23.  [PHOTOGRAPHY] Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910) French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist.  Examples of Nadar's photographic portraits are held by many of the great national collections of photographs.  Original cabinet photograph of Eugene Marcel Prévost (1862-1941) the French author and dramatist. Accompanied by a real photo postcard of Prevost. Both are in excellent condition.......150-250

Rare Manuscript Poem

24. [NOBEL PRIZE] CHARLES RICHET (1850-1935) French physiologist who initiall investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" in 1913. He also devoted many years to the study of spiritualist phenomena. His research helped elucidate hay fever, asthma and other allergic reactions to foreign substances and explained some previously not understood cases of intoxication and sudden death. In 1914 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences. Richet was a man of many interests, and his works included books about history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, as well as theatre plays and poetry. He was also a pioneer in aviation. Offered here is a Rare unsigned autograph poem, 1p. Guaranteed to be from his hand...........100-150

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Portrait of Richet

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

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

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

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39.  [ART] Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929) American painter of figures and portraits best known for his mural decorations.  His works include a series of paintings honoring various poets for the Library of Congress and decorations for public buildings such as the Appellate Court House in New York City, Bowdoin College in Maine, the Massachusetts State House, the Minnesota State Capitol, and the Court House in Newark, New Jersey. Signed card with sentiment dated 1901, approx. 3-1/2 x 1-3/4". Fine.........40-60

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104. [ART] H. Kenniston [European artist] - SIGNED PENCIL DRAWING, sheet size 14x10". VG.............75-100

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Portrait of Bellamy

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

123. Margaret Deland (1857-1945) American author. TLS, Cambridge, Mass., 1933, 1p. To Kenneth Whittemore who apparently was also a writer. VG...........35-45

125. [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

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

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

134. [LINCOLN] [Jacob Bunn] Springfield, Illinois banker who knew Abraham Lincoln well in the early years before Lincoln went to Washington. He handled the family financial affairs for Mary Todd Lincoln after the President was assassinated. Group of 5 Second National Bank, Lafayette, Ind. documents made to to Bunn........40-60

136.  [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

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

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138. [MUSIC] John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an Bahamian-American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem".  His brother, the poet James Weldon Johnson, wrote the lyrics of the famous piece. It was first performed live by 500 Black American students from the segregated Stanton School (elementary/middle/junior high-level), Jacksonville, FL, in 1900.  Rosamond appeared in vaudeville with various circuits, and in 1933 he, as well as W.C. Handy, returned in Joe Laurie, Jr.'s, "Memory Lane" review. His acting career sky-rocketed in the 30s and 40s with roles in Porgy and Bess, Mamba's Daughters, Cabin in the Sky, and A Young American.  SIGNATURE on album page as a player (Rev. Whaley) in the Broadway play "Mamba's Daughters".  Approx. 4-3/4 x 3-1/2".  On the back side is slip glued down signed by actor Gene Barry. Fairly scarce autograph............50-75

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

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

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141. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS DE LA REPUBLIQUE, dated Year XI [1803], 16 pages., approx. 5.5 x 8.5".  Identified as being about Colonies. Signed Bonaparte in print. VG............100-150
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142. [FRANCE] 1815 French military document about food stuff requisition and threatening of military execution if not done. A Napoleon Wars document related to Invasion of German troops. Signed Loppin de Gemeaux, 1815, 1p, 7 x 4-3/4". Between Austerlitz and Waterloo, Wurtemberg's troops occupied France and requisitioned horses, food and supplies for their troops. This document concerns the requisition of hay, bread, beef, etc. Loppin de Gemeaux was the Mayor of Gemeaux and good friend of Voltaire and Rousseau.......100-150

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

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

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

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

149. Increase Sumner Lincoln [1799-1890] Am. Unitarian Minister, abolitionist, author. Signature dated 1889...........20-30

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

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

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

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155. [FRANCE] Fernand Divoire [1885-1951] French Poet; Dir. of L'Intransigeant. He wrote about Metchnikoff and Isadora Duncan. The Isadorables as named by him in 1909, was a group of six young girls who danced under the instruction of Isadora Duncan. ALS, 193?, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Sent to the actress Tania Fedor "Sultana of Sultanas." Speaks about his script and Citroen. VG............50-75

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156. [FRANCE] Alphonse-Marie–Marcellin–Thomas Bérenger (1785-1866), known as Thomas Bérenger or Berenger de la Drôme, was a French lawyer and politician. He entered the magistracy and became procureur général at Grenoble, but resigned this office on the Bourbon Restoration. He then devoted himself mainly to the study of criminal law, and in 1818 published La justice criminelle en France, in which with great courage he attacked the special tribunals, provosts' courts or military commissions which were the main instruments of the Reaction, and advocated a return to the old common law and trial by jury. The book had a considerable effect in discrediting the reactionary policy of the government; but it was not until 1828, when Bérenger was elected to the chamber, that he had an opportunity of exercising a personal influence on affairs as a member of the group known as that of constitutional opposition. His courage, as well as his moderation, was again displayed during the revolution of 1830, when, as president of the parliamentary commission for the trial of the ministers of Charles X, he braved the fury of the mob and secured a sentence of imprisonment in place of the death penalty for which they clamoured. His position in the chamber became one of much influence, and he had a large share in the modelling of the new constitution, though his effort to secure a hereditary peerage failed. Above all he was instrumental in framing the new criminal code, based on more humanitarian principles, which was issued in 1835. It was due to him that, in 1832, the right, so important in actual French practice, was given to juries to find "extenuating circumstances" in cases when guilt involved the death penalty. In 1831 he had been made a member of the court of appeal (cour de cassation}, and the same year was nominated a member of the Academy of Political and Moral Sciences (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques).  He was raised to the peerage in 1839. This status he lost owing to the revolution of 1848 which ended his career as a politician. As a judge, however, his activity continued. He was president of the high courts of Bourges and Versailles in 1849. Having been appointed president of one of the chambers of the court of appeal, he devoted himself entirely to judicial work until his retirement, under the age limit, on 31 May 1860.  He now withdrew to his native town, and occupied himself with his favorite work of reform of criminal law. In 1833, he had shared in the foundation of a society for the reclamation of young criminals, in which he continued to be actively interested to the end. In 1851 and 1852, on the commission of the academy of moral sciences, he had travelled in France and England for the purpose of examining and comparing the penal systems in the two countries. The result was published in 1855 under the title La Répression pénale, comparaison du système pénitentiaire en France et en Angleterre.  ALS, 1847, 1p, approx. 8-1/4 x 10-1/2".  VG........100-150

