6. [FRANCE] ANTOINE-ALEXANDRE  BARBIER (1765-1825) Prior to the Revolution, Barbier was a math and physics teacher, and in 1789, he was the vicar at Dammartin. He accepted the "constitution civile du clergé" and became priest at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre. In 1794 he was given the job of itemising and safeguarding the huge number of books and papers that had been confiscated by the revolutionaries on behalf of the Nation. These books, many of which were falling apart due to insects and poor conservation conditions, were also taking up offices that were required by the local authorities. Having constructed proper shelving for the books and introduced air-flow systems to allow ventilation between the shelves, the monumental task of cataloguing the confiscated works remained. This task required the assistance of specialists: archivists, curators, bibliophiles and librarians were called in to sort through the books, destroy any considered "seditious", sell any that were no longer needed and replace any considered important enough in the public libraries. A large of number of public libraries benefitted from this process, in particular the Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1795, Barbier was seconded to Gaspard Michel Leblond with the task of reducing the huge book depots in Paris and in Versailles, sorting, cataloguing and selling the books stored on these sites. Barbier was also heavily involved in the creation of provincial public libraries and the cataloguing of the books stored therein.  In 1798, Barbier created the bibliothèque du ministère de l'Intérieur, which was designed to hold the collections that formerly belonged to the Académie Française and the Académie  des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres, as well as any works considered worthwhile that had been seized from libraries belonging to émigrés or those condemned to death. This library became the Conseil D'Etat's library in 1799, shortly after 18 Brumaire, and Barbier became its librarian. Putting together a catalogue for the library, he abandoned the traditional alphabetical classification, instead opting for classification by subject-matter.  In 1807, Barbier replaced Louis-Madeleine Ripault and was put in charge of Napoleon's personal libraries at Compiègne, Rambouillet and Trianon as well as the travel libraries that Napoleon took with him whilst on campaign. The first travel library, conceived in July 1808, included texts on a variety of different subjects: novels, history, poetry, and theatre. Barbier was also asked to write numerous reports regarding the history, geography and religious issues of various regions and countries which Napoleon used in his political and military planning.  Barbier was also expected to keep the French Emperor constantly supplied with reading material, along with reports, analyses and commentaries regarding each publication. Napoleon, known to be a voracious reader, complained on a number of occasions about the lack of reading material at his disposal, which led to letters being dispatched to Barbier, reminding him of his duties regarding this matter. In his role as "conseiller littéraire", he was also expected to brief Napoleon when the Emperor was back in Paris. He also served the Empress Josephine in a similar manner, and managed her libraries at the Tuileries, Compiègne, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau, Trianon, Rambouillet and at her other residences. Between 1808 and 1810, he published his Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de goût, which was based on Louis-Mayeul Chaudon's Bibliothèque d'un homme de goût. This catalogue gathered together various critical and analytical extracts from works and periodicals dedicated to literary criticism, adding to and correcting the original work of Chaudon. The goal of this catalogue was to examine both modern and classical literature and separate the "wheat from the chaff", rewrite any critiques that were unmerited, and ensure that books which did not deserve to be forgotten were not, whilst books that were unworthy of remembrance were removed. The catalogue included entries for both French and foreign literature, as well as offering notes on the best editions and most accurate translations, where necessary.  Despite his work for Napoleon, Barbier remained principled and incurred the wrath of the Emperor on a number of occasions: as well as being reluctant to forward any works that he considered mediocre (despite the Emperor's continuous desire for new reading material), he also refused to catalogue a number of books dedicated to or concerning Napoleon and his numerous successes. Works that were omitted from the libraries that Barbier curated included Relation de la bataille de Marengo, Vies de Bonaparte, and Histoires de l'Empereur Napoléon, which he argued were written by "second-rate writers", driven by greed and a desire to flatter the Emperor. Napoleon nevertheless insisted that Relation... be inserted into all of his libraries, despite his librarian's reluctance. During the Restoration, Barbier was put in charge of the royal libraries, but was dismissed from the King's service in 1822, for reasons not listed in his biographies (although Muriel Brot hypothesises that this may have been simply due to his prolonged service for Napoleon). Barbier was severely affected by the dismissal and fell ill shortly afterwards, dying in 1825. Offered here is a Autograph Letter Signed, 1807, one page, approx. 6-1/2 x 9-1/4".  Appears to be about Certificate of Pension.  We are unable to find any prices for documents signed by Barbier however some of the books he authored have sold at auction for as high as $11,400.  Very good condition........200-300

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9. [ART] Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) was a landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. He was a contemporary of important Rockport artists Aldro Hibbard, Emil Gruppe, W. Lester Stevens, Antonio Cirino, and Marguerite Pierson. Born in Rotterdam on 20 February 1888, Thieme studied at the Academie of Fine Arts in Rotterdam for two years and then, briefly, at the Royal Academy, the Hague. He traveled widely in Europe, frequently finding work as a stage designer.Thieme traveled to the United States at the age of 22. He quickly found work as a stage designer at the Century Theater in New York, designing sets for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. When the commission ended, he traveled to South America, primarily Brazil and Argentina. Stage work again provided his livelihood. A return to Europe followed with further work in England, France, and Italy. Returning to the United States with a contract for additional stage work, Thieme found himself in Boston. He discontinued work on the stage in 1928 and from then on made his living with the sales of his paintings and etchings. Thieme married Lillian Beckett in 1929 and moved to Rockport, MA. He established the Thieme School of Art. He exhibited his work frequently at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. He continued to travel widely; Mexico, Guatemala, Florida, and France were major destinations, always painting en plein air. Thieme committed suicide on 6 December 1954 in Greenwich, CT. The circumstances of his death are not fully understood. Anthony Thieme was a full member of the American Watercolor Society, Art Alliance of America, the Salmagundi Club, the Boston Art Club, North Shore Art Association, Rockport Art Association, New York Water Color Club, Art Alliance of Philadelphia and the National Arts Club. Original steel etching plate, "Old North Church". Not sure if this is the actual title - its simply what is written on the envelope.  Original etching plates are very uncommon...............800-1200

11. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATES 437 and 438 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "STAGGERING BOBS, A TALE FOR SCOTCHMEN; OR, MUNCHAUSEN DRIVING HIS CALVES TO MARKET",  each  image size approx. 14.5 x 10" plus margins. Published  December 1, 1796  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "GEOBGE HAKGEB. A caricature on Colonel Hanger, afterwards Lord Coleraine. The noble Scot alluded to is said to have been Lord Galloway.  " As usual there are other etchings on the verso............150-200

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12. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATES 392, 393, and 394 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, #394  title "A VESTAL OP —93, TRYINQ ON THE CESTUS OF VENUS",  various sizes. Published  April 29, 1793  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "Upon her fragrant breast tho tone was brac'd ; In it was every art, and every charm To win the wisest, and the coldest warm." LADY CECILIA JOHNSTON. Lady Henrietta Cecilia (whose maiden name was West), was the daughter of the Earl of Delawarr by his wife, the Lady Charlotte Macarty. She was bom January 25, 1727, and married May 4, 1762, to Lieut.-General James Johnston. "  As usual there are other etchings on the verso............150-200

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13. [NEWSPAPER] CAPTURE OF JEFF. DAVIS. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, Madison, Wis., June 27, 1865, VOL. XIII, No. 41. 8 pages, FILLED with Civil War news. Includes: " THE CAPTURE OF JEFF. DAVIS. Official Report of Lieut.-Col. Harnden."; Contains notice of the suicide of Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia, "who for years traveled in the South as an apostle of disunion, and to whom was accorded the bad eminence of firing the first gun trained upon Fort Sumter..."...........50-75

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14. [ART] Original 18th  century portrait of Jerome of Prague (Jeroným Prazsky in Czech, 1379 – 1416) was a Czech church reformer and one of the chief followers of Jan Hus who was burned for heresy at the Council of Constance.  This original mezzotint portrait is by Richard Houston (1721?–1775)  who was an Irish mezzotint engraver, whose career was mostly in London.  Born in Dublin about 1721, he became a pupil of John Brooks, who was also the master of James McArdell and Charles Spooner. He came to London about 1747, and some of his early plates bear the address "near Drummond's at Charing Cross". In debt to Robert Sayer the print-seller, he was arrested and confined to the Fleet prison; according to Sayer this in order that he might know where to find the dissipated Houston. He was released in 1760, on the accession of George III. As a free agent he was commissioned by Carington Bowles.  Cropped and mounted many years ago, the image is approx. 10-1/4 x 8" plus margins. VG...............200-300

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15. [ART] Original 18th  century portrait of Martin Luther  (1483-1546)  German monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the 16th-century movement in Christianity known later as the Protestant Reformation.[1] He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with monetary values. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar, with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor. This original mezzotint portrait is by Richard Houston (1721?–1775)  who was an Irish mezzotint engraver, whose career was mostly in London.  Born in Dublin about 1721, he became a pupil of John Brooks, who was also the master of James McArdell and Charles Spooner. He came to London about 1747, and some of his early plates bear the address "near Drummond's at Charing Cross". In debt to Robert Sayer the print-seller, he was arrested and confined to the Fleet prison; according to Sayer this in order that he might know where to find the dissipated Houston. He was released in 1760, on the accession of George III. As a free agent he was commissioned by Carington Bowles.  Cropped and mounted many years ago, the image is approx. 10 x 7-3/4" plus margins. VG...............200-300

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

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17.  (American Artists Lot) includes:     Henry Botkin (1896-1983) American Modernist who served as President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors from 1957 to 1961. He was an illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Harpers, and The Century Magazine.   SIGNATURE on Card –  Helen Alton Sawyer (1900-1999) American Landscape Artists and still life painter.   ANS, on back of envelope 1955.  Louis David Valliant (1875-1944) American Painter and Artist. He is known as a Muralist. His most famous work is “The Fall of Icarus”. ALS, on bottom  of 1934 letter.   Nicholas (Nick) HOBART – English born American Cartoonist. Known for his famous Marriage cartoon, for the Saturday Evening Post and others. TLS  1990.   Eldon Dedini (1921 –2006) American cartoonist whose work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere. His work is raunchy and humorous, but never pornographic, and is liberally sprinkled with leering satyrs and wide-eyed, amply-endowed young nymphs. ANS.  JOHN CAUGHEY (1874-1976) American Painter  called  “Grandpa Moses”, he started painting in his late 70’s, rural primitive works, in New Hampshire. ALS, (1974), 2pp..............80-120

18. [NEWSPAPER] JEFF. DAVIS IN PETTICOATS. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, Madison, Wis., June 13, 1865, VOL. XIII, No. 39. 8 pages, FILLED with Civil War news. Includes: on the front page, a half column poem by L.J.Bates, "JEFF DAVIS IN PETTICOATS."; "Sherman's Armistice"; "THE ASSASSINATION TRIAL. The Suppressed Testimony. MORE STARTLING REVELATIONS. Complicity of Jeff Davis in the President's Murder." Illustrated advertisements, including a full column illustrated advertisement on the last page for an amusement show called "The Equesqurriculum" tin three "Gigantic Circuses".) Fascinating reading. .........75-100

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

20. [FRANCE] Jean Pierre Conty, born Jean Pierre Walrafen (1917-1984)  French writer , known for his spy novels . The hero of most of his works is Akiha Mr. Suzuki, a Japanese spy. He also published under the pseudonym Jean Crau. ALS, dated but can't make it out, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG...........50-75

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

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

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

24. [FRANCE] François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (1773-1850) was a French writer on ethics, political science and political economy.  Droz's own legal studies led him to Paris in 1792; he arrived the day after the dethronement of King Louis XVI of France, and was present during the massacres of September. On the declaration of war he joined the volunteer battalion of the Doubs, and for the next three years served in the Army of the Rhine. Discharged on health grounds, he obtained a much more congenial post in the newly founded école centrale of Besançon; and in 1799 he made his first appearance as an author by an Essai sur l'art oratoire (Paris, Fructidor, An VII.), in which he acknowledges his indebtedness more especially to Hugh Blair. As he advanced in life, Droz became more and more decidedly religious.  Handwritten page, 1806,  from his hand but not signed. Approx. 8 x 10 in. VG.  Rare!..............100-150

