEATRE] E.L. Davenport (1816-1877) American actor. Born in Boston, he
made his first appearance on the stage in Providence, Rhode
Island in support of Junius Brutus Booth. Afterwards he went
to England, where he supported Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt (Ritchie)
(1819 -1870), William Charles Macready and others. In 1854 he
was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian
plays and in dramatizations of Dickens's novels. As Bill Sikes
he was especially successful, and his Sir Giles Overreach, a
role he played at Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1869, and
Brutus were also greatly admired. Signature on 4-1/4 x 2-1/2. Superb example...........25-35
284. [MILITARY] Robert C. Davis (1876-1944) American Major General who served as Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1922 to 1927. Signed 3x5 card ; he has added rank. Even overall age toning......20-30
285. [MILITARY] Charles H. Muir - American Major General. Signed 3x5 card. Sun
toned at 2 edges.....20-30
287. [ENGLAND]
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland PC (Ire), FRS
(1745-1814) British statesman and diplomat. In 1771 Auckland
published Principles of Penal Law, and soon became a recognized
authority on commercial and economic questions. In 1778 he
carried an Act for the improvement of the treatment of
prisoners, and accompanied the Earl of Carlisle as a
commissioner to North America on an unsuccessful mission to
settle certain disputes with certain colonists there. SIGNED
address panel postmarked 1813...........25-35
288. [FILM] Susanna Foster
[1924-2009] American film actress best known for her leading
role as Christine. Signed, inscribed color 10x8 movie
still photo. VG..........25-35
291. [FILM] Shannon Day (1896 - 1977) (born, Sylvia Day)[1] was an American silent film actress who appeared in supporting parts in numerous productions. She also performed on the Broadway stage as a teenager. Her career did not survive the sound era. Her first film was Cecil B. DeMille's Forbidden Fruit. Signed card, approx. 3-1/2 x 2-1/4", with envelope, 1921..............20-30
292. PETER
Y. CUTLER
(1820-1869)
Wall-street lawyer,
who was found dead
in his room at the
Pacific Hotel, under
circumstances that
led to the
supposition that he
had committed
suicide. Post war he
was a defender of
Jefferson Davis.
ALS, 1859, 2pp.
VG........50-75
293. Melbourne [1779-1848] Prime Minister of Great Britain. Clip Signature.......50-75
294. Gladys Hasty Carroll [1904-1999] American novelist. Slip containing 2 of her signatures [could be separated]..........40-60
295. Irving Bacheller [1859-1950] American writer. Brief AQS.......40-60
296. Philip Berrigan (1923-2002) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest. Along with his brother Daniel Berrigan, he was for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for acts of vandalism including destruction of government property. Signature, inscribed on 3x5 card........20-30
297. [FRANCE] J. A. Coulangheon [1875-1904] French, author, poet. His output was small, as he died young. Rare signature............50-75
298. [MUSIC] DELLA REESE (1932- ) American Singer/Actress. SIGNED Document - A contract for her to appear on the Rosey Grier Show, for $57.00.........................40-60
299. [FILM - MUSIC] Nelson Eddy [1901-1967] American singer and
actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and
1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio,
television, and in nightclubs. Signature on 3 x 2-3/4" slip.............40-60
300. Louise Gluck (b. 1943) American poet. TLS, 2002, to Robert Allen Jr. VG........25-35
301. [TV] Robert Horton (b. 1924), American television actor, was most noted for the role of Flint McCullough in the TV series Wagon Train (1957-1962). ANS, 1991, on back of postcard picturing him......20-30
302. Lewis B. Hershey [1893-1977] Am. general. Signed card.........20-30
303. [THEATRE] Harriett Vernon [1851-1923] British actress. Clip signature.........20-30
304. Jack Mulhall [1887-1979] actor; in 430 films. Sig/inscribed......15-20
305. Kate Terry [1844-1924] Brit. actress; sister of Ellen Terry. Clip signature......15-20
306. Camille Darville [1863-?] Dutch actress, singer. Signed card........15-20
309. The Masters and Johnson research team,
composed of William
H.
Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, pioneered research into the nature of human
sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual
disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. Sheet
signed by both, 1973, 8.5 x 11. Inscribed in type to
collector..........60-80
310. [FILM] Holly
Hunter (b. 1958) American actress. Hunter
starred in The Piano for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best
Actress in a Leading Role and Academy Award for Best Actress,
among other awards. Signed & inscribed 3x5
card..........15-20
311. [FILM] Maureen
Stapleton (1925-2006) American
actress in film, theater and television. Signed 3x5
card.......15-20
313. [FILM] Sally
Field (b. 1946) American actress.
Signed 3x5 card..........15-20
314. [FILM] Mira Sorvini (b.
1967) American actress. She came to prominence after winning the
Academy Award and Golden Globe for best supporting actress for
her performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995).
Signed 3x5 card......15-20
317. [BRITAIN]
Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber (1920-
2005) British Conservative politician who served as a
member of both the House of Commons and the House of
Lords. Barber was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by
Edward Heath in 1970 after the early death of Iain
Macleod, serving in that capacity until 1974. He became
Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank after retiring from
front-line politics in 1974, and served from 1974 to 1987.
SIGNED 6 x 8 PHOTO............25-35
320. Jasper Yeates (1745-1817) was a lawyer and judge from Pennsylvania. He was born in Philadelphia into a prominent family, and was sent to the Inns of Court in England for his legal training. He became a resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he sided with the Patriot cause. In 1776, he served as a commissioner to investigate Native American affairs in Pittsburgh. After the Revolution, Yeates was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787. He served as a justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1791 until his death in 1817. A Federalist, he was appointed by the Washington administration in 1794 to serve on a commission sent to negotiate an end to the Whiskey Rebellion. The Jasper Yeates House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Offered here is a small document dated 1782, written out by Yeates, signing his name in the text. This is a receipt. There are signatures of others on both sides. This looks like it was removed from a larger document. Approx. 6 x 2-1/4". VG...........50-75
321. [ENGLAND] Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862-1938) was the mother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, and then Queen Mother) and maternal grandmother and godmother of Elizabeth II. Rare ALS, 1936, 1p., sending autograph during the year her daughter became Queen. With envelope...........150-200
322. [MUSIC] Sigmund Spaeth [1885-1965] musicologist who traced the sources and origins of popular songs to their folk and classical roots. Presenting his findings through books, lectures, liner notes, newspapers, radio and television, he became known as The Tune Detective. ANS, 1940, 1p. stating his favorite composer was Brahms. G+..........30-40
323. [FILM] June Allyson - actress. Signed 3x5 card.......20-30
325. [FILM] TONY RANDALL (1920-2004) Actor, Director. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. Signed in dark area. VG..........30-40
326. [FILM] CELESTE HOLM
(1917-2012) Actress, Academy Award winner. SIGNED
inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG.........30-40
328. [FILM] VIRGINIA
CAPERS (1925-2004) Actress. SIGNED
inscribed 8x10 photograph (1975)...............30-40
330. [PRINTED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT] Message From The President of the United States - In answer to a Senate resolution of Dec. 7, 1877, further information in relation to the cost of the Sioux war. Rutherford B. Hayes. This was printed for the US Senate, 45th Congress, 2d Session, Ex. Doc. No. 33, March 26, 1878, 5 pages..25-35
331. [PRINTED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT] Message From The President of the United States - A report relative to the compensation of Henry B. Carrington, a special agent for the sale of certain Indian lands. Signed in type Benj. Harrison. This was printed for the US Senate, 51st Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 70, Feb. 24, 1890, 32 pages plus foldout tract map. Attached in another signed in type by Harrison, Ex. Doc. 71, related to Indians in New Mexico............25-35
333. [POETRY] John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978) American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. He wrote fourteen books of poetry and was co-winner of the 1962 Bollingen Prize. As an editor, he is noted for discovering young poets like May Swenson and James Dickey. Signed paper below affixed portrait. Very neat. Overall 6.5 x 9.5". VG..........40-60
335. [FILM] JOAN BENNETT
(1910-1990) Actress. SIGNED inscribed book page portrait
8x1.............30-40
336. ART LINKLETTER (1912-2010) Entertainer, author. SIGNED 5x7 photograph in silver ink. VG.........25-35
337. [FILM] DEANNA DURBIN (1921-2013)
Canadian born American Actress/singer who appeared in a number
of films in the 1930’s and 40’s. TLS (1989)...........30-40
338. [FILM] Lilia Skala (1896-1994) Austrian-American actress. She was
nominated for a Best Supporting Actress for her most famous role
as the Mother Superior in Lilies
of the Field opposite
Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier. Skala also appeared in Ship of
Fools,
339. PHYLLIS DILLER 1917-2013) Actress, comedian.SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG............30-40
340. [FILM] CHARLES L. BUSCH (1954) Actor, screenwriter, dramatist, female impersonator. TLS (2002)...........25-35
341. HENRY MORGAN (1915-1994) Comedian, Radio and
Television personality. DS, agreement
(1965).............35-45
342. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (b. 1935) is an African American business executive. He has been dubbed a Washington "power broker" by many. Signed & inscribed photo, 5x7................25-35
343. HUNTINGTON
HARTFORD (1911-2008) Producer. TLS (1958),
BRIEF 1p. With envelope..........40-60
344. JAMES PATTERSON (1947)
American Novelist known for his series about psychologist Alex
Cross. SIGNED 8x10 color photograph. VG.......25-35
345. [AVIATION] WALTER HINTON
(1888-1981) American Early Aviator, balloonist. CLIP
SIGNATURE.........30-40
346. BARBARA COONEY
(1917-2000) American Children’s Author and Illustrator of more
than 200 books, Caldecott Medal. TLS (1981)......25-35
347. [FILM] OSSIE DAVIS (1917-2005) Actor, Director, Poet . SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG.........30-40
348. [FILM] ALICE WHITE (1904-1983)
Silent Screen Actress who started her film career when Charlie
Chaplin put her in the movies. Entered talkies in 1928. ALS, no
date, 1p...........40-60
349. [MEDICINE] DENTON
COOLEY (1920) American Heart Surgeon first
to implant an artificial heart. SIGNED 5x7 photograph
(2000). VG.......25-35
350. [ART] Sears Gallagher [1869-1955] American artist of note, Signature with sentiment dated 1930...........20-30
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auction of mainly works of art on paper from Old Master to
contemporary abstract art. There are 356 lots in this
auction and all are pictured.
351. [US CONGRESS] Slip of
paper with two signatures. (1) Hendley
Stone Bennett (1807-1891) was a U.S.
Representative from Mississippi. He moved to Paris, Texas, in
1859 and continued the practice of law. He served as a captain
in Company G, Thirty-second Regiment, Texas Cavalry, Confederate
States Army, from August 5, 1861, to August 31, 1862. (2)
Thomas Birch Florence
(1812-1875) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Pennsylvania. He learned the hatter's
trade and engaged in that business in 1833. He was engaged in
the newspaper business. He was an unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for election in 1846 and 1848. After leaving Congress
edited and published the Constitutional Union in Washington,
D.C., and subsequently became the proprietor of the Sunday
Gazette. Approx. 5 x 4-3/4 in. VG..............20-30
Gerhardt
side
Leffler-Burckhard
side
353.
[ART] Frank
Beard (1842-1905) grew
to become a widely known American illustrator,
"chalk talk" artist, and cartoonist in the late
19th century. In early 1850s, Beard was a
boy of 7 or 8 years old when he first saw Yankee
Notions, which he later termed "the first American
comic journal," published by T.W. Strong in New
York City USA. His favorite was Brother Jonathan
published by Wilson & Company in New York
City. He and his brothers would "spread the pages
on the floor and lie on our stomachs, studying the
pictures and spelling out the titles and jokes
beneath them, for hours together." Beard's first
published work as an illustrator may have appeared
in Comic Monthly, published from 1859 to 1881. His
cartoons also appeared in Judge. Beard drew both
single panel cartoons and sequential art (comics).
Around 1893 he began illustrating for The Ram's
Horn, a non-denominational Christian periodical
published during the 1890s and early 1900s by
Frederick L. Chapman & Company in Chicago,
Illinois USA. The magazine warned of the growing
dangers of secularism in American society which
were becoming more evident at that time.
Eventually Beard became the magazine's principal
illustrator, drawing both covers and interior
illustrations. It is reported that, at some point
in his career, Beard vowed to no longer do any
cartoons which weren't aimed at spreading
Christianity. Some of The Ram's Horn material was
gathered together into a book called Fifty Great
Cartoons(1899), published by the magazine for its
subscribers. A full color edition of Beard's
artwork, entitled One Hundred Sermon Pictures, was
published in 1902. Frank's brother was
Daniel Carter Beard [1850-1941] American
illustrator, author, youth leader, and social
reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in
1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts
of America (BSA). Offered here is an original ink
drawing, unsigned but guaranteed to be by him,
approx. 14-1/2 x 11-1/4" thick paper stock. Small
corner piece missing affects nothing.
VG..........200-300
See
Beard drawing
354. (BRITISH LITERARY NOTABLES LOT)
OLIVER SHEWELL
FRANKS, Baron Franks (1905-1992)
Philosopher, writer, Public Servant. SIGNED FDC.
SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON,1st
Baronet (1792-1867) Historian, Lawyer, “Modern History of
Europe”, French Revolution, Fall of Napoleon, ALS
(1859). JOHN WALTER
III (1818-1894) Publisher and proprietor of the
“London Times”/politician, ALS (1887),2pp. AGNES M. F. ROBINSON DARMESTER
(1857-1944) Writer/Scholar. SIGNATURE. DAVID STEUART ERSKINE,
11th Earl of Buchan (1742-1829) Scottish Antiquarian.
SIGNATURE. JOSEPH
CAMPBELL (1879-1944) Scottish Poet
and Lyricist. TLS (1925). EDMUND C. BLUNDEN (1896-1974)
Poet, Author, Critic SIGNED presentation page from his
1929 book “Near & Far”................80-120
355.
[ART] David Levine
(1926-2009) American artist and illustrator best known for
his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Jules Feiffer
has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of
the 20th Century". ALS, 1989, 1p., with envelope and
signature in return address.......75-100
356. [ART] Richard
Huntington (b. 1936) American
painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The
Buffalo News and has written for High Performance magazine,
ARTnews, and Art New England. Most recently, he was a catalog
essayist for the exhibition Artpark: 1974–1984 at UB Art
Gallery, Center for the Arts; Forty: The Sabres and the NHL at
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Duayne Hatchett, Form,
Pattern, and Invention, the catalogue for a retrospective
exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo
(2009). In 2007, Huntington won the Associated Press First
Award for Criticism and earlier, among a number of residencies,
served as visiting critic at the Kennedy Center for the Arts,
Washington, D.C. From 1982 to 1985, he was Visual Arts Director
at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. He has shown his art
nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at
the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, New York
(2008–2009); the Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery, Buffalo
(2008); and the JR Konsthallen, Linköping, Sweden (2007). In
2010, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery included his work in the
international biennial Beyond/In Western New York 2010:
Alternating Currents. In 2009, The Carey Berkus Studio in San
Miguel de Allende, Mexico, included his work in a group show
representing Mexican and American artists. Huntington
holds a BFA from Syracuse University and a Master of Art and
Humanities from the University at Buffalo. He divides his time
between Buffalo and the town of San Miguel de Allende in central
Mexico. Original aquatint etching, pencil signed and
dated 1977, image approx. 14 x 10-3/4" plus
margins. Mounting traces at outer top edge well away from
image. VG. This was made while Huntington was visting
artist-in-residence at the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.
357. [ART] John Hunter {b. 1934) American printmaker. The Norton Simon Museum has 26 of Hunter's prints in their collection. His works are in the permanent collections of: National Gallery, Washington D.C., Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. C., 200 other major collections. Biography in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America. He did the painting of Rock Hudson in Paramount Pictures film "Seconds" which is now a cult film in France. Color lithograph, pencil signed, 1978, ed. 25, approx. 15 x 22-1/2 in. flush. VG.......150-200
358. Leon Cortes
(Castro) (1882-1946) President of Costa Rica from 1936 to
1940. He was the last of a series of relatively conservative
Presidents. RADIOGRAMA, 19 Feb. 1937, signed in type. Sent
to Jorge Ubico, President of Guatemala. Not translated.
8-1/4 x 7-1/4". This Cable Gram is dated 1937. It is the
original and, of course, not signed in ink.
VG...............100-150
359. [GOLF] Raymond
Floyd [b. 1942] American golfer.
Signed, inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG......25-35
360. [MARYLAND] Francis
Thomas (1799-1876) was a Maryland
politician who served as the 26th Governor of Maryland from
1842–1844. He also served as a United States Representative from
Maryland, representing at separate times the fourth, fifth,
sixth, and seventh districts. In 1841, Thomas was elected
Governor of Maryland, defeating challenger William Cost Johnson
by a margin of 600 votes. During his tenure as governor, he is
perhaps best known for his highly publicized and violent divorce
with his wife, Sally Campbell Preston McDowell. Until that
event, he had been a leading candidate for Democratic nomination
for President of the United States, but the divorce seriously
disrupted his chances in succeeding in the nomination, and thus
he did not pursue it. DOCUMENT
SIGNED as Governor, 1843, appointment of District
Justices. Approx. 16-1/4 x 10-1/4. Also signed by Theodorick Bland
(1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in
Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition............100-150
361. [MARYLAND] Thomas
Ward Veazey (1774-1842) Maryland
politician that served in a variety of roles. The zenith of his
career was being the 24th Governor of the state from 1836 to
1839, when he was selected to serve three consecutive one-year
terms by the Maryland General Assembly. Veazey was the last
Maryland governor to be elected in this fashion and also the
last Whig Party member to serve as Maryland governor. The
governor vehemently and firmly believed in slavery, advocated
for a general system of education throughout the State, and
expressed a great deal of interest and concern over the matter
of internal improvements. DOCUMENT SIGNED as Governor,
1838, appointment of Justices of the Levy Court of Frederick
County. Approx. 16-3/4 x 10-3/4. Also signed by Theodorick Bland
(1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in
Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition............100-150
363. [PORTRAIT] of Robert Bloomfield engraved by William Ridley (1764-1838 ), after painting by Samuel Drummond (1765-1844). Approx. 3.5 x 3" on 9 x 5.5" paper. Dated 1801. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) was an English labouring class poet whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. Fine.....25-35
364. [FILM] Ricardo Cortez [1899-1977] American film actor who began his career during the silent era. Cortez appeared in over 100 films. Although he began his career playing romantic leads, when sound cinema arrived, his powerful delivery and New York accent made him an ideal heavy, and he switched from sex symbol to character actor. Clip signature, about 3-1/4 x 1-3/4 lined slip............25-35
366. [THEATRE] Sir Francis Robert Benson (1858-1939) British actor and theatre manager. He founded his own company in 1883 and produced all but two of Shakespeare's plays. He was notable for producing at Oxford the first performance of a Greek play, the Agamemnon, in which many Oxford men who afterwards became famous in other fields took part. Signed vintage postcard photograph..........35-45
Click here to see Benson
367. [FILM] Ed
Wynn (1886-1966) was a popular American
comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy
character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his
later career as a dramatic actor. Document signed, 1 page,
June 5, 1951, 8x10 agreement with Seaman Jacobs (1912-2008)
the American screenwriter. Agreement for Jacobs to use
some of Wynn's material. In part, "...the sum of
$75.00 payable to you...to have the right to use that
certain comedy routine and gag material, known as "The
Puppet Sketch", on June 20, 1951 Ed Wynn TV Show..."
Signed by both Wynn and Seaman Jabobs. He wrote
episodes for several TV shows, such as The Addams Family, The
Lucy Show, I Dream of Jeannie, F-Troop, The Andy Griffith
Show, Here's Lucy and Diff'rent Strokes. He was nominated for
an Emmy Award in 1978 for Outstanding Writing in a
Comedy-Variety or Music Special for The George Burns One-Man
Show in 1977. The agreement is matted and nicely framed along
with a picture of Ed Wynne. Excellent
condition...........200-300
See Wynn
agreement
368.
Mystery Document on paper
1823 - signed, 1p, 11 x 7.5". Not
translated. See scan below. VG............80-120
371. [MUSIC] H. Maurice Jacquet (1886-1954) French composer, conductor, known for his musical compositions and operas, he collaborated with Preston Sturgis, the actor and playwright. AMQS from his composition "Romanitza" the opera. Written and signed on 6 x 4/5 album page. VG............60-80
See Jacquet AMQS
372. [MUSIC] Arthur Butterworth (b. 1923) English composer, conductor and teacher. His works include six symphonies, the sixth having its première in St Petersburg by St Petersburg State Capella Orchestra on 15 November 2009. In the summer of 2008 Butterworth returned to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to conduct a recording of his Fourth Symphony (1986) and his Viola Concerto (1988) with the English viola player, Sarah-Jane Bradley. He has also composed eight concertos, several other large orchestral scores and a considerable amount of 'serious' music for brass (almost totally neglected by the brass band movement). At 87 he is still active as a composer and an occasional conductor (August 2010). Signed, inscribed 1-page copy of part of his Fourth Symphony. Signed on front and verso, 2011. One middle fold. VG..........50-75
373. [MUSIC] Edward Gregson [b. 1945] English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He has made a major contribution to the repertoire of brass and wind bands and ensembles including for brass. AMQS, inscribed, from his 1979 "Trombone Concerto". 6x4. VG.............50-75
375. [MUSIC] Jaroslav Kocian [1883-1950] Czech violinist & composer. He is considered, together with Jan Kubelík, as the most important representative of Sevcik school". An interpreter of violin compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is especially noted for his compositions for the violin, which have been recorded most often by his student Josef Suk. He taught at the Prague Conservatory. Signed Autograph Music Quotation, Chicago, 1903, written on 10-3/4 x 7" album page. Long bar of handwritten music "Paganini." On other side is the signature of the great actor, Constant Coquelin, dated Chicago 1904. Edge tear & nicks well away from writing.........100-150
376. [MUSIC] Dominick Argento (b. 1927) American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music. ALS, no date, 1p..............25-35
377. [MUSIC] Andrew Litton (b. 1959) American orchestral conductor. Signed, inscribed color 5x7 photo. VG.........25-35
378. [MUSIC] Keely Smith (b. 19320 American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among others, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra. TLS, 1995, 1p. VG..........25-35
380. [MUSIC] Lalo Schifrin [b. 1932] Argentine composer, pianist and
conductor best known for his film and TV scores, such as the
"Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy
Awards and six Oscar nominations. Schifrin, associated with the
jazz music genre, is also noted for work with Clint Eastwood and
the Dirty Harry films. Signed 5x7 photo. Fine..........25-35
381. [MUSIC] Wilfred Glenn (1881-1970) American opera singer. Signed 8x10 photo [sepia tone], dated 1932. VG.........30-40
See Glenn382. [MUSIC] George Hamilton
[1901-1957] popular bandleader. Signed vintage 5x7 photo.
VG..........35-45
383. [FILM] Gregory Hines
[1946-2003] American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.
TLS, 1981, 1p. VG.........25-35
384. [GREAT BRITAIN] Burke, Edmund. 1729-1797. British statesman and orator, b. Dublin. Entered Middle Temple (1750) but abandoned legal studies for literary work; published Vindication of Natural Society, satire upon Bolingbroke (1756), and On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757); began Annual Register (1758) and edited it for some 30 years. Became secretary to Marquis of Rockingham and entered Parliament (1765); gained high position among Whigs through eloquence on American question and vigorous opposition to George III' s policy of court domination and arbitrary rule; issued political pamphlets On the Present State of the Nation replying to Grenville on commerce and finance (1769), and Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, accusing Tory government of suppressing public opinion, as in Wilkes case (1770); advocated liberal treatment of colonies in speeches American Taxation (1774) and Conciliation with the Colonies (1775); championed free trade with Ireland and Catholic emancipation. Paymaster of the forces under Rockingham (1782) and in succeeding coalition government; took active part in investigation of East India Company and urged impeachment of Warren Hastings, opening the case (1788), and delivering nine-day speech in reply to defense (1794); supported Wilberforcein advocating abolition of slave trade (1788-89); appeared as champion of tradition and constitutionalism in conservative English mold in opposition to speculative innovation and mere democracy in Reflections on the French Revolution (1790) and a series of writings mounting in passionate denunciation and reaching climax in Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795-97); quarreled with Fox and Whigs (1791); retired from Parliament on pension (1794), defending its acceptance in the Letter to a Noble Lord (1796). ORIGINAL ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of BURKE [1853], image approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. Engraved by C.E. WAGSTAFF. UNSIGNED, of course. Very good condition...................35-45
385. Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) Irish writer who is known today as a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist. ALS, no yr., 6pp. Small chip out of top of pages 3 and 4 not affecting content. .............60-80
386. [FILM] THEODORE BONNET
[1908-1983] Am. author best remembered for his 1950 novel "The
Mudlark" which was made into a film. ALS, 1949, 1 full page plus
closing line & signature on 2nd page. Talks mainly about
Hallandia [Sweden] and what it was like during the
war....................75-100
387. Tom Eagleton (1929 - 2007) US Senator from Missouri,
serving from 1968 -1987. He is best remembered for
briefly being a Democratic Vice Presidential nominee,
sharing the ticket under George McGovern in 1972. Nice
8x10 photo signed 1985. VG...........25-35
388. [MUSIC] Archibald Joyce [1873-1963] British composer. Signed
card......20-30
391. Fancis G.
Peabody [1847-1936]
Unitarian clergyman. ALS 1901......25-35
393. Earl
Holliman (b. 1928) is an
American actor. Firm career: Holliman first appeared in 1953's
Scared Stiff. Three years later, he won the Golden Globe Award
for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for his performance
in the 1956 film, The Rainmaker. Other notable film appearances
were in Broken Lance, Giant, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,
Forbidden Planet, Hot Spell, Visit to a Small Planet, The
Bridges at Toko-Ri, The Trap, The Big Combo, The Sons of Katie
Elder, Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, Last Train from Gun Hill and
Summer and Smoke. Signed 8x10
color photo. VG............25-35
394. [BALLET] HELGI TOMASSON (1942- ) American Ballet Star/Choreographer.
