7. [MUSIC] Peter  Duchin ( b. 1937)  American pianist and band leader. Signed 8x10 photo. VG..............25-35

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8. [MUSIC] Jose Feliciano (1945) Puerto Rican virtuoso guitarist, singer and composer known for many international hits, including his rendition of The Doors' "Light My Fire" and the best-selling Christmas single "Feliz Navidad".  Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo............25-35

10. [MILITARY]  Joseph "Lightning Joe" Lawton Collins (1896 –1987)  Army Chief of Staff during the Korean War. During World War II, he was an Army general, serving in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations. Signed COMMEMORATIVE STAMP SHEET, honoring US Bicentenniel (1975) 8x11.  Also signed by Gen. Mark W. Clark (1896-1984) general during World War II and the Korean War and was the youngest lieutenant general (three-star general) in the U.S. Army.  Approx. 8-1/2 x 11". VG.............80-120

11. [ART] Edmund Henry Garrett (1853 - 1929) American painter, etcher. He was an  illustrator, bookplate-maker, and author—as well as a highly respected painter—renowned for his illustrations of the legends of King Arthur. Garrett was born in Albany, New York.  While little is known of his initial art education, Garrett rose through the ranks to become a distinguished member of the Boston Art Club and the Copley Society of Art, and was an acquaintance and colleague of renowned impressionist artist Childe Hassam. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Gustave Boulanger, Jules Lefebvre, John Paul Laurens, and Hector Leroux. After residing in Paris for approximately five years, he returned to America to establish a successful studio in Boston.  Garrett provided the chief influence for Childe Hassam's first study trip to Europe in July 1883. On June 30, 1883, Garrett and Hassam sailed to Europe aboard the SS Anchoria, then travelled for several months throughout Great Britain, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain studying paintings from the old masters and creating watercolors of the European countryside. In late August 1883, both Garrett and Hassam sailed aboard the SS Alsatia to several Spanish ports before crossing the Atlantic back home.  After they both returned to Boston, Garrett resumed his illustration work for various publishers, which was very much in demand, keeping him from spending energy on his watercolors. During this time, Garrett worked at a studio located at 12 West Street in Boston, which he shared with Hassam and fellow-artist Charles Henry Turner.  In 1884, Garrett exhibited two watercolors at the Pennsylvania Academy ("A Street in Granada" and "El Mirador de la Reina, Alhambra") in 1884. He also exhibited "A Street in Granada" at the "Third Annual Exhibition of the Paint and Clay Club," which was held at the Gallery of the Boston Art Club in March 1884.  During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Edmund Garrett's paintings and etchings were widely exhibited throughout the United States and in France at the Paris Salon.  Offered here is an original pencil signed etching, title is "THE TRAGIC MUSE",  the image is approx. 5.5 x 3.5 in. plus clean margins. Copyright 1904 by the Bibliophile Society.  Fine condition.................100-150

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12. [ART] Harmon Neill  (1893-1980) American artist. ALS, 1972, 2pp, 8.5 x 11 in. To the artist Frederick Solomon. VG........75-100

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15. [FRANCE] Bishop Paul-Augustin Le Coeur  (1848-1942) Bishop of Saint-Flour, France. ALS,  1912, 2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. Not translated. VG.............80-120

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16. [FRANCE] Bernard Potier, duc de Gesvres, Military governor of Paris 1739-1757.   Some sort of letter or document signed, 1749, 1p, approx. 6-5/8 x 8-1/4 in. VG............100-150

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

18. Large original etching, portrait of Abraham Lincoln, unsigned, artist is James S. King [1852-1925] who specialized in portraits, image approx. 18 x 14 in. plus margins. The image and the area surrounding the image, the portion that would show after being matted & framed, is very good. There are numerous faults along edges that will not show. Striking image. James S. King was born in New York City in 1852 and studied at the Art Student's League, National Academy of Design, Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris with Gerome and Bonnat. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America. King was active in exhibiting at the Parrish Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Boston Art Club; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery; and the Society of Independent Artists.............300-400

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19. [ART] James Brooks [1906-1992] American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Considered a first generation abstract expressionist painter, Brooks was amongst the first abstract expressionists to use staining as an important technique. The Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, Texas), the Harvard University Art Museums, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, Indiana), the Sheldon Art Gallery (Lincoln, Nebraska), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), the Tate Gallery (London) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) are among the public collections holding work by James Brooks. Signed Portland Museum of Art [Maine] membership brochure. This is also signed by Charles Whitney Payson [d. 1985] husband of Joan Whitney Payson the American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector. She was also co-founder and majority owner of Major League Baseball's New York Mets baseball franchise, and was the first woman to own a major-league team in North America without inheriting it. Also signed by Joe Brennan, the Gov. of Maine. VG..........50-75

