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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. [FRANCE] Francisque Sarcey (1827-1899) French journalist and dramatic critic. ALS, no date, 1p. VG........50-75
4. NORMAN TAYLOR - Curator of the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Large DS, 1924. Mary Ann Taylor & others to Francis R. James. Many signatures. 6 pp, 10.5 x 16 in. Folded...............25-35
5. [FRANCE] Mrs. Edgar Quinet (Hermione Asachi (or Asaky), the daughter of Gheorghe Asachi, a Romanian poet). Her husband was Edgar Quinet (1803- 1875) the French historian and intellectual. ALS, 1894, 2pp, 4-1/4 x 7. Important letter discussing differences between James Darmestier and her husband, Edgar Quinet. Fine................80-120
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
7. [BASEBALL] Harry Lavagetto - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY". From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12. Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.........Min. Bid $10
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8. [BASEBALL] Bucky Walters - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY". From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12. Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............Min. Bid $10
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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. [FRANCE] Edmond Picard (1836 - 1924) Belgian jurist and writer. Edmond Picard was lawyer at the Court of Appeal and the Court of Cassation of Belgium. He was also head of the Belgian bar association, professor of law, playwright and journalist. Involved in politics, he was senator for the Belgian Labour Party. He also was a patron of the arts and a notorious antisemite. ALS, 1891, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. A few unobtrusive light spots o/w VG...........40-60
14. [FRANCE] Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy [1803-1891] chief administrator of the Comédie-Française [1848]. ALS, no date, 2pp.......50-75
15. [WORLD WAR ONE] French postcard of The Rue Beaurepaire after the bombardment of Verdun. Written on reverse: 1/25/19 We are having a little snow storm the first one. I hope the ocean doesn't freeze over and perhaps we will be coming home shortly. Signed Will. Censored. U.S. Army P.O. M.P.E.S. One fold crease. To Mrs. Anna R. Rowen, Philadelphia, Penns., U.S.A. VG............Min. Bid $10
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. Gleason Leonard Archer Jr. (1916- 2004) was a biblical scholar, theologian, educator and author. Signed vintage 8x10 photo. two specks on his forehead; some creasing top edge..............Min. Bid $10
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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. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7.25 x 5.5 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 $50
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33. [JUDAICA] HANS MARGOLIUS [1902-1984] German philosopher, writer and librarian. TLS, 1975, 1p. to Frederick Solomon [1899-1980] Rabbi German Expressionist artist. The letter is in German. Also included in a 4 page foldout in German. Envelope included. VG...............50-75.............Min. Bid $15
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34. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911-1978) the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Offered here are 2 original vintage photos, both unsigned. Date? 6-3/4 x 5 in. each. VG...........50-75
35. [INDIANS] 2 printed government documents about Indians Affairs, 1844 and 1848. Both printed for the US Congress. VG..............Min. Bid $10
36. [KENTUCKY] John Rowan (1773-1843) was a 19th-century politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Rowan's family moved from Pennsylvania to the Kentucky frontier when he was young. From there, they moved to Bardstown, Kentucky, where Rowan studied law with former Kentucky Attorney General George Nicholas. He was a representative to the state constitutional convention of 1799, but his promising political career was almost derailed when he killed a man in a duel stemming from a drunken dispute during a game of cards. Although public sentiment was against him, a judge found insufficient evidence against him to convict him of murder. In 1804, Governor Christopher Greenup appointed Rowan Secretary of State, and he went on to serve in the Kentucky House of Representatives and the U.S. House of Representatives. Offered here is a clip signature, about 2-1/2 x 1-1/8 in. Condition: repaired. It was in 2 pieces, the John separated from last name. Acid-free name on verso. Not a great repair job...............Min. Bid $20
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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. [THEATRE] Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. Cornell is regarded as one of the great actresses of the American theatre. Group of 8 photos of her and family-friends contains in a photo album that opens to about 13 x 7 in. VG. Provenance: Cornell to Boothbay [Maine] Theatre Collection - Richard Oliver Auctions to East Coast Books..........200-300
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. [MAP] 1928 Road Map of New England...............Min. Bid $10
54 [MAP] 1930 Road Map of Washington DC and Vicinity.....Min. Bid $10
55. [MAP] 1939 Official Alabama Highway Map............Min. Bid $10
56. [FILM] Jack Nicholson - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 8 x 10 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid $10
57. [FILM] Jack Nicholson - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 8 x 10 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid $10
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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68. [SEC. TREASURY] Thos. Corwin, Sec. of the Treasury and Daniel Webster - printed government document, 1852, 137 pp. Approx. 5.5 x 8.5. VG...........Min. Bid $10
69. Rhode Island 1841 document, 7-3/4 x 9 in..........Min. Bid $10
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. [SCOTLAND]1903 manuscript document signed by 12 people, 4pp. 9.5 x 15 in. Not researched. VG................50-75
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75. (AFRICA) Bond for Compagnie Generale Des Comptoirs Africans, Paris 1927. Folio, with coupons, signed by company officials...............75-100
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. [FILM] Peter Lawford (1923-1984) English-born American actor. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, and more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. Offered here is a signed & inscribed early vintage photograph, inscribed "For Ivory - Two years is an awful long time, Love & kisses from "The Teeth!" Peter Lawford". Great photo but the ink has lightened considerably. Last name of his signature is almost gone.......Min. Bid $50
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. [BASEBALL] Paul Derringer - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY". From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12. Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60...................Min. Bid $10
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82. [BASEBALL] Harlond Clift - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY". From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12. Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60............Min. Bid $10
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83. [THEATRE] Michael Redgrave in "Tiger at the Gates" 1955 program.............Min. Bid $5
84. [BASEBALL] Louis "Buck" Newsom - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY". From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12. Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size..........Min. Bid $10
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85. CENTRAL PART OF GREENFIELD, MASS. 1839 wood-engraving. Image about 3 x 6.5 in. Some toning.....Min. Bid $10
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86. [FRANCE] Ernest Daudet [ 1837-1921] NOVELIST AND HISTORIAN; BROTHER OF Alphonse Daudet. ALS, no yr., 1p............50-75
87. [EPHEMERA] group of 4 Limerick National Bank [Maine] checks, 1924-26..............Min. Bid $1.00
88. [MUSIC] Baron Armand-Marie Limnander van Nieuwenhove (1814-1892) Belgian composer of choral and orchestral works and church music. Knight of the Order of Leopold, he was the founder and conductor of the choral chamber ensembles Société Symphonique and Réunion Lyrique in Belgium. ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG..........50-75
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89. [MILITARY MEDICAL] Newton D. Baker Jr. (1871-1937) served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915. As U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921, Baker presided over the United States Army during World War I. Offered here is a 1917 document, appointment for Paul Stanley Hill. Not signed by President Woodrow Wilson but it is signed by Newton Baker. Approx. 16 x 19 in. on vellum. Lightly aged o/w VG..............100-200
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. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] BRENDA KUHN (1911-1912) Co-manager, Kuhn Estate, daughter. Group of 3 lengthy ink signed typed letters to Brenda's attorney. These letters concern the Kuhn Estate, IRS etc. Brenda had the habit of saving copies of typed letters sent by her, and signing them. Each is 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............75-100..................Min. Bid $25