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25.  [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. Six page autograph manuscript signed, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 i .  Blue pencil notations on pages otherwise very good............100-150

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

27. [FRANCE] Victor Bérard (1864-1931) was a French diplomat and politician. Today, he is still renowned for his works about Hellenistic studies and geography of the Odyssey.  Bérard's "L'Angleterre et l'impérialisme" was translated into English and published in 1906 as "British imperialism and commercial supremacy". LETTER SIGNED, 1913, signed on verso, 1-1/2 pp.,  8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG............50-75

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

29. [CIVIL WAR] George S. Russell - Union soldier, Co. H. 39th Regt. Mass. Vol., ALS, Washington DC, Feb. 10, 1863, 1p., to Surgeon C. G. Page, about disability. PLUS a Han. 31, 1863, Disability document showing 9 men from the 39th Mass. VG............50-75

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30. [FRANCE] Adolphe Vuitry (1813-1885) was a French lawyer, economist and politician. He became recognized as an expert on finance. He was governor of the Banque de France from 1863 to 1864, then Minister-President of the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) from 1864 to 1869. In his later years he devoted himself to historical studies, publishing many works on medieval and modern finance. ALS, 1883, 4 full pages, 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in.  Sent to General Callier. Fine........80-120

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31. Aleksandra Danilova (1903-1997) Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen. Signed picture dancing, removed from some publication........25-35

32. Aleksandra Danilova (1903-1997) Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen. ALS, 1990, 1p.........25-35

33.  MYSTERY LOT of about 81 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; a few autographs; 5 bank checks signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp, and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1820. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....100-150

34. [BUSINESS ARCHIVE] Approx. 78 letters, mostly TLSs, 1907-1908, from Dudley Watson Moor [b. 1836 - ?], mostly to Edward W. Heath of Waterville, Maine. Contents - business matters. Harvard University holds some of Moor's business papers - here is how they are described: "This collection also contains the business papers of Dudley Watson Moor (1836-1900) and Edward W. Heath, whose connection to the Smith family is unclear. Moor and Heath apparently dealt in real estate in Maine in the late 19th and early 20th century. They also appear to have been involved in the corporate business of the Somerset and Kennebec Company, which seems to have been a cardboard and box-making factory. There are also papers related to the operation of the Kennebec Fibre Company, a paper mill on the Kennebec River. The collection also includes family papers of the Heath family, dealing with the estate of Edward's father, Wyman Heath, and with Francis E. Heath, Edward's brother and a commanding officer of the 19th Maine Infantry during the Civil War." We know from the letters offered here that Harvard's year of death for Moor [1900] is not correct, and that he lived at least until 1908. Mostly good to VG..........100-150

35. [AVIATION] John Manke - NASA test pilot. Signed 1971 cover honoring his flight piloting the X-24 Rocket Propelled Lifting Body flight............20-30

36. [ART] Nelson C. White (1900-1989) American painter, art historian. ALS, Waterford, Ct., 1937, 4 pages, to the noted artist Horace Robbins Burdick (1844-1942). Excellent content; mentions William Merritt Chase and others. Fine............50-75

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37.  [WAR OF 1812]  Capt. James Ayer - signed document, Kittery, Maine, Muster Roll, 1814.  This was before Maine became a state.  Aprox. 17 x 20 in.  Completely separated at middle fold. Lists by name 93 men...............100-150

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38. (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

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

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

41. [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

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42. [MAINE] Small lot of politicians from Maine: Nelson Dingley Jr. (1832-1899) Gov. of Maine & MOC. Signed card, 1896.  Edwin C. Burleigh (1843-1916) Gov. of Maine & MOC. Signed card.  William D. Hathaway - US senator. Two TLSs, 1973 & 1975, plus signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. David Emery - MOC.  TLS, 1982 plus signed 8x10 photo. VG............80-120

43. [ART] Ludwig Rieppel (1861-1960) American sculptor. ALS, New York, 1901, 2pp, to the noted artist Douglas Volk. Speaks of sending 200 pounds of modeling clay to Volk. Ink has lightened abit with time o/w VG............40-60 

44. [FILM] Lewis Croft (1919-2008) American actor with dwarfism, best known for his role as a Munchkin soldier in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz". ALS, [1990], written on both sides of 6x9 sheet. Nice letter about OZ and the other Munchkins. VG.........35-45

46. [FRANCE]  Moreau De Mautour  (1654-1737)  became auditor of the chamber of  accounts at Paris, and member of the academy of inscriptions. He was beloved as a man, and esteemed as a scholar, and even as a poet ranks among those writers of mediocrity who occasionally produce some happy effusions. His poems are scattered in the “Mercure,” and various other collections. He published also a translation of Petau’s “Rationarium Temporum,” in 4 vols.; and was author of many learned and acute dissertations in the Memoirs of the academy of belles lettres. Offered here is a 1 page manuscript document signed, all handwritten in ink even though its appearance looks printed. Most unusual. Approx. 6.5 x 9 in. VG..............100-150

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47. [FRANCE] Charles  de Freycinet (1828-1923) French statesman and four times Prime Minister during the Third Republic. He also served an important term as Minister of War (1888–93). He belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction.  He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteenth member to occupy a seat in the Académie française.  ALS, 1920, 1p, 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. VG..............100-150

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48. [CIVIL WAR ERA] 4 letter written from Melrose [Mass], Oct. 18, 1864, to Granville.  Probably the 1st 4 pages of a longer letter. "Smith stat(ed) he had been in Havana.  Stopped there 24 hours (but) did not go ashore. I see it stated in the paper that the Shanador was at Havana with a requisition for Appleton Goldsmith The Slaver who escaped from Boston last summer from Jaile [sic]......The ceremonies of laying the cornerstone in Boston was a grand affair. 5000 was in  procession...the table set at the Boston Theatre.....exceeded the looks...at the Prince of Wales Ball..."   Since there is no signature/closing we assume this letter is incomplete.  Some stains...........50-75

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49. [FRANCE]  1666 French Mystery Document on vellum, 3+ pages, approx. 8 x 11 in. Signed on page 3. VG........100-150

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50.  (GOVERNORS OF MAINE) JOHN H. REED (1921-2013) - 67th Gov and US Ambassador,  5x7 photograph with attached sticker signed at bottom, plus signed, inscribed Ambassador Stationary,1983.  JAMES B. LONGLEY (1924-1980) - 69th Gov. SIGNED 8x10 color litho. photo. BOB HASKELL (1903-1987) - 65th Gov.  Two (2) SIGNED Gov of Maine calling cards. ISRAEL WASHBURN JR (1813-1883) - 29th Gov., US Congress, one of the founders of the Republican Party, 1st politician to ever use the word "Republican" in his rank.  During the Civil War he was instrumental in helping to secure Federal Troops for the War effort. SIGNATURE, with Orono, Maine written on it (on verso is Eben Newton, congressman from Ohio). VIRGIL PARRIS (1807-1804) Acting Gov., also US Representative to Congress, Signed document fragment, 1"x4", as President of Buckfield Railroad Co, dated 1849............75-100

51. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was a radical American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. Signature sending holiday greetings dated 1965. At some period in time this was laid against something else causing off-set on the card.......50-75

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55. [BRITISH NAVAL]  Vice-Admiral Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer KG, CB, PC (1798-1857), styled The Honourable Frederick Spencer until 1845, was a British naval commander, courtier and Whig politician. He initially served in the Royal Navy and fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence, eventually rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral. He succeeded his elder brother as Earl Spencer in 1845 and held political office as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1846 and 1848 and as Lord Steward of the Household between 1854 and 1857. In 1849 he was made a Knight of the Garter. Through his second son, Charles, Lord Spencer was the great-great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, great-great-great-grandfather of future British Monarch, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and great-great-great-great-grandfather of his son, Prince George. Document Signed, as Lord Chamberlain, 1847, licence granting permission for Robert William Warner to have stage plays performed at the Marylebone Theatre.  he was the husband of Mary Huddart, the  English actress and theatre manager. Robert W. Warner, the  landlord of the Wrekin Tavern, Broad Court, Bow Street, frequented by actors and literary men. Approx.  8x13".  Starting at folds; seal tear loss; soiled.............100-150

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58. [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

59. [MUSIC] James Taylor (b. 1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.  Signed 5x7 photo. VG.............50-75

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60. [ POST CIVIL WAR]  T.M. Sturgeon - Sutler, Camp 7th Vermont Vols., Brownsville, Texas, writes a letter to the attorneys Nicholson & Ormsbee, Vermont lawyers.  The letter is dated Feb. 3, 1866, 1p, 7-3/4 x 12 in. Sturgeon, the sutler at this Brownsville camp is trying to collection a debt of $33 owned to him by Thomas Hogan, a Union soldier from Goshen, Vermont.  Says that after Hogan's discharge on Jan. 26, 1866, he obsconded without paying his debt to Sturgeon.  Thomas Hogan was born in 1844, had lost his mother before the war; his father William enlisted in 1861, boarding the boy with relatives and sending money regularly for his keep. Then the father was captured in the early assualts on Petersburg, which stopped the regular flow of support, and at the end of January the son himself enlisted.  A couple of tears in the letter amount to nothing...........50-75

61. William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857) commonly referred as W.T. Moncrieff was an English dramatist.  He was born in London, the son of a Strand tradesman named Thomas. The name Moncrieff he assumed for theatrical purposes. Moncrieff's first success was at Astley’s circus with The Dandy Family an equestrian drama, and in 1820 The Lear of Private Life, with Junius Brutus Booth as hero, enjoyed a long run. He supplied Drury Lane with a romantic melodrama called The Cataract of the Ganges; or, The Rajah’s Daughter which gave the national theatre an opportunity of displaying upon its stage both real horses and a real waterfall. This work became very popular with performances at provincial theatres throughout England. In 1830, he conceived the operatic drama Van Diemen's Land, concerning the notorious bush-ranger Michael Howe. But his most popular production was Tom and Jerry (1821), a dramatization of Life in London by Pierce Egan, whose Boxiana Moncrieff had begun to publish in 1818. He managed Vauxhall Gardens in 1827 and in 1833 leased the City Theatre. Soon afterward his sight failed, and in 1843 he became totally blind. The following year he entered the Charterhouse in London. Moncrieff's theatrical reminiscences were published in the Sunday Times in 1851. He edited Selections from Dramatic Works (London, 1850), containing 24 of his own plays.   ALS, 1831, 1p., 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. VG.......75-100

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62. [FRANCE] Nicolas-Luton Durival born in Commercy the November 13, 1713 and died in Heillecourt the 21 December 1795 - French hostorian. Nicolas Durival spent his entire career in the Lorraine administration. After a good education, he was placed in the offices of the Stewardship Lorraine , and applied himself fully to acquire the necessary knowledge to an administrator. Hit the imperfection of existing structures on the topography of Lorraine, he formed the project to write a which is also away from the drought classifications and prolixity particular stories contain accurate records on cities, towns and villages of this country. He published various tests, to better understand if the project would be tasted, and to request relief enlightened, and finally did appear, after twenty years of work and research, a description of Lorraine and Barrois, who was regarded, with good reason, as a model works like this. He was then clerk of the State Council of Stanislas Leszczynski , and finally police lieutenant in Nancy.  Durival was a member of the Academy of Nancy since 1760 , and communicated to the company a lot of memories on objects of public utility. Place police lieutenant who was eliminated in 1790 , he was appointed municipal administrator. Although he had served for most of his life gainful employment, he remained poor and he was included in the number of scholars that the Convention granted relief in 1795 . Durival collaborated on the Encyclopedia of Diderot . He is the author of several books on the history, customs, agriculture, geography and customs of Lorraine. Fragment of 1752 document signed by Durival, written on both sides, 8-1/4 x 6-1/4". VG.........100-150

