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

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

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

8. [ART] MORTON GARCHIK  (1929-2009)  American artist. He studied at the School of Visual Arts where he won the First Prize in drawing. Since then he has received many more prizes. He designed of the Book cover of “Gimpel The Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer.  His graphics have appeared in the Seattle Art Museum’s International Exhibitions, the Honolulu Printmakers International, DePaul Univ. 7th Annual Contemporary American Printmakers Exhibition, 7th0 National at Ohio Univ.,  etc. He has had numerous one-man shows in the United States and Canada. In New York his work was represented by the Associated American Artists gallery. The Minnesota Museum of Art and The Library of Congress have acquired examples of his work. Original pencil signed woodcut printed in dark ochre, titled  EMERGING PHILOSOPHER,  numbered 13/200, image approx. 8.5 x 14 in. plus margins. Fine condition.   Garchik had the following to say about this woodcut - The joys and terrors of woodcut are the changing states. Wood is cut away, the image evolves, with the choice of stopping at a point which may be satisfactory, or cutting further [with no possibility of return] in search of a stronger statement latent in the block. This print shares that experience. It contains three separate imprints of many states, adding a dimension of time to the work. VG...........150-200

9. [SIGNED BOOK] Benjamin Lawrence Reid (1918-1990)  his book "The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends"  (1968), which won the  1969 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Dr. Benjamin L. Reid,  biographer, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for "The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends," a biography of a wealthy New York lawyer who owned the largest single collection of modern European paintings in the world in the 1920's and was an assiduous patron of artists and writers.  Dr. Reid's interest in Quinn stemmed from his own undergraduate days at the University of Louisville, where he studied art history and literature. He subsequently traveled in Europe under a Fulbright research grant that enabled him to interview T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and other luminaries who were close to Quinn. B.L. Reid has signed on the flyleaf. First edition in dust jacket, 708 pages.  Following the Armory Show, the artist Walt Kuhn acted as an art advisor to the collector John Quinn and assisted in the formation of his unique collection of modern art, unfortunately dissolved and sold at the time of Quinn's death in 1924.   Quinn’s most important contribution to the Amory Show was as a patron, lending and buying more artworks than any other collector or dealer. His loan included seventy-five works by artists such as Cézanne, Van Gogh, Puvis de Chavannes, and Augustus John and he spent nearly $6,000 on a variety of artworks from the lithographs of Redon to the paintings of Walt Kuhn and the cubist sculptures of Duchamp-Villon. According to a 1909 congressional tariff, Americans were required to pay a 15% tax on imported artworks produced in the last twenty years. In an effort to repeal the tariff in advance of the Armory Show, Quinn appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee arguing against the tax. Although it was not repealed in time for the exhibition, the tariff was overturned in October 1913 and Quinn’s advocacy helped promote the sale of modern European art in America in the wake of the Armory Show.  This signed book comes directly from the Brenda Kuhn [daughter of artist Walt Kuhn] estate in Maine.........100-150
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Photo of John Quinn

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

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11. [FRANCE- THEATRE] Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th century operas such as La Tosca (1887) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (1900) is based, and Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that popularized the fedora hat as well. OFFERED HIS IS SARDOU'S PERSONAL ENGRAVED CALLING CARD ON WHICH HE PENS A FEW WORDS. This is accompanied by two ORIGINAL UNSIGNED DRAWINGS, portraits of Victorien Sardou. The artist was Daniel de Losques Thouroude (1880-1915) French humorist, graphic designer, caricaturist and cartoonist, as well as a painter. He was a contributor to the Figaro, and with other political newspapers. He was one of the great poster artists in Paris around 1900. One is pen & ink, image area approx. 3-3/4 x 4-1/2". The othert is a 7-1/2 x 5-1/4" sheet containing pencil sketches..............200-300

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12. [SCIENCE] James Van Allen (1914-2006) American space scientist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him. Signed 17 page article. Signed on the first page. VG............75-100

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13. [FRANCE] Louis Veuillot (1813-1883) French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. A SMALL PART OF A MANUSCRIPT, IN TWO MOUNTED PIECES, ONE SIGNED. About Protestant England. See scan below..............75-100

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

18. [FILM] Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) Anglo-American Academy Award winning actress.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo..........40-60

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19. [ART] Charles Courtry (Paris, 1846 - 1897) French nineteenth century artist, Charles Courtry studied etching techniques in Paris under Flameng and Gaucherel. His first large etching, Le Marche d'esclaves (after Gerome) was exhibited in Paris in 1868. From that date he was a frequent exhibitor and received medals from the Paris Salon in 1874, 1875, 1887 and 1889. In 1881 Charles Courtry was decorated with the Legion d'honneur. Original etching, circa 1870s, titled "LE PLAT DE DELFT," plate signed, after work by Willem Kalf, image approx. 6.5 x 8" plus slim margins. VG...........50-75

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

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

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

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

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

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28. [Great Britain] George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE (1823-1900), styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer, Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century.ALS, 1863, 3pp, 4.5 x 7". VG...........60-80

30. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs:  [1] Lahaye, Louis-Marie de. Viscount de Cormenin [1788-1868] French lawyer and political writer. Member of Chamber of Deputies (1828-46, 1848); opposed to Louis-Philippe; appointed councilor of state (after 1848). Author of Droit administratif (1821), Les Entretiens de village (1846), etc. ALS, no date, 1p, 5 x 7.5 in.   [2] Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis [1866-1934]. French diplomat. Son of Marcelin Berthelot. Entered diplomatic service (1889); adviser to Briand and active in Allied liaison during World War I; secretary general of ministry of foreign affairs (1920-21, 1925-32). TLS, 1925, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. To the poet Aime Giron.  [3] GUSTAV SIMON - Paris dramatist. ALS, 1911, 2pp. Blue pencil word underlined on front.  [4] LEON RIOTOR - FR. AUTHOR. ALS, 1928, 1p. re: about adapting novel for film.  [5] Pierre Girault de Nolhac (1859-1936) French historian, art historian and poet. ALS, no yr., 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine.  [6] Séverin Faust (1872-1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. ALS written on back of picture postcard, not postmarked VG   [7] Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart (1859-1942), French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1907 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ALS, 1920, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in.  [8] Pierre François Hercule de Serre (1776-1824) Minister of Justice [1818-21]. ALS, Paris, no date, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG.  [9] Paul Ferrier (1843-1928) French dramatist. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he secured real success with two short pieces, Chez l'avocat and Les Incendies de Massoulard. Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations (1876); L'Art de tramper les femmes (1890), with M. Najac. One of Ferrier's biggest successes was the production with Fabrice Carré of Josephine vendue par ses sÏurs (1886), an opera bouffée with music by Victor Roger. His opera libretti include La Marocaine (1879), music of Jacques Offenbach; Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1896) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of A Messager; La Fille de Tabarin (1901), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. Only minor faults.  [10] Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891) French novelist. His novels deal with crime, the police, and Parisian life. They had a high circulation, and the greater part of them have been translated into English. ALS, 1880, 1p. Moderate foxing throughout.......200-300

31. [SIGNATURES OF WRITERS] Mixed lot: [1] Hervey Allen [1889-1949] Am. author. Signature. [2] [THEATRE] Joseph Anthony (1912-1993) American playwright and director. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anthony's first Broadway credit was as the author of the 1934 play A Ship Comes In. Three years later he debuted as an actor and appeared in Lady in the Dark, Peer Gynt, and Camino Real, among others. He ultimately directed numerous Broadway productions, including The Rainmaker, The Most Happy Fella, The Best Man, Rhinoceros, Mary, Mary, 110 in the Shade, and the infamously ill-fated David Merrick-produced musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's. He was nominated for a Best Director Tony Award five times but never won. GREAT SIGNATURE ON HIS MONOGRAMMED CARD. Fine. [3] Edmund Clarence Stedman [1833-1908] Am. poet. Signature 1892 [4] Richard Aldington [1892-1962] Brit. writer. Signature 1921. [5] Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. Brief ANS on 3.5 x 2 in. card. [6] Dorothy Canfield Fisher [1879-1958] reformer, writer. Signature. [7] Edwin Markham [1852-1940] Am. poet. Sig. (mount. trace show thru). [8] Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942) Am. novelist. Clip signature. [9] Frederick Palmer (1873-1958) American journalist and writer. He was born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The New York Press hired Palmer in 1895 as its London correspondent; and this opportunity evolved into a long career. General John Pershing persuaded him to take on the task of press accreditation for the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). In this period, he was accorded the rank of Colonel. ANS, 1920. [10] Max O'Rell was the pen name of Léon Paul Blouet (1848-1903) French author and journalist. Max O'Rell was a ready and amusing speaker, and his easy manner and his humorous gift made him very successful on the platform. He lectured often in the United Kingdom and still more often in America. Signature on card dated 1890, with sentiment..........100-150

32. [FILM] Bruce Bennett (1906-2007)  American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter.  During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix.  He moved to Los Angeles in 1929 after being invited to compete for the Los Angeles Athletic Club and befriended actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who arranged a screen test for him at Paramount. In 1931, MGM, adapting author Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Tarzan adventures for the screen, selected Herman Brix to play the title character. Unfortunately, Brix broke his shoulder filming the 1931 football movie Touchdown, which also prevented his entry into the 1932 Olympics, still holding the world record for shot put. Swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced Brix and became a major star. After Ashton Dearholt convinced Burroughs to allow him to form Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc., and make a Tarzan serial film, Dearholt cast Brix in the lead. Pressbook copy has it that Burroughs made the choice himself, but, in fact, in his biography, Brix confirmed that Burroughs never even saw him until after the contract was signed, and then only briefly. The film was begun on location in Guatemala, under rugged conditions (jungle diseases and cash shortages were frequent). Brix did his own stunts, including a fall to rocky cliffs below. The Washington Post quoted Gabe Essoe's passage from his book Tarzan of the Movies: "Brix's portrayal was the only time between the silents and the 1960s that Tarzan was accurately depicted in films. Brief ALS, 2001 mentioning he is 95 years old. VG.......50-75

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33. [FRANCE] Raymond Jean-François Marie Lacave Laplagne (1786-1857) He takes the name of Baron Lacave La Plagne Barris in 1825. Lawyer. President of the Court of Cassation. Pairs of France. Senator. Executor of Louis-Philippe I. He was named peer of France October 30, 1837.  He was a grand officer of the Legion of Honor.  ALS, Paris, 1823, 2-1/2 lengthy pages, plus address leaf. Seal tear affects nothing.........100-150

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34.  [ART] CARROLL THAYER BERRY (1886-1978) Maine artist known as "THE DOWN EAST PRINTMAKER. Six charcoal drawings on one sheet, each approx. 2.25 x 3 in. Image areas very good. Smudging in margins. Unsigned...............100-150

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35. [ART] Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965)  American artist, illustrator, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs. Born in Russia he is said to have fought as a White Russian. During 1919 he arrived in New York City, where he worked in an engraving shop. Over the course of his career, he illustrated some 50 books, several of which he wrote, most notably As I See.  During his lifetime, however, Artzybasheff was probably known best for his magazine art. He illustrated the major American magazines Life, Fortune, and Time (including more than 200 Time Magazine covers over a 24-year span between 1941 and 1965.[1]) During World War II, he also served an expert advisor to the U.S. Department of State, Psychological Warfare Branch. Original wood-engraving, not signed, c. 1930, image approx. 7.5 x 5 plus margins. VG.............50-75

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

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

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

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

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42. Edwin Markham (1852-1940)  American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.  Signed broadside of his poem "Lincoln, The Man of the People", dated 1928. Approx. 8-1/2 x 14".  Top portion not showing in scan below. One middle fold o/w VG.............50-75

