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1. [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
2. [ART] Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) was a
landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the
Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. He was a
contemporary of important Rockport artists Aldro Hibbard, Emil
Gruppe, W. Lester Stevens, Antonio Cirino, and Marguerite
Pierson. Born in Rotterdam on 20 February 1888, Thieme studied
at the Academie of Fine Arts in Rotterdam for two years and
then, briefly, at the Royal Academy, the Hague. He traveled
widely in Europe, frequently finding work as a stage
designer.Thieme traveled to the United States at the age of
22. He quickly found work as a stage designer at the Century
Theater in New York, designing sets for the Russian ballerina
Anna Pavlova. When the commission ended, he traveled to South
America, primarily Brazil and Argentina. Stage work again
provided his livelihood. A return to Europe followed with
further work in England, France, and Italy. Returning to the
United States with a contract for additional stage work,
Thieme found himself in Boston. He discontinued work on the
stage in 1928 and from then on made his living with the sales
of his paintings and etchings. Thieme married Lillian Beckett
in 1929 and moved to Rockport, MA. He established the Thieme
School of Art. He exhibited his work frequently at the Grand
Central Art Galleries in New York. He continued to travel
widely; Mexico, Guatemala, Florida, and France were major
destinations, always painting en plein air. Thieme committed
suicide on 6 December 1954 in Greenwich, CT. The circumstances
of his death are not fully understood. Anthony Thieme was a
full member of the American Watercolor Society, Art Alliance
of America, the Salmagundi Club, the Boston Art Club, North
Shore Art Association, Rockport Art Association, New York
Water Color Club, Art Alliance of Philadelphia and the
National Arts Club. Original steel etching plate, "Old North
Church". Not sure if this is the actual title - its simply
what is written on the envelope. Original etching plates
are very uncommon...............800-1200
3. Mary Johnston Pickett
(1805-1860) the mother of the future Confederate General,
George E. Pickett. A rare letter written to her son George,
who is studying law at Quincy, Illinois. The letter was sent
by Mary from Richmond, Virginia, Jan. 27th, 1841. George
Pickett was 16 years old at the time. Pickett was born in
Richmond, Virginia, the first of the eight children of Robert
and Mary Pickett, a prominent family of Old Virginia of
English origins, and one of the "first families" of Virginia.
He was the cousin of future Confederate general Henry Heth. He
went to Illinois, to study law, but at the age of 17 he was
appointed to the United States Military Academy. Legend has it
that Pickett's West Point appointment was secured for him by
Abraham Lincoln, but this is largely believed to be a story
circulated by his widow following his death. Lincoln, as an
Illinois state legislator, could not nominate candidates,
although he did give the young man advice after he was
accepted; Pickett was actually appointed by Illinois
Congressman John T. Stuart, a friend of Pickett's uncle and a
law partner of Abraham Lincoln. A year after young George
received this letter he was off to West Point. Pickett was
popular as a cadet at West Point. He was mischievous and a
player of pranks, "... a man of ability, but belonging to a
cadet set that appeared to have no ambition for class standing
and wanted to do only enough study to secure their
graduation." At a time when often a third of the class washed
out before graduation, Pickett persisted, working off his
demerits and doing enough in his studies to graduate, ranking
last out of the 59 surviving students in the Class of 1846. It
is a position held with some backhanded distinction, referred
to today as the "goat", both for its stubbornness and
tenacity. The position usually relegated its holder to a
posting commanding infantry in some far away outpost, which if
no conflict arose, would offer little opportunity to advance.
Two of the most famous "goats" were Pickett and George
Armstrong Custer (as was also Pickett's cousin, Harry Heth).
All of them had the good fortune to graduate shortly after a
war broke out, when the army had a sudden need for officers,
greatly improving their opportunities.In this letter [folded
stampless letter], 3 full pages, plus the address leaf WHICH IS DOCKETED BY GEORGE PICKETT
[himself], his mother Mary asked him
about his chances of getting an appointment to West Point, and
then goes on at great length to talk about concerns back home
about whether George will conduct [behave] himself. She
mentions energy and independence of character, etc. George
Pickett’s personality has already established itself,
apparently enough to cause great worry for his mother. The
picture of the painted portrait of Mary Pickett was borrowed
from the internet and is not included here. Starting to
separate at some of the fold lines; small hole [seal hole] on
page 3. Approx. 8 x 10 in............1000-1500
Two U.S. Navy ships have been named in honor
of Norman Von H. Farquhar: the destroyer Farquhar (DD-304), of
1920-1932; and the escort ship Farquhar (DE-139), of
1943-1974.
5. [NAVAL] N.H.
Farquhar (Rear Admiral Norman Von H.
Farquhar, USN, (1840-1907). Letter Signed, marked
"Copy", USS Trenton, Apia, Samoa, April 22, 1889, 2 pages,
7-3/4 x 10". The original was sent to the Secretary of
the Navy, Washington DC [Benjamin F. Tracy]. This "copy"
letter was sent to Henry
Lyon, who
became commander of the Nipsic. Dated about a month after
this famous naval incident (The Samoan Crisis ). This letter is of
high praise for Lieut. Commander Henry W. Lyon, saving
the Nipsic "...to his excellent service during the
Hurricane of March 16th and 17th, 1889, and since then
in saving valuable property from the wreck. During the
gale, he intelligently carried out my orders;
personally supervising the many plans to keep out
water, getting lines to the Vaudalia to prevent the
total destruction of the Trenton and many other duties
besides..." Norman Von Heidreich Farquhar (1840-1907) was
born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, attended the U.S.
Naval Academy during 1854-59. After graduation, he served with
the Africa Squadron until September 1861. Lieutenant Farquhar
spent most of the Civil War off the U.S. Atlantic coast and in
the West Indies, serving in the gunboats Mystic, Sonoma and
Mahaska and the cruisers Rhode Island and Santiago de Cuba. He
was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in mid-1865,
a few months after the fighting ended, and was on duty at the
U.S. Naval Academy from then until September 1868. For the
rest of the 1860s and into the next decade, Farquhar served in
the warship Swatara, was Executive Officer of USS Severn and
USS Powhatan and Commanding Officer of USS Kansas. He also had
two tours at the Boston Navy Yard on ordnance duty and as
Executive Officer. Advanced in rank to Commander in December
1872, Farquhar spent nearly five years at the Naval Academy.
He commanded the training ship Portsmouth in 1877-78, and the
steam sloops Quinnebaug and Wyoming in European waters in
1878-1881. Five more years of Naval Academy duty were followed
by torpedo instruction at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1886. From
May 1887 until her loss in the March 1889 Samoan hurricane,
Captain Farquhar commanded the steam frigate Trenton. He then
served on several of the Navy's boards and, in March 1890
became the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. During
1894-97, he was Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
Commanding Officer of the cruiser Newark, and President of the
Naval Examining Board. While holding the ranks of Commodore and Rear
Admiral, Farquhar was Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard in
1897-99, commanded the North Atlantic Station during 1899-1901
and was Chairman of the Lighthouse Board in 1901-02. He
retired from active duty in April 1902, upon reaching the
statutory service age limit of 62. Rear Admiral Farquhar died
at Jamestown, Rhode Island, on 3 July 1907. The
letter is in very fine condition. Provenance: Estate
of Admiral
Henry W. Lyon, who had a distinguished Naval career, was
honored for his service in the Spanish-American war where he
commanded the U. S. S. Dolphin. Lyon and his wife,
Liela, bought a house in Paris Hill, Maine in 1899 and
moved there full time when he retired from the Navy in 1907.
Picture of Farquhar is not included here...........300-400
6. [NAVAL] Geo.
Brown - Rear Admiral, Commanding U.S.
Naval Force, Pacific Station. TLS, U.S. Flagship
Charleston, Feb. 5, 1890, 1p, to Lioeut. Commander Henry W.
Lyon, Commanding U.S.S. Nipsic, Honolulu, Hawaii. Says
Secretary of the Navy "...indicates that your request for
detachment from the command of the Nipsic has been favorably
considered...." Delayed, however, because Commander
Wingate "....having been condemned by survey and therefore
unable to execute his orders...." Damped stained.
Provenance:
Estate of Admiral
Henry W. Lyon, who had a distinguished Naval career, was
honored for his service in the Spanish-American war where he
commanded the U. S. S. Dolphin. Lyon and his wife,
Liela, bought a house in Paris Hill, Maine in 1899 and
moved there full time when he retired from the Navy in 1907.
Picture of Farquhar is not included here........100-150
7. [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
8. [FRANCE] Albert Caquot (1881-1976) considered as the "best living
French engineer" during half a century. He received the "Croix
de guerre 1914-1918 (France)" (military honor) and was
Grand-croix of the Légion d'Honneur (1951). He was a member of
the French Academy of Sciences from 1934 to 1976. His
accomplishments are so numerous that it is difficult to write
a brief description. Since the item offered here ia a signed
photograph of an aeronautical dirigible, we will concentrate
on him as an aeronautical engineer during the First and Second
World Wars. Albert Caquot's contributions to aeronautics are
priceless, from the design of the "Caquot dirigible" to the
launching of technical innovations at the new French Aviation
Ministry, where he created several Fluid Mechanics Institutes
that still exist today. Marcel Dassault , who was charged by
Albert Caquot to develop several major aeronautical projects
at the beginning of his career, wrote about him: "He was one
of the best engineers than aeronautics ever had. He was
visionary and ahead of his time. He led aeronautical
innovations for forty years". As early as 1901, already
visionary, he performed his military service in an airship
unit of the French army. At the beginning of First World War,
he was mobilised with the 40e Compagnie d'Aérostiers equipped
with Drachen type airships as first lieutenant. In 1914, he
designed a new sausage-shaped dirigible equipped with three
air-filled lobes spaced evenly around the tail as stablizers,
and moved the inner air balloonette from the rear to the
underside of the nose, separate from the main gas envelope.
The Caquot was able to hold in 90 km/h winds and remain
horizontal. During three years, France manufactured "Caquot
dirigibles" for all the allied forces, including English and
United States armies. The United States also manufactured
nearly a thousand "Caquot R balloons" in 1918-1919. This
balloon gave to France and its allies an advantage in military
observation which significantly contributed to the allies'
supremacy in aviation and eventually to the final victory. In
January 1918, Georges Clémenceau named him technical director
of the entire military aviation. In 1919, Albert Caquot
proposed the creation of the French aeronautical museum (today
called Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, in Le Bourget). This
museum is the oldest aeronautical museum in the world. Signed photograph [reprint of World War I photo], signed top right
by Albert Caquot WITH HIS INITIALS. Approx. 9 x 12".
Soft crease at top right corner o/w VG.........80-120
9. Shusaku Arakawa - ORIGINAL signed & inscribed ink drawing in book about his art - PADIGLIONE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, hardbound, 1984, containing 34 b/w illustrations, 10.5 x 10.75 in. Very good condition. We guarantee the authenticity of this drawing.
Shusaku Arakawa - Dadaist Conceptualist Shusaku Arakawa was born in Nagoya, Japan, on July 6, 1936. He studied medicine and mathematics at Tokyo University from 1954 to 1958, and art at the Musashino College of Art, Tokyo, before completing his degree he left Japan. In 1958 he began submitting paintings to the Yomiuri Independent exhibitions and in 1961 held his first solo exhibition at Mudo Gallery, Tokyo. In 1960, he started a neo-Dada group, programming Happenings, and later gaining recognition with a series of boxes. In 1962, he came to New York and created a new series, "Diagram," in which silhouettes of combs, footprints, tennis rackets, arrows and refrigerators were arranged on canvas. Gradually he replaced the silhouettes with words only. Throughout the 1960s he had a number of solo exhibitions at Dwan Gallery, New York and Los Angeles, at Galerie Schmela, Dsseldorf, and Galleria Schwartz, Milan. In 1966 he was given his first museum exhibition at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, and in 1970 represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. During the 1970s museums featured his work throughout Europe and the United States and in 1981 a large retrospective was organized by the Stdtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. With his wife, the poet Madeline H. Gins, Arakawa has also published books that "parallel the preoccupations of his paintings," in particular The Mechanism of Meaning (1979). In 1991 a retrospective was organized by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Arakawa and Gins increasingly concentrate on collaborative installation pieces and architectural design, such as the Utopian City of Reversible destiny seen at the Guggenheim Soho in 1997. Arakawa denies, like all Conceptualists and Pop Art neo-Dadaists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the artist's hand in his paintings. Expressionistic or emotive marks on the canvas are few, serving only as a foil to the deadpan, depersonalized, mechanical style. Paintings such as "Out of distance/Out of texture" appear to be aimed at the intellect devoid of feeling for life, poetry or spirituality."...............450-650
10. [ART] MARY HELEN POTTER (1862 - 1950) Listed artist from Rhode Island. OFFERED HERE: Original watercolor, unsigned, undated, approx. 10-1/4 x 13-1/2 in. Very good condition........200-300
Potter watercolor
11. Frank
M. Cowles - signed document, 1899,
Suffolk Co., Mass., forming a corporation to be
known by the name of Cowles Art
Institute. Approx. 8.5 x 14 in., 1-page. Also known as Cowles Art School (aka Cowles
School of Art) was a studio building on 148 Dartmouth
Street, Boston, Massachusetts, that was established in
1883 and continued operation until 1900. It was one of
the largest art schools in the city, having several hundred
scholars. By the end of the 19th century, Boston had
become an important art center. A number of highly
respected artists were teaching in city. The rich
environment for art had been promoted at least in part by
the Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870. The act mandated
drawing lessons in public schools. To fill the need for art
teachers, Massachusetts Normal Art (MNA) was established in
1873. Two blocks behind the Museum of Fine Arts, in the New
Studio Building near the Back Bay Station, was the Cowles
Art School (1883). Cowles Art School offered
instruction in figure drawing and painting from the flat
cast and life, artistic anatomy, perspective and
composition, painting still life, drawing and painting the
head from life, drawing still life, oil and water colors, ad
perspective. Notable alumni and instructors included Childe
Hassam, William McGregor Paxton, Abbott Fuller Graves,
George Elmer Browne, Robert Vonnoh etc.
Fine..........250-350
12.
[ART] Yvonne Preveraud (1888-1982)
French artist [School of Paris]. Original signed ink
drawing, approx. 4-7/8 x 6-1/4". Executed on back of Salon
exhibition card. Unimportant soft crease at lower left
coner...........100-150
See
drawing
See
verso of card
13.
[BRITAIN] Harold Wilson
(1916-1995) twice Prime Minister. ANS, as member of the
House of Lords. VG.......40-60
See above
14. [COL. Nicholas
MILLER - Kentucky Pioneer] Rare
Kentucky Pioneer document 1798, approx. 7-7/8 x 5". Written
and signed by MORRIS [Maurice]
MILES [d. 1799] having been appointed
Clerk of the Hardin Co. Court. ADS, 1798, summons for Peter
Clacome.David May, the clerk, having departed this life, the
court appointed John Helm to fill the vacancy, and he gave
bond, with William McClung and George Helm as his securities,
in the penalty of $3,000. On motion of John Helm, clerk,
Maurice Miles was admitted as his deputy. Court adjourned 2nd
day of the term. John Helm, who was appointed clerk on
yesterday, resigned his office. Maurice Miles was appointed
clerk and gave bond, with Felix Grundy and John Rowen as
securities ; penalty, $3,000. Maurice Miles was a business man
of fine promise, wrote a beautiful business hand, and would
have made an excellent clerk, but he lived but a short time.
Signed on the verso by Morris Miles, Nicholas Miller. The
signature of Christopher Bush [Sr] was signed by Morris
Miles. COL. Nicholas MILLER - Kentucky Pioneer from the
Elizabethtown area. Remembered as an Indian fighter. Sam.
Haycraft, the Ky. historian, gives the following account: "Dan
Vertrees was a stalwart young man of daring. He, with the late
Colonel Nicholas Miller and others, were pursuing a band of
Indians; Miller, then young, was tall, slenderly built, as
active as a cat, and as fleet as hind, and as brave as Julius
Caesar. This company coming upon the Indians, suddenly, a
desperate fight ensued. Vertrees was killed at the first fire.
A stout warrior seized a white man, wrestled his gun from him
and was about to cleve his head with an axe. Miller at that
moment, with a celerity of action which few men could equal,
and with a power that few possessed ..... snatched the white
man from the Indian as he would a chicken from a hawk, and,
with an equal rapid motion, killed the Indian. This turned the
tide, and the remaining Indians fled, leaving several dead on
the ground."In 1793 William McCIung was sworn and admitted to
the bar as attorney. William McClung, Esq., was appointed
Commonwealth's Attorney for this court. Commonwealth's
Attorneys were not then commissioned by the Governor, each
county appointed their own prosecuting attorney, and were paid
out of the county levy. VG.........400-600
15. [ART] Blanche
R. Brown (1915 - ) classical art
scholar, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, New York
University. Classicist
and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
1942-1967. She was awarded an M.A. at the
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, in 1938, marrying the art
historian Milton W. Brown the same year. She was an
instructor at Vassar College and Hunter College during these
years. In 1941, she and her husband, a budding Americanist,
bought a car and toured the United States seeking out American
art for his upcoming book. Back in New York, she joined the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as a lecturer in 1942
while her husband served in the army. During these years she
continued to work on her Ph.D. at the NYU, which was granted
in 1967. In 1966 she was appointed an associate
professor at New York University, advancing to professor of
art in 1973. Offered
here is an ALS, 1945 written on a postcard
to the artist Walt Kuhn,
asking if 3 of Kuhn's paintings have ever been
reproduced. She asking for "a piece of research".
The artist Walt Kuhn has himself written the date and
underlined it in red pencil. Excellent..........60-80
Scan 1
Scan 2
16. [MILITARY] Col. Stephen Berry [1771-1836]
Colonel in the New Hampshire militia. He was born in
Rochester, New Hampshire, in 1771, and died in Exeter in
1836. His wife was Alice Chamberlain, born in 1780, and died
in 1851. After coming to Maine, he was for many years a
surveyor. Military Document Signed, New Durham [NH], March
31, 1809, Return of the 33rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, and 2nd
Division of Militia, Commanded by Colonel Stephen Berry Jun.