93. [WALT KUHN] an interesting piece of KUHNIANA. A 1942 TLS from the McMillen Inc., Interior Devotation company in NYC, sent to Walt Kuhn saying that the war makes it impossible to secure adequate insurance for his paintings while in their establishment. He has to insure them or let them stay without protection except for fire or theft. At first we were somewhat puzzled - why would a famous American artist be exibiting his paintings with a interior decoration store. So we researched Walt Kuhn McMillen and now see why his work was there. There was an important exhibition at McMillen in 1942 where Jackson Pollock shows Birth in "American and French Paintings" exhibition at McMillen Inc. Curated by John Graham it paired American artists with French artists and included works by Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Andre Derain, Stuart Davis, Walt Kuhn, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. Krasner exhibited Abstraction. Pollock exhibited Birth (c. 1941). Graham was very important, and he discovered Pollock. Envelope is present. Also included are 2 photos taken by Brenda Kuhn. The clown painting was exhibited ar Colby College [Maine] in 1954; and a 1957 snapshot photo taken by Brenda in 1957 of the last Maine home of Walt Kuhn, which is in Cape Neddick. All VG...............100-150
Bill of Sale For $75,000 Walt Kuhn Painting
94. [ART] 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. Typed Document signed by Brenda Kuhn, an AGREEMENT AND BILL OF SALE, for a painting by Walt Kuhn titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." The painting was 50 x 30 in., sold by the Midtown Galleries in New York for the Kuhn Estate. The document has the signature of a Notary Public, dated 1989. VG......100-150......Min. Bid $25
95. [ACTOR-SINGER] Nicolas-Marie Simon (1852-1923), known as Simon-Max, was a French tenor who was mainly active in Paris in the field of opera-bouffe. ALS, no year, 1p, 5-1/4 x 4-1/2 in. VG........Min. Bid $10
96. [FROM KUHN ESTATE] Mark Hanna (1917-2003) American screenwriter and actor. He was known for writing the screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s, particularly Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. His first major screenplay was Gunslinger in 1956. He continued to be prolific through the mid-1960s, after which his film credits become sporadic. His last screenplay was for Star Portal in 1998, five years before his death from stroke complications. TLS, 1943, 1p, to the artist Walt Kuhn, who is at Ogunquit, Maine in September. Says............it must be delightful in Maine - read reviews of LAUGH TIME vaude show which opened at the Shubert - terrific raves - helluva good list of acts includes Ethel Waters, Frank Fay & Bert Wheeler - will get tickets for you, Lily [Cushing - Kuhn painted her portrait] & myself - maybe Hope Richardson can make it a foursome. 7-3/4 x 10 in. VG..................50-75
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. [FRANCE] Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac (1843-1904) was the son of Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac , and while still young associated with his father in both politics and journalism. In 1866 he became editor of the Conservative paper Le Pays , and figured in a long series of political duels. On the declaration of war in 1870 he volunteered for service and was taken prisoner at Sedan. On his return from prison in a fortress in Silesia he continued to defend the Bonapartist cause in Le Pays, against both Republicans and Royalists. Elected deputy for the department of Gers in 1876, he adopted in the chamber a policy of obstruction to discredit the republican régime. In 1877 he openly encouraged MacMahon to attempt a Bonapartist coup detat, but the marshals refusal and the death of the prince imperial foiled his hopes. He now played but a secondary rôle in the chamber, and occupied himself mostly with the direction of the journal L'Autorité, which he had founded. He was not re-elected in 1902, and died in November 1904. His sons took over L'Autorité and the belligerent traditions of the family. ALS, not dated, 1p. VG.........60-80
99. [FRANCE] Louis Liard (1846-1917) French philosopher and director. A street in Bordeaux and a street fourteenth arrondissement bear his name. ALS, 1908, 1p, 5-3/8 x 8-1/4 in. VG.................60-80
100. [FRANCE] Émile Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French Republic. ALS, no date, 3pp, 4-1/8 x 5-1/4". Fine.............50-75
101 [FRANCE] Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (1805-1872) French author and theologian. 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 Collège 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 Académie française in 1867, where he occupied the seat formerly held by Voltaire. Together with others (Abbé Philippe Pétitot, pastor of Saint Roch, and Hyacinthe de Valroger) he reconstituted the French Oratory, a society of priests mainly dedicated to education. Gratry was one of the principal opponents of the definition of the dogma of papal infallibility, but in this matter he submitted to the declarations of the First Vatican Council. ALS, 1870, 1p, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2". VG............75-100
102. [FRANCE] Jean Marie Pardessus (1772-1853) French lawyer. His lectures were published under the title Cours de droit commercial (4 volumes, 1813-1817). In 1815 Pardessus was elected deputy for the department of Loir-et-Cher, and from 1820 to 1830 was constantly re-elected; then, however, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Louis Philippe, and was deprived of his office. After the publication of the first volume of his Collection des lois maritimes antérieures au XVIIIème siècle (1828) he was elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He continued his collection of maritime laws (4 vols., 1828-1845), and published Les us et coutumes de la mer (2 volumes, 1847). BRIEF ALS, 1842, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine..........75-100
103. [FRANCE] Antonio Georges Lopisgich (1854 - 1913) French Artist. ALS, 1893, 1-1/2pp, 5 x 8 in. VG...........Min. Bid $25
104. [FRANCE] Charles MERE [b. 1883] Fr. author & playwright. Two TLSs sent to him on which he pens ANSs, 1931 & 1943. VG.....................60-80
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. James J. Kilpatrick (1920-2010), conservative columnist and TV commentator and debater. A correspondent had sent Kilpatrick a copy of a court decision in which the judge (Judge Cristol) wrote his decision in the form of poetry. In this LS, dated 8 September 1986, Kilpatrick opines in typically acerbic manner, "I don't know anything of Judge Cristol's prose, but I expect he had better stick to it." With the envelope............40-60
107. GEORGE GALLUP, Jr., chairman and son of the founder of "The Gallup Poll". LS, dated Dec. 23, 1975, enclosing "a copy of my recent talk and a copy our 1975 religion index. I hope these are helpful to you." Comes with 8 x 11 magazine photo...........25-35
108. SPANISH MINING BOND 1901 for the Compania General de Minas y Sondeos, Barcelona, Spain. Beautiful certificate signed by officials which shows a scene featuring an angel, a miner with an axe and a lion. Series A with coupons. Approx. 12 x 14 in, VG.....................100-150
109. [OLD MASTER] Coryn Boel II [1622-1660] Flemish. Original etching, approx. 6-3/4 x 9" plus margins. Boel was born about 1620/22 in Antwerp. Most likely from TENIERS GALLERY, published in Amsterdam in 1755. VG...........Min. Bid $50
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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. HENRY A. LAVELY (1831-?), American poet. AMS, his poem "Smiles and Tears" written on the letterhead of Aetna Life Insurance Co. TEN LINES + TITLE. Small corner piece missing o/w VG.......30-40
112. Sir William Robert Knox-Johnston CBE RD (b. 1939) is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Along with Sir Peter Blake, he won the second Jules Verne Trophy, for which they were also named the ISAF Yachtsman of the Year award. In 2007, at the age of 67, he set a record as the oldest yachtsman to complete a round the world solo voyage in the Velux 5 Oceans Race. Signed 1 line ALS, 1988. Approx. 8 x 11 sheet.................50-75
Bass family in Virginia
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. [PORTRAIT] 1845 antique engraved portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. Image is approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG...............25-35
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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. Estate of Francis Kuhn 1929. Kieffer and Woodward - 1929 re: Estate of Francis Kuhn, deceased. Sent to Walt Kuhn [son]. On the envelope Walt Kuhn has written : Receipts for all documents left with Kieffer at time of settling of Francis Kuhn estate. VG. Approx. 8.5 x 10.5 in...............200-300
127. [NEW YORK] John Van Ness Yates (1779-1839) born in Albany, New York, the son of Robert Yates, later Chief Judge of the New York Supreme Court of Judicature. He studied law in the office of John Vernon Henry, a leading member of the Albany bar, and once he had been admitted to the bar, he set up a very successful law office in Albany. In 1806, when New York was required to raise a quota of 12,000 men to combat British aggression, John Van Ness Yates commanded a Light Infantry company that immediately offered its services to the President, and confirmed their immediate readiness. Yates was appointed a master in Chancery in 1808, and, the following year, was the subject of a series of cases, In Re John Van Ness Yates, involving a jurisdictional tussle between the New York Supreme Court of Judicature and the New York Court of Chancery. Upon the conclusion of this litigation, Yates sued the Chancellor, seeking the monetary penalty provided under the Habeas Corpus Act (Yates v. Lansing). Although Yates did not prevail, the case established the principle that a judge of a court of general jurisdiction cannot be called upon to answer in a civil action for an error of judgment in any matter within his jurisdiction. In 1816, with Aaron Burr as co-counsel, Yates represented the plaintiff in Gardiner v. The Trustees of the Village of Newburgh, et al. John V. N. Yates served as New York Secretary of State from 1818 to 1826, and was appointed by the Legislature to add notes and references to the revised laws of New York. His work was acclaimed and he also published Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of the State of New York, Containing the Case of John V. N. Yates and the Case of the Journeymen Cordwainers (New York, 1811); A Collection of Pleadings and Practical Precedents, with Notes thereon (2d ed., 1837); History of the Province of New York (Albany, 1814); and, with Joseph W. Tillinghast, a Treatise on the Principles and Practice, Process, Pleadings, and Entries in Cases of Writs of Error (Albany, 1840). A contemporary described John Van Ness Yates as a wit, a poet, a belles-lettres scholar, and a boon companion, whose joke was ever ready, and whose laugh was contagious. Offered here is an early New York Supreme Court document 1815 signed by Yates, approx. 7-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG.............80-120
