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4. [ART] Ben Nicholson, OM (1894-1982) was a British painter of abstract compositions.   His first notable work was following a meeting with the playwright J. M. Barrie on holiday in Rustington, Sussex, in 1904. As a result of this meeting, Barrie used a drawing by Nicholson as the base for a poster for the play Peter Pan; his father William designed some of the sets and costumes.  In London, Nicholson met the sculptors Barbara Hepworth (to whom he was married from 1938 to 1951) and Henry Moore. On visits to Paris he met Mondrian, whose work in the neoplastic style was to influence him in an abstract direction, and Picasso, whose cubism would also find its way into his work. His gift, however, was the ability to incorporate these European trends into a new style that was recognizably his own. He first visited St Ives, Cornwall, in 1928 with his fellow painter Christopher Wood, where he met the fisherman and painter, Alfred Wallis. In Paris in 1933 he made his first wood relief, White Relief, which contained only right angles and circles. In 1937 he was one of the editors of Circle, an influential monograph on constructivism. A retrospective exhibition of his work was shown at the Tate Gallery in London in 1955.  Offered here is an EXTREMELY RARE etching from the  1960 portfolio 21 ETCHINGS and POEMS.  This etching project, possibly the first of its kind in the United States, joined two creative  disciplines–art and poetry. Poets and artists invited for this historic collaboration worked in the almost forgotten tradition of the Book of Kells and William Blake’s Illuminated poems. Each print closely integrates text and image, including a poem written in the hand of its author and imagery created through a wide range of innovative print techniques by an artist. For the poets who transferred their poems, in their own handwriting, onto the copper plate, this was an arduous, but exhilarating experience; a slip of tool meant beginning anew as they wrote backwards from a mirror image.  Ben Nicholson's etching appears on the same plate as the poem by Sir Herbert Read.  Published in a signed edition of 50 plus 12 artist proofs.  Some of the artists who participated were Pierre Alechinsky, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jacques Lipchitz, Ben Nicholson, I. Rice Pereira etc. Some of the poets were William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas,  Frank O'Hara, Thomas Merton, Peter Viereck, Theodore Roethke etc.  This particular print from this project is a proof original etching, never signed or numbered. Initiated by artist Peter Grippe, director of the renowned Atelier 17 print workshop, and the result of nearly ten years of effort, 21 Etchings and Poems is not only a landmark of mid-20th century American print publishing, but is unique in its inclusion of writers and artists from across the spectrum of 1950s cultural production."  The etchings were published by The Anderson-Lamb Printing Company.  This etching "proof" comes from Anderson-Lamb and was never used.  To the best of our knowledge it is the only unsigned etching from this project that survived unsigned. Plate size of Nicholson etching is approx. 5-1/2 x 7 in.,  poem plate size is about 6 x 6.5 in., paper size about 19-3/4 x 17 in. Printed on thick paper.  Condition of printed area is very good.  Well away from images there are a few age spots.  This has been in storage for many years. Extremely RARE!.............600-800

12 . [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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13. [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

14. [FRANCE] Jacques Raillon (1762-1835) Bishop of Orleans; also of Dijon; also Archbishop of Aix.  Letter Signed, Paris, 1813, 1p, approx. 8x10". To Monseigneur.  This churchman lived through the troubling history of France's Catholicism Revolution; Napoleon's problems with Pius VII; return of the monarchy, etc.  He made a famous funeral speech at Notre-Dame for Marshall Lannes. VG...........100-150

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16. [CABINET] Ramsey Clark (b. 1927)  American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He supervised the drafting and played an important role in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968. Since leaving public office Clark has led many progressive activism campaigns, including opposition to the War on Terror, and he has offered legal defense to controversial figures such as Charles Taylor, Slobodan Milošević, Saddam Hussein, and Lyndon LaRouche.  Signed 1991 Special Cover honoring the American flag. Fine condition........40-60

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78. [ART] Albert T. Reid (1873-1958) American artist, cartoonist and publisher born in Concordia, Kansas, on August 12, 1873. He was was educated locally, at the University of Kansas, and in New York at the New York School of Art and the Art Students League. His first cartooning job was with the Kansas City Star (1897-99), with successive one-year stints on the Chicago Record and the New York Herald. After the turn of the century Reid freelanced to Judge, McClure's, the Saturday Evening Post, the American and other magazines for about fifteen years; during that time and for years thereafter he operated his own syndicate, distributing Reid cartoons to many local and rural papers around America. In addition, he founded and published a newspaper (the Leavenworth Post, 1905-23) and a magazine (the Kansas Farmer, 1908-16), and he headed various press associations and an insurance company. Reid stayed active as an artist all his life, designing medals, painting murals and of course continuing his editorial cartoons. He died on November 26 1955, bequeathing the Albert T. Reid Cartoon Museum to the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. His mastery of the pen was overwhelming, and he had an unerring sense of design and caricature. He knew the artists Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. He was a member of: Artists Guild of the Author's League of America; Society of Illustrators. He won a prize at 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco. His work hangs in: Ft. Hays Kansas State College; State House, Topeka; did WPA murals in Kans. & Okla.; designed/built the Kansas Semi-Centenn. Expo., Topeka [1911]; designed medal for Washington Bicentenn. Comm. Reid left Kansas for good in 1919 when he accepted a position to become director of pictorial publicity for the Republican campaign of 1920. Offered here are approx. 19 pieces from the Estate of Albert T. Reid. [1] Large color watercolor drawing of President Herbert Hoover. The ititle is "While Others Make Speeches". Interesting to note the image of Abraham Lincoln above. This was possibly done while Reid was director of pictorial publicity for the Republican campaign of 1920. The painted image area is approx. 18 x 17" plus slim margins Damaged area at margins; one just affecting image near top right edge. See scan 1 below. Main image area is in very good condition. [2] Reproduction print of his drawing done for his painting "First meeting of the two great emancipators. Overall 18 x 14.5". In the month of March, 1830, Abraham Lincoln, in company with his father, step-mother and other relatives, migrated from Spencer County, Indiana to Macon County, Illinois. The party traveled by oxen. The course of the journey was through Vincennes, and it was here, in the office of "The Western Sun and General Advertiser," that Lincoln first saw a printing press. [3] original drawing - study used in preparation for his work titled "First Meeting of the two great emancipators." Unsigned, as are the rest of the sketches offered here. [4] group of 4 pencil sketches mostly studies of Lincoln. [5] more sketches. [6] sketch & small photo of the painting all this was done for. [7] old photograph identified on back in Reid's handwriting: Governor James K. Duff of Penn. Mayor Samuels of Philadelphia. Albert T. Reid. Also in Reid's handwriting is a piece: "Wrong press - pointed out to me by author of 'Adam Ramage and his Presses.' This one not made until 15 years after the Vincennes incident. (Dr. Hamilton had designated this press). The whole collection is approx. 19 pieces comprised of: one large watercolor drawing; 13 original sketches [2 of which are damaged]; one large print; 3 photos; and the handwritten piece about the wrong press. The digital photo flash has slightly washed out some scans below...........1800-2200

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86. [ART] William Holl the Younger (1807-1871) English portrait and figure engraver, noted for his book illustrations. The eldest of four sons of William Holl the Elder (c1771-1838), he was taught engraving by his father - at first stipple and later line on steel. The first portrait engraving produced on his own was that of Thomas Cranmer in May 1829 for inclusion in Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages. He contributed further work to this publication between 1829 and 1835 after artists such as van Loo, Holbein, Van Dyck, Lely, Godfrey Kneller and Daniel Mytens. He was a founder member of the Chalcographic Society started by several notable engravers in 1830. Original antique engraving, image approx. 6-1/4 x 4-1/2" plus margins. VG..........25-35

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87. Margaret Webster  (1905-1972)  American-born theater actress, producer and director.  Margaret Webster was born in New York City, the daughter of two famous actors, Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty. She spent the early part of her career in England, where she became well known in the theatre. She worked for several established theatrical companies, including from 1929-1930 at the Old Vic.   She returned to the US in 1937 and began an impressive run directing the Shakespeare play, Richard II with Maurice Evans in the title role. They formed a partnership that lasted until 1942, with Webster directing Evans in Broadway productions of Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Henry IV, Part I. It was while she was directing Hamlet in 1938 that she began her long romantic relationship with actress Eva Le Gallienne.  When Evans joined the army, Webster continued to have success directing classical plays on Broadway, notably The Cherry Orchard (1944) starring Le Gallienne, and her greatest triumph, Othello (1943), starring Paul Robeson in the title role and Jose Ferrer as Iago, which ran for 296 performances, by far the longest run of a Shakespearean production on Broadway, a record that has not been remotely approached since. She also played the role of Emilia in the production. In 1945, she staged the longest-running performance of Shakespeare's The Tempest ever to play Broadway, with Arnold Moss as Prospero, Canada Lee as Caliban, and ballerina Vera Zorina as Ariel.  In 1946, Webster and Le Gallienne co-founded the American Repertory Theater.  In 1950 to become the first woman to direct at the New York Metropolitan Opera. ALS, no year, 1p, signed Peggy. She used Peggy as her professional name  until the celebrated critic St. John Ervine convinced her that Margaret had a more distinguished sound for an actress working on the West End.  This letter is written to John Ervine thanking him for flowers and her recent play, also asking him to complain to the Editor of the Tribune over harsh comments of the drama critic..... Toned along left edge o/w VG.............80-120

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88. Lilian  Bowes Lyon (1895–1949) was a British poet.  She was the first cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.  During the First World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon helped at Glamis Castle (owned by her uncle) which became a convalescence home for soldiers. Her brother Charles Bowes Lyon was killed in the war on 23 October 1914, inspiring her poem "Battlefield" which was later published in "Bright Feather Fading".   After the First World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon studied for a time at the University of Oxford and then moved to London. She was independently wealthy. In 1929, she met the writer William Plomer CBE and through him, Laurens van der Post. bb She published two novels, "The Buried Stream" (1929) and "Under the Spreading Tree" (1931) but thereafter focused on poetry. She published six individual collections with Jonathan Cape and a "Collected Poems" in 1948. Her "Collected Poems" contains an introduction by C. Day-Lewis who noted the influences of Emily Dickinson, Hopkins and Christina Rossetti. Her verse appeared in many periodicals and anthologies including "The Adelphi", "Country Life", "Kingdom Come", "The Listener", "The London Mercury, "The Lyric" (USA), "The Observer", "Orion", "Punch", "The Spectator", "Time and Tide and "Poetry" (USA).  During the Second World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon moved to the East End where she used the Tilbury Docks unofficial air raid shelter and assisted with nursing the injured.  She also had several amputations due to thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's Disease), losing toes, a foot, her lower legs and eventually both her legs below her hips. She returned to her home in Kensington and continued to write poetry despite the thromboangitis obliterans beginning to affect her hands. These poems, found amongst William Plomer’s papers at University of Durham, were published in "Uncollected Poems" by Tragara Press.  ALS, 1935, 2pp, approx. 7 x 9 in. VG.............75-100

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89. [ART] Gwen Raverat (1885-1957)  English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers.  She was the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin and the first cousin of the poet Frances Cornford.  She married the French painter Jacques Raverat in 1911. They were active in the Bloomsbury Group and Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagan group until they moved to the south of France, where they lived in Vence, near Nice, until his death from multiple sclerosis in 1925. Raverat was one of the very first wood engravers recognised as modern. She went to the Slade School in 1908, but stood outside the groups growing up at the time, the group that gathered around Eric Gill at Ditchling and the group that grew up at the Central School of Arts and Crafts around Noel Rooke. She was influenced by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and developed her own painterly style of engraving.  There was some similarity between her early engravings and those of Gill, and she did know Gill, but the similarity was based mostly on her black line style at the time, influenced by Lucien Pissarro, and the semi-religious themes that she then chose. Balston credits her with having produced one of the first two books illustrated with modern wood engravings.  This was Spring Morning by her cousin Frances Cornford, published by the Poetry Bookshop in 1915. It was accessioned at the British Library in May 1915, which makes it the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, as the other contender, The Devil's Devices illustrated by Eric Gill, was accessioned in December 1915. Original wood-engraving, image is 4-1/8 x 6" plus margins. The title: "CHILD-STEALERS." Fine...........100-150

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90. [MUSIC] Sir Geraint  Evans (1922-1992)  Welsh baritone or bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title roles in Falstaff and Wozzeck. He sang more than 70 different roles in a career that lasted from his first appearance at Covent Garden in 1948 to his farewell there in 1984.  TLS, 1990, 1p.  Mentions his autobiography. VG............50-75

91. [PHOTOGRAPHY]  Vintage photograph from the personal collection of actor George C. Scott.   Pictures George C. Scott [standing 3rd from left], Ed Sullivan, and actress, and wife of Schott, Ellen Dewhurst [seated 3rd rom right].  Condition faults are too numerous to mention. 10x8 in...........50-75

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92. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. He writes 5 lines about his miserable handwriting.......50-75

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93. [MUSIC-FILM] Borrah Minevitch (1902-1955) notable harmonica player, actor, and leader of his group The Harmonica Rascals. Minnevitch hired Richard Hayman as an arranger for the Rascals-Hayman later worked as an arranger for MGM and the Boston Pops Orchestra. BRIEF TLS, 1935, on this personal stationery. VG............35-45

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94. [MUSIC] Jesse L. Gaynor (1863-1921) American composer of children's music. She wrote the music for the well-known children's lullaby, "The Slumber Boat", in collaboration with the children's author, Alice C.D. Riley, who wrote the lyrics. AMQS, on 6-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. slip. One fold crease isn't obtrusive. VG............50-75

95. [SIGNATURE LOT] mostly signed vintage album pages [either glued yo the page on signed on the page]. All are signed on both sides. Janet Beecher/? Errol ¥ Cornelia Otis Skinner/Monte Blue ¥ Bobby Clark [probably 1888-1960]/Gertaldine Stroock [1925-1977] ¥ Ruth Warrick/Haila Stoddard ¥ Edward Chodorov [d. 1988, playwright]/Grace Mills ¥ Lillian Bronson/ Lenore Ulric (1892 1970) ¥ Tamara Geva (1907-1997) Russian actress, ballet dancer and choreographer. She was the first wife of dancer/choreographer George Balanchine. Other side signed by Dick Foran ¥ Carl Brisson (1893-958) Danish film actor - n the 1934 film Murder at the Vanities he introduced the popular song 'Cocktails for Two.' / Other side signed by Phil Spitalny [1890-1970] composer, bandleader ¥ Roi Ottley/ Dave Rose (1910-1990) British-born American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. ¥ Leonard Etienne De Paur (1914-1998)African American composer, choral director, and arts administrator. Signature on verso not identified ¥ Sonia Sorel (1921-2004)/ Ronald Graham ¥ Connie Haines [1921-2008] singer / Clarence Stroud ¥ many are inscribed to a collector. Mostly VG.............80-120