Eight men listed by names, numbers of officers by rank;
numbers of arms, ammunition and accoutrements. Old light
dampstains; tattered bottom edge. Generally in good
condition for its age; ink in dark. Approx. 15-3/4 x
9-3/4".......75-100
17. John T. Winterich (1891-1970) was one of the first writers for the Stars and Stripes during the First World War, managing editor, and eventually one of the most influential bibliophiles of the early twentieth century. He is credited with having penned over 275 articles in over nearly 150 publications as well as having written the introduction to the American classic Of Mice and Menby John Steinbeck. While serving in World War I, he became one of the first members of the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes, the newspaper for servicemen. At this time he met Abian A. ("Wally") Wallgren, who provided cartoons for all 71 issues of the World War I edition of Stars and Stripes (1918-1919). Together, Wallgren and Winterich published The A.E.F. [American Expeditionary Force] in Cartoon (1933). In 1919 Winterich succeeded Harold Ross as editor of the American Legion Magazine, a post he held until 1938. During the 1930s he became active in bibliophile activities as editor of The Colophon and as a member of the Grolier Club. After service in World War II as an officer assigned to the Pentagon to deal with censorship issues, Winterich became a contributing editor to the Saturday Review of Literature in 1946; he continued to write for the SRL until his death in 1970. Winterich provided many introductions to special and limited editions. Among his own books are A Primer of Book Collecting (1935) and The Grolier Club: An Informal History (1967). RARE TLS, Washington DC, Oct. 2, 1945, 1 full page, signed "Whit". To the famous cartoonist, Wally Wallgren. Pencil notation at top is in Wally's hand. See letter content in scan below. Also see Lots 1027 and 2058 in this auction, concerning Wally Wallgren..........100-150
See Winterich letter20. [ART - OLD MASTER] Jacques-Philippe
Le Bas (1707-1783) French engraver.
Lebas was engraver to the Cabinet du roi and successfully
produced engravings after several paintings by different
artists. His oeuvre amounts to more than 500 works, including
many large portraits after Vernet, and several works after van
de Velde, Parrocel, Berchem, Ruysdaël, Watteau, Oudry and
Lancret. He trained the line engraver François-Anne David.
Original etching and/or engraving from
the Le Bon Mari series. Another example of this print is
in the British Museum and they identify it as etching?
engraving?, their date 1725-1760, "The good husband;
rustic interior with a peasant man sitting and wiping the bottom
of a baby lying on his knee, behind him stands an old toothless
woman shouting insults at him; lettered state; after Adriaen
Brouwer Etching and engraving". Approx. image 7-3/4 x 5-1/2 +
engraved identification below, slim margins, tipped at all
corners to old thick laid paper. VG. The following museums, and
many others, have examples of Le Bas prints: Metropolitan Museum
of Art [NY] has 8; Chicago Art Inmstitute [2]; Harvard Art
Museum [13]; Boston Art Museum; Fitzwilliam,
etc...........100-200
21.
[ART] F.B.B. - original ink drawing signed with
intials, YOUR PROFITS - Now -
In Six Months, image approx. 7x4", plus margins. Appears
to be from 1930s or 40s. Artist unknown. VG.........50-75
22. [ART] Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930) Versatile artist and writer Anna Lea Merritt, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite painters, created a wide range of artwork, including murals, portraiture, and etchings. Born to an affluent Quaker family, Merritt attended politically progressive schools and studied classics, languages, mathematics, and music with private tutors. Initially, she was a self-taught painter, but later she studied anatomy at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. After moving to Europe with her family in 1865, she took art lessons with various masters in Italy, Germany, and France. The artist settled in London, where her teacher, the British painter and picture restorer Henry Merritt, became her mentor and, in April 1877, her husband. A prolific author, Anna Merritt also wrote and illustrated two books about Hurstbourne Tarrant, to which she moved in 1891. In addition, she published articles about mural painting, gardening, and the obstacles facing woman artists. A member of London’s Royal Society of Painters and Etchers, Merritt exhibited her work regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Paris Salon. Her paintings and prints were also displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Original etching, plate signed, c. 1880, image approx. 8-1/4 x 5-1/2" plus margins. VG...........150-200
23. Kentucky
Pioneer Document, 1811, written and signed by
Ben Helm, Hardin County [Elizabethtown] Kentucky. Legal
matter concerning: WilliamBush, the brother of Sarah,
Abraham Lincoln's step-mother. Approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/8".
Signed on the verso by Robert Bleakley.Robert Bleakley,
opened a store in Elizabethtown with William Montgomery,
another Irishman. Their establishment is said to have been
the first such operation in the pioneer village that could
ready be called a "store." Montgomery was an Orangeman, who
was engaged in the rebellion In Ireland in 1798. He was
arrested and confined in a prison from which men were taken
and executed daily He was released from prison through the
efforts of his aunt, who was married to the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland on the condition that he would emigrate to
America. Wm. Montgomery and Bleakley opened adry goods
store. In 1806 they hired the father of Abraham Lincoln
[Thomas] to take a flatboat down the Mississippi river with
their merchandise to be sold in New Orleans. They paid Tom
Lincoln 16 pounds gold and a credit of 13 pounds in gold.
Their store account books show Tom Lincoln buying "two
twists of tobacco & one pint of whisky." And thebooks
also show that in May 1806, Thomas went on a buying spree,
purchasing silk, linen, scarlet cloth, dozens of buttons,
etc. Earlier that year he had purchased an aristocratic
beaver hat & a pair of silk suspenders for $1.50. He
was, at this time, courting his future bride Nancy Hanks
[Abe Lincoln's mother]. After the wedding he made his home
in a cabin close to the courthouse in Elizabethtown. He then
purchased at their store, knives, forks, spoons, thread,
needles, silk & tobacco. Carl Sandburg wrote about
Bleakley and Lincoln.BEN HELM (b. Fairfax county, Va., May
8, 1767; son of Capt. Thomas Helm, apioneer settler of
Kentucky, who moved from Virginia to the Falls of Ohio, in
the fall of 1779. In 1801-03 Ben Helm erected the first
brick house built there. He became a surveyor; was state
senator, 1796-1800; clerk of the Hardin county courts,
1800-17; an officer with the rank of major in the war of
1812; filled various other offices of honor and trust in
Kentucky: purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush,
father of Mrs. Sarah (Bush) Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of
Abraham Lincoln, and was a partner in a general store with
Duff Green [later, American statesman], conducting the
business as Green & Helm. He died in Elizabethtown,
1858, nearly 91 years old.Apparently William Bush was
somewhat of a troublemaker in the E-town area. He was born
in 1763, and in 1828 he acquired the Knob Creek farm where
the Lincolns had lived, before they left for Indiana. His
sister, Sarah, became the step-mother of the future U.S.
president, Abraham Lincoln. See the article THAT ROGUE,
WILLIAM BUSH, by Blaine V. Houmes, the Iowa physician and
collector of Lincolniana. This article appears in The
MANUSCRIPT, Summer 2002. William Bush acquired land like his
parents, and by 1817 had married and built an attractive
brick house [Elizabethtown area], a sign of sure success. He
served on jury duty with Thomas Lincoln, after of Abraham
and acquired the Knob Creek farm where the Lincolns had
lived, before they left for Indiana∞, and later Illinois.
Although prosperous, he was frequently entangled in
lawsuits. His reputation was guarded and he did not enjoy
the respect og other members of the Bush family. Little is
known of Lincoln’s relationship with the Bush family.
Lincoln claimed that his family’s “removal (to Indiana) was
partly on account of slavery, but chiefly on account of the
difficulty in land titles in Kentucky.” Thomas Lincoln was
known to be anti-slavery, and as a young boy Abraham
probably observed slaves being taken in chains to Southern
markets, on the road beside his home. Carl Sandburg and
other historians have not dwlt on the cantankerous nature of
the President’s uncle by marriage,8 let alone the fact that
there was a slave-trader in the family. We wish to give
credit to Blaine Houmes for much of what appears in this
description. See pictures of this article here.
Fine............400-600
24.
[ART] Clifford Carleton (1867-1946)
American artist. ALS, no date, 3pp, to Mr. Cowles
[Cowles Art School in Boston]. Nice content.
VG.............50-75
25. [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..........80-120
See front
26. James Sullivan
(1744-1808) in 1776, Sullivan was a judge in Massachusetts.
Although he was elected to represent Massachusetts at the
Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783 he did not attend.
From 1790 to 1807, he was the Republican attorney general of
Massachusetts and in 1801 prosecuted the Dedham murderer
Jason Fairbanks. He also served as the seventh Governor of
Massachusetts between 1807 and 1808. He was the brother John
Sullivanof New Hampshire general and governor. ALS,
Boston, 1806, written to Reverand Pearce, thanking
him for caring for his grandson. 7x9. Edge tipped to a
backing page...........150-200
27. [ART]
Portrait of
George Washington -
original engraving/etching/aquatint
by T. Johnson, plate signed &
dated 1903 in the plate. This, of
course, was done after Gilbert
Stuart's famous portrait. Image
11-1/2 x 9-3/4" plus wide
margins. VG. Too large for
scanner's window but you can see
most of it in scan
below............100-150
29. [CARDINAL] Romualdo
Braschi-Onesti (1753-1817) Italian
Cardinal. He was the cardinal-nephew of Pius VI (1775–1799),
was the penultimate cardinal-nephew. Despite Pius VI's lineage
to a noble Cesena family, his only sister had married a man
from the poor Onesti family. Therefore, he commissioned a
genealogist to discover (and inflate) some trace of nobility
in the Onesti lineage, an endeavor which yielded only a
circuitous connection to Saint Romualdo. Nephew of Pius
VI, son of Marquis Honest di Cesena, was adopted, with his
brother Louis, who lacked family Braschi male succession.
Created Cardinal in 1781, was Grand prior of the order of
Malta, prefect of Propaganda, Secretary of small and one of
the promoters, in 1800, the election of Pius VII. Signature on
a papal brief in excellent condition on vellum dated 1806
"Pius PP. VII". Approx. 15-1/4 x 7. Boldly signed bottom
right.........150-200
30.
[CUBA] Richard M. Madam -
ALS, 1816, 2 full pages, approx. 6-1/4 x
8". To Dr. William
Frost, sixth son of Brigadier General Frost,
practiced at Demarara, Cuba and was a naval Surgeon;
he died in Cuba in 1823. Written in English.
Fine condition..............75-100
31. [ART] Walt
Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an
organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was
America\'s first large-scale introduction to European
Modernism. In 1925, Kuhn almost died from a duodenal ulcer.
Following an arduous recovery, he became an instructor at the
Art Students League of New York. In 1933, the aging artist
organized his first retrospective. During these years, he
began to question his earlier allegiance to European
Modernism. On a 1931 trip to Europe with Marie and W. Averell
Harriman, his staunchest supporters, he declined to join the
Harrimans on their visits to the studios of Picasso, Georges
Braque, and Fernand Léger. Yet neither did he want to align
himself with the anti-Modernist camp of Regionalists like
Thomas Hart Benton and politically-minded social realists. In
the art politics of the day, Kuhn was caught between two
extremes. By the 1940s, Kuhn’s behavior began to take on
unsound characteristics. He became increasingly irascible and
distant from old friends. When the Ringling Brothers Circus
was in town, he attended night after night. He also became
frustrated by the lack of attention his own work was receiving
and was particularly strident about the Museum of Modern
Art\'s support of abstraction and neglect of American art in
the postwar period. In 1948, he was institutionalized, and on
July 13, 1949, he died suddenly from a perforated ulcer.
Offered here are two letters he wrote on August 4,
1925, from Salzburg, Austria. Both letters are on a
single sheet, his retained copies, written and signed by
him. One one side he writes to the banking firm firm of
Morgan, Harjes & Co., saying that he will be travelling to
London in a few weeks, requests that his account be
transferred to Morgan in London. On the other side, same date,
he writes to the local water department in Maine. Says they
will be travelling in Europe for the summer, they have closed
their place in Ogunquit [Maine], disconnected the water pipes,
will use no water therefore no water bill to pay. The
picture showing here is NOT included.......300-400
32.
[ART] David Levine
(1926-2009) American artist and illustrator best known
for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Jules
Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last
half of the 20th Century". ALS, 1989, 1p., with
envelope and signature in return address.......75-100
33. Sir Everard
Home, 1st Baronet FRS (1756-1832 )
British surgeon. Home was born in Kingston-upon-Hull and
educated at Westminster School. He gained a schoalrship to
Trinity College, Cambridge, but decided instead to become a
pupil of his brother-in-law, John Hunter, at St George's
Hospital. Hunter had married his sister, the poet and
socialite Anne Home, in July 1771. He assisted Hunter in
many of his anatomical investigations, and in the autumn of
1776 he partly described Hunter's collection. There is also
considerable evidence that Home plagiarized Hunter's work,
sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly; he also
systematically destroyed his brother-in-law's papers in order
to hide evidence of this plagiarism. Having qualified at
Surgeons' Hall in 1778, Home was appointed assistant surgeon
at the naval hospital, Plymouth. In 1787 he appointed
assistant surgeon, later surgeon, at St George's Hospital. He
became Sergeant Surgeon to the King in 1808 and Surgeon at
Chelsea Hospital in 1821. He was made a baronet (of Well Manor
in the County of Southampton) in 1813. He was the first
to describe the fossil creature (later 'Ichthyosaur')
discovered near Lyme Regis by Joseph Anning and Mary Anning in
1812. Following John Hunter, he initially suggested it had
affinities with fish. Home also did some of the earliest
studies on the anatomy of platypus and noted that it was not
viviparous, theorizing that it was instead
ovoviviparous. Home published prolifically on human and
animal anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society in 1787, gave their Croonian Lecture many times
between 1793 and 1829 and received their Copley Medal in
1807. ALS, Richmond, Feb. 5, no yr, 4pp, to
[Colonel] Wilson. Approx. 7-1/4 x 9". Usual
folds. Starting to separate at middle horizontal fold else
very good condition. Thanking Wilson for his suggestions
for William about what things were required to order and
advice. Home did not want to rely on trades people.
Knows Grantham but wants to get William recommended by other
means. Sorry Wilson had to use Calomel [medicine]
-" worse in its effects than the disease". Has bad eyes. Does
Wilson want to get rid of the chest he had in India to
Home. Scarce medical autograph.........150-200
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
34. Chauncey M.
Depew
(1834-1928) attorney for Cornelius
Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president
of the New York Central Railroad System, and
a United States Senator from New York from
1899 to 1911. Cancelled $1000 Bond of
The New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Co., dated 1897. Sheet of coupons
still attached. Signed by Depew as
President. Approx. 10 x 15 in.
Folds but very fine
condition.................125-175
35. MYSTERY LOT of about 93 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; a few autographs; 5 bank checks signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp, and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1838. There is also an 1842 document signed by R.G. Hazard [look him up], and a 1945 TLS by Commodore Badt. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....125-225
36. [FRANCE] Nicolas de Lamoignon - Nicolas Lamoignon-Bâville (1648-1724) was a French official said to have been accused by Voltaire of instigating the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He made himself famous by the measures he adopted against the Protestants, and by the manner in which he associated himself with the religious policy of Louvois, of which the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was the culminating point. But it is without proof that Voltaire accused him of having instigated this revocation. "I never counselled the revocation of the Edict of Nantes", he wrote to his brother in 1708. On the contrary he considered that "in religion hearts must be attacked, for it is there that it resides", and immediately after the revocation he sent for Bourdaloue to come and evangelize the Protestants of Montpellier. From 1702 to 1704 he helped in the repression of the uprising of the Camisards, occasioned in the Cevennes by English and Calvinistic influences.Document Signed, 1710, 4-pages, 8-1/4 x 12". Tattered edges; slight unimportant small missing pieces. "Very Rare".............100-150
37. [ART] Richard
Huntington (b. 1936) American
painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The
Buffalo News and has written for High Performance magazine,
ARTnews, and Art New England. Most recently, he was a catalog
essayist for the exhibition Artpark: 1974–1984 at UB Art
Gallery, Center for the Arts; Forty: The Sabres and the NHL at
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Duayne Hatchett, Form,
Pattern, and Invention, the catalogue for a retrospective
exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo
(2009). In 2007, Huntington won the Associated Press
First Award for Criticism and earlier, among a number of
residencies, served as visiting critic at the Kennedy Center
for the Arts, Washington, D.C. From 1982 to 1985, he was
Visual Arts Director at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. He has
shown his art nationally and internationally, with recent solo
exhibitions at the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University,
New York (2008–2009); the Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery,
Buffalo (2008); and the JR Konsthallen, Linköping, Sweden
(2007). In 2010, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery included his
work in the international biennial Beyond/In Western New York
2010: Alternating Currents. In 2009, The Carey Berkus Studio
in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, included his work in a group
show representing Mexican and American artists.
Huntington holds a BFA from Syracuse University and a Master
of Art and Humanities from the University at Buffalo. He
divides his time between Buffalo and the town of San Miguel de
Allende in central Mexico. Original aquatint
etching, pencil signed and dated 1977, image approx. 14
x 10-3/4" plus margins. Mounting traces at outer
top edge well away from image. VG. This was made while
Huntington was visting artist-in-residence at the Arnot Art
Museum, Elmira, NY.
38. [ART] Fred
M. Hines (deceased) American
artist, well known in Maine and Vermont. Large signed
pastel landscape, approx. 20 x 25-1/2".
VG...........400-600
40. [ART] Richard Carline (1896-1980 ) Painter,
writer and administrator, Carline was born in Oxford.
His father, George Carline, his mother, Anne, and
brother Sydney, his sister Hilda (Mrs Stanley Spencer)
and his wife, Nancy, were all painters. Carline in 1913
attended Percyval Tudor-Hart's Academie de Peinture, in
Paris. After a short period teaching, Carline served in
World War I and was appointed an Official War Artist.
With his brother he became noted for war pictures from
the air. He was elected LG in 1920, at which time the
Carlines' Hampstead home became a centre for artists
such as Henry Lamb, John Nash and Mark Gertler. During
this period Carline was clearly influenced by Stanley
Spencer, transforming everyday scenes into something
monumental. Carline achieved this, however, without
exaggerating form or gestures to the degree that Spencer
did. Between 1924 and 1929 Carline taught at the Ruskin
School of Drawing, Oxford. He had his first solo show at
Goupil Gallery in 1931. The mid-1930s saw Carline
involved in Negro art, organising a show at Adams
Gallery in 1935, and contributing the main text to Arts
of West Africa, edited by Michael Sadler. During World
War II Carline supervised camouflage of factories and
airfields. He was involved in AIA, helping to found the
Hampstead Artists' Council in 1944. In 1946-47 he was
appointed as the first Art Counsellor to UNESCO, and
from 1955 to 1974 was chief examiner in art for the
Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. His books
include Pictures in the Post: the Story of the Picture
Postcard, 1959; Draw They Must, 1968; and Stanley
Spencer at War, 1978. In 1975 the D'Offay Gallery held a Richard
Carline exhibition for which the artist wrote the
foreword. Carline died in Hampstead and in 1983 Camden
Arts Centre organised a memorial exhibition. The Imperial
War Museum holds his work, including the outstanding and
pioneering series of paintings, from World War I, based on
observations made from aeroplanes. Offered here is a
lengthy ALS, 1970, written to the artist, Dr.
Frederick Solomon (1899-1980)
German Expressionist artist who died in New
Hampshire USA. Solomon won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in
London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London
edition]. He studied art with such famous German
artist's as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg,
Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass].
Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa,
London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had
one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in
Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were
exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, Ohio. The letter shows that Carline and
Solomon were longtime friends. Fine condition.