SIGNED 8x10 portrait photograph. VG...................25-35
395. [COMPUTERS] Gene M. Amdahl (.
1922) Norwegian American computer architect and hi-tech
entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers
at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl
Corporation. He is perhaps best known for formulating Amdahl's
law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel
computing. ALS, no date, on 4x6 card. Fine............40-60
396. Malcolm Taylor Dougherty (pen
name Malcolm Taylor) (1888-1989) author of boys' books and a
poet. An archive of 10 ALSs dated 1983-1989, PLUS 7
Christmas cards, each with long notes written by him on them;
plus a photo and funeral card. Interesting reflections by a
centenarian. Most are signed "Doc." VG.......100-150
397. Paul Zindel Jr. (1936-2003) American playwright, novelist. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
398. (JOURNALISM). 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, 1910......25-35
399. [MUSIC] James Conlon (b. 1950) American conductor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......25-35
400. [FILM] Ken Annakin OBE (1914- 2009) English film director. Annakin became known for a series of Walt Disney adventures, including The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), The Sword and the Rose (1953), Third Man on the Mountain (1959), and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). He was later associated with another American producer, Darryl F. Zanuck, when he was hired to direct the British segments in The Longest Day (1962). As head of the 20th Century-Fox Studio, Zanuck endorsed Annakin's most ambitious project Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965). Annakin also directed the big-scale war film Battle of the Bulge (also 1965) for the Warner Brothers studio. Signed, inscribed printed picture, approx. 7 x 8". VG...........25-35
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
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
422. [PENN] CRAWFORD, Thomas Hartley, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Chambersburg, Pa., November 14, 1786; was graduated from Princeton College in 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Chambersburg; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); member of the State house of representatives in 1833 and 1834; appointed a commissioner to investigate alleged frauds in the sale of the Creek Reservation in 1836; appointed by President Van Buren Commissioner of Indian Affairs and served from October 22, 1838, to October 30, 1845; appointed by President Polk as judge of the criminal court of the District of Columbia in 1845 and served until 1861, when the court was reorganized; died in Washington, D.C., on January 27, 1863; interment in the Congressional Cemetery. CLIP SIGNATURE.......20-30
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
426. Burton Frye - signed title page from his "The Good Surprise - Poem by Burton Frye."..........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
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
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
440. [SCIENCE] Thomas Wright (1711-1786) English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. Wright is best known for his publication An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe (1750), in which he explains the appearance of the Milky Way as "an optical effect due to our immersion in what locally approximates to a flat layer of stars." This idea was taken up and elaborated by Immanuel Kant in his Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted...........50-75
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. [ENTERTAINMENT] Rodney
Dangerfield (1921-2004) American comedian
and actor, known for the catchphrase "I don't get no respect!"
and his monologues on that theme. He is also remembered for his
1980s film roles, especially in Easy Money, Caddyshack, and Back
to School. Signed & inscribed 3x5 lined card.
VG................20-30
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
453. [MUSIC] Cora de Wilhorst [b. 1835] Opera singer. Signature with sentiment dated 1858. VG...........20-30
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
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
460. [OKLAHOMA] Don Nickles (b. 1948) US Senator from Oklahoma from 1981-2005. SIGNED & INSCRIBED color 8x10 photo..........20-30
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
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
479. [RELIGION] Pierre Simon de Dreux-Breze (1811-1893)
Priest since 1825 , Vicar General and Canon Emeritus of
Paris, he distinguished himself as a preacher, and
was appointed Bishop of Moulins October 28, 1849, by the
President of the Republic Called to Rome by Pope
Pius IX on 7 January 1850, it was dedicated to Our Lady
of Paris on 14 April and took possession of his see on 1 May.
Near Dom Prosper Gueranger, he established the Roman rite in
his diocese a pastoral letter by the 21 November 1853 and was
a promoter of the Gregorian chant. [internet
translation]. ALS, not dated, 3 full pages,
5-1/4 x 8-1/4". On the verso of page 3 is an ALS
by Xavier de Ravignan
(1795-1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in
Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor
of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821. Entering
a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus,
he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor
and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame,
where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds.
Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at
Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in
Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence
et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the
Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits'
strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time
in France. Despite painful controversy with his
superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained
loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et
Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary
merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He
steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of
Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly
death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of
Paris" to his grave. VG..........200-300
482.
James Merrill
(1926-1995) American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry (1977) for Divine Comedies (1976).
Signed typescript of his poem NIGHTGOWN, 1p, 8.5 x 11.
VG........50-75
483. [PHOTOGRAPHY - NASA] WILLENE WHISENHANT - one of the important photographers at NASA at the beginning. ORIGINAL vintage color 10x8 photo showing Alan Shepard lying down in space suit with technicians around him. Whisenhant has written caption in ink below "MA-9 - Backup - Shepard." NASA S-63-3888. VG. Provenance: Ex-collection of the photographer.........50-75
See above485.
[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 "Le
Ministère de la Marine" (The Admiralty, Paris), 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
487. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS DE LA
REPUBLIQUE, dated Year IX [1801],
16 pages., approx. 5.5 x 8.5". Many pages on
how to split up captured ships [detailed]; also
article on CORSAIRS [pirates]; etc. Signed
Bonaparte in print. VG............100-150
488. Sir Alexander Beresford Hope PC (1820-1887), known as Alexander Hope
until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854
and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a
British author and Conservative politician. Brief ALS,
1878, 1p. Tear [1" top edge] & light stain
bottom............25-35
See above
489.
David Lawrence
(1888-1973) conservative
newspaperman and former
student of Woodrow Wilson
at Princeton University.
In 1916, he became the
Washington correspondent
of the New York Evening
Post. After his reelection
as U.S. President in 1916,
President Woodrow Wilson
fired Irish-American White
House secretary (chief of
staff) Joseph Patrick
Tumulty in 1916 to placate
anti-Catholic sentiment,
particularly from his wife
and his advisor Colonel
Edward M. House, after
which David Lawrence
successfully interceded on
his behalf to remain.
During the presidency of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
David Lawrence criticised
'The New Deal' in his 1932
book Beyond
the New Deal, in which
his observation of
economic activity led him
to distinguish between
free enterprise and
corporatism, writing that
"Theoretically,
corporations are creations
of the state." In 1926,
Lawrence founded United
States Daily, a weekly
newspaper devoted to
covering government, and
seven years later shut it
down to start United
States News for an
audience of community
leaders, business people
and politicians. In 1948,
United States News merged
with Lawrence's
two-year-old weekly
magazine, World
Report to form
the news magazine U.S.
News & World Report. At the
time of Lawrence's 1973
death, the magazine had a
circulation of two
million. On April 22,
1970, David Lawrence was
presented with the
Presidential Medal of
Freedom by President
Richard Nixon. Lengthy
TLS, 1927, 2 full pages,
to James T. William. Excellent
news paper content about
the United States Daily.
VG.............75-100
490. [CARDINAL] Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889-1967) American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the sixth Archbishop of New York from 1939 to 1967, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston (1932-39). He was named a cardinal in 1946. Signed print that has postage stamp affixed. Also signed by James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (1886-1979) American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1970, and was created a cardinal in 1953. Print size approx. 8 x 10"...........100-150
491. [CARDINAL] Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889-1967) American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the sixth Archbishop of New York from 1939 to 1967, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston (1932-39). He was named a cardinal in 1946. Signed print that has postage stamp affixed. Also signed by James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (1886-1979) American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1970, and was created a cardinal in 1953. Print size approx. 8 x 10"...........100-150
493. [ART] Original
antique wood-engraving - SCENES IN ST.
LOUIS, from Picturesque America, image approx. 10
x 7 plus margins. printed text on verso as usual.
VG.........40-60
From
the private collection of HENRI CORBIERE, the noted French art
critic. The following are original drawings sent to Corbiere
from friends. Approx. paper sizes. All are in very good
condition.
Click
on descriptions to see the drawings
495. DANIEL FERRARA (Algerian, born 1906) signed ink drawing, approx. 12 x 9 in.............75-100
496. ANDRE BOUEY (1898-1976) signed ink drawing, 1966, 12 x 8 in............75-100
497. JACQUES DEMOULIN (born 1905) signed ink drawing dated 1972, 12 x 9.5 in.............75-100
498. STEFAN WALLMARK (born 1912) signed pencil drawing dated 1972, 12 x 8.5 in..........75-100
499. ERIKA BUENTELLO (American) signed pencil drawing dated 1978, 8 x 10.5 in..............75-100
500. [FRANCE] PIERRE DESCAVES - believe he was the French radio critic. Four [4] pages of notes [unsigned] in the hand of Descaves referring to Jean Cocteau. PLUS 3 ephemeral pieces related to Cocteau: 1930 1p. printed page by Cocteau on Opium; small theatre program picturing him; 2-page flyer about him.................50-75
501. [PORTRAIT] Charles Francois Daubigny (1817-1878) French painter of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism. Antique original wood-engraved portrait by T. Johnson. Approx. 6-3/4 x 4-7/8" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35
502. [PORTRAIT] Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1841-1909) French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Antique original wood-engraved portrait by R.G. Tietze. Approx. 7 x 5" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35
504. [MUSIC] Wolfgang Wagner (1919-
2010) German opera director. He is best known as the
director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a
position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in
1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he
assumed total control until he retired in 2008. Signed 4-1/4 x
5-3/4", dated 1992. VG.......30-40
505. AMERICAN
EXPRESS - 3 stock certificates, 1960-63.
VG...........40-60
506. [FILM] David Lloyd Wolper
(b.1928) American television and film producer, responsible for
shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A.
Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He
also produced numerous documentaries and documentary series like
Biography (TV series&emdash;1961-63), The Rise and Fall of
the Third Reich (TV), Appointment with Destiny (TV series), This
is Elvis, Three Days in November, Imagine: John Lennon, and
others. He directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space,
which was nominated for an Academy Award. His 1971 film (as
executive producer)about the study of insects The Hellstrom
Chronicle won an Academy Award. TLS, 1968, 1p,, signed
"David."..............25-35
507. Helen Astor [1895-1965] Am. socialite. ANS, nd, re: her father....20-30
509. Samuel Merwin [1875-1936]
American writer. Signature 1907.........20-30
510. Sir James Black Baillie
[1872-1940] British philosopher and academic. ALS, 1931,
2pp..........40-60
511. [PORTRAIT] Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Antique original wood-engraved portrait by T. Johnson. Approx. 6 x 5-1/4" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35
512. [PORTRAIT] Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st (1792- 1871) English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor. Antique original wood-engraved portrait by T. Johnson. Approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/4" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35
513. [FRANCE] Marie-Louise Becomes a Regent - offered here is Bulletin Des
Lois No. 530, signed in type by Napoleon and Marie-Louise, 8pp,
5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Empress Marie Louise of France [1791-1847] was
the second wife of Napoleon I. On 20 March 1811, Marie Louise
(as she was known in France) gave birth to a son, Napoléon
François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, styled King of Rome and later
Duke of Reichstadt. Marie Louise acted as Regent of France from
April to December 1812 during the Russian campaign and again
from April 1813 to January 1814 during her husband's absence in
the German campaign. After Napoléon was forced to abdicate his
throne in April 1814, he was exiled to the island of Elba. Marie
Louise returned to Austria, never to see her husband again.
VG............80-120
515. [ART] Albert Duvivier - Portrait of Edmond Hedouin,
plate signed and dated 1888, image 6-3/4 x 3-3/4". Wrinkles
should iron out. Hedouin was the noted artist [see lots 66 -
68 in this auction]. VG.............60-80
516. [FRANCE] FUNERAL EULOGY FOR NAPOLEON'S GENERAL BARON
DELORT, delivered "By a high /and old officer
before the French Parliament", unsigned. Author is unknown.
