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Rare Early Social Reformer Autograph


1. Deborah Fisher Wharton (1795 – 1888)  American Quaker minister, suffragist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights, and the mother of industrialist Joseph Wharton. She was one of a small group of dedicated Quakers who founded Swarthmore College. She was a contemporary and friend of Lucretia Mott and had many of Mott's sympathies but did not actively pursue the women's rights cause, rather she was a proponent of liberal Quaker spirituality. Her son, Joseph Wharton (1826-1909) was the American industrialist  who founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College. Deborah Fisher grew up in downtown Philadelphia at 110 S.  Front Street. The neighborhood was busy and wealthy, and she remembered seeing famous neighbors including George Washington stroll along the street. The family enjoyed the countryside and often visited their country estate called "The Cliffs" several miles north of Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. Deborah and William Wharton [husband] and were involved in Quaker Meeting affairs including many committees. Deborah was recognized by their Meeting at Ninth and Spruce Streets as a minister. She was involved in many causes, including helping the Indians of upper New York state, the anti-slavery movement, and education of children. She defended Indians' rights in Washington DC, and visited their reservations. Deborah and William successfully petitioned the city of Philadelphia to provide free education for blacks. William became one of the first directors of the Public Schools of Philadelphia and served in that capacity for twenty years. Offeree here is a book once owned by Deborah Fisher. She has signed her name in ink on the flyleaf, 1815.  The book is POEMS by William Cowper, 1808, vol. 1 only, printed  at Amherst, N.H., 250 pages, 6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. Covers are in very poor condition with much leather lossw, covers detached;  first few pages detachted but all present.  Obviously this little treasure deserves to be rebopund in fine leather..............300-400

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2.  [THEATRE]  Cordelia Howard  MacDonald (1848-1941 or 1942?)  American child actress, played Little Eva in first theatrical production of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." George C. Howard (1818–1887) was a Nova Scotian-born American actor and showman who is credited with staging the first theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1852 Howard hired Caroline's  (Cordelia's mother) cousin George L. Aiken to adapt for the stage Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The play debuted on September 27, 1852 at Peale’s Museum in Troy, New York with a cast largely made up of family and friends of Howard's that included his four-year-old daughter, Cordelia. The play was a great success and ran for over three months. Quite an achievement for a small town theater. Cordelia was 4 years & 7 months old, when she first performed in the role of Eva, almost the same age (5 or 6) of Stowe's Eva.  Cordelia was around 13 when she retired from the stage. Her final performance as Eva was on October 8, 1861 at the Howard Atheneum in Boston. In her "Memoirs of the Original Little Eva,"  Cordelia Howard MacDonald justified the early end of her career, claiming that she simply outgrew children's parts and, rather than attempt adult roles, she opted for marriage and education instead. Offered here is a rare, and recently discovered autograph letter signed by Cordelia Howard MacDonald,  1935, 1-1/2 pages, with envelope.  Written to Sarah Newhauer of Hyde Park, Mass., thanking her for the handerchief and interesting letter.  She then speaks of the losses of family members. VG.  Years later Mary Pickford and Virginia Grey were to play the role of Eva.................300-400

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3. [PHOTOGRAPHY] SUBJECT: General Douglas MacArthur, wife and son Arthur - 1951 vintage International News Photo [Heart]. "General and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur and their son Arthur are pictured at the National Airport as they took off again, this time to New York, where they arrived tonight [4/19/51]. Mrs. MacArthur and Arthur are seen waving. Standing behind young MacArthur is Army Secretary Frank Pace, Jr. and Mrs. Pace. Photo was taken by Maurice Johnson. 7x9 in., INP caption still attached. Johnson was a noted photojournalist. VG. About this noted photographer: Maurice Johnson [1919-2007] he was superintendent of the US Senate Press Photographers Gallery for nearly 30 years. He joined International News Photos in 1942, and covered sports early in his career. He eventually worked his way up to become INP's Washington bureau chief before joining UPI as a staff photographer in 1958. From the late 40s through the late 60s, Johnson mostly covered presidential politics, including political conventions and the administrations of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Appointed superintendent of the Senate Press Photographers Gallery in 1969, Johnson managed arrangements for coverage of Capitol Hill events including the Watergate hearings, and the Iran-Contra hearings, and presidential inaugurations...............100-150

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4. Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847) American Democratic politician. Wright was appointed brigadier general of the state militia in 1827. He served in the US senate and house from New York. Wright was offered the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1844, as a token to followers of Van Buren, who had been disappointed in his hopes for renomination, but declined instead running for the position of Governor of New York. He served as Governor from 1845 to 1846. CLIP SIGNATURE. Picture of him is NOT included.............Min. bid $1

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5. Jefferson Davis - 1856 printed Ex. Doc. No. 40, sent to the US Senate. Jeff Davis was the Secretary of War at this time and this report was "A resolution of the 26th ultimo, calling for information relative to the appropriations for the improvement of the harbors of Manitowoc, Shboygan, Racine, Milwaukie and Kenosha, in Wisconsin. Twp pages, signed in-type by Davis. Approx. 5.5 x 9 in. VG..................30-40

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6. [ART] Jef Lambeaux or Josef Lambeaux (1852-1908)  Belgian sculptor.  His best known work is Temple of Human Passions, a colossal marble bas-relief.  He was part of a group of young artists, the "Van Beers clique", led by Jan van Beers. This group included the artists Piet Verhaert (1852–1908) and Alexander Struys (1852–1941). They were well known for their mischievous and eccentric behaviour, including walking around Antwerp dressed in historic costumes. Lambeaux didn't escape the wrath of art critics when he showed a life-size model of Temple of Human Passions at the Salon Triennial in Ghent in 1889. The sculpture managed to attract such fury and uproar that in 1890 the journal L’Art Moderne described the work as follows:

"[It is] a pile of naked and contorted bodies, muscled wrestlers in delirium, an absolute and incomparable childish concept. It is at once chaotic and vague, bloated and pretentious, pompous and empty. And what if, instead of paying for 300,000 francs of “passions”, the government simply bought works of art?"

Offered here is an ALS, 1893, written on both sides of a 4.5 x 3.5 card. One of the scans showing here is of his Temple of Human Passions [borrowed from Wikipedia]. VG..............80-120

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7. (HARVARD) Langdell, Christopher Columbus (1826-1906). American lawyer and educator, b. New Boston, N.H. Practiced law, New York City (1854-70). Professor of law, Harvard Law School (1870-1900) and dean (1870-95); introduced (1870) the case method of teaching law, now generally used in the U.S. Author of Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts (1871), Selection of Cases on Sales of Personal Property (1872), Cases of Equity Pleading (1875). ORIGINAL etching, pencil signed by the artist OTTO J. SCHNEIDER (1875-1946) member Chicago Soc. of Etchers. His work is in many collections including: Art Institute of Chicago, Toledo Art Museum. 17-1/4 x 13-3/4 plus margins. VG..........100-150  

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8. Thomas C. McCreery (1816-1890)  Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky. Signature.......Min. bid $1

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9. [MAINE] Joseph E. Brennan (b. 1934) TLS, 1979, 1p, signed as Gov. of Maine. VG..........Min. bid $9



10. Maine - group 5 government documents, 1844 Election of Present & Vice President, plus 4 others dated 1854. Most are one page.............Min. bid $10

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11. Richard O'Gorman (1826-1895) born in Dublin, Ireland he entered trinity College in 1842.  He joined the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848; a failed Irish nationalist uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe. It took place on 29 July 1848 in the village of Ballingarry, South Tipperary. After being chased by a force of Young Irelanders and their supporters, an Irish Constabulary unit raided a house and took those inside as hostages. A several-hour gunfight followed, but the rebels fled after a large group of police reinforcements arrived.  It is sometimes called the Famine Rebellion (since it took place during the Great Irish Famine) or the Battle of Ballingarry. 1848 was a year of revolutions throughout continental Europe. Ireland was also still reeling from the impact of the Great Famine. The British government's reaction had been too little and too late to prevent the Irish people from suffering great hardship. Inspired by these events and the success of liberal, romantic nationalism on the European mainland and disgusted by Daniel O'Connell's acceptance of patronage from the British Liberals, a group known as Young Ireland broke away from O'Connell's Repeal Association.  O'Gorman was one of nine that organised the 1848 insurrection and a reward of £300 was posted for his arrest. After many adventures he escaped to America. Admitted to the New York Bar, he practiced law with John Blake Dillon, which flourished
and became a member of the elite.  Appointed a judge of the superior court in 1880, and died in New York in 1895. Odd numbers rule in nature and evidently in politics.  O'Gorman was one of nine Irishmen.  Some say they were patriotic heroes, others call them traitorous rebels.  In 1848, seven fervent Irish nationalists - Thomas Meager, John Mitchel, William O'Brien, Charles Gavan Duffy, John Dillon, Thomas D'Arcy Magee and Richard O'Gorman - valiantly  fought for Irish independence.  They Lost. Subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to death, these men found themselves, their names heading for political martyrdom - a fact which did not escape the British Monarchy.  As a result, their death sentences were commuted and an exile was instead imposed. Offered here is an ALS, NY, 1865, 2pp,  5-1/4 x 7-1/2 in.  O'Gorman regrets that he can not accept their invitation to lecture before the Young Mans Christian Union of Lockport. See scan for condition:  bottom of 2nd page had been removed from the letter and then reattached. Small loss of paper. Very uncommon autograph.............100-150

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12. [FILM] Patricia Neal (1926-2010)  she was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.  Signed 3x5 card.  Fine..............Min. bid $4

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13. [ART] Georges Fougeroux [1902-1979] French painter. He worked with Lapoujade and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais d'Automme and the Salon des Independants. Signed original pencil drawing, dated 1950, approx. 4-1/2 x 5-1/2". VG...........75-100

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14. Bob Dole (b. 1923) US senator from Kansas who lost the general election to incumbent President Bill Clinton.  Signed 1958 FDC honoring Lincoln. VG...............30-40

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

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16. [BOOK]  An Inventory of the Contents of the Shop and House of Captain George Corwin of Salem, Massachusetts, who died January 3, 1684-5, with a short Introductory Note by George Francis Dow. This is the 1910 first edition, soft cover, 19 pp., paper wraps. VG+.  e could not locate another copy of the 1st edition although this was reprinted in 2015................Min. bid $15

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17. Henry Laurens Dawes (18161903)  Republican United States Senator and United States Representative, notable for the Dawes Act, intended to stimulate assimilation of Indians by ending tribal government and control of communal lands.  Signature clipped from album page. VG..........Min. bid $1



18. Chester "Chet" Lauck  (1902-1980) American comic actor who played the character of Lum Edwards on the classic American radio comedy Lum and Abner.  Signed 1940 bank check. VG........40-60

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Old Regime (Royal) Decrees Are Rare

19. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention Nationale, 19 Feb. 1792, 3-pages, signed inprint Duport for the King, hand-stamped Griffe, 7-1/2 x 9-1/2". Very fresh condition..........80-120

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20. [ART - FRANCE] Jules Jean-Baptiste Dehaussy (1812-1891) French painter. Introduced to painting by his brother Auguste, the leading spirit of an art school in Péronne, he subsequently became a pupil of the painter and illustrator Théophile Fragonard . A portraitist and painter of history and genre paintings he made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1836 and was awarded a third class medal. An important exponent of an academic culture linked to official circles, he worked for the Versailles galleries in particular. In 1848 when commissions declined he was forced to move to England . He participated regularly in the exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London with a series of miniature portraits and, in 1851, with two history paintings. After returning to Paris in 1852, he exhibited at the Salon until 1890 with a vast repertoire of genre scenes of historical inspiration that were very successful commercially, as well as portraits and religious subjects that were stylistically similar to those of his teacher. He became famous on the international art scene from the 1850s onwards, following his participation in some of the major exhibitions of the time including the national Ghent Triennial Salon of 1853 and 1865, the 1865 Porto International Exhibition and the 1st International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Munich in 1869. ALS, PARIS, 1860, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8". VG............80-120

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21. [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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22. [MUSIC] Alcides Emigdio Lanza  (1929 - )  Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, and music educator of Argentinian birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1976. As both a composer and performer he is known as an exponent of contemporary classical music and avant-garde music. His works often utilize a combination of traditional and unusual instruments, and incorporate electronic sounds and extensions. He is also known for using special lighting effects when presenting his music. He is an associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.      AMQS dated 2013 from  "Musica" (1946) a composition by Juan Carlos Paz  [1901-1972], an Argentian composer. Approx. 9-1/4 x 4-1/2". VG..........50-75

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23. [EARLY FILM] Clara Kimball Young (1890-1960) American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era. Signed vintage 8x10 photo, 8x10. One pin hole above head. Signed in dark area with purple ink..........60-80

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24. George Joseph Bates (1891-1949) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Massachusetts. Signed card. VG................Min. bid $1


25. Ezra Child Carleton (1838-1911)  U.S. Representative from Michigan. Fine signature......Min. bid $1



26. BARTLEY T. CAMPBELL  (1843-1888)  American writer. Signature.........20-30


27. ELLIS PARKER BUTLER (1869-1937) ANS on correspondent's letter..........20-30



28. [MAINE] John S.C. Abbott (1805-1877) American historian, pastor, and writer, from Brunswick, Maine. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies. ALS, Brunswick, Me., Nov. 23, 1852, 1p, 4to. Re: his fee for lecturing. VG.........50-75

 


29. [ENGLAND] Sir Edward Hay Drummond-Hay (1815-1884) British naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator. He was born in England and was a Colonel of the 5th West India Regiment from 1854 to 1863. From 1839 to 1850 he was the President of the British Virgin Islands From 1850 to 1855 he was the Governor of Saint Kitts. From 1856 to 3 July 1863 he was the Governor of Saint Helena. In September 1860, the governor received a visit from His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who was an officer in the Royal Navy serving on the H.M.S. Euralus. ALS, St. Helena, 29 Jan. 1861, 4pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4". To John Bell. Mentions, in this letter, the visit of Prince Alfred. Fine..............60-80


30. [BOXING] Gene Fullmer [b.1931] former American middleweight boxer and world champion. Signed collector's card, 3.5 x 2.5".........20-30  



31. [FILM] Fritz Feld (1900-1993) film character actor actor who appeared in over 140 films, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a "pop!" sound. TLS, 1966, 1p, mentioning several films. VG.............40-60  


32. Daniel Schorr (1916-2010) American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism. ANS, written on his CNN memorandum page PLUS signed & inscribed3x4 photo, dated 5/16/82. Both VG......30-40   



33. [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

34.  Harold Giles Hoffman (1896-1954) was an American politician, a Republican who served as the 41st Governor of New Jersey, from 1935 to 1938. He also served two terms representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931. He is probably best known for being one of the most provably corrupt governors of that state. As governor, Hoffman secretly visited convicted Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in his death row cell on the evening of October 16, 1935 with Anna Bading, a stenographer and fluent speaker of German. Hoffman urged the other members of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals , then the state's highest court, to visit Hauptmann. Despite Governor Hoffman's doubt regarding Hauptmann's guilt, Hoffman was unable to convince the other members of the court to re-examine the case, and Hauptmann was executed on April 3, 1936. Signed photograph, approx. 6.5 x 8.5". VG........50-75


35. MARQUESS OF BATH, The 6th (1905-1992) (Henry F. Thynne) British nobleman who in 1949 turned Longleat House, his financially distressed family's 16th-century home, into a tourist attraction, setting a precedent that was followed by a number of his peers. In the 1960s he introduced African wildlife in a safari park on the estate's grounds, it has become one of England's great attractions. TLS, 1987...............................25-35



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

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37. 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


38. [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett [1846-1904] Brit. actor. AQS Hamlet 1896.....20-30



39. Eddie Albert [1906-2005] Am. actor. Signed 3x5 card........Min. bid $3

40. Mike Douglas [1925-2006] TV Show Host. Signed 3x5 card......Min. bid $3

41. Buddy Hackett [1924-2003] Comedian. Signed 3x5 card.......Min. bid $3

42. Steve Allen [1921-2000] Tonight Show host. Signed 3x5 card......Min. bid $3


43. [MEDICINE] Denton Arthur Cooley (b.1920) is a pioneering American heart surgeon. SIGNED 1970 picture removed from magazine. PLUS Dr. Willem Johan (Pim) Kolff (b.1911) is a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Signed & inscribed magazine picture...............25-35

 

44. [MINN] Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928 in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program. SEC. OF AGRICULTURE. ALS, 2004, 1p...........25-35

 


45. [COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS]  1789 partly-printed Commonwealth of Massachusetts document signed by Justice Daniel Howard. Concerns Benjamin Gilbert's  debt owed to David Ames, who made some nails for Gilbert.  Signed on the verso by David Ames and also Jon. Ames.  Benjamin Gilbert was from Halifax, Plymouth Co., Mass, and David Ames was from Bridgewater, Mass. This is where it gets interesting as John Ames, the sheriff,  was the father of David Ames. And Daniel Howard, the judge, served in Capt. John Ames militia company in 1778.  So it looks like Gilberty was the odd-man-out in this situation. Capt. John Ames (1738-1805) was a patriot, Captain in the American Revolutionary War, gunsmith, shovel maker, and ancestor of the Ames family of Easton, Massachusetts.  Ames was a blacksmith in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. After the "nail and splitting mills" were outlawed by the government in Great Britain to give iron manufacturers in Britain a monopoly in 1773, Ames switched to making shovels. Despite having only a crude factory, he was able to make shovels of notable quality. In fact, he was said to have developed a shovel "so perfect that further improvement seems impossible."  John Ames made guns for the Massachusetts army during the American Revolutionary War.  During the war, Ames served in the Massachusetts Militia as a captain in Colonel Edward Mitchell's Regiment in 1776; as captain in Colonel Wade's Regiment, 1778; captain in Major Eliphalet Carey's Regiment, 1780; and Second Major of the 3d Regiment, 1780. Despite being promoted to major, he was known as "captain" for the rest of his life. The Ames family eventually became a very influential and wealthy family in Massachusetts, establishing two factories as well as having influence in the American railroad expansion and government.  Capt. John's son David Ames (born 1760)  was appointed by George Washington to be the first head of the Springfield Armory.  Captain John Ames's company of militia, who marched to Rhode Island and joined Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment on the 27th of June, 1778, for a term of twenty days. Daniel Howard (1749-1833 ) he was a trial justice, was senator for Plymouth Co., from Bridgewater, from 1788 to 1794, and was a delegate to the convention of Mass., at Boston, for  adopting the Constitution of the United States, in 1788. He was a private in Capt. Josiah Hayden's company. Col. Bailey's regiment, was a minute man, marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, was in service four days.  This document is in superb condition, approx. 6.5 x 8 in...........400-600


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46. [ART] Jack Levine (1915-2010)  American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. From 1935 to 1940 he was employed by the Works Progress Administration  (WPA). His first exhibition of paintings in New York City was at the Museum of Modern Art.  Original photo-lithograph with hand-brushed coloring,  unsigned, image approx. 18-7/8  x 12 in.  sheet size.  Circa 1970. VG.............100-150

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47. [ART] Jack Levine (1915-2010)  American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. From 1935 to 1940 he was employed by the Works Progress Administration  (WPA). His first exhibition of paintings in New York City was at the Museum of Modern Art.  Original photo-lithograph,  unsigned, image approx. 18-7/8  x 12 in.  sheet size.  Circa 1970. VG.............60-80

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48. [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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49. [FRANCE] Pierre Louis Parisis (1795 – 1866) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of Langres from 1835 to 1851.  In 1847 he formed the Archconfraternity of Reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of Sunday to promote Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ.  He is also noted for his efforts within the Assembly of 1848 for establishing the ecclesiastical college of St. Dizier and for his discussions concerning the educational reforms. He was a member of the commission which prepared the draft project for the Falloux Laws increasing the Catholic clergy's influence in French education.  ALS, 1857, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG...............60-80

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50. James Willis Patterson (1823-1893) was an American politician and a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Patterson was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, and meteorology at Dartmouth College from 1854 to 1865. Elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses Patterson was a United States Representative for the third district of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1867). He was elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1873. In the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills during the Forty-first Congress and a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia during the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses. Offered here is his autograph signature..................Min. bid $1

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51. [UNITED NATIONS]  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1926-2006) American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. Signed 1962 FDC. VG...................Min. bid $10

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52. [BOOK]  George Washington Crossed here - Christmas Night - 1776 BY Ann Hawkes Hutton, 5th printing, [1948]. Signed by author, 71 pages. 5 x 7-5/8 in. Blue cloth, no dust jacket. VG..................Min. bid $20

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53. Samuel Buttrick, (1718-1814), was in the Concord fight with his brothers, Jonathan, Joseph and John. It was his brother John Buttrick who was one of the leaders of the Concord militia during the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775. Given the usual interpretation of the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous poem "Concord Hymn," Buttrick is the man who fired (the shot heard around the world.) Militia commander, Major John Buttrick, yelled the order, "Fire, for God's sake, fellow soldiers, fire!" Fire they did, commencing with "the shot heard round the world," as immortalized by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Offered here is a 1804 document signed by Sam. C. Buttrick Jr. We are unsure who  this Sam Buttrick is, but it doesn't seem likely to be the above Buttrick  (1718-1814) mainly because his father was named  Jonathan and not Samuel Sr. To Josiah Nelson Jun. of Lincoln, Mass., a commissioned officer of the Troop of Cavelry raised in the 3rd regt. of the 1st brigade, 3rd division of the militia of Mass. They are to meet at Wheelock’s Tavern. About 7-1/4 x 12 in. Josiah Nelson Jr. writes a few lines and signs on the verso. Josiah’s father, legend tells us, was the first blood shed in the revolution. He ran among the horsemen before he looked up to make sure who they were, and called out ‘Have you heard anything about when the Regulars are coming out?’ One of the [British] officers drew his sword, and crying, ‘We will let you know when they are coming!’ struck him on the crown of his head, cutting a long gash. As [Josiah] Nelson sprang back, the warm blood trickled over his face and dripped to the ground. It was the first blood shed in the Revolution. This blood was to be dearly paid for on this very spot the next day. Perhaps what happened that April night in Lincoln, Massachusetts, was pretty much as Nelson family tradition tells it. What puzzles me are discrepancies in the details, for in those inconsistencies lie provocative questions about how well we have understood the significance of Josiah Nelson’s tale. Very good condition for its age.......200-300

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54. [MILITARY] Tommy Ray Franks (b.1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma) is a retired General in the United States Army, previously serving as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on July 6, 2000 and served until his retirement on July 7, 2003. He was the U.S. general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Franks also led the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. SIGNED & inscribed color 8x10 photo in uniform.............Min. bid $10

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55. Dr. Rhoda Bubendey Metraux (1914–2003), was a prominent anthropologist in the area of cross-cultural studies, specializing in Haitian voodoo and the Iatmul of New Guinea. She collaborated with Alfred Metraux, on mutual studies of Voodoo in Haiti. During World War II, Dr. Metraux headed the section on German morale for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS).  Rhoda Metraux was also an important professional and personal partner of Margaret Mead (1901–1978). Together with Mead, she wrote several books and many articles on major issues from the 1950s to the late 1970s. As a contributing editor to Redbook magazine for well over a decade, both wrote many articles on contemporary issues that later formed the basis of a number of books including A Way of Seeing. Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux were in fact a close-knit professional team whose work greatly influenced American anthropology in the late 20th century. They shared a house in Greenwich Village in New York from 1955 to 1966 and an apartment on Central Park West from 1966 until Mead's death in 1978.  ALS, 1991, signed Rhoda, mentions Margaret Mead, written to the author Irvine Millgate. Fine........75-100

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56. [FRANCE] Victorien Sardou  (1831-1908) French dramatist.  He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugene 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.  ALS, no date, 1p, 4x6 in.  VG..............100-150

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57. [COMEDY] Allen & Rossi was a comedy team composed of Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, active from 1957 until 1969. They appeared on over 700 television shows including 44 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, including three of the four Ed Sullivan episodes on which The Beatles appeared. The team also appeared in a spy spoof film The Last of the Secret Agents (1966). OFFERED HERE ARE 2 SEPARATE SIGNED CONTRACTS, 1965, to appear on the Hy Gardiner Show. One signed by Rossi and the other signed by Allen. Each 1p.............60-80

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58.   (British Literature Lot)    Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896 –1958) highly popular novelist, critic, historian and poet, ANS, 1944.   Ishbel Ross (1895-1975) Journalist.  Her book “Ladies of the Press” in 1936, did great service to historians.  She became a leading writer for the NY Hearld Tribune. She also wrote several books of fiction.  TLS, 1949. Lady Margaret Sackville  (1881 –  1963) English poet and children’s author .When the Poetry Society was formed in 1912, Lady Margaret was made its first president. She had also been the first president of its predecessor, the Poetry Recital Society, formed in 1909.  She had a passionate 15-year love affair with Ramsay MacDonald.  Lady Margaret never married.   ALS, 2pp 1944. Henry Major Tomlinson (1873-1958) British writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. SIGNED presentation title page from his book “Gallions Reach” (1927).   Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel CMG (1898 –1978) writer and Lecturer . He served in the Jewish Legion. He also served as the last Mandate-era Director of the Palestine Broadcasting Service. ALS (1973). Lord Francis Scott (1879-1952) Writer, diarist – He was the son of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch. He was one of the first British elite to travel and live in Kenya. He was the uncle to HRH Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (18901-1904) ANS 1936.  Edward Abbott Parry (1863-1943) judge and dramatist.. He wrote several plays and books for children,   ALS, 1903, 4pp..............100-150

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59. Arthur Hailey (1920-2004)  British/Canadian novelist, whose works have sold more than 170 million copies in 40 languages.  Signed color 4 x 6 photo. VG...........40-60

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60. [MUSIC] Robert Baksa (b. 1938) one of America's most prolific composers. AMQS, from his "Quintet for Oboe and Strings." Written on 6x4 card. VG..........40-60

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61. [WISC] MURRAY, Reid Fred, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Ogdensburg, Waupaca County, Wis., October 16, 1887; attended the public schools and Manawa High School; was graduated from the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1916; served as agricultural agent for railroads in St. Paul, Minn., 1914-1917, for Winnebago County, Wis., 1917-1919, and for the First National Bank, Oshkosh, Wis., 1919-1922; professor of animal husbandry, at the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, 1922-1927; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the buying and selling of cattle and farms, Waupaca, Wis., 1927-1939; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Bethesda, Md., April 29, 1952; interment in Park Cemetery, one mile north of Ogdensburg, Wis. TLS, 1948 re: Standard Oil Co..........Min. bid $1


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62. William Alfred Baehr  (1873-1943). American financier who was president of many utilities firms. Document Signed, North American Light and Power Co., Maine, 1919. Stock certificate. Signed while he was serving as vice-president. Issued to HENRIETTA COLGAN for ten shares of stock. Folded but VG..............Min. bid $9


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63. [THEATRE] Henry Neville (1837-1910)  English actor, dramatist, teacher and theatre manager. He began his career playing dashing juvenile leads, later specialising in Shakespearean roles, modern comedy and melodrama. His most famous role was as Bob Brierley in Tom Taylor's The Ticket-of-Leave Man. As the manager of the Olympic Theatre from 1873 to 1879, he presented numerous successful productions. In later years, he became a respected character actor. Clip Signature...........Min. bid $5


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64. Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938) versatile and popular English writer. His nearly 100 books demonstrate great facility with style, and were generally acknowledged as humorous by contemporary readers and critics. Some of his essays about the sport cricket are still considered among the best instructional material. He is remembered best for his essays and books about London and travel abroad; these books continue through many editions. He is particularly noted as a biographer of Charles Lamb and an editor of his works and letters. Signed, inscribed card dated 1920. VG...........Min. bid $4

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65. [PORTRAIT] John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy 1852 & 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. Representative from the Maryland's 4th congressional district. Antique original engraved portrait. Approx. 6.5 x 5 oval" plus margins. Neatly inlaid. VG..........25-35

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66.  Thomas Allen Jenckes (1818-1875) United States Congressional representative for the State of Rhode Island. Jenckes was best known for introducing a bill that created the United States Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant then signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870. Jenckes was also an avid supporter of civil service reform.Jenckes graduated from Brown University in 1838. Jenckes was admitted to the Rhode Island state bar in 1840. He was clerk in the Rhode Island state legislature from 1840 until 1844. From 1854 until 1857 he was a member of the State house of representatives. He was elected as Republican to the United States Congress in 1863 and served until 1871 when he lost a bid for reelection. He then resumed the practice of law in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Offered here is a nice example of his autograph signature. VG.......Min. bid $1

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67. [GERMANY] Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (1776-1861) German historian. He was born at Jever in East Friesland. He studied theology, mainly at Göttingen , and then worked as a private tutor. Turning to the study of history, he carried with him the tendency to construct his syntheses upon the scanty basis of 18th century generalizations; in spite of the growing scientific school he became and remained for a quarter of a century the most popular German historian. In 1807, inspired by his study of Dante, he published his first work Abélard und Dulcin, a defence of scholasticism and medieval thought. Two years later biographical studies of Theodore Beza and Peter Martyr Vermili (Leben des Theodor de Bela und des Peter Martyr Vermili, Heidelberg, 1809) revealed more genuine scholarship. In 1812 appeared his History of the Iconoclastic Emperors of the East (Geschichte der bilderstürmenden Kaiser des oströmischen Reichs), in which he contradicted some points in Edward Gibbon 's work, and sought to avoid painting the past in present-day colours. His own strong predispositions prevented him from accomplishing this, however, and the history remains open to grave scientific criticism. It won him the favour of Archbishop Karl Theodor Dalberg, and secured him a professorship in the Frankfurt Lyceum. He left Frankfurt in 1819 to become professor of history at Heidelberg, where he resided until his death. In 1815 appeared the first volume of his World History (Weltgeschichte in zusammenhängender Erzählung ). This work, though never completed, was extended through many volumes, bespeaking an inexhaustible energy and a vast erudition. But it lacks both accuracy of fact and charm of style, and is to-day deservedly quite forgotten. On the other hand a translation of the pedagogical handbook of Vincent of Beauvais and the accompanying monograph are still of value. The next noteworthy work was a history of antiquity and its culture (Universalhistorische Übersicht der Geschichte der alten Welt und ihrer Kultur, 1st part, 1826; 2nd part, 1834), which, while revealing little knowledge of the new criticism of sources inaugurated by F.A. Wolf and B.G. Niebuhr, won its way by its unique handling of the subject and its grand style. In 1823 he published in two volumes a Geschichte des 18ten Jahrhunderts; then, enlarged and improved, this work appeared in six volumes as Geschichte des 18ten Jahrhunderts und des 19ten bis zum Sturz des französischen Kaiserreichs (1836-1848). The history had a most extraordinary success, especially among the common people, owing, not to its scientific qualities, but to the fact that the author boldly and sternly sat in judgment upon men and events, and in his judgments voiced the feelings of the German nation in his day. For this very reason it is no longer read. It has been translated into English by D Davison (8 vols, 1843-1852). Finally, Schlosser undertook a popular World History for the German People (Weltgeschichte für das deutsche Volk, 1844-1857), which also enjoyed the favour of those for whom it was written. Schlosser stands apart from the movement towards scientific history in Germany in the 19th century. Refusing to limit himself to political history, as did Leopold von Ranke , he never learned to handle his literary sources with the care of the scientific historian. History was to him, as it had been to Cicero, a school for morals; but he had perhaps a juster conception than Ranke of the breadth and scope of the historian's field. Autograph Letter Signed, Heidelberg, Feb. 13, 1856, 1p, 4to. Not translated.......75-100