Scarce artist autograph............80-120
41. Leon Cortes
(Castro) (1882-1946) President of Costa Rica from 1936 to
1940. He was the last of a series of relatively conservative
Presidents. RADIOGRAMA, 19 Feb. 1937, signed in type. Sent
to Jorge Ubico, President of Guatemala. Not translated.
8-1/4 x 7-1/4". This Cable Gram is dated 1937. It is the
original and, of course, not signed in ink.
VG...............100-150
42.
[THEATRE] John Gielgud (1904-2000)
English actor, director, and producer. Gielgud is one of
the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy,
Grammy, and Tony Award. Dame Judith Anderson {1897-1992)
actress. Signed magazine cover, 1947, approx. 5-1/4 x
7-1/2". Signed by both. Light stain right edge. Chipped
bottom edge slightly cropped.........50-75
See above
signed page
43.
[STOCK CERTIFICATE] Oriental Inland Steam Company
- England 1858. Beautiful certificate from the Oriental Inland
Steam Company issued in 1860. This historic document was printed
by C.A.Doubble and has an ornate border around it. This item has
the signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is
over 155 years old. Approx. 9 x 6-1/4".
VG................200-300
See stock certificate
44 [STOCK CERTIFICATE] Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co, stock certificate for one share, 1852, approx. 9-1/4 x 7". VG..............200-300
45. Eleazar Lipa
Sukenik (1889-1953) Israeli archaeologist
and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In Israel
his first name is popularly known as "Eliezer".
Having arrived in Palestine in 1911 he worked as a school
teacher and tour guide. He participated in the "War of the
Languages" that erupted among Zionist activists in Palestine in
1913. He served in the British army in World War I in the
40th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers which became known as the
Jewish Legion. In addition to his important excavations in
Jerusalem (including the "Third Wall" and numerous ossuary
tombs) he played a central role in the establishment of the
Department of Archaeology of the Hebrew University. He
recognized the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Israel and
worked for the Israeli state to buy them. In 1948, he published
an article tentatively linking the scrolls and their content to
a community of Essenes, which became the standard interpretation
of the origin of the scrolls, a theory that is still probably
the consensus among scholars, but has also been widely
questioned. Offered here is a TLS, 1939, 1p, 8.5 x 11
in. Here's a rough translation. "on your I'm very sorry to have to respond
to you that I have learned in the Secretariat of the
university of their senior receptive to as forschungs
student could not be accepted. the requirements of the
immigration Office According namely students are only aged
up to 30 years included. Yours faithfully." VG. Rare!.............100-150
See letter
Picture
of him examining Dead Sea Scrolls [not included here]
47. MYSTERY LOT of about 93 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; a few autographs; 5 bank checks signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp, and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1800. There is also an 1825 bank check signed by R.G. Hazard [look him up], and a 1815 New York Supreme Court document. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....125-175
48.
[ITALY-FRANCE] Hyacinthe
Serroni
(born in Rome 1617- died 1687 in Paris) Italian
ecclesiastical rights, and Intendant of the Navy for
the kingdom of France. It is bestowed in 1625 the
abbey of Saint-Nicolas de Rome by Pope Urban VIII ,
but eventually will return to the Order of St.
Dominic. He arrived in France in 1645 , then a
doctorate in theology. From 1646 he became bishop 's
Orange but must return to the church of Minerva in
Rome. He returned to France in 1648 and became Vicar
Apostolic of the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona
. After five years of service to the diocese, the King
appointed him superintendent of the Navy and of the
province of Provence . It will then intendant of the
army and general visitors in Catalonia until the truce
between France and Spain . In 1660, he was appointed
along with Pierre de Marca , archbishop of Toulouse ,
to participate in the Conference Ceret which should
fix the boundary between France and Spain, but has no
separate conclusion. On 12 November 1660 , he signed
the Treaty of Llívia as representative of Louis XIV ,
which are discussed in detail the thirty-three
villages of Cerdanya , which should belong to France
under the Treaty of the Pyrenees . In 1661 he
was appointed bishop of Mende by the King. So he left
his office in Orange. Then, in 1676 , he obtained the
bishopric 'of Albi . In 1676 , the diocese was erected
by Archbishop Hyacinthe Serroni and is the first
Archbishop of Albi, until his death in 1687 . It is
used in particular to implement the decisions of the
Council of Trent. From 1679, he convened a synod that
brings together all the clergy of his diocese. Synodal
Orders are published in the same year. To ensure the
"holy reformation" and the quality of its clergy,
Serroni installs a seminar in 1679 in a house in the
Bout-du-Pont in Albi. The management is entrusted to
the Jesuits. Manuscript letter of document, 1660,
mostly written on front side, signed on verso.
Approx. 9 x 12". VG.............150-250
Front
side
Back
side
His
portrait
49. [FRANCE] 2
French Revolutionary Military documents - Year 2 [1794]
of the Revolution, speaks of military hospitals, infantry
officers, soldiers - false illness to fake leave of absence,
etc. The ink handwritten parts are of the period.
Total 7 pages; largest document is 8.5 x 12 in.
VG.............200-300
50. [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
51. [FRANCE] Firmin-Léon-Joseph
Renouard (1831-1913) Bishop
of Limoges. ALS, 1912, 2 full pages, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in.
Fine........60-80
52. [FRANCE] 1784 Manuscript Document signed Pierre Fabri, from Geneva. About Isaac Vernet and Boutin [had to do with Abraham Gradis, Jewish merchant]. Approx. 6-1/4 x 8". VG......75-100
See document
53. [ART] Charles Wynne Nicholls
(1831-1903) Irish painter of genre and historical
subjects. He was a representative of the Victorian
painting genre of portraits and city landscapes.
Nicholls studied art at the Royal Dublin Society's Schools
and the Royal Hibernian Academy. He began to exhibit in 1859
as a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He exhibited
regularely at the Royal Academy as well. He left Ireland for
London in 1864, but continued to exhibit in Dublin for the
rest of his life. He lived at 44 Halsey Street in
London. ALS, dated ?, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in.
VG........50-75
See
letter
54. [FRANCE] Alfred
Philippe Roll (1846-1919)
French painter. His 1875 painting of "The Flood at
Toulouse" attracted huge attention, and it is now in the Havre
Museum. All of his early work was romantic style, but was
influenced by other styles including Bolognese and Gustave
Courbet. In 1877 he exhibited "Fete of Silenus" at Salon,
which is now at the Ghent Museum. It was at this point Roll
decided to devote his work to painting everyday life, and his
style changed as well to a more realist one. ALS, no
date, 1p, 4-3/8 x 5-3/4 in. Fine..................80-120
See
letter
See picture
of Roll
55. [FRANCE] Pierre-François-Adolphe
Carmouche (1797-1868) French
playwright. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies,
vaudevilles and texts for operas. ALS, 1862, 1p,
5-1/4 x 8-1/8 in. A curious letter to the famous
actress Virginie Dejazet. A tear repaired with archival
paper. Scarce!..............100-150
56. [FRANCE] Marquis Edouard Marie Rene
Bardon de Segonzac (1867 – 1962)
French army officer and explorer. He studied at the Ecole
Speciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr before being commissioned and
serving in the Ivory Coast where he was accused and acquitted
of the murder of a fellow officer. He became renowned as an
explorer and adventurer in Morocco and was also posted to
Tunisia. In the First World War he became a pilot and received
the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre. ALS,
1910, 1-1/2 pp, 5-1/4 x 7 in. VG..............80-120
57. [FRANCE] Pauline Marie
Armande Aglaé Craven (1808 – 1891)
French author. ALS, no yr., 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in.
VG.........60-80
58. [FRANCE] Antonio Georges
Lopisgich (1854 - 1913) French
Artist. ALS, 1893, 1-1/2pp, 5 x 8 in.
VG..............75-100
59. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
de Lubersac
(1740-1822) French prelate of the eighteenth
century. Vicar general of Arles and the king's
chaplain, was appointed bishop of Treguier in 1775.
Then he was also chaplain to Sophie, aunt of King.
Transferred to the diocese of Chartres in 1780, he published a
new breviary and missal . Clerical deputy to the
States-General (1789), he refused to swear allegiance to the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790). During the French
Revolution he stayed in England and Hildesheim in Germany and
resigned his seat in the 1801 Concordat. ALS, 1882,
1p, 6 x 7-1/2 in. Very fine................100-150
60. [FRANCE] Paul-Rene
Leon Ginain (1825-1898)
French architect. He was a pupil of Ginain Lebas to
School of Fine Arts in Paris. After winning the Premier Prix
de Rome in 1852, he was a resident of the Villa Medici in Rome
from 1853 to 1857. He was the architect of the City of
Paris, in charge of the 6th arrondissement , and professor at
the School of Fine Arts, where he among other Emmanuel
Masqueray as a student. n 1881, he was elected to the
Académie des Beaux-Arts in the third section - Architecture -
chair 3, after the death of Hector Lefuel. ALS,
1886, 1p, 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG............80-120
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64. [ART] Jacques Villon (1875 - 1963) A
painter and printmaker, Villon was known for his Cubist-style
works, and is especially noted by art historians for "his
creation of a purely graphic language for Cubism. He first came
to the attention of the American public when his work was
included in the 1913 New York Armory Show, which introduced
modernism to the United Sates. All of his work sold at this
exhibition. He was from a cultured family in the Normandy region
of France, and was much influenced by his maternal grandfather,
Emile Nicolle, who gave him early artistic training. Villon was
born with the name of Gaston Emile Duchamp, and was the older
brother of artists Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp and
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. Honoring the French medieval poet,
François Villon, and so as not to be confused artistically with
his siblings, he changed his name to Jacques Villon. Jacques
Villon died in his studio on June 9, 1963, and three years
later, Marcel Duchamp, his last surviving brother, organized an
exhibition of his work, which was held at the Musée National
d'Art Moderne in Paris. In 1922 Villon was commissioned by the
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune to produce a series of color aquatints
after 38 major 19th and 20th century paintings. These included
works after Braque, Matisse, Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Cezanne,
Dufy, Modigliani, Bonnard and numerous others. Villon
collaborated with these master artists and signed these prints
so that they provided the public with access to works which
otherwise would not be available. Color aquatint, signed in the
plate (not pencil signed), 1923, title "NATURE MORTE", after
Georges Braque, mat opening size 25-1/2 x 9 in. Framed. Not
examined out of frame but appears to be without
faults...............1000-1500
Click links below to see
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65. [ART
REFERENCE] Benezit, E., ed
DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DES PEINTRES, SCULPTEURS,
DESSINATEURS ET GRAVEURS De tous les temps et de tous le pays
par un groupe d'ecrivains specialistes francais et
etrangers.Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976. 10 vols. n. Each
approx.. 700 pages. Text in French - many illustrations of
signatures & monograms. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Blue cloth.
Gilt lettering. Extremities very good. Interiors and exteriors
clean; all quite sound. An impressive set. Very good+/No dust
jacket. A MUST HAVE set for the serious art collector or
dealer....................Minimum Bid..........$250
66. [ART] Laslett John Pott (1837–1898)
British artist. ALS, 1877, 1p, 4-3/8 x 7 in. This letter
was once owned by Samuel Carter Hall
(1800-1889) Irish-born Victorian journalist who is
best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his
much-satirised personality. Fine.............75-100
See above
67. [ART] Andrew MacCallum
(1821–1902) was a British landscape painter.
MacCallum's reputation rested mainly on woodland subjects. He
sent 53 pictures to the Royal Academy (1850–1886) and others
to the British Institution, Society of British Artists, and
International Exhibitions (1870–1). Special exhibitions of his
paintings were held at the Dudley Gallery in 1866 and at
Nottingham in 1873; his Sultry Eve was shown at the Centennial
Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876. The Tate Gallery
acquired MacCallum's Silvery Moments, Burnham Beeches (1885),
and The Monarch of the Glen; the Victoria and Albert Museum
his In Sherwood Forest—Winter Evening after Rain (1881), S.
Maria delle Grazie, Milan (1854), Rome from the Porta San
Pancrazio (1855–6), The Burning of Rome by Nero, and the
Massacre of the Christians (1878–9), and Head of Christ after
Daniele Crespi. The City of Nottingham Art Gallery bought The
Major Oak, Sherwood Forest (1882), measuring about 9 ft. by 12
ft., and The Opening Scene in Bailey's "Festus". ALS,
1877. 2pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. This letter was once owned by Samuel
Carter Hall (1800-1889) Irish-born Victorian
journalist who is best known for his editorship of The
Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality.
Fine.............100-150
Page 1
70. [CAPTURE OF JEFF DAVIS - NEWSPAPER] Wisconsin State Journal, May
23, 1865, 8pp. Includes: THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS; THE
GUILT OF JEFF. DAVIS; European Comments on the Death of
Mr. Lincoln; The Starving Of Our Prisoners; "...The
disguise in female dress is fully confirmed..."
VG...............75-100
71. [AVIATION] Alfred Lawson (1869-1954) professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals. In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy. He is frequently cited as the inventor of the airliner and was awarded several of the first air mail contracts, which he ultimately could not fulfill. He founded the Lawson Aircraft Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build military training aircraft and later the Lawson Airplane Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to build airliners. The crash of his ambitious Lawson L-4 "Midnight Liner" during its trial flight takeoff on May 8, 1921, ended his best chance for commercial aviation success. In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the "Union Professional League" which took the field in April but folded one month later. In the 1920s, he promoted health practices including vegetarianism and claimed to have found the secret of living to 200. He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as "penetrability", "suction and pressure" and "zig-zag-and-swirl" were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity. He published numerous books on these concepts, all set in a distinctive typography. Lawson repeatedly predicted the worldwide adoption of Lawsonian principles by the year 2000. He later propounded his own philosophy&emdash;Lawsonomy&emdash;and the Lawsonian religion. We could go on and on but we've said enough here. This guy, it appears, was great as a starter, but not a finisher. Offered here is a signed [on title page] copy of his book "AIRCRAFT HISTORY", published in Detroit in 1947, 224 pages. Covers soiled; spine half missing but present, rest hanging on; contents inside pretty good. The book is around but we've never seen a signed copy..........200-300
72. [NY] JOHN YOUNG
[1802-1852] CONGRESSMAN & GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK [1847-48]
DS, 1847. Appoints William S. Hascall of Waukeshee, Wisc. a
commission for the state of Wisc. 15 x 10-1/2. The main
fault is damp stain which does affect signature although the
signature is strong. Misc. edge chips affects
nothing......................40-60
73. [NEWSPAPER] INDIANS - THE GLOBE, City
of Washington, March 29, 1832, 4pp. Cherokee Sovereignty / No
State or Nation Within The Bounds of This Union, Not Recognized
By Its Constitution........Inside article containing speech of
Justice Baldwin [US Supreme Ct] concerning the Cherokee issue.
VG............40-60
74. (ORIENTAL MAGIC) PROFESSOR SAMRI S. BALDWIN. Magician known as The White Mahatma. THE SECRETS OF MAHAIMA LAND EXPLAINED, T. J. Dyson and Son, Brooklyn, New York, 1895. 120 pages. Numerous illustrations of magic tricks. Features such magic tricks as 1. The Great Basket Trick. 2. The Shrine of Koot Hoomi. 3. Buried Alive. 4. Liquid Lightning. 5. Egyptian Sorcery. 6. Lessons in Mesmerism. 7. Clairvoyant Development. 8. Intuitive Intimations. 9. The Mango Tree's Growth. 10. The Burning Fakeers. ll. The Bewitched Stone. 12. Conventrated Hades. 13. A Madras Miracle. 14. Hypnotic Hallucinations. 15. How to be a Medium. 16. Somnomistic Telepathy. A magnificent magic book whose stated purpose, as given on the title page: "Teaching and Explaining the Performances of the Most Celebrated Oriental Mystery Makers and Magicians in all Parts of the World.". Scuffed covers; bumped corners; some white paint spots on front cover; contents very good condition.........400-600
76. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American
animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he
worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and
Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous
Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the
Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among
others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's
commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi
went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first
venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success
of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad
chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his
own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often
disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977];
"Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a
somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is
one of the more original artists at work in the animated
cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink
drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. As this was a
"working study" there was no reason for him to have signed
it...............100-150
See
Bakshi drawing
77. [ART] MARY HELEN POTTER (1862 - 1950) Listed artist from Rhode Island. OFFERED HERE: Original watercolor, unsigned, undated, approx. 12 x 8-1/2 in. Almost all of Potter's watercolors were unsigned. Very good condition........200-300
79. [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
Uncle of
Abraham Lincoln
80. 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
81. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American
animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s
he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle
and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to
Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless
"Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey"
cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also
animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios
closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve
Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat",
released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy
Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New
York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced
the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin"
[1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings"
[1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous
position in the animation world. He is one of the more
original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium.
He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL pencil drawing,
unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. As this was a "working
study" there was no reason for him to have signed
it...............100-150
See
Bakshi drawing
82. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American
animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he
worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and
Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous
Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the
Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among
others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's
commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi
went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first
venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success
of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad
chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his
own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often
disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977];
"Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a
somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is
one of the more original artists at work in the animated
cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL ink
& pencil drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. As this
was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have
signed it...............100-150
See
Bakshi drawing
84. Bound For New Orleans 1836
- Early Shipping Bill of Lading from the Rowland G. Hazard
papers, dated 1836. For domestic goods [known as
Hazard's Goods] being shipped from Port of Providence,
R.I. to New Orleans. 10-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. Roland
Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) was a financier from Rhode
Island who was early identified with the Free Soil and
Anti-Slavery parties and was one of the founders of the
Republican Party. His early connection with this party was
so prominent that southern newspapers warned southern
people not to buy "Hazard's goods." While in New Orleans
in 1841-'2, though threatened with lynching, he obtained
with great effort the release of large numbers of free
negroes, who belonged to ships from the north, and who had
been placed in the chain-gang. Very
good..............80-120
See above
See
biography
85. Bound For
New Orleans 1837 - Early Shipping
Bill of Lading from the Rowland G. Hazard papers,
dated 1837. For domestic goods [known as
Hazard's Goods] being shipped from Port of Providence,
R.I. to New Orleans. 8 x 7 in. Roland
Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) was a financier from Rhode
Island who was early identified with the Free Soil and
Anti-Slavery parties and was one of the founders of
the Republican Party. His early connection with this
party was so prominent that southern newspapers warned
southern people not to buy "Hazard's goods." While in
New Orleans in 1841-'2, though threatened with
lynching, he obtained with great effort the release of
large numbers of free negroes, who belonged to ships
from the north, and who had been placed in the
chain-gang. Very good..............80-120
See
above
See
biography
86. [FRANCE] Paul Barillon d'Amoncourt, the
marquis de Branges (1630–1691) was the
French ambassador to England from 1677 to 1688. His
dispatches from England to Louis XIV have been useful to
historians of the period, though an expected bias may be
present. With the conquest of England by William of
Orange, Louis XIV's most implacable enemy, Barillon was
expelled from England and war soon commenced between the
two kingdoms. Both Charles II and James II treated him
with great courtesy: one historian refers to his " rather
pampered existence at Whitehall". Both appeared to
confide in him, although it is not always clear whether
they were sincere. Charles II, at the outbreak of
the Popish Plot, did tell Barillon frankly that Titus
Oates, the inventor of the Plot, was a villain, but that
it would be unwise to say so publicly. Barillon was often
a conduit for pleas for clemency, but these were not
always well received; the King simply brushed aside his
plea for the life of William, Lord Russell, and explained
that while Oliver Plunkett was an innocent man it was not
expedient to spare him. Charles's remark to Barillon that
his brother James' s public conversion to Roman
Catholicism had weakened him is important evidence that
Charles postponed his own conversion until he was dying.
