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BEN FRANKLIN'S FIRST PRINTED BOOK: History of the Quakers WILLIAM SEWEL (1728)
2. [BOOK] Offered here is an extremely rare text entitled: The History Of The Rise, Increase, And Progress, Of the Christian People called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences Written Originally in Low-Dutch, and also Translated into English, by William Sewel, published by Samuel Keimer [and Benjamin Franklin] (Philadelphia) in 1728, The Third Edition [First American Edition], 7 1/2 x 11 1/4; 692pp. [ Addenda incomplete]. The full leather covers and spine have wear/ scuffing, spine label present, title page has signatures cut away from top and other edge wear, period ink signature/ notation (1730) found twice in text, pp. 149-152 are bound out of order, missing pp. 99-102 and last leaves of Addenda, p. 301 has quarter-sized hole in center, affecting some seven lines, some edge wear internally (first twenty pages and another twenty pages or so internally), a few bent or chipped corners/ few small edge tears, light toning, some minor light marginal stains, some minor foxing-- overall in very good condition.
This text has an interesting publishing history in America. Samuel Keimer, Benjamin Franklin's former employer, was commissioned to print this text. Keimer was commissioned by the Friends to reprint this book, a job too big for him to handle. Earlier in 1728 Franklin had left Keimer’s employ, set up his own shop, and convinced the Friends to turn the job over to him, and finished off the last forty-four and a half sheets (178 pages) of the book in a matter of weeks. Thus Franklin got his start by stealing a job from his former boss.This first American edition of Sewel's history of the Quakers, partially printed by Benjamin Franklin—the first project of his new press, had its predecessors. First published in Amsterdam in the Dutch language in 1717, an English translation was soon made for the author. Andrew Bradford proposed an American edition in 1723, underwritten by Philadelphia Quakers. There was some confusion, and the Overseers ended up hiring Samuel Keimer to do the printing, while at the same time, Bradford sent out to London for the edition. There were hurt feelings all around. What ended up being the second overall London edition came out in 1725. The present edition is the one commissioned from Keimer, who finished only with the assistance of Ben Franklin, who had previously been Keimer's foreman. Franklin relates the story in his autobiography.Sewell has also revised the text for this edition and added footnotes. This is the first comprehensive history of the Society of Friends. Sewel, a Dutch historian, spent 25 years researching and writing it, meaning to correct the misrepresentations of Croese's Historia Quakeriana (1695). He drew upon his personal correspondence with with Quaker leaders, as well as the works of Fox, Ludlow, and Clarendon. Included is material on the history of Penn's establishment of Pennsylvania. The DNB writes of Sewell's work: "Its accuracy has never been impugned, and it remains a classical authority." Sewell's history has the distinction of being the first book published by Benjamin Franklin and printed by him in Philadelphia in 1728..................8,000/10,000
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3. [AVIATION] Evelyn Jean Parks (1941-2018) served in the United States Air Force Reserves as a flight nurse, serving in Desert Storm, as well as training fir a NASA study and retired as a lieutenant colonel. Signed Space cover postdated 1973. About 6.5 x 3.5 in. VG.........12-18
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4. [ART] JACQUES-JOSEPH TISSOT [1836-1902]. IMPORTANT French painter, engraver, and enameler. Offered here is an original etching by Tissot, circa 1882, title is Denoisel and Henri Mauperin's Rooms. Signed with red monogran. Removed from the rare book RENEE MAUPERIN" 1884, Edition Ornee, #21/50. The plate size is approx. 4 x 5-1/2 in. Clean margins. Very fine condition.......600-800
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5. [ART] JACQUES-JOSEPH TISSOT [1836-1902]. IMPORTANT French painter, engraver, and enameler. Offered here is an original etching by Tissot, circa 1882, Plate signed. Removed from the rare book RENEE MAUPERIN" 1884, Edition Ornee, #21/50. The plate size is approx. 5-1/4 x 3-3/4 in. Clean margins. Very fine condition..............600-800
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6. MARYLAND CONGRESSMEN - A collection of 44 LS's written by House of Representative members from Maryland. Included are Michael D. Barnes (19), Stephen W. Gambrill (1), Gilbert Gude (6), Steny Hoyer (2), DeWitt S. Hyde (2) Gladys Spellman (2), and Newton Steers 12). Content is routine, mostly responding to constituent letters about specific proposed legislation. Dates range from 1929 to 1985. Steny Hoyer was House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011. He is currently House Minority Whip.........Min. Bid $100
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7. [CANADA MILITARY] George VI (1895-1952) a 1937 document Signed "George RI" as king-emperor, three pages (front and verso), 8-1/4 x 13-1/2 in., April 28, 1937. In very fine condition. Granting Major-General Charles John Bruce Hay permission to wear the Insignia of the Second Class of the Order of Al Rafidain, Military Division. King George has signed at the top of the front page. Also signed by John Simon on page 3. John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873-1954) was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. He is one of three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the others being Rab Butler and James Callaghan. This document is glued along left edge to stiff paperboard. Laid to the backside is a TLS, 1935, 1p. signed by Ja'Far Al-Askari (1885-1936) who was Prime Minister of Iraq. Letter says Major-General Hay is entitled to wear the Iraq General Service Medal. Also included on a separate paper boeard is a TLS, 1937 by W.L.M. Dunlop on Foreign Office paper sending said warrent. Very good condition[s]................Min. Bid $300
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8. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/4 x 5 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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9. George L. Radcliffe (1877-1974) Democratic member of the United States Senate who represented Maryland from 1935 to 1947. Signed 9 x 10-3/4 in. photo. Top left corner crease................Min. Bid $10
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10. Peter H.Dominick (1915-1981) American diplomat, politician and lawyer from Colorado. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1963 to 1975. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG......Min. Bid $10
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11. [US SENATORS] signed cards by: Harold Hughes, Estes Kefauver, Mark Hatfield, Henry Scoop Jackson, and Millard E. Tydings, signed card pictuing him. VG..............Min. Bid $20
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12. [US SENATORS LOT] Typed signed letters from US Senators to Vernon L. Talbertt, Chief Messenger, Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Includes Pete Williams 1919-2001) NJ. Russell B. Long (1918-2003) La. Carl T. Curtis(19005-2000) Neb. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (1903-1960) Mo. Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) ILL. Ernest Gruening (1887-1974) Alaska Gov. & Senator. These date 1960-1961. All have mounting traces on verso with slight show-thru..................Min. Bid $35
13. [MAINE] William P. Frye (1830-1911) Senator from Maine. He served for 30 years in the senate; dying in office. Signed [free frank] senate envelope which contains an 1880 Speech of Hon. John H. Baker, of Indiana, 15 pages. VG............50-75
14. Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and entertainer. He was the first male singer to rise from local radio broadcasts in New York City to national popularity as a "crooner". Offered here are 3 signed bank checks, 1933-35. VG..............Min. Bid $28
15. [ART] Scott Leighton (1847-1898) American painter highly regarded for his equestrian scenes. Born in Auburn, Maine, he was taught how to paint by Harrison Bird Brown in Portland. Unable to make a living as an artist in Maine, he eventually moved to Boston, where his abilities were quickly realized. It wasn't long before major lithographic firms picked up his work, the most important of which was Currier & Ives. From record breaking trotting horses, such as Maud S., to domestic and comedic equestrian scenes, Leighton's love for horses translated into artistic mastery. Offered here is an UNSIGNED watercolor removed from one of his sketchbooks. 4 x 6-3/4 in. VG...........200-300
16. [KANSAS] Edward F. Arn (1906-1998) was the 32nd Governor of Kansas from 1951 to 1955. Signed 5 x 3 in. Card. VG..............Min. Bid $4
17. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5-7/8 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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18. [ART] FRANK LOUISVILLE BOWIE (1857-1936) Maine artist. Member of the "Brush-Ins" group. Friendly with Winslow Homer. Original ink drawing, signed. c. 1895. Approx. 11.5 x 10 in. Provenance: the artist's estate. Minor edge tears repaired on verso...........Min. Bid $35
19. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of John Anthony Quitman (1798-1858) American lawyer, politician, and soldier. As President of the Mississippi Senate, he served one month as Acting Governor of Mississippi (from December 3, 1835, to January 7, 1836) as a Whig. He was elected governor in 1849 as a Democrat, and served from January 10, 1850, until his resignation on February 3, 1851, shortly after his arrest for violating U.S. neutrality laws. He was strongly pro-slavery and a leading Fire-Eater. According to Quitman's first biographer, John F. H. Claiborne, writing in 1860, "A more ambitious man never lived. ...He was greedy for military fame."--------- "For Quitman, military glory and political ambition had priority over management of his three plantations and numerous slaves." Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
20. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of William Jenkins Worth (March 1, 1794 – May 7, 1849) was an American officer during the War of 1812, the Second Seminole War, and the Mexican–American War.. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
21. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the insurgent Confederacy, playing a major role in the abolition of slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
22. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as Commanding General of the United States Army from 1841 to 1861, having taken part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early stages of the American Civil War serving the union, and also in the American Indians wars earlier in his career. Scott was the Whig Party's presidential nominee in the 1852 election, but was defeated by Democrat Franklin Pierce. He was known as Old Fuss and Feathers for his insistence on proper military etiquette, as well as the Grand Old Man of the Army for his many years of service. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
23. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of David Porter (1780-1843) was an officer in the United States Navy in the rank of captain and the honorary title of commodore. Porter commanded a number of U.S. naval ships. He saw service in the First Barbary War, the War of 1812 and in the West Indies. On July 2, 1812, Porter hoisted the banner "Free trade and sailors' rights" as captain of USS Essex. The phrase resonated with many Americans. Porter was later court martialed; he resigned and then joined and became commander-in-chief of the Mexican Navy. Porter County, Indiana was named after him.
Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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24. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war. An effective civil rights executive, Grant signed a bill to create the Justice Department and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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25. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Stephen Douglas (1813-1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the pivotal Lincoln–Douglas debates. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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26. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of J ames Lawrence (1781-1813) was an officer of the United States Navy. During the War of 1812, he commanded USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon, commanded by Philip Broke. He is probably best known today for his last words, "Don't give up the ship!", uttered during the capture of the Chesapeake. The quotation is still a popular naval battle cry, and was invoked in Oliver Hazard Perry's personal battle flag, adopted to commemorate his dead friend. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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27. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819) was an American naval commander, born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and United States Navy Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and older brother of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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28. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into China, and by investing in real estate in or around New York City. He was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
29. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855) was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was among the group of industrialists that founded a settlement on the Merrimack River that would later be named for him, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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30. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Thomas Macdonough, Jr. (1783-1825) was an early-19th-century Irish-American naval officer noted for his roles in the first Barbary War and the War of 1812. He was the son of a revolutionary officer, Thomas Macdonough, Sr. who lived near Middletown, Delaware. He was the sixth child from a family of ten siblings and was raised in the countryside. He entered naval life at an early age, receiving a midshipman's commission at the age of sixteen. Serving with Stephen Decatur at Tripoli, he was a member of "Preble's Boys", a select group of U.S. naval officers who served under the command of Commodore Preble during the First Barbary War. Macdonough achieved fame during the War of 1812, commanding the American naval forces that defeated the British navy at the Battle of Lake Champlain, part of the larger Battle of Plattsburgh, which helped lead to an end to that war. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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30a. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Often praised as an advocate for ordinary Americans and for his work in preserving the union of states, Jackson has also been criticized for his racial policies, particularly his treatment of Native Americans. Original engraved portrait, image approx. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. Some toning or foxing...............Min. Bid $20
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31. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: 1) [MUSIC] Thomas Harper Jr. (1816-1898) English trumpet musician. He was the son of Thomas Harper (1786-1853) the English trumpet player, playing in important concerts of the day. ALS, 1857, 2pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. He writes to Roger Kerrison saying the offer for payment is not less than he has been getting for other concerts. Fine. (2) Joseph P. Lash (1909–1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and author. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for Eleanor and Franklin (1971), the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 23, 1939 deeply shook Lash's growing leanings towards the Communist Party, causing him to resign as executive secretary of the American Student Union. Three months later he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (colloquially known as the "Dies Committee" after its chairman) to be questioned about his activities with the American Student Union and the American Youth Congress. Lash was a hostile witness on Nov. 11, refusing to cooperate with the committee in its effort to obtain the names of members of the Communist Party and to expound upon their influence. SIGNED 1p. typescript from some unknown work. VG (3) WW II] EVELYN W. FARRAND. Assist. to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Chairman of YOUNG AMERICA WANTS TO HELP, operated under the auspices of the British War Relief Society, Inc. Typewritten Letter Signed, New York, July 21, 1941, to Mrs. Burton Musser, the president of the Utah British War Relief Society. One page, 4to. Sending three pages of information on projects for raising funds for immediate aid of the children in Britain to the additional objective of "crystalliz[ing] the sympathy of the youth of America for the youth of Great Britain." Four pages total. (4) Clement Cabell Dickinson (1849-1938), also known as Clement C. Dickinson, was a Democratic Representative from Missouri. TLS, 1926, 1p. (5) BrendaKuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1963 bank check. (6) Douglas Volk (1856-1935)American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.Signed 1923 bank check................Min. Bid $50
32. [MUSIC] Elsa Clay - group of 5 TLSs, Composers and Lyricists Guild of America, 1963-1964, 1 page each, to Milton Ebbins, VP of Chrislaw Productions [also composer]. Milton Ebbins (1912-2008) the well-connected show business manager who was a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House. Mr. Ebbins was a well-liked Hollywood insider who directed the careers of actors, musicians and comedians. For more than 30 years, he was the personal manager of actor Peter Lawford. Through Lawford, who was married to Patricia Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy's, Mr. Ebbins became a favorite of JFK's and a frequent guest at the White House and on Air Force One. At Kennedy's 45th birthday party in 1962, Mr. Ebbins gave Marilyn Monroe a push onstage at Madison Square Garden as she went out to sing her sultry version of "Happy Birthday." VG................100-150
33. [TV] Chester L. Migden (1921-1999) former executive director of the Screen Actors Guild who helped devise the principle of paying actors residuals for television reruns. At SAG, Migden — known to his friends as Chet — negotiated contracts for performers in films, TV and commercials, as well as all agency franchise agreements. The gains and benefits he negotiated remain the cornerstone of the guild’s collective bargaining agreements. In 1974, when Migden first served as SAG’s chief negotiator, he sat down across the table from Lew Wasserman, who at the time represented the producers, and achieved a breakthrough by establishing TV residuals in perpetuity. Offered here are 3 TLSs, 1962, all to Chrislaw Productions. In 1961, Peter Lawford and his manager Milt Ebbins formed Chrislaw Productions, which was named after Peter's son Christopher. It signed a three-year deal with United Artists to make three features and two TV series for $10 million. William Asher was to be executive producer. Their first project was to be a remake of the old silent film The Great Train Robbery. Half a million dollars instead went toward the 1963 action film Johnny Cool starring Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery. Fine conditions......75-100
34. [FRANCE] Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville (16 August 1849 – 28 June 1932) was a French writer who wrote under the pseudonym GYP. GYP wrote humorous sketches and novels which brazenly denounced her own fashionable society as well as the French republic's political class. Her best-known work is probably Le Mariage de Chiffon, filmed in 1942 by Claude Autant-Lara. Because of her unpopular opinions, the comtesse was the victim of several attempts on her life as well as of a sensational kidnapping. ALS, n.d., 1p, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2". VG...........100-150
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35. [INDIANS] 2 printed government documents about Indians Affairs, 1844 and 1848. Both printed for the US Congress. VG..............Min. Bid $10
36. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 5-1/4 x 7 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $100
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37. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A hand-written sermon, delivered in Havana, Cuba 1957, 1 page..............Min. Bid $25
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38. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A 10 page hand-written sermon, MOSES" delivered in Havana, Cuba 1958. PLUS a typed copy of MOSES delivered in Far Rockaway, NY in 1962.........Min. Bid $60
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39. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Signed 12pp talk he gave re: what is the purpose to study the history of art. Signed & dated 1966..........Min. Bid $50
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To MIss Mary C. Cooke at Great falls, Somersworth, NH
40. (RELIGIOUS FREEDOM) McLaurin F. Cooke - signed 3 page letter + address leaf, dated Dartmouth College, July 9, 1867, wriiten to his sister, MIss Mary C. Cooke at Great falls, Somersworth, NH. He is asking his sister to attend the commencement at Dartmouth; tells her of his activities. Interesting content. The main significance of this relates to about 12 years later [1859]. The Eliot School, Boston, in March, 1859, exhibited cruelty and intolerance such as had been rebuked by the State Superintendent in New York. Thomas J. Whall, a Catholic pupil, was ordered to repeat the Ten Commandments in the Protestant form; he declined, as his father had forbidden him to do so. The teacher sent for McLaurin F. Cooke, the second master, who flogged the boy on both hands for thirty minutes, declaring that he would whip him till he consented, for he had nothing else to do the whole forenoon. The inhuman teacher was tried for assault and battery, and the case was argued at considerable length, but Judge Maine held that the teacher had a right to inflict the punishment, and that it was not excessive or malicious.' One hundred Catholic children were expelled for refusing to submit to the intolerant system, and the monstrous decision of the judge sustaining the cruelty showed Catholics that no recognition of their religious rights could be expected from the State schools, which made open war on their religion, and that they must establish schools of their own. On the 21st of March, Bishop Fitzpatrick addressed a letter to the President and members of the School Committee, in which he stated in clear and convincing language the reasons why Catholics resisted the enforced use of the Protestant version of the Bible, the enforced learning and reciting of the Ten Commandments in their Protestant form, and the enforced union in chanting the Lord's Prayer and other religious chants. This masterly document, while it embarrassed the Board, turned the tide of public opinion, and, a few months later, there were elected as members of the School Committee, a Catholic priest and several Catholic laymen. One small hole on page 3 affects a couple of words [caused by the seal]. The letter is in excellent condition. Very uncommon.....400-600......Min. Bid $100
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41. Group of 7 early New Hampshire documents, 1810-1885. Some signed by Daniel Humphreys, Andrew Wentworth, F. Cogswell, D. French. Varied conditions........Min. Bid $45
42. [ART] Lucien Quarante (1860-1902) French. Painter and engraver, he was born in Metz (57) in 1860. He died in Paris in 1902. Student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the workshops of Cabanel and Henriquel-Dupont, he then worked under the towards Laguillermie. He made his debut at the 1887 Salon with a portrait after Franz Hals, which earned him an Honorable Mention. He exhibited regularly at the Salon and particularly reproduced the old masters. He was one of the good collaborators of the newspaper "l'Art". Offered here is an original etching, after a painting by Gustave Courtois. Title is PORTRAIT OF MADAME GAUTHEREAU. Image is approx. 12 x 7.5 in. plus large margins.