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

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

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

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

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50. [PHOTOGRAPHY]  Original vintage photograph taken by Oliver Baker. The photo is of a painting by Walt Kuhn, Portrait of Brenda, 1927. The photo is 8x10 and has Baker blindstamp of the verso.  This particular photograph was from the Kuhn Estate and used for the Walt Kuhn exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Today this painting is in the collection of the Ogunquit Art Museum, in Maine.   Slight top right corner creasing. VG for its age.  Oliver Baker was known for the photos he took of many of America's top artists during the 1950s & 60s.............100-150
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51. [FRANCE] 1810 Manuscript Document Signed, identified as "Marquise d'Anhalt. Our research identifies this person as Favras Caroline Hedwig of Anhalt-Schauenbourg (Marquise de) ( 1759-1841). Approx. 6-3/4 x 4-1/4" with very nice red wax seal still intact. See both side's below. Certainly worthy of research. Excellent condition.........100-150

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52. [THEATRE] Jean Herve [1884-1966] French comedy actor, teacher and director. SIGNED, INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH, to the actress Tania Fedor, dated 1924. Photographer was Paul Mejat. Over all size 5-1/4 x 8-3/4". VG.............50-75

53. [NEWSPAPER] CIVIL WAR AMNESTY PROCLAMATION - WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, Madison, Wis., June 6, 1865, VOL. XIII, No. 38. 8 pages, FILLED with Civil War news. Includes: the complete text of Pres. Johnson's amnesty proclamation and much, much more..............50-75

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

55.  Mike Connors (b. 1925)  American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. In the 1959–1960 television season, he had played a crime-fighting investigator known only as "Nick" in another CBS series, Tightrope.  Signed, inscribed 8 x 10 photo. VG............40-60

56. [FRANCE] Alexandre Moreau de Jonnes  (1778-1870) French  adventurer, military officer in charge of General Statistics of France until 1851. At the age of thirteen he was drafted by Jean-Lambert Tallien in the National Guard to serve in the minimal section keeping the King Louis XVI imprisoned in the Tuileries . His section is controlled by the Marquis de La Fayette : "... a charming cavalier thirty-five to thirty-six years, slim, slender, elegant size, a very distinguished air and perfectly aristocratic ...". In his post, he is witness to the conspiracy of the Knights of the dagger and the day of August 10, 1791 during which held "the bloodiest battle of all those delivered in a public place during the Revolution."  Many naval experiences. Until 1809 , he lived many adventures, total shipments fifteen, ten led him beyond the Tropic: prisoner, he escapes, experiencing hurricanes, earthquakes lives and survives epidemics.... "I found myself involved more than once with historical figures of high dignity, and also pirates, smugglers and people of all kinds. I happened to go with a flagship of eighty guns, and come back in a canoe or a saury which water filled like a basket." Taken prisoner by the British during the taking of Fort Desaix in Martinique , in which the French surrendered after a long and glorious resistance, it is enclosed on five claims pontoons London where have languished as hapless prisoners of war.  Released at the Restoration in 1814 , he returned to France , but on the return of Napoleon from the island of Elba , he joined the army of the Loire. Back in Paris , he was assigned to the minister's office, as staff officer in charge of statistics and survey work. In 1819 , he was awarded the Royal Academy of Paris , the first prize in statistics, then emerging science. It is at this position, five successive ministers. ALS, Paris, 184?, 1p. VG. Approx. 5x8"............100-150

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

58. GILBERT H. GROSVENOR (1875-1966) Father of Photojournalism, full time editor of National Geographic Magazine (1899-1954) Married the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell . SIGNED collector’s card (1921).........50-75

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

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60. [GERMANY] Franz Josef Straub (1915-1988) German politician. He was the chairman of the Christian Social Union, member of the federal cabinet in different positions and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria. Signed philatelic item, 1985, overall 7 x 11". VG.........50-75

61. [ART] Raphael L. West [1769-1850] British artist. He was the son of the famous Benjamin West (1738-1820). He, like his father, was very popular in England. ALS, April 4th (1829), 1p. Edge tipped to mounting paper. Appears to have been closely cropped at some time causing slim margins, esp. along bottom and right sides..........75-100

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

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

64. [NOBEL] Roald Hoffmann (b. 1937) American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Signature, inscribed, 1990. He makes a drawing below. VG......50-75

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

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

68. [MUSIC] Randy Newman (b. 1943) American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.  Signed, inscribed [lengthy inscription] 8x10 photo. VG..........40-60

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69. [ART] Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) Polish-born American artist, famous for his anti-Axis political illustrations, caricatures, and cartoons during World War II. Signed bank check, 1948. Good clear signature..........50-75

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

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72. Paul Caruso (1920-2001) was a well-known criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. He represented war hero and actor Audie Murphy on a charge of trying to kill a Burbank dog trainer; also represented Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, Eddie Nash. Fine TLS signed Paul, on his stationery, 1969, to the entertainer Rudy Vallee. Good content..............30-40

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

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

75. [NOBEL] J. MICHAEL BISHOP - American Microbiologist. Awarded 1989 NOBEL PRIZE for Physiology and Medicine for his research on cancer -causing genes called oncogenes. SIGNED 5x7 color photograph...........35-45

76. [ART] Willem Frederik de Haas (1830-1880)  Dutch-born American painter. He studied at the Art Academy of his native city, and at The Hague under Johannes Bosboom. He went in 1859 to New York City, where he became known as a painter of coast scenery.  Clip Signature,  4-1/4 x 1".  VG.........30-40

78.   (19th CENTURY NOTABLES LOT)   Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS (1815-1895) British Liberal Party politician- Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council. ALS, 1853.   Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB (1807-1886) British civil servant and colonial administrator. Trevelyan's most enduring mark on history may be the quasi-genocidal anti-Irish racial sentiment he expressed during his term in the critical position of administrating relief for the millions of Irish peasants suffering under the Irish famine as Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury (1840-1859) under the Whig administration of Lord Russell .  ALS, 1880, 4pp to Dorman Bridgeman Eaton (1823-1899) the American lawyer who was instrumental in Federal Civil Service reform.   Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland PC (1773-1840) English politician, a major politician in the 19th Century England. Lord Privy Seal between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and again between 1835 and his death in 1840 in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne. On a visit to Paris in 1791 Holland became acquainted with Lafayette and Talleyrand. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 5 October 1796. SIGNED address panel.   Adelbert W. Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow  (1844-1921) British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician. He held office under Lord Salisbury as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board from 1885 to 1886, as Paymaster-General from 1887 to 1889 and as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1889 to 1892[1] and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1887.  ANS.    Charles C. Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot (1777-1849) styled Viscount Ingestre between 1784 and 1793, British politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1817 and 1821. In 1817, Talbot was also appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and admitted to the Privy Council. SIGNED address panel1833.............75-100

79.    (SILENT SCREEN FILM NOTABLES LOT)     Leatrice Joy (1893- 1985) American Actress, ALS on verso of a personal photograph of her 3 ½”x5 ½”. Detailing the photograph of her, with actress Beverly Bayne, and Mrs. Conrad Nagel her daughter. They are aboard a yacht in 1927.   Lenore Ulric (1892-1970) American Actress on Stage and early films.  A rare signed envelope on back flap addressed to film director George Cukor (1899-1993).   Gladys Walton (1903-1993) American Actress.  She appeared early in silent films and left by 1925.  ALS, dated March 1979, 1p with signed address return envelope.  Alfred Hickman (1873- 1931)  English actor. He was married to actress Nance O'Neil. He appeared in 35 films between 1914 and 1931. SIGNED QUOTE.  CHARES DICKSON (1860-1927) American actor.  He was married to Lillian Burkhardt. Appeared in films An American Window, The Siren’s Song, Sunday, The Little Miss Brown, among others.  SIGNED CARD.   BILLIE RHODES (1894-1988) American Silent Screen Actress/Singer - comedienne of early silent cinema. Stage actress and vaudeville.  ALS on card also signed on verso...............75-100

80. [TV] Jane Wyatt (1910-2006) American actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35

81.  ( BRITISH FILM STARS LOT)      Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE ( 1949)  actor, musician, writer and theatre director. SIGNED, inscribed postcard photograph with ALS on verso of card dated April 4, 2002 -- Estelle Winwood  (1883 –1984) stage and film actress who moved to the United States. SIGNED snapshot photograph signed on verso - Jim Dale, MBE (1935--) actor, singer and songwriter. TLS dated September 1, 1981  - Ronald William George "Ronnie" Barker, OBE (1929 – 2005)  English actor, comedian and writer , ANS, dated 1990 -- Anthony Bushell ( 1904 – 1997) film actor and director, who appeared in 56 films between 1929 and 1961.  SIGNATURE  -- Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (1921 – 2001) Welsh comedian and singer. SIGNED postcard photograph -- Marius Goring, CBE  (1912 – 1998) stage and film actor. SIGNED program booklet, front cover from play “Towards Zero”.    Cathleen Nesbitt, CBE ( 1888 – 1982) actress of stage, film and television. She made her debut in London in the stage revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Cabinet Minister (1910). She became the love of English poet Rupert Brooke in 1912, who wrote love sonnets to her. They were engaged to be married when he died during World War I. SIGNATURE  1981 on verso of print of her portrait by Al Hirshfeld of her in “My Fair Lady” with a letter written by someone else, as “my right hand is so severely riddled by arthritis I need someone else to write for me................80-120

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

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83. Sir George Howard Darwin, FRS (1845-1912) English astronomer and mathematician. His father was Charles Darwin. Clip signature mounted to while card...........40-60

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84. Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper de Blowitz (1825- 1903) Bohemian journalist. He left home at the age of fifteen to travel, acquiring a wide range of languages in the process. When financial constraints led him to plan emigration to America, he met by chance M. de Falloux , the French minister responsible for public education, and was appointed professor of foreign languages at the Tours Lycée in around 1849. He thereafter transferred to the Marseilles Lycée. He resigned his professorship there in 1859 when he married in order to devote himself to literature and politics. He became famous, both as a journalist and for his insights into diplomacy. ALS, 1891, 3pp, 4.5 x 7 in.  Moderate sunning along left edge on first page; runs into text................30-40

86. Robert Loggia (b. 1930) is an American film and television actor and director, who specializes in character parts. In 1985, Loggia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of crusty private detective Sam Ransom in the thriller Jagged Edge. Signed 8x10 photo. VG.....25-35

87. Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Signed presentation/edition page removed from the book "GOODBYE WISCONSIN". Fine......25-35

88.  [POLITICS] Mixed lot: [1] Charles S. Deneen (1863-1940) Republican Governor of Illinois, serving from 1905 to 1913, and as a U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1925-1931. Deneen also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1892. He had also been the lead prosecutor in Chicago's infamous Adolph Luetgert murder trial. CLIP SIGNATURE. [2] Henry Wheaton [1785-1848] Am. lawyer, diplomat, was born at Providence, Rhode Island. He was the third reporter of decisions for the United States Supreme Court. CLIP SIGNATURE. [3] Abram S. Hewitt (1822-1903) U.S. Congressman, and a mayor of New York. He is considered the "Father of the New York City Subway System". Signed album page, March 26, 1888. VG. [4] JOSEPH E. DAVIES (1876-1958), American diplomat. He chairman (1915-16) of the Federal Trade Commission, before serving (1919) as President Wilson's economic adviser at the Paris Peace Conference. He later served as ambassador to the USSR (1937-38), ambassador to Belgium (1938-40), and special assistant (1940) to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. During World War II, Davies was (1942-46) chairman of the President's War Relief Control Board. In 1945 he attended the Potsdam Conference. His book, Mission to Moscow (1941), gave a favorable picture of the USSR. He was the husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post. SIGNATURE with sentiment. [5] Mo Udall (1922-1998) Dem. presidential candidate in 1976. Signed 3x5 card. [6] Frances C. Perkins (1882-1965) U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. SIGNATURE. VG. [7] Eugene Hale [1836-1918] US senator (Maine). Signature 1911...........75-100