63. [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

64.  [John Lennon] Mark McGann (b.1961)  English actor, director and musician.  McGann first appeared on stage in 1981 in the production Lennon at the Everyman Theatre and the London Astoria where he portrayed John Lennon, the role which won him the first of his two Olivier Award nominations for best actor in a West End show. He was later to reprise this role in two other productions, Imagine and the film John and Yoko: A Love Story for NBC television in the United States.  His first television appearance was as 'Mad Dog' in Scully by Alan Bleasdale in 1983 with Cathy Tyson and Elvis Costello. A long career in TV followed seeing him play a wide variety of characters including 'Marcus Bannerman' in the World War I era drama series by Russell T. Davies The Grand in 1999; 'Joseph Bazalgette' the great Victorian industrial engineer in the award winning factual drama/doc Seven Great Industrial Wonders of the World in 2002; and 'Tom Crean' the Irish companion of Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton opposite Kenneth Branagh; and 'Niven Craig' in Peter Medak's Let Him Have It. Document Signed, Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to McGann and endorsed by him. VG........25-35

65. (KENTUCKY PIONEER) CHAS. HELM [b. Va. 1777-1821?] elected to the state senate in 1812, serving four terms; during War of 1812 he served under Capt. [later Maj. Gen.] John Thomas, in the 2nd Regt. of Ky. Mounted Militia. DS, [Elizabethtown, Ky.] 1804, 7-3/4 x 12". Also signed by Asa Coombes, Jacob Linder, James Love, & John Coombes. Signed [very light in ink] on verso by Luke Calvin. Promise to pay document. Prominent stain..........200-300

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66. [ART] Will Low (1853-1933) American artist and writer on art. He was born at Albany, New York. In 1873 he entered the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme in the École des Beaux Arts at Paris, subsequently joining the classes of Carolus-Duran, with whom he remained until 1877. Returning to New York, he became a member of the Society of American Artists in 1878 and of the National Academy of Design in 1890. His pictures of New England types, and illustrations of John Keats, brought him into prominence. Subsequently he turned his attention to decoration, and executed panels and medallions for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, a panel for the Essex County Court House in Newark, New Jersey as well as numerous panels for private residences and stained glass windows for various churches, including St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark. He was an instructor in the schools of Cooper Union , New York, during 1882 to 1885, and in the school of the National Academy of Design from 1889 to 1892. Low, who is known to a wider circle as the friend of R. L. Stevenson, published some reminiscences, A Chronicle of Friendships, 1873-1900 (1908). A mural by him is located in the Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse. Original auto-lithograph, plate signed, 12 x 8 flush. Autolithography means an original image made directly on the stone or plate. This is from a portfolio done for the American Artists' War Emergency Fund, one of the numerous war activities of the National Arts Club of New York, its object being to aid American Artist Soldiers or their dependents. This project was done in 1918. Slight faults bottom edge [handling] are not important.........100-150

67. [CARTOON] Hank Ketcham (1920-2001) American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip.  Signed & inscribed  original sketch, 4 x 6, of his famous character. Fine......50-75

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68. [FRANCE] Rene-Joseph de Tournemine (1661 – 1739)  French Jesuit theologian and philosopher. He founded the Memoires de Trevoux, the Jesuit learned journal published from 1701 to 1767,  and assailed Nicolas Malebranche with the charges of atheism and Spinozism.   Tournemine taught the young Voltaire, and became a friend. In correspondence from 1735, however, Voltaire was critical of the Jesuit reception of Newton and Locke.  ALS [dated?], 1p,  6-1/4 x 7-3/4 in. Very Fine................150-250

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69. CALIFORNIA - group of 6 views including: San Francisco shore, Cliff House Sacramento Valley, Coast Scene at Marin County, etc. Various sizes.........60-80

71.  [FRANCE]  2 French Revolutionary Military documents - Year 2 [1794] of the Revolution, speaks of military hospitals, infantry officers, soldiers - false illness to fake leave of absence, etc.  The ink handwritten parts are of the period.  Total 7 pages; largest document is 8.5 x 12 in. VG.............100-200

72. [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

73. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL ink & pencil drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it............100-150

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74. [MUSIC] Tzvi Avni (1927 - )  Israeli composer. In 2001, Avni was awarded the Israel Prize, for music. AMQS, inscribed, dated 1013, of his from his work "Mizmorey Tehilim (beginning of the 3 movements."  Approx. 10-1/2 x 4-1/4". VG..............50-75

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76.  [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

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77. [KUHN ESTATE]  The following from the Estate of Walt, Vera and Brenda Kuhn. [1] a 4-1/2 x 3-1/4" photo of the Walt Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, maine, taken by his daughter Brenda. [2] a 1989 Midtown Galleries exhibition brochure for Walt Kuhn.  [3] receipt for Walt Kuhn's property tax bill, Wells, Maine, 1941.  This would have been for the house shown in the photo offered here.  [4] Walter Hatch TLS, 1941, to Walt Kuhn, saying there was an error in in tax bill. All items are directly from the Kuhn Estate...........100-150

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81. [THEATRE] Oliver Doud Byron  (1842—1920)   American actor. Born in Frederick, Maryland, he made his first appearance at the Holliday Street Theatre in Baltimore in 1856, playing with Joseph Jefferson in Nicholas Nickleby, using the name Oliver B. Doud. In 1856 he joined the Richmond (Virginia) Theatre, playing alongside John Wilkes Booth, then acted with companies in Washington, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans, before becoming a member of Wallack's celebrated New York ensemble. At one time Byron alternated with Edwin Booth in the roles of Othello and Iago. Although he claimed to have originated the part of Richard Harre in East Lynne, his principal claim to fame was his Joe Ferris in Across the Continent (1871), a role he played several thousand times over thirty years.  ALS, Colorado, 1878, 1p, plus unsigned cdv photo. Two pieces..............75-100

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82. [THEATRE] HELEN BLYTHE  - American actress.  Dramatic instinct was precociously developed. At the age of five she was introduced to the public in children's roles by Clara Morris at Norwalk, Ohio, and six years later made her appearance in  Richard III.   She was born at Fairfield, Ohio, 1861, and had made quite a reputation when she secured her first regular engagement at the Cincinnati Grand Opera House. Her real name is Blye, but an early mistake in the play bills to Blythe was never changed. She made steady headway, and became a great favorite in all the principal cities of the United States and Canada. Her dramatic methods are of the newer school, and her real strength lies in those more human impersonations which the genius of the modern playwright and the favor of the public have given a prominent position on our stage. Her husband is Joseph F. Brien. They were married in 1880.  Unsigned cabinet photograph,  4-1/4 x 6-1/2 in.  Pin hole at top & bottom edge............50-75

88. Large original etching, portrait of Abraham Lincoln, unsigned, artist is James S. King [1852-1925] who specialized in portraits, image approx. 18 x 14 in. plus margins. The image and the area surrounding the image, the portion that would show after being matted & framed, is very good. There are numerous faults along edges that will not show. Striking image. James S. King was born in New York City in 1852 and studied at the Art Student's League, National Academy of Design, Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris with Gerome and Bonnat. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America. King was active in exhibiting at the Parrish Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Boston Art Club; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery; and the Society of Independent Artists.............200-300

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89. [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

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93. [ART] Richard Black   (b. 1932)  highly regarded American 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.  As a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Black participates in a show every fall in London. Last year, one of his entries was selected for a prize, and his work was published in a London printmaking magazine.  Color lithograph, pencil signed, AUGUST SONG TWO, ed. 25, image approx. 18 x 12 in.  plus margins. VG..........150-200

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Uncle of Abraham Lincoln

97.  Kentucky Pioneer document dated 1805, summons for Williamson Bruce to appear before the Judges of Hardin County [Elizabethtown] Kentucky. They are to answer William Bush plaintiff.  William Bush, brother of Sarah who was Abraham Lincoln's step-mother, therefore William Bush was Abe's uncle by marriage. This document was written and signed by the noted Kentucky pioneer, Ben Helm. Also signed by William Bush on the verso. 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 of 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 dwelt on the cantankerous nature of the President's uncle by marriage, 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.  Approx. 6-1/8 x 7-1/2 in. Rare!............400-600

98. [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

99. [MUSIC] Jan Kubelik  (1880-1940)  Czech violinist and composer. Signed postcard on verso, with ANS by his accompanist Alfred Holecek...........75-100

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100. [ART] John Frederick Lewis  RA (1804-1876) important  English painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes and often worked in exquisitely detailed watercolour.  Lewis lived in Spain between 1832 and 1834. He lived in Cairo between 1841 and 1850, where he made numerous sketches that he turned into paintings even after his return to England in 1851. He lived in Walton-on-Thames until his death.  Lewis became an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1859 and a member (an RA) in 1865.   After being largely forgotten for decades, he became extremely fashionable, and expensive, from the 1970s and good works now fetch prices into the millions of dollars or pounds at auction.  ALS, Edinburgh, 1853, 4 pages,  4-1/2 x 7 in.  Last page shows tape remains along right edge o/w very fine.   An excellent content letter about an early painting that he did before the age of 18; it was exhibited "at the British Institution....".  Says he saw it many years ago but doesn't know what happened to it.  He would be curious to see it now and would like to purchase oit "...simply as a memento of past days..."   The title of the painting is mentioned on page one, looks something like "Deers ........?".  An interesting example of this noted artist..........300-400

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

Calmette portrait

The murder

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

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

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

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

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106. [FRANCE] Felix Dupanloup  (1802-1878) French ecclesiastic.  In 1825 he was ordained priest, and was appointed vicar of the Madeleine at Paris. For a time he was tutor to the Orléans princes. He became the founder of the celebrated academy at St Hyacinthe, and received a letter from Gregory XVI eulogizing his work there, and calling him Apostolus juventutis.  He was elected to the Académie française in 1854, occupying the thirty-eighth chair, becoming leader of the Academy’s "religious party", in which capacity he opposed the election of agnostic intellectuals. His imposing height, his noble features, his brilliant eloquence, as well as his renown for zeal and charity, made him a prominent feature in French life for many years. Crowds of persons attended his addresses, on whom his energy, command of language, powerful voice and impassioned gestures made a profound impression. When made bishop of Orléans in 1849, he pronounced a fervid panegyric on Joan of Arc, which attracted attention in England as well as France. Joan of Arc would later be canonized, due partly to Dupanloup's efforts. Before this, he had been sent by Archbishop Aifre to Rome, and had been appointed Roman prelate and protonotary apostolic.  For thirty years he remained a notable figure in France, doing his utmost to arouse his countrymen from religious indifference. He was a distinguished educationist who fought for the retention of the Latin classics in the schools and instituted the celebrated catechetical method of St Sulpice. Among his publications are De l'éducation (1850), De la haute éducation intellectuelle (3 vols., 1866), Œuvres choisies (1861, 4 vols.); Histoire de Jésus (1872), a counterblast to Renan's Vie de Jésus.  ALS, no date, 1p, plus cdv photo, plus 1862 pamphlet............100-150

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

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Portrait of Bonald

108. [FRANCE] Circa 1800 document titled "Bailli", 3-1/2-pages, approx. 8x10. Identified as "Very interesting text about being a Bailli in France." A bailli (French pronunciation: [baji], bailiff) was the king's administrative representative during the ancien régime in northern France, where the bailli was responsible for the application of justice and control of the administration and local finances in his baillage. VG..............100-150

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109. [FRANCE] French Mystery Document, 1794 on paper, signed, 1p, approx. 7 x 8-1/4. Speaks about Assignats. Fresh condition............80-120

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110. [NOBEL PRIZE] Charles Richet (1850-1935)  French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" in 1913.  He also devoted many years to the study of spiritualist phenomena.  It was his work with Paul Portier on anaphylaxis (his term for a sensitized individual's sometimes lethal reaction to a second, small-dose injection of an antigen) that in 1913 won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. This research helped elucidate hay fever, asthma and other allergic reactions to foreign substances and explained some previously not understood cases of intoxication and sudden death. In 1914 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences. ANS, dated, on his personal stationery, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2".   Picture of him is not included. VG...............80-120