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128. [KUHN ESTATE] Archive of about 35-40+ letters and documents concerning the Estate of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn (1877-1949). Includes: Kuhn ALS [1]; 15 TLSs by Brenda Kuhn; 13 letters from estate accountants [or attorneys ??]; 5 Brenda Kuhn signed bank checks; several Tax documents. These date 1961-1963. Some of Brenda's letters have good art content about her father, esp. his painting ATHELETE IN WHITE FACE. Needs further research for sure. VG..........400-600...........Min. Bid $150
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. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Billot (1828-1907, Paris) French general and politician. He pursued a brilliant military career under the Second French Empire. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War, at first as Chief of staff under general Laveaucoupet, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division integrated into 2nd Army Corps of general Frossard. Billot participated in the battles of Sarrebruck, Forbach where he was mentioned in dispatches, Borny and Noiseville. He managed to escape after the capture of Metz and put himself in the service of the Government of National Defence. He was promoted to colonel, then général de brigade and provisional général de division. Chief of staff then commander of the 18th Army Corps, Billot was beaten at Beaune-la-Rolande on 28 November 1870. Confirmed as permanent général de brigade, he fought in the battle of Villersexel in January 1871. Offered here is a signed letter, 1882, 1p., to Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez (1821-1892) was a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. VG....................100-150
135. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) American poet and writer. Five handwritten lines signed. Comes with unsigned postcard. VG............300-400
136. Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, shared with Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers. Offered here is a 2 page ALS written to Miss Marshall who interviewed her. No date but comes with postcard photo dated 1926 on verso..............50-75
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. [ENGLAND] Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset PC (1792-1848) was a British Tory politician. He held office under Sir Robert Peel as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests between 1834 and 1835 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1841 and 1846. Signed front portion of address panel postmarked 1839. About 4.5 x 3 in. VG..............Min. Bid $8
139. [FRANCE] French manuscript document signed, 5pp, 6.5 x 10 in. Pencil notation top of first page says 1640; when LOUIS XIII was King of France. 4-1/2 pp. VG................200-300
140. [WORLD WAR 2] H.P. LeCaire - Commander US Navy. In 1918 he was in the Radio Div. Bureau of Steam Engineers. Offered here is a 27 Feb. 1941 MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN GREENLEE, signed on page 5. From the personal papers 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. VG.................75-100...................Min. Bid $25
141. [SCIENCE] 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. OFFERED HERE is a 25 page manuscript written by Woodward [not signed], plus a pamphet by Woodward: OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT, 1901, 21 pages uncut. Both in very good+ condition.............400-600
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142. Group of 6 vintage snapshot photos [unsigned] of: Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney, Van Heflin, Roddy McDowall, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster. Sizes are 2.5 x 3.5 to 3.5 x 5 in...............Min. Bid $25
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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146. [NEW
ORLEANS] attractive 1835 Bill of Lading from the Rowland G. Hazard papers. About 10.5 x
5.5 in. VG................25-45
147. [NAVY] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. Led Marine squad in 1914 when U.S. troops stormed and occupied Vera Cruz during the Mexican Revolution. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here are 4 1915 postcards he wrote on while in Barcelona, Spain. to family members back home in Connecticut. Also, 1915 Request for Leave document signed by Davis & Commander [can't read signature]; a 1913 letter to Davis from Navy Dept. saying the President of the United States, with consent of the Senate has appointed him an Ensign in the navy; plus about 23 additional document dated 1916-1925. Good-Vg conditions for their age.............300-400 ....................Min. Bid $90
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
152. Hermon Carey Bumpus (1862-1943) American biologist, museum director, and the fifth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University). Signed 1894 $100 receipt document for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Approx. 8-1/4 x 3-1/4 in. VG...............25-35
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153. [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
Document 1
Document 2
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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. [CORNELL UNIVERSITY] 4 items owned by Ralph E. Sheldon who attended Cornell 1896-1905. VG.................25-35
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. 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. A carbon copy of a 1955 typed letter sent to Spillane regarding the allied rights to Spillane's literary property of KISS ME DEADLY. An agreement having to do with the right to use the title Liss Me Deadly for a Blues song written by Frank DeVol. Mickey Spillane has written and signed in green ink at the bottom. He writes "The above subject to terms of the attached letter. Mickey Spillane." 8.5 x 11 in. Fine condition. From the Estate of Mickey Spillane................200-300
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187[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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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. J.S. DILLER (Joseph Silas) [b. 1850] American geologist, born in Plainfield, Pennsylvania. He was graduated at Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1879, and spent two years in postgraduate studies at Harvard and at the University in GSttingen. From 1873 till 1877 he taught in the State normal school in Westfield, Massachusetts, and from 1881 till 1883 was geologist of the Assos expedition. In 1883 he became assistant geologist on the U. S. geological survey, and in that capacity has traveled extensively throughout the United States. He is a member of several scientific societies, and author of numerous papers that have been published in scientific journals in the United States and in Europe, the principal of which are "Notes on the Geology of the Troad" (1883); "Diamonds in the United States" (1886) ¥ and "Notes on the Geology of Northern California" (1886). TLS, US Geological Survey, Nov. 5, 1907, 1p, 4to. To Dr. R.S. Woodward. Sends copy of Miss Bascom's letter. "If there are steep slopes near the 'Race Course' to furnish the angular blocks her view seems possible but the evenness of the upper surface would still be difficult to understand...."etc.................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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248. [AVIATION] Irv Burrows (b. 1928) test pilot. The first F-15 pilot. Irv Burrows began his flying career in New York when he was a teenager. In 1950, after serving in the Navy and graduating from Williams College, he continued his aviation career by being selected to attend Pilot Training in the United States Air Force. TLS, 1973, 1p. VG...............50-75
249. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Bob Dole - a 1987 typed 4 page letter sending two Preferred Tickets to his for formal announcement to run for President of the United States. His signature is, of course, printed. One of the tickets is included here. All are in fine condition. (2) Lorenzo Marrett (1816-1887) was born in Standish, Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1838. He practiced law with a specialty in the administration of estates. He joined the Board of Aldermen in 1849 and was active in local and state politics. ALS, East Cambridge, 1857, 3 pages, 4-3/4 x 7-3/4 in. Includes original envelope [stamp removed]. VG. (3) [POSTAL HISTORY] Levi P. Morton (1824-1920) the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a US representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York. Offered here is a postmarked envelope. 1900, hand-addressed by Morton [not signed] to Lola Greene Baldwin (1860-1957) who was one of the first policewomen in the United States. In 1908, she was sworn in by the City of Portland, Oregon as Superintendent of the Women's Auxiliary to the Police Department for the Protection of Girls (later renamed the Women's Protective Division), with the rank of detective. Approx. 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. VG. (4) [THEATRE] 1964 program starring Ben Gazzara & Mildred Dunnock in TRAVELLER WITHOUT LUGGAGE. VG (5) [MUSIC] Helen Lemmens-Sherrington (1834-1906) English concert and operatic soprano prominent from the 1850s to the 1880s. Born in northern England, she spent much of her childhood and later life in Belgium, where she studied at the Brussels Conservatory. After engagements in mainland Europe she made her London debut in 1856. Her singing career was mostly in concert, but in the first half of the 1860s she appeared in opera at Covent Garden and other leading London theatres. ALS, no date, 2pp, no date, approx. 4 x 6-1/8 in. Declines invitation. VG. (6) James Clarke Hook RA (1819-1907) English painter and etcher of marine, genre and historical scenes, and landscapes. Artwork by Hook is held at the Tate Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts and Guildhall Art Gallery in London. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 4-1/4 x 1-1/2 in. (7) [RACING] Michael Andretti (b. 1962) American semi-retired auto racing driver and current team owner. Statistically one of the most successful drivers in the history of American open-wheel car racing, Andretti won the 1991 CART PPG Indy Car World Series and amassed 42 race victories, the most in the CART era and fourth-most all time. Signed color magazine picture, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Two fold lines. (8) Robert Adams (1917-1984) English sculptor and designer. While not widely known outside of artistic circles, he was nonetheless regarded as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. In a critical review of a retrospective mounted by the Gimpel Fils gallery in London in 1993, Brian Glasser of Time Out magazine described Adams as "the neglected genius of post-war British sculpture", a sentiment echoed by Tim Hilton in the Sunday Independent, who ranked Adams' work above that of his contemporaries, Ken Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick and Bernard Meadows. Nice ALS, 1978, 1p., 8 x 9-3/4 in. plus envelope. Re: selling drawings. Fine example.........Min. Bid $70