96. [MASS] Frederic T. Greenhalge (1842-1896) 38th Gov. of Mass. Signed cabinet photograph, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2 in. VG. Nice example............50-75

97. James Steranko (b.1938) American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, publisher and film production illustrator. His most famous comic-book work was with the 1960s superspy feature "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales and in the subsequent eponymous series. Steranko earned lasting acclaim for his innovations in sequential art during the Silver Age of comic books, particularly his infusion of surrealism, op art, and graphic design into the medium. His work has been published in many countries and his influence on the field has remained strong since his comics heyday. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. For the movie industry, Steranko has produced a number of posters for various films, and was a conceptual artist on Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), doing production designs for the film and designing the character of Indiana Jones. He also served in a similar capacity as project conceptualist on Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and wrote the episode "The Ties That Bind" of the DC Comics animated TV series Justice League Unlimited. He has "amassed an enormous portfolio of more than sixty projects (which he called the "Theater of Concepts") designed to be seen in multimedia form, drew the comic-book adaptation of the 1981 film Outland, which was serialized in Heavy Metal magazine. The lighthearted spy movie If Looks Could Kill (1991) features Roger Rees as the villain, Augustus Steranko, and director Brad Bird has stated that Steranko's work was his main comic-book influence on Pixar's The Incredibles. ALS, or ANS, SIGNED "JS". He sends a check for 2 items and says he'll pass on Tarkington letter; "...Keep me posted on your new acquisitions.Till next time, stay well." Steranko's autograph is quite scarce! VG..............75-100

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98.  [MIXED LOT] contains: [1] Elisha Phelps (1779-1847) US Representative from Connecticut. ALS, 1885, 1p. Laid to another sheet. [2] John A. Rockwell (1803- 1861) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut. CLIP SIGNATURE. [3] Chauncey F. Cleveland (1799-1887) US Representative and the 31st Governor of Connecticut. CLIP SIGNATURE [2 mounting stains]. [4] Philip Philbin - US congressman from Mass. ALS, 1949, 1p. [5] 1856 printed Gov. Doc. from Sec. of Treas., James Guthrie. [6] 1914 SONS OF VETERANS application card to Camp George A. Custer. [7] 1838 Bill of Lading document - NY bound for Charleston, SC. [8] R. H. Duell (1824 - 1891) US congressman from NY. Clip signature. [9] Moses G. Leonard (1809-1899) US congressman from NY. Clip Free Frank signature. [10] C.H. Calkin (1828-1913) US congressman from NY. Clip signature [half toned]. [11] Unidentified signature of congressman or senator from Hartford, Ct. [11] Royal Cleaves Johnson (1882-1939) Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota and a highly decorated veteran of World War I. Signature. [12] Frederick Haskell Dominick (1877-1960) U.S. congressman from South Carolina. He served for eight terms from 1917 to 1933. Signed card........50-75

99 . [FRANCE] Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) French statesman and historian. ALS, 1905, 3 pages. VG............75-100
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100. [NOBEL PRIZE] Arthur L. Schawlow (1921-1999) American physicist. He is best remembered for his work on lasers, for which he was awarded a 1981 Nobel Prize. HIS STATIONERY SIGNED, 1982, inscribed in type to collector..............25-35

101.  Harold Giles Hoffman (1896-1954) was an American politician, a Republican who served as the 41st Governor of New Jersey, from 1935 to 1938.  He also served two terms representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931. He is probably best known for being one of the most provably corrupt governors of that state. As governor, Hoffman secretly visited convicted Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in his death row cell on the evening of October 16, 1935 with Anna Bading, a stenographer and fluent speaker of German. Hoffman urged the other members of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals , then the state's highest court, to visit Hauptmann. Despite Governor Hoffman's doubt regarding Hauptmann's guilt, Hoffman was unable to convince the other members of the court to re-examine the case, and Hauptmann was executed on April 3, 1936. Signed photograph, approx. 6.5 x 8.5". VG........40-60

102. [ART] Sir Hubert von Herkomer CVO (1849-1914)  British painter of  German descent, and also a pioneering film-director and composer. Though a very successful portraitist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor. Hard Times, showing the family of a travelling day-labourer at the side of a road, is probably his best known work.  Original etching, title "The Poacher's Fate", plate signed, image approx. 14 x 10-1/4" plus margins. Done c. 1880.  Herkomer etched this print after one of his own paintings.  VG...............200-300

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103. [ARTISTS] Mystery Lot of 11 signed items by American and European artists [20th century]. Includes: Buckminster Fuller signed card ¥ Christian Boltanski (b.1944]) French photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist ¥ Jean Balladur ALS ¥ JACQUES DUMOND ALS ¥ plus 7 others. Except for Fuller the rest appear to be European..............100-150

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

105. LONG'S PEAK, FROM ESTE'S PARK - after Thomas Moran. Nice full page scene. Image approx. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4" plus margins.........40-60

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

107. [TENNIS] Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the U.S. Ashe, an African American, is also remembered for his efforts to further social causes. SIGNED color photo, 8x10, matted with full sheet of the Arthur Ashe postage stamps. There are twenty 37 cent US postage stamps. Remarkable item. Most attractive. Overall size 18x14". Fine.......150-200

108. [PHOTOGRAPHY]  Vintage 1920s photograph of the actress Tania Fedor -  the French actress of Russian origin born in the principality of Monaco on 3 November 1905. She died in Montreal ( Canada ) on 1 December 1985. Taken by the French photographer  Sobol, approx.   9-1/4 x 11-1/2".  Mounted.  Photo itself is very good; top right mount corner is bumped.  Signed in ink by Sobol, the phtographer.  VG...........75-100

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

111. [FRANCE] Firmin-Léon-Joseph Renouard  (1831-1913)  Bishop of Limoges. ALS, 1912, 2 full pages, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Fine........60-80

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112. [MUSIC] Gloria Coates (B. 1938 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American composer who has lived in Munich, Germany since 1969. In Kyle Gann's article "A Symphonist Stakes Her Claim",[3] Gloria Coates was crowned, "the greatest woman symphonist", for her passionate pursuit and persistence in a domain that is dominated by men.  ALS, Germany, 2012, 1p. VG..............50-75

113. [FRANCE] 1784 Manuscript Document signed Pierre Fabri, from Geneva. About Isaac Vernet and Boutin [had to do with Abraham Gradis, Jewish merchant]. Approx. 6-1/4 x 8". VG......75-100

114. [MUSIC] Edward Jakobowski (1858 - 1927) English composer best known for writing the comic opera Erminie. ALS, 1895, 1p. Old price & other pencil notations erased from top but pencil pressure left its mark o/w in very good condition..........50-75

115. NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY Document signed 1857 by 8 members asking for money. Signed by Luther Bradish Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1839 to 1842; HEGWIG DE PAYSTER; G. KUAFF; WILLIAM K STRONG Civil War General; E. J. BROWN; J. M. MORRISON; & 2 OTHERS. William K Strong (180~1867) Civil War Union Brigadier General. Wealthy NYC wool merchant. Was in Egypt when the Civil War broke out and promptly went to France and purchased arms for the Union. Was appointed Brigadier General, US Volunteers by President Abraham Lincoln on September 28, 1861 and was in charge of Benton Barracks and the districts of Cairo and St Louis. Resigned his commission in October 20,1863. Approx. 8 x 9-3/4". VG..........50-75

116. Mary Geary [Mrs. John White Geary] - she was the 2nd wife of John White Geary (1819-1873) was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania. ALS, not dated, written on both sides of correspondence card, 3-3/8 x 5".  Rusted paperclip marks.........20-30

118. [MUSIC] Ned Rorem (b. 1923) Pulitzer Prize winning American composer. Brief ALS, 1989, 1p. VG..........50-75 See Rorem letter

119. [MUSIC] Hans Munch (1893-1983) Swiss conductor, composer, pianist, organist. ALS, 1930, 1p. Not translated. VG.........50-75

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120.  (AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)    Thomas Louis Berger (1924-) novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn.  TLS, 2001.  Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786-1867) author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate.  At the Boston peace celebration on February 22, 1815 (following the War of 1812), an ode of his, "Wreaths for the Chieftain," was sung. He wrote constantly for the newspapers and became well known for his literary interests. He found a popular subject in temperance reform. From 1830 till the approach of the Civil War he spoke and wrote on this theme so frequently and vigorously that he became one of the most uncompromising and conspicuous leaders in the crusade against liquor. He wrote Three Temperance Tales (2 vols., 1848), twenty-one stories of a tract-like nature bearing such titles as "My Mother's Gold Ring", "I Am Afraid There Is A God", "Groggy Harbor", and "An Irish Heart", first published in separate issues between 1833 and 1843. These were widely distributed by religious and temperance societies as well as by Sargent himself.    CLIPPED SIGNATURE 1861.   Leo Calvin Rosten (1908-1997) teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, story writing, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.  SIGNATURE.  COLONEL EDWIN EMERSON (1869-1959), Author, War Correspondent and “ROUGH RIDER”.  SIGNATURE.  MARGARET MOORE JACOBS (?-1960’s) Inspirational Author and writer. “The Secret to a Happy Life, a popular book to this day.  ALS 1960, 4pp. KENNETH B. CLARK (1914-2005) American Educator, Author, Psychologist – ANS on title page to his book “Dark Ghetto”, 1973.   Sidney Dillon Ripley II (1913-2001) ornithologist and wildlife conservationist and writer Secretary of the Smithsonian For his leadership at the Smithsonian he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, TLS 1976.   Nathan Marsh Pusey (1907-2001) university educator, writer and author.  TNS, 1973............80-120

121. [MUSIC] Charles C. Knox (b. 1929) American composer and music educator. He is particularly noted for his music for brass instruments and chamber music, among his over 100 compositions to date. AMQS, from his 1994 "Clouds Are Not Spheres". Approx. 10-1/4 x 4-1/4". Two folds o/w VG.........40-60

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122. [MUSIC] Christopher Rouse [b. 1949] American composer. AMQS from his "Rapture", 10-1/4 x5". Two mail folds o/w VG...........40-60

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123. [MUSIC] George Dreyfus [b. 1928] Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer. AMQS, inscribed, from his "1st Symphony". 10-1/2 x 4-1/4". Two mail fold lines o/w VG.....50-75

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124. [MAINE] George Evans (1797-1867) American politician from the state of Maine. He was a member of the Whig Party. In 1829, he was elected to a seat in the United States House of Representatives from Maine in a special election called after Peleg Sprague resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate. Evans served in the House from 1829 to 1841. He served as chairman of the committee on expenditures of the department of the treasury from 1829 to 1831. In 1841, Evans resigned from the House to take a seat in the United States Senate from Maine. He served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Manufactures from 1841 to 1843, chairman of the Committee on Finance from 1841 to 1845 and chairman of the committee on territories from 1845 to 1847. Evans served in the Senate until 1847 when he was defeated in an attempt to be reelected to a second term. Evans then practiced law in Portland, Maine and continued to be involved in politics. He served as chairman of a commission to ascertain claims against Mexico from 1849 to 1850, and served as attorney general of Maine during the 1850s. Folded stampless letter with his Free Frank signature on address leaf. Dated Sept. 28, 1843, Gardiner, Maine, to Elwood Evans, telling him at what time a letter mailed to Newcastle, by way of Damriscotta Mills, would take, being shipped from Augusta. And that it would take several days. Accompanied with a antique engraved portrait of Evans as a US senator. He was a senator at this time...........50-75

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125. (ANIMATION) 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. Offered here are original drawings by Ralph Bakshi, all unsigned but guaranteed authentic. As these are "working studies" there was no reason for him to have signed them. We checked eBay on 2/27/10 to see if there were any Bakshi drawings offered and found but one unsigned priced at $499. This seems high as his signed drawings [doodles as he calls them] like these are priced at $295 each. Our estimates for each is 100-150. View each below and bid on individual drawings.

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126. [FILM] Duncan Renaldo (1904-1980) American actor who portrayed The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950-1956 American TV series. Brief ALS, no date. Fine.......50-75

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128.  [ART] Esther [Bensusan] Pissaro [1870-1951] British wood engraver & artist. She was married to Lucien Pissaro [1863-1944] artist and son of the famed artist, Camile Pissaro. ALS, 1923, 1p, concerning a certain work of art that her husband never did, but the recipient of letter would be welcomed if they came to England. Her letters are not common. One mail fold o/w excellent condition................50-75

129. [MUSIC]  Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to the English. Clip signature, dated July 23/ 95.........40-60

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131. [THEATRE] Aline MacMahon  (1899-1991)  American actress. Her career began on stage in 1921. She worked extensively in film and television until her retirement in 1975. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944). Document Signed, The Theatre Guild Inc., NYC, 1945, 1p. Signed contract to act in radio performance of "Storm Over Patsy", for run of an hour, and she will be paid $750. VG............50-75

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132. [FRANCE] Charles-Hector d'Harcourt (1743-1820), marquis of Harcourt, Peer of France, lieutenant général des armées du roi (1814). Brief ALS, 1781, 1p., to Marquis de Segur - military mater. Segur was the War Minister. Approx. 9-1/4 x 4-3/4". VG........80-120

133. [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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134. [MUSIC] Ivan Erod (b. 1936) Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist. AMQS on 6x4 card. Fine........60-80

135. [FILM] Joyce Compton (1907 - 1997) American actress. Among her films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Rose of Washington Square, They Drive by Night, Christmas in Connecticut, Mildred Pierce, The Best Years of Our Lives, and Sorry, Wrong Number. ALS, 1966, written on both sides to a fan. Nice letter. VG..........40-60

136. [FRANCE] Louis Loew (1828 - 1917) President of the Criminal Chamber during the investigations of the first quashing of the verdict that had convicted Dreyfus. As president of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation as of 11 May 1886, he directed the investigations during the first quashing of the Dreyfus trial, and felt "condemned to public hatred and the target of its fury, [my name, my religion and my family being] scrutinized, misrepresented and reviled with the most treacherous acrimony." In January 1899, a deputy included him, along with his rapporteur Bard and public prosecutor Manau, in a "trio of rogues." ALS, Paris, 1887, 3pp., 4-1/8 x 5-1/4". Fine condition.............50-75

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137. [MAINE] Jim Longley (1924-1980) American politician. He served as the 69th Governor of Maine from 1975 to 1979, and was the first Independent to hold the office. Signed Inaugural Address booklet, Jan. 2, 1975, along with unsigned Governor of Maine coaster. VG............40-60