89. Susan  Strasberg (1938 –1999) American stage, film and television actress.  TLS, 1977, 1p................30-40

91. [WW II] Vern Haugland [1908-1984] World War II Associated Press War Correspondent. Signed and inscribed 10x8 photo showing Haugland, bed-ridden being decorated with the Silver Star by General Douglas Mac Arthur. Haugland writes "With Gen. Mac Arthur at Port Moresby, New Guinea, Oct. 9, 1942...." He signed in 1963. Additional bio. information about Haugland is included...............80-120

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

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

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96.  [GREAT BRITAIN] mixed lot: [1] Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (1794-1870) British soldier, peer and long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament. Hotham was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Beaumont Hotham and Philadelphia Dyke. His father died when he was five years old. Hotham fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and later achieved the rank of General. In 1814 he had succeeded his grandfather as third Baron Hotham, but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. SIGNED ADDRESS PANEL postmarked 1834. [2] Thos. R. Macquoid [1820-1912] Brit. artist. Clip signature. [3] Caroline Norton (1808-1877) Brit. society beauty, author. Clip signature. [4] Henry Moore (1831-1895) English marine and landscape painter. In rendering of wave movement, in veracity of color and texture, and in subtle atmospheric effects he has few rivals. He was elected an academician in 1893. CLIP SIGNATURE. Very good example. [5] Alfred Austin (1835-1913) English poet, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson. SIGNATURE with sentiment, 1908. VG. [6] James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776-1845) English statesman. He was commissioned into the 48th Foot in 1790, transferred to the 7th Foot in 1791, and purchased a Captaincy in the 72nd Foot in 1793. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1797 and became Colonel of the 12th Foot six months later. In 1797 he transferred to the Grenadier Guards, but resigned his commission in 1801. He then devoted himself to politics, sitting in parliament as a Tory. His attitude on various questions became gradually more Liberal, and his support of Catholic emancipation lost him his seat in 1826. He was then raised to the peerage as Baron Wharncliffe of Wortley, a recognition both of his previous parliamentary activity and of his high position among the country gentlemen. At first opposing the Reform Bill , he gradually came to see the undesirability of a popular conflict, and he separated himself from the Tories and took an important part in modifying the attitude of the peers and helping to pass the bill. SIGNED ADDRESS PANEL dated 1826. [7] Edwin Long [1829-1891] Brit. painter. Sig. w/ sentiment. [8] Thomas Wakley [1795-1862]. English surgeon. Founder (1823) of The Lancet, weekly medical paper in which he campaigned for various medical and public health reforms; M.P. (1835-52). Signed ADDRESS PANEL postmarked 1835. Mounted. [9] Henry Fawcett [1833-1884] Eng. statesman. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] C. Napier Hemy [1841-1917] Brit. artist. Signature, 1910............100-150

97. [FRANCE]  François-Marie-Benjamin Richard (1819-1908) Archbishop of Paris, French prelate, was born at Nantes, Loire-Atlantique.
Educated at the seminary of St Sulpice he became successively vicar-general of Nantes, bishop of Belley, and in 1875 coadjutor of Paris. In 1886 the death of Archbishop Guibert was followed by Mgr. Richard's appointment to the see of Paris, and in 1889 he received a cardinal's hat.  In January 1900 the trial of the Assumptionist Fathers resulted in the dissolution of their society as an illegal association. The next day an official visit of the archbishop to the Fathers was noted by the government as an act of a political character, and Mgr. Richard was officially censured. His attitude was in general exceedingly moderate, he had no share in the extremist policy of the Ultramontanes, and throughout the struggle over the law of Associations and the law of Separations he maintained his reasonable temper.  He presided in September 1906 over an assembly of bishops and archbishops at his palace in the rue de Grenelle, a few days after the papal encyclical forbidding French Catholics to form associations for public worship, but it was then too late for conciliation. In December he gave up the archiepiscopal palace to the government authorities. He was then an old man of nearly ninety, and his eviction evoked great sympathy. ALS,  Paris, 1857, 2pp, approx. 8-1/4 x 10-1/4 in.  Fine condition..............100-150

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108. [RUSSIA] Konstantin A. Umansky (1902-1945) Soviet diplomat. In 1936, Umansky was posted to Washington, D.C. where he was an Adviser at the Soviet Embassy. When the diplomatic mission of Alexander Troyanovsky was completed, Umansky acted as chargé d'affaires of the embassy, when on 11 May 1939, Umansky was appointed by Joseph Stalin as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States and he presented his Letters of Credence to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 6 June 1939, becoming, at the time, the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C. TLS, 1943, as newly appointed Ambassador to Mexico. On 25 January 1945, Umansky was to have travelled to San José in Costa Rica to present his Letters of Credence to Costa Rican President Teodoro Picado Michalski, however the Mexican Air Force plane which he was aboard crashed on take-off in Mexico City, killing the Ambassador, his wife (Raisa Umanskaya) and three embassy officials...........75-100

109. [THEATRE] Josephine Victor [1885-?] turn of the century actress, appearing in Britain, America, and on Broadway. She was married to theatre manager Freancis Reid. She appeared in many of Channing Pollock's plays. AQS, 1908. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever."......25-35

110. [MEDICINE] Sir Roy Calne (b. 1930) pioneer of liver transplantation and performed the first such operation in Europe in 1968. HIS SIGNATURE OF UNIV. OF CAMBRIDGE CLINICAL SCHOOL STATIONERY. Folds.........20-30

111. Walker Percy (1916-1990) Southern author. Signed 3x5 card.....40-60

112. Wm. Benton [1900-1973] US Sen. from Ct. TLS, 1951...........20-30

113. Florence George [b.1917] Am. actress/singer. TLS, 1940........25-35

114. [MUSIC] Boris Goldovsky (1908-2001) Russian conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States. He has been called an important "popularizer" of opera in America. As an opera producer, conductor, impresario, and broadcaster he was prominent within the American operatic community between 1946 and 1985. Large Signature. Two mail fold lines..........25-35

115. [THEATRE] Cornelia Otis Skinner (1899-1979) American author and actress. Signed, inscribed postcard photo. VG..........35-45

116. [MUSIC] Janis Ian [b. 1951] American songwriter, singer, musician. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35

117. [MUSIC] Charlie Rich (1932-1995)American Country Music Singer/Musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres. Signed, inscribed 10 x 8 photo. VG.........35-45

118. Collection of album pages signed on both sides: Dennis King (1897-1971) English actor and singer/ Frank Wilson[1885-1956] American actor. Jane Pickens (1908-1992) popular singer on Broadway, radio and television/Jack Powell [?]. Gertrude Niesen/Mario ?. Myron McCormick (1908-1962) American actor of stage, radio and film/ Murvyn Vye. Marjorie Lord (b. 1918) American television actress/ Miriam Seegar (b. 1907) American silent film actress. John Boles (1895-1969) American actor/ Ray Middleton (1907-1984) American character actor. Jane Cowl (1883-1950) successful early American film and stage actress and playwright/ Mary Healy (b. 1918) American actress, singer, and variety entertainer. Violet Heming - actress/Pierre van Passen. Morton Downey (1901-1985) singer popular in the United States, enjoying his greatest success in the 1930s and 1940s. Downey was nicknamed "The Irish Nightingale"/Jay Wesley. Uta Hagen (1919-2004) actress. She originated the role of Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf/Alberta Perkens. Rose Franken - actress/Tex Dabllery. Charlie Spivak (1907-1982) American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s/Stanley Phillips. Most are inscribed to Edna..............80-120

119. [FILM] Madge Bellamy (1899-1990) American film actress who was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her career declined in the sound era, and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s. In San Francisco in 1943, Bellamy was accused of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting (or shooting at) her wealthy lover Stanwood Murphy. The incident generated much publicity and effectively ended her already fading career. ALS. signed Madge B., 1973, 3pp. About writing her autobiography, and thanking the recipient for volunteering to help her. VG............50-75

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124. Rudulph Evans (1878-1960) American sculptor, born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Virginia. He studied in France at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After returning to the United States in 1900, he maintained a studio in New York City. He moved back to Washington, D.C., in 1949. Evans designed the statue of Thomas Jefferson inside the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., in cooperation with the Japanese engineer Wado Zato. At the time the memorial was inaugurated, in 1943, due to material shortages during World War II, the statue was of plaster patinated to resemble bronze; the finished bronze, cast by the Roman Bronze Works of New York, was installed in 1949. In 1939, the Memorial Commission hosted a competition to select a sculptor for the planned statue in the center of the Memorial. They received 101 entries and chose six finalists. Of the six, Rudulph Evans was chosen as the main sculptor and Adolph A. Weinman was chosen to sculpt the pediment relief situated above the entrance. Offered here is 1902 bank check signed by Rudulph Evans. Very good example with clear signature........75-100

125. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 13, 1953, 6pp. Her contract with the William Morris Agency for 3 years. Signed on last page; also signed by her agent............50-75

138. [FRANCE] Leon Xanrof (1867-1953) French playwright and songwriter, noted for writing the play The Prince Consort, which was used to create the 1929 film Parade d'amour (The Love Parade). Brief ALS, [1930s], 1p, 8-1/4 x 5 in. Accompanied by 4 small portraits, 2 of which are original photos. VG..........50-75

139. Archive of approx. 61 letters written by Henriette Baumes-Thion and Antoine describing life in France during the American civil war. Most, if not all dated 1863 and written in French. Not translated. Most are multi-page in length. VG.........150-250

140. Sophie Tucker (1884-1966) singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century. SIGNATURE, inscribed, 1961..............25-35

141. [FILM] Lionel Stander (1908-1994) American actor in movies, radio, theater and television. The role he is now most famous for: Max, the loyal butler, cook, and chauffeur to the wealthy, amateur detectives played by Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers on the 1979 -1984 television series Hart to Hart. Signed document, CONTRACT, 1945, 2pp, to appear as "Spider" in THE KID FROM BROOKLYN, starring Danny Kaye. With attached "condition" agreement initialed. VG............75-100

142. [FRANCE] 1776 letter from a nobleman in his castle addressed to de Lassale, Captain of Angoumois regiment, Commander in Combes. Writer's livestock were seized by soldiers following an order that the writer ignored. He gave permission to another parish to use his livestock which is newly forbidden from one parish to another. VG. Not translated.............75-100

143. Francis Marion Crawford [1854-1909] Am. writer. Clip signature......15-20

144. [FILM] John Boles (1895-1969) American actor. He started out in Hollywood in the silent movie era, but became a huge star with the advent of talkies. After the war, Boles moved to New York to study music. He quickly became well-known for his talents and was selected to play the leading man in the 1923 Broadway musical Little Jesse James. He became an established star on Broadway and attracted the attention of Hollywood producers and actors. SIGNED ALBUM SHEET, IN PENCIL. VG..........20-30

145. [FILM] Lina Basquette (1907-1994) American actress noted as much for her more than 75 years in entertainment beginning in the silent film era, as her tumultuous personal life and nine marriages. In 1925, Basquette began an affair with Sam Warner of Warner Brothers and the couple married on July 4, 1925. She was a mother at 19, and a widow at 20. After appearing in The Godless Girl, Basquette soon became a star in future DeMille films. By 1930, Basquette was broke and spent a good amount of her time partying with fellow actresses Jean Harlow, Clara Bow and Carole Lombard. She became one of the best-known breeders and handlers of champion Great Danes in American dog-show history, and also wrote several books on dog breeding. SIGNED 3X5 CARD with sentiment. VG.......20-30

146. [NOBEL PRIZE] Christian B. Anfinsen [1916-95] Signed 1p. bio. sketch.......20-30

147. JOHN CHARLES DALY (1914-1991) American Broadcaster/Journalist/TV Host - He was a celebrated Reporter and Broadcaster of WW2. His sign off was always: Good night, and have a good tomorrow" - ABC Broadcaster and known to many TV audiences for his hosting of the popular "What's My Line" TV show. SIGNATURE on card......20-30

150. [FILM] Susanna Foster [1924-2009] American film actress best known for her leading role as Christine.  Signed, inscribed color 10x8 movie still photo. VG..........25-35