Madame Pierre Gautreau (the Louisiana-born Virginie Amélie Avegno; 1859–1915) was known in Paris for her artful appearance. Her renown made the papers throughout France, England, and the United States—from Maine to California. "Among the many important portrait studies in the Fine Arts Department [not one has been more discussed, nor is more remarkable, than this presentation of a well-known American Parisienne by Courtois. It might be said also that scarcely one is so beautiful in color. For, notwithstanding her strongly accentuated head, and the stately simplicity of her pose, Madame Gauthereau's beauty lies in the dazzling, slightly improbable, fairness of her skin and the rich auburn of her hair, to which the lustrous whiteness of her dress adds an admirable setting-off. All these blond tones are rendered by the painter with that brilliancy of technique which is so much more frequently found in Paris than in other cities. As if to demonstrate the range of his accomplishments, the painter supplements this "tour de force" with that serious study of a young girl on her death bed, which was, in some respects, his most noticeable exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1889. The "Mme. Gauthereau" was painted two years later.” VG......................200-300
43. [KENTUCKY PIONEER] BEN HELM (b. Va. 1767) Kentucky Pioneer. Son of Capt. Thomas Helm, pioneer settler who came to Ky. in 1779. Thomas & 2 others built forts in 1780, which grew to become Elizabethtown; the area where Abraham Lincoln was to be born. Ben Helm became a surveyor; state senator; clerk of Hardin Co. Courts. He was a major in the War of 1812. He purchsed the
farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln - stepmother of Abe Lincoln. DS, Hardin County [1810], 1p. approx. 7-1/4 x 12 in. SIGNED BY BEN HELM. Involves money owed by Elisha Johnston to Ann Johnston, who se attorney was WM. P. DUVAL (1784-1854) Interesting Kentucky pioneer who became Gov. of Florida. Duval's signature was written by Ben Helm. Fine..............100-200
44. [ART] Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) A painter, architect, etcher and writer, Charles Adams Platt quickly became one of America's most highly regarded landscape artists during the late nineteenth century. He first studied art at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League of New York before finishing his formal training under Boulanger and Lefebvre, in Paris. During his successful career, Charles Adams Platt received many awards, including the bronze medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900. He was a full member of the Society of American Artists (1888), the National Academy of Design (Associate, 1897: Academician, 1911), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Institute of Architects, the New York Etching Club and the London Society of Painter-Etchers. Offered here is his etching STREET at HONFLEUR, FRANCE, plate signed and dated 1882, image approx. 4 x 8-1/2 in. plus clean margins. Very fine condition..............Min. Bid $75
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45. [ART] Rene Paul Huet (1844-1928) Fr. artist. Original etching, signed in the plate, after Corot, image approx. 5-3/4 x 4-1/2 in. plus slim margins. Printed text on verso. Fine................50-75
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46. [PORTRAIT] original antique engraved portrait of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, PC, PRS (1651-1716) English Whig jurist and statesman. Somers first came to national attention in the trial of the Seven Bishops where he was on their defence counsel. Engraved by W.T. Mote, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Pretty clean................25-35
47. [ART] Selma Gubin (1903 – 1974) was a Russian Empire-born American artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Harvard Art Museums and the Hood Museum of Art. In 1972, Gubin's work was included in a group exhibition of drawings and sculpture, with artists Mimi Gross, Claude Marks, Raphael Soyer, Edith Teitelbaum, and Max Weber. Her work is represented in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of the City of New York, Smith College Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Offered here is an original lithograph from the rare 1956 Improvisations portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York. Leading artists on the New York art scene were invited to contribute original lithographs in the form of advertisements for businesses and institutions supporting the Artists Equity Association; these sponsors allowed the artists complete creative freedom of expression. This lithograph was issued in an edition of 2000; the sheet measures 12 x 8-1/2 inches. Signed by Steed in the plate (not hand-signed). VG...............100-150...........Min. Bid $25
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48. [ART] Salvatore Grippi (1921-2017) important American artist. One of the underrepresented figurative expressionist members of the New York School featured in Herskovics book is Salvatore Grippi, who was born in 1921 in Buffalo. After participating in the major invasions in Europe during World War II, Grippi came back to New York and attended the Art Students League under the G.I. Bill from 1945 to 1948. From 1951 to 1953, Grippi was at Atelier 17, the famous printmaking studio run by British artist Stanley William Hayter, who taught printmaking to Pollock and Rothko, among many other abstract expressionists. Grippi would later contribute an etching to the well-known portfolio Twenty-One Etchings and Poems [1958], including work by such artists and poets as Frank OHara, Franz Kline, Grippis brother Peter Grippe, and Dylan Thomas. From 1953 to 1955, Grippi worked in Florence, Italy, with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. He taught for several years at the Cooper Union Art School before moving to California to teach at Pomona College. In 1968, Grippi was asked to start the art department at Ithaca College and taught there until 1991. Grippi, who worked and exhibited alongside the likes of de Kooning, Nevelson, and Kline during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. In 2011, he was honored with a solo retrospective at Cornell University's Johnson Museum of Art. He was a significant figure in postwar abstraction and his work from this period has graced the walls of MoMA, the Whitney, and the Met but has seldom appeared at auction. Offered here is a ink [felt pen] unsigned drawing, approx. 14 x 11 in. VG...................200-300
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49. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] interesting collection of 24 documents from the papers of the Rollins family. These date from 1815 to 1877. Very good overall...............Min. Bid $75
50. [FRANCE] CHARLES BUET [1846-1897] Fr. novelist & dramatist. ALS, 1886, 1p.....50-75
51. [ART] William Grainger - British engraver active c. 1784-1793). Original engraving, pre-1800, image about 3 x 3-3/4 in. plus margins. VG.........50-75
52. [ART] Salvatore Grippi (1921-2017) American artist and founder of the art department at Ithaca College. Grippi was born in Buffalo, New York. He attended the Albright Art School and the Museum of Modern Art School. He served in the armed forces during World War II. Upon his return he studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Atelier 17 print studio. He was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship which he used to study at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Florence. Grippi taught at several art schools including the Cooper Union Art School, the School of Visual Arts, and Pomona College. He founded the art department at Ithaca College. Grippi's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Original ink drawing, unsigned, 11 x 8.5 in. From his estate. Guaranteed to be by Grippi. VG.......Min. Bid $75
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53. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $100
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54. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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55. [SCIENCE] Van Orstrand, C. E. (Charles Edwin) (1870-1959) geophysicist; born near Manito, Ill. He served the U.S. Geological Survey (1901?40), where he made major contributions to a series of mathematical tables, then patented instruments for determining temperatures in deep wells and oil fields. TLS, Dept. of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1909, to Professor Woodward, returning Woodward's 8 page manuscript sent to Van Ostrand. The manuscript is included here. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) the American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872, and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington , whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. He died in 1924 in Washington, D.C. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics. In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. Generally good to VG................200-300..................Min. Bid $50
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56. [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering at the University of Michigan in 1872. He was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics. In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. Offered here are 6 letterswritten in the 3rd person from persons invited to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences circa 1908................Min. Bid $80
57. [WALT KUHN] offered here is a collection of 21 handwritten letters from Vera Kuhn (1885-1961) to her daughter Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993). Vera was the wife of artist Walt Kuhn. In 1909, Kuhn married Vera, a skilled jewelry designer whom he met at the the artist colony in Woodstock, New York. Vera's brother, LaSalle Spier, would become a close friend andncollaborator with Kuhn through their mutual interest in music and theatre. An important friendship was formed at this time with artist Arthur Bowen Davies, who would also play a significant role in American art history. Walter Francis Kuhn (1877-1949) was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. All of the letters have envelopes. Also included is a Brenda Kuhn signed bank. Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Have not read most of the letters but they appear to be mainly mother to daughter letters. Don't see much art content. Very good condition...............Min. Bid $100
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Walt Kuhn Portrait of Brenda
58. [LOT] about 73 letters, notes & telegrams from the files of Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) who was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. These are signed & his carbon copies of letters to and from him, plus a few telegrams................Min. Bid $35
59. [JUDAICA] Rabbi Daniel L. Davis (1903-1974) served as director of the New York Federation of Reformed Synagogues for 25 years. A native of Baltimore, he graduated from City College at the age of 14 and later from the Johns Hopkins University. He then attended Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, graduating in 1926. His first assignment as a rabbi was at Temple Beth El in Hammond, Ind., where he remained for a year. He then served for 20 years at Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, in Lancaster, Pa. In Lancaster, Rabbi Davis served as a labor arbitrator and as a member of the Mayor's Postwar Planning Commission. He took the post with the New York federation, which is the regional arm of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, in 1947 and remained until his retirement in 1972. The author of a number of pamphlets on Judaism, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity by Hebrew Union College in 1958. During his service with the federation, he presided over the establishment of many new congregations in the New York area and elsewhere.
A member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, he also served on the National Commission for Rabbinical Placement.
Offered here are 5 TLSs, all 1p. to Rabbi Frederick Solomon. Plus 2 unsigned copies of Solomon letters. These date 1963. VG..........100-150
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60. [JUDAICA) Frederick Solomon (1899-1980), painter, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he left Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. Solomonski was interned in the Isle of Man in Hutchinson Square camp in the early 1940’s as a prisoner of war along with many other artists. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954 he left England to take a position as Rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here is a handwritten sermon titled IN THE BEGINNING, 10 pages, delivered AT FAR ROCKAWAY, NY. 1963. About 8.5 x 10 in. Not signed VG..........100-150
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61. [JUDAICA] FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Offered here is Solomon's Havana, Cuba scrapbook, 1957-1958, containing about 95 newspaper chippings plus 5 photographs. Laid in is 1858 printing, 11 pages of articles about Solomon. Some in Spanish. VG.............400-600
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62. Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Captain Louis W. McKeehan, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while attached to the Research and Development Section, Bureau of Ordnance, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 to March 1944. Offered here is a signed 1939 ANNUAL FITNESS REPORT, NAVAL RESERVE OFFICERS. Signed by McKeehan at the bottom. 8 x 14 in. VG......................150-200
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63. [World War 2] Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Captain Louis W. McKeehan, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while attached to the Research and Development Section, Bureau of Ordnance, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 to March 1944. Offered here are 2 signed items. [1] Dec. 7, 1944 typed page titled TIME ZONES. [2] His signed April 1, 1941 NATIONAL REGISTRATION card. Both VG.............100-150
64. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Group of papers related to his Cuba Property Claims, dating 1959-1967. The large pink document in Spanish is signed on the back by Solomon. Also a 1961 TLS from the British Embassy in Havana, Cuba signed by I.J.M. Sutherland; 1967 TLS from Foreign Office; 5 handwritten pages by Solomon plus 3 small note pages written by him. Also Temple B'Nai Israel page dated 1961 - Cuba re: loss and damage..............Min. Bid $25
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65. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Typed sermon "ANGLES" delivered WRAK Williamsport, Pa.] July 27, 1956, 4pp, with many handwritten notes on it. includes a handwritten page saying ANGLES was deivered in . 1967 at Rockaway, NY. Also includes 3 typed from from ANGLES with no handwriting on it..............Min. Bid $50
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66. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A hand-written sermon, THE BRIDGE, delivered in 1961 & 1962, 12 pp...............Min. Bid $60
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67. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A hand-written sermon, delivered in 1962, Far Rockaway, NY, 12pp...............Min. Bid $60
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[MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers Association. Group of 2 typed letters signed "Gene", 1965, one to the actor Peter Lawford and the other to Milton Ebbins, Lawford's agent/partner regarding Lawford. Plus 3 ink signed memo documents sent to All members of the Society of INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS, which included Marvin Mirisch, Otto Preminger, Ebbins and Lawford. 1965 typed memo signed Gene. (2) Teresa Zylis-Gara (1930-2021) Polish operatic soprano who enjoyed a major international career from the 1950s through the 1990s. Signed 2-question page. (3) Alfred Griffin (or Griffith) Hatfield (1848 or 1850 – 1921) was a performer and minstrel show producer as Al G. Field . Signature 1906. (4) Dick Cheney - Vice President. TLS, 2002. Signature is likely autopen. (5) Dr. Michael DeBakey (1908-2008) DeBakey performed the first successful carotid endarterectomy in 1953. A year later, he pioneered techniques in grafts for the various parts of the aorta. DeBakey was among the earliest surgeons to perform coronary artery bypass surgery. A pioneer in the development of an artificial heart, he was among the first to use an external heart pump successfully in a patient – a left ventricular bypass pump. Signed 3x5 card. (6) Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American artist. Signed 1906 check. (7) Hon. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757-1847) was a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807 and then the Archbishop of York until his death. Signed address panel. (8) Philip Philbin - US congressman from Mass. 1939 telegram from him & one to him. (9) Edwin M. Stanton - printed gov. document re: 100 Days Men. From Stanton in 1866, 5pp., signed in type as Sec. of War. (10) Jack Dempsey - unsigned vintage 1964 photo. (11) Danny Rogers (died 2021) Danny was in the motion picture industry for more than 42 years as a stuntman and stunt coordinator. He doubled Eric Estrada on CHIPS for 6 years. Danny was voted into "Stunts Unlimited" in 1974 (which he thinks is the top stunt origination in the business). He has done many motorcycle stunts, horse work and fight scenes. Danny has been an all around stunt performer over his many years in the business preforming stunts on some of the "top" movies such as; XXX, Titanic, Fast & the Furious, Pearl Harbor, Hildago, just to name a few. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck. (12) Group of 13 Limerick National Bank checks 1915-26. Limerick, Maine..............Min. Bid $70
69. HENRY IVISON (1808-1884) publisher, born in Glasgow, Scotland; died in New York city. He came to the United States in 1820, and was apprenticed to William Williams, of Utica, for the purpose of learning the bookbinder's trade. After serving his time he continued with his employer until about 1830, when he established the house of H. Ivison and Co. in Auburn, New York In 1846 he removed to New York city. and became associated with Mark H. Newman in the publishing business, and after Mr. Newman's death in 1853 the firm became Ivison and Phinney. This house made a specialty of publishing educational works, and became one of the largest in the United States, having a list of over 300 school-books, including " Webster's School Dictionary," "Dana's Geology," "Gray's Botany," "Robinson's Mathematics,"" Fasquelle's French Course," and "Wells's Scientific Series." On the retirement of Mr. Phinney in 1866, the firm-name became Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., and in 1880 Mr. Ivison retired from active participation in the business, and was succeeded by his only son, David B. lvison. Offered here is a letter written to Sarah Ivison, daughter in Petersburgh, Virginia, 1853, 2 full pages plus postmarked/postage stamp page. Approx. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. Excellent condition.........60-80
70. Payson Williston (1764-1856) First Minister at Easthampton, Mass. Payson was born in West Haven CT. and was the son of Rev. Noah Williston and Hannah Payson. He entered the ministery under the teachings of Dr. Trumball of New Haven CT. and attend Yale College from 1779 through 1783. Before he entered college he spent a short spell in a Militia fighting in the Revolutionary war. Payson was licensed to preach at twenty one years of age, but did not settle into his final role of Pastor of Easthampton until he was twenty six. He became the first Pastor of Easthampton on Aug 13 , 1789, when he was ordained with his father present. He spent forty years as Pastor of Easthampton. In 1790 he married Sarah Birdseye, daughter of Rev. Nathan Birdseye of Stratford CT. Together they had five children; Maria, John Payson, Samuel, Nathan Birdseye and Sarah. In 1805 he traveled to the settlements in New York to teach his ministries and in 1833 at the age of seventy requested to be relieved of his duties as Pastor of Easthampton, which he was granted. Payson past on at the age of ninety two, on January 30th, 1856. Payson Williston, was the minister in Easthampton’s only church. Payson was a stern, old-fashioned New England preacher, with strong Calvinist leanings. Offered here is a 1846, 3pp, folded stampless letter from Payson Williston to his son Nathan B. Williston at Brattleboro, Vermont. Newsy letter about family - internesting to note about how Pneumonia was treated in one instance. Three pages plus postmarked address leaf. Postmarked Easthampton, Mass. VG...........300-500......Min. Bid $90
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71. [MIXED LOT] includes: [1] Dallas Lore Sharp (1870–1929) American author and university professor. As a writer he became known through his charming magazine articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books which featured illustrations by American wildlife illustrator Robert Bruce Horsfall as well as artist Elizabeth Myers Snagg. ALS, 1908, written on both sides. Fine. [2] Herbert Dickinson Ward (1861-1932) American author, born at Waltham, Massachusetts, son of William Hayes Ward. Graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880 and Amherst College in 1884, he wrote extensively for newspapers and periodicals. Ward married Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on October 20, 1888. ALS, 1899, 1p. Fine. [3] Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Ted) printed Free Frank signature on envelope. [4] Rudy Vallée [1901-1986) American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1935 bank check made out to Cliff Burwell (1898-1976) American pianist and composer. [5] Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. [6] Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a brief ALS written to Bunn circa 1877 not signed by him. [7] Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. (1917-1993) American politician. He was a member of the Taft family who served as a Republican Congressman from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971. Taft also served as a U.S. Senator between 1971 and 1976. Printed Free Frank signature on envelope postmarked 1975. [8] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Offered here is a April 25, no yr. Western Union telegram sent by Philbin.................Min. Bid $50
72. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Philip van Ness Myers (1846-1937) American historian who was Professor of Economics and History at the University of Cincinnati and an author of several notable works on history. ALS, 1887, 1p. (2) William Rainey Harper (1856-1906) American academic leader, an accomplished semiticist, and Baptist clergyman. Harper helped to establish both the University of Chicago and Bradley University and served as the first president of both institutions. TLS, 1880, 1p. mounted. (3) Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (1885-1940) Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. He was one of the most popular British authors of the 1920s. TLS, 1937, 1p. (4) Bill Gates - 5 x 6-3/4 color photo signed by autopen. (5) Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine. Signed 1921 bank check. (6) Paul Hervieu (1857-1915) French novelist and playwright. ALS, 1897 on card. (7) Jack J. Furman (1924-2010) Lawyer. Jack enlisted in the Army and was a WWII veteran. He served with the 4th Armored Division under the command of General George Patton and was wounded and awarded a Sharpshooter Medal, the Purple Heart and Bronze Star resulting from action in the invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He received a Letter of Commendation from the Government of France for actions in the liberation of France. TLS, 1957, 1-1/2 pages, to Rabbi Frederick Solomon. (8) Louis I. Egelson, American Rabbi, member Executive Board Central Conference American Rabbis, 1946-1949. Secretary Commision on Information about Judaism, Commision on Military Services.; Served as chaplain, 91st Division, American Expeditionary Force, World War I; Member American Legion. TLS, 1957 to Rabbi Fred Solomon. (9) Allison Smith (b. 1969) actress known for The West Wing and Kate & Allie. Signed, inscribed 3-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. picture [creases]...............Min. Bid $75
73. [JUDAICA] FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Offered here is a large group of letters related to the purchase in 1956 of a piano in Williamport, Pa. Apparetnly Solomon wasn't making the monthly payments because he had gone to Cuba shortly after the purchase There are many signed letters sent to Solomon from the Central Conference of American Rabbis trying to get him to pay for the piano. Solomon does pay the full bill but didn't like the tone of the letters sent to him. This collection includes: TLSs signed by Rabbis Emil W. Leipzinger [6]; Sidney A. Simon [2]; Sidney L. Regner [3]; Jacob P. Rudin. This is about 15 signed letters. Also about 22 unsigned letters to & from Solomon; the original invoice for the piano; 3 handwritten pages by Solomon and 1 signed Solomon TLS.................Min. Bid $100
74. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5-1/2 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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75. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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76. [FILM] Collection of 10 pay checks from Warner Bros. They are dated 1984 or 1985. The Social Security umbers have been blocked out. Includes: [1] George Davis (1889-1965) Dutch-born American actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1916 and 1963. Signed by Davis on verso. [2] Michael Herman Elias(b.1940) is an American writer, film director and producer. NOT signed. [3] JamesBurrows (b.1940) sometimes known as "Jimmy" Burrows, is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s. Burrows has directed over 50 television pilots and co-created the long-running television series Cheers. Not signed. [4] Timothy May - is known for The Wolverine (2013), Unbroken (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016). Signed. [5] Nick Martinis - actor. Signed. Five more checks not signed or researched: David Sartuche; Harry Porter; Daniel A. Miller; Dan Barrows and Gary L. Sherwin. All are in very good condition.......Min. Bid $40
77. [ART] 4 original etchings [book illus.] by Oreste Cortazzo (1836-1910) Italian-born French painter, graphic artist and illustrator. From 1870 to 1885, he was a regular participant in showings at the Salon. He also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle (1878) and the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Glasgow. After that, he derived inspiration from the English Romantics and produced numerous landscapes in that style. His works received honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle (1889). Image sizes are approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. These etchings date to 1898. VG...............50-75
78. The Secretary of War - printed 1847 government document, 114 pages. Issued by Sec. of War W.L. Marcy, 30th Congress - 1st Session, House of Representatives: CONTRACTS UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. VG............40-60
79. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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80. [NAVY] JOSEPH HAROLD WELLINGS (1903-1988) Rear Admiral. By 1940, the war in Europe was already a year old, and Britain stood alone and besieged by Hitler’s war machine. During that summer, Wellings was sent to England as an observer of the British Home Fleet, with additional duty as assistant naval attaché in London. Interested in the operational aspects of the Royal Navy’s forces, he served as operations officer in HMS Rodney during the search for and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941. Later he wrote an unpublished manuscript describing those events. Returning to the United States in June 1941, he served briefly on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations before a three-month assignment with the Fleet Training Division. Appointed commanding officer of USS Strong (DD 467), he prepared the ship for commissioning at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in August 1942. The Strong was involved in convoy operations in the Caribbean and Atlantic before participating in the Casablanca invasion. Assigned to the Pacific, the ship saw action in the Solomon Islands, where she was hit by a Japanese torpedo and sank on the night of July 4–5, 1943, off New Georgia. Wellings courageously stayed with his ship as she went down and was seriously injured when her depth charges exploded. As a result, he spent the next six months in the hospital. Wellings returned to destroyer commands in March 1944, when he assumed command of Destroyer Division One Hundred and Twenty. Transferred to Destroyer Squadron Two, he again saw action in the Pacific at Lingayen Gulf, the Philippine Islands, in January 1945. Five months before the war’s end, he returned to the United States to an assignment with the Bureau of Personnel. For the next year and one half he was involved in establishing policy for the postwar Naval Reserve and in transferring naval reservists to the regular navy. Signed slip, mounted to scrapbook paper................25-35
81. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $100
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82. [ART] Richard Elmore (fl. 1852-1885) British painter first based in London and later moved to Tunbridge Wells, England. His distinctive and subtle landscapes depicting views in Devon, Surrey and Kent were widely exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the British Institution. Elmore’s painting of Twickenham is in the collection of the Cardiff museum. ALS, 1878, 4pp, to the art critic Samuel Carter Hall. VG...........50-75
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83. [CONGRESSMAN PHILBIN LOT] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). Offered is a unreseared lot of papers from the files of Philbin. Contains many carbon copies ofletters from Philbin; letters from people seeking advice or assistance, sometimes telegrams etc. About 76 pieces. Mixed conditions...............Min. Bid $25
84. Thomas Robinson "Shepherd Tom" Hazard (1797-1886) American author, social reformer, and advocate of Modern Spiritualism. Hazard was born in the village of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the second-eldest son of textile industrialist Rowland Hazard and Mary (née Peace) Hazard. His mother was raised in Charleston, South Carolina and spent a year studying in London as a girl. His father founded the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company in Peace Dale, Rhode Island in 1802. Among his siblings was older brother Isaac Peace Hazard and younger brother Rowland G. Hazard. In 1844, Hazard became one of the original twenty three incorporators of the Rhode Island Hospital for the Insane, later Butler Hospital. Owing to his extensive record as an outspoken champion of the rights of the “insane poor,” Hazard was appointed by the state to conduct a survey of Rhode Island's poor houses and insane asylums. Hazard was also a committed antislavery activist and published dozens of tracts in support of the American Colonization Society and the Republic of Liberia. From 1840 to 1841 he served as a Vice President of the ACS. Other causes for which he labored included the abolition of the death penalty in Rhode Island and public education. Offered here is a 1828 manuscript document paying Thomas, signed by his brother Rowland, endorsed by Thomas on the verso. The signature of Rowland G. Hazard is partly torn away. This was not uncommon then as it was a method of cancellation............40-60
85. [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] WILLENE WHISENHANT - early NASA photographer. Offered here is an original color vintage litho. photo of astronaut Alan Shepard. Whisenhant writes in ink below image "Shepard." Provenance: from the personal files of Willene Whisenhant, the photographer. WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. From 1962 to 1965, Whisenhant, who was a native of Texas, was the staff photographer for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. During her tenure there she shot photos of astronauts, worked with CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite on a story about astronaut John Glenn, and photographed President John F. Kennedy. Growing up in Livingston, Texas, Willene Whisenhant probably couldn't have imagined sipping lemonade on Air Force One with the president. She most likely didn't think she'd be the first woman ordained into an all-male club. And the idea of being the first and only female photographer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), couldn't have possibly drifted into even her wildest daydreams. Later on, Whisenhant learned that President John F. Kennedy wanted her up front because, as he explained, when he first met his wife, then Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a struggling photographer and no one would give her a break. He therefore wanted Whisenhant to be front and center. That same day, the president asked his men to take the photographer up to Air Force One and give her some lemonade.Fine.............100-150
MURDERED JOURNALIST 86. [FRANCE] Gaston Calmette (1858-1914) French journalist. In January 1914 Calmette, who had been editor of the newspaper Le Figaro since 1902, launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis in 1911. During this campaign, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Caillaux's second wife Henriette , fearing that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how he was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage, entered Calmette's office on 16 March 1914 and shot him four times. Calmette died instantly. Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted. MARCEL PROUST dedicated Swann's Way, the first volume of his novel In Search of Lost Time, to Calmette 'as a testimony of deep and affectionate recognition'. Offered here is Calmette's called card which he signed and has written 3 lines. Fine. Below is his portrait & an illustration of the murder..........50-75
87. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 5 x 7 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $100
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88. [WW 2 NAVAL] WILLIAM H.P. BLANDY (1890-1954), known to friends as "Spike", was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. He participated in the occupation of Veracruz, Mexico in 1914 and served on board the battleship USS Florida (BB-30) (BB-30) with the British Grand Fleet during World War I. During World War II he was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance from 1941 to 1943. Here he had a controversial role in the infamous torpedo scandal involving the initially practically useless Mark 14 torpedo, and the long delays incurred on the work testing and launching the electric Mark 18 torpedo. In December 1943 he became Commander, Group 1, Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, and commanded the pre-invasion bombardment group during the campaign for Iwo Jima. Offered here are 2 document from the personal files of Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Captain Louis W. McKeehan, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while attached to the Research and Development Section, Bureau of Ordnance, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 to March 1944. These are: (1) Nov. 10, 1942. McKeehan has written at bottom "Mines Development". (2) Oct. 22, 1943 Bureau of Ordnance Circular Letter, 4pp. - printed, signed Blandy in type. Both VG...............50-75
89. [ART] Richard Cotton Carline (1896-1980) British artist, arts administrator and writer. During the First World War, Carline served on the Western Front and in the Middle East, where he travelled extensively through Palestine, Syria, India and modern day Iran and Iraq. Although known for his depictions of aerial combat painted during World War One, from the mid-1930s, his output as an artist was overshadowed by his numerous roles in local, national and international artists' organisations. Carline held strong anti-fascist beliefs and also worked to gain appreciation for African art, naive art, child artists and even promote the artistic merits of postcard images. An ALS, 1975, written on an art greeting card. Sent to the artist Frederick Solomon (1899-1980). Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (originally Solomonski) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). Fine..................100-150
90. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Henry N. Ward (1826-1880) signed 1870 Rhode Island court document. (2) John W. Dean - 1894, 1p. ALS, Boston. (3) T.W. Hammond - of the Worcester and Nahua RR Co. ALS, 1862. (4) Joseph Peace Hazard(1807-1892) was born into a wealthy Rhode Island family. When he failed in the family's textile manufacturing business, Hazard's family supported him in pursuing his personal interests, which included travel, architecture, and Spiritualism. Signed 1840 document. (5) John H. Nunn - lawyer. ALS, NJ, 1890. (6) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Her handwriting on bank check register. Three check stubs written but not signed by her, 1945 (7) A.W. Sulloway - Sulloway Mills in Franklin Falls, NH. ALS 1899. (8) Unidentified CLIP SIGNATURE [looks like it dates to 1844]. (9) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check............Min. Bid $50
91. Mystery French Document from Napoleonic period dated 1806 on paper, signed [?], 1p, about 7-1/4 x 9-1/2". VG.........50-75
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92. [FRANCE] Jacques Élie Henri Ambroise Ner (1861-1938), also known by the pseudonym Han Ryner, was a French individualist anarchist philosopher and activist and a novelist. He wrote for publications such as L'Art social, L'Humanité nouvelle, L'Ennemi du Peuple, L'Idée Libre de Lorulot; and L'En dehors and L'Unique of fellow anarchist individualist Émile Armand. His thought is mainly influenced by stoicism and epicureanism.ALS, 1906, 1p, about 4-1/4 x 7-3/4 in. About his work Les Chrétiens et les philosophes (1906). VG...................50-75
93. EARLY MARY POPPINS - Original Russian postcard 1907, showing a woman in Victorian/Edwardian costume holding an umbrella and flying through the air. A scene reminiscent of the film MARY POPPINS starring Julie Andrews released many years later. About 3-1/4 x 5-1/4. VG...............25-35
94.[MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Joukim J. Outrim - British artist who fl. 1834-1854. ALS, 1850, 3pp. (2) Small newspaper clipping of Frank Sinatra meeting Mrd. & Mrs. Richard Nixon signedFrank Sinatra. We assume its secretarial signature. (3) Samuel Merriman (1731-1818) Obstetrician. Signature dated 1749, while a student at Iniv. of Edinburgh. Under signature not in his hand. Foxed. (4) [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. OFFERED HERE: A signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN". VG (5) Douglas Volk signed 1922 check. (6) Joseph Peace Hazard (1807-1892) was born into a wealthy Rhode Island family. When he failed in the family's textile manufacturing business, Hazard's family supported him in pursuing his personal interests, which included travel, architecture, and Spiritualism. Signed 1836 document. (7) 1852 printed gov. doc. from Treasury. (8) 1885 letter from a railroad person signed ? Baker. (8) 1840 printed gov. doc. Commerce..................Min. Bid $50
95. [RELIGION] Étienne-Hubert de Cambacérčs (1756-1818) Archbishop of Rouen in 1802, cardinal in 1803 and senator from 1805. He was younger brother of the jurist, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérčs the Duke of Parma. DOCUMENT SIGNED, no year showing, 1p, 7-3/4 x 10". VG.........80-120
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96. [ART] Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) English painter who specialized in oil paintings of dogs. Dicksee belonged to an illustrious artistic family. Dicksee studied art at the Slade School, London, on a scholarship. His first painting was exhibited in 1881. Many of Dicksee's works, especially those painted during the war, depict the dogs accompanying melancholy young ladies. His most frequent model was the actress Gladys Cooper. Original etching, plate signed H D, approx. 5.5 x 3.5 in. plus margins.VG................Min. Bid $12.50
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97. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Gift from Kuhn to Whitney Museum of American Art. Receipt from the Whitney Museum of American Art to Walt Kuhn, dated Jan. 29, 1946. receoved from Walt Kuhn LONGHORN MUSEUM & WESTERN CAFE. Approx. 5 x 7-3/4 in. The handwritten notes on the verso are most likely by Walt Kuhn. Poor condition; beginning to separate at fold.........200-300
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98. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President MARTIN VAN BUREN. From The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents Engraved president's autograph beneath the portrait. Copyright, 1907, Bureau of National Literature & Art & Gravure Company of America. Whole paper size is 19.5 x 16 in. High quality paper. Image size about 12 x 8. Condition VG.........Min. Bid $25
99 [BASKETBALL] The Harlem Wizards - color 8x10 photo signed by 3 members. VG...................25-35
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100. [FILM] Helen Walker (1920-1968) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Walker's film debut came in 1942's Lucky Jordan, a comedy about a gangster (Alan Ladd) who ends up drafted in the Army, where Walker's character reports him AWOL. In the farce Brewster's Millions, her sweetheart inherits $8 million, but can't keep it unless he can spend a million of it within a specified time. Walker also played the romantic interest of Fred MacMurray in the popular comedy Murder, He Says in 1945. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10
101. John David Merwin (1921-2013) was a former politician of the United States Virgin Islands who served in that territory's Legislature, as government secretary (equivalent to lieutenant governor), and as the first native-born governor. He was perhaps the first "politician" to be made governor as previous appointees were primarily men of the military, industry, or non-elected government servants. Signed bio. page, 7 x 10 in. Clean.......Min. Bid $10
102. BAILEY WILLIS (1857-1949), noted geologist; subject of an Argentine biography as a result of his surveys for a railroad across the Andes; a glacier wall in Mt. Rainier Park is named for him; son of Nathaniel Parker Willis, editor and writer. His papers are in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA. A collection of 3 letters - two ALS plus an LS - all to E. H. Frost re books and maps..............75-100
103. SAM JONES (1933-2021) Hall of Fame basketball player with Boston Celtics. 2 signatures - one on a 3 x 5 card ("Kindest Regards"); the other on the faded program of a 1972 high school basketball luncheon. The program is badly faded; the signature is not..........25-35
104. [KUHN ESTATE] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. ALS, 1986, 2pp. About Averell Harriman (1891-1986) American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. The son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman, he served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman, and later as the 48th governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956, as well as a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men". Harriman had an important connect qith the artist Walt Kuhn. harriman's 2nd wife was Marie Norton Whitney (1903-1970) American art collector. During her husband's years as Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958, she served as his Albany hostess and redecorated the governor's residence with art that ranged from colonial to contemporary: Gilbert Stuart, Copley, Whistler, and Walter Kuhn. On their honeymoon in Europe, the Harrimans purchased oil paintings by Van Gogh, Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Renoir. They later donated many of the works she bought and collected, including those of the artist Walt Kuhn, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 1971, after her death in 1970, Harriman married Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward, the former wife of Winston Churchill's son Randolph, and widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward. The letter offered here is dated about 4 days before Harriman died. Brenda says that Harriman still owned a Kuhn painting and that all of the major Kuhn paintings went to the National Gallery. VG...............40-60
105. [WEST VIRGINIA] John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (b.1937) is a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. He was the 29th Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally progressive Republican dynasty. Document signed, 1969, 2pp, 8.5 x 13 in. He signs as the Sec. of State for West Virginia, a Certificate, a finance company...............50-75
106. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $100
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107. Malcolm Taylor Dougherty (pen name Malcolm Taylor) (1888-1989) author of boys' books and a poet. An archive of 10 ALSs dated 1983-1989, PLUS 7 Christmas cards, each with long notes written by him on them; plus a photo and funeral card. Interesting reflections by a centenarian. Most are signed "Doc." VG.......Min. Bid $35
108. [VERMONT] Luke Potter Poland (1815-1887) United States Senator and Representative from Vermont. Signed 1841 State of Vermont Supreme Court document, signed as Chief Justice. Attached to 4 other pages, one signed by Frederic Williams Hopkins (1806-1974) was a Vermont lawyer and militia officer who served as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia. In the 1830s and 1840s Hopkins was part of a group of individuals interested in reorganizing and revitalizing the state militias, which had become increasingly dormant in the years following the War of 1812. This group, including Franklin Pierce, Alden Partridge, Alonzo Jackman, and Truman B. Ransom, held seminars to discuss tactics, strategy and recruiting, and carry out maneuvers and drills in an effort to improve unit readiness. Excellent condition..................75-100
109. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] offered here is a vintage 1908 New Hampshire election ballot, or whatever its called. Approx. 21 x 15 in. Many condition flaws................40-60
110. [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] William H.P. Blandy (1890-1954), known to friends as "Spike", was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. During World War II he was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance from 1941 to 1943. Here he had a controversial role in the infamous torpedo scandal involving the initially practically useless Mark 14 torpedo, and the long delays incurred on the work testing and launching the electric Mark 18 torpedo. In December 1943 he became Commander, Group 1, Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, and commanded the pre-invasion bombardment group during the campaign for Iwo Jima. After the war he commanded Joint Task Force 1 during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Offered here is a March 21, 1946 one page memo about Operation Crossroads. Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships. Not ink signed by Blandy. From the personal papers of Louis McKeehan. VG..............80-120
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111. [KUHN ESTATE] Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. ALS, 1980, 1p. about Arthur Godrey. Apparently Brenda didn't like Godfrey. She talks about - He died bitter and isolated. No one liked him. He dumped people without warning of his TV show. When he wan't hot anymore no one wanted him around. She ends with "With Walt Kuhn "They" waited til he was dead." VG............40-60
112. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Offered here is a letter from Teresa Jabelmann to the noted artist Walt Kuhn, March 30, 1943, 2 pages. She was the wife of Otto Jabelmann (1892-1943). He was considered a mechanical genius, and the "hard-nosed ruler of the Union Pacific Railroad mechanical department. He led the team that developed The Big Boys locomotives. He died in Jan. 1943 while in England visiting England to investigate railway problems at the behest of W. Averell Harriman and concluded that British railways needed 1200 more locomotives. Apparently Otto was in poor health then and Teresa says in this letter ".....I did worry constantly as I knew Otto would never try and save himself in any way..." Envelope is included..............50-75
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113. Two Manuscript Documents Signed relating to an 18th century Bass family in Virginia. First is a receipt dated 12/10/1795 and reading "Received in full of Archad Bass and Thomas Bass his father from the beginning of the world to this day. It is signed by Isaac Micaels (by his mark), approx. 8x3 in. The second document gives an accounting (in pounds, shillings and pence), "being the balance which I am due Alexander Bass for the rent of his plantation." It is signed by Wm. Goode and dated July 1, 1801. Approx. 6.5 x 4 in. G/VG..............35-45
114. [ART] ROY CHARLES FOX (1908-1993) American artist. Member of Print Council of America; Rochester Print Club; Cooperstown Art Association; Elmira Art Club. His work is in the permanent collections of Elmira College, Arnot Art Museum, Florida Southern, etc. He exhibited at Audubon Artists 1942-44; Saranac Lake Art League 1943 & 1944; Northwest Print Makers 1944-48; Wawasee Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Laguna Beach AA 1944 & 45; Oakland Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Phila. Print Club 1956; Phila. Etchers 1962; Albany Print Club 1947; Grand Central Galleries (NY) 1946; Corning Glass Center 1965, etc. Offered here is an original etching, not signed. Image approx. 7-3/4 x 11-1/2 in. plus margins. NOT FRAMED. VG.............Min. Bid $40
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115. [ART] ROY CHARLES FOX (1908-1993) American artist. Member of Print Council of America; Rochester Print Club; Cooperstown Art Association; Elmira Art Club. His work is in the permanent collections of Elmira College, Arnot Art Museum, Florida Southern, etc. He exhibited at Audubon Artists 1942-44; Saranac Lake Art League 1943 & 1944; Northwest Print Makers 1944-48; Wawasee Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Laguna Beach AA 1944 & 45; Oakland Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Phila. Print Club 1956; Phila. Etchers 1962; Albany Print Club 1947; Grand Central Galleries (NY) 1946; Corning Glass Center 1965, etc. Offered here is a pencil drawing, not signed. Paper size approx. 9-1/2 x 10 in. NOT FRAMED. VG.............Min. Bid $40
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116. [ART] ROY CHARLES FOX (1908-1993) American artist. Member of Print Council of America; Rochester Print Club; Cooperstown Art Association; Elmira Art Club. His work is in the permanent collections of Elmira College, Arnot Art Museum, Florida Southern, etc. He exhibited at Audubon Artists 1942-44; Saranac Lake Art League 1943 & 1944; Northwest Print Makers 1944-48; Wawasee Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Laguna Beach AA 1944 & 45; Oakland Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Phila. Print Club 1956; Phila. Etchers 1962; Albany Print Club 1947; Grand Central Galleries (NY) 1946; Corning Glass Center 1965, etc. Offered here is a pencil drawing, not signed. Approx. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 in. NOT FRAMED. VG.............Min. Bid $40
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117. [ART] ROY CHARLES FOX (1908-1993) American artist. Member of Print Council of America; Rochester Print Club; Cooperstown Art Association; Elmira Art Club. His work is in the permanent collections of Elmira College, Arnot Art Museum, Florida Southern, etc. He exhibited at Audubon Artists 1942-44; Saranac Lake Art League 1943 & 1944; Northwest Print Makers 1944-48; Wawasee Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Laguna Beach AA 1944 & 45; Oakland Art Gallery 1944 & 45; Phila. Print Club 1956; Phila. Etchers 1962; Albany Print Club 1947; Grand Central Galleries (NY) 1946; Corning Glass Center 1965, etc. Offered here is a pencil drawing, signed. Approx. 6 x 4 in. + margins. NOT FRAMED. VG.............Min. Bid $40
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118. [SHOW BIZ] Collection: Liberace signed portrait in a illustrated folio souvenir program; also signed portrait of his brother George [signed "George"] 1954. Also included is HIT PARADER magaine, Dec. 1954, feathuring article by Liberace, "Mature Women Are Best.", and Oct. 1954 Inside scandal magazine with Liberace on cover and article "What Men Think of Liberace." Also another folio unsigned program. VG.........100-150
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119. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday and Company. 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 and Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here are 2 drawings, not signed, 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 - and 3-3/4 x 5-1/2 in. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG.........Min. Bid $40
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120. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday and Company. 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 and Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here are 2 drawings, not signed, each about 2-1/4 x 3 in. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG.........Min. Bid $40
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121. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday and Company. 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 and Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here are 2 drawings, not signed, each about 2 x 2-1/2 in. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG.........Min. Bid $40
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122. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday and Company. 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 and Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here are 2 drawings, not signed, on 7-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. paper. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG.........Min. Bid $40
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123. [AMERICANA] Nahum Hayward (1790-1858) Plymouth, Mass. Chairman of the Board of Overseers ALS, Plymouth, 1818, 1 page, to the Selectmen Overseers of the Poor, Middleboro, Mass. Asks that Cyrus Tinkham be removed from jail [debt]. Addressed on the verso. VG............Min. Bid $10
124. [PORTRAIT] original antique portrait engraving of Thomas Jefferson, image approx. 5-1/8 x 4-1/4 in. plus margins. Margins are toned..............25-35
125. [INDIANS] John H. Artichoker, Jr. (1930-2013) he was the youngest man ever appointed head of an Indian reservation in the U.S., and the first Indian to be superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Agency in Lame Deer, Montana. Signedn3x5 card removed from scapbook. VG................25-35
126. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 1875 Mortgage Deed from Franklin Gale to Squamscott Savings Bank, signed by William H. Balknap. 8-3/8 x 14 in. VG............Min. Bid $10
127. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 1892 document - land and buildings in Ashland, NH. Several signatures. approx. 10 x 16 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10
128. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 1904 document - land and buildings in Ashland, NH. Several signatures. approx. 10 x 16 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10
129. [INDIANS] Frederick (Fredrak) W. Fraske (March 8, 1872 – June 18, 1973) is believed to have been the last surviving veteran of the Indian Wars. At the age of 21, in Chicago, which was his home town, he enlisted in the U.S. Army to help his widowed mother support her family of seven. He was assigned to Fort D.A. Russell, which was near Cheyenne, Wyoming, serving as a private with company F of the 17th infantry as a first aid man and letter carrier. He spoke about Cheyenne of that time as a quiet but wild town, where cattle were unloaded, and the residents were a tough breed. Fraske commented on the fact that he was glad that he never fired a shot in battle with American Indians, and didn't feel any ill will towards them either. He also felt that he understood the difficult position they were in. Fraske never personally had anything other than peaceful encounters with them. Signed 3x5 card removed from scrapbook.................25-35
130. (INDIANS) Hugh McGinnis (1870-1965 in Iron Mountain, Michigan) emigrated from Ireland to America in 1887, he lived in New York and St Louis, Missouri with his sister prior to enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1890. He was a twenty-year-old private in Co. K, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry during the Wounded Knee Massacre, where he was wounded twice. When he died he was the last survivor of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee. McGinnis wrote an extensive account of his experiences at Wounded Knee. Two signature written in 1964 mounted to scrapbook page......50-75
131. [INDIANS[ Harry E. Brockman (b. 1874) of St. James, Mo., was recruited at a frontier dance in the early 1890s and sent to Fort Grant, Ariz. He was one of the last of the old time Indian fighters. Signed 3x5 card. Removed from scrapbook. Mounting traces on verso...............20-30
132. [INDIANS] 1886 PRINTED HOUSE OF REP. DOCUMENT, Message from the Presudent, Grover Cleveland re: Funds of the Miami Indians, 2-1/2pp. Irregular left edge..............Min. Bid $10
133. [INDIANS] 1898 Printed US Senate document from the Sec. of the Interior re: Agreement With The Five Civilized Tribes, 4pp. VG...........Min. Bid $10
134. Janet Loxley Lewis (A1899-1998) American novelist and poet. Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters. She was an active member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club. She taught at both Stanford University in California, and the University of California at Berkeley. ewis was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. ALS, 1971, 1p. She pens a poem on the verso. 6 x 9 in. Fine.................100-150...........Min. Bid $20
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135. Robert B. Dresser (1880-1976) wrote right-wing articles and speeches and testified on a number of political topics including the cold war, communism, fair housing legislation, and civil rights.