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157. [FRANCE] Émile-Jacques Gilbert (1795 - 1874)  French architect.  In 1838 Gilbert was commissioned to reconstruct the hospital for the insane at Charenton along modern more humane lines recommended by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol; the new structure was completed in 1845. In 1843 Gilbert, as Architect of the City of Paris, was commissioned to erect the first of the model penitentiaries following designs of Guillaume-Abel Blouet, the Mazas Prison, in Paris.[1] In 1858 he was commissioned to build the new Hôtel Dieu opposite Notre Dame on the Île de la Cité, Paris. Lengthy 1p. ALS, 1855, approx. 8-1/4 x 10-3/4". Speaks of hygiene in architecture. VG...........100-150

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158.  [FRANCE] Paul Lacroix (1806-1884), French author and journalist, was born in Paris, the son of a novelist.  He is best known under his pseudonym of P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by the constant interest he took in public libraries and books generally. Lacroix was an extremely prolific and varied writer. More than twenty historical romances alone came from his pen, and he also wrote a variety of serious historical works, including a history of Napoleon III, and the life and times of the Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. He was the joint author with Ferdinand Séré of a five-volume work, Le moyen âge et la renaissance (1847), a standard work on the manners, customs and dress of those times, the chief merit of which lies in the great number of illustrations it contains. His works on bibliography were also extremely numerous, as was his periodical Revue universelle des arts [Universal Review of the Arts], which he founded in 1855. In 1885 he was appointed librarian of the Arsenal Library, Paris.  ALS, no date, 2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8". VG..............100-150

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

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

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161. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste du Chilleau (1735-1824) French prelate and theologian. He became chancellor to Marie Leczinska, and some time later to Marie Antoinette, and in 1781 was appointed bishop of Chalons-sur-Saone. At the time of the revolution he opposed, very strongly, the religious reforms instituted by the constitutional assembly, and left France. He protested, in 1803, with fifty-eight other bishops, against the concordat of 1801. On returning to France, in 1814, he gave in his resignation as bishop; but was appointed, in 1819, archbishop of Tours, and peer of France in 1822. Superb manuscript document signed, do not see date, 1p, 7-1/4 x 9-1/2". About the famous Abbe D'Anstrude........100-150

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162.  [FRANCE] Pierre Louis Parisis - Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of Langres from 1835 to 1851. He was one of the strongest right wing figures in the French Catholic Church of his era. In 1847 he formed the Archconfraternity of Reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of Sunday to promote Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ. He is also noted for his efforts within the Assembly of 1848 for establishing the ecclesiastical college of St. Dizier and for his discussions concerning the educational reforms. He was a member of the commission which prepared the draft project for the Falloux Laws increasing the Catholic clergy's influence in French education. ALS, 1855, 1p, 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 in. Addressed to De Loisne. Not translated. VG...........100-150

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

164. [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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

174. [FRANCE] Marie de Sombreuil (1774-1823) French Revolution heroine who saved her father from the guillotine. Her father was Charles François de Virot (Marquis de Sombreuil. 1725-1794) French Royalist general of the Ancien Regime and French Revolutionary Wars. He rose to become maréchal de camp, hero of the Battle of Rocoux and governor of Les Invalides before being guillotined in 1794. Marie was known as Mademoiselle de Sombreuil. She saved her father from the guillotine in September 1792. As the death sentence was about to be carried out, she climbed on the scaffold, called the crowd to witness and begged the executioner to spare her father. He offered to pardon the condemned man if she agreed to drink a glass of blood from the previous beheading. Legend says this is what she did. Her epitaph on the tomb: Victim of filial love she only lived to console and succour the unfortunate. Her wounded heart could only be healed by death. Her reward was in Heaven." While Mademoiselle Sombreuil's body rests in peace in Avignon, her heart resides in an urn at Les Invalides in Paris, where her father had previously served as governor. Her's is one of the most haunting and bizarre stories to come down to us from the French Revolution. Her life was unremarkable and probably no different to that of any other aristocratic girl of the time until the 16th of August 1792 when her beloved father was imprisoned in the Abbaye along with other members of the nobility who had sided with the royal family during the fall of the Tuileries. Marie courageously demanded to share her father's imprisonment and so was at his side on the 2nd September when a makeshift tribunal and mob arrived at the Abbaye as part of the infamous Prison Massacres. When the Marquis de Sombreuil was called before the tribunal, his brave daughter went with him and implored their captors and the 'judges' to be lenient, reminding them of her father's many years of faithful service and old age. Finally she informed them that if they wished to harm the Marquis, then they would have to kill her also. It is at this point the accounts of what happened next vary. The legend goes that the jeering guards, who were seated upon a pile of corpses belonging to those that they had already slaughtered, then filled a glass with the blood of their victims and handed it to Mademoiselle de Sombreuil, telling her that her father would be spared if she drank the ghastly beverage. 'One of the ruffians, touched by her resolution, called out that they should be allowed to pass if the girl would drink to the health of the nation. The whole court was swimming with blood, and the glass he held out to her was full of something red. Marie would not shudder. She drank, and with the applause of the assassins ringing in her ears, she passed with her father over the threshold of the fatal gates, into such freedom and safety as Paris could then afford. Never again could she see a glass of red wine without a shudder, and it was generally believed that it was actually a glass of blood that she had swallowed, though she always averred that this was an exaggeration, and that it had been only her impression before tasting it that so horrible a draught was offered to her.' Unfortunately for the heroic Mademoiselle de Sombreuil, her father and younger brother, Stanislas (1768-1794) were again arrested a year later and she would share their imprisonment at Port-Libre and Sainte-Pélagie before the Marquis and Stanislas were guillotined on the 17th June 1794. Mademoiselle de Sombreuil remained in prison and was treated as a heroine by the other prisoners until she was eventually liberated after the fall of Robespierre in July 1794. Sadly, there was more tragedy in store for the unfortunate young woman when her youngest and most beloved brother, Charles Eugène de Sombreuil (born 11th July 1770), who had been fighting with the Royalist forces in Brittany, was captured after a failed invasion of France at Quiberon and was executed, alongside 750 of his fellow soldiers (450 of whom were aristocrats) by firing squad by order of Lazare Hoche, who had previously promised during negotiations with Sombreuil that the lives of all Royalist troops would be spared. Poor Mademoiselle de Sombreuil, the sole survivor of a family that had been destroyed by revolution and war was to mourn her father and brothers for the rest of her life. On the 23rd July 1796 she was to marry an emigré, the Comte de Villelum, but there were no children. She died in Avignon on the 15th of May 1823. Rare ALS, no date, 1-page, approx. 4.5 x 6.5. Superb condition. Not translated..........200-300