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

152. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970 ) Son of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Associated with New York Central management and managed family interests for many years. Turned to sports in later years and was namesake of 'Vanderbilt Cup.' His signature on 5x3 slip. Top portion of slip has oil stain that shows but does not touch signature. .....25-35

153. Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) American socialite, heir, businessman, and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. He was the favorite grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who left him $5 million, and the eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, who left him close to $70 million. In his turn he succeeded them as head of the New York Central and related railroad lines in 1885. Signature on 4-3/4 x 2-1/4" slip. Different col9or inl "Yours respectfully" above signature. Faint fold line; slightly soiled...........50-75

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

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

157. [CARTOONS] Whitney Darrow (1909-1999) prominent American cartoonist, who worked most of his career for The New Yorker, with some 1,500 of his cartoons printed in his nearly 50-year-long career with the magazine. TLS, 1960, 1p..............35-45

158. [GOLF] Raymond Floyd [b. 1942] American golfer. Signed, inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG......25-35

159. [FILM] Gregory Hines [1946-2003] American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. TLS, 1981, 1p. VG.........25-35

160. [FILM] Beatrice Gladys "Bea" Lillie (1894-1989) actress and comedic performer. Following her 1920 marriage to Sir Robert Peel in England, she was known in private life as Lady Peel. Brief ALS, 1933, 1p, 5 x 6-1/2". VG..........50-75

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See portrait of Lillie

161. [FRANCE] Gustave François Xavier Delacroix de Ravignan (1795- 1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821. Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds. Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France. Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave. ALS, 1857, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. VG..............80-120

162. Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) Irish writer who is known today as a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist. ALS, no yr., 6pp. Small chip out of top of pages 3 and 4 not affecting content. .............60-80

163. [FILM] THEODORE BONNET [1908-1983] Am. author best remembered for his 1950 novel "The Mudlark" which was made into a film. ALS, 1949, 1 full page plus closing line & signature on 2nd page. Talks mainly about Hallandia [Sweden] and what it was like during the war....................75-100

164. [WOMEN] Anna E. TICKNOR - Founder and secretary of the SOCIETY TO ENCOUTAGE STUDIES AT HOME. ALS, Boston, 1876, last line & signature on verso. "...your wishes may be met by the Harvard Examinations for Women..." VG...................50-75

165. Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857) known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, and author, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris. She spent her early years at the court of empress Catherine II, as her father was one of the empress's closest advisors. In 1799, she married General Nicolas Sergeyvitch Swetchine. Under the influence of Joseph de Maistre, she became a member of the Roman Catholic Church in 1815; she had also been under the influence of the Jesuits. Because of the law, which disallowed Russian nobles who converted from the orthodox religion to live in Russia, she was forced to leave Russia, and she decided upon Paris as her new home. In the following year she settled in Paris with her spouse where, until her death, she maintained a famous salon. From 1826 onward, she held her salon at number 71 Rue Saint Dominique in Paris. Her salon was considered remarkable for its high courtesy and intellectuality. She often received Russian exiles at her salon. It was also a centre of the French contrarevolutionary movement. Frequent guests was people of France's literary, political and ecclesiastical communities. With her "fervent and enlightened Catholicism", which took the form of a rational and intellectualized form of faith, she is described as an influence on the French Catholic community until her death in 1856. ALS, no date, 2pp. Not translated.........100-150

Portrait of Swetchine

166. [MUSIC] Sir Walter Parratt KCVO (1841-1924) English organist and composer. From 1882 he the post of organist of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, Windsor. He became Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University in 1908, taking over from Hubert Parry. He had previously been Organist and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He became one of the foremost organ teachers of his day, with many important posts in Britain being filled by his students. He was knighted in 1892. In 1893 he was appointed Master of the Queen's Musick to Queen Victoria, and afterward held the same office under Kings Edward VII and George V. Signature with sentiment. Mounted............40-60

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167. [TV] Henry Winkler (b. 1945) American actor. Signed 3x5 card.........20-30

168. Don Blanding [1894-1957] author/illustrator. Signature 1943.......15-20

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170. [MUSIC] Kurt Schwertsik  (1935 - ) Austrian contemporary composer. He is famous for creating the “Third Viennese School” and spreading contemporary classical music. AMQS from his work "Violin Concerto", inscribed. Approx. 10-1/2 x 4". VG..........50-75 See AMQS

171. [MUSIC] Rene Clemencic  (1928 - ) Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player. AMQS from his famous "Kabbala Oratorio." Approx. 10-1/2 x 4". VG..........50-75

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174. [ART] Minos Argyrakis [1920-1998] Greek artist was born in Smyrni in 1920 and came to Athens as a refugee with his family in 1922. He studied at Athens University of Economics and Business and at Athens School of Fine Arts. The roots of his painting, his sketches and the sceneries made by him can be traced in folk art and naïve painting. His works are singular because of the hearty humor, the critical attitude and the sarcasm imbued in them. His work has appeared in many one-man shows and group exhibitions. He illustrated books, did newspaper and magazine illustrations, and also worked on theatrical stage designs. Signed ink drawing, dated 1959, approx. 12 x 8-1/4". He also writes "Work and make love, make love and work. Nothing else left."............75-100

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175. [GREAT BRITAIN] The Princess Helena (1846-1923) member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. ALS, 1887, 2pp. VG............75-100

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176. [MUSIC] Robert Ward (b.1917)) American composer. Signed & inscribed brochure picturing Ward who also pens a bar of music. Inscribed to Carl Davis, the conductor, composer. Fine.......50-75

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

178. [THEATRE] Beatrice Herford (1868 -1952) American actress and vaudeville performer born in England. ALS, no date, 1p........20-30

179. [THEATRE] MABEL (Lucy Hackney) IRVING [1873-1914] British actress; married to Laurence Irving, the English dramatist and novelist, and son of Sir Henry Irving. Laurence and Mabel were on a tour of first Australia and then North America from 1912 to 1914. Their biggest success on the tour was Laurence's own play Typhoon which was a topical play set in the time of the Russo-Japanese War, with Laurence playing a Japanese officer. Laurence and Mabel Irving later drowned in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster on May 29, 1914. Reports in the news accounts of the tragedy say that they got separated and Laurence was in a position of temporary safety, but he knew Mabel could not swim and he jumped back into the St. Lawrence River to rescue her. Their bodies were never found. ALS, not dated, written on both sides. She mentions Laurence. Good content. VG............50-75

180. [FILM] Lou Diamond Phillips [b. 1962] American film, film, television, and stage actor and director. His breakthrough came when he starred in the film La Bamba. Signed 10 x 8 color photo from the film La Bamba. VG............25-35

181. Harry Reasoner [1923-1991] American journalist. Brief TLS, 1971, thanks to a viewer. On American Broadcasting Co. letterhead. Fine............25-35

182. Jim Hagerty (1909-1981) served as the only White House Press Secretary from 1953 to 1961 during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Signed & inscribed 7x9 photo. VG...........20-30

183. [FILM] Karl Malden (1912-2009) American actor whose career spanned more than seven decades and appearing in many classic films. Brief ALS [or ANS depending on how you look at it]. VG.........30-40

185.  George Ade [1866-1944] American writer. Signature.............20-30

186. [FILM] David Lloyd Wolper (b.1928) American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He also produced numerous documentaries and documentary series like Biography (TV series&emdash;1961-63), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (TV), Appointment with Destiny (TV series), This is Elvis, Three Days in November, Imagine: John Lennon, and others. He directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space, which was nominated for an Academy Award. His 1971 film (as executive producer)about the study of insects The Hellstrom Chronicle won an Academy Award. TLS, 1968, 1p,, signed "David."..............25-35

189. Helen Astor [1895-1965] Am. socialite. ANS, nd, re: her father....20-30

190. Samuel Weller Singer (1783–1858) was an English author and scholar on the work of William Shakespeare. He is also now remembered as a pioneer historian of card games. ALS, Travellers Club, 1839, 1p, to Vicomte de Marcellus. VG..........50-75

191. Samuel Merwin [1875-1936] American writer. Signature 1907.........20-30

192. Sir James Black Baillie [1872-1940] British philosopher and academic. ALS, 1931, 2pp..........40-60

193. Edmund Blunden, MC [1896-1974] English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Signed in ink limited edition page [proof page] from the "hand-set edition of Near & Far," 6-1/4 x 9-1/2". Fine...........30-40

194. John Anderson [b.1922] Am. politician. TLS & ISP, 2001...........20-30

196. BRANDER MATTHEWS (1852-1929) American writer and educator.  ALS, 1905, 2pp. VG...........35-45

197. HENRY JACKSON van DYKE (1852-1933) American Author, educator, clergyman, lyricist.   TLS, 1908, 1p. VG..........35-45

198. HEINRICH FRIEDIRCH M. SAHM (1877-1939) German Politician, Diplomat, Mayor Berlin (1933-1935), Ambassador to Norway. He became the first President of the Senate. He retained his position as Mayor after the Nazi takeover but was replaced in 1935, but held little power over the Commissioner Julius Lippert.   TLS, 1931, 1p.............50-75

199. (FRANCE) Roger de Beauvoir (1806-1866) Romantic novelist and playwright.  His wit, good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Procs, written in 1849. Afflicted with gout and nearly destitute from his flamboyant lifestyle, de Beauvoir spent the last few years of his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris. His best-known works included Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1840), Les Oeufs de Paques (1856) and Le Pauvre Diable (reprinted 1871).  ALS, no yr., 1p. VG............75-100

200. GEORGE BALL (1910-1994) At the end of WW2, he directed the US strategic Bombing Survey in London. In 1961 he headed the task force on trade and tariff policy for President-elect John Kennedy and then became Under Secretary of State.In 1961 Kennedy named him Under Sec. of State, he remained with the State Dept. until 1966.He publicly opposed the Vietnam War. He was briefly was UN Ambassador in 1968 Author of The Discipline of Power, Diplomacy for the Crowded World, The Passionate Attachment. TLS, 1993.................25-35

201. [MAINE] Burton M. Cross [1902-1998] Maine's 61st and 63rd Governor. ALS. 1972, full 1-page. Fine letter about himself and his opinions about a negative outlook for Maine and the Federal government. VG...........40-60

202. Annie Fields (1834-1915) American writer. Fields was a forward-looking, philanthropic and multi-talented woman, who encouraged the talents of others even as she followed the good of the intellect. Although Fields often turns up in the pantheons of 19th century poetry, it is for her short sympathetic biographies that she is now remembered. ALS, 1910, 1p, laid to mounting page. With original envelope........50-75

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203. Wynne Apperley [1884-1960] British artist. Signed picture removed from unknown publication of one of his paintings. 4-1/2 x 5-1/4"............25-35

204. Maud B. Booth (1865-1948) Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. Signed card, with sentiment, 3x2 in........35-45

205 .  [ENGLAND] Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born 2 July 1915), is a senior British peer and a retired Brigadier in the British Army. He was born in Rome. From 1943 to 1972, when he succeeded his father, he was known as Marquess Douro, and he is currently styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. He joined the British Army, serving in the Second World War with the Royal Horse Guards. He eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding that regiment in 1954. He then moved to the Household Cavalry Regiment, which he began commanding in 1959. He commanded the 22nd Armoured Brigade (1960-1961), served in the British Army of the Rhine, and became defence attaché to Spain in 1964; he retired from the Army in 1968 as a Brigadier. During his period of service, he received the Military Cross. Sigbature, WITH SENTIMENT ON STATIONERY, DATED 1987. FOLD LINES O/W VG........20-30

206. Sir ISAAC COFFIN - signature with rank of Rear Admiral. Coffin Bay is a town at the southern extremity of the Eyre Peninsula, which is a wheat growing area of South Australia. British naval explorer Matthew Flinders named the bay on 16 February 1802 in honour of his friend Sir Isaac Coffin. CLIP SIGNATURE.............35-45

207. [FILM] John Rhys-Davies (b. 1944) English-born Welsh actor and vocal actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arabian excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Clipped Signature. Mounted......20-30