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@250. George Francis Train (1829-1904) American entrepreneur who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; he also organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States in 1864 to construct the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and a horse tramway company in England while there during the American Civil War. In 1870 Train made the first of three widely publicized trips around the globe. He believed that a report of his first journey in a French periodical inspired Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days; protagonist Phileas Fogg may have been modeled on him. In 1872, he ran for president of the United States as an independent candidate. That year, he was jailed on obscenity charges while defending suffragist Victoria Woodhull against charges regarding an article her newspaper had published on an alleged adulterous affair. Despite business successes in early life, he was known as an increasingly eccentric figure in American and Australian history. Offered here is a strange looking sheet dated 1903 on which he has written and signed. It is 7 x 4 in. Plus, hand-addressed envelope postmarked/stamp. Both pices are mounted to an album page...............200-300
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251. [ART] Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925) American architect. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects after 1892 and was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to the United States Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. Offered here is a 1923 bank check made out to Brunner, endorsed on verso by him. Check is signed by 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. VG...........Min. Bid. $25
252. [THEATRE] A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starring Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn, The Plymouth Theatre, 1950 playbill, 8pp, not signed. VG................10-20
253. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the PISCATAQUA PIONEERS. Paper bound, published 1940, 12pp, approx. 3-3/4 x 6 in. Nice piece of NH ephemera.............Min. Bid $10
254. [ART] Hermann Richter lived and painted in California in the early part of the 20th century. He was born in Hamburg Germany, on July 29, 1875, came to the U.S. in 1927, and lived in California for 14 years. He died in San Diego, California on May 03, 1941. Original pastel, signed, approx. 11 x 8.5 in. VG...............200-300..................Min. Bid $50
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255. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Stephen Alonzo Schoff (1818-1904) American engraver and etcher in New York and Boston. Original antique engraved view of FRANCONIA NOTCH, WHITE MOUNTAINS, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Image is approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. plus margins. There is a large water stain over the top-right portion otherwise in excellent condition...............Min. Bid $10
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256. [ART - FRANCE] Pierre Filloeul (1696; died Paris after 1754) French printmaker. He was the son of the engraver Gilbert Filloeul (1644-1714). He was his father's pupil (and not, as is sometimes claimed, that of Jacques-Philippe Lebas). His oeuvre extends from 1731 to 1754 and numbers c. 150 prints. Original etching, Portrait of Louis Duc D'Orleans, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/2" plus margin. This is an 18th century impression. VG. Mounting trace top edge on verso............100-150
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257. [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. Offered here is a 19 page manuscript in the handwriting of Dr. Woodward, titled Diffusion[? of Heat in Recton[?] Solids. Not signed of course. 8 x 10.5 in. Excellent condition...........400-600...............Min. Bid $200
258. [FRANCE] Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832), known as Georges Cuvier. He was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. Offered here is a 1 page ALS written in the 3rd person. Addressed to John Phillips on a separate sheet. John Phillips FRS (1800-1874) was an English geologist. In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented. This letter is written in French - has not been translated. Provenance: Bill Luetge, who died in 2004 and was a well known autograph collector/dealer years ago. He was one of the 1st Presidents of the UACC. The original typed description that came with this says - "Autograph Letter Signed written in the third person as was the custom of the day........Regarding a request made of John Phillips. When you research signed letters by Cuvier you will see is large signature style but remember- this letter is written in the 3rd person. It was customary to begin 3rd person letters at the top [front] and not use the normal signature style, instead signature looks like the handwritten style, which is often different than the signature. In our opinion this letters was written by Cuvier BUT its expected that others might have doubts therefore the reason for a lower Min. Bid amount. We are not selling this with a authenticity guarantee as we usually do................Min. Bid $100
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259. [GREAT BRITAIN] Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1985) British aristocrat and politician. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. He participated in the creation of the National Union of the Conservative Party. Winston Churchill was his son. Offered is is a strange monogram signature written in pencil. This came to us from the collection of Bill Luetge, who died in 2004 and was a well known autograph collector/dealer years ago. He was one of the 1st Presidents of the UACC. The size is about 1-1/4 x 1-3/8 in. odd shape. Torn away from something. We are not able to find another example of this type of Churchill signature. Not guaranteed..........Min. Bid $20
260. (NEW MEXICO TERRITORIAL MINING) E.H. Wilson. President, Massachusetts and New Mexico Consolidated Mining Co. Document Signed, Portland, Maine, 1883. Certificate for 500 shares of stock. Attractive mining vignette...........75-100
261. [FANTASTIC MIXED LOT] [1] Robert Henry Scott FRS (1833-1916) Irish meteorologist, who was president of the Royal Meteorological Society. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar. Lengthy ALS, 1860, 7pp, not translated. [2] WAR DEPARTMENT 1872printed General Order No. 43 - an Act granting Davenport and St. Paul Railroad Co. right of way. 2pp. [3] John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (1743-1783) British peer and politician. Vintage 1800 engraved portrait. [4] Woodward Hudson - President of the Boston and Maine Railroad. TLS, 1919, 1 full page. Comes with envelope. [5] [JOHN F. KENNEDY Postal Stamps] group of 6 foreign postage stamps. See JFK stamps
[6] [CONGRESS] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Offered here is an archive of letters & carbon copies, 1948 concerning appearl of Mr. Remo Rossi that his daughter, Inez Rossi, residing in Italy, be permitted to enter the United States for permanent residence. Two of the letters are signed by Philbin. About 43 pieces. [7] William Harold Cox (1901-1988) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. He was known for presiding over United States v. Price (1965) and for his resistance to racial integration. Constance Baker Motley, a longtime civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge, called Cox "the most openly racist judge ever to sit on a federal court bench" in the United States. SIGNED 3X5 CARD, soiled. [8] Clinton Presba Anderson (1895-1975) was an American politician who represented New Mexico in the United States Senate from 1949 until 1973. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1945 until 1948 and represented New Mexico's at-large congressional district from 1941 until 1945. CLIP SIGNATURE. [9] John Arthur Love (1916-2002) Republican politician who served as the 36th Governor of the State of Colorado from 1963 to 1973. SIGNED CARD. [10] Campbell P. Berry (1834-1901) Calif. congressman. ALS, 1882, 1p. to Ben Pearly Poore, noted journalist. Advises Poore of errors in his biographical sketch in the Congressional Directory. VG. [11] Edwin Whitefield [1816-1892] was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. Born in Dorset, England, he emigrated to the United States in 1838. Offered here is an original lithograph of The Paine House, Conanicut, R.I. Unsigned, circa 1882. Image 5-1/4 x 3-1/8" plus margins. Excellent condition. Caption says probably built by Capt. Thos. Paine, who married the daughter of Gov. Carr. Caleb Carr (1624-1695) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving a very short term prior to his death by drowning. See Paine House