138. [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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139. [CIVIL WAR] Edward McPherson (1830-1895) Pennsylvania newspaper editor and politician who served 2 terms as a United States Congressman. As a director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, he effected efforts to protect and mark portions of the Gettysburg Battlefield. McPherson organized Company K of the First Pennsylvania Reserves at the beginning of the Civil War, and was defeated in the 1862 reelection when his House of Representatives district (Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, and Juniata counties) was expanded to include opposing Radical Republicans in Somerset County. President Abraham Lincoln appointed McPherson as Deputy Commissioner of Revenue in 1863. After the Battle of Gettysburg, McPherson became an officer of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association with an office on the corner of Baltimore and Middle streets and after Congressman Morehead nominated him, Thaddeus Stevens had him appointed as Clerk of the House of Representatives (December 8, 1863-December 5, 1875). McPherson presided over the Republican National Convention in 1876, and President Hayes appointed him as Director of the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing (1877-8). Bold signature..........40-60

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140. AMERICAN BALLET THEATER – SIGNATURES OF 24 MEMBERS OF THE ABT from a program of the week of March 3, 1958.  SIGNED by: ERIK BRUHN (1928-1986) leading Danish Ballet star, choreographer.  VIOLET VERDY (1933) Prima Ballerina.  WILLIAM CARTER (1935-1988) Dancer.  KENNETH DEWITT SCHERMEREHORN (1929-2005) American Composer and Conductor.  SAMUEL GAURACHMALNICK  (Conductor) who was Leonard Bernstein’s musical director for his original “Candide”;  also by dancers: ELAINE KING, JOAN ALLEN, PATRICIA RICHARDS, SALLIE WILSON, ELIZABETH CARROLL, WILLIAM GUSKE, CAROLYN CLARK, PAUL SUTHERLAND, CHARLES BENNETT, SHARON ENOCH, PATTI SCHMIDT, RAY BARRA,  FERNAND NAULT, LEO DUGAN, ADY ADDOR, ERNRIGUE MARTINEZ, ROYES KONRAD, MICHAEL LLAND, ROSALIE KONRAD.   Remarkable SIGNED ballet piece. Approx. 6x9". Left edge a little ragged o/w VG.............150-200

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141. [MUSIC] Albert Spalding (1888-1953) American violinist and composer. ANS, March 30, 1953, sending his warm regards to Mary Margaret McBride [1899-1976] the famous broadcaster...............25-35

142. [MUSIC] Charles C. Knox [b. 1929] American composer. He is particularly noted for his music for brass instruments and chamber music, among his over 100 compositions to date. Some of his music includes: Sing We to Our God Above for chorus and organ (1970); Festival Procession for chorus, brass quartet and organ (1972); His Praises We'll Sing for treble chorus and organ (1991, later arranged for mixed voices), etc. ALS, 2011, 1p. Fine.......35-45

143. [MUSIC] Albert Hague (1920-2001) German-born songwriter and composer. AMQS, dated 1982. Believed to be from his "How The Grinch Stole Christmas." ..........40-60

144. [MUSIC] Xavier Boisselot [1811-1893] Fr. composer, pianist. ANS, 1854.........25-35

145. [PORTRAIT] Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865) popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney. Original antique engraved portrait of Sigourney, image approx. 3.5 x 4.5 plus wide margins. VG...........25-35

146. [MUSIC] Jan Kubelik (1880-1940) Czech-born Hungarian violinist and composer. Offered here is a rare AMQS, in pencil, dated Trieste 4/1929. Written on 4.5 x 7.5 in. album page. Accompanied by a vintage postcard photograph as a young man holding his violin. Slight photo defects............200-300

147. Roger Wolcott (1847-1900)  Governor of Massachusetts from 1897,  serving until 1900.  TLS, 1896, signed as Acting Governor.  Receives admission cards to an exhibition at the Boston Art Club. VG............50-75

148. [MUSIC] Marie Cabel (1827-1885)  Belgian coloratura soprano. She is probably best remembered for having created the role of Philine in Ambroise Thomas' opera Mignon.  She was the daughter of a former cavalry officer in Napoleon's army, who after his discharge had become an accountant for various theatres in Belgium. Pauline Viardot, who at that time lived in a chateau near Brussels, happened to hear Cabel sing as a child and predicted a great future for her.  ALS, no date, 2pp, approx. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4".  VG............75-100

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149.  [RI NEWSPAPER] BLACK HISTORY - The Woonsocket Patriot, May 6, 1870, 4 pp. Article concerning the 15th Amendment and the affect it would have on Northern States voting.........25-35

150. [MUSIC] Joseph Tagliafico  (1821-1900) opera singer from France who performed throughout the world. From 1847-1876 he appeared in virtually every opera at Covent Garden in London. The rest of the year he worked in the other great opera centers. In 1877 he was appointed stage manager of the Italian Opera in London.  AMQS, 5 measures marked "Beppo in Fra Diavolo", dated 1875. Approx. 4-1/2 x 7-1/4". VG.............50-75

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151.  [FRANCE] Denis-Bernard QUATREMERE-DISJONVAL [1754-1830] eccentric scientist [physicist & chemist]. Large [9-1/4 x 13-3/4 in.] ALS, 1826, 4 full pages. About spiders..............100-150

153.  (BASEBALL LOT)  MILT PAPPAS "Gimpy" (1939- ) Pitcher - SIGNED inscribed note paper - JIM PERRY (1935-) Pitcher - SIGNED 8x10 photograph with sentiment - JAMES KAAT "Kitty" (1938- )  Pitcher - ANS on 3x5 card that he is writing a book - KEN KELTNER (1916-1991) 3rd baseman, responsible for ending DiMaggio's Hitting Streak - SIGNED 5x7 print photograph  - MAX LANIER (1915-2007) Pitcher, SIGNED 3X5 card............50-75

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

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155. [FILM] Glenda Jackson, CBE (b.1936) British Labour Party politician and former actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973). BRIEF TLS, 1991, on her stationery, sends autographs. Fine..........25-35

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156. [MUSIC] Kenny Ascher [b. 1944] American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres; in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. He is widely known for co-writing, with Paul Williams, The Rainbow Connection; music from The Muppet Movie. AMQS, inscribed, from "Rainbow Connection. Approx. 10-1/4 x 4-1/4". VG.............35-45

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158. Clarence Francis Forestier-Walker (1857-1907) British playwright and novelist and translator. who died at age 49. His most famous play was "Romance of a Harem." He was married to the actress Blanche Clark. Offered here is a small dinner menu card from the Hotel De La Place, signed and he makes a pencil self-portrait sketch, 1894. Approx. 3.5 x 5.5". VG..........50-75

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159. [INDIANS] Printed Govt. Document, April 17, 1872, 3pp. CLAIM OF CHICKASAW NATION - Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, B.R. Cowen. VG.........20-30

160. Malcolm Taylor Dougherty (pen name Malcolm Taylor) (1888-1989) author of boys' books and a poet. An archive of 10 ALSsdated 1983-1989, PLUS 7 Christmas cards, each with long notes written by him on them; plus a photo and funeral card. Interesting reflections by a centenarian. Most are signed "Doc." VG.......150-200

161. [FRANCE - AVIATION]  Louis Béchereau (1880–1970) French engineer, airplane designer.  Béchereau would be responsible for Deperdussin and SPAD aircraft designs thereafter.  ALS, 1962, written on both sides of 5.5 x 4" card, with envelope. Addressed to Malfanti, President of the "Les Alles Brisees Society".  Fine.............60-80

163. [ART] Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-1889)  English mezzotint engraver. His engravings helped to popularise the works of painters like John Phillip and Sir John Everett Millais. He was made a Royal Academician.  ALS, June 11, no year, 1p., about setting up a time for a meeting. VG...........50-75

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164.  [FILM] Billy Bob Thornton  (b. 1955- ) American actor.  Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35

165. [FILM] Brian Aherne [1902-1986] British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood. ALS, 1966, 1p, concerns buying property in California, but having difficulty with his wife to part with their present home............50-75

One of America's Earliest Western Singing Groups

166. [MUSIC] The Sons of the Pioneers are one of America's earliest Western singing groups whose classic recordings set a new standard for performers of Western music. Known for the high quality of their vocal performances, musicianship, and songwriting, they produced finely-crafted and innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. Since 1933, through many changes in membership, the Sons of the Pioneers have remained one of the longest-surviving country music vocal groups in history. Between 1935 and 1984, the Sons of the Pioneers appeared in 87 films, several movie shorts, and a television series. In 1937, the Sons Of The Pioneers signed a deal with Columbia Pictures to appear in a number of movies. In 1938, Leonard Slye was offered a contract as an actor with rival Republic Pictures. Part of that deal required him to officially leave the group. Leonard Slye changed his name to Roy Rogers, and went on to achieve major success as a singing cowboy in the movies. Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers still remained close throughout the coming years. When their contract with Columbia Pictures ended, they signed a new contract with Republic Pictures to be with Roy. They were soon appearing as highly popular supporting players in many of Roy Rogers' movies. Rare Signed vintage vintage 8x10 photograph. SIGNED on the front by Pat Brady & Hugh Farr. Signed on the back by Tim Spencer & Lloyd Perryman. Crease upper left corner; small margin edge tear left middle, plus other minor faults. Very uncommon..........125-175

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167. Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy (1884-1979) also known by her nickname Sasha, was the youngest daughter and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Signature, dated July 21, 1942. On 5-1/4 x 2-1/2" slip; two fold lines...........50-75

168.  [SPACE] Owen K. Garriott (b. 1930) former NASA astronaut who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a space shuttle mission in 1983. Signed, inscribed color litho. photo, 8x10. VG.........50-75

169. [ART] Edward Hawke Locker (1777 -1849) English watercolourist (producing works now in the V&A and British Museum). He was named after his father's patron Admiral Edward Hawke. Entering the navy pay office as a clerk on 1 June 1795, he served in its India department (from 1799) and the board of naval enquiry before becoming a prize agent and Edward Pellew 's civil secretary during his East Indies, North Sea and Mediterranean commands from 1804 to 1814. He was in England in July 1802, when he accompanied the French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin on his second English ascent during the Peace of Amiens. He also spent time in Spain in 1813 during the Peninsular War alongside Lord John Russell, bringing despatches to Wellington, as well as visiting Napoleon in May 1814 during his Elba exile. ALS, 1826, 1p, 4-5/8 x 7-1/4". To apparently a young collector of autographs giving advice -who to collect i.e. Southey, Basil Hall, Captain Parry [North Pole] Sir T. Laurence - Pres. of R. Academy etc. VG............60-80

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

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171. [ENGLAND] Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams GCVO, KCB, CMG. (1859-1946 ).   He served in South Africa between 1899 and 1900.  He was Military Secretary to Sir A Milner from 1897 to 1900 and Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War 1900 to 1903. He was Governor-General's Secretary and Military Secretary in Canada from 1904 to 1909. He was Brigadier-General in charge of Administration Scotland between 1909-1914. In 1911 he was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee to represent Canada and served on the IOC until 1921. He was employed on General Staff in 1914. During the First World War he was head of the British military mission at Russian Stavka and was mentioned in despatches. He was in charge British Prisoners of War Department at the Hague from August 1917 to March 1918 and at Berne from April 1918 to December 1918. He retired from the Army in 1919. He was Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of England from 1920 to 1934. Hanbury-Williams was Colonel Commandant of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from 1918. He was Extra Equerry to the King from 1934.  Signed 3.5 x 2.5" card, he adds 1922 and Major General.  Lightly sun toned edges...............25-35

174. John Parker Boyd (1764-1830) officer in the United States Army, from various periods from 1786 to the end of the War of 1812. He commanded the troops defeated at the Battle of Crysler's Farm in late 1813. CLIP SIGNATURE.........40-60 SEE Boyd signature  

175. Jacob Jennings Brown (1775-1828) American army officer in the War of 1812. His successes on the northern border during that war made him a hero. In 1821, he was appointed commanding general of the U.S. Army and held that post until his death. CLIP SIGNATURE.........50-75

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176. Clement C. Clay (1789-1866) was the eighth Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1835 to 1837. CLIP SIGNATURE.........25-35

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177. John McLean (1785-1861) American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts, and was often discussed for the Whig and Republican nominations for President. CLIP SIGNATURE........60-80

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178. [NAVAL] John Rodgers (1772-1838). Commodore Rodgers helped capture French frigate L'INSURGENTE February 9, 1799, and took command of her as prize master. He was promoted to Captain 5 March 1799, and 3 months later took command of MARYLAND. In March 1801, he transported the ratified French-American Peace Treaty to France. Placed in command of JOHN ADAMS the following year, he sailed for the Mediterranean to attack Barbary forts and gunboats at Tripoli. His brilliant record fighting the corsairs won him appointment as Commodore of the Mediterranean Squadron in May 1805. A year later he returned to the United States to take command of the New York Flotilla. After the Embargo Act was passed at the close of 1807, Rodgers commanded operations along the Atlantic Coast, enforcing its provisions. In the spring of 1811, upon word that a British ship was impressing American seaman off Sandy Hook, NJ, Commodore Rodgers, in PRESIDENT, was ordered to investigate. On 16 May, he defeated British corvette LITTLE BELT in a spirited engagement, which foreshadowed his brilliant success in the forthcoming war with England. On the sixth day of the War of 1812, still in PRESIDENT, Rodgers drove off British frigate BELVIDERA, and chased her for 8 hours before she escaped. CLIP SIGNATURE. Rodgers signature has always puzzled - he simmply signed in a strange way. Condition = a little light......60-80

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 179. John J. Crittenden (1787-1863) politician from Kentucky. He represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison and Millard Fillmore. He was also the 17th governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislature. Although frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for the U.S. presidency, he never consented to run for the office. CLIP SIGNATURE, somewhat lightened...........30-40

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180. [CABINET] Isaac Toucey (1792-1869)  American statesman who served as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Attorney General of the United States and the 33rd Governor of Connecticut.  Clip Signature dated April 12, 1860.  Approx. 6 x 1-3/4". laid to backing, some mounting show-thru............30-40

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181. [CABINET] George W. McCrary (1835-1890) was a four-term Republican Congressman from Iowa's 1st congressional district, a United States Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Rutherford B. Hayes, and a federal circuit judge.  Clip Signature dated 1877, mounted, 4 x 2-1/2".............25-35

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182. [CABINET] Thomas Francis Bayard (1828-1898)  American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from Wilmington, Delaware. A Democrat, he served three terms as United States Senator from Delaware and made three unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed him Secretary of State. After four years in private life, he returned to the diplomatic arena as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Clip Signature, mounted, approx. 5 x 2-3/4". .............25-35

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183. [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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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. Signed 1946 bank check, made out to his wife, endorsed by both on verso. VG......50-75