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175. [MUSIC] Eric Coates (1886-1957) English composer of light music and a viola player. Clip signature............20-30

176. 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

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

Portrait of Gozlan

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

Portrait of Gozlan

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

180. 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

181. [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

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

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183. 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

185. [SPORTS] BONNIE BLAIR - American Speed Skater - Olympic Gold Medalist - won the U. S. indoor title in 1983, 1984, and 1986, and was the North American indoor champion in 1985. She became a definite Olympic contender by setting a world record of 39.43 seconds in the 500-meter event at the 1987 worlds. At the 1988 Olympics, Blair set another world record to win a gold medal in the 500-meter event. After winning the world over-all sprint title in 1989, she finished second in 1990 and third in 1991 and entered the 1992 Olympics as a favorite in the 500-meter and a strong contender in the 1,000-meter. She won both, becoming the first skater ever to win two consecutive gold medals in the 500-meter sprint, and she received the Sullivan Award as the nation's outstanding amateur athlete. SIGNED 8x10 color photograph.............20-30

186. [NY] Jno. D. Van Buren (1811-1885) merchant from New York City, assemblyman in 1863, and Governor John T. Hoffman's private secretary. He became head of the importing-house of Benjamin Aymar & Co., NYC. He aided Sec. Salmon P. Chase in drafting tax, and other financial bills. He was a frequent writer for the press on financial legislation. ALS, 1873, 1p, to (Nelson Hopkins, State Comptroller). He wants copy of speech by Senator Jas. Woods for Gov. Hoffman. Tipped to another sheet. VG.......35-45

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187. 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

188. 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

189. [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

190. [MARYLAND] Thomas Swann (1809-1883) American politician. Initially a Know-Nothing, and later a Democrat, he served as mayor of Baltimore (1856–1860), as the 33rd Governor of Maryland (1866–1869), and as U.S. Representative from Maryland's 3rd congressional district and then 4th congressional district (1869–1879).  In eulogy, the Baltimore Sun criticized his early political errors, but nevertheless credited him as "a great mayor, conferring inestimable benefits on the city he governed; not only was he a wise and beneficient governor to the oppressed portion of the citizens of the State, but he was one of the most useful and influential Congressmen this State or city ever had."  Large Document Signed as Governor, 1868, appointment of Jacob D. Wolfe to Office of Registration. Also signed by the Sec. of State, John M. Carter [b. 1843].  Approx. 16 x 10.5".  Three folds o/w superb condition.............80-120

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Portrait of Gov. Swann

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

206. [CABINET] WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH (1917-1990) American Cabinet Official - Smith was one of several wealthy Republicans who urged Ronald Reagan to run for governor and was a leading backer of Reagan's successful 1966 bid. As governor, Reagan appointed Smith as a member of the University of California Board of Regents. Smith remained a strong backer of Reagan's political aspirations and was a member of Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" during the 1980 presidential campaign. Following President Reagan's inauguration in 1981, Smith became attorney general; he served until his resignation in 1985. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 color portrait with sentiment...........25-35

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

218.  [SUPREME COURT] Warren E. Burger (1907 - 1995) was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Mounted 7 x 9 photograph signed on the mount. Overall 10 x 13. Very slight soiling in margin and corner bump. None of this really affects...........100-150

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219. [MUSIC] Johnny Desmond (1919-1985) American popular music singer.  Signed vintage album page...........25-35

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

221. [MARYLAND] Thomas Ward Veazey (1774-1842)  Maryland politician that served in a variety of roles. The zenith of his career was being the 24th Governor of the state from 1836 to 1839, when he was selected to serve three consecutive one-year terms by the Maryland General Assembly. Veazey was the last Maryland governor to be elected in this fashion and also the last Whig Party member to serve as Maryland governor. The governor vehemently and firmly believed in slavery, advocated for a general system of education throughout the State, and expressed a great deal of interest and concern over the matter of internal improvements.  DOCUMENT SIGNED as Governor, 1837, appointment of Justices of the Levy Court of Frederick County.  Approx. 16 x 10. Also signed by Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition............100-150

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Portrait of Gov. Veazey

222. [MARYLAND] Thomas G. Pratt (1804-1869) He was the 27th Governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. Senator from 1850 to 1857.  When the American Civil War began, Pratt was eyed suspiciously by Maryland authorities, as he was staunchly pro-slavery, but mostly pro-South, and even gave a son to the Confederate Army. In 1863, Pratt tried to vote in the November election. He was not allowed to vote because he would not take a loyalty oath. Pratt and his secretary Col. Nicholson were arrested because of the refusal on November 21, 1863. He was imprisoned at Fort Monroe, but was later released. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1864, resuming the practice of law. The same year, Pratt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In 1866, he attended the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. Pratt was one of the attorneys for Jefferson Davis during his trial at Fortress Monroe.  DOCUMENT SIGNED as Governor, 1844, appointment of  District Justices.  Approx. 15-3/4 x 10-1/4. Also signed by Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition............80-120

