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1. Robert Pickett [died 1856] writes to his son George E. Pickett, who would become the famous Confederate General. A 4 page folded stampless letter - part of last page is written on the address page. Dated March 16, 1840, "two weeks having elapsed since you left us," but the letter is only filled with grief, as "the almighty, in his wise dispensation, has snatched from this world of trouble, one of your dear little friends, whom you left in the bloom of youth . . . yes my dear son, your poor little friend James Lyons, is no more." In addition, he is informed that "your mother has been quite unwell for some days."  At the tender age of fifteen, future Confederate General George E. Pickett found himself miles from his native Virginia, studying law under the tutelage of his uncle, Andrew Johnston, a prominent Quincy, Illinois, attorney who was friends with fellow Illinois lawyer, Abraham Lincoln. Pickett was born in Richmond, Virginia, the first of the eight children of Robert and Mary Pickett, a prominent family of Old Virginia of English origins, and one of the "first families" of Virginia. He was the cousin of future Confederate general Henry Heth.  He went to Springfield, Illinois, to study law, but at the age of 17 he was appointed to the United States Military Academy. Legend has it that Pickett's West Point appointment was secured for him by Abraham Lincoln, but this is largely believed to be a story circulated by his widow following his death. Lincoln, as an Illinois state legislator, could not nominate candidates, although he did give the young man advice after he was accepted; Pickett was actually appointed by Illinois Congressman John T. Stuart, a friend of Pickett's uncle and a law partner of Abraham Lincoln. The letter is addressed to Pickett Care of Capt. Jno. Lymsington, St. Louis, Missouri.  This letter is docketed by Pickett himself.  Excellent condition for its age.  Approx. size 8 x 10 in.......800-1200

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3. [REFERENCE BOOK] Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the Revolutionary War Maine by FISHER, CARLETON E. AND SUE G. FISHER (COMPILERS).  Louisville, KY: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. 1982. Hardcover.. VG. Red, white and blue cloth. 917 pp. No illus . This book lists all Maine men who served in the Revolutionary War, all who came to Maine after serving in the war, all Patriots, such as anyone elected to a town or public office, post rider, guide, etc.  Like new condition.........Reserved at $90

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4. [ART] WILLIAM BAZIOTES (1912-1963) American painter. From 1939 on, Baziotes was Jackson Pollock's liaison to the American Surrealists. His influence was large on Pollock, even to the extent of first demonstrating the drip technique to Pollock in 1936. The legendary art critic, Clement Greenburg, said -".....the future of American art depends on what [Motherwell], Baziotes, Pollock, and only a comparatively few others do from now on..." OFFERED HERE: ORIGINAL ink drawing. Unsigned. Also sketches on verso. Approx. 14 x 17 in. on newsprint paper, which is thin and brittle. Light toning along right edge. Most likely done while in Leon Kroll's life drawing class circa 1935. Guaranteed authentic without time limit to original purchaser. We'll write a letter of guarantee. Provenance: From the collection of the late Harry and Constance Baziotes [brother & sister]. Light toning along right edge..............600-800

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

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6. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Signed 1956 bank check, cancelled in Cuba. Endorsed by Roberto Herrera, Hemingway's friend, handyman, and photographer. The photo of Hemingway is borrowed from the net and does not come with this check. The cancel stamp is over the signature.........2000-3000

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7. [ART] Merv Slotnick [b. 1941] American artist living in Maine. His work is in many collections throughout the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, France, etc. His work has been included in exhibitions at New York University; Maine Biennial; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Mansfield State College, Pa.; Ball State Univ.; Edison Community College, Cape Coral, Florida; Center For The Arts, Midland, Michigan; Central Michigan Univ.; Saginaw Art Museum; Provincetown Art Association; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Battle Creek Arts Center, Mich. Northern Arizona Univ.; Alaska Pacific Univ., plus others. He was also included in the All Michigan Artists Traveling Show [1970-73] which traveled to various colleges & universities in Michigan. Original color aquatint, pencil signed, titled SKY RIDE, numbered 1/10. Dated 1972. Approx. 14-3/4 x 10” image plus margins . There are 2 damp stains at left edge and printer’s ink in margin, all far enough from image that they will not show when matted............150-250

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8. [FILM] Peter Lawford (1923-1984) English-born American actor. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, and more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. DOCUMENT SIGNED [1967], Employee's Withholding Exemption Certificate, 8 x 3.5". Fine. Provenance: estate of Milton Ebbins. Fine...............300-400

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9. [FRANCE] Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix de Castries (1727-1801) French marshal. He was named Secretary of State of the Navy on 13 October 1780 on the recommandation of his friend Jacques Necker. He remained in this post until 24 August 1787. In 1783, he was made a marshal of France. He reorganised the fleet and had a new naval strategy adopted by the Grand Conseil, that the navy's ships of the line should be kept at sea while a flotilla blockaded the Royal Navy and kept it in port. This strategy led to French naval successes in the American War of Independence. He fought with distinction in the Seven Years' War and all Louis XV's campaigns. "Mestre de camp" of the régiment du Roi-Cavalerie from 26 March 1744, he was maréchal de camp and commandant général of the cavalry from 1748. In 1756, he commanded the expeditionary force sent to St Lucia, and the Carenage quarter of the island was renamed Castries after him. He next distinguished himself in the Battle of Rossbach (5 November 1757), in which he was wounded twice. Becoming lieutenant général (on 28 December 1758), he became maître de camp général of the cavalry on 16 April 1759. At the Battle of Clostercamp (16 October 1760), through his sang-froid he saved a situation when all seemed lost. Offered here is a Letter Signed, VERSAILLES, 1786, 1-page, approx. 8-1/4 x 12-1/2".  Not translated.............200-300

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10. [ENGLAND]  Duchess of Sutherland, Harriet Sutherland, Leveson-Gower  (1806-1868)   was Mistress of the Robes under several Whig administrations: 1837–1841, 1846–1852, 1853–1858, and 1859–1861; and was a great friend of Queen Victoria. She was an important figure in London's high society, and used her social position to undertake various philanthropic undertakings including the protest of the English ladies against American slavery.  ALS  written in the 3rd person, dated July 26, no year, 1p. Approx. 4-1/2 x 7-1/4".   Written from Stafford House, (St. James's Palace), which became an important centre of society,  and the starting-point of various philanthropic undertakings. There the protest of the English ladies against American slavery was framed in 1853.  On the accession of Queen Victoria the duchess was appointed Mistress of the Robes, and held that post when the Whigs were in office until her husband's death (August 1837 to September 1841, July 1846 to March 1852, January 1853 to February 1856, June 1859 to April 1861). From the Queen's refusal to part with the Duchess and her other ladies arose the bedchamber crisis of 1839, with the result that the Whigs returned to office. Victoria gave a sympathetic description of the Duchess's character, and after the death of Prince Albert, the prince consort, spent the first weeks of her widowhood with the Duchess as her solitary companion.  The Duchess's last public appearance was at the Prince of Wales's marriage in 1863. In that year she was seized with an illness from which she never recovered. However, she was able to entertain Garibaldi, for whom she had great admiration, at Chiswick House and Trentham, Staffordshire, during his visit to England in April 1864. In her letter she is declining assistance. VG.  RARE!..............150-200

11. Edward Albee [b. 1928] American playwright. Signed 10 x 8 photo. VG............50-75

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12. [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

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

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15. [FILM]  Group photo of friends Van Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn and Peter Lawford.  c. 1950s. 8 x 10 in.
VG for its age.........150-200

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16. [FILM] The Wynne - 8 x 10 photo including Ed Wynn, Keenan, and his two sons around a birthday cake. c. 1950s. 10 x 8 in.
VG for its age.........50-75

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17. [FILM] rare photo of the cult and tragic character actor Laird Cregar, the child is Ned Wynn [son of Keenan Wynn], The original photo taken in 1942.  This appears to be a later vintage photo of the original. VG............25-35

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18. [FILM] Joan Crawford and Van Johnson, c. 1950s, 8x10 in. heavy stock mat finish photo, creases at 2 corners, mounting traces on verso do not show-thru..............50-75

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19. [FILM]  Martha Raye & Eddie Fisher [while married to Liz Taylor], 8 x 10 in.  VG for its age.............50-75

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20. [FILM] Peter Lawford & Lana Turner, 10 x 8 photo.  Photo looks newer than a vintage date showing Lawford and Lana Turner so youthful.  VG.......25-35

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21. [THE BEATLES]  8x10 photo showing Van Johnson's daughter Schuyler (in her bare feet!), shaking hands with the Beatles at Allen Livingston's home in 1964, (who brought them to Capital Records, and was about to present them at the Hollywood Bowl).  We believe that this photo is probably a re-printed photo as it looks newer than a 1964 photo.   Perhaps Schuyler made copies??? VG..........25-35

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22. [FILM]  8x10 photo showing Lana Turner, Martha Raye and Ned Wynn [son of Keenan & Evie Wynn].  Identified on verso "Foothill" 21 st B/D Party 1962.  VG...........25-35

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23. [FILM]  Peter Lawford (1923-1984) English-born American actor.  He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, and more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films.  Offered here is a signed & inscribed early vintage photograph, inscribed "For Ivory - Two years is an awful long time, Love & kisses from "The Teeth!" Peter Lawford".  Great photo but the ink has lightened considerably.  Last name of his signature is almost gone.......200-300

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24. FILM] Michael York (b. 1942) British born American actor. Nice ALS, 1982, 1p.........25-35

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

27 . Amalia Fleming (1912-1986)  Greek doctor, activist and politician. Fleming was born in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1912. She moved to Greece and, during the Axis occupation, took part in the National Resistance, for which she was jailed by the Italians. She married Sir Alexander Fleming in 1953, but with his death in March 1955 she was widowed less than two years later.  Signed 3-1/2 x 4-1/8" photo. VG..........40-60

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

29. [SCIENCE] Lee (Alvin DuBridge) (1901-1994) American educator and physicist. He became the founding director of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1940, and served until 1945. He also served as president of the California Institute of Technology between 1946 and 1969, and was the first presidential Science Advisor of two administrations: under President Harry S. Truman from 1953 to 1955, and under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. DuBridge developed the first vacuum tube. TLS, signed "Lee", 1965, 1p, as Pres. of Calif. Institute of Technology. To Dr. Franklyn A, Johnson, about Johnson's resignation........75-100

31. Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet FRS (1756-1832 )  British surgeon.  Home was born in Kingston-upon-Hull and educated at Westminster School. He gained a schoalrship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but decided instead to become a pupil of his brother-in-law, John Hunter, at St George's Hospital.  Hunter had married his sister, the poet and socialite Anne Home, in July 1771.  He assisted Hunter in many of his anatomical investigations, and in the autumn of 1776 he partly described Hunter's collection. There is also considerable evidence that Home plagiarized Hunter's work, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly; he also systematically destroyed his brother-in-law's papers in order to hide evidence of this plagiarism.  Having qualified at Surgeons' Hall in 1778, Home was appointed assistant surgeon at the naval hospital, Plymouth. In 1787 he appointed assistant surgeon, later surgeon, at St George's Hospital. He became Sergeant Surgeon to the King in 1808 and Surgeon at Chelsea Hospital in 1821. He was made a baronet (of Well Manor in the County of Southampton) in 1813.  He was the first to describe the fossil creature (later 'Ichthyosaur') discovered near Lyme Regis by Joseph Anning and Mary Anning in 1812. Following John Hunter, he initially suggested it had affinities with fish. Home also did some of the earliest studies on the anatomy of platypus and noted that it was not viviparous, theorizing that it was instead ovoviviparous.  Home published prolifically on human and animal anatomy.  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, gave their Croonian Lecture many times between 1793 and 1829 and received their Copley Medal in 1807.  ALS, Richmond, Feb. 5, no yr, 4pp, to [Colonel] Wilson. Approx. 7-1/4 x 9".  Usual folds. Starting to separate at middle horizontal fold else very good condition.  Thanking Wilson for his suggestions for William about what things were required to order and advice.  Home did not want to rely on trades people. Knows Grantham but wants to get William recommended by other means.  Sorry Wilson had to use Calomel  [medicine] -" worse in its effects than the disease". Has bad eyes. Does Wilson want to get rid of the chest he had in India to Home.  Scarce medical autograph.........150-200

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32. [FILM]  Peter Lawford (1923-1984) American actor. Carbon receipt copy for $75 - his dues for 1962 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD. Approx. 6 x 3.5". VG.  Not signed............50-75

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

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34. [ART] Fred M. Hines  (deceased) American artist, well known in Maine and Vermont.  Large signed pastel landscape, approx. 20 x 25-1/2".  VG...........400-600

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35. [MUSIC] Michelle Phillips (b. 1944) American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained fame as a member of the 1960s group The Mamas & the Papas, and is the last surviving original member of the group. Signed & inscribed 7x5 photo plus unsigned autograph note. Michelle Phillips (born June 4, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained fame as a member of the 1960s group The Mamas & the Papas, and is the last surviving original member of the group. VG............50-75

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36. [THEATRE] Noel Coward's "WEEK END" - an archive concerning this play by Coward: Andree Mery [translator of this play] signed 1946, contract, 2 pages. A brief TLS, 1961, signed Andree mery mentioning Week End. A 1935 TLS [signature not identified] mentioning Mery and Week End. Two more ALSs by Andree Mery, both 1928, both about Week End. Lastly, a 1929 contract for Week End, signed by several. Nothing is signed by Noel Coward..........75-100

38. [Theatre: Drury Lane] ALS of Samuel Spring to the Duke of Sussex, submitting a bill for two private boxes, together with the receited bill itself. Each 1p, 1816............80-120

39. [FRANCE] 1628 French Mystery document on vellum, signed, approx. 11-1/2 x 7-1/4". Appears to be incomplete; probably to save the signature & seal, as it is most probably written by an archbishop or Cardinal [so identified on plastic cover].  Approx. 17-3/4 x 7-3/4".  Scan below shows left side of document; too large for scanner's window...........125-175

40. [MUSIC] Claude-Marie-Mécène Marié de l'Isle [1811-1882] French musician and opera singer. Later in life he became a voice teacher. His pupils included his three daughters, notably Célestine Galli-Marié, who created the title role in the premiere of Bizet's Carmen. ALS, no date, 1p. Accompanied by a small mounted photograph of Galli-Marie, his famous daughter. Two pieces, both very good condition..........75-100

41. [TV] Dick Van Dyke  (b. 1925)   American actor, comedian, writer, singer, dancer, and producer with a career spanning seven decades.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........30-40

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42. William K. Vanderbilt (1849-1920) member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family and a horse breeder. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1907, approx. 22 pages, 8x13 in. Signed on last page by Vanderbilt and Franklin D. Locke as Trustees selling parcels of land located in Chautauqua County, New York, to Guaranty Trust Co.. The front page has old badly discolored tape repair.........200-300

43. Charles Rollin Buckalew (1821-1899) American lawyer and Democratic party politician from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Buckalew was the most influential early advocate of proportional representation in the United States. His proposals for a type of voting system known as cumulative voting gained significant support in Congress, and he played a central role in the adoption of cumulative voting in several places, including Illinois for state legislative elections in 1870, a system that lasted in that state until 1980. Autograph Letter Signed, Near Bloomsburg, Oct. 15, 1862, 2pp, approx. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4" To Col. N.E. Piollet. Good political content. VG.......75-100

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

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

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46. [MUSIC] Charlie Daniels (b. 1936) American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is perhaps best known for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has written and performed. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008,  and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG.............35-45

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

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

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

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50. [FRANCE] c. 1840 Manuscript document - identified as "To Delegate of Peace Society - speaks about two big nations [France & Germany?", unsigned, 2pp, approx. 8 x 11-1/2". VG..............100-150

51. [ENTERTAINMENT]  Edward "Eddie" Rubin (1912-1999) was a Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer, who represented such clients as Steve McQueen, Goldie Hawn, Warren Beatty and Howard Hughes.  As a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Eddie chaired the firm's entertainment practice, during which time he represented several major film studios.  During his career, he served as president of the California Bar Association, the largest state bar association in the United States, and as a trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.  TLS, 1963, 1p, to Milton Ebbins, c/o Chrislaw Productions, about employing a composer. VG........25-35

52. [FILM] Cesar Romero (1907-1994) American actor. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. VG......40-60
 
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53. [TV] Stacey Keach (b. 1941) American actor.  Signed 5x7 photo. VG..........25-35

54. [FILM] Joanne Woodward  (b. 1930) American actress and producer. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).  Signed movie still photo from the film "Winning" pictured with her husband Paul Newman.  Fair contrast........35-45

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55. [FILM] RANDOLPH SCOTT (1898-1987) American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career. Signed 3x5 card [yellow]. Fine..............30-40

57. [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] WILLENE WHISENHANT - early NASA photographer. Offered here is an original b/w vintage photograph of astronaut Gordon Cooper strapped in centrifuge at Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pa. NASA S-63-3978. The photographer writes "Gordo Cooper in Centrifuse" below image. Provenance: from the personal files of Willene Whisenhant, the photographer. Fine.........100-150

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58. [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] WILLENE WHISENHANT - early NASA photographer. Offered here is an original color vintage photograph of astronaut Gordon Cooper standing near plane. Whisenhant writes in ink below image "Cooper's Private Plane." NASA S-63-1757. Provenance: from the personal files of Willene Whisenhant, the photographer. Fine....100-150

59. [PORTRAIT] Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863) American naval officer who was noted for his service in the American Civil War and also for his contributions to several naval reforms in the years prior to the war. When the war came, he was appointed to command of the Western Gunboat Flotilla, predecessor of the Mississippi River Squadron. In that position, he led the gunboats in the Battle of Fort Henry. For his services with the Western Gunboat Flotilla, Foote was among the first naval officers to be promoted to the then-new rank of rear admiral. Original antique engraved portrait, image approx. 7 x 5" plus margins. VG........25-35

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60. [FILM] Ned Beatty  (b. 1937) American actor who has appeared in more than 100 films and has been nominated for an Academy Award. Signed color photo from the film "Deliverance", 10x8". VG. Signed in silver ink...........25-35

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61. [ART] Original photograph of a painting inscribed on the back by the artist to fellow artist, Albert Sterner. Written on the back - In sincere homage To Albert Sterner, this wise and always young nestor of American painters on his 80th birthday from his admirer Josp Nicolas. Approx. 9.5 x 8". Sterner, of course, was a prominent artist who died in 1946. Sterner was born in 1863 so that would date this present around 1943. There are some surface scratches that show when held at certain angle o/w very good......50-75

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62.  Group of 7 biographical proof sheets signed. These are for the 1946-47 edition of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. Includes: W. Morgenstierne, Paul V. McNutt [signed with initials], Clarence E. manion, Chesly Manly, L.C. Marshal, Wm. McChesney Martin Jr., and James Lewis Morrill......................40-60

63. [FILM]  Kurt Kreuger (1916-2006) was a Swiss-reared German actor.  Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Kreuger was primarily offered roles in World War II movies as a German officer,  prompting him to complain about being typecast as a Nazi.  TLS signed Kurt, no dated, sent to Jess who was a syndicted columnist.  Jess was likely Jessica Leigh who wrote about dogs. Nice letter talking mostly about German Shepard..........35-45

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64. [THEATRE] Beatrice Cameron (1868-1940) actress who was married to Richard Mansfield. She earned an enviable reputation as leading lady in many of his most successful plays. ANS, no date, about 4-1/4 x 4-3/4". Says she has a fatigued throat. VG.........20-30

66. [ART] Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) American artist, illustrator and author. He studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. A transcendentalist and mystic, Kent painted remote and austere lands, including Newfoundland (1914-15), Tierra del Fuego (1922-23), and Greenland (1929; 1931-32; 1934-35).Collotype offered here from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925.Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins. Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made paper. This is a proof printing. Fine, black impressions, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. ................100-150

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75.  [FILM]  "Butterfly" McQueen (1911-1995)  American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. She continued as an actress in film in the 1940s, then moving to television acting in the 1950s. During World War II, she frequently appeared on the Armed Forces Broadcast "Jubilee," as a comedienne.  Photocopy of a signed photo [printed signature] on which she writes in blue ballpoint pen "as 'Vashti'  of Duel in the Sun.", 8-1/2 x 11 in. So her signature nis printed [copied] but the rest in ink handwriting by McQueen. VG...........50-75

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76. [THEATRE] Katharine Cornell  (1893-1974) regarded as one of the greatest American stage actresses of the 20th century. She was nicknamed "First Lady of the Theatre," a title also bestowed upon her friend Helen Hayes, though each deferred to the other.  Offered are 3 items once owned by Cornell, formerly in the Collection of The Boothbay Theatre Museum [Maine].  Included are: her 1973 Membership card for The Friends of the Theatre and Music Collection, Museum of the City of New York. Also a 1953 color snapshot photo of her holding her dog.  And a piece of her stationery..............50-75   