185. [BASEBALL] James Cory Snyder (b.1962) is a former Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1986 to 1994. Snyder's best season came in 1987 with the Indians when he hit 33 home runs, and had 82 Runs Batted In. SIGNED & INSCRIBED COLOR 8X10 photo. VG.............20-30  


186. [GOLF] David Stockton (b. 1941) American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. SIGNED COLOR 8X10 PHOTO. VG...........25-35  


187. CARLOS P. ROMULO (1899-1985), Philippine diplomat, journalist, and educator. A leader of the Philippines during World War II, Romulo served with distinction in the U.S. Army as aide-de-camp to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the commander of U.S. forces in the Far East, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1944. After the war he participated in the founding of the UN, serving as permanent Philippines representative to the UN and as president of the UN General Assembly (1949-50). He was his country's ambassador to the U.S. (1952-53 and 1955-62). TLS, 1949, on UN stationery. RE: autographs.............40-60

188. [FILM] Samantha Eggar [b. 1939] English actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.....25-35


189.  [CINEMA] Lina Basquette (1907-1994) was an American actress. Her first appearance was in What Can Love Do. In 1928, she was named one of thirteen WAMPAS Baby Stars. In 1929, Basquette made The Godless Girl with Cecil B. DeMille and The Younger Generation, directed by Frank Capra. In the former she played Judith, leader of a high school atheist society. Her character forces members to renounce The Bible while placing a hand on the head of a live monkey. In the climactic scene, Director DeMille insisted on realism in filming a last shot of the reformatory going up in flames and Basquette's eyebrows and eyelashes were singed. Her eyelashes grew back but her eyebrows did not. In 1923, Ziegfeld Follies producers officially dubbed her "America's Prima Ballerina." BRIEF ALS, 1992, MENTIONING HER BOOK "LINA - DEMILLE'S GODLESS GIRL." VG............30-40


190.  Edith Fellows [b.1923] Am. actress. ISP, 1991, 8x10..............20-30

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

192.   [POLITICS LOT] [1] Francis John Myers (1901-1956) American teacher, lawyer, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1939-1945) and a U.S. Senator (1945-1951) from Pennsylvania. He was Senate Majority Whip from 1949 to 1951. TLS, 1950. [2] George Wharton Pepper (1867-1961)American lawyer, law professor, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and founded the law firm of Pepper Hamilton. Clip signature. [3] Edwin M. Stanton - Lincoln's Sec. of War. Engraved portrait of Stanton. [4] Selden P. Spencer [1862-1925] US senator from Missouri. Signed card. [5] Wm. B. McKinley [1856-1926] US senator from Illinois. Signed card [toned]. [6] George Henry Williams(1823-1910), United States Attorney General and a United States senator from Oregon. Clip signture. [7] James W. Wadsworth Jr. - US senator from NY. Signed card. [8] Clair Engle - US senator from Calif. Clip signature. [9] Edward F. Arn - Gov. of Kansas. Signed card. [10]John J. Ingalls - US senator from Kansas. Signature.............50-75

193. [NOBEL PRIZE] David Morris Lee (b. 1931) is a physicist whose work on low-temperature helium-3 won him the Nobel Prize in 1996. ALS, 2001, 1p..............35-45

194. Russell Long [1918-2003] LA. Senator. SP, 8x10. VG......25-35  

195.  Major-General Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka  (b.1948) is best known as the instigator of two military coups that shook Fiji in 1987. He was later democratically elected the third Prime Minister, serving from 1992 to 1999. He later served as Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs, and is currently Chairman of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council, a position he has held since 24 May 2001. He was re-elected to this position for another three-year term on 13 April 2005. Signed 3x5 card. Fine.........25-35

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

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

198. [MUSIC] GEORGE HARRY MORETON (1864-1961) English composer and organist. He was taught music by his mother right from the start and was so talented that by the age of 8 years he was playing the organ at his parish church, Saint John the Baptist, in Devonport.  He later played at Saint Peter's Church in Plymouth.  He continued studying under Mr W G Hannaford and Mr John Hele and and at the age of 10 his mother suggested that he apply for the post of organist at the Stoke Damerel Church.  Apparently he got this post thanks to an amusing chance.   There was a dispute between the Rector and the then organist because the latter had dismissed a choirboy.  Unfortunately, the choirboy was due to be the soloist at the performance of a particular anthem and the Rector was very angry about the dismissal.   He invited Mrs Moreton to be the organist but she declined and recommended her son instead, who was duly appointed to the post.  But the former organist did not take his own dismissal very kindly and for the first five Sundays, young Harry sat side by side on the stool with the former organist, who refused to unlock the organ because he claimed that he had not been properly discharged. In due course he became an Associate of the College of Organists and in due course a Fellow of the College. AMQS from "Elegiac Romance", approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/4.  VG........50-75

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

200. James Freeman Clarke (11810-1888)  American theologian and author.  Ordained into the Unitarian church he first became an active minister at Louisville, Kentucky, then a slave state, and soon threw himself into the national movement for the abolition of slavery. In 1839 he returned to Boston where he and his friends established (1841) the Church of the Disciples which brought together a body of people to apply the Christian religion to social problems of the day.  Clarke contributed essays to The Christian Examiner, The Christian Inquirer, The Christian Register, The Dial, Harper's, The Index, and Atlantic Monthly. In addition to sermons, speeches, hymnals, and liturgies, he published 28 books and over 120 pamphlets during his lifetime. In 1855, Clarke purchased the former site of Brook Farm, intending to start a new Utopian community there. This never came to pass, instead the land was offered to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War; the Second Massachusetts Regiment used it for training and named it "Camp Andrew".  In November 1861, Clarke was in Washington, D.C. with Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe. After hearing the song "John Brown's Body", he suggested that Mrs. Howe write new lyrics; the result was "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".  ALS, 1874, 1p, 5x8".  VG...........50-75

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

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202. [FRANCE]  JEAN-ANTOINE-AIME GIRON [1838-1912] Fr. poet and author. A lawyer, he collaborated to different magazines and published many novels & short stories. ALS, n.d., 4 full pages...............75-100

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203. Made Lasting Impression On Theodore Roosevelt 517. [FRANCE] Charles Wagner (1852-1918) French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping the reformed theology of his time. He graduated from the Sorbonne in 1869; and studied theology at Strassburg and Göttingen. He was the pastor of a small parish in the French province of Vosges until 1882, when he went to Paris, and there opened a Sunday school and later began preaching. The publication of his book Jeunesse ("Youth") in 1891 marked him as a leader in the ethical movement in France and his influence continually increased. Besides serving as pastor to a large congregation, he took an active part in many philanthropic and charitable undertakings, and in this work came into cordial relations with men of all shades of religious belief. Of his publications, The Simple Life attracted particular interest in the United States and was widely commended by religious and ethical leaders. In the fall of 1904, Wagner visited the United States. He was invited to preach at the White House by Theodore Roosevelt on whom The Simple Life had made a lasting impression. Wagner made numerous addresses and gained material for his book My Impressions of America (1906). Two ALSs, 1917 & 1918, plus small signed & inscribed picture portrait dated 1918; also envelope. All fine........100-150

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204 .  [ART] Elmer Ellsworth Garnsey  (1862 - 1946) American muralist who painted on the East Coast from a studio in New York City. He was born in Holmdel, New Jersey and took art training at the Art Students League and Cooper Union. Affiliations included the National Society of Mural Painters, and the American Federation of the Arts. His work is in the Library of Congress, Boston Public Library, Memorial Hall at Yale University, City Art Museum of St. Louis, U.S. Custom House in New York City. Fine autograph signature on 3-1/2 x 1-3/4" card..........25-35

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205. [ART]  ALEXANDER CALDER  - ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH ON WOVE PAPER - EXECUTED FOR DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR (NO. 141) IN 1963 - PUBLISHED BY IN PARIS BY THE MAEGHT ATELIER - PAGE SIZE 15" X 11" (380 X 280 MM) - UNFRAMED. There is a light smudge near top left edge...........200-300

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206. Irving Bacheller [1859-1950] American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. It was through the Bacheller Syndicate that he brought to American readers the writings of British authors such as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling. He also established a working partnership with the young author and journalist Stephen Crane, whose The Red Badge of Courage became famous after it appeared in syndication. Several years later, Bacheller hired Crane to act as a war correspondent in Cuba during the insurrection against Spain; on the journey there, Crane's ship foundered off the coast of Florida, and he was stranded on a dingy for two days. This experience led to his short story "The Open Boat". ALS, The Barclay [NYC], 1929, 1p, 5-1/4 x 6-3/4". Invites Darwin P. Kingsley [President New York Life Insurance Co.] to dinner. Fine condition.........50-75

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207. Joseph Hopkinson [1770-1842] American politician, b. Philadelphia. Son of Francis Hopkinson. Member, U.S. House of Representatives (1815-19). Judge, U.S. district court, eastern district of Pennsylvania (1828-42). Author of the patriotic song "Hail Columbia" (1798), first sung by Gilbert Fox in Philadelphia. ADS, 1828, receiving payment of services from Peter A. Burns who also signs. Approx. 8x4". VG............100-150

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208. David Selden was born in Chatham, Connecticut, June 4, 1785, the son of the Congregational minister of Middle Haddam Church, David Selden (1761-1825), and his wife, Cynthia May (1761-1850). Selden sailed to Liverpool, England, in 1811, in order to make his fortune in the international mercantile trade. During the War of 1812, he was a prisoner on parole, and in 1818, he filed for bankruptcy. Afterwards, he returned briefly to the United States, where he married Gertrude Richards in 1820. The pair had 11 children. In 1822, he returned to England and with his business partner, William Hynde, became an important cotton importer. He also traded coffee, and in 1831, received a patent for a coffee-grinding mill. He died February 23, 1861. ALS [stampless folded letter - no postal markings], New York, 1820, 2 pages + address leaf addressed to his father Rev. David Seldon.  He talks about family members, Methodists and the church. VG...............75-100

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209. Brenda Kuhn  (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer. TLS, Chicago, Illinois, 1965, 2pp, signed Brenda. Approx. 8-1/2 x 11".  Written to two of her closet friends back in Maine, Doris and Rose.  She talks about having dinner with Vera Eikel, the writer who wrote for The New Yorker and other publications, and their discussion of Brenda and writing a biography of Walt Kuhn, her father.  "The possibility of my having "walt Kuhn Letters" "as my baby."  She relates Vera Eikel's thoughts - what Brenda would have to do, basically turning the project over to a Co-author, or editor, take a backseat as Brenda sees it. Thinks no major decision is likely for years, will know better after The Archives of American Art has time to study the Kuhn family material. An interesting letter, esp. when you consider how private the Kuhn family was............100-150

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211. Ralph Waldo Trine  (1866-1958) One of the most widely-read of all New Thought writers. Ralph Waldo Trine was a philosopher, mystic, teacher and author of many books, and was one of the early mentors of the New Thought Movement. His writings had a great influence on many of his contemporaries including Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science. He was a true pioneer in the area of life-transforming thought. No other New Thought author has sold more books than he, his writings reaching far beyond New Thought circles out to the general public, which has bought and read Trine's books without ever knowing that they were New Thought. ALS, no date, 2pp. VG..............40-60

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212. [EDWIN M. STANTON] LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR. "A resolution....relative to clerks employed in the War Department." 1866, 23pp. Ex. Doc. No. 116, 39th Congress, 1st Session, US House of Rep. 5-3/4 x 9". Signed in type by the SECRETARY OF WAR. VG......25-35

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213. Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) (1741 -1821) British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century life. Offered here is a PORTRAIT ETCHING, OR ENGRAVING of her, 3-3/4 x 2-3/4 oval on 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. page. Artist unknown. Looks more like a detailed etching than an ebgraving. Early 1800s. Appears to be after the oil painting portrait by Robert Edge Pine. VG............25-35

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214. Speech of Hon. J.W. Wallace, of Pennsylvania: on the confiscation of property -  delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 22, 1862. Approx. 9.5 x 6", 16-pages. VG.............40-60

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215.  James Sullivan (1744-1808) in 1776, Sullivan was a judge in Massachusetts. Although he was elected to represent Massachusetts at the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783 he did not attend. From 1790 to 1807, he was the Republican attorney general of Massachusetts and in 1801 prosecuted the Dedham murderer Jason Fairbanks. He also served as the seventh Governor of Massachusetts between 1807 and 1808. He was the brother John Sullivanof New Hampshire general and governor. ALS, Boston, 1806, written to Reverand Pearce, thanking him for caring for his grandson. 7x9. Edge tipped to a backing page...........150-200

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216. GEORGE DAVIDSON [1825-1911] pioneer west coast scientist. Probably no name is better known in the scientific world of the Pacific Coast than that of Professor George Davidson, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. His active and untiring efforts, extending over a long period of time in advancing the interests of science on this coast, are well known; and the work he has accomplished in the service in which he holds high rank has earned for him a name and reputation which might be envied by any man. He determined the Eastern boundary, 120th meridian, of California in 1873. Lengthy ALS, 1908, WRITTEN IN THE 3RD PERSON. "Mr George Davidson expresses his thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Woodward for their kind invitation to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences on the evening of Wednesday the twenty-second of April, and regrets his inability to be present. San Francisco Cal. March 22/08." VG............100-200

217. [THEATRE] Jules Tuffier (1856-1943) Celebrated French actor, dramatist. He was a most popular actor of the French Theatre. He was associated with the Comedie-Francaise from 1888-1913. Signed cabinet portrait photograph, with lengthy inscription. Will put up scan on request...........50-75

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218. [MUSIC] John Sims Reeves (1821-1900), usually called simply Sims Reeves, was the foremost English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist of the mid-Victorian era. ALS, Nov. 5, 1858, 1p., plus engraved portrait.............60-80

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219. Morgan Dix (1827-1908)  American Episcopal Church priest, theologian, and religious author. ALS, 1890, 1p. PLUS unsigned cabinet portrait photograph. VG..........50-75

220. [MUSIC] Joseph Edgar Howard (1878-1961)  Broadway composer, lyricist, and librettist. A famed member of Tin Pan Alley his credits, along with wife and composer Ida Emerson as part of the song writing team of Howard and Emerson whose hits include Hello Ma Baby, and Broadway tunes like The District Leader.  Clip Signature, 1944. Fair condition......40-60

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221. [CARDINAL] Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil, C.R.S.P. (1718-1802) was an Italian theologian, bishop and cardinal, who was a significant figure in the response of the papacy to the assault on the Catholic Church by the upheavals caused by the French Revolution.  Three manuscript pages in his hand, signature on blank 4th page. Approx. 4 x 5-1/2 in. No apparent date. Fine............100-150