223. [MARYLAND] Francis Thomas (1799-1876) was a Maryland politician who served as the 26th Governor of Maryland from 1842–1844. He also served as a United States Representative from Maryland, representing at separate times the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh districts. In 1841, Thomas was elected Governor of Maryland, defeating challenger William Cost Johnson by a margin of 600 votes. During his tenure as governor, he is perhaps best known for his highly publicized and violent divorce with his wife, Sally Campbell Preston McDowell. Until that event, he had been a leading candidate for Democratic nomination for President of the United States, but the divorce seriously disrupted his chances in succeeding in the nomination, and thus he did not pursue it.  DOCUMENT SIGNED as Governor, 1845, appointment of  District Justices.  Approx. 15-3/4 x 10-1/4. Also signed by Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition............100-150

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225. [FILM]  Brian Aherne  (1902-1986)  British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood.  Aherne made his talkie debut in Madame Guillotine (1931). After a few more British talkies he moved on to lead roles in Hollywood, where he made over thirty films, including I Live My Life (1935), the multi-Oscar nominated brilliant ditzy comedy Merrily We Live (1938), Oscar-nominated for his role as Emperor Maxmilian in Juarez (1939), Vigil in the Night (1940), his best film, the 1948 psychological film noir, The Locket, Titanic (1953), and The Best of Everything (1959). In 1945, he played sleuth Simon Templar in the radio mystery series, The Saint.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo showing him in his early years. VG...........50-75

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226. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. Fine. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it................50-75

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227. MYSTERY LOT - 11 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..............50-75

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228. [ART]  Richard Carle - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing,  unsigned of Hyde Park [Mass], dated 1973, approx. 8.5 x 12". VG...........80-120

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229. W(ashington) Allston (1799-1843) American poet and influential painter, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina . Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color. ALS [stampless folded letter], Cambridge Port [Mass], 18 June, 1830, 1p, plus address leaf with postal marking. "Dear Baldwin, Will you present Mrs. Allston's and my regards to Mrs. Baldwin, and say that we regret it will not be in our power to avail ourselves of her obliging invitation for Monday Evening as we have found it necessary to decline all Parties - and, that we may avoid giving offence to anyone, we are obliged to make the rule general. Now for myself - I will wait on you at four o'clock on Thursday with great pleasure. If I can get to Charlestown early enough, I shall be glad to increase my thirst by a visit to your Dry Dock." Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780-1838) the son of noted engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin and was himself a prominent civil engineer. Very few light foxing spots o/w VG........300-400

230. [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..........25-35

231. (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...............75-100

232. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Original vintage photograph of Robert F. Kennedy  waving to the crowd after speaking in behalf of Lyndon B. Johnson.  This vintage photo was taken by the photographer Frank Mastro, the famed celebrity photographer probably best remembered for his photos of Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. 5x5.  Likely unpublished. We own the original negative. Fine......100-150

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233. [MUSIC] Johnny Mathis (b. 1935) American singer of popular music.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........40-60

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

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

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

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

239. [FRANCE] LETTRES PATENTES Du Roi, 1764, 12-pages, approx. 7x9".  From the old Royal regime on Jesuits. Rare! Superb condition for any age................100-150

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240. [AMERICAN SCIENCE] a special cover from Japan postmarked 1959 signed by:  John H. Northrop (1891-1987) Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Selman Waksman (1888-1973) Nobel Prize; coined the  antibiotics;  promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.  VG...........100-150

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

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

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

244. [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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245.  Chet Huntley  (1911-1974) American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.  Signed 1950 bank check.  See scan for condition..........40-60

246. (OLD MASTER) JAN VAN TROYEN - Brussels ( flourished 1650-1660) b. Antwerp. Etching pulled from the original plate, 9 x 6.5 in. plus margins. On old laid paper. Difficult to date but circa 200-300 years old. Etching most probably from D. Teniers' "Theatre des Peintures"-1660,  published in Amsterdam in 1755. Old mounting remains on back affect nothing........100-150

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247. [ART] Domenico PRONTI (act.c.1790) 2 original 18th century engravings on the same sheet. "Chiesa e Basilica di S.Paolo Apost." and "Chiesa e Basilica di s. Groce in Gerusalemme" copper engraving published in Nuova Raccolta ... Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze by Domenico Pronti, about 1790. Plate mark and good margins. Each approx. 3 x 4.5". VG...........100-150

248. 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........50-75

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249. [MUSIC] Paul-Bernard Barroilhet (1810-1871)  French operatic baritone.   He began his career in Italy during the early 1830s, performing under the name Paolo Barroilhet and making a name for himself as an exceptional singer, particularly in Naples. He returned to France in 1840 to join the roster of artists at the Opéra National de Paris, where he performed under his birth name. However, he left the Paris Opera in 1847 after differences with the company's management. The by now wealthy Bairrolhet elected to withdraw completely from the stage and he found a new vocation as a painter and art collector. He came out of retirement briefly for appearances in Madrid in 1851–1852, performing Don Carlo in Ernani.  Barroilhet is best remembered today for originating roles in several operas by Gaetano Donizetti and Fromental Halévy. For Donizetti he created Eustachio de Saint-Pierre in L'assedio di Calais (1836), the Lord Duke of Nottingham in Roberto Devereux (1837), Alfonso XI of Castile in La favorite (1840), and Camoëns in Dom Sebastien (1843). The Halevy roles he created include King Lusignan in La reine de Chypre (1841), the title role in the premiere of Charles VI (1843) and Mirobolante in Le lazzarone, ou Le bien vient en dormant (1844).  Other world premières in which he sang include Saverio Mercadante's La vestale (Publio) and Elena da Feltre (Guido), Il Conte di Chalais by Giuseppe Lillo, Richard en Palestine by Adolphe Adam and Marie Stuart by Louis Niedermeyer. He also sang the title-role in the pasticcio opera, Robert Bruce, in which Niedermeyer had adapted music from various operas by Rossini.  ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4"............100-150