208.  Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) was an Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. ALS, dated 9 May, no year, 1p, 5-1/4 x 7-3/4. Very light foxing..........50-75

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209. (FOOTBALL) LAWRENCE PERRY (d. 1954). American journalist and author. Editor "Yachting" (1906-1910); author "THE FULLBACK" (1916); THE BIG GAME (1918); FOR THE GAME'S SAKE (1921); "TOUCHDOWNS" (1924). Author of syndicated columns "For the Game's SAKE" and "NEW YORK SKYLINES." Supervisor sports arts, ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. Document Signed, The Riggs National Bank, Washington, D.C., 1916. Bank check with vignette of bank.................25-35

211. [THEATRE] Ethel Irving [1869-1963] British actress [not related to Henry Irving]. She created at Daly's Theatre [1902] the part of Sophie in A Country Girl. Another important role she played was Pamela Tuckwell in "What Pamela Wanted" at the Criterion Theatre. ALS, April 12, no yr., written on both sides of Criterion Theatre stationery which also says "Miss Ethel Irving's Season." Light scattered toning..............50-75

212. [MUSIC] Edward Dannreuther (1844-1905) German pianist and writer on music resident from 1863 in England. He trained as a musician at the Conservatoire at Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. Dannreuther became a champion of Wagner, and founded the London Wagner Society in 1872. Dannreuther became a professor of piano in the Royal College of Music in 1895, a position which he held until his death. An enthusiast for new music, he was an important influence on the composer Hubert Parry. Clip signature [irregular shape].........20-30

213. ROBERT S. DILLON (1929- ) American Diplomat. He was US Ambassador to Lebanon (1981-1983)It was during this time during the War there and dealt with the crises there impeccably. Onn the morning of Sunday, October 23, 1983, a heavy truck, loaded with explosives rammed into the building that housed the Battalion Landing Team (BLT) of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) The truck detonated immediately. The building was destroyed and 220 U.S. marines, 18 sailors and 3 soldiers housed there were killed in the ensuing explosion TLS dtd 5/12/1983 as Ambassador, with signed/inscribed 5x7 portrait photograph (2 items). The photo is signed in dark area therefore poor contrast.........................25-35

214. [MUSIC] Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885) German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career. His best-known opera, The Lily of Killarney, written on the subject of Dion Boucicault's play The The Colleen Bawn to a libretto by John Oxenford, was produced at Covent Garden in 1862. His operetta, The Bride of Song, was brought out there in 1864. Clip signature signed "Benedict" mounted to larger slip.........25-35

215. [ART] VALENTINE BRODSKY CHAGALL -(Mrs. Marc Chagall) Wife of famed painter, married him in 1953. She was his 2nd wife. ANS on postcard reproduction of her husband's work: Messag bibilique stained glass window. Dated 25/7/75...............40-60

216. [MUSIC] Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers". Signature dated 1920 on 3x5 card. Small picture affixed to card....30-40

217. Sir William Fletcher Barrett [1844-1925] English physicist and psychical researcher. ALS, no yr., 3pp, 4.5 x 7". VG............50-75

218. [MUSIC] Keith Lockhart (b. 1959) American orchestral conductor. Lockhart became the 20th Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1995. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35

219. [FRANCE] Lucien Descaves (1861-1949) French novelist. A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate (1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement. The anti-military novel, Sous-Offs (1889) provoked a scandal. Though acquitted of charges of offending the army and public morality, he was stripped of his military rank. ALS written on his calling card [both sides], signed with initials...........40-60

220. [MUSIC] Jeanne Devries - Dutch soprano who made her debut in 1867. ALS, 1873, 2pp., 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG...........50-75

221. [MUSIC] Jean Jacques Debillemont [1824-1879] French violinist, composer. ALS, no date, 1p, 5x8". VG.........40-60

222. [THEATRE] Léon Gozlan (1803-1866) French novelist and dramatist, was born at Marseille. When he was still a boy, his father, who had made a large fortune as a ship-broker, met with a series of misfortunes, and Léon, before completing his education, had to go to sea in order to earn a living. In 1828 we find him in Paris, determined to run the risks of literary life. His townsman, Joseph Méry , who was then making himself famous by his political satires, introduced him to several newspapers, and Gozlan's brilliant articles in the Figaro did much harm to the already tottering government of Charles X. ALS, no date, 1p, about his small article about "Songs". 5 x 7-3/4 in. Light edge toning...........60-80

Portrait of Gozlan

223. [FRANCE] Léon Gozlan (1803-1866) French novelist and playwrite. ALS, no date, 1p. Re: president for a prize for novelists. VG........60-80

Portrait of Gozlan

224. [FRANCE] Alfred Masson-Forestier (1852-1912) French writer, born at Le Havre. He studied law and from 1884 to 1899 practiced his profession at Rouen. After 1899 Masson-Fortier settled in Paris and devoted all his time to literature, contributing to the Revue des Deux Mondes, Le Temps, La Revue, etc. His stories, usually short and sober in content, are reminiscent of Merimée and Maupassant. The last years of his life were spent in a study of Racine and he published in 1911 Autour d'un Racine ignoré. ALS, 1911, 2 full pages about Racine and graphology. VG.............60-80

225. Teófilo Braga, in full Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes. (1843-1924). Portuguese scholar and writer. Professor, Lisbon (1872 ff.); wrote prolifically on literature, history, politics, etc.; noted controversialist, and anticlericalist republican. Head of provisional government (1910-11) after dethronement of King Manuel; interim president of Portugal (1915). Author of Visa~o dos Tempos (1864), História da Poesia Popular Portuguesa (1867), comprehensive História da Romantismo en Portugal (1880), A Arcádia Lusitana (1899), etc. Signature on card (stamp dated 1916)..............40-60

226. [NOBEL PRIZE] Sir Hans Adolf Krebs  (1900-1981) German-born British physician and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The latter, the key sequence of metabolic chemical reactions that produces energy in cells, is also known as the Krebs cycle and earned him a Nobel Prize in 1953, which he shared with Fritz Lipmann.  Brief TLS, 1979. 1p. VG.............40-60

227. [MUSIC] Georgia Gibbs (1919-2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. ALS, on 6 x 3-1/4" card. Envelope postmarked 1991......25-35

228. Hannibal Goodwin [1822-1900] Episcopal priest at the House of Prayer in Newark, New Jersey, patented a method for making transparent, flexible roll film out of nitrocellulose film base, which was used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, an early machine for viewing animation. AQS, dated Oct. 17, 1881, 7 x 4.5". VG.........60-80

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229. Bert Parks (1914-1992) American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer and host, best known as the longtime host (1955-1979) of the annual Miss America telecast. Signed 8x11 photo. VG............25-35

232.  Louis Clarence Hill [1865-1938] Am. Civil Engineer. He was the main designer of the early large dams. He was the chief engineer and designer of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. His designs and success went on to help the Hoover Dam and Coolidge Dam, also the Los Angeles Flood Control Project, DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1924, 2pp, 4to. His biographical notes for The Cyclopedia of American Biography. VG.................50-75

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233. Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr. (1912-1989) was a United States judge and an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Supreme Court. TLS, 1981, 1p. "...One who approaches any undertaking obsessed with his expectation of personal gain is unlikely to contribute much to society..."..........35-45

234. Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. ALS, no year, "I am away at my house...." 4x6 in. VG...........75-100

236. Eden Phillpotts (1862 - 1960) English author, poet and dramatist. AQS from "Vigil", dated 1907. Approx. 8x6" blue paper. VG..........40-60

237. [TV] Dennis Weaver (1924-2006) American actor, best known for his work in television, including his role as Matt Dillon's trusty helper Chester Goode on the long-running western series Gunsmoke. He later played Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and appeared in the 1971 TV movie Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.  Signed, inscribed 10 x 8 photo. VG............40-60

 
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238. (LORD CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND LOT)    SIGNATURES in Various Forms - Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards PC (1781 –1875).  Rounell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne PC (1812–1895) He served twice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Clipped SIGNATURE - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714 –1794) English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl of Camden.  Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury PC, QC (1800 – 1873)   Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham PC KC (1781 –1851) He was twice Lord Chancellor.  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine  ( 1750 - 1823) He served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807. Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1856 –1928), was an influential Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were implemented. Raised to the peerage as Viscount Haldane in 1911, he was Lord Chancellor between 1912 and 1915, when he was forced to resign because of his supposed and unproven German sympathies..............80-120

239. [GREAT BRITAIN] George Nicoll Barnes CH PC (1859-1940) Scottish politician and a leader of the Labour Party. He was leader of the Labour Party from 14 February 1910 to 6 February 1911. He was Minister of Pensions (1916-1917) and Minister without Portfolio (1917-1920) under David Lloyd George. In 1918 the Labour Party decided to leave the Lloyd George Coalition but Barnes refused to resign. As a result he was expelled from the Labour Party and founded the National Democratic Party. SIGNATURE...........20-30

240. Lizzie Sparks Pickering [d. 1906] wife of Edward Charles Pickering, the noted American astronomer and physicist. ALS, nd, 2pp. to Mrs. Amedee Mouchez. Says she would very much like to see the astronomers without interferring with their work. Regards to Admiral Mouchez. Fine..........25-35

241. Sir Edward Thornton [1817-1906] English diplomat, son of Sir Edward Thornton [1766-1852] of the same occupation. He was born in London and was educated at King's College London, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He entered the diplomatic service as attaché to the mission at Turin in 1842, filled the same position in Mexico in 1845, and was made Secretary of Legation in that Capital in 1853. During 1848 he did much to forward the conclusion of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1852 he was appointed Secretary of Legation at Buenos Aires; chargé d'affaires to Uruguay (1854); Minister to the Argentine Republic in 1859, to Brazil in 1865, and from 1867 to 1881 to the United States. He was knighted in 1870; in 1871 was a member of the commission on the Alabama Claims, and was appointed Privy Councilor; and in 1873 was arbitrator in the commission on the Mexican and United States Claims. He was appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburg in 1881, Ambassador at Constantinople in 1884, and retired to private life in 1887. It was because of him that the Triple Alliance War (Argentina, Brasil and Uruguay against Paraguay) took place. This war was a genocide to the Paraguayan people, killing 90% of Paraguay's population, including women and children. ALS, Montevideo, 1857, 1-1/3pp. Written in French. Fine.....40-60

242. STUART CHASE (1888-1985) American Economist/Consumer Activist/Man of Letters. From 1922 to 1939, Chase was a director of the New York-based Labor Bureau, Inc., an organization that furnished research, accounting, and other professional services to labor unions and cooperatives and published a newsletter.Chase and Frederick John Schlink were the founders of Consumers' Research. Schlink established Consumers' Research, Inc. They published the famous book Your Money's Worth(1927), a controversial exposé of the advertising and pricing practices used by manufacturers of consumer products. This work was widely distributed through the Book-of-the-Month Club In 1929, two months after the Wall Street crash, the organization began to publish its findings both as consumer pamphlets and in a regular bulletin that compared and assigned ratings to consumer products. These reports were eventually published in the Handbook of Buying. By 1930, membership in Consumers' Research, Inc. had reached twelve thousand.. He was the author of hundreds of papers and articles for over 60 years. ANS dtd Dec 1980.................30-40

243. Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a novelist and historian from London. His sister-in-law was Annie Besant. ALS, 1882, 1p. Mounted to another sheet.........50-75

244. Robert (Smythe) Hichens (1864-1950) English journalist and novelist. He wrote lyrics for music, stories, and collaborated in successful plays. He is best remembered now, perhaps, for his satire on Oscar Wilde, The Green Carnation (1894), his novels that were made into films &emdash; The Garden of Allah (pub. 1904) and The Paradine Case (pub. 1933) &emdash; and the story "How Love Came to Professor Guildea", which has been frequently anthologized. His novel "Felix" (1902) is an early fictional treatment of hypodermic morphine addiction. ALS, 1907, 1p............80-120