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

223. [ART] Portrait of George Washington - original engraving/etching/aquatint by T. Johnson, plate signed & dated 1903 in the plate. This, of course, was done after Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait. Image 11-1/2 x 9-3/4" plus wide margins.  VG. Too large for scanner's window but you can see most of it in scan below............100-150

224. [WM. HOWARD TAFT] ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ETCHING of William Howard Taft, US President and Chief Justice of US Supreme Court. Original etching pencil signed by the artist, Phillips, image 14 x 11" plus wide margins. Image area and margins near image are very good....150-200

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225. [ART] MARGUERITE PEARSON (1898-1978) Noted American painter. Born in Philadelphia, she made her reputation in the Rockport area of Mass., north of Boston. She studied at the Boston Art Museum School; and Rockport Summer School, under A.T. Hibbard. She was a member of The North Shore Arts Association; Allied Artists of America; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Rockport Art Association; American Artists Professional League; American Federation of Arts. Offered here is an original oil painting on stretched canvas, 25-3/4 x 19-1/2 in. plus frame. Painted in black & white [and therefore grays], obviously to be used as an illustration for some book or publication unknown to us. Unsigned but with Estate Certification on back signed by Martha Blanshet [?], Director, Rockport Art Association, Feb. 19, 1980. She certifies that this unsigned painting is from the Pearson estate. Several slight crack lines in the paint o/w VG. Pearson's paintings are today highly prized...........4000-6000

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226. John Toland (1912-2004)  American writer and historian. He is best known for a biography of Adolf Hitler and a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II-era Japan, The Rising Sun.  TLS, Japan, no year, 1p. to Rev. Greenway [legendary autograph collector]. He says he is in Japan researching his next book "The Rising Sun".  Accompanied with a signed snapshot photo of Toland interviewing Count Schwerin von Krosigk for "Last 100 Days" book.  VG............80-120

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227.   [FILM]  William Claxton (1927-2008) American photographer and author.  Claxton's works included a book of photographs of Steve McQueen, and Jazz Life, a book of photographs depicting jazz artists in the 1960s. Offered here is a rare CONTACT SHEET showing about 17 shots from he movie The Cincinnati Kid.  Multiple shots of Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, and Joan Blondell. Since Claxton's death prices for his photographs has risen dramatically. Google William Claxton. VG.........150-200

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

231. [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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233. [FRANCE] Antoine Aubéry   (1616 - 1695) French historian. Son of an innkeeper of the rue Saint-Denis in Paris, he became a lawyer in Parliament. Very knowledgeable, he was one of the writers and apologists court officials of France. Aubéry is the author of numerous historical works, including: General History of Cardinals ( 1642 ); Memoirs of the history of the Cardinal Duke of Richelieu ( 1660 ), undertaken at the behest of the Duchess d'Aiguillon, niece of Cardinal; History of Cardinal Mazarin ( 1688 ), which still retains a great value thanks to extracts from registers of the Parliament published later. Brief ADS, 1674, 1p, approx. 6-1/4 x 7". Fine..........100-150

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234. [FRANCE] Nicolas de Lamoignon - Nicolas Lamoignon-Bâville (1648-1724) was a French official said to have been accused by Voltaire of instigating the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He made himself famous by the measures he adopted against the Protestants, and by the manner in which he associated himself with the religious policy of Louvois, of which the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was the culminating point. But it is without proof that Voltaire accused him of having instigated this revocation. "I never counselled the revocation of the Edict of Nantes", he wrote to his brother in 1708. On the contrary he considered that "in religion hearts must be attacked, for it is there that it resides", and immediately after the revocation he sent for Bourdaloue to come and evangelize the Protestants of Montpellier. From 1702 to 1704 he helped in the repression of the uprising of the Camisards, occasioned in the Cevennes by English and Calvinistic influences.Document Signed, 1710, 4-pages, 8-1/4 x 12". Tattered edges; slight unimportant small missing pieces. "Very Rare".............125-225

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

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236. [FRANCE] Marquis Dupuy De La Mothe - ALS, 1769, 1p, 8-1/4 x 12-3/4". VG.....100-150

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237. [Great Britain] George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE (1823-1900), styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer, Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century. ALS, 1868, 3pp, 4.5 x 7". VG...........60-80

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238.  [ART] Jacques Villon (1875 - 1963) A painter and printmaker, Villon was known for his Cubist-style works, and is especially noted by art historians for "his creation of a purely graphic language for Cubism. He first came to the attention of the American public when his work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show, which introduced modernism to the United Sates. All of his work sold at this exhibition. He was from a cultured family in the Normandy region of France, and was much influenced by his maternal grandfather, Emile Nicolle, who gave him early artistic training. Villon was born with the name of Gaston Emile Duchamp, and was the older brother of artists Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. Honoring the French medieval poet, François Villon, and so as not to be confused artistically with his siblings, he changed his name to Jacques Villon. Jacques Villon died in his studio on June 9, 1963, and three years later, Marcel Duchamp, his last surviving brother, organized an exhibition of his work, which was held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. In 1922 Villon was commissioned by the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune to produce a series of color aquatints after 38 major 19th and 20th century paintings. These included works after Braque, Matisse, Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Cezanne, Dufy, Modigliani, Bonnard and numerous others. Villon collaborated with these master artists and signed these prints so that they provided the public with access to works which otherwise would not be available. Color aquatint, signed in the plate (not pencil signed), 1923, title "NATURE MORTE", after Georges Braque, mat opening size 25-1/2 x 9 in. Framed. Not examined out of frame but appears to be without faults...............1000-1500

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239.  Leonard Andrew Scheele (1907-1993)  American physician and public servant. He was appointed the seventh Surgeon General of the United States from 1948 to 1956. TLS, Federal Security Agency, 1949, 1p, as Surgeon General, to  Philip J. Philbin, US congressman from Mass. Accompanied by TLS by Vlado A. Getting MD, and 4 telegrams. VG............50-75

240. [FILM] Ernest Borgnine [1917-2012] American actor. Academy Award winner. Signed, inscribed 5x7 color photo. VG............35-45

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241. [MUSIC] Baroness Jacqueline Fontyn [b. 1930] contemporary Belgian composer, pianist and music educator. She was born in Antwerp, and has received the title of baroness from the King of Belgium in recognition of her many artistic contributions. AMQS on 6x4 card. VG.......35-45

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243. [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

244. [SPORTS] Multiple lot comprised of the following figures from the World of Sports: [1] BICYCLING] REGGIE MCNAMARA - member US Bicycling Hall of Fame. Signed [lined side] and inscribed 3x5 card. 1950. [2] [GOLF] Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998) was a dentist who gave up his practice to become a professional golfer on what is now the PGA Tour in the 1940s. At the time, a career as a dentist would quite likely have been more lucrative. During his playing career, Middlecoff won 40 professional tournaments, including the 1955 Masters and U.S. Open titles in 1949 and 1956. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average in 1956. He played on three Ryder Cup teams: 1953, 1955, and 1959. In 1986, Middlecoff was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. SIGNED 1957 FIRST DAY COVER HONORING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [UN COVER]. Stamp-addressed; one middle fold crease. [3] BONNIE BLAIR - won 2 Golds in speed skating. SP, color 4 x 5-1/2. [4] John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900-1982) American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. In 1939, Gaver was appointed head trainer for Greentree Stable, a position he would hold for the next thirty-eight years. During his time with Greentree, John Gaver conditioned seventy-three stakes-winning horses. Signed 1981 bank check. [5] [GOLF] Ken Venturi (b.1931) was a prominent PGA Tour professional during the late 1950's and early 1960's. His signature on 1965 cover bearing golf sticker. Type addressed. [6] [GOLF] Marlene Hagge (b.1934) professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002. Her signature on 1961 cover bearing golf sticker. Type addressed. Several spots show.........50-75

245. [ART] ROY CHARLES FOX (1908-1993) American artist. Member of Print Council of America; Rochester Print Club; Cooperstown Art Association; Elmira Art Club. His work is in the permanent collections of Elmira College, Arnot Art Museum, Florida Southern, etc. He exhibited at Audubon Artists 1942-44; Saranac Lake Art League 1943 & 1944; Northwest Print Makers 1944-48; Wawasee Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Laguna Beach AA 1944 & 45; Oakland Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Phila. Print Club 1956; Phila. Etchers 1962; Albany Print Club 1947; Grand Central Galleries (NY) 1946; Corning Glass Center 1965, etc. Offered here is alarge signed watercolor, winter scene dated 1977, approx. 15 x 22". Fine condition.............300-500

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

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247.  SPORTS SIGNED SHEET from the Michael Bolton Celebrity Softball Challenge (1997) SIGNED by 13:  KYLE ROTE (1928-2002) Football THOMAS W. BROWN (1940) Football RON WALLER (1933) Football MIKE MEADE (1960) Football MICHAEL SANDOR SOMMER (1934) Football CHET HANULAK (1928) Football DIONNA HARRIS (1968) Olympic Gold Champion others unidentified...........50-75

248. [ENTERTAINMENT] Minnie Pearl  (1912-1996)  American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG............40-60

249. [FILM-MUSIC] Gertrude Niesen [1911-1975] American singer and actress who achieved her greatest success during the Big Band Era. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. Very nice and in fine condition...........40-60

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250. [ART - OLDMASTER]  Pierre-Etienne MOITTE  (1722, Paris, 1780, Paris) French engraver, part of a family of artists. He studied in Paris with Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet and Pierre-François Beaumont (1719-1769).  He was accepted  in 1771 by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and subsequently signed his prints 'Graveur du Roi'. Between c. 1747 and 1754 he was one of the principal engravers commissioned to work for the 'Cabinet de S.E.M. Le Comte de Brühl,' a collection published in Dresden in 1754 and consisting of 50 plates after selected paintings from the celebrated collection owned by Heinrich von Brühl. In addition to the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine after Correggio and three history subjects after Jean-Baptiste Corneille, Moitte contributed 11 masterly pieces after Dutch and Flemish paintings, including the Dutch Merchant and the Flemish Cook after Gerrit Dou; the Broken Egg, after Frans van Mieris the Elder; the Judgement of Paris after Rubens; four landscapes after Jacob van Ruisdael and Guillam Dubois (c. 1610-80); and Travellers' Rest and Horses at the Watering Trough after Philips Wouwerman. Moitte enjoyed a successful career in Paris by reproducing works after 18th-century French painters such as Nicolas Lancret, François Boucher and Pierre-Antoine Baudouin. Above all, he popularised sentimental genre paintings by Greuze, producing such prints as the Wrathful Mother, Repentance and the Idle Woman. Like most reproductive printmakers of the period, Moitte also engraved designs for book illustrations; thus he provided 17 plates after drawings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for the four-volume folio edition of Jean de La Fontaine's Fables published between 1755 and 1759. Original engraving, from the 18th  century, approx. 11-1/4 x 8-1/4".  Wide margins.  Old damp stains in bottom margin..............100-150

251. [TV]  Bea Arthur (1922-2009) American actress. Signed, inscribed [lengthy inscription] 8x10 photo. VG..........40-60

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252. [TV] Will Hutchins (b. 1930) American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer from Oklahoma, Tom Brewster, in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot, which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo as "Sugarfoot."  VG................25-35

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253. Edward Everett (1794-1865) American politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. He also taught at Harvard University and served as president of Harvard. His signature as President of Harvard on portion cliiped from a larger document, 1947. Mounting traces on verso at corners..........40-60

254. [MUSIC] Jan Bach (b. 1937) American composer. His primary performing instrument is the horn, and he is especially renowned for his horn pieces and especially well-known among hornists. AMQS, inscribed from his "2nd Opera "The Student from Salamanca." Approx. 10-1/2 x 4-1/4". Two mail fold-lines o/w VG..........75-100

255. [TV] The Dick Van Dyke Show: Morey Amsterdam [1908-1996] signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. Together with his co-star Rose Marie [b. 1923] signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.........40-60

256. [MUSIC] Jon Howard Appleton (1939 - )   American composer and teacher who was a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. Chef d'Oeuvre and Newark Airport Rock attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music. In 1970 he won Guggenheim,  Fulbright and American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships. When he was twenty-eight years old he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States. He remained there intermittently for forty-two years. In the mid-1970s he left Dartmouth to briefly become the head of Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, Sweden. In the late 1970s, together with Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones he helped develop the first commercial digital synthesizer called the Synclavier.  For a decade he toured around the United States and Europe performing the compositions he composed for this instrument. In the early 1990s he helped found the Theremin Center for Electronic Music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music where he continues to teach once a year. He has also taught at Keio University (Mita) in Tokyo, Japan, CCRMA at Stanford University and the University of California Santa Cruz. In his later years he has devoted most of his time to the composition of instrumental and choral music in a quasi-Romantic vein which has largely been performed only in France, Russia and Japan.  AMQS from his most famous work "Turkina" Suite II. Approx. 10-1/2 x 4-3/4". VG..........60-80

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258. [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

259. 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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260. [FRANCE] Group of approx. 54 calling cards with handritten notes on them, identified as being from eminent judges and lawyers sent to Conscillier Boissier.  Needs research.............75-100

261. [OPERA] John M. Wieting M.D. (1817-1888) physician and medical lecturer. He is perhaps best known for his Wieting Opera House, considered a "world class" cultural institution. Originally, a building called Wieting Hall, which was a lecture hall, was built at 100 West Water Street at the corner of South Salina Street in 1852 and was lost to fire in 1856. The building was rebuilt and reopened in 1870 as the Wieting Opera House and had a seating capacity of 1,017. The first opera that took place in the house, however, did not occur until 1886 when the American Opera Company made a brief appearance. In fact, opera was never intended as the main venue in the theater. At that time, towns throughout America had opera houses where operas were seldom or never performed. The "opera house" designation simply provided a respectable cover for places that presented a variety of popular entertainments. Oftentimes they were called "museums." ALS, Bromfield House, 1854, 1p. Reply to an autograph collector. VG...........40-60

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

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Portrait of Gousset

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

264. [AMERICANA] John Vaughan (1755-1841) Early Colonial Philadelphia wine merchant, and the secretary and librarian of the American Philosophical Society for more than 50 years. It was Vaughan who notified Lewis. of Lewis & Clark fame,  that Thomas Jefferson had just been elected to the Society in late November of 1804. The notification would not have reached Lewis, of course, until his return from the expedition. Brief ALS, Phila., 1819, 1p, 6-3/4 x 9-1/4". Receives check drawn on N. Am. Bank $2099.54, for E. I. Dupont's account. The DuPont referred to here was Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours [1771-1834], known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born Huguenot chemist and industrialist who immigrated to the United States in 1799 and founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the Du Pont family, were one of America's richest and most prominent families in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some loss of paper [seal area] affects signature in minor way..........75-100