Offered here is a 1949 TLS to Geo. Andrews Moriarty, 1-1/3 pages. Content: his conservative views/activities. George Andrews Moriarty (1883-1968) American genealogist. Moriarty went to work for the U. S. State Department in the foreign service, and served in consular and secretarial roles in Fiume, Italy; Mexico City; and Guatemala. He returned to Harvard once again to study law, and received his LL.B. in 1916. He practiced law in Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts for over a decade, which time also included a year in the U.S. Army at the end of World War I when he was a captain in military intelligence. In 1927 he ended his career in law and devoted the remainder of his life to historical and genealogical pursuits. In 1986 the National Genealogical Society instituted a Hall of Fame for individuals that had made significant strides in the field of genealogy. In 1990 G. Andrews Moriarty was inducted into that prestigious group, having been nominated by the Genealogical Society of Utah and the American Society of Genealogists. Moriarty was known to be anti-semitic per Maine State Police and a Nazi sympathizer. MORIARTY was deeply interested in the threat of Communism in the United States. He added he believed the Jewish people were behind the Communist Party over the whole world and were using the Russians and the Communist Party to eventually gain mastery over all the world's people. He stated he was desirous of ascertaining who the sender of certain literature was and would cooperate with the FBI in every way. He stated further he would recontact writer in the event he receives any more literature, particularly if a return address accompanies the literature. RARE! VG.................25-35
136. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] items from the estate of Brenda Kuhn, daughter of Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) famous American artist. Includes: Edmund Muskie 1968 TLS. Walt Kuhn's Wells, Maine property tax 1948 receipt. Photo of the Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, Maine up on the hill. Photo of later Brenda Kuhn building just down the road. Brenda Kuhn signed check 1967. Cape Neddick Park brochure featuring Walt Kuhn. VG.............Min. Bid $40
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137. [JUDAICA] Nelson Glueck (1900-1971) American rabbi, academic and archaeologist. He served as president of Hebrew Union College from 1947 until his death, and his pioneering work in biblical archaeology resulted in the discovery of 1,500 ancient sites. During World War II, Glueck used his intimate knowledge of Palestine's geography to help the Office of Strategic Services develop a contingency plan for a retreat from German field marshal Rommel's advance through Northern Africa. Rommel was stopped, however, and the plan was not needed. Glueck's scholarship led to personal relationships with many world leaders: he delivered the benediction at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961; and he was personal friends with many of the State of Israel's early leaders, including David Ben-Gurion, Abba Eban, Golda Meir, Henrietta Szold and Judah Magnes. His autograph signature written on slip with other handwriting on it..............25-35
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138. [ART] Judith Zilczer - American art historian and former museum curator. She is known for her work with artists such as Horace Pippin, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Willem de Kooning, and Richard Lindner. Zilczer was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as "the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia." She curated an exhibit titled "Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900".[4][5] Zilczer served at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in various capacities from 1974-2003. From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of Paintings. Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. TLS, Sept. 20, 1983, 4pp. To Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. She thanks Brenda for granting her permission to study the restricted Walt Kuhn Papers in the Archives of American Art. Excellent art content letter. Also includes a signed 1962 Brenda Kuhn bank check. Fine......80-120......Min Bid $25
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139. Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant. ALS, 1885, 2pp, 4-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. VG.................60-80
140. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Edward Howard Griggs (1868-1951) lecturer and educator. He taught at Indiana University and later Leland Stanford University. It is estimated that Griggs gave about 13,000 lectures to over 8 million people. Griggs wrote on a variety of topics including education, philosophy, culture, biology, and "statesmanship". 1918 envelope with his signature in the return address. (2) 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. (3) Lucien Bonaparte Chase (1817-1864) US congressman from Tenn. 1847 postmarked address sheet bearing his ink signed Free Frank signature. addressed to Cave Johnson his fellow congressman from Tenn. (4) Two TLSs 1908 from Moor Brothers, Toledo, Ohio. To Edward W. Heath, son of civil war general Francis E. Heath. (5) Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. Signed 1934 check. (6) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (7) Rev. Justus Clement French (1831-1899) author. CLIP SIGNATURE. (8) Douglas Volk (1856-1935)American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.Signed 1922 bank check................Min. Bid $50
141. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) John G. Schumaker (1826-1905) US Representative from New York. Signed [free frank] postmarked cover. (2) Clyde Martin Reed (1871-1949) 24th Governor of Kansas and U.S. Senator from that state. Signed 1948 cover honoring William Allen White. (3) Western Union telegram sent from congressman Philip J. Philbin [Mass]. (4) Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 printed gov. doc. re: PUBLIC-LAND LAWS, signed in type, 4pp. (5) Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864. Signed 1896 bank check. (6) Kenneth A. Roberts (1912-1989) U.S. Representative from Alabama. CLIP SIGNATURE. (7) CHIEF OF REVENUE AGENTS DURING WORLD WAR I] JOHN D. MURPHY (1885-1949). Lawman, Chief of revenue agents, U.S. Treasury, Washington, D. C., 1918. Murphy went on to serve as partner, Lewis, Murphy & Co.. accountants and tax consultants (1919-26); among his other duties. SCARCE SIGNED BANK CHECK, 1918, The Riggs National Bank, Washington, DC. (8) Thomas Lee "Bum" McClung (1870-1914) American college football player and coach who later served as the 22nd Treasurer of the United States. Brief TLS, 1909. (9) Antique engraved portrait of Sir Robert Strange................Min. Bid $50
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142. [FRANCE] Albert Chavanac (1909-1972) World War French hero who was awarded The Ordre de la Libération ("Order of the Liberation") which is a French Order awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II. It is an exceptional honor, the second highest after the Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honour) and only a small number of people and military units have received it, exclusively for deeds accomplished during World War II. TLS, Conseil Municipal De Paris, 1965, 1p, 8-1/4 X 10-1/2". FINE. NOT TRANSLATED............50-75
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143. [WORLD WAR I] William Jason Mixter, M.D. (1880-1958) prominent American surgeon. By the early 1930s, Mixter was considered to be one of the nation's leading experts in spinal surgery, and he went on to become the first chief of the neurosurgery department at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served in the U. S. Army in both world wars. In 1934, at the age of 54, Mixter and Joseph S. Barr published an article on the intervertebral disc lesion in the New England Journal of Medicine. That article fundamentally changed the popular understanding of sciatica at that time, and for this work Mixter is generally credited by his contemporaries as being the man who best clarified the relation between the intervertebral disc and sciatica. Mixter and Barr's landmark report helped to establish surgery's prominent role in the management of sciatica at the time. Over the next few decades, discectomy surgery increased in popularity tremendously, and some refer to that period as the "dynasty of the disc." Offered here are 5 items circa 1915 while Dr. Mixter was serving overseas. Two are documents plus a photo of him plus 2 other small photos. VG................100-150
144. [Nazi
Persecution]
Collection of
about 19
letters from
the collection
of Dr.
Frederick K.
“Fritz”
Solomon (née
Solomonski)
(1899-1980),
painter, was
born in
Berlin,
Germany in
1899. In 1938,
when the
synagogue he
was serving at
was torched by
Nazis and he
was
subsequently
summoned by
the Gestapo,
he left
Germany with
his wife,
Margot, and
emigrated to
England.
Solomonski was
interned in
the Isle of
Man in
Hutchinson
Square camp in
the early
1940’s as a
prisoner of
war along with
many other
artists. While
still in
Europe,
Solomon had
studied art
under the
German-Jewish
artists Max
Liebermann,
Martin
Brandenburg
and Eugene
Spiro, and
German
expressionist
Willy Jaeckel.
In England, he
continued his
artistic
career,
exhibiting his
religious and
expressionistic
work at
various
galleries
throughout the
country,
including the
Royal Academy
and the
Kensington Art
Gallery in
London, where
he had a
one-man show.
His work is in
the permanent
collections of
the Courtauld
Institute, the
Bazalel Museum
in Jerusalem,
and the Ben
Uri Art
Gallery St.
John’s Wood,
London (now
incorporating
the London
Jewish Museum
of Art). He
was the
curator of
this latter
gallery from
1943 to 1946.
In 1954 he
left England
to take a
position as
Rabbi for
Temple Beth Ha
Shalom in
Williamsport,
PA. After
three years in
Pennsylvania,
he sought
another
position and,
as a member of
the Central
Conference of
American
Rabbis, was
appointed
rabbi at
Temple Beth
Israel in the
Vedado suburb
of Havana,
where he wrote
sermons and
hosted
religious
services for
his
congregation,
a part of the
Union of
American
Hebrew
Congregations.
Solomon was
also active in
the Jewish
Progressive
movement,
frequently
communicating
with
representatives
of The World
Union for
Progressive
Judaism
throughout the
1950s in an
attempt to
officially
associate his
congregation
with the
organization.
Offered here
are 9 copies
of Solomon
letters
written in the
1950s while he
was a Rabbi in
Havana, Cuba
during the
Revolution.
Also included
are 10 TLSs,
1953-1959 from Dr.
Franz
Seligsohn (1880-1964). For many years
he was the
legal Advisor
at the London
UNITED
RESTITUTION
OFFICE in
London,
England.
The letter by
Seligsohn are
all written in
German.
Generally in
very good
condition........Min.
Bid $75
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145. [ART]
Old Master
engraving from
c. 1673.
Offered here
is a printed
page from some
unknown book
which contains
an original
engraving,
approx. 2-3/4 x 5-3/4 in. image. The page
is approx. 14
x 9-1/2 in.
Light stain
o/w
VG...........Min.
Bid $25
See
above
146.
[ITALY] Giuseppe
Bianchini (1704-1764) Italian
Oratorian,
biblical,
historical,
and liturgical
scholar. Three
(3) UNSIGNED
manuscript
pages in his
hand. Not
dated.
VG................100-150
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147. (KUHN) original
photograph of WALT KUHN PAINTING -Dominique Clown,
done in 1947. Durand-Ruel blindstamp on verso. 10 x 8,
b/w. FROM THE KUHN ESTATE. VG...............50-75
148. [PORTRAIT] of CHESTER ARTHUR (1830-1886) Photogravure portrait [1902] after a photograph from life by Sarony. Image area, is about 9.5 x 7 in. including engraved signature below plus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25
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149. [PORTRAIT] of Sir Ralph Abercromby KB (1734-1801) was a Scottish soldier and politician. He twice served as MP for Clackmannanshire, rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was appointed Governor of Trinidad, served as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, and was noted for his services during the French Revolutionary Wars. Offered here is an original portrait of Nelson engraved by William Finden (1787 – 1852) English engraver. His neat style and smooth finish made his pictures very attractive and popular, and although he executed several large plates, his chief work throughout his life was book illustration. The largest plate executed by William Finden was the portrait of King George IV seated on a sofa, after the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. For this work he received two thousand guineas, a sum larger than had ever before been paid for an engraved portrait. This engraving dates back to 1863. The engraved area is about 8 x 6 in. very light foxing which is expected and adds a little charm..................50-75
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150. [PORTRAIT] of ZACHARY TAYLOR (1784-1850) Photogravure portrait [1902] from a painting by L. Burn Forest. Image area, is about 9 x 6-3/4 in. including engraved signature below plus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25
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151. [VERMONT] collection of 22 court/legal documents, many signatures, dating 1845-1862. Not researched. Very good condition................50-75
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152. [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
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153.[NORTH CAROLINA] Robert Rice Reynolds (1884-1963) was a Democratic US senator from North Carolina from 1932 and 1945. Almost from the outset of his Senate career, "Our Bob," as he was known among his local supporters, acquired distinction as a passionate isolationist and increasingly as an apologist for Nazi aggression in Europe. Even after America's entry into World War II, according to a contemporary study of subversive elements in America, he "publicly endorsed the propaganda efforts of Gerald L. K. Smith," whose scurrilous publication The Cross and the Flag "violently assailed the United States war effort and America's allies." One of the nation's most influential fascists, Smith likewise collaborated with Reynolds on The Defender, an antisemitic newspaper that was partly owned by Reynolds. Reynolds occasionally turned over his Senate office facilities to subversive propagandists and allowed them to use his franking to mail their literature postage-free. Offered here is a signed cover postmarked 1931. Address label is present. VG..........Min. Bid $9
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154. Francis Elias Spinner (1802-1890) American politician from New York. He served as Treasurer of the United States from 1861 to 1875, and was the first administrator in the federal government to employ women for clerical jobs. He served under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson and US Grant. He served from March 16, 1861 – July 30, 1875. Offered here is a lengthy 8 page ALS written to Spinner from John C. Hopper, Secretary, Office of the National Revenue Reform Association. Dated Sept. 20, 1875. Spinner has docketed and dated on the verso of last page. VG...................100-200............Min. Bid $25
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155. [SCIENCE] Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910) American scientist and engineer. Brief ALS, 1909, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. Provenance: Paul Richard's collection. VG...............100-150................Min. Bid $25
156. [PORTRAIT] of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (1773-1841) Photogravure portrait [1902] from a painting by E.D. Marchan. Image area, is about 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 in. including engraved signature belowplus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25
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157. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President MARTIN VAN BUREN. From The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents Engraved president's autograph beneath the portrait. Copyright, 1907, Bureau of National Literature & Art & Gravure Company of America. Whole paper size is 19.5 x 16 in. High quality paper. Image size about 12 x 8. Condition VG.........Min. Bid $25
158. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President W.H. HARRISON. From The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents Engraved president's autograph beneath the portrait. Copyright, 1907, Bureau of National Literature & Art & Gravure Company of America. Whole paper size is 19.5 x 16 in. High quality paper. Image size about 12 x 8. Condition: some toning in margin below image o/w VG.........Min. Bid $25
159. [SCIENCE] Charles Frederick Marvin (1858-1943) American meteorologist. He was born at Putnam, Ohio. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1883, and was appointed to the United States Army Signal Corps of the United States Army. On July 1, 1891, an Act of Congress created the Weather Bureau from the signal service. All the men and duties relating to weather were transferred from the War Department. He became professor of meteorology in 1903 in the Weather Bureau, and chief there in 1913. Marvin conducted important experiments for determining the amount of moisture in the air, invented instruments for automatically measuring and recording rainfall, snowfall, etc., and produced other advancements during the time when man first began the employment of powered aircraft. Marvin wrote numerous pamphlets and papers published by the Weather Bureau. He contributed to the New International Encyclopedia. Offered here is a 1905 autograph note signed, written in the 3rd person, accepting invitation from National Academy of Sciences. 5-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine..................75-100
160. [JUDAICA) Frederick Soloman (1899-1980), Rabbi and artist, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he left Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. Solomonski was interned in the Isle of Man in Hutchinson Square camp in the early 1940’s as a prisoner of war along with many other artists. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954 he left England to take a position as Rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here are about 70 pieces from his personal papers basically related to Judaica. Dated c. 1953-1976............Min. Bid $75
161. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) [FILM] [James Poe] (1921-1980) American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Around the World in 80 Days for which he jointly won an Accademy Award in 1956, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably "Three Skeleton Key" and "The Present Tense", both of which starred Vincent Price. Offered here is a 1967 bank c heck made out by James Poe HOWEVER, someone at some time has torn his signature away. Nothing on verso. He has written on front "Am ExpChex - Horses". Since there are no cancellation marks it is assumed the check was never used and the torn away signature was like a cancel??? Odd item. (2) [NEW YORK SUPREME COURT] Anson Cary (1764-1842) came from Windham, Ct., to Union, Broome county, where he resided for a short time, and then departed for Oxford in 1792. He came up the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers in a canoe paddled by an Indian named Seth, and took up the lands owned by the Charles A. Bennett estate. Mr. Cary was a Revolutionary pensioner, having entered the army at the age of 16 and served in three campaigns of the war. He was a very large and obese man, and was the first blacksmith to locate in Oxford. He worked at his trade and carried on his farm a great many years, and was also famous as a pettifogger before Justice’s courts. He held the office of justice of peace, was appointed sheriff of the county March 1, 1805, and for a considerable time one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Offered here is 1811 New York Supreme Court document signed by Anson Cary as judge. Approx. 7.5 x 9 in. VG. (3) [MUSIC] Elsa Clay - Assistant Executive Director of Composers and Lyricists Guild of America. TLS, 1963, 1p. to Milt Ebbins, informing Ebbins that Erroll Garner is now a member in good standing the Guild. (4) [MICKEY SPILLANE] Bud Yorkin (1926-2015) American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor. Known for The Tony Martin Show, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, All In The Family, Maud, Sanford and Son, etc. He was a partner with Norman Lear. In 2002, Yorkin was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. TLS, 1956, 1p. to Mickey Spillane. Approx. 8.5 x 11 in. VG. (5) Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) was an American industrialist, politician, and social reformer from Rhode Island. He was educated in a Quaker boarding school in Burlington, New Jersey, where he developed a particular interest in mathematics. In 1819 he returned to Rhode Island to join his elder brother Isaac in the management of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. One of Rowland Hazard's responsibilities was selling the company's prodent winters in New Orleans from about 1833 to 1842 to sell goods that included cotton bagging cloth, pre-cut garments, low-priced shoes, and raw "Negro cloth" for use by African-American slaves. The activity that Hazard considered "as the greatest effort of his life" (according to his granddaughter) began when he was in New Orleans on business in the winter of 1841. After he learned that a free African-American man from Newport, Rhode Island was in custody in Louisiana as an escaped slave, his investigations found that many free African-Americans were being detained under the assumption they were escaped slaves. He worked with Jacob Barker, then a New Orleans lawyer, to obtain freedom for nearly 100 people being held as slaves. The action later led to charges being filed against several public officials who were responsible for the illegal detentions. His involvement with abolitionist causes and in the Republican Party eventually caused his company to lose favor with its markets in the southern United States. This helped to prompt the Peace Dale mills' transition from making cheap cotton products to selling higher quality woolens. Hazard retired fromucts to planters in the southern United States, particularly Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. He sp the textile business in 1866 and invested in the Union Pacific Railroad. After Union Pacific fell into financial disarray and became a party to the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1872, Hazard spent much time dealing with the company's financial affairs. Offered here is a Providence, RI document signed, 1839, about 8 x 3-3/8 in. Cancel hole over signature which is blurred.................Min. Bid $50
162. [AVIATION] Clyde Kelly (1883-1935) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was engaged in newspaper publishing at Braddock, Pennsylvania, in 1903 and established the Braddock Leader in 1904. During his tenure as Congressman, Clyde introduced a resolution to permit private contracting of airmail service. This resolution, the Air Mail Act of 1925 was signed into law on February 2, 1925, prompting many companies to venture into the aviation field (e.g., Boeing, Douglas, and Pratt & Whitney). The Airmail Act of 1925 was the foundation that commercial aviation is built upon. Page with his nphoto and another photo unidentified, both signed below the photo. Size of sheet 9 x 6-3/4 in. VG.............50-75
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163. [1968 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION] About 26 pieces from the collection of Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. She was an Alternate Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Includes: [1] Brenda Kuhn TLS, 1968, 1p. mentions Walter Mondale. [2] Printed letter from Senator Clailborne Pell asking that Humphrey and McCarthy release their delegates. [3] Signed letter from Brenda suggesting Plank for democratic National Platform. [4]Ink signed TLS, 1p. 1968, to Brenda Kuhnfrom a Candidate for US President. His name was Chester K. Rudnicki, who apparently ran for president more than once. In 1988,as a candidate he was arrested on criminal charges. He sues saying the charges were made because he was a candidate. He was jailed. Looks like he was bringing law suits all the time. [5] Long 4 page letter [not ink signed] from Rabbi Harold S. White, sent in Democrats for Humphrey envelope to Brenda Kuhn, basically saying he will support HHH, noy McCarthy. [6] Peter N. Kyros - US Congressman from Maine. TLS, thanking Brenda for being a gracious hostess. Plus other items connecting to the 1968 convention, including a Eugene McCarthy pamphlet. Collection includes about 19 items + 8 newspaper clippings. VG..........Min. Bid $50
164. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Karl E. Mundt (1900-1974) US Senator from South Dakota. TLS, 1964. (2) Red Adair (1915-2004) American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore. Signed, inscribed 5 x 6-3/4 in. color photo. Signed twice [contrast isn't very good because photo is darker]. (3) Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (4) C. Delano - Sec. of the Interior. Signed in type 1875 printed gov. document, INDIAN SERVICE IN CALIFORNIA. (5) Douglas Volk - artist known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp. Signed 1906 bank check. (6) James Edward Murray (1876-1961) US Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961. (7) Tony Lavelli (1926-1998) NBA player. Sig. inscribed 3x5 card. (8) George Mitchell - US Senator from Maine. TLS, 1985, signed George. Thanks publisher for sending him a book. (9) Group of 26 Limerick, Maine bank checks c. 1917. (10) [ILLINOIS-LINCOLN] Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him. Approx. 5.5 x 7.5 in. VG..................Min. Bid $50
165. George H.W. Bush (1824-2018) 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo [autopen signature]. Fine................50-75
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166. Steve Forbes Jr. (b.1947) American publishing executive and politician, who is the editor-in-chief of Forbes, a business magazine. Signed, inscribed 8 x 10 color photo. Fine.................25-35
167. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Charles Edward Courtney (1849-1920) American rower and rowing coach from Union Springs, New York. A carpenter by trade, Courtney was a nationally known amateur rower. Courtney never lost a race as an amateur and finished a total of 88 victories. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) Douglas Volk [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Signed 1910 bank check. (3) Anne Campbell (1852-1935) signed 14 line handwritten poem. (4) Ida Mulle - singer/dancer. Signed card 1926. (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) Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Signed 1946 Maintenance Service Agreement. (7) BRENDA KUHN (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer. Signed 1965 bank check..........Min. Bid $50
168. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Daniel Waldron (1775-1821) was the fifth and last generation of his family to hold the substantial Waldron estate in Dover, New Hampshire. With his bankruptcy Dover realized a new life and economy as a center of textile manufacturing. Court document dated 1820 signed as Clerk. 8 x 12 in. Fine................75-100
169. [PHOTOGRAPHY] 2 original color photographs of Frank Sinatra at the Columbus Day Parade in New York City. The photographs were taken Frank Mastro, the famed celebrity photographer probably best remembered for his photos of Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. Approx. 5 x 3-1/4 in. Unsigned. Fine..........Min. Bid $50
170. Albert Stanburrough Cook (1853-1927) American philologist, literary critic, and scholar of Old English. He has been called "the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." ALS, New Haven, 1893, 4pp. About 5 x 8 in. VG.................75-100
171. Joshua Hatton (1850– 1920) English writer, poet and editor, the brother of Joseph Hatton, Editor of The People). His exact date of death in late 1920 is uncertain, but it was reported at the beginning of 1921. He was aged 70. Hatton commonly used the pseudonym Guy Roslyn, although he is more often regarded by that name as a bogus biographer reduced to poverty and begging from the subjects of his biographies in his later life. ALS, 1879, 3pp. There is damage along the fold line...............Min. Bid $10
172. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday and Company. 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 and Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here is a drawing, not signed, about 2.5 x 2.5 in. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG..............25-35
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173. [ENGLAND] a handwritten note, signed with initials. Do not know who wrote this. It reads..............Please telegraph how Mr. Gladstone is and kindly express to Mrs. Gladstone my hopes for Mr. Gladstones speedy recovery. In a different hand below is written Sent Aug. 8/80. Gladstone's illness, Downing Street, August 1880. The scene at 10 Downing Street, Central London, was anxious as people waited for news of the condition of Prime Minister William Gladstone, recovering from a lung infection. - Year: August 1880. The page is 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 in. Mounted to another sheet.............40-60
174. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Anna Kaskas - Metropolitan opera singer. Sig., inscribed 8x10 photo, 1943. Two punch holes left side. (2) Dennise E. Stires - Warner Bros. 1984 paycheck endorsed on verso. (3) Gladys Hanson (1884-1973) was a stage and silent film actress. Signed card. (4) [ILLINOIS-LINCOLN] Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him. (5) National Tea Co. 1943 stock certificate. (6) Rudy Vallée (1901-1986) American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed bank check, 1935. VG (7) Louise Andrews Kent(1886-1969) American author. Her handwriting on bank check register. Three check stubs written but not signed by her, 1947. (8) George Huddleston (1869-1960) U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1929 envelope bearing his PRINTED Free Frank...........Min. Bid $50
175. Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946. Group of 10 signed bank checks, 1924-25. VG..............Min. Bid $80
176. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] George Waldron (1732-1805) 1793 Portsmouth, N.H. document signed concerning bthe Estate of James King. 7.5 x 6 in. VG.................25-35
177. INTERESTING LETTER signed Baring Brothers, London, 19 Sept. 1844, written on both sides of 7.5 x 8.5 in paper. This was written to John Howard Payne (1751-1852) American actor, poet, playwright, and author best emembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States and the English-speaking world. In 1842, Payne was appointed American Consul to Tunis, where he served for nearly 10 years until his death. The letter mentions Joshua Bates (1788-1864) American international financier who divided his life between the United States and the United Kingdom. A merchant and a banker, in 1828 Bates became associated with the great house of Baring Brothers & Co. of London, of which he eventually became the senior partner. He was arbitrator of the commission convened in 1853 to settle the claims of American citizens arising from the War of 1812. Fine................200-300................MIN. BID $50
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178. [FRANCE] Jean-Barthélémy Hauréau (1812-1896) French historian and writer. Born in Paris, he was educated at the Louis-le-Grand and Bourbon colleges in his native city, and won high honours at his public examination. After graduating he became a journalist, and soon was a contributor to several democratic papers: La Tribune, Le National, Le Droit, and La Revue du Nord; at Le National, he was praised by Théophile Gautier as the "tribune" of romanticism. At the age of twenty he published a series of apologetic studies on the Montagnards &emdash; in later years, regretting his youthful enthusiasm, he attempted to destroy the studies. In 1838 he took the chief editorship of the Courrier de la Sarthe and was appointed librarian of the city of Le Mans , which position he retained until 1845, when he was dismissed on account of comments of his on the daring speech of the Mayor of le Mans to the Duke of Nemours. He returned to Paris and once more became one of the editors of Le National. At this time he seemed destined for a political career, and after the revolution of February 24, 1848 was elected to the National Assembly; but close contact with revolutionary men and ideas cooled his old ardour. Throughout his life he opposed innovation, not only in politics and religion, but also in literature. After the coup d'état he resigned his position as director of the manuscript department of the Bibliothčque Nationale , to which he had been appointed in 1848, and refused to accept an administrative post until after the fall of the empire. Having acted as director of the national printing press from 1870 to 1881, he retired, but in 1893 accepted the post of director of the Fondation Thiers. He was also a member of the council of improvement of the École des Chartes. From the time of his appointment to the Bibliothčque Nationale up to the last days of his life he was engaged in making abstracts of all the medieval Latin writings (many anonymous or of doubtful attribution) relating to philosophy, theology, grammar, Canon law, and poetry, carefully noting on cards the first words of each passage. After his death this index of incipits , arranged alphabetically, was presented to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a copy was placed in the manuscript department of the Bibliothčque Nationale. ALS, 188?. written on both sides of 4-1/2 x 7" page. Includes a small ink drawing [man's head on one side and women's on the other side]. We assume the drawing is by Haureau. He speaks about a bust by Power and of Boulanger, Louis Napoleon and politics. Ends with "How humiliating it is to be French." Fine condition...........100-150
179. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) George W. Bush For President bumper sticker. Fine. (2) [WWI] Davenport - ALS, London, 12 Jan. 1917, 2pp, 4to. Re: contributions to the Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich "in recognition of the splendid & signal services of our Merchant Navy during the war. Whether on transports, on mine-sweepers, on patrol duty, or on trade routes carrying the cargoes which are the life-blood of the Empire they have faced not only the perils & hardships of the Sea, but the deadly risk of submarines, mines, & other enemy devices..." VG (3) Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was a prominent American journalist and academic of the early 20th century. In the autumn of 1890 Shaw was elected professor of international law and political institutions at Cornell University but resigned the post in 1891 to accept Stead's invitation to establish an American edition of the Review of Reviews . Shaw served as editor-in-chief of this publication until it ceased publication in 1937, ten years before his death at the age of ninety. He was the author of "Abraham Lincoln" [1929]. ALS, Hastings On Hudson, NY, Feb. 4, 1947, 2-1/2 pages. This letter was sent to Who's Who In America. 'I have been listed in every volume of Who's Who since Mr. Marquis began its publication..." Excellent condition. (4) Loretta Lynn (b. 1932) American singer-songwriter. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck for $143. (5) Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929-2017) American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Photo signed by autopen. (6) Pat Carroll (b. 1927) actress. Clip signature obtained 1980 from Provincetown Play House while she was playing Gertrude Stein. (7) William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) American romantic poet. Antique engraved portrait. (8) Andre Kostelanetz (1901-1980) Russian-born American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music. Signed 1973 FDC. End of signature is smeared................Min. Bid $50
180. [WORLD WAR 2] Dr. Ralph D. Bennett (1900-1994) His career was varied and most distinguished. He served as a professor of physics at M.I.T; as a naval officer, responsible for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Washington; and director of the Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory near Livermore, Calif., for the General Electric Co. He subsequently became V.P. and director of research for Martin Marietta. Dr. Bennett was a man uniquely placed to bring about significant changes in the way the Navy handled its research and development in those early years. Having both a Captain's rank and a respected technical background, he played a major role in the development of the Military-civilian partnership at NOL, and saw its use accepted universally in the rest of the Navy's R&D management. The Navywide system of Commander/Technical Director management owes its origins to Dr. Bennett. Offered here is an ink signed memorandum from Bennett to Capt. L.W. Mckeehan, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Navy Yard, Washington DC, 8 December 1943, 2pp. Discusses, by names, using certain people. Louis Mckeehan has written and signed a response on page 2. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. VG.................150-250
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181. [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] John H. Newton (1881-1948) Commander, Cruisers, Scouting Force at the outbreak of war. At the moment of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was in tactical command of the Lexington task force, which was on the way to deliver aircraft to Midway. After war broke out, the Lexington force was given to the more senior Brown, and Newton commanded its screen. Relieved before the end of the year, he was given command of the South Pacific Area in June 1944, when it had lost almost all strategic relevance. Offered here is a 1p. memo from Newton dated Nov. 7, 1942. Not ink signed. The ink date below is in the hand of Louis McKeehan. VG.................50-75
182. [AVIATION] Thomas C. McMurtry (1935-2015) American mechanical engineer, and a former naval aviator, test pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center and a consultant for Lockheed Corporation. McMurtry joined NASA as a research test pilot in 1967. The first project he was assigned to as the project pilot was the F-8 Supercritical Wing project. He flew its first flight on 9 March 1971 and that of the NASA AD-1 on 21 December 1979. He was project pilot on the TF-8A Supercritical Wing testbed and the AD-1. He was co-project pilot on the F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Airplane, the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and performed digital electronic F-15 engine efficiency control tests. On 26 November 1975, the X-24B dropped from the sky for the last time, piloted on its 36th flight by McMurtry. [1] McMurtry co-piloted the 747 Carrier Aircraft as it transported the Space Shuttle Enterprise to its first launch on 12 August 1977. McMurtry logged over 11,000 hours of flying time since earning his pilot's wings in 1958. A graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School, he has flown many aircraft including the U-2, X-24B, F-8A, AD-1, YF-12C, F-104, and F-15. McMurtry became chief research test pilot and then Chief of the Research Aircraft Division for the NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility. He eventually rose to be the Director for Flight Operations at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, and retired on June 3, 1999, after 32 years of service and one day shy of his 64th birthday. Offered here is a TLS, 1973. VG..................50-75
183. [U.S. NAVAL] U.S.S. SHAWMUT June 30, 1865 document. Library List [books/publications] for Lt. Comdr. J.G. Walker. USS Shawmut was a 593-ton steamer acquired by the U.S. Navy and put to use by the Union during the American Civil War. Shawmut served the Union Navy primarily as a gunboat with howitzers for bombardment, and various other rifles and cannon for use at sea in apprehending blockade runners attempting to "run" the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. John Grimes Walker (1835-1907) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the Civil War. After the war, he served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, head of the Lighthouse Board, and commander-in-chief of the Squadron of Evolution and of the North Atlantic Squadron. In retirement, he led commissions to investigate the construction of a Central American canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. At the siege of Vicksburg, Walker commanded the naval gun battery attached to the 15th Army Corps. His subsequent war service included operations which resulted in the capture of Fort Fisher, and he participated in the ensuing bombardments of Forts Anderson and Caswell on the Cape Fear River and in the capture of Wilmington, North Carolina. Rear Admiral Walker died at the age of 72, at Ogunquit, Maine. Kaye & I walk by his house on our Ogunquit walks many times. Approx. 8 x 13 in. Good+...............100-150
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184. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) American romantic poet, journalist 1852 letter from Bryant but not signed by him. (2) Kaaren Lee - actress, known for The Right Stuff (1983), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and T.J. Hooker (1982). Unsigned Warner Bros. paycheck 1984. (3) Edward Grossman - Executive Director, Composers and Lyricists Guild of America. TLS, 964, 1p. Also signed by Milt Ebbins (1912-2008) the well-connected show business manager who was a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House. Mr. Ebbins was a well-liked Hollywood insider who directed the careers of actors, musicians and comedians. For more than 30 years, he was the personal manager of actor Peter Lawford. Through Lawford, who was married to Patricia Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy's, Mr. Ebbins became a favorite of JFK's and a frequent guest at the White House and on Air Force One. At Kennedy's 45th birthday party in 1962, Mr. Ebbins gave Marilyn Monroe a push onstage at Madison Square Garden as she went out to sing her sultry version of "Happy Birthday." (4) Wilson Thomas Hogue (1852–1920) American bishop of the Free Methodist Church, elected in 1903. He was born 6 March 1852 in Lyndon, New York. His parents were Scottish-English Methodists. He was the founder of Greenville College. His career also included service as a Pastor and a District Elder. TLS, 1900, 1p. Toned. (5) Mary Hannah Krout (1851-1927) American journalist, author, and advocate for women's suffrage. ALS [no yr], 2pp. to Harry McClure. (6) Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him.................Min. Bid $50
185. Victor Saville (1896-1979) English film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962. As an independent producer he had purchased the film rights to A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel. He was persuaded to sell them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in return for the chance to produce the film and another big-budget adaptation, Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). Both films starred Robert Donat and were a great success in the USA as well as in Britain, providing Saville with a passport to Hollywood. After the war Saville continued directing films for MGM but eventually returned to Britain. Saville acquired production rights for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer mysteries and produced a few features, though Spillane thought he as interested in doing so only to acquire the money to produce The Silver Chalice. He produced two final films in the 1960s, The Greengage Summer (1961), adapted from the novel of the same name, and Mix Me a Person (1962). Offered here is a TLS, 1954, 1p, to Mickey Spillane. Spillane had requested permission to write stories during his contract agreement. Saville basically says no. Accompanied with a picture of Mickey, Saville and Biff Elliot. Biff Elliott (1923-2012) was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as popular detective Mike Hammer in the 1953 version of I, the Jury, and for his guest appearance in the Star Trek episode "The Devil in the Dark". Fine condition. Provenance: Estate of Mickey Spillane................150-250
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186. [FRANCE] Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Charles Percier, originally his friend from student days. Starting from 1794, it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities in their work. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich and grand, consciously archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognize as Directoire style and Empire style: see Charles Percier. ALS, 1801 [STAMPLESS COVER], 1p, approx. 6-1/4 x 8 in. About General Bernard. Seal removal has caused loss of paper on both sides affecting a few words............100-150
187. Albert-Auguste Cochon de Lapparent [1839-1908]. French geologist and mining engineer. Professor at Catholic Institute, Paris (from 1876); author of Traitéde géologie (1882), Leçons de géographie physique (1896), etc. ALS, Paris, 1891, written on both sides of 4-3/4 x 3-1/2 in. card. About an article in a scientific magazine written by a priest and which made him "Penaud" (crestfallen). VG.........50-75
188. WAR DEPARTMENT, pension document, 1833 [not filled out. 8 pages, 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. VG........30-40
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189. [ART] FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist. He won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artists as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. Offered here is a charcoal drawing unsigned, approx. 13 x 9.5 in. There is an Estate Stamp on the back. Fine..............300-400
190. [ART] A.B. GRIFFITH - ink drawing signed 1943. Subject: Julia Sanderson (1887-1975) Broadway actress and singer. 7 x 5 in. VG.............50-75
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See back side191. [PORTRAIT] of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1678–1743), Scottish soldier. Image is approx. 7 x 6 in. plus margins. Foxing..................25-35
192. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. This is his his page from the 1940/41 Almanac that fetched nearing 20 grand at Christie's. This page was always separate [never put into the Almanac because it has no stample holes]. It is handcolored just like the one in the Almanac. Everything is printed not ink signed, about 13-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. sheet size. Printed while he was at Camp Douglas Internment. The printed signed area is dated 1940 F.S.
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193. [ART] STEPHEN ALONZO SCHOFF ( 1818- 1904 ) trained as a banknote engraver, although he overcame the stiffness of that training to produce a fine group of etchings during the etching revival. Original etching, c. 1886, title is THE PRELUDE, image 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 plus margins. VG.............100-150
194. [FRANCE] Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (usually known as Joseph Gratry) (1805-1872) French author and theologian. Gratry was born at Lille and educated at the École Polytechnique of Paris. After a period of mental struggle which he has described in Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, he was ordained priest in 1832. After a stay at Strasbourg as professor of the Petit Séminaire, he was appointed director of the Collčge Stanislas in Paris in 1842 and, in 1847, chaplain of the École Normale Supérieure. He became vicar-general of Orleans in 1861, professor of ethics at the Sorbonne in 1862, and, on the death of Barante, a member of the French Academy in 1867, where he occupied the seat formerly held by Voltaire. Together with others (abbé Pétitot, curé of Saint Roch, and Hyacinthe de Valroger) he reconstituted the Oratory of Jesus and of Mary Immaculate, a society of priests mainly devoted to education. Gratry was one of the principal opponents of the definition of the dogma of papal infallibility, but in this respect he submitted to the authority of the First Vatican Council. Offered here are 4 ALSs, total of 10 pages, one letter dated 1869. VG.......100-150
195. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Michelangelo (1475-1564) Italian sculptor, painter, paper size about 12 x 9 in. VG............Min. Bid $25
196. [KENTUCKY] 1807 DOCUMENT signed by Horatio Gates WINTERSMITH (b. Martinsburg, Va. in 1786). His father had been a surgeon in the British Army, but was captured and joined the American forces. When his son was born, he added the name of Gates to his name, because of his great admiration of Gen. Gates, his captor in the war. Wintersmith has signed for James Crutcher. Major James Crutcher met young Wintersmith while returning from one of his trips to Baltimore and prevailed upon him to come to Kentucky. He arrived in 1806 & entered Crutcher’s store as a clerk. After two years he became a partner, and later went into busiiness for himself. He opened a large hotel and brought many of his relatives into business. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth Hodgen, daughter of Robert Hodgen, the founder of Hodgenville, Ky., the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Horatio was very successful in business, accumulating a fortune. He was only 49 when his death occurred Jan. 21, 1835. Approx. 8 x 12-3/4 in. VG..........200-300
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197. [KENTUCKY] Samuel Stevenson - came to Elizabethtown in 1806. The school in E-town was called Hardin Academy. Stevenson was its first teacher. He taught there for about 2 years. He then became a merchant in E-town, and served a term in the State Legislature. He lived in E-town for about 10 years. He opened one of the first taverns in E-town. He was a close associate of Henry Clay. Signed manuscript document, probably handwritten by Ben Helm but not signed by Helm. He is promising to pay Benjamin Edwards $110.60. Benjamin Edwards (1753-1829) was an American merchant and political leader from Montgomery County, Maryland. He represented the third district of Maryland for a very short time in the United States House of Representatives in 1795 after Uriah Forrest resigned. Late in life, Edwards migrated westward to the new settlement of Elkton in Todd County, Kentucky. Here, he built a new house, named Edwards Hall, in 1821. His son was Ninian Edwards (1775–1833), who served as Governor and U.S. Senator for Illinois. Approx. 6-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. Fine condition...........100-150
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198. [PORTRAIT] original antique engraved portrait of Lady Rachel Wriothesley (c. 1636 – 1723) English noblewoman, heiress, and author. Her second husband was William, Lord Russell, who was implicated in the Rye House Plot and later executed. A collection of the many letters she wrote to her husband and other distinguished men was published in 1773. Engraved by J. Cochran, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Alittle light toning which shows its old.................25-35
199. [PORTRAIT] original antique portrait of Dr. Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) English inventor. He became a clergyman of the Church of England. Cartwright began his career as a clergyman, becoming, in 1779, rector of Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire. In 1783, he was elected a prebendary at Lincoln Cathedral. During his time as a clergyman he published the poem Armine and Elvira in 1770, which was followed by The Prince of Peace in 1779. Although he became better-known as an inventor he was awarded the degree of DD in 1806. He was the inventor of the first wool-combing machine and of the predecessor of the modern power loom. His other inventions included a cordelier (machine for making rope; 1792) and a steam engine that used alcohol instead of water. This print (stipple engraving) Dr Cartwright, engraved by J. Thomson, published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, London, c. 1833. Dr. Cartwright, From a Picture in the posession of Miss Cartwright, Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The image area is approx. 4-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. plus clean margins. VG...............Min. Bid $10
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200. [BASEBALL] Max Patkin (1920-1999) was an American baseball player and clown, best known as the Clown Prince of Baseball (a play on "Crown Prince"). Patkin was the third "officially" crowned Clown Prince of Baseball, after Al Schacht and Jackie Price, though that nickname has also been applied to St. Louis Browns third baseman Arlie Latham among others. Patkin performed for 51 years as a baseball clown. His signature inscribed to Eddie, who was his driver when he visited Boston. Ob the other side is the signature of Willis O. Underwood [not ID'd]. About 4x6 in. VG..........Min. Bid $10
201. [MUSIC] JEFF VON DER SCHMIDT is Conductor and Founding Artistic Director of Southwest Chamber Music. A two-time Grammy Award-winning conductor, he has led numerous performances of standard 20th century composers as well as world and local premieres of new work. Mr. von der Schmidt has received six Grammy nominations, including consecutive 2003 and 2004 Grammy Awards as conductor for the Complete Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez Volumes and 2. His performance was nominated for Best Classical Album in 2005 for the Complete Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez, Volume 3 by both mainstream and Latin Grammys. Recent projects include leading cultural exchanges at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, featuring Aura, a major new composition by Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Chinary Ung; and a complete cycle of the chamber music of Carlos Chávez with Southwest Chamber Music and the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble at the UNAM Center in Mexico City in May 2007. His successful 2003 performance at the Library of Congress, with soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson in Richard Felciano’s An American Decameron, was greeted with a standing ovation. He has led cycles of the Los Angeles works of Arnold Schoenberg at Cooper Union in New York City and at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, where Southwest Chamber Music was the first American ensemble to perform at the Center since its relocation from the University of Southern California. Signed [endorsed on verso] 1984 Warner Bros. pay check. VG..............25-35
202. [MILITARY] 2 printed government documents, 1846 [mineral regions of Lake Superior] and 1856 - a memorial.........Min. Bid $10
203. [ART] Florence Maynard (1867 - 1958) was an American photographer. She has portraits in several American collections. She was raised in Massachusetts and trained as a painter in Boston. She began to study photography while in art school, working as an assistant to Gertrude Kasebier. ALS, 1900, 2pp., to Frank Cowles. She says that a boy studying at the school has some complications. About 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG................50-75
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204. [TAFT-HARTLEY BILL] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. Offered here are 4 typed pages of a speech made before congress. Appears to be about military pay [Bill H.R. 5007, circa 1950]. All of the ink notationa & handwriting on the pages was made by Philbin. Also included are 3 clean typed copies of the speech without his handwriting. VG.............Min. Bid $50
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205. [ART] Emile F. Salmon (1840-1913) French sculptor and print-maker. He was the son of the painter Theodore Frederic Salmon and the father of the poet and art critic Andre Salmon. Salmon studied under Barye, Hadouin and Gaucherel. He made his debut at the Salon in 1859. As a sculptor he produced small bronzes of animals, but abandoned this for etching. He collaborated on an illustrated edition of Victor Hugo's works. In 1886 he printed a set of JW's Venice etchings. These are now in the National Gallery of Scotland. In 1898 he made a number of engravings of drawings and watercolours in St Petersburg where he was then resident. He notably made an engraving after Rembrandt's Sacrifice of Abraham in the Hermitage. Offered here is an original 1888 etching by Salmon, the title is VACHES AU PATURAGE, IMAGE IS ABOUT 4-1/2 X 6-1/8 IN. PLUS MARGINS. There is a tear top edge which does not touch the image................Min. Bid $25
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206. [From Kuhn Estate] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) - American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. OFFERED HERE: Kuhn writes a lengthy pencil notation on side of TYPED LETTER SIGNED, approx. 7.25 x 10 in.. 1943, from Philip R. Adams to Kuhn. Very good condition. Adams writes about setting up meeting with Kuhn when he gets to New York. At this time Adams was the Director of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts [Ohio]. Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn: Painter, His Life and Work (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1978). The lengthy pencil notation: "enter on Veteran Acrobat, causing ructions in Columbus, Schumacher trying to oust Mrs. Arnold. Everything o.k. with picture accorded a fine hanging after its appearance in the Art News as "picture of the year". VG...............200-300 Min. Bid $50
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207. [ART] Portraits by Dutch XVII Century Masters, illus, 73 lots. Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog, 1939. No prices............Min. Bid $10
Leading Authority on Byzantine Art 208. Charles Diehl (1859-1944) French historian who was a native of Strasbourg. He was a leading authority on Byzantine art and history. He was member of the École française de Rome [1881-1883] and the École française d'Athčnes. In 1910 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Diehl was the author of several influential books on Byzantine art and history. His treatise Byzance. Grandeur et décadence was translated into English by Naomi Walford and published in 1957 as "Byzantium: Greatness and Decline". ALS, not dated, 1p, 4.5 x 6.5". VG............40-60
209. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Offered here are 2 letters sent to Spillane plus an unsigned 8x10 photo of Spillane. All of these items come from Mickey's personal collection.