The marriage of the future Queen Anne to George of
Denmark, brother of France's ally, was a triumph for
French diplomacy, and it was probably Barillon who
originally proposed the marriage, although he did not play
a major role in subsequent negotiations, which were mainly
conducted by Lord Sunderland; like most people, Barilllon
found the groom entirely unimpressive. As a
counterweight, he intrigued with the Whig leaders, notably
Algernon Sidney, whose posthumous reputation was greatly
damaged by the discovery that Barillon had paid him
regular bribes. The Popish Plot, with the wave of
anti-Catholic and anti-French hysteria it produced, was in
itself unwelcome to Barillon, but he used it for short
term advantage in helping to bring down the Earl of Danby,
the main exponent of a Protestant, pro-Dutch,
anti-Catholic policy, by assisting in the publication of
letters, which taken out of context, suggested secret
intrigues between Danby and the French Court. After the
failure of the Exclusion Bill, Barillon records the King
telling him in strict confidence that he had been tempted
to let it pass. Even Barillon, an astute diplomat,
admitted to finding Charles unfathomable: "his conduct so
secret and impenetrable that even the most skillful
observers are misled". Only once does he seem to
have been guilty of a serious diplomatic blunder: late in
1679 an indiscreet letter of his, reporting a conversation
where Charles II claimed to have personally blocked a
Franco-Dutch treaty, was leaked in the Netherlands. It
caused an uproar, and Charles was so angry with Barillon
that he forbade him the Court. Sunderland, who had
probably leaked the letter, remarked complacently that "I
do not question M. Barillon finds himself embarrassed, but
when anybody will play such tricks, it is but just that it
should come home to him at last." His disgrace was
temporary, but afterwards he was far more careful what he
committed to paper. At other times his relations with
Sunderland were amicable enough, although Sunderland
sometimes treated him to his famous outbursts of rudeness,
and on one occasion Barillon told him that he would not
report his remarks if he could not control himself. When
it was rumoured in 1685 that the French had given tacit
support to Monmouth's Rebellion, Sunderland told Barillon
pointedly that he hoped this was a misunderstanding, or
else the English would wonder if Louis had 'other plans
they could not discern'. Later he mocked Louis'
vaunted desire for European peace, saying brutally that
the peace would last until it was in someone's interest to
break it. His privileged position was confirmed in the
last days of Charles II's reign, when, alone among the
diplomatic corps, he was allowed to send a secret message
to Louis XIV that the King was dying. In the events
leading to Charles' deathbed reception into the Roman
Catholic Church, he played a role of some importance.
While the King's brother James was already convinced of
his brother's wish to convert, it was Barillon, prompted
by Louise de Kéroualle, who urged James to act at once.
Together they visited the dying King, and Barillon
witnessed Charles' statement that he wished to be received
" with all his heart." James II's biographer
describes him as an astute diplomat, with an ability to
convey information through subtle hints, but personally
unattractive: heavy, gross and boorish. Approx. 23
handwritten pages about Barillon dispatch in
1688. Discribed as written circa 1750-1800,
in unknown hand. Very Fresh condition. Approx.
7-3/4 x 12". Showing only first page
below..........200-300
See above
87. [ART] Raymond Ellis George
(b. 1933) American printmaker. Color lithograph
with etching and aquatint, signed with white conte crayon,
lower right 1972, titled "Window", titled and editioned in
white conte crayon, lower left; publisher chop, lower right,
25/50, approx. 21 7/8 x 18 1/2" image and paper size, on cream
wove paper, published by Lakeside Studio, Michigan.
Picture showing below is of the same print but barrowed from the
internet. priced at $300 on the
internet............200-300
88. John Reed,
Jr. (1781-1860) Representative from
Massachusetts. He was elected as a Federalist to the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3,
1817); elected to the Seventeenth through Twenty-third
Congresses; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the
Twenty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Whig to the
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3,
1841). He was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and
Unfinished Business (Twenty-second Congress). He declined to be
candidate for reelection in 1840. He was the 17th
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1845–1851). ALS,
Yarmouth Port, Mass., 1844, 1p., plus address leaf. He
writes to Franklin Dexter, a District Attorney for Mass., about
the character of two men he knows. Concerns a trial
concerning a schooner called the Scituate.
VG............50-75
See letter
See address
leaf
89.
[FRANCE] 1796 document signed by Archbishop
Andreas Mansi, 1p, approx. 12 x
8-1/4. VG.............100-150
90. Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963)
Democratic Party politician from New York. He was Governor of
New York from 1933 to 1942, and represented New York in the
United States Senate from 1950 to 1957. Signed NY Governors
card. Mounting stains in 3 corners..........20-30
91. Bound For New Orleans 1837
- Early Shipping Bill of Lading from the Rowland G. Hazard
papers, dated 1837. For domestic goods [known as
Hazard's Goods] being shipped from Port of New York to New
Orleans. 10 x 5-1/2 in. Roland Gibson Hazard
(1801-1888) was a financier from Rhode Island who was early
identified with the Free Soil and Anti-Slavery parties and was
one of the founders of the Republican Party. His early
connection with this party was so prominent that southern
newspapers warned southern people not to buy "Hazard's goods."
While in New Orleans in 1841-'2, though threatened with
lynching, he obtained with great effort the release of large
numbers of free negroes, who belonged to ships from the north,
and who had been placed in the chain-gang.
Fine..............80-120
See above
See
biography
One of America's Earliest Western Singing Groups
92. [MUSIC] The Sons of the Pioneers are one of America's earliest Western singing groups whose classic recordings set a new standard for performers of Western music. Known for the high quality of their vocal performances, musicianship, and songwriting, they produced finely-crafted and innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. Since 1933, through many changes in membership, the Sons of the Pioneers have remained one of the longest-surviving country music vocal groups in history. Between 1935 and 1984, the Sons of the Pioneers appeared in 87 films, several movie shorts, and a television series. In 1937, the Sons Of The Pioneers signed a deal with Columbia Pictures to appear in a number of movies. In 1938, Leonard Slye was offered a contract as an actor with rival Republic Pictures. Part of that deal required him to officially leave the group. Leonard Slye changed his name to Roy Rogers, and went on to achieve major success as a singing cowboy in the movies. Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers still remained close throughout the coming years. When their contract with Columbia Pictures ended, they signed a new contract with Republic Pictures to be with Roy. They were soon appearing as highly popular supporting players in many of Roy Rogers' movies. Rare Signed vintage vintage 8x10 photograph. SIGNED on the front by Pat Brady & Hugh Farr. Signed on the back by Tim Spencer & Lloyd Perryman. Crease upper left corner; small margin edge tear left middle, plus other minor faults. Very uncommon..........125-175
93. [POLITICS LOT] [1] Francis John Myers (1901-1956) American teacher, lawyer, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1939-1945) and a U.S. Senator (1945-1951) from Pennsylvania. He was Senate Majority Whip from 1949 to 1951. TLS, 1950. [2] George Wharton Pepper (1867-1961)American lawyer, law professor, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and founded the law firm of Pepper Hamilton. Clip signature. [3] Edwin M. Stanton - Lincoln's Sec. of War. Engraved portrait of Stanton. [4] Selden P. Spencer [1862-1925] US senator from Missouri. Signed card. [5] Wm. B. McKinley [1856-1926] US senator from Illinois. Signed card [toned]. [6] George Henry Williams(1823-1910), United States Attorney General and a United States senator from Oregon. Clip signture. [7] James W. Wadsworth Jr. - US senator from NY. Signed card. [8] Clair Engle - US senator from Calif. Clip signature. [9] Edward F. Arn - Gov. of Kansas. Signed card. [10]John J. Ingalls - US senator from Kansas. Signature.............50-75
95.
[CARDINAL] Hyacinthe Sigismond
Gerdil, C.R.S.P. (1718-1802) was an Italian
theologian, bishop and cardinal, who was a significant figure in
the response of the papacy to the assault on the Catholic Church
by the upheavals caused by the French Revolution. Three
manuscript pages in his hand, signature on blank 4th page.
Approx. 4 x 5-1/2 in. No apparent date. Fine............100-150
96. [SPORTS] Multiple lot comprised of the following figures from the World of Sports: [1] BICYCLING] REGGIE MCNAMARA - member US Bicycling Hall of Fame. Signed [lined side] and inscribed 3x5 card. 1950. [2] [GOLF] Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998) was a dentist who gave up his practice to become a professional golfer on what is now the PGA Tour in the 1940s. At the time, a career as a dentist would quite likely have been more lucrative. During his playing career, Middlecoff won 40 professional tournaments, including the 1955 Masters and U.S. Open titles in 1949 and 1956. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average in 1956. He played on three Ryder Cup teams: 1953, 1955, and 1959. In 1986, Middlecoff was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. SIGNED 1957 FIRST DAY COVER HONORING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [UN COVER]. Stamp-addressed; one middle fold crease. [3] BONNIE BLAIR - won 2 Golds in speed skating. SP, color 4 x 5-1/2. [4] John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900-1982) American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. In 1939, Gaver was appointed head trainer for Greentree Stable, a position he would hold for the next thirty-eight years. During his time with Greentree, John Gaver conditioned seventy-three stakes-winning horses. Signed 1981 bank check. [5] [GOLF] Ken Venturi (b.1931) was a prominent PGA Tour professional during the late 1950's and early 1960's. His signature on 1965 cover bearing golf sticker. Type addressed. [6] [GOLF] Marlene Hagge (b.1934) professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002. Her signature on 1961 cover bearing golf sticker. Type addressed. Several spots show.........50-75
97. Bound For New
Orleans 1840 - Early Shipping Bill of
Lading from the Rowland G. Hazard papers, dated 1840.
For domestic goods [known as Hazard's Goods] being
shipped from Port of Boston to New Orleans. 10-1/2 x
5-1/4 in. Roland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) was a
financier from Rhode Island who was early identified with the
Free Soil and Anti-Slavery parties and was one of the founders
of the Republican Party. His early connection with this party
was so prominent that southern newspapers warned southern
people not to buy "Hazard's goods." While in New Orleans in
1841-'2, though threatened with lynching, he obtained with
great effort the release of large numbers of free negroes, who
belonged to ships from the north, and who had been placed in
the chain-gang. Very fine..............80-120
See
above
See
biography
98. [MEXICO] Don Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y
Huarte, Prince Imperial of Mexico
(1807-1866) was the son of the first Mexican Emperor Agustín I
of Mexico, the heir apparent to the First Mexican Empire and a
member of the Imperial House of Iturbide; later in his life he
served as a military officer in South America and also worked
as a diplomat for the United Mexican States at the Mexican
embassy in the United States and in London after his military
career had ended in South America. ALS, 1838,
3 pages, 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. Beginning to separate at
middle fold. Not translated. Obviously the picture showing
here is not included.............200-300
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
The only
known image of the Prince Imperial
Old Regime (Royal) Decrees Are Rare
100. (JOURNALISM). Max
Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911)
American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York
Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the
time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard
Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1911......25-35
101. [FILM] Charlton
Heston
(1923-2008) American actor and political activist.
Signed and inscribed 8x10 photo as Sherlock Holmes.
VG............50-75
See above
102. SIR WALTER BESANT
(1836-1901) English Novelist and Historian. ALS
1887) 2pp............80-120
103. PADRAIC COLUM
(1881-1972) Irish Poet, Novelist, dramatist and
biographer. ANS, on card (1968). With
envelope.........35-45
104. Hugh Cecil
(1869-1956) The Lord Quickswood. British Conservative Party
politician. During the early 20th century, Cecil (known to his
friends as "Linky") was the eponymous leader of the Hughligans,
a group of privileged young Tory Members of Parliament critical
of their own party's leadership. Modelled after Lord Randolph
Churchill's Fourth Party, the Hughligans included Cecil, F. E.
Smith, Arthur Stanley, Ian Malcolm, and, until 1904, Winston
Churchill. In 1908, Cecil was the best man at Churchill's
wedding. Cecil dissented from the beginning from Joseph
Chamberlain's policy of tariff reform, pleading in Parliament
against any lowering of the idea of empire into that of a
"gigantic profit-sharing business." He took a prominent position
among the "Free Food Unionists", and consequently was attacked
by the tariff reformers and lost his seat at Greenwich in 1906.
Signature on 3-3/8 x 2-1/2"............25-35
105. (British Literature Lot) Ursula Bloom (1892-1984) Prolific novelist. She wrote over 500 books, an achievement that earned her recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records. SIGNATURE on card signed on front and verso. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC (1838-1923) statesman, writer and newspaper editor. ANS, 1897. Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933) Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author of 40 novels, also plays many made into films. ALS, 1905, 4pp. Austin Dobson (1840-1921) poet and essayist. AQS, on card 1908. Lady Margaret Sackville (1881 –1963) poet and children’s author. When the Poetry Society was formed in 1912, Lady Margaret was made its first president. She had a passionate 15-year love affair with Ramsay MacDonald, recorded in letters they wrote to each other between 1913 and 1929. Lady Margaret never married. ALS, 1907, 3pp. Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896 – 1958) highly popular novelist, critic, historian and poet, and published under the name "L. A. G. Strong." ALS, 1942 2pp. Frank Arthur Swinnerton (1884-1982) novelist, critic, biographer and essayist. He was the author of more than 50 books, and as a publisher's editor helped other writers including Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey. His long life and career in publishing made him one of the last links with writers including H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett born in the nineteenth century. SIGNED, inscribed card 1948. H. M. Tomlinson (1873-1958) writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. biographies of that scandalous but then much admired writer. SIGNED presentation title page from his book “Gallions Reach” (1927).........100-150
106. [ENTERTAINMENT] George
Burns (1896-1996) American
comedian, award-winning actor and best-selling writer.
Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............80-120
See above
107.
(MIXED LOT) Sir Edwin Arnold (1832
–1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for
his work, The Light of Asia. SIGNATURE, mounted to
card. TITO GUIZAR (1908 –1999) Mexican
singer and actor. Together with Dolores del Río, José
Mojica, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, Guízar was among the
few Mexican people who made history in the early years of
Hollywood. In a career that spanned over seven decades. TLS,
1988. HAROLD TAYLOR (1914-1993) American
Philosopher of education, college president, and social
activist, . He was a recognized spokesperson for Progressive
education at the postsecondary level. TLS, 1974. ARTHUR
BURNS (1904-1987) American Economist who served
as Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1970-1978). SIGNED FDC
on Banking. Clara McBride Hale (1905
–1992) known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian
who founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted
children and children who were born addicted to drugs.
SIGNED 5x7 photograph. Harold
Herman Greene (1923-2000) federal judge for the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Judge
Greene presided over United States v. AT&T, the
antitrust suit that broke up the AT&T. In 1990, Greene
sentenced the 1983 United States Senate bombing suspects,
Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans, to prison. SIGNED,
inscribed 10x8 photograph. Hanna Holborn Gray
- historian of political thought in the area of the
Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor and
former President of the University of Chicago. TLS,
1990...........100-150
108. [RUSSIA] Konstantin A. Umansky (1902-1945) Soviet diplomat. In 1936, Umansky was posted to Washington, D.C. where he was an Adviser at the Soviet Embassy. When the diplomatic mission of Alexander Troyanovsky was completed, Umansky acted as chargé d'affaires of the embassy, when on 11 May 1939, Umansky was appointed by Joseph Stalin as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States and he presented his Letters of Credence to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 6 June 1939, becoming, at the time, the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C. TLS, 1943, as newly appointed Ambassador to Mexico. On 25 January 1945, Umansky was to have travelled to San José in Costa Rica to present his Letters of Credence to Costa Rican President Teodoro Picado Michalski, however the Mexican Air Force plane which he was aboard crashed on take-off in Mexico City, killing the Ambassador, his wife (Raisa Umanskaya) and three embassy officials...........75-100
109. [THEATRE] Josephine Victor [1885-?] turn of the century actress, appearing in Britain, America, and on Broadway. She was married to theatre manager Freancis Reid. She appeared in many of Channing Pollock's plays. AQS, 1908. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever."......25-35
110. [MEDICINE] Sir Roy Calne (b.
1930) pioneer of liver transplantation and performed the first
such operation in Europe in 1968. HIS SIGNATURE OF UNIV. OF
CAMBRIDGE CLINICAL SCHOOL STATIONERY. Folds.........20-30
111. Walker Percy (1916-1990) Southern author. Signed 3x5 card.....40-60
112. Wm. Benton [1900-1973] US Sen. from Ct. TLS, 1951...........20-30
113. Florence George [b.1917] Am. actress/singer. TLS,
1940........25-35
114. [FILM] Ruth Gordon (1896-1985) American actress. Signed and inscribed 10 x 8 photo. VG............50-75
115. [THEATRE] Cornelia Otis Skinner (1899-1979) American author and actress. Signed, inscribed postcard photo. VG..........35-45
116. [MUSIC] Janis Ian [b. 1951] American songwriter, singer, musician. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35
117. [MUSIC] Charlie Rich (1932-1995)American Country Music Singer/Musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres. Signed, inscribed 10 x 8 photo. VG.........35-45
118. Collection of album pages signed on both
sides: Dennis
King (1897-1971) English actor
and singer/ Frank
Wilson[1885-1956] American
actor. Jane
Pickens (1908-1992) popular
singer on Broadway, radio and television/Jack Powell [?]. Gertrude Niesen/Mario ?. Myron McCormick
(1908-1962) American actor of stage, radio and film/ Murvyn Vye. Marjorie
Lord (b. 1918) American
television actress/ Miriam Seegar
(b. 1907) American silent film actress. John Boles (1895-1969) American actor/ Ray Middleton (1907-1984) American character actor. Jane Cowl (1883-1950) successful early American film and
stage actress and playwright/ Mary Healy (b.