245. [EARLY FILM] Odette Myrtil [1898-1978] French born American actress. One of the highlights of her career was acting the title role of Odette in Jerome Kern's :The Cat and the Fiddle" [1931], written especially for her. Written in TLS form, a document dated 1936, re: contract with Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. 1-page, she signs at bottom "Approved and Accepted." VG.......50-75

246. [BALLET] Dame Merle Park (b. 1937) prima ballerina. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1954 and became a soloist in 1958. In her career, she was partnered by Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Signed color 5x7 photo. VG.............40-60

247. Cyril Ritchard (1897-1977) actor. Signed 7x9 photo. Corner creases and old ink price written on backside.........30-40

248. [MAINE] WALLACE WHITE, JR.(1877-1952) American Politician. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1931) Committee on Woman Suffrage (Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); served as a presidential appointee on a variety of commissions; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1949; He was minority leader 1944-1947; majority leader 1947-1949. TWO TLSs, both 1918...............25-35

249. [THEATRE] Channing Pollock (1880-1946) American playwright, critic and writer of film scenarios. Signed, inscribed photograph dated 1936, with sentiment. VG..........50-75

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250. [ITALY] Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (1922- 2009) was an Italian politician, businesswoman and writer. She was the only woman to have been Minister of Foreign Affairs in Italy. TLS AS SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ITALY, 1983...............20-30

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251. [NY] David B. Hill (1843-1910) American politician from New York who was Governor of New York from 1885 to 1891. During his tenure as Governor, William Kemmler was executed in the electric chair, the first inmate in the country ever to be put to death in this manner. He served as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1892 to 1897. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1892, but lost to Grover Cleveland, who later won the presidential election. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1902 bank check, National Commercial Bank, Albany, NY. VG.........40-60

252. [OPERA] CESARE SIEPI (1923- ) Italian Basso - He was based mainly at La Scala and from 1950 at the Metropolitian Opera in New York. He is particularly noted for his Mozard roles, and with the Italian repertory, especially Don Giovanni and Mefistofele. He is condidered one of the greatest Bassos after WW2. He created Nonno Innocenzo in Pizzetti's L"Oro. SIGNED Christmas card dtd 1991...............25-35

253. [MUSIC] M. Lewis Spratlan [b. 1940] American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music. AMQS from his Pulitzer Prize work "Life Is A Dream," approx. 5-1/8 x 4". VG......35-45

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254. [MUSIC] Allan Blank (b. 1925) American composer. AMQS from his "Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet."........40-60

255. [MUSIC] Simon Bainbridge (b. 1952) British composer. AMQS, inscribed from his "Viola Concerto" [1976]...........40-60

256. [MUSIC] Burrill Phillips (1907-1988) American composer. AMQS, inscribed..........40-60

257. [MUSIC] Frederic Goossen (1927-2011) American composer. AMQS, inscribed from his "Aria", dated 1993........40-60

258. [MUSIC] Arthur Frackenpohl (b. 1924) American composer. AMQS from "Natural Minor Blues".......40-60

259. [MUSIC] Allen Brings (b. 1934) American composer, pianist. AMQS from "Viola and Piano.".......40-60

260. [MUSIC] Rudolf Kelterborn (b. 1931) Swiss musician and composer. AMQS from his "Nuovi Canti" dated 1993..........40-60

261. [MUSIC] Tina Davidson (b. 1952) American composer. AMQS from "Fire on the Mountain"......40-60

262. [MUSIC] Jeergen Jerslid (1913-2004) Danish composer. AMQS, inscribed, from his "Frantasia Per Arpa Sola" [1977], dated 1993..........40-60

263. [MUSIC] Haflioi Hallgrimsson (b. 1941) Icelandic composer and cellist. AMQS from his "Poemi" 3rd movement.........40-60

264. [MUSIC] Paul Hayden (b. 1956) American composer. AMQS from his "Hambridge Quavers" [1989]........40-60

265. [MUSIC] Wilhelm Maler (1902-1976) German composer. Signature on album paper [light blue]......25-35

266. [MUSIC] Francis Burt (b. 1926) British composer. AMQS from his "Echoes For Ensemble."......40-60

270. DOUGLAS FRASER (1916-2008) Am. Labor Leader. President of Chrysler, President of the United AutoWorkers (1979-1983). SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph..........25-35

271. [MUSIC] Richard Bonynge (b. 1930) Australian conductor and pianist. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo, 2001. VG........25-35

272. [MUSIC] Jane Glover CBE (b.1949) British-born conductor and music scholar. Signed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35

273. [NOBEL PRIZE] JAMES TOBIN (1918-2002) American Economist - 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. His career as an economist began in 1939. He did research and writing in several fields: macroeconomic theory and policy; money and banking; public finance; consumer behavior; welfare economics; rationing; portfolio selection and asset markets ("q" ratio), economic growth; investment and capital accumulation; inequality and public policy to ameliorate poverty (negative income tax); econometric method ("tobit analysis"); international monetary system ("tobin tax"). SIGNED 1982 FDC honoring State Birds/Flowers. CLEAN.............25-35

274. [BALLET] DAME PEGGY VAN PRAAGH (1910-1990) Australian Ballerina/Choreographer. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph, 1982. VG.......25-35

278. Edward L. Tilton (1861-1933) American architect, with a practice in New York City, where he was born. He specialized in the design of libraries, such as the Olean Public Library and Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), two of about a hundred libraries, many of them Carnegie libraries, that he designed in the United States and Canada, and structures for educational institutions. He and the partner that he met in Paris, William A. Boring, won a competition in 1897 to design the first phase of new buildings for the U.S. Immigration Station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor : the Main Building (1897-1900), Kitchen and Laundry Building (1900-01), Main Powerhouse (1900-01), and the Main Hospital Building (1900-01) were all constructed to their designs before the formal partnership was amicably dissolved in 1904. The two architects continued to share an office. A RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED, Dec. 27, 1923, concerning construction supplies for the Knight Memorial Library in Providence, Rhode Island, for $8,579.23. One page plus 2 additional pages of figures.......100-150

279. [ENGLAND] George Pryme (1781-1868) British economist, academic and politician. In 1799, Pryme entered Trinity College, Cambridge, winning a scholarship there in 1800 and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1803. In 1804, he began studying law at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1806, practising in London until health problems forced him to return to Cambridge in 1808. In 1816, Pryme began conducting lectures on political economy at Cambridge, the first teaching of such a topic at any English university, and in that same year his lectures were published as a book entitled A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of Political Economy. In 1828, he was made Professor of Political Economy by the university senate, although a chair was not established for the topic at Cambridge until just before his retirement. He was politically active, and successfully opposed parliamentary candidates sponsored by the Duke of Rutland, and eventually winning a seat in the House of Commons representing Cambridge as a Whig. Pryme worked hard in the parliament, pushing for university reform at Oxford and Cambridge until his poor health prompted his family to urge his retirement from parliament. He returned to Cambridge and bought an estate in Wistow while continuing to lecture and practice as a barrister on occasion. He died in 1868. In 1870, his memoirs were published, Autobiographic Recollections of George Pryme, edited by his daughter Alicia Bayne. ALS, 1837, written on both sides. To Joshua Walmsby accepting invitation to dinner of the Reform Association of Liverpool.............50-75

280. [MUSIC] Karel Husa (1921- in Prague) is a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition. In 1954 he came to the United States and became an American citizen in 1959. TLS, 1989, 1p. ...........35-45

281. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Olin D. Johnston [SC]; Henry M. Jackson [Wash]; Spessard L. Holland [FL]; Lister Hill [Ala]; B.B. Hickenlooper [IA]; Carl Hayden [Ariz]; Vance Hartke [Ind]; Ernest Gruening [Alaska]; J.W. Filbright [Ark]; Hiram L. Fong [Hawaii]..........50-75

282. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Leverett Saltonstall [MA]; A. Willis Robertson [VA]; Jennings Randolph [WV]; Claiborne Pell [RI]; John O. Pastore [RI]; Maurine Neuberger [OR]; Joseph O'Mahoney [WYO]; James E. Murray [MT]; Karl E. Mundt [SD]; Frank E. Moss [Ut]...........50-75

283. [SIGNED BOOK] Gene Autry (1907-1998)  American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.  Signed 1978 edition of his book "BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN", inscribed on the flyleaf. The dust jacket is in very good condition. VG........200-300

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285. [FILM] Greta Nissen (1906-1988)  Norwegian-born American film and stage actress. Signed 3x5 card. Fine......25-35

286. Brian Blessed (1936 - ) is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals".  Signed 3x5 photo. VG.........25-35

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287. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS DE LA REPUBLIQUE, dated Year IX [1801], 16 pages., approx. 5.5 x 8.5".  Many pages on how to split up captured ships [detailed]; also article on CORSAIRS [pirates]; etc. Signed Bonaparte in print. VG............100-150

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288. [FRANCE] Jules Favre (1809-1880) French statesman. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans faction. ANS, 1878, on 3-3/4 x 2-1/8" card, mounted to slip. VG.........25-35

289. [FRANCE] Ambroise-Marie Carré OP (1908-2004) Catholic priest, author and member of the French Academy. Born in Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, France, Carré studied at l'école Saint-Joseph and the collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly before entering the Dominican order in 1926 and being ordained a priest in 1933. Not long thereafter, he was to edit, from 1936 until 1939, the Revue des Jeunes. Under the German Occupation, following the capitulation of the French government to the Nazis during the Second World War, Carré aided those persecuted by the Vichy government, regardless of their religion or ethnicity; for this, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de guerre. Both before and after the war, he preached many sermons and participated in conferences in France and abroad (especially in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and Belgium). He preached the Lenten sermons many times at Notre Dame de Paris, and in 1964, Paul VI called him to present spiritual exercises at the Vatican. He was elected to the French Academy on 26 June 1975, replacing Jean Cardinal Daniélou, a post he held until his death on 15 January 2004 at Ancourt, in France. BRIEF ALS, not dated, written on inside of Paul VI card. Identified as "Carre was very near the pope for a certain period. This is probably from Paul VI's trip to Jerusalem." Fine.........80-120

291. Leon Gellert (1892-1977) Australian poet. TLS, 1934, 1p.........40-60

293. [FRANCE]  Paul  Richer (J1849-1933)  French anatomist, physiologist, sculptor and anatomical artist who was a native of Chartres. He was a professor of artistic anatomy at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1898). Richer was an assistant to Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière, and from 1882 to 1896 was chief of the laboratory at the Salpêtrière Hospital. With Charcot he performed research of hysteria and epilepsy, and also performed studies of medicine and its relationship to art.  In 1903, Richer was appointed to the chair of artistic anatomy at the École des Beaux-Arts, and in 1907-08 was president of the Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine (French Society for the History of Medicine). His sculptures can be found in museums throughout Europe, including the Musée d'Orsay.  ALS, 1891, 2 full pages, 4.5 x 7". VG..............75-100

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

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

297. [FRANCE] Year VI  (1798 ) printed document "Coneil des 500", creation of income tax, 24-pages, approx. 7.5 x 10".  Edge toning o/w VG..........100-150

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298. [FRANCE] Mystery Document 1770 signed, 12 x 8-3/4 in. on paper. Certainly worthy of further research...........100-150

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300. [GOP] MARY LOUISE SMITH (1914-1997) American Political Leader - In 1964, she was elected as Republican national committeewoman for Iowa and served until 1984. In 1976, Smith became the first woman to organize and call to order a national presidential nominating convention of a major U.S. political party. She served as national chairman of the Republican Party from 1974-1977. -SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 portrait, with sentiment...........20-30

301. [CINEMA] CARA WILLIAMS (BARRYMORE) (1925- ) American Actress - At 17, Williams was signed to a 20th Century Fox contract, but few of her subsequent film roles were large enough to attract notice. Her fortunes improved when she replaced Judy Holliday in the Broadway production of Born Yesterday (1950); thereafter, her film and TV roles increased in size and prominence. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of a sex-starved farm woman in The Defiant Ones (1958). By virtue of her flaming red hair and acute comic timing, Williams was touted as "the new Lucille Ball" on the CBS sitcoms Pete and Gladys (1961) and The Cara Williams Show (1964). She was married to John Barrymore, Jr. and had a son. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph with sentiment............20-30