[1] Jim Henaghan (1911-1984) journalist, screenwriter, novelist and columnist. Henaghan, who worked for every major paper in Los Angeles, served as The Hollywood Reporter's Rambling Reporter in the early '50's. Always candidly outspoken and never one to cater to the industry's sacred cows, he wrote an article concerning Preston Sturges' escapades with a nurse while confined in a local hospital. Sturges, far from angry at the humorous reportage, called Charles Feldman and convinced him Henaghan's talents could be better put to use as a screenwriter. He worked as rewrite man at Paramount working on property owned by the studio, and was responsible for rewrites of what were to become "Sunset Boulevard" and "North to Alaska." It was said of him..."he could take 'Stagecoach,' put it on shipboard, and make it a good screeplay." Henaghan served as executive vp of John Wayne's Batjac Prod. for seven years. From 1960-76, he lived and worked writing feature articles on film and film personalities in Europe. Henaghan wrote five novels in the Jeff Pride series, published by Bantam Books and St. Martin's Press. He was a close friend of the actor Robert Walker. In her biography of Walker and Jones, Star-Crossed, author Beverly Linet quotes Walker's friend Jim Henaghan, who was not mentioned in official accounts of Walker's death, as saying that he was present at the time of the events leading to Walker's death. Henaghan stated that he stopped by Walker's house, where they played cards, and Walker was behaving normally. Walker's psychiatrist arrived and insisted that he receive an injection. When Walker refused, Henaghan held him down in order for the physician to administer it. Walker soon lost consciousness, and frantic efforts to revive him failed.
Offered here is a lengthy 2 pages typed letter signed Jim, dated July 15, 1953. Written to Mickey Spillane regarding contract details with Waye - Fellows. That's John Wayne's company. Tattered edges.
[2] Bob Fellows (1903-1969) American film producer who was once a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. In 1952, Wayne and Fellows teamed up to start their own production company, Wayne-Fellows Productions, making (primarily) films starring Wayne, the first one being Big Jim McLain (1952). The following year they produced Island in the Sky (1953). Wayne had seen the venture as a way to produce and direct his own film version of the battle of the Alamo. Eventually, Fellows became embroiled in a complicated divorce from his wife, necessitating the need to sell his half of the company. Wayne bought Fellows out and started his own Batjac Productions. One of the Wayne-Fellows films was Ring of Fear, featuring Mickey Spillane. Offered here is a July 15, 1953 typed letter signed Bob. Its basically about the same thing Henaghan's letter was about. [3] Unsigned vintage 8x10 photo of Mickey Spillane. Provenance: Estate of Mickey Spillane.........100-200
210. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Mickey Spillane (1918- 2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here are 3 letters written to Mickey Spillane. (1) Stan Purdy (1926-2010) at age 16 he was admitted into the American Federation of Musicians. While in college he founded the "Stan Purdy Orchestra" and toured the East Coast collaborating with musicians like Duke Ellington, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lou Mecca, and Maynard Ferguson. In Hollywood, he composed and conducted the music for "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," an album based on Spillane's mystery book characters. The music consisted of an orchestral suite with narration done by Spillane. Released through John Wayne's Batjac Productions, the music was also scored for Ring of Fear, starring Spillane, Pat O'Brian, and the Clyde Beatty Circus. In New York, Stan conducted and arranged studio orchestras for many well-known jazz and dance-band musicians as well as string players from the New York Philharmonic. ALS, 1954, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Signed Stan. Unable to reach Mickey by phone to discuss subjects of importance. Will keep trying. (2) Stan Purdy (1926-2010) long 2 page typed memo dated same day as letter. Subject: Liv Lowry. This really important content about the contract regarding Purdy & the Mike hammer album. Signed Stan. (3) Richard (Dick) Irving (1917-1990) was the primary producer of the MIKE HAMMER show on TV. His company was Revue Productions, which filmed many early television series on the lot (including early episodes of Leave It To Beaver). TLS, 1955, signed Dick.1p. All are very good condition.............200-300..................Min. Bid $50
211. [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!............100-150
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212. From the Paper of Charles B. Rounds, Calais, Maine. Group of 11 documents plus one letter written to Rounds from Kansas City, Mo. 1873, 3pp, signed Geo. M. Chase. These date from 1869 to 1905. Six of them are signed by Rounds [some in the text]. Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864..................Min. Bid $50
213. [SPILLANE] typed 1951 page sent to Mickey Spillane about an incident in Lansing, Michigan where a 28 year old man was arrested on a charge of larceny. Apparently he bought a book but concealed two others under his coat and left without paying for them. According to detectives he admitted stealing the books. They were entitled MY GUN IS QUICK and VENGEANCE IS MINE, both by Spillane. 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............50-75
214. Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here is a photocopy of his The Night I Died - Mike Hammer short story published in the anthology Private Eyes - although story was written in 1953, was not published until 1998. Identified as a 1951 Unproduced Radio Drama. This photocopy is from the Spillane estate and it is not known if there are other copies. VG. From the Estate of Mickey Spillane..........100-150 Min. Bid $25
The following are dealer and auction catalogs - interesting research.
215. Joseph Rubinfine - List 132, offering 47 priced autographs, including John Adams $17,000; George Custer $18,000; Jefferson, Jackson, Lincon, Madison, Monroe etc....Min. Bid $10
216. Joseph Rubinfine - List 134, offering 70 priced autographs, includingGeo. Washington $24,000; Benjamin Franklin $65,000; Winston Churchill, Cornwallis, La Fayette, etc....Min. Bid $10
217. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] a week after his death in 1949, ART DIGEST referred to Walt Kuhn as "one of the most forceful, independent and self-disciplined painters of our time." That glowing evaluation is certainly just as valid today. [Written by Bennard B. Perlman, the art historian-author, from Baltimore]. Offered here are items from the Kuhn Estate in Maine. [1] Kennedy Galleries 1974 letter sending $3000 for month of June. At this time the Kennedy Galleries in New York was handling the Kuhn Estate and Brenda Kuhn received a monthly check of $3000 plus more if something sold. [2] Letter dated 1962 from attorney for Kuhn estate about Maine inheritane tax and a $125 bill for repairs to the painting "Landscape and Brook. [3] Dorsha Hayes (1897-1990) stage actress and dancer during the early 20th century. She was born in Galesburg, Illinois. She made her debut appearance in Pierre Loti's Daughter of Heaven in 1912. TLS, 1983, 1p. [4] Althea Bransom, neice of the noted artist Paiul Bransom. ALS, 1983, 1p. [5] Ruth M. Blaine - ALS, 1983, 2pp. about an UNSIGNED painting from the 1930s WPA project. She wants to know if Brenda thinks it is by Walt Kuhn. [6] Two letters, 1983, fromMaine Historical Society. [7] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1912) Co-manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1949-1956; manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1956-1966; Collection of Brenda Kuhn, Kuhn Estate, Cape Neddick, 1956-1966; founder, Cape Neddick Park, since 1965. President Kuhn Memorial Corporation, Cape Neddick, 1968-1975. Founder Walt Kuhn Gallery, Cape Neddick, since 1980. Brenda Kuhn has been listed as a noteworthy art historian by Marquis Who's Who. SIGNED 1967 bank check. [8] Thank you for donation card 1960, from Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Maine. [9] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) From 1969 to 1978 she was in charge of the art museum at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Later she moved north to Camden and was curator at the Farnsworth Museum. She was a close friend of Brenda Kuhn. 1p. ALS saying she was in Portland and saw "your father's paintings in the Barridoff [gallery' and the Museum." [10] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1985, 2pp. Mentions seeing painting by Walt Kuhn and Marsden Hartley. [11] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984 on postcard - mentions Tea Party painting by Walt Kuhn "still puzzles me." [12] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984, 2pp. Talks about Port Clyde, maine and the church there says that "the Wyeths attend a different church - Ridge". The Wyeths, of course, were Andrew and Betsey Wyeth. [13] 2 page TLS from an attorney about the sale of a Kuhn painting titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." Price $75,000. [14] Brief autograph note dated 1983 re" birthday of a 3 year old child [Cape Neddick, Maine]. [15] Group of 3 Walt Kuhn gallery consignment sheets signed by 3 different artists 1986 & 1987. [16] 2 misc. items. In all approx. 20 pieces. VG..............Min. Bid $75
218. [ART] William Radclyffe (1783-1855) was an English engraver and painter. Born in Birmingham and self-educated, he was apprenticed to a letter engraver and studied drawing under Joseph Barber with his cousin John Pye. Both planned to move to London when their apprenticeships were complete in 1801, but Radclyffe remained in Birmingham for financial reasons and set up as an engraver and copperplate printer. Radclyffe became well known as an engraver of landscapes, making prints after David Cox, J. M. W. Turner and Peter De Wint and illustrating numerous works of travel literature. Original 19th century engraving by Radclyffe after W.M. Craig, image approx. 7 x 4-3/4 plus image. Text offset showing.............Min. bid $10
219. WAR DEPARTMENT Orders No. 35, 1872, 2pp. 5 x 7 in.....Min. Bid $10
220. WAR DEPARTMENT Orders No. 34, 1872, 1p. 5 x 7 in.....Min. Bid $10
221. (NEW YORK CITY) 1864 SOLDIER'S DEPOT, HOSPITAL [4TH FLOOR] D. T. VALENTINES MANUAL. Color lithograph, approx. 7.25 x 9 in., 2 vertical folds [as published folded into the manual]. Still tipped to the print back is a 1/2 page from the Manual with description of the facility. Valentine's Manuals, each volume officially titled, Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York...............Min. Bid $10
222. [FILM] The Wynne family - 8 x 10 photo including Ed Wynn, Keenan, and his two sons around a birthday cake. c. 1950s. 10 x 8 in. VG for its age. Provenance: once owned by actor Van Johnson. ........50-75
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223. [NORTH CAROLINA] Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946. Senator from North Carolina; born in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., September 14, 1873; moved with his parents to Raleigh, N.C., in 1877; attended the public schools and Raleigh Male Academy; graduated from Wake Forest College in 1893; editor of the Biblical Recorder 1893-1907; member of the State board of agriculture 1896-1900; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C.; United States collector of internal revenue for North Carolina 1913-1921; member of the North Carolina Constitutional Commission in 1915; trustee of the University of North Carolina 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942, and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Raleigh on December 15, 1946; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses), Committee on Commerce (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses). ALS, 1910, 1p, to Eleanor, a lady that he wrote love letters to. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG...............50-75
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224. George Madden Martin (1866-1946) American fiction writer. ANS, 1924. About 3.5 x 2.5 in.......Min. Bid $4
225. [PHOTOGRAPHY] circa 1941 photograph [MG 85714] of Lana Turner, approx. 13 x 10 in. This was taken by Eric Carpenter (1909-1976) who worked at MGM, aside from a couple of short breaks, from 1933 to the 1960s. Elevated from office boy, he succeeded Virgil Apger as Bull's assistant and continued in that capacity until he got his union card. He finally became a portrait photographer at precisely the moment when MGM was cultivating a new crop of stars--Lana Turnerr, Esther Williams and the popular team Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. A decade later Carpenter photographed Marilyn Monroe when she made 'The Asphalt Jungle' (1950). He also worked as a uncredited still photographer on many great films including 'The Wizard of Oz' for which he did some wonderful Kodachrome stills, 'Singing in the Rain,' 'The Swan'--Grace Kelly's last film--'Gigi', 'Ben Hur,' and 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies' with Doris Day. With his spirited and beautiful portraits, Carpenter quickly became the favorite photographer of the studio's rising young stars, like Ava Gardner and James Craig, among others. His rapport with Lana Turner began when she signed with MGM and lasted up to her departure from the studio in the late fifties. Carpenter was responsible for the most of her torrid, memorable gallery portrait sittings. His photographs of her are lush and immediate in dazzling whites and sophisticated, plungingly deep backs. More dynamic than almost any of the other glamour portraits of the era, their effect recalled the Harlow portraits and and anticipated the ones of Monroe at Fox in the early fifties--acres of white fur, opalescent skin, poses inviting by thier ease. Not signed of course. Creased at bottom right corner & light off-setting caused by printed label on back but overall VG...............200-300
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226. [ART] Carl Ernst Forberg (1844-1915) German engraver, etcher and painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Original etching, c. 1883, image approx. 8 x 6 in. plus margins. VG.................50-75
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227. [FRANCE] BISHOP OF CHARTRES [1717-1780, Pierre-Augustin-Bernardin de Rosset de Fleury]. He was Bishop from 1748-1780. Document Signed, Paris, 1778, 1p, approx. 6-1/2 x 8-1/4". About Madame de Vauldrey. VG...........100-150
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228. [NASA] group of 6 covers postmarked 1965-1982. VG..................60-80
229. [ART - WALT KUHN ESTATE] 1947 Whitney Museum of American Art document - Received from Walt Kuhn, 112 East 18th Street, The Green Pom Pom, for 1947 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1947-1948. Mostly likely Walt himself wrote in pencil "After 12". About 5 x 7-3/4 in. Condition : see scan. This painting is now in the collection of The Butler Institute of American Art. It was painted by Walt Kuhn in 1944................100-150
230. Robert Steed (1903-1995) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey. He is known as a painter, teacher, designer. He is best known for abstract oil paintings. His papers are held in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. Offered here is an original lithograph from the rare 1953 Improvisations portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York. Leading artists on the New York art scene were invited to contribute original lithographs in the form of advertisements for businesses and institutions supporting the Artists Equity Association; these sponsors allowed the artists complete creative freedom of expression. This lithograph was issued in an edition of 2000; the sheet measures 12 x 8-1/2 inches. Signed by Steed in the plate (not hand-signed). VG.................100-150
231. [ WORLD WAR 2] Mimeograph broadside, one page. The Salt Lake Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League announces a talk to be given by one of the national sponsors of the League, Mrs. Burton W. Musser, an international talent show (including Negro talent), and movies to be shown at the meeting on Thursday, March 22, 1945. The movies are "CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY" and "RELOCATION CENTER VIEWS". "More and more as the victory date approaches, the citizens of this country must become acquainted with the peace plans and the thinking that is going to bring about universal understanding." Bring your Issei parents along. Rare. VG condition. About 8 x 10 in.........100-150
232. [PORTRAIT] Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC[1] (1735-1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for his victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, from which he earned his titles, and as a patron of Horatio Nelson.[2][3] Despite having a fierce reputation for discipline his crews had great affection for him, calling him Old Jarvie. Offered here is an antique engraved portrait, page size about 11 x 7 in. Engraved by H. Robinson, circa 1863. Some light foxing spots but VG...............50-75
233. Portrait of FRANCIS RUSSELL, DUKE OF BEDFORD (1765-1802) English aristocrat and Whig politician, responsible for much of the development of central Bloomsbury. Offered here is an antique engraved portrait, page size about 11 x 7 in. Engraved by W.T. MOTE, circa 1863. Some light foxing spots but VG.............50-75
234. [THEATRE] Grace George (1879-1961) was a prominent American stage actress, who had a long career on Broadway stage and also appeared in two films. George starred as Esther in the hugely successful 1899 Broadway adaptation of Ben Hur from Lew Wallace's novel. George appeared in a silent film called Tainted Money in 1915. In 1935, she gave an acclaimed performance as Mary Herries in Edward Chodorov's thriller, Kind Lady, at the Booth Theatre. She appeared in the film, Johnny Come Lately in 1943 with James Cagney. In 1950, she was awarded the Delia Austrian medal. ALS, nd but c. 1905, this comes with a fantastic unsigned vintage photograph of Grace. About 7.5 x 9.5 in. The photograph was Victor Georg of Chicago. Both are in very good condition...............80-120
235. Reverend Fred Stadtmuller, a German-born Roman Catholic priest in rural Harding County, New Mexico. Reverend Stadtmuller served an 11-church parish that stretched 4,000 square miles – most of it lacking paved roads. In order to get around his parish quickly, the good priest relied on a piper cub airplane called the Spirit of St. Joseph (an obvious parody of Charles Lindbergh’s celebrated Spirit of St. Louis). And in case you’re wondering, there were no airports in the parish – Reverend Stadtmuller’s airplane took off and landed on rough dirt fields. In 1951, a new filmmaker named Stanley Kubrick created the short documentary “Day of the Fight” about Stadtmuller, known as The Flying Padre. Offered here is a signed 3x5 card [mounted]...............25-35
236. [THEATRE] Mary Anne Orger (1788-1849) she was a leading actress, playwright and the mother of the composer Caroline Reinagle in her role as Flippanta in THE CONFEDERACY. Original 1821 engraving, about 4.5 x 7 in. total size. VG...............Min. Bid $10
237. [ART] Wendell D. Volk (1884-1953) American artist. Signed 1943 bank check. Born El Paso, TX, buried Arlington Natinal Cemetery. He was a printmaker and woodcarver, married Jessie J. McCoig, also an artist (1904-2005). The Douglas Volk family built a rustic Tudor cottage, _Hewnoaks,Đľ on the shores of Kezar Lake in Center Lovell, Maine. [Stephen A.] Douglas Volk was the son of Leonard [W.] Volk, who was famous for his many life casts of Abraham Lincoln. S.A. Douglas Volk studied in Paris and Italy. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York and was a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. He participated in the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and taught at the New York Society for Ethical Culture established by Felix Adler, where he met Karl von Rydingsv_rd. He married Marion Larabee in 1881 and two of their children were dau. Marion and son Wendell. Daughter Marion helped Mother Marion run the Sabatos Studio, which produced woven and printed textiles. Wendell was also a weaver and learned woodcarving from Karl von Rydingsv_rd. WendellŃ’s wife Jessie left Hewnoaks, lock, stock, and barrel, to the University of Maine. Hewnoaks was the heart of an Arts and Crafts community. Marion Volk decided to improve upon a generations-old native tradition of making _drawnĐľ rugs and with the help of her son Wendell and daughter Marion she began Sabatos Handcrafts in 1901. The Volks gathered together residents of Center Lovell, who then carried out every part of the rug-making process. Twenty years later the Volks began producing block-printed textiles. The rugs and printed panels are extremely rare today. VG...............50-75..............Min. Bid $10
238. MYSTERY LOT of about 15 autograph signature. Not identified. For those who like to do the research. Good luck..............Min. Bid $10
239. [GAME OF BRIDGE] Walter Hackett (1876-1944) was an American-British playwright. Several of his stage works (such as Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure, The Freedom of the Seas, The Regeneration, Hyde Park Corner, The Gay Adventure, 77 Park Lane, The Barton Mystery, It Pays to Advertise and Other Men's Wives) were adapted for film. He was married from 1911 until his death in 1944 to actress Marion Lorne. He was born in Oakland, California, and died in New York City. Offered here is a "neat" typed letter signed about playing bridge. Written from the Whitehall Theatre in 1930, 1p, 7-3.4 x 9-1/2 in. He makes a typo mistake at top typing Hackeet instead of Hackett. Trafalgar Studios, formerly the Whitehall Theatre until 2004, is a West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. Built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style, the theatre regularly staged comedies and revues. It was converted into a television and radio studio in the 1990s, before later returning to theatrical use. The theatre opened on 29 September 1930 with The Way to Treat a Woman by Walter Hackett, who was the theatre's licensee. VG...............80-120
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240. [SCIENCE] L.J. Johnson - Harvard Prof. writes letter to Prof. R.S. Woodward who was made President of the Carnegie Institution. Dated Dec. 28, 1904, 1p. approx. 8 x 10-1/4 in. Very good condition. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. He died in 1924 in Washington, D.C. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics . In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. VG......100-150..........Min. Bid $25
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241. [SPACE] WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. From 1962 to 1965, Whisenhant, who was a native of Texas, was the staff photographer for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. During her tenure there she shot photos of astronauts, worked with CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite on a story about astronaut John Glenn, and photographed President John F. Kennedy. Growing up in Livingston, Texas, Willene Whisenhant probably couldn't have imagined sipping lemonade on Air Force One with the president. She most likely didn't think she'd be the first woman ordained into an all-male club. And the idea of being the first and only female photographer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), couldn't have possibly drifted into even her wildest daydreams. Later on, Whisenhant learned that President John F. Kennedy wanted her up front because, as he explained, when he first met his wife, then Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a struggling photographer and no one would give her a break. He therefore wanted Whisenhant to be front and center. That same day, the president asked his men to take the photographer up to Air Force One and give her some lemonade. Offered here is a lithograph picture of Deke Slayton one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, and was responsible for NASA crew assignments.. Whisenhant has written at the bottom "Slayton." Provenance: from the files of Willene Whisenhant. VG...............100-150
242. [ART] XVII-XX Century European & American Paintings, illus, 156 lots. Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog, 1969. No prices............Min. Bid $10