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77. [VERMONT HISTORY] Lewis Richard Morris (1760-1825) United States Representative from Vermont and a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris. Born in Scarsdale, New York, he attended the common schools. He moved to Springfield, Vermont, and from 1781 to 1783 was secretary of foreign affairs. He was a member of the Springfield meeting-house committee in 1785, was tax collector in 1786 and 1787, Windsor County court clerk from 1789 to 1796 and was judge of the same court until 1801. He was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1790 and 1791, and was a member of the convention to ratify the United States Constitution . He was secretary of the constitutional convention in Windsor in 1793. He attended the Vermont ratifying convention in Bennington, where he voted in support of the Constitution. Morris was a brigadier general in the State militia in 1793 and major general of the First Division from 1795 to 1817. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797 and 1803 to 1808, and served as speaker. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1803. His abstention from voting assured Thomas Jefferson's election as President over Aaron Burr in the House of Representatives in February, 1801. DOCUMENT SIGNED, signed, 1p. 7.5 x 6.5 in., Windsor, Sept. 10, 1794. Court document, toned. Picture of him is NOT included. VG...............100-150

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78. Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) American industrialist, politician, and social reformer. Hazard was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island but grew up in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in the home of his maternal grandfather, Isaac Peace. He was educated in a Quaker boarding school in Burlington, New Jersey, where he developed a particular interest in mathematics. In 1819 he returned to Rhode Island to join his elder brother Isaac in the management of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. In 1828 he married Caroline Newbold of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There is much we could say about his business and political careers but we will mention his activity related to slavery because Hazard considered "as the greatest effort of his life" (according to his granddaughter) began when he was in New Orleans on business in the winter of 1841. After he learned that a free African-American man from Newport, Rhode Island was in custody in Louisiana as an escaped slave, his investigations found that many free African-Americans were being detained under the assumption they were escaped slaves. He worked with Jacob Barker [see lot 79 above in this auction], then a New Orleans lawyer, to obtain freedom for nearly 100 people being held as slaves. The action later led to charges being filed against several public officials who were responsible for the illegal detentions. His involvement with abolitionist causes and in the Republican Party eventually caused his company to lose favor with its markets in the southern United States. This helped to prompt the Peace Dale mills' transition from making cheap cotton products to selling higher quality woolens. In 1854, while serving in the state legislature, he made a speech criticizing the Stonington Railroad Company for charging discriminatory rates for both freight and passengers. Shortly thereafter, the railroad company retaliated by refusing to let Hazard ride on one of its trains. Resolutions passed by the South Kingstown Town Council in reaction to his treatment are said to have formed "the germ of" the Interstate Commerce Law of 1886. Hazard retired from the textile business in 1866 and invested in the Union Pacific Railroad. After Union Pacific fell into financial disarray and became a party to the Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872, Hazard spent much time dealing with the company's financial affairs. Document Signed, Peacedale, R.I., Sept. 4, 1843, to pay $33.75 into the account of S.W. Jordan, of New Orleans.  Fine condition - superb example of his signature. Picture of Hazard is not included here.........100-150

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79. [PIONEER KENTUCKY]  Duff Green (1791-1875) was an American teacher, military leader, politician, journalist, author, diplomat, industrialist and businessman. Born in Woodford County, Kentucky, he was a school teacher in his native state of Kentucky. He served under General William Harrison and the Kentucky militia in the War of 1812 and led the Missouri Brigade in the Indian Campaign, earning the rank brigadier general. Thereafter he was known by many as General Duff Green.  He then settled in Missouri, where he worked as a schoolmaster and practiced law. He was a member of the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1820, and was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1820 and to the state Senate in 1822, serving one term in each house. Becoming interested in journalism, he purchased and for two years edited the St Louis Enquirer.  In 1826, in Washington, D.C., he bought and later edited, The United States Telegraph, which became the principal organ of Andrew Jackson's backers, helping him defeat John Quincy Adams in the presidential election of 1828. Upon Jackson's election to the presidency, the Telegraph became the principal mouthpiece of the administration, receiving printing patronage estimated at $50,000 a year. Green became one of the  unofficial advisers of Jackson known as the Kitchen Cabinet on which Jackson depended heavily following the Petticoat affair. In the quarrel between Jackson and his vice president John C. Calhoun, who had also been Adams' vice president, Green supported Calhoun, and through the Telegraph, violently attacked the Jackson administration.  In consequence, the Jackson administration revoked its patronage for the Telegraph in the spring of 1831. Under the date of December 24, 1833, Adams records in his diary that James Blair "had knocked down and very severely beaten Duff Green, editor of the Telegraph..." Blair paid "three hundred dollars fine for beating and breaking the bones" of Green.  Green, however, continued to edit The United States Telegraph in the Calhoun interest until 1835, and gave vigorous support to that Calhoun's nullification views. Duff's daughter Margaret Maria was the mother of Calhoun's grandson, also named John Caldwell Calhoun.  In his second term, Jackson replaced Calhoun with Martin Van Buren as his vice president.  From 1835 to 1838 Duff edited The Reformation, a radically partisan publication, devoted to free trade, states' rights, and the idea of "Manifest Destiny".  In 1840 Green established the Pilot in Baltimore to support the Harrison-Tyler ticket. Although initially endorsed by the Whig party, Green's controversial editorials regarding Catholic influence in American politics alienated his readers. Subscriptions declined, and publication suspended in 1841.  In 1841-1843 he was in Europe on behalf of the Tyler administration, and he is said to have been instrumental in causing the appointment of Lord Ashburton to negotiate in Washington concerning the boundary dispute between Maine and Canada.  In January 1843 Green established in New York City a short-lived journal, The Republic, to combat the spoils system and to advocate free trade. In September 1844 Calhoun, then secretary of state, sent Green to Texas ostensibly as consul at Galveston, but actually, it appears, to report to the administration, then considering the question of the annexation of Texas, concerning the political situation in Texas and Mexico.  After the close of the war with Mexico, Green was sent to that country in 1849 by President Taylor to negotiate concerning the moneys which, by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States had agreed to pay; and he saved his country a considerable sum by arranging for payment in exchange instead of in specie.  Subsequently Green was engaged in railway building in Georgia and Alabama. He was also one of the founding associates in the incorporation of the New Mexican Railway Company. Duff was attracted to Dalton, Georgia in 1851 by the construction of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad from Knoxville, Tennessee to connect with the Western and Atlantic Railroad. He profited by making strategic land purchases. As his wealth grew, he donated land for many public projects in Dalton. During the Civil War Green organized three iron manufacturing plants for production of iron, nails, horseshoes, and rails in support of the Confederacy. He and his son Ben also established the Dalton Arms Company in 1862. After the war he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson for his support of the Confederacy and paid a $20,000 fine.  Duff Green was one of the founding members of the Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency, incorporated Nov 1, 1859 in Pennsylvania.   At that time he gained 42,000 shares but paid with a bad check the 5% payment on only 5,000 shares.   On March 26, 1864 Thomas C. Durant, vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company purchased the corporation as a front construction company, whereby the directors and principal stock holders of the Union Pacific retained all construction profits. They then used these funds to purchase Union Pacific stock at par value and resell it on the open market for even greater profits. Durant changed the company name to the Crédit Mobilier of America. The scandal involving the sale of discounted Credit Mobilier stock to Congressional members voting for payment of exorbitant transcontinental railroad construction costs took place during the Johnson administration but was uncovered during the Grant administration. Green died in Dalton, a city that he had helped to build.  Offered here is a signed document from his early years in Elizabethtown, Ky, dated 1813, approx. 7-3/4 x 5 in.   His signature appears first line at top. VG.  The picture of Duff Green is not included here...........100-150

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80. [Maine Railroad] Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad Company - Maine 1855. Beautiful certificate from the Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad Company issued in 1855. This historic document has a vignette of a railroad train steaming across the countryside. This item is hand signed by the Company's President and Treasurer and is over 158 years old.  Approx. 10.5 x 7.5 in. VG.............80-120

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81. [PHOTOGRAPHY] André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889)  French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card. Disdéri, a brilliant showman, made this system of mass-production portraiture world famous.  Original vintage cdv photograph of Prince Schakowskoy of Russia. About 4-1/8 x 2-3/8 in. VG...........50-75

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82. Frank M. Cowles - signed document, 1899, Suffolk Co., Mass., forming a corporation to be known by the name of Cowles Art Institute. Approx. 8.5 x 14 in., 1-page.  Also known as Cowles Art School (aka Cowles School of Art) was a studio building on 148 Dartmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts,  that was established in 1883 and continued operation until 1900.  It was one of the largest art schools in the city, having several hundred scholars.  By the end of the 19th century, Boston had become an important art center.   A number of highly respected artists were teaching in city. The rich environment for art had been promoted at least in part by the Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870. The act mandated drawing lessons in public schools. To fill the need for art teachers, Massachusetts Normal Art (MNA) was established in 1873. Two blocks behind the Museum of Fine Arts, in the New Studio Building near the Back Bay Station, was the Cowles Art School (1883).  Cowles Art School offered instruction in figure drawing and painting from the flat cast and life, artistic anatomy, perspective and composition, painting still life, drawing and painting the head from life, drawing still life, oil and water colors, ad perspective. Notable alumni and instructors included Childe Hassam, William McGregor Paxton, Abbott Fuller Graves, George Elmer Browne, Robert Vonnoh etc.  Fine..........25-350

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83. [ART]  Stephen Parrish (1846-1938) American  painter and an etcher and the father of Maxfield Parrish. Parrish was engaged in mercantile pursuits until he was 30, when he applied himself to art, studying for a year with a local teacher. In 1878 he first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia, and in 1879 at the National Academy in New York City. He soon turned his attention also to etching, and in December 1879, produced his first plate. After that he applied himself to both branches of art, exhibiting in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Liverpool, Paris, Munich, Dresden, and Vienna. He was a member of the New York Etching Club and the Society of Painter-Etchers of London. From 1884 to 1886, he traveled in Europe. Offered here is a pencil signed etching, title is "November", done 1880 [#12 in Cat. Schneider].  As you can see it is in poor condition: 2 short tears coming  slightly into image at top, badly toned in margins, numerous pieces missing from margin.   Our estimate reflects these faults...........50-75

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84. "Alec" Waugh (1898-1981)  British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh. Waugh is said to have invented the cocktail party when he was active in London social life in the 1920s when he served Rum Swizzles to astonished friends who thought they had come for tea. Waugh also has a footnote in the history of reggae music. The success of the film adaptation of Island in the Sun and the Harry Belafonte title track provided inspiration as well as the name for the highly successful Island Records record label.  Brief ALS, no date, 1p, 8x7 in. VG..........75-100
 
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85. [ART] Jacob George Strutt (1784–1867) was an English landscape painter and engraver in the manner of Constable. He was the husband of the writer Elizabeth Strutt, and father of the painter, traveller and archeologist Arthur John Strutt.  Strutt moved to Lausanne in about 1830. With his son Arthur he travelled in France and Switzerland from 1835 to 1837, and later to Italy. He returned to England in 1851, and died at Rome in 1864. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1822 to 1852; in 1845  The Ancient Forum, Rome was shown, and in 1851 Tasso's Oak, Rome.  He published two books of poetry in translation, and several books of engravings. Original etching, c. 1825, plate signed, Maple at Boldre, in the New Forest.  We see at least 2 different dates for this artist, the other being 1790–1864.  Image approx. 11.5 x 14 plus margins which have light stains & foxing.  The image area ans surrounding are very good.............100-150