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

266. [MARYLAND] Thomas G. Pratt (1804-1869) He was the 27th Governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. Senator from 1850 to 1857.  When the American Civil War began, Pratt was eyed suspiciously by Maryland authorities, as he was staunchly pro-slavery, but mostly pro-South, and even gave a son to the Confederate Army. In 1863, Pratt tried to vote in the November election. He was not allowed to vote because he would not take a loyalty oath. Pratt and his secretary Col. Nicholson were arrested because of the refusal on November 21, 1863. He was imprisoned at Fort Monroe, but was later released. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1864, resuming the practice of law. The same year, Pratt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In 1866, he attended the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. Pratt was one of the attorneys for Jefferson Davis during his trial at Fortress Monroe.  DOCUMENT SIGNED as Governor, 1845, appointment of  District Justices.  Approx. 15-3/4 x 10-1/4. Also signed by Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition............80-120

267. [ART] Raymond Ellis George   (b. 1933) American printmaker.  Color lithograph with etching and aquatint,  signed with white conte crayon, lower right 1972,  titled "Window", titled and editioned in white conte crayon, lower left; publisher chop, lower right, 25/50, approx. 21 7/8 x 18 1/2" image and paper size, on cream wove paper, published by Lakeside Studio, Michigan.  Picture showing below is of the same print but barrowed from the internet.  priced at $300 on the internet............200-300

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268. [HOLLYWOOD LOT] printed pictures removed from book signed [* denotes inscribed], 8x10 or larger. Includes: Margaret O'Brien* [middle fold]; Eleanor Parker; Theran Bey; Myrna Loy* [folds]; and Lew Ayres*..........80-120

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269. [FILM] John Carroll [1906-1979] American actor. SIGNED, inscribed printed portrait picture, 5 x 7. VG......25-35

270. [MUSIC] Henry Russell (1812-1900) English pianist, baritone singer and composer. In an eventful life on both sides of the Atlantic, Russell wrote the songs "A Life on the Ocean Wave" and the tune to George Pope Morris's poem Woodman, Spare that Tree while living in the United States from 1835 to 1841, before settling in London to produce musical extravaganzas until he retired in 1857. Many of his songs championed social causes like abolition, temperance, and reform of mental asylums. CLIP SIGNATURE with sentiment........50-75

271. John Reed, Jr. (1781-1860)  Representative from Massachusetts.  He was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); elected to the Seventeenth through Twenty-third Congresses; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1841). He was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twenty-second Congress). He declined to be candidate for reelection in 1840.  He was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1845–1851). ALS,  Yarmouth Port, Mass., 1844, 1p., plus address leaf. He writes to Franklin Dexter, a District Attorney for Mass., about the character of two men he knows.  Concerns a trial concerning a schooner called the Scituate.  VG............50-75

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272. [FILM]  Horst Buchholz  (1933-2003) German actor, remembered for The Magnificent Seven, in which he played the role of Chico,[1] and One, Two, Three and Nine Hours to Rama. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952 to 2002.  Signed 4x6 postcard picture. VG............35-45 See above

273. [FILM]  Sam Waterston  (b. 1940)  American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), and his Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG..........30-40
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274. [MUSIC]  SONS OF THE PIONEERS - signed color 10x8 picture. Signed by all 6members. VG.........100-150

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275.  [FILM - TV] Bonnie Bartlett (1929 - ) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 50 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her role as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won 1986 Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Warners Bros. paycheck, 1984, endorsed by her on verso. VG.............20-30

276. [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

277. [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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278. [ 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

279. [FILM] Steve Martin [b. 1945] American actor, comedian, writer. Signed 8x10 photo. with sentiment. VG..............35-45

280. [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

281. [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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282. [ENTERTAINMENT]  Don Rickles (b. 1926)  American stand-up comedian and actor.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35

283.  [FRANCE] 17th century French Mystery document on paper,  3-pages, from Fouchanges, approx. 7-3/4 x 10-3/4".  VG............100-150

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284. [FRANCE]  1772 French Mystery Document on paper, signed Pierre Cabot, 3pp, approx. 7.5 x 12-1/4. Appearing to be a long detailed inventory. VG.............80-120

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

287. [FRANCE] FRENCH REVOLUTION DECRET De La Convention Nationale, No. 194, 25 Nov. 1792, dated 2 months after abolition of Royalty, signed in type Monge & Garot. 3-pages, approx. 7-3/4 x 9-1/4". Excellent condition............80-120

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288. [MUSIC] Sigmund Lillebjerka  (1931 - ) Norwegian composer. AMQS from his "Elegisk Intermezzo" dated 2013, inscribed. Approx. 9-1/4 x 4-1/4". VG..........50-75 See AMQS

289. [MUSIC] Michael Gielen (b. 1927) Austrian conductor and composer. AMQS from his "Un vieux Souvener", 1983, signed [twice] and inscribed. Approx. 10-1/2 x 3-3/4". Two fold lines o/w VG.........60-80

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291. [MUSIC] Baron Armand-Marie Limnander van Nieuwenhove (1814-1892)  Belgian composer of choral and orchestral works and church music. Knight of the Order of Leopold, he was the founder and conductor of the choral chamber ensembles Société Symphonique and Réunion Lyrique in Belgium.  ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG..........50-75

292. [MUSIC] Chester Biscardi (b. 1948) Italian American composer and educator. AMQS, inscribed, 1993, from his composition "Mestiere" for Piano [1979]. On 6x4" card. VG...........40-60 See AMQS above

293. GIBBON, Edward (1737-94), the greatest English historian of his time and author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon was born April 27, 1737, in Putney (now part of London), the eldest of seven children in an upper-middle-class family; the other six all died in infancy. Gibbon himself was a sickly child and had almost no formal schooling. He was, however, an avid and omnivorous reader. By the time he was approaching age 15, his health suddenly improved, and his father entered him in Magdalen College, University of Oxford, for what he later called in his Memoirs "the most idle and unprofitable 14 months of my life." Study of early Christianity led him to embrace Roman Catholicism in June 1753, thus barring him from the university. His father swiftly packed him off to Lausanne, Switzerland, in care of a Calvinist pastor, who by Christmas, 1754, had reconciled him to Protestantism. (The Memoirs termed it acquiescence.) ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, c. 1853. Clean........30-40

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294. Porson, Richard [1759-1808]. English classical scholar. Became widely known by his Letters to Archdeacon Travis (1788-89), an acute piece of criticism in defense of Gibbon' s position on the genuineness of John i:7; regius professor of Greek, Cambridge (1792). Edited four plays of Euripides; edited Aeschylus (1792); made distinct contributions to knowledge of iambic and trochaic verse; by minute collations of Greek texts made valuable emendations. ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, c. 1853. Clean........30-40

295.  [PHOTOGRAPHY] Jack Dempsey - Boxing Champion. Original c. 1964 vintage UNSIGNED 8x10 photographer of Dempsey in business suit, photographer A. Bryce Currie. VG.........30-40

296. 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

297. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS DE LA REPUBLIQUE, dated Year XI [1803], 16 pages., approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2".  Identified as being about Jews of Metz; coins; whaling. Signed Bonaparte in print. VG............100-150

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298. [FILM] [James Poe]  (1921-1980)  American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Around the World in 80 Days for which he jointly won an Accademy Award in 1956, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.  He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably "Three Skeleton Key" and "The Present Tense", both of which starred Vincent Price.  Offered here is a 1967 bank c heck made out by James Poe HOWEVER, someone at some time has torn his signature away. Nothing on verso. He has written on front "Am ExpChex - Horses".  Since there are no cancellation marks it is assumed the check was never used and the torn away signature was like a cancel??? Odd item.............????

299. [WESTERN AMERICANA] H. Webster - Frontier veterinarian. Document signed, Leadville, Colorado, 1882. Vetinary Bill that to early Colorado statehood. Approx. 8-1/2 x 4-1/4".....25-35

300. [ART] FREDERICK S. CHURCH (1842-1924) American artist, working mainly as an illustrator and especially known for his (often allegorical) depiction of animals. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His father was an important figure in politics as well as a well-known lawyer. At the age of 13 he left school and took a job at the then newly-established American Express Company in Chicago, with his parents intending him to have a business career. Being nineteen at the outbreak of the Civil War he served in the Union Army. After his discharge he returned to Chicago, having decided to devote his life to art, and started studying drawing under Walter Shirlaw at the city's Academy of Design. In 1870 he decided to continue his studies in New York City, which became his home for the rest of his life. He enrolled at the National Academy of Design, where he was taught by Lemuel Wilmarth. He joined the Art Students League, headed by his old teacher Walter Shirlaw, in which he remained involved for the rest of his life. By the middle of the 1870s he was already gaining a name as a gifted illustrator. Among the many magazines and periodicals which eventually took up his works were the various Harper's publications (Harper's Bazaar, Harper's Weekly, and Harper's Young People), as well as Frank Leslie's Weekly, Century Magazine and the Ladies' Home Journal. His career was helped along by several devoted patrons, among them William T. Evans, John Gellatly, the banker Grant B. Schley, and the railroad-car manufacturer Charles Lang Freer, the founder of Washington, D.C.'s Freer Gallery. His work on the Fables of Aesop , including an illustration of the human and animal protagonists of each fable plus an elaborate cover for the whole, is considered among the best of his works. Some of Church's works are kept in the Permanent Collection of the Fulton Decorative Arts Gallery at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Maryland. Others are at the collection of Dale and Rosie Horst of Newton, Kansas, which lent them to the Fulton Gallery in 2003, for an extensive exhibition including both Church's original drawings and the magazines and periodicals in which they appeared. Original etching, "The Wanderer's Return", plate signed and dated NY 1887. Plate size is 12 x 8-1/4", image is 10-1/2 x 6-3/4" plus good wide margins. Image area is fine; margin areas show only wear too minor to mention...........200-275

See etching

Portrait of Church

301. [WEST VIRGINIA] John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (b.1937) is a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. He was the 29th Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally progressive Republican dynasty. Document signed, 1969, 2pp, 8.5 x 13 in. He signs as the Sec. of State for West Virginia, a Certificate, a finance company...............50-75

302. Edward Irving Wortis (b.  1937), better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of the Newbery Medal and twice one of the runners-up (Newbery Honor).  Ink signed "Avi" TLS [form letter], 1p...........25-35


303.  Ted Kennedy - US Senator.  TLS, 1989, 1p.  Plus another TLS signed Edward Kennedy, probably a secretarial signature, also poor condition...........50-75

See good letter
Poor letter

304. [BASEBALL] "Dom" DiMaggio (1917-2009), nicknamed "The Little Professor", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 11-year baseball career for the Boston Red Sox (1940–1953). He was the youngest of three brothers who each became major league center fielders, the others being Vince and Joe DiMaggio. ANS, approx. 5 x 2-1/2". VG...........25-35

See above


305. [FOOTBALL]  "Tex" Schramm, Jr. (1920-2003) was the original president and general manager of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys franchise. Schramm became the head of the Cowboys when the former expansion team started operations in 1960. Signed Hall of Fame card, 2-1/2 x 3-1/2". Fine.............25-35

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306. [MUSIC] Elena Gerhardt (1883-1961)  German mezzo-soprano singer associated with the singing of German classical lieder, of which she was considered one of the great interpreters. She left Germany for good to live in London in October 1934. Tick paper signed by Gerhardt, she adds a few lines and dated 1907.  This is written below an autograph bar of music from the opera Morgen [appears to be in a different hand]. On the verso is an AQS by German Soprano Martha Leffler-Burckhard  (1865-1964). She was the celebrated Wagner star. She also dates this 1907. Approx. 6.5 x 8.5". Minor edge faults...........100-150

Gerhardt side
Leffler-Burckhard side

307. [MUSIC] Helen Pickens (1910-1984) with her two sisters Patti Pickens and Jane Pickens a popular radio and recording vocal trio in the 1930s.  ALS, nd, on Pickens Sister stationery, 2pp. VG...........25-35

308.  William Lindsay Scruggs (1836-1912) American author, lawyer, and diplomat. He was a scholar of South American foreign policy and U.S. ambassador to Colombia and Venezuela. He played a key role in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 and helped shape the modern interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine. Signed bank check, 1903. VG.............50-75
 

309. [MIXED LOT] [1] Sam Nunn - US senator from Ga. Signed 1960 FDC honoring Sen. Walter F. George from Ga. Label addressed o/w VG. [2] Sam Dinsmore Jr.[1799-1869] Gov. of New Hampshire. Clip signature. [3] Strafford, Ct. legal document signed in 1814 by Daniel Pech. [4] Martin F. Tupper [1810-1889] English writer. Signature & 4 lines clipped from letter. [5] Rev. Wm. J. Potter [1830-1893] ALS, 1887, 2pp. [6] Owen Davis [ 1874 - 1956) American dramatist. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound , and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film. Before the First World War, he also wrote racy sketches of New York high jinks and low life for the Police Gazette under the name of 'Ike Swift'. Many of these were set in the Tenderloin. Brief ALS, no yr. [7] Frederick Watson - editor. ALS, no yr. c. 1850-1880, 2pp, to W.E. Stuart. [8] John Welsh (1805-1886) American merchant and minister to England. ALS, 1884, 1p. [9] printed 1886 1p. Gov. Doc. re: Indian Reservations in Northern Montana. [10] J. F. Tucker - General Superintendent, Illinois Central Railroad Cp. ALS, 1877, 1p., to M.E. Ingalls [one of the Big-4]..........80-120 

310. [MUSIC] George Crumb (b. 1929)  American composer of contemporary classical music.  Autograph Note Signed [signed in text], not dated but envelope dated 2000. Content about the best book published about him. VG............50-75

311. James L. Wilmeth (1870-1959) was an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1917 to 1922.  In 1917, Wilmeth became Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.  He was also mayor of Takoma Park, Maryland from 1920 to 1923.  In 1922, in a surprise move, President Warren G. Harding issued an executive order dismissing Wilmeth and 28 other top officials in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.  They were suspected of improper duplication of bonds.  Wilmeth was later completely exonerated of all charges, and in 1924, he was offered the opportunity to return to the post of Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing but Wilmeth refused.  Signed bank check, dated 1913. VG..............40-60

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312. (SPORTS LOT) VIRGIL OLIVER TRUCKS (1917-2013) American Pitcher, ANS.  ARA R. PARSEGHIAN (b.1923) Football Player and Coach. SIGNED, inscribed large 12x18 portrait sketch, inscribed (fold in middle). CHRISTINE D. WITTY (b. 1975) Olympic Speed Skater. SIGNED 5x7 print photo (fold in middle).  WILBUR “Weeb” EWBANK (1907-1998) Football Coach, SIGNED address return on envelope, with 2 SIGNATURES, with words of encouragement.   BILLY CASPER (1931) Golfer.  SIGNED 8x11 photograph.  GREG E. LOUGANIS (1960) Olympic Diver SIGNED printed letter.   STEVE J. GROGAN (1953) Quarterback, ANS signed “Steve G”.........80-120