[12] Beverly Washburn (b. 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the Walt Disney drama Old Yeller (1957) and the American General Pictures horror Spider Baby (1967). Signed Warner Bros. 1984 pay check..........Min. Bid $75
262. [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 77 pieces. Mixed conditions...............Min. Bid $10
263. US TREASURY - group of 10 printed documents, 1823-1898. Multiple pages. VG............Min. Bid $10
264. [NEW JERSEY] Group of 10 Chancery of New Jersey legal documents, 1911-1914. Most are 2 pages or longer..............Min. Bid $10
265. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] [1] Beverly Washburn (b. 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the Walt Disney drama Old Yeller (1957) and the American General Pictures horror Spider Baby (1967). Signed Warner Bros. 1984 pay check. [2] [POSTAL HISTORY] Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. Offered here is a postmarked envelope [1896] ink addressed by Barrett but not signed by him. VG. [3] [THEATRE] Henry Hutchinson Howe (1812-1896) English actor whose real name was Henry Howe Hutchinson, was born of Quaker parents in Norwich on 31 March 1812. His father would not hear of his becoming an actor, so he ran away from home at the age of nineteen to join a travelling company. He died at Cincinnati, while travelling in the United States as a member of Sir Henry Irving’s company. ALS, 1888, 2pp., to the artist Walt Paget (1862-1935) thanking him for a portrait. Some mounting remains affect nothing. Scarce. VG. [4] [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & television Producers Association. Document signed "Gene", 1966, to ALL MEMBERS, of Society of Independent Producers. Ink Signed memorandu. Regarding SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG) SINGERS (ON SCREEN AND OFF SCREEN). 1p. 8.5 x 11. The Agreement or waiver is intended to encourage the use of groups of singers by reducing the payments to each singer. Fine. [5] Marion Barry (1936- 2014) American politician who served as the second and fourth mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG. [6] Lisa Weinstein - actress known for Ghost (1990), Greased Lightning (1977) and Fatal Exposure (1991). Unsigned Warner Bros. 1985 pay check. [7] Pat Brown (1905-1996) American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he was later elected Attorney General of California in 1950 before becoming the state's governor in 1959. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo, 1990. VG. [8] [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Robert Gordon [not identified], paper size 9-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. VG [9] [BASEBALL EPHEMERA] 2 flyers from THE NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM. 3.5 x 8.5 in. Both are in fine condition. [10] Renee Bates - actress known for I Am a Witness (2015), Escape (2017) and Taking Flight (2015). Unsigned Warner Bros. 1984 pay check. [11] [MAP] 1939 North Carolina and South Carolina. [12]
[SCIENCE] Joseph (J.) Garrott Allen (1912-1992) was a research associate in the Health Division of the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project. Allen joined the Met Lab on July 24, 1944. In the Health Division, Allen worked in radiation pathology. Brief TLS, 1972, signed J.G.A. [13] Henry L. Nunn (1878-1972) American Business Leader, one of the founders of the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company and a pioneer in the development of good labor-management relations. His papers are in the collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society, including records of Nunn's participation in a mission in 1951 for the Economic Cooperation Administration, the United States government agency set up in 1948 to administer the Marshall Plan. TLS, 1954, to Dorothy Nunn or Alice Josephine Nunn. Sends a check for Alice's Trust Find...................Min. Bid $75
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266. [ART] Alfred L. Seligman (1864-1912) American sculptor. One signed bank check from [signed] Douglas Volk to Seligman, endorsed on the verso by Seligman. 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. Douglas painted at least nine posthumous portraits of Lincoln, basing them on the plaster life-mask that his father had made in 1860. One of them hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom at The White House. Another appeared on a U.S. postage stamp issued in the 1950s, and is now at the National Gallery of Art. VG.............Min. Bid $10
267. TO THE SELECTMEN OF STEUBEN, MAINE - 1868 printed letter from D. Brastow asking that a list of the names and ages of all the orphans of soldiers and seamen of your town be sent to the Governor at Augusta or to Brastow. Stamped address portion................Min. Bid $10
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268. Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL (1862-1925) English essayist, poet and academic,[1] and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the lyrics of Edward Elgar’s Coronation Ode, including the words of the patriotic song "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902). His literary criticism, poems, and volumes of essays were highly regarded. He was also noted as an author of ghost stories. ALS, 1906, 3pp. Fine...........50-75
269. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. Lithograph, signed in the print, not titled, dated 1978. Approx. 8.5 x 11 in. VG.............Min. Bid $10
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270. [RHODE ISLAND] group of 2 documents signed by Isaac Peace Hazard (1794-1879) the eldest of the nine children of textile manufacturer Rowland Hazard I and Mary Peace of South Kingstown, R.I. He attended the Friends School in Westtown, Pennsylvania through 1810 before returning to South Kingstown to help run the family textile mill. In 1819, his father retired from active business, and Isaac took control of the mill with his brother Rowland G. Hazard I (1801-1888). They did business as I.P. & R.G. Hazard until 1828, when they added a third brother, Joseph P. Hazard, and became R.G. Hazard & Co. From about 1820 to 1824, Isaac also had a side partnership with Aza Arnold, acting under the name Hazard & Arnold. He was also in a partnership with a distant cousin, Jonathan N. Hazard, until 1826. The Hazard businesses lost a great deal of money circa 1829. Isaac served as president after the partnership with his brothers was incorporated as the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company in 1848 through his retirement in 1864. He also served intermittently as a representative in the state General Assembly from 1838 to 1843, and as a state senator in 1853. Among his other activities, he helped found Butler Hospital for the Insane, and also played a major role in founding the Charleston and Augusta Railway Company. Circa 1849, he moved from Peace Dale to Newport, where he lived with four other unmarried siblings: his brother Joseph and his three sisters Eliza, Mary and Anna. The 1870 census of Rhode Island lists him as a woolen manufacturer with a personal estate valued at $115,000. He was raised as a Quaker, but in 1841 purchased a pew in the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Wakefield, R.I. He never married or had any children, and died in 1879. Both are promisory notes, 1826 and 1837, about 6.5 x 2.5 in. VG.............40-60
271. [CHESS] two 1965 printed pages of chess once owned by Bobby Fischer. Approx. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Provenance: Robert "Bobby" Fischer - Brooklyn Library - Swann's Auction - East Coast Books. In the late 1960s Fischer is said to have needed money so he sold his chess library to the Brooklyn Library, who then sold off some of their holding at auction in NYC, some 25 years later. Rare!. Fine................Min. Bid $10
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272. [AMERICANA] The State of Maine imposes a $500 fine on the Town of Plymouth, Maine for not repaiting a road. Dated 1834, 1p, 7-3/4 x 12 in. VG..........Min. Bid $10
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273. [HARRY TRUMAN] 1949 document nominating Karl L. Rankin of Maine [diplomat] signed by fasc. signature. Signed in ink by Dean Acheson, Secretary of State. Karl Rankin (1898-1991) was an American diplomat from Wisconsin. In 1949 Rankin was promoted to U.S. Consul General in Canton, China; and also became Consul General in Hong Kong from 1949 to 1950. Rankin was appointed U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to the Republic of China, based in Taipei, from 1950 to 1953, before being named Ambassador from 1953 to 1957. Finally, Rankin returned to Yugoslavia, serving as U.S. Ambassador from 1957 to 1961. FRAMED. Full size 16-1/4 x 12-1/4 in. VG.........Min. Bid $200
274. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] THE DESCENT FROM MOUNT WASHINGTON, wood-engraving, c. 1830s..............Min. Bid $5
275. George Mitchell (b. 1933) United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, being appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Obama. TLS, 1987, 1p. Sends editor thanks for sending a book. Signed George. VG............Min. Bid $10
276. [JUDAICA] 1956 letter to Rabbi Frederick Solomon (1899-1980) the German Expressionist artist. Signed by Rabbi Louis I. Egelson (1885 -1957) administrative secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Sidney L. Regner (1903-1993) Reform rabbi and organizational executive. A lifelong peace activist, he was elected vice president of the Jewish Peace Fellowship in 1980. Richard N. Bluestein - of Hebrew Union College. 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. VG..............25-35............Min. Bid $10
277. [RELIGION] 2 brief ALSs by: [1] Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900) American Congregational clergyman. Closely cropped on both sides. Signature value only. [2] Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822-1909) American Presbyterian minister and writer. ALS on postcard dated 1875..............Min. Bid $10
See Storrs bio.