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111. [FRANCE] Leo Laurent-Pichat   (1823-1886)  French politician, poet and man of  letters, best known for his role in the publication of the first edition of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in 1857. During the trial, which takes place in 1857,  three men appear: "MM. Leo Laurent-Pichat and Auguste-Alexis Pillet.  "Lurent-Pichat, having, in 1856, by publishing in the No. 1 and December 15 of the Revue de Paris fragments of a novel, Madame Bovary , and especially various fragments in the pages 73, 77, 78, 272, 273, committed the crime of contempt of public and religious morality and decency; 2 Pillet and Flaubert have, by printing Pillet for them to be published, writing and Flaubert handing Laurent-Pichat to be published fragments of the novel, Madame Bovary, above-named, helped and assisted with knowledge, Laurent-Pichat in fact have prepared and consumed ease the aforementioned offenses, and s be so complicit in these crimes referred to in Articles 1 and 8 of the Act of 17 ill in 1819, and 59 and 60 of the Penal Code . "  It's Maxime du Camp , the childhood friend of Flaubert, who had handed over Laurent-Pichat the manuscript of Madame Bovary. Laurent-Pichat accepted the manuscript but demanded cuts. Maxime du Camp propped. He also felt that "the work is too thick, that most deserves to be released from a" bunch of useless things. " Flaubert does not care: co-editor of the Revue de Paris in just a hand specialist "hundred francs" will of Madame Bovary "a really good thing." It will remove the section of the wedding, shorten the elections, sacrifice a good part of the episode of clubfoot . " Furious, Flaubert scribbled "gigantic! "The back of the letter and did not answer. But when the question of removing the famous passage of the cab, Flaubert wrote to Laurent-Pichat: "It does not bleach the blacks and we do not change the blood of a book can impoverish, that's all . " Once earned, and Madame Bovary published with minimal cuts that Flaubert had to resign trial, he wrote on her personal copy the following lines: "This is my manuscript copy as from the hands of Mr. Laurent Pichat, poet and editor of the journal owner of Paris . " [English translation].  Long 3 page ALS, 1857, approx. 5 x 8-1/4".  Identified as about "the unknown God."  Archival tape repair that doesn't show............100-150
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112. [FRANCE]  Jules Lemaitre  (1853-1914)  French critic and dramatist.  Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret. He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. He succeeded Jean-Jacques Weiss as drama critic of the Journal des Débats, and subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886-1899), and his dramatic feuilletons as impressions de théàtre (10 series, 1888-1898).  His sketches of modern authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety and originality of expression. He published two volumes of poetry: Les Médaillons (1880) and Petites orientales (1883); also some volumes of contes, among them En marge des vieux livres (1905).  Three brief ALSs, written on 4.5 x 3.5" cards...............75-100

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

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

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

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117. [FRANCE] Jules Lemaitre (1853-1914) French critic and dramatist. Document Signed, Paris, 1890, 2-page manuscript pages, regarding banquet. Also signed by Paul Ginisty (1855-1932), Reni Maizeroy, and Etenni Charavay. Short tear right edge. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8 each page [side].............75-100

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118. [FRANCE] Fortune du Boisgobey (1821-1891), French writer of fiction, whose real surname was Castille. He served in the army pay department in Algeria from 1844 to 1848, and extended his travels to the East. He made his literary debut in the Petit journal with a story entitled Deux comédiens (1868). With Le Forcat colonel (1872) he became one of the most popular feuilleton writers. His police stories, though not so convincing as those of Émile Gaboriau, with whom his name is generally associated, had a great circulation, and many of them have been translated into English. Brief ALS [1880], 1p....................80-120

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

120. [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

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121. [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

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122. [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

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123. [IRAN] Seyyad Abolhassan Banisadr ( b.1933) is an Iranian politician, economist and human rights activist. He was the first President of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution abolished the monarchy, serving from 4 February 1980 until he was impeached by parliament on 21 June 1981. Prior to his presidency, he was the minister of foreign affairs in the interim government.  Banisadr lives in Versailles, near Paris, in a villa closely guarded by French police.  Signed color 4 x 5 in. photo dated 1983. Fine...........80-120

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124. [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

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125. [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

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126. [ENTERTAINMENT LOT]  includes: Belita (1923-2005) ALS & signed, inscribed card; Don Beddoe (1903-1991) ANS;  Lisa Basquette (1907-1994) 4x5 photo signed on verso;  Whitt Bissell (1909-1996) signed & inscribed card; Joyce Matthews (1919-1999) signed & inscribed stationary; Dorothy Stickney  (1896-1998) 2 signed & inscribed cartds;  Blanche Sweet (1896-1986) signed & inscribed card; Jane Alexander (b. 1939) ANS; Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) signed postcard photo; and Mae West (1893-1980) signed repro. of film poster "Every Days a Holiday, 5x7 in. [unknown whether this signature is authentic or not]...........80-120

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127. [MIXED LOT] includes: William H. Pickering (1910-2004) Rocket scientist, 2 signed inscribed cards; Ruth Page (1899-1991) Ballerina, signed stationary; John Limbert - Diplomat, Iran Hostage, signed postcard; Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona (1913-1993) Crown Prince of Spain, father of King Juan Carlos, signature;  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004) Psychiatirst, signature;  Matthew Ridgway  (1895-1993) WW2 General, signed envelope [return address]; Robert Ode (1916-1995) Diplomat, Irian hostage, 2 signed inscribed cards; and Pele (b. 1940) soccer super-star.  TLS, nd, signed with printed signature [not authentic]...........80-120

LOT 128   (BRITISH SCIENCE/MEDICINE NOTABLES LOT)   JOSEPH HUME (1777-1855) Scottish Doctor/Politician  who knowledge of chemistry provided a means to recover damp gunpowder for use again. He also later in life worked to improve the fortunes of the working class.  SIGNED address panel (1826).  BERNARD HOLLANDER (1864-1934) Psychiatrist, author.  SIGNATURE, with sentiment,  SIR ALFRED BRIAN PIPPARD (1920-2008) Physicist.  He demonstrated the reality, as opposed to the mere abstract concept, of Fermi surfaces in metals by establishing the shape of the Fermi surface of copper through measuring the reflection and absorption of microwave electromagnetic radiation. He also introduced the notion of coherence length in superconductors.  ALS (2002) with SIGNED 4x6 photo on verso.   SIR WILLIAM RICHARD GOWERS (1845-1915) Neurologist known for “The Gowers’ Tract and Parkinson’s Disease researchers.  SIGNATURE from ALS.   JOHN FLETCHER MOULTON, Baron Moulton (1844-1921) Mathematician, Judge Considered at the time one of the 12 most intelligent men in England Leading in his promotion of medical studies . ALS,  1895, 3pp. SIR JOHN HUGES BENNETT (1812-1875) Physician, physiologist, pathologist. Noted for being the first in description of Leukemia as a blood disorder. Clip
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LOT 129  (BRITISH SCIENCE/MEDICINE NOTABLES LOT)   SIR MICHAEL FOSTER (1836-1907) Physiologist. SIGNATURE.   SIR ASTLEY PASTON COOPER,1st Baronet (1768-1841) Surgeon and Anatomist who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatome and pathology. Surgeon to King George IV, King William IV, Queen Victoria.  SIGNATURE from ALS [soiled].  THOMAS WILLIAM COKE,1st Earl of Leicester  (1754-1842) famous for his advanced methods of animal husbandry. SIGNED address panel (1837).  GEORGE COMBE (1788-1858) Noted for his writings on Phrenology and lectures. SIGNATURE from ALS (1829). SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE (1833-1915) Chemist, author He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies. The mineral Roscoelite was named for him.  ALS, 1883, 1p............80-120

LOT 130  (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 131  (BRITISH ARCHITECTS/DESIGNERS LOT)  ALFRED CHARLES BOSSOM, Baron BOSSOM (1881-1965) Architect, MP, many works in US. TLS, 1951.   SIR SAMUEL MORTON PETO, 1st Baronet (1809-1889) Entrepreneur and major contractors in England of the 19th Century such as Reform club, The Oxford and Cambridge Club, Lyceum and St. James’s Theater, Hungerford Market others. SIGNATURE (large).  GEORGE DODD (1783-1827) Noted Bridge Builder, he was responsible for the Waterloo Bridge that crosses the Thames, in London.  RARE SIGNATURE.   SIR EDWIN HARDY AMIES (1909-2003) Fashion Designer most noted as dress designer for Queen Elizabeth II .  TLS, 1971 [mounting traces on verso,  and SIGNED 8x10 color photograph of Amies...............80-120

LOT 132  (ORGANIST/COMPOSERS LOT)    WILLIAM ROGERS CHAPMAN (1855-1935) American composer, organist, conductor. CLIP SIGNATURE.   GEORGE F. HUNTLEY (1859-1913) British Composer/Organist.  SIGNATURE with sentiment.  JULIUS HARRISON (1885-1963) British Composer, organist.  SIGNATURE  (1921).  Rev. WILLIAM O’NEIL (1813-1883) Irish Clergyman, Composer of church music, glees and songs and a prominent organist of his time.  CLIP SIGNATURE...................75-100

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

LOT 134. (AMERICAN CLASSICAL COMPOSERS LOT)  includes: JACOB DRUCKMAN (1928-1996) Pulitzer Prize SIGNED Card (1989).   E.N. CATLIN - Composer, conductor, arranger (Boston Theaters) late 1870’s/1880’s).  AMQS for Oboe and Bassoon, inscribed dated 1899).   REGINALD De KOVEN (1859-1920) Composer, critic.  SIGNED Card (1905).  WILLIAM BERGSMA (1921-1994) SIGNATURE inscribed on personal stationary (1981).   NELSON KEYES (1928-1987) Composer and Prof. of Music.  SIGNED early 2x3 photograph.  LOUIS CHARLES ELSON (1848-1920) Composer, musician, music theorist TLS (1902).............60-80

 LOT 135  [MUSIC] SONGWRITERS/LYRICISTS - includes:  NOBLE SISSLE (18891975) Songwriter, Jazz composer, lyricist, playwright.  SIGNATURE on album page (1933).  NEAL HEFTI (1922-2008) Songwriter, composer, musician.  ALS on letter written to him.   JACK LITTLE (John Leonard) (1899-1956) Songwriter, actor, composer.  SIGNED 4x6 portrait photograph (1934).   GUS WILLIAMS (1847-1915) Songwriter, composer/actor wrote such early hits as “Belle of the Ball (1873), Banner Song (1874) others. ALS (1911).  BETTY COMDEN (1917-2006) Lyricist/composer.  SIGNED Card.  CARRIE M. JACOBS-BOND (1862-1946) SIGNATURE (1936) mounted to board [very poor contrast].  GERRY COFFIN (1939) Lyricist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  SIGNED 8x10 photograph................75-100

LOT 136  (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

LOT 137 (PHOTOGRAPHERS LOT) includes:  SIR CECIL W. H. BEATON (1904-1980) English fashion, portrait and war photographer.  SIGNATURE inscribed on personal stationary (1972).  HELMMUT NEWTON  (1920-2004) SIGNED inscribed reproduction greeting card of one of his photos “Shoe, Monte Carlo” (1983).  GUY MURCHIE (1907-1997) Chicago Tribune Photographer.  ANS on postcard, 1967,  signed twice and also with his initials.  THOMAS P. J. ANSON, 5th Earl of LICHFIELD (1939-2005) Celebrated British Portrait photographer, 1st cousin to Queen Elizabeth II.  SIGNED FDC honoring photography.......60-80

 
LOT 138  (AMERICAN ARTISTS/SCULPTORS LOT)  includes: ERASTUS DOW PALMER (1817-1904) Sculptor.  SIGNATURE.   ARTHUR WILLIAM HEINTZELMAN  (1891-1965) Etcher. SIGNATURE  [mounting traces on verso].   ALBERT STERNER (1863-1946) SIGNATURE (1924).  GEORG JOHN LOBER (1892-1961) Sculptor.  ANS (1950).  THOMAS RAPHAEL CONGDON (1862-1917) Artist.  ALS (1916).  EDITH M.W. HOWES (1860?- 1910?) SIGNATURE from ALS.  WILL BARNET (1911-2012) Artist.  SIGNATURE from return address..............80-120

