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

102. [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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103. [MUSIC] Vladimir Ashkenazy [b. 1937] Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Clip signature from envelope...........20-30

Portrait of Ashkenazy

105. Anson Burlingame (1820-1870) American lawyer, legislator, and diplomat, born in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York. In 1823 his parents (Joel Burlingame and Freelove Angell) took him to Ohio, and about ten years afterwards to Michigan. Apart from his official duties as an elected official, Burlingame was also famous for disgracing Representative Preston Brooks after the Congressman physically assaulted Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the US Senate. This was done by goading Brooks to publicly challenge him to a duel, and then proposing conditions so intimidating that Brooks backed down. CLIP SIGNATURE..............25-35

107. [MUSIC] PIERRE BEAUDET - noted French Canadian composer. Signed & inscribed, Montreal 1989, edition of his book CHANSONS ET POEMES RETROUVES. Hard cover - pages not numbered. VG..................35-45

108. Porter Emerson Browne [1879-1934] Am. novelist. Signed card.......15-20

109. John Bradbury [1872-1950] Brit. economist. Signature.......15-20

110. [WOMEN] Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) Swedish writer and a feminist activist. She had a large influence on the social development in Sweden, especially in feminist issues. SIGNATURE on 3-1/4 x 2". Very slightly soiled..........35-45

112. [TV] Natalie Schafer (1900-1991)  American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island (1964–67). Signed, inscribed on verso of photo of cast of Gilligan's Island............20-30

113.  Shirley Booth - actress. Signature [crease]...........10-15

114. Claude Akins (1926-1994) American actor. Signed 3x5 card. Fine........20-30

116. 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

117. [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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118.  [ART] Claude Franqois FORTIER - French engraver, was born in Paris in 1775, and died in the same city in 1835. Original engraving by Fortier, title: "La Matin", image size approx. 10 x 13-1/2" plus wide margins. Circa 1820-1828. Condition: minor foxing spots on verso; minor stains & marks in margin areas; the main flaw, although less visible from front is an offset blue number that must have rested against this print years ago. At first we didn't notice this but its there. We have adjusted the estimate because of this..........75-100

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119. [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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120. [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

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121. [MUSIC] David Rubinoff (1897-1986) Russian-born violinist who was heard during the 1930s and 1940s on various radio programs playing his Stradivarius violin. He also performed in theaters, clubs and schools, and he gave several concerts at the White House during the 1940s. TLS, 1933, 1p. Probably an ink signed form letter sending his autograph. Minor faults........35-45

122. [ART] Christian Haldenwang (German, 1770-1831) one of the finest German landscape engravers of the early 19th Century. His main works includes the cycle of the "Four Seasons" after Claude Lorrains paintings in the collection of the Ermitage Leningrad. He born at Durlach in 1770, was articled to Christian von Mechel, an engraver and dealer in art goods at Basle. He lived five years in this establishment, destitute of every means that could promote his education as an artist; for it was rather a factory than a school of art. The examples set before him were only French engravings. He, however, was able to see some of Middiman's ' Select Views in Great Britain,' and others by Woollett, which were probably presents from those artists to Mechel. Seeing these prints excited Haldenwang creating a desire to imitate them, and he determined to make Woollett his model. During the latter part of his time he made some attempts at aquatint, which, though injurious to his health, had beneficial results; for some well-executed works of this class obtained the notice of the Chalcographic Society, and he went to Dessau in 1796, where he remained for eight years, producing many beautiful landscapes, and improving his skill in that style of engraving. The reputation he acquired induced the Margrave Charles Frederick of Baden to appoint him engraver to the court of Carlsruhe, but during the time the French had the ascendancy in Germany, he was obliged to work for the booksellers. It was then that he executed the views in the ' Rhenish Pocket-book,' and the two masterly engravings for the ' Travels in Brazil ' of Prince Maximilian of Neuwied. He also executed four landscapes, after Claude and Ruisdael, for the ' Musee Napo- leon.' He died at Bad Rippoldsau in 1831. Original engraving by Haldenwang, title: "Paysage", image size approx. 11-1/4 x 14-1/2" plus wide clean margins. Circa 1820-1828. Remarkable detail...........100-150

123. [POP MUSIC] Captain & Tennille are U.S. pop music recording artists who achieved recording chart success from 1975-80 with a repertoire of romance and novelty hit songs. The duo consists of "Captain" Daryl Dragon (born August 27, 1942), and Toni Tennille (born May 8, 1940). They are probably best known for their single, "Love Will Keep Us Together." SIGNED, INSCRIBED 8x10 photo. Signed by both. VG...........25-35

124. Lanny Ross [1906-1988] Am. singer. SP, 5x7. Nice.........25-35

125. [MUSIC] Bobby Short (1924-2005) American cabaret singer and pianist. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. Very nice. VG...........40-60

126. [ART]  Clinton King  (1901-1979) American artist, born in Fort Worth, Texas and received his formal education at the University of Texas and Princeton. He studied painting from Randall Davey and Robert Reid and gained early recognition in Texas at the Annual Texas Artists Exhibitions. He is generally associated with the regional art of Texas and the Santa Fe Art Colony of New Mexico until 1940. After 1940 and in to the 1960s, he exhibited often in Chicago, New York and Paris. King painted genre scenes, landscapes, portraits and still life. His early modernist portraits and genre were often compared to Diego Rivera. King was a modernist, and a Renaissance man of the art world, whose styles included Realism, Impressionism, and Abstract Expressionism at various periods in his 40 years of artistic activity. During his lifetime, King's paintings won many prizes and are held in many public collections, including: the Library of Congress; National Collection of Fine Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art; and the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris.  Offered here is his engraving with aquatint titled HELLAS, done in 1974,  image approx. 17-1/2 x 21-3/4 in. plus margins. This is an artist proof numbered XXV over XXV.  Still contained in its original mat.  The image area is very fine; there are a few light spots in the margin close to the image, and just below the signature area.  See scan below.  This is a major intaglio and one of the largest we have ever offered.  An important print............400-600

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127. [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

128. [MUSIC] Paul Williams (b.1940)) American musician, composer, songwriter and actor. Signed bank check, 1977. VG............35-45

129. [MUSIC] Jan Bach  (b. 1937) American composer. AMQS from his "Laudes" written in 1971.  Dated 1983.  6x4 in. Fine........50-75

130. [MUSIC] John Anthony Lennon  (b. 1950) American composer.  AMQS dated 1999, from his "ECHOLALIA."  Fine......50-75

132. [FRANCE] Gustave François Xavier Delacroix de Ravignan (1795-1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821.  Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds. Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France.  Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave.  ALS,  1854, 2-1/2 pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in.  VG.............100-150

133. [FILM] Richard Crenna [1926-2003] actor. Signed typed agreement dated 1965. "Kay Gardella, TV Editor of the New York Daily News, has my permission to attribute food recipes to me in a new cookbook featuring recipes of TV personalities she is authoring." VG..........30-40

134. [MUSIC] Jean Nohain [1900-1981] French lyricist. TLS, 1977, 1p, 6x8". To Felix Bonafe about Jacques Bardoux. VG.............50-75

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

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

146. [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

148. [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

149. [FRANCE] Henry Kistemaeckers (1872-1938), was a prolific Belgian-born French author and playwright.   He began as a novelist, but soon turned to playwriting for his livelihood. A vast number of works would flow from his hand over the decades of his life, with Instinct, Marchand de Bonheur, Le Roi de Palaces, La Passante and Un Jour de Amour among his more successful productions. His drama Le Flambée was adapted for the English stage by Peter Le Marchant and produced in London as The Turning Point and in New York as The Spy. The Broadway play Where the Poppies Grow, produced at the Theatre Republic in 1918, was adapted from Kistemaeckers’ Un Soir, au Front by Roi Cooper Megrue. His most successful Broadway production, Woman of Bronze, was written with Eugene Delard and adapted for the American stage by Paul Kester. The play opened at the Frazee Theatre on September 7, 1920 and had a run of 252 performances. ALS, 1912, 3pp,  about his play "Le Flambee".  VG..........75-100

150. [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

151. [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

152. [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

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

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

156. 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

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

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

161. [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

162. [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

165. [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

166. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 50 signed bank checks, dating 1895-1930.........1250-1750

168. [FRANCE] Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) French statesman and historian. ALS, 1905, 3 pages. VG............75-100




169. LEMONNIER, (Antoine Louis) Camille (1844-1913), Belgian novelist and art critic, founder of the Belgian literary renaissance. Most of his fiction was influenced by the work of the French writer Émile Zola, and is frank and naturalistic in its descriptions of characters and analysis of their behavior. His first successful novel was Un mâle (1881), a vivid description of a rural setting; Le petit homme de Dieu (The Little Man of God, 1902) is considered one of his best works. Among his writings on Belgian art is Histoire des beaux-arts en Belgique (1887). ALS [APPEARS TO BE ONLY THE LAST PAGE SIGNED]............50-75

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170. [SWINDLER] Horatio William Bottomley [1860-1933]. English journalist and financier. Made fortune floating speculative stocks; established weekly John Bull (1906), vehicle of rabid patriotism during World War I; M.P. (1906-12, 1918-22). Bankrupt (1911); regained fortune in lotteries, etc.; finally convicted of misappropriation of funds held in trust (1922), and imprisoned for 5 years. Brief TLS, 1918, 1p. "I am obliged for your letter. The message I send you is my earnest wish for a speedy and triumphant conclusion of the War." Rust mark from paperclip top edge...........50-75

171. [MUSIC] Jane Laurie Borthwick  (1813-1897) Scottish Composer and translator.  In 1855, she and her sis­ter Sarah Find­la­ter co-pro­duced a book of trans­la­tions of Ger­man hymns ti­tled Hymns from the Land of Lu­ther (1854, 1855, 1858 & 1862). In 1875, while liv­ing in Swit­zer­land, she pro­duced ano­ther book of trans­la­tions called Al­pine Lyrics. Borth­wick was al­so ac­tive with the Ed­in­burgh House of Re­fuge, the Mo­ra­vi­an Mis­sion in Lab­ra­dor, and other mis­sion work.  AMQS from her composition "Come, Labor On", approx. 10.5 x 5".......75-100

172.  [FILM] Lew Ayres (1908 1996) American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr. Kildare in several movies. Signed 3x5 card..........2O-30

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174. [FRANCE]  Jean-François Constant Mocquard ( 1791 - 1864 ) French  lawyer , diplomat , sub-prefect and French politician , Chief of Staff of Napoleon III ( 1848 - 1864 ) and senator ( 1 863 - 1864 ).  ALS, 1853, 1p. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4".  VG.........50-75