313. (MIXED NOTABLES LOT) NATHANIEL INGERSOLL BOWDICH (1805-1861) successful lawyer in Boston, local historian and genealogist, author.  SIGNATURE (1857) “to the Hon. Charles Wm. Bradley”.  EDWARD ATKINSON (1827-1905) American Activist, founder of the “Anti-Imperialist League” SIGNATURE(1897).  MELVIN M. BELLI (1907-1996) celebrated American Laywer. SIGNED card.   IRVING FISHER (1867-1947) American Economist, Inventor. He was one of the first “neoclassical economists”.  He was the first celebrity economist.  SIGNED inscribed 5x7 photograph.  MOON LANDREIEU (1930) Cabinet member, Sec. of HUD.  SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph.  RICHARD A. POSNER (1939) American Jurist, author.  TLS (1989).  ROY E. A. INNIS (1934) Civil Rights Leader Chairman of CORE.  SIGNED 4x6 photograph.  ALFRED E. KAHN (1917-2010) American Economist.  ALS (1989).  WALTER de CURZON POULTNEY (1849-1929) American Social Figure, Art collector.  He was the flamboyant Dandy” of Baltimore, called “Sir Walter”, his friends included English Notables.  ALS (1898) 2pp...........100-150

315. [FILM] John Travolta (b. 1954) American actor. Signed, original artwork showing a Christmas Tree, dated 1996, approx. 7-1/2 x 9-1/2". VG............40-60

316. George Palmer Putnam (1887-1950) American publisher, author and explorer. Known for his marriage to (and being the widower of) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s. Signed, inscribed 10x8 photograph pictured with March Margaret McBride. Signed  "To Jesse from one of the Georges."  VG............50-75

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317. [TV] John Larroquette (b. 1947)American film, television and stage actor. His roles include Dan Fielding on the 1984-1992 sitcom Night Court (winning a then-unprecedented four consecutive Emmy Awards for his role); Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride, John Hemingway on The John Larroquette Show, and Carl Sack in Boston Legal. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35

319. [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

320. [FILM] Robert Clarke (1920-2005) actor known for cult classic sci-fi films of the 1950's. ANS, 1985.....20-30

322. [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

323. [FRANCE] Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French Republic. His works include: Études sur Aristophane (1867), Le Romantisme des classiques (1882), and the controversial Catholicisme et socialisme (1850). As a result, Napoleon III forced him into exile between 1851 and 1859. He later became a professor at the Collège de France and in 1881 became a lifetime member of the French senate. A street bearing his name is located in Paris's VIIe arrondissement bordering the Champs de Mars. ALS, 1869, 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. One soiled corner.........50-75

324. [FRANCE] Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French Republic. His works include: Études sur Aristophane (1867), Le Romantisme des classiques (1882), and the controversial Catholicisme et socialisme (1850). As a result, Napoleon III forced him into exile between 1851 and 1859. He later became a professor at the Collège de France and in 1881 became a lifetime member of the French senate. A street bearing his name is located in Paris's VIIe arrondissement bordering the Champs de Mars. ALS, 1869, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. One soiled corner.........50-75

325. Tisha Sterling (b.1944) Am. actress, and the daughter of the late actor Robert Sterling.  Sig. & inscribed 3x5 card.....10-15

326. [FRANCE] Pierre Brisson [1896-1964] long-time editor of Le Figaro. ALS, 1962, 1p., written on Le Figaro letterhead. To Mrs. Robert Kemp speaking about her husband, who was an important critic. Fine...........50-75

327. [MILITARY] Tommy Ray Franks (b.1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma) is a retired General in the United States Army, previously serving as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on July 6, 2000 and served until his retirement on July 7, 2003. He was the U.S. general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Franks also led the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. SIGNED & inscribed color 8x10 photo in uniform................30-40

328. [FILM] Jean Hersholt [1886-1956] noted actor who played Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi. He appeared in 140 films and directed four. Signed & inscribed 5x7 photo, he adds 1942. VG............50-75

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

330. [NOBEL] Philip Noel-Baker, Baron (1889 -1982) British politician, diplomat, academic, an outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959. SIGNATURE plus cover letter from his secretary dated March 27, 1946. ..............25-35

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

332. [FILM] Ann Sothern (1909- 2001) American stage, radio, film and television actress whose career spanned six decades. Signed 3x5 card.............20-30

333.  Hugh Cecil (1869-1956) The Lord Quickswood. British Conservative Party politician. During the early 20th century, Cecil (known to his friends as "Linky") was the eponymous leader of the Hughligans, a group of privileged young Tory Members of Parliament critical of their own party's leadership. Modelled after Lord Randolph Churchill's Fourth Party, the Hughligans included Cecil, F. E. Smith, Arthur Stanley, Ian Malcolm, and, until 1904, Winston Churchill. In 1908, Cecil was the best man at Churchill's wedding. Cecil dissented from the beginning from Joseph Chamberlain's policy of tariff reform, pleading in Parliament against any lowering of the idea of empire into that of a "gigantic profit-sharing business." He took a prominent position among the "Free Food Unionists", and consequently was attacked by the tariff reformers and lost his seat at Greenwich in 1906.  Signature on 3-3/8 x 2-1/2"............25-35


334. WM. A. DARLING (1817-1895) Businessman & MOC from NY; president of Murray Hill Bank. ALS, NY, 1868, 1p, 8vo. Letter of introduction. Slightly toned..............50-75

335. S. I. Hayakawa (1906-1992) Canadian-born American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry. He was an English professor, and served as president of San Francisco State University and then as United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Signed, inscribed color photo, 8x10. Accompanied by his unsigned US Senate calling card. VG..........35-45

336. John W. Forney (1817-1881) American journalist and politician. He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives 1851-1856 and 1860-1861. He was Secretary of the United States Senate 1861-1868. Brief ALS, Dec. 27, no tr., 1p...........25-35

337. [FILM] Sunset Carson (1920-1990) American B-western star of the 1940s. Signed & inscribed card showing as cowboy riding horse. 5-1/4 x 3-1/4". VG........25-35

338. (CANAL ZONE) W. S. CROSLEY (1871-1939). Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy. Naval attache, Petrograd Russia (1917-1918). Commanded Fifteenth Naval District, Balboa, Canal Zone. Document Signed, The Riggs National Bank, Washington, D.C., 1914. Bank check. With vignette of bank...........40-60

339. [ART] Lily Cushing (1909-1969) American painter. Autograph Note Signed "Lily" sent to artist Walt Kuhn. Postmarked Paris, 1938 she says "Dear Walt - Paris looks fine but the weather in wintery & wet. Will call you in a day or so. Lily." Slightly [unimportant] sun-toned........40-60

340. [IDAHO] Weldon B. Heyburn (1852-1912) U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1903 - 1912. The city of Heyburn is named for him, as is Mount Heyburn. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1909. Good clear signature............25-35

341. [BENJ. HARRISON] Message from the President of the United States, Feb. 19, 1890, government document, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 66, 29 pages, signed in type by Harrison. A report relative to the purchase and release of the surplus lands in the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation.......30-40

342. [BENJ. HARRISON] Message from the President of the United States, Dec. 18, 1889, government document, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 14, 91 pages, signed in type by Harrison. "A letter of the Secretary of the Interior relative to the purchase of a part of the Coeur d'Alene Reservation". Disdound but all present. Contains one foldout diagram....30-40

343. AGUSTIN EDWARDS [1878-1941]. Chilean banker and diplomat. Vice president of Chile (1901-02); minister for foreign affairs (1903, 1905, 1909, 1910); minister to Italy, Spain, and Switzerland (1905-06) and to Great Britain (1910-25); ambassador to Great Britain (1935-38). President, League of Nations Assembly (1922), and of 5th Pan-American conference (1923). ALS, Paris, 1922, 1p, 8vo. Sends these few lines in reply.............25-35

344. [MUSIC] STANISLAV SKROWACZEWSKY - FAMOUS CONDUCTOR. Signed 3x5 card......20-30

345. William Alfred Baehr  (1873-1943). American financier who was president of many utilities firms. Document Signed, North American Light and Power Co., Maine, 1919. Stock certificate. Signed while he was serving as vice-president. Issued to HENRIETTA COLGAN for ten shares of stock. Folded but VG...............50-75

346. [GREAT BRITAIN] Burke, Edmund. 1729-1797. British statesman and orator, b. Dublin. Entered Middle Temple (1750) but abandoned legal studies for literary work; published Vindication of Natural Society, satire upon Bolingbroke (1756), and On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757); began Annual Register (1758) and edited it for some 30 years. Became secretary to Marquis of Rockingham and entered Parliament (1765); gained high position among Whigs through eloquence on American question and vigorous opposition to George III' s policy of court domination and arbitrary rule; issued political pamphlets On the Present State of the Nation replying to Grenville on commerce and finance (1769), and Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, accusing Tory government of suppressing public opinion, as in Wilkes case (1770); advocated liberal treatment of colonies in speeches American Taxation (1774) and Conciliation with the Colonies (1775); championed free trade with Ireland and Catholic emancipation. Paymaster of the forces under Rockingham (1782) and in succeeding coalition government; took active part in investigation of East India Company and urged impeachment of Warren Hastings, opening the case (1788), and delivering nine-day speech in reply to defense (1794); supported Wilberforcein advocating abolition of slave trade (1788-89); appeared as champion of tradition and constitutionalism in conservative English mold in opposition to speculative innovation and mere democracy in Reflections on the French Revolution (1790) and a series of writings mounting in passionate denunciation and reaching climax in Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795-97); quarreled with Fox and Whigs (1791); retired from Parliament on pension (1794), defending its acceptance in the Letter to a Noble Lord (1796). ORIGINAL ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of BURKE [1853], image approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. Engraved by C.E. WAGSTAFF. UNSIGNED, of course. Very good condition...................35-45

347. Francis George Godolphin D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds (1798-1859) British peer and politician. ALS, nd, 2-1/2 pp..........25-35

348. [TEXAS] Richard "Cactus" Pryor (1923-2011) American broadcaster. He received his nickname after the old Cactus Theater on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, which was run by his father, "Skinny" Pryor. Pryor was first heard on Lady Bird Johnson 's radio station 590 KLBJ, though his face became as well known as his voice once he moved to television broadcasting on Austin television station KTBC. In addition to his work in radio and television, Pryor also appeared in two movies, Hellfighters and The Green Berets with John Wayne. Signed 1st edition of his book "Inside Texas", 1982, 194pp. The dust jacket is very good; book VG+. Signed & inscribed on half title page.........25-35

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349. ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of JEREMIAH DAY [1773-1867] NOTED YALE CLERGYMAN. Clean.....................20-30

350. [MEDICAL] ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of JOHN WAKEFIELD FRANCIS [1789-1861] one of the most distinguished American physicians. Clean........................20-30

351. (MAINE) JOCK [John R. McKernan, Jr.] - Gov. & U.S. congressman from Maine. Group of 7 TLSs, 1983-90, all signed Jock. 2 have punch holes. All to General Manager of Gannett Books in Portland, Maine. Thanks for book gifts. We don't know how many may be authentic but most, if not all, do not appear to be autopen signatures. McKernan is married to Sen. Olympia Snow.........60-80

352. [MAINE] PETERS, John Andrew, (uncle of John Andrew Peters [1864-1953]), a Representative from Maine; born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, October 9, 1822; attended Gorham Academy, and was graduated from Yale College in 1842; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Bangor, Maine, in 1844; member of the State senate in 1862 and 1863; served in the State house of representatives in 1864; attorney general of the State 1864-1866; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1873); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1872; judge of the supreme judicial court of Maine 1873-1883 and served as chief justice from 1883 until January 1, 1900, when he resigned; died in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, April 2, 1904; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. SIGNATURE........15-20

353. [NY] BENNETT, David Smith, a Representative from New York; born on a farm near Camillus, Onondaga County, N.Y., May 3, 1811; attended the common schools and the local academy in Onondaga; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Syracuse and engaged in the produce business, afterwards extending his business to New York City; moved to Buffalo in 1853 and built and operated several grain elevators; also purchased the original Dart grain elevator; elected a member of the State senate in 1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed his former business pursuits in Buffalo, N.Y., where he died November 6, 1894; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. SIGNATURE............15-20

354. [AMERICAN NAVAL] Chas. A. Seas - US Cousul. at [?] country. We can't make out the place but its somewhere in the Mediterranean. Very attractive ALS, 1870, 2-1/2pp, about 8 x 13". To Capt. Walker of the US Frigate Sabin. [ John Grimes Walker]. Content concerns an anchor of a Portuguese vessel is laying near, or under, the Sabin and cannot be taken up. Near fine condition.............75-100

Portrait of Capt. Walker

355. [CALIF.] JOHNSON, James Augustus, a Representative from California; born in Spartanburg, S.C., May 16, 1829; moved with his parents to Arkansas when quite young; attended the common schools; moved to California in 1853; studied medicine and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced the practice of law in Downieville, Calif.; member of the general assembly in 1859 and 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); Lieutenant Governor of California 1875-1880; moved to San Francisco; registrar of voters in 1883 and 1884; engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in San Francisco, Calif., May 11, 1896; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. CLIP SIGNATURE........15-20

356. [NY] SCHUMAKER, John Godfrey, a Representative from New York; born in Claverack, Columbia County, N.Y., June 27, 1826; completed preparatory studies in the Lenox (Mass.) Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1847; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1853 and continued the practice of law; district attorney for Kings County 1856-1859; corporation counsel for the city of Brooklyn 1862-1864; member of the State constitutional conventions in 1862, 1867, and 1894; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1864; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on November 23, 1905; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. SIGNATURE.......15-20

357. [KENTUCKY] BELL, Joshua Fry, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Danville, Boyle County, Ky., November 26, 1811; attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1828; studied law in Lexington, Ky.; traveled in Europe for several years before admission to the bar; commenced practice in Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846; secretary of state of Kentucky in 1849; chosen by the legislature as one of six commissioners to the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; delegate to the Border State convention in 1861; nominated in 1863 by the Union Democrats for Governor of Kentucky, but declined to accept the nomination; member of the State house of representatives 1862-1867; died in Danville, Ky., August 17, 1870; interment in Bellevue Cemetery. CLIP SIGNATURE........20-30

358. [RELIGION] W. DURHAM [William Van Mildert. 1765-1836) was the last Prince-Bishop of Durham (1826-1836), and one of the founders of the University of Durham. His name survives in Van Mildert College, founded in 1965. Mounted clip signature.......20-30