Approx. 8.5 x 13 in. Baron Jacques-Antoine-Adrien Delort
(16 November 1773 – 28 March 1846) was a French general and
deputy. A National Guardsman at the age of 16 in 1789, he died a
Lieutenant General, aide-de-camp to the King and a Peer of
France. Major of the 9th Dragoon Regiment, his conduct at
Austerlitz gave him command of the 24th Dragoons, at the head of
which he covered himself with glory in Spain at Molins del Rey,
Valls, Vic, and Saguntum. As a general of brigade in 1811, he
held provisional command of the cavalry of the Army of Aragon
through 1813. He beat Joseph O'Donnell at Castalla and charged
the pass at Ordal. Recalled to France, Delort charged again at
Montereau then, as a general of division, he commanded the 14th
Division of Reserve Cavalry at Waterloo. DELORT is one of the
names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe on Column
36..........100-200
See above
518. [THEATRE] GERALD SAVORY [1909-1996] English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies. His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937). He spent some time in the United States in the 1940s writing for film and television and became an American citizen. From 1964 to 1965 he was writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five episodes of ITV Play of the Week; adapting Saki, J.B. Priestley, Noël Coward and Tennessee Williams for television. He then joined the BBC first as then Head of Serials, then Head of Plays. He notably produced five episodes of the thoroughly panned Churchill's People (1975–76) and six of the eight episodes of Love in a Cold Climate for Thames Television in 1980. TLS, San Francisco, c. 1930s, 1p, 8vo. Mentions two of his plays: UPPER BIRTH and LOVE WENT A-RIDING. To Roland Young, the noted actor who played Topper.............50-75
519. David
Derek Stacton (1923-1968) American
novelist, historian and poet. TLS, no date, 1p, to Mr. Silkin,
probably Jon Silkin (1930-1997) the British poet. Stacton was
born in San Francisco. In author profiles, however, he claimed
to have been born April 25, 1925 in Minden, Nevada (several of
his books are set in Nevada). Stacton attended Stanford
University from 1941–43. He served in the Civilian Public
Service as a conscientious objector, and wrote a letter as
“David Stacton” decrying the compliant American masses to Dwight
Macdonald’s Politics in 1945. He lived in Europe from 1951–1954,
1960–1962, and 1964–1965. Most of his books as David Stacton
were originally published in England. Stacton wrote under the
pseudonyms Carse Boyd, Bud Clifton, David Dereksen and David
West. He also ghosted Living Religions Of The World a 1956 work
accredited to Frederic Spiegelberg. VG........50-75
521.
[FRANCE] 17th
century French Mystery document on paper, 3-pages, from Fouchanges, approx.
7-3/4 x 10-3/4". VG............100-150
524. [FILM] Layte Bowden -
Pan-American Airlines stewardess who kept company with Peter
Lawford for the two years he and his ex-wife, Pat Kennedy, lived
at opposite ends of the country. She was a former beauty queen,
a one-time receptionist and secretary to then-Sen. George
Smathers (D-Fla.) who graced Roll Call’s pages in 1960 as part
of a double header baseball-themed shot, went on to join the jet
set — literally. After leaving the Hill in 1962, she, whom
Life Magazine once featured in an article about “pretty girls”
in Washington, joined the ranks of the Pucci-clad Pan Am
stewardesses. “We were treated like movie stars on Pan Am,” she
said. In her role at the airline, she also flew on White House
press charters as chief purser, accompanying Presidents John
Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon on official
trips. She was with JFK in Berlin when he gave his famous
“Ich bein ein Berliner” speech and in Dallas the day he was
shot. “I was on Air Force One when the word came in” that he had
died, she said. “I fainted in the aisle and somebody got brandy
and poured it down me.” Before she traded in her swinging-single
gal status to marry Butler Aviation CEO Paul Dopp in 1971, the
Floridian said she also dated a dizzying array of Congressmen,
movie stars, and other high-ranking officials, including
then-Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.), Warren Beatty and Kennedy
brother-in-law and Rat Packer Peter Lawford. She had a small
role in the Lawford-produced film “Billie,” starring Patty Duke.
In the mid-1960s, Dopp and CBS News Anchor Dan Rather began
collaboration on a book based on their experiences traveling
with presidents but never completed it because she “was so busy
having a good time.” Rare ALS, 1966, 1p, to Milt
Ebbins, Peter Lawford's agent and business partner.........75-100
525. [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish the Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. In 1860 he made a life mask of Lincoln, of whom only one other was ever made (by Clark Mills in 1865). In the early part of spring in 1860, during Abraham Lincoln's visit to Chicago, Volk asked him to sit for a bust. When Lincoln agreed, the artist decided to start by doing a life mask. Lincoln found the process of letting wet plaster dry on his face, followed by a skin-stretching removal process, "anything but agreeable." But he endured it with good humor, and when he saw the final bust, he was quite pleased, declaring it "the animal himself." Volk later used the life mask and bust of 1860 as the basis for other editions, including a full-length statue of Lincoln. Signed 1893 bank check. VG.................100-200
526. [MIXED LOT OF AUTOGRAPHS] Comprised of: [1] Norman Zollinger - author. Sig. & inscribed page, 1981. [2] Henry William Herbert (pen name Frank Forester) (1807-1858) English novelist and writer on sport. CLIP SIGNATURE. [3] Ben Davies (1858-1943) was a popular tenor from Swansea, Wales. He performed in the first production of the Royal English Opera (now the Palace Theater), playing in the première of the opera Ivanhoe. Davies was noted for frequently singing with his eyes closed. SIGNED CARD, 1922. [4] Howard Crosby (1826-1891) American preacher and teacher. From 1870 to 1881 Crosby was chancellor of New York University. He was one of the American revisers of the English version of the New Testament. Crosby took a prominent part in politics. He urged to excise reform and opposed total abstinence. He was one of the founders and the first president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime, and pleaded for better management of Indian affairs and international copyright. CLIP SIGNATURE. Fine. [5] William H. Armstrong (1914-1999) Am. author, most noted for his Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder. Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. [6] Margaret Fitzhugh Browne [1884-1972] Am. artist. Signed card. [7] SirFrederic G. Kenyon (1863-1952) British paleographer, biblical and classical scholar. He was the director of the British Museum. He was also the president of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921 SIGNED CARD, 1922. Toned around edges. [8] Cyrus H.K. Curtis (1850-1933) was a significant American publisher. Curtis was born in Portland, Maine, and entered the publishing business there with a weekly newspaper. He founded the Philadelphia-based Curtis Publishing Company, which published the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as several other magazines and newspapers. For a time he own the Public Ledger, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Evening Post. He was also known for his philanthropy to hospitals, museums, and schools. He obtained a pipe organ manufactured by the Austin Organ Company which had been displayed at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926 and donated it to the University of Pennsylvania. It was built into Irvine Auditorium when the building was constructed and is known to this day as the Curtis Organ. It is one of the largest pipe organs in the world. SIGNATURE on card. VG. [9] Benay Venuta (1911-1995) American actress, singer and dancer. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] J. SCOPE [1662-1752] English Justice; Sec. of the Treasury [1724-1752]. Small mounted irregular slip of paper signed..........80-120
527. [TV] Sharon Gless (b. 1943)
is an American character actress of stage, film and
television, who is best known for her roles as Maggie Philbin
on Switch (1975–1978), as Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police
procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988), as
Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer
as Folk (2000–2005), and as Madeline Westen on Burn Notice
(2007–2013). Gless has won two Emmy Awards and has received 10
Emmy nominations, has been nominated seven times for the
Golden Globe (winning two in 1986 and 1991) and has received
her own Star on the Walk of Fame in 1995. Signed,
inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35
530. [FRANCE] offered here are 2 documents from France: one dated 1783, signed by Jean Francois Joly De Fleury [1718-1802] State councillor who was fired in 1783, the year of this letter which speaks of Countess of La Rochefoucault. 1-page, about 6-3/4 x 8-1/4". PLUS another document 1701, 4pp, about 8.5 x 12. Identified as being about the grandfather of de Fleury..........100-150
1701 page 2536. [GOLF] Ben Crenshaw (b. 1952) American professional golfer. In 1973, Crenshaw became the second player in Tour history to win the first event of his career. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 8x10 color photo. Fine..........20-30
537. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here is a signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG........30-40
539. Edmund Blunden, MC [1896-1974] English poet, author and critic.
Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences
in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career,
Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an
academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as
Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Signed in ink limited edition page [proof page] from the "hand-set edition of Near & Far," 6-1/4
x 9-1/2". Fine...........30-40
541.
[GOODYEAR COMPANY] Charles
Goodyear (1800-1860) American inventor who
developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 — a method that
he perfected while living and working in Springfield,
Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number
3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Offered here is a "copy" of 1849 letter from Charles Goodyear
requesting a patent for Goodyear Transparent Cement. Two
pages, contained in an elaborate mat with wooden inserts.
Provenance: Goodyear Family. Overall size approx. 25-1/2 x
19". Obviously a latter copy of the letter, probably circa
1900, possibly earlier. VG.........100-150
542. [MYSTERY LOT] includes: Warner Bros. pay check, 1984, signed on verso by Lawrence Roman (1921-2008) known for writing the hit Broadway play "Under the Yum-Yum Tree" and for adapting the farce into the 1963 movie version. Also includes CLIP SIGNATURE of Henry Martyn Scudder (1822-1895) missionary under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America to Japan and South India—to American Madura Mission and American Madras Mission. He established American Arcot Mission, North Arcot of South India—then under Madras Presidency. Also includes Edward Fuller Witsell (1891- 1969) was an officer in the United States Army who served as Adjutant General from 1946 to 1951. General Witsell was a 1911 graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and a World War I veteran. TLS, 1946, to congressman [Mas] Philip J. Philbin re: request for relief of active duty for Chaplain (1stn Lieut.) Donald B. Weymouth. Also 1881 Gov. doc from Sec. of War Alex. ramsey about Des Moines Rapids Canal; 1828 Norwich, Ct. document; 1839 document signed by I.P. hazard, Providence, RI; 4 checks signed by Brenda Kuhn; some items from the papers of congressman Philip J. Philbin; a calling card signed Mrs. Wainwright; card signed by Richardson K. Dilworth (1898-1974) American Democratic Party politician, born in the Pittsburgh area, who served as the 118th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1956 to 1962. Also card signed George W. Williams (naval officer); 1811 document from Kittery, Maine area [Spinney]; various bank checks, some small old prints, unidentified autograph signatures; documents, ephemera, etc. Approx. 82 pieces. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items............80-120
544. 1876 Centennial Reprint of the classic July 8, 1776 issue of DUNLAP'S PENNSYLVANIA PACKET OR THE GENERAL ADVERTISER containing the Declaration of Independence 16.5" x 11," as expected small tears, partial separation at one fold, all iwell away from the Declaration printing. Published by J.V. Vondersmith and printed in Philadelphia in 1876 by the Saturday Evening Mirror. A fun and historic souvenir piece.............150-200
545. John W. Forney (1817-1881) American journalist and politician. He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives 1851-1856 and 1860-1861. He was Secretary of the United States Senate 1861-1868. Brief ALS, Dec. 27, no tr., 1p...........25-35
546. [TV] Robert
Urich (1946-2002)
American film, television and stage actor and television
producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, Urich starred
in a record 15 television series. Signed, inscribed 8x10
photo. VG...........40-60
548.
[MUSIC] Georgia
Hanni - Executive
Director, Composers and Lyricists Guild of
America. TLS, 1963, 1p., to Milt Ebbins, asking
for copies of contracts for the film Johnny
Cool. Mentions Billy May, Sammy Cahn, &
Jimmy Van Heusen............50-75
549. Frank
M. Cowles - signed document, 1899,
Suffolk Co., Mass., forming a corporation to be known by the name of Cowles Art Institute.
Approx. 8.5 x 14 in., 1-page. Also known as Cowles Art School (aka Cowles
School of Art) was a studio building on 148 Dartmouth Street,
Boston, Massachusetts, that was established in 1883 and
continued operation until 1900. It was one of the
largest art schools in the city, having several hundred
scholars. By the end of the 19th century, Boston had
become an important art center. A number of highly
respected artists were teaching in city. The rich environment
for art had been promoted at least in part by the
Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870. The act mandated drawing
lessons in public schools. To fill the need for art teachers,
Massachusetts Normal Art (MNA) was established in 1873. Two
blocks behind the Museum of Fine Arts, in the New Studio
Building near the Back Bay Station, was the Cowles Art School
(1883). Cowles Art School offered instruction in figure
drawing and painting from the flat cast and life, artistic
anatomy, perspective and composition, painting still life,
drawing and painting the head from life, drawing still life,
oil and water colors, ad perspective. Notable alumni and
instructors included Childe Hassam, William McGregor Paxton,
Abbott Fuller Graves, George Elmer Browne, Robert Vonnoh
etc. Fine..........250-350
552. [BASEBALL] Harry Lavagetto -
This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated
M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing
these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium
Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss
heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The
bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads
"Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the
lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M.
Conlon, NY". From the beginning, the posters offered
collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of
photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the
alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little
after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly
before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters
issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x
12. Superb condition when compared to the usual found.
Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full
size.............40-60
See above
554. [BASEBALL] John Mize - This is a
Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114
by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos
around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are
blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper
stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center
has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the
Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads
"Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".