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86. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday & Co. She was also an exhibiting artist, having work shown at the Krausharr Gallery in New York in 1949. Other exhibitions include: Wilmington Museum, Delaware 1940-45; Maracaibo 1936-39; Barbizon Plaza, NYC 1940; Lake Placid Club, NY 1940, etc. She studied at the Art Students League with Jules Gotlieb, Bridgman & Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Watercolor painting, 7-3/4 x 8", unsigned. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG............100-150

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88. Newburyport, Mass. - 4 manuscript documents dating 1811-1823.  Monies paid by the town for various services and items such as panes of glass for court house, work done in school house.  There is a 5th document but the ink is too light to count.........50-75

89. [FRANCE] Armand Seguin (1767–1835) was a French chemist and physiologist.   In 1802, Bernard Courtois worked with Armand Séguin at the École Polytechnique on the study of opium. In conjunction with Séguin, Courtois isolated morphine, the first known alkaloid, from opium. Séguin presented his first memoir on opium to the French Institute in 1804. Séguin's and Courtois' opium research came to an end at the École Polytechnique in 1804. ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 7-1/4 x 9". Not translated. VG except for one short edge tear middle left border. Rare!................200-300

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90. Marion Gray Traver (1892 - 1964?) Born in Elmhurst, New York, she studied art with her father, George Traver. Until his death, she shared a studio with him for many years in New York City. Her favorite subject and the one that brought her much acclaim was New England winter scenes. She was active from 1918 to 1946 in the National Association of Women Artists. Among her many exhibition venues were the National Academy of Design from 1925 to 1935, the 1931 International Art Club in London, and the Catherine Wolfe Art Club in New York. Offered here is a pencil signed mono-print, approx. 19 x 15.5 in., contained in its original frame...................400-600

91. [STAMPS]  Robert Perrot - designer of the 8 cent United Nations stamp. Offered here is a sheet of 50 stamps [never used] signed in ink by Robert Perrot. Fine.............100-150

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92. The Right Reverend William Croswell Doane (1832-1913) was the 1st Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States. He was bishop from 1869 until his death in 1913. Doane served about 60 years in ordained ministry, a huge span for those times. As bishop, he managed the construction of the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, the first Episcopal cathedral built for that purpose in the United States. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Doane is probably best known today for his Anglican hymn, "Ancient of Days".  As a student at Burlington College in New Jersey, he was one of three founding members of the "Delta" chapter of the college fraternity of Delta Psi (ΔΨ)), later known as St. Anthony Hall after the chapter transferred to the nearby University of Pennsylvania.  ALA, 1888, 1p, to William Rawle. Fine. 4.5 x 7 in............50-75

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93. [SPACE]  group of 4 space related covers, 1977 and 1981. VG.............25-35

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94. [ART]  Frederick Solomon  (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist who died in New Hampshire USA. Solomon won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artist's as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. Original lino-cut print, never signed, image approx. 10-3/4 x 8-1/2 in.  VG............100-150

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95. [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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96. [ART]  Sir HUBERT von  HERKOMER, (1849-1914, painter, R.A., R.W.S.) SELF-PORTRAIT, original etching, head and shoulders, with his children Siegfried and Elsa below half-length as a vignette, signed ('HH') and dated '79 on the plate, titled 'Published London April 1st 1880 by The British and Foreign Artists Association', 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1880 by Knoedler & Co in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington', extremely fine impression, 13-1/2 x 8 in.  Herkomer regarded this as his best etching. He described the circumstances of the production of it when on a camping trip to Wales in 1879. 'As I knew the painting of one landscape would not give me sufficient occupation for so many weeks, I took with me all the paraphernalia of the etcher - plates, grounds, dishes, acids, and a small printing press (an invention of Mr Hamerton's). This wretched little contrivance proved utterly inadequate for my work. In order to get a decent impression we tightened the rollers to their last gasp, and then we dragged the whole machine around the tent in the vain attempt to turn the toy handles. Still, it was under these circumstances that I did - what I consider my best etching - a portrait of (the handy model) myself, with my two children in the lower corner of the plate.'  Very good condition.   In an auction at Bonhams   [London] [2005] another example of this etching was estimated at £500 - 600  US$ 840 - 1,000.  It realized $730.........700-900

97. [ART]  Joan Miro (1893-1983)  Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. Original color lithograph, "Ronde de nuit" Nightwatch, 1970.   Executed for Derrière le Miroir in 1970, and published in Paris by the incomparable Maeght atelier. As can be expected from Maeght and Derrière, the quality of this original Miro lithograph is excellent. Sheet size: 15 x 22 inches; with center fold and text on verso, as published. A richly inked impression. Not signed...........400-600

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98. [FRANCE] Document on vellum, dated 1580 top left, from Normandy. Speaks of Nobel famalies: De Conflans, De Sepoix, De Boullard.  Also included is another document, c. 1775, talking about the 1580 document. We do not know what the date of 1609 brown pencil means. Two documents.............100-150

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99. [FRANCE]  Superb large French document on vellum, signed, 1785, approx. 14-1/2 x 9-1/2 in. Signed by the Nobleman De La Mothe [Marquis Dupuy De La Mothe ?].  Accompanied by another smaller document 4 lengthy pages.  Both very good condition............100-150

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100. H.G. (Helena Rubinstein. 1870-1965) Polish cosmetics industrialist, founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women. ALS on postcard from Paris to friends. She has signed "H.G." for Helena Gourielli, which she often used for friends and business personnel. VG. Postmarked Dec. 12, 1957...........80-120

101. [SCIENCE] CLYDE W. TOMBAUGH (1906-1997) American Astronomer, discovered the dwarf Pluto in 1930, now not considered a planet.  SIGNED print sheet “Model of the Solar System” 1p..........40-60

102. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr. (1873-1944), known in private and public life as Al Smith, was an American politician who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He was the first Roman Catholic to run for President as a major party nominee. He lost the election to Herbert Hoover. He then became president of the Empire State, Inc. and was instrumental in getting the Empire State Building built at the onset of the Great Depression. TLS, signed AL, on NY Executive Chamber stationery, 1926, 1p. To Geo. Van Slyke, of The Sun newspaper. "Dear George: Although I did not see you in Albany I note by The Sun of Wednesday evening that you wrote the article on the message. I am sure I feel very grateful to you. Uou put it across in royal fashion." VG..........40-60

105. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (1801-1872), French historian and biographer. The general catalogue of printed books for the Bibliothèque Nationale contains no fewer than seventy-seven works (145 volumes) published by Capefigue during forty years. ALS, no date, 1p. VG. Not translated...........50-75

106. [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, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Addressed to De Loisne. Not translated. VG............75-100

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107. [THEATRE] Clement Scott (1841-1904) was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 1800s. Small signed photograph, 1-1/2 x 3 in. G-VG......25-35

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

110. [MUSIC] Ronnie Milsap  (b. 1943)  one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s.  Signed color picture portrait. VG.............25-35

111.  [NAPOLEONIC WARS]  Warren Marmaduke Peacocke  (17?? - 1849) British Military Officer.  Ensign 88th Foot* 1780, Lieutenant 88th Foot* 1782, Captain-Lieutenant 88th Foot* 1783, Half-pay 1783, Captain 17th Foot 1786, Captain 59th Foot 1792, Captain Independent Company 1793, Lieutenant & Captain 2nd Foot Guards 1793, Brevet Major 1794, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel 1798, Captain-Lieutenant &  Lieutenant-Colonel 2nd Foot Guards 1800, Captain &  Lieutenant-Colonel 2nd Foot Guards 1800, Brevet Colonel 1808, Brigadier General on the Staff 1811, Major General 1811, Lieutenant General 1821, General 1838. Early Service: Flanders 1793,  Aide de Camp Ireland 1796-1799, Helder 1799, Egypt 1800-1801, Hanover 1805, Copenhagen 1807.  Peninsular War: Commanded brigade June 1809. Commanded brigade 4th Division June 1809. Commandant of Lisbon June 1809- April 1814.  Knighted 1815. KCH 1832. Colonel of the 19th Foot 1843-1849. ALS, Lisbon, 8 Jan. 1812, 1p, approx. 7-1/4 x 12-3/4". To Charles Stuart. VG............100-150

112. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention Nationale, 4 December 1792, 2-pages, signed inprint by Garat & Lebrun, 7 x 9-1/2". Two months after abolition of Royalty. Very fresh condition..........80-120

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

114. [TV]  Polly Holliday (b. 1937) is an American actress. She has appeared on stage, television and in film. She is best known for her portrayal of sassy waitress "Flo" on the hit 1970s sitcom Alice, and her starring role in its short-lived spinoff, Flo. Flo's signature line was "Kiss my grits!".  Warner Bors. paycheck, 1985, endorsed by her on verso. VG...........20-30

115. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention Nationale, 28 July 1791, 2-pages, signed inprint Duport for the King, 6-1/2 x 8-1/2". Concerns Principaute de Sedan. Very fresh condition..........80-120

116. Sir Max Pemberton [1863-1950] was a popular British novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. Brief ALS, no date, 1p. Multiple small foxing spots.......25-35

117. [FRANCE] Jules-Martin Cambon (1845-1935) French diplomat.  He began his career as a lawyer in (1866), served in the Franco-Prussian War and entered the civil service in 1871. He was prefect of the départment of Nord (1882) and of the Rhône (1887–1891), and in 1891 became governor-general of Algeria, where he had served in a minor position in 1874.  He was nominated French ambassador at Washington D.C. in 1897, and in that capacity negotiated the preliminaries of peace on behalf of the Spanish government after the war with the United States. He was serving as the French ambassador to the United States during the War of 1898.He was an active participant in the peace negotiations between Spain and United States and a contributor to the final agreement, the Treaty of Paris of 1898. His role in those negotiations helped Spain and France to develop a strong political partnership.  He was transferred in 1902 to Madrid, and in 1907 to Berlin, where he served as French ambassador to Germany until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and then as the head of the political section of the French foreign ministry during the war.  ALS, 1929, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 7".  Picture of him is not included here.  VG............100-150