LOT 139 (EARLY HOLLYWOOD STARS LOT) includes:   ALLA NAZIMOVA (1879-1945) Russian/American Actress, screenwriter starred in early Silent Films and was Nancy Reagan’s god mother.  SIGNED FULL SIGNATURE.   JAMES H. PIERCE (1900-1983) Actor, the 4th to play “Tarzan”.  ALS on card (1982) with SIGNED return envelope address.  VICTOR F. MOORE (1876-1962) Actor, Comedian, director. SIGNED inscribed album page.  BEN BLUE (1901-1975) SIGNATURE mounted to larger slip...........60-80

Lot 140.   (THEATER NOBABLES LOT)   includes: JOHN DREW Jr. (1853-1927) Actor.  SIGNED Card dated 1923.  VERONA JARBEAU (1865-?)  Vaudeville and Music Hall Actress/Singer.  ALS, 1910, 2 pp.   HENRY WILSON SAVAGE (1859-1927)  Theater Manager Harvard Graduate, he became President of the National Assoc. of Theater Managers noted for his most reputable Theater Companies.  ALS,  2pp.   FANNY JANANSCHECK (1830-1904) Bohemian Actress.  ANS on card, 1884.   JEFFERSON de ANGELIS  (1859-1933) Actor/Comedian.  SIGNATURE (1905).  ROSETTA DUNCAN (1894-1959) SIGNED inscribed album page.  VIVIAN DUNCAN (1897-1986) SIGNED inscribed album page “Topsy and Little Eva”.  PAT ROONEY Jr (1880-1962) Vaudeville, theater entertainer.  SIGNED card inscribed............75-100

 LOT 141    (HOLLYWOOD/ENTERTAINERS LOT )  includes: NOEL BLANC (1938) Voice Actor, son of Mel.  SIGNED Looney tunes librix bookplate.   PATTI LUPONE (1949) Singer, Actress. SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph.  JOYCE  RANDOLPH (1924) Actress SIGNED, inscribed brochure.  NELL CARTER (1948-2003) Actress, Singer.  SIGNED title page from Broadway Show “Ain’t Misbehaven”.  MARY McCARTY (1923-1980) Actress.  SIGNATURE inscribed.   GISELE MacKENZIE (1927-2003) Singer.  SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph.  ANN B. DAVIS (1926-2014) Actress.  SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph.   BRADFORD DILLMAN (b. 1930) Actor.  SIGNED inscribed card...........75-100

142. [THEATRE] Lee Simonson  (1888-1967, Yonkers, N.Y.)  a major force in American scenic design, discovered in his youth what the "painters' and designers' vision could do to revivify the theater." After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1909, he went to Paris hoping to become a mural painter. There he formed friendships with such expatriate Americans as writer and collector Gertrude Stein and painter Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He also attended some of the most experimental European theatrical productions, and when he returned to New York in 1912, he was determined to launch his career as a set designer.  He was influential in freeing American stage design from constraints imposed by traditional realism. ALS on back of postcard, 1933.........50-75

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143. Charles Sarolea (1870-1953) Belgian academic and versatile publicist. He was for a long period Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh. He wrote books on a wide range of topics on international affairs. He also edited from 1912 to 1917 Everyman, a literary magazine favourable to the doctrine of distributism. In 1915 he was sent by the Belgian government to the USA, in order to support the veracity of atrocity stories in circulation, about the German occupation of Belgium. The mission was not a success, in that Sarolea unwisely and publicly attacked the neutrality that the USA was at the time observing with respect to World War I. Recent academic interest has been on his political views. TLS, Edinburgh, 1925, 1p, 4to. To Mr. Kennedy. Says the Polish Ambassador had to postpone his visit therefore he wants to visit Kennedy with his friend John White. Says he has "really been overdoing it for the last two years. VG................40-60

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144. [ART] William Grainger - 18th century British engraver, active 1784-1793. Original copperplate engraving c. 1790s, image size approx. 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" plus margins. Clean image area and surrounding; spots and stain in outer margins. VG......50-75
 
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145. [ART] John Kay (1742- 1826) Scottish caricaturist and engraver. He was born near Dalkeith, where his father was a mason. At thirteen he was apprenticed to a barber, whom he served for six years. He then went to Edinburgh , where in 1771 he obtained the freedom of the city by joining the corporation of barber-surgeons. In 1785, induced by the favour which greeted certain attempts of his to etch in aquafortis, he took down his barber's pole and opened a small print shop in Parliament Square. There he continued to flourish, painting miniatures, and publishing at short intervals his sketches and caricatures of local celebrities and oddities, who abounded at that period in Edinburgh society. Kay's portraits were collected by Hugh Paton and published under the title A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes (Edinburgh, 2 vols. 4to, 1838; 8vo ed., 4 vols., 1842; new 4to ed., with additional plates, 2 vols., 1877), forming a unique record of the social life and popular habits of Edinburgh at its most interesting epoch. Original etching, image size approx. 3 x 2" plus clean margins. VG...........50-75 

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146. 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

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147. [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

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148. [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

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149. Letter written to Francis Scott Key - 1840, 1-1/2 pages, from attorney Thos. T. Land, Jackson, Mississippi, to Francis Key, Washington City D.C.Concerns a legal claim; with lengthy Docket on verso of address leaf, presumably in the hand of Key's clerk. Starting to separate at one fold line. Uncommon.......100-150

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150. [MILITARY] Richard B. Myers [b. 1942] retired four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Chairman, Myers was the United States military's highest ranking uniformed officer. Signed 8.5 x 12" color photograph as Chairman JCS, with caligraphy inscription. One bumped corner - not bad. VG..........30-40

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

167. John Mortimer (1923-2009) British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. Mortimer is best remembered for creating a barrister named Horace Rumpole. TLS, 1990, 1p. VG...........40-60

168. Sir James Knowles (1831 - 1908) was an English architect and editor. ALS, 1905, brief 1p........25-35

169. Frederic Henry Chase (1853-1925) British academic and bishop. In 1901 he was elected the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and also the Norris Professor of Divinity. In 1905 he was consecrated as the Bishop of Ely. He resigned as bishop in 1924 and died in 1925. ALS, 1906, written on both sides. Mounting traces along top edge...........25-35

170. Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, CBE [1908-1984] British peer, known as Viscount Curzon from 1929-1964. He served as an officer of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II later becoming a Conservative politician ALS, 1983, written on both sides...........30-40

171. David Masson [1822-1907] Scottish writer. ALS, 1846, 1p............50-75

172. [MUSIC] Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969) celebrated Italian operatic tenor. Signed, inscribed card, with sentiment. Approx. 3.5 x 2.5". VG..........25-35

173. Eileen Heckart [1919-2001] American actress of stage, screen, and television. Butterflies Are Free and was nominated in 1956 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs. Mrs. Daigle in The Bad Seed. She also appeared as a Vietnam War widow with Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge. Signed, inscribed vintage 8x10 photo. VG............40-60

174. [FILM] Eddie Albert (1906-2005) American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......35-45

175. Richard Gehman (1921-1972) prolific American author of 3,000 magazine articles (including over 400 features), five novels and fifteen nonfiction books. Gehman also used the pen names of Meghan Richards, Frederic Christian, Martin Scott, Michael Robinson and F.C.Uffelman. After the war he moved to New York City and began writing for Esquire, Life, Time, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Argosy, True, Saga and Good Housekeeping magazines and was an original Contributing Editor at Playboy, before going freelance. Maurice Zolotow once claimed that Gehman wrote an entire issue of Cosmopolitan using more than a dozen different pen names. Credited with creating the phrase the "Rat Pack," Gehman was considered a "shadow" member of the group. Offered here is a 2-page TLS, signed "Dick', 1955. All about his first idol, Benny Goodman. VG...........60-80

178. Kathleen Freeman [1919-2001] American actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........30-40

179. [ENGLAND] Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope FRS (1805-1875), styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855, was a British politician and historian. He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830's and 1840's but is best remembered for his contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings. ALS, 1858, 1p, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. Neatly inlaid. VG............40-60

180. James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) English writer and expert on country houses. He was an architectural historian, novelist, and a biographer. He is also remembered as a diarist. TLS, 1966, 1p. VG..........40-60

181. Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE [1896-1986] author, most famous for her children's books including Ballet Shoes (1936). Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television. TLS, 1981, 1p. VG............40-60

182. Sir Francis Palgrave [1788-1861] English historian. Brief ALS, no date, acknowledging help from someone the following morning.......35-45

183. Earl L. Butz (1909-2008) US government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. TLS, 1989, 1p.......25-35

184. Evan Connell (b. 1924, Kansas City, Missouri) American novelist, poet, and short story writer. TLS, no year...........25-35

186. Admiral George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, PC [1720-1795] British peer, naval officer and politician. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1739 and in 1742 was promoted to be commander of the Terrible bomb. In the course of 1743 he was appointed acting captain of the Kennington of 20 guns, and was officially confirmed on 19 August 1744. He commanded her in the Mediterranean till 1745, when he was advanced to the Salisbury of 50 guns. This ship, as part of the Western Fleet under Hawke and Boscawen, initially patrolled the Bay of Biscay during the War of Austrian Succession. Its ship's surgeon was James Lind, who conducted his experiments on scurvy during such a patrol in 1747. The war ended in 1748. About this time Edgcumbe was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Salisbury appears in the background. Signed address panel............40-60

188. [MUSIC] RONNIE GILBERT  (b. 1926) Folk Singer with ”The Weavers”.  Brief ALS, no date, on verso of collecto's letter.......25-35

189. [ENTERTAINMENT]   EDDIE PEABODY (1902-1970) Entertainer, singer and known as “King of the Banjo” TLS, 1995, 1p. Says Chicago audiences have always been kind to hom. Nice example..........40-60

190.  [MUSIC] Jan Wilhelm Morthenson [b. 1940] Swedish composer of orchestral and electro-acoustic music. AMQS from his "Coloratura III and IV, dated 10/17/66. Approx. 3x5. VG..........50-75

191. [FILM] DAME PEGGY ASHCROFT (1907-1991) English Actress of stage and film Academy Award Winner.  SIGNED 8x10 photograph from “Jewel In the Crown. VG..............35-45

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LOT 192. (19th/20th CENTURY ARTISTS/ILLUSTRATORS)   DOUGLAS VOLK (1856-1935) DS, a check dated 1908, made out by him and endorsed by him.   JULES GUERIN  (1866-1946) Muralist, Painter, Illustrator.  CLIPPED SIGNATURE in pencil.   ARTHUR IGNATIUS KELLER (1866-1924) Artist, Illustrator He was illustrator of over 150 books by authors such as Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Owen Wister  SIGNATURE in pencil.  SPENCER BAIR NICHOLS  (1875-1950) Landscape Painter, Illustrator, Muralist.  SIGNED return address on envelope (1930).  THOMAS LeCLEAR (1818-1882) Genre and Portrait Painter on of his most famous portraits was of  President Grant which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.  SIGNATURE with sentiment from ALS (1879).  WILLIAM HENRY HILLARD (1836-1905) American Artist/illustrator. His most famous works are noted for the New England area, White Mountains. SIGNATURE on card.  Varied conditions............75-100

193. [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

194. [MISSOURI] B.G. WILKERSON - Lawyer from Sedalia, Mo. Group of 7 ALSs, & 1 signed receipt, 1887-1889. VG........50-75

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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.