From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to
obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such
legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for
the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the
century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A
substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span
featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12. Superb condition
when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down
in size, this one is full size.............40-60
See above
561. [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...........100-150
See
Portrait of Washington
562. [ART] James McGarrell [b. 1930] is one of the most influential figural painters of the 1980's and 90's postmodern movement. His work is in many museum collections, including: the Centre Georges Pompidou, France; Hamburg Museum of Art, Germany; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Museum of Modern Art, also in New York City. McGarrell has won countless honors for his intricately detailed figurative paintings, based upon a myriad of fictive and literary sources. He is an elected member of both the National Academy of Design in New York and the Academie des Beaux-Art de l'Institute de France. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Jimmy Ernst Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and has been featured in five Whitney annuals and biennials as well as in the 1968 Venice Biennale. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Hamburg Museum of Art in Germany, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Original b/w lithograph, pencil signed & titled "Elephant Bathers II", 22-1/2 x 30" flush, Printer's proof. VG.......400-600
See McGarrell lithograph563. [ART] Claude Franqois FORTIER - French engraver, was born in Paris in 1775, and died in the same city in 1835. Original engraving by Fortier, title: "La Matin", image size approx. 10 x 13-1/2" plus wide margins. Circa 1820-1828. Condition: minor foxing spots on verso; minor stains & marks in margin areas; the main flaw, although less visible from front is an offset blue number that must have rested against this print years ago. At first we didn't notice this but its there. We have adjusted the estimate because of this..........75-100
564. [ART] James Brooks [1906-1992] American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Considered a first generation abstract expressionist painter, Brooks was amongst the first abstract expressionists to use staining as an important technique. The Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, Texas), the Harvard University Art Museums, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, Indiana), the Sheldon Art Gallery (Lincoln, Nebraska), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), the Tate Gallery (London) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) are among the public collections holding work by James Brooks. Signed Portland Museum of Art [Maine] membership brochure. This is also signed by Charles Whitney Payson [d. 1985] husband of Joan Whitney Payson the American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector. She was also co-founder and majority owner of Major League Baseball's New York Mets baseball franchise, and was the first woman to own a major-league team in North America without inheriting it. Also signed by Joe Brennan, the Gov. of Maine. VG..........50-75
565. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Signed bank check dated 1935 plus sheet music.. ......50-75
Click here to see Vallee566. [ART] Gustave Marie Greux [1838-1919] French etcher. Original etching, classic Barbizon scene, signed in the plate, image about 3-3/4 x 6-3/4" plus margins. Printed text on verso. VG............50-75
See Greux etching567. [FILM] Bill Williams (1915-1992) American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson. Signature matted with vintage photo. Overall 9x13"...........40-60
568. Edmund Blunden [1896-1974] English, poet, author. Signed Presentation/edition page from his book "Near & Far" 1929. Fine.............25-35
570. Fanny
Heaslip Lea [1884-1955] writer.
Signed card...........20-30
571. Geo. William Childs [1829-1894] Am. publisher. Sig./inscribed 1890............20-30
574. JOHN SAVAGE (1779-1863), Democratic-Republican Congressman from New York from 1815 to 1819; Chief Justice of the N, Y. Supreme Court 1823 to 1837. DS dated May 21, 1830, as Chief Justice authorizing Thomas G. Fletcher to practice before the Court. Nice paper seal and remnants of ribbon. 11 X 7-3.4 in. VG...........40-60
575. [CABINET] CLINTON P. ANDERSON (1895-1975), Sec. of Agriculture under Truman. Congressman and then Senator from New Mexico. LS as Chairman on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy congratulating long-term Senate employee on 50 years of service. FINE..........25-35
576. Roger Wolcott (1847-1900), Governor of Massachusetts 1896-1900. ALS, 1999, 1p.......35-45
577. {NAPOLEON III} A copy of Napoleon's decree issued at Tuilerie Palace May 21,1864 restoring French citizenship to a merchant. This is a certified true copy signed by the Asst. Mayor of the City of Bordeaux. 12 x 8" with stamped seal. With a translation............40-60
578. Eddie Albert [1906-2005] Am. actor. Signed 3x5 card........20-30
579. Mike Douglas [1925-2006] TV Show Host. Signed 3x5 card......20-30
580. Buddy Hackett [1924-2003] Comedian. Signed 3x5 card.......20-30
581. Steve Allen [1921-2000] Tonight Show host. Signed 3x5 card......20-30583. [FOOTBALL] Ara Parseghian (b. 1923) American collegiate football coach. He
served as head coach for three teams, most notably the
University of Notre Dame team from 1964-1974. During his 11
seasons as head coach of the Fighting Irish (known popularly as
"the Era of Ara"), he compiled a 95-17-4 record, for a .836
winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame
coach of the modern era. Signed,
inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............25-35
585. [MINN] Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22,
1928 in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He
grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and
studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year
program. SEC. OF AGRICULTURE. ALS, 2004, 1p...........25-35
586. [FILM & TV] Hazel Court (1926-2006) English actress best known for her
roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s. SIGNED
& INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG....25-35
587. [TV] Henry Winkler (b.
1945) American actor. Signed 3x5 card.........20-30
588. ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of JEREMIAH DAY [1773-1867] NOTED YALE CLERGYMAN. Clean.....................20-30
590. [NY] BENNETT, David Smith, a Representative from New York; born on a farm near Camillus, Onondaga County, N.Y., May 3, 1811; attended the common schools and the local academy in Onondaga; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Syracuse and engaged in the produce business, afterwards extending his business to New York City; moved to Buffalo in 1853 and built and operated several grain elevators; also purchased the original Dart grain elevator; elected a member of the State senate in 1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed his former business pursuits in Buffalo, N.Y., where he died November 6, 1894; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. SIGNATURE............15-20
591. [NY] SCHUMAKER, John Godfrey, a Representative from New York; born in Claverack, Columbia County, N.Y., June 27, 1826; completed preparatory studies in the Lenox (Mass.) Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1847; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1853 and continued the practice of law; district attorney for Kings County 1856-1859; corporation counsel for the city of Brooklyn 1862-1864; member of the State constitutional conventions in 1862, 1867, and 1894; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1864; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on November 23, 1905; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. SIGNATURE.......15-20
592. Sir ISAAC COFFIN - signature with rank of Rear
Admiral. Coffin Bay is a town at the southern extremity of the
Eyre Peninsula, which is a wheat growing area of South
Australia. British naval explorer Matthew Flinders named the
bay on 16 February 1802 in honour of his friend Sir Isaac
Coffin. CLIP SIGNATURE.............35-45
597. (MASSACHUSETTS) CENTRAL PART OF CONCORD, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 plus margins. Part of the court house is seen on the left. Burying-ground Hill [a post of observation to the British officers in the invasion of 1775] is seen a short distance beyond. VG...................25-35
598. (MASSACHUSETTS) LENOX, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 plus margins. VG.................25-35
599. [Olympics] Horace Ashenfelter, III (b.1923) American athlete. He competed in international athletics from 1947 to 1956 after service in World War II. Ashenfelter was one of America's finest runners during his career. Although he was considered a long shot, Ashenfelter was the surprise winner of the steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics at Helsinki. He finished ahead of Vladimir Kazantsev of USSR and John Disley of Great Britain, and broke Kazantsev's unofficial world record. Since Ashenfelter worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation , it led to humorous comments about him being the first American spy who allowed himself to be chased by a Russian. In addition, Ashenfelter won the Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete for the year 1952. The indoor track facility at his alma mater, Penn State, is named in his honor. Signed & inscribed album page. He adds 3000 meter steeplechase 1952 Olympic Games.........20-30
600. [Olympics] Tom Courtney (b. 1933) iAmerican athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Signed album page to which he adds 1956 Olympic 800 meters, 1600 meter relay.......20-30
601. [MUSIC] Ivor Foster (1870-1959) Baritone and teacher of singing. SIGNATURE ON ALBUM PAGE, HE DATES IT MARCH 1/1902. SIGNED BELOW BY H. LANE WILSON........20-30
603. MARY WILSON - singer., best known for her work as a founding member of The Supremes. Signed 3x5 card..........20-30
604. LOUIS ELSBERG (1836-1885) physician & author. Two ALS's [1875] on postal cards.......25-35
605. (OHIO) MARTIN L. DAVEY (1884-1946) Governor. DS, 1935, appoitment...........25-35
606. [BASKETBALL] George Yardley (1928-2004) Basketball HOF. Sig. on lined card.......20-30
607. [BASKETBALL HOF] Dave Tobey (1898-1988 ) American basketball referee. He refereed many notable pro games in New York between 1918 and 1925. In 1926 he refereed the Syracuse vs. West Point game, which featured two future Hall of Famers, Vic Hanson and John Roosma . After that game he became popular and refereed many important games from 1926 to 1945, such as the first game with a three-man officiating crew (Georgetown vs. Columbia). He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961. Signed & inscribed 2-1/2 x 6-1/2" card with his picture & bio. information......20-30
608. [U.S. GRANT] Message from the President of the United States, April 4, 1876, government document, House of Rep. Ex. Doc. No. 154, 12 pages, signed in type by Grant. Regarding Pawnee Indians. VG....30-40
613. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), American poet, critic, and essayist. A printed poem "FIN DE SIECLE", signed, 3pp. Removed from some publication. Attractive example.............25-35
613a. [FILM] Iris Adrian (1912-1994) American film actress. During the 1930s she specialised in playing glamorous gold-diggers and gangsters ' "molls", and played supporting roles in numerous features. She was considered a versatile actress, who could play drama or comedy, and she was also regarded as a capable dancer, dancing in a couple of films with George Raft. She also appeared on several radio programs, including serving as a regular on the Abbott and Costello Show. Signed, inscribed phptp, 8x10. VG......25-35
613b. Shari Lewis (1933-1998) American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s. She is best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop. Signed/inscribed 8x10 photo...............25-35
614. [MUSIC] Arlo Guthrie (b. 1947) is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice. Guthrie's best-known work is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length. His song "Massachusetts" was named the official folk song of the state in which he has lived most of his adult life. Signed 3x5 in. card. Fine................25-35
615. "Gus" Arriola (1917-2008) Mexican-American comic strip cartoonist and animator, primarily known for the comic strip Gordo, which ran from 1941 through 1985. Signed 4 x 5-1/2 photo dated 2001......25-35
616. [FILM] Bruce Bennett (1906- 2007) American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. He moved to Los Angeles in 1929 after being invited to compete for the Los Angeles Athletic Club and befriended actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who arranged a screen test for him at Paramount. In 1931, MGM, adapting author Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Tarzan adventures for the screen, selected him to play the title character. Unfortunately, he broke his shoulder filming the 1931 football movie Touchdown, which also prevented his entry into the 1932 Olympics, still holding the world record for shot put. Swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced him and became a major star. Bennett appeared in many films in the 1940s and early 1950s, including Sahara (1943) with Humphrey Bogart, Mildred Pierce (1945) with Joan Crawford, Nora Prentiss (1947) with Ann Sheridan, Dark Passage (1947) with Bogart and Lauren Bacall, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) with Bogart and Walter Huston, Mystery Street (1950), Sudden Fear (1952) with Joan Crawford and Gloria Grahame, and Strategic Air Command (1955) with James Stewart. Brief ALS, 2002, 1p, concerning his autobiography. VG................40-60
617. [CARTOON] JACK ELROD - known for his work on "Mark Trail" comic strip. Jack Elrod, who as a Boy Scout had met Dodd when the latter was a Scout leader, joined the Mark Trail team at its Atlanta, Georgia studio in 1950 as background artist (Agena). The strip's popularity grew through the mid-1960s, with Mark Trail appearing in nearly 500 newspapers through the North America Syndicate.. ALS, no date, 1p. Mentions Mark Trail........25-35
619. George Shultz [b. 1920] Sec. Labor. SP, 8x10............20-30
620. [MUSIC] Licia Albanese (b.1913) distinguished Italian soprano. ISP, 8x10. Prominent corner crease..............20-30
623. [GREAT EASTERN] John Scott Russell
1808-1882) Scottish naval engineer who built the Great Eastern
in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and made the
discovery that gave birth to the modern study of solitons.
Russell's experiments and observations led him to propose a new
system of shaping vessels, known as the wave system, which was
to culminate in the building of the SS Great Eastern. He was
held in high regard by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who made him a
partner in his project to build the Great Eastern. At its time,
this was to be the largest moveable object man had ever created.
The Great Eastern was eventually launched in 1858, having been
designed according to Russell's wave system. Russell was also
one of the earliest and most active people advocating ironclad
men-of-war, and was the joint designer of the first armoured
frigate, HMS Warrior. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted..............25-35
624.
International Mercantile Marine (White Star Lines - Titanic
Owner) stock certificate hand signed by Philip
Albright Small Franklin - 1915. Philip
Albright Small Franklin (1871–1939) was president and chairman
of International Mercantile Marine Company (IMM) from 1916 to
1936. At the time of the Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912,
Franklin was in charge of the White Star Line office and
terminus affairs at IMM headquarters in New York City.