243. [SACO, MAINE] Lauriston Ward writes a one page letter with postmarked address leaf to William Trafton County Clerk. Concerns a date mistake on Ward. 1843 letter from Saco, Maine, 1p. + postmarked address leaf. VG+......Min. Bid $10
244. [ART] Clarkson Frederick Stanfield RA RBA (1793-1867) was a prominent English marine painter, often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield. He was briefly apprenticed to a coach decorator in 1806, but left owing to the drunkenness of his master's wife and joined a South Shields collier to become a sailor. In 1808 he was pressed into the Royal Navy, serving in the guardship HMS Namur at Sheerness. Discharged on health grounds in 1814, he then made a voyage to China in 1815 on the East Indiaman Warley and returned with many sketches. An accident forced Stanfield to leave active service, but during his voyages he had acquired considerable skill as a draughtsman. In August 1816 Stanfield was engaged as a decorator and scene-painter at the Royalty Theatre in Wellclose Square, London. Along with David Roberts he was afterwards employed at the Coburg theatre, Lambeth, and in 1823 he became a resident scene-painter at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where he rose rapidly to fame through the huge quantity of spectacular scenery and (moving) dioramas which he produced for that house until 1834. Meanwhile, Stanfield developed his skills as an easel painter, especially of marine subjects; he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1820 and continued, with only a few early interruptions, to his death. Offered here is an envelope hand-addressed, and signed, by Stanfield. Approx. 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG.......75-100.........Min. Bid $25
245. [ART] Morrie Turner (1923-2014) American cartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters. During World War II, where he served as a mechanic with Tuskegee Airmen, his illustrations appeared in the newspaper Stars and Stripes. After the war, while working for the Oakland Police Department, he created the comic strip Baker's Helper. In 1970 Turner became a co-chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. In 1967, cartoonist Bil Keane created the Family Circus character Morrie, a playmate of Billy and the only recurring black character in the strip, based on Turner. In 2003, the National Cartoonists Society recognized Turner for his work on Wee Pals and others with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Offered here is a First Day Cover, 1973, honoring American Revolution Bicentennial on which he does an ink drawing of "WEE PALS", signed. Great item. 6.5 x 3.5 in. Fine...100-200......Min. Bid $25
246. [JUDAICA] Frederick Solomon (1899-1980) Rabbi and Expressionist artst. Single page with dates 1957 - 1962, written on both sides. Mentions Fedel Castro - the success of the Revolution, executions, etc. Solomon was a Rabbi in Cuba 1957-1961. Approx. 8-1/4 x 11 in................100-150
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247. ENTERTAINMENT] Tommy Sands (b. 1937) American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as early as 1949, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". Signed sheet on which he draws a self-portrait [quickly]. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. Fine...........Min. Bid $25
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248. [THEATRE] 3 items once owned by Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. Cornell is regarded as one of the great actresses of the American theatre. Offered here are 3 items: [1] A tiny 1.5 x 1 in photo of Katharine. [2] Her Actors' Equity Association card [Expiration date Nov. 1, 1974]. She died on June 9, 1974. [3] A unused piece of her stationery. All are in fine condition............50-75
249. [FILM] Edra Jean "E. J." Peaker (b. 1944) is an American actress. Peaker is best known for her appearances in the movie Hello Dolly! and in the TV musical series That's Life. Signed page on which she makes 3 sketches. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. Five.............Min. Bid $10
250. [NAVAL - JAPAN] Gen. Naomi Taniguchi (1870-1941) Japanese Navy soldier. Admiral of the Navy, who served as 18th Commander-General of the Combined Fleet and 14th Commander of the Army. He is an admiral said to be one of the representatives of the Navy decency school. In 1905-06 he was Attache, USA. Offered here is a signed handwritten, in the 3rd person brief letter sent to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. About 5-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. VERY FINE. RARE!..............100-150
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251. [ART] Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to Emily Clarissa King (Barlow) Volk and the sculptor Leonard Wells Volk. He was named for his mother's maternal cousin, Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1860, who lost to Republican presidential nominee Abraham Lincoln. Congressman Lincoln posed for a bust by Leonard Volk in early 1860, and the sculptor made plaster casts of his face and hands. Four-year-old Douglas entertained the future president. Offered here are 10 signed Douglas Volk bank checks made out to Marion V. Bridge [his daughter] dated 1919-1927. VG................200-300
252. [ART] Merv Slotnick [b. 1941] American artist living in Maine. His work is in many collections throughout the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, France, Belgium, etc. His work has been included in exhibitions at New York University; Maine Biennial; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Mansfield State College, Pa.; Ball State Univ.; Edison Community College, Cape Coral, Florida; Center For The Arts, Midland, Michigan; Central Michigan Univ.; Saginaw Art Museum; Provincetown Art Association; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Battle Creek Arts Center, Mich.; All Michigan Artists Traveling Show [1970-73] which traveled to various colleges & universities in Michigan; Northern Arizona Univ.; Alaska Pacific Univ., plus others. Abstract expressionist and printmaker Slotnick was born in Lansing, Michigan, and received degrees from Adrian College, Central Michigan University, with additional work at Michigan State University. Slotnick was one of only 50 artists invited to exhibit in 2003's 'SANCTUARY' Exhibition at the Nobel Peace Prize forum held in the U.S. to honor the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize. Two examples of Slotnick's work were exhibited in AMERICAN WORKS ON PAPER. The painter has also been honored to have had Virginia Mecklenburg (Head Curator, Painting & Sculpture, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian) selected one of his works on paper for inclusion in the 16th Visual Arts Association National. Offered here is an original serigraph, signed with initials, AP means artist's proof, image 3-1/2 x 5 in. plus margins. This print is printed on paper is from the former paper collection of William Ivins Jr. (1881 – 1961) who was curator of the department of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from its founding in 1916 until 1946, when he was succeeded by A. Hyatt Mayor. After nine years' legal practice, he was asked to take on the conservation and interpretation of the Met's print collection. He built up the remarkable collections that can be seen there today, and he wrote many prefaces to exhibition catalogues, as well as other, occasional pieces which were later collected and published. His best-known book is Prints and Visual Communication (MIT Press, 1969, ISBN 0-262-59002-6 (first published 1953 by Harvard University Press)), and his How Prints Look (1943, revised edition 1987) remains in print. Unframed. VG......................Min. Bid $25
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253. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers Association. Group of 2 typed letters signed "Gene", 1965, one to the actor Peter Lawford and the other to Milton Ebbins, Lawford's agent/partner regarding Lawford. Plus 3 ink signed memo documents sent to All members of the Society of INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS, which included Marvin Mirisch, Otto Preminger, Ebbins and Lawford. 1965 typed memo signed Gene. (2) Teresa Żylis-Gara (1930-2021) Polish operatic soprano who enjoyed a major international career from the 1950s through the 1990s. Signed 2-question page. (3) Alfred Griffin (or Griffith) Hatfield (1848 or 1850 – 1921) was a performer and minstrel show producer as Al G. Field . Signature 1906. (4) Dick Cheney - Vice President. TLS, 2002. Signature is likely autopen. (5) Dr. Michael DeBakey (1908-2008) DeBakey performed the first successful carotid endarterectomy in 1953. A year later, he pioneered techniques in grafts for the various parts of the aorta. DeBakey was among the earliest surgeons to perform coronary artery bypass surgery. A pioneer in the development of an artificial heart, he was among the first to use an external heart pump successfully in a patient – a left ventricular bypass pump. Signed 3x5 card. (6) Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American artist. Signed 1906 check. (7) Hon. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757-1847) was a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807 and then the Archbishop of York until his death. Signed address panel. (8) Philip Philbin - US congressman from Mass. 1939 telegram from him & one to him. (9) Edwin M. Stanton - printed gov. document re: 100 Days Men. From Stanton in 1866, 5pp., signed in type as Sec. of War. (10) Jack Dempsey - unsigned vintage 1964 photo. (11) Danny Rogers (died 2021) Danny was in the motion picture industry for more than 42 years as a stuntman and stunt coordinator. He doubled Eric Estrada on CHIPS for 6 years. Danny was voted into "Stunts Unlimited" in 1974 (which he thinks is the top stunt origination in the business). He has done many motorcycle stunts, horse work and fight scenes. Danny has been an all around stunt performer over his many years in the business preforming stunts on some of the "top" movies such as; XXX, Titanic, Fast & the Furious, Pearl Harbor, Hildago, just to name a few. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck. (12) Group of 13 Limerick National Bank checks 1915-26. Limerick, Maine..............Min. Bid $70
254. [ART] Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) American artist, illustrator and author. He studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. A transcendentalist and mystic, Kent painted remote and austere lands, including Newfoundland (1914-15), Tierra del Fuego (1922-23), and Greenland (1929; 1931-32; 1934-35). Collotype offered here is from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925. Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins. Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made paper. This is a proof printing. Fine, black impression, on cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce............100-150
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Rare Letter of Russian Interest
255. [RUSSIA] Shapurji (Shapur) Saklatvala (1874-1936) Lawyer and Labour and Communist politician; MP for Battersea. Born into a wealthy Bombay family, Saklatvala was reluctant to join the family business, choosing instead to be a welfare worker in the slums of Bombay. After concerns were raised by the Raj about his outspoken nationalism, his family sent him to oversee the Tata offices in Manchester. Before departing he contracted malaria. He recovered at a health spa in Britain where he met Sally Marsh, a hotel waitress who he married in 1907. The couple moved to London where he joined the Labour party in 1909. In his first speech he agitated ministers by fearlessly waging a one-man campaign on parliament with his opening statement: "No Britisher would for a moment tolerate a constitution for Great Britain if it were written outside of Great Britain by people who were not British", making it clear that he saw his position as an opportunity to speak on matters of the empire. He was also among the few members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to serve as an MP. In 1934 he visited the Soviet Union to tour the Union's Far Eastern republics, whose governance he compared favourably to that in British India. During that tour he suffered a heart attack but recovered.Offered here is a 1934 TLS written from Moscow to his brother Phirose, Honourary Consul for Persia, The Persian Consulate NYC. This is 15 full pages describing, in detail, many things there. mentions ......:the new Roosevelt regime in America....." Also included are 3 pages typed by his brother Phirozshaw about his own life [not signed]. He was head of an oil company in NH..........200-300
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256. [INDIANS] Rare 1821 printed US Senate document related to Silas Dinsmoor and the Choctaw nation of Indians. Silas Dinsmoor (1766-1847) was an appointed U. S. Agent to the Cherokee (1794–1798) and to the Choctaw (1801–1813). He later served as a surveyor in Alabama before eventually retiring to Boone County, Kentucky. Born in Windham, New Hampshire, Silas Dinsmore was part of a large group of inter-related families who settled in southern New Hampshire in the early 1700s. Through his mother, Martha McKeen, he was related to Joseph McKeen, the first president of Bowdoin College in Maine. He was also a first cousin of Pennsylvania Governor Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Silas worked his way through Dartmouth College by teaching, a profession he continued to practice after his graduation. At nearby Atkinson Academy he taught a newly formed co-educational class of students, opening up the chance for young ladies to learn Logic, Greek, and Rhetoric - topics normally reserved for male students. In 1793, Silas traveled to Philadelphia to look for a position with the government. He was offered the appointment of United States Agent to the Cherokee by President George Washington, a job that would last the next four years. In that capacity, Dinsmoor was expected to keep peace between the Native Americans and white settlers, serve as treaty commissioner, and introduce "civilization" to the Indians. This last task meant that he was to attempt to coax the males of the tribe to take up farming which was traditionally the occupation of females, and to teach the women to plant cotton, spin, and weave textiles. He spent much of his time at Tellico Blockhouse (in present-day Tennessee). As the agent, Dinsmoor was a witness to the First Treaty of Tellico, signed in 1798 between the U. S. Government and tribal leaders, which signed away land in eastern Tennessee. At the time, Silas wrote to his brother, "the Cherokees know the worth of their land too well to sell it for a song or anything under the value." In 1799 he accepted the job of purser on the naval frigate, USS George Washington. In that capacity he sailed with the ship on a historic mission, it being the first U. S. warship to enter the Mediterranean Sea. Under the command of William Bainbridge, the frigate was sent to Algiers with trade items and tribute for the Barbary pirates. When they arrived in Algiers, the Dey ordered the Americans to carry (under the flag of Algiers) an ambassador, several slaves, and exotic animals to Constantinople for the Sultan of Turkey. Returning to the states, Dinsmoor was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as Agent to the Choctaw and he proceeded to the small outpost of Washington, Mississippi Territory, located at the southern end of the Natchez Trace. It was presumed he would carry out a similar set of tasks as before, with the added expectation of encouraging the Choctaw to cede large sections of their land to the government. Again, the Native Americans were less than willing to give up their most valuable lands. The Treaty of Mount Dexter, signed in 1805, which sold away more than four million acres of Choctaw land in southeastern Mississippi and parts of Alabama, angered President Jefferson because he had wanted the more valuable lands along the Mississippi River. Dinsmoor also witnessed the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens of 1816 and the Treaty of Doak's Stand of 1820. By this time, though, he was no longer serving as agent. In 1811 Dinsmoor found himself embroiled in a controversy with Andrew Jackson and by 1813 he was looking for a new government post. The controversy began with reports from the Natchez region that slaves were being encouraged to run away by traders from Tennessee. Dinsmoor was asked to protect the property of the local planters and he began instituting an often ignored requirement that anyone traveling the Natchez Trace carry papers with them proving their ownership of any enslaved people they claimed. Jackson refused to do so and became quite furious when he heard the rule was being vigorously enforced, at one point threatening to arm his slaves on his next time through, kill Dinsmoor, and burn the agency house to the ground. Though he never found the right moment to carry out his threat, his missives to the War Department may have had something to do with Dinsmoor being replaced in 1813. Fine condition...............200-300
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257. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Robert P. Casey Sr. (1932-2000) American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 22nd district from 1963 to 1968 and as Auditor General of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1977. Signed color 5x7 in. photo. Fine. (2) [PUBLISHING] ALS, 1882, to Professor R.E. Thompson (1844-1924) - Am. educator, economist, from Henry B. Leo [?]. (3) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1951 bank check. (4) Henry Hubbard (1784-1857) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1829 to 1835, a Senator from New Hampshire during 1835 to 1841, and the 18th governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844. SIGNATURE [endorsement]. (5) James L. Ford (1854-1928) Editor. Signed 1915 print of a portrait drawing of him. (6) William W. Porter (1856-1928) American attorney and legal author. He served as associate justice of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1903. ALS, 1885, 1p. to William Henry Rawle. (7) Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864. A 1904 bank check from his estate not signed by him]. (8) Henry Phillips (1801–1876) was an English singer, who took on operatic roles in the 1820s and 1830s. ALS 1874, 1p. mounted................Min. Bid $50
258. [FRANCE] Bernard Potier, duc de Gesvres, Military governor of Paris 1739-1757. Some sort of letter or document signed, 1749, 1p, approx. 6-5/8 x 8-1/4 in. VG............100-150
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259. [EARLY FILM] Harry Reeves-Smith (1862-1938) English born stage actor who achieved success in Broadway productions at the turn of the twentieth century. He went to the U.S. in 1887 and toured with John Sleeper Clarke. In the U.S. he toured with actresses Henrietta Crosman and Grace George. He is mainly remembered for appearing in several hit plays. Ethel Barrymore became a stage star in Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines (1901) but Reeves-Smith's character Robert Jinks is the title of the play. In 1910 he appeared in another play with Barrymore, Mid-Channel, about a feuding couple. In 1912 he was opposite Laurette Taylor in her huge success Peg o' My Heart. In The Unchastened Woman (1915) the star was Emily Stevens. His last Broadway part was as Johan Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1935, at the age of 73. Reeves-Smith appeared in only three motion pictures, two silents and one sound. His last was The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) with Clive Brook, which holds the distinction of being the first Sherlock Holmes film to be shot in sound and Reeves-Smith the first Dr. Watson in a sound film. He pens 4 lines on verso of his personal calling card, signed with initials. 3 x 1-1/2 in. Fine.........50-75
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260. [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. Offered here is a 21 page typed response to an article by Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster on "Research and Organization published in the Educational Section of The Weekly Review. This was written by Woodward. Dr. A.G. Webster and Robert Woodward were appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. When Webster died in 1923 it was aid that "Few Americans have done more than Webster to promote the higher study of physics in this country." New York Times obituary in 1923. WORCESTER, Mass., May 15. -- Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, an internationally known physicist and a member of the Clark University Faculty for more than thirty years, committed suicide in the university laboratory today. His associates are of the opinion tonight that his act was prompted by a belief that his research work and accomplishments in physics were not appreciated by his contemporaries. All of the page handwritten corrections made on the pages were in the hand of Robert Woodward. Top of page 1 is a little tattered but the rest is very good. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. Provenance: from the personal papers of Robert Simpson Woodward. VG....................300-600................Min. Bid $150
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261. [U.S. SENATORS] typed letters signed by: Thomas Dodd [19600; Jos. S. Clark [1960]; J. Allen Frear Jr. [1960]; Frank Church [1960]; Henry Dworshak [1961]; Lister Hill [1960]; Alan Bible [1960]; Peter H. Dominick [1969]; Ernest F. Hollings [1972]; Zell Miller [1985]; John Sparkman [1961]; Albert Gore Sr.[1961]; Carl Hayden [1960]. Some of these have some mounting traces on verso; some are clean; one has some stains..............Min. Bid 70
262 . [MARYLAND] Paul Sarbanes (b. 1933) a Democrat, is a former United States Senator who represented the state of Maryland. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, having served from 1977 until 2007. Group of 3 TLSs, 1977-80, 1p. each. To the President of a financial company, regarding various bills......40-60
263. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Hickenlooper [IA], Hickey [WY], Holland [FL], Hruska [NE], Johnston [SC], Jackson [WA], Jordon [NC], Kuchel [CA], Lausche [OH], Cotton [NH]. All have mounting residue at top & bottom edge. Mostly on verso but with some show-thru.............50-75
264. [US SENATORS LOT] Typed signed letters from US Senators to Vernon L. Talbertt, Chief Messenger, Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Includes: Paul H. Douglas, Stephen M. Young, George D. Aiken, Milton R. Young, Thomas H. Kuchel, & Jennings Randolph. These date 1960-1962. All have mounting traces on verso with slight show-thru....Min. Bid $35
265. Group of 22 documents from the papers of Ross R. Mowry. These date 1920-1930. We have not researched any of the names. Mowry has signed many of them. Newton attorney Ross Rutledge Mowry was a member of the Newton Public Library board from 1912 to 1924, perhaps not surprising given that later in life he listed his hobby as reading. Born in Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, March 5, 1882, he was the youngest of ten children born to John E. and Louisa (Wilkins) Mowry, natives of Pennsylvania. Young Ross spent his youth on the home place assisting with the farm work until he was 15. He attended Oak Ridge School, and graduated from Baxter High School with the class of 1900. He then entered the State University at Iowa City, from which he was graduated in the law department in 1903. He began his law practice at Baxter, where he remained one year. In 1904, he removed to Newton where he formed a partnership with another Baxter High School graduate, John E. Cross, which lasted until 1910. According to one contemporary source, “Mr. Mowry has figured more or less prominently in local legal affairs all the while, being regarded as a very strong young lawyer and he has been very successful in all his legal work in the local courts.” In 1910, Mowry was the Republican nominee for Jasper County Attorney; he was elected, re-elected in 1912, and served from 1911 to 1915. Mowry was married to Mary Edith Mathews (1878-1949), daughter of John L. Mathews, a former Newton Public Library trustee, on September 15, 1908. They were the parents of two daughters, Esther Virginia Mowry and Gertrude Ellen (Mrs. William) Spaulding.[16] Mowry subsequently practiced his profession in Newton in 1914-16, 1917-24, and 1932-38. In 1916-17, he was Assistant Attorney General of Iowa in the office of Attorney General George Cosson.[18] From 1924 to 1932 Mowry was U. S. Attorney under Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. In 1938, he was elected State Senator. He was re-elected in 1942. Mowry was a past member of the Baxter City Council, and a past member of the Newton Park Board. He was a member of the Jasper County, 6th District, and Iowa State Bar Associations. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Fraternally, Mowry was a member of Newton Lodge No. 59, Ancient, Free & Accepted Masons; the Knights of Pythias; and the Modern Woodmen of America, for which he was past state counsel. He was also a member of the Wittemberg Grange. At the time of his death, his colleagues in the Iowa Senate considered Mowry “probably the greatest historian living in Jasper County.” He passed away on September 28, 1957, and is buried in Newton Union Cemetery..................Min. Bid $25