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

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

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252. [ART] Ross Turner (1847-1915) American artist.  Ross Sterling Turner was born in Westport, New York, and after a brief career as a draftsman traveled to Europe where he studied painting under Frank Duveneck and William Merritt Chase in Germany and Venice Italy.  Turner returned to America after seven years abroad and settled in Salem, Mass.  shortly after his marriage to Louise Blaney in 1885.  He taught in the architecture department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 30 years and also in the Massachusetts Normal Art School. Turner also offered private instruction in his Boston studio and during the summers in Gloucester or Salem.  He wrote a number of books  and frequently exhibited with the American Watercolor Society. An article about the artist in the Boston Transcript in 1888 claimed that "probably there is no one in the locality that knows more about the manipulation of watercolors, their scope, properties, and legitimate place."  The Peabody Essex Museum owns a wonderful watercolor of a Salem garden by Turner and also many of his sketch books and personal papers. Original etching, plate signed, plate mark approx. 2-3/4 x 3" plus margins. VG...........40-60

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

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

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256. [ENGLAND] John Plampin (1727?-1805) British Naval officer; father of Robert Plampin the more noted naval officer. John Plampin's portrait was painted by Thomas Gainsborough circa 1752, and hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Document Signed by John Plampin, Seth Bull and Richard Hodge. DATED 1786 - BOND FOR PEACEABLE EMPLOYMENT, 3pp, approx. 8-1/4 x 13". VG. Parly toned on front page......100-150

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257. [MEDICINE] JOHN MILLAR [1733-1805] PHYSICIAN AND MEDICAL WRITER. His "Observations of the Asthma..." published in 1769. In 1774, Millar was appointed physician to the Westminister General Dispensary. Fine ALS, 1797 noted in docket on verso, no place, 1p, 4to. "Sir - Having submitted, through the proper office, a Memorial on Military Medical Arrangements, to His Majesty in ..... it is a duty incumbent on me to present the enclosed Papers [not present] on that subject for your consideration, I have the honour to be....." FINE CONDITION...........80-120

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258.  Blanche Butler Ames (1847-1939) was the wife of Adelbert Ames, a decorated general of the American Civil War and Senator and Governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction.  Blanche Butler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the second child and only daughter of Sarah Jones  and Benjamin Franklin Butler, who would also serve as a general in the Civil War. She attended school in Lowell until she was sent to the Academy of the Visitation in Washington, D.C. at age 13, where she described the sectional tension between northern and southern students on the eve of the Civil War.  Blanche met Adelbert Ames, who had served under her father in the Army of the James, while he was serving as Senator from Mississippi during Reconstruction. They married at Saint Anne's Episcopal Church in Lowell, the same church where her parents were wed, on July 21, 1870, and had six children: Butler, Edith, Sarah, Blanche, Adelbert, Jr., and Jessie. When her husband was elected Governor of Mississippi in 1873, Blanche accompanied him, and wrote a series of letters detailing her experiences as a Northern woman living in the South during Reconstruction. After Adelbert resigned under pressure in 1876, the Ames family returned to Lowell to pursue business interests, where they remained for much the rest of their lives.  After her husband's death in 1933, Mrs. Ames compiled a collection of their letters, released by the family as Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: Family Letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames in 1957. She died at the Ames winter home in Ormond Beach, Florida, on December 26, 1939, at the age of 92, and is buried beside her husband and their children at the Hildreth family cemetery in Lowell, across from her parents and siblings.  ALS, on Colonial Dames of New Hampshire stationery, 1899, 3 pages, 4x6". Fine.  To Miss Garland re: New Hampshire history................50-75
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259.  William Rawle Jr., (1788-1858) noted American lawyer. He followed in his father's footsteps, not only joining his law firm but also holding a membership at the American Philosophical Society and positions on the boards of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania, as had his father. In addition to his own family legacy in the legal profession, William Rawle Jr. married into a prestigious legal family-his wife, Mary Anna Tilghman, was the daughter of prominent Philadelphia lawyer Edward Tilghman and the granddaughter of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew. ADS, 1841, 1p, approx. 8x4". Receipt for $9,342.60 from Rowland G. Hazard. VG............50-75

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260. [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........100-150

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262. [INVENTOR] The Reverend Robert Willis (1800-1875) English academic. He was the first Cambridge professor to win widespread recognition as a mechanical engineer, and first set the scientific study of vowels on a respectable foundation, but now best remembered for his extensive architectural writings, including a 4-volume treatise on the architecture of the University of Cambridge. Willis's theory of vowel production assumed a close correspondence between vowel production and the production of musical notes using an organ: the lung acted as a bellows, the vocal folds acted as the reed, and the mouth cavity acted as the organ pipe. Different vowels corresponded to mouth cavities(/organ pipes) of different lengths, which were independent of the properties or vibrations of the vocal folds(/reed). Willis's 1830 paper On vowel sounds, and on reed-organ pipes is usually given as the reference for this theory, and is often contrasted with Wheatstone's "harmonic" theory of vowel production.Russell devotes two chapters to the discussion of these two theories in his 1928 book on The Vowel , and Willis and Wheatstone figure prominently in the discussion of vowel theories given by Chiba and Kajiyama in their 1941 book of the same name. ALS, Cambridge, 1851, 2pp. He returns something which he fears he has kept too long / have looked on them carefully and made necessary alterations / return proofs of my plates which are very well executed, etc. VG. EXCESSIVELY RARE!.....100-200

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263. Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset PC (1711-1769) British nobleman, politician, and cricketer. He was styled Lord Buckhurst from 1711 to 1720 and Earl of Middlesex from 1720 to 1765. He was bitterly opposed, politically, to his father, and ventured to oppose his candidates in the boroughs he controlled. He became an ally of Frederick, Prince of Wales. In the 1734 election, he was defeated at Kent, but was returned as Member of Parliament for East Grinstead. He was appointed Captain of Walmer Castle in September. He continued to sit for East Grinstead until 26 May 1741, when he accepted the office of High Steward of the Honour of Otford. He was returned for Sussex in a by-election in 1742, and for Old Sarum at the 1747 election. He served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1743 until 1747, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Sussex on 20 October 1745. He was appointed Master of the Horse to the Prince of Wales in 1747, and served until Frederick's death in 1751. Middlesex married Hon. Grace Boyle, daughter and heir of Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, on 30 October 1744, but they had no children. During the 1754 election, he unsuccessfully contested Westminster, and held no seat until the next election. He returned to the House of Commons as Member for East Grinstead from 1761 until 1765. In that year, he succeeded his father as Duke of Dorset, and also as Lord Lieutenant of Kent, and was made a Privy Councillor in 1766. However, he did not long enjoy the ducal honours. Upon his death in 1769 in London, he was succeeded by his nephew, John Sackville. ALS, Asley, June 14, 1752, 1-1/2pp. Concerns monetary matters. Small chip missing bottom edge affecting one words o/w very good condition for its age........75-100