Upon hearing about the ship's sinking via wireless messages, he
did not at first assume the worst, saying in a statement to
worried relatives and friends of the ship's ill-fated passengers
and press reporters crowding outside the White Star Line offices
at around 10:30 PM that night, "There is no danger that Titanic
will sink. The boat is unsinkable, and nothing but inconvenience
will be suffered by the passengers." Later, at about 11:30, he
insisted, "We hope that reports from the Virginian and the
Parisian will prove to be true, and that they will turn up with
some of the passengers (other than those already aboard the
Cunard liner Carpathia)." But, by midnight, Franklin admitted
the seriousness of the situation, saying in a statement, "I
thought her unsinkable, and I based my opinion on the best
expert advice. I do not understand it." Nevertheless, his
competent handling of the public relations crisis in New York at
the time earned him praise from the directors of IMM, and was
later promoted in due course as J. Bruce Ismay had fallen out of
favor due to the latter's controversial association with the
lost ship. Ismay had, at one point, been considered for the
presidency of IMM before the Titanic disaster. Approx. 10.5 x
7.5 in. VG...........100-150
625. Charles H. King - Admiral. Signature...........20-30
626. [OLYMPIC SKATERS] BONNIE BLAIR & NANCY KERRIGAN - both have signed OLYMPIC HEROES page from some publication. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4........25-35
627. [THEATRE] Herbert Kelcey - vintage stage actor. Signed 5x3 card.....20-30
628. BRANDER
MATTHEWS (1852-1929) American writer and
educator. ALS, 1905, 2pp. VG...........35-45
629. HENRY
JACKSON van DYKE (1852-1933) American
Author, educator, clergyman, lyricist. TLS, 1908, 1p.
VG..........35-45
630. HEINRICH FRIEDIRCH M. SAHM (1877-1939)
German Politician, Diplomat, Mayor Berlin (1933-1935),
Ambassador to Norway. He became the first President of the
Senate. He retained his position as Mayor after the Nazi
takeover but was replaced in 1935, but held little power over
the Commissioner Julius Lippert. TLS, 1931,
1p.............50-75
631. (FRANCE) Roger
de Beauvoir (1806-1866) Romantic novelist
and playwright. His wit, good-looks and adventurous
lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of
Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and
author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months
and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Procs, written in
1849. Afflicted with gout and nearly destitute from his
flamboyant lifestyle, de Beauvoir spent the last few years of
his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris. His
best-known works included Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1840),
Les Oeufs de Paques (1856) and Le Pauvre Diable (reprinted
1871). ALS, no yr., 1p. VG............75-100
633. Lot of 10 signed photos & printed portraits of 20th century governors. All are 10 x 8" unless otherwise indicated. [1] JOHNSON, PAUL B., governor of Mississippi 1964-68. 11 x 8 overall. Inscribed, "Best wishes to a fine young man." Glossy. [2] GUERRERO, MANUEL FLORES LEON. Governor of Guam 1963-69, apptd. by JFK. He has added "Governor of Guam". Matte finish. [3] WALLACE, LURLEEN B. Governor of Alabama 1967-68 until her death. Her husband George was the noted opponent of integration and a presidential candidate who was shot while campaigning. 5 x 3", matte finish. She added to her signature "Gov". [4] KNOWLES, WARREN P. Governor of Wisconsin 1965-71. Matte finish. Punch holes at left border barely touching the image. [5] CARGO, DAVID F. Governor of New Mexico 1967-71. Glossy. Cargo has added "Governor". [6] SMITH, HULETT C. Governor of West Virginia 1965-69. "With best wishes". Glossy. [7] BREWER, ALBERT P. Governor of Alabama 1968-78. Glossy. Inscribed "To George Berstler Sincere best wishes from his friend Albert P. Brewer, Gov." [8] HEARNES, WARREN E. Gov. of Missouri 1965-73. "Best regards". Glossy. Punch holes at right border barely touching the image. [9] WILLIAMS, JOHN BELL. Gov. of Mississippi 1968-72. "Best wishes". Glossy. Punch holes at left border not touching the image. [10] BRANIGAN, ROGER D. Gov. of Indiana 1965-69. Matte finish.........60-80
638. [ART] Filippo Morghen (Florence, 1730 - Naples, 1777) accomplished eighteenth century engraver. He studied art in Rome for a period of seven years before settling in Naples where he created etchings and engravings. Filippo Morghen was a leading engraver for the recent archaeological discoveries detailed in the Antiquities of Herculaneum, published in Naples in 1757, and the sole engraver and publisher of Views of Ruins in the Environs of Naples, published in 1766. In fact, reference is made to the discoveries at Herculaneum (then a Spanish possession) in the lower right corner of this portrait engraving of Charles III, King of Spain, where we see ancient pottery and sculpture as well as archeological tools-of-the-trade, such as a shovel and a pick. Filippo Morghen's fine engravings earned him the title of 'Engraver to the King of the Two Sicilies'. He was also the father and teacher of Rafaello Morghen (1758-1833), one of the most influential engravers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Carlos III Hispania Atque Indiarum Rex is based upon a design created by the eighteenth century Italian artist, Camillus Paderni (Naples, c. 1720 - 1770). Original Engraving, portrait of Carlos III Hispania Atque Indiarum Rex (Charles III, King of Spain), image approx. 17 X 12" plus margins. Printed on mid eighteenth century hand-made, laid paper. It is a fine, early impression in excellent condition throughout and an outstanding example of the 18th century portrait engraving. This original engraving stands as a prime example of the famous art of Filippo Morghen. VG............250-350
See Morghen portrait640. Bobby Bass (1936- 2001) American actor, stunt performer, and stunt coordinator. Bass made a career in movies and television in a variety of genres working with Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, and John Wayne. He taught martial arts and weapons handling to Geena Davis, Michael Douglas, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, and Kathleen Turner. Bass appeared in TV commercials and TV series such as Fantasy Island, McGyver, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek: The Original Series, The A-Team, and The Twilight Zone. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
641. Paul Monash (1917-2003) American producer and screenwriter. Monash won early acclaim for his writing for television, including his work on the pioneer anthology series Studio One, Suspense and Playhouse 90. Monash wrote and produced the pilot for the TV series The Untouchables (1959). After the success of The Untouchables, Monash was asked to create Peyton Place (1964–1969), an ABC-TV series that was the first prime-time serialized drama on American television. His film production credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), The Front Page (1974) and Carrie (1976). Monash produced the feature film The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), a dark, critically acclaimed crime drama starring Robert Mitchum, and also adapted the George V. Higgins novel for the screen. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
642. Dick
O'Neill (1928-1998) American stage, film and television
character actor best known for playing Irish cops, fathers,
judges and army generals. He began his acting career as an
original company member of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
643. Joel Siegel (1943-2007)
American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning
America for over twenty-five years. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
645. Dee Barton (1937-2001) American jazz trombonist, big band drummer, and prolific composer for big band and motion pictures. Barton is known for his horror-esque style of composing in action thriller films. He created the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood films Play Misty for Me, and the eerie soundtrack to the 1973 film High Plains Drifter. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
646. Alvin Sargent (b.1927) American screenwriter. He has won two Academy Awards(R) in 1978 and 1981 for his screenplays of Julia and Ordinary People. He has been involved in the writing of all the movies to date in the Spider-Man film series. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
647. Terrence Malick (b.
1943) American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
In a career spanning over four decades he has directed six
feature films. He made his directorial debut with the drama
Badlands in 1973. Malick released his second film, Days of
Heaven, in 1978, after which he took a long hiatus from
directing films. His third film, the World War 2 drama The Thin
Red Line, was released in 1998. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
649. [FILM] Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) actress. Signed 3x5 card. Fine........20-30
650. Annie Fields (1834-1915) American writer. Fields was a forward-looking, philanthropic and multi-talented woman, who encouraged the talents of others even as she followed the good of the intellect. Although Fields often turns up in the pantheons of 19th century poetry, it is for her short sympathetic biographies that she is now remembered. ALS, 1910, 1p, laid to mounting page. With original envelope........50-75
652. [PORTRAIT] of Thomas Cecil
: first earl of Exeter (1542-1623) engraved by John
Cochran (active 1821-1865) was a Scottish portrait
miniaturist, a stipple and line engraver and a painter of
watercolours. Cochran exhibited his portraits at the Royal
Academy between 1821 and 1823, and at the Suffolk Street Gallery
from 1821 to 1827. Image approx. 5x4" plus marghins.
VG..........25-35
653. Stephen Wright Kellogg
(1822-1904) Congressman from Ct. He was Colonel of the Second
Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, from 1863 to 1866, and
Brigadier-General from 1866 to 1870. He was the author and
promoter of legislation organizing the active militia in an
efficient body known as the Connecticut National Guard. CLIP
SIGNATURE.............20-30
655. Morgan R. Wise
(1825-1903) Democratic congressman from Pa. 1879-1883. Document
Signed, Washington DC, 1880, 1p. Received from the Sec. of the
Interior Vol. Two of the Official Register of the US.
VG.............35-45
659. [BRITAIN] Denman, Thomas. 1st Baron Denman. (1779-1854) English judge. Solicitor general to Queen Caroline (1820), whose innocence he maintained before bar of House of Lords (1820); attorney general (1830); prosecuted reform rioters (1832); M.P. (1818-26, 1830-32); lord chief justice (1832-50); speaker of House of Lords (1835); condemned Moxon, publisher of Shelley' s complete works, for blasphemy (1841). SIGNED address panel postmarked 1836.............25-35
661. Larry Kasdan (b.1949) American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Kasdan has been confirmed to be a consultant for the upcoming third trilogy of Star Wars. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
662. William Goldman (b.1931) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976), about journalists who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon: both films starring Robert Redford. His other notable works include his thriller novel Marathon Man and comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride, both of which Goldman adapted for film. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
663. Anne Marie Pohtamo (b. 1955, Helsinki, Finland) was the second woman from Finland to capture the Miss Universe crown. She claimed the Miss Universe crown in 1975 at the pageant held in El Salvador. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to her but not signed by her. VG.......20-30
664. Gerald McRaney (b. 1947) American television and movie actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, and Promised Land. He was a series regular for the first season of Jericho, and the final season of Deadwood. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
665. Stella
Parton (b.1949) American country singer and
songwriter. She is a younger sister of entertainer Dolly Parton.
Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to her but not signed by her. VG.......20-30
668. David Stewart (1800-1858) American Senator. Stewart was born in Baltimore, Maryland, completed preparatory studies, and attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He graduated from Union College of Schenectady, New York in 1819. He later studied law, was admitted to the bar about 1821, and commenced practice in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1849, Stewart was appointed as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Reverdy Johnson and served from December 6, 1849, to January 12, 1850, when a successor was elected. He was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy, and resumed the practice of his profession in Baltimore soon thereafter. ALS, not dated but appears to be as a senator, written on both sides to Robert P. Anderson about having books sent to him. VG............35-45
669. Maud B. Booth (1865-1948) Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. Signed card, with sentiment, 3x2 in........35-45
671 . [ENGLAND] Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born 2 July 1915), is a senior British peer and a retired Brigadier in the British Army. He was born in Rome. From 1943 to 1972, when he succeeded his father, he was known as Marquess Douro, and he is currently styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. He joined the British Army, serving in the Second World War with the Royal Horse Guards. He eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding that regiment in 1954. He then moved to the Household Cavalry Regiment, which he began commanding in 1959. He commanded the 22nd Armoured Brigade (1960-1961), served in the British Army of the Rhine, and became defence attaché to Spain in 1964; he retired from the Army in 1968 as a Brigadier. During his period of service, he received the Military Cross. Sigbature, WITH SENTIMENT ON STATIONERY, DATED 1987. FOLD LINES O/W VG........20-30
672. [SIGNED
BOOK] EDWARD EVERETT HALE (1822-1909)
American writer and Unitarian clergyman. Noted for his short
story "Man Without a Country". Offered here is an edition of
hisbook "Memories of a Hundred Years" with nice inscription,
dated Feb. 24, 1905, written on inside cover. Unfortunately the
book itself is in poor condition: spine is pulling away; bad
repair job attempted. Will put up scans upon
request.........50-75
673.
[FILM] Olivia de Havilland (1916 - )
actress who
won the
Academy Award
for Best
Actress for
her
performances
in To Each His
Own (1946) and
The Heiress
(1949).
Signed 3-1/2 x
1-1/2" card.
Fine............25-35
674. [BOOKS] Sir Walter Scott. TALES OF A GRANDFATHER, 1870, Boston, Fields, Osgood, & Co., 3 volumes, 301, 298, & 310 pages, 8vo. Green cloth, gilt lettered spines. Slight cover scuffing. A good tight set. Provenance: Frank Cutter Deering Library.................75-100
675. HENRY A. LAVELY (1831-?), American poet. AMS, his poem "Smiles and Tears" written on the letterhead of Aetna Life Insurance Co. TEN LINES + TITLE. Small corner piece missing o/w VG.......30-40
679. [FILM - TV] Bonnie Bartlett (1929 - ) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 50 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her role as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won 1986 Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Warners Bros. paycheck, 1984, endorsed by her on verso. VG.............20-30
683. James Steranko (b.1938) American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, publisher and film production illustrator. His most famous comic-book work was with the 1960s superspy feature "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales and in the subsequent eponymous series. Steranko earned lasting acclaim for his innovations in sequential art during the Silver Age of comic books, particularly his infusion of surrealism, op art, and graphic design into the medium. His work has been published in many countries and his influence on the field has remained strong since his comics heyday. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. For the movie industry, Steranko has produced a number of posters for various films, and was a conceptual artist on Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), doing production designs for the film and designing the character of Indiana Jones. He also served in a similar capacity as project conceptualist on Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and wrote the episode "The Ties That Bind" of the DC Comics animated TV series Justice League Unlimited. He has "amassed an enormous portfolio of more than sixty projects (which he called the "Theater of Concepts") designed to be seen in multimedia form, drew the comic-book adaptation of the 1981 film Outland, which was serialized in Heavy Metal magazine. The lighthearted spy movie If Looks Could Kill (1991) features Roger Rees as the villain, Augustus Steranko, and director Brad Bird has stated that Steranko's work was his main comic-book influence on Pixar's The Incredibles. ALS, or ANS, SIGNED "JS". He sends a check for 2 items and says he'll pass on Tarkington letter; "...Keep me posted on your new acquisitions.Till next time, stay well." Steranko's autograph is quite scarce! VG..............75-100
See Steranko above
684. [CIVIL WAR] G.R. GIDDINGS - Partly printed Document
signed [filled in by Giddings].