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195. DANIEL FERRARA (Algerian, born 1906) signed ink drawing, approx. 12 x 9 in.............75-100

196. ANDRE BOUEY (1898-1976) signed ink drawing, 1966, 12 x 8 in............75-100

197. JACQUES DEMOULIN (born 1905) signed ink drawing dated 1972, 12 x 9.5 in.............75-100

198. STEFAN WALLMARK (born 1912) signed pencil drawing dated 1972, 12 x 8.5 in..........75-100

199. ERIKA BUENTELLO (American) signed pencil drawing dated 1978, 8 x 10.5 in..............75-100

200.  [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

201. [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

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202. [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

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203. 1846 PRINTED GOV. DOC. regarding Indian affairs, 3pp. Toned evenly.........20-30

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204. [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

205. AMERICAN EXPRESS - 3 stock certificates, 1960-63. VG...........40-60

206. ROBERT F. WAGNER [1877-1953] sig. as US senator, 1930....20-30

207. Frederick Frelinghuysen [1817-1885] Grant's Sec. of State. CLIP SIGNATURE probably as US senator from NJ.............20-30

208. [OHIO] TOM L. JOHNSON [1854-1911] Am. politician. Today, Johnson is considered a great influence in the progressive movement in the United States that took place in the early 20th century. He is also considered Cleveland's greatest mayor. SIGNED CARD..............20-30

209. [AUTHORS] ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM - author of "THE NEW DECALOGUE OF SCIENCE." Short ALS, 1930, written on 6 x 4 card [lined side]. Age toned. Many lay popularizers of eugenics also appealed to religious traditions to promote their agenda. The most notable, it seems, was Albert Edward Wiggam, who traveled the lecture circuit promoting eugenics as "the final program for the complete Christianization of mankind." Wiggam even rewrote the Ten Commandments, in which "The Duty of Eugenics" replaced "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." The "Duty of Scientific Research" supplanted the proscription against making graven images, while the "Duty of Preferential Reproduction" replaced "Thou shalt not kill / Will Durant - Signed w/ sentiment sheet of his stationary. Mounting traces on verso around edges; mail folds / Albert Payson Terhune (1872-1942 Am. author, dog breeder, and journalist. CLIP SIGNATURE. One mail fold crease line / Carolyn Wells [b. 1862] Bold CLIP SIGNATURE with sentiment. Mailed fold line; mounting traces on verso / AUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN - author. ANS, 1930. Mounting traces on verso & one corner fault...........40-60

210. Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) author, civil libertarian, soldier, and attorney. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, Heavenly Discourse. Following his service he became a prominent attorney in Portland, Oregon, where he often defended labor unions and "radicals" including birth control activist Margaret Sanger. Like many Cleveland Democrats, including his long time friend Mark Twain, Wood joined the American Anti-Imperialist League. Offered here is an extraordinary SIGNED & INSCRIBED, photograph by Todd [who has signed also], To Rev. Cornelius Greenway, 1931. Approx. 10 x 13-1/2 in. including margins. Only a few minor faults in margin area - VG.........60-80

211. [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

212. [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

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213. [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

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214. [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

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215. [FRANCE] Six manuscript documents dating 1736 to 1828 related to Carpentry - the making of Mademoiselle De Mouch's apartment. About 13 pages: description of fantastic parpentry accounts - detailed. VG...........100-150

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216. [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

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217. [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

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219. [FRANCE] Louis Adrien Lucipia  (1843-1904) French journalist, a man of letters , politician.  He was elected to the General Council of the Seine where he became president in 1899. Counsellor of Paris, he is also president of the municipal council of Paris in 1895. Freemason he became Chairman of the order of the Grand Orient of France to 1895-1896 and 1889-1900.  ALS,  1900, 1p., to Dr. Flamy.  Approx. 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 in.  Fine condition. The picture of him is not included here.........80-120

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

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221. 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

222. [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

223. Francis G. Peabody (1847-1936) a minister and professor of theology at Harvard University. He authored many books. ALS, 1901, 1p, 4-3/4 x 7-3/4". VG..........40-60

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

225. [MUSIC] Gina Cigna  (1900-2001)  Italian French-born opera singer, one of the leading dramatic sopranos of the inter-war period. Signed postcard photograph, includes mailing envelope [1931]. VG..........50-75

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225. (NH - CIVIL WAR)  William Pitt Moses  (1827-1905) Union soldier, born Exeter, New Hampshire. Enlisted in UNion army June 24, 1862 as 1st Lieut.  On August 5, 1862, he was commissioned into F Company NH 9th Infantry. Mustered out June 10, 1865 at Alexandria, Virginbia.  He was Quartermaster.  Signed Document, Somersworth, NH, 1874, approx. 7-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. VG.  The picture showing here is NOT included............25-35

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227. 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

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228. [MEXICO]  Jose Lopez Uraga ( 1810 - 1885 ) Mexican soldier and diplomat, was born in Valladolid, Morelia in 1810. He fought against the United States in 1847, helped establish the Santa Anna government, and during the Guerra de Reforma engaged on the side of the constitutionalists, losing a leg in combat. He was Mexican Minister to Germany in 1854 and 1855. During the War of Intervention, he served as general-in-chief of the Army of the West, and later as commanding general in Jalisco. He later served under Maximilian, becoming his aide-de-camp and marching to Yucatan. When he went to Guatemala in 1873, his mission was to organize and strengthen the army there. It was at this time that he wrote several books on military subjects. López Uraga then settled in San Francisco around 1877, where he had hoped to obtain the Mexican consulship and to be reinstated as a Mexican citizen. And it was in San Francisco that he died in 1885, having been unsuccessful in both these attempts.  Offered here is an ALS written in the 3rd person  [1854], 1p., to Peter D. Vroom (1791-1873) Gov. of New Jersey, and who was the United States Minister to Prussia. Blank page laid to another page. Not common.........100-150

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229. [ART]  Richard Elmore  (fl. 1852-1885) British painter first based in London and later moved to Tunbridge Wells, England. His distinctive and subtle landscapes depicting views in Devon, Surrey and Kent were widely exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the British Institution. Elmore’s painting of Twickenham is in the collection of the Cardiff museum. ALS, 1878, 4pp, to the art critic Samuel Carter Hall.  VG...........80-120

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230. [POLITICS] mixed lot of signatutes in various forms: [1] Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (1815-1878) U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War. Signature. VG. [2] DONLEY, Joseph Benton [1838-1917] Representative from Pennsylvania, entered the Union Army as a captain in the Eighty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 1862 and served throughout the war. SIGNATURE. [3]WOODWARD, George Washington [1809-1875] Representative from Pennsylvania; nominated in 1845 by President Polk a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States but was not confirmed by the Senate. SIGNATURE. [4] ARMSTRONG, William Hepburn [1824-1919] Representative from Pennsylvania. SIGNATURE. [5] Everett Sanders (1882-1950) was an American political figure. He was secretary to President Calvin Coolidge and chairman of the Republican National Committee. SIGNED 3X5 CARD. [6] TALLMADGE, Nathaniel Pitcher, a Senator from New York; born in Chatham, Columbia County, N.Y., February 8, 1795; graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1815; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1818 and commenced practice in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; member, State assembly 1828; member, State senate 1830-1833; elected as a Jacksonian to the United States Senate in 1833; reelected as a Democrat in 1839, and served from March 4, 1833, to June 17, 1844, when he resigned, having been appointed by President John Tyler to be Governor of Wisconsin Territory, with residence in Fond du Lac; served as Governor of Wisconsin Territory until his removal from office in May 1845; devoted himself to writing religious tracts; died in Battle Creek, Mich., November 2, 1864; interment in Rienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wis. CLIP SIGNATURE [quite foxed]. [7] album page signed on both sides by: SOUTHWICK, George Newell, (1863 - 1912) NY; BODINE, Robert Nall, (1837 - 1914) Mo; BURLEIGH, Edwin Chick, (1843 - 1916) US senator, congressman & Gov. of Maine. Signed on other side by: SUTHERLAND, Roderick Dhu, (1862 - 1915) Neb.; VANDIVER, Willard Duncan, (1854 - 1932) Mo.; STEPHENS, John Hall, (1847 - 1924) Texas. VG. [8]JAMES J. DAVIS (1873-1947) American steel worker and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. He was also known by the nicknames of the "Iron Puddler" and "Puddler Jim." Typewritten Manuscript Signed, 1p. Re: the home is the basis of civilization as we have known it. Clean. Click to see Davis [9]FISHER, John [1806-1882] Representative from New York. SIGNATURE. [10] Omar D. Conger [1818-1898] U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Michigan. He was a member of the State military board during the Civil War, holding the rank of colonel. Senator Conger is the namesake for Fort Conger, the pioneering Arctic outpost established by Augustus Greeley's 1881 expedition and named by the explorer in gratitude for the senator's support. SIGNATURE ON ALBUM PAGE. See signature [11] McCARTY, Andrew Zimmerman [1808-1879] Representative from New York. SIGNATURE. [12] [PENN] nice clean album page signed by 2 Penn. congressmen: MORRELL, Daniel Johnson, (1821 - 1885); TOWNSEND, Washington, (1813 - 1894). Both are large clean signatures. [13] SHOBER, Francis Edwin [1831-1896] Representative from North Carolina. SIGNATURE. [14] Charles Benjamin Farwell (1823 - 1903) U.S. Representative and Senator from Illinois. Clip Signature. [15] Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg (1837-1908) nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Missouri. Born near Cologne, Germany, Finkelnburg immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848, settling in St. Charles, Missouri. During the Civil War, Finkelnburg served as a private in the Union Army and was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1864 to 1868, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1868. He was elected a Republican and later reelected a Liberal Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1868, serving from 1869 to 1873. Finkelnburg was appointed judge of the eastern district of Missouri by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, serving until 1907. CLIP SIGNATURE, mounted. [16] Jacob Hart Ela (1820- 1884) U.S. Representative from New Hampshire. SIGNATURE, Rochester, NH, on album page. [17] Ossian Ray (1835- 1892) United States Representative from New Hampshire. SIGNATURE, Lancaster, NH...............100-150

231. [FILM-THEATRE]  Yul Brynner  (1920-1985) Russian-born actor of film and stage.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG.......60-80

232. [FRANCE] Paul Jamot  (1863-1939)  French painter, art critic and museum curator. He became curator of national museums, a member of the Institute , Commander of the Legion of Honour, honorary curator of the Louvre Museum , Reims museum director from 1927 to 1939.  ALS, 1930, 2pp,  5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. He speaks about Delacroix drawings. Fine. Rare!............150-250

234. [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

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

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

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

236. [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

237. [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

238. [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

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239. 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

240. [MUSIC] Boris Arapov (1905-1992)   the distinguished Russian composer and teacher having fostered several generations of composers. Among his disciples are such personalities as Gennady Banshchikov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Alexander Knaifel, Sergei Slonimsky. Since 1930 his activity was tightly welded with the Leningrad (Petersburg) Conservatoire (given the professor title in 1940), where in 1974 he became the head of the composition faculty working there selflessly up to the last breath. Arapov’s heritage embraces three operas, the ballet, seven symphonies, numerous symphony and chamber-instrumental compositions, vocal and piano music. RARE AMQS from his Sonata for Piano No. 2 (1976). Dated 10/89. Approx. 6 x 4". VG..........100-150
 
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241. [MUSIC] Claude-Marie-Mécène Marié de l'Isle [1811-1882] French musician and opera singer. Later in life he became a voice teacher. His pupils included his three daughters, notably Célestine Galli-Marié, who created the title role in the premiere of Bizet's Carmen. ALS, no date, 1p. Accompanied by a small mounted photograph of Galli-Marie, his famous daughter. Two pieces, both very good condition..........75-100

242. French document signed, dated 1843, 1p. on paper, 8-1/4 x 11-3/4". Identified as Birth Certificate of nobility in 1742. "Incl. nun from Abbey of Onnant". Two revenues and 2 seal stamps. Excellent condition...........80-120

243. [FRANCE] Armand Charpentier (1864-1949)  was a member of the Radical Party and joined the Socialists. In 1937, he inaugurated a street Dreyfus and Zola street Crosne and a few years later, after denouncing the responsibility of Jews hawkish in the war he wrote in the newspapers of the working collaboration as L'Atelier and Germinal.  [English translation]. Offered here is a 4-page ALS, no year mentioned, plus TLS, 1917, 1p. Both to Louis-Lucien Klotz.  Included also is a brief ALS from Klotz  (1868-1930)  French journalist and politician. He was the French Minister of Finance during World War I.  One of these letters is important - about Metin & Ribot [Minister of Finance during WW I]. All VG.............125-175

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244. [FRANCE]  Alfred-Casimir-Alexis Williez  (1836-1911) Bishop of Arras 1892-1911.  ALS, 1904, 2 pages, approx. 5 x 8-1/4".  Speaks of preparation for the great Catholic Youth Congress. Fine............80-120