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265. [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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266. [FILM] Irving Salkow  (1909-1989)  Legendary Hollywood agent. This is one of the first and most historic agencies in town, for it was founded by Salkow in 1940, during the golden age of Hollywood. One of the agents during this time was Ray Stark, who later turned into one of the industry's premier movie directors. Some of Salkow's clients at that time were movie stars Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe and William Holden.   TLS, signed Irv, 1963, brief 1-page, to Milt Ebbins regarding William Asher. Stapled to letter is TLS signed by William Asher (1921-2012)  was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is  credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom.  VG...........100-150
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267. [RELIGION] Pierre-Paul Guérin de Tencin (1679-1758), French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal. His sister Claudine was a spur to his career. After studying with the Oratorians in his native Grenoble, he entered the Sorbonne, where he became prior in 1702, and obtained the doctorate in 1705. He was then appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Sens and, in 1721, accompanied Cardinal de Rohan[2] to Rome as his conclavist, to support the candidacy of Cardinal Conti (Innocent XIII), from whom he had obtained a promise to bestow the purple on the French minister Guillaume Dubois. He remained at Rome as French chargé d'affaires, with the appointment in commendam of abbot of Trois-Fontaines to support him (1739-1753), until Benedict XIII, with whom he was on cordial terms of intimacy and very influential, consecrated him Archbishop of Embrun (26 June 1724). On 22 February 1739, Guérin de Tencin was created cardinal, of the titulus of Sts. Nereus and Achilleus. He remained at Rome as French ambassador until 1742, when he took possession of the archiepiscopal see of Lyon, to which he had succeeded on 19 November 1740. Louis XV appointed him minister of state in September 1742, though he held no portfolio, and Commander of the Order of Saint-Esprit. He was overzealous in the persecution of the Jansenists, and, at the provincial synod which he held at Embrun from 16 August to 28 September, 1727, he suspended Jean Soanen, Bishop of Senez, a prelate eighty years of age, who had appealed against the Bull Unigenitus. After the death of André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury , the prime minister to whom he owed much of his political advancement, his influence began to decrease. The death of his profligate sister in 1749, removed some of his political ambition, and in 1752 he retired to his see of Lyons. Offered here is ALS, 1735, 1p, approx. 7 x 10 in. Not translated. Excellent condition...............100-150

268. [THEATRE] Lee Simonson  (1888-1967, Yonkers, N.Y.)  a major force in American scenic design, discovered in his youth what the "painters' and designers' vision could do to revivify the theater." After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1909, he went to Paris hoping to become a mural painter. There he formed friendships with such expatriate Americans as writer and collector Gertrude Stein and painter Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He also attended some of the most experimental European theatrical productions, and when he returned to New York in 1912, he was determined to launch his career as a set designer.  He was influential in freeing American stage design from constraints imposed by traditional realism. ALS on back of postcard, 1933.........50-75

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269. [GERMANY] Karl Carstens (1914-1992)  German politician who served as President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1979 to 1984.  Signed 5x8 FDC honoring German Leaders, including himself. Fine.........50-75

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270. [FILM]  AILEEN PRINGLE (1895-1989) Silent Screen Star.  ALS, 1969, 2pp,  small mounting trace top 2nd page.  Ink smudge at end of signature. She mentions Gloria Swanson, Norma Shearer..............60-80

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273. [FRANCE]  Jean-François-Anne Landriot (1816-1874)  French bishop, Ordained in 1839 from the seminary of Autun, he became, after a few years spent at the cathedral, successively superior of the seminary, 1842; vicar-general 1850; Bishop of La Rochelle, 1856, and Archbishop of Reims, 1867.  During his ten years at La Rochelle he restored the cathedral, organized the Propagation of the Faith and the Peter's-pence collections, and won a reputation as a pulpit orator. At Reims, besides preaching many Advent and Lenten stations, he raised a large subscription for the pontifical army, established several educational institutions, founded an asylum for the aged, and entrusted St. Walfroy to the Priests of the Mission. As a member of the First Vatican Council, he deemed inopportune the definition of papal infallibility, but, once decreed, he adhered to its promulgation and wrote to his diocesans urging them to accept it. Lacroix ("Mgr. Landriot pendant l'occupation allemande", Reims, 1898) shows Landriot's influence in allaying the measure of rigor resorted to by the victorious Germans during their occupation of Reims in 1870. In the question of the ancient classics Landriot refused to subscribe to the extreme views of Jean-Joseph Gaume and L'Univers.  ALS, 1866, 1p., 5-1/4 x 8-3/8".  Ink smudge affects one word..........100-150

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

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

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

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

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

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280. (LEAGUE OF NATIONS). AUGUSTO ROSSO (1885-1964). Italian diplomat. Delegate to meetings of Council and Assembly of the League of Nations [1927-32]; including Reparations Conference, The Hague [1929], and Naval Conference in London [1930]; ambassador to the U.S. [from 1932]. Signed 1912 bank check. Cancellation near but doesn't touch signature................50-75

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

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

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

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

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

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290. [KUHN ESTATE]  The following from the Estate of Walt, Vera and Brenda Kuhn. [1] a 4-1/2 x 3-1/4" photo of the Walt Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, maine, taken by his daughter Brenda. [2] a 1989 Midtown Galleries exhibition brochure for Walt Kuhn.  [3] receipt for Walt Kuhn's property tax bill, Wells, Maine, 1941.  This would have been for the house shown in the photo offered here.  [4] Walter Hatch TLS, 1941, to Walt Kuhn, saying there was an error in in tax bill. All items are directly from the Kuhn Estate...........100-150