Army pay voucher dated March 9, 1867 for G.R. Giddings, Lt. Col.
16 th U. S. Infantry. Interesting document covering two months
and detailing the amounts due for pay for himself and 2
servants, clothing for the servants, and subsistence for himself
and his servants. It even includes physical descriptions of the
servants. Gives some insight into Army life immediately after
the Civil War. Col. Giddings died suddenly 3 months later while
acting as President of a Court-martial. The Savannah (GA)
Republican that "a more modest, courteous, and genial commandant
has never been stationed in Savannah." Folds out to 17 x 11 in.
He served at Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. Fresh
condition..............50-75
685. [WESTERN AMERICANA] H. Webster - Frontier veterinarian. Document signed, Leadville, Colorado, 1882. Vetinary Bill that to early Colorado statehood. Approx. 8-1/2 x 4-1/4".....25-35
686. RUFUS W. PECKHAM (1809-1873). Congressman from New York 1853-55. Killed at sea in ship's collision. His namesake son was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. ADS. This is a letter dated June 25, 1853, attesting to the character and pecuniary respectability of one Andrew Morrison, addressed to a Washington law firm by H. A. Brigham, a lawyer in West Troy. Added to the letter are endorsements by the State Director of Pensions (?), two acting magistrates, the postmaster, and Peckham. Peckham dates his endorsement Albany June 25. "I concur in the above certificate of Mr. Hitchcock as to Mr. Brigham whom I know very well." This lot also includes four of Peckham's clipped signatures, 3 of which add "Yours very truly"...........50-75
687. WALTER F. MONDALE - V.P. under Carter, Democratic candidate for President in 1984, U.S. Senator. Lot consists of 2 items. (1) DS with initials as Senator dated Aug. 30, 1966, requesting information about dermatology et al from the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Punch holes at left and small marginal tears at top. (2) First day cover signed by autopen, honoring Mondale on his V.P. inauguration and postmarked Jan. 20, 1977 at Ceylon, MN (his hometown).............50-75
688. L. QUINCY MUMFORD (1903-1982). Librarian of Congress 1954-74, having been appointed by President Eisenhower. LS dated May 3, 1973 suggesting to his correspondent how he might search for a letter of Thomas Rodney..........25-35
689. (STUART SYMINGTON) (1901-1988), Senator from Missouri, First Secretary of the Air Force, appointed by Truman. LS written by his cousin Stuart Symington Goode, a lawyer and socialite, to prominent newsman Ray Tucker December 9, 1952. Extremely interesting political commentary and considerable discussion, sometimes very unflattering, about his cousin...........35-45
690. William F. Sapp (1824-1890). Congressman from Iowa 1877-1881. ALS from Council Bluffs dated October 14th 1869, 1 very full p., 10 x 8", to General Wm. W. Belknap. This is an extremely warm letter congratulating the General on his appointment (by Grant) as Secretary of War. (Belknap was later impeached and resigned but was found not guilty.) Significant staining, but the writing is dark and clear..........40-60
693. Henry L.
Nunn (1878-1972) American Business Leader,
one of the founders of the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company and a pioneer
in the development of good labor-management relations. His
papers are in the collection of the Wisconsin Historical
Society, including records of Nunn's participation in a mission
in 1951 for the Economic Cooperation Administration, the
United States government agency set up in 1948 to administer the
Marshall Plan. Archive of 6 TLSs plus 3 envelopes, 1953-63, to
Dorthy Nunn or Alice Josephine Nunn. PLUS 4 letters from
Mrs. Henry L. Nunn, all with their envelopes............50-75
694. "Barnard" Hughes
(1915- 2006) American actor of theater and film. Hughes
became famous for a variety of roles; his most-notable
roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a
dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him
but not signed by him.
VG.......20-30
695. J. Glenn Beall (1894-1971) Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1953-1965. He was also a United States Congressman, representing the sixth district of Maryland from 1943-1953. Group of 5 TLSs, 1957-1975, to Vernon Talberett [1] & 4 to another person. Only the letter to Talberett has the mounting residue on the verso...........25-35
696. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Thruston B. Morton [KY]; Lee Metcalf [MT]; Pat McNamara [MI]; Gale McGee [Wy]; John McClellan [Ark]; Warren G. Magnuson [Wash]; Russell Long [LA]; Oren E. Long [Hawaii]; Frank Lausche [OH]; B. Everett Jordan [NC].........50-75
697. [MARYLAND] Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (1922- 2010) Republican member of the United States Senate, representing Maryland. GROUP OF 5 TLSs, 1965-78, each 1p. All to the President of a financial corporation discussing minimum wage, Federal Trade Commission, etc. All very good condition..........50-75
698. [FRANCE] Madame de Thebes - French palmist and prophet. She was born in 1845 and died in 1916. She carried on a business as a palmist at her salon in the Avenue de Wagram in Paris, and each year at Christmas published prophecies which enjoyed a wide circulation. She was said to have predicted the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. ALS, no date, 4pp., to the photographer Seschamps about photography...........50-75
699. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (1801-1872) French historian and biographer. He became editor of the Quotidienne, and was afterwards connected, either as editor or leading contributor, with the Temps, the Messager des Chambres, the Revolution de 1848 and other papers. ALS, no date, 1p..............35-45
703. [BASEBALL] John "Buddy"
Lewis - 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
See above
704. [BASEBALL] Frank Hayes - 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
See above
705. [BASEBALL] Edward Miller - 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
See above
706. [BASEBALL] August Galan - 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
See above
707. [MASONS]
2 printed Masonic docyments from the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
the District of Columbia, 1878 and 1881. Each approx. 5x8
in. VG...............40-60
ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS OF PRESTIGIOUS AMERICANS FROM THE FIELD OF LITERATURE. THESE ARE CLEAN & READY TO FRAME WITH AUTOGRAPHS. NO ESTIMATES. Literary portraits are much more scarce than military or presidents.
773. SAMUEL P. BATES
774. JOHN P. KENNEDY
775. GEO. W. CHILDS
776. FREDERICK S. COZZENS
777. DONALD GRANT MITCHELL
778. CHARLES SPRAGUE
779 GEORGE P. MORRIS
780. FLETCHER HARPER
781. GEO. D. PRENTICE
782. JOHN R. BARTLETT
783. N.P. WILLIS
784. FITZ-GREEN HALLECK
785. Dorothy Shakespear Pound (1886-1973),
daughter of novelist Olivia Shakespear, was an artist who
married American poet Ezra Pound. One of small number of women
vorticist painters, she had art work published in the
short-lived but influential literary magazine BLAST.
Dorothy and Pound first met in 1909 and after a long courtship
the two married in 1914. They lived in Paris from 1920 until
1924, and in 1925 settled in Rapallo, Italy. In spite of her
husband's 50 year affair with Olga Rudge, whom he met in Paris
in the early 1920s, Dorothy stayed married to Pound. In 1926
she gave birth to a son Omar Pound, who was raised in England
by her mother. By the 1930s she received a number of family
bequests making her financially independent, but lost much of
her money following Pound's advice to invest in Benito
Mussolini's fascist regime. Toward the end of World War
II, Dorothy and Pound were evacuated from their home in
Rapallo and for a period she lived with Pound in Rudge's home.
After the war, when Pound had been arrested for treason and
incarcerated on grounds of insanity in Washington, D.C., she
moved there, visiting daily, taking control of his estate, and
staying with him until his release. They returned to Italy in
1958; in 1961 she moved to London, leaving her husband to live
out the last decade of his life with Olga Rudge. TLS,
Washington DC, no date, 1p., requesting books to be sent to
various people. Also asking if T.S. Eliot is on their
mailing list. VG..............80-120
See letter
See
picture of her
786. [FRANCE] Bishop Paul-Augustin Le Coeur
(1848-1942) Bishop of Saint-Flour, France. ALS, 1912,
2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. Not translated.
VG.............80-120
787. [FRANCE] Bernard Potier,
duc de Gesvres,
Military governor of Paris 1739-1757. Some sort of
letter or document signed, 1749, 1p, approx. 6-5/8 x 8-1/4 in.
VG............100-150
788. [MUSIC] Gilbert Ross [1903-1975] Professor of music at the University of Michigan, and founder and first violinist with the Stanley Quartet. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph on which he has penned a musical quote. Excellent condition.........75-100
789. [MUSIC] Hafliði
Hallgrimsson (1941 - ) Icelandic
composer, currently living in Bath. Hafliði was the
Principal Cellist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, but
left that position in 1983 to pursue a full-time career as a
composer. In 2008, he became composer-in-residence of the
Iceland Symphony Orchestra (through 2010). AMQS from his
work "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op.30" Approx.
10-1/2 x 4-1/4". VG...........60-80
See AMQS
790. (SPORTS LOT) VIRGIL OLIVER TRUCKS
(1917-2013) American Pitcher, ANS. ARA R. PARSEGHIAN
(b.1923) Football Player and Coach. SIGNED, inscribed large
12x18 portrait sketch, inscribed (fold in middle). CHRISTINE D. WITTY (b.
1975) Olympic Speed Skater. SIGNED 5x7 print photo (fold in
middle). WILBUR “Weeb”
EWBANK (1907-1998) Football Coach, SIGNED
address return on envelope, with 2 SIGNATURES, with words of
encouragement. BILLY
CASPER (1931) Golfer. SIGNED 8x11
photograph. GREG E.
LOUGANIS (1960) Olympic Diver SIGNED
printed letter. STEVE J.
GROGAN (1953) Quarterback, ANS signed
“Steve G”.........80-120
791. Jean Rostand (1894-1977)
French biologist and philosopher. Active as an
experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a
science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist. His
scientific work covered a variety of biological fields such as
amphibian embryology, parthenogenesis and teratogeny, while his
literary output extended into popular science, history of
science and philosophy. His work in the area of cryogenics gave
the idea of cryonics to Robert Ettinger. Rostand Island in
Antarctica is named after him. Rostand was born to
playwright Edmond Rostand and poetess Rosemonde Gérard.
Following the footsteps of his father, Rostand was elected to
the Académie française in 1959. Rostand was famous for the
following quotation: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill
millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you
are a god." From Thoughts of a Biologist, 1938. Bold
signature on 7-1/2 x 4-1/2 slip of paper dated 1949.
Fine.............75-100
792. [COUNTRY MUSIC] "Mother" Maybelle Carter (1909-1978) American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. She has signed a book page photograph, about 8x6". Also signed by Helen Carter (1927-1998) American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, a pioneering all female country/folk music group. The group was also known as The Carter Family. Signed by both. VG............50-75
793. [THEATRE]
multiple lot: Matheson
Lang
[1879-1948] Canadian born British matinee idol and Shakespearean
actor, Signed vintage postcard photo. / Richard Kiley [1922-1999] TLS, 1958, to the
Theatre Guild - where to send his check. Walter Hampden [1879-1955] signature on hotel
sheet. Olga
Nethersole
[1863/70? - 1951] English actress. Signature dated 1899. Agnes Huntington - American actress best known for
her famous role of playing the famous naval hero John Paul
Jones, which caused controversy, a woman playing a man. Signed
card on which she pens "Where ever Paul Jones is - there I will
be! Yours truly Agnes Huntington."............60-80
794. [FILM] Trevor Howard (1913-1988) English film, and stage actor. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........50-75
See Trevor Howard
795.
[MUSIC] Max Rudolf (1902-1995) German
conductor who
spent most of
his career in
the United
States.
Signed,
inscribed 8x10
photo.
1990.