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175. [THEATRE] Elisabeth (Bessy) Marbury (1856-1933) pioneering American theatrical and literary agent and producer who represented prominent theatrical performers and writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and helped shape business methods of the modern commercial theater. She was the longtime companion of Elsie de Wolfe (later known as Lady Mendl), a prominent socialite and famous interior decorator. Marbury, for many remains a bundle of contradictions. Although she herself was the embodiment of female independence in almost every way, she initially opposed suffrage. She made a bold reversal once women in the USA did receive the right to vote. Bessy Marbury's clients ranged from the French Academy of Letters, to playwrights Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, to the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle, as well as being an early promoter of African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance. She also played an instrumental role in developing the modern "Book Musical" that audiences came to know as defining "Broadway" in the twentieth century, notably of Cole Porter's first musical, See America First,and Jerome Kern (Nobody Home (1915), Very Good, Eddie (1915), and Love o' Mike (1916)). Who she represented just goes on and on. Offered here are 3 TLSs, ALL 1912 [in French], 1p. each., to M. Marcel Ballot regarding the play La Princesse Lointaine. Plus 3 others TLSs signed by others. All have pencil notations by the recipient. A small but certainly important theatrical archive of a significant person in her field...............100-150

176. Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832) was a Swiss novelist and translator. She wrote in and translated to the French language. Montolieu penned a few original novels and over 100 volumes of translations. She wrote the first French translation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (Raison et Sensibilité, ou Les Deux Manières d'Aimer) and Persuasion (La Famille Elliot, ou L'Ancienne Inclination). One of her translations to French - Johann David Wyss's German-language The Swiss Family Robinson (Le Robinson suisse, ou, Journal d'un père de famille, naufragé avec ses enfans ) - was adapted and expanded by her with original episodes more than once. Montolieu's French version is the literal source of still frequently reprinted English translations - for example William H. G. Kingston's 1879 version, one of the most popular in English over the years, is actually a translation of Montolieu's French adaptation.Her first novel, Caroline de Lichtfield, ou Mémoires d'une Famille Prussienne, was an influential instant best-seller in the 1780s and stayed in print until the mid-19th century. ALS (1814), 1p...........50-75

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177.  [FRANCE] Albert Delpit [1849-1893] Fr. writer. ALS, no yr., 2-1/2 pp, 5x8 in. VG. Speaks of his novel and play..........75-100

178. [WATERLOO] Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (1794-1870) British soldier, peer and long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament. Hotham fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and later achieved the rank of General. Signed address panel postmarked 1829. Attractive example.........40-60

180. [FRANCE] Mlle Cécile Charlotte Furtado (1821-1896) was a daughter of Elie Furtado, the chief rabbi of Bayonne, and Rose Fould, a daughter of Beer Léon Fould, banker and the mayor of Rocquencourt. She married in 1838 Charles Heine (1810-1865), a scion of a rich banking dynasty and first cousin of the poet Heinrich (Henri) Heine (1797-1856).  Mme Furtado-Heine was chiefly known for her philanthropy in the areas of medicine, education, and religion. During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, she supported the Red Cross and the ambulance services; and in 1895 she bequeathed her villa in Nice as a hospital and sanatorium for wounded and convalescent soldiers. In 1884 she founded and endowed an orphanage in the 14th Arrondissement on the street which was renamed Rue Furtado-Heine in her honour after her death, as well as similar children’s establishments in Bayone and Montrouge.  She was a generous donor to the Institut Pasteur, and her commemorative bust still adorns the halls of the Institute. Mme Furtado-Heine also generously contributed to numerous Jewish charities and benevolent organisations; and financially supported the building of new synagogues in France and Belgium.  Her charitable and philanthropic endeavours were recognised by the Government of France, and in 1896 she became the Officer of the Legion d’Honneur, a distinction very rare for a woman in the nineteenth century. ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 4 x 6". Fine.............75-100

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181. [FRANCE] Louis-Antoine-François de Marchangy (1782-1826) Lawyer and writer. He rose to fame as both a literary figure and a prominent prosecutor for the Restoration government. His most famous case was his prosecution of the four sergeants of La Rochelle who were executed in 1822 for their part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the government. His summary for the prosecution lasted five hours and was published as a 196-page book. In numerous other cases, he supported the repressive conservative government against the liberal opposition. Offered here is a very lengthy 4 page ALS, Paris, 1824, to his brother. Content unknown. Fine............100-200

183. [FILM] Marsha Mason (b. 1942) American actress. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO........25-35

184. Robert Culp (1930-2010) American actor who earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on "I Spy" [1965-68], the espionage series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. Attractive shot, 2002. VG.............30-40

185. (Nobel Prize Lot)  Melvin Schwartz (1932-2009) Physics 1988 signed biographical sketch PLUS signature in return address on envelope, Paul Samuelson (1915-2009), Econonics 1970, signed 3x5 paper, Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999), Chemistry 1951signed card. VG..............60-80

186. [FRANCE] Madame de VONNOZ [1775-1851] Fr. poet. Signed [?] handwritten poem dedicated to the Duke of Angouline, 1820, 1p. Pencil notations on face above and below poem o/w VG..................60-80

187. [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

188. [ENGLAND] William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam PC (1748-1833), styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a British Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham's estates, making him one of the richest people in Britain. He played a leading part in Whig politics until the 1820s. ALS, no year, 1p. PLUS engraved portrait suitable for framing with this letter.......50-75 

189. [OPERA] Tito Schipa (1888-1965)  Italian tenore. In 1919, Schipa traveled to the United States, joining the Chicago Opera Company. He remained with the Chicago company until 1932, whereupon he appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1932 to 1935, and again in 1941. He also sang at the San Francisco Opera, beginning in 1924.  From 1929 to 1949 he performed regularly in Italy, including at La Scala, Milan and the Rome Opera. He returned to Buenos Aires to sing in 1954. In 1957, he toured the Soviet Union.  Vintage signed album page, dated 1926.  On the verso is the signature of Anna Kaskas  (1897-1988), Opera Contralto, Met star from 1936-1950.  Her signature is dated 1935, the year she started at the Met. VG...............60-80

191. Francis Grover Cleveland (1903-1995) son of  US President Grover Cleveland. Brief TLS saying he has nothing of his father's that could be sent. VG............25-35


192. Richard Folsom Cleveland  (1897-1974) son of  US President Grover Cleveland.  ALS, 1968, 1p., regretting that he has none of his father's signatures left. VG...........25-35

193.  WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL [1806-1881] American Party congressman from New York 1845-47; State Supreme Ct. Justice; author & historian. Document Signed, 1851, 5+pp., all handwritten, concerning the settlement of a law suit arising from an estate. 8x13 in. Philip R. Yonge of Darien, George, one of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of John Fraser late of East Florida. The suit is against Thomas Napier of the City of New York. VG............40-60

194. LEVANDER, HAROLD. Gov. of Minnesota 1967-71. Letter as governor dated Nov. 28, 1987 sending photo and expressing warm sentiments concerning addressee's ill son. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text...........20-30

195. BRODIE, ALEXANDER O. Gov of Arizona Territory 1902-05 (predating statehood). LS March 24, 1903 to the President endorsing the "good character, ability and moral qualities" of a job-seeker. Small marginal tears not affecting text. (This is probably a retained copy)............20-30

196. [FILM] Binnie Barnes (1903-1998) English-American actress. She began her acting career in films in 1923, appearing in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Her film career continued in Great Britain, most notably in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's misfortunate fifth wife. Later her career continued in Hollywood, until 1973, when she appeared in the comedy 40 Carats, her last acting role. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........25-35

197. George Anthony Weller [1907-2002] American novelist, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News. He was a native of Boston and a former editorial chair of The Harvard Crimson. Weller's reports from Nagasaki after the nuclear bombing were censored by the United States military but appeared in a book in 2002. Signed 2-page questionaire, which he has filled out for the Contemporary Journalists. Quite detailed with a lot of his handwriting. The latest date appearing in entries is 1972. He signs while in Rome, Italy. Late in life he received Italy's Premio Internazionale di Giornalismo. He also provided the inspiration for longtime friend Sean O'Faolain's 1974 short story Something, Everything, Anything, Nothing........50-75

200. Chas. E. Duryea [1861-1938) Am. manufacturer of motor vehicles. Clip Signature. Good example..........75-100

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202. Albert E. Gallatin (1881-1952) Gallatin wrote about, collected, exhibited, and created works of art. Called "one of the great figures in early 20th-century American culture,"  he was a leading proponent of nonobjective and later abstract and particularly Cubist art whose "visionary approach" in both collecting and painting left "an enduring impact on the world of modern art." Gallatin was a collector, art historian, and founder of the first museum gallery devoted exclusively to modern art in the U. S.  Gallatin was born to wealth; his great grandfather, Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), had been Secretary of he Treasury of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In 1902 he inherited the family banking and investment fortune, which set him on a career of art collecting and criticism. Showing a youthful interest in art and literature, he began to collect works by Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, and James McNeill Whistler while still in his teens. As he collected art, he also began to write about it. For the two decades following the turn of the century, Gallatin produced a constant stream of articles, small monographs, and books of engraved plates. Between 1900 and 1910 most of these concerned Beardsley and Whistler.   His interests expanded to modern art during World War I. After the war, he made frequent trips to Paris, beginning in 1921 buy art from the major dealers there. Initially he donated works to the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1922. These museums, however, avoided the work of American artists. Gallatin actively bought work from the so-called Ash Can School in the United States. He used his position as trustee for New York University to establish the first museum in the U. S. dedicated solely to modern art, the Gallery of Living Art, located in South Study Hall that university. The gallery included works by Picasso, Braque, Gris, and Léger. Gallatin wrote the catalogs, which were issued between 1928 and 1940. In 1926 he co-published with the classicist/collector Joseph Hoppin the first fascicule of the prestigious Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for a United States collection. Between 1928 and 1933 works by Joan Miro, André Masson, Robert Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, and Jean Arp were added to his gallery, the first to enter a public collection in the U. S.  In 1936 Gallatin renamed his museum the "Museum of Living Art" with his purchase of Picasso's Three Musicians (1921). Gallatin ceased his French buying trips in 1938 with the declaration of hostilities with Germany. Instead, he focused on American art. The later abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning attributed their early development to the Museum of Living Art. The University closed the museum in 1943 and Gallatin moved the collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, donating it at his death in 1952.  Gallatin wrote largely about the art he collected, some of it, for example, the Ash Can School, was little valued at the time he made his purchases. James Johnson Sweeney, later curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, praised Gallatin in 1931 for showing the widest range of cubism in America, which the fledging Museum of Modern Art, founded two years after Gallatin's museum by Alfred H. Barr, would spend the next decade amassing a similar collection. Gallatin's space at NYU is today Grey Art Gallery and Study Center.  In 1942 Gallatin was referred to as New York's "abstract king" in a profile that appeared in the "Talk of the Town" section of the New Yorker magazine. Offered here is a lengthy manuscript signed with his nickname "Bertie". He makes a drawing of a man drinking.  Although not mentioned this was sent to his friend George Page Ely (1879-1967) who was the son-in-law of the noted American artist, Julian Alden Weir; and he was also Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Not dated, he's inviting Page [as he was known to his friends] to visit the Century Club  "Come up, see us some time & chuk with is."  RARE! Provenance: Old Lyme, Connecticut, Estate belonging to descendants of American Impressionist artist Julian Alden Weir.  Fresh to the market...............400-600

203. Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton.  Gore Vidal said of his work: "Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs.... Not since Dreiser has an American writer had so much to tell us about the role of money in our lives.  Signed & inscribed 9.5 x 8 in. photo. Some unobtrusive creasing that only shows when held at an angle o/w quite nice.............50-75