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291. [AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING] ORIGINAL auction catalogue for sale No. 3976, May 10 & 11, 1932, the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. { believe Sotheby's now], NY. Offered in this auction are First Editions, Literary and Historical Autograph Letters and Manuscripts / A Portrait From Life of Abraham Lincoln, etc. 86 pages. octavo, plus paper covers. Cover & spine soiled and chipped. Lot 273 is the portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a fullpage illustration. Years ago, when we first got involved in autographs, catalogs and books about autographs were highlt collectible. Interest seems to have waned in recent years, probably due to the internet...........40-60

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

294. [CARTOON]  Vic Herman  (1919-1999) His Illustrations and cartoon art appeared in newspapers throughout the USA and in top level slicks: The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Liberty, Life, Look, Redbook, and Argosy. He received multiple entries in the "Best of Cartoons of the Year" in the 1940's and 50's.  In his later life, he became interested in "serious" art and fell in love with the people south of the border. He was known as the "Norman Rockwell of Mexico" and "Ambassador With A Brush."  TLS, 1947, 1p. Top corners tipped to another page. .............50-75

296. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6-1/4 x 7-1/2 in. sheet. Fine. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it................80-120

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297. Percy MacKaye (1875–1956)  American dramatist and poet. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo, 1935. Only minor faults. VG......60-80

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298. [MUSIC] CHARLES STROUSE (b. 1928) American composer and lyricist. AMQS on colorful 1985 FDC honoring Jerome Kern - quote from "Bye Bye Birdie" - "Put On A Happy Face". Fine........50-75

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

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

301. 18th century engraving of the Monument of King William Rufus, plate size 14-3/4 x 9" plus slim margins. Excellent condition, esp. for its age.........75-100

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

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

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304. [ENGLAND] Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (1802-1894), known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman.  He was the eldest son of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. ALS, Whitehall, 1855, 1p, folio. To Lord Fortescue. "My Lord. I have the honor to lay before the Queen your Lordships letter of 23rd inst. and I am to inform you that Her Majesty does not disapprove of the undenucutioned [?] promotion & appointment in the 1st ___? Devon ____?  Cavalry....."  Fine.........50-75

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305. [FILM] Lois Moran (1909-1990) American film actress. Her career began in 1921, and Moran appeared in a couple of silent movies in the early 1920s. She is probably best known for her role, as Laurel Dallas, daughter of the title role in the 1925 film Stella Dallas. She appeared in early sound movies such as Behind That Curtain (1929), and some musical movies, such as A Song of Kentucky (1929), Words and Music (1929), and Mammy (1930). Like many actors and actresses from the silent film era, she did not make a successful transition to the talkies. She also had a brief affair with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald while he was married to Zelda Fitzgeral. 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). In 1935, she married Clarence M. Young, Secretary of Commerce, and retired from Hollywood. Really nice letter talking about her career; mentions Lillian Gish, Betty Davis, Henry King the director of Stella, Colleen Moore, etc. ALS, Arizona, 1988, filling both sides of 7-1/4 x 10-1/2 stationery. Fine.............50-75

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

307. [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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308. [ART]  John W. Casilear   (1811-1893)  American landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School.  Casilear was born in New York City. His first professional training was under prominent New York engraver Peter Maverick in the 1820s, then with Asher Durand, himself an engraver at the time. Casilear and Durand became friends, and both worked as engravers in New York through the 1830s.  By the middle 1830s Durand had become interested in landscape painting through his friendship with Thomas Cole. Durand, in turn, drew Casilear's attention to painting. By 1840 Casilear's interest in art was sufficiently strong to accompany Durand, John Frederick Kensett, and artist Thomas P. Rossiter on a European trip during which they sketched scenes, visited art museums, and fostered their interest in painting.   Casilear gradually developed his talent in landscape art, painting in the style that was later to become known as the Hudson River School. By the middle 1850s he had entirely ceased his engraving career in favor of painting full-time. He was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1851, having been an associate member since 1831, and exhibited his works there for over fifty years.  Casilear died in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1893. Today examples of his art are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and Ringwood Manor, Ringwood, NJ. Original engraving, title  "A SIBYL". Engraved  in 1847 for the American Art-Union; after a painting by Daniel Huntington. The American Art Union was a major force in the development and promotion of American art. The print was reissued in 1880 by The American Art Review, the leading art publication of the 1880s, and a devoted supporter of the Etching Revival.  This is the 1880 edition. Image approx. 9 7/8" x 7 5/8".  VG..............100-150

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309.  [ART] Robert Walker Macbeth (1848-1910) Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre. His The Cast Shoewas bought by the Chantrey Bequest in 1890, and is now at Tate Britain. From 1871 Macbeth exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery and the Fine Art Society in London. There were also exhibitions in the regions at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in Birmingham, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery. In the same year (1871) Macbeth was made an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) becoming a full member in 1901. He became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE) in 1880, and an honorary member in 1909. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and in 1883 was elected to be a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). In 1883 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy (RA), becoming a full member in 1903. Original etching, signed in the plate [lower right], approx. 3-1/2 x 5-5/8" plus clean margins. Still has tissue guard showing title "Die Vernon at Judge Inglewood's." Of Macbeth's own design and etched by him. Fine.............50-75

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310. [ART] George Cruikshank (1792-1878) British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Original Etching - title "MEG DODS AND CAPTAIN MAC TURK". Image is approx. 3-1/8 x 5" plus clean margins. Tissue guard still attached. Fine condition......50-75

311. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of John C. Fremont, 5-1/2 x 7-1/2" image.  VG.......20-30

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312. [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