See Cuyler bio.
From The Papers of Peter Lawford
278. Robert E. O'Brien - 1964 TLS to the actor Peter Lawford - apologize again for having subjected you to that onslaught of autograph seekers...." Includes 2 newspaper clippings...............Min. Bid $10
279. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here is a signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs E. Davis USN. VG................Min. Bid $10
280. Gilbert Hilton Scribner (1831-1910) was an American lawyer and politician who was Secretary of State of New York from 1870 to 1873. ALS, 1872 plus 1868 United States Legation card [sun-toned].................Min. Bid $10
281. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] RALEIGN DAY 1776-1927 Piscataqua Pioneers - Annual Meeting and Outing - Portsmouth, N.H. Aug. 10, 1927.This a ribbon that would have been worn by those attending, approx. 1-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. VG.....50-75...........Min. Bid $10
282. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 2 vintage photographs. One is DOUBLE-HEAD from Eagle Mt. House, Jackson, NH. Other is Carter Notch from Eagle Mt. House, Jackson NH. Photos are approx. 6.5 x 2 in. each........Min. Bid $10
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283. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Richard Boyle (1694-1753). was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". Engraved by William Henry Mote (1803–1871) was a British stipple and line engraver, primarily known for his portraits. He produced etchings for reference books, as well as original etchings. Mote became a member of the Royal Academy in his twenties and his portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Circa 1850, paper size approx. 11 x 7 in. The engraving says W.T. MOTE, which is misspelled - should say W.H. Mote. VG........Min. Bid $10
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284. [NEW ORLEANS] 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. Document signed, New Orleans, 1841, signed on both sides, approx. 8.5 x 3 in. Also signed by John Tadlock (1792-1845). VG............35-45
285. [AMERICANA] Ornate Victorian Marriage Certificate, dated 1880, 11-1/2 x 15-1/2, Thos. Hunter Lithographer, Phila. , Pa, Copyright 1880 by H.M. Crider, York, Pa. Never used, has space for pictures of the bride & groom, spaces to be filled in including witness signatures. Printed partly in gold ink. Many possibilities. This is old and not a recent printing. VG condition. Would look great framed with old photos. VG. We have several of these...........Min. Bid $40 each
286. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Fern Barry (1901-1981) actress best known for The Rifleman (1958), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Perry Mason (1957). Warner Bros. paycheck 1984 made out to Fern Barry Deceased. Endorsed verso by Lester R. Berry [?] (2) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1967 bank check. (3) Ralph Bernal (1783-1854) was a British Whig politician and art collector. Signed address panel postmarked 1829. (4) Henry White Warren (1831–1912) was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop and author. CLIP SIGNATURE. (5) Lyman J. Abbott (December 18, 1835 – October 22, 1922)[1][2] was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. SIGNED CARD mounted. (6) John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916) American author. (7) Philip J. Philbin (May 29, 1898 – June 14, 1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Western Union telegraph sent 1946 type signed. (8) Lester M. Jacobs - President Temple B'Nai Israel, TLS 1956. (9) David Paul Brown - author, lawyer. Clip signature dated 1842...............Min. Bid $50
287. Ray Charles (1930-2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly due to glaucoma. Offered here is a signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. I assume it is not authentic, esp. since it is dated "89". Therefore............Min. Bid $10
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288. [ART] RUDY POZZATTI - noted American printmaker [listed everywhere], original wood engraving, signed in the block. A commissioned print to commemorate the Inauguration of John Stephen Bailey as the 4th President of Nasson College [Springvale, Me.], 1970. Image is 5 x 4, sheet 10-1/4 x 7. Fine condition.............25-35....Min. Bid $10
289. [RARE CHESS] Offered here a an old dirty Russian chess printing from 1962. Bobb Fischer is pictured on the cover. This is very rare as it was once owned by Bobby Fischer. We bought Bobby Fischer's chess magazines at the Fischer Auction held in NY at Swann's Auction. Back around 1968 Fischer arranged thru a book dealer to sell his personal library because he needed money. The Brooklyn Library purchased his library. Years later they sold off items from their Fischer collection. Rough condition.............100-150
290. Johannes ( Hans ) Hermann Wolff (1896-1976) German-Swedish engineer and pioneer in the manufacture of cemented carbide. Wolff was part of the group at Osram in Berlin that created the first cemented carbides in the early 1920s. When the Nazis came to power, he was forced to leave both work and homeland because he was of Jewish descent. The escape went to Sweden in 1937 where he was employed by Luma , especially for his skills in the production of tungsten wire for light bulbs. In Sweden, Fagersta had started a small production of hard metal in 1930 and a few years later presented a hard metal under the name Seco. Luma, not considering the production of light bulbs to be compatible with that of cemented carbide, offered Fagersta to hire Wolff for his expertise in cemented carbide manufacturing, but Fagersta declined. When war broke out in 1939 , Wolff, with the support of then Minister of Defense Per Edvin Sköld , persuaded the management at Luma to produce carbide tips for ammunition. The production became large-scale and continued until the end of the war. In 1941, Luma concluded a ten-year cooperation agreement with Sandvik ABwho later employed Wolff. In 1947, Sandvik completely took over cemented carbide production after the product proved its commercial potential and the company became the world leader in the field. Offered here is a ALS, 190?, 2pp. VG...............50-75
291. U.S. FLAG-SHIP RICHMOND, Callao, Peru, July 13, 1876, 1p. Ink signed. About 6 x 9 in. Condition is good...............Min. Bid $10
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292 Bill Cohen (b. 1940) American lawyer, author, and politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–1979) and Senate (1979–1997), and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton. Signed, inscribed photo, 8x10 in. Fine...............25-35
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293. [MASONS] M.W. GRAND LODGE OF W. VA., Office of Grand Secretart, broadside, 1880, approx. 5-1/4 x 9-3/4 in. VG................Min. Bid $10
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294 [ART] Richard Cook (1784-1857) English artist. He was a constant contributor to the exhibitions at the Royal Academy from 1808 to 1822. In 1822 he became a Royal Academician, and almost from that time forward, and certainly for many years preceding his death, he seems to have abandoned painting, and ceased to contribute to the annual exhibitions of the Academy, his private fortune enabling him to live independently of his art. He died in London in 1857. Offered here is a ALS, Dec. 3, 1856, written to John Prescott Knight RA (1803–1881) was an English portrait painter. He was secretary of the Royal Academy from 1848 until 1873. For health reasons Cook is unable to serve.....Cook would die about three months later. VG..............50-75