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204. Arthur Hailey (1920-2004) British/Canadian novelist, whose works have sold more than 170 million copies in 40 languages. Most of the novels are set within one major industry, such as hotels, banks or airlines, and explore the particular human conflicts sparked-off by that environment. They are notable for their plain style, extreme realism, based on months of detailed research, and a sympathetic down-to-earth hero with whom the reader can easily identify.  Signed, inscribed, 1971, 8x10 photo.  Soft unobtrusive corner crease...............50-75

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205. Edward Albee (b. 1928) American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962).  Signed vintage 8x 10 photo, dated NYC Feb. 16, 1967. VG..........50-75

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206. James Watson Gerard (1867-1951) was a United States lawyer and diplomat.  Under President Woodrow Wilson, he served as the American Ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917. In 1914, Gerard was the Democratic (Tammany Hall) candidate for U.S. Senator from New York. He defeated Anti-Tammany candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Democratic primary, but lost the election to James W. Wadsworth, Jr.  Signed, inscribed 6.5 x 8.5 in. photograph. VG.............50-75

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207. [FILM] Virginia Fox Zanuck (1902-1982)  American actress who starred in many silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.  In 1924 she married film producer Darryl F. Zanuck.  Offered here is a signed, inscribed snapshot photo, 3-3/8 x 3-1/2 in. PLUS an ALS on a greeting card. Two signed pieces.  Fine.........50-75

208. George Edward Ellis (1814-1894)  Unitarian clergyman and historian.  Signed cdv photograph, 2.5 x 4 in. Fine..............50-75

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209. [THEATRE]  The Plymouth Theatre program for the play MAGNOLIA ALLEY, 1949, signed by Ann Jackson  (1925-2016),  Brad Dexter [1917-2002), Fred Stewart (1906-1970), Bibi Osterwald (1918-2002), Jackie Cooper (1922-2011), Julie Harris (1925-2013), Hildy Parks (1926-2004), Jessie Royce Landis {1896-1972), Frances Bavier (1902-1989) signed inside, George Batson - the playwright, signed inside.  Great collection of theatrical signatures. VG..............100-150

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210. [STAMPS-ART] César Baldaccini (1921-1998), better known simply as César, was a noted French sculptor. César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions (compacted automobiles, discarded metal, or rubbish), expansions (polyurethane foam sculptures), and fantastic representations of animals and insects. He was considered a NEW REALIST along with such artists as  Arman, Klein, Raysse, Tinguely, Pierre Restany and others who found their inspiration in urban life. He is the creator of the César du cinéma trophy, which is awarded to the best in French cinema.  Offered here is a philatelic page [thick quality paper] to which is affixed an actual postage stamp, his Hommage au cinema [Best French film award]. The stamp is postmarked, Paris, 1984. Overall 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 in. Not signed, of course, by Cesar. Fine condition.............25-35

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211. Bernard Jacques Joseph Maximilien de Ring (1799–1873) French archaeologist; born at Bonn, Rhenish Prussia, May 27, 1799; died at Bischleim, Alsace, in 1873. He devoted himself from his sixteenth year to the study of archaeology, and published ‘Picturesque Views of the Old Castles of Baden’ (1829); ‘Celtic Settlement in Southern Germany’ (1842); ‘Roman Settlement of the Rhine to the Danube’ (1852–53), crowned by the French Academy; and ‘History of the Opiques People: Their Legislation, Customs, and Language’ (1859).  ALS, 1854, 2-1/2 pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in. PLUS another letter dated 1834, 1-1/2 pp. plus address leaf, by a different "archeologian" [so described].  Neither letter is translated. VG..........100-150

212. [FILM-THEATRE]  Victor Trivas (1896–1970)  Russian screenwriter and film director. He was nominated at the 1946 Academy Awards for Best Story for the film The Stranger, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Welles.  TLS, Paris, 1935, 1-1/2pp, about 8 x 10.5 in. VG. Not translated. Appears to be theatre content..............80-120

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213. [SIGNED BOOK] Bill Caldwell (1920-2001) American journalist.  Caldwell came to Maine with an unusual background.  A New York native, he had a master’s degree from Cambridge University in England and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He spoke with a slight British accent, which helped give him an aristocratic bearing. He was wounded in World War II, when he flew 69 bombing missions. He wrote for Time-Life, served in the Eisenhower administration, published a newspaper in England, wrote fiction and admired art.  Caldwell came to work at the Portland newspapers in 1965, after traveling from New York and falling in love with Maine. Offered here is an autographed copy of his well-known book 'BILL CALDWELL - ENJOYING MAINE,"  SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE, 1977, 2ND PRINTING, 323 pages, in very good+ dust jacket..........50-75

214. [ART] Oliver Chaffee (1881-1944) Provincetown Artist. Original woodcut from 1935, title O C 3 Central, image approx. 3 x 5-3/4 in. plus clean margins. On verso is the description of a different woodcut by Blache Lazzell. This is an original print pulled directly from the original block in 1935. VG...........200-300

215. [GOV. DOC. 1841]  President John Tyler - printed government document. Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Twenty-Seventh Congress. December 7, 1841. [House of Rep.  Doc 2] printed by Gales & Seaton, Washington DC. Removed. First edition. 472 pp. Illus. with 6 foldout, plus 2 foldout maps, one of which is folding (26 x 43 cm) which is a large folding map of "Presqu'Ile Bay or Erie Harbor, surveyed by Capt. W.G. Williams, 1839.  When opening this foldout map - be careful not to cause the tear at bottom left edge to worsen.  Removed from a larger volume else about very good.  The estimate given here is quite low........200-300

216. [BELGIUM]  Original bond for Charbonnages De Probedenko, Brussels, Belgium, 1898. Folio 12-1/2 x 14-3/4 in.. With embossed corporate seal; imprinted French Revenue stamp and attractive vignettes of mining and factory scenes. Printed signatures of corporate officials as usual. With original coupons. Attractive for framing..............100-150

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220. [THEATRE] Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) American stage actress, writer, and theater owner and producer. Offered here from her estate is her Phillips plastic credit card in her married name, Katharine McClintic.........50-75

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222. [ART] Walt Kuhn at the Marie Harriman Gallery 1934 - Original exhibition catalog of work by Walt Kuhn at the Marie Harriman Gallery, 61-63 East 57 Street, New York, 8 pages, plus cover. There were 14 paintings in this show, all are illustrated in this catalog. Staples are rusted. Included is a signed 1965 bank check, signed by Brenda Kuhn, the daughter of the artist. Provenance: Directly out of the Kuhn Estate.............75-100

223.  [EARLY INDIA] Jaipur (Native Indian State) Pre-stamp cover with date of 1670 identified in pencil.  Cover has Indian and Persian black handstamp.  Approx. 5 x 7 in. VG........60-80

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224. [BOOK]   HISTORIC SILVER OF THE COLONIES AND ITS MAKERS  by Francis Hill Bigelow. MacMillan, New York, 1931. 3rd Edition. Abundantly illustrated with supplementary photo plate examples throughout. Good-VG cloth copy in a good, if somewhat edge nicked and dust dulled. Overall,  tight. No dust jacket. 476 pages including index, illustrations too numerous to counts. An extemely useful reference which is uncommon........Reserved at $40.

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225. WORLD WAR  II letters - a collection of letters from 2 different officers to their families in New Jersey, 1943-1945.  Mostly handwritten, a few typed. A great many are the famous V-MAIL, used by the War & Navy Depts. V-Mail Service. Mostly from England. Excellent picture of a soldier's life in Great Britain during the war. Approx. 110  letters pasted into a scrapbook..................300-400

226. [BOXING] JOEY MAXIM (1922-2001) Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. Signed & inscribed photo, , dated 1992, 8x10. VG................30-40

227. [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 1895 bank check. VG.................200-300

228. RAILROADING IN ILLINOIS - George W. Hired - General Agent.  Autograph letter Signed, St. Louis and Southern Railroad Co., Land Department, Landoral, Illinois.  Dated 1875, 4 pages, 8vo. To Henley C. Lybrook. With original envelope. Fine content regarding organizing a colony under railroad auspices. VG.............50-75

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229. [FILM] LLOYD BRIDGES [1913-1998] American actor. Bridges starred in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films. Signed/inscribed 8 x 10 photo. VG.......25-35

230.  Gerald Massey (1828-1907)  English poet and self-educated Egyptologist.  During the later years of his life, (from about 1870 onwards) Massey became interested increasingly in Egyptology and the similarities that exist between ancient Egyptian mythology and the Gospel stories. He studied the extensive Egyptian records housed in the British Museum, eventually teaching himself to decipher the hieroglyphics." In regard to Egyptology, Massey first published The Book of the Beginnings, followed by The Natural Genesis. His most prolific work is Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World, published shortly before his death.[1] His work, which draws comparisons between the Judeo-Christian religion and the Egyptian religion, is not considered significant in the field of modern Egyptology and is not mentioned in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt or similar reference works of modern Egyptology. One of the more sensational aspects of Massey's writings were the parallels he drew between Jesus and the Egyptian god Horus. These comparisons are primarily contained in his book The Natural Genesis. Massey's writings on this subject have influenced various later authors such as Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Tom Harpur, and Acharya S.  ALS, nd, written on both sides, approx. 5x8". Content - about his poems.  Old Paul Richards price of $25 in 1977 written top corner in pencil..........40-60

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232. [BLACK LISTED AUTHORS]  Offered here is a 1st ed. of Abraham Polonsky's book "THE WORLD ABOVE", 1951, in stained soiled dust jacket. Abraham Polonsky  (1910-1999) was an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist and novelist, blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era.  This particular book was once owned by Donald Ogden Stewart, who has written his name and NYC address on the flyleaf.  Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980) American author and screenwriter, best known for his sophisticated golden era comedies and melodramas, such as The Philadelphia Story (based on the play by Philip Barry), Tarnished Lady and Love Affair. Stewart worked with a number of the great directors of his time, including George Cukor (a frequent collaborator), Michael Curtiz and Ernst Lubitsch. Stewart was also a member of the Algonquin Round Table, and the model for Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.  During the Second Red Scare Stewart was blacklisted in 1950. The book itself is in fair-good condition.................75-100

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234. [FRANCE]  1611 French Mystery document on paper, 2 pages, from Maine [in France], various signatures, approx. 7 x 10-3/4 in..  See scan for condition............100-150

235. [FRANCE]  a 1788 2-page document signed, from Dreux, France to Nantes, France.................80-120

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241. [ART] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. Rare b/w print pulled directly from the original block. The block was made for a 1935  Kuhn family Christmas card. During the 1930s up until around 1940, the Kuhn family sent out cards printed from the blocks that were hand-colored by Walt Kuhn and Brenda [daughter]. It is unknown how much watercoloring that each did on all those cards. In later years, Brenda had photo-mechanical reproductions made, which she herself hand-colored and sent out. One of those hand-colored [by Brenda] reproductions of this 1932 print is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. Over the years we've noticed that these Christmas cards have been sold as original watercolors. To be more specific - those Christmas cards could technically be described as watercolors although since it is known how much of the coloring was done by Walt himself it seems a little misleading to call those prints watercolors by Walt Kuhn. The black & white print offered here was pulled about 10 years ago by Merv from the original block which we own. To be sure Merv will be pulling more prints in the future. Image approx. 5-1/4 x 7-1/2 in.  plus margins. On pre-1800  paper. PICTURE of Kuhn is NOT included here..............75-100