302. [THEATRE] Neil Burgess [1846-1910] Vaudevillian comedian who specialized in female impersonations. Signature.........20-30

303. [SCIENCE] Paul D. Boyer (b. 1918) U.S. biochemist. He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)". SIGNED 4x6" photo................35-45

304. Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (b. 1914) American politician. He represented Virginia in the United States Senate from 1965 to 1983. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo, 2001. Very slight creasing at one corner [not bad]..........20-30

305. Tom Douglas [1895-1978] Am. actor. TLS c.1930 re: appearance in "Fata Morgana......25-35

306. Chas. Earle Funk [1881-1957] Am. writer of Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary fame. TLS, 1936......35-45

307. Robert Jones Burdette (1844-1914) American humorist and clergyman, who became famous through his paragraphs in the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. ALS, 1874. SOILED + OTHER FAULTS.............20-30

308. [AVIATION] J. Leland Atwood (1904-1999) engineer and manager in the aerospace industry. He worked in various prominent positions at North American Aviation for over 35 years. The International Aerospace Hall of Fame invested Atwood in 1984. SIGNED 8x10 photo, 1983. VG........25-35

309. [ENGLAND] David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 8th and 13th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC, JP[1] (born 17 May 1926), is the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 7th (or 12th) Earl of Airlie and Lady Alexandra Coke. In 1984, Lord Airlie resigned from Schroder in order to take up the position of Lord Chamberlain. He was following in the footsteps of his late father, who served as Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, He remained in the post until 1997. He was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1985. Lord Airlie has also served as the Lord Lieutenant of Angus in Scotland, and as the Captain General of The Royal Company of Archers and Gold Stick for Scotland. His wife, formally known as the Countess of Airlie, is a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II. SIGNED 3-1/2 X 5 in. photo, signed on the back, with from his secretary.......20-30

310. [ENGLAND] Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) English legal reformer. The greatest labour of his life was his attempt to reform the criminal law of England, then at once cruel and illogical. His work in reforming criminal law began with his "Thoughts on Executive Justice" (1786). Sir Samuel Romilly's efforts made his name famous not only in England but all over Europe. Rare clip SIGNATURE dated 1803.............25-35

311. George Ade (1866-944) American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. CLIP SIGNATURE..........20-30

312. [NOBEL PRIZE] Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939) ) French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands. Professor Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry. SIGNED & INSCRIBED CARD, 1990............20-30

313.  [CARTOON] Bill Crawford (1913&endash;1982) American editorial cartoonist. His cartoons were distributed to more than 700 daily newspapers. He was an active member of the National Cartoonists Society, serving as its president and vice-president. In addition to his cartoon work he illustrated more than 20 books, including The Zebra Derby by Max Shulman and Milton Berle's Out of my Trunk. OFFERED HERE IS AN ORIGINAL SIGNED cartoon drawing; plus TLS and a brochure done for an exhibition of his work. VG..............80-120

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314. [NOBEL] PHILLIP A. SHARP (1944 -) American Biologist. Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine IN 1993. Signed 9x11 photo with biosketch below image.................25-35

315. Elisabeth Beresford (also known as Liza) is an author of children's books, best known for creating the Wombles.ALS, 1993, 1p.............25-35

317. Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) American scholar and author, sometimes writing under the nom de plume Carl Benson. He was the first American to write a full-length defense of Americanisms. ALS, NEW YORK CLUB, Sept. 27, 1865, 1p. A few light foxing spots...........50-75

318. [NOBEL] K. ALEX MULLER - Swiss Physicist. Nobel Prize Winner 1987. The search for ceramic superconductors has begun in 1986. K. Alex Mueller and J. Georg Bednorz, researchers at IBM Zurich laboratory, discovered that ceramics from a class of materials called perovskite were superconductors at a temperature of about 35 Kelvin. This event sparked great excitement in the world of physics and the discovery of the first of the superconducting ceramics won the 2 men a Nobel Prize the following year. At the time Bednorz and Mueller began their work, the idea of a high-temperature ceramic superconductor was considered to be so crazy that they did their research quietly--not even telling their colleagues what they were doing. They tried more than two hundred combinations of ceramic oxides before achieving success. SIGNED 7x5 photograph.............35-45

319. [NOBEL PRIZE] Dr Edwin Gerhard Krebs (1918-2009) American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman winner of Nobel Prize in medicine in 1994 and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. SIGNED 5 X 6-3/4 IN. COLOR PHOTO.............35-45

320. LORD AYLESTONE (1905-1994) BARON - (Herbert W. Bowden) British Politician - MP, Postmaster General, LEADER of the HOUSE of COMMONS(1964-66), Secretary of State 1966-1967- TLS, 1983.........25-35

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321. MARTIN DIBNER (1911-1991) American Novelist - His first novel, The Bachelor Seals, was published in 1948. The next novel, The Deep Six (1953), was his most popular one and was released as a film in 1958. Showcase, his third novel, was also published in 1958. His novels published in the 1960s are Sleeping Giant (1960); A God For Tomorrow (1961); and The Admiral: A Novel (1967). Others. Signed 4 x 5 photo dtd 1976. Signed on dark area [poor contrast]. Also signed & inscribed on back........25-35

322. BRITISH THEATRE - 7x8 in. sheet SIGNED by many British Theater Stars, among them MARIE LOHR (1890-1975), Clive Currie (1877-1935), Marjorie Playfair, Basil Foster (1882-1959), Elizabeth Allan (1908-1990), Michael Shepley (1907-1961), Alice O' Day (d. 1937), plus others. Signed on both sides...........40-60

323.  [CABINET] BENJAMIN CIVILETTI - American Cabinet Official. He was Attorney-General of the US under the Carter Administration from 1979-1981. SIGNED 5x7 photograph...........25-35

324. [MASS] DAVID I. WALSH (1872-1947) American Politician - He was a member of the State house of representatives 1900-1901; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1913 and GOVERNOR 1914-1915.He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925. He re-elected to the United States Senate in 1926 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of HENRY CABOT LODGE and took his seat December 6, 1926; reelected in 1928, 1934, and again in 1940 for the term ending January 3, 1947 -TLS dtd 12/20/1936 as US Senator............20-30

326. [BALLET] LEON DANIELIAN (1920-1997) American Ballet Dancer/Choreographer. He was one of the 20th century's premier dancers. As premier danseur with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo from 1943 to 1958, Mr. Danielian secured his place in dance history as the first American-born ballet dancer in the twentieth century to gain international fame. His Ballet Russe career and firsthand knowledge of the works of Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, Eugene Loring, George Balanchine, and other great choreographers made him an invaluable company member, ballet master, and teacher. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph..............30-40

327. SIR GEORGE EDWARDS (1908-2003 ) British Aviation Engineer. In 1939, he was appointed Experimental Works Manager and in 1941 was seconded to the government to advise on expedited aircraft production. In1945, he was Chief Designer of the team that produced the Viking, Valetta, Varsity, Viscount and Valiant. In this period, he was associated with development of the Vanguard, VC 10 and TSR 2. In May 1961, as Executive Director - Aircraft, British Aircraft Corporation, initiated the BAC One Eleven jet airliner. Then came a series of major international ventures that would include Concorde, Jaguar and the Panavia Tornado, Multi Role Combat Aircraft'In large measure, the survival and ultimate successes of the British aviation industry in the post-World War II era are directly attributable to the technical skills, managerial acumen and foresight of Sir George Edwards. ALS postmarked 11/7/91........35-45

328. LENA F. EDWARDS (1900-1985) American Physician. Presidential Freedom Medal, Dr. Edwards, a 1924 graduate of Howard University Medical School, established her long medical career in NJ in 1925. Her practice was largely within the European immigrant community. An advocate of natural childbirth, she struggled for years before being admitted for a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Margaret Hague Hospital in Jersey City in 1931. She taught obstetrics at Howard University Medical School (1954), was medical advisor to the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and volunteered at a mission for Mexican migrant workers in Texas. President Lyndon Johnson recognized her service to society in 1964 when he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ALS dtd 6/2/74 .........25-35

329. JOHN TRACY ELLIS (1905-1992 ) American Educator/Author/Historian. He is the celebrated author of numerous books such as American Catholicism, The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons, Essays in Seminary Education, A guide to American Catholic History, John Lancaster Spalding, First Bishop of Peoria, many others. TLS dtd 4/30/90...............25-35

330. JOHN D. deBUTTS (1910-?) American Businessman/CEO. He became CEO of AT&T in 1972. He was one of the first executives to offer GAY employees benefits to its employees. Also was in charge when the US Government broke up AT&T. SIGNED 8x10 photograph dtd Dec 1982...............25-35

331. [NOBEL] Sir Godfrey Hounsfield (1919-2004) English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT). Signed, inscribed photo, 4x5. VG...........40-60

332. TED KENNEDY (1932-2009) US senator from Mass. Signed & inscribed color 8x10 photo.............50-75

333. [MEDICINE] Emil du Bois-Reymond [1818-1896] German physician and physiologist, the discoverer of nerve action potential, and the father of experimental electrophysiology. AQS, dated 1895. About 4.5 x 7"............50-75

334. [EARLY FILM] Beulah Marie Dix [1876-1970] American screenwriter of the silent era and an author of children's books. She wrote for over 55 films between 1917 and 1942. ANS, 1932, written on half-title page removed from her book "Pity of God."..........25-35

336. [FRANCE] 1758 French document on paper concerning the Marquise de Breteuil, identified as signed with initials [upper left corner]; whose initials? One page, 6-3/4 x 8-3/4". VG...........100-150

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337. JEAN DIEUDONNE (1906-1992) French Mathematician. He was one of the two main contributors to the Bourbaki series of texts. He began his mathematical career working on the analysis of polynomials. He worked in a wide variety of mathematical areas including general topology, topological vector spaces, algebraic geometry, invariant theory and the classical groups. His best known books are La Géométrie des groupes classiques (1955), Foundations of Modern Analysis (1960), and Algèbre linéaire et géométrie élémentaire (1964). SIGNED/inscribed booklet titled Remise a Jean Dieudonne - signed on front cover 5x7............25-35

338. Kathleen Norris [1880-1966] American novelist. At least two of her novels were made into films: My Best Girl (1927), starring Mary Pickford and Manhattan Love Song (1934), which was released under the title Change of Heart, starring Janet Gaynor. Signed 3-page biographical form from the Cyclopedia of American Biography. Signed at conclusion, August 28, 1916.............50-75

Portrait of Norris

339. Clinton Scollard [1860-1932] was a prolific American poet and occasional writer of fiction. He was a Professor of English at Hamilton College, and collaborator and husband of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse. Brief ALS, 1895. Two lines in his hand............25-35

340. George William Childs [1829-1894] American publisher who co-owned the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper with financier Anthony Joseph Drexel. ALS, May 28, 1861, 1p, asking that certain publication be sent to the historian Henry Loomis......25-35

341. Kuno Francke [1855-1930] American (German-born) educator and historian. Most of his career was spent at Harvard University where he eventually became a professor of history and German culture and curator of the Germanic Museum. He played an important role in his time as the foremost German-American cultural ambassador. ALS, 1914, 2 full pages. "...It is not entirely sure that I shall be here next winter. If the war is over by that time - frant God that it will..."........40-60