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295. [MILITARY] Edward F. Witsell (1891-1969) was an officer in the United States Army who served as Adjutant General from 1946 to 1951. General Witsell was a 1911 graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and a World War I veteran. From the personal papers of Philip J. Philbin, US congressman from Mass. TLS, 1947, 1p. to Philbin concerning "General Prisoner Alfred J. Rota. Clemency was disapproved but his application for release on parole was approved. Also included are about 22 other letters, handwritten, typed copies, a telegram, letters fro Mrs. Rota asking for help. VG lot..................50-75
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296. [ART] 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. Walt Kuhn is best remembered today for his key role in planning the Armory Show. Ironically, a man who was in the forefront of the modern movement and was seen as an advocate of adventurous new art in 1913 came to be labelled, because of his on-going commitment to representation, a conservative artist by future generations of art historians. Nevertheless, he holds a place in American art history as a skilled cartoonist, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor and painter. Although he destroyed many of his early paintings, his works that remain today are powerful and are a part of most major American art collections. His portraits of circus and vaudeville entertainers are some of the most memorable, confidently painted works of twentieth-century American art. They are reminiscent of commedia dell'arte actor portraits done by the French masters centuries earlier. The Tragic Comedians (1916) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and The White Clown (1929) in the collection of the National Gallery of Art are intense, arresting images and are among his most respected paintings. Offered here is a 2-3/4 x 4-1/4 in. paper card on which several notes for himself - things to do. Writes: Circus opens Wed. Apr. 7 - closes Sun. May 9, etc. Not signed by Kuhn of course. Provenance: Kuhn Estate in Maine...................Min. Bid $75
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297. [SCIENCE] 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. OFFERED HERE is a page manuscript page of calculations written by Woodward [not signed], plus a pamphet by Woodward: MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATION, 1902, 24 pages uncut. The handwritten page has edge tears at top & bottom edges. The pamphlet is in very good+ condition. VERY RARE!................100-150
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298. [FILM] John L. ‘Jack’ Dales (1908-2003) he was the former executive secretary for the Screen Actors Guild pioneered the effort to get residuals for actors. He was also a 22-year member of the Motion Picture & Television Fund board, serving as president from 1980 to 1988. All actors owe him an enormous debt of gratitude for his championing the creation and implementation of our television, theatrical and commercial residuals. In 1943, actor James Cagney, who was then SAG president, chose Dales as the guild’s executive secretary -- the equivalent of executive director. Dales initially balked at the idea, thinking that the job was too big for one person. Dales “led the Screen Actors Guild with strength, compassion and diplomacy through both good and difficult times and laid the foundations for many of the collective bargaining rights which all of our members enjoy to this day.” Offered here is a TLS, 1963, 1p. stapled to 5 pages Theatrical Contract Negotiations. VG........50-75
See Dales Bio.
299. [FILM] John L. ‘Jack’ Dales (1908-2003) he was the former executive secretary for the Screen Actors Guild pioneered the effort to get residuals for actors. TLS, 1964, 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." VG..............50-75
300. [FILM] John L. ‘Jack’ Dales (1908-2003) he was the former executive secretary for the Screen Actors Guild pioneered the effort to get residuals for actors. Group of 3 TLS, 1964-65. VG.......50-75
301. [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & television Producers Association. Memo Documents signed "Gene", 1965, to ALL MEMBERS, of Society of Independent Producers. Ink Signed memos. Regarding SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG) SINGERS (ON SCREEN AND OFF SCREEN). Group of 5 all signed Gene. VG.............50-75
302. [FLORIDA] Harry Fenn (1837-1911) English-born American illustrator, landscape painter, etcher, and wood engraver. From 1870 to around 1895 he was the most prominent landscape illustrator in the United States. He is also noted for his illustrations of Egypt, Palestine and the Sinai. Offered is an original engraving, title is ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA. Image approx. 5-1/4 x 8-7/8 in. plus margins. Corner stain WELL AWAY from image. VG............25-35
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303. [NAVY] Rear Admiral Oscar F. Stanton (1834–1924). As rear admiral in 1893, Stanton commanded the South Atlantic Squadron and, the next year, the North Atlantic Squadron until his retirement on 1 August 1894. The USS Stanton (DE-247) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was named in honor of Rear Admiral Oscar F. Stanton. Signed 4.5 x 2.5 in. card, Toned..............20-30
See info. on USS Stanton
304. [ART] 1989 Midtown Galleries exhibition catalog, 56pp, with 50 illus., 8-1/2 x 10-3/4. Back cover has hole o/w VG............Min. Bid $20
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305. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 4 small documents signed by Andrew Rollins of Dover, NH, 1817............Mid. Bid $20
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306. International Mercantile Marine Company (owned the Titanic) - 1938 stock certificate. This piece has the vignette of a luxury liner (Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic which were virtually identical) Issued and cancelled. VG..............Min.Bid $25
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307. [NEW YORK] 1848 wood- engraved view of Little Falls, NY, paper size is 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 in. VG..........Min.Bid $10
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308. Darmouth College 1902 SING OUT , Rollins Chapel, 4pp. About 3-3/4 x 4-1/2 in. VG............Min. Bid $10
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The Famous Blackwell Family
309. Emma Stone Lawrence Blackwell (1851- 1920) born in Gardner, Massachusetts. She was the eldest child of Henry Lawrence and Sarah Witt Stone. Emma was the niece of the famous suffragist Lucy Stone, who developed a close relationship with her niece, sometimes acting like a second mother to young Emma. She urged Emma to "cultivate her taste for history" through education and self exploration in music, drawing, and language (she studied French). Lucy Stone also encouraged Emma to read newspapers to stay informed on national events, including the women's suffrage movement. After her formal schooling, Emma became a schoolteacher and an assistant at The Women's Journal. After a few years, she gave up her profession to be a homemaker. ALS, 1908, 2-1/2 pages. Lightly toned on 1st page..............Min. Bid $50
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310. [BLACKWELL] George F. Swain (1857-1931) was a civil engineer from the United States. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later at Harvard University. He also served as consulting engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and in 1894 became a member of the Boston Transit Commission, becoming its chairman in 1913. Offered here is a 1914 ALS, 2pp. to Mrs. Howard L. Blackwell. Includes envelope. He "I am deeply touched by your expression of sympathy for me....." his wife's death. Fine.............50-75
311. [NEW YORK] Nelson Kerr Hopkins (1816-1904) American lawyer and politician. In 1865, Hopkins was President of the Common Council of Buffalo, New York having been an alderman since 1856. In 1867, he became Collector of Internal Revenue for the 30th District of New York.