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21. [MUSIC] Gilbert Ross [1903-1975] Professor of music at the University of Michigan, and founder and first violinist with the Stanley Quartet. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph on which he has penned a musical quote. Excellent condition.........75-100

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25. [ACTORS & ACTRESSES] multiple lot comprised of: [1] [THEATRE] Willis P. Sweatnam (1854-1930) Broadway actor. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, died at the Lambs Club in NYC. The New York Times, November 26, 1930 said, " One of the Best End-Men Who Ever Cracked Jokes in a Minstrel Show. Organized Several Companies. Created a Score of Negro Characters in Comedies." Clip Signature mounted to blank page from autograph catalog. Has sentiment plus "St. James Hotel, New York." [2] [TV]Debbie Watson, (b. 1949) American movie and television actress. Born in Culver City, Los Angeles, she got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck teenage girl Karen Scott in the 1964 sitcom TV series Karen. She then went on to star in the 1965 rural themed sitcom TV series Tammy. Perhaps her best known film appearance was when she portrayed Marilyn Munster in Munster Go Home 1966. Signed [on lined side] 3x5 card. Fine. [3] [FILM] Virginia Madsen (b.1961) American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. Several decades later, she once again became known after an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the 2004 film Sideways. SIGNED, inscribed "To John" 8x10 photo. VG. [4] [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. He writes on 4-7/8 x 3" slip "I am very Virginius Wilson Barrett." [5] [THEATRE] Marshall P. Wilder - vaudeville performer. Signature. [6] [THEATRE] Daniel Frohman (1851-1940) American theatrical producer and manager and an early film producer. CLIP SIGNATURE. [7] [FILM] Nick Stuart[1904-1973] serial star of THE LOST PLANET, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KIDD, etc. Signature, inscribed. Scarce!. [8] [FILM] PATRICIA NEAL - actress. Her signature on imprinted 3 x 5 card. [9] [CINEMA] Leo Chalzel [1901-1953] actor. In Ida Lipino's film "Men In White." Small clipping about him signed in ink, 1938........80-120

27. [PHOTOGRAPHY - NASA] WILLENE WHISENHANT - one of the important photographers at NASA at the beginning. ORIGINAL vintage color 10x8 photo showing Alan Shepard lying down in space suit with technicians around him. Whisenhant has written caption in ink below "MA-9 - Backup - Shepard." NASA S-63-3888. VG. Provenance: Ex-collection of the photographer.........100-200

29. [MUSIC] Erminia Rudersdorff (1822–1882) German operatic soprano, the mother of Richard Mansfield, the English actor, manager.  AMQS, 2-1/2 bars, "Adagio", dated Boston, 1872 on 12mo card mounted to larger card.  VG.......50-75

30. [MUSIC] Hans-Werner Janssen (1899-1990)  American conductor of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores.   He began to compose jazz songs for Tin Pan Alley. He made recordings as a pianist of two of his popular songs in 1920. He composed for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 and 1926 and wrote several songs which became national hits.  He was appointed associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1934-1935 season, and on 8 November 1934 became the first American-born conductor to lead the orchestra. He was conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1937 through 1939.  While Janssen filled roles as guest conductor, he was also contracted to write film music. His first credited film score was for The General Died at Dawn (1936), which was nominated for an Academy Award, the first of six Janssen scored films to be nominated. In 1939, he resigned his position with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to work with film producer Walter Wanger. He composed several other film scores including Blockade (1938), Winter Carnival (1939), Eternally Yours (1939), Slightly Honorable (1940), The House Across the Bay (1940), Guest in the House (1944), The Southerner (1945), Captain Kidd (1945), A Night in Casablanca (1946), Ruthless (1948), and Uncle Vanya (1957), starring and co-directed by Franchot Tone. He was also responsible for the score for the 1966 German television production Robin Hood, der edle Ritter (Robin Hood, the Noble Knight).   TLS, 1947, 1p, to William Singhoff at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, offering him music stands & a shell, as he is leaving for a Portland appointment, presumably to conduct. Envelope included. 8-1/2 x 11 in.........50-75