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68. [KENTUCKY] BEN HELM (1767-1858)  known as "Kitchen Knife Whetted on a Brick." (See the Manuscript magazine, Winter, 1991, p. 24). He was a surveyor, state senator, clerk of Hardin Co. courts; major in War of 1812; purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Bush] Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was a partner, in the general store business, with Duff Green [later statesman] in the early frontier days of Kentucky. It is likely that young Abe Lincoln visited his store often in his early youth. Document written and signed by Helm, dated 1812, approx. 7-1/2 x 6-1/4 in. Also signed [twice] on the verso by ROBERT BLEAKLEY - about 1801 Bleakley and Wm. Montgomery, two very interesting young Irishmen, came to Elizabethtown and opened a dry goods store with a stock of goods, and soon became very popular. The store was opened in a log house at the corner of the Public Square.  Bleakley was engaged in the rebellion in Ireland in 1798. He evaded Government officers by concealing himself in a vessel and thus made his escape to the United States. Bleakley remained some years after Montgomery left town, and acted as sheriff for several years, and then settled on a farm and died about 1850, leaving a large family.  There is something romantic and interesting in the history of these two men. Born on the same island, engaged in the same rebellion, both compelled to leave to save their lives; emigrating to the same country, finding employment in the same establishment in Baltimore, partners in merchandising in Elizabethtown,  Kentucky, marrying sisters, and then living and dying on adjacent farms.  It was in their general store that Tom Lincoln [Abe Lincoln's father] purchased many items when he was courting Nancy Hanks [mother of the future president].  A court summons for Edward Rawlings and Thomas Swan to answer a plea of debt owed to John Geoghegan - son of Amrose, he inherited Hynes Station, one of the original three forts from which Elizabethtown sprang up.  EDWARD RAWLINGS   (died 1830)  Kentucky pioneer,  married Sarah "Sallie" Vertrees (1776-) in Hardin County Kentucky.  He was born in Berkeley County Virginia and died in Washington County Indiana.  He was a Deputy Sheriff in Hardin County Kentucky in 1794-1795 and Hugh Sheriff in 1798.  He served as a Captain in the War of 1812.  His company was connected to the regiments commanded by Lieutenant Col Benjamin Wright and Lieutenant Col Nicholas Miller, Kentucky Militia.  It consisted of men from the Hardin County Kentucky area.  The company was sent out for a six month term in March of 1813.  Edward originally owned land that today contains the Old Rawlings Cemetery, also known as The Walton Cemetery in Posey Township {Indiana}. VG...............200-300 


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69. [IRELAND] Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse (1758-1841), known as Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bt, from 1791 to 1807, was an Irish peer.  Parsons was the son of Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet and Mary Clere. Between 1782 and 1790, he represented Dublin University in the Irish House of Commons. Parsons sat then as Member of Parliament (MP) for King's County from 1791 until the Act of Union in 1801. In the following co-option, he chose to sit for King's County also in the British House of Commons, a seat he held until 1807. The latter year he succeeded his uncle as second Earl of Rosse. In 1809 he became one of the Postmasters General of Ireland with Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill with whom he attended the laying of the foundation-stone for the new General Post Office in Dublin on 12 August 1814 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth.  He later sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1809 until 1841 and served as Custos Rotulorum of King's County from 1828 until his death.  He entered the Irish Parliament but later disclaimed party politics. Opposed the Union; joint postmaster-general for Ireland in 1809.  ALS, 1815, 3pp.  To Dr. Kelly saying that he is thinking of putting his children to Harrow School but before deciding asks if Dr. Butler would allow them to sleep at home and secondly, would he be able to get a house sufficiently near the school for this purpose. VG.............Min. bid $30


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70. John C.  Fremont (1813-1890) American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led four expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Fremont the sobriquet The Pathfinder. C. 1860 engraved portrait of Fremont, engraved by J.C. Buttre. Paper size 5 x 7.5 in. Moderate foxing. There is another example of this engraving in the West Virginia Univ. collection.........Min. bid $1

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Vermont & The Underground Railroad

71. Titus Hutchinson (born April 29, 1771, Grafton, Massachusetts; died August 24, 1857, Woodstock, Vermont) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge in the state of Vermont. He served on the Vermont Supreme Court from 1825 to 1833 and as Chief Judge from 1831-1833. Hutchinson held strong anti-slavery views and was a part of the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to Canada; an underground tunnel existed from his house in Woodstock to nearby Kedron Brook. After opening a law office in his home in Woodstock, Vermont in 1799, Hutchinson had a successful practice. In 1801 he was appointed postmaster and held that office for three years; in 1803 he was appointed United States Attorney for the Vermont District and remained in that office for ten years. Between 1804 and 1825 he represented Woodstock in the legislature nine times. In 1810 he became one of the Trustees of the University of Vermont. Hutchinson served as District Attorney from 1813 to 1821. In 1824 he was a candidate for U.S. Senate, coming in third. In 1825 he was selected for the Vermont Supreme Court by the legislature and remained there until 1833, for the last three years as Chief Judge. Hutchinson was probably removed from his position on the Vermont Supreme Court due to his involvement with the Anti-Masonic Party. He was almost elected United States representative in 1833, winning the highest vote total in the general election and the first runoff, but losing in the second runoff to Horace Everett. Hutchinson became involved with the abolitionist Liberty Party and was their candidate for governor of Vermont in 1841; he received 6% of the vote and deprived the other candidates of a majority, sending the election to the state legislature. He ran on the Liberty ticket for United States representative three times (in 1843, 1844, and 1846), receiving as much as 15% of the vote and twice forcing a runoff election by depriving Whig Jacob Collamer of a majority. Hutchinson served as a presidential elector twice, for John Quincy Adams in 1824 and William Henry Harrison in 1836. Hutchinson held strong anti-slavery views and was a part of the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to Canada; an underground tunnel existed from his house in Woodstock to nearby Kedron Brook. Offered here is a signed 1812 Vermont court document, 8 x 4.5 in. Fine condition..................200-300

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Led Marine squad in 1914 when U.S. troops stormed and occupied Vera Cruz during the Mexican Revolution

72. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here are 16 naval documents from 1919, six are signed by Ellsworth Davis.  One is  signed in type   by Franklin D. Roosevelt [Acting Sec. of the Navy].  See scan below. Condition as expected............150-250

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73. [MAINE]  3 documents concerning Calais, Maine attorney Charles B. Rounds. [1] State of Maine document dated 1892, signed by the Gov. Edwin Burleigh. [2] One share of stock [1872] in The St. Croix Library Association.  [3] 21 shares of stock in the Frontier Steamboat Co.  All 3 documents in in very good condition...............100-150


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74. Denver Pyle (1920-1997) American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.....25-35

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75. [FILM] Jane Greer (1924-2001) American film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past starring Robert Mitchum.  Her signed contract for the film "BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milt Ebbins [see lot 58 in this auction].  Includes 3 additional Rider pages, each signed with the initials of Greer and Ebbins. VG..........100-150

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76. [FRANCE] Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques. Baron de l' Aulne [1727-1781]. French administrator and economist. Intendant of Limoges (1761-74); minister of marine (1774); controller general of finance (1774-76); removed because of opposition to his Six Edicts. Member of the Physiocrats. As intendant, abolished the corvée, constructed roads and bridges, reformed interest rates, and distributed the burden of taxation more justly. As finance minister, introduced a rigid economy, abolished certain feudal privileges, and attempted to restore free trade in grain between the provinces. Best known works were Lettres sur la tolérance (1754) and Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses (1766). ORIGINAL ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of Turgot [1853], image approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. Engraved by W.T. Fry. UNSIGNED, of course. Very good condition..............Min. bid $10

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77. James Lenox (1800-1880) was an American bibliophile and philanthropist. His collection of paintings and books eventually became known as the Lenox Library and later became part of the New York Public Library in 1895. He went to Europe soon after his admission to the bar, and while abroad began collecting rare books, which, along with collecting art, became the absorbing passion of his life. For half a century, he devoted the greater part of his time and talent to forming a library and gallery of paintings not surpassed in value by any private collection in the New World. These, together with many rare manuscripts, marble busts and statues, mosaics, engravings, and curios, he conveyed in 1870 to New York City together with a massive building which he erected for their preservation.  ALS, 1875, 1p, with original envelope, ordering a copy of something related to Harvard University, saying he will take a copy in half Morocco.  VG...............100-150

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78. Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was a prominent American journalist and academic of the early 20th century. In the autumn of 1890 Shaw was elected professor of international law and political institutions at Cornell University but resigned the post in 1891 to accept Stead's invitation to establish an American edition of the Review of Reviews . Shaw served as editor-in-chief of this publication until it ceased publication in 1937, ten years before his death at the age of ninety. He was the author of "Abraham Lincoln" [1929]. ALS, Hastings On Hudson, NY, Feb. 4, 1947, 2-1/2 pages. This letter was sent to Who's Who In America. 'I have been listed in every volume of Who's Who since Mr. Marquis began its publication..." Excellent condition............40-60

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79. [RELIGION] circa 1829 Italian document, 1p, 12 x 8-1/4".  Tattered edges o/w fine............100-150

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80. David Derek Stacton (1923-1968)  American novelist, historian and poet. TLS, no date, 1p, to Mr. Silkin, probably Jon Silkin (1930-1997) the British poet. Stacton was born in San Francisco. In author profiles, however, he claimed to have been born April 25, 1925 in Minden, Nevada (several of his books are set in Nevada). Stacton attended Stanford University from 1941–43. He served in the Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector, and wrote a letter as “David Stacton” decrying the compliant American masses to Dwight Macdonald’s Politics in 1945. He lived in Europe from 1951–1954, 1960–1962, and 1964–1965. Most of his books as David Stacton were originally published in England. Stacton wrote under the pseudonyms Carse Boyd, Bud Clifton, David Dereksen and David West. He also ghosted Living Religions Of The World a 1956 work accredited to Frederic Spiegelberg.  VG........50-75

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81. [ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN] H.D. Hawley - Singer Sewing Co. Agent. ALS, on illust. sewing machine letterhead, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 4, 1871, written on both sides of 8.5 x 11 in. sheet. To the Singer Manufacturing Company about a Lady La Velle who was unhappy with Singer for not exchanging her sewing machine, which she had used for a year, for a brand new model. Gives background on the woman's history. "She had a spite against a Policeman their" (in Brunswick) "and once upon a time as he was passing her window, She having prepared with a Mug of her dear Virgin water took the liberty of transfering it to the head of the Policeman. Cause of her being in New York, a choice was given her to go to the penitentiary or leave the State." As usual with almost all Singer letters there are mounting traces on verso along one edge. Small loss to one corner...............60-80

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82. [PHILADELPHIA] C. TOWER - noted trial lawyer. LS, Phila., 1885, 1-1/2 pages, 4to. To William Henry Rawle, praising Rawle's oration of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall [1884] at Washington. Continues with compliment of Rawle on his address : The Case of the Educated Unemployed," delivered before the Harvard College Phi Beta Kappa Society. Excellent letter...............50-75

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83. [TV] Harry Crane (1914-1999)  comedy writer who helped create the long-running and perpetually rerun television show ''The Honeymooners,'' featuring Jackie Gleason.  Besides writing for Mr. Gleason, Mr. Crane concocted gags and routines for Jimmy Durante, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis and others.  He also wrote jokes for singers like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Perry Como, for television specials featuring Alan King and for Dean Martin's ''Celebrity Roast'' television series.  Among his screenplays were ''Air Raid Wardens'' (1943), starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, ''The Harvey Girls'' (1946), with Judy Garland and Angela Lansbury, and ''Song of the Thin Man'' (1947), starring Myrna Loy and William Powell.   Brief TLS, 1968, to Peter Lawford [actor].  "Dear Peter, Thanks for courtesy extended to my daughter and her husband. Stay well - there's a shortage of nice guys. Warmly, Harry."  Accompanied with signed bank check from Harry Crane to Peter Lawford. Lawford never cached this check.  Fine.........60-80

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84.  [NASA]  Collection of 28 covers related to the space program, 1976 & 1981.  All clean.....Min. bid $50

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85. [ART]  Richard Elmore  (fl. 1852-1885) British painter first based in London and later moved to Tunbridge Wells, England. His distinctive and subtle landscapes depicting views in Devon, Surrey and Kent were widely exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the British Institution. Elmore’s painting of Twickenham is in the collection of the Cardiff museum. ALS, 1878, 4pp, to the art critic Samuel Carter Hall.  VG...........80-120

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85a. John C.  Fremont (1813-1890) American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led four expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Fremont the sobriquet The Pathfinder. C. 1882 wood-ngraved portrait of Fremont.  Paper size 5 x 7 in. overall. .........Min. bid $1

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86. Birds-Eye View of Cincinnati  by Charles Magnus in New York City in the second half of the nineteenth century. 7-1/4 x 3-1/2". ........Min. bid $40

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Nonconformist Divine

86a. Joseph Parker (1830-1902) was an English Nonconformist divine. ALS, July 16, 1881, 2pp, 8vo. To Mr. (Samuel Carter) Hall [1800-1889] the Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. Parker was the son of Teasdale Parker, a stone mason , and Elizabeth, née Dodd. He managed to pick up a fair education, which in after-life he constantly supplemented. In the revolutionary years from 1845 to 1850 young Parker as a local preacher and temperance orator gained a reputation for vigorous utterance. He was influenced by Thomas Cooper, the Chartist, and Edward Miall, the Liberationist, and was much associated with Joseph Cowen, afterwards MP for Newcastle upon Tyne. In the spring of 1852 he wrote to Dr John Campbell, minister of Whitefield Tabernacle, Moorfields, London , for advice as to entering the Congregational ministry, and after a short probation he became Campbell's assistant. He also attended lectures in logic and philosophy at University College London. From 1853 to 1858 he was pastor at Banbury. His next charge was at Cavendish Street, Manchester, where he rapidly made himself felt as a power in English Nonconformity. While here he published a volume of lectures entitled Church Questions, and, anonymously, Ecce Deus (1868), a work provoked by Seeley's Ecce Homo. The University of Chicago conferred on him the degree of D.D. In 1869 he returned to London as minister of the Poultry church, founded by Thomas Goodwin. Almost at once he began the scheme which resulted in the erection of the great City Temple in Holborn Viaduct. It cost £70,000, and was opened on 19 May 1874 . From this centre his influence spread far and wide. His stimulating and original sermons, with their notable leaning towards the use of a racy vernacular, made him one of the best known personalities of his time. Dr Parker was twice chairman of the London Congregational Board and twice of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. The death of his second wife, Emma, née Common, in 1899, was a blow from which he never fully recovered. Parker was pre-eminently a preacher, and his published works are chiefly sermons and expositions, chief among them being City Temple Sermons (1869-1870) and The People's Bible, in 25 vols (1885-1895). Other volumes include the autobiagraphical Springdale Abbey (1869), The Inner Life of Christ (1881), Apostolic Life (1884), Tyne Chylde: My Life and Teaching (1883; new ed., 1889), A Preacher's Life (1899). This letter is in fine condition..............100-150

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87. [MUSIC]  Walther Ludwig (1902-1981) German operatic lyric tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and Schubert lieder. He first studied medicine in Freiburg before turning to voice studies in Königsberg, where he made his debut in 1928. He then sang in Schwerin, where he created the title role in Paul Graeners's Friedmann Bach in 1931. He joined the Städtische Oper Berlin in 1932, where he established himself in Mozart roles such as Belmonte, Don Ottavio, Tamino, Idomeneo, Ferrando, etc. After the war, he began appearing at the Hamburg State Opera, and made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1947, and at the Salzburg Festival in 1948.  He also made guest appearances at La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House in London, the Liceo in Barcelona. Large bold signature on 5-3/8 x 3-1/2" card. Fine example. Superb!...........Min. bid $1


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88. [ENGALND] Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, GCVO, KCB, PC, DL (1852-1930) historian and Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. In 1901, Lord Esher was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Berkshire and became Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle, and remained close to the royal family until his death. During this period, he helped edit Queen Victoria's papers, publishing a work called Correspondence of Queen Victoria (1907). Behind the scenes, he influenced many of the pre-World War I reforms carried out by the Liberal governments of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Herbert Henry Asquith. He was a member of Lord Elgin's South African War Commission, which investigated Britain's near-failure in the Boer War, and chaired the War Office Reconstitution Committee, which recommended radical reform of the British Army. He was offered many public offices, including the Viceroyalty of India and the Secretaryship for War, but declined, accepting instead an appointment to the Privy Council in 1922. In 1928 he became Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle, an office he held until his death in 1930. HE SUPERINTENDED QUEEN VICTORIA'S FUNERAL [1901], AND THE CORONATION OF EDWARD VII [1902]. ALS, Hotel Metropole, Brighton, Oct. 1890, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. To the secretary. "Fine out for me when you can whether the Queen's Bench Masters have any rules drawn up as to the Taxation of costs tho' not published. VG.......75-100

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89. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Original photograph of young Arthur MacArthur [son of Gen. MacArthur]. Taken in 1951. International News Photos paper caption attached to back of photo. Approx. 9 x 7-1/8". VG..........50-75

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90. (JOURNALISM). Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1910......Min. bid $8

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91. William  Manning (1866-1949)  U.S. Episcopal bishop of New York (1921–1946). He led a major $10 million campaign to raise funds for additional construction on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and directed a program to train and employ men from the neighborhood as skilled artisans during the Great Depression and later.  In 1939-40, Manning took a leadership role in the successful effort to force the City University of New York to rescind their offer of a professorship to the philosopher Bertrand Russell.  Signature below mounted picture.  Overall 3 x 5-3/4 in. VG.................25-35

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92. ALEXANDER WILEY - US Sen. from Wis. TLS, 1950 re: Bureau of Am. Ethnology. WILEY, Alexander, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wis., May 26, 1884; attended the public schools, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minn., and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1907; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Chippewa Falls, Wis.; district attorney of Chippewa County 1909-1915; unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor in 1936; engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944, 1950 and 1956 and served from January 3, 1939, to January 3, 1963; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eightieth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Eighty-third Congress), resided in Washington, D.C., until a few days before his death, May 26, 1967, at High Oaks Christian Science Church Sanitarium in Germantown, Pa.; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Chippewa Falls, Wis..............Min. bid $5

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93. David Lawrence (1888-1973) conservative newspaperman and former student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University. In 1916, he became the Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post. After his reelection as U.S. President in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson fired Irish-American White House secretary (chief of staff) Joseph Patrick Tumulty in 1916 to placate anti-Catholic sentiment, particularly from his wife and his advisor Colonel Edward M. House, after which David Lawrence successfully interceded on his behalf to remain. During the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, David Lawrence criticised 'The New Deal' in his 1932 book Beyond the New Deal, in which his observation of economic activity led him to distinguish between free enterprise and corporatism, writing that "Theoretically, corporations are creations of the state." In 1926, Lawrence founded United States Daily, a weekly newspaper devoted to covering government, and seven years later shut it down to start United States News for an audience of community leaders, business people and politicians. In 1948, United States News merged with Lawrence's two-year-old weekly magazine, World Report to form the news magazine U.S. News & World Report. At the time of Lawrence's 1973 death, the magazine had a circulation of two million. On April 22, 1970, David Lawrence was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. Lengthy TLS, 1927, 2 full pages, to James T. William. Excellent news paper content about the United States Daily. VG.............75-100
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94. [FILM]  MILTON EBBINS (1912-2008)  talent manager of jazz greats and a Kennedy administration and Rat Pack insider, composer.  Ebbins started his career in the early 1930s as a trumpet player and bandleader. He left his career as bandleader and became a talent manager, rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs for his clients. He also represented actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for 35 years. Ebbins’ partnership with Lawford — who was married to President Kennedy’s sister, Patricia— brought him into close association with The Rat Pack and the Kennedy Clan.  Ebbins produced many of his clients’ film and television projects and was partnered in a company with Lawford that produced TV series, “The Patty Duke Show.” He associate produced the 1950s TV series’ “The Thin Man” starring Lawford and Phyllis Kirk. He also produced two films starring Rat Packers Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. — “Salt and Pepper” (1968) and “One More Time” (1970). He helped set up the original Rat Packer film, “Ocean’s Eleven” and subsequently “Sergeants 3.” He was also involved in the production of “The Longest Day.”  Ebbins helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962, Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly — sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one of the few allowed inside the White House after the JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project about the Kennedy assassination.  Offered  here is a page of handwritten notes written by Ebbins, not signed, approx. 5 x 7-1/4  in.  Mentions Roman Polanski, the writer-Director, including his phone number;  a small picture deal Jerzy Skolomowski - Dir. during 1968 $250,000 per picture etc. VG..............50-75

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95. [FILM]  Milton Ebbins  - original retained copy of a memo sent by Ebbins to Peter Lawford  regarding Patty Duke for "Ginger" or "The Fastest Girl in Town."  Unusual behind-the-scenes. VG..........50-75

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96. [PORTRAIT] of James Boaden (1762–1839)  English biographer, dramatist, and journalist, engraved by
William Ridley (1764-1838). Image approx. 4-1/2 x 3-1/4" plus margins. VG............25-35


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97. [PORTRAIT] of  The Earl of Moira (1754-1826) engraved by William Ridley (1764-1838) c. 1811. Image approx. 3.5 x 3" plus margins. VG........25-35

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98. [PORTRAIT] of Sir Edward Codrington GCB RN (1770-1851) British admiral, Hero of the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Navarino. Engraved  c. 1830 by John Cochran  (active 1821-1865) was a Scottish portrait miniaturist, a stipple and line engraver and a painter of watercolours. Cochran exhibited his portraits at the Royal Academy between 1821 and 1823, and at the Suffolk Street Gallery from 1821 to 1827. Image approx. 4.5 x 3.5" plus marghins. Chipped outer edges but around image area VG..........25-35


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99. (MASSACHUSETTS) CENTRAL PART OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/4 x 3-1/4 plus margins.  Age toned o/w very good.................25-35

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100. Joseph Nourse (1754-1841) was the first United States Register of the Treasury whose career spanned forty years and six presidential administrations. He played a key role in administering the finances of the new Republic.  Nourse first served during the American Revolution as military secretary to General Charles Lee. He returned for a short time to his family's farm in Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He settled in Philadelphia in 1779, where he served as Assistant Auditor General for the Board of Treasury. He was elected Register in 1781, where he assumed responsibility for keeping the financial records and accounts of the new government. He also authenticated each piece of Continental currency by personally signing it.  In 1800, he moved with the federal government from Philadelphia to the City of Washington. He purchased a residence in the Georgetown area, first at 3101 P Street and later acquired Cedar Hill (as Dumbarton House was historically named) in 1804. As Register of the Treasury, he worked closely with four administrations and early political leaders of the new nations.  When Andrew Jackson was elected President in 1829, Joseph Nourse was forced from office.  Signature removed from a 1792 document. Approx. 4 x 3-3/8 in.............60-80

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101. [STOCK CERTIFICATE] Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co, stock certificate for one share, 1852, approx. 9-1/4 x 7". VG..............Min. bid $45


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102. [ENTERTAINMENT] LITTLE LORD ROBERT (Robert Kantor) LITTLE LORD ROBERT was the stage name of English dwarf Robert Kantor, who performed with the Ringling Bros. circus, circa 1909, and later appeared in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939). The New York Times stated his age in 1909 as 23, when it announced his engagement to female dwarf Coretta (Ruby Richoff). This turned out to be a Ringling Bros. publicity stunt, however, and Lord Robert may have been as young as 10.  A card dated 1/11/13 signed and inscribed to Geo. Bancroft. VG...............50-75

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103.  Admiral Sir Dudley R. de Chair (1864-1958) Governor of New South Wales from 1924-1930. The highlight of de Chair's naval career came in 1915-16 when, as rear admiral commanding the tenth cruiser squadron, he was responsible for the effective North Sea blockade of Germany. Signed 1905 Riggs National Bank check [Wash. DC]. Signed as Capt. RN. Good clear signature................75-100...............Min. bid $10

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104. [VERMONT] 2 letters to William Gay, Keeper, Vermont State Prison, Windsor, Vt.  One dated 1833, 2 pp. plus address leaf from his brother; another from his wife dated, 1850, 4pp. Unread.............50-75


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105. [FRANCE] Jean-Barthélémy Hauréau (1812-1896) French historian and writer. Born in Paris, he was educated at the Louis-le-Grand and Bourbon colleges in his native city, and won high honours at his public examination. After graduating he became a journalist, and soon was a contributor to several democratic papers: La Tribune, Le National, Le Droit, and La Revue du Nord; at Le National, he was praised by Théophile Gautier as the "tribune" of romanticism. At the age of twenty he published a series of apologetic studies on the Montagnards &emdash; in later years, regretting his youthful enthusiasm, he attempted to destroy the studies. In 1838 he took the chief editorship of the Courrier de la Sarthe and was appointed librarian of the city of Le Mans , which position he retained until 1845, when he was dismissed on account of comments of his on the daring speech of the Mayor of le Mans to the Duke of Nemours. He returned to Paris and once more became one of the editors of Le National. At this time he seemed destined for a political career, and after the revolution of February 24, 1848 was elected to the National Assembly; but close contact with revolutionary men and ideas cooled his old ardour. Throughout his life he opposed innovation, not only in politics and religion, but also in literature. After the coup d'état he resigned his position as director of the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Nationale , to which he had been appointed in 1848, and refused to accept an administrative post until after the fall of the empire. Having acted as director of the national printing press from 1870 to 1881, he retired, but in 1893 accepted the post of director of the Fondation Thiers. He was also a member of the council of improvement of the École des Chartes. From the time of his appointment to the Bibliothèque Nationale up to the last days of his life he was engaged in making abstracts of all the medieval Latin writings (many anonymous or of doubtful attribution) relating to philosophy, theology, grammar, Canon law, and poetry, carefully noting on cards the first words of each passage. After his death this index of incipits , arranged alphabetically, was presented to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a copy was placed in the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Nationale. ALS, 188?. written on both sides of 4-1/2 x 7" page. Includes a small ink drawing [man's head on one side and women's on the other side]. We assume the drawing is by Haureau. He speaks about a bust by Power and of Boulanger, Louis Napoleon and politics. Ends with "How humiliating it is to be French." Fine condition...........100-150

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106. Sir Alexander Beresford Hope PC (1820-1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854 and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a British author and Conservative politician. Brief ALS, 1878, 1p. Tear [1" top edge] & light stain bottom............Min. bid $10

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107. Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001)  American philosopher, educator, and popular author. Signed 8x10 photo. VG..........25-35

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108. [PORTRAIT] original 18th century mezzotint engraving by Richard Houston (1721?–1775) the  Irish mezzotint engraver, whose career was mostly in London. Born in Dublin about 1721, he became a pupil of John Brooks, who was also the master of James McArdell and Charles Spooner. He came to London about 1747, and some of his early plates bear the address "near Drummond's at Charing Cross".  In debt to Robert Sayer the print-seller, he was arrested and confined to the Fleet prison; according to Sayer this in order that he might know where to find the dissipated Houston. He was released in 1760, on the accession of George III. As a free agent he was commissioned by Carington Bowles. Offered here ia a rare portrait of John Wycliffe  ( c. 1320–1384)  English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher,translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England, who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. Print has been cropped and laid to larger sheet.  Mezzotint is the rarest of all print mediums - almost a lost art today.  A high level of quality and richness in the mezzotint print can be achieved. The mezzotint printmaking method was invented by the German amateur artist Ludwig von Siegen (1609–c 1680). His earliest mezzotint print dates to 1642 and is a portrait of Amelia Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). VG..........200-300

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



110. [PHOTOGRAPHY] John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven GCMG DSO PC JP DL (1874-1941), known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth Governor-General of Australia. Offered here is an original 5-1/4 x 7-3/4 in. sepia photograph signed in pencil [lower right] by the photographer  Layfayette. VG.  Not signed by Baird....................50-75

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111. Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke GCB GCVO GCStJ (born Prince Alexander Albert of Battenberg; 1886-1960) was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was a Prince of Battenberg from his birth until 1917, when the British Royal Family relinquished their German titles during the First World War and he was created Marquess of Carisbrooke by King George V.  Signed card, 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 in. Light toning on edges...............Min. bid $10

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112. Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866-1954) American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, Life Histories of North American Birds, published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously. Following a request from the Smithsonian Institution in 1910, Bent started work on the project that would dominate the rest of his life. Using his own experiences, the published literature, and contributions from hundreds of others, he put together by far the most comprehensive repository of knowledge about the biology of the birds of North America. His accounts were published progressively in the United States National Museum Bulletin. ALS, Smithsonian Institution, Jan. 5, 1929, 1p. Sends thanks to Arthur Norton of Portland, Maine, for sending picture owl. "I suppose you took near Portland. I shall file it away for future use in Life Histories..." With envelope.............Min. bid 30