243. [KENTUCKY] BEN HELM (1767-1858)  known as "Kitchen Knife Whetted on a Brick." (See the Manuscript magazine, Winter, 1991, p. 24). He was a surveyor, state senator, clerk of Hardin Co. courts; major in War of 1812; purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Bush] Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was a partner, in the general store business, with Duff Green [later statesman] in the early frontier days of Kentucky. It is likely that young Abe Lincoln visited his store often in his early youth. Document written and signed by Helm, dated 1812, approx. 7-1/2 x 6-1/4 in. Also signed [twice] on the verso by ROBERT BLEAKLEY - about 1801 Bleakley and Wm. Montgomery, two very interesting young Irishmen, came to Elizabethtown and opened a dry goods store with a stock of goods, and soon became very popular. The store was opened in a log house at the corner of the Public Square.  Bleakley was engaged in the rebellion in Ireland in 1798. He evaded Government officers by concealing himself in a vessel and thus made his escape to the United States. Bleakley remained some years after Montgomery left town, and acted as sheriff for several years, and then settled on a farm and died about 1850, leaving a large family.  There is something romantic and interesting in the history of these two men. Born on the same island, engaged in the same rebellion, both compelled to leave to save their lives; emigrating to the same country, finding employment in the same establishment in Baltimore, partners in merchandising in Elizabethtown,  Kentucky, marrying sisters, and then living and dying on adjacent farms.  It was in their general store that Tom Lincoln [Abe Lincoln's father] purchased many items when he was courting Nancy Hanks [mother of the future president].  A court summons for Edward Rawlings and Thomas Swan to answer a plea of debt owed to John Geoghegan - son of Amrose, he inherited Hynes Station, one of the original three forts from which Elizabethtown sprang up.  EDWARD RAWLINGS   (died 1830)  Kentucky pioneer,  married Sarah "Sallie" Vertrees (1776-) in Hardin County Kentucky.  He was born in Berkeley County Virginia and died in Washington County Indiana.  He was a Deputy Sheriff in Hardin County Kentucky in 1794-1795 and Hugh Sheriff in 1798.  He served as a Captain in the War of 1812.  His company was connected to the regiments commanded by Lieutenant Col Benjamin Wright and Lieutenant Col Nicholas Miller, Kentucky Militia.  It consisted of men from the Hardin County Kentucky area.  The company was sent out for a six month term in March of 1813.  Edward originally owned land that today contains the Old Rawlings Cemetery, also known as The Walton Cemetery in Posey Township {Indiana}. VG...............200-300 


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244. US Senate & House of Representative Government documents concerning CLAIMS, invalid and other types.  Collection of 22, most dated 1846.  A few dated later up to 1858.  Some of the last names: Cochran, Dygert, Buchanan, Allen, Beetley, Carpenter, Foreman, Hungerford, Scott, Frothingham, Harkness, Moors, Leavenworth, Broadwell, DeRussey, and of course Smith.  Most are single sheets, removed from the publications printed for the members of congress.  Light age toning as usual..............40-100

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245. [ART] Charles Z. Offin  (1999-1989) American  artist, publisher and art patron. A gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is named for Mr. Offin in recognition of his gifts to the museum. He also gave grants to the Brooklyn, Guggenheim and Tel Aviv museums and endowed arts projects at universities. Original plate signed etching, image approx. 7-3/4 x 6-1/4 in. plus margins.  Dates to  circa 1932. VG..............100-150

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

247. [PANAMA CANAL]  Original bond for the Compagnie Universelle Du Canal Interoceanique De Panama, Paris, 26 June 1888. Folio. With facsimilie signatures of Ferd de Lesseps and Ch. A. De Lesseps, the financier and his son who attempted to build the Panama Canal for France.  With official handstamps etc. Viscomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps (1805-1894) the French diplomat and promoter of the Suez Canal was president of the French company that worked on construction of the Panama Canal (1881-1888), but gave up the project because of financial and political difficulties; with his son Comte Charles Aimee Marie (1849-1923) sentenced to fine and imprisonment by the French government for misappropriation of funds, but sentence not carried out. VG...............150-200

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248. ONE OF THE FIRST TELEPHONE COMPANY STOCKS ISSUED - C.A. Brome - American financier; president of the Mexican Telephone Co. Document signed, NY, NY, 1899. Also signed by the company treasurer. 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. This company was incorporated in the state of New York. MexTel, as it came to be known, was eventually purchased by Southwestern Bell. VG................50-75

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249. [IRELAND] Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse (1758-1841), known as Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bt, from 1791 to 1807, was an Irish peer.  Parsons was the son of Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet and Mary Clere. Between 1782 and 1790, he represented Dublin University in the Irish House of Commons. Parsons sat then as Member of Parliament (MP) for King's County from 1791 until the Act of Union in 1801. In the following co-option, he chose to sit for King's County also in the British House of Commons, a seat he held until 1807. The latter year he succeeded his uncle as second Earl of Rosse. In 1809 he became one of the Postmasters General of Ireland with Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill with whom he attended the laying of the foundation-stone for the new General Post Office in Dublin on 12 August 1814 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth.  He later sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1809 until 1841 and served as Custos Rotulorum of King's County from 1828 until his death.  He entered the Irish Parliament but later disclaimed party politics. Opposed the Union; joint postmaster-general for Ireland in 1809.  ALS, 1815, 3pp.  To Dr. Kelly saying that he is thinking of putting his children to Harrow School but before deciding asks if Dr. Butler would allow them to sleep at home and secondly, would he be able to get a house sufficiently near the school for this purpose. VG...............80-120

251. JAMES HASELL (d. 1785) was the acting governor of North Carolina in the summer of 1771 (and again in 1774) after William Tryon departed for his new post in New York and while Josiah Martin was delayed due to illness. He served as president of the Council from 1760 to 1775, and in that capacity performed the duties of acting governor of North Carolina on several occasions. Son of merchant James Hasell, the younger Hasell was originally from Bristol, England. He immigrated to the American colonies where he lived briefly in Philadelphia before settling in New Hanover County, North Carolina prior to 1735. Hasell married twice, first to Susannah (or Sarah) Sampson and second to Ann Sophia Von Blade Durlace. He and his first wife had a son, James.   Acquiring over 2,000 acres and three Wilmington town lots by the 1740’s, James Hasell was one of the largest landowners in New Hanover County. Having served as a justice of the peace since 1739 and having risen to social prominence, Hasell caught the attention of Governor Gabriel Johnston. In 1747 Johnston nominated Hasell to the royal Council; he was seated October 2, 1749, upon the death of Edward Moseley.  Although he had no formal legal training, much of Hasell's career in the colony was tied to the higher courts—those above the county level. He served as chief justice of the General Court (and its later offshoots, both supreme and superior courts) from 1750 to 1755, 1758, to 1759, and 1766 to 1767. In September 1753 he was named chief baron of the Exchequer Court, a largely honorary function that paid a salary of £40 a year. He retained this office until the American Revolution, resigning it temporarily in 1758 and 1766 during his brief service as chief justice. Governor Arthur Dobbs, who criticized his lack of formal training in 1754, saw fit to appoint Hasell chief justice again in 1758 on the death of Peter Henly, while Governor William Tryon praised Hasell as chief justice in 1767.

Despite his distinguished service on the bench, it was as a royal councillor that Hasell performed his major services. His work in the Council was commended by governors Dobbs, Tryon, and Josiah Martin, all of whom frequently sought his counsel, and his loyalty to the Crown was steadfast. Hasell served on the Council until it was abolished in 1775 and was its most dominant member during its final fifteen years. Martin even tried to have him made lieutenant governor in 1771. Whereas some councillors vacillated during the Stamp Act agitation in 1765, Hasell openly supported Crown policy. During the critical years just before the Revolution, he remained the only councillor on whom Governor Martin felt he could rely consistently. Hasell was president of the Council from early 1760 to 1775, and as such sometimes acted as chief executive during the governor's absence from the colony, serving, for example, after Tryon departed in 1771 and before Martin arrived. When Martin was in New York on business in January 1775, Hasell prorogued the Assembly because of the revolutionary fervor building there. In April he urged the governor to disrupt the Provincial Congress when every other councillor advised caution. As a long-time member of the executive council, Hasell held the distinction of having been present at more meetings than any other member, attending 368 meetings, just over 80 percent of the meetings for which he was responsible. In addition to his dependability, Hasell had a distinguished career on the council, serving several governors who relied upon him and commended him for his advice and unwavering loyalty to the crown. Josiah Martin, in particular, found Hasell to be his most trusted confidant and tried to have him appointed lieutenant governor. Hasell was not timid in his leadership. As acting governor in January 1775, he terminated the Assembly due to its perceived revolutionary spirit.
  
James Hasell’s hobby was book collecting, and during his lifetime he accumulated one of the largest libraries in North Carolina. Many of his books are now in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his will, probated in 1785, Hasell left to his son James twenty pounds sterling with which to purchase mourning clothes, his own clothing, a gold watch, his riding horse, and the family “pictures.” He left his stepdaughter Ann the same amount of money designated for mourning clothes. To his wife, Sophia, he left the rest of his estate, including over 12,000 acres of land. The property was confiscated after his death, but returned to the heirs in 1802. 

Offered here is a 1p. partly-printed DS, 7 3/4" x 12 1/2", dated May 31, 1758 (w/ two 7 1/4" x 6" sheets attached to it by string, one MD(unsigned) of Court costs and a 1p. partly-printed DS, signed Jas. Hasell), all documents being State of North Carolina legal documents to the Sheriff of Anson County, notifying him that Samuel McGiliviney(?) "... lately in our Supreme Court of Justice, Oyer and Terminer, and General Goal Delivery, to be held for our Counties of Orange Rowan and Anson recovered against James Armour of the County of Anson Planter the sum of thirty six pound money in a Certain Action on the Case...," signed Jas. Hasell.  Folds (small central breaks/ holes), some edge wear, toning-- overall very good.........500-750

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252. [NORTH CAROLINA]  MONTFORT STOKES (1762-1842) was a distinguished citizen from North Carolina.  At the age of 13, Stokes enlisted in the U.S. Merchant Marine, and during the Revolutionary War was captured by the British and confined on board the British prison ship "Jersey" for seven months.  After the War, Stokes would hold the rank of major general in the state militia (1804-1816).  In 1816, Stokes would become U.S Senator and serve until 1823.  Later, he would serve as Governor of North Carolina (1830-1832).  In 1832, President Andrew Jackson appointed Stokes to head the Federal Indian Commission where he oversaw the relocation and resettlement of tribes in the American southeast (Cherokee, Seneca, Shawnee, and Quapaw).  In order to perform his duties, Stokes moved to Fort Gibson in Oklahoma, serving until his death in 1842.  He is believed to be the only soldier of the American Revolutionary War to be buried in Oklahoma.   Offered here is a 1p. partly-printed DS, 8" x 7", dated September 28, 1799, A State of North Carolina Sheriff's summons commanding him"... that of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of Alexander Fate heretofore Alexander Joyce if to be found in your bailiwick you cause to be made the sum of Sixteen pounds Eight Shillings & six pence Current money...[which] in Salisbury, Samuel French recovered against him...," signed M. Stokes, and on verso signed John Fields (Dept. Sheriff), Will Bushell (Clerk) and Jn. Matlock (Sheriff).  JOHN MATLOCK (c.1753-1838) served in the Revolutionary War, in Nelson's Company of the 1st Regiment (1776-1779).  He participated in a number of major battles, including:  Brandywine, Germantown, Sandy Hook, Stony Point, and Whitesell's Mills, being discharged in 1779 with the rank of sergeant.  Matlock was given 428 acres for his military service.  From 1798 to 1799 he served as High Sheriff.  VG...............150-250     