32. [MUSIC] Eula Beal (1919-2008)  American contralto. During her relatively short touring career, she performed with distinguished collaborators not only in concert but also in Concert Magic, a 1947 film billed as "the first motion picture concert."  Touring the United States as a concert contralto in the 1940s, she appeared with orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. With the latter ensemble, she performed in two works by Gustav Mahler: his Eighth Symphony, under Eugene Ormandy at the Hollywood Bowl,  and Kindertotenlieder.  Beal's operatic appearances included interpretations of Erda in Wagner's Siegfried and the innkeeper in Boris Godunov with the San Francisco Opera during the 1948 season. She also sang at Radio City Music Hall and the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Pops.  Signed program,  6 x 9 in. Tape remains at two corners...............40-60

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33. [COUNTRY MUSIC] "Mother" Maybelle Carter (1909-1978) American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. She has signed a book page photograph, about 8x6". Also signed by Helen Carter (1927-1998) American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, a pioneering all female country/folk music group. The group was also known as The Carter Family. Signed by both. VG............50-75

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36. [FILM] Trevor Howard (1913-1988) English film, and stage actor. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........50-75

41. [ART] Richard Black   (b. 1932)  highly regarded American printmaker who has made a significant contribution over the years to the arts in Iowa. For thirty years he was a professor of art at Drake University where he founded the Drake University Biennial Print Symposium. The symposium brought nationally known artists to the state to demonstrate and lecture on the art of printmaking. Black himself has been the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center and has been honored with the DRAKE AWARD for excellence in teaching and artistic achievement. Black's works are included in many museum collections and have been shown in invitational and competitive exhibitions all over the country.  As a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Black participates in a show every fall in London. Last year, one of his entries was selected for a prize, and his work was published in a London printmaking magazine.  Color lithograph, pencil signed, AUGUST SONG TWO, ed. 25, image approx. 18 x 12 in.  plus margins. VG..........150-200

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43.  Henry Stephens Washington  (1867-1934) Geologist. H. S. Washington's long scientific career brought him much acclaim from his scientific peers. During his life time, Washington published 169 works contributing to archaeology, regional and descriptive petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, and mineralogy. Washington’s work defined his time, and creations like the norm calculation continue play a key role in petrology over a hundred years after its invention. Though Washington's calculation wasn't the first norm, it is still the one most widely used and accepted today. Washington was a many of many talents. His immense span of knowledge ranged from the most complex geological problems to Italian literature. He contributed to many fields of study, but it will always be petrology that benefitted the most from his work.  Showing in scan #2 below is Dr. Henry S. Washington, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is making a series of chemical analyses of the lavas of the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands for the purpose of studying the composition of the floor of the Pacific Ocean and the constitution of the earth.  TLS, 1923, 1p, to Prof. Robert S. Woodward, the  American physicist and mathematician.  8.5 x 11 in. VG.............100-150

44. (ART) (JASPER JOHNS) original multiple. New York. Museum of Modern Art. Text by Riva Castleman Technics and Creativity Gemini GEL, 1971, 10.5 x 8.5 in. stiff wrappers in plastic clamshell box. 108 pp. 364 mostly thumbnail illustrations (20 full size in color), bibliography, index of artists. A Catalogue raisonne (to early 1971), published in a boxed edition of 22,500, with its problematic Jasper Johns "Target," an offset lithograph with applique paintbrush and three watercolor disks, in addition to the print , which is glued to the inside front cover of the box). Box also contains the catalog, a sheet of protective foam. The foam sheet is normally discolored and usually has three circular offprints from the watercolor disks. According to Richard S. Field ("Jasper Johns Prints 1970-1977"), the image was derived from a pencil drawing and collage of 1960 in the Sonnabend collection. A hand-pulled edition of 50 copies and six artists proofs was printed by Kenneth Tyler at Gemini in 1971. The offset edition was produced by Graphic Press, Los Angeles. Johns's participation in this enterprise was, at best, limited to the Gemini printing, which was hand-signed and numbered. The signature on the MoMA target was mechanically reproduced [the one offered here]. If it appears to have been signed in ink or pencil, forgery is indicated. The white clamshell box is spotted but intact. The other main factor involving this multiple is the condition of the offset target lithograph. As is often the case a former owner has wetted the watercolor blocks and started to paint the target but has only painted a small part in yellow. The brush is often missing as is missing here. VG condition.............300-400

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57. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Signed bank check dated 1935 plus sheet music.. ......50-75

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

Uncle of Abraham Lincoln

63.  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

64. [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

65. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Signed bank check dated 1935 plus sheet music........50-75