245. [FRANCE]  Alexander Raymond Devie (1767-1852 )  French ecclesiastic. He was bishop of the diocese of Belley from 1823 to his death. He was the first bishop of the diocese reconstituted after its removal by the Concordat of 1801.  He led a major action for the renewal of the Catholic Church in his diocese. Many churches in the department of Ain ​​were built or rebuilt under his leadership: it is at the origin of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Belley Cathedral.  ALS, 1844, 1-1/2 pages, approx. 5-3/4 x 7-3/4". VG...........100-150

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246 . [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

247. [ART - FRANCE] Jules Jean-Baptiste Dehaussy (1812-1891) French painter. Introduced to painting by his brother Auguste, the leading spirit of an art school in Péronne, he subsequently became a pupil of the painter and illustrator Théophile Fragonard . A portraitist and painter of history and genre paintings he made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1836 and was awarded a third class medal. An important exponent of an academic culture linked to official circles, he worked for the Versailles galleries in particular. In 1848 when commissions declined he was forced to move to England . He participated regularly in the exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London with a series of miniature portraits and, in 1851, with two history paintings. After returning to Paris in 1852, he exhibited at the Salon until 1890 with a vast repertoire of genre scenes of historical inspiration that were very successful commercially, as well as portraits and religious subjects that were stylistically similar to those of his teacher. He became famous on the international art scene from the 1850s onwards, following his participation in some of the major exhibitions of the time including the national Ghent Triennial Salon of 1853 and 1865, the 1865 Porto International Exhibition and the 1st International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Munich in 1869. ALS, PARIS, 1860, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8". VG............80-120

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248. [COMEDY] Allen & Rossi was a comedy team composed of Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, active from 1957 until 1969. They appeared on over 700 television shows including 44 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, including three of the four Ed Sullivan episodes on which The Beatles appeared. The team also appeared in a spy spoof film The Last of the Secret Agents (1966). OFFERED HERE ARE 2 SEPARATE SIGNED CONTRACTS, 1965, to appear on the Hy Gardiner Show. One signed by Rossi and the other signed by Allen. Each 1p.............60-80

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250. [MUSIC] Alcides Emigdio Lanza  (1929 - )  Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, and music educator of Argentinian birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1976. As both a composer and performer he is known as an exponent of contemporary classical music and avant-garde music. His works often utilize a combination of traditional and unusual instruments, and incorporate electronic sounds and extensions. He is also known for using special lighting effects when presenting his music. He is an associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.      AMQS dated 2013 from  "Musica" (1946) a composition by Juan Carlos Paz  [1901-1972], an Argentian composer. Approx. 9-1/4 x 4-1/2". VG..........50-75

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251. [FRANCE] Leon Laurent-Pichat  (1823-1886) French politician, poet and man of French letters, best known for his role in the publication of the first edition of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in 1857.  ALS, 1869, 1-1/2 pp, 5 x 8 in. Speaks of Laprade. VG...............75-100

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252. [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

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

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254. [FILM & TV] Telly Savalas (1922-1994) Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning film and television actor. Undoubtedly Savalas' most famous role was as the tough detective Kojak on the TV series. SIGNED 1p. CONTRACT, 1964, with General Artists Corp. agreeing that all checks/sums of money 1st goes to GAC. Folds & long soft crease..........50-75

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255. [CIVIL WAR] Eugene B. Payne (1835-1910). Two page letter written in pencil, Illinois Legislature, House of Representative, Springfield, Illinois, 1867.  This is Payne’s own retained copy of his letter to J.F. Farnsworth, congressman from  Illinois and Union general.  Payne is expressing  regret that a Dr. [Moses] Evans was recommended as Post Master  of Waukengan, Illinois.  Payne recommends, instead, a Major. Clarkson.  Says that the railroad men want him in the post; says he is a rich man and does not need the office.  Says Clarkson  needs the job. According to the New York Times, April 8, 1910, Payne was born in Seneca Falls, N.Y. on April 15, 1835.  But in 1836 his family, led by his father, Thomas Hubbard Payne, bought land in northwest Fremont Township, Lake County Illinois. The large Payne family played crucial political and economic roles in the development of Lake County, as described in John J. Halsey’s 1912 History of Lake County, Illinois (Waukegan, 1912, 432-51). As the son of a pioneer family, Payne studied in local schools and graduated from the Waukegan High School (Open Library undocumented online article on General Payne).  In 1860 he was graduated from the law school of Northwestern University, a member of the first class, and was “admitted to the bar that same year,” according to the Times obituary.  At the beginning of the Civil War he organized at Waukegan, Illinois, the first company of Union infantry troops in Illinois (37th Illinois Infantry Regiment) and he served with them until September of 1864 when he was discharged due to his dibilitating malaria (background note, Payne collection, Clements Library, U. of Michigan). That fall of 1864 he was elected to the Illinois state legislature.   Payne was wounded and ill following his participation in the July 1863 Vicksburg campaign and victory.   His service after the spring of 1862 is documented in the Payne collection at the Clements Library, U. of Michigan.  The background note for that collection states that Payne thought that the December 1862 Prairie Grove battle as equally significant to that at Pea Ridge.  By the end of the war, and after playing a role in an important Rio Grande campaign and returning in early 1864 to Illinois to recruit, he was mustered out in September 1864 at the rank of Brigadier General.  He was the first soldier from Lake County, Illinois to achieve the rank of general.  After the war he served in the legislature to 1868, on the Republican ticket.  The Times obituary says that he practiced law for seventeen years. The Open Library article reports that he lived and practiced in Waukegan and in Evanston, Illinois to 1887.  In 1885 A.T. Andreas in his History of Chicago, v. 1, 203, lists Payne as a resident of Chicago, “among respected and beloved citizens” who fought with the 37th Regiment.  Late in life, after retiring from the bar, Payne “was made an officer of the U.S. Pension Bureau,” Washington, DC, according to the Times obituary.............80-120

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263. [FRANCE]  1666 French Mystery Document on vellum, 3+ pages, approx. 8 x 11 in. Signed on page 3. This has a skin-thread repair on first page.  VG........100-150

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

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268.  [OLD MASTER] THE POWER OF PRAYER - 18th century Biblical engraving, leaf from "Sacred History of the Old and New Testaments"  published in Amsterdam in 1740.  The print bears the explanatary text in five languages. The print image is 4.5 x 6", page 13 x 8-1/4.  Print image area is very good.............75-100

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270. [MUSIC] Leslie Bassett (b. 1923) American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition. Bassett received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Variations for Orchestra.  AMQS from his "Variations For Orchestra." Approx. 8 x 4-1/4". VG..........50-75

271. Adolph Simon Ochs (1858-1935)  American newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times (now the Chattanooga Times Free Press). His signature on New York Times stationery.............60-80

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272. Captain William Easby (1791-1854) Shipbuilder and Early Washington Entrepreneur. One of the first indications of his presence is his signature is on the WNY mechanics letter to President Thomas Jefferson, commending Jefferson on his election 1805. As a young intelligent and energetic shipwright he advanced rapidly to become a Master Boat Builder. Like other early Yard employees, Easby served as a member of the District of Columbia militia, during the War of 1812 where he saw active service as a private with Commodore Barney's command in August 1814. Easby was with Barney's unit when they futility tried to stop a large number of veteran British regulars at Bladensburg Md. Following the American defeat, the British advanced on the Capitol and Navy Yard was set ablaze to prevent the British capturing stored naval supplies and gun powder. Following the conflagration, Easby like other civilian employees was out of work for a year. As a married man with two children to support, Easby returned to Philadelphia where his family lived and presumably found work till the following year when he was once again able to resume his duties at the Yard. In 1824 President James Monroe made Easby a Captain of Riflemen of the Second Legion, First Brigade, of the Militia of the District of Columbia. Easby was ever after known by the title thus awarded him. William Easby's name is listed in the 1827 Directory of the City of Washington, his occupation: master boat builder at navy yard and his residence: "down w Es btw 9 and 10e." On March 24, 1828, William Easby added his name to that of one thousand citizens of the District of Columbia petitioning the Congress to gradually abolish slavery in the District of Columbia and to ban the further importation and sale of slaves within the District. Many of those who signed the memorial were slave holders. Yard employees like Master Caulker Robert Armistead, Naval Constructor William Doughty, Clerk Thomas Howard and Master Shipwright Thomas Lyndall all leased their human property to WNY. Many of these men saw no contradiction in owing enslaved workers and favoring gradual compensated emancipation. Their support though was contingent however on the provision that all newly emancipated individuals of African descent, immediately immigrate to Africa. Easby's exact position on slavery and emancipation is not known, however Easby had business dealing with black freeman Michael Shiner in 1848 when he bought land from Shiner. His last will contains no reference to slaves nor is there any evidence that Easby ever owned slaves or used enslaved workers in his businesses or household. Shortly after Andrew Jackson's election Easby left federal employment and set up his shipbuilding firm. He built a successful shipbuilding operation and became a noted ship designer and builder. Among the vessels launched at Easby's Wharf was the Sailing Ship Russia. Easby later built a series of Coast Guard Revenue Cutters such as the Cutter Forward in 1842. Another project which occupied Easby was a lime kiln and his experiments to convert coal particles into solid lumps which would be furnace ready. Easby was granted a patent on the process on August 29, 1848. Easby was an early member of the Washington Monument Association which solicited funding and support to raise a memorial to the nation's first president. His continuing involvement with science is reflected in his position as Treasurer of the National Institute, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institute. Manuscript Document Signed, 1834, 1p, 7-3/4 x 9-3/4". In this document Easby sells for $650 to John Easby of Philadelphia certain described property (7 beds, chairs, tables, looking glasses, carpets, piano forte, gilt edge china, knives & other kitchen utensils, silver tea spoons, 400 books, 40 prints and paintings, etc). Archival tape repairs at fold lines on verso. The front is in very good condition..........150-200

274. [MUSIC] Serge Jaroff  (1896-1985) was the founder, conductor and composer of the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff.  Signed 1956 bank check. VG..........50-75

276. Major-General Charles W. Sandford (1796-1878)  American militia and artillery officer, lawyer and businessman. He was a senior officer in the New York State Militia for over thirty years and commanded the First Division in every major civil disturbance in New York City up until the American Civil War, most notably, the New York Draft Riots in 1863. His command seriously weakened due to manpower shortages during the American Civil War, Sandford seved on active duty with the Union Army from April 19 to July 25, 1861. In May 1861, he was ordered by Brigadier General Joseph K. Mansfield to oversee the capture of Alexandria, Virginia as the vast majority the Union troops were from New York. He also served under Major General Robert Patterson for three months and took part in the Battle of Harper's Ferry. ALS, 1847, written on back of document, addressed to Nehemial Reynolds dealing with a law suit in the New York Supreme Court, in the matter of the New York & Harlem Rail Road Co. vs Nehemiah Reynolds. Signed as attorney for the Petitioner. Approx. 8-1/4 x 13-3/4". Accompanied by small picture shown in scan.......80-120

277. [FRANCE] Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (1851-1932)  French astronomer.   In 1877 he was appointed by Félix Tisserand as assistant astronomer at the Toulouse Observatory, and in 1879 followed Tisserand to the Paris Observatory when the latter became director there.  He spent many years verifying the positions of 6380 nebulas. He hoped to set a basis for future studies of the proper motion of nebulas; this turned out to be more or less in vain, since distant nebulas will not show any proper motion. However, he did discover approximately 500 new objects.  In 1902 he participated in an effort to redetermine with greater precision the longitude difference between London and Paris. He became a member of the Bureau des Longitudes in 1903, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1904.  He described a method for adjusting equatorial mount telescopes, which was known as "Bigourdan's method".  Bigourdan won the Lalande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1883 and in 1891, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1919. He was director of the Bureau International de l'Heure from 1919 to 1928.  He married a daughter of Amédée Mouchez.  ALS, 1889, 2pp, content about astronomy [not translated], approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Addressed to Louis Olivier, who was the Director of La Revue Scientifique.  Blue pencil notatipons written at top of page 1; small holes along left edge [used for mounting].  VG...........100-150

278. [FILM] Bill Lundigan [1914-1975] American movie and TV actor. His films include "Dodge City" (1939),"The Fighting 69th" (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), and Inferno (1953). From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men Into Space. Signed, inscribed vintage 5x7 photo. VG..............40-60