113. [MILITARY] ROBERT B. JOHNSTON - American 3-star general USMC. SIGNED/INSCRIBED color 8x10 photo in uniform............Min. bid n$10



114. [TV] James Drury (b.1934) American actor probably best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971. With 12-14 hour workdays, the series had perhaps the most demanding production schedules in the history of network television. TLS/agreement, not dated, 1p, giving his permission to use his name and photograph. VG...........25-35



115. [MUSIC] Frankie Laine (1913-2007) American singer, songwriter and actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35



116. Paul Harvey [1918-2009] Am. radio broadcaster. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo...........20-30

 

117. Mario Cuomo (1932-2015) served as the 52nd Governor of the state of New York from 1983 to 1994. Cuomo became nationally known for his keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention and the subsequent speculation over the next decade that he might run for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Signed, inscribed program for "An Evening With Mario Cuomo," dated 2001. VG........Min. bid $20



118. JOHN FIEDLER (1925- ) American Actor -did his first professional work in his native Wisconsin. Fiedler's many Broadway appearances included the 1960 play A Raisin in the Sun, in which he was the only Caucasian in a virtually all-black cast. His first film role was as the supplicative Juror No. 2 in Twelve Angry Men (1957). Fiedler's stock in trade was the meek-looking soul who compensated for his demeanor with a nasty temper or sadistic streak. In this capacity, he was often seen as vindictive school principals, obstreperous civil servants or combative psychiatric patients (vide TV's The Bob Newhart Show). Incredibly prolific in films and on television, John Fiedler's best-known role was Vinnie, Oscar Madison's card-playing crony in both the stage and screen versions of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. SIGNED 10x8 photograph...........Min. bid $10



119. Marsha Mason (b. 1942) American actress. Signed 8x10 color photo. VG...........Min. bid $10


120.  [RELIGION] Mystery Document Signed. Approx. 12 x 8" on paper. Appears to be from Italy or Spain of religious content. We have just received the following information about this document. It says - This is a fairly routine document issued IN THE NAME of Archbishop Francesco Saverio Mastrilli, C.R., of Taranto Italy (1699-1777). It has something to do with the Congregation of the Universal Inquisition, now known as the Propagation of the Faith. It probably was the granting of church approval for publication of a book or some dispensation/approval.  See scan below. Certainly worthy of research..........100-150

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121. [THEATRE] Helen Hayes (1900-1993) two-time Academy Award-winning American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. SIGNATURE on album page.........Min. bid $10




122. [MUSIC] Seals and Crofts are Jim Seals (b. 1941) and Dash Crofts (b.1940). The soft rock duo was one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. They are best-known for their hits "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl". Both have signed & inscribed the same slip of paper, 4 x 7-3/4 in. VG..........25-35



123. Boots Randolph [1927-2007] saxophone player "Yakety Sax." ISP, 8x10.....25-35

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124. [THEATRE] Shirley Booth [1898-1992] American actress. Primarily a theatre actress, her Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received a Tony Award in 1950. She made her film debut, reprising her role in the 1952 film version, and won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance. Despite her successful entry into films, she preferred stage acting, and made only four more films. From 1961 until 1966, she played the title role in the sitcom Hazel, for which she won two Emmy Awards, and was acclaimed for her performance in the 1966 television production of The Glass Menagerie. Signed Playbill from the play "Goodbye, My Fancy", 1949. She signs inside..........25-35


125. GENE SAKS (1921- ) American Actor/Director - He began directing in 1963, helming such Neil Simon Broadway plays as Biloxi Blues and Brighton Beach Memoirs and such Simon-scripted films as Barefoot in the Park (1967), The Odd Couple (1968), and Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1986). Saks made his film acting bow in 1965, recreating his stage role as paranoid kiddie-show host Chuckles the Chipmunk in A Thousand Clowns. Saks is married to actress Beatrice Arthur, who co-starred in his 1974 film version of Mame.. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 PHOTO........................25-35



126. [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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127. [BALLET] Ruth Page (1899-1991) American ballerina and choreographer, considered a pioneer in creating works on American themes. To the classical ballet vocabulary she added movements from sports, popular dance and everyday gestures. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........50-75

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128. [FILM] James Fox [b. 1939] English actor. He first appeared on film in The Miniver Story in 1950. His other early film appearances were made under the name William Fox. During the 1960s he gained popularity and appeared to be heading for stardom. His roles in films such as The Servant (1963), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), King Rat (1965), The Chase (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Isadora (1968) and Performance (1970) (alongside Mick Jagger), as well as his relationship with actress Sarah Miles, had made him a media personality. Signed photo 3.5 x 5.5". VG..............25-35


129. Julian Leonard Street (1879-1947) American author, born in Chicago. He was a reporter on the New York Mail and Express (later Evening Mail ) in 1899 and had charge of its dramatic department in 1900-01. His writings, characterized by a rather obvious but yet a genuine sense of humor. He made contributions to magazines. In 1915 he published a book on Theodore Roosevelt, called The Most Interesting American. He is credited with being the art critic who wrote that the painting exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show by Marcel Duchamp called Nude Descending a Staircase, resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory." Street moved to Princeton in the 1920s. The university houses his manuscript collection and a library is named after him there. TLS, 1924, 1p. He is confirming a contract with Red Book magazine to write a serial. They will finance him for one year. If he dies the estate will be indebted to the magazine. Punch hole near top............50-75

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130. [MUSIC] Gerard Schwarz (b.1947)  American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011. His numerous awards include Musical America's Conductor of the Year in 1994 (the first American to win that award), 13 Grammy nominations, and 3 Emmy nominations (2 of which resulted in Emmy wins) for his performance of Mozart's Requiem on Live from Lincoln Center and performances with the Seattle Symphony on PBS. He received Seattle's City of Music Outstanding Achievement Award for 2010.   Signed 8x10 photo. VG......25-35

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131. [BOOK] THE VAGABONDS by J. T. Trowbridge. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1880. Small 4to. Publisher's cloth. (29) pages. This book is illustrated by F.O.C. Darley. The author, John Townsend Trowbri (1827-1916), was born in New York and is best known for his forty novels for boys. This popular poem, about the plight of the homeless, has an unfortunate current theme. It was first published in 1863 and reprinted many times. Publisher's pebbled cloth, front cover black- and gilt-stamped with vignette and decorative title, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding showing minor wear; sun-toned; top of spine rubbed. Titled page lighted foxed. All page edges gilt. Inscribed by Trowbridge on the flyleaf in pencil "E.J. Newton from J.T.T. Christmas 1879.  Obviously Trowbridge, as the author, got advanced copies that were given as Christmas gifts...........100-150

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132. Bruce Catton (1899-1978)  American historian and journalist, best known for his books on the American Civil War. In 1977, the year before his death, Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Gerald R. Ford, who noted that the author and historian "made us hear the sounds of battle and cherish peace."  Of the many Civil War historians, Catton was arguably the most prolific and popular. Offered here his honorary Doctor of Literature dipolma from Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn.,  1962.  Accompanied by the Commencement program [toned along right edge], and a couple of newspaper clippings................200-300

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133. [CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE]  a letter dated June 29, 1925, to Albert R. Baird of Waterville, Minnesota, about the earthquake there. Four pages, sent from Santa Monica, Cal......Papers are full about the earthquake at Santa Barbara this morning, two distinct rockings followed a little later by a slighter one. Envelope included.........75-100


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134. [WW II] A.A. Vandegrift  (1887-1973) General in the United States Marine Corps. He commanded the 1st Marine Division to victory in its first ground offensive of World War II, the Battle of Guadalcanal. For his actions during the Solomon Islands campaign, he received the Medal of Honor. Vandegrift later served as the 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps, and was the first U.S. Marine to hold the rank of four-star general while on active duty. TLS (appears to be a STAMPED signature), Headquarters US Marine Corps, Washington, Dec. 18, 1946, 1p.  To Congressman Philip J. Philbin, of Mass. regarding underpay of Jacques Eugene Guertin, a Marine. His pay was short $176.82.  Accompanied by TLS of Congressman Philbin, signed Phil [his retained copy] on which Philbin writes text of letter sent to Hon. Geo. W. Stanton.  Also page from Marine Corps to Guertin. Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic US Congressman from Massachusetts who served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services..............50-75




135. [SPACE] Viola L. Armstrong (1907-1990) mother of the famous astronaut Neil Armstrong who first walked on the moon 7/20/1969. Two ALSs, 1972 & 1981, 1p. each. Thanks for stamp and donation to museum............50-75

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136. [WWI]  Davenport - ALS, London, 12 Jan. 1917, 2pp, 4to. Re: contributions to the Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich "in recognition of the splendid & signal services of our Merchant Navy during the war. Whether on transports, on mine-sweepers, on patrol duty, or on trade routes carrying the cargoes which are the life-blood of the Empire they have faced not only the perils & hardships of the Sea, but the deadly risk of submarines, mines, & other enemy devices..." VG..............80-120

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137. WM. A. DARLING (1817-1895) Businessman & MOC from NY; president of Murray Hill Bank. ALS, NY, 1868, 1p, 8vo. Letter of introduction. Letter was sent to Francis S. Spinner (1802-1890) who as Treasurer of the United States from 1861 to 1875. He was the first administrator in the federal government to employ women for clerical jobs. The docket on the verso is in the hand of Spinner.  Slightly toned. ............50-75

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138. [CIVIL WAR] Samuel Phillips Lee (1812-1897)  Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. In the Civil War, he took part in the New Orleans campaign, before commanding the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, covering the coastlines and inland waters of Virginia and North Carolina, and finally the Mississippi River Squadron. As a cousin of Robert E. Lee, his refusal to join the Confederates demonstrated the extent to which the war had divided families. Lee married the daughter of Francis P. Blair, Sr., and their house in Washington is now the president’s official guest house.  Envelope postmarked Washington 1879, addressed by Lee to Mrs. S.P. Lee.
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139.  [EARLY INDIA] Jaipur (Native Indian State) Pre-stamp cover with date of 1670 identified in pencil.  Cover has Indian and Persian black handstamp.  Approx. 5 x 7 in. VG........60-80

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140. RAILROADING IN ILLINOIS - George W. Hired - General Agent.  Autograph letter Signed, St. Louis and Southern Railroad Co., Land Department, Landoral, Illinois.  Dated 1875, 4 pages, 8vo. To Henley C. Lybrook. With original envelope. Fine content regarding organizing a colony under railroad auspices. VG.............50-75

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141. [ART] Nelson C. White (1900-1989) American painter, art historian. ALS, Waterford, Ct., 1937, 4 pages, to the noted artist Horace Robbins Burdick (1844-1942). Excellent content; mentions William Merritt Chase and others. Fine............50-75

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142. [FILM] DON PORTER [1912-1997] actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron. ISP, 8 x 10.......Min. bid $10

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143.  [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT]  Josiah Stoddard Johnston (1784-1833) United States Representative and Senator from Louisiana.  He was a member of the Territorial legislature from 1805 to 1812 and during the War of 1812 raised and organized a regiment for the defense of New Orleans, but reached the city after the battle.  He died on the steamboat Lioness, on the Red River in Louisiana, May 19, 1833. His half-brother, Albert Sidney Johnston, was a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War.  Antique engraved portrait. William Brassey Hole RSA (1846-1917) English artist, illustrator, etcher and engraver, known for his industrial, historical and biblical scenes. Original antique etching, titled Master Holdenough's Story. Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897) Confederate officer. In 1861, after the outbreak of war, Tate volunteered for service in the Confederate army and was appointed captain of Company D, Sixth North Carolina Regiment. Commissioned and promoted to the rank of major on 20 May 1862, he was advanced to lieutenant colonel on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg. There he assumed command of the Sixth North Carolina Regiment after the death of Colonel Isaac E. Avery and led his troops up Cemetery Hill and in the battle on Seminary Ridge. Isaac Avery? formed a partnership with Charles F. Fisher and Samuel McDowell Tate to act as contractors in the building of the Western North Carolina Railroad in the mid-1850s. With Hoke's wounding at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863, Avery temporarily assumed command of the brigade in time for the Gettysburg Campaign. Offered here is a Billhead document, Morganganton, NC, 1896, where Tate buys goods from The Reid Hardware.  NOT signed by Tate.  An 1871 document from NY where John Alexander buys a canal boat.  An 1881 Portland Maine stock certificate for the Massachusetts-New Mexico Mining Co. PLUS autograph signatures of the following US congressmen [mostly clipped signatures]:  Charles O'Neil [PA]; George Merrick Brooks [MA]; the following were US Senators: Richard Brodhead [PA];  John P. Hale [NH]; James Dixon [CT]; LaFayette Grover [OR]; B.F. Rice  [Ak]; Phineas W. Hitchcock [Neb];  David A. Reed  [PA]...................Min. bid $50




144. WORLD WAR  II letters - a collection of letters from 2 different officers to their families in New Jersey, 1943-1945.  Mostly handwritten, a few typed. A great many are the famous V-MAIL, used by the War & Navy Depts. V-Mail Service. Mostly from England. Excellent picture of a soldier's life in Great Britain during the war. Approx. 110  letters pasted into a scrapbook..................Min. Bid $100



145. E.G. LAPHAM (1814-1890) U.S. Senator from NY;  manager to conduct impeachment proceedings against former Sec. of War William W. Belknap [1876]. ALS, House of Rep., 1881, 2pp, 4to. Replies to Francis E. Spinner's letter of congratulations...................50-75

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146. [AMERICANA]  M.P. Wild Jr. Co., sends a letter from Boston, 1846, 1p, to D. Harwood at Machias, Maine, 1p plus postmarked address leaf. Re: shipment of goods ordered, sent by Schooner Helen Mar, Capt. McDonald. VG........50-75

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147. [FILM] Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was a Sicilian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films. He also played an Indian shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television PSAs, "Keep America Beautiful".   In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was actually of Italian ancestry, but he denied it.  Signed 3x5 card............Min. Bid $3

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148. George Francis Train (1829-1904) was a Civil War reporter; made his fortune in shipping, railroads, and real estate; ran for president of the U.S. as an independent candidate in 1872; was instrumental in creation of the Union Pacific Railroad, the first European tramway, and Credit Mobilier of America; was an anti-aristocracy and Confederacy orator; circumnavigated the globe four times; and was a writer and popular eccentric.  Born in Boston in 1829, he moved with his family to New Orleans shortly thereafter. When Train was four, his immediate family died of yellow fever, and he was returned to his grandmother in New England. He became a successful merchant and shipping magnate and opened his own business in Australia. He helped finance clipper ships to California in 1849 and introduced street railways into London and other European capitals. In 1872 he ran as an independent candidate for president against Republican Ulysses S. Grant and Democrat Horace Greeley, making numerous campaign speeches throughout the country.  Signature with inscription dated 1869.  6 x 3-1/4 in. mounted to larger sheet  [slight show-thru].  Comes with cdv photo of his wife, Wilhelmina Wilkinson Davis, who has signed in the verso. Two items............100-150

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149. [AMERICANA] John Popkin Adams, born at Newbury, Massachusetts on August 31, 1812, died at New York, New York on January 31, 1856. Appointed by President John Tyler to the office of U.S. consul at La Guaira, Venezuela, he served in that position from 1843 to 1850, during which time Adams took an active role as an agent for American investors seeking to build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama. Prior to his appointment as consul, Adams had relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, where, in 1835, he married Eugenia Danels, daughter of Commodore John Daniel Danels. From 1842 until his death, Adams pursued a legal suit against the successor states to Gran Colombia as heir and agent of his father-in-law, a suit related to Commodore Danel's actions from 1817-1819 as a privateer authorized by Buenos Aires and Banda Oriental. ALS, New York, June 29, 1850, 2pp, to his mother about health problems in the family.   8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG..................50-75

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150. [AMERICANA] Shoes for Negroes - manuscript dated 1843 concerning W.S. Hayes order to ship tp F.W. Weld some goods.   Hayes says the goods came too late.  Mentions that Hayes gives his Negroes 2 pairs of shoes.  This comes from the papers of Roland G. Hazard  (1801-1888) American Financier, leading businessman, author and philosopher. He accumulated a large fortune in mercantile & manufacturing. While in New Orleans in 1841-42, he was threatened with lynching, he obtained, with great effort, the release of large numbers of free Negroes, who had been placed on chain-gangs.  Written on both sides of a 5x8 sheet. VG.................50-75

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151. John Kelly (1822–1886) of New York City, known as "Honest John", was a boss of Tammany Hall and a U.S. Representative from New York from 1855 to 1858. The title "Honest" was given to him during his years as New York City Sheriff, and was more ironic than truthful. John Kelly was able to amass a vast fortune estimated at $800,000 by 1867, through both ethical and questionable means. In addition, after having his methods questioned and his title insulted by Mayor Havemeyer, Kelly responded with a lawsuit for libel. On the day of the trial, the Mayor mysteriously dropped dead of apoplexy. Autograph Signature, approx. 3-1/2 x 1-1/4 in. VG.............min. bid $1 [one dollar]

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152. [BRITAIN] John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland KG, PC (1759-841), styled Lord Burghersh between 1771 and 1774, was a British Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who served in most of the cabinets of the period, primarily as Lord Privy Seal.  Signed address portion of cover [envelope], postmarked 1804.  VG...........min. bid $1 [one dollar]

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153.  [NASA] Walter B. LaBerge (1924-2004) aerospace engineer and defense industry executive who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1977 to 1980. LaBerge retired in 1989. In retirement, he served as chair of the Army Science Board. Signed 1968 cover honoring TITAN 3C. Clean and attractive..........min. bid $10

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154. 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.............min. bid $10

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155. Shelby Moore Cullom (1829-1914) U.S. political figure, serving in various offices, including the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate and the 17th Governor of Illinois. Clip signature.....Min. bid $1



156. [FILM] Jack Haley (1897-1979) American vaudevillian, stage, radio, and film actor, light comedian, singer and dancer best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in the classic 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. Signed bank check, 1967. VG...............60-80

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157. [BOOK] U-BOATS AGAINST CANADA: GERMAN SUBMARINES IN CANADIAN WATERS by Michael L. Hadley, McGill Queens University Press, Kingston & Montreal, 1985. Hardcover. Book Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. 360 pages. VG.................80-120

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158. Group of payroll check from WARNER BROS. 1980s made out to various people.  None are actually signed by the person.  Here are some of the names found at Wikipedia:  Ken Wild [bass player]; Sudie Bond [actress]; Bill McEuen [manager of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - paid $9,999.98]; plus 3 others. All very good condition.........Min Bid $12



159. Group of payroll checks from WARNER BROS. 1980s made out to various people.  These are actually signed by the person on the verso.  Here are some of the names found at Wikipedia: Lou Richards  [actor]; Harold Goldman (1919-2001)  Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television director.  Joe Maross (1923-2009)  American actor who appeared in movies and made guest appearances on many television series from the 1950s to the 1980s. J.N. Roberts - professional off road and enduro motorcycle racer.  After his racing career, he became a stuntman in the American Film industry.  Wally Rose (1913-1997) American jazz and ragtime pianist. Irving Ravetch (1920-2010) American screenwriter and film producer who frequently collaborated with his wife Harriet Frank, Jr.  She has also signed on the back side.  Jeffrey David Boam (1946-2000)  American screenwriter and film producer. He is known for writing the screenplays for Lethal Weapon 2 and 3, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, and The Lost Boys. Boam's films had a cumulative gross of over US$1 billion. VG...............Min Bid $50



160. Group of payroll checks from WARNER BROS. 1980s made out to various people. These are all signed by the recipients on the verso:  Sonia Chernus - screenwriter for The Outlaw Josey Wales starring Clint Eastwood. Irving Ravetch (1920-2010) American screenwriter and film producer.  Marguerite Roberts (1905-1989)  American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.  Lawrence Roman - wrote screenplay A Kiss Before Dying starring Robert Wagner,  Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward & Mary Astor. Robert Barrett (director), co-director of Beyond the Door. Dominic Barto - actor. Julie Johnson (actress), country singer and actress who has performed the voice of Baby Bop on Barney & Friends since 1991. Craig Redding Baxley (born October 20, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American director, stunt coordinator, stunt performer and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the action and thriller genres. Signed for him by his wife. Mark Lisson - film producer. Debby Porter - actress......Min Bid $40




161.  [ART]  Vera Spier Kuhn (1885–1961) studied jewelry-making in Washington D.C. and Woodstock, NY, and opened a studio on East 23rd Street in 1908. There, she met the artist Walt  Kuhn; they married the next year. During his involvement with the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS), Vera Kuhn stayed with her mother and Brenda, their young daughter, at her mother’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He credited Vera with being the most important factor in his success. The majority of the Walt and Vera Kuhn letters reside at The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC. Offered here is an ALS, Hotel Chelsea [NYC], 1955, 1p, to her daughter, Brenda, who is at the Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, Maine.  She tells Brenda about Walt's painting ATHLETE IN WHITE FACE is going to an exhibition but needs a frame.  Maynard mentioned in the letter was the dealer handling the Kuhn Estate art work during the 1950s. She says she told Matnard that the move did not mean that "we were joining the group..."  She signs Ve. Envelope included. VG.  The photo of Vera Kuhn is not included here; it is in the Archives of American Art collection................75-100

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162. [JEFFERSON DAVIS]  Printed 1855 government document, Report of The Secretary of War,  signed in type Jefferson Davis. Re: a resolution of the Senate of Dec. 11, 1854, calling for information respecting the deeping of the communication between Lakes Huron and Superior. 5 pp.  VG...............40-60

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163. [JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY] Ira Remsen (1846-1927) was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.  Remsen writes at bottom of letter "Referred to President Woodward, Chairman I.R."  The letter itself is from Frank Pierce to President Ira Remsen, National Academy of Science, Baltimore, Md., sending a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Patents, relative to the provisions of section 8 of the Sundry Civil Act, approved May 27, 1908.  The copy of that letter is included here. VG. The picture of Remsen showing here is not included.........200-300...............Min. bid $75

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164. Chauncey M. Depew (1834-1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.  Signed card, 3-1/4 x 2-1/4".  VG..........Min. bid $5

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165. [ART] Clifford Carleton (1867-1946) American artist. ALS, no date, 3pp, to  Mr. Cowles [Cowles Art School in Boston].  Nice content. VG.............40-60

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166.  [ART]  William Cave Thomas  (1820-1906) British artist.  ALS, nd, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG.........Min. bid $10

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167. [ART] Edward H. Potthast (1857-1927)  American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England. His work is included in many major museums in the United States. Clip Signature, top corner missing. About 4-3/4 x 2-1/4".........50-75.......Min. bid $10

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168. [BRITISH NAVAL] WILL CHAMBERS - Rear Admiral. ALS, no date but c. 1807, 1p, folio. To Phitt Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh's docket on verso reads "Rear Adm. Chamber's advising that he will wait on me being just come to Town." The text area is very good but there are marginal faults.........50-75

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169. [VERMONT] Frederick Holbrook (1813-1909) was an agriculturist, politician, and the 27th Governor of Vermont. Governor Holbrook served as governor during what many consider the darkest days of the American Civil War. His administration saw the recruitment of 10 infantry regiments, 2 light artillery batteries, and 3 sharpshooter companies. Under his administration, as well, Vermont built three military hospitals in the state which were "soon credited by the United States medical inspector with perfecting a larger percentage of cures than any United States military hospital record elsewhere could show."  Closely clipped signature, approx. 3-3/4 x 1/2"...........Min. bid $1

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170. Nathan Webb, an early American Congregational Church minister, was born on April 9, 1705, at Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He died on March 17, 1772 at Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Nathan Webb pastored the first new Congregational Church in Massachusetts started during the Great Awakening period for over 41 years. His parishioners made a mark on America and its early freedoms. CLIP SIGNATURE. Very good example.........Min. bid $9


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Led Marine squad in 1914 when U.S. troops stormed and occupied Vera Cruz during the Mexican Revolution

171. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here is a signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG........Min. bid $1

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172. Congressmen from Connecticut and New York.  Album page signed on one side by congressmen from Connecticut and on the other side by members from New York.  From Connecticut: O.S. Seymour (1804-1881) he was also  Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1873 to 1874. Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799-1887) US  Rep. and the 31st Governor of Connecticut. Charles Chapman (1799-1869). Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819-1903).  From NY:  William Murray (1803-1875) was instrumental in the organization of the Republican Party in 1856.  Henry Bennett (1808-1868).  Jerediah Horsford (1791-1875) In 1815, he went to Moscow, New York as a missionary to the Seneca Indians. In 1818 he moved to Mount Morris, New York, where he was a farmer. He was a pioneer in scientific farming methods, an active member of several agricultural societies, and the inventor of an animal feed named Horsford's Cattle Food. Emanuel Bernard Hart (1809-1897) New York's first Jewish congressman. Thomas Y. Howe, Jr. (1801-1860).  Reuben Robie (1799-1872).  Willard Ives (1806-1896) He served as president of Ives Seminary, Antwerp, New York, which he endowed. He was one of the originators and organizers of Syracuse University and served on the board of trustees in 1870–1886. VG..............Min. bid $12




173. Jonathan Kettell  (1759-1848) he was a cabinetmaker in Newburyport, Mass.  He served in the military as a fifer and was made clerk of the Sixth Regiment, 2nd Brigade of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1802. He served as tax collector for the town of Newburyport. He bought a share in the schooner Ranger. He died in Newburyport on May 6, 1848. Document signed, Newburyport, 1808, signed as Town Teasurer. Approx. 6-1/4 x 2-1/4 in. VG..............Min. bid $10

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174. Graham McNamee (1888-1942) was an American radio broadcaster, the medium's most recognized national personality in its first international decade.  In 1925, at the Radio World Fair, he won a solid gold cup (designed like a microphone) as America's most popular announcer. McNamee continued to broadcast into the 1930s, as an announcer on such programs as Rudy Vallee's and Ed Wynn's weekly shows. He played straight man on the latter, reacting to Wynn's gags. He also worked in motion pictures, narrating Krakatoa (1933), Universal Pictures' weekly Universal Newsreels, and Camera Thrills (1935), an Academy Award-nominated short subject produced and directed by Charles E. Ford. In the early 1940s, he hosted Behind the Mike for NBC. TLS, 1930, 1p, 8.5 x 11 in. VG.............60-80

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175. [FLORIDA] Lawton  Chiles  (1930-1998) 41st Gov. of Florida and US senator.  A signed 1938 cover honoring AIR MAIL from Tallahassee, postmarked 1938, typed addressed to a collector. VG...........Min. bid $6

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176. [WW II] EVELYN W. FARRAND. Assist. to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Chairman of YOUNG AMERICA WANTS TO HELP, operated under the auspices of the British War Relief Society, Inc. Typewritten Letter Signed, New York, July 21, 1941, to Mrs. Burton Musser, the president of the Utah British War Relief Society. One page, 4to. Sending three pages of information on projects for raising funds for immediate aid of the children in Britain to the additional objective of "crystalliz[ing] the sympathy of the youth of America for the youth of Great Britain." Four pages total.........40-60

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177. [NAVAL]  William Sowden Sims (1858-1936) was an admiral in the United States Navy who fought during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to modernize the navy. During World War I he commanded all United States naval forces operating in Europe. He also served twice as president of the Naval War College.  Signed card dated May 15, 19190, 5-1/4 x 4-1/4.  VG..............mind bid $10


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178. James Truslow Adams (1878-1949)  American writer and historian. He was not related to the famous Adams family (though he wrote a book about the family in 1930). He was not an academic, but a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his 3-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars.  Brief TLS, 1949,  approx. 5-1/4 x 6-1/2 in.  Fine...............min. bid $10

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179. Yellow album page signed by 4 congressmen from Penn. ANTHONY, Joseph Biles, (1795 - 1851); CHAMBERS, George, (1786 - 1866); HARPER, James, (1780 - 1873); INGERSOLL, Joseph Reed, (1786 - 1868). VG.......min. bid $10



180. MYSTERY LOT of about 74 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1815. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items......min. bid $40



181. [ENTERTAINERS]  multiple lot containing:  Roy Rogers - signed in dark area [poor contrast] 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 picture. Marion Mack (1902-1989) actress  best known for co-starring with Buster Keaton in the 1926 silent comedy film, The General. ANS, 1983, saying she does not know who these people are. Jane Alexander - signed 3x5 card. Shelley Fabares - signed & inscribed 3x5 card with Elvis stamp affixed. Donna Mills - signed & inscribed 3x5 card. Estelle Getty (1923-2008) signed & inscribed card. Abe Vigoda (1921-2016) signed 3x5 card. Sylvia -  country music and country pop singer and songwriter.  Signed magazine page, 1984. Petra Verkaik - Playboy Playmate - signed picture, 8x10. Signed 10x8 photo of an unidentified actor.  Barbara  Sinatra - American former model and showgirl who became the fourth and final wife of Frank Sinatra from 1976 until his death in 1998. Brief 1989 TLS. Jackie Gleason thank you card bearing printed signature. Lucille Ball Morton family card sent to collector, shortly after Lucy's passing.  ALSO, unsigned vintage 8x10 photos of James Whitmore,  Ray Milland................min. bid $40



182.  (NOBEL PRIZE RECIPIENTS LOT)     Konrad E. Bloch (1912 –2000) German American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964.  SIGNED CARD.   Norman E. Borlaug (1914 – 2009) was an American biologist, humanitarian He has been called "the father of the Green Revolution" Nobel Peace Prize 1970.   SIGNED 3x4 photograph signed on verso.   Paul J. Crutzen (1933) Dutch Chemist Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1995.  SIGNATURE.   Andrzej  V.Schally (1926) American endocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate (1977) in Medicine.   SIGNED, inscribed CARD.  Simon van der Meer (1925 –2011) Dutch particle accelerator physicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984.  SIGNED CARD (4x6).................60-80




183. [MIXED LOT]  offered with as little description as possible: autograph signatures in various forms of the following US senators & congressmen: George Madison Adams (1837-1920) MOC  Ky. Richard Brodhead (1811-1863) Penn. Godlove Stein Orth (1817-1882) Ind. senator.  John H. Clarke (1789-1870) RI senator.  Richard Franklin Pettigrew (1848-1926) represented the Dakota Territory in the U.S. Congress and, after the Dakotas were admitted as States, he was the first U.S. Senator from South Dakota. William Pierce Frye (1830-1911) 60th President pro tempore of the United States Senate. James Taylor Lewis (1819-1904) 9th Governor of Wisconsin. Isaac Hill (1789-1851) NH senator.  Henry Heitfeld (1859-1938) Idaho senator................min. bid $35