253. FRANK CROWNINSHIELD [1872-1947]  American journalist and art and theatre critic best known for developing and editing the magazine Vanity Fair for 21 years, making it a pre-eminent literary journal.  ALS, The Century Co., nd, 1p. To the journalist Miss Marshall. Thanks for nice letter - pleasure to meet people like you...................30-40

254. [WASHINGTON DC]  Walter E. Washington (1915-2003) was an American civil servant and politician. After a career in public housing in Washington, DC and New York City, he was appointed as chief executive of Washington, D.C. in 1967. He served as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner from 1967 to 1974. He was the last mayor of Washington to be appointed by the President. TLS, 1971, 1p. Very nice example................60-80

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255. [ENGLAND] George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds KG, PC (1775-1838), styled Earl of Danby until 1789 and Marquess of Carmarthen from 1789 to 1799, was a British peer and politician. He served as Master of the Horse between 1827 and 1830. He also was Governor of Scilly. Signed address panel, ppostmarked 1825, 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. VG..............40-60

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256. [SCIENCE]  Horace Scudder Uhler  (1872-1956) Horace Scudder Uhler, American physicist. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society; member American Mathematics Society, American Mathematics Association, Optical Society American. Instructor Academy of Northwestern University, 1896-1897. Director Laboratory of U. School, Baltimore, 1897-1902. Carnegie assistant in physical chemistry, Johns Hopkins, 1905.  Instructor physics, 1906-1909, assistant professor, 1909-1922, associate professor, 1922-1925, Yale. Director department physics, Gettysburg College, 1925. Associate professor physics, Yale, 1926-1937, professor, 1937-1941, special lecturer physics, 1941-1943, professor emeritus, since 1941. TLS, 1937, 1-1/2 pages, to professors Kovarik, McKeehan, Page, and Zeleny at Yale University.  A letter sent by Prof. Uhler to his fellow professors in the phsics lab at Yale about an incident[s] with Mr. P.A. Gilmore, who was a janitor at Yale.  Uhler describes an incident where the janitor "turned suddently and stroked his bare hand once from my forehead to the back of the bald area. While so doing his face bore an expression of wildish delight or excultation.  I was too astonished to say anything and did not knowingly change a feature."  He goes on the further explain and ask that something be done to "needs taking down several pegs. If he is insane then he his not fit to be loose in the laboratory."   We recently discovered this letter while going through the papers of Prof. Louis McKeehan and found it to be highly unusual if not humorous although obviously not a funny matter to Prof. Uhler. Unfortunately we do not know the outcome. VG...............125-175

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261. [FRANCE] Baron de Lagarde - ALS, dated 1714, 1p, about 6-1/2 x 8-3/4. Identification with this letter says: "Toulon 1714. The Marquis of La Velette, Baron de Lagarde went to search for the remains of the famous explorer LA PÉROUSE". A quick attempt at researching Lagarde did not yield anything. La Perouse, however, was quite famous, having died c. 1788. His death, in comparison to the 1714 date of the letter offered here would seem to dispute that Lagarde could have written a letter in 1714 and would still be alive 74 years later. This needs A LOT more research..........100-150

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

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265. [MEDICINE] Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952) Australian pioneering physical therapist. Between 1934 and her death she and her associates treated millions of polio victims throughout the world. Their testimonies to Sister Kenny's healing work is part of her legacy; as is The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis, and Its Treatment, known as "The Red Book," written by Dr. John Pohl in collaboration with Kenny. Her most enduring legacy is the Minneapolis Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute. Her principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, (in some countries called physiotherapy). Signature mounted to album page, identified above and dated Dec. 7, 1944 in another hand. Her autograph is pretty scarce and this is slightly less than a very good example.........80-120

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266. [MULTIPLE LOT] MISC. autographs offered as one lot: [1] Sidney Tracy HOLMES [ 1815-1890] Representative from New York. SIGNATURE, irregular sun toned. [2] Mary Cowden Clarke [1809-1898] Eng. author. Clip signature. [3] [ENGLAND] H.B. LEGGE [1708-1764] English statesman. He was private secretary to Sir Robert Walpole. Legge only shared temporarily in the downfall of Walpole, and became in quick succession Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests, a Lord of the Admiralty, and a Lord of the Treasury. In 1748 he was sent as envoy extraordinary to Frederick the Great, and although his conduct in Berlin was sharply censured by George II, he became Treasurer of the Navy soon after his return to England. In April 1754 he joined the ministry of the duke of Newcastle as chancellor of the Exchequer. CLIP SIGNATURE. Very good example. Click to see Legge [4][FDR] William E. Leuchtenburg (b. 1922) is William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Chapel Hill and the leading scholar of the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th century history.  Signed 1p. typescript from THE PERILS OF PROSPERITY. Begins with "The vote was less a triumph for Roosevelt than a rejection of Hoover..." [5]Jeane Dixon (1904-1997) was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions and a best-selling biography. SIGNED/INSCRIBED Prayer card, 2.5 x 4 in. VG. [6] Charles Seymour(1885-1963) American academic, historian and President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951. Seymour served as the chief of the Austro-Hungarian Division of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in 1919. He was also the U.S. delegate on the Romanian, Yugoslavian, and Czechoslovakian Territorial Commissions in 1919. TLS, Yale Univ., Sept. 19, 1940, 1p. To Professor Louis W. McKeehan, Sloane Physics Laboratory [Yale]. Acknowledges sabbatical leave of absence. [7] [ENGLAND] Frederick Romilly (1810-1887) sat as Liberal MP for Canterbury between March 1850 and the general election of 1852. SIGNED ADDRESS PANAL postmarked 1839. [8] Bill Pogue (b. 1930) is a retired American astronaut. Sig/inscribed 3x5 card. [9] Edward J. Flynn (1891-1953) rose to become one of the most influential Irish American political figures from 1920s to the 1950s. He earned his law degree at Fordham in 1912 and won election, with Tammany Hall's backing, to the New York state assembly in 1917 and served through 1921. He later served as Bronx County Sheriff from 1922 to 1925 . From 1922 to the time of his death he served as chairman of the Bronx Democratic organization. Known for his honesty and reform principles, he served as secretary of state and a trusted advisor to Franklin Roosevelt during the latter's term as governor of New York State . He helped Roosevelt through all of his elections and was one of the driving forces behind Truman's 1948 election victory. In 1940 Roosevelt tapped him to be the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. SIGNATURE, [10][ENGLAND] ROUNDELL PALMER - 1st Earl of Selborne [1812-1895]. English jurist. M.P. (1847-52, 1853-57, 1861-72); solicitor general (1861); attorney general (1863-65); opposed Gladstone' s Irish church policy; lord chancellor (1872-74, 1880-85); author of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of 1873, which established a single hierarchy of courts; edited a hymnal, The Book of Praise (1863). Created earl (1882). CLIP SIGNATURE, mounted.......100-150

267. [POLITICS MIXED LOT] [1] Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War - printed government document, Ex. Doc. No. 79, A resolution of the 13th instant; calling for information relative to the removal of the rocks in Hell Gate, East River, New York; and other aids to the navigation through that passage.. Signed IN TYPE Jeff'n Davis.May 19, 1856, printed on both sides. 34th Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives. [2] Washington Hunt (1811-1867) American lawyer and politician. CLIP SIGNATURE [3] Willard Hall (1780-1875) American jurist and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. he was elected to the US congress. On May 6, 1823 Hall received a recess appointment from President James Monroe to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware vacated by John Fisher. Hall was formally nominated on December 5, 1823, and four days later was confirmed by the United States Senate and received his commission. He served on the court until December 6, 1871, over 48 years, when he resigned, making him one of the longest-served United States federal judges. On May 6, 1823 Hall received a recess appointment from President James Monroe to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware vacated by John Fisher. Hall was formally nominated on December 5, 1823, and four days later was confirmed by the United States Senate and received his commission. He served on the court until December 6, 1871, over 48 years, when he resigned, making him one of the longest-served United States federal judges.ANS, "Have the goodness to send me the catalogue published 1866. With great respect William Hall, Wilmington, Del. "To the Librarian at Harvard College. Approx. 5 x 8-1/4". Some foxing spots. [4] Repeal Missouri Prohibition Of Slavery - Speech of S.P. Chase , of Maine AGAINST THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY, North of..... Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Feb. 3, 1854. 30-pp. VG. See speech above [5] John Rogers [1813-1879] Representative from New York. CLIP SIGNATURE. [6] William S. Damrell [1809-1860] Congressman from Mass. [7] William H. Kelsey [1812-1879] U.S. Representative from New York. Clip signature. [8] Orsamus B. Matteson (1805-1889) U.S. Representative from New York. Clip signature. [9] Jacob Broom (1808-1864) American Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Clip signature. [10] Edward Wade (1802-1866) U.S. Representative from Ohio. Signature............60-80

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292. 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..........25-350

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297. [THE GAME OF BRIDGE] Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) English artist.  During her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. In 1929 she was created a Dame and in 1936 became the first woman elected to the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1768. Her large retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy, in 1965, was another first for a woman.  Although Knight was known for painting amidst the world of the theatre and ballet in London, and for being a war artist during the Second World War, she was also greatly interested in, and inspired by, more marginalised communities and individuals including Gypsies and circus performers. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists.  A letter sent to Knight from a newspaper editor stating  that Winston Churchill confessed that he "hardly ever" played bridge, someone retorted, "Funny that so few people of brains do."  He asks Orpen "Is this observation true? Then asks "Do you play bridge, if so, whuy; if not, why Not?"  Knight gives her answer signing L.K.  VG..........150-250

298. [FILM] Joseph Cotten (1905-1994) American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He first gained worldwide fame as the star of the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay. He went on to star in such popular films as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Duel in the Sun (which remains one of the top 100 highest grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation), Love Letters (1945), Portrait of The Third Man (1948) and Jennie (1949). Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo...............75-100