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282.    [PRIME MINISTERS OF ENGLAND]  JOHN RUSSELL, 1st Earl Russell 1793-1878) Prime Minister 3 times. CLIP SIGNATURE.  HENRY J. TEMPLE, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)  CLIP SIGNATURE. Both are mounted.........75-100

283. [MUSIC] Barbara Kolb (b. 1939) American composer. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units (motifs or figures). She was the first American woman composer to win the Prix de Rome. AMQS from her "APPELLO" written on 6x4" card. VG.........30-40

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284. [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

285. [MUSIC] Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (b.1923) classical conductor best known for his work with the Minnesota Orchestra. AMQS from his composition "Symphony for Strings." 7-3/4 x 7". Very nice.......75-100

286. James Doohan (1920-2005) Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Signed 8x10 color photo as "Scotty" from Star Trek. VG...............40-60

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

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

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289. [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

291. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Frederic Eugene Ives (1856–1937) was a U.S. inventor, born at Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1874–78 he had charge of the photographic laboratory at Cornell University. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where in 1885 he was one of the founding members of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.  He was awarded The Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1893, the Edward Longstreth Medal in 1903,  and the John Scott Medal in 1887, 1890, 1904 and 1906. His son Herbert E. Ives was a pioneer of television and telephotography, including color facsimile. Ives was a pioneer in the field of color photography. He first demonstrated a system of natural color photography at the 1885 Novelties Exposition of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.[3] His fully developed Kromskop (long-vowel marks over both "o"s and pronounced "chrome-scope") color photography system was commercially available in England by late 1897 and in the US about a year later.  In 1903 Ives patented the parallax stereogram, the first "no glasses" autostereoscopic 3-D display technology. As early as 1900, Ives was tinkering with stereoscopic motion pictures. By 1922, he and fellow inventor Jacob Leventhal were producing a popular series of anaglyph 3-D novelty shorts called Plastigrams.  Ives is sometimes referred to as "the" inventor of "the" halftone process, but this is incorrect and Ives never made such a claim for himself.  Offered here is an undated biography sheet on which he pens biographical information, signed. 8.5 x 11". VG............100-150

293. Leonard Alfred Strong (1896-1958) English writer, known as a novelist, journalist, poet and director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. He was a versatile writer of more than 20 novels, as well as plays, children's books, poems, biography, criticism, and film scripts. Some of his poems were set to music by Arthur Bliss. His novel The Brothers was filmed in 1947 by the Scottish director David MacDonald. Selected Poems appeared in 1931, and The Body's Imperfections: Collected Poems in 1957. He also collaborated with Cecil Day-Lewis in compiling anthologies. ALS, 1949, written on both sides of 5x8" sheet. Signed L.A. Strong. VG.........50-75

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

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298. [MUSIC] Mark Isham [b. 1951] American trumpeter, synthesist, and film composer. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, electronic, and film. AMQS from his composition "TIBET, PT II" 1989. 8-1/2 x 3-3/4. Needs a little ironing............30-40

299. [MUSIC]  Andy Williams (1927-2012)  American popular music singer.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG.........50-75

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302. Adrien Brody - AMERICAN ACTOR. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), for which he became the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29. Signature........20-30

304. [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

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305. [MUSIC] William Hayman Cummings  (1831-1915)  English musician, tenor and organist at Waltham Abbey. In 1847, as a teenager, he was one of the choristers when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the first London performance of his Elijah at Exeter Hall.  He is credited in 1855 with linking Mendelssohn's tune to Charles Wesley's words Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, which are now universally inextricably linked. At the Birmingham Festival he was the last-minute tenor soloist at the premiere of The Masque at Kenilworth (1866) by Arthur Sullivan, taking Mario's place (with only half-an-hour's notice to prepare).  He was Vice-President, Royal College of Organists. ALS, 1886, 1p, approx. 4 x 6 in. Slight mounting traces on verso........80-120

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306. [THEATRE]  Thomas W. Keene  (1840-1898) American actor who made his acting debut as Lucius in Julius Caesar. He performed in primarily dramatic roles in several traveling companies, performing in Ohio, New York, Maryland, and London. Other roles performed by Keene have included Major McTurk in The Overland Route, Gaspard Laroque in The Romance of a Poor Young Man, and the title character in Richard III. Playing a long list of roles, Keene was definitely a prolific actor, but never quite achieved the fame he desired.  AQS, no date.  Ink is alittle light............40-60

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307. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838 – 1912)  American poet, author, and editor. She was popular in the late 19th and early 20th century.  ALS, no date, to the Editor of the Eagle as to a boy was to pick up a manuscript, he had not yet come so she will perhaps send it by mail. 5-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. VG..............150-200

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308. [MUSIC] Irving Caesar  (1895-1996)   American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for numerous song standards including "Swanee," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written. He was born and died in New York. In 1972 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.  TLS, NY, 1972, 1p,  7-1/4 x 10-1/2 in.  Mentions Jean Dalrymple (1902-1998) the theatre producer, manager. His typewriter ribbon needed more ink...............60-80

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309. [MUSIC] Jay Livingston (1915-2001) partner with Ray Evans in a composing and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics. Livingston and Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song three times. AMQS, BAR OF MUSIC FROM "MONA LISA" for which he won the Academy Award in 1950. Signed/inscribed on 3x5 card................40-60

310. [MUSIC] Emma Mampe-Babnigg [1823-1904] German Soprano, composer. She was popular in Europe; taught later in Vienna. ALS, nd, 1p. Not translated............40-60

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311. [MUSIC- FILM] CHARLIE BARNET [1913-1991] Jazz saxophonist & bandleader. Signed contract, 1947, to appear in movie "That's Life", $2000. Signed at conclusion, with rider also initialed.............60-80

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

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

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314. [OPERA] JARMILLA NOVOTNA (1907-1994) Czech Opera. SIGNED/inscribed 3x5 photo with sentiment dtd 4/15/81...........35-45

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315. William Backhouse Astor  (1792-1875) often called "the Landlord of New York", he was the grandson of John Jacob Astor. He is best known as the "augmentor of the Astor millions". He became a man of great wealth. Clip Signature mounted to sheet. Some foxing of discoloring from mounting. Approx. 3.5 x 1 in.............80-120

316. [MUSIC] Sigmund Romberg (1887 - 1951) Hungarian-born American composer, best-known for his operettas. He wrote his best-known operettas, The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928), which are in a style similar to the Viennese operettas of Franz Lehár. He also wrote Rosalie (1928) together with George Gershwin. SIGNATURE on ASCAP card, with cover letter from secretary, Aug. 20, 1945. VG.........75-100

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317. John Bigelow  (1817-1911) American lawyer and statesman. From 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of the New York Evening Post.  Bigelow began his political career as a reform Democrat, working with William Cullen Bryant in New York. In 1848, his antislavery convictions led him to leave the party, and he joined the Free Soil Party, supporting the candidacy of John C. Fremont for President in that year. In 1856, he led other former Democrats into the new Republican party. After the party's nominee, Abraham Lincoln, was elected President in 1860, Lincoln appointed him American Consul in Paris in 1861, progressing to Chargé d'Affaires, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Napoleon III. In this capacity, working together with Charles Francis Adams, the American Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Bigelow helped to block the attempts to have France and the United Kingdom intervene in the American Civil War in favor of the Confederacy, and thereby played a material role in the Union victory. On August 8, 2001, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani signed a bill adding the name "John Bigelow Plaza" to the intersection of 41st Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, directly in front of the famous main branch of the New York Public Library.  ALS  (1884), 4 pages, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Left edge of front page has dark toning........80-120

LOT 318.   (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

319. [MUSIC] Noel Paul Stookey (b. 1937) singer-songwriter best known as "Paul" in the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary . He took the stage name "Paul" as part of the trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, but he has been known as Noel (his first name) otherwise, throughout his life. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............40-60

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320. [MUSIC] Peter Yarrow (b.1938) American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's most famous songs, "Puff, the Magic Dragon". He is also a political activist and lends his support to causes that range from opposition to the Vietnam war to the creation of Operation Respect. Signed, inscribed 4x5 photo. VG...........25-35

321. [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

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

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

325. Joseph Campanella (b. 1927)  American character actor who has appeared in more than two hundred television and film roles since 1955.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo PLUS TLS signed Joe. Two pieces. VG.......35-45

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326. Isaac Seligman [1834-1928] German-American merchant banker and philanthropist. He was the youngest of eight brothers, all of whom emigrated to America and became involved in running various branch offices of the merchant banking house J. & W. Seligman & Co., co-founded in Manhattan, New York City in 1846 by Isaac's elder brothers, James and Joseph Seligman. TLS, 1904, 1p, to Lt. Gov. of NY, William F. Sheehan [1859-1917] who was an influential lawyer and politician. VG..........60-80

327. [FRANCE-THEATRE] Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant (1815–1886) was a French actor.  In 1838 he went to the French theatre at St. Petersburg, where for eight years he played important parts with ever-increasing reputation. His success was confirmed at the Gymnase when he returned to Paris in 1846, and he made his debut at the Comédie Française as a full-fledged sociétaire in 1854.  From playing the ardent young lover, he turned to leading roles both in modern plays and in the classical repertoire. During his professorship at the Conservatoire, Jean Mounet-Sully was one of his pupils.  He introduced a new hairstyle with a crew cut at the front and longer hair at the back, possibly an early example of the mullet.  Offered here is an ALS, 1-1/2 pp, by Bressant plus another letter by Madame Bressant (1818-1869).  Includes some biographical information on both...........100-150

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328. James R. Osgood (1836-1892) American publisher probably best known for his partnership with Mark Twain and his involvement with the publishing company that would become Houghton Mifflin.  Osgood published an edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in 1881 that was attacked by the Boston district attorney as "obscene literature".  Osgood gave in and refused to bring out another edition, forcing Whitman to find another publisher. By this time Osgood had befriended Samuel L. Clemens, whose pen name was "Mark Twain." In 1882 the company published Twain's The Prince and the Pauper and The Stolen White Elephant. That same year, Osgood accompanied Clemens on a riverboat trip collecting material for Life on the Mississippi, which was published by Osgood in 1883. ALS, 1869,  2pp. VG...........75-100

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329. [FILM] Greer Garson (1904-1996) British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942). ANS, 1972, sends autograph.........40-60

330. John Patrick (1905-1995)  American playwright and screenwriter. Pulizer Prize winning dramatist.  Signed 1p. typescript from THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST NOON. VG............50-75

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331. Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III (generally known as Theodore, Jr.) (1887-1944) American political and business leader, a veteran of both the 20th century's world wars, who was awarded the Medal of Honor. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt.  Roosevelt was instrumental in the forming of the American Legion in 1919. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico (1929–32), Governor-General of the Philippines (1932–33), Chairman of the Board of American Express Company, and Vice-President at Doubleday Books, and as a Brigadier General in the United States Army. Mounted SIGNATURE.........50-75

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332. 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

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334. [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

336. [FRANCE] Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-1785) sometimes known as Abbé de Mably, was a French philosopher and politician. He was one of the 18th century's most popular writers but largely passed into obscurity in the 20th century. His works contributed to the later concepts of both communism and republicanism. Manuscript Document signed on front & back, 1737. Not translated. 7-1/2 x 4-3/4".............75-100

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342. 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

348.  [GREAT BRITAIN]   Howick - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG PC (1764-1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834. A member of the Whig Party, he backed significant reform of the British government and was among the primary architects of the Reform Act 1832. His government also saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. In addition to his political achievements, he has come to be associated with Earl Grey tea. Front portion of a postmarked 1830 address panel signed "Howick".  4-3/4 x 3 in. VG..........50-75

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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373. [FRANCE] Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry  (1805-1872)  French author and theologian. 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 Académie française in 1867, where he occupied the seat formerly held by Voltaire.
Together with others (Abbé Philippe Pétitot, pastor of Saint Roch, and Hyacinthe de Valroger) he reconstituted the French Oratory, a society of priests mainly dedicated to education. Gratry was one of the principal opponents of the definition of the dogma of papal infallibility, but in this matter he submitted to the declarations of the First Vatican Council.  ALS, 1870, 1p, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2". VG............75-100

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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