184. [MIXED LOT]  Abdullah Al-Khayyal - Saudi Arabian Ambassador. Signature + his unsigned called card. Catalog of an exhibition of drawings & watercolors by Arthur B. Davies at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1987, nicely illustrated. Boris Artzybasheff - ORIGINAL WOOD-ENGRAVING. ROBERT SULLIVAN - fragment of ALS to Miss Gilchrist, sending autographs. Not dated but before 1850. Mounted.  [JAPANESE NAVAL] Hiroharu Kato - VICE ADMIRAL, Commander in chief of the IJN 2nd Fleet [June 1, 1923 - Dec. 1 1924]. The IJN 2nd Fleet was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. First established on December 28, 1903, the IJN 2nd Fleet was created by the Imperial General Headquarters as a mobile strike force of cruisers and destroyers to pursue the Imperial Russian Navy's Vladivostok-based cruiser squadron while the remaining bulk of the Japanese fleet (the IJN 1st Fleet) continued to blockade Port Arthur in hopes of luring the battleships of the Russian Pacific Fleet out into a classic line-of-battle confrontation. As the main mobile force in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the IJN 2nd Fleet saw the bulk of all future combat operations from the time of its inception until this dissolution at the end of World War II. Offered here is a SIGNED CARD with rank as Vice Admiral, on 3-1/2 x 2-1/2" card. Douglas Volk  [1856-1935] American artist who painted a famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Volk, as a child once sat upon the knee of President Lincoln. Signed 1906 bank check.  A 1877 document made out to Jacob Bunn  (1814-1897)  Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral [not signed by Bunn]. Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) was an inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. Although his patents were eventually overturned, he is credited with inventing the spinning frame, which following the transition to water power was renamed the water frame. Small antique engraved portrait. Edwin Whitefield (1816-1892) was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. Original color lithograph of The Patterson House, Berlin, Ct. Group of 9 printed gov. documents dated from 1821-1900, including an 1856 from Franklin Pierce. A.A. NICHOLSON - DS, State of Vermont, 1860. Also signed by E.J. Ormsbee (1834-1924) was a teacher, a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran & the 41st Gov. of Vermont.  Small 1838 Bill of Lading with woodcut of sailing vessel - port of NY bound for Mobile. Louis McLane (1786-1857) American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a member of the Federalist Party and later the Democratic Party. He served as the U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom, and President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Antique engraved portrait. California Gold Rush - 49ners - 1849 issue of the New York Daily Tribune..................Min. Bid $45




185. [ACTORS, ACTRESSES & ENTERTAINERS]  Dorothy Revier  (1904-1993) American actress. Signed blue 3x5 card dated '84. John Abbott (1905-1996) English character actor. Signed 2-questionaire. He writes out 2 answers. Robert Earl Wise (1914-2005) American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. Signed questionaire. Natalie Schafer (1990-1991) American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island (1964–67). Signed questionaire.  Desi Arnez Jr. (b. 1953) signed & iscribed newspaper clipping about Lucille Ball. Edward S. Willard (1853-1915) English theatre actor. Signature. Eileen Heckart (1919-2001) signature mounted. Nancy Gates (b.1926) American former film and television actress. Signed newspaper picture clipping.  Bill Cosby - signed pamphlet GLORY DAYS [from McDonald's]. Kevin Costner - small signed picture standing with Tiger Woods. Della Reece (b. 1931) American nightclub, jazz, gospel and pop singer, film and television actress. Signed 3x5 card.............Min. Bid $45


186. [TENNIS]  BOBBY RIGGS (1918-1995) American tennis player who was the World No. 1 or the World co-No. 1 player for three years, first as an amateur in 1939, then as a professional in 1946 and 1947.  Signed 4-3/4 x 6-3/4 in. picture. VG...........min. bid $10

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187. [MISC. MIXED GROUPING]  Edo de Waart (b.1941) Dutch conductor. TLS, 1978. Howard Mitchell (1910 – 1988)  American cellist and conductor. He conducted the National Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1969. TLS, 1968. Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972)  Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. TLS, 1946, to Commanding Officer 59th AAFBU at Topeka, Kansas. Douglas Volk  [1856-1935] American artist who painted a famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Volk, as a child once sat upon the knee of President Lincoln. Signed 1931 bank check. Thomas Weston Tipton (1817-1899)  Senator from Nebraska. Algernon Sidney Paddock (1830-1897) was an American politician who served as a Republican secretary of Nebraska Territory and U.S. Senator from Nebraska after statehood. Clip signature. James L. Wilmeth (1870–1959) was an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1917 to 1922. Signed 1913 bank check. John Scott (1824-1896) senator from Penn.............Min. Bid $30




188. [POLITICIANS] signatures of the following senators & congressmen: Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795-1864) USS NY & Gov. Wis. Robert Stanfield (1877-1945) Oregon. Philip Fox La Follette (1897-1965) He served three terms as the Governor of Wisconsin and helped create the Wisconsin Progressive Party. Charles Augustus Eldredge (1820-1896) Rep. from Wisconsin.  James Ole Davidson (1854-1922) 21st Governor of Wisconsin. Andrew Jackson Rogers (1828-1900) Rep. NJ.  Angus Cameron (1826-1897)  Republican politician from Wisconsin who served twice in the United States Senate.  James William Fulbright (1905-1995) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas.  J. Caleb "Cale" Boggs (1909-1993) He was a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U.S. Representative from Delaware, two terms as Governor of Delaware, and two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. Signed FDC honoring Delaware [sticker addressed]. Plus a TLS, 1958 signed by the Gov. of NH, Lane Dwinell............Min. Bid $40




189. [ANTIQUE ENGRAVED PORTRAITS] Sir Hugh Middleton (1560-1631)  Welsh clothmaker, entrepreneur, mine-owner, goldsmith, banker and self-taught engineer. An 1831 engraved portrait.  George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834) 1819 portrait. Thomas Erskine - 1791 portrait. Allan Ramsay (1684-1758) was a Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian, and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh. James Bruce [couple foxing spots].  Patrick Colquhoun (1745-1820) was a Scottish merchant, statistician, magistrate, and founder of the first regular preventive police force in England, the Thames River Police. 1818 portrait. William Drummond (1585-1649), called "of Hawthornden", was a Scottish poet. William Aikman (1682-1731) was a Scottish portrait-painter [some foxing]. James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair (1619-1695) Scottish lawyer and statesman. Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696 – 1782) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included David Hume, Adam Smith, and James Boswell............Min Bid $40




190. OLD DOCUMENTS - very little description given here.  [1]  1879 Western Railroad Assoc.  [2] 1825 Cherryfield, ME.  [3] 1919 Sons of Veterans, USA.  [4] 1821 Newport, RI.  [5] 1857 Boston. [6] Providence, RI.  [7] 1837 Bill of Lading - NY bound for New Orleans.  [8] Douglas Volk - noted artist. Signed 1907 bank check [faulty].  [9] 1815 NH signed Jos. Doe.  [10] 1878 gov. doc from John Sherman, Sec. Treas.  [11] 1911 Keene, NH billhead.  [12] 1811 NH - estate of Jeremiah Rollins to Jabez Dow.  [13] ten 1918 Limerick National Bank checks [Maine]..............Min. Bid $20




191.  [POLITICIANS] signatures of the following senators & congressmen: Aaron Harrison Cragin (1821-1898) US Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Ephraim Hubbard Foster (1794-1854) twice served as a United States Senator from Tennessee. During his political career, he was a member of the Whig Party. This is a clip signature with another signature of the verso of Thomas Clayton (1777-1854) Senator from Delaware. Daniel Darwin Pratt (1813-1877) US Senator from Indiana. Pratt was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, holding that office in 1875 and 1876. Albert J. Hopkins (1846-1922)  Congressman and U.S. Senator from Illinois. Signed on verso by Evan E. Settle (1848-1899) congressman from Ky. Samuel James Renwick McMillan (1826-1897) Senator from Minnesota. Edgar Cowan (1815-1885) He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate during the American Civil War.  Amos Phelps Granger (1789-1866) Rep. from New York. Alexander McDonald (1832-1903)  represented Arkansas in the U.S. Senate from 1868 to 1871. Logan Holt Roots (1841-1893) Rep.  from Arkansas.  Thomas Chipman McRae (1851-1929) Rep.  (1885 to 1903) and the 26th Governor of Arkansas, from 1921 to 1925............Min. Bid $40






192. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Frederick Hill Meserve (1865-1962) Meserve was a New York textile executive, booklover, and authority on Lincolniana. He has been called America's first great photograph collector.  Harvard University Library has a large collection of Historical portraits purchased from Meserve. There is much online about his collection. Autograph Letter Signed,  NYC, 1949, 1p., to Robert Golden in Chicago.  He sends "an old print from a Brady negative which I have taken from my index..."  The photo is of Gen. Joseph R. Smith.  8.5 x 11 in. VG. Most uncommon........150-200

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193. [MAINE]  Printed 1838 government document, Message from the President of the US, signed in type M. Van Buren. A communication from the Governor of Maine in relation to the northeastern boundary, and the claims of Ebenezer S. Greely, John Baker, and others. VG...............40-60
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194. Dave  Thomas (1932-2002) American businessperson and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.  Signed & inscribed color 8x10 photo.  Comes with TLS, 1997. Both signed Dave. VG.......Min. bid $10

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195. [POLITICAL EPHEMERA]  (James Stewart) the actor. Facs. signed The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation letter, May29, 1992, 2pp. Includes envelope. VG..............Min. bid $8

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196. [FILM] Kim Novak (b. 1933) American actress. Signed 5x7 photo. VG...........Min. bid $9

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197. [BOOK] THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT IN GEORGIA, 1752-1776: VII—The Military System by Percy Scott Flippin, printed 1929, Georgia Historical Society, Savanah, Ga, softcover, 54pp. Front cover sl. soiled. Generally very good overall.  Scarce publication...................40-60

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198. [POLITICAL EPHEMERA] Ronald Reagan - a autopen signed typed letter, December 1989, 1p. Includes envelope.......Min. bid $10


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199. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 15 signed bank checks, dating 1906-1921...........300-400

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200. [FRANCE] Roland ALEXANDRE - important French actor. Signed 1923 photograph. Inscribed to the French actress Tania Fedor. Approx. 4 x 6-3/4 in. Photographer is Paul Mejat, of Paris. Very nice.........50-75

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201. [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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French Bishop & Organist

202. [RELIGION] Pierre Henri Lamazou [1828-1883] French Bishop (of Limoges and Amiens]. As the rector of St, Sulpice in Paris, he was a great supporter of the composer and organiste-titulaire (ie: officially appointed  organist) of St. Sulpice, Alfred Léfebure-Wely, and promoted his music and his style of playing (which was rather lamboyant and showy...many of the time considered him not to be a good "church: organist, but rather a "concert" organist).  He promoted and encouraged the use of the pipe organ in the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.  When they tried to surpress the organ versets for the Te Deum (a big and rather long hymn of Thanksgiving with organ improvisations between choral Gregorian chant verses at the end of festive Roman Catholic services), Lamazou loudly protested and encouraged its continued usage. He wrote a short article/booklet in 1863 on the organ at St. Sulpice and the state of organ construction. In 1868, he wrote a two page article on the newly rebuilt Cavaillé-Coll organ at Notre Dame Cathedral (he had served on the commission for its restoration). Offered here is an ALS, Paris [France], 1879 2-1/2 pp, 4-1/2 x 7 in. Not translated. Fine........100-150

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203. Ossie Davis (1917-2005) American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. VG....25-35

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203a. [BRITISH] Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) Anglican archbishop and poet. In 1856 Trench became Dean of Westminster Abbey, a position which suited him. Here he introduced evening nave services. In January 1864 he was advanced to the post of Archbishop of Dublin. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley had been first choice, but was rejected by the Irish Church , and, according to Bishop Wilberforce's correspondence, Trench's appointment was favoured neither by the prime minister nor the lord-lieutenant. It was, moreover, unpopular in Ireland, and a blow to English literature; yet it turned out to be fortunate. Trench could not prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity. But, when the disestablished communion had to be reconstituted under the greatest difficulties, it was important that the occupant of his position should be a man of a liberal and genial spirit. Brief ALS, 1868, 1p,, mounted to album sheet...........Min. bid $10

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


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204a. Walter Lowrie Fisher (1862-1935)  United States Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft from 1911 to 1913. Document Signed, 1918, 1p., 4to. Annotated proof for his biography which appeared in the 1918-19 edition of Who's Who in  America. Sloopy appearance..............Min. bid $10


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205. Bert Manfred Fernald (1858-1926) was a United States Senator and the 47th Governor of Maine. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds for three terms. Clip Signature..............Min. bid $1

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206. Preston Bierce Plumb (1837-1891) United States Senator from Kansas, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. During the Civil War, Plumb entered the Union Army in 1862 as a second lieutenant in the 11th Kansas Infantry, which was redesignated as the 11th Kansas Cavalry in August 1863 in Kansas City. He served successively as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel of the regiment. He was on duty on the eastern border of Kansas until October 1864, helping fight pro-Confederacy Missouri partisans and raiders under William Quantrill, as well as serving in Nebraska against Indians. Starting in October, Plumb and his regiment fought against the Confederates in several battles during Price's Raid. He was mustered out September 26, 1865. CLIP SIGNATURE..................Min. bid $25

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207. Truman Smith (1791-1884) was a Whig member of the United States Senate from Connecticut from 1849 to 1854.  Smith declined the appointment to be the first United States Secretary of the Interior from President Zachary Taylor in 1849 having been elected to the United States Senate. CLIP SIGNATURE 1853.........Min. bid $1

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208. George Payne McLean (1857-1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States Senator from Connecticut. TLS, 1902, 1p. VG..............Min. bid $10

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209. James Gorrall Blair (1825-1904) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. A Democrat during the American Civil War, Blair supported the Union and opposed secession, but was unable to serve in the military because of poor eyesight and other health issues. After the war he opposed most Reconstruction measures as being overly harsh to former supporters of the Confederacy. CLIP SIGNATURE.............Min. bid $1

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210. John A. Danaher (1899-1990)  United States Senator from Connecticut.   Signed 1953 FDC, type addressed..............Min. bid $4

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211. [FILM] Photos of film stars from yesterday, all unsigned, the largest is 6x9. Varied conditions but generally VG. Includes: Virginia Mayo, Alan Ladd, Deanna Durbin, Van Johnson, Joan Leslie, Olivia De Havilland, Lana Turner, Paulette Goddard, Fred Astaire, Don Ameche............Min. bid $10

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212. Jacob K. Javitis (1904-1986)  United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981.  Brief TLS, 1980, plus unsigned photo. VG................Min. bid $5


213. James Campbell (1820-1895) was an Opposition Party and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. During the American Civil War, Campbell served as major of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry. He was appointed Minister to Sweden by President Abraham Lincoln in May 1864 and served until March 29, 1867.  Signature..............Min. bid $1


214. Addison Henry Laflin (1823=-1878) was an US congressman from New York.  Signature............Min. bid $1


215. Robert Barnhill Roosevelt, (1829-1906), was a sportsman, author, and politician who served as a United States Representative from New York (1871–1873) and as Minister to the Hague (1888–1889). CLIP SIGNATURE.......Min. bid $1


216. John Alsop King (1788-1867) was an American politician who was Governor of New York from 1857 to 1858. Signature dated 1858.................Min. Bid $1


217. Perkins King (1784-1857) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Signed card on which he writes place and date of birth..............Min. Bid $ 1


218. Russell Billiu Long (1918-2003) was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987, and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee for fifteen years from 1966 to 1981. Signed card......Min. Bid $1


219. Paulus Powell (1809 – 1874) US congressman from Virginia. CLIP SIGNATURE.............Min. Bid $1


220. James Guthrie (1792-1869) was a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and served as Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President Franklin Pierce. Signature...............Min. Bid $3


221. Samuel Page Benson (1804-1876) was a United States Representative from Maine. He was a railroad builder, and was secretary of the Androscoggin & Kennebec Railroad (later the Maine Central Railroad).  Signature.............Min. Bid $1


222. Lemuel Todd (1817-1891) Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Signature......Min. Bid $1



223. [OREGON SENATORS] Signatures of: Joseph Norton Dolph [1835-1897] politician and attorney in Oregon. A native of the state of New York, he immigrated to Oregon over the Oregon Trail and settled in Portland where he became the state's federal district attorney. A Republican, he spent ten years in the Oregon State Senate before serving in the United States Senate from 1883 to 1895. John Hipple Mitchell [1835-1905] controversial American lawyer and politician, who served as a Republican United States Senator from Oregon on three occasions between 1872 and 1905. He also served as State Senate President, did the initial legal work involved in the dispute that led to the landmark Supreme Court case of Pennoyer v. Neff, and later was involved with the Oregon land fraud scandal, for which he was indicted and convicted while a sitting U.S. Senator, one of only eleven sitting U.S. Senators ever indicted, and one of only five ever convicted. Henry W. Corbett [1827-1903] businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he spend much of his early life in the state of New York before moving to the Oregon Territory where he continued his business interests in retail, and later transportation and banking. A Republican, he served as a United States Senator from 1867 to 1873.............35-45

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

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225.  [MUSIC] Arthur De Greef (1862-1940)  Belgian pianist and composer.  After graduating with high distinction from the Conservatoire at the age of 17, De Greef went to Weimar to complete his studies under Franz Liszt. He was a Liszt pupil for two years. Following the Weimar sojourn, De Greef embarked on a career as a concert pianist, travelling widely. He was a friend of Edvard Grieg, whose Piano Concerto he had played publicly in 1898, and who called him "the best performer of my music I have met with". In addition, he enjoyed the endorsement of Camille Saint-Saëns. British critic Jonathan Woolf has written: "De Greef was, in all respects, an intensely musical, non-sensationalist, eloquent and impressive musician and whilst not being averse to some of the interventionist tactics of his contemporaries (retouching of the score) remained sympathetically self-effacing".  ALS, 1899 2pp, 4.5 x 7 in.  Very good except for  light toning along bottom edge............100-150

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226. [MUSIC] Albert Wolff (1884-1970)  French conductor and composer of Dutch descent. Most of his career was spent in European venues, with the exception of two years that he spent as a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and a few years in Buenos Aires during the Second World War. He is most known for holding the position of principal conductor with the Opera-Comique in Paris for several years. He was married to the French mezzo-soprano Simone Ballard.  ALS, not dated, 1p, 3-3/4 x 5 in. VG......75-100

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227. [ART] Gordon Parks (1912-2006)  American photographer, musician, writer and film director. He is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft.  Document Signed - ASCAP dated Nov. 11, 1975,  4pp. Signed on page 3. Approx. 8-1/2 x 11 in. Fine..............75-100

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228. [FRANCE] Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche (1797-1868)   French playwright. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, vaudevilles and texts for operas.  ALS, 1862, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/8 in.  A curious letter to the famous actress Virginie Dejazet.  A tear repaired with archival paper. Scarce!..............100-150


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229. [FRANCE]  Marquis Edouard Marie Rene Bardon de Segonzac (1867 – 1962)  French army officer and explorer. He studied at the Ecole Speciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr before being commissioned and serving in the Ivory Coast where he was accused and acquitted of the murder of a fellow officer. He became renowned as an explorer and adventurer in Morocco and was also posted to Tunisia. In the First World War he became a pilot and received the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre.  ALS, 1910, 1-1/2 pp, 5-1/4 x 7 in.  VG..............80-120


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230. Howard  Baker, Jr. (1925-2014)  American politician and diplomat who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Senate Majority Leader. Baker later served as White House Chief of Staff for President Ronald Reagan, and a United States Ambassador to Japan.  Known in Washington, D.C. as the "Great Conciliator", Baker was often regarded as one of the most successful senators in terms of brokering compromises, enacting legislation, and maintaining civility. Baker was a moderate conservative who was also respected enormously by most of his Democratic colleagues.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG........Min. bid $10

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231. [FILM] Brian Aherne [1902-1986] British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........Min. Bid $10


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232. [BRITAIN] Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton PC (1774- 1848) British politician and financier. ALS, April 12, no year, written on both sides of neatly inlaid sheet. VG........Min. Bid $15

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233.  [MUSIC] Johnny Green (1908-1989) American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conductor. His most famous song was one of his earliest, Body and Soul. He won Academy Awards for Easter Parade, An American in Paris, West Side Story, Oliver. He was a chairman of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, leading the orchestra through 17 of the Academy Award telecasts, and a producer of television specials. Offered here is an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED with his initials on TLS, 1957, 1p. from Leopold Friedman, of Loew's Theatres. Friedman's letter mentions "Raintree County" opening in Boston. VG.........75-100

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234. [SCIENCE] Chas. B. Dudley (1842 1909) Am. chemist who was an early proponent of standardization in industry. n 1875 he became a chemist for the Pennsylvania Railroad and started to investigate the chemical composition and metallurgical structure of rail tracks, breakage being a major hazard at that time. He discovered enormous variation in the properties and quality of steel and the 1878 publication of his results caused an uproar in the steel industry who saw it as their sole domain to determine the quality of their products for sale. Dudley championed the development of company and industry standards and demanded rigorous testing of materials to verify conformity. He developed a complete range of standards for the Pennsylvania Railroad, not only for steel, but also for fuels, lubricants, paints, and even locomotives. In 1898, he was one of the founders of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). TLS, Department of the Interior, 1908, 1-1/2 pp., 4to. Remsen has informed Dudley that Woodward has been appointed chairman of the committee to investigate and report upon a plan for consolidating the scientific surveys, as required by Section 8 of the Sundry Civil Act." Continues at length. Paperclip stain o/w VG........Min. bid $30

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Our Most Prominent Pacific Coast Scientist

235. GEORGE DAVIDSON [1825-1911] pioneer west coast scientist. Probably no name is better known in the scientific world of the Pacific Coast than that of Professor George Davidson, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. His active and untiring efforts, extending over a long period of time in advancing the interests of science on this coast, are well known; and the work he has accomplished in the service in which he holds high rank has earned for him a name and reputation which might be envied by any man. He determined the Eastern boundary, 120th meridian, of California in 1873. Lengthy ALS, 1908, WRITTEN IN THE 3RD PERSON. "Mr George Davidson expresses his thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Woodward for their kind invitation to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences on the evening of Wednesday the twenty-second of April, and regrets his inability to be present. San Francisco Cal. March 22/08." VG...........Min. bid $35

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Original Portrait of James Kent

236. (ART) Asher B. Durand (1796-1886). American engraver and painter, b. Jefferson Village, N.J. Established reputation with The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, after Trumbull (1823); engraved portraits, gift book illustrations, banknotes. A founder of National Academy of Design (1826); president (1845-61). In 1836 he turned to painting, at first chiefly of portraits and figure pieces; later, turned to landscape painting, drawing inspiration from scenery of Hudson River Valley and New England; regarded as a founder (with Thomas Cole) of Hudson River school of landscape. Original circa 1834 engraving by A.B. Durand of the famed American jurist James Kent, b. near Brewster, N.Y., July 31, 1763, d. Dec. 12, 1847, was a U.S. jurist whose Commentaries on American Law (4 vols., 1826-30) made him known as "the American Blackstone." After graduating from Yale University, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1785. He practiced law in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and then taught law at Columbia College, New York City, from 1794 to 1798. In 1798 he was appointed to the New York Supreme Court, becoming chief judge in 1804. In 1814 he was made chancellor of the New York Court of Chancery, where his opinions contributed to development of the law of equity in the United States. His Commentaries were published in five editions during his lifetime. Image approx. 4.5 x 3.5 plus margins. Image & surrounding area is in very clean condition...............Min. bid $30

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237. Samuel Wesley Stratton (1861 -1931) American physicist. In March 1901, President William McKinley appointed him as the first director of the Bureau of Standards. By request of U.S. secretary of the treasury, prepared report on a proposed Bureau of Standards, drafted bill establishing bureau (passed by Congress, 1901), and became first director of the bureau (1901-23). President, M.I.T. (1923-30). DOCUMENT SIGNED, Bureau of Standards Certificate, 1906. Issued to S.I.P. Geneve; submitted by R.S. Woodward - ONE WHITE BRONZE METER BAR NO. 17. TEST NO. 1581, also signed in ink by Louis A. Fischer, In charge of test. Mail folds o/w fine...............Min. Bid $20

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238. [MEDICINE] Henry H. Donaldson [1857-1938] American Neurologist. During his years on the faculty of Clark University, 1889-1892, he studied the brain of Laura Bridgman, a blind deaf-mute. In 1891, he published an important work on the subject and in 1895 he published The Growth of the Brain: A Study of the Nervous System in Relation to Education (London). In 1906 he published an early paper that used the white rat as experimental animal (rather than the frog). From that point, Donaldson, as director of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia), developed a Wistar Institute strain of rat that was widely used in experimentation. Short ALS, written on 5x4 card, no date. "Dear Prof. Woodward: Thank you very much for your cheerful enlightenment this evening & some day let me know when the Institute can play the host. Sincerely, Henry D. Donaldson." One mail fold o/w VG......Min. Bid $20

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239. [FRANCE] Maurice Lévy (1838-1910) French engineer and member of the Institut de France. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), he was entrusted by the Government of National Defense with the control of part of the artillery. During the next decade he held several educational positions, becoming professor at the École Centrale in 1875, member of the commission of the geodetic survey of France in 1879, and professor at the Collège de France in 1885. In 1888 Lévy inaugurated a system of boat-traction by means of overhead cables. A trial system was installed between Joinville-le-Pont and Saint-Maurice ; it consisted of an endless cable which was kept in motion by powerful steam-engines and to which boats were attached and thus kept at a speed of four kilometers an hour. The system proved unsatisfactory, however. ALS, 1909, 1p. About writing a preface for Marchis's book on aviation. VG..........50-75

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240. Charles James Blomfield (21786-1857) was a British divine, and a Church of England bishop for 32 years. The first-fruits of his scholarship was an edition of the Prometheus of Aeschylus in 1810; this was followed by editions of the Septem contra Thebas, Persae, Choephori, and Agamemnon, of Callimachus, and of the fragments of Sappho, Sophron and Alcaeus.  Blomfield, however, soon ceased to devote himself entirely to scholarship. He had been ordained in 1810, and held in quick succession the livings of Chesterford, Quarrington[disambiguation needed], Dunton[disambiguation needed], Great and Little Chesterford, and Tuddenham. In 1817 he was appointed private chaplain to William Howley, Bishop of London. In 1819 he was nominated to the rich living of St Botolph, Bishopsgate, and in 1822 he became archdeacon of Colchester. Two years later he was raised to the bishopric as bishop of Chester where he carried through many much-needed reforms.  In 1828, he was appointed a Privy Counsellor and translated becoming bishop of London,a post which he held for twenty-eight years. During this period, his energy and zeal did much to extend the influence of the church. He was one of the best debaters in the House of Lords (members of the Upper House of the Canterbury Convocation confessed to trimming their quill pens before his arrival!), took a leading position in the action for church reform which culminated in the ecclesiastical commission, and did much for the extension of the colonial episcopate; and his genial and kindly nature made him an invaluable mediator in the controversies arising out of the tractarian movement. Free franked [signed] addressnpanel, London, 1838. VG................Min. Bid $10

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241. [MUSIC] LaSalle Spier (1890-1982) American pianist, composer and teacher. He was the brother-in-law of Vera Kuhn, wife of the noted artist, Walt Kuhn.  Three ALSs, 1962 & 1964, each 1-page, to Brenda Kuhn, daughter of Walt & Vera Kuhn. Each with envelope. VG.........Min. Bid $25

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242. Ralph Waldo Trine  (1866-1958) One of the most widely-read of all New Thought writers. Ralph Waldo Trine was a philosopher, mystic, teacher and author of many books, and was one of the early mentors of the New Thought Movement. His writings had a great influence on many of his contemporaries including Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science. He was a true pioneer in the area of life-transforming thought. No other New Thought author has sold more books than he, his writings reaching far beyond New Thought circles out to the general public, which has bought and read Trine's books without ever knowing that they were New Thought. ALS, no date, 2pp. VG.............Min. Bid $10

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243. Lilian  Bowes Lyon (1895–1949) was a British poet.  She was the first cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.  During the First World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon helped at Glamis Castle (owned by her uncle) which became a convalescence home for soldiers. Her brother Charles Bowes Lyon was killed in the war on 23 October 1914, inspiring her poem "Battlefield" which was later published in "Bright Feather Fading".   After the First World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon studied for a time at the University of Oxford and then moved to London. She was independently wealthy. In 1929, she met the writer William Plomer CBE and through him, Laurens van der Post. bb She published two novels, "The Buried Stream" (1929) and "Under the Spreading Tree" (1931) but thereafter focused on poetry. She published six individual collections with Jonathan Cape and a "Collected Poems" in 1948. Her "Collected Poems" contains an introduction by C. Day-Lewis who noted the influences of Emily Dickinson, Hopkins and Christina Rossetti. Her verse appeared in many periodicals and anthologies including "The Adelphi", "Country Life", "Kingdom Come", "The Listener", "The London Mercury, "The Lyric" (USA), "The Observer", "Orion", "Punch", "The Spectator", "Time and Tide and "Poetry" (USA).  During the Second World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon moved to the East End where she used the Tilbury Docks unofficial air raid shelter and assisted with nursing the injured.  She also had several amputations due to thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's Disease), losing toes, a foot, her lower legs and eventually both her legs below her hips. She returned to her home in Kensington and continued to write poetry despite the thromboangitis obliterans beginning to affect her hands. These poems, found amongst William Plomer’s papers at University of Durham, were published in "Uncollected Poems" by Tragara Press.  ALS, 1935, 2pp, approx. 7 x 9 in. VG.............75-100
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244. Patent of Robert P. Parrott, assignor to General Electric Company, for Improvement in Airport Illumination, Granted April 9, 1935, total 5 pages,  8 x 12.5". VG...........Min. Bid 25