313. [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

314. [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

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

317. SPEECH Of MR. VINTON - On The EMIGRATION Of INDIANS. Delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 20, 1828. [pamphlet] Samuel Finley Vinton, [1792 - 1862]. In the speech Mr. Vinton states, "It so happens, that various tribes of the Indians inhabit greater of less portions of these States; which shut out the white population from thier Territory, and thus cut off from improvement so much of these States as the Indian country embraces. All the States feel a strong and very natural desire to increase thier population; and from this cause, more than from any other single circumstnace, the Indians are every where regarded as a burthen, which all are anxious to throw off as soon as possible." This speech was given two years before the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. 8 x 4-3/4". 1st printing (American Imprints 37025; ). 28 pp. Less foxing than you would experct. Quite nice for such an early pamphlet..............100-150

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

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

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

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

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

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325. [FRANCE] Adolphe Perraud (1828-1906)  French Cardinal and academician.  Three ALSs, 1878, 1894, and 1904, total 11 pages........150-200

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

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

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

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

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

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335. [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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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353. [FILM] Kim Novak  (b. 1933)  American actress. Signed, inscribed 4.5 x 7 photo. VG...............25-35

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

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

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

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

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

365. [TV] Robert Urich (1946-2002) American film, television and stage actor and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, Urich starred in a record 15 television series.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........40-60

366. [ART] LOUIS MEYNELL (b. 1868) American) Etching, plate signed and dated 1903, image about 3-1/8 x 5" plus margins. VG..........40-60

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367. [ART] Original 18th  century portrait of John Colet (1467-1519) the  English churchman and educational pioneer.  Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Colet wanted people to see the scripture as their guide through life. Furthermore, he wanted to restore theology and rejuvenate Christianity. Colet is an important early leader of Christian humanism as he linked humanism and reform. Colet influenced Erasmus, a key figure in Christian humanism. During his time abroad he became acquainted with Budaeus (Guillaume Budé) and Erasmus, and with the teaching of Savonarola. On his return to England in 1496 he took orders and settled at Oxford, where he lectured on the epistles of Saint Paul, replacing the old scholastic method of interpretation with one more in harmony with the new learning. Due to their influences, when he arrived back in England, he returned more than just a humanist; he returned a Christian reformer. His methods did much to influence Erasmus, who visited Oxford in 1498, and who later received an annuity from Colet. This original mezzotint portrait is by Richard Houston (1721?–1775)  who was an 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.  Cropped and mounted many years ago, the image is approx. 10-1/4 x 7-3/4" plus margins. VG...............200-300

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368. [ART] Original 18th  century portrait of Martin Bucer (early German: Martin Butzer) (1491-1551) the Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices. Bucer was originally a member of the Dominican Order, but after meeting and being influenced by Martin Luther in 1518 he arranged for his monastic vows to be annulled. He then began to work for the Reformation, with the support of Franz von Sickingen. Bucer's efforts to reform the church in Wissembourg resulted in his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, and he was forced to flee to Strasbourg. There he joined a team of reformers which included Matthew Zell, Wolfgang Capito, and Caspar Hedio. He acted as a mediator between the two leading reformers, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, who differed on the doctrine of the eucharist. Later, Bucer sought agreement on common articles of faith such as the Tetrapolitan Confession and the Wittenberg Concord, working closely with Philipp Melanchthon on the latter. Bucer believed that the Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire could be convinced to join the Reformation. Through a series of conferences organised by Charles V, he tried to unite Protestants and Catholics to create a German national church separate from Rome. He did not achieve this, as political events led to the Schmalkaldic War and the retreat of Protestantism within the Empire. In 1548, Bucer was persuaded, under duress, to sign the Augsburg Interim, which imposed certain forms of Catholic worship. However, he continued to promote reforms until the city of Strasbourg accepted the Interim, and forced him to leave. In 1549, Bucer was exiled to England, where, under the guidance of Thomas Cranmer, he was able to influence the second revision of the Book of Common Prayer. He died in Cambridge, England, at the age of 59. Although his ministry did not lead to the formation of a new denomination, many Protestant denominations have claimed him as one of their own. He is remembered as an early pioneer of ecumenism. This original mezzotint portrait is by Richard Houston (1721?–1775)  who was an 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.  Cropped and mounted many years ago, the image is approx. 10-1/4 x 7-3/4" plus margins. VG...............200-300

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

372. Hermann Hagedorn [1882-1964] American author, poet and biographer. From 1909 to 1911, he was an instructor in English at Harvard. During the pre-convention campaign of 1916 he met Theodore Roosevelt, whose personality captivated him; the resulting friendship shaped the course of his career. The former president cooperated with him in the writing of The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt , published in 1918. After Roosevelt's death the following year, Hermann Hagedorn became assistant secretary and later executive secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, an affiliation he maintained for the rest of his life. From the association's offices in the Roosevelt birthplace site in New York City, he researched other books on the former president: Roosevelt in the Badlands, Roosevelt, Prophet of Unity, The Bugle that Woke America, and The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill. He also edited several selections of the president's writings, including the twenty-volume Works of Theodore Roosevelt . Leonard Wood, the military surgeon who was a Roosevelt confidant, and Edwin Arlington Robinson, the poet whose popularity Roosevelt encouraged, were subjects of his biographies. He was the director of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission from 1955 to 1959. Offered here is a printing of Hagedorn's poem "How Can I Serve?", signed in ink. Contained in the original frame, 6-3/4 x 9-1/4". VG............60-80

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

374. [HORSE RACING] John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900-1982) American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. SIGNED 1981 bank check. VG.............25-35

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377.  [PORTRAIT of] John A. Quitman (1798-1858) American politician and soldier. He served as Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 as a Whig and again from 1850 to 1851 as a Democrat and one of the leading Fire-Eaters. On July 1, 1846, during the Mexican-American War, Quitman abandoned politics and enlisted in the military with the rank of Brigadier General of Volunteers. He commanded a brigade under Zachary Taylor in northern Mexico. After the Battle of Monterrey he was sent to join Winfield Scott's expedition. He led the 2nd Brigade in the Volunteer Division at the Siege of Veracruz and On April 14, 1847 he was promoted to the rank of Major General in the Regular Army, and fought at Cerro Gordo. Unsigned original antique engraved portrait, image approx. 5-1/2 x 4-1/4". VG. Fairly scarce in portraits...........25-35

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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398. MYSTERY LOT - 10 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..............25-35