VG............50-75
See
above
796. (ART) (JASPER JOHNS) original multiple. New York. Museum of Modern Art. Text by Riva Castleman Technics and Creativity Gemini GEL, 1971, 10.5 x 8.5 in. stiff wrappers in plastic clamshell box. 108 pp. 364 mostly thumbnail illustrations (20 full size in color), bibliography, index of artists. A Catalogue raisonne (to early 1971), published in a boxed edition of 22,500, with its problematic Jasper Johns "Target," an offset lithograph with applique paintbrush and three watercolor disks, in addition to the print , which is glued to the inside front cover of the box). Box also contains the catalog, a sheet of protective foam. The foam sheet is normally discolored and usually has three circular offprints from the watercolor disks. According to Richard S. Field ("Jasper Johns Prints 1970-1977"), the image was derived from a pencil drawing and collage of 1960 in the Sonnabend collection. A hand-pulled edition of 50 copies and six artists proofs was printed by Kenneth Tyler at Gemini in 1971. The offset edition was produced by Graphic Press, Los Angeles. Johns's participation in this enterprise was, at best, limited to the Gemini printing, which was hand-signed and numbered. The signature on the MoMA target was mechanically reproduced [the one offered here]. If it appears to have been signed in ink or pencil, forgery is indicated. The white clamshell box is spotted but intact. The other main factor involving this multiple is the condition of the offset target lithograph. As is often the case a former owner has wetted the watercolor blocks and started to paint the target but has only painted a small part in yellow. The brush is often missing as is missing here. VG condition.............300-400
Clamshell box
798. [ART] William
Brassey Hole RSA (1846-1917) was an English
artist, illustrator, etcher and engraver, known for his
industrial, historical and biblical scenes. He was
educated at Edinburgh Academy, then served an apprenticeship as
a civil engineer for 5 years, although he really wanted to be an
artist. In 1869, he sailed from Swansea to Genoa, and
spent the next 6 months travelling and sketching around Italy.
In Rome he made the acquaintance of Keeley Halswelle who gave
him practical advice on art. It was Halwelle whose criticism
encouraged Hole to endeavour to become a professional
painter. On returning to Edinburgh, Hole entered the
School of Design, then won admission to the life school of the
Royal Scottish Academy, first exhibiting there in 1873; in 1878
he was elected an associate of the Academy. Around this time he
took up etching and was accepted into the Royal Society of
Painters and Etchers (RE) in 1885; he was already a member of
the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society (RSW) from 1884. He
eventually became a full member of the Academy (RSA). Original
etching, title MASTER HOLDENOUGH'S STORY, approx. 5.5 x 3.5
in. plus margins. Fine.............40-60
See above
799. [ART] Frank
Paton
(1855-1909) was an English artist of the
Victorian and Edwardian eras, best known
for his paintings of animals and scenes of
rural life. He was a successful artist
during his lifetime and could even count
Queen Victoria as an admirer of his
work. His most famous compositions,
"Fairest of Them All" and "Puss in Boots"
(1880), have adorned many a wall in the
form of plates and posters. In addition,
his series of printed Christmas cards
published between 1880 and 1909 have
become an affordable way for those
interested in Paton's art to begin a
collection. Frank Paton showed an
early talent for drawing animals and was
allowed to follow his artistic bent.
His first known exhibition was at the age
of sixteen, the piece being a portrait of
a German peasant girl. Family rumour has
it that Paton briefly spent time in France
working in stained glass before being
recalled by his father. Although
never a member of the Royal Academy, a
total of 20 works by Paton were exhibited
at their annual selling exhibition between
the years 1878 and 1890. From 1890
Frank Paton no longer exhibited at the
Royal Academy following a dispute with the
organisers. His reputation firmly
established, it was of little consequence
and the artist continued to work until his
final days. At the time of his death Paton
was living in Walton-on-the-Naze,
Essex. Original etching, plate
signed, 1884, image approx. 7 x 9-1/8
in. Contained in old mat.
VG............150-200
See
above
The Book
Room
802. [BOOK] Jewett, Sarah Orne [1849-1909]. American writer, b. South Berwick, Me. Author of sketches and tales of New England important in the "local color"school, including Deephaven (1877), A Country Doctor (1884), A Marsh Island (1885), A White Heron (1886), Tales of New England (1890), The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), etc. Her book A Native of Winby and Other Tales. Sarah Orne Jewett. Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1893. First Edition. Sarah Wyman Whitman binding. Nice tight copy. No dust jacket. Minor color loss on spine. 7.25 x 5........150-200
See title page
803. [SIGNED BOOK] Benjamin Lawrence Reid
(1918-1990) his book "The Man from New York: John
Quinn and His Friends" (1968), which won
the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or
Autobiography. Dr. Benjamin L. Reid, biographer,
literary critic and professor emeritus of English at Mount
Holyoke College. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for "The
Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends," a biography
of a wealthy New York lawyer who owned the largest single
collection of modern European paintings in the world in the
1920's and was an assiduous patron of artists and
writers. Dr. Reid's interest in Quinn stemmed from his
own undergraduate days at the University of Louisville,
where he studied art history and literature. He subsequently
traveled in Europe under a Fulbright research grant that
enabled him to interview T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and other
luminaries who were close to Quinn. B.L. Reid has signed
on the flyleaf. First edition in dust jacket, 708
pages. Following the Armory Show, the artist Walt
Kuhn acted as an art advisor to the collector John Quinn
and assisted in the formation of his unique collection of
modern art, unfortunately dissolved and sold at the time
of Quinn's death in 1924. Quinn’s most
important contribution to the Amory Show was as a patron,
lending and buying more artworks than any other collector or
dealer. His loan included seventy-five works by artists such
as Cézanne, Van Gogh, Puvis de Chavannes, and Augustus John
and he spent nearly $6,000 on a variety of artworks from the
lithographs of Redon to the paintings of Walt Kuhn and
the cubist sculptures of Duchamp-Villon. According to a 1909
congressional tariff, Americans were required to pay a 15%
tax on imported artworks produced in the last twenty years.
In an effort to repeal the tariff in advance of the Armory
Show, Quinn appeared before the House Ways and Means
Committee arguing against the tax. Although it was not
repealed in time for the exhibition, the tariff was
overturned in October 1913 and Quinn’s advocacy helped
promote the sale of modern European art in America in the
wake of the Armory Show. This signed book comes
directly from the Brenda Kuhn [daughter of artist Walt Kuhn]
estate in Maine.........100-150
Dust jacket
Signed page
Photo of
Quinn, Walt Kuhn & John Wilson
Photo of
John Quinn
804. [BOOK] Jacob Brown. BROWN'S
MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS - Upon A Great Variety Of Subjects.
Prepared and written from 1880 to 1895. 1896, J.J. Miller,
Cumberland, Md., 325pp, 8vo. Cloth covers slightly scuffed. VG
tight copy of a somewhat scarce edition. Provenance: Frank
Cutter Derring Collection...............75-100
815. (BOOK) Clara Endicott Sears, Days Of Delusion, A Strange Bit of History, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924, 1st Ed., 264pp., 8vo. Sl. faded spine, no dj. This book is about MILLER, William (1782-1849), American religious leader, who founded the Protestant Adventist denomination ( see Adventists), also known as the Millerites. Miller, a Baptist, closely studied the Bible, especially the Book of Daniel, and concluded that the world would end and Christ would appear in the year 1843. He began preaching these ideas in 1831. By 1840 some of his many followers had disposed of their belongings in anticipation of the judgment day. When 1843 passed uneventfully, Miller set a new date in 1844 for the end of the world. In 1845, although the movement had collapsed in disillusionment, Miller and a few loyal followers met in Albany, N.Y., and founded the Adventist church. Former owner's signature. Scarce........150-200
818. (REV. WAR) SCHUYLER, George L. Correspondence and Remarks Upon Bancroft's History of the Northern Campaign of 1777, and the Character of Major-General Philip Schuyler. N.Y.,1867. 47pp., David G. Francis, publisher, 8vo. Finally rebound in half-medium brown Levant. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of 24 plates. With paper bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering as well as his leather bookplate. A few of the plates are foxed but text is clean. Overall in fine condition.............150-250
821. [CONFEDERACY]
Douglas Southall Freeman. 1st edition of his 4
vol. set R.E. LEE, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934, no dust
jackets. Red cloth. VG...................350-450
822.
[NAPOLEON - Book] William Forsyth. HISTORY OF THE
CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA; From the
Letters and Journals of the late Lieut-Gen Sir Hudson Lowe.
Publisher: John Murray, London, 1853; A superb three-volume
set in cloth, complete with large fold-out map in Vol.1;
495pp.; 490pp.; 529pp, engraved frontispieces to all volumes.
Sunned spines; rubbed corners; small suff-hole front cover
vol. 1; vol. 2 cover loose; vol. 3 covers
cracked...................250-350
824. [SIGNED BOOK] JOHN HAYS HAMMOND [1855-1936] American mining engineer, b. San Francisco. On staff, U.S. Geological Survey, in California gold fields (1880); associated with Cecil Rhodes in development of South African resources; a leader in Transvaal reform movement (1895-96); arrested after Jameson Raid and sentenced to death; sentence commuted to imprisonment; freed finally on payment of fine. Consulting engineer, esp. to Guggenheim Exploration Co. (1900-07). A signed book from his library titled INTRODUCTION TO FRESH-WATER ALGAE, by M.C. Cooke, 1890, London, 339 pages with 13 illus. plates. Book from the International Scientific Series. Hammond writes by his signature "Johannesburg, South Africa, 1895. Signed the year of the Jameson Raid for which Hammond was to be sentenced to death. NO dj o/w VG. Quite uncommon.........................200-300
826. [SIGNED BOOK] Samuel Hazo - American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum. Hazo is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University, where he taught for 43 years. He was chosen to be the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Governor Robert Casey in 1993 and served in that role until 2003. Offered here is his book "Once for the Last Bandit", signed & inscribed, 1973, U. of Pittsburgh Press, [1972], 206pp. Book of his poems. In VG dust jacket. Samuel Hazo was a National Book Award finalist for his collection "Once for the Last Bandit." ...........25-35
828. [SIGNED BOOK] JOHN HAYS HAMMOND [1855-1936] American mining engineer, b. San Francisco. On staff, U.S. Geological Survey, in California gold fields (1880); associated with Cecil Rhodes in development of South African resources; a leader in Transvaal reform movement (1895-96); arrested after Jameson Raid and sentenced to death; sentence commuted to imprisonment; freed finally on payment of fine. Consulting engineer, esp. to Guggenheim Exploration Co. (1900-07). A signed book from his library titled "THE FORMS OF WATER IN CLOUDS & RIVERS, ICE & GLACIERS,"by John Tyndall, London, 1889. Hammond writes by his signature "Johannesburg 1895". Signed the year of the Jameson Raid for which Hammond was to be sentenced to death. NO dj o/w VG. Quite uncommon.........................200-300
831. (BOOK - REV. WAR) PAUL REVERE'S OWN STORY, AN ACCOUNT OF HIS RIDE AS TOLD IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND, TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS VERSATILE CAREER, BY HARRIET E. O'BRIEN. Perry Walton, Boston, 1929. Edition limited to 500 copies, privately printed. Contains a complete facsimile of the letter written by Paul Revere to Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap, recounting his famous ride. Eight pages in all, with each reproduced in the text in its original spelling, capitalizing and phrasing. A comprehensive biography of Revere is also included, with his work as a silversmith, engraver, designer of bookplates, dentist, gunsmith, soldier and other professions. Well-illustrated with photographs, facsimiles, engravings and more. Bibliography. Quarter bound in cream cloth with teal paper covered boards, the Revere (Rivoire) family crest in gold. Corners bumped, some chipping, ends of spine bumped. Minor foxing on free endpapers. 4to.. A most interesting book.........100-150
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![109. [SIGNED BOOK] "An Hour Before Daylight" by Jimmy Carter [former US President]. Simon & Schuster: NY (2001). Photos, 8.5 x 5.5", boards, 271pp. + index. With BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY CARTER AFFIXED TO FRONT FREE END PAPER. Near fine condition................100-150](https://merv2.tripod.com/carter-120-1.jpeg){kind=link}
![[BRITAIN] Graham Wallas [1858-1932]. English political scientist. Lecturer, London School of Economics (1895-1923); professor, U. of London (1914-23); member of Fabian Society (1886-1904); on London County Council (1904-07); known for contributions to development of empirical basis and scientific methods in social sciences. Author of Life of Francis Place (1898), Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), The Art of Thought (1926). CLIP SIGNATURE.](https://merv2.tripod.com/wallas-47.jpeg){kind=link}
![589. [MEDICAL] ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of JOHN WAKEFIELD FRANCIS [1789-1861] one of the most distinguished American physicians. Clean........................20-30](http://home.gwi.net/%7Eecbart/francis-442.jpeg){kind=link}
![660. Alexander AGASSIZ (1835-1910), American zoologist, son of Louis Agassiz. He became curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard in 1873 and held the post until 1885, when poor health forced him to resign. As administrator of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines on Lake Superior (1865-69) and as a stockholder in the mines, Agassiz acquired a fortune. His gifts to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and to other institutions for biological research totaled over $1 million. In 1874-75 he explored Lake Titicaca, between Bolivia and Peru, and in 1875 established an aquarium at Newport, R.I. From 1877 to 1904 he made annual expeditions to study the marine life of the western Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. He was an authority on jellyfish, echinoderms, and corals. DOCUMENT SIGNED [on verso], Cambridge, 1874, folds out to 16-3/4 x 13-3/4 in. Headed "Museum of Comparative Zoology." Financial accounts for the trustees for 1873 & 74. PLUS a separate unsigned document headed "State Grant of 1873 - Museum of Comp(arative) Zoology." Shows Account appropriated by Trustees [$25,000] & how that was disbursed. Two documents. VG.............60-80](https://merv2.tripod.com/agassiz-20.jpeg){kind=link}