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245. [FILM] Nina Foch [1924-2008] actress. Signed, inscribed 9.25" x 7.5 photo. VG......25-35

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246. [RELIGION] Humberto Cardinal Medeiros (1915- 1983) Archbishop of Boston from 1970 until his death in 1983, and was created a cardinal in 1973. Signed, inscribed color portrait print dated Oct. 24, 1974. Approx. 10 x 14 in. There is some creases on left side, and various other minor creases..........Min. Bid $10

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247.  [FRANCE - MUSIC] Aimable Antoine-Elie-Elwart  was a composer , musicologist and French musicologist born in 1808 and died in 1877.  ALS, 186?, 1p, 5x8 in. VG...........50-75



248. Grant Thorburn (1773-1863) American author and seedsman. He founded a business and issued a catalogue selling his seeds, the first in American history. Later he would publish articles and sketches in newspapers and magazines. Clip signature. Mounting stain do show............Min. Bid $5



249.  [BASEBALL] Harry Lavagetto - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............Min. Bid $10

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250.  [BASEBALL] Bucky Walters - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............Min. Bid $10

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251.  [BASEBALL] John Mize - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............Min. Bids $10

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252.  [BASEBALL] Robert Doerr - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............Min. Bid $10

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253.  [BASEBALL] Red Rolfe - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............Min. Bid $10

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254. MILITARY] General Sir Peter Edgar de la Couer de la Billière (b. 1934) is a former British soldier, who was Director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War. signed card............20-30 




255. Samuel Appleton (1766-1853) American merchant and philanthropist, active in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Great Britain. The city of Appleton, Wisconsin was said to have been named in his honor. Clip Signature mounted, 1851........20-30


256. Fanny Heaslip Lea [1884-1955] writer. Signed card...........20-30

257. Geo. William Childs [1829-1894] Am. publisher. Sig./inscribed 1890............20-30



258. [TENN] Henry Clay Evans (1843-1921) U.S. Representative from Tennessee. Born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania , Evans moved to Wisconsin in 1844, with his parents, who settled in Platteville, Grant County. He attended the common schools and a business school in Madison. He was graduated from a business training school at Chicago in 1861. During the Civil War, Evans enlisted on May 6, 1864, as a corporal in Company A, 41st Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and served until September 24, 1864. He settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1870 and engaged in the manufacture of freight cars. Evans was elected mayor in 1881, serving two terms. He organized the public-school system of Chattanooga and served as first school commissioner. Evans was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891 ). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He was First Assistant Postmaster General 1891-1893. Evans was elected Governor of Tennessee in 1894 on the face of the returns, but a legislative recount rejected certain votes and declared his Democratic opponent, Peter Turney, elected. He was appointed Commissioner of Pensions April 1, 1897, and served until May 13, 1902, when he resigned to enter the diplomatic service. He was appointed United States consul general to London, England, May 9, 1902, retiring in 1905. He was chosen commissioner of health and education of Chattanooga in 1911. He died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 12, 1921. He was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, Tennessee. CLIP SIGNATURE......Min. Bid $1




259. Walter Wellman (1858-1934) American journalist, explorer, and aëronaut. In 1892 Walter marked with a monument the presumed landing place of Christopher Columbus on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. In 1894 he led a polar expedition east of Svalbard to latitude 81° N. He led another expedition to latitude 82° N through Franz Josef Land in 1898 and 1899.   Signed 1909 bank check for $2,000. Fine............40-60



260. [GERMANY] August Everding - 20th century theatre/opera director. SP, 4 x 5-3/4 in. Scarce!.......Min. Bid $10


261. [FOOTBALL] Ara Parseghian (b. 1923) American collegiate football coach. He served as head coach for three teams, most notably the University of Notre Dame team from 1964-1974. During his 11 seasons as head coach of the Fighting Irish (known popularly as "the Era of Ara"), he compiled a 95-17-4 record, for a .836 winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame coach of the modern era. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............Min. Bid $10



262. [FILM & TV] Hazel Court (1926-2006) English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG................Min. Bid $8



263. [TV] Henry Winkler (b. 1945) American actor. Signed 3x5 card.......Min. Bid $3


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


265. Jack Kemp (J1935-2009) was an American politician and a professional gridiron football player.  A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.  TLS, 1985, 1p...............Min. Bid $10

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266. Lyn St. James (b.1947) is a retired professional IndyCar driver.  She is one of seven women who have qualified for the Indianapolis 500, and became the first woman to win the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award. She also has two victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona, and 1 win at the 12 Hours of Sebring. She has competed in endurance racing in Europe including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the 24 Hours of Nürburgring where in 1979 her team placed first and second in class.  Signed 3x5 card..............Min. Bid $1

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267. [US TREASURY]  printed 1858 government document, RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES, AND APPROPRIATIONS FROM 1789 TO 1857. From the Sec. of the Treasury, Howell Cobb. 10 pages;  heavy staining.  Thomas Howell Cobb (1815-1868) was a southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as a Secretary of Treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860) and the 40th Governor of Georgia (1851–1853).  He is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederacy, having served as the President of the Provisional Confederate Congress, in which delegates of the Southern slave states which had declared that they had seceded from the United States created the Confederate States.............Min. Bid $12


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268. Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning  A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. A sheet asking two questions, both answered in type, and she signs below in ink. 8.5 x 11 in.  VG............25-35

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269. [FILM] Vera Reynolds (1899-1962) early American film actress. A page answering two questions, which she does in ink, signed in ink. 8.5 x 11 in. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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270. Ivy Baker Priest (1905-1975) was Treasurer of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Signed 3x5 card.....Min. Bid $1

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271. Richard Rovere (1915 – 1979) American political journalist. During the Great Depression, he joined the Communist movement and wrote for the New Masses. In 1939, as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, he broke with Stalinism and became an anticommunist liberal. Signed 3x5 card dated 1978. VG..............30-40

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272. [SPACE PROGRAM] James S. Martin Jr. (1920-2002) was project manager for the Viking program. Signed 3x5 card. VG............Min. Bid $2

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273. Jacobus Johannes Fouché (1898-1980) served as the second State President of South Africa from 1968 to 1975. Signed 3x5 card. First letter slightly smudged. Signed on lined side..............Min. Bid $10

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274. Ernest D. Burton (1856-1925) President Univ. of Chicago. Signed photo, 7 x 11 in. Light spotting............Min. Bid $10

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275. War Department - General Order No. 37, 1872. Re: public building & grounds, the capitol, furnace-keeper at President's house, 2 policemen at President's house, 2 night watchmen at the President's house, doorkeeper at President's house. 8 pp, 4.5 x 7 in. VG...............Min. bid $10

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276. [NY] CELLER, Emanuel, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 6, 1888; attended the public schools; was graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1910, and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1912; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in New York City; Government appeal agent on the draft board during the First World War; delegate to the Democratic State conventions from 1922 until 1932; delegate and member of Platform Committee of Democratic National Conventions from 1942 through 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the twenty-four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1973); chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Ninety-second Congresses), Special Committee on Seating of Adam Clayton Powell (Ninetieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; member of the Commission on Revision of the Federal Appellate Court System, 1973-1975; resumed the practice of law; resided in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he died January 15, 1981; interment in Mount Neboh Cemetery, Cypress Hills, N.Y. SIGNED CARD..........Min. Bid $1


277. [NY] REEVES, Henry Augustus, a Representative from New York; born in Sag Harbor, N.Y., December 7, 1832; attended private schools in Sag Harbor, the Southampton Academy, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for three years, and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar; edited the Republican Watchman in Greenport from 1858 until his death; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); resumed newspaper interests; supervisor of Southold Town 1872-1894; member of the State assembly in 1887; member of the State commission in lunacy 1889-1897; died in Greenport, Suffolk County, N.Y., March 4, 1916; interment in Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, N.Y. SIGNATURE..........Min. Bid $1


278. [OHIO & NY] COX, Samuel Sullivan, a Representative from Ohio and from New York; born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, September 30, 1824; attended the Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1846; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Zanesville, Ohio, 1849; owner and editor of the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman in 1853 and 1854; secretary of the legation at Lima, Peru, in 1855; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1864 and 1868; elected as a Democrat from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1865); chair, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-ninth Congress in 1864; moved to New York City on March 4, 1865, and resumed the practice of law; elected from New York to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate of the Democrats and Liberal Republicans for reelection in 1872 as Representative at large to the Forty-third Congress; subsequently elected to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative James Brooks; reelected to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses until his resignation on May 20, 1885 (November 4, 1873-May 20, 1885); chair, Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on the Census (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Forty-eighth Congress); appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey by President Cleveland, May 21, 1885-October 22, 1886; was again elected to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Joseph Pulitzer; reelected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (November 2, 1886-September 10, 1889); died on September 10, 1889, in New York City; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. SIGNATURE..........Min. Bid $1


279. [NY] COWLES, George Washington, a Representative from New York; born in Otisco, Onondaga County, N.Y., December 6, 1823; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1845; taught school until 1853; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Clyde, Wayne County, N.Y.; judge of the Wayne County court from January 1, 1864, to October 30, 1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; again judge of Wayne County court from January 1, 1874, to January 1, 1880, and from January 1, 1886, until his death in Clyde, N.Y., January 20, 1901; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery. SIGNATURE.....Min. Bid $1


280. William Sulzer (1863-1941)  American lawyer and politician, nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer. He was the 39th Governor of New York and a long-serving congressman from the same state. He was the first and so far only New York governor to be impeached. He broke with his sponsors at Tammany Hall, and they produced convincing evidence that Sulzer had falsified his sworn statement of campaign expenditures. Signed document, 1913, approx. 10.5 x 16 in. Except for fold lines this is in SUPERB condition....................Min. Bidn $18

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281. Richard Nixon - secretarial ink signature, The Inaugural Address, 1969, 19pp. Inscribed to the famousm Lincoln collector John E. Boos. VG................Min. Bid $25

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282. Albert Barnes (1798-1870) American theologian, born in Rome, New York. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey (1825–1830), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1830–1868). Clip signature.......Min. Bid $5

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283. George Riddle - Country singer. Signature..............Min. Bid $1


Led Marine squad in 1914 when U.S. troops stormed and occupied Vera Cruz during the Mexican Revolution

284. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here is a signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG........min. bid $1  [one dollar]

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285. John Henry Clifford (1809-1876) He was the first governor of Massachusetts not born in the state. Signed album page, 1865...............Min. Bid $1

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286. Lee Slater Overman (1854-1930)  Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1903 and 1930. He was the first US Senator to be elected by popular vote in the state, as the legislature had appointed senators prior to passage of the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution authorizing popular elections of senators.  Signed card, 1922..............Min. Bid $1

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287. James Asheton Bayard Jr. (1799-1880) was an American lawyer and politician from Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party and served as U.S. Senator from Delaware. Clip signature............Min. Bid $1

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288. [THEATRE] GERALD SAVORY [1909-1996]  English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies. His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937).  He spent some time in the United States in the 1940s writing for film and television and became an American citizen.  From 1964 to 1965 he was writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five episodes of   ITV Play of the Week; adapting Saki, J.B. Priestley, Noël Coward and Tennessee Williams for television. He then joined the BBC first as then Head of Serials, then Head of Plays. He notably produced five episodes of the thoroughly panned Churchill's People (1975–76) and six of the eight episodes of Love in a Cold Climate for Thames Television in 1980.  TLS, San Francisco, c. 1930s, 1p, 8vo. Mentions two of his plays: UPPER BIRTH and LOVE WENT A-RIDING. To Roland Young, the noted actor who played Topper.............50-75

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289. [MUSIC] John Thomas (1795-1871) Welsh, born in Carmarthen,  musician, poet and schoolmaster who taught in Machen and Merthyr before moving to the Pontypridd district in 1850. From his time in Merthyr he pioneered choral music in Wales, leading his own choirs to success in eisteddfodau in the 1830s. He was also an essayist on Welsh music and culture, winning awards at eisteddfodau in 1838 and 1840, and in 1845 published Y Caniedydd Cymreig, a collection of airs with English and Welsh words.  ALS, 1875, 2pp. To Mr. Planché, probably James Robinson Planché (1796 – 1880) the British dramatist.  Thomas is anxious to set up a meeting about "a Libretto...",  approx. 4-1/2 x 7".  VG.........75-100

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290. David Aiken Reed (December 21, 1880 – February 10, 1953) was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate.  Signed 3x5 card.........Min. Bid $1

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291. Thomas Rivers (September 18, 1819 – March 18, 1863) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th congressional district of Tennessee. Signature..............Min. Bid $1


292. William Hebard (1800-1875) US Representative from Vermont. ALS, 1840, 1p.................Min. Bid $10


293. Homer S. Ferguson (1889-1982) US Senator from Michigan. Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. ........Min. Bid $1


294. William Alanson Howard (1813-1880) served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859 and from May 15, 1860 to March 3, 1861. Howard was the sixth Governor of the Dakota Territory from 1878 to 1880.  Signature..............Min. Bid $1



295. [FRANCE] Jules-Louis Breton (1872-1940) was a chemist-inventor and a French politician. He was a representative of the French Assembly, and the proponent of the Breton-Pretot machine, a wire-cutting armoured vehicle developed in France from November 1914. The vehicle was developed with M. Pretot, engineer.  Breton was born in Courrières, Pas-de-Calais. He was a Socialist with Anarchist tendencies, and as a Natalist, endeavoured to giving more freedom to women.  During World War I he was France's Undersecretary of State for Inventions, and later founded and directed the National Research and Invention Ministry. He was also Minister of Hygiene under President Millerand in 1920. ALS, 1921, 1p. Approx. 4.5 x 7". VG............50-75


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296.  [WORLD WAR 2] Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Offered here is his signed ANNUAL FITNESS REPORT, NAVAL RESERVE OFFICERS, dated June 30, 1940, 8 x 14 in._ Rare! VG...............Min. Bid $8


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297. [ART] F.B.B. - original ink drawing signed with initials, YOUR PROFITS - Now   -  In Six Months, image approx. 7x4", plus margins.  Appears to be from 1930s or 40s. Artist unknown. VG.........50-75


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298. [RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR] George G. Hill [1868-1935] American journalist; correspondent for the New York Tribune during the Russo-Japanese Peace Conference. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1923, made out to "Myself." Also he signs on verso...........Min. Bid $10

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299.  Henry Bowen Anthony (1815-1884) American newspaperman and political figure. He served as the editor and later part owner of the Providence Journal and later was the 21st Governor of Rhode Island between 1849 and 1851, as a member of the Whig Party. CLIP SIGNATURE. VG...........Min. Bid $1


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300. William Barrett Washburn (1820-1887) was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. Washburn served several terms in the United States House of Representatives (1863–71) and as the 28th Governor of Massachusetts from 1872 to 1874, when he won election to the United States Senate in a special election to succeed the recently deceased Charles Sumner.  Clip Signatutres as a member of congress...............Min. Bid. $1

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301. [FRANCE] Pierre Louis Parisis - Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of Langres from 1835 to 1851. He was one of the strongest right wing figures in the French Catholic Church of his era. In 1847 he formed the Archconfraternity of Reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of Sunday to promote Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ. He is also noted for his efforts within the Assembly of 1848 for establishing the ecclesiastical college of St. Dizier and for his discussions concerning the educational reforms. He was a member of the commission which prepared the draft project for the Falloux Laws increasing the Catholic clergy's influence in French education. ALS, 1856, 1p, 7x9 in. Addressed to De Loisne. Not translated. VG............75-100

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302. [FRANCE] Maurice Schumann  (1911-1998)  French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou in the 1960s and 1970s. Schumann was a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement.  The son of an Alsatian Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother, he studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and the Lycée Henri-IV. He converted to his mother's faith in 1937. He once said of France's fate when suffering the Allied bombing raids, ‘….and now we are reduced to the most atrocious fate: to be killed without killing back, to be killed by friends without being able to kill our enemies’.  During a meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Community in 1969, he stated France's conditions for Britain joining the community on its third application, i.e. questions of agricultural finance had to be settled first. Autograph Letter [12 lines] unsigned, written on both sides of his correspondence card. Fine...........50-75

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303. Joseph Paxson Iddings [1857-1920]. American geologist, b. Baltimore. Professor, U. of Chicago (1895-1908). Co-author, with Cross, Pirsson, and Washington, of Quantitative Classification of Igneous Rocks (1903); author of Rock Minerals (1906), Igneous Rocks (1909-13), The Problem of Volcanism (1914). ANS, no date. "Mr. Iddings hopes to be able to accept the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Woodward for Wednesday evening April the twenty-second. VG............50-75

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304. Susan Howlet Butcher (1954-2006) was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. She is commemorated in Alaska by the Susan Butcher Day. Two signed Iditarod cards. Fine..........Min. Bid $20


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305. [PORTRAIT] King William 4th (1765-1837) King of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Antique original engraved portrait. Approx. 2-3/4 x 2-1/4" plus wide margins. VG..........Min. Bid $10

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306. [THEATRE]  Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) English actor-manager. He and his wife Effie Bancroft are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as 'drawing-room comedy' or 'cup and saucer drama', owing to the realism of their stage sets. A signed 3-5/8 x 2-3/8 in. card. Ever so lightly sun toned at edges.............Min. bid $7


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

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308. [AFRICA] John McKendree Springer (1873-1963) American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1936. He was also notable as a pioneering missionary instrumental in developing Methodism on the continent of Africa. He was born in Cataract, Wisconsin , the son of the Rev. Henry Martin Springer, and the grandson of the Rev. Elihu Springer, both M.E. Preachers. Elihu Springer was a soldier in the Indian Wars. Henry Springer served four years with the Colorado Cavalry during the American Civil War. The Springer family is of Swedish origin. John's mother was descended from the Scarritts family, which was involved in the Indian Missions. Springer was appointed a missionary in 1901. He was assigned as a Pastor and the Superintendent of the Old Umtali Industrial Mission in Rhodesia from 1901 until 1906. During 1907 he and his wife journeyed across the African continent. He took furlough, 1907-09. Upon his return to Africa in 1910, he was stationed in the Lunda country of Angola and Belgian Congo. He held various appointments between 1910 and 1915, including Kalalua in North Western Rhodesia (1910-11), Lukoshi in Belgian Congo (1911-13), and Kambove (1913-15). He took a second furlough, 1915-16. Upon his return to Africa in 1916, Rev. Springer became Superintendent of the Congo Mission Conference. He returned to the U.S.A. in 1918 to work on the Centenary and Inter-Church World Movement projects. In 1920 he was appointed Superintendent of the Elisabethville-Luba District . In 1921 he was transferred to the Rhodesia Mission Conference to serve as Superintendent of the Mutumbara District. Another transfer occurred in 1924, when Springer joined the Congo Mission Conference a second time, again appointed Superintendent. During this time he was stationed at Panda-Likasi. A third furlough took place 1925-28, again returning to the U.S.A. Document Signed, 1949. He signs and pens a note to Who Who In America............Min. Bid $40

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

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310. [MUSIC]  Milton Ebbins (1912–2008) Film executive, songwriter ("Yale Blues", "Basic Boogie") and composer. Ebbins helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962, Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly — sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one of the few allowed inside the White House after the JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project about the Kennedy assassination. Ebbins music career began in 1936, he formed his own orchestra, then became music director at CBS, and went to New York in 1938, joining an advertising agency's radio department. He also had been a road manager for the Jack Jenny and Count Basie orchestras, and then a personal manager.  He left his career as bandleader and became a talent manager, rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs for his clients. He also represented actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for 35 years.  TLS, 1963, 1p. Plus TLS, 1963, to Ebbins from Phil Fischer, American Federation of Musicians. Two letters........Min. Bid $40

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311. [BOOK-LETTER] Charles Lewis Slattery (1867-1930) Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and a prominent writer in the early twentieth century.  He was educated at Harvard University (1887-1891) and the former Episcopal Theological School (1891-1894) at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1894 and to the priesthood in 1895. He served as dean of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault, Minnesota from 1896-1907; rector of Christ Church, Springfield, Massachusetts (1907-1910); and rector of Grace Church, New York (1910-1922).  Slattery was Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from 1922 to 1927, and diocesan bishop from 1927-1930. A prolific author, he received honorary doctoral degrees from the Episcopal Theological School, the University of the South at Sewanee, Trinity College, Hartford, and Harvard University. Offered here is a copy of his book "THE WORDS FROM HIS THRONE - A Study of the Cross",  1st. ed., 1927, signed & inscribed;  with brief ALS, 1911, tipped to flyleaf. No dust jacket. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 in. Bumped corners. VG..............50-75

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312. [LINCOLN] Walton's Vermont Register and Farmers' Almanac for 1865 which lists on page 101 "The Executive Branch - Abraham Lincoln of Illinois President". The 1865 map of Vermont which unfolds to approx. 11 x 6.5 in. is present. Published by S. M. Walton, Montpelier/ 1865. Some B/W illustrations/advertisements. Soft cover. Approx. 5.75 x 3.75 in., front cover is missing, back cover has small piece missing in upper right corner, inside is clean & tight..............Min. Bid $10

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Abraham Lincoln of Illinois President



313. Anne Campbell (1852-1935) American poet. People said Anne Campbell received her poetic abilities not by book or by schooling, but by being a country girl living in nature. That is where she found the imagination and creativity for her poems.  She then got the attention of the Detroit News.  This is where she wrote her world- famous poems and where they were published daily.  She gave her special lecture, “Everyday Poetry” at Old Salem Chautauqua in 1929.  This lecture described her inspiration for her poetry, the task of writing for a newspaper, and included the occasional reading of one of her poems; she taught people wanting to be poets the fine arts of the job. Signed handwritten poem titled "Gertrude", dated 1930, 1p, 8 x 10.5". VG.............60-80

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314. [ART] John Hultberg (1922-2005)   American Abstract expressionist and Abstract realist painter. Early in his career he was related to the Bay Area Figurative Movement; he was also a lecturer and playwright. His teachers included Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and he was a classmate of Richard Diebenkorn, who was also a mentor. Hultberg spent many years living part-time and full-time in Maine. In 1952 he was introduced at the Museum of Modern Art in a show of new artists. He lived for one year in Paris between 1954 and 1955 and gained a reputation there for his work. In 1955 he won the Corcoran Biennial first prize in Washington. He was teaching at the Art Students League and was a full-time resident in New York by 1990. He taught until the week of his death at the Art Students League.  Offered here is a  signed by Hultberg softcover book, PAINTING & SULPTURE IN THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ,  edited by Alfred H. Barr Jr.,  1942, 84 pages,  7.5 x 10 in. First Edition. First Printing, November 1942; ten thousand copies printed. Many illustrations. Spine is very faulty.  Very scarce...............Min. Bid $40

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

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

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317. [FILM] Doris Vidor (1913-1978) she was the daughter of Warner Brothers Pictures founder Harry Warner; wife of Charles Vidor, producer-director Mervyn LeRoy and showman Billy Rose. She served for many years as a story director at United Artists. TLS, United Artists Corp, 1961, 2pp, to Bill Asher at Desilu Studios.  Very interesting content letter about the book THE LITTLE PRINCE.  She read the book, liked it but then gives her thoughts on making it into a film, which she doesn't think will work. Interesting. Provenance: Estate of Milton Ebbins, partner of the actor Peter Lawford.............75-100

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318. [STAMPS]  Robert Perrot - designer of the 8 cent United Nations stamp. Offered here is a sheet of 50 stamps [never used], 1958,  signed in ink by Robert Perrot. Fine.............80-120

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319. [SCIENCE] George Ferdinand Becker (1847-1919)  American geologist. His most important work was in connection with the origin and mode of occurrence of ore deposits, especially those of the western United States. He was a leader in mining geology and geophysics, and for many years was the chief of the Division of Chemical and Physical Research in the United States Geological Survey. The investigations under his direction led to the establishment of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.  In 1896 he examined the gold mines of South Africa and at the time of the Spanish-American War was detailed to serve as geologist on the staff of General Bell with the army in the Philippine Islands. He died on 20 April 1919 in Washington, D.C. ALS, 1908, written in the 3rd person, accepting invitation.  Not mentioned but this was sent to Robert S. Woodward in regards to invitation to meet members of the National Academy of Sciences. Fine..........Min. Bid $40

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320. Augustus Hall (1814-1861) Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa\'s 1st congressional district. In 1858, President Buchanan appointed Hall as chief justice of the Nebraska Territory,[2] which then encompassed a vast area west of the Missouri River (to the western edge of the Louisiana Purchase) and north of Kansas Territory (to the Canadian border). Autograph signature. VG..............Min. Bid $1


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321. Benjamin Everett Jordan (September 8, 1896 – March 15, 1974) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1958 to 1973. Signed 1950 FDC, type addressed. VG.................Min. Bid $2

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322. [FILM] Susan Fleming Marx (1908- 2002) American actress known as the "Girl with the Million Dollar Legs" for a role she played in the W. C. Fields film Million Dollar Legs (1932). Her big stage break, which led to her Hollywood career, was as a Ziegfeld girl, performing in The Ziegfeld Follies. She was marrie3d to Harp Marx. Signed 1988 cover honoring the Marx brothers. VG.......25-35


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323. [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish the Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. In 1860 he made a life mask of Lincoln, of whom only one other was ever made (by Clark Mills in 1865). In the early part of spring in 1860, during Abraham Lincoln\'s visit to Chicago, Volk asked him to sit for a bust. When Lincoln agreed, the artist decided to start by doing a life mask. Lincoln found the process of letting wet plaster dry on his face, followed by a skin-stretching removal process, \"anything but agreeable.\" But he endured it with good humor, and when he saw the final bust, he was quite pleased, declaring it \"the animal himself.\" Volk later used the life mask and bust of 1860 as the basis for other editions, including a full-length statue of Lincoln.OFFERED HERE: Signed 1893 National Bank of Illinois bank check, approx. 3 x 6 in., star & one other cancellation. Very good condition. VG...............Min. Bid $80

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324. Victor Andreevich Kravchenko (1905-1966 in New York) was a Soviet defector who wrote of his life in the Soviet Union as a Soviet official in his book I Chose Freedom published in 1946. He also wrote about his experience under American capitalism. Born into a Ukrainian family with a non-party, revolutionary father, Kravchenko became an engineer. An enthusiastic Party member in the 1920s, he later became alienated by Collectivization in his native Ukraine, and personal mistreatment during the Great Purge, although he managed to avoid arrest. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the Soviet Army before being posted to the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington, DC. In 1944 he abandoned his post and requested political asylum in the United States. The Soviet authorities, however, demanded his immediate extradition, calling him a traitor. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt directly on behalf of Stalin to have Kravchenko returned. He was granted asylum, but lived under a pseudonym thereafter, fearing assassination by Soviet agents. Kravchenko's decision to abandon the Soviet Union condemned family members he left behind to harassment, imprisonment and worse. Some of his family were killed. Offered here is his autograph written on a book page. 5-1/4 x 7. VG..................50-75

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325. [THEATRE] Rare 1953 theatre program, THE SLEEPING PRICE, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. 12 pages, unsigned of course. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. VG......................20-30

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The Essence of Expressionism - Manuscript

326. [ART] FREDERICK SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist. He won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artists as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. Offered here is Solomon's manuscript [in German] titled THE ESSENCE OF EXPRESSIONISM.  This would date to before 1939 when he was still living in Germany.  Signed in pencil at top of first page.   Signed Fritz Salomonski, as when was known growing up in Germany. Contains approx. 46 pages in-type, most with handwritten notations on them; plus about 50 loose sheets containing handwritten notes.  8-1/2 x 12-1/2 in. Very good condition................800-1200

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327.  [MUSIC] Johanna Gadski (1872-1932) was a German soprano blessed with a secure, powerful, ringing voice, fine musicianship and an excellent technique. These attributes enabled her to enjoy a top-flight career in New York City and London, performing heavy dramatic roles in the German and Italian repertoires. Her autograph on a 5 x 3-1/4 in. card. Much mounting remains on verso...................Min. Bid $8

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328. Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877), American theologian, was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1834; studied theology at Andover, where his health failed, at Bangor, and, after a year (1836-1837) as librarian and tutor in Greek at Bowdoin, in Germany at Halle, where he became personally intimate with Tholuck and Ulrici, and in Berlin, under Neander and Hengstenberg. He returned to America in 1840, was a tutor for a few months (1840-1841) at Bowdoin, and in 1842, shut out from any better place by distrust of his German training and by his frank opposition to Unitarianism, he became pastor of the Congregational Church of West Amesbury (now Merrimac), Massachusetts. In 1847-1850 he was professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Amherst; and in 1850-1854 was Washburn professor of Church history, and in 1854-1874 Roosevelt professor of systematic theology, at Union Theological Seminary. His health failed in 1874 and he died in New York City on 7 February 1877. Of the old school of the New England Theology, Smith was one of the foremost leaders of the new school Presbyterians. His theology is most strikingly contained in the Andover address, "Relations of Faith and Philosophy," which was delivered before the Porter Rhetorical Society in 1849. He always made it clear that the ideal philosophy was Christocentric: he said that Reformed theology must "'Christologize' predestination and decrees, regeneration and sanctification, the doctrine of the Church, and the whole of the Eschatology." Offered here is a Autograph Letter Signed, Dover, NH, JUne 6, 1855, one page plus integral address leaf. Says he sent papers yesterday giving an account of the Portland outrage - it will help us 10,000 in Maine this fall - put your thumb on that - Neal Dow - Morrill & Know Nothingism - will be among the things passed over this coming Sept. 1855 - Maine will be herself again - God grant it may be so & he will. As you can see there are major stained areas. Beginning to spearate at fold, piece separated on address leaf. Signed with initials.................50-75

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329. Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, GCB KCMG CVO PC (1877-1945)  British civil servant and diplomat. He was Ambassador to Turkey from 1925 to 1926 and to Germany from 1926 to 1928, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1928 to 1930 and Ambassador to the United States from 1930 to 1939. Signed 4 x 2-1/2 in. card. VG...........Min. Bid $1

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330. 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


331. [MUSIC] Noel Paul Stookey (b. 1937) singer-songwriter best known as "Paul" in the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. ANS, no date, accompanied by unsigned music sheet "PUFF"..........40-60