1918) American actress, singer, and variety entertainer. Violet Heming - actress/Pierre van Passen. Morton
Downey (1901-1985) singer
popular in the United States, enjoying his greatest success in
the 1930s and 1940s. Downey was nicknamed "The Irish
Nightingale"/Jay
Wesley. Uta Hagen (1919-2004) actress. She originated the role of
Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf/Alberta
Perkens. Rose Franken - actress/Tex Dabllery. Charlie Spivak (1907-1982) American trumpeter and bandleader,
best known for his big band in the 1940s/Stanley Phillips. Most are inscribed to Edna..............80-120
119. [FILM] Madge Bellamy (1899-1990) American film actress who was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her career declined in the sound era, and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s. In San Francisco in 1943, Bellamy was accused of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting (or shooting at) her wealthy lover Stanwood Murphy. The incident generated much publicity and effectively ended her already fading career. ALS. signed Madge B., 1973, 3pp. About writing her autobiography, and thanking the recipient for volunteering to help her. VG............50-75
120. WM. A. DARLING (1817-1895)
Businessman & MOC from NY; president of Murray Hill Bank.
ALS, NY, 1868, 1p, 8vo. Letter of introduction. Slightly
toned..............50-75
121. [CARDINAL] John Joseph O'Connor (1920- 2000)
was the eleventh bishop (eighth archbishop) of the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of New York, serving from 1984 until
his death in 2000. He was elevated to the cardinalate in
1985. Signed 1975 FDC honoring Christmas. Clean and
attractive............25-35
124. [FORT LEAVENWORTH] U.S. Military Prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
partly-printed document dated 1883, voucher to purchase 900
stamped envelopes, signed in ink by 2nd Lieut. W.P. Evans and Clara L. Nichols, postmistress.
Also appears the name of Capt. William Badger, 6th
Infantry, who signs in print. BADGER was the son of a New Hampshire Governor.
Wm. Badger fought in the Civil War. After that war, he was
commissioned a lieutenant, assigned to the 6th Regiment of U.S.
Infantry. Often stationed in Indian territory, he was later
brevetted a captain for "gallant and meritorious services during
the war." For a while he served under Gen. George A. Custer in
Dakota. 8 x 10-1/2 in. VG Scarce!.........100-150
125. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 13, 1953, 6pp. Her contract with the William Morris Agency for 3 years. Signed on last page; also signed by her agent............50-75
126. [FILM] Myrna Loy (1905-1993) American actress. Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. She was originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, but her career prospects improved greatly following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. Fine..............25-35
127. [NEWSPAPER] LINCOLN ASSASSINATION -
WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, Madison, Wis., May 9, 1865, VOL.
XIII, No. 34. 8 pages, FILLED with Civil War news and
bulletins. Includes: "Abraham Lincoln. Remarks at the
Funeral Services...By R.W. Emerson"; "The Man who Killed
Booth- Anecdotes of Sergeant Corbett"; "Indian Murders in
Minnesota"; "The Assassination Plot". Illustrated
advertisements. Fascinating reading.
Uncommon................75-100
129. Dame Barbara Cartland
(1901- 2000) English author, one of the most prolific and
commercially successful of the 20th century. TLS, 1988,
lengthy 2 pages. Unusual content - her eating habits,
recommendations for healthy diet, deoression, and her new book
"Book of Health.".........75-100
130. Erich
Segal (1937-2010)
American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best known
for writing the novel Love Story (1970), a best-seller,
and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a
major hit. Signed 5x7 photo. VG.........40-60
132. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Signed bank check dated 1935 plus sheet music........50-75
133. [FILM] Kurt
Kreuger (1916-2006) was a Swiss-reared
German actor. Kreuger once was the third most requested
male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others,
Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Kreuger was primarily
offered roles in World War II movies as a German officer,
prompting him to complain about being typecast as a Nazi.
TLS signed Kurt, no dated, sent to Jess who was a
syndicted columnist. Jess was likely Jessica Leigh who
wrote about dogs. Nice letter talking mostly about German
Shepard..........35-45
See letter
134. [IDAHO] Weldon B. Heyburn (1852-1912) U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1903 - 1912. The city of Heyburn is named for him, as is Mount Heyburn. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1909. Good clear signature............25-35
135. [MEDICINE] MIN CHUCH CHANG
(1908-1991) Chinese-born American reproductive biologist. His
specific area of study was the fertilisation process in
mammalian reproduction. Though his career produced findings that
are important and valuable to many areas in the field of
fertilisation, including his work on in vitro fertilisation
which led to the first "test tube baby", he was best known to
the world for his contribution to the development of the
combined oral contraceptive pill at the Worcester Foundation for
Experimental Biology. Signed 3x5 card. Fine..........40-60
136. [ART] Will Hicok Low
(1853-1933) American artist and writer on art. In 1873
he entered the atelier of J. L. Gérme in the École des Beaux
Arts at Paris, subsequently joining the classes of
Carolus-Duran, with whom he remained until 1877. Returning to
New York, he became a member of the Society of American
Artists in 1878 and of the National Academy of Design in 1890.
His pictures of New England types, and illustrations of John
Keats, brought him into prominence. Subsequently he turned his
attention to decoration, and executed panels and medallions
for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, a panel for
the Essex County Court House in Newark, New Jersey as well as
numerous panels for private residences and stained glass
windows for various churches, including St. Paul's Methodist
Episcopal Church, Newark. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted to
card............20-30
137. [THEATRE] Adelaide
Ristori [1822-1906] Italian
tragedienne. Signature.....20-30
138. [BENJ. HARRISON] Message from the President of the United States, Feb. 19, 1890, government document, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 66, 29 pages, signed in type by Harrison. A report relative to the purchase and release of the surplus lands in the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation.......30-40
139. [BENJ. HARRISON] Message from the President of the United States, Dec. 18, 1889, government document, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 14, 91 pages, signed in type by Harrison. "A letter of the Secretary of the Interior relative to the purchase of a part of the Coeur d'Alene Reservation". Disdound but all present. Contains one foldout diagram....30-40
140. Sophie Tucker (1884-1966) singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century. SIGNATURE, inscribed, 1961..............25-35
141. [FILM] Lionel Stander (1908-1994) American actor in movies, radio, theater and television. The role he is now most famous for: Max, the loyal butler, cook, and chauffeur to the wealthy, amateur detectives played by Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers on the 1979 -1984 television series Hart to Hart. Signed document, CONTRACT, 1945, 2pp, to appear as "Spider" in THE KID FROM BROOKLYN, starring Danny Kaye. With attached "condition" agreement initialed. VG............75-100
142. [AVIATION] Giuseppe
Mario Bellanca (1886-1960)
Italian-American airplane designer and builder who
created the first enclosed cabin monoplane in the
United States in 1922. This aircraft is now on display
at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F.
Udvar-Hazy Center. Closely cropped clip signature
mounted to card.........40-60
See
signature
143. [MUSIC] Boris Goldovsky (1908-2001) Russian conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States. He has been called an important "popularizer" of opera in America. As an opera producer, conductor, impresario, and broadcaster he was prominent within the American operatic community between 1946 and 1985. Large Signature. Two mail fold lines..........25-35
144. [BASEBALL] lot of
13 signed b/w pictures of L.A. Dodgers,
each 5 x 7 in. Includes: Terry Forster,
Kenneth Landreaux, Tom Niedenfuer, Steve
Garvey, Mark Belanger, Rick Monday, Bob Welch, Bill
Russell, Mike Scioscia, Ron Cey, Jerry Reuss, Stan Howe.
All signed in person, obtained while the Dodgers were plating
against the Cincinnati Reds. All VG..........80-120
145. [BASEBALL]
lot of 10 signed color pictures of L.A.
Dodgers, each 4-1/4 x 6 in. Includes: Dusty Baker,
Don Sutton, Jerry Reuss, Bobby Castillo, Rick Monday, Derrel
Thomas, Pedro Guerrero, Terry Forster, Bill Russell, Steve
Howe.
All signed in person, obtained
while the Dodgers were plating against the Cincinnati
Reds. All VG..........80-120
146. [THEATRE] Dame Ellen Terry,
GBE (1847-1928) English stage actress who became the
leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Her career lasted
nearly seven decades. Signed 3 x 1-3/4 in. card dated June 7,
1887. Fine.....40-60
See
signature
See
picture of Terry
147.
[FILM] Joan Bennett
(1910-1990) American stage, film and television
actress. Signed 3-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. photo. Fine
condition............40-60
148. [ENTERTAINMENT] Red Skelton (1913-1997) American entertainer best known for his national radio and television acts between 1937 and 1971 and as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. Skelton, who has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, also appeared in vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist. Signed 5x7 photo. VG............50-75
149.
[THEATRE] Kathleen
Turner (b. 1954) In August
2010, Turner portrayed the role of Sister Jamison
Connelly in Matthew Lombardo’s drama High
at Hartford TheaterWorks. The production
transferred to Broadway, at the Booth Theater, where
it opened in previews on March 25, 2011, officially on
April 19, 2011, and an announced quick closing on
April 24, 2011. However, in a rare move, the
production was revived, still headed by Turner, to
undertake a national tour, which began in Boston in
December 2012. Offered hereis a theatre
program of High, signed on the cover by
Turner. Signed in person whiole the play was
showing at the Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park [2010].
Most of her signature is in the light area on the
cover. Fine...........40-60
150.
[THE MUNSTERS] Butch
Patrick (1953)
American former child actor. Beginning his
professional acting career at the age of eight,
Patrick is perhaps best known for his role as child
werewolf Eddie Munster on the CBS comedy television
series The Munsters. Signed & inscribed 8x10
color photo shown as Eddie Munster.
Fine...............40-60
151. [MUSIC] Mary
Wilson (b.1944) American
vocalist, best known as a founding member of the
Supremes. Signed League of Cities 67th Annual
Banquet, 1996 card, 5.5 x 8.5 in.
Fine.............40-60
152.
[MUSIC] EXILE, American
band from Kentucky. They began as The Exiles and
shortened their name to Exile in 1973. Photograph signed
by 6 members. Over the years there are been many members
of this band. 8x10 in. VG.......50-75
153.
[MUSIC] Alabama
- is an American country,
Southern rock and bluegrass band formed in Fort Payne,
Alabama in 1969. The band was founded by Randy Owen (lead
vocals, rhythm guitar) and his cousin Teddy Gentry
(bass guitar, background vocals), soon joined by their
other cousin, Jeff Cook (lead
guitar, fiddle, keyboards). First operating under the
name Wildcountry, the group toured the Southeast bar
circuit in the early 1970s, and began writing original
songs. They changed their name to Alabama in 1977 and
following the chart success of two singles, were
approached by RCA Nashville for a record deal.
Alabama's biggest success came in the 1980s, where the
band had over 27 number one hits, seven multi-platinum
albums and received numerous awards. Photograph signed
by the 4 members Mark
Herndon and the 3 original
mebers mentioned above. Randy Owens and Jeff Cook sign
in black ink in dark are so poor contrast.
VG...............75-100
154. [FILM] Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer. Signed 8x10 photo. Fine...............50-75
155. Art
Buchwald (1925-2007) American humorist best known for his
long-running column in The Washington Post, which in turn was
carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His
column focused on political satire and commentary. He received
the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in
1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters. Signed 1990 program for the FORT WORTH
ICMA's 76th Annual Conference. Signed inside. Fine..........30-40
161. George Plimpton (1927-2003) American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is best-remembered for his sports writing and for founding The Paris Review. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......25-35
164. [FILM] Sidney Blackmer [1895-1973] American actor. He was a major character actor in more than 120 films. He won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor (Drama) for his role in the Broadway play, Come Back, Little Sheba. In film, Blackmer is remembered for his more than a dozen portrayals of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and for his role in the Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film about urban New York witches, Rosemary's Baby, in which he played an over-solicitous neighbor. Brief ALS written on bottom of a fan's form letter, no date........40-60
167. [MIXED LOT OF AUTOGRAPHS] Comprised of: [1] BARBOUR, John Merrett [1807-1881] jurist, born in Cambridge, Washington County, New York. He studied law in New York and went to Michigan when a very young man; was first elected a justice of the peace, then was made commissioner of internal improvements, and after the expiration of his term was elected county judge, in which capacity he served eight years. He subsequently moved to Saratoga Springs, New York, and then to Washington, District of Columbia, where he was clerk in the office of the solicitor of the treasury. In 1850 he removed to New York, where he advanced slowly to the front rank of his profession. In 1861 he was elected judge of the superior court, and in 1867 was reelected by a heavy majority. On the death of Chief Justice Robertson, Judge Barbour was unanimously chosen to preside in his place. He was an able and well-read lawyer, oftener excelling in the more quiet branches of the law than in the active contests that come before a jury. CLIP SIGNATURE. [2] James T. Pratt (1802-1887) U.S. Representative from Connecticut. Pratt was elected major of the First Regiment of Cavalry in 1834. He served as colonel in 1836. Brigadier general 1837-1839. Major general 1839-1846. He served as adjutant general in 1846. He retired from mercantile pursuits and settled in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Pratt was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855). He served as member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C. , in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. Signed addressed cover [Franking signature as member of congress]. No postmark. VG [3] W.C. WHITNEY (1841-1904) Sec. of Navy. Clipped signature. [4] E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. Signed 3-1/2 x 2-3/8" card. VG. [5] John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell PC, KC (1779-1861) British Liberal politician, lawyer, and man of letters. Campbell was the main sponsor of the Obscene Publications Act 1857 which made the sale of obscene material a statutory offence, for the first time, giving the courts power to seize and destroy offending material. Franking signature on postmarked cover, 1853. [6] Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement. Signature. [7]J. VESEY FITZGERALD (b. 1848) English writer. ALS, 1878. [8] Thomas John Capel [1836-1911] English Roman Catholic priest. He established Roman Catholic University at Kensington [1874-78]; figured as Monsignor Catesby in Disraeli's "Lothair" [1870. He went to California in 1883; prelate in charge of northern California. ALS, 1875, with closing & signature on back of page. To Mr. Walford regarding ceremonies attending the opening of the Catholic University College. One very unobtrusive punch hole. [9] JOHNSON, William Cost [1806-1860] Representative from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] Pearson Menoher [1892-1958] American general and Aide to General Patton. He was a classmate at West Point of President Eisenhower in 1915. He served with the Fifteenth Corps, which became part of General George Patton's Third Army in its drive through Europe in World War II. Signed 1921 Riggs National Bank check. VG. See Gen. Menoher check.............100-150
168.
[BASEBALL] New York Mets 2002 Spring Training
Roster Signed by 8 Mets players: Bobby
Valentine, Charlie Hough, John Stearns, Al Leiter, John
Franco, Gary Mathews Jr., Tony Tarasco, Mookie Wilson.
Approx. 8.5 x 14", one middle fold...........60-80
See above
167a. [FILM] MARTHA SCOTT [1912-2003]
actress. In both The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, she
played Charlton Heston's mother. ISP, 8 x
10............30-40
168a. [BRITISH NAVAL] WILL CHAMBERS -
Rear Admiral. ALS, no date but c. 1807, 1p, folio. To Phitt
Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh's docket on verso reads "Rear Adm.
Chamber's advising that he will wait on me being just come to
Town." The text area is very good but there are marginal
faults.........50-75
169. [NORTH DAKOTA] Kent Conrad (b.1948) US senator from North Dakota. In April
2006, he was selected by Time Magazine as one of "America's 10
Best Senators." Signed & inscribed color 8x10
photo.....25-35
170. [SILENT FILM] Jane Novak (1896-1990)
was a silent film actress. Born in St. Louis she
attended convent school but ran away with a friend with
whom she created a vaudeville act. Although she returned
home, an aunt invited her to California where she began
acting in motion pictures in 1913 at the age of 17. She
appeared in a movie on her very first day in southern
California, before there was a film studio in Hollywood.
Novak endured as a performer, in part, by sacrificing
sensational roles for roles as leading women in more
wholesome films. Some actresses who were Novak's
contemporaries quickly found stardom, yet were forgotten
soon afterward, while she was considered an
"old-fashioned girl." As a result, Novak, refused to
work in films with other leading ladies. She played
opposite Wallace Beery, Tom Mix, Hobart Bosworth, Alan
Hale, Thomas Moore, and Lewis Stone. At one time she was
engaged to marry Western star William S. Hart, although
their marriage never took place. She is celebrated for
her westerns; and made five films with Hart. Offered here is
a signed sheet with a small picture scene from the
film "ROADS OF DESTINY" affixed above her autograph. Shown in the scene
are Pauline Frederick, John Bowers and Novak..........20-30
171. SIMON LAKE (1866-1945) American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy. SIGNED Document -check dedicated and signed by him 1910. With COA from The Simon Lake Collection..........................75-100
172. [FILM] Wynne Gibson (1905-1987) American actress of the 1930s. Early in her career she had a small part in a film but had no special interest in appearing before the camera. It was the stage that interested her and she began her stage career in chorus and was soon playing leads. She toured Europe then returned to America and tried for a dramatic part but failed and returned to musical comedy. Paramount signed her when about to film Nothing But the Truth (1929), starting her success which continued in some 50 films between 1929 and 1956 although many were B movies. Gibson was a long-time companion of former Warner Brothers actress Beverly Roberts. AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED, not dated, 1p. She answers 2 questions on a questionaire. About 5 lines plus signature in her hand. 8.5 x 11". VG..........25-35
173. James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife KT, GCH (1776-1857) was a Scot who became a Spanish general. On 9 September 1799 he married Mary Caroline Manners (second daughter of daughter of John Manners and Louisa Tollemache, 7th Countess of Dysart ), who died on 20 December 1805 without children. Thereupon Duff sought distraction in 1808 by volunteering to join the Spaniards in their war against Napoleon . His assistance was gladly received, especially as he came full of enthusiasm and with a full purse, and he was made a major-general in the Spanish service. He served with great distinction at the battle of Talavera , where he was severely wounded in trying to rally the Spanish runaways, and was only saved from becoming a prisoner by the gallantry of his lifelong friend, Major (afterwards Lieutenant-general Sir) S. F. Whittingham. In that year, 1809, he became Viscount Macduff on his father's accession to the Irish earldom of Fife, but he still continued to serve in Spain, and was present during the defence of Cadiz against Marshal Victor, and was again severely wounded in the attack on Fort Matagorda in 1810. On 17 April 1811 he succeeded his father as fourth Earl Fife, and as Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire, and returned to Britain, after being made for his services a knight of the order of St. Ferdinand. He was elected M.P. for Banffshire in 1818, and made a lord in waiting in the following year. He was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Lord Fife on 27 April 1827, in which year he was also made a knight of the Thistle. He soon afterwards retired altogether to Scotland, where he lived at Duff House , Banffshire. SIGNED address panel postmarked 1833. Tipped to page from book mentioning him..........25-35
174. [CARTOON] Ted Key (1912-2008) American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon panel Hazel,which was later the basis for a television series of the same name. Signed, inscribed 3x6" original drawing of Hazel, dated 1973, accompanied by envelope with signature in return address......60-80
175. [CABINET] William M. Evarts
(1818-1901) American lawyer and statesman who
served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General
and U.S. Senator from New York. He was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, the son of author, editor, and Indian
removal opponent Jeremiah Evarts, and the grandson of
Declaration of Independence signer Roger Sherman.