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303.  (KENTUCKY PIONEER)  ROBERT BLEAKLEY - about 1801 Bleakley and Wm. Montgomery, two very interesting young Irishmen, came to Elizabethtown and opened a dry goods store with a stock of goods, and soon became very popular. The store was opened in a log house at the corner of the Public Square.  Bleakley was engaged in the rebellion in Ireland in 1798. He evaded Government officers by concealing himself in a vessel and thus made his escape to the United States. Bleakley remained some years after Montgomery left town, and acted as sheriff for several years, and then settled on a farm and died about 1850, leaving a large family.  There is something romantic and interesting in the history of these two men. Born on the same island, engaged in the same rebellion, both compelled to leave to save their lives; emigrating to the same country, finding employment in the same establishment in Baltimore, partners in merchandising in Elizabethtown,  Kentucky, marrying sisters, and then living and dying on adjacent farms.  It was in their general store that Tom Lincoln [Abe Lincoln's father] purchased many items when he was courting Nancy Hanks [mother of the  future president].  Offered here is a 1811 manuscript document written and signed by BEN HELM (1767-1858)  known as "Kitchen Knife Whetted on a Brick." (See the Manuscript magazine, Winter, 1991, p. 24). He was a surveyor, state senator, clerk of Hardin Co. courts; major in War of 1812; purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Bush] Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was a partner, in the general store business, with Duff Green [later statesman] in the early frontier days of Kentucky. It is likely that young Abe Lincoln visited his store often in his early youth. Bleakley's siganture appears twice on the verso as well as another signature of Ben Helm.  Approx. 7-1/2 x 6-1/4 in. VG...........200-300

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304.  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

305. [MAINE]  James Carr  (1777-1818) congressman  from Maine, then a District of Massachusetts. Carr was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on September 9, 1777. He attended Phillips Exeter and Byfield Academies, and then went to sea as clerk on the U.S.S. Crescent. He served two years as secretary to the United States Consul at Algiers. He then joined his parents (who had migrated to Bangor, Maine), engaging in mercantile pursuits and serving as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1806–1811) for the District of Maine.  Carr was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth United States Congress (1815–1817), the second person from Bangor to occupy that office (following his father).  Carr was drowned in the Ohio River on August 24, 1818. While traveling with his family on a steamboat, his 9-year-old daughter Mary fell overboard just below Louisville, Kentucky, and Carr entered the water in a failed attempt to save her. Neither of their bodies were ever recovered.  Manuscript Document Signed, York County, Maine, 1800; also signed by Thos. M. Wentworth, Mark Walker and W. Atkinson. James Carr of Somersworth, NH, sells land to Thomas Wallingford, who was the father of the famous seaman Samuel Wallingford, who died aboard the war ship "RANGER" under the command of John Paul Jones. Approx. 7-1/4 x 12 in. Signed in verso. VG.......................75-100

306. Ernest Martin Hopkins (1877-1964) served as the 11th President of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945. At the dedication of the Hopkins Center for the Arts in 1962, the speaker, then-Governor of New York Nelson A. Rockefeller, turned to the man for whom the building was named and said, "I came to Dartmouth because of you."  TLS, Dartmouth College, 1935, 1p,  8-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. Says he has two excellent sets of Edgar Allan Poe and therefore there is no reason to purchase another.  Slightly edge toned...............40-60

311. Corwin H. Spencer - capitalist. The Laclede Gas Light Co. Signed stock certificate, 1895...........30-40

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313. [FRANCE] Antoine de Montazet (1713 - 1788)  French theologian, of Jansenist tendencies, who became bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon. He was elected to the Académie française in 1756, but did not produce significant literary works.  He had published for his seminary by the Oratorian Joseph Valla, six volumes of "Institutiones theologicæ". These were known as "Théologie de Lyon", and were spread throughout Italy by Scipio de’ Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, until condemned by the Index in 1792. Contrary to the papal bull of Pope Pius V on the Breviary, Montazet changed the text of the Breviary and the Missal. The later efforts of Pope Pius IX and Cardinal Bonald to suppress the innovations of Montazet provoked resistance on the part of the canons, who defended the traditional Lyonnese ceremonies. Document Signed, 1759, written on both sides, about 7-1/4 x 8-3/4". Top right coner missing affecting a few words................100-150

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317. [ART] Alex Katz (b. 1927) famous American artist. Signed label that can be used as a bookmark. dated 2006. VG..............30-40

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318. [MUSIC] Joe Williams (1918-1999)  American jazz singer. Signed, inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG.......50-75

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320. [MUSIC] Jean Michel Jarre  (b. 1948) French composer, performer, and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient, and new-age genres, and known as an organizer of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks. His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygene. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as well as a musician.  As of 2004 Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums. He was the first Western musician officially invited to perform in the People's Republic of China, and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event. Offered here is a signed & inscribed sheet, 6-3/4 x 8-1/4 in.  He mentions his famous song Oxygene.  on the verso is the autograph of Mick Jagger  [obtained in 1977].  In 1979, Jean Michel Jarre was chosen by Paris mayor to give a free outdoor concert on Place de La Concorde for the 14th of July, which is National Day in France. Instead of the hundred thousand people the authorities were excepting (there was no reference point), a million  Parisians came around their biggest square. Jarre made a superb light show, using buildings and fountains as backdrops. In the audience was Mick Jagger who immediately after the show, ran to see Jean Michel, and offered him to work with the Rolling Stones. It never happened as  Jarre had great advertising after the show, that was a bash to everything in the music world. He told the press eventually he needed a complete year to realize what he had done that day of July. Mick Jagger's autograph is one of the most sought after in rock and roll.  SUPERB!...............200-300

321. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1]  Pauline [ Ducruet ] Augustine [1781-1865] French painter of miniature paintings. She was the wife of the famous French artist of miniature paintings, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. He married his pupil and assistant Madeleine Pauline Ducruet, some of whose works are often not easy to distinguish from his own. Offered here is a rare ALS, 1835, 1p, approx. 8 x 9". She speaks about miniatures. VG.  [2] Virginie Demont-Breton [1859-1935] British artist. She was the daughter & student of Jules Breton; wife of painter Adrien Demont. She won a gold medal at the Universal Exposition of Amsterdam in 1883. She was President of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptresses; she was named Officer of the Legion of Honor. ALS, no date, 2pp, excellent condition. In French.  [3]  FERNAND VANDEREM [b. 1864] Fr. literary man. He was a novelist & reporter. ALS, 1906, 1p.  [4] Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (1755-1839) French archaeologist and writer on art. ALS, Paris, 1819, written on both sides. Edge-tipped to another sheet.  [5] BEATRICE BRETTY - famous French actress. ALS, [1932], 1p., to the actress Tania Fedor. [6] Pierre] ARTHUR PONROY [b. 1816] Fr. dramatist, poet, historian. Lengthy 4pp. ALS. Interesting content about literature.  [7] HENRI TISOT - Fr. actor. ALS, Paris, 1959, on both sides. To Director of La Comédie-Française asking to forgive him for missing a show. In the comedy movie The Fuhrer runs amok by Philippe Clair, Henri Tisot stars stars socceras Hitler who challenges other European countries in matches. VG.  [8] GEORGES DOUAY - Parisian man-about-town, theatre fan, and composer of songs and operettas. ALS, 1893, 1p.  [9] César Campinchi (1882-1941) French statesman in the beginning of the 20th century. Campinchi was president of the Association générale des étudiants de Paris student organisation, a member of the Radical Socialist Party and deputy for Corsica from 1932 to 1940. He carried out the functions of the Keeper of the seals and presented the Campinchi proposal concerning the protection of minors in 1937. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 7 in. Speaks about politics and Bernstein. Fine.  [10] Nicolas Levasseur (1791-1871) French bass, particularly associated with Rossini roles. Levasseur was considered without rivals in his time, possessing a voice of remarkable beauty and grandeur. ALS, 1854, 1p., 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG.........200-300

322. [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

323. [TV] Milton Berle (1908- 2002)  American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age. Boldly signed but in the dark area. VG..........35-45

324. [TV] Dale  Robertson (1923- 2013)  American actor best known for his starring roles on television. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.....35-45

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

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326. [FRANCE] Aime Giron  (1836-1907) French poet, writer, lawyer.  Aimé Giron began his literary career by publishing poems which appeared in the Revue de Paris, while continuing his legal career in his hometown, where he was secretary of the Academic society. In 1863 he published The Christmas Sabot (with illustrations by Léopold Flameng) who met a great success and was translated into several languages.  He then published the poetry collection The Strange Loves, and Three girls in 1864 and Mysterious new in 1866.  In 1870 he abandoned as a lawyer to defend the invaded territory. He moved to Bois-Colombes and becomes a contributor to Figaro, the Gauls and France Illustrated.  In 1873 he published a new collection of poems Les Cordes de Fer who obtained a warm welcome. He was one of the most prolific writers of his time, finding his inspiration in history and legends of the Velay. He described the most beautiful sites, he has told the captions so that gave rise to the desire to know the Haute-Loire, with warm enthusiasm that gives the love of native soil.  He was distinguished on numerous occasions and in particular by the Academy of Floral Games and the French Academy. It is decorated in July 1899 by the Spanish Queen Regent of the Order of Charles III on behalf of King Alfonso XIII, in return for pro-Spanish articles he published during the Spanish-American War in 1898.  Aimé Giron is the brother of the painter Léon Giron and the father of the Egyptologist Christmas Giron (Giron-loved Christmas).  A street in the Puy-en-Velay bears his name. Offered here are 4 lengthy handwritten pages, unsigned, c. 1880,  approx. 4-1/4 x 6 in.  sheet.  Identified as "about his library & the history of France.  VG................100-150

327. [MUSIC] Rod McKuen  (1933-2015) American singer-songwriter, musician and poet.  Signed and inscribed sketch, dated Paris 1977, approx. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 in. Fine..................60-80

330. [THEATRE]  William Henry Berry (23 March 1870 – 2 May 1951), always billed as W. H. Berry, was an English comic actor. Two signed vintage photographs, 3-1/2 x 5-1/4 in.  Both signed in darker area - fair contrast............50-75

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331. [BALLET] Julie Kent (born 1969)  is an American ballet dancer; she remained a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre from 1993 to June 2015. Her farewell role was Juliet (in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet). Signed & inscribed 4x6 in. photo shown dancing on point, together with ALS with envelope, 2007. Both are fine. Beautiful..........50-75

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332. [RUSSIA]  Véra Korène (1901-1996), was a Russian-born French actress and singer.  Born Rébecca Véra Korestzky in Russia of Jewish heritage, she fled the Revolution and settled in Paris, France.  Using the Francized name Korène, she began her career in the theatre but also appeared in a number of films during the 1930s. A mainstay of the Parisian stage, in the 1950s she organized her own theatre production company, putting on performances at the Comedie Française. In 1956 she was named director of the Theatre de la Renaissance, a position she held until 1978.  Signed photo, 5-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. VG...............50-75

333. [BALLET] Darci Kistler (b. 1964)  is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for the choreographer,  George Balanchine.  Signed & inscribed color 8.5 x 11 photo shown dancing with Jock Soto at the NY City Ballet in THEM TWOS.  VG............50-75

334. [VERMONT]  An archive of approx. 330 pieces including deeds, documents, letters, receipts, ephemera.  These are from the papers of Dr. D.W. Blanchard of Coventry, Vermont. Looks like mostly 1870s-80s running into the early 1900s.  Mixed conditions.........150-200