332. [CIVIL WAR] Henry Watterson (1840-1921) American journalist who founded the Louisville Courier-Journal. He also served part of one term in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat. He fought for the Confederate States of America under General Nathan B. Forrest during the American Civil War, and edited a pro-Confederate newspaper, the Chattanooga Rebel. Signature on mounted card......25-35



333. [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



334. [MEDICINE] George Crile [1864-1943]. American surgeon; a founder and first director (1921-40) of Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Conducted pioneering research into shock, surgical trauma, resuscitation, etc. SIGNED/INSCRIBED card with sentiment..........25-35



335. John Trowbridge [1827-1916] American author. Signature, 1887......25-35


336. Jane Wyatt (1910 –2006) American actress best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the NBC and CBS television comedy series, Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award-winner.  SIGNED 8x10 photograph. VG.............40-60




337. [FILM] Tom Tully (1908-1982) American film actor. He received an Academy Award nomination for the role of the first commander of the "Caine" in 1954's The Caine Mutiny, with Humphrey Bogart. Signature..........20-30


338. GUY DAVENPORT - American Short Story Writer/Illustrator/Poet. His published work includes short-fiction, such as 12 Stories (1997) and The Cardiff Team (1966); poetry, collected in his Flowers and Leaves (1966) and Thasos and Ohio (1985); and collections of essays, including The Geography of the Imagination (1981) and Every Force Evolves a Form (1987). Davenport's work as an illustrator has appeared in Arion and Paideuma. He also created the cover art and illustrations for his collection of stories, Apples and Pears and Other Stories (1984). In 1996 a collection of Davenport's artwork, 50 Drawings, was published. TLS dtd 10/28/02 ................25-35



339. [MUSIC] KAY STARR (b. 1922) American singer of jazz and popular music. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35



340. Dick Van Patten (b. 1928) American actor, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television sitcom Eight is Enough. He began work as a child actor and was successful on the New York stage, appearing in more than a dozen plays as a teenager.  SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG...........25-35



341. Dick Martin (1922 –2008) American comedian and director, best known for his role as the cohost of the sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG...........35-45


342. 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




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

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344. Richard Burton [1861-1940] American poet, author. His works include: Dumb in June (1895), Lyrics of Brotherhood (1899), Message and Melody (1903), Rehab: A Poetic Drama (1906), From the Book of Life (1909), Masters of the English Novel (1909) and A Midsummer Melody (1910). ALS, Univ. of Minn, Sept. 23, no yr., 1p, 6x9". VG............40-60



345. [FILM] Eleanor  Parker (1922 –2013) American actress who appeared in some 80 movies and television series.[1] An actress of notable versatility, she was called Woman of a Thousand Faces by Doug McClelland, author of a biography of Parker by the same title.At the age of 18, Parker was signed by Warner Brothers in 1941. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1950s, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of Baroness Elsa Schrader in the 1965 musical The Sound of Music. Signed inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG.............35-45




346. [THEATRE] OTIS SKINNER (1858-1942) American Actor - His first stage appearance was at the Philadelphia Museum in 1877 in Woodleigh.and made his New York City debut in 1879. During the next five years he developed a classical repertory and a successful acting style, first with Edwin Booth, at Booth's Theatre, and then, for three years, with Lawrence Barrett. In 1884 he joined Augustin Daly's company at Daly's Theatre, remaining with it for four years. He made his London debut in 1886 with Daly's company. After two years with the Booth-Modjeska company, he became, in 1892, leading man opposite Helena Modjeska. In 1903 he starred with Ada Rehan. By his own estimation he appeared in 16 plays of Shakespeare, "acting therein, at various times, 38 parts." In addition to his Shakespearean roles, Skinner's chief successes were in Kismet, which he played between 1911 and 1914, and Blood and Sand (1921), in which he played the matador, Juan Gallardo. Skinner was active in the theatre until his death. He was the author of Footlights and Spotlights (1924) and Mad Folk of the Theatre (1928). SIGNATURE with sentiment dtd 1922.....20-30



347. [SCIENCE] Alfred Newton [1829-1907]. English zoologist. First professor of zoology and comparative anatomy, Cambridge (from 1866); edited journals Ibis (1865-70), Zoological Record (1870-72); author of Dictionary of Birds (1893-96), etc. ALS, 1902, 2pp.............50-75



348. Rue McClanahan (1934 –2010) American actress, best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–78), Fran Crowley on Mama's Family (1983–85), and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (1985–92), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987. SIGNED, inscribed 10x8 photograph........30-40


349. [FILM] Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955) American comedienne, actress. SIGNED STAR TREK BOOKPLATE. VG...........20-30


350. [FILM] Jessica Tandy (1909 –1994) British-American stage and film actress She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV. Awarded Oscar (1989).   ANS on verso of 4x6 photograph of her and Eva Maria Saint. VG............40-60



351. [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

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352. [FRANCE]  Leopold Durangel  (1828-1898)  French painter.  ALS, Paris, 1876, 3pp,  5-1/8 x 8-1/8 in.  To Claudius Popelin, the author and secretyary of Princess Bonaparte. VG.........75-100

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353.  [FRANCE - THEATRE]  Alexandre Breffort (1901–1971) was a French screenwriter.  ALS, Paris, 1951, 1p,  5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in.  The film Irma la Douce is a 1963 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, directed by Billy Wilder.  It is based on the 1956 French stage musical Irma La Douce by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort. VG...............80-120


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354. [FRANCE] Camille Debans [1834-1910] popular French novelist. ALS, 1880, 1-1/2 pp. Speaks about Duguet & Figaro. VG..........50-75


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355. [FRANCE] CHARLES BUET [1846-1897] Fr. novelist & dramatist. ALS, 1886, 1p.....50-75

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356. 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



357. [ITALY] Giuseppe Bianchini (1704-1764) Italian Oratorian, biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar. Clement XII and Benedict XIV , who highly appreciated his learning, entrusted him with several scientific labors. Bianchini had contemplated a large work on the texts of the Bible, Vindiciae Canonicarum Scripturarum Vulgatae latinae editionis, which was to comprise several volumes, but only the first, in which, among other things, are to be found fragments of the Hexapla (cod. Chisianus), was published (Rome, 1740). Much more important is his Evangeliarium quadruplex latinae versionis antiquae , etc., 2 vols. (Rome, 1749). Among his historical works may be mentioned the fourth volume which Bianchini added to the publication of his uncle, Francesco Bianchini, Anastasii bibliothecarii Vitae Rom. Pontif. (Rome, 1735); he also published the Demonstratio historiae ecclesiasticae quadripartitae (Rome, 1752&endash;54). The chief liturgical work of Bianchini is Liturgia antiqua hispanica, gothica, isidoriana, mozarabica, toletana mixta (Rome, 1746). He also undertook the edition of the works of B. Thomasius (Tomasi), but only one volume was issued (Rome, 1741). Offered here are 3 separate pages containing his handwriting but not signed. Contents unknown. VG...........75-100




358.  Phylicia Rashād (b. 1948) American Tony Award-winning actress, singer and stage director, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for this part in 1985 and 1986.  SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG.............25-35

359.  Bebe  Neuwirth (b. 1958) American actress, musician and dancer. She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife (later ex-wife), on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role), and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). On stage, she is also known for the role of Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity, the role of Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago (for both of which she won Tony Awards) and for the role of Morticia Addams in The Addams Family musical.  SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph.......25-35



360. 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

 

361. [TV] Jonathan Harris (1914- 2002) American stage and character actor. Two of his best-known television roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in The Third Man, and the comic villain Dr. Zachary Smith, in the popular 1960s sci-fi series, Lost in Space. ALS, 1989, conlusion & signature on backside. PLUS another autograph letter UNSIGNED..........30-40



362. John Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) English author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker. ALS, 1973, 1p.............40-60



363. Joyce Brothers (1927-2013) American psychologist and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. Signed Contract with the William Morris Agency, May 8, 1993. 1p. with terms & conditions on verso. VG.........50-75



364. [THEATRE] Ernest Legouve (1807-1903) French writer; author of novel Édith de Falsen (1840) and plays Louise de Lignerolles (1848), Adrienne Lecouvreur (with Scribe, 1849), Bataille de dames (1851), Un Jeune Homme qui ne fait rien (1861). ALS, 1879, 2pp. Not translated. Written to Pingard. VG..........50-75



365. [FILM] Lynn Bari (1913 –1989) American actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s. SIGNED,  inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG..........40-60




366. [FRANCE] Etienne Émile Marie Boutroux (1845-1921) was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of science and religion, and an historian of philosophy. ALS, PARIS, 1918, 2pp, approx. 4-1/4 x 5-1/4". VG.............50-75

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



368. [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

369. [FRANCE] Charles Lucas (1803-1889) French jurist and administrator, author of many books and articles on the abolition of the death penalty, the theory of preventive detention, law enforcement and imprisonment, and finally the civilization of war. ALS, 1828, 2pp. Speaks of Keratry and justice. Below signature of Lucas there are about 10 lines and sifnature of Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry [1769-1859] French poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician. He was the father of Emile de Kératry. VG.........60-80



370. [NOBEL PRIZE] Sydney Brenner, CH FRS (b. 1927) is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston. HIS SIGNATURE ON KING'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE CARD, 20 MAY 2002........20-30



371. [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


372. [ART] Eric Pape (1870-1938) Called “the Master of the Pageant,” Eric Pape was a painter of historical and archaeological subjects, a landscape painter, art teacher, and illustrator.  Fine ink signature dated 99, on 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" slip........30-40



373. 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


374. [MUSIC] Maryan Rawicz (1898-1970) Polish Pianist. Sig. inscribed.........20-30

 

375. [NY] David B. Hill [1843-1910] 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. Document Signed, 1902 National Commercial Bank check [Albany]. VG.........25-35

 

376. Glyn Warren Philpot (1884-1937) English artist, best known for his portraits of contemporary figures such as Siegfried Sassoon, and Vladimir Rosing. Signed postcard reproduction of his work "The Adoration of the Three Kings." .............35-45

 

377. FRANCES M. FROST (1905-1959) American Poet. ANS on card 1929......25-35


378. Sir Francis Grant RA [1803-1878] notable Scottish artist of the 19th century. He also served as President of the Royal Academy. ALS, no date, written on both sides. 4.5 x 7 in.............40-60



379. Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888 - 1967) was an English poet and critic. He worked as a civil servant: his experience as an inspector of taxes meaning he could help out his friend Walter de la Mare. He was knighted in 1951. He had a classical education at the University of Oxford, and later compiled anthologies of Latin and Greek verse for Nonesuch Press. He was a published war poet of World War I, known for the rather conventional and sentimental A Cross in Flanders. His book The Tell-Tale Article on the Auden Group made an impact by the expedient of counting the proportion of definite articles in Auden 's verse, remarking that it was much higher than in older styles. In general he was a steady conservative in matters of literature. He was a director of the Poetry Book Society, and well connected as a correspondent of many literary figures; including E. R. Eddison and Owen Barfield. AQS, "A Judge Reflects" from The Carved Stone 1952. On 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 white card. VG...........30-40


380. Frank R. Stockton [1834-1902] Am. writer, humorist. Signature..........20-30

 

381. Denison Olmsted [1791-1859] Am. astronomer. Signature......25-35

382. [CINEMA] BIRAN AHERNE (1902-1986) British Actor - Oscar Nominee for Juarez - Leading man in Hollywood in the 30's and 40's, played opposite, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn, Ann Harding, Merle Oberon, Carol Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis - 1st husband of Joan Fontaine. SIGNED 3x5 card [green]........20-30


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



384. [FILM] Irene Rich (1891-1988) Silent screen star. Signature with sentiment. VG.......25-35



385. JOSEPH W. MARTIN, Jr. (1884-1968) US Speaker of the House, elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the twenty succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1967); minority leader in the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses). SIGNATURE clipped from letter...........20-30

386.  [CLOWNS] Duane "Uncle Soapy" Thorpe [1925-1995] American clown inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame in 2000. Wonderful 4 pages ALS, written in 1994 from Spain. Written to friends back in Florida he talks about the famous clow, Lou Jacobs, and his fear of ending up in a nursing home. He begins by saying he is disappointed from not being elected into the Clown Hall of Fame. He would be elected after his death. Mentions letter he got from John Ringling North II about a plaque for his father. Besides the envelope he includes 6 color photos of Spain with his descriptions on their backs. VG...............60-80




387. ALISTAIR COOKE (1908-2004) British journalist, broadcaster, author.  TLS, 1989, 1p. VG..........50-75




388. [FILM] Ben Lyon (1901-1979)American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive. His greatest success as an actor came in 1930 with the film Hell's Angels. TLS, L.A., Calif., 1973, 1p. To Harriet. In part - "...When we were visiting Colleen Moore up north last week, Barbara called from London..." VG.............50-75



389. [POETRY] Robert C. Waterston [1812-1893] Unitarian Clergyman, poet, born Kennebunk, Maine. Pastor at various Boston churches, he had charge of a sailor's Sunday-school. Signed holograph poem, "Familiar Things", 3pp, 4to. VG............50-75

390. Joan Davis (1907-1961) American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy. Signed album page. One fold crease down middle [not bad]..........25-35

391. [FILM] Olympia Dukakis (b. 1931) American actress. Signed 8x10 printed photo. VG............25-35

 

392. [FILM] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) Sanadian-American actress. Signed 8x10 photo, 1989. VG.............25-35



393. [ENGLAND] Charles Townshend, Second Viscount, (born 1674, died 1738) a statesman. document signed, JUNE 17, 1710, APPROX. 9 X 3-1/2 in. Payment order for 1,000 pounds. Fine condition. Charles Townshend, Second Viscount, (born 1674, died 1738) a statesman of unsulliintegrity, was the eldest son of Horatio, the first Viscount. He succeeded to the Peerage in December 1687, being educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. When he took his seat in the House of Lords his sympathies leant to Toryism, but this predilection soon faded away, and in February 1701 it was rumoured among the courtiers that he would hold office of Privy Soal in the Whig Ministry which William the Third had in view. For some years after the accession of Queen Anne he remained without office, but on September 29th 1707 he was created Yeomen of the Guard, and in the same year he was summoned to the Privy Council, a distinction renewed by the queen's two successors to the throne. The command og the Yeomen remained in his hands until June 13th 1711, but its responsibilities did not prevent him from acting as joint plent- potentiary with the Duke of Marlborough in the peace negotiations with France which were carried on at Gertruydenburg, near Breda, o from serving as ambassador extraordinary at the Hague Congress (May 2, 1709 to March 26, 1711). Townshend was in high favour of George the First and on that king's arrival at the Hague in September 1714 he published the appointment of Charles as Secretary of State for the Southern Department, entrusting to his new minister the privilege of nominating his own colleague: Horace Walpole (??? Robert Walpole ), his brother-in-law and private secretary recommended Stanhope for the vacant post, and Stanhope was duly appointed. Townshend did not neglect to avail himself of the advantages afforded by his attendance on the king, and before he arrival of George the First in England he had obtained complete ascendency both over his mind and the dispositions of the advisors by whom his line of conduct was usually determined. The policy of the new ministers, both at home and abroad, lay in the promotion of peace. With this object they endeavoured to limit the charges against their predecessor Harley, Lord Oxford, to high crimes and misdemeanours. To gain this and they brought about, in 1716, an alliance between those ancient rivals in arms, France and England. In spite of their success their influence was gradually undermined by the intrigues of Lord Sunderland and by the discontent of the Hanoverian favourites, who deemed the pensions and the places which they had gained as insufficient reward for their exertions. In October, 1716 Stanhope accompanied the King on a journey to Hanover, and during this visit was seduced from his allegiance to his colleague by the wily Sunderland, who had ingratiated himself into royal favour. George the First was induced into believing that Townshend and Walpole were caballing with the prince of Wales, and were forming designs against the royal authority. Townshend was dismissed in December 1716 from his place of Secretary of State, and was afforded in lieu thereof the splendid banishment of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a gilded sinecure which he at first contemptuously declined, but finally condescended ultimately to accept on condition that he was not required to set foot on Irish soil. His latent spirit of hostility to this arrangement quickly developed into open antagonism, and in March 1717 he was dismissed from this position. At the close of May 1720, a partial reconciliation took place between the opposing Whig sections of Stanhope and Townshend. The Latter was readmitted into the Ministry as Lord President of the Council on 11th June 1720, and his devoted colleague, Sir Robert Walpole, became Paymaster General. When the South Sea Bubble burst, the fortunes of the Ministry shared in the misfortunes of the scheme which they had promoted. Stanhope, in a paroxysm of passion during a heated debate broke a blood vessel, and Sunderland, although acquitted of the charge of personal corruption, was forced to retire into private life. The withdrawal of these statesmen assigned to their rivals the chief positions in the state. Townshend became Secretary of State on the 10th February 1721, and Walpole gained the position of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. The death of George the First threatened a change of advisors, but the dismay of the new king's favourite, Spencer Compton, at being called upon to draw up the royal speech led to the old ministers of the Crown being retained in their places. What the attack on the opposition could not affect, the internal strife of the administration accomplished. Townshend was of a proud, impetuous nature, born more accustomed to rule than obey. His family had for many generations stood higher in the social life of Norfolk than Walpole's progenitors, and when he himself attained the distinction in politics his position as a member of the Upper House was greater than that enjoyed by his friend in the Commons.As the power of the Lower House increased, and as Walpole became more and more the object of attacks by the Tories, the pre-eminence of Townshend passed from him. So long, to use the witty remark of Sir Robert Walpole, as the firm of Townshend and Walpole was such, things went well with them, [Lady Dorothy Walpole 1686-1726] but when the positions were reversed jealousies arose between the partners. The growing alienation was hastened by the death in 1725 of the Secretary's wife, Walpole's sister. At the close of 1729 Townshend endeavoured to obtain the appointment of his old and attached friend, Lord Chesterfield, as his fellow secretary of state, and the failure of the attempt brought about a fierce scene between himself and Walpole. They broke into passionate words, seized one another by the coat collars, and would have come to blows had their friends not intervened. After the outbreak of passion further co-operation was impossible and Townshend had the good sense to recognise the position. He retired tp private life on 15th May 1730. The Chief domestic events of Townshend's ministry were the impeachment of Bishop Atterbury; the partial restoration of Lord Bolingbroke; and the troubles in Ireland over the granting to a man named Wood of a patent for coining pence. Its concluding act was the signing of the Treaty of Seville on November 9th 1729. Charles Townshend died of apoplexy on 21st June 1738, aged 64. Slow in forming, but resolute in adhering to, his opinion, and like so many many men of that stamp, he was impatient of contradiction. His manners have been styled "course, rustic, and seemingly brutal" but these defects were not visible in his domestic life. Never did minister leave office with cleaner hands. He did not add one acre to his estate, nor leave large fortunes to his younger children.............80-120

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394. [ENGLISH] 3 signed address panels" [1] Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet PC (1806-1863) British statesman and man of letters. [2] John W. Pringle (c. 1793-1861) Royal engineer who took part in the geological mapping in Irland. [3] James Backhouse (1794-1869) was a botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia. Brief biographical information with each. VG........70-90


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





396. [BEAT GENERATION] Diane di Prima (b.1934)  American poet.  Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen. Her first book of poetry, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, was published in 1958 by Hettie and LeRoi Jones' Totem Press.  Di Prima was a bridge figure between the Beat movement and the later hippies, as well as between East Coast and West Coast artists. ALS, 1972, written on postcard to the Phoenix Bookstore in New York...........50-75



397. La Fayette Grover (1823-1911)  Democratic politician and lawyer from the US state of Oregon. He was the fourth Governor of Oregon, represented Oregon in the United States House of Representatives, and served one term in the United States Senate. Signature as Gov. of Oregon.........25-35


398. Andre LeBon [1859-1938] French statesman, diplomat; one of the most influential men of his time. Signature........Min. bid $10


399. Alexander Schindler (1925-2000) Rabbi and the leading figure of American Reform Judaism during the 1970s and 1980s. Born in Germany , he came to America with his sister at age 12; his mother later followed. He was one of the last European-born leaders of American Reform Jewry. He served as president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (since renamed the Union for Reform Judaism) from 1973 to 1996. His best-known, and most-controversial, pronouncements were his call for Jews to accept Patrilineal Descent (recognizing as Jewish, children of Jewish fathers) and "outreach" to non-Jews. He intended this to include general proselytizing to non-Jews, but in practice this applied to non-Jews married to Jews. He served as chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Signed page "The American Jewish Experience. Also signed by Rabbi Alfred Gottschald (1930-2009) German-born American Rabbi who was a leader in the Reform Judaism movement, serving as head of the movement's Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC) for 30 years, as president from 1971 to 1996, and then as chancellor until 2000. In that role, Rabbi Gottschalk oversaw the ordination of the first women to be ordained as rabbis in the United States and Israel , and admitted gay and lesbian students to the school's seminary. During his tenure as president, he oversaw the development of new HUC campuses in Jerusalem, Los Angeles and New York City, three of the school's four campuses. VG............Min. bid $30



400. [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............Min. bid 8



401. [CAPTURE OF JEFF DAVIS - NEWSPAPER] Wisconsin State Journal, May 23, 1865, 8pp. Includes: THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS; THE GUILT OF JEFF. DAVIS; European Comments on the Death of Mr. Lincoln; The Starving Of Our Prisoners; "...The disguise in female dress is fully confirmed..." VG...............75-100




402. [STOCK CERTIFICATES] group of 10 stock certificates for COMPAGNIE FERMIERE DE LUCHON, all 1925, approx. 7-1/2 x 12-1/4". VG.

Farmer Company Luchon
Country: France
Date: 1925
Genre: Action de 500 Francs
Issue: 3000 action

Activity: Cures
State: UNC (Uncirculed) new document had almost never circulated. No folds, trace or task.
Description section - Title from the Farmer Company Luchon, dating from 1925 whose action was worth 500 francs.
Companies registered capital of 1.5 million francs.
Headquarters: Bagneres-de-Luchon. Established in 1924. Hotel operations and Royal Majestic Bagneres-de-Luchon

All of these have these coupons still attached. They all look alike. Fine condition..............200-300 Reserve at $50

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403. [ART] Original antique wood-engraving - SCENES IN ST. LOUIS, from Picturesque America, image approx. 10 x 7 plus margins. printed text on verso as usual. VG.........Min. bid $18

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404. [PORTRAIT] Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Antique original wood-engraved portrait by T. Johnson. Approx. 6 x 5-1/4" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........Min. bid $10

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405. [PORTRAIT] Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st (1792- 1871) English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor. Antique original wood-engraved portrait by T. Johnson. Approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/4" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........Min. bid $10

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406. [ART] Francis Holl (1815-1884), was an English engraver and the son of prominent engraver William Holl the Elder (c1771-1838), to whom he was apprenticed. He was both successful and fashionable, producing work for book and print publishers. He spent twenty-five years engraving Queen Victoria's pictures during which period he executed commissions of other royal portraits. Often working from paintings by fashionable artists, he exhibited twenty engravings at the Royal Academy between 1856 and 1883, and was elected an associate engraver in 1883.[1] He was the father of Frank Holl and was the brother of engraver William Holl the Younger.  original engraving, "HUNTING BUFFALOES", after F.O.C. Darley, image approx. 5-3/4 x 8.5". VG...........Min. bid $20
 
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407.  Henry Goddard Leach   (1880-1970) American author, educator, intellectual; editor of the intellectual and literary national periodical The Forum (1923-1940); president, American-Scandinavian Foundation (1926-1947), president, Poetry Society of America (1934-1937).  ALS, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, NYC, July 9, 1914, 8pp,  5 x 7-3/4 in., to Mr. Blackwell. VG.........50-75


9-Vol. Set on Abraham Lincoln
408. [LINCOLN] Roy P. Basler, editor. Set of 9 vols., THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Rutgers Univ. Press, The History Book Club Edition. No dust jackets. VG....................150-200



409. [CZARIST RUSSIA]  1911 original 1000 Ruble 4-1/2% Imperialistic Russian bond, with imprinted embossed revenue stamp. Approx. 10 x 14 in.  VG...................80-120

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410. [PORTRAIT] Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1841-1909) French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Antique original wood-engraved portrait by R.G. Tietze. Approx. 7 x 5" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35

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411. [MIXED LOT OF AUTOGRAPHS] Comprised of: [1] Norman Zollinger - author. Sig. & inscribed page, 1981. [2] Henry William Herbert (pen name Frank Forester) (1807-1858) English novelist and writer on sport. CLIP SIGNATURE. [3] Ben Davies (1858-1943) was a popular tenor from Swansea, Wales. He performed in the first production of the Royal English Opera (now the Palace Theater), playing in the première of the opera Ivanhoe. Davies was noted for frequently singing with his eyes closed. SIGNED CARD, 1922. [4] Howard Crosby (1826-1891) American preacher and teacher. From 1870 to 1881 Crosby was chancellor of New York University. He was one of the American revisers of the English version of the New Testament. Crosby took a prominent part in politics. He urged to excise reform and opposed total abstinence. He was one of the founders and the first president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime, and pleaded for better management of Indian affairs and international copyright. CLIP SIGNATURE. Fine. [5] William H. Armstrong (1914-1999) Am. author, most noted for his Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder. Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. [6] Margaret Fitzhugh Browne [1884-1972] Am. artist. Signed card. [7] SirFrederic G. Kenyon (1863-1952) British paleographer, biblical and classical scholar. He was the director of the British Museum. He was also the president of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921 SIGNED CARD, 1922. Toned around edges. [8] Cyrus H.K. Curtis (1850-1933) was a significant American publisher. Curtis was born in Portland, Maine, and entered the publishing business there with a weekly newspaper. He founded the Philadelphia-based Curtis Publishing Company, which published the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as several other magazines and newspapers. For a time he own the Public Ledger, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Evening Post. He was also known for his philanthropy to hospitals, museums, and schools. He obtained a pipe organ manufactured by the Austin Organ Company which had been displayed at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926 and donated it to the University of Pennsylvania. It was built into Irvine Auditorium when the building was constructed and is known to this day as the Curtis Organ. It is one of the largest pipe organs in the world. SIGNATURE on card. VG. [9] Benay Venuta (1911-1995) American actress, singer and dancer. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] J. SCOPE [1662-1752] English Justice; Sec. of the Treasury [1724-1752]. Small mounted irregular slip of paper signed..........80-120





1876 - Declaration of Independence

412. 1876 Centennial Reprint of the classic July 8, 1776 issue of DUNLAP'S PENNSYLVANIA PACKET OR THE GENERAL ADVERTISER containing the Declaration of Independence 16.5" x 11," as expected small tears, partial separation at one fold, all iwell away from the Declaration printing. Published by J.V. Vondersmith and printed in Philadelphia in 1876 by the Saturday Evening Mirror. A fun and historic souvenir piece.............150-200...............Min. bid $50

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413. [MUSIC] Georgia Hanni - Executive Director, Composers and Lyricists Guild of America. TLS, 1963, 1p., to Milt Ebbins, asking for copies of contracts for the film Johnny Cool. Mentions Billy May, Sammy Cahn, & Jimmy Van Heusen............50-75

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414.   New London, Connecticut document dated 1826, concerning General William North. This is signed by Jeremiah G. Brainard, Mayor of New London.  The document states that General North has appeared before him, that he is known and respected. William North (1755-1836) was an American soldier and politician, born at Pemaquid, Maine. He entered the Continental Army in 1775, and served under Benedict Arnold in the unfortunate expedition to Canada in that year. He was appointed in May 1777 as captain in Henry Jackson's 16th Massachusetts Regiment, with which he participated in the Battle of Monmouth. In 1779 he became aide-de-camp to Baron Steuben, whom he greatly aided in introducing his system of discipline in the Continental Army. Later he accompanied Steuben to Virginia, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.  North was appointed as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sloss Hobart and served from May 5, 1798, to August 17, 1798. This document only concern Gen. North and is not signedc by him.  Approx. 8 x 12 in.  There are newspaper clippings glued to back.  Some edge ware..............200-300

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415. Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950)  American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Alice went blind in her later years. ALS, 1945, written in the 3rd person.  To the New England Grenfell Association. Dear Friends: Enclosed find $7 for the Marguerite Thomas Fund, $5 from Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and $2 from Miss Myra B. Stronach  [her housekeeper who passed away 1976]  both at the same address - 1010 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 38, Mass.   Approx. 8.5 x 11 in. Accompanied by a 1945 TLS from N.E. Grenfell Assoc. to John T. Blackwell re: contrbutions from Alice and Myra [with cover]; and  ALSs from Agnes M. Winter & Mary Ewing, who also made contributions................200-300

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416. [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

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417. [MIXED LOT] [1] Ben Spock (1903-1998) American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Signed card. [2]Bainbridge Wadleigh (1831-1891) US Senator from New Hampshire. SIGNED CARD, DATED 1874. [3] [CABINET] William DeWitt Mitchell [1874-1955] U.S. Attorney General for the entirety of Herbert Hoover's Presidency. Born in Winona, Minnesota, he received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Minnesota. After he was admitted to the Minnesota bar he began practicing law in St. Paul. Mitchell served as an infantry officer during the Spanish-American War and World War I. On June 4, 1925, he was appointed Solicitor General of the United States. President Hoover appointed him Attorney General of the United States on March 4, 1929, and he held that office until March 4, 1933. Mitchell then settled in New York City where he practiced law. He was named chairman of the Committee on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and chief counsel of the joint congressional committee investigating the attack on Pearl Harbor. He died in 1955, in Syosset, New York. signed 3-3/4 X 2-1/4 IN. card. [4] Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (1869 - 1955) was an artist in oils and watercolours. At the suggestion of fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, Birch adopted the soubriquet "Lamorna" to distinguish himself from Lionel Birch, an artist who was also working in the area at that time. Lamorna Birch was born in Egremont in Cheshire, England. He was self-taught as an artist, other than for a brief period of study at the Académie Colarossi in Paris during 1895. He is thought of as a painter of northern England, but his most important period was when he settled in Lamorna, Cornwall in 1902, and many of his most famous pictures date from this time and the beautiful Lamorna Cove is usually their subject matter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1892. He held his first one man exhibition at the Fine Art Society in 1906. He is said to have produced more than 20,000 pictures. The exhibition Shades of British Impressionism Lamorna Birch and his Circle was shown at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery in the Mezzanine in October 2004. This details his links with Henry Scott Tuke and Thomas Cooper Gotch and many others who settled in the artists' colony in the 1880s and 1890s. "These painters helped to change the face of British art. Their emphasis on colour and light, truth and social realism brought about a revolution in British art." says the catalogue for the show. SIGNED CARD dated 1935. VG. [5] MYSTERY LOT - 9 misc. autographs, unidentified and not researched. There will be several of these Mystery Lots offered elsewhere in this auction. For those who prefer to do the research. See signatures [6] Douglas Volk - American artist famous for his portrait of Lincoln used for postage stamp. His Lincoln portrait hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Signed 1922 bank check. [7] H.S. Bundy - Congressman from Ohio. Signature. [8] TAYLOR, Joseph Danner [1830-1899] Representative from Ohio; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as a captain in the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was judge advocate of the Department of Indiana in 1863 and 1864 SIGNATURE. [9] HATCH, Herschel Harrison [1837-1920] Representative from Michigan. SIGNATURE. [10] etching by A. Lalauze, portrait of Alain Rene Lesage........100-150