Clip Signature, 1877, mounted, approx. 3-1/4 x 2". .............25-35
See
signature
See
his portrait
177. [AMERICANA
MIXED LOT] [1] an 1852 engraving of the Indiana Institute for
the Education of the Blind. [2] R.C. Winthrop (1809-1894) Am. lawyer and philanthropist and one
time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Clip
signature. Mounting trace show thru. [3] Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900)American
Congregational clergyman of considerable note. He was pastor of
the Harvard Congregational church of Brookline, Massachusetts, in
1845-1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New
York, from 1846 until shortly before his death. He was a
conservative in theology, and an historical writer of considerable
ability. From 1848 to 1861, he was associate editor of the New
York Independent , which he had helped to establish; from 1887 to
1897 he was president of the American board of commissioners for
foreign missions, and he was prominent in the Long Island
Historical Society. Brief ALS, Brookyn [NY], May 14, no yr. Re:
Sunday School meeting. Letter appears to have been cropped along
left edge, although no loss of text.. [4] Rose Eytinge (1838 - 1911) was an American actress and author,
born in Philadelphia. From 1862 to 1869 she played in various
theatres in New York City and then went abroad with her second
husband, Col. George H. Butler, Consul General to Egypt. SIGNED
CARD, 4 x 2-7/8". [5] [MICHIGAN] STRICKLAND, Randolph, a Representative from Michigan; born in
Dansville, N.Y., February 4, 1823; attended the common schools;
moved to Michigan in 1844 and taught school in Ingham County;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced
practice in De Witt, Clinton County, Mich.; moved to St. Johns,
Clinton County, and continued the practice of law; elected
prosecuting attorney for Clinton County in 1852, 1854, 1856,
1858, and 1862; member of the State senate in 1861 and 1862;
provost marshal of the Sixth Congressional District 1863-1865;
delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1856 and
1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March
4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was an unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; died in
Battle Creek, Mich., May 5, 1880; interment in De Witt Cemetery,
De Witt, Mich. SIGNED album page. Large signature, St. Johns,
Mich. [6] [PENN] John Heinz [1938-1991] US
Senator from Penn. He died in a tragic plane crash. TLS, 1986,
1p. Routine content [sending autograph]. [7] 1839
wood-engraving - View of Lowell, Mass. [8] John Sherman Cooper -
US senator from Ky. Clip signature. [9] Alexander Wiley (1884-1967)
was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in
the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to
1963. Signed 1948 FDC honoring Wisc. Statehood............80-120
178. Lee
Meriwether (b. 1935) American
actress, former model, and the winner of the 1955 Miss America
pageant. She is perhaps best known for her role as Betty Jones,
Buddy Ebsen's secretary and daughter-in-law in the long-running
1970s crime drama, Barnaby Jones. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.
VG...........25-35
See above
179. [OPERA] Norman
Kelley (1911-2006) American operatic
tenor who had an active international career during the 1940s
through the 1970s. He was notably a regular performer at the
Metropolitan Opera between 1957 and 1961, and he sang in several
world premieres with the New York City Opera. He also notably
translated Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel into
English, a version first performed in 1967 and used by opera
companies to this present day. Christmas [1980] greeting
card signed inside to Franklyn Lenthall, The Theatre Museum,
Boothbay, Maine. Includes the envelope addressed by Kelley
including handwritten return address.
VG.............50-75
180. [ART] Marcel Vertes
(1895-1961) An outstanding twentieth century
painter, printmaker and illustrator, Marcel Vertes moved from
his native Hungary to Paris during the First World War. Living
and working in the famous Latin Quarter, Vertes quickly
established himself as one of the most important artists of the
Paris scene, thus continuing in the footsteps of Boutet, Forain,
Toulouse-Lautrec and others. The art of Marcel Vertes was at its
peak during the vibrant and somewhat wild decade of the 1920’s.
Concentrating upon scenes of Paris street life, portrayals of
women and depictions of circus and cabaret acts, Vertes left a
legacy of original lithographs and drawings that superbly
capture the spirit of 1920’s Paris. He won two Academy
Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work
on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. Vertes is also responsible
for the original murals in the Café Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel
in New York City. Offered here is an 1956 [plate signed]
original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS. Noted artists drew
directly on the lithographic plates. Each was used as an ad for
various businesses. The proceeds went to Artists Equity. Sheet
size is approx. 12 x 8-1/2. Insignificant edge stain
right side. VG............50-75
See Vertes
print
181. [POSTAL HISTORY] James K. Polk.
Folded cover addressed to "His Excellency James K. Polk,
President of the United States, Washington D.C.", blue
"Philadelphia Pa. Apr. 2" circular datestamp, manuscript Free,
docket "R.M. Maddock, Penna. Captaincy." Maddock was a Senate
Door Keeper. Very good +. Scarce cover to Polk
during his one-term presidency..........200-300
182.
[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
183. [FRANCE] Marquis Dupuy De La Mothe - ALS, 1769, 1p, 8-1/4 x 12-3/4". VG.....100-150
184. [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 more research..........100-150
See Lagarde letter
185. [FRANCE] offered here are 2 documents from France: one dated 1783, signed by Jean Francois Joly De Fleury [1718-1802] State councillor who was fired in 1783, the year of this letter which speaks of Countess of La Rochefoucault. 1-page, about 6-3/4 x 8-1/4". PLUS another document 1701, 4pp, about 8.5 x 12. Identified as being about the grandfather of de Fleury..........100-150
1701 page 2
186. [FRANCE] Charles-François Turinaz
(1838-1918) He was bishop of Moutiers-Tarentaise from
1873 to 1882, and Bishop of Nancy in 1882 to 1918. ALS, 1906,
4pp. VG.............100-150
187. [FRANCE] Guillaume-René
Meignan (1817-1896) French
Catholic apologist and scriptural exegete, Archbishop of Tours
and Cardinal. ALS, 1887, 1-1/5 pp, 8vo. Not translated.
VG........100-150
188. [FRANCE] Jacques
Raillon (1762-1835) Bishop of Orleans; also
of Dijon; also Archbishop of Aix. Letter Signed,
Paris, 1813, 1p, approx. 8x10". To Monseigneur.
This churchman lived through the troubling history of France's
Catholicism Revolution; Napoleon's problems with Pius VII;
return of the monarchy, etc. He made a famous funeral
speech at Notre-Dame for Marshall Lannes. VG...........100-150
189.
[FRANCE] Charles Prudent
Becdelièvre (1705 - 1784 ) French
prelate, Bishop of Nîmes. Ordained in 1729, he became
abbot of Vierzen in 1730, then the Caignotte in 1731.
Becdelèvre was appointed vicar of Périgueux in 1736. He
was Bishop of Nîmes from 1737 to 1784. He was also adviser to
the king in all his advice. Letter Signed, 1750, 1p,
approx. 7 x 8.5". Damp stain top
edge............100-150
See
above
190. [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
From The Reign of King Charles IX
192. [FRANCE] Jean-François
de Hercé (1776-1849) was a dignitary
of the Catholic Church and French politician, mayor of Laval
then bishop of the diocese of Nantes. ALS, 2pp, approx.
8-1/2 x 13". VG. He played a role in the 1848
Revolution...........100-150
193. [FRANCE] Louis Veuillot (1813-1883) French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. A SMALL PART OF A MANUSCRIPT, IN TWO MOUNTED PIECES, ONE SIGNED. About Protestant England. See scan below..............75-100
Portrait of Veuillot
194. [FRANCE] Adolphe
Perraud (1828-1906) French
Cardinal and academician. Three ALSs, 1878,
1894, and 1904, total 11 pages........150-200
195. Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper de Blowitz (1825- 1903) Bohemian journalist. He left home at the age of fifteen to travel, acquiring a wide range of languages in the process. When financial constraints led him to plan emigration to America, he met by chance M. de Falloux , the French minister responsible for public education, and was appointed professor of foreign languages at the Tours Lycée in around 1849. He thereafter transferred to the Marseilles Lycée. He resigned his professorship there in 1859 when he married in order to devote himself to literature and politics. He became famous, both as a journalist and for his insights into diplomacy. ALS, 1891, 3pp, 4.5 x 7 in. Moderate sunning along left edge on first page; runs into text................30-40
196
[FRANCE] Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797-1872)
French writer of historical fiction, poetry, non-fiction,
stage plays, and short stories. She published much of her work
as Clémence Robert. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8". To Paul Foucher.
VG............50-75
See Robert
letter
197.
[FRANCE] Jules
Gervais-Courtellemont (1863 - 1931)
French photographer who was famous for taking color
autochromes during World War I. He was born in the province of
Seine-et-Marne, near Paris, but grew up in Algeria, where he
developed a passion for the pre-colonial Orient and devoted
most of his professional career in search of the exotic. In
1894 converted to Islam prior to making a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Images collected in Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Spain,
India, Morocco and China formed the basis for his popular
illustrated lectures, which he illustrated with lantern
slides. With the outbreak of World War I, Courtellemont
returned to his home province to record the war. After the
war, Courtellemont began working for an American publication.
He eventually became a photographer for National Geographic.
In 1911, Courtellemont opened the "Palais de l'autochromie" in
Paris, which comprised an exhibition hall, studio, laboratory,
and lecture hall with a seating capacity of 250. It was in
this hall that Courtellemont would project his autochromes
both of the Orient and, after 1914, of the war, particularly
the Marne battlefields. These lectures proved to be so popular
that Courtellemont issued a twelve-part series later bound in
book form called The Battle of Marne and later a four-part
series entitled The Battle of Verdun. These are the first
books ever published in color on war. Between 1923 and
1925 he wrote a three-volume work entitled La Civilisation –
Histoire sociale de l'humanité, illustrated with his
photographs. He was a lifelong friend of the novelist,
Orientalist and photographer Pierre Loti. While over 5,500
Gervais-Courtellemont autochromes survive in various
institutional collections, his work in private hands is quite
rare and sought after. Courtellemon died in 1931. His German
counterpart is Hans Hildenbrand. ALS, c. 1910,
written on both sides of 7 x 9 sheet. To M. Brunet. Speaks
of Islam in Bosnia. VG............100-150
198. [FRANCE] François-Joseph Bélanger (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, 1787, 2pp., 8 x
12-1/4". Extremely rare contract between the famous
architect and the master carpenter Niquet. For some
unknown reason a slim portion of this document has been trimmed
away affecting a few words..............100-150
199. [FRANCE] Adolphe Perraud (1828-1906) French Cardinal and academician. His calling card as Le Cardinal Perraud on which he pens 13 lines on both sides. Accompanied by original envelope addressed to Edmond de Morsier. About reunion; mentions Leon XIII. Don't think he signed. VG.........50-75
Scan 1
200. [MUSIC] Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard
(1843-1917) French composer. Pessard was born and died
in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won
1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome
with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera
on February 21, 1867. From 1878 to 1880 he was inspector of
singing at Paris Schools, in 1881 he became professor of
Harmony at the Paris Conservatory. After 1895 he was a
critic and director. He composed many comic operas and
operettas, as well as masses. ALS, 1916, 2pp, approx.
5-1/4 x 8-1/4. VG............60-80
201. [FRANCE] Dumoutier (Pierre)
General. Born at Riom (Puy-de-dome) May 8, 1750; died at
Saint-Pierre de la Martinique October 10, 1819. His
military career continued from 1789 to the May 10, 1810,
when he retired. He was admitted to the Invalides with the
grade and the treatments as a chief of the brigade of the
army of the Rhin, June 24, 1795. LEAVED THE Invalides the
17 September 1796. Major of the place of Lille (i3
December 1796) he was dismissed by the executive Director,
23 September 1799. Major of arms at the Guadeloupe under
Richepance, 9 December 1801. Returned to France for
reasons of health, April 1, 1803. [translation from
French]. Document Signed Signed, 7th Year [1795?], 1p, approx. 7-1/2 x 11-1/2"...........80-120
See
document
202. [FILM] Ron Randell (1918-2005) Australian-born American film and
stage actor. Arguably his best performance was in King of Kings,
as the Roman centurion Lucius, who defends Christ at his trial
as a sort of impromptu legal counsel, and presumably becomes
converted to Christianity after the Crucifixion. Great TLS,
1949, 2pp, all about acting, mentions several films.
VG............40-60
203. [FILM] ANNE REVERE
(1903-1990) Actress, Academy Award WINNER. SIGNATURE,
inscribed attached to an 8x10 portrait photograph......30-40
204. [SIGNED
BOOK] Albert L. Murray
(b. 1916 in Nokomis, Mobile County, Alabama) is an
African-American literary and jazz critic, novelist and
biographer. SIGNED, inscribed copy of his book "From the
Briarpatch File", dated 2002, 195 pages, with very
good dust jacket. First edition. Murray and the American
painter Romare Bearden were close friends and influenced
each other's art. Bearden's 1971 six-panel, 18-foot collage
"The Block" was inspired by the view from Murray's Harlem
apartment.........40-60
205. [FRANCE] Pierre Louis Parisis - Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of
Langres from 1835 to 1851. He was one of the strongest right
wing figures in the French Catholic Church of his era. In 1847
he formed the Archconfraternity of Reparation for blasphemy
and the neglect of Sunday to promote Acts of Reparation to
Jesus Christ. He is also noted for his efforts within the
Assembly of 1848 for establishing the ecclesiastical college
of St. Dizier and for his discussions concerning the
educational reforms. He was a member of the commission which
prepared the draft project for the Falloux Laws increasing the
Catholic clergy's influence in French education. ALS, 1855,
1p, 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 in. Addressed to De Loisne. Not translated.
VG...........100-150
206.
[FRANCE] Alexandre Auguste
Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874) French
politician. His opposition to the policy of President
Louis Napoleon, especially his Roman policy, led to his moving
the impeachment of the president and his ministers. The motion
was defeated, and next day (13 June 1849) he headed what he
called a peaceful demonstration, and his enemies armed
insurrection. Ledru-Rollin himself escaped to London where
he joined the executive of the revolutionary committee of
Europe, with Lajos Kossuth and Giuseppe Mazzini among his
colleagues. He was accused of complicity in an obscure attempt
(1857) against the life of Napoleon III of France, and condemned
in his absence to deportation. Émile Ollivier removed the
exceptions from the general amnesty in 1870, and Ledru-Rollin
returned to France after twenty years of exile. Though elected
in 1871 in three departments he refused to sit in the National
Assembly, and took no serious part in politics until 1874 when
he was returned to the Assembly as member for Vaucluse. ALS,
1861, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG............80-120
Page 1
Page 2
His portrait
207.
[FRANCE] Joseph Auguste Emile
Vaudremer (1829-1914) French architect. He
won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in
France, particularly in Paris. He designed several typical
19th century buildings in Paris : lycées (including the Lycée
Buffon), churches (including Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil, and
Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge) and the Prison de la Santé. In
1867 he was elected to the seventh seat of the Académie des
Beaux-Arts, architecture section, succeeding Alphonse de
Gisors. ALS, 1882, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in. VG..........80-120
Page 1
Page 2
208. [FRANCE] Jean Soanen (1647–1740) French Oratorian and bishop of Senez. He was a convinced Jansenist. In opposition to the papal bull Unigenitus, he with Charles-Joachim Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, Pierre de la Broue who was bishop of Mirepoix, and Pierre de Langle who was bishop of Boulogne, appealed against it in 1717 to a general council. This group and their followers were known as Appellants; the council was though entirely hypothetical as an idea. Later, he sent out a pastoral letter to his congregation, urging the reading of Pasquier Quesnel. Pierre Guérin de Tencin, the archbishop of Embrun, then in 1727 had him exiled from his diocese. But Jean Soanen of Senez, a small mountain diocese in Provence, issued in 1726 a Pastoral instruction to his diocese, in which, at the age of 80, he reviewed his whole position in the controversy. He regretted that he had ever signed the Formulary of 1665, withdrew his adhesion to the Bull "Vineam Domini Sabaoth", blamed himself for prohibiting, against his real convictions, the moral Reflexions, and promised never to accept the Unigenitus. Soanen was deprived of his see by the Provincial Synoid of Embrun, which on carious canonical grounds he refused to recognize, and was banished to the abbey of Chaise Dieu in Auvergne, where he remained imprisoned till his death in 1740, at the age of 95. Autograph Document Signed, unsure if dated, different later handwriting below, approx. 6-1/4 x 4-1/4". Accompanied by 3 small pages of handwritten notes from circa 1880. VG.............150-250
See Soanen document
209.
Phillippe Edouard de Verneuil (1805-1873)
French paleontologist. He was born in Paris and educated
in law, but being of independent means he was free to
follow his own inclinations, and having attended lectures
on geology by Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont he was so
attracted to the subject that he devoted himself
assiduously to the study of science. He spent several
years in travel through various parts of Europe, specially
examining the geology of the Crimea, on which he published
an essay (Mem. Soc. Geol. France, 1837). He next
investigated the Devonian rocks and fossils of the
Bas-Boulonnais; and in 1839 accompanied Sedgwick and
Murchison in a study of the older Palaeozoic rocks of the
Rhenish provinces and Belgium, the palaeontological
results being communicated to the Geological Society of
London in conjunction with the Vicomte d'Archiac. When
Murchison commenced his geological examination of the
Russian empire, he requested de Verneuil to accompany him,
and the researches of the latter were incorporated in the
second volume of The Geology of Russia in Europe and the
Ural Mountains (1845). Subsequently de Verneuil paid a
visit to the United States to study the history of the
palaeozoic rocks in that country, and the results were
published in 1847 (Bull. Soc. Geol. France). In later
years he made numerous expeditions into Spain, and his
observations were embodied in Carte geologique de
l'Espagne et du Portugal (1864), prepared in association
with Edouard Collomb. In 1853 the Wollaston medal of the
Geological Society of London was awarded to him, and in
1860 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.
He died in Paris. ALS,
186?, 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in.
VG. Curious letter; speaks about L'ile Bourbon. Not
translated..............100-150
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Page 2
210. [FRANCE] Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797-1886) French mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the one-dimensional unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations or Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering . Although his surname was Barré de Saint-Venant in non-French mathematical literature he is known simply as Saint-Venant. His name is also associated with Saint-Venant's principle of statically equivalent systems of load, Saint-Venant's theorem and for Saint-Venant's compatibility condition, the integrability conditions for a symmetric tensor field to be a strain. In 1843 he published the correct derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations for a viscous flow and was the first to "properly identify the coefficient of viscosity and its role as a multiplying factor for the velocity gradients in the flow". Although he published before Stokes the equations do not bear his name. In 1868, at 71 years old, he was elected to succeed Poncelet in the mechanics section of the Académie des Sciences. In 1869 he was given the title 'Count' (comte) by Pope Pius IX. ALS, 1861, 2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". There is a tear coming up from botton edge that touches the signature but no loss of paper. See scan.........100-150
See page 2
211. [FRANCE] 1810 Manuscript Document
Signed, identified as "Marquise d'Anhalt. Our research
identifies this person as Favras Caroline Hedwig of
Anhalt-Schauenbourg (Marquise de) ( 1759-1841). Approx.