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118. [FRANCE] Louis François Joseph de Bourbon (1734-1814) was the last Prince of Conti, scion of a cadet branch of the Bourbon dynasty, senior branches of which ruled France until 1848. Born at the Hôtel de Conti in Paris on 1 September 1734 and baptised in the presence of the king and queen, he succeeded his father Louis François de Bourbon as head of the most junior branch of the House of Bourbon in 1776. His mother was Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV.  From birth he was known as the comte de La Marche. His mother died 26 September 1736 giving birth to a later child who did not survive. After her death, his father retired from the court to the château de L'Isle-Adam, pursuing his love of hunting, although he would later emerge to have a distinguished military career.  He took the side of Maupeou in the struggle between the chancellor and the parlements, and in 1788 declared that the integrity of the constitution must be maintained. He emigrated following the French Revolution, but refused to take part in plans for the invasion of France. He returned to his native country in 1790. Arrested by order of the National Convention in 1793, he was acquitted, but was reduced to poverty by the confiscation of his possessions.  A vellum sheet with his handwriting and signature written on it, approx. 11 x 9". His picture is not included here..............100-150

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119. [FRANCE] Jules Simon (1814-1896)  French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction.  ALS, (1889), 2pp. plus cover. Interesting letter about newspaper - and what they publish. Picture of him is not included. VG..........100-150

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121. [ART - FRANCE] Andre Giroux  (1801-1879) "The Pond at Ville - d'Avray."   Original etching after Corot, image size: 6-1/8 x 9 3/4 inches plus wide clean margins, plate signed lower right.  c. 1870.  VG...........150-200

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122. [ART] Original c. 1755-59 engraving by Louis Simon Lempercur  (b. 1725) French engraver, image approx. 11-1/4 x 8-1/2" plus margins.  Another example of this particular print is in the British Museum collection.  Also the Harvard Art Museum has 9 prints by Lempercur in their collection.  Margins slightly soiled; some tears at outer edges...............200-300

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123.  [ART - FRANCE] Alfred-Alexandre Delauney (1830-1894) - "A Forest Road"    Original etching after Hobbema, image size: 6-1/2 x 9 inches plus wide clean margins, plate signed lower right. c. 1870.   VG...........150-200

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124. [ART - FRANCE] Benjamin-Auguste-Louis Damman  (1835-1921) - "The Gleaners"    Original etching after Millet, image size: 7-1/8 x 9-3/4 inches plus wide clean margins, plate signed lower right. c. 1870.  On Nov. 4, 2010, at the Bloomsbury House  auction in London, another example of this etching sold for $266. VG...........200-250

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125 . [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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126. [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

127. [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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129. [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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130. [BRITAIN] Sir Edward Heath (1916-2005)  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to February 1974 and as Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.  Signed 1965 FDC honoring President Herbert Hoover. Fine & attractive.......50-75

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

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132. [FRANCE] Auguste Nicolas Caristie also called Caristie Augustin (1783- 1862 )  French architect. Also some public projects, he remained as a precursor to the restoration of historical monuments.  Born into a family of Italian origin architects, he is the son of Jacques-Nicolas Caristie, architect Avallon and grand-son of Michelangelo Caristie. He studied with his father and in Parisian workshops' s Vaudoyer Antoine and Charles Percier  Winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1813 (for a project of "city hall for a capital"), he stayed in Italy for a period of 7 years. He studied including the restoration of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli . Back in France, he is charged by the government of the Restoration to restore the Arc of Orange in 1823. It will subsequently the early restoration of the ancient theater of Orange. Always demand the same government, he directed the mausoleum of victims of landing Quiberon 1795. He was appointed inspector general of civil buildings in 1829 and later member and Vice-President of the Commission of Historical Monuments. He was elected in 1840 to the Academy of Fine Arts chair No. 4.  He is the brother of Philip Caristie called Jean-Marie Caristie chief engineer of bridges and causeways who participated in the expedition to Egypt with Napoleon Bonaparte.  ALS, 1829, lengthy 1p., 7-3/4 x 10".  Only minor faults - VG.......100-150

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133. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS DE LA REPUBLIQUE, dated Year XI [1803], 16 pages., approx. 5.5 x 8.5".  Identified as being about Colonies. Signed Bonaparte in print. VG............100-150

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134. Zane Grey (1872 -1939) American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the Old West. Signed, 1920 bank check. VG..........75-100

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

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136. Pat Rooney Sr.  (1880–1962) He was an actor and writer, known for The Actor's Boarding House (1915), It's All Wrong (1916) and Held by the Enemy (1917).  He formed a dance team with his wife Marion Bent. They were part of the generation that went from clog dancing to tap. Rooney Junior was apparently one of vaudeville’s most remarkable dancers. According to W.C. Fields, “If you didn’t hear the taps, you would think he was floating…”  He called himself Pat Rooney, Jr. until his father, famous Irish singer/dancer Pat Rooney, died. Signed, inscribed vintage 7-1/4 x 9-1/4" photo. VG...........75-100

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137. [ART] Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada" and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic. Wood was introduced to Marcel Duchamp, who in turn introduced her to her first great love, Henri-Pierre Roché, a man fourteen years her senior. She worked with Duchamp and Roché in the 1910s to create The Blind Man, a magazine that was one of the earliest manifestations of the Dada art movement in New York City. ALS, 1990, 1p, 8.5 x 11". About her biography "I Shock Myself." .............100-150

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138. [FRANCE]  Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse (1681), duc de Penthièvre (1697), (1711), (1678-1737), a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he became grand admiral of France. In 1693, he became a chevalier des Ordres du roi (Order of the King) and, in 1704, a knight of the Toison d’or.  Shortly before his death in 1715, Louis XIV added a codicil to his will stating that if all legitimate members of the House of Bourbon, both those descended from Louis and more distant kinsmen, died out, the throne of France could be inherited by the duc du Maine and the comte de Toulouse.  The decision was reversed after the death of Louis XIV when Louis Alexandre's cousin, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as the new regent, had the Parlement de Paris void that portion of the will. The comte de Toulouse died at the Château de Rambouillet on 1 December 1737. He was buried in the village 12th century Saint-Lubin church. Offered here is a document signed, 1715, 1p, approx. 6-3/4 x 9". Fine condition. Not translated...........300-400

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

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140. [ART] Richard Carline (1896-1980 ) Painter, writer and administrator, Carline was born in Oxford. His father, George Carline, his mother, Anne, and brother Sydney, his sister Hilda (Mrs Stanley Spencer) and his wife, Nancy, were all painters. Carline in 1913 attended Percyval Tudor-Hart's Academie de Peinture, in Paris. After a short period teaching, Carline served in World War I and was appointed an Official War Artist. With his brother he became noted for war pictures from the air. He was elected LG in 1920, at which time the Carlines' Hampstead home became a centre for artists such as Henry Lamb, John Nash and Mark Gertler. During this period Carline was clearly influenced by Stanley Spencer, transforming everyday scenes into something monumental. Carline achieved this, however, without exaggerating form or gestures to the degree that Spencer did. Between 1924 and 1929 Carline taught at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford. He had his first solo show at Goupil Gallery in 1931. The mid-1930s saw Carline involved in Negro art, organising a show at Adams Gallery in 1935, and contributing the main text to Arts of West Africa, edited by Michael Sadler. During World War II Carline supervised camouflage of factories and airfields. He was involved in AIA, helping to found the Hampstead Artists' Council in 1944. In 1946-47 he was appointed as the first Art Counsellor to UNESCO, and from 1955 to 1974 was chief examiner in art for the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. His books include Pictures in the Post: the Story of the Picture Postcard, 1959; Draw They Must, 1968; and Stanley Spencer at War, 1978.  In 1975 the D'Offay Gallery held a Richard Carline exhibition for which the artist wrote the foreword. Carline died in Hampstead and in 1983 Camden Arts Centre organised a memorial exhibition. The Imperial War Museum holds his work, including the outstanding and pioneering series of paintings, from World War I, based on observations made from aeroplanes.  Offered here is a lengthy ALS,  1970, written to the artist, Dr. Frederick Solomon  (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist who died in New Hampshire USA. Solomon won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artist's as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. The letter shows that Carline and Solomon were longtime friends. Fine condition. Scarce artist autograph.............100-150

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142. [ART] Itami Jun (1937-2011) Internationally renowned Korean-Japanese architect.  Itami, whose Korean name is Yoo Dong-ryul, was born in Tokyo in 1937 during the Japanese colonial era (1910-45). He studied architecture at Musashi University’s engineering school and led an active career for over 40 years.  In 2003, the architect’s oeuvre was highlighted in a solo exhibition, “Itami Jun, Japan’s Korean Architect,” at the Musee Guimet in Paris, France’s national museum dedicated to Asian art.  The exhibition introduced him as “an architect that straddles contemporary art and architecture, transcends national borders and possesses a truly international architectural vision.”  In 2005 he was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a top cultural honor bestowed by the French government.  The following year he won various cultural and environmental awards in Asia.  He was known for incorporating Korean traditional aesthetics into modern designs that harmonized with the natural surroundings, and built recognizable buildings in Korea and Japan. In 2009 Itami was named master architect of the government-sponsored Jeju Gobal Education City project on the tropical island off the southern coast of the country.  The Duson Museum and Three Art Museums on the island won Itami the 2006 Kim Swoo-kuen Culture Award and Japan’s 2010 Murano Togo Award.  Last year he was featured among 200 world-famous architects and designers in the New York Guggenheim Museum’s 50th anniversary exhibition “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.” Offered here is a signed original ink drawing, portrait of Henri Corbiere, inscribed to Corbiere, dated 1973, approx. 9-1/4 x 12-3/4".  VG........100-150

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

144. [THEATRE] Frank Gillmore (1867-1943) English-American playwright and a stage and early film actor. He was a founder and former President of Actor's Equity. He made his stage debut in London in 1879, then toured the British provinces for three years before returning to the London stage where he remained for a further five years. During this period he shared lodgings with George Arliss. Gillmore then alternated between appearances in Britain and America for a further five years. Aged 17 he appeared with Lillie Langtry. He married the American actress Laura Margaret MacGillivray whom he met when they both appeared in an American tour of Lady Windermere's Fan. Gillmore became a founder of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913 after the Actors Society of America disbanded in 1912. He made two silent films, The Fairy and the Waif (1915) and The Lifted Veil (1917). From 1918 to 1929 he was the union's Executive Secretary and eventual President, a position he held from 1929 to 1937. He was also the international President of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America from 1938 to 1943. TLS, 1932, 1p, sending his autograph. On Actors' Equity stationery. Mail folds o/w VG............35-45

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145. [CINEMA] Jill Ireland (1936-1990) actress. Her second husband was Charles Bronson. DS, 1976, bank check as Jill Ireland Bronson. VG..........50-75

146. Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) American diplomat, consultant and author. He advocated fascism in America after the Great Depression, arguing that capitalism was doomed. Dennis was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was of mixed race, though this was a fact he concealed later on in life. Following a notable career as a child evangelist, he was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy and then to Harvard. During World War I, Dennis commanded a company of military police in France. He graduated from Harvard in 1920 and entered the foreign service. The turning point of Dennis' life came when he served in Nicaragua. He resigned from the foreign service in disgust at the U.S. intervention there against the Sandino rebellion. He then became an adviser to the Latin American fund of the Seligman banking trust, but again made enemies when he wrote a series of exposes of their foreign bond enterprises in The New Republic and The Nation in 1930. These exposes propelled Dennis into a national public intellectual career, publishing his first book at the height of the depression in 1932, Is Capitalism Doomed?. The book submitted that capitalism was, and by all right should be, on its death knell, but warned of the grave dangers of a world devoid of its positive legacy. Dennis' two later books detailed his sense of the system that was emerging to replace it, which he believed to be fascism. The Coming American Fascism in 1936, detailing the system's substructure, and The Dynamics of War and Revolution in 1940, on the superstructure. Lawrence Dennis was an editor at The Awakener for some time. Later he founded his own publication, the Weekly Foreign Letter, and he wrote for Today's Challenge, published by the pro-German American Fellowship Forum of George Sylvester Viereck and Friedrich Auhagen. He tried to enlist in the American Army during World War II, but the Army rejected him after the media ran stories about him. In 1944 he was indicted, in a group which ranged from genuine progressives to pro-Nazi agitators, in a sedition prosecution under the Smith Act which ended in a mistrial after the judge died of a heart attack. Dennis co-authored with Maximilian St. George an account of the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 which appeared in 1946 as A Trial on Trial, but put forth his own defense in court. In his later years Dennis repudiated his views of the 1930s and early 1940s, became a critic of militarism and the Cold War, and propagated his views through a modest newsletter, The Appeal to Reason, which maintained a prominent circle of readers, including Herbert Hoover, Joseph P. Kennedy, William Appleman Williams, Harry Elmer Barnes, and James J. Martin. Dennis' last book, Operational Thinking for Survival, was published in 1967. Offered here is an 8-page typed Review of Robert L. Mitley's 1933 "POPULAR FINANCIAL DELUSIONS", DONE FOR THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, signed in ink at the conclusion. Smitley book attacked many of the ideas held by men in business. Is social reform in such young movements as communism or fascism necessary? The handwritten corrections are in the hand of Dennis. RARE!............100-150

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147. [ART] John Kay (1742- 1826) Scottish caricaturist and engraver. He was born near Dalkeith, where his father was a mason. At thirteen he was apprenticed to a barber, whom he served for six years. He then went to Edinburgh , where in 1771 he obtained the freedom of the city by joining the corporation of barber-surgeons. In 1785, induced by the favour which greeted certain attempts of his to etch in aquafortis, he took down his barber's pole and opened a small print shop in Parliament Square. There he continued to flourish, painting miniatures, and publishing at short intervals his sketches and caricatures of local celebrities and oddities, who abounded at that period in Edinburgh society. Kay's portraits were collected by Hugh Paton and published under the title A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes (Edinburgh, 2 vols. 4to, 1838; 8vo ed., 4 vols., 1842; new 4to ed., with additional plates, 2 vols., 1877), forming a unique record of the social life and popular habits of Edinburgh at its most interesting epoch. Original etching, image size approx. 4-1/4 x 4-1/4" plus  margins. Image area VG...........50-75 

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149. [ART] Lawrence C. Barone - American contemporary. Wood-engraving, pencil signed. Mat opening size approx. 7-1/4 x 4-1/4". Shrink-wrapped - not examined out of mat. VG..........50-75

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150.  [ART] Violet Oakley (1874-1961) was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men. Oakley excelled at murals and stained glass designs that addressed themes from history and literature in Renaissance-revival styles. Oakley painted a series of 43 murals in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building in Harrisburg for the Governors Grand Reception Room, the Senate and the Supreme Court. Original auto-lithograph, plate signed 1918, 12 x 8 flush. Autolithography means an original image made directly on the stone or plate. This is from a portfolio done for the American Artists' War Emergency Fund, one of the numerous war activities of the National Arts Club of New York, its object being to aid American Artist Soldiers or their dependents. This project was done in 1918. VG........75-100

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

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152. [FRANCE]  French Mystery Medieval Document 1352 on vellum, looks like a long list of names [?], from Rioubert region near Romorantin, approx. 4-1/2 x 9-1/4".  VG.........300-400

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153. [ART] LOREN MACIVER (1909-1998) American Artist/Painter. When Alfred Barr, director of the Museum of Modern Art, bought one of her paintings in 1935, her career was launched. She worked on the WPA federal art project. Her work is found in numerous public collections: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Smith College Museum of Art. She known for semi-abstracts. She was one of the most highly regarded women painters of the 1940's-50's. ALS, 1984, 1p.................60-80

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154. Arthur Williams Wright (1836 - 1915) American physicist. The Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale is named for him. He held the first Ph.D in Science awarded in the New World. His doctoral dissertation - on satellite machanics - was one of three, in different fields, accepted by Yale University for the degree in 1861. He taught at Yale, also briefly at Williams College, and returning to Yale in 1872 as Professor of Molecular Physics and Chemistry, retiring in 1906. He has had charge of the Sloane physical laboratory at Yale, which was constructed under his supervision. Professor Wright was the first to observe and describe the electric shadow in 1870-'1, devised a new apparatus for the production of ozone, and investigated its action upon alcohol and ether in 1872-'4; also in 1874 determined the polarization of the zodiacal light, measuring its amount, and investigated its spectrum. He was the first to discover gases in stony meteorites, to extract them and determine their composition, obtaining their spectra in vacuum tubes, and pointing out their relation to the spectra of comets as affording a probable explanation of the latter. In 1877 he devised a method of applying the discharge of electricity in a vacuum to deposit the metal of the electrode upon glass or other surfaces, so as to form brilliant transparent metallic films. Lengthy ANS, New Haven, 1908. Regrets unable to accept invitation from Prof. & Mrs. Woodward to attend meeting of the National Academy in Washington. VG except for 2 light brown spots at edges................60-80

155. [FILM & TV]  Bill Asher (1921-2012) American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and was hyperbolically credited in one magazine article with "inventing" the sitcom. TLS, 1965, 1 full page,  8.5 x 11". To Milton Ebbins, Chrislaw Productions. Asks for statements concerning the film he directed "Johnny Cool"  and the percentage breakdown of the Patty Duke Show, which he also directed.  Signed Bill. Also included is a letter from Fred Engel, agent for William Asher, dated 1963, sent to Chrislaw Productions. Provenance: estate of Milton Ebbins. Both in fine condition...............100-150

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156. [FRANCE]  Pierre-Paul Guérin de Tencin (1679-1758), French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal. His sister Claudine was a spur to his career. After studying with the Oratorians in his native Grenoble, he entered the Sorbonne, where he became prior in 1702, and obtained the doctorate in 1705. He was then appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Sens and, in 1721, accompanied Cardinal de Rohan[2] to Rome as his conclavist, to support the candidacy of Cardinal Conti (Innocent XIII), from whom he had obtained a promise to bestow the purple on the French minister Guillaume Dubois. He remained at Rome as French chargé d'affaires, with the appointment in commendam of abbot of Trois-Fontaines to support him (1739-1753), until Benedict XIII, with whom he was on cordial terms of intimacy and very influential, consecrated him Archbishop of Embrun (26 June 1724). On 22 February 1739, Guérin de Tencin was created cardinal, of the titulus of Sts. Nereus and Achilleus. He remained at Rome as French ambassador until 1742, when he took possession of the archiepiscopal see of Lyon, to which he had succeeded on 19 November 1740. Louis XV appointed him minister of state in September 1742, though he held no portfolio, and Commander of the Order of Saint-Esprit. He was overzealous in the persecution of the Jansenists, and, at the provincial synod which he held at Embrun from 16 August to 28 September, 1727, he suspended Jean Soanen, Bishop of Senez, a prelate eighty years of age, who had appealed against the Bull Unigenitus. After the death of André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury , the prime minister to whom he owed much of his political advancement, his influence began to decrease. The death of his profligate sister in 1749, removed some of his political ambition, and in 1752 he retired to his see of Lyons. Offered here is ALS, 1735, 1p, approx. 7 x 10 in. Not translated. Excellent condition...............100-150

157. [FRANCE] Paul Barillon d'Amoncourt, the marquis de Branges (1630–1691) was the French ambassador to England from 1677 to 1688. His dispatches from England to Louis XIV have been useful to historians of the period, though an expected bias may be present. With the conquest of England by William of Orange, Louis XIV's most implacable enemy, Barillon was expelled from England and war soon commenced between the two kingdoms. Both Charles II and James II treated him with great courtesy: one historian refers to his " rather pampered existence at Whitehall".  Both appeared to confide in him, although it is not always clear whether they were sincere.  Charles II, at the outbreak of the Popish Plot, did tell Barillon frankly that Titus Oates, the inventor of the Plot, was a villain, but that it would be unwise to say so publicly. Barillon was often a conduit for pleas for clemency, but these were not always well received; the King simply brushed aside his plea for the life of William, Lord Russell, and explained that while Oliver Plunkett was an innocent man it was not expedient to spare him. Charles's remark to Barillon that his brother James' s public conversion to Roman Catholicism had weakened him is important evidence that Charles postponed his own conversion until he was dying. The marriage of the future Queen Anne to George of Denmark, brother of France's ally, was a triumph for French diplomacy, and it was probably Barillon who originally proposed the marriage, although he did not play a major role in subsequent negotiations, which were mainly conducted by Lord Sunderland; like most people, Barilllon found the groom entirely unimpressive.  As a counterweight, he intrigued with the Whig leaders, notably Algernon Sidney, whose posthumous reputation was greatly damaged by the discovery that Barillon had paid him regular bribes. The Popish Plot, with the wave of anti-Catholic and anti-French hysteria it produced, was in itself unwelcome to Barillon, but he used it for short term advantage in helping to bring down the Earl of Danby, the main exponent of a Protestant, pro-Dutch, anti-Catholic policy, by assisting in the publication of letters, which taken out of context, suggested secret intrigues between Danby and the French Court. After the failure of the Exclusion Bill, Barillon records the King telling him in strict confidence that he had been tempted to let it pass. Even Barillon, an astute diplomat, admitted to finding Charles unfathomable: "his conduct so secret and impenetrable that even the most skillful observers are misled".  Only once does he seem to have been guilty of a serious diplomatic blunder: late in 1679 an indiscreet letter of his, reporting a conversation where Charles II claimed to have personally blocked a Franco-Dutch treaty, was leaked in the Netherlands. It caused an uproar, and Charles was so angry with Barillon that he forbade him the Court. Sunderland, who had probably leaked the letter, remarked complacently that "I do not question M. Barillon finds himself embarrassed, but when anybody will play such tricks, it is but just that it should come home to him at last."  His disgrace was temporary, but afterwards he was far more careful what he committed to paper. At other times his relations with Sunderland were amicable enough, although Sunderland sometimes treated him to his famous outbursts of rudeness, and on one occasion Barillon told him that he would not report his remarks if he could not control himself. When it was rumoured in 1685 that the French had given tacit support to Monmouth's Rebellion, Sunderland told Barillon pointedly that he hoped this was a misunderstanding, or else the English would wonder if Louis had 'other plans they could not discern'.  Later he mocked Louis' vaunted desire for European peace, saying brutally that the peace would last until it was in someone's interest to break it. His privileged position was confirmed in the last days of Charles II's reign, when, alone among the diplomatic corps, he was allowed to send a secret message to Louis XIV that the King was dying.  In the events leading to Charles' deathbed reception into the Roman Catholic Church, he played a role of some importance. While the King's brother James was already convinced of his brother's wish to convert, it was Barillon, prompted by Louise de Kéroualle, who urged James to act at once. Together they visited the dying King, and Barillon witnessed Charles' statement that he wished to be received " with all his heart."  James II's biographer describes him as an astute diplomat, with an ability to convey information through subtle hints, but personally unattractive: heavy, gross and boorish. Approx. 23 handwritten pages about Barillon dispatch in 1688.   Discribed as written circa 1750-1800, in unknown hand. Very Fresh condition. Approx. 7-3/4 x 12".  Showing only first page below..........200-300