342. [NJ] Harold (Giles Hoffman) (1896-1954) Republican who served as the 41st Governor of New Jersey, from 1935 to 1938. He also served two terms representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931. He is probably best known for being one of the most corrupt Governors of that State. As governor, Hoffman secretly visited convicted Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in his death row cell on the evening of October 16, 1935 with Anna Bading, a stenographer and fluent speaker of German. Hoffman urged the other members of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals , then the state's highest court, to visit Hauptmann. Despite Governor Hoffman's doubt regarding Hauptmann's guilt, Hoffman was unable to convince the other members of the Court to re-examine the case, and Hauptmann was executed on April 3, 1936. On March 18, 1954, Governor Robert B. Meyner uncovered a significant embezzlement scheme perpetrated by Hoffman, and suspended him from his position of Employment Security Division Director. Three months later, in June 1954, Hoffman died in a New York City hotel room of a heart attack. Just before dying, the disgraced former governor wrote a confession and admitted that he had embezzled over $300,000 from the state. TLS, 1942, 1p, signed Harold. To Danny Sullivan. Sullivan is in the hospital going to have an operation...........35-45

343. [THEATRE] Dame Anna Neagle [1904-1986) popular English stage and motion picture actress and singer. Signed sheet music from "A Broken Doll." Signed on cover picturing her & Michael Wilding. VG............40-60

344. Henry Festing Jones (1851-1928) friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler. His biography of Butler, entitled Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir, won the inaugural James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 1919. ALS, 1924, 4pp. 4.5 x 7 in.........50-75

345. Liz Smith [b. 1923] American gossip columnist. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG......25-35

346. [NOBEL] DAVID BALTIMORE - Am. Microbiologist. Awarded 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for research on how certain viruses effect the genes of cancer cells. SIGNED 5x7 portrait photograph. Poor contrast - signed in dark area............................25-35

347. [ENGLAND] Horace Annesley Vachell [1861-1955] prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works. Brief one-sentence ALS, 1916.......25-35

348. [FRANCE] Edme Étienne Borne Desfourneaux (1767-1849, Paris)  French Army General and Governor of Guadalope. Desfourneaux was born in Vézelay and joined the French Army of the Kingdom of France as sergeant in 1789 with the Régiment de Conti during the French Revolution. He later rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 48th Infantry Regiment in Saint-Domingue in 1792.  From 1798 to 1799 he served as Governor of Guadeloupe.  He was gravely wounded at the Action of 19 February 1801. Desfourneaux received many honours for his service including: Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1804; and Order of Saint Louis 1814. In 1811 he became a member of the Corps législatif of the First French Empire in 1811 and served as Vice-President of the body.  He also served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives in 1815 during the Hundred Days. He briefly return to command troops during the Bourbon Restoration.  Following the Bourbon Restoration he retired from public life and died in Paris in 1849.  Offered here is an ALS, Year 8 [1800], 1p, to the Minister of Navy and Colonies.  Recommendation for 4 soldiers who fought all Revolution campaigns.  The letter is complete but marginal commentary has been cout away. Very fresh condition. 7-1/4 X 12-1/4". RARE!..........150-250

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349. [SCIENCE] GEORGE ROCHESTER (1908-2002) British Physicist He became one of the founding figures of modern particle physics when, in the 1940s, he discovered the existence of nuclear matter heavier than the previously known particles such as protons and neutrons. Brief ALS, 1992.............25-35

350. [NOBEL PRIZE] Robert M. Solow (born 1924) American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961 and the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ("Nobel Prize") in 1987. ALS written on back of color photo taken in 1987. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. Fine........................35-45

351 [SCIENCE] JOHN C. BASILAR (1904-1991) American Chemist. He discovered optical inversion & explained stereo specificity in complex inorganic reactions. While teaching a general chemistry course, he realized that isomerism could exist among inorganic compounds. He went on to train several generations of coordination chemists Basilar is known as the "FATHER of American coordination chemistry." Considered one of the 75 leading chemist in history. TLS dtd 5/27/83......................35-45

352. [NOBEL PRIZE] Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman (b. 1917) world renowned American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. SIGNED & INSCRIBED color 5 x 3-1/2 photo................25-35

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353. [NOBEL] THOMAS CECH - American Chemist. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discoveries about the catalytic properties of RNA. SIGNED 4x6 photograph............25-35

354. [ART] CARROLL THAYER BERRY (1886-1978) Maine artist known as "THE DOWN EAST PRINTMAKER. Charcoal drawing unsigned, approx. 3 x 3-5/8" in. VG..........100-150

See Berry drawing above

355. [ART] William Grainger - British engraver who was active 1784-1793. Original engraving, c, 1790s, plate size 3 x 3-7/8" plus margins. Image area is clean; light foxing in outer margins.......40-60

356. Samuel Hopkins Adams [1871-1958] Am. writer. Signature........15-20

357. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835 - 1908) American poet, story-writer and critic. SIGNED CARD dated 1892.......20-30

358. [ART] Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929) this artist was born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France. Original etching, title: The Secret Tribunal, image approx. 5.5 x 3.5" plus margins. Original tissue guard still attached. VG..............40-60

See etching

359. Baron Ashburton [1774-1848] Brit. politician. Signature......15-20

360. Irving Bacheller [1859-1950] Am. writer. ANS on small card...........20-30

361. Ralph A. Benson [1828-1886] Brit. Cricket player. Signature......20-30

362. [FILM] Ross Hunter (1920-1996 ) Hollywood film producer. After serving in Army intelligence during World War II, Hunter signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures and acted in a number of B-movie musicals. Success followed when he transisioned to become a film producer attaining a staff producer post at Universal Pictures in 1953 on the strength of his previous credits as a theatrical producer and director. Hunter was known for producing what were considered "light" films starring actresses including Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, and Julie Andrews. He was also known for melodramas such as Imitation of Life with Lana Turner and Airport. In the early 1970s, after flopping with the 1973 version of Lost Horizon, he worked for Paramount Pictures on a string of television movies. TLS on AIRPORT stationery, 1p, letter of recommendation for Mr. Al M. Ellis. VG..............25-35

363. [FRANCE] Rene Cagnat (1852-1937) Fr. teacher and philosopher. As holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy and Roman antiquities' at the Collège de France, in 1888, he set up L'Année épigraphique (The Epigraphic Year, or AE) the French publication on epigraphy. ALS, no date, 2-1/2 pp., 4 x 5-3/8", sent to the poet, Noel Giron. VG............50-75

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364. George Grote [1794-1871] Brit. historian. Clip signature...........20-30

365. Margaret E. Sangster (1838-1912) American poet, author, and editor. She was popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. CLIP SIGNATURE......25-35

366. [RELIGION] Étienne-Hubert de Cambacérès (1756-1818) Archbishop of Rouen in 1802, cardinal in 1803 and senator from 1805. He was younger brother of the jurist, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès the Duke of Parma. DOCUMENT SIGNED, no year showing, 1p, 7-3/4 x 10". VG.........80-120

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367. CLAUDE AVELINE [1901-1992] Fr. writer. SIGNATURE with sentiment............20-30

368. Theobald Mathew (1790-1856) Irish temperance reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on October 10, 1790. The movement with which his name is associated began in 1838 with the establishment of the Teetotal Abstinence Society which relied on one enduring act of will to keep a person sober for life. It was called simply The Pledge. It could be made by anybody, either with or without an alcohol problem. CLIP SIGNATURE........25-35

369. [ABRAHAM LINCOLN] Clarence Cleveland Dill (1884 -1978) American politician from the state of Washington. He was a US congressman 1915-19, and US senator from 1923-35. Offered here is a signed printed speech he delivered on Abraham Lincoln, 1917. He has signed on front page. 4pp. Excellent condition except for mail fold creases.............25-35

371. Liverpool, England - manuscript document signed, 1852, 8pp. Indenture listing a Watchmaker, Hatter, Tailor, Draper, Paper Dealer, etc. Folds out to 9-3/4 x 15-1/2 in......35-45

372. [FRANCE] Jacques Salomon Hadamard (1865-1963) French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations. TLS, 1954, 1p. Speaks of Poincare. Fine............50-75

373. [CINEMA] Val Guest (1911-2006) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for the Hammer company in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s. SIGNED & INSCRIBED CARD, 1991, accompanied by small color print of his film Le Monstre..............25-35

374. [MUSIC] Georg JACOBI [1840-1906] Violinist, composer, conductor. ALS, 1878, 1p. "The music of the Golden Wreath being not published and having no time to spare I beg to excuse me if I can not grant your desire to plat some of my music. I am very much obliged for your kind letter and also pleased to know you like my music." Laid to mounting paper board.........25-35

375. J. Robert Schrieffer - Am. Nobel physicist. Signature.........20-30

376. [NOBEL] Paul A. Samuelson (b.1915) American neoclassical economist. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970, the second year of the Prize. Signed 3x5 card [on lined side]...........20-30

377. [NOBEL PRIZE] Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman (born February 14, 1917) is a world renowned American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. SIGNED & INSCRIBED color 5 x 3-1/2 photo............25-35

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378. [MEDICINE] James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938) British physician. Crichton-Browne was regarded as an expert on all aspects of medicine, public health and social reform. He supported a campaign for open-air treatment of tuberculosis, housing reform for the working-classes, and hygiene with respect to venereal disease. Along with Ferrier and neurologist John Hughlings Jackson, he founded "Brain", a journal dedicated to neurology and neuropsychiatry. He also assisted naturalist Charles Darwin with illustrated work when Darwin was writing his "Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals". In 1883 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and was knighted in 1886. ALS, 1925, 2pp. VG............50-75

ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTORS - signatures in various forms. No estimates given.

379. Maximilian Schell [return address]

380. Cliff Robertson

381. Eileen Heckart

382. Dean Jagger (1903-1991)

383.  Ben Johnson (1918-1996)

384. FRITZ HOCHWALDER - important Swiss dramatist. TLS, 1962 - not translated. Together with a contract signed by Suzanne Arnoux & R. Thieberger, concerning his play SUR LA TERRE COMME AU CIEL. Both very good............75-100

385. [SCIENCE] Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook (1854 - 1935) English physicist. He was President of the Physical Society from 1903 to 1905. His work dealt primarily with aviation study but other branches of physics also interested him. He was the first president of the Institute of Physics after the Physical Society adopted this new name. He was the first director of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington from 1899 to 1919; under his directorship it grew from a few huts on a marshy plain to a national service. For his work there he was knighted in 1917. Signature dated 1930.......20-30

386. [FRANCE] Eugène Rouher (1814- 1884) French statesman of the Second Empire. ALS, 1873, 1p. After the death of Napoleon III he speaks of the sorrow of Napoleon's son. 5.25 x 8". Fine............75-100

Portrait of Rouher

387. [FRANCE] Francois-Cesar Le Blanc  (1672-1746) French Bishop of Avranches. Document Signed 1726, 1p, 9-1/2 x 7-1/2".  Fine condition............100-150

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388. [CABINET] Arthur E. Summerfield (1899-1972) the 54th Postmaster General of the US. TLS, 1955, lengthy full page extending invitation to the President of the Air Mail Society to attend the ceremony at the White House commerating the issuance of Atoms For Peace Stamp. VG......50-75

393. [FRANCE] Hartwig Derenbourg (1844-1908) French Orientalist. He was born in Paris, son of scholar Joseph Derenbourg. He was educated at Göttingen and Leipzig. Subsequently he studied Arabic at the Ecole des Langues Orientales. In 1879 he was appointed professor of Arabic, and in 1886 professor of Muslim Religion, at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He collaborated with his father in the great edition of Saadia and the edition of Abu al-Walid, and also produced a number of important editions of other Arabic writers. ALS, Paris, 1888, 3pp, approx. 4.5 x 7". To Count de Chambrun. About one of the Count's main works "La Psychologic de l'Histoire." VG.......75-100

395. [MUSIC] Dick Dale (b. 1937) American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG..........25-35

396. John Fiske (1842-1901) American philosopher and historian. ALS, 1890, 1p, not able to accept invitation due to his lecturing. VG.........50-75

See portrait of Landon

398. [FILM] Maureen Stapleton (1925-2006) American actress in film, theater and television. She was also elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO. VG............25-35

399. [NOBEL] Sir Ralph Norman Angell [1872-1967] English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament. Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control. He served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism, a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union, and the president of the Abyssinia Association. He was knighted in 1931 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. Signature, inscribed on 3-1/2 x 1-3/4" slip.........25-35

402. 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