LOT 335.    (AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)   Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)  American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.  SIGNATURE, inscribed 2000.   Theodore Russell Weiss (1916-2003) American poet, and literary magazine editor. He edited (with his wife, Renee Karol Weiss) Quarterly Review of Literature, which published William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound.In 1987, he was the subject of a documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem, made by Harvey Edwards.   ALS, 1973. Eleanor Clark Warren (1913 –1996) American writer. She was married to Robert Penn Warren. TLS,1990.  Paul Henry de Kruif 1890 -1971) American microbiologist and author. He is most noted for his 1926 book, Microbe Hunters. This book was not only a bestseller for a lengthy period after publication, it has remained high on lists of recommended reading for science and has been an inspiration for many aspiring physicians and scientists.   TLS, 1957.  George Herbert Palmer (1842 –1933) American scholar and author.  ALS, 1908, 2pp.    William Babcock Weeden (1834-1912) American Historian, author. ALS,1910, 2pp.   James Russell Wiggins (1903 –2000) managing editor of The Washington Post and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. After his tenure as ambassador, Wiggins moved to Brooklin, Maine where he became editor and publisher of the The Ellsworth American of Ellsworth, Maine.  SIGNED 8x10 photograph; signed in dark area [poor contrast]..............70-90

336. "Chuck" Jones (1912-2002)  American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner characters. Signed , inscribed 6x8 in. color print of various cartoon characters he developed. Dated 1985. VG...............80-120

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

339. [MIT] Julius Adams Stratton (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator. He served as the president of MIT between 1959 and 1966. He also served as the chairman of the Ford Foundation between 1964 and 1971. TLS, MIT, 1958, 1p. ...................25-35

340. Evan Hunter (1926-2005) American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. Brief Typed note signed; sends autograph, 1975...........25-35

341. George Abbott  (1887-1995) American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades Signed 1977 FDC honoring Centennial of Sound Recording. Clean.........40-60

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342. [FRANCE]  Paul Ernest de Royer (1803-1877)  French lawyer, magistrate and politician. He was Minister of Justice in 1851 under the French Second Republic, and again from 1857 to 1859 under the Second French Empire.  He was first president of the Court of Auditors in 1863, and was also President of the General Council of the Marne. After the fall of the Empire in 1870, he returned to his career as a magistrate.  Rare handwritten and signed poem dated 1876, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in.  This was sent to the artist Claudius Popelin.  Fine..............100-150

343. [FRANCE]  Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse (1681), duc de Penthièvre (1697), (1711), (1678-1737), a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he became grand admiral of France. In 1693, he became a chevalier des Ordres du roi (Order of the King) and, in 1704, a knight of the Toison d’or.  Shortly before his death in 1715, Louis XIV added a codicil to his will stating that if all legitimate members of the House of Bourbon, both those descended from Louis and more distant kinsmen, died out, the throne of France could be inherited by the duc du Maine and the comte de Toulouse.  The decision was reversed after the death of Louis XIV when Louis Alexandre's cousin, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as the new regent, had the Parlement de Paris void that portion of the will. The comte de Toulouse died at the Château de Rambouillet on 1 December 1737. He was buried in the village 12th century Saint-Lubin church. Offered here is a document signed, 1715, 1p, approx. 6-3/4 x 9". Fine condition. Not translated...........150-200

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

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346. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention Nationale, 28 June 1791, 3-pages, signed inprint Duport for the King, 7-1/2 x 9-1/2". Very fresh condition.....

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

348. [CHESS - MUSIC]  François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the opera comique. He was also regarded as the best chess player of his age; his book Analyse du jeu des Echecs was considered a standard chess manual for at least a century, and a well-known chess opening and a checkmate method are both named after him.  ALS, dated [?], 4pp, 6-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. VG.  RARE indeed ! .............250-350

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349. [FRANCE] Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801-1886)  French artist. He is considered the father of modern chiromancy, aka palmistry or palm reading, a form of divination. He was a friend of Alexandre Dumas. he accompanied Dumas on many of his trips abroad.  ALS, 1856, 4pp, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in.  Identified content is about chiromancy. VG...............100-150

351. Belva Plain (1915-2010)  was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction.  ALS, 2000, plus TLS, 2001.  Two letters..........50-75

352. Pauline Frederick [1883-1938] AQS "All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players - Sincerely yours, Pauline Frederick. Fine..........35-45

353. [FILM - TV]  Art Carney  (1918-2003)   American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners, and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Harry and Tonto.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG..............30-40

355. [CARTOON] Bil Keane (1922-2011)  American cartoonist most notable for his work on the long-running newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication. Signed drawing, dated 5-17-01, approx. 8.5 x 11 in.  The title and name at top appears to be printed as well as the circle line. The drawing inside the circle, dated and signature below are original. Fine...............75-100

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356. [FRANCE] Joachim-François-Mamert de Conzié  (1738-1795) Archbishop of Tours, France. During the French Revolution he was appointed deputy of the clergy of Tours General of 1789 , it signed the first protests of the right side; but he soon left France and emigrated to Aachen.  He adhered to the principles Exposition, a statement of 13 February 1791 the directors of the Tours district . He protested against the election of the Abbe Gregoire as constitutional bishop of the department newly created the Loir-et-Cher ( 1791 ) and that of Pierre Suzor in Tours for one of Indre-et-Loire.   Before the advance of French troops near Aachen, he retired to Holland and became ill in Amsterdam . He died May 8, 1795. He was the last Archbishop of Tours of the Old Regime. ALS, 1781, 2pp,  6.5 x 8.5 in. Superb condition........100-150

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357. [ART] LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012)  American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screen prints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events.  Signed 8x10 photo, dated 1989. VG........80-120

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358. [FILM] Joanne  Woodward (b. 1930)  American actress, producer, activist, and philanthropist. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).  Signed bank check, dated 1969. VG..............50-75

359. [MUSIC] Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)  American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke".  Signed color photocard picture. Fine.............60-80

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361. [FRANCE]  MYSTERY DOCUMENT DATED 1699 from France, signed 1page on paper. Comes with pages in French that describes this document. Neither are translated. VG..............100-150

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362. [MUSIC]  The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B recording girl group from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, electronic music, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock. The Pointer Sisters were inducted onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Anita (1948) Ruth (1946) June (1953-2006).   SIGNED 10x8 photograph. VG.......60-80

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363. [FRANCE] Jacques Raillon (1762-1835) Bishop of  Dijon and Archbishop of  Aix (-Arles-Embrun) , France.  He made a famous funeral speech at Notre Dame for Marshall Lannes. ALS, [1807], 1p, 4-1/4 x 3-1/8". VG..........75-100

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367. Archive of approx. 115+ items concerning the geneology of the Shepard Family of Holderness, New Hampshire. Most of the documents are of pre-civil war date. There are approx. 38 small documents [receipts etc], about 57 larger documents which are mostly deads; 7 old photographs, plus several items of Shepard family history. Begins about 1833. These were the ancestors of the American astronaut, Alan B. Shepard , from New Hampshire, and who became the second person, and the first American, in space. Ten years later, he commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon. Varied conditions: some older documents have fold separations. Mostly good/VG.................500-750

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373. [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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377. [ART] Karl Kasten (1916-2010) American artist who studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, and who is perhaps considered the most important art teacher of the 20th century in America. Kasten was a painter-printmaker-educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. Kasten was also an editorial cartoonist and Arts Editor for The Daily Californian newspaper. His cartoons regularly featured reflections on the New Deal and the conflicts in Europe. By coincidence the success of Berkeley's Golden Bears also marked an interesting chapter in Kasten's artistic adventure. As part of the Rally Committee, Kasten designed and directed the card stunts for the 1938 Rose Bowl against Alabama's Crimson Tide. The card sequence depicted Berkeley's Campanile covered over by a surging red tide. As the tide receded, a bear appeared in a rowboat and rowed across the tide. Cal won, 13-0. Kasten describes the stunts as, "The greatest work of art I ever did." He went on to complete his B.A and M.A at UC Berkeley. Following his graduation he taught briefly at the California School of Fine Arts but the attack on Pearl Harbor led him to wartime service. On D-Day he was promoted to Captain and put in charge of the Intelligence unit of the Battalion. Kastens' memories of the war are dark and he recalls bluntly, "My job was to kill people," and "I was pretty miserable inside." In the early '50s Kasten experimented with Cubism and non-objective painting but after studying at the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown, Mass in '51 he turned to Abstract Expressionism. Hoffman's modern art philosophy stressed "pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships." In her biography of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism Susan Landauer noted Kasten as the artist who came closest to these tenets. Of that period Kasten said, "It was a great period to work in. Just letting things flow and seeing what happens... I think I got more color into painting during that time than most guys." n addition to his wide record of painting exhibitions, Karl Kasten is known worldwide as a master printer. In 1950, he established the Printmaking program and a course in Materials and Techniques at UC Berkeley. Kasten exhibited in the São Paulo Bicentennial and World Print III Traveling Show, as well as the M. H. de Young Museum and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. His works are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Art Museum; San Jose Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum; Achenback Collection; Musee des Beaux Arts, Rennes; Auckland City Museum, New Zealand; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Offered here is a 2-page TLS, 1972, about Hans Hofmann. VG...........150-250

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381. [FILM] Peter Lawford (1923-1984) English-born American actor. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, and more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. DOCUMENT SIGNED [1967], Employee's Withholding Exemption Certificate, 8 x 3.5". Fine. Provenance: estate of Milton Ebbins. Fine...............200-300

382. George Madden Martin (1866-1946) was an American fiction writer.  ALS, 1921, 3pp, 5-1/2 x 6-3/4". To the journalist Mrs. Marshall regarding an interview she did with Marshall.  Letter is fine.  Plus a vintage 8x10 photo of Martin...........50-75

383.  [NEWSPAPER] CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS - WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, Madison, Wis., May 16 1865, VOL. XIII, No. 35. 8 pages, FILLED with Civil War news and bulletins. Includes: "PRISON LIFE IN DIXIE"; "A Sound Peace Platform"; "The Assassination Trial"; "The Armies Marching Home"; "HIGHLY IMPORTANT/ JEFF. DAVIS CAUGHT! Surprised & Taken in Georgia." . Uncommon..............100-150

384. [HAWAII 1885]  Arthur Moutrig - Agent for J.T. Morgan.  ALS, London, 20 May 1885, 2pp, 4to. To J. Challinor regarding shipment of goods to Hawaii on the JUPITER.  Written on beautiful illustrated lettersheet illustrating J.T. MORTON'S establishment in London and Aberdeen and illustrating the medals from the four World's Fairs - London 1862 - Paris 1867 - Oporto 1865 - Havre 1868 - awarded to to J.T. Morton. A spendid comination Hawaiian and World's Fair item. VG..............100-150

385. [GREAT BRITAIN] Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet (1680-1743)  British politician and baronet. Aubrey was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff in 1706, representing the constituency in the English House of Commons until 1707, and then in the British House of Commons until 1710.  In the same year, he was appointed High Sheriff of Glamorgan. Document signed,  1724, 2-sided, approx. 7.5 x 4 in.  Neatly inlaid. VG..............100-150