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158. [FRANCE] Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle, (1766-1855) French historian and journalist. Called Lacretelle le jeune to distinguish him from his elder brother, Pierre Louis de Lacretelle. He was born at Metz. He was called to Paris by his brother in 1787, and during the French Revolution belonged, like Pierre, to the party of the Feuillants. He was for some time secretary to the duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, the famous philanthropist, and afterwards joined the staff of the Journal de Paris, then managed by Suard, and where he had as colleagues André Chénier and Jean-Antoine Roucher. He made no attempt to hide his monarchist sympathies, and these, together with the way in which he reported the trial and death of King Louis XVI of France, put him in danger of his life; to avoid this danger he enlisted in the army, but after Thermidor he returned to Paris and to his newspaper work. He was involved in the royalist movement of the 13th Vendmiaire, and condemned to deportation after the 18th Fructidor; but, thanks to powerful influence, he was left forgotten in prison till after the 18th Brumaire, when he was set at liberty by Joseph Fouché. Under the Empire he was appointed a professor of history in the Faculté des lettres of Paris (1809), and elected as a member of the Académie française (1811). In 1827 he was prime mover in the protest made by the French Academy against the minister Peyronnet's law on the press, which led to the failure of that measure, but this step cost him, as it did Abel-François Villemain, his post as censeur royal.  Under Louis Philippe Lacretelle devoted himself entirely to his teaching and literary work. In 1848 he retired to Mâcon; but there, as in Paris, he was the centre of a brilliant circle, for he was a wonderful causeur, and an equally good listener, and had many interesting experiences to recall. His son Pierre Henri (1815-1899) was a humorous writer and politician of purely contemporary interest.  ALS, date [?], 1p, approx. 8 x 10.5".  VG............100-150

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159. [BOOKS] Sir Walter Scott. TALES OF A GRANDFATHER, 1870, Boston, Fields, Osgood, & Co., 3 volumes, 301, 298, & 310 pages, 8vo. Green cloth, gilt lettered spines. Slight cover scuffing. A good tight set. Provenance: Frank Cutter Deering Library.................75-100

160. Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. Hall's notoriously sanctimonious personality was often satirised, and he is regularly cited as the model for the character of Pecksniff in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit. ALS [1881], 1p. written in pencil. As his handwriting is difficult to read we will let you read the letter [see scans below]. Basically he is telling the recipient that he is too old and sick to do something. The recipient writes a reply on the blank sides of the sheet, dated a day later in 1881. Paper is thick so the mail creases are prominent.........50-75

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161. ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWING - on 3 x 5 card. Sent to fulfill THE SECRET PAL ("Peanut Pal") tradition practiced in some women's organizations. We believe, Gertrude Marcia May [Warren] White, always known as Trude was the artist. The recipient was Phyllis Beals. Possibly from the Warwick, RI area. Apparently, this was sort of a game played by women in which they drew names and then in secret would do little things, or send items such as this, to another woman. In the beginning the receiver would not know who was doing the favors. Little by little the doer would begin to leave hints and eventually the receiver would know who the doer was. It was not uncommon for this to take place over a year's time or so. CIRCA 1938. Fine condition..........40-60

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162. [THEATRE] EDITH WYNNE MATTHISON [Mrs. Charles K. Kennedy] born 1838. Noted British-American Shakespearian actress. ALS, 1912, 1p, 4to. She is unable to comply with a suggestion as "I commence rehearsals for a new play this Monday; and my Contract calls for my exclusive services for the whole season."..........................25-35

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164.  Leon Cortes (Castro) (1882-1946)  President of Costa Rica from 1936 to 1940. He was the last of a series of relatively conservative Presidents.  RADIOGRAMA, 19 Feb. 1937, signed in type. Sent to Jorge Ubico,  President of Guatemala. Not translated. 8-1/4 x 7-1/4".  This Cable Gram is dated 1937. It is the original and, of course, not signed in ink. VG...............100-150

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

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

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167.  Edgar A. Guest  (1881-1959) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet.  TLS, 1958, 1p, sending appreciation for a Christmas greeting he had received.  Fine............50-75

168. Roger N. Baldwin  (1884-1981)  was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950.  Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses.[1][2] Baldwin was a well known pacifist and author.  TLS, 1965, 1p,  approx. 8.5 x 11 in.  VERY light stains at bottom margin..........40-60

169. John le Carré   [David Cornwell] (b. 1931) British author of espionage novels whose pen name is John le Carre.  During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under a pen name. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) became an international best-seller, and it remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.  Le Carré has established himself as a writer of espionage fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked le Carré 22nd on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".   In 2011, he won the Goethe Medal, a yearly prize given by the Goethe Institute. Signed photo, 7.5 x 8.5 in.  Great example. Fine..............75-100

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170. [MUSIC] Irving Caesar  (1895-1996) American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for numerous song standards including "Swanee," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written. He was born and died in New York. In 1972 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.  ANS on his memo paper, 4 x 5.5 in. Fine...........75-100

171. [MUSIC] William Kraft  (b. 1923)  American composer. His works have been performed by many major American orchestras as well as those in Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, Israel, and the USSR. Mr. Kraft’s Contextures: Riots – Decade ’60 (1967) has been choreographed and performed by both the Scottish National Ballet and the Minnesota Dance Company. In 1986, United Air Lines commissioned a work expressly to accompany a lumetric sculpture by Michael Hayden titled Sky’s the Limit, for their pedestrian passageway at Chicago-O’Hare International Airport. In November 1990, Mr. Kraft was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Percussive Arts Society.  AMQS  dated 1983 from his composition "MOMENTUM."  6x4 in. Fine..........50-75

172. [MUSIC]  John Lessard (b. 1920) American composer.  AMQS from his "cello Sonata".  6x4 in. Fine............50-75

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

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

175. [MUSIC] Peter Paul Fuchs  (1916-2007)  Austrian born conductor and composer.  Signed 3x4 in. photo. Fine.......40-60

176. [SPACE]  Valeri N. Kubasov  (b. 1935) Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo–Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space,  along with Georgy Shonin.  Signed 10 x 8 NASA litho. photo. VG........75-100

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177. [ROYALTY] Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa; 1840-1901) was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert. She was created Princess Royal of the United Kingdom in 1841. She became German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III. After her husband's death, she became widely known as Empress Frederick.. CLIP SIGNATURE, approx. 1-3/4 x 1-1/4 in.  VG..............80-120

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178. Alben William Barkley (1877-1956)  the 35th Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953  who served in both houses of Congress.  TLS, on US Senate stationery, July 27, 1937, 1p. Thanks recipient for greetings sent on his becoming Floor Leader of the US Senate. Mounting remains at all 4 corners, very lightly toned, ink has lightened. Nice bold signature.......80-120

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179. [FRANCE] Count de Froissard - ALS, 1816, 1p, 6-1/2 x 8-1/4". Not translated. Identified as "was there around Napoleon in 1814. Speaks about the 1816 election." VG..........75-100

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180. French document signed, dated 1843, 1p. on paper, 8-1/4 x 11-3/4". Identified as Birth Certificate of nobility in 1742. "Incl. nun from Abbey of Onnant". Two revenues and 2 seal stamps. Excellent condition............60-80

181. [ART] Clifford Carleton (1867-1946) American artist. ALS, no date, 3pp, to  Mr. Cowles [Cowles Art School in Boston].  Nice content. VG.............50-75

182. [WORLD WAR II]  Hans Baur (1897-1993) was Adolf Hitler's pilot during his political campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s. He later became Hitler's personal pilot and leader of the Reichsregierung squadron.  Captured by the Soviets at the end of World War II in Europe, he endured ten years of imprisonment in the USSR before being released on 10 October 1955 to the French, who then imprisoned him until 1957. ALS, 1976, written on back of postcard. Not translated. VG...........100-150

183. [FRANCE] Jean-François de Hercé  (1776-1849) was a dignitary of the Catholic Church and French politician, mayor of Laval then bishop of the diocese of Nantes. ALS, 2pp, approx. 8-1/2 x 13". VG.  He played a role in the 1848 Revolution...........100-150

184. [FRANCE] Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres (1721-1789) French architect and theoretician. He was born and died in Paris. He published several works on architectural and related subjects, including Architecture of Expression, and The Theatre of Desire at the End of the Ancien Régime; Or, The Analogy of Fiction with Architectural Innovation. Le Camus developed a theory of architecture in which the character of a building should express its destination or the social status of its client. Unlike previous character theories in architecture, Le Camus's theory was based on an explicit analogy between architecture and theatre. His architectural mode of expression followed a temporal progression similar to the dramatic unfolding of a play, and gradations in ornamentation throughout the interior of a building resembled a succession of stage sets in a theatrical performance. Manuscript Document Signed, 1770, 1p, approx. 6-1/2 x 8-1/4. Appears to be signed by at least two others. Fine..............80-120

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185. [FRANCE] Charles de Bourbon, Count of Charolais (1700-1760) French noble. As a member of the reigni prince of the Blood. A son of Louis III, Prince of Condé, he was made governor of Touraine in 1720. He fought in Hungary in the war against the Ottoman Turks and won distinction at the battle of Belgrade. He was governor of his nephew Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé. In 1728 he became one of the candidates to the hand of wealthy Maria Zofia Sieniawska supported by Louis XV in attempt to gain a strong position in Poland before the Royal Election. He secretly married Jeanne de Valois-Saint Remy, a descendent of Henri II via an illegitimate branch. Their son was Louis-Thomas [1718-1799], who was not legitimated by the king, later was exiled to England. Document Signed, 1744, 1p, approx. 9-1/4 x 13-1/2 in. One middle fold................150-250