359. (David Berkley McCreary) Gunnison & McCreary [1826-1906] Union Brevet Brigadier General. He served as a 1st Lieutenant in one Erie Regiment of the Pennsylvania militia at the start of the Civil War. He then enlisted in the 145th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, rising to Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the regiment. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "gallant and meritorious services during the war". He served as Adjutant General of the Pennsylvania National Guard from 1867 to 1870. DS, 1874. Signed with his business name, Humboldt Safe Deposit & Trust Co., bank check. Cancellations affect signature......25-35

360. [NJ] CLIFF [Clifford P. Case] - US senator from New Jersey. 3 TLSs, 1973-75, 1p. 2 are autopen signed, one of which refers to House impeachment inquiry of President Nixon. PLUS ALS from congressman Peter Frelinguysen signed "Frel" & a TLS by him, 1974. All to the editor of Gannett Books publishing..........25-35

361. Edmund Blunden [1896-1974] English, poet, author. Signed Presentation/edition page from his book "Near & Far", 1929. Fine.....25-35

362. Chauncey M. Depew [1834-1928] US senator from NY. Signed card, 1904......20-30

363. Christopher Fry [1907-2005] English playwright. Signed, inscribed card, 1996. On lined side of 6x" card.....25-35

364. Alexander Dallas Bache [1806-1867] American physicist, scientist and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey mapping of the United States coastline. Clip signature with sentiment.......25-35

365. [NY] REEVES, Henry Augustus, a Representative from New York; born in Sag Harbor, N.Y., December 7, 1832; attended private schools in Sag Harbor, the Southampton Academy, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for three years, and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar; edited the Republican Watchman in Greenport from 1858 until his death; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); resumed newspaper interests; supervisor of Southold Town 1872-1894; member of the State assembly in 1887; member of the State commission in lunacy 1889-1897; died in Greenport, Suffolk County, N.Y., March 4, 1916; interment in Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, N.Y. SIGNATURE.......15-20



366. (MASSACHUSETTS) CENTRAL PART OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/4 x 3-1/4 plus margins. VG.................25-35

367. (MASSACHUSETTS) CENTRAL PART OF CONCORD, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 plus margins. Part of the court house is seen on the left. Burying-ground Hill [a post of observation to the British officers in the invasion of 1775] is seen a short distance beyond. VG...................25-35

368. (MASSACHUSETTS) LENOX, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 plus margins. VG.................25-35

369. [Olympics] Horace Ashenfelter, III (b.1923) American athlete. He competed in international athletics from 1947 to 1956 after service in World War II. Ashenfelter was one of America's finest runners during his career. Although he was considered a long shot, Ashenfelter was the surprise winner of the steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics at Helsinki. He finished ahead of Vladimir Kazantsev of USSR and John Disley of Great Britain, and broke Kazantsev's unofficial world record. Since Ashenfelter worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation , it led to humorous comments about him being the first American spy who allowed himself to be chased by a Russian. In addition, Ashenfelter won the Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete for the year 1952. The indoor track facility at his alma mater, Penn State, is named in his honor. Signed & inscribed album page. He adds 3000 meter steeplechase 1952 Olympic Games.........20-30

370. [Olympics] Tom Courtney (b. 1933) iAmerican athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Signed album page to which he adds 1956 Olympic 800 meters, 1600 meter relay.......20-30

371. [MUSIC] Ivor Foster (1870-1959) Baritone and teacher of singing. SIGNATURE ON ALBUM PAGE, HE DATES IT MARCH 1/1902. SIGNED BELOW BY H. LANE WILSON........20-30

372. [FRENCH THEATRE] Louis Desire Veron (1798-1867) French opera manager and publisher. Veron originally made his fortune from patent medicines. In 1829 he founded the journal Revue de Paris, and from 1838 to 1852 was owner and director of the Constitutionnel, in which he published Eugene Sue's novel based on the legend of the Wandering Jew. It was also during Veron's direction and at his suggestion that Sainte-Beuve contributed the Causeries du lundi, an early example of the regular newspaper column. He is largely known to history for his direction, from 1831-1835, of the Paris Opera. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1831, 1p. Not translated..................75-100

373. [MISSISSIPPI] John C. Stennis (August 3, 1901 - April 23, 1995) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. It was due to his work with the Armed Services committee (1969-1980) that he became known as the "Father of America's Modern Navy." TLS, 1974, 1p...........25-35

374. BRITISH SHOW BIZ - Lot of approx. 34 autographs comprosed of 14 small size photos & picture portraits; 2 ALSs, and 18 signatures. Needs research............80-120

375. Gloria Loring (born Gloria Jean Goff on December 12, 1946 in New York City) is an American singer and actress. Signed 3x5 card..........15-20

376. MARY WILSON - singer., best known for her work as a founding member of The Supremes. Signed 3x5 card..........20-30

377. LOUIS ELSBERG (1836-1885) physician & author. Two ALS's [1875] on postal cards.......25-35

378. [THEATRE] Charlotte B. Mantell [1866-1898] American actress. She was born in Brooklyn, NY, but her family base was from the San Francisco area, where she got her start in the theatre. She was fairly prominent during her time. Her second marriage was the the well known actor Robert B. Mantell, the Shakespearean/early motion picture actor. ALS, 1897, 1p. Written on Wayne Hotel, Fort Wayne, Ind. stationery. Says she received "my photos today. I am more than delighted. They are the best I ever had taken...." Neatly inalid to sheet.............25-35

379. [EARLY FILM] Liane Haid [1895-2000] Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Signed early postcard photo [leggy pose with cigarette]. VG..........40-60

380. Louis Bromfield [1896-1956] American author and conservationist who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts. Signed bank check, 1944.........50-75

381. Rita Wellman [1890-1965] American playwright - her first successful play "the Gentile Wife", was in 1917. She continued to be successful with other plays and was considered, with Susan Glasell, one of the most promising playwrights in the 1920s and 30s. She translated the journals of Benito Mussolini. AQS, 1925, inscribed to Howes Norris Jr., 2pp........40-60

382. (OHIO) MARTIN L. DAVEY (1884-1946) Governor. DS, 1935, appoitment...........25-35

383. [SCOTTISH] Misc. Lot comprised of: 1. Robert Anderson (1750- 1830) Scottish author and critic. For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical (14 vols. 8vo, Edin., 1792-1807). Autograph Manuscript Poem signed, 1-1/3 pages of his poem "Jacep the Peyper." 2. W.G. Blackie Murdoch (1880-1934) Scottish art critic, author. ALS, 2pp, mentions Whistler the artist. 3. Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846-1911) Liberal politician. Clip signature. 4. Sir Theodore Martin (1816-1909) Scottish poet. ANS [trimmed]. Each accompanied by biographical sheet.......100-150

384. [MUSIC] Goffredo Petrassi [1904-2003] influential Italian compser. SIGNATURE W/SENTIMENT, DATED ROME 1983...........20-30

385. James Bryce. 1st Viscount Bryce. [1838-1922]. British jurist, historian, and diplomat. Regius professor of civil law, Oxford (1870-93); M.P. (1880-1907); undersecretary for foreign affairs under Gladstone (1886), president of Board of Trade (1894-95), and chief secretary for Ireland in Campbell-Bannerman cabinet (1905-06). Ambassador to the U.S. (1907-13); signer of Anglo-American arbitration treaty (1911). Created viscount (1914); named to International Court of Justice (1914). Author of Holy Roman Empire (1864), The American Commonwealth (1888), Modern Democracies (1922), and of studies of South Africa and South America. ALS, Oxford, Oct. 29, no yr., 3pp., about returning from Italy and inviting correspondent to breakfast. VG............50-75

386. [BASKETBALL]  George Yardley (1928-2004) Basketball HOF. Sig. on lined card.......20-30

387. [BASKETBALL HOF] Dave Tobey (1898-1988 ) American basketball referee. He refereed many notable pro games in New York between 1918 and 1925. In 1926 he refereed the Syracuse vs. West Point game, which featured two future Hall of Famers, Vic Hanson and John Roosma . After that game he became popular and refereed many important games from 1926 to 1945, such as the first game with a three-man officiating crew (Georgetown vs. Columbia). He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961. Signed & inscribed 2-1/2 x 6-1/2" card with his picture & bio. information......20-30

388. Early Shipping Bill of Lading from the Rowland G. Hazard papers, dated Boston, 1840. For "Three Cases Shoes" being shipped on the Schooner Henry, now in Port of Boston and bound for Mobile. 10-1/2 x 5 in. Quite clean. VG. Nice small vignette of full-masted sailing ship. Signed by E. Bangs for the Master. Very nice example............25-35

389. [THEATRE] Louis Arsene Delaunay [1826-1903] French actor, born in Paris, the son of a wine-seller. He studied at the Conservatoire, and made his first formal appearance on the stage in 1845, in Molière's Tartuffe at the Odon. After three years at this house he made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Dorante in Corneilles Le Menteur , and began a long and brilliant career in young lover parts. He continued to act as jeune premier until he was sixty, his grace, marvellous diction and passion enchanting his audiences. It was especially in the plays of Alfred de Musset that his gifts found their happiest expression. In the thirty-seven years during which he was a member of the Comédie-Française, Delaunay took or created nearly two hundred parts. He retired in 1887, having been made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1883. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. VG.............. 60-80

390. [FRANCE] Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1827-1881), known as Paul de Saint-Victor, French author, was born in Paris. His father Jacques BM Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1772-1858), is remembered by his poem L'Espérance, and by an excellent verse translation of Anacreon. Saint-Victor, who ceased to use the title of count as being out of keeping with his democratic principles, began as a dramatic critic on the Pays in 1851, and in 1855 he succeeded Théophile Gautier on the Presse. In 1866 he migrated to the Liberté, and in 1869 joined the staff of the Moniteur universel. In 1870, during the last days of the second empire, he was made inspector-general of fine arts. Almost all Saint-Victor's work consists of articles, the best known being the collection entitled Hommes et dieux (1867). His death interrupted the publication of Les Deux Masques , in which the author intended to survey the whole dramatic literature of ancient and modern times. Saint-Victor's critical faculty was considerable, though rather one-sided. He owed a good deal to Théophile Gautier, but he carried ornateness to a pitch far beyond Gautier's. Saint-Victor died in Paris on 9 July 1881. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG............50-75

391. [U.S. GRANT] Message from the President of the United States, April 4, 1876, government document, House of Rep. Ex. Doc. No. 154, 12 pages, signed in type by Grant. Regarding Pawnee Indians. VG....30-40

392. [FRANCE] Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" [1859-1926] Breton folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. Le Braz was sent on foreign cultural missions by the Government of France twenty times. He made several visits to the US, Canada and Switzerland, notably lecturing at Harvard University in 1906, and at Columbia University in 1915. ALS, 1900, 3pp. 4-1/2 x 7 in. ............60-80

393. [FRANCE] Georges Valois (real name Alfred-Georges Gressent; 1878-1945) French journalist and politician. After having written his first book, L'Homme qui vient, he met the nationalist and monarchist writer Charles Maurras and became a member of his Action Française (AF) league, where he continued to follow the workers' movement. As his employment would have been compromised by an involvement in the far-right monarchist league, he took the pseudonym of Georges Valois. Georges Valois was finally arrested by the Nazis on 18 May, 1944, and died in February 1945 of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. ALS, 1911, 2pp, 4-3/4 x 6-1/2 in.............75-100

394. Sir Gerald du Maurier (1873-1934) was an English actor and manager. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. In 1902, he married the actress Muriel Beaumont with whom he had three daughters: writer Angela du Maurier (1904–2002), best-seller Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) and painter Jeanne du Maurier (1911–1996).  His popularity lay in his subtle yet realistic acting style: a "delicately realistic style of acting that sought to suggest rather than to state the deeper emotions".  His Times obituary said of his career: "His parentage assured him of engagements in the best of company to begin with; but it was his own talent that took advantage of them."  With Frank Curzon, he co-managed Wyndham's Theatre from 1910 to 1925, and then moved to the St James's Theatre. He served as the president of the Actors' Orphanage. Knighted in 1922 at the peak of his popularity, he continued to perform throughout his life. In later years he took on cinema roles such as Lord Camber's Ladies (1932), a German doctor in I Was a Spy (1933), the emperor's valet in Catherine the Great (1934) and, shortly before his final illness, Wessensee in the Michael Balcon version of Jew Süss (1934).  Brief TLS, Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1912, 1p.  Says he will read the play as soon as he can. VG............25-35

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396. HERBERT BOYER (1936- ) American Biochemist. Genetic engineering (DNA Cloning) using living organisms was first accomplished soon after it became feasible in the early 1970s. In 1973 Herbert Boyer, of the University of California at San Francisco, and Stanley Cohen, at Stanford University, reported the construction of functional organisms that combined and replicated genetic information from different species. Their experiments dramatically demonstrated the potential impact of DNA recombinant engineering on medicine and pharmacology, industry and agriculture. SIGNED 5x7 portrait photograph.............25-35

397. [FRANCE] Henry Houssaye (1848-1911) French historian and academician. The military history of Napoleon I then attracted him. His first volume on this subject, called 1814 (1888), went through no fewer than forty-six editions. It was followed by 1815, the first part of which comprises the first Restoration, the return from Elba and the Hundred Days (1893); the second part, Waterloo (1899); and the third part, the second abdication and the White Terror (1905). He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1895. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. VG........50-75

398. [FRANCE] Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac (1843-1904) was the son of Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac , and while still young associated with his father in both politics and journalism. In 1866 he became editor of the Conservative paper Le Pays , and figured in a long series of political duels. On the declaration of war in 1870 he volunteered for service and was taken prisoner at Sedan. On his return from prison in a fortress in Silesia he continued to defend the Bonapartist cause in Le Pays, against both Republicans and Royalists. Elected deputy for the department of Gers in 1876, he adopted in the chamber a policy of obstruction to discredit the republican régime. In 1877 he openly encouraged MacMahon to attempt a Bonapartist coup detat, but the marshals refusal and the death of the prince imperial foiled his hopes. He now played but a secondary rôle in the chamber, and occupied himself mostly with the direction of the journal L'Autorité, which he had founded. He was not re-elected in 1902, and died in November 1904. His sons took over L'Autorité and the belligerent traditions of the family. ALS, not dated, 1p. VG.........60-80

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

400. [PORTRAIT] of Robert Bloomfield  engraved by William Ridley (1764-1838  ), after painting by Samuel Drummond (1765-1844).  Approx. 3.5 x 3" on 9 x 5.5"  paper.  Dated 1801.  Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) was an English labouring class poet whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. Fine.....25-35