386. [ART] Original portrait etching of President Herbert Hoover. THIS ETCHING IS SIGNED IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST Franklin T. Wood (American 1887-1945) American painter & etcher. He was born at Hyde Park, Mass. Studied: Art Students League in NY and abroad. Member: Chicago Soc. of Etchers; Soc. of American Etchers. Won Bronze medal at P-P Expos., San Franciso in 1915. His work in in the following museums: Art Inst. of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Smithsonian, Library of Congress. This is an original pencil signed etching, approx. 16 x 12  plus margins, on light tan paper. Condition is very good.  The scan below is of another example of this etching as we have one than one. Its the same image..........150-200

389.  [KENTUCKY]  SAML. PATTON (b. 1757) was a sergeant in the American revolution; served under General Anthony Wayne [1776-78] in Penn. Regiment and fought at Battle of Brandywine.  Document Signed, Hardin Co., Kentuckym 1805, 1p, 11-1/2 x 12-1/4 in.  Difficult to see but also signed Wm. Bush [below Patton signature] although we believe that Patton signed for both.   Never the less, William Bush is mentioned along with Patton.  WILLIAM BUSH [born 1763] the eldest son of Christopher and Hannah Bush, built a large 2-story house on his farm located near what is today known as the Tunnel Hill Road, off present Bardstown Road; it still stands, with the Bush family burial ground nearby, where over 70 members of the Bush family are buried. His sister, Sarah, married Thomas Lincoln after the death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He grew up and worked at various jobs and acquired land like his parents. In 1794 he married Elizabeth Rhodes. Kentucky became a state in 1792, but the legal problems of William Bush began much earlier. Although prosperous, he was frequently entangled in lawsuits. His reputation was guarded and he did not enjoy the respect accorded other members of the Bush family.  Bush didn’t hesitate to charge others - and was accused himself of criminal trespass.  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. In October of 1798, William Bush filed suit against J. McCreey for uncollected debt after the delivery of four slaves sold to him by Bush. History books have not dwelt on the cantankerous nature of the President’s uncle by marriage, William Bush,  let alone the fact that there was a slave-trader in the family.  Excellent condition..............300-400


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

394. [SCIENCE - WAR] The following are from the papers of the American physicist Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Offered here are several pieces. Includes: 1940 letter to his wife Grace [scan 1]; a 1932 Naval Reserve Fitness document signed by McKeehan [scan 2]; an interesting 1940 document pencil signed by McKeehan [scan 3]; plus 5 other pieces, all showing below...........200-300

396. [FILM] Peter Lawford Buys Garage Doors - 1966. Lawford Buys Garage Door in 1966 from Electronic Door Service.  Gives Lawford’s address. Not signed by Lawford. For The Rat Pack collector. One-of-a-kind item..............50-75

397. [FILM] Burt Lancaster, Evie Johnson, Van Johnson, and Dan Duryea being presented to the Queen of England, the Dowager Queen, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.  Dated 1952 on verso. 10 x 8 in. From the personal collection of the actor Van Johnson. VG for its age.........150-200

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398. [ART] James David Smillie (1833-1909) American artist, was born in New York City. His father, James Smillie (1807-1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming (1813-1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver. The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F. O. C. Darley's pictures for James Fenimore Cooper's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865óthe year after he first began painting and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866-73 and president in 1873-78, and of the New York Etching Club. Among his paintings, in oils, are "Evening among the Sierras" (1876) and "The Cliffs of Normandy" (1885), and in water colour, "A Scrub Race" (1876) and "The Passing Herd" (1888). He wrote and illustrated the article on the Yosemite in Picturesque America. The first meeting of the New York Etching Club took place in the studio of James David Smillie on May 2, 1877. Rare ALS, 1906, 2pp, approx. 4-1/2 x 7". Fine............100-150

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399. [FRANCE]  1539 French Mystery document on vellum, nice ornate signature, approx. 15-1/2 x 8 in. VG.......150-250

400. [FRANCE] Jacques Molinos (1743-1831)  French architect. Molinos was born in Lyon and studied in Paris at the Royal Academy of Architecture under Jacques-François Blondel. Molinos and Jacques-Guillaume Legrand collaborated on the design of the Théâtre Feydeau (1789–1790, destroyed 1829).  He was inspector of civil buildings of the department of Seine and architect of the city of Paris ( 1817 ). He completed the construction of pavilions for granting pregnant farmers general ( 1804 - 1830 ), including the granting of building door Charenton ( 1822 ) and the barrier Rochechouart ( 1826 ). He built the Valhubert fountain, Saint-Honoré market ( 1809 , destroyed) and Popincourt Market ( 1829 - 1831 ). He built the Old Hall machine, consisting of four pavilions around the Carreau du Temple.  In 1827 , he began the construction of the church of Saint John the Baptist in Neuilly-sur-Seine , which was completed by his son Isidore Auguste Molinos . He was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1829.  ALS, 1818, lengthy one page. Approx. 7-3/4 x 10". VG...........100-150

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

402. [FILM] Jack Alberton (1907-1981) American character actor who began in vaudeville. A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Grandpa Joe in the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Amos Slade in the 1981 animated film "The Fox and the Hound" (1981), and as Ed Brown in the 1974-1978 television sitcom Chico and the Man. For contributions to the television industry, Jack Albertson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Signed lobbycard from the film "Changes." 14 x 11".............35-45

403. [FILM] Sandy Dennis (1937-1992) American theater and film actress. In 1966, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Set of 8 signed lobbycards from the film "Up The Stair Case", 2 are also inscribed. 14 x 11. VG. A signed set like this is rare!............500-700

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404. [FILM] Gene Raymond (1908-1998) American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot.  SIGNED sheet music, WILL YOU?. Approx. 9x12 in. Vintage item with expected wear faults..........60-80

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

406. [FRANCE]  Abbe Balanda - who was Librarian of the King.  He made the funeral sermon at the death of Louis XV.  Offered here is a lengthy ALS, 1780, written on vellum, approx. 8 x 12 in.  Identified as "Asks Autum's Bishop for money in a long letter." Ink has lightened some with age. Not translated..............100-150

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

409. [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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410. [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

411. [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

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

415. [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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416. [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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419. [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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425. [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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426. [ART] John R. Fell (1917-2009) born in London, England - American artist. During World War II he served in the British Army as a camouflage artist in North Africa, Italy and Greece. Fell had a successful career as an artist, exhibiting in many museums in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida, including a number of one man shows most recently at Lycoming College in 2002. He loved art, music and nature, particularly this area of Pennsylvania. He had a happy outlook on life, liked everybody and we miss him.  Offered here is a small watercolor signed, with a lengthy handwritten note inside.  Approx. 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. Fine.............100-150

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427. [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

428. [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

430. [RELIGION]  Pierre Simon de Dreux-Breze  (1811-1893) Priest since 1825 , Vicar General and Canon Emeritus of Paris,  he distinguished himself as a preacher,  and was appointed Bishop of Moulins  October 28, 1849, by the President of the Republic   Called to Rome by Pope Pius IX on 7 January 1850,  it was dedicated to Our Lady of Paris on 14 April and took possession of his see on 1 May.  Near Dom Prosper Gueranger, he established the Roman rite in his diocese a pastoral letter by the 21 November 1853 and was a promoter of the Gregorian chant.  [internet translation].   ALS, not dated, 3 full pages, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4".  On the verso of page 3 is an ALS by Xavier de Ravignan  (1795-1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821. Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds. Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France.  Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave. VG..........200-300

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

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

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

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

439. [FILM & THEATRE] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) actress. Brief Document Signed, 1961, 1p. Authorization "I HEREBY AUTHORIZE YOU TO MAKE PAYMENT (IN MY NAME) FOR MY EMPLOYMENT ON THE PLAY OF THE WEEK IN 'NO EXIT' TO MY AGENT JANE BRODER."...........40-60

440. [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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443. [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

444. [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

445. [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

448. 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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449. [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

451. [ART] Portrait of George Washington - original engraving/etching/aquatint by T. Johnson, plate signed & dated 1903 in the plate. This, of course, was done after Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait. Image 11-1/2 x 9-3/4" plus wide margins.  VG...........100-150

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452. [ART] James McGarrell [b. 1930] is one of the most influential figural painters of the 1980's and 90's postmodern movement. His work is in many museum collections, including: the Centre Georges Pompidou, France; Hamburg Museum of Art, Germany; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Museum of Modern Art, also in New York City. McGarrell has won countless honors for his intricately detailed figurative paintings, based upon a myriad of fictive and literary sources. He is an elected member of both the National Academy of Design in New York and the Academie des Beaux-Art de l'Institute de France. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Jimmy Ernst Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and has been featured in five Whitney annuals and biennials as well as in the 1968 Venice Biennale. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Hamburg Museum of Art in Germany, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Original b/w lithograph, pencil signed & titled "Elephant Bathers II", 22-1/2 x 30" flush, Printer's proof. VG.......400-600

453.  [ART] Claude Franqois FORTIER - French engraver, was born in Paris in 1775, and died in the same city in 1835. Original engraving by Fortier, title: "La Matin", image size approx. 10 x 13-1/2" plus wide margins. Circa 1820-1828. Condition: minor foxing spots on verso; minor stains & marks in margin areas; the main flaw, although less visible from front is an offset blue number that must have rested against this print years ago. At first we didn't notice this but its there. We have adjusted the estimate because of this..........75-100

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

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

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

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

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

460. Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950)  American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Alice went blind in her later years. ALS, 1945, written in the 3rd person.  To the New England Grenfell Association. Dear Friends: Enclosed find $7 for the Marguerite Thomas Fund, $5 from Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and $2 from Miss Myra B. Stronach  [her housekeeper who passed away 1976]  both at the same address - 1010 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 38, Mass.   Approx. 8.5 x 11 in. Accompanied by a 1945 TLS from N.E. Grenfell Assoc. to John T. Blackwell re: contrbutions from Alice and Myra [with cover]; and  ALSs from Agnes M. Winter & Mary Ewing, who also made contributions................200-300

LOT 461.   BIG BAND/JAZZ MUSICAN LOT   - Horace Heidt (1901–1986) pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality. His band, Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights, toured vaudeville and performed on radio and television through the 1930s and 1940s. SIGNED, inscribed 5x7 photograph - Mark Warnow (1900 -1949) noted violinist and orchestra conductor, who performed widely on radio in the 1930s and 1940s. Warnow's superb, smoothly-flowing arrangements made him quite popular during his career. SIGNED CARD, in pencil, also with Andre Baruch (1908-1991), popular broadcaster on radio, film narrator, disc jockey -- Harry James (1916 –1983) actor and musician best known as a trumpeter who led a swing band during the Big Band Swing Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.  SIGNED card plus music sheet of “I had the Craziest Dram”.  TED WEEMS ( 1901 -1963) bandleader and musician. Weems' work in music was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  SIGNED, inscribed 10x8 photograph (signed only by him) with Elmor Tanner and Red Ingle, who are pictured (outer edge tape stains on white margin).   Philip Wells Woods (1931- ) jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.  ALS, 2001, with SIGNED 8x10, inscribed photograph.   Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (1911 – 1985) jazz, jump blues and rhythm and blues trumpeter. SIGNED paper, (with tape outlined all sides), also signed with members of his band: Darrell James, Jess Payne, Danny Logan.................100-150