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

67. [ART] Thomas Frank Heaphy (1813-1873)  English miniature painter.  Heaphy was the eldest son of the portrait painter Thomas Heaphy and Mary Stevenson. His younger brother Charles Heaphy became an explorer and decorated military man, and two of his sisters also became miniature painters. He painted miniature portraits, and has works that can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum  and the National Portrait Gallery, London.   In 1861 he published eight articles in the Art Journal that attempted to ascertain the origin of the likeness of Christ.  ALS, 1861, 3pp, to the art critic Samuel Carter Hall, Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality.  Front slightly spoiled. Approx. 3.5 x 6 in. VG..............80-120

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68. [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

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69. [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

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

72. [ART] 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

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73. [ART] Charles Meryon (1821-1868) French artist, who worked almost entirely in etching, as he suffered from color-blindness.  He is generally recognised as the most significant etcher of 19th century France. He also suffered from mental illness, dying in an asylum. His most famous work is a series of views of Paris. Offered here "Le Ministère de la Marine" (The Admiralty, Paris), photogravure 1926 of his etching [1865].  These superb photogravures, there were 20 printed in 1926, are often sold as etchings. You see them all the time offered at around $400 to $800 each. The sellers, obviously are not aware of what they are offering. The original 1865 etching retailed at $1500. Plate size approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/2" plus wide clean margins. A superb example of the original..............100-150

74. 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

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

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

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

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

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

88. Clarence Cook (1828-1900) American author and art critic. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard in 1849 and worked as a teacher. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Cook was known for his expertise in archeology and antiquities and was instrumental in the criticism of the collection of General di Cesnola. In the mid-1850s Cook began to read works by John Ruskin and associated with a group of American artists, writers, and architects who followed Ruskin's thinking. Through this group he became aware of the British Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1863, with Clarence King and John William Hill he helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, an American group, similar to the Pre-Raphaelites, who published a journal called The New Path. In 1869 Cook wrote A Description of the New York Central Park. In 1877, articles on home furnishings that Cook had written for Scribner's Monthly were published as a book entitled The House Beautiful. In 1879, Cook served as editor for Wilhelm Lübke's History of Art. ALS, 1879, 2pp, To Mr. Koehler, saying that Mr. Schoff of Boston had applied to Mr. Wunderlich for work. Cook gives his opinion of Schoff's work. VG...........50-75

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

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95. [MASSACHUSETTS] ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1792-1855) was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He founded Lawrence, Massachusetts. Born in Groton, Mass., son of Revolutionary War officer Samuel Lawrence. Amos Abbott and he formed a partnership, specializing in imports from Britain and China, and later expanded their interests to textile manufacturing. They became extraordinarily wealthy. Many cite the Lawrence brothers as the founders of New England's influential textile industry. In the 1820s, Lawrence became a prominent public figure - a vocal supporter of railroad construction for economic benefit, a very controversial stance at the time. In 1834, Lawrence was elected to the 24th Congress, as a Whig from Massachusetts. He did not run for renomination to the 25th Congress, but was re-elected to the 26th Congress. In 1842, he was appointed commissioner to settle the Northeastern Boundary Dispute between Canada and the United States. In 1848, Lawrence was an unsuccessful candidate for the vice-presidency on the Whig ticket, headed by Zachary Taylor . With Taylor's presidential victory, he offered Lawrence a choice of administrative positions. After rejecting a cabinet appointment, Lawrence chose the post of minister to Great Britain. He filled that position with great distinction, and was involved in the negotiations of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. He resigned in 1852, and returned to the United States to join the presidential campaign of Gen. Winfield Scott; however, he soon grew dissatisfied with the Whig stand on slavery, and estranged himself from the party. Lawrence was active in Boston's Unitarian Church . He actively promoted education for lower-class citizens, and donated money to various causes. He supported Lawrence Academy, affordable housing in Boston, and the Boston Public Library. He also provided funds to establish the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard College. Large 3-page document signed, 1839, Indenture of Property Settlement of Elizabeth P. Bigelow [Mrs. Stevens]. Abbott Bigelow signs as Co. Trustee along with the signature of ANDREW BIGELOW [1795-1877] a prominent Unitarian clergyman & writer. Also signed by John P. Bigelow, Francis Bigelow, Elizabeth Bigelow and Henry Stearns. Elizabeth's father was Timothy Bigelow. Approx. 10 x 16 and in excellent condition aside from folds. A detailed lengthy document............50-75

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

99. [ART] Samuel Colman  (1832-1920) American painter, interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River. Clip Signature, about 3-3/4 x 3/4"...........25-35

100. [ART] William Holbrook Beard  (1825-1900)  American painter. Beard was born in Painesville, Ohio. He studied abroad, is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting, and in 1861 moved to New York City, where, in 1862, he became a member of the National Academy of Design. Beard was a prolific artist. His humorous treatment of bears, cats, dogs, horses and monkeys, generally with some human occupation and expression, usually satirical, gave him a great vogue at one time, and his pictures were largely reproduced.  Clip Signature, about 3-3/4 x 3/4"...........25-35