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186. [RADIO] Amos n' Andy - signed, inscribed photo, 8x10, likely signed c. 1934. Amos n' Andy was Radio's most popular series, 1926-1958.  Photograph inscribed and signed: "To/Mrs. F.B. Prentice/Sincerely/'Amos 'n' Andy.    Amos FREEMAN F. GOSDEN and "'Andy'"  CHARLES J. CORRELL.  Amos n' Andy, originally titled Sam n' Henry, debuted on Chicago's WGN on January 12, 1926. The show switched over to WMAQ on March 19, 1928. Although the title characters were played by white men, the storyline was about two Atlanta Black men who came to Chicago to find their fortunes. They were members of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge instead of the Jewels of the Crown. Everything else remained the same. Amos n' Andy premiered on the NBC radio network on Thursday night, August 19, 1929 at 11:00 P.M. EST. The show was broadcast an unprecedented six days a week. It was so popular that it was moved to 7:00 P.M. EST to reach a broader audience. There were protests on the west coast because it would be aired there at 4 P.M. so, for the first time in radio history, NBC did a repeat broadcast for its west coast affiliates. Amos n' Andy hit its peak of popularity in the 1930s, but the show remained on radio until 1958. Lightly soiled at margins. Mounting remnants and copyright stamp on verso (no show through). Overall, very good condition. We have done a great deal of research on this photo, trying to determine who actually signed, one of both.  We can say that the handwriting on this photo matches those of the same period, whether on photos or album pages.  Since no one ever said otherwise, it is assumed that Gosden signed Amos and Charles signed Andy.........300-400

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187. [ART] FRANK LOUISVILLE BOWIE (1857-1936) Maine artist. Member of the "Brush-Ins" group. Friendly with Winslow Homer. Two original unsigned pencil drawings, paper sizes approx. 5 x 8 in. Provenance: the artist's estate. ...............50-75

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

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189. [FRANCE] Medieval Document from 1366 on vellum, 1 page, approx. 8 x 6.5". Quite fresh condition. See small slip [scan 2] identifies as being from Montils...........300-400

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190.  [FRANCE] ANTOINE-ALEXANDRE  BARBIER (1765-1825) Prior to the Revolution, Barbier was a maths and physics teacher, and in 1789, he was the vicar at Dammartin. He accepted the "constitution civile du clergé" and became priest at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre. In 1794 he was given the job of itemising and safeguarding the huge number of books and papers that had been confiscated by the revolutionaries on behalf of the Nation. These books, many of which were falling apart due to insects and poor conservation conditions, were also taking up offices that were required by the local authorities. Having constructed proper shelving for the books and introduced air-flow systems to allow ventilation between the shelves, the monumental task of cataloguing the confiscated works remained. This task required the assistance of specialists: archivists, curators, bibliophiles and librarians were called in to sort through the books, destroy any considered "seditious", sell any that were no longer needed and replace any considered important enough in the public libraries. A large of number of public libraries benefitted from this process, in particular the Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1795, Barbier was seconded to Gaspard Michel Leblond with the task of reducing the huge book depots in Paris and in Versailles, sorting, cataloguing and selling the books stored on these sites. Barbier was also heavily involved in the creation of provincial public libraries and the cataloguing of the books stored therein.  In 1798, Barbier created the bibliothèque du ministère de l'Intérieur, which was designed to hold the collections that formerly belonged to the Académie Française and the Académie  des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres, as well as any works considered worthwhile that had been seized from libraries belonging to émigrés or those condemned to death. This library became the Conseil D'Etat's library in 1799, shortly after 18 Brumaire, and Barbier became its librarian. Putting together a catalogue for the library, he abandoned the traditional alphabetical classification, instead opting for classification by subject-matter.  In 1807, Barbier replaced Louis-Madeleine Ripault and was put in charge of Napoleon's personal libraries at Compiègne, Rambouillet and Trianon as well as the travel libraries that Napoleon took with him whilst on campaign. The first travel library, conceived in July 1808, included texts on a variety of different subjects: novels, history, poetry, and theatre. Barbier was also asked to write numerous reports regarding the history, geography and religious issues of various regions and countries which Napoleon used in his political and military planning.  Barbier was also expected to keep the French Emperor constantly supplied with reading material, along with reports, analyses and commentaries regarding each publication. Napoleon, known to be a voracious reader, complained on a number of occasions about the lack of reading material at his disposal, which led to letters being dispatched to Barbier, reminding him of his duties regarding this matter. In his role as "conseiller littéraire", he was also expected to brief Napoleon when the Emperor was back in Paris. He also served the Empress Josephine in a similar manner, and managed her libraries at the Tuileries, Compiègne, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau, Trianon, Rambouillet and at her other residences. Between 1808 and 1810, he published his Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de goût, which was based on Louis-Mayeul Chaudon's Bibliothèque d'un homme de goût. This catalogue gathered together various critical and analytical extracts from works and periodicals dedicated to literary criticism, adding to and correcting the original work of Chaudon. The goal of this catalogue was to examine both modern and classical literature and separate the "wheat from the chaff", rewrite any critiques that were unmerited, and ensure that books which did not deserve to be forgotten were not, whilst books that were unworthy of remembrance were removed. The catalogue included entries for both French and foreign literature, as well as offering notes on the best editions and most accurate translations, where necessary. Despite his work for Napoleon, Barbier remained principled and incurred the wrath of the Emperor on a number of occasions: as well as being reluctant to forward any works that he considered mediocre (despite the Emperor's continuous desire for new reading material), he also refused to catalogue a number of books dedicated to or concerning Napoleon and his numerous successes. Works that were omitted from the libraries that Barbier curated included Relation de la bataille de Marengo, Vies de Bonaparte, and Histoires de l'Empereur Napoléon, which he argued were written by "second-rate writers", driven by greed and a desire to flatter the Emperor. Napoleon nevertheless insisted that Relation... be inserted into all of his libraries, despite his librarian's reluctance. During the Restoration, Barbier was put in charge of the royal libraries, but was dismissed from the King's service in 1822, for reasons not listed in his biographies (although Muriel Brot hypothesises that this may have been simply due to his prolonged service for Napoleon). Barbier was severely affected by the dismissal and fell ill shortly afterwards, dying in 1825. Offered here is a document signed, 1807, one page, approx. 7 x 9.5".  Appears to be about Certificate of Pension.  We are unable to find any prices for documents signed by Barbier however some of the books he authored have sold at auction for as high as $11,400.  Very good condition........200-300

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191. [FRANCE] Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu (1796–1875)  Bishop of Langres , Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal. Very active and distinguished prelate, His episcopate is especially marked by activism builder - 320 churches built, rebuilt or restored in the diocese. His international influence was not negligible.  ALS, 1834, 1p, approx. 7.5 x 9.5". Left edge mounted to stiff paper. VG...........100-150

193. [ART] JACQUES-JOSEPH TISSOT [1836-1902]  IMPORTANT French painter, engraver, and enameler. OFFERED HERE: an extraordinary book in very fine leather binding containing 20 original etchings by Tissot. Those familiar with Tissot's etchings know that they are quite valuable and also that most were not pencil signed. DESCRIPTION: Book title - "RENEE MAUPERIN", 1884, Edition Ornee, #21/50. Contains 10 images [duplicate set included] = 20 etchings. Of these etchings,  8 are signed in pencil, 10 signed with his red monogram, and 2 unsigned...............15,000 - 20,000

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

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

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

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

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200. [ART] Stuyvesant Van Veen (1910-1977) American  painter who created allegorical and other social realist-style murals in courthouses and other public buildings around the United States.  He studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, where he worked with the muralist Thomas Hart Benton. Mr. Van Veen emerged on the art scene in 1929, at the age of 19, when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of modern paintings at the Carnegie Institute, in Pittsburgh.  Among Mr. Van Veen's best-known works is a series of seven murals in celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a series that still exists in the lobbies of the Ebbets Field apartment complex in Brooklyn. He also painted works at the New York World's Fair in 1938, and at the Wright-Patterson air base in Fairborn, Ohio, in 1945. From 1949 to 1975, Mr. Van Veen also taught painting and drawing at City College of New York. In 1972, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.   Offered here is an 1957  plate signed original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS. Noted artists drew directly on the lithographic plates. Each was used as an ad for various businesses. The proceeds went to Artists Equity. Sheet size is approx. 12 x 8-1/2. VG............50-75

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201. [PORTRAIT] Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Original antique engraved portrait, image approx. 4-1/2 x 3-7/8" plus margins. Very slight foxing........25-35

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269. [MEDICINE] Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856 -1938) French physician, pathologist and dermatologist called the "father of modern dermatology in France". Darier discovered several diseases, most notably Darier's disease. ALS, 1924, 3pp, 5 x 6.5". Pin holes upper corner o/w VG. Not translated..........80-120

270. [MUSIC] (NEIL SEDAKA) Contract signed by his wife and manager Leha Sedaka, 16pp for performance on November 18, 1992, with many notes and statements written in. Signed fully by Mrs. Sedaka 4 times and numerous initials. Very indepth contract!. VG...........50-75

271. Augustus Trowbridge [1870-1934] Am. physicist, inventor. Signature......20-30

272. John Morley [1838-1923] British statesman. Signed address panel addressed to Prime Minister Earl of Rosebury........25-35

273. John Morley [1838-1923] British statesman. Signed envelope addressed to William Gladstone, Prime Minister. No postmark..........25-35

274. Henry M. Baird (1832-1906), American historian and educationalist. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots. SIGNATURE with sentiment on card 1885.......20-30

275. G. Paul Chalmers [1836-1878] Scottish painter. Clip. signature..........20-30

277. Clarence Cook (1828-1900) American author and art critic. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Cook was known for his expertise in archeology and antiquities and was instrumental in the criticism of the collection of General di Cesnola. In the mid-1850s Cook began to read works by John Ruskin and associated with a group of American artists, writers, and architects who followed Ruskin's thinking. Through this group he became aware of the British Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1863, with Clarence King and John William Hill he helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, an American group, similar to the Pre-Raphaelites, who published a journal called The New Path. In 1869 Cook wrote A Description of the New York Central Park. In 1877, articles on home furnishings that Cook had written for Scribner's Monthly were published as a book entitled The House Beautiful. In 1879, Cook served as editor for Wilhelm Lübke's History of Art. ALS, 1896, 1p, 4.5 x 7". Declines invitation. Fine...........50-75