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

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419. Herb Shriner (1918-1970) American humorist, radio personality and television host. Herb Shriner was best known for his homespun monologues, usually with roots in his adopted home state of Indiana. He was often compared to fellow humorist Will Rogers. Signed, inscribed 6.5 x 8.5 photo. Condition: photo has been cropped; faults at top & bottom areas..........Min. bid $9



420. [FILM] Whoopi Goldberg - American actress. Signed American Film magazine, Dec. 1985. Signed on cover picturing her, in silver ink. VG.........Min. bid $10


421. [MUSIC] DAVID NADIEN - composer. Signature of envelope [no post marks]......20-30

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422. [ART]  Portrait of Carlos Santana (b. 1947)  musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2003 Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 15  on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.  He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards.  Original serigraph [silkscreen] by the artist Betsy Bruno, pencil signed by Bruno, 1976, ed. 15/20, image approx. 22 x 16 in. plus ample margins......100-150


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Famous Art Crook
423. [WALT KUHN]  Lawrence B. Salander (born 1949) is a former New York City art dealer.  His company, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, was cited by the Robb Report in 2003 as the best gallery in the world.   By late 2007, Salander had been sued by numerous customers and business partners who claimed that Salander and his company had defrauded them. In November 2007, Salander filed for personal bankruptcy, listing John McEnroe among his creditors.  At the time, several artists represented by Salander-O'Reilly also claimed to be owed money.  As a result of his bankruptcy, Salander and his wife were ordered to relinquish control of their finances to a trustee.  Salander was charged with 13 counts of first-degree grand larceny, 10 counts of second-degree grand larceny, and other charges.  On August 3, 2010, Mr. Salander was sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison for his crimes. In early 2007, Earl Davis made a devastating discovery. Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, run by his friend Lawrence Salander, had secretly sold more than 90 artworks created by his father, Stuart Davis. Davis owned them. The looting was a financial blow and decimated Davis's ability to initiate exhibits and promote the legacy of his father, who died in 1964. At Salander's 2010 sentencing for stealing $120 million from clients and investors, Davis said he would've preferred being robbed at gunpoint.  Offered here is a typed letter signed, 1984, concerning art works by Walt Kuhn, to be consigned by the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries to Christie's and also Sothebys, to be sold at auction.  The tiles and their reserve prices are mentioned in this letter.  The letter was sent to the person in-charge of the Kuhn estate in Maine.  Provenance: Estate of Brenda Kuhn, daughter of artist Walt Kuhn.   Highly unusual for this type of private material from the art world to appear on the open market.  Condition: used................100-150

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424. [MIT] Julius Adams Stratton (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator. He served as the president of MIT between 1959 and 1966. He also served as the chairman of the Ford Foundation between 1964 and 1971. TLS, MIT, 1958, 1p........Min. bid $10

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425. [CIVIL WAR] Francis Edward Heath (1838-1897) Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He began his service in the Union Army on June 4, 1861 when he was commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant in Company H, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry. Promoted to Captain and commander of the company on September 12, 1861, he led his men through the Spring 1862 Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. He was then tabbed to be the Lieutenant Colonel of the newly raised 19th Maine Volunteer Infantry, being commissioned on August 26, 1862. He was raised to Colonel and regimental commander on February 12, 1863, and led the unit at the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where it fought on Cemetery Ridge during the Second Day (July 2) of the battle. There, placed by Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Colonel Heath directed his men as they fired eight volleys that stopped the Confederate charge on the position. He would continue to lead the regiment through the summer and fall of 1863, then resigned on November 4, 1863. On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers for "meritorious services". Today a monument stands for the 19th Maine Infantry on Hancock Avenue near the Copse of Trees in the Gettysburg National Military Park. Almost 53% of the 19th Maine Regt. were lost at the Battle of Gettysberg.  Manuscript document signed at conclusion by Heath [signed in ink], dated 1896,  3 pages. Business agreement. The picture of Col. Heath is not included here..........200-300

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426. [FILM] Greta Nissen (1906-1988)  Norwegian-born American film and stage actress. Signed 3x5 card. Fine......Min. bid $5




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

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1840 Bound For Mobile

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



429. [FILM] Wynne Gibson (1905-1987) American actress of the 1930s. Early in her career she had a small part in a film but had no special interest in appearing before the camera. It was the stage that interested her and she began her stage career in chorus and was soon playing leads. She toured Europe then returned to America and tried for a dramatic part but failed and returned to musical comedy. Paramount signed her when about to film Nothing But the Truth (1929), starting her success which continued in some 50 films between 1929 and 1956 although many were B movies. Gibson was a long-time companion of former Warner Brothers actress Beverly Roberts. AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED, not dated, 1p. She answers 2 questions on a questionaire. About 5 lines plus signature in her hand. 8.5 x 11". VG..........25-35



430.  Charles Sprague (1791-1875) early American poet. He worked for 45 years for the State and Globe Banks and was often referred to as the "Banker Poet of Boston". His odes and prologues won several competitive prizes and were collected and published in 1841 as The Writings of Charles Sprague. Clip Signature. VG............Min. bid $9



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



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

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




434. [MARINE NAVIGATION] Group of 5 stock certificates: Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co. 1950; International Mercantile Marine Co. 1938; two United States Lines Co. 1930 & 1948; and The Pioneer Steamship Co. 1913. All VG...........40-60



435. [TEDDY ROOSEVELT] DAN T. MOORE - Lt. Col., aide to Theodore Roosevelt during his first term of office. Died in Texas. It was not until October, 1917, when he was World War I commander of the 310th Field Artillery at Camp Meade, Md., that Colonel Moore learned that a blow struck by him in a friendly sparring bout with President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 had caused blindness in one of his opponent's eyes. Distressed at the news, he said, in part: "But could you ask for any better proof of the man's sportsmanship than the fact that he never told me what I had done to him, never told anybody else that I know of - at least, it never got around to me till I saw in the papers the other day that he had said that he lost the sight of his eye while boxing with a captain of artillery who was his aide. He didn't name anybody then, but I knew that he must have meant me, for I happen to have been the only boxing aide he had who was in the artillery." Signed 1916 bank check. Clear signature........75-100



436. [Country Music] Charlie Pride - American country music singer. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo..........20-30




437.  [US CONGRESS] album page signed by 2 US congressmen on each side: Geo. M. Curtis [1844-1921] Iowa; Frank G. Clarke [1850-1901] NH; David H. Mercer [1857-1919] Neb.; Nehemiah Day Sperry [1827-1911] Ct........Min. bid $10



438. [WEST VIRGINIA] Signatures in various form of congressmen: LILLY, Thomas Jefferson, (1878 - 1956); McGREW, James Clark, (1813 - 1910); REED, Stuart Felix, (1866 - 1935); ROSENBLOOM, Benjamin Louis, (1880 - 1965); plus album page signed Jno. A. Campbell, Hancock Co., W. Va. [not listed as congressman].........Min. bid $10


439. Lloyd  Bridges   (1913-1998)  American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.  Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........50-75


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440. [ART] Ludwig Rieppel (1861-1960) American sculptor. ALS, New York, 1901, 2pp, to the noted artist Douglas Volk. Speaks of sending 200 pounds of modeling clay to Volk. Ink has lightened abit with time o/w VG..........Min. bid $10




441.  [MIXED LOT] multiple items offered here: [1] [ENGLAND] The Rev Dr John Pye-Smith FRS, FGS (1774-1851) was a Congregational theologian and tutor, associated with reconciling geological sciences with the Bible, Repeal of the Corn Laws and abolition. He was the author of many learned works. OFFERED HERE is an UNSIGNED AUTOGRAPH NOTE - "The books which I have referring to Aug. Hermann Franke. .." Follows is a short list of books. Mounted to larger sheet identifying the handwriting in 1840 and "Presented by Jas. W. Alexander." Dr John Pye-Smith was Theological Tutor at Homerton College near Hackney, London for forty-five years between 1805 and 1850, and minister of the Old Gravel Pit Chapel in Chatham Place, Hackney for nearly as long (1811-50). His pupils included Robert Halley (future Principal of New College, London), Samuel Dyer the missionary, and William Johnson Fox of the South Place Ethical Society. The son of a Sheffield bookseller, he was surrounded by books in his youth and, practically self-taught, rose not only to become a dissenting academic and author, but through his interest in science and geology, was elected to become the first Fellow of the Royal Society from a nonconformist background. He was also elected a Fellow of the Geological Society at a time when there was considerable debate about accepting the idea of geological time, and if so to find ways of reconciling this with the teachings of the Old Testament. During the politically turbulent 1790s, before moving to London he had taken over the editorship of the Sheffield Iris, the leading abolitionist newspaper in the North of England, during imprisonment of its editor, his friend James Montgomery. In 1830 Dr Pye Smith took the Chair of The Board of Congregational Ministers when it passed an anti-slavery motion to secure support from all Congregational chapels across the country in petitioning parliament:That we feel it to be a solemn duty to employ our influence with our congregations and the public, to promote petitions to both Houses of Parliament for the abolition of Colonial Slavery, and therefore pledge ourselves, and beg to recommend to our brethren throughout the kingdom to prepare from each congregation such petitions to parliament... The Congregationalists' 1833 abolition lecture, The Sinfulness of Colonial Slavery, was delivered at John Pye-Smith's Meeting House in Hackney by his former pupil, Robert Halley Dr John Pye Smith died in Hackney in 1851 and is buried below a marble chest tomb monument in Dr Watts' Walk, at the Congregationalists' non-denominational garden cemetery in the grounds of Abney Park, Stoke Newington.. [2] ROUNDELL PALMER - 1st Earl of Selborne [1812-1895]. English jurist. M.P. (1847-52, 1853-57, 1861-72); solicitor general (1861); attorney general (1863-65); opposed Gladstone' s Irish church policy; lord chancellor (1872-74, 1880-85); author of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of 1873, which established a single hierarchy of courts; edited a hymnal, The Book of Praise (1863). Created earl (1882). ALS, 1866, 2pp. [3] ABDNOR, James [1923-] Representative and a Senator from South DakotaTLS, 1977, 1p. [4] [BOXING] EDDIE MACK - President and Matchmaker, Argonne Athletic Association. TLS, Boston, 1932, 1p, 4to. To [Rev.] Roland Sawyer of Ware, Mass. Encloses 2 tickets [not present here] for the Schaaf-Winston bout. Roland Sawyer was the noted Socialist who ran for governor in Mass. Mail folds. [5] Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1911. [6] (Thomas) BRASSEY (1836-1918), Earl Brassey, became civil lord (1880-83) and secretary (1884-85) of the admiralty; governor of Victoria, Australia (1895-1900); author of an encyclopedic work, The British Navy (1882-83); founder of the Naval Annual (1886); created earl (1911). ALS, 1899, 2 pp, 4to. Re: resignation of Bishop Thornton of Victoria. [7] [RELIGION] WM. C. HAWLEY - minister. Neat little document signed. Methodist Episcopal Church Quarterly Ticket [member] dated 1844. No place given but the document is dated 1844, which is important. The church split over the question of slavery in 1844 with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South being formed in southern states. It is unknown at this time whether Rev. Hawley was a black minister. Partly printed, approx. 3 x 2-1/4 in. Lightly toned. Click to see Hawley [8] D.W. CALDWELL - Gen. Manager, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. ALS, Columbus, Ohio, 1877, 1p, to. To Ingalls. About low wages. File punch holes along margin don't detract. [9] Paul A. Dever (1903-1958) He served as the 58th Governor of Massachusetts. Signed 3x5 card. Slighted toned. See Dever signature [10] US CONGRESSMEN) album page 7 signatures: R.C. De Graffenreid [1859-1902 Tx] ¥ John L. Brenner [1832-1906 Ohio] ¥ C.P. Dorr [1852-1914 W. Va]. On other side are signatures of  H.S. Boutell [1856-1926 ILL] ¥ R.C. Davey [1853-1908 La] ¥ John M. Allen [1846-1917 Miss]. VG..........100-150



442. Francis George Godolphin D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds (1798-1859) British peer and politician. ALS, nd, 2-1/2 pp..........Min. bid $10



443. [ART] FREDERICK SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist. He won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artists as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. An early charcoal drawing unsigned circa 1930, approx. 14-1/2 x 11-3/4 in. VG.............600-800

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444. [ART] FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist. He won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artists as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. An early charcoal drawing signed FS and dated 1927, approx. 12 x 16 in.............600-800

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



446. [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] In 1969 Apollo 10, with a crew of Thomas Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan, and John W. Young, successfully completed a manned lunar fly-around and Earth return May 18-26. Stafford and Cernan tested the Lunar Module, separating it from the Command and Service Module and descended to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface. The Astronauts were able to take a large number of high-quality 70-mm photographs. Apollo 10 was a sort of dress rehearsal for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing. Offered here is a VINTAGE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE. [AS10-34-5112] Either Stafford or Cernan took this photo of the Lunar Module from the Command Module prior to docking un lunar orbit. The red/blue diagonal line is the spacecraft window. After the first sweep at six times the speed of sound, Col Stafford said they had taken so many photographs he feared the camera had jammed while trying to change the film. 8 x 10 in. VG.........75-100



447 [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] This is an image of one of the peculiar mounds which were seen around Head crater at the Apollo 12 landing site. The mound is described by Bean as "about 4 feet high and, at the top it's about 5 feet across..." It is roughly 4 to 6 meters in diameter at the base. The mounds are thought to be clumps of regolith thrown out of craters during impact which have slowly formed into their present shape by small meteorite bombardment over time. This southwest looking photograph was taken by commander Charles "Pete" Conrad on the first moonwalk EVA. (Apollo 12, AS12-H-46-6794). THIS IS A VINTAGE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE. These vintage space photograph are rare and are now part of the collector photography world. 8x10 in. paper size. Fine condition. ....................75-100




448. [TV] Lea Thompson (b. 1961) American actress and director. She is best known for her 1990s NBC situation comedy Caroline in the City and her portrayal of Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy. Signed/inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........20-30



449. George Harding - a patent lawyer who argued several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the son of Jesper Harding (1799-1865) was an influential U.S. publisher in Philadelphia. ALS, 1916, 2pp. The last page has partial browning from tape where attached to another sheet.............20-30


 

450. John Mortimer (1923-2009) British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. Mortimer is best remembered for creating a barrister named Horace Rumpole. TLS, 1990, 1p. VG...........40-60


451. Sir James Knowles (1831 - 1908) was an English architect and editor. ALS, 1905, brief 1p........25-35



452. Frederic Henry Chase (1853-1925) British academic and bishop. In 1901 he was elected the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and also the Norris Professor of Divinity. In 1905 he was consecrated as the Bishop of Ely. He resigned as bishop in 1924 and died in 1925. ALS, 1906, written on both sides. Mounting traces along top edge...........25-35



453. Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, CBE [1908-1984] British peer, known as Viscount Curzon from 1929-1964. He served as an officer of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II later becoming a Conservative politician ALS, 1983, written on both sides...........30-40

 

454. David Masson [1822-1907] Scottish writer. ALS, 1846, 1p............50-75



455. [MUSIC] Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969) celebrated Italian operatic tenor. Signed, inscribed card, with sentiment. Approx. 3.5 x 2.5". VG..........25-35



456. Eileen Heckart [1919-2001] American actress of stage, screen, and television. Butterflies Are Free and was nominated in 1956 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs. Mrs. Daigle in The Bad Seed. She also appeared as a Vietnam War widow with Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge. Signed, inscribed vintage 8x10 photo. VG............40-60


457. [FILM] Eddie Albert (1906-2005) American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......35-45




458. Richard Gehman (1921-1972) prolific American author of 3,000 magazine articles (including over 400 features), five novels and fifteen nonfiction books. Gehman also used the pen names of Meghan Richards, Frederic Christian, Martin Scott, Michael Robinson and F.C.Uffelman. After the war he moved to New York City and began writing for Esquire, Life, Time, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Argosy, True, Saga and Good Housekeeping magazines and was an original Contributing Editor at Playboy, before going freelance. Maurice Zolotow once claimed that Gehman wrote an entire issue of Cosmopolitan using more than a dozen different pen names. Credited with creating the phrase the "Rat Pack," Gehman was considered a "shadow" member of the group. Offered here is a 2-page TLS, signed "Dick', 1955. All about his first idol, Benny Goodman. VG...........60-80



459. John W.  McCormack (1891- 1980)  American politician from Boston, Massachusetts. McCormack served as a member of United States House of Representatives from 1928 until he retired from political life in 1971. As a Democrat, McCormack served as House Majority Leader three times, the first time from 1940 to 1947, the second time from 1949 to 1953, and again from 1955 to 1961. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1962 to 1971.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........40-60



460. [FILM] Lois Moran (1909-1990) American film actress. She also had a brief affair with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald while he was married to Zelda Fitzgerald . He once remarked that she was "The most beautiful girl in Hollywood". She was also an inspiration for the character of Rosemary Hoyt in Fitzgerald's novel Tender is the Night (1934). ALS, 1977, written on both sides, 7-1/4 x 10-1/2". Signed "Lois". VG........30-40




461. Kathleen Freeman [1919-2001] American actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........30-40


462. [ENGLAND] Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope FRS (1805-1875), styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855, was a British politician and historian. He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830's and 1840's but is best remembered for his contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings. ALS, 1858, 1p, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. Neatly inlaid. VG............40-60



463. James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) English writer and expert on country houses. He was an architectural historian, novelist, and a biographer. He is also remembered as a diarist. TLS, 1966, 1p. VG..........40-60


464. Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE [1896-1986] author, most famous for her children's books including Ballet Shoes (1936). Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television. TLS, 1981, 1p. VG............40-60

 

465. Sir Francis Palgrave [1788-1861] English historian. Brief ALS, no date, acknowledging help from someone the following morning.......35-45


466. Earl L. Butz (1909-2008) US government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. TLS, 1989, 1p.......25-35

 

467. Evan Connell (b. 1924, Kansas City, Missouri) American novelist, poet, and short story writer. TLS, no year...........25-35



468. [FILM] Arthur Lubin (1898-1995) American film producer and director who directed many Abbott & Costello films. Later, Lubin directed TV shows like Bronco (1958), Maverick (1959), Bonanza (1960), Mister Ed (1961) and The Addams Family (1965). Lubin's last work was the TV series called Little Lulu (1978). TLS, 1990, 1p.............20-30



469. Admiral George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, PC [1720-1795] British peer, naval officer and politician. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1739 and in 1742 was promoted to be commander of the Terrible bomb. In the course of 1743 he was appointed acting captain of the Kennington of 20 guns, and was officially confirmed on 19 August 1744. He commanded her in the Mediterranean till 1745, when he was advanced to the Salisbury of 50 guns. This ship, as part of the Western Fleet under Hawke and Boscawen, initially patrolled the Bay of Biscay during the War of Austrian Succession. Its ship's surgeon was James Lind, who conducted his experiments on scurvy during such a patrol in 1747. The war ended in 1748. About this time Edgcumbe was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Salisbury appears in the background. Signed address panel............40-60


470. [FILM] "Dino" DE LAURENTIIS [1919-2010] Italian film producer. SIGNED 3X5 CARD........25-35


471. [MUSIC] RONNIE GILBERT  (b. 1926) Folk Singer with ”The Weavers”.  Brief ALS, no date, on verso of collector's letter.......25-35



472. [ENTERTAINMENT]   EDDIE PEABODY (1902-1970) Entertainer, singer and known as “King of the Banjo” TLS, 1995, 1p. Says Chicago audiences have always been kind to hom. Nice example..........40-60


473.  [MUSIC] Jan Wilhelm Morthenson [b. 1940] Swedish composer of orchestral and electro-acoustic music. AMQS from his "Coloratura III and IV, dated 10/17/66. Approx. 3x5. VG..........50-75



474. Francis G. Peabody (1847-1936) a minister and professor of theology at Harvard University. He authored many books. ALS, 1901, 1p, 4-3/4 x 7-3/4". VG..........40-60


475. Lillian Freeman Clarke [1842-1921] American writer. Signature, 1893............20-30



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



477. Florence George [1917-?] American actress. In films from 1938, stage and TV. TLS, 1938, 1p. Talks about the movie "College Swing" preview "...and it is most unfortunate that so many feet of film were cut from the picture. Being a newcomer in films, my scenes had to suffer, however, there is enough left to give you a fair idea of my performance..." VG...........30-40



478. [FILM] Jan Sterling (1921-2004) American actress. Most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance. Her career declined during the 1960s, however she continued to play occasional roles for television and theatre. Bold Signature ON VINTAGE ALBUM PAGE [1945]............25-35


479. [FILM] EMIL SITKA (1914-1998) American Actor. He spent many years as a comic foil for the Three Stooges, from 1957-1965, first appearing with the Stooges in Half-Wits Holiday. He himself was about to become a Stooge in 1975 when Moe Howard passed away and broke up the trio forever. Sitka started out working odd jobs in mid-'30s Hollywood to support his family. Tiny acting roles were among those jobs. Sitka continued to appear in over 500 short films working with some of Hollywood's brightest stars, including Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, and Red Skelton. SIGNED/inscribed 3x5 card...........20-30


480. LOUISE DRISCOLL (1875-1957) American Poet. She was the author of many works of prose, some of her most famous poems were: Harbury, The Accused, The Highway others. SIGNATURE, with sentiment............20-30



481. HARRIET DOER (1910-2002 ) American Author/Short Story Writer. She started very late in life, . In 1982, she won the Henfield Foundation Award for a group of short stories which led to the publication of her first novel, Stones for Ibarra, two years later. Written under a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the book went on to win the American Book Award for First Fiction. In 1990, she published a book of short stories, Under an Aztec Sun. Her second novel Consider this Senora was released in 1993. In 1995, she published another collection of short stories, Tiger in the Grass: Stories and other Inventions. SIGNATURE/inscribed with unsigned 5x7 portrait photograph...........20-30



482. [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



483. [THEATRE} Madge Kennedy [1891-1987] silent film and stage actress. Kennedy first started out on Broadway with the show, Little Miss Brown. This was a farce in three acts presented at the 48th Street Theater in August 1912. Critics found Kennedy's performance most pleasing, writing, "Miss Kennedy's youth, good looks, and marked sense of fun helped her to make a decidedly favorable impression last night." After making movies for three years she returned to the New York stage in November 1920. Kennedy played in Cornered, staged at the Astor Theatre. Produced by Henry Savage, the play was taken from the writing of Dodson Mitchell. Kennedy performed a dual role. She acted the character of a widow in the comedy Beware of Widows which was produced by the Maxine Elliott Theatre in December 1925. A reviewer for The New York Times remarked about Kennedy's physical beauty as well as her skill as a comedian. She returned to Broadway in her later years, performing in August 1965 with Ruth Gordon, in A Very Rich Woman. That was her first stage appearance in 33 years. ALS, 1981, 1p. "....What can I say of my joy in a profession for so many years - To be a part of it and to share my happiness with the wonderful.....audience - is the end of the rainbow..." Accompanied by unsigned sheet music from "Poppy" with W.C. Fields, 1923. VG........40-60

Portrait of Kennedy



484. CLARENCE BARNHART (1900-1993) American Lexicographer. Perhaps his most lasting contribution to lexicography was his editing of the American College Dictionary (1947), which introduced the participation of leading linguists and psychologists and was the forerunner of the entire line of Random House dictionaries. TLS, 1981. Mail crease runs right through the signature..........10-20



485. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) American poet, critic, and essayist was born at Hartford, Connecticut. SIGNATURE WITH SENTIMENT.........20-30

 

486. [MUSIC] Stanislav Skrowaczewski - composer, conductor. Sig. in return address.....15-20


487. William Robert Ware (1832-1915) American architect, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy. He received his professional education at Milton Academy, Harvard College and Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School. He is credited with designing the High Street Church in Brookline, Massachusetts while at the first firm he partnered, Philbrick and Ware, and Harvard's Memorial and Weld Halls, the Episcopal Divinity School campus at Harvard University, and the Ether Monument at the Boston Public Garden while at the second firm he partnered, Ware and Van Brunt. In 1865, Ware became the first professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1881 he moved to New York City and founded the School of Architecture at Columbia University, which began as the Architecture Department in the Columbia School of Mines. He retired in 1903. Clip Signature........20-30



488.  [CINEMA] BILLY BARTY (1924-2000) American Actor he made several films appearances from at least 1931 onward, most often cast due to his height as bratty children. He was a peripheral member of an "Our Gang" rip-off in the Mickey McGuire comedy shorts, portrayed the infant-turned-pig in Alice in Wonderland (1932), did a turn in blackface as a "shrunken" Eddie Cantor in Roman Scandals (1933) and frequently popped up as a lasciviously leering baby in the risqué musical highlights of Busby Berkeley's Warner Bros. films. One of Barty's most celebrated cinema moments occurred in 1937's Nothing Sacred, in which, playing a small boy, he pops up out of nowhere to bite Fredric March in the leg.TV audiences began to connect his name with his face in the 1950s when Barty was featured on various variety series hosted by bandleader Spike Jones. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph....................35-45

 

489. [NOBEL PRIZE] HERBERT C. BROWN (1912-2004) British born, American Chemist- Nobel Prize -perhaps best known for his explorations of the role of boron in organic chemistry. He discovered that the simplest compound of boron and hydrogen, diborane, adds with remarkable ease to unsaturated organic molecules to give organoboranes. Awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Chemistry - SIGNED 4x5 photograph.............25-35



490. WARREN MAGNUSON (1904-1988) American Politician. He was a US Rep from the State of Washington from 1937-1944. He then served in the Navy during WW2. After the war he ran for the US Senate and was elected from 1944-1981. He was one the most powerful senators ever from his home state. SIGNED 8x10 portrait photogragh...................20-30



491. [MUSIC] Nedda Casei [b. 1932] American operatic mezzo-soprano. Signed 1983 FDC honoring the Met Opera. Clean with cachet. Nice..........25-35

 

492. [MUSIC] ALEXANDER GOEHR [b. 1932] British composer who has written some organ music. Signed personal note card, 2003, with sentiment. 6x4. Fine..........25-35



493. [SCIENCE] Henri CARTAN (1904-2008) one of France's leading mathematician's. He made fundamental advances in the theory of analytic functions, worked on the theory of sheaves, homological theory, algebraic topology and potential theory. He wrote under the name Bourbaki with some 30 Volumes. ANS, 1992, with signed return address envelope/both signed H. Cartan...........25-35  



494. [BOXING] Carmine Basilio (1927-2012) Welterweight & Middleweight Champion of the World. Signed 8x10 photo. VG.........35-45


495. [MUSIC] Jacob Avshalomov [b. 1919] Jewish American composer and conductor. Signed 3.5 x 4" photo. VG..........25-35



496. Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910) English cartoonist. In 1901, he became the chief cartoonist for Punch, taking over upon John Tenniel's retirement. ALS, 1897, 2pp.............50-75  



497. [MUSIC] Leonid Hambro [1920-2006] American concert pianist and composer. Clip signature with sentiment...........25-35




498. Richmond Lattimore (1906 - 1984) American poet and translator known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are generally considered as among the best English translations available. Signed 1p. typescript from his poem "Sonnett on Hope." VG......40-60



499. [ART] Eduard Georg Gehbe [1845-1935] German Painter, Illustrator. Signed postcard reproduction of his work "Salzburg," signed on front with notes............35-45



 500. Charles Follen Adams [1842-1918]. American poet, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of German dialect poems, as in Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1877) and Dialect Ballads (1888). Signed 7x4-1/4 slip, Boston 1896........20-30


501. William Vann Rogers, generally known as Will Rogers, Jr. [1911-1993], was the son of legendary humorist Will Rogers [1879-1935] and his wife, the former Betty Blake [1879-1944]. He was a Democratic Congressman from California from January 3, 1943 until May 23, 1944, when he resigned to return to the United States Army. Rogers had several other careers, notably as a newspaper owner/publisher, an actor, writer, and a political commentator. Signature in return address clipped from envelope.....20-30

 

502. Ossie Davis (1917-2005) American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist. Clip Signature.....15-20



503. Richard Pike Bissell (1913-1977) American author of short stories and novels. One of which, 7 1/2 Cents, was turned into the Broadway musical The Pajama Game. This won him (along with co-author George Abbott) the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical. He wrote a book about the experience called Say, Darling, which chronicled the ins and outs of a broadway musical production and featured characters based on those (such as Harold Prince) he worked with; this book was also turned into a musical, also called Say, Darling, in 1958. ALS, 1965, 1p, inquiring about a job for his son who was coming for the summer to Boothbay, Maine. Written to the owner of the Boothbay Theatre Museum. VG..........50-75



504. [MUSIC] Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works. ALS, no date, on 4-1/4 x 5-3/4 card. VG..........30-40

505. Herbert G. Klein - Asst. to Pres. Nixon. Sig./inscribed business card [White House].....15-20


506. W.S. Lilly - British essayist. ALS, 1870, 2pp..........25-35

 

507. ROBERT FITZGERALD (1910-1985) American Poet/Critic/Translator. He started out as a reported for the New York Hearald Tribune, then worked as a writer for Time Magazine. His poetry is collected in "A Wreath for the Sea(1943),In the rose of Time(1956), Spring Shade(1971). Translated The Odyssey, The Iliad, and The Aeneid. SIGNATURE/inscribed with sentiment on Harvard University Stationary, dtd 5/27/73...........20-30