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

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

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103. [FRANCE] Jean-Antoine Tinseau (1697-1782) French prelate. Tinseau earned a doctorate in theology from the University of Besançon and canon and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Besançon.  In 1743 he became commendatory abbot of Bitaine and in 1745 Bishop of Belley. He was transferred to the diocese of Nevers in 1751. In 1760 Tinseau built a new episcopal palace and in 1762 he replaced by secular priests Jesuits at college and seminary.  ALS, Nevers, 1782, 2pp, approx. 6-1/4 x 7-3/4".  VG.........100-150

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

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

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

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

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110. [ FRANCE] Decret, 1793, 3pp. Concerns "Emigres" [those to fled the Revolution], stating they should not be judged by jurymen. Approx. 8x10. Excellent condition..........80-120

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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122. [MUSIC] Edna Richolson Sollitt - pianist.  Signed and inscribed 1920s vintage photo, 7 x 10 in. VG........50-75

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

124.   [ART]  William Cave Thomas  (1820-1906) British artist.  ALS, nd, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG............50-75

125. [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

126. [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

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127. [ART] Edward H. Potthast (1857-1927)  American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England. His work is included in many major museums in the United States. Clip Signature, top corner missing. About 4-3/4 x 2-1/4".........50-75

128. [FILM HISTORY] Bill Asher (1921-2012) American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series.  With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is  credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom. TLS, April 10, 1963, signed by Milton Ebbins, V.P. Chrislaw Productions and Bill Asher [he also signs]. Asher is granted a leave to direct a BEACH PARTY film. It is assumed that the film ended up being  Muscle Beach Party (1964), starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Don Rickles etc. PLUS TLS, 1963, signed by attorney Norma Zarky [see Lot 59 above].  Two signed items - very good condition...........125-175

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

139.  [ART]  WALT KUHN [1877-1949]. American painter. An ORIGINAL COOPER etching plate. The title is "TOMS RIVER". Typical Kuhn style. Plate size 8 x 10 in. This plate still has some life in it and etchings could be pulled from it. Very seldom does an original etching plate by an important artist ever reach the open market, as they usually are in institutional collections. Provenance: Kuhn Estate. It is difficult to get a good scan of this and the picture below isn't very good. He did not etch his initials or signatureinto the plate. I don't think he ever etched his signature into any of his plates although he sometimes would etch initials. This is guaranteed to be an authentic Walt Kuhn plate without a time limit to the original purchaser. We will send a letter of guarantee and provenance to the buyer. The portrait photo of Kuhn shown below is NOT for sale. Kennedy Galleries [NYC] held an exhibition of Walt Kuhn prints during which it was indicated that there were less than 50 impressions ever pulled from this plate. Original plates by major artists seldom reach the open market and it is remarkable to see a plate that had so few prints pulled from it. A must for the SERIOUS Kuhn collector...............2000-3000

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

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141. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Signed bank check dated 1935 plus sheet music.. ......50-75

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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154.   [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

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

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156.  [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


157. [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

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

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159. [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

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161. [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

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

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163. [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

164. [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

165. [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

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166. [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

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168. [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

169. [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

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171. 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

172. [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

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

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

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

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176.  [FRANCE] 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

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

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179. [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

180. [FRANCE] Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797-1886) French mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the one-dimensional unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations or Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering . Although his surname was Barré de Saint-Venant in non-French mathematical literature he is known simply as Saint-Venant. His name is also associated with Saint-Venant's principle of statically equivalent systems of load, Saint-Venant's theorem and for Saint-Venant's compatibility condition, the integrability conditions for a symmetric tensor field to be a strain. In 1843 he published the correct derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations for a viscous flow and was the first to "properly identify the coefficient of viscosity and its role as a multiplying factor for the velocity gradients in the flow". Although he published before Stokes the equations do not bear his name. In 1868, at 71 years old, he was elected to succeed Poncelet in the mechanics section of the Académie des Sciences. In 1869 he was given the title 'Count' (comte) by Pope Pius IX. ALS, 1861, 2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". There is a tear coming up from botton edge that touches the signature but no loss of paper. See scan.........100-150

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

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

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

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

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187. [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

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

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190. [CIVIL WAR]  Edwin Franklin Brown (1823-1903) Col.  Brown, Inspector General of National Homes for DisabledVolunteer 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

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

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194. [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