6-3/4 x 4-1/4" with very nice red wax seal still intact.
See both side's below. Certainly worthy of research.
Excellent condition.........100-150
Front
side
Back
side
212. [FRANCE] Alexandre
Moreau de Jonnes (1778-1870)
French adventurer, military officer in charge of General
Statistics of France until 1851. At the age of thirteen he was
drafted by Jean-Lambert Tallien in the National Guard to serve
in the minimal section keeping the King Louis XVI imprisoned in
the Tuileries . His section is controlled by the Marquis de La
Fayette : "... a charming cavalier thirty-five to thirty-six
years, slim, slender, elegant size, a very distinguished air and
perfectly aristocratic ...". In his post, he is witness to the
conspiracy of the Knights of the dagger and the day of August
10, 1791 during which held "the bloodiest battle of all those
delivered in a public place during the Revolution." Many
naval experiences. Until 1809 , he lived many adventures, total
shipments fifteen, ten led him beyond the Tropic: prisoner, he
escapes, experiencing hurricanes, earthquakes lives and survives
epidemics.... "I found myself involved more than once with
historical figures of high dignity, and also pirates, smugglers
and people of all kinds. I happened to go with a flagship of
eighty guns, and come back in a canoe or a saury which water
filled like a basket." Taken prisoner by the British during the
taking of Fort Desaix in Martinique , in which the French
surrendered after a long and glorious resistance, it is enclosed
on five claims pontoons London where have languished as hapless
prisoners of war. Released at the Restoration in 1814 , he
returned to France , but on the return of Napoleon from the
island of Elba , he joined the army of the Loire. Back in Paris
, he was assigned to the minister's office, as staff officer in
charge of statistics and survey work. In 1819 , he was awarded
the Royal Academy of Paris , the first prize in statistics, then
emerging science. It is at this position, five successive
ministers. ALS, Paris, 184?, 1p. VG. Approx.
5x8"............100-150
213. [FRANCE] François-Marie-Benjamin Richard (1819-1908)
Archbishop of Paris, French prelate, was born at Nantes,
Loire-Atlantique. Educated at the seminary of St Sulpice
he became successively vicar-general of Nantes, bishop of
Belley, and in 1875 coadjutor of Paris. In 1886 the death of
Archbishop Guibert was followed by Mgr. Richard's appointment
to the see of Paris, and in 1889 he received a cardinal's
hat. In January 1900 the trial of the Assumptionist
Fathers resulted in the dissolution of their society as an
illegal association. The next day an official visit of the
archbishop to the Fathers was noted by the government as an
act of a political character, and Mgr. Richard was officially
censured. His attitude was in general exceedingly moderate, he
had no share in the extremist policy of the Ultramontanes, and
throughout the struggle over the law of Associations and the
law of Separations he maintained his reasonable temper.
He presided in September 1906 over an assembly of bishops and
archbishops at his palace in the rue de Grenelle, a few days
after the papal encyclical forbidding French Catholics to form
associations for public worship, but it was then too late for
conciliation. In December he gave up the archiepiscopal palace
to the government authorities. He was then an old man of
nearly ninety, and his eviction evoked great sympathy. ALS,
Paris, 1857, 2pp, approx. 8-1/4 x 10-1/4
in. Fine condition..............100-150
214.
[FRANCE] 1776 letter from a nobleman in his castle
addressed to de Lassale, Captain of Angoumois regiment,
Commander in Combes. Writer's livestock were seized by
soldiers following an order that the writer ignored. He
gave permission to another parish to use his livestock
which is newly forbidden from one parish to another. VG.
Not translated.............100-150
215. Benjamin Fine [1905-1975] Am. journalist, author. TLS, 1956........20-30
216. Carl Hayden [1877-1972] US senator [Ariz.] TLS, 1964, 1p........20-30
217. [MUSIC] Lugi
Ottolini - Italian Opera
Singer, associated with the Chicago Lyric Opera and Metropolitan
Opera Co. ANS, no date.......25-35
218. [MUSIC] Connee Boswell [1907-1976] American vocalist who performed in the 1930s with The Boswell Sisters. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........30-40
219. Ignacio
Mariscal [1829-1910] important
Mexican writer and diplomat . He was Vice President, as well as
Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1871 - 1872. Signed card,
1876.....25-35
220. [POETRY] John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978) American poet. He was a descendant of
Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. He wrote
fourteen books of poetry and was co-winner of the 1962 Bollingen
Prize. As an editor, he is noted for discovering young poets
like May Swenson and James Dickey. Signed 1p. typescript of his
poem "To You, Perhaps Yet Unborn, That Some Day May Read These
Rhymes."..........50-75
221. [NOBEL PRIZE] PAUL BOYER (1918- ) American Chemist - Nobel Prize 1997 - he formulated a hypothesis to describe what he calls "the most prominent chemical reaction in the whole world." It is the process by which molecules produce ATP (adenosine triphosphate), thereby transmuting light, air, water and food into the energy required for both plant and animal life. SIGNED 4x6 portrait PHOTO..........25-35
225. [MUSIC] Jack Palmer (1900-1976) American composer, pianist, Jazz musician. Signed, inscribed vintage 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35
226. [MUSIC] Ferdinand Q. Dulcken (1837-1902) German concert pianist and composer.
ANS, no date, not translated. Approx. 6-3/4 x 3".
VG...........40-60
227. [MUSIC] Jack Jones [b. 1938] American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s. Signed 1993 contract to appear in Dearborn, Michigan for $12,500. Jones signs with initials...........30-40
228. [MUSIC] Sir (Herbert) Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist. After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved to London at about age 20, soon becoming a well-known piano accompanist. The Musical Times called him "the prince of accompanists". As a composer he wrote throughout his career, many of his works being well received, though few are regularly performed in the 21st century. Signed card, 1930. VG......30-40
230. Will Durant (1885-1981) was a
prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best
known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in
collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between
1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy,
written in 1926, which one observer described as "a
groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy".
Signed 1946 bank check...............40-60
231. [MUSIC] Franz Kullak (1844-1913) German composer and pianist. ALS, Berlin, 1875, 1p, 4.5 x 7". VG..........50-75
232. [MUSIC] Emanuele Bucalo (1864-1941) Italian opera star - considered one of the greatest baritones of his time. ALS, Milan, 1904, 1p. Not translated. VG........50-75
233. [MUSIC] Radie Britain (1899-1994) American pianist and composer. ALS, 1989, 1p......40-60
234. [ART] Charles Biederman (1906-2004) American artist best known for his three-dimensional painted aluminum constructions, created from the early 1950s to the late 1990s, in which brightly colored squares and rectangles are arranged in patterns projecting out from a flat background. His works are represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; Tate Gallery in London; Art Institute of Chicago; Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis and other museums in the United States and western Europe. TLS, 1985, 1p.VG.........50-75
235. Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, also , also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) (1826-1887) English novelist and poet. Clip signature, with sentiment from ALS........25-35
236. [FRANCE]
Emmanuel Roblès (1914-1995) Algerian-French author. He was
elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973.
SIGNED/INSCRIBED [on the back] 5x7 photograph which he dates
[19]91. Fine...............35-45
237. Enid, Lady Jones (1889-1981) known by her
maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and
playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet
which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor. CLIP
SIGNATURE..............25-35
238. Carlos P. Romulo [1899-1985] Filipino diplomat. He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942. Signature mounted with Philippines stamp......25-35
239. [GOLF] Gene Littler (b. 1930) is an American
golfer. Signed, inscribed slip......15-20
240. [SOUTH AFRICA] Alan Paton (1903-1988) South African writer and social reformer. As a teacher he developed a keen interest in the social and racial problems of South Africa. Paton received great critical and popular acclaim for his first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), which is distinguished for its compassionate treatment of those caught up in the racial conflicts of South Africa. SIGNATURE accompanied by dust jacket for his book "Cry, the Beloved Country.".............50-75
241. [THEATRE] Eileen Heckart (1919-2001) American actress of stage, screen,
and television. SHE WON 1972 ACADEMY AWARD FOR "Butterflies Are
Free." Signed [on cover] platbill program for the play "Eleanor
Roosevelt" at the Studebaker Theatre, 1976...........25-35
243. [SHOW BIZ] Pinky Lee (1907-1993) burlesque comic and host of a children's television program, The Pinky Lee Show, in the early 1950s. Signed vintage contract, March 4, 1936, 2pp. Appears he'll be paid $45 to appear at the Norshore in Chicago. VG. Two small mounting remains affect very little. With unsigned 8x10 photo............50-75
244. John Gunther (1901-1970) American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books. He is best known today for the memoir "Death Be Not Proud" about the death of his teenage son, Johnny Gunther, from a brain tumor. Signed 1966 First Day Cover honoring Bill of Rights. Signed and inscribed. Clean with cachet.........30-40
245. [MUSIC] Eberhard Eyser (1932 - ) Germany composer. AMQS from his "King of Hearts." Approx. 9.5 x 4.5". VG..........50-75
246. [MAINE] Frederick G. Payne (1904-1978) American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Maine from 1953 to 1959. He previously served as the 60th Governor of Maine from 1949 to 1953. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1950, appointing Earl W. Davis of Harrison, Maine, as elected a Representative in the 95th Legislature of the State of Maine. Approx. 9.5 x 14"; one fold..........25-35
247. [OPERA] Lillian
Nordica (1857-1914)
American opera singer who
had a major stage career in
Europe and her native
country. Nordica established
herself as one of the
foremost dramatic sopranos
of the late 19th century and
early 20th century due to
the high quality of her
powerful yet flexible voice
and her ability to perform
an unusually wide range of
roles in the German, French
and Italian operatic
repertoires. TLS,
no date, 3pp, 5-1/4 x
6-3/4". VG................75-100
See
pages 1 & 3
Page
2
249. [THEATRE] 4 SIGNED vintage photos [postcard size] of British actresses: [1] Jose Collins [1887-1958] celebrated for her performances in musical comedies and early silent screen movies. [2] Evelyn Laye [1900-1996] theatre & film actress. [3] Cicely Alice Debenham [1891-1955] 1920s musical comedies. [4] Violet Vanbrugh [1867-1942] her career lasted more than 50 years. Signed in dark area so poor contrast.........80-120
See photos250. [FILM & THEATRE] 4 SIGNED vintage photos [postcard size] of British actors: [1] Leslie Lincoln Henson [1891-1957] comedian. [2] Raiph Lynn [1882-1962] stage & screen. Signature possibly facsimilie. [3] Harry Welchman [1886-1966] early silent screen. [4] Edward O'Connor Terry [1844-1912] one of the most influential actors of the Victorian era. Signed photo dated 1907. Superb photo although signed in dark area...........75-100
See photos253. [MUSIC] William Schuman (1910-1992) American composer and music administrator. Brief TLS, 1988. Fine.........25-35
255. [FILM] WALTER M. MIRISCH (1921)
Film Producer, Academy Award winner. Producer of some of
the finest and most memorable films. SIGNED 8x10
photograph. VG.............40-60
256. [LAW] John Augustus (1785 -1859) Boston boot maker who is called the "Father of Probation" in the United States because of his pioneering efforts to campaign for more lenient sentences for convicted criminals based on their backgrounds. Brief ADS, Boston, 1821. "Mr. Wm. Barry Sir please deliver the bearer one Hat & charge the same to your acc." 8 x 2-3/4 in. VG...........75-100
257. [FILM] PATRICIA
NEAL (1926-2010) Actress, Academy Award
Winner. TLS, no date, 1p. VG...........40-60
259. [FILM] SIR JOHN MILLS (1908-2005) British Actor of stage and film, Academy Award Winner. SIGNED typescript from “Un In the Clouds, Gentleman Please.” VG.............40-60
260. [POETS] Lot of 5 signed pieces: [1] Rod McKuen - signed 1977 FDC. [2] Gerard P. Meyer [1900-1983] ANS, 1945, to the pote Louise Bogan
[1897-1970]. [3] Park Benjamin [1809-1864] signature mounted. [4] Conrad Aiken [1889-1973] clip signature. [5] Percy MacKaye [1875-1956] signed card..........60-80
261.
[SPORTS] Multiple lot comprised of the following figures
from the World of Sports: [1] BICYCLING] REGGIE MCNAMARA - member US
Bicycling Hall of Fame. Signed [lined side] and
inscribed 3x5 card. 1950. [2] [GOLF] Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998)
was a dentist who gave up his practice to become a
professional golfer on what is now the PGA Tour in the
1940s. At the time, a career as a dentist would quite
likely have been more lucrative. During his playing
career, Middlecoff won 40 professional tournaments,
including the 1955 Masters and U.S. Open titles in 1949
and 1956. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring
average in 1956. He played on three Ryder Cup teams:
1953, 1955, and 1959. In 1986, Middlecoff was inducted
into the World Golf Hall of Fame. SIGNED 1957
FIRST DAY COVER HONORING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [UN COVER]. Stamp-addressed; one
middle fold crease. [3] BONNIE BLAIR - won 2
Golds in speed skating. SP, color 4 x 5-1/2. [4] John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900-1982)
American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. In
1939, Gaver was appointed head trainer for Greentree
Stable, a position he would hold for the next
thirty-eight years. During his time with Greentree, John
Gaver conditioned seventy-three stakes-winning horses.
Signed 1981 bank check. [5] [GOLF] Ken Venturi (b.1931) was a
prominent PGA Tour professional during the late 1950's
and early 1960's. His signature on 1965 cover bearing
golf sticker. Type addressed. [6] [GOLF] Marlene
Hagge (b.1934) professional
golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA
and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in
2002. Her signature on 1961 cover bearing golf sticker.
Type addressed. Several spots show.........50-75
262. [FILM] Charlie
Ruggles (F1886-1970) comic American actor. In a career
spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100
feature films. Ruggles is best remembered today as the
big-game hunter in "Bringing Up Baby". SIGNED, inscribed 5x7
photo, in very good condition except for defective top right
outer corner..........50-75
263. [SILENT FILM] Betty Blythe (1893-1972) American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921). ALS, NO DATE, WRITTEN ON BOTH SIDES OF 6 x 7-1/4 in. sheet. To Mr. Jess Hoaglin. "Thank you for your letters. Sat we are all attending the funeral of one of our clan here but Sunday afternoon of this week will be convenient for me. I shall wait for you in our drawing room at the 2nd large steel gate opening on Mulholand Dr. The first large gate enters hospital friends [following is on verso] only. It will be pleasant to meet you indeed. Betty Blythe." She is agreeing to meet a fan at the Motion Picture Home, where she lives. VG...........50-75
264. (ART) WILSON LOWRY
(1762-1824) Celebrated English Engraver and Inventor who’s
creative genius revolutionized printed art. Also a founding
member of the “Geological Society”, elected fellow of the
“Royal Society” in 1812. ALS, 1818, 2pp.
VG............100-150
265. (ART) SAMUEL COUSINS,
RA (1801-1887) Eminent British mezzotint engraver. He is
considered one of the most important figures in the
history of British engraving ALS, 1878,
1p.............75-100
266. KOSICUSKO ARMSTRONG
– Son of General John Armstrong (1717-1795) the Rev. War
General, who also was a delegate to the continental
Congress. ALS, dated November 1846, defending his father
from criticism on a book being published by Thomas L.
McKenney. Gen. Armstrong service in a battle at some
point was being questioned by Mckenney. 1-page.
VG............100-150
267. [BRITISH] Sir George Anson GCB KTS (1769-1849) General, commanded a British cavalry brigade under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War and sat for many years as a Member of Parliament. Signed address panel, dated Sept. 4, 1830. VG..........30-40
268. [MUSIC] FRANCES ALDA [1883-1952]. New Zealand operatic soprano. Made debut at Opéra-Comique (1904); at Metropolitan Opera, New York (1908-29); m. (1910; div. 1928) Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Author of Men, Women, and Tenors (1937). SIGNATURE on card dated 1932............40-60
271. Vasco Ronchi (1897-1988) was an Italian physicist known for his work in optics. Along with Enrico Fermi, he was a student of Luigi Puccianti. He studied from at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Pisa 1915-1919. In 1922 he published work describing testing methods for optics using simple equipment. The Ronchi Test is widely used in amateur telescope making. TLS, 1984, 1p.................40-60
272. [MUSIC] Leonard Slatkin [b. 1944] American conductor. TLS, 1989.......25-35
273. [MUSIC] Harriet Kendall (1857-1933) English composer. ALS, 1889, 4pp......25-35
274.
[CIVIL WAR] Edwin Franklin
Brown (1823-1903) Col. Brown,
Inspector General of National Homes for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers. He was born near the village of Medina, in
Western New York, in 1823. His father was Jeremiah Brown, a
Captain in the War of 1812. At the begining of the civil war he
volunteered for service and he was commissioned Lieutenant
Colonel of the Twenty-eighth New York Infantry, which served
with the Army of the Potomac until 1863. At Cedar Mounttain in
1862 he lost an arm. When the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, Ohio, was opened, he was appointed
acting Governor, later he was Governor of the central branch,
and when the number of such homes became large, in 1880, he was
made Inspector General. The officers of the 28th NY
Infantry regiment were nearly all school teachers and the men
were the finest young men of Western New York. Shortly after the
regiment was sent to the front at Harper's Ferry, the Union
troops were annoyed with frequent raids of Confederate cavalry
from across the river. Colonel Brown volunteered to capture
these raiders, and with about fifty men selected by himself, he
captured and brought into camp the entire company of rebel
cavalry with their horses, without the loss of a man and with
the loss of but two or three of the enemy. For this he was
praised in general orders. The regiment has a glorious record of
service. At the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, where
Colonel Brown lost his left arm, his regiment was ordered to
charge the enemy across a wheat field. He asked the aide if the
general knew there was a masked battery across the road. The
aide replied; "There is no battery there." The colonel said;
"Tell the general I know there is," and then immediately ordered
the charge. The result showed that Colonel Brown was right. The
regiment routed the enemy and captured the battery, but the
casualties were over sixty per cent. in less than an hour. This
was almost a duplicate of the charge of the Light Brigade at
Balaklava. After the battle of Cedar Mountain, the colonel
was made prisoner while in the hospital at Culpeper, was taken
to Libby prison at Richmond, and then exchanged in the fall of
1862. He again took command of his regiment in the field and was
in many engagements with the Army of the Potomac during that
important period when the capitol at Washington was constantly
in danger of being captured. He was mustered out with his
regiment in July, 1863, two months after the term of enlistment.