508. Madeline Vanderpool [d.1995] Am. Sculptor. Sig. [on verso] 3x4 photo of her 1934 bronze sculpture.......20-30



509. [MEDICINE] MIN CHUCH CHANG  (1908-1991) Chinese-born American reproductive biologist. His specific area of study was the fertilisation process in mammalian reproduction. Though his career produced findings that are important and valuable to many areas in the field of fertilisation, including his work on in vitro fertilisation which led to the first "test tube baby", he was best known to the world for his contribution to the development of the combined oral contraceptive pill at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. Signed 3x5 card. Fine..........40-60


510. [ART] Will Hicok Low (1853-1933) American artist and writer on art. In 1873 he entered the atelier of J. L. Gérme in the École des Beaux Arts at Paris, subsequently joining the classes of Carolus-Duran, with whom he remained until 1877. Returning to New York, he became a member of the Society of American Artists in 1878 and of the National Academy of Design in 1890. His pictures of New England types, and illustrations of John Keats, brought him into prominence. Subsequently he turned his attention to decoration, and executed panels and medallions for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, a panel for the Essex County Court House in Newark, New Jersey as well as numerous panels for private residences and stained glass windows for various churches, including St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted to card............20-30



511. [FILM] Susan Strasberg (1938-1999) American actress. After a widely praised performance as a teenager in Picnic, Strasberg originated the title role in the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank at the age of 18 and was nominated for a Tony Award. SIGNED 1972 bank check. VG.......50-75

 

512. Lynn Johnston - Canadian cartoonist. Typed note signed, 1990.....20-30




513. Dean Dusk (1909-1994) US Sec. of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Brief TLS, 1975, 1p...........30-40



514. Malcolm  Forbes (1919-1990) was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as a promoter of capitalism and for extravagant spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, and art.  Signed color 8x10 photo. VG............50-75




515. [FRANCE] Henry Houssaye (also Henri) (1848-1911)  French historian and academician.  His early writings were devoted to classical antiquity, his knowledge drawn partly from visits to the actual Greek sites in 1868.  The military history of Napoleon I then attracted him. His first volume on this subject, called 1814 (1888), went through no fewer than forty-six editions. It was followed by 1815, the first part of which comprises the first Restoration, the return from Elba and the Hundred Days (1893); the second part, Waterloo (1899); and the third part, the second abdication and the White Terror (1905). He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1895.  ALS, no date, 1p,  5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in.  Re:  he cannot attend diner for Dumas.  VG...............80-120


516. [FRANCE] Charles Dollfus (1827-1913) French philosopher, novelist and essayist. He studied in Switzerland and Paris, where he studied law. Protestant belonging to the current Liberal , "militant anti-papist" as an expression of René Martin , he enrolled at the Paris Bar in 1848 , then to that of Colmar in 1852 . He soon, however, to follow his literary and philosophical tastes. Returning to Paris, he founded with Auguste Nefftzer in 1857 the German Journal, later published under the title of Modern Review, where he became Director. He joined the writing of Time , founded in April 1861 , under the direction of Nefftzer and contributes to several other journals. It also publishes fiction (including The Doctor Fabricius that inspired his nephew Charles Koechlin symphonic poem of the same name) as well as works of literary criticism and philosophy.  ALS  [1853], 1p.,  5-1/4 x 8 in. VG............80-120





517. [FRANCE] Natalis de Wailly (1805-1886)  French archivist, librarian and historian.  In 1841, as head of the Administrative Section of the Royal Archives, he wrote a ministerial circular, issued by Count Tanneguy Duchâtel, Minister of the Interior, stating that records should be grouped according to the nature of the institution that has accumulated them and formulating the principle of respect des fonds (up until that point, archives had often been sorted according to subject, date or place).  In 1854, he was appointed head of the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque impériale.  A member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since 1841 and of several learned societies, he was a renowned paleographer and published scientific editions of medieval chroniclers. ALS, 1846, 4pp, 5 x 7-1/4 in. Fine............100-150


518. [FRANCE - MUSIC] Pauline Dameron (1825-1890) Mezzo-soprano.  She sang the roles of Ines in the premiere of Le trouvere at the Opera in Paris in 1857, having begun her career there around 1847.  ALS, no year, 1p, 4 x 5-1/4 in. VG...........75-100



519. [THEATRE] Adelaide Ristori [1822-1906] Italian tragedienne. Signature.....20-30


Russian Mystic

520. 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



521. [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



522. [FILM] Louise Fletcher (b.1934) American actress perhaps best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Kai Winn Adami in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO. VG..............25-35


523.  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



524. 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


525. [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



526. [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



527. 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

See Portrait of Goodwin




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



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


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




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




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




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




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



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



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


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



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


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



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

 

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



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



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



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




545. [MUSIC] Carl Wendling [1875-1962] German violinist. Signature...........25-35



546. [OPERA] Ernestine Schumann-Heink [1861-1936] contralto. Signature...30-40

 

547. [OPERA] Elizabeth Futral - American coloratura soprano who has won acclaim throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South America, and Japan. SIGNED, INSCRIBED 5X7 PHOTO....20-30



548. Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866) American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853. Manuscript document signed by him and his wife Mary E. Sparks, receiving property as executor of will, dated Cambridge, Dec. 15, 1850. Text of document is brief. VG............50-75

Portrait of Sparks


549. 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, 1841, 1p, mounted attractively...........50-75



550. [THEATRE] Johnstone Bennett [1870-1906] American stage actress. Signature on 6.5 x 4.5" slip...........20-30

See Bennett signature



551. [THEATRE] George Robert Sims [1847-1922] English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Signed photo, signed on the mount, Alfred Ellis & Wallery photograph. Approx. 6-1/2 8-3/4". VG...........50-75



552. Wm. Tyler Page (1868-1942) best known for his authorship of the American's Creed. Today it also often comprises part of the Naturalization Ceremony for new Americans. SIGNED copy of "The America's Creed." 6x9 in. Boldly signed..............50-75



553. [MUSIC] Pierre Luboshutz [1891-1971] Russian-American pianist. Signed card, with sentiment written in different hand.......25-35

See Luboshutz


554. [MUSIC] Frederick Martin  Reiner (1888-1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music. Signed album page...........40-60

See portrait of Reiner



555. SIMON LAKE (1866-1945) American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy. SIGNED Document -check dedicated and signed by him 1910. With COA from The Simon Lake Collection..........................75-100



556. [FILM] Rudy Vallée (1901-1986)  American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1946 bank check made out to the Hollywood Studio Club. VG............30-40

See above



557. Waldegrave - 8th Earl [1788-1859] Brit. naval Vice-Adm. Clip signature.......25-35



558. Lily Pons (1898-1976) French-American soprano. Signature on stained 3x5 card.....25-35

 

559. [MUSIC] James Patrick Page OBE (b. 1944) English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin. Signed color 8x10 photo. VG.............75-100

 


560. [FILM] Ernst Hofmann  (1890-1945)  German film actor.  He was one of the most attractive actors of the German silent cinema. In the 1910s  he was the producer and star of Der Knabe in Blau (1918), the first film by legendary director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Hofmann became a very busy actor in the 1920's and he took part in many well-known productions. When  sound films arrived he finished his film career. Rare signed postcard photograph. VG............40-60


See photograph



561. 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. ALS dtd 1976.........25-35



562.  [FRANCE] Louis Liard   (1846-1917) French  philosopher and director. A street in Bordeaux and a street fourteenth arrondissement bear his name.  ALS, 1908, 1p, 5-3/8 x 8-1/4 in. VG.................60-80



563. [FRANCE] Etienne Marie Victor Lamy (1845-1919)    French author, born in Cize, Jura. He was educated at the College Stanislas and became a doctor of law in 1870. From 1871 to 1881 he was a deputy from his native department, Jura, and his earlier writings were political and historical. In the House of Deputies he was a member of the Left, but he broke with his party and became a clerical reactionary, writing for the Gaulois and the Correspondant. In 1905 he became a member of the Académie française (seat #21), and in 1913 he succeeded Thureau-Dangin as its perpetual secretary.  ALS, 1917, 2pp,  4-3/8 x  6-3/4 in. VG................75-100




564. [FRANCE]  Paul Bastid (1892-1974)   French lawyer and politician. Attached to the Radical Party, he was a member of the Cantal , Minister of Commerce under the Popular Front and representing radicals National Council of the Resistance , before heading L'Aurore. In 1941, the Vichy government dismisses the mandate of General Counsel. Paul Bastid while campaigning in the Resistance and the General Committee of studies (CGE), was formed in 1942 in Lyon, at his home. In 1943, he is the representative of the radical party in the National Council of Resistance and writes articles for the underground press. ALS, 1971, 1p,  5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. About a presentation at the Academy. Fine............75-100



565. [FRANCE] Victor Louis Armand Boucher (1877-1942)   French actor.  ALS, 1912, 1p. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. VG............50-75



566. Frank Johnson - American Disney animator. Signature in form of return address [Walt Disney Co.]..............20-30

567. [CABINET] Curtis D. Wilbur [1867-1954] 43rd United States Secretary of the Navy. Signature with sentiment.


568. [NOBEL PRIZE] Tjalling Charles Koopmans (1910-1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. SIGNATURE on slip.......25-35



569. [FILM - MUSIC] Frank Ramsey Adams (1883-1963) American author, screenwriter, composer. Adams wrote plays, musical comedies, and lyrics for popular songs, such as "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now". He composed the stage scores for the musicals "The Time, the Place, and the Girl", "The Girl Question", "A Stubborn Cinderella", "The Goddess of Liberty", and "The Price of Tonight". His chief musical collaborators included Joe Howard, Harold Orlob and Will Hough. TLS, 1934, 1p. Written on Paramount Pictures letterhead he says he is no longer running the theatre in Whitehall, Mich., "I still keep a finger in the motion picture pie. Maybe you will be in the business yourself one of these days." VG.......50-75


570. Benjamin  Altman (1840–1913) American businessman who in 1865  founded B. Altman & Co., opening a store on Third Avenue and 10th Street in NYC. In 1906, he moved the business to Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. Benjamin Altman died without heirs. Shortly before the death, he founded the Altman Foundation. Until 1985, it owned B. Altman & Co., which latter closed the last store in 1990.  Altman was an avid collector of Rembrandt paintings and china, much of which he acquired through art dealer Joseph Duveen. Upon his death, he donated the collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Signed Chemical National Bank check, 1906.  VG.................80-120



571. [FRANCE] Francis de Miomandre (1880-1959) French novelist and well-known translator from Spanish into French. He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire and educated in Marseille. He began writing in his early twenties and won the Prix Goncourt in 1908 for his novel, Ecrít sur de l'Eau . His novels are highly imaginative and put together with the genuine talent of a romancer who has traveled far and wide at his own study table. Lengthy ALS, 1955, 1-1/2 pages [ON BOTH SIDES OF ONE SHEET], 8-1/4 x 10-1/2". To the critic, Robert Kemp. VG............75-100




572. [THEATRE] Robert Woodruff Anderson (b. 1917) is an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known as the author of Tea and Sympathy, which made its Broadway debut in 1953 and was made into an MGM film in 1956. Both versions starred Deborah Kerr and John Kerr. Anderson wrote the screenplays for 1959's The Nun's Story and 1966's The Sand Pebbles. He was Oscar-nominated for the The Nun's Story as well as the 1970 screen version of his play I Never Sang for My Father. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 6.5 x 10" photo. He also signs & describes this particular photo. Dated 2000................25-35

 

573. Jarmila Novotna [1907-1994] Czech soprano. Signature in return address clipped from envelope........20-30



574. [MUSIC] Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885) German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career. DEFECTIVE ALS, 1863 setting time for tea, 1863. Large section of letter has been cut away...............no estimate given


575. Lloyd Morris (1893-1954) American teacher, critic, and man of letters, best known for his biography of Hawthorne "The Rebellious Puritan. He was one of the foremost social historians of his generation. Lengthy TLS, NY, 1944, 2pp., regarding life at the famous Mac Dowell Colony in the 1920's; and being with the poet Edward Arlington Robinson. A remarkable letter about the generosity of Robinson and another writer there, who was not wanted there, and the relationship of Robinson and this writer. Lightly toned in parts..........50-75



576. John Watson - Pseudonym Ian Maclaren [1850-1907]. Scottish clergyman and author. Presbyterian minister, Liverpool (1880-1905); won reputation with Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), followed by other "kailyard school" portrayals of humble Scottish life as Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie (1896); also wrote religious works, including The Upper Room (1896), Children of the Resurrection (1912). ALS, 1899, 2pp. ...............40-60



577. Nathan Lewis Miller (1868-1953) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 43rd Governor of New York from 1921 to 1922. Document Signed, bank check dated 1921. $100 from the Adjutant General's Office, State of New York. Fine example...........40-60



578. [NASA] William H. Pickering (1910-2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............50-75


579. George Barr McCutcheon [1866-1928] Am. writer. Signature/sentiment.........15-20

 

580. Albert Henry Smyth [1863-1907] American writer. ALS, 1900, 2pp. Mentions his biography of Bayard Taylor. Light irregular toning on last page............25-35


581. [ENGLAND] R(ichard) Cobden (1804-1865) British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty. Clip signature MOUNTED. Below is article about him............25-35

 

582. [ENGLAND] Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868) British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom. Brougham was the designer of the brougham, a four-wheeled, horse-drawn style of carriage that bears his name. A statue of him, inscribed "Lord Brougham," stands at the Cannes waterfront, across from the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. SIGNED address panel dated 1821...........25-35



583. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG (1914-1999 ) American Novelist/Author. His most famous work was "Sounder", made into a movie. Clipped SIGNATURE "Wm. H. Armstrong"........15-20



584. [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



585. [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


586. Ruth Draper [1884-1956] Am. playwright. CLIP SIGNATURE..........20-30

 

587. Rex Allen (1920-1999) American actor, singer, and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Walt Disney nature and Western productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Rex Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. SIGNED large limited edition poster, matted & shrink-wrapped. Plague on front says edition number 45 of 300. The Certificate of Authenticity on back says 45 of 134. "The prints were personally signed by Rex Allen at his home in Arizona between August and November 1999. ....Unfortunately he met his untimely death after signing 134 posters." Overall size 20 x 24". VG...........50-75

 

588. [SCIENCE] Karl T. Compton (1887-1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Signature on back of 1946 postal card. Appears to be lightly, evenly toned..........50-75

 


589. [NOBEL] Paul Crutzen (b. 1933) Dutch Nobel prize atmospheric chemist. Brief ALS, no date, 8.5 x 3". VG............50-75


590. [MAINE] Ralph Owen Brewster (1888 - 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, was solidly conservative, a close confidant of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and antagonist of Howard Hughes. Brewster came to national attention due to his opposition to the commercial interests of Howard Hughes , America's wealthiest man at the time. Brewster was chairman of a special Senate committee investigating defense procurement during World War II. He claimed concern that Hughes had received $40 million from the Defense Department without actually delivering the aircraft he had contracted to provide, but Brewster may have had an ulterior motive. Incidentally, Hughes stated that the H-4 Hercules cost far more, with the balance coming from his own funds. Hughes aggressively combated the inquirer, alleging corruption. Memoirs by Hughes right-hand man Noah Dietrich and syndicated newspaper columnist Jack Anderson each sketched Brewster as, in Dietrich's words, "an errand boy for Juan Trippe and Pan American World Airways," who pushed for legislation that would give Pan Am the single-carrier international air monopoly for the U.S. The Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator portrays Brewster (played by Alan Alda) similarly, as corrupt and in the pocket of Pan Am, the rival of Hughes' TWA . Hughes spread rumors about Brewster's close association with Pan Am, alleging that he received free flights and hospitality in return for legislation such as his bill to withdraw government approval for TWA flights across the Atlantic. TLS, on Congress of the United States stationery, 1938, 1p. ......25-35

 

591. Martha Ostenso (1900-1963) Canadian novelist and screenwriter. Ostenso was born in Haukeland, near Bergen, Norway, but emigrated with her family to the United States in 1902. They first settled in South Dakota and Minnesota before immigrating to Canada in the province of Manitoba. Ostenso is probably best known for the award-winning novel Wild Geese, published in 1925 (and filmed as After the Harvest in 2001). She signs at bottom of an autograph request typed letter, 1929...........20-30



592. [NOBEL PRIZE] Wassily Leontief [1905-1999] was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1973. BRIEF ALS [1989]................30-40



593. [MUSIC] David Rubinoff, also known as Dave Rubinoff, (September 13, 1897, Grodno, Russian Empire, now Belarus; October 6, 1986) was a popular violinist who was heard during the 1930s and 1940s on various radio programs playing his $100,000 Stradivarius violin. He also performed in theaters, clubs and schools, and he gave several concerts at the White House during the 1940s. He was sometimes billed as Rubinoff and his Violin. SIGNED, inscribed photograph, appears to have been trimmed to 6-3/8 x 6-3/4". Very good condition except for 2 "white" flaws, one above his head & the other in upper right corner. See below..........60-80

See Rubinoff



594. [FILM] Art Clokey (1921- 2010) a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia. From the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth invented Gumby. SIGNED 11 X 8.5 " color photo, signed in sliver ink in dark area. VG...........75-100


595. [NOBEL PRIZE] JAMES TOBIN (1918-2002) 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. SIGNED 1982 FDC honoring State Birds/Flowers. Clean with cachet. Fine........25-35



596. Margaret Pedler (?-1948) British novelist, who wrote popular works of romantic fiction. Initially Pedler studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music , and published several songs for which she wrote both the music and lyrics. Over her career as a best-selling writer, from 1917 to 1947, she produced 28 novels. ALS, 1932, written on both sides, 6 x 7.5". VG...............40-60


597. George Owen Knapp [1855-1945] American Industrialist, Philanthropist, founder of Union Carbide. He built the famous Knapp's Castle in California. ALS, 1919, 1p.......50-75



598. Cyril Ritchard (1897-1977) actor of stage, screen and television. He achieved star status in 1954 as Captain Hook in the Broadway production of Peter Pan co-starring Mary Martin,. Signed 1957 bank check.......40-60


599. [THEATRE] MARY F. SCOTT-SIDDONS (1844-1896) Indian born-English Actress. She was born in India. Scott Siddons made her professional debut at Nottingham, England, as Lady Macbeth. She first appeared in London in 1867 at the Haymarket Theatre, as Rosalind in "As You Like It." Her American debut was at the Boston Museum and her New York debut was as Rosalind in "As You Like It" at the Worrell Sisters' Theatre in 1868. She joined Augustin Daly's company in New York in 1869 SIGNED card.........25-35


600. Colonel John Purviance [1743-1823] At the commencement of the Revolutionary war, he volunteered and was appointed Lieutenant in the army. He behaved himself valiantly during the war, and was gradually promoted to the office of Colonel. He fought bravely for the liberty of his country, and rejoiced to see the Colony free. He returned a thankful heart to the bosom of his family, and lived happily there until the fall of 1791. He moved with his family to Sumner County, Tennessee. The country there was almost a wilderness. In the spring of 1792, his second son, John Purviance, while in the field at work, was shot, scalped, he was so near the house, that his wife could hear the Indian yells, and she would have run to her husband in the midst of them, had she not have been prevented by the interposition of her friends. They had been married but a few months. Col. John Purviance being alarmed at these savage cruelties, left the place and moved to Caneridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky, where the inhabitants were less exposed to Indian attacks. Clip signature dated 1781.........50-75


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

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801. [ART] VIRGINIA TRUE [1900-1989]. Original lithograph, unsigned, 9.5 x 8.5 in. image plus margins. This work is from the estate of well listed artist Virginia True, who was born in Hannibal, MO, in 1900, studied at John Heron in Indianapolis, pupil of William Forsyth and Daniel Garber, taught art at University of Colorado, painted with "Group of 6" women academic artists in Denver area, in the late 30s joined faculty of art and design at Cornell University, retired in 1978, painted for some years in Yarmouth, MA, died in Florida. Member NAWA, exhibited in many regional museums. Extensive listing in Who Was Who, sales in Davenport. True worked early in the regionalist style, later as a surrealist. Her work shows similarities to fellow western artists Adolf Dehn and Georgia O'Keefe. This work has the estate stamp on the back........120-180

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802. [ART] Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) British painter of German descent, and also a pioneering film-director and composer. Though a very successful portraitist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor. Hard Times, showing the family of a travelling day-labourer at the side of a road, is probably his best known work.  He exhibited a very large number of memorable portraits, figure subjects and landscapes, in oil and watercolour; he achieved marked success as a worker in enamel, as an etcher, mezzotint engraver and illustrative draughtsman; and he exercised wide influence upon art education by means of the Herkomer School (Incorporated), at Bushey, which he founded in 1883 and directed without payment until 1904, when he retired.  Despite being a prominent member of Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, as well as being on familiar terms with the royal family, Herkomer was never totally accepted by the British establishment: He was ultimately a victim of the deteriorating relationship between Great Britain and Germany, where he shuttled in between, spending most of his summers in Bavaria.  Herkomer was also a pioneering filmmaker. He established a studio in Lululaund and directed some seven historical costume dramas, designed to be shown accompanied by his own music. None of them seem to have survived. ORIGINAL ETCHING, titled: "WORDS OF COMFORT", approx. 10 x 7 plus margins. A few stains in the margins but very good in  image and close areas........100-150

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803. Etching titled Carmel, pencil signed [unidentified signature], plate size 8-3/4 x 6 in. plus margins. VG......40-60

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804. Etching, not signed [artist not known], plate size 9 x 6-1/2 in. plus margins. VG......50-75

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805. The Visit - Original 19th Century etching  by Karl Rauscher after Franz Defregger; published by Seeley & Co 1879. A beautiful clear impression in good condition. Image approx. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 in. plus margins. There is a soft running across lower left corner, more visible on the verso than front..............80-120

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806. Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909) Scottish-American artist. Shirlaw was born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in 1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at the National Academy in 1861. He was elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1868. Among his pupils there was Frederick Stuart Church. From 1870 to 1877 he studied in Munich, under J. L. Raab, Alexander von Wagner, Arthur George von Ramberg, and Wilhelm Lindenschmidt. His first work of importance was the Toning of the Bell (1874), which was followed by Sheep-shearing in the Bavarian Highlands (1876) which received honorable mention at the Paris exposition in 1878. Other notable works from his easel are Good Morning (1878), in the Buffalo Academy; Indian Girl and Very Old (1880); Gossip (1884); and Jealousy (1886), owned by the Academy of Design, New York. His largest work is the frieze for the dining-room in the house of Darius O. Mills in New York. Shirlaw has also earned an excellent reputation as an illustrator. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, and was its first president. On his return from Europe he took charge of the Art Students League of New York, and for several years taught in the composition class. He became an associate of the National Academy in 1887, and an academician the following year. Original etching, plate signed [monogram lower left of image], approx. 5-1/4 x 3-1/8" plus margins. Picture of him is NOT included here............60-80

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807.  [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

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808. [ART] LOUIS MEYNELL (b. 1868) American) Etching, plate signed and dated 1904, image about 5 x 3-1/4" plus margins. VG..........40-60

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809. [ART] Stephen James Ferris [1835-1915] influential Philadelphia painter and etcher. Original etching, "Mrs. Nicklin", from a painting by Gilbert Stuart. Stuart painted the portrait of Mrs. Nicklin about 1795, when she was in her thirtieth year. She was one of Philadelphia's celebrated beauties, the wife of Mr. Philip Nicklin, and the daughter of Chief-Justice Benjamin Chew. This plate shows notable characteristics in Mr. Ferris's method of etching, he believing in finish, and striving to obtain depth of tone and suggestion of color by close and careful working. Image 7-1/4 5-1/2" plus fairly clean marhins. Top left corner is soiled.........75-100
 
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810. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) American artist, illustrator and author. He studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. A transcendentalist and mystic, Kent painted remote and austere lands, including Newfoundland (1914-15), Tierra del Fuego (1922-23), and Greenland (1929; 1931-32; 1934-35).Collotype offered here from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925. Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins. Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made paper. This is a proof printing. Fine, black impressions, on cream wove paper, with good margins, in excellent condition. Scarce..............100-150

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811.  [ART] Edmund H. Garrett (1853-11929) A well known nineteenth century American painter, etcher and illustrator, studied art at the Academie Julien in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens, Boulanger and Lefebvre. After residing in France for a period of about five years he returned to America and established a successful studio in Boston. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Edmund Garrett's paintings and etchings were widely exhibited throughout the United States and in France at the Paris Salon. Garrett's first original prints were in the medium of wood engraving. Under the advice of Robert Swain Gifford (1840-1905), he created his first etching in 1879. Specializing in both architectural views and landscapes, Edmund Henry Garrett's ensuing etchings dealt mainly with areas around Boston. Near Mattakeesett is typical of his fine handling of perspective, light and shade and other pictorial qualities. Original etching, unsigned, "Near Mattakeesett", image approx. 4-7/8 x 8-3/4 plus margins. One light foxing spot well away from image. Appears to have been suntoned [evenly] at some time because the image and margin area well outside of plate mark is a little darker. Perhaps this was matted at some time.............100-150

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812. Merv Slotnick (b. 1941)
Mixed medium on canvasboard, signed, circa 2008, 16 x 20 in. Simple wood frame. Very good condition. Merv Slotnick (b.1941) American artist living in Maine.  His work is in many collections throughout the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, France, Italy, etc. His work has been included in exhibitions at New York University; Maine Biennial; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Mansfield State College, Pa.; Ball State Univ.; Edison Community College, Cape Coral, Florida; Center For The Arts, Midland, Michigan; Central Michigan Univ.; Saginaw Art Museum; Provincetown Art Association; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Battle Creek Arts Center, Mich.; All Michigan Artists Traveling Show [1970-73] which traveled to various colleges & universities in Michigan; Northern Arizona Univ.; Alaska Pacific Univ., plus others. Remember that different scanners, cameras & computer screens can look at the exact same art work but show different levels of brightness & shades of colors & texture. So be aware that translation of color etc. from computer to computer is unpredictable. ALWAYS ask before bidding if concerned about colors..............800-1200

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813. Ronnie Landfield (1947-) Abstract landscape painter. By 1970 Landfield was recognized as one of the first painters to have led the movement away from the geometric, hard-edge, and minimal, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions in colors which were softer and more vibrant. Two off-set lithographs of drawings. These are of preparatory drawings for two color field paintings drawn to scale on authentic parchment paper. 10-7/8 x 7. From Vol. 3 of SMS. In 1967, after a divorce with his second wife, Noma, Copley and new friend Dmitri Petrov decided to publish portfolios of 20th-century artist collaborations with the abbreviation SMS (for "Shit Must Stop"). Copley's Upper West Side loft became a meeting place for performers, artists, curators, and composers to work together on the open-ended collective. The SMS portfolio contained six volumes, each of which were shipped out from the artists to subscribers. The works included came from artists both well-renowned and obscure, including Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Christo, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, John Cage, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Dick Higgins, Ronnie Landfield, Bruce Nauman, Meret Oppenheim, Neil Jenney, Yoko Ono and others. VG...................150-200

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814. CARROLL THAYER BERRY (1886-1978) Maine artist known as "THE DOWN EAST PRINTMAKER. Nine charcoal drawings on one sheet, each approx. 2 x 2.5 in. Some stains. Unsigned. ................80-120

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

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816. [ART] JULES JACQUEMART (1837-1880) ORIGINAL Etching from "Gemmes Et Joyaux," plate signed, circa 1864, published 1886, plate #15. Large plate mark but image [including signature] is approx. 6-1/2 in. high plus margins. Sheet size is 21-1/2 x 14-1/2. Very good condition, clean. Subject is some sort of ornate bowl................100-150


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817. Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) she did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday & Co. She was also an exhibiting artist, having work shown at the Krausharr Gallery in New York in 1949. Other exhibitions include: Wilmington Museum, Delaware 1940-45; Maracaibo 1936-39; Barbizon Plaza, NYC 1940; Lake Placid Club, NY 1940, etc. She studied at the Art Students League with Jules Gotlieb, Bridgman & Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Original ink drawing of Queen Nefertari, 4 x 2 in, unsigned. Drawn on transparent paper. There is a provenance sticker attached to the backside which shows through. Provenance: Artist's Estate. Sticker show through.....................40-60

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818. [ART] John R. Fell (1917-2009) born in London, England - American artist. During World War II he served in the British Army as a camouflage artist in North Africa, Italy and Greece. Fell had a successful career as an artist, exhibiting in many museums in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida, including a number of one man shows most recently at Lycoming College in 2002. He loved art, music and nature, particularly this area of Pennsylvania. He had a happy outlook on life, liked everybody and we miss him.  Offered here is a signed oil painting on masonite, titled on back HALLOEEN.  Approx. 19 x 13 in. overall  including the artist-made frame. Fine............500-700

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819. [ART] J.A. Poulter  (1825-1921)  was a London Painter and Etcher of Landscapes.  Original etching, signed & titled IN THE PLATE, title: The Break Of Day - Bury Church - Huntington, plate size 6x9 in. plus wide clean margins, on wove paper. Dates to c. 1881. VG..................100-150

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820. [ART] Ben Damman, 19th century European etcher. Etching after Millet, Sheepfold at Night, image approx. 6-5/8 x 9-1/8 in. plus wife clean margins, plate signed. Done circa 1883. VG.................100-150

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821. Fred M. Hines (deceased) American artist, well known in Maine and Vermont. Signed pencil drawing, approx. 7x8 in. on larger sheet. One prominent crease at top left corner..................50-75

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822.  Stephen James Ferris (1835-1915)  An influential Philadelphia painter and etcher of portraits and figure studies, Stephen James Ferris studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris, under Jean Leon Gerome. He achieved a considerable reputation for his art in both America and Europe and received the prestigious Fortuny Prize for the best portrait, Rome, 1876. Ferris also served for twenty six years as the Instructor of Art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women.  Offered here is an original etching, Portrait of Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, 1881, done after a painting by Daniel Huntington, approx. 8 x 6 in. plus margins. VG...............100-150

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