266. [FRANCE] Mathieu Jean Felicité de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency-Laval (1767-1826) was a prominent French statesman during the French Revolution and Bourbon Restoration. He was elected as the youngest member of the National Assembly in 1789. He is also known for his military expertise and his relation with Mme de Staël. When France became a republic Montmorency turned into an ultra-royalist. Napoleon regarded him as a member of the catholic opposition. During the restoration he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. AUTOGRAPH LETTER [if signed we don't see the signature], Paris, 1816, 2+ pages. Identified as...."Rare - Speaks about L'affaire du Canon and that he spoke about it to Vincenne's governor. Speaks about artillery affairs and MGR....he asks Ballanche to thank the Duke of Damas for accompanying MGR......speaks about consttution and about the King. Approx. 4.5 x 7 in. VG.............100-150
267. [FRANCE] Medieval Document from 1366 on vellum, 1 page, approx. 8 x 6.5". Quite fresh condition. See small slip [scan 2] identifies as being from Montils...........200-300
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268. [AMERICAN NAVAL] Commander John Mitchell Hawley - a native of Northampton, Mass., a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent families of the town. He made his home here until he was appointed to the Naval Academy, from which he was graduated in 1868. In 1869 he was made an ensign, in 1870 a master, and in 1874 a lieutenant, and from the time of his graduation until 1887 he rendered valuable service in several coast survey expeditions and in the hydrographic office. From 1887 to 1890 he was executive officer of the Nipsic, one of the United States fleet sent to Apia, Samoan islands, during the uprisings in 1889. The American, British and German fleets in the bay were overwhelmed by a fearful hurricane which swept the islands in March, 1889, and the Nipsic was one of the two or three vessels that escaped total destruction. Commander Hawley received a vote of thanks from the Legislature of Massachusetts for rare courage and ability displayed during the hurricane, and was commended to the Navy Department by Rear Admiral Kimberley, '"for zeal and energy in getting the Nipsic afloat after -she was beached. He had entire charge of this work, and to his efforts, in a large measure, is due the fact that the Nipsic is now afloat without more serious injury." In 1894 he was promoted to be lieutenant-commander and in 1896 was ordered to duty as assistant to the chief of the Bureau of Navigation, having charge of enlisted men. During the Spanish-American war, he was engaged in recruiting men from the west for the navy, having charge of three parties who secured nearly two thousand men for the service. He was promoted to commander March 3, 1899, and in May was ordered to the command of the Hartford, Admiral Farragut's old flagship, which is to be used as a practice-ship. Offered is is a 1p. typed letter, undated but c. 1889, from John M. Hawley [signed only in type], sent to Lieut. Henry W. Lyons offering his testimony if desired. The dockets in pencil are in Lyon's hand. VG............100-150
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269. [NAVAL] N.H. Farquhar (Rear Admiral Norman Von H. Farquhar, USN, (1840-1907). Letter Signed, marked "Copy", USS Trenton, Apia, Samoa, April 22, 1889, 2 pages, 7-3/4 x 10". The original was sent to the Secretary of the Navy, Washington DC [Benjamin F. Tracy]. This "copy" letter was sent to Henry Lyon, who became commander of the Nipsic. Dated about a month after this famous naval incident (The Samoan Crisis ). This letter is of high praise for Lieut. Commander Henry W. Lyon, saving the Nipsic "...to his excellent service during the Hurricane of March 16th and 17th, 1889, and since then in saving valuable property from the wreck. During the gale, he intelligently carried out my orders; personally supervising the many plans to keep out water, getting lines to the Vaudalia to prevent the total destruction of the Trenton and many other duties besides..." Norman Von Heidreich Farquhar (1840-1907) was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, attended the U.S. Naval Academy during 1854-59. After graduation, he served with the Africa Squadron until September 1861. Lieutenant Farquhar spent most of the Civil War off the U.S. Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, serving in the gunboats Mystic, Sonoma and Mahaska and the cruisers Rhode Island and Santiago de Cuba. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in mid-1865, a few months after the fighting ended, and was on duty at the U.S. Naval Academy from then until September 1868. For the rest of the 1860s and into the next decade, Farquhar served in the warship Swatara, was Executive Officer of USS Severn and USS Powhatan and Commanding Officer of USS Kansas. He also had two tours at the Boston Navy Yard on ordnance duty and as Executive Officer. Advanced in rank to Commander in December 1872, Farquhar spent nearly five years at the Naval Academy. He commanded the training ship Portsmouth in 1877-78, and the steam sloops Quinnebaug and Wyoming in European waters in 1878-1881. Five more years of Naval Academy duty were followed by torpedo instruction at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1886. From May 1887 until her loss in the March 1889 Samoan hurricane, Captain Farquhar commanded the steam frigate Trenton. He then served on several of the Navy's boards and, in March 1890 became the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. During 1894-97, he was Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Commanding Officer of the cruiser Newark, and President of the Naval Examining Board. While holding the ranks of Commodore and Rear Admiral, Farquhar was Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1897-99, commanded the North Atlantic Station during 1899-1901 and was Chairman of the Lighthouse Board in 1901-02. He retired from active duty in April 1902, upon reaching the statutory service age limit of 62. Rear Admiral Farquhar died at Jamestown, Rhode Island, on 3 July 1907. The letter is in very fine condition. Provenance: Estate of Admiral Henry W. Lyon, who had a distinguished Naval career, was honored for his service in the Spanish-American war where he commanded the U. S. S. Dolphin. Lyon and his wife, Liela, bought a house in Paris Hill, Maine in 1899 and moved there full time when he retired from the Navy in 1907. Picture of Farquhar is not included here..........250-350
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270. REPRESENTATIVES REPORT OF THE NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE ROYAL CLAN O.S.C. Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 29, 30th and July 1st 1887. T.G. Fleming writes a 25 page handwritten report "To the worthy Chief, Officers and Clansmen of Clan Gordon No. 19, Hartford, Conn. Scottish Clans. VG..................100-200
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271. [MILITARY] William Badger (1826-1897) was born in Gilmanton, NH, son of William Badger who was the governor of New Hampshirte. He mustered in Company D, of the Fourth Infantry Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers on Sept. 18, 1861 as a captain. He was dismissed from service, but later exonerated and commissioned as a colonel of the regiment. However, there not being enough men he could not be mustered in. He later served in the regular army as a captain in the 10th Regiment of the New Hampshire Militia, and then with the 6th United States Infantry.Often stationed in Indian territory, he was later brevetted a captain for "gallant and meritorious services during the war."His enlistment with state the state militia ended on April 20, 1866. That same year he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 6th U.S. Infantry. He became a quartermaster with the 6th, and eventually was located at Ft. Buford and Ft. Lincoln, Dakota Territory,during the height of the Indian Wars. He was Quartermaster at Ft. Lincoln when Custer's 7th Cavalry was stationed there, and personally associated with Gen. Custer. 1877 document where Badger sends $924. Not signed by Badger. About 81/2 x 5 in. VG...........75-100
272. [JUDAICA] Lilian Helen "Lily" Montagu, CBE (1873-1963) was the first woman to play a major role in Progressive or Reform Judaism. Her father, founder of Samuel Montagu & Co., was a self-made millionaire by 1871. He was a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900 as the MP for Whitechapel, a poor district of the East End of London. In 1907, Montagu was raised to the peerage as Baron Swaythling. She grew up in a pious Orthodox Jewish home, in an ethos of privilege and philanthropy, devoted to helping the poor and advancing Jewish institutions. Her eldest brother, Louis, was also a financier and political activist, founding the League of British Jews to lobby against the creation of the state of Israel. In 1893 she founded the West Central Jewish Girls Club (which subsequently merged into the Jewish Girls' Brigade). She was active in social improvement, particularly in respect to unemployment, sweat shops and bad housing. In 1901 and 1902, Montagu was to lay the groundwork for the establishment of the Jewish Religious Union in London. The Union set up the first synagogue in Liberal Judaism in the UK and helped found the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Following the retirement of Leo Baeck, Montagu served for a brief stint (1955–1959) in her 80s as president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, before handing the reins over to Solomon Freehof. TLS signed “Lily H. Montagu,” 1-page, 8 x 10, Feb. 8, 1939. A letter Dr. Frederick Solomonski, the noted Rabbi and German Expressionist artist. She is unable to help him for there are no openings there. Solomon was attempting to leave German during this period. VG..................100-200
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273. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Frank H. Simmons (1878-1936) American author. Nice 1917 TLS answering an autograph request. 1p. [2] William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834) was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as US Secretary of War and US Secretary of the Treasury before he ran for US president in the 1824 election. Offered here is a antique engraved portait, approx. 7x 4.5 in. Below is his engraved signature. (3) [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (November 7, 1828 – August 19, 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures. Signed 1895 bank check. VG. (4) Samuel S. Lowery (1831-1912) American manufacturer and politician from New York. ALS, 1873, 1p. to Nelson K. Hopkins, NY State Comtroller. (5) Sec. of the Treasury, J.C. Spencer, signed in type 1844 printed gov. document, 17pp, re: public lands in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Miss., Mich., La., Ark. Document No. 210 for 28th Congress 1st Session. (6) William Platt Pepper (1837-1907) was the first vice-president of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (PMSIA) from 1876-1882, and president from 1882-1897. Lengthy ALS [1897] written on both sides. Numerous condition faults. Mentions Mrs. Cassatt [the famous artist ??]. (7) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Excellent art content about upcoming Walt Kuhn exhibitions including.........Phil Adams spent all day looking at Kuhn works and getting ideas. Signed Brenda as usual. Brenda had the habit of keeping ink signed copies of typed letters she sent. Philip R. Adams wrote about Walt Kuhn for the 1968 Kennedy galleries exhibition. Very good lot......Min. Bid $75
274. [MAINE] Joseph E. Brennan (1934-2024) American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991.[1] Brennan was a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations. TLS, 1987, 1p. To Gannett Publishing, thanks for book sent to him about The Maine State Bird story. 3 punch holes right edge............Min. Bid $10
275. [MAINE] Joseph E. Brennan (1934-2024) American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991.[1] Brennan was a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations. TLS, 1989, 1p. To Gannett Publishing, thanks for a children's book sent to him. 3 punch holes left edge............Min. Bid $10
276. [MAINE] Joseph E. Brennan (1934-2024) American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991.[1] Brennan was a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations. TLS, 1987, 1p. To Gannett Publishing, thanks for a book THE NEW ABC's of MAINE. sent to him. 3 punch holes left edge............Min. Bid $10
277. [MAINE] Joseph E. Brennan (1934-2024) American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991.[1] Brennan was a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations. TLS, 1987, 1p. To Gannett Publishing, thanks for several books sent to him. 3 punch holes left edge & right edge also.............Min. Bid $10
278. Southern Express Company - 190? document..............$1.00
277. [PORTRAIT] Henry Laurens (1724-1792) American Founding Father, merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as its president. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and, as president, presided over its passage. Offered here is an antique engraved portrait, image approx. 7-3/4 x 5-1/2 in. plus margins. VG........25-35
278. [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, 1838, appointment of Justices of the Levy Court of Frederick County. Approx. 16-3/4 x 10-3/4. Also signed by Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition............75-100
279. [ART] Elias Newman (1903-1999) His family immigrated to America in 1913. In 1925 Newman decided to travel to Palestine to visit his older brother, Mordechai, an ardent Zionist, who joined the Jewish Legion during WWI and later settled in Jerusalem. He opened "Tarbuth", a book store and informal gallery on Jaffa Road. There Elias met a number of local artists, including Avraham Melnikoff, who had come to Palestine via Chicago. "Newman frequently visited Melnikoff in his studio at the Damscus Gate and from there he painted many sights of the Old City. Offered here is an original lithograph, 1953, approx. 8.5 x 12 in. VG.................Min. Bid $25
280. MAP - St. Paul's Travels 1827, approx. 9-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. plus margins. VG.............25-35
281. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL pencil drawing, signed 1978. Approx. 11.5 x 9 in. NOT framed. VG................Min. Bid $25
282. [ART] E.J. Portbury (1795-1885) English artist. ALS, 1845, 1p. about engraving JACOB'S DREAM, which was a famous painting by Jusepe de Ribera. Approx. 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. VG...............75-100
283. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Napoleon. Engraved by William Holl the Younger (1807-1871) was a British portrait and figure engraver, noted for his book illustrations. Circa 1850, paper size approx. 9.5 x 6 in. VG........25-35
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RARE 1962 PHOTO OF JOHN F. KENNEDY
284. [NASA] this rare vintage phoptograph is of President John F. Kennedy speech,
"We choose to go to the Moon", formally the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, was a September 12, 1962. The purpose was to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970 and bring him safely back to Earth. The speech resonated widely, although there was disquiet about the cost and value of the Moon-landing effort. Kennedy's goal was realized posthumously, in July 1969, with the Apollo program's successful Apollo 11 mission. This photo was taken by Willene Whisenhant,, and she was signed "W" in ink bottom right.
WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. From 1962 to 1965, Whisenhant, who was a native of Texas, was the staff photographer for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. During her tenure there she shot photos of astronauts, worked with CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite on a story about astronaut John Glenn, and photographed President John F. Kennedy. Growing up in Livingston, Texas, Willene Whisenhant probably couldn't have imagined sipping lemonade on Air Force One with the president. She most likely didn't think she'd be the first woman ordained into an all-male club. And the idea of being the first and only female photographer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), couldn't have possibly drifted into even her wildest daydreams. Later on, Whisenhant learned that President John F. Kennedy wanted her up front because, as he explained, when he first met his wife, then Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a struggling photographer and no one would give her a break. He therefore wanted Whisenhant to be front and center. That same day, the president asked his men to take the photographer up to Air Force One and give her some lemonade. Provenance: directly from Willene "Whilly" Whisenhart before she died in Maine. Extremely rare! Fine.............Min. Bid $500
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285. Joe Biden - US President. Signed 8x10 color photo, dated 1995. VG........600-800
286. Samuel Freeman (1743-1831) was a prominent citizen of Portland, Maine during the 18th and 19th centuries. He was instrumental in founding the first public library in Portland (then Falmouth), Maine, served in the judiciary system as judge and clerk, as well as held the post of the first postmaster of Portland, in 1775. He was an active patriot during the Revolutionary struggle, was secretary of the Cumberland County convention in 1774, a member of the provincial congress in 1775, and of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1776 and 1778. When the courts were reorganized in 1775 he was appointed clerk, which office he held for forty-five years. He was register of probate until commissioned judge in 1804, remaining in the latter office till 1820. From 1776 till 1805 he was postmaster of Portland. He was an active and efficient friend of Bowdoin College, His publications include "The Massachusetts Justice" (1803); and " Probate Directory" (1803); and he edited the "Journal of Rev. Thomas Smith" (1821). Offered here is a signed 1807 Court Document. Good condition for its age..............75-100
287. [ART] Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Born in a small town near Venice, Italy, Louis Bosa became a genre, figure, and landscape painter who exhibited widely, and was also a much-respected art teacher. Amidst the growing trends of modernism, especially Abstract Expressionism, he kept to his own unique style of apolitical, witty character studies and subjects of humor and human pathos. For art historians, his work has been difficult to categorize, which has led to him getting less attention than many of his contemporaries, especially those who had sophisticated public-relations machines. Also, he was such a unique character—ever telling jokes and far-fetched stories—that the focus on him tended to be on his quirky personality rather than the seriousness of his art. Original 1953 lithograph, signed in the plate, approx. 12 x 8.5 in. VG..............50-75
288. [MARYLAND] Francis Thomas (1799-1876) was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Maryland from 1842 to 1845. He also served as a United States Representative from Maryland, representing at separate times the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh districts. He also served as United States minister to Peru from 1872 to 1875, and speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1829. Signed 1843 document as governor. About 16-1/2 x 9-3/4 in. VG...........50-75
289. [LINCOLN] Lawrence Coghlan - Lincoln Portrayer. Signed & inscribed picture of Coghlan playing Lincoln. Its inscribed to H.W. Fay, who was the Keeper of the Lincoln Tomb. With malice toward none, with charity for all : Lawrence Coghlan as Abraham Lincoln : in his own play "The immortal Lincoln", or, "Abraham Lincoln in his greatest moments" : the great drama of a great life and a great crisis. About 9 x 11 in. Dated 1930. VG...............50-75
290. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/4 x 5 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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291. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/8 x 5-1/8 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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292. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5 -1/2 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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293. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 5 x 7 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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294. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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295. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5-1/2 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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296. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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297. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 . MIN. BID $75
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298. [ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL unsigned iwatercolor drawing, sheet size approx. 18-3/4 x 12-1/4 in. Very good condition. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of Geolong school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A major book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries. This drawing had been in storage since her death in 1978. Because of the exhibitions, the book, and several articles [including a major article in the Boston Globe], there is at present, more than a little interest in this artist, which is sure to grow. VG. NOT FRAMED. VG.......400-600
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[ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL unsigned pencil drawing, c. 1925-35, sheet size approx. 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of George Luks and Mt. Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, she was inspired by such school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A major book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries. This drawing had been in storage since her death in 1978. Because of the exhibitions, the book, and several articles [including a major article in the Boston Globe], there is at present, more than a little interest in this artist, which is sure to grow. VG. NOT FRAMED. VG..............200-300
300. MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL unsigned watercolor drawing, sheet size approx. 8-1/4 x 7 in. Very good condition. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of Geolong school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A major book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries. This drawing had been in storage since her death in 1978. Because of the exhibitions, the book, and several articles [including a major article in the Boston Globe], there is at present, more than a little interest in this artist, which is sure to grow. VG. NOT FRAMED...............200-300
11 letters to Ellsworth Davis From His Wife
301. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. OFFERED HERE: 11 handwritten letters from his wife Mildred, 1932-1933, to Ellsworth who was mostly in NYC or Washington at this time. Plus 10 envelopes. We have not read any of the letters. VG..........Min. Bid $75
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