Upon his return to his native home, he was unanimously elected
by both political parties as county clerk of Orleans County, but
declined a second term because of his selection by President
Grant for the position of military mayor of the city of
Vicksburg, Mississippi. During this reconstruction period, the
handling of affairs in the south and especially of a city of the
importance of Vicksburg, which only a short time previously had
been the center of some of the most important conflicts of the
war, required much diplomacy and tact. By his personal magnetism
and policies he soon won the hearts of the southern people and
thereby made them feel that the north and the south should be
reunited. The manner in which this was accomplished became a
matter of comment and record at Washington. Colonel Brown
arranged and managed the first reunion of the Blue and the
Gray. His appointment as governor of the Home at Dayton
was a case of the office seeking the man and not the man the
office. General Benjamin F. Butler, president of the board
of managers of the National Homes, learning of the manner in
which the affairs at Vicksburg had been handled by Colonel
Brown, offered him the appointment of governor at the Home at
Dayton. He accepted the appointment in the fall of 1868 when the
central branch at Dayton had just been started. The Home was
located on a worn-out clay farm, almost barren, and void of all
natural beauties. He soon had order out of chaos; a definite
plan of improvements was inaugurated, and with the confidence
and co-operation of the board of managers and of the soldiers,
his plans and ideas began to develop, and it was not long until
this place showed promise of being what it is today—one of the
most beautiful parks in the country. He believed in giving
employment to the soldiers and paying them for it. If any work
was needed, he made inquiry for soldiers to do it. He
established workshops of different kinds, and his early
experience in the work of building and construction commenced to
show itself in the manner in which this unattractive hill was
changed to the beautiful spot which it now is. Colonel Brown was a big man—mentally and
physically; a friend in need always, kind, just, sympathetic,
genial and generous: and his life and works are a model of
American citizenship, ability, integrity and patriotism. ALS, 1874, 1p, to the Editor of the Dauly
Tribune [Denver, Col.]. Sends a published copy of
a letter asking to have it published by the Daily Tribune.
VG..............100-150
276. James Walker
(1794-1874) president of Harvard
University. He graduated at Harvard in 1814, studied
theology at Cambridge, and was pastor of the Unitarian church in
Charlestown for twenty-one years. During this period he was
active in his parochial duties and in advocating the cause of
school and college education, lectured extensively and with
success, and was a close student of literature and philosophy.
In 1831-39 he was an editor of the "Christian Examiner." He
resigned his pastorate in July, 1839, the following September
became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in
Harvard, was elected its president in 1853, and held office till
his resignation in 1860. He devoted the remainder of his life to
scholarly pursuits, and left his valuable library and $15,000 to
Harvard. Autograph Signature dated Cambridge Dec. 1866,
written in 5-1/4 x 6-1/4 in. alum page. VG..............40-60
277.
[THEATRE] Oliver Doud Byron
(1842—1920) American actor. Born in Frederick,
Maryland, he made his first appearance at the Holliday Street
Theatre in Baltimore in 1856, playing with Joseph Jefferson in
Nicholas Nickleby, using the name Oliver B. Doud. In 1856 he
joined the Richmond (Virginia) Theatre, playing alongside
John Wilkes Booth, then acted with companies in
Washington, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans, before becoming a
member of Wallack's celebrated New York ensemble. At one time
Byron alternated with Edwin Booth in the roles of Othello and
Iago. Although he claimed to have originated the part of Richard
Harre in East Lynne, his principal claim to fame was his Joe
Ferris in Across the Continent (1871), a role he played several
thousand times over thirty years. ALS, Colorado, 1878,
1p, plus unsigned cdv photo. Two
pieces..............75-100
See above
278. Count Piper (Carl
Edward Vilhelm Piper) (1820 - 1891) was a Swedish nobleman and
diplomat. In the beginning of his career he worked in the
Swedish Foreign Office and had served as Swedish-Norwegian
legation-secretary in Copenhagen during the Crimean War. In the
late 1850s he served as envoyée to Italy. In 1861 he was
appointed minister to the United States and served to 1864, when
he was replaced by Baron de Wetterstedt. Initially, Piper was
very critical of Americans and the U.S. political system,
Americans lacked love of the nation and the constitution needed
to be changed. In 1864 he moderated his views, and
believed that Americans were basically alright. Piper was very
close to Secretary of State William H. Seward. Card signed Count Piper, 3-1/4 x 2 in.
VG.............25-35
279. [THEATRE] HELEN BLYTHE - American actress. Dramatic instinct was precociously developed. At the age of five she was introduced to the public in children's roles by Clara Morris at Norwalk, Ohio, and six years later made her appearance in Richard III. She was born at Fairfield, Ohio, 1861, and had made quite a reputation when she secured her first regular engagement at the Cincinnati Grand Opera House. Her real name is Blye, but an early mistake in the play bills to Blythe was never changed. She made steady headway, and became a great favorite in all the principal cities of the United States and Canada. Her dramatic methods are of the newer school, and her real strength lies in those more human impersonations which the genius of the modern playwright and the favor of the public have given a prominent position on our stage. Her husband is Joseph F. Brien. They were married in 1880. Unsigned cabinet photograph, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2 in. Pin hole at top & bottom edge............50-75
See above283. [FILM] GLORIA
STUART (1910-2010) Actress, stage, film
Nominated for Oscar for “Titanic”. Brief ALS, written at
bottom of collector's letter........30-40
284. Alice Childress (1912-1994) American playwright, actor, and author. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photograph, dated 1984 on verso. VG........40-60
285. Sir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE (1832-1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. Signed picture [removed from some publication, signed in ink, 4.5 x 6.5". VG.............50-75
286. [ENGLAND] Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, PC (1907-2003) Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords from 1964 to 1982. He was a great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist, and son of a judge of the Lahore High Court. He grew up in India and attended Winchester College and New College, Oxford, and was later elected a Fellow of All Souls College. He was called to the Bar in 1932 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1954. He was first appointed to the bench in 1961 as a Chancery judge. Then in 1964 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a Lord Appeal in Ordinary, made additionally a life peer as Baron Wilberforce, of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. He is the only judge in recent times to have been appointed to the House of Lords straight from the High Court Bench, without serving in the Court of Appeal. His decisions were known for being reserved and cautious. Wilberforce was Chancellor of the University of Hull between 1978 and 1994. ALS, May 18 (no year), written on both sides, re: sending autographs.........25-35
287. Marsha Mason (b. 1942) American actress. Signed 8x10 color photo. VG....25-35
288. Alexander Godunov [1949-1995]
Russian ballet start & actor. Sig. 3x5 card.........20-30
290. Carlos P. Romulo [1899-1985] Filipino diplomat. He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942. Signature card as Ambassador. VG..........25-35
291. Porter Emerson Browne [1879-1934] Am. novelist. Signed card.......15-20
292. [ART] Sir William Coldstream (1908-1987) British realist painter and a long standing art teacher. ANS, 1959, 3x5 card.............30-40
293. Art Buchwald (1925-2007) American humorist. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. VG....35-45
294. John Bradbury [1872-1950] Brit. economist. Signature.......15-20
295. [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
See portrait of Bremer298. Shirley Booth - actress. Signature [crease]...........10-15
299. Claude Akins (1926-1994) American actor. Signed 3x5 card. Fine........20-30
300. [THEATRE] George Edward Wade (1869-1954) better known by his stage name, George Robey, was an English music hall comedian and star. He was marketed as the "Prime Minister of Mirth". SIGNED postcard photograph with sentiment dressed as the Queen of Hearts. VG.............40-60
301. J.C. Wise [b.1881] Am. historian. TLS, no date.........20-30
302. Russell Arms
[b.1922] Am. actor, singer. Signed 5x7 photo........20-30
303. [THEATRE] Olive Logan
(1839-1909) American actress and author,
daughter of Irish-American actor and playwright
Cornelius Ambrosius Logan and Eliza Akeley.
Some of Logan's lectures were on woman suffrage;
she spoke at the 1869 convention of the American
Equal Rights Association and was a contributor to
The Revolution. ALS, NYC, no year,
3pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/2 in.
VG..............50-75
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304. Katherine Biddle [1890-1977] Am. poet. ALS, n.d., 1p........20-30
305. Bella Abzug [1920-1998] women's movement-MOC. TLS 1972.......20-30
306. Arthur B.
Allen [1881-1947] Am. actor.
TLS, 1935, 1p..........25-35
307. [NIXON] Edward F. Cox (b.1946), is the chairman of the New York Republican State Committee and the son-in-law of the late President Richard M. Nixon. Cox is a lawyer in the Manhattan law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP where he has served as the Chairman of the Corporate Department and a member of the Management Committee. In 2008, Cox was named in Super Lawyers in the area of Securities & Corporate Finance and his firm was ranked third on The American Lawyer's 2008 "A-List" of leading law firms in the United States. ALS, 1983, 1p, a thank you letter. VG......25-35
308. Leon Errol
(1881-1951) Australian-born American comedian and actor, popular
in the first half of the 20th century. He managed a traveling
vaudeville troupe and gave a young comedian named Roscoe
Arbuckle his first professional opportunity. In America, Errol
became a well-known vaudevillian who appeared in the Ziegfeld
Follies on Broadway, and played skits with such notables as Bert
Williams and W. C. Fields. Errol's sister, Leda Errol (née
Sims), appeared with him in the Follies. Errol made a successful
transition to films in a variety of comedy roles (over 150 films
from 1923). His comic trademark was a wobbly, unsteady walk,
moving as though his legs were made of rubber; this bit served
him well in drunk routines such as the drunken valet in Morgy
and Shoo's "Mama's Little Babies" as well as numerous RKO
two-reelers. Document Signed,
1930, 1p, from Samuel Goldwyn
Inc. for his services in the film "Lilli." Signed in pencil. Old
paperclip mark top edge well away from anything.........50-75
309. Richard Monckton
Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS
(1809-1885) English poet, patron of literature and
politician. ALS, May 14, no yr., 2pp, signed Baron Houghtyon.
About invitation and meeting. VG............50-75
310. [MUSIC] Edna
Richolson Sollitt -
pianist. Signed and inscribed 1920s vintage
photo, 7 x 10 in. VG........50-75
See above
311. [WW II] A.A.
Vandegrift (1887-1973) General in the
United States Marine Corps. He commanded the 1st Marine Division
to victory in its first ground offensive of World War II, the
Battle of Guadalcanal. For his actions during the Solomon
Islands campaign, he received the Medal of Honor. Vandegrift
later served as the 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps, and was
the first U.S. Marine to hold the rank of four-star general
while on active duty. TLS (appears to be a STAMPED
signature), Headquarters US Marine Corps, Washington, Dec. 18,
1946, 1p. To Congressman Philip J. Philbin, of Mass.
regarding underpay of Jacques Eugene Guertin, a Marine. His pay
was short $176.82. Accompanied by TLS of Congressman
Philbin, signed Phil [his retained copy] on which Philbin writes
text of letter sent to Hon. Geo. W. Stanton. Also page
from Marine Corps to Guertin. Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was
a Democratic US Congressman from Massachusetts who served as
chairman of the Committee on Armed Services..............50-75
312. [ART] John Frederick Lewis
RA (1804-1876) important English painter. He specialized
in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes and often worked in
exquisitely detailed watercolour. Lewis lived in Spain
between 1832 and 1834. He lived in Cairo between 1841 and 1850,
where he made numerous sketches that he turned into paintings
even after his return to England in 1851. He lived in
Walton-on-Thames until his death. Lewis became an
Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1859 and a member (an
RA) in 1865. After being largely forgotten for
decades, he became extremely fashionable, and expensive, from
the 1970s and good works now fetch prices into the millions of
dollars or pounds at auction. ALS, Edinburgh, 1853, 4
pages, 4-1/2 x 7 in. Last page shows tape remains
along right edge o/w very fine. An excellent
content letter about an early painting that he did before the
age of 18; it was exhibited "at the British
Institution....". Says he saw it many years ago but
doesn't know what happened to it. He would be curious to
see it now and would like to purchase oit "...simply as a
memento of past days..." The title of the painting
is mentioned on page one, looks something like "Deers
........?". An interesting example of this noted
artist..........500-750
313. [ART] William Cave Thomas
(1820-1906) British artist. ALS, nd, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in.
VG............50-75
314. [THEATRE] Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) important American stage actress. Nice signature example dated Boston, 1860. Soft middle crease. Accompanied by an unsigned cdv photograph of her, in excellent condition........75-100
See above
315. [BASEBALL] Vida Blue (b. 1949)
former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. Signed TOPPS
card, 4-3/4 x 7 in. The dark blue signature across his
face is the authentic one [signed in person].
VG.............40-60
See
above
316. [BASEBALL] Jim Rice (b. 1953) Boston Red Sox left fielder who was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Signed TOPPS card, 4-3/4 x 7 in. The dark blue signature is the authentic one [signed in person]. VG.............40-60
317. [BASEBALL] Fred Lynn (b. 1952) Boston Red Sox center fielder. Signed TOPPS card, 4-3/4 x 7 in. The red ink signature is the authentic one [signed in person]. VG.............40-60
318. William K. Vanderbilt (1849-1920) member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family and a horse breeder. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1907, approx. 22 pages, 8x13 in. Signed on last page by Vanderbilt and Franklin D. Locke as Trustees selling parcels of land located in Chautauqua County, New York, to Guaranty Trust Co.. The front page has old badly discolored tape repair.........200-300
319. [OPERA] ANNIE LOUISE CARY (1842-1921) American Operatic Soprano. Born in Wayne, Maine After studying abroad, she made her debut in New York in 1870, singing with Nilsson, Brignoli, and Vieuxtenips. Her success with the public was instantaneous, and for years she was a favorite singer in the United States. In 1873, she created, in New York, the part of Amneris in Aida, and her tours in Russia in 1875-1877 were a series of continuous triumphs. In 1882 she married Chas. M. Raymond, of Brooklyn, and retired from public life, only occasionally singing for charity. SIGNATURE dtd March 7, 1879.............20-30
320. RICHARD OLNEY (1835-1917) American Statesman. He became a
national figure in 1893 when President Grover Cleveland,
appointed him the U.S. attorney general. During the Pullman
Strike in 1894 sought an injunction under the Sherman Anti-Trust
Act against the American Railway Union. Controversially, Olney
sent federal troops to Chicago and shots were fired at the
strikers. As a result, of Olney's action, Eugene Debs, president
of the union was arrested and despite being defended by Clarence
Darrow, was imprisoned President Grover Cleveland appointed
Olney as his SECRETARY OF STATE in June, 1895. Soon afterwards
Olney had to deal with a dispute with Britain over the
Venezuela-British Guiana boundary. SIGNATURE on Card......20-30
322. [THEATRE] Lillah McCarthy (1875-1960) English actress and theatrical manager. SIGNED EARLY POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPH [REAL PHOTO], DATED 1904. Superb condition......25-35
323. [ART] William T. Smedley (1858-1920) American artist, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, of a Quaker. He worked on a newspaper, then studied engraving and art in Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; after making a tour of the South Seas. He settled in New York City in 1880; in 1882 went with the Marquis of Lorne through Canada, preparing sketches for Picturesque Canada; and in 1905 became a member of the National Academy of Design. Most of his work was magazine and book illustration for stories of modern life, but he painted portraits and watercolours, and received the Evans Prize of the American Water Color Society in 1890, and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900. CLIP SIGNATURE...........25-35
325. Dame Barbara Cartland [1901-2000] one of the most prolific authors of
the 20th century. Barbara Cartland is the sixth most
translated writer Worldwide , and the third best selling, only
William Shakespeare, and Agatha Christie have outsold her. TLS, 1985,
1p......35-45
326. [FILM]
WOODY ALLEN [b. 1935]
American screenwriter, director, actor. Signed 3x5 card, with
typed inscription..........20-30
327. [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] WILLENE WHISENHANT - early NASA photographer. Offered here is an original b/w vintage photograph of astronaut Gordon Cooper strapped in centrifuge at Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pa. NASA S-63-3978. The photographer writes "Gordo Cooper in Centrifuse" below image. Provenance: from the personal files of Willene Whisenhant, the photographer. Fine.........100-150
328. [VERMONT] George David Aiken [1892-1984] Gov.
of Vermont from 1937-41; US senator 1941-1975. TLS on Senate
stationary, 1967..............25-35
329. Josephine Miles (1911 - 1985) poet and literary critic, was the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism. She was fascinated with Beat poetry and was both a host and critic to many Beat poets from her chair at Berkeley. Most notably, she helped Allen Ginsberg publish Howl by recommending it to Richard Eberhart, who would publish an article in the New York Times praising the poem. She was also the founder of the internationally distributed Berkeley Poetry Review in 1974 on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Signed, inscribed, 1971, 1p. typescript of her porm "Signs of Affection." VG.........50-75
See portrait of Miles330. [NOBEL] Frederick C. Robbins (1916-2003) American pediatrician and virologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller. The award was for his breakthrough work in isolation and growth of the polio virus, paving the way for vaccines developed by Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk. Signed 1967 Air Mail FDC honoring JFK. Also signed by Alice Robbins, his wife. Fine.........40-60
331. [MUSIC] Jessica
Dragonette (1900-1980) was a singer who
became popular on American radio and was active in the World War
II effort. Signature with sentiment on
card............20-30
332. [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
334. [FILM] Ed Begley
(1901-1970) Academy Award-winning American actor of
theatre, radio, film, and television. Signature, inscribed
on slip. VG...........25-35
335. Mr. Tindal (Nicolas Tindal. 1687 - 1774) was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin. Very few comprehensive histories existed at the time and Tindal wrote a three volume 'Continuation', a history of the Kingdom from the reigns of James II to George II. Tindal was Rector of Alverstoke in Hampshire, Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. ALS, in 3rd person, August 22, 1764, 1p, 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG. Archival tape repair on verso...............100-150
337. Helen Astor [1893-1976] American Socialite. In 1913, she married William Vincent Astor. ALS, nd, 3pp. VG...........50-75
341. Mary Louise Booth (1831-1889) American editor, translator and writer. She was editor of Harper's Bazaar from its beginning in 1867 until her death. She was a prolific translator into English the works of French-language authors. AQS, 6 lines dated New York, Jan. 18, 1887, approx. 6-3/4 x 8". Very nice............60-80
342. [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
344. [FILM] Ben Lyon (1901-1979) American actor. TLS, 1967, 1p..............25-35
345. [FILM] Lita Grey
(1908-1995) American actress and second wife of Charlie Chaplin.
Signed 3x5 card. Fine..........25-35
347. [FILM] Beulah Bondi (1888-1981) American actress. ANS, 1962..........25-35
348. [FILM] Edmund Lowe (1890-1971) American actor. Signed &
inscribed slip........25-35
349. [ART] Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) Polish-born American artist, famous for his anti-Axis political illustrations, caricatures, and cartoons during World War II, as well as his illustrations for magazine and newspaper articles and books. Signed bank check, 1947. VG..........75-100
350. [MUSIC] William Bolcom [b. 1938] American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973-2008. AMQS, inscribed, from his 8th Symphony. 10-1/4 x 4-1/4". Two mail fold lines o/w VG.........75-100
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