Hopkins was New York State Comptroller from 1872 to 1875, elected in 1871 and 1873 on the Republican ticket. Offered here is a 1872 ALS, 4 full pages to George William Clinton (1807-1885) was a New York lawyer, politician, judge, author, and amateur naturalist. He served as mayor of Buffalo, New York from 1842 to 1843. Fine..............50-75
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312. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Prince Bismark (1815-1898) Chancellor of Germany. Bismarck's Realpolitik and powerful rule led to him being called the Iron Chancellor. Image size 4-3/4 x 7 in. VG...........Min.Bid $10
313. [ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL unsigned ink drawing, sheet size approx. 11 x 8-1/4. Soft creases. 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. NOT FRAMED...................200-300
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314. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Hon. W.E. GLADSTONE, paper size about 12 x 9 in. VG............Min. Bid $25
315. [WOMEN] Norma G. Zarky (1917-1977) was a prominent lawyer in Los Angeles, active in the fight for abortion rights and other civil rights. She co-authored a number of briefs with Rauh on civil rights cases during the 1950s. In 1954, during the McCarthy Era, the Department of Justice sought to fire her husband, Hilbert Zarky from his position with the Department, based primarily on Norma's very brief involvement with Communism when she was an undergraduate in the mid-1930s, along with such "crimes" as their belonging to a liberal book club and being at meetings attended by "suspect" individuals. After she and her husband filed numerous declarations from friends and prominent individuals regarding their loyalty to the United States, he was reinstated to his position. In 1961 she joined the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, where her husband worked, becoming the firm's first woman partner in 1968. At Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, she practiced primarily in the field of entertainment law. Zarky was the first woman to serve as President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and was a founding member of Women in Film. She was also a recipient of Women in Film's first Crystal Award, "given to honor outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work in film, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry. In 1979, Women in Film established The Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award, which "is presented to individuals who, like Ms. Zarky herself, have demonstrated enlightened support for the advancement of equal opportunity for all and devotion to the improvement of the human condition." Offered here are 5 letters concerning Bill Asher (1921-2012) the American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. He was married to Elizabeth Montgomery. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and was hyperbolically credited in one magazine article with "inventing" the sitcom. INCLUDES: 1963 TLS signed by Norma G. Zarky, to Milt Ebbins, Chrislow Productions; Milton Ebbins carbon copy replying; another ink signed 1962 TLS from Zarky to Ebbins re" Billy Asher Employment Agreement; a 1963 letter from Ann Swartz, Secretary to Zarky concering Asher; plus a 1963 copy of letter Asher. So there are 2 ink signed tped letters from Norma Zarky. VG.....................100-150..................Min. Bid $25
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316. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 1875 document concerning land and buildings in Ashland, NH, signed by Charles and Eva Wright to Charles Wright. Approx. 8-1/2 x 14 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10
317. [ART] Philip Francis Stephanoff, sometimes Francis Philip Stephanoff (1787/88–1860) was an English painter. Stephanoff became a popular painter of historical and domestic subjects, working both in oils and watercolours. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution from 1807 to 1845, and with the Old Watercolour Society from 1815 to 1820. ALS, 1829, 1p, 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 in................50-75
318. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768) Prime Minister twice. 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. 11 x 7 in. VG........Min. Bid $25
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319. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset (1662-1748). 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. 11 x 7 in. VG........Min. Bid $25
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320. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Robert, First Lord Clive (1725-1774). Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC) rule in Bengal. Engraved by William Henry Mote (1803–1871) was a British stipple and line engraver, primarily known for his portraits. He produced etchings for reference books, as well as original etchings. Mote became a member of the Royal Academy in his twenties and his portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Circa 1850, paper size approx. 11 x 7 in. The engraving says W.T. MOTE, which is misspelled - should say W.H. Mote. VG........Min. Bid $25
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321. [THEATRE] Early National Theatre broadside, 1850, Lady of Munster - LOST TREASURE - Betsey Baker, approx. 5 x 7.5 in. Some loss of paper - see scan.......Min. Bid $10
322. William McKinley- Leslie's Weekly, approx. 16.5 x 22.5 in. Middle foldline. VG..........Min. Bid $25
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323. [JUDAICA] Hebraica and Judaica - Swann Galleries auction catalog 1453, Dec. 9, 1987, 403 lots, many illus. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 in. VG................Min. Bid $10
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324. Mike Mansfield (1903-2001) American politician and diplomat. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. representative (1943–1953) and a U.S. senator (1953–1977) from Montana. He was the longest-serving Senate Majority Leader and served from 1961 to 1977. During his tenure, he shepherded Great Society programs through the Senate. TLS, 1961.1p. to Vernon L. Talbertt who was retiring as the Secretary of the US Senate..........Min. Bid $10
325. [PORTRAIT] William H. Prescott (1796-1859) American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory. Offered here is an original portrait, approx. 7.5 x 5.5 in. plus margins. VG...........Min. Bid $10
326. [FILM] Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) British-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". Signed portrait print, 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............50-75
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327. [ART] Laslett John Pott (1837–1898) British artist. ALS, 1877, 1p, 4-3/8 x 7 in. This letter was once owned by Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. Fine.............Min. Bid $22
328. Mystery Document dated 1809 from Itally, signed, 1p, 8 x 11.5 in. Looks like old grape stains.......Min. Bid $10
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329. [THEATRE] Fanny Janauschek (1829-1904) was a Czech-born American stage actress. In three years time since arriving in the U.S. she mastered enough English dialect to communicate with American audiences and decided to make America her home. She became famous acting in great Shakespearean parts and other famous parts. She was particularly noted for playing Meg Merrilies, a role Charlotte Cushman made famous. In 1873, Janauschek starred in an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Bleak House, in which she played both the heroine Lady Dedlock and the murderous Mademoiselle Hortense. Signed 4-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. card. VG................25-35
330. [FRANCE] Jerome Marie Champion of Cice (1735-1810) Ordained priest in 1761, he was Bishop of Rodez from 1770 to 1781 and Archbishop of Bordeaux from 1781 to 1801. He emigrated to England during the Revolution. After the Concordat of 1801, he was archbishop of Aix and Arles from 1802 to 1810. On his return from exile in 1802, Eugene immediately became acquainted with the archbishop and befriended him. Louis XVI selected Champion de Cice, in place of Barantin, as keeper of the seals; an office which, since the times of Cardinal de Biragnd, who had done so much harm to France (1570-78), no minister had ever held. This nomination displeased many of the extreme parties; but Champion maintained his position from 1789 till November, 1790, when he resigned it, having, meanwhile, addressed to the national assembly several memoirs on the royal prerogatives. Afterwards the archbishop of Bordeaux was obliged to go into foreign countries (being in danger of persecution), where he lived ten years; but this exile ended by his submission to pope Pius VII, after which he was appointed archbishop of Aix, by the first consul, and directed all his attention to the erection of charitable establishments and schools. He was the author of the draft declaration of rights in 24 articles which served as a basis for the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789. Offered here is a 1 page ALS, dated 1758, approx. 6.5 x 8.5 in. Not translated. Signed at beginning of last line. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: D_claration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. The Declaration was drafted by the Abb_ Sieys and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thomas Jefferson. Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law. It is included in the beginning of the constitutions of both the Fourth French Republic (1946) and Fifth Republic (1958) and is still current. Inspired by the Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of freedom and democracy in Europe and worldwide. The Declaration, together with Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Bill of Rights, inspired in large part the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on the 26 of August 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly, during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France. Inspired by the Enlightenment, the original version of the Declaration was discussed by the representatives on the basis of a 24 article draft proposed by the sixth bureau[clarify], led by Jerome Champion de Cice_. The draft was later modified during the debates. A second and lengthier declaration, known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793, was written in 1793 but never formally adopted. VG..............500-800
331. [AIR FORCE] Edward Air Force Base cover, postmarked Mar. 4, 1976. Signed by the test pilots Geo. Larson and C.C. Bock Jr. This cover was carried on that test flight 3 March 76. This test flight was for the initial operational flight test and evaluation of the B-1 bomber. George W. Larson (1940-2008) US Air Force pliot. He graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Class of 1962. He retired in 1992 as a U.S. Air Force Major General. From August 1972 to July 1978 he served with Strategic Air Command’s 4200th Test and Evaluation Squadron representing Strategic Air Command (known as SAC) in initial operational flight test and evaluation of the B-1. He eventually amassed more than 5,000 flying hours in 38 different Air Force aircraft. Charles C. Bock Jr. (1940-2008) Col. Bock had a long and distinguished United States Air Force career as a bomber pilot, fighter pilot, test pilot, and a military astronaut designee. Col. Bock flew 51 combat missions with the 90th Bomb Squadron in Korea and 52 combat missions with the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing in Vietnam. THIS B-1 Flight cover was carried on this flight. RARE!..............300-400..........Min. Bid $75
332. [FILM] Arnie Kronenberger (c. 1923-1997) signed 1972 Day contract for his work as "Caller" in the film THE THIEF WHO CAME TO DINNER. The daily pay was $138. Approx. 8-3/8 x 5-7/8 in. No scan showing.Fine............Min. Bid $10
333. [MUSIC] antique wood-engraved portrait of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786-1826) German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper (German Romantic opera). Paper size is about 8 x 5 in. c. 1836. Scarce.........Min. Bid $10
334. [MUSIC] Harrison Millard (1830-1895) American composer who wrote the music to the Christian hymn "Abide with Me, 'Tis Eventide"—the words of which are by Presbyterian evangelist Martin Lowrie Hofford (1825–1888). He served as a first lieutenant of the New York Nineteenth Regiment in the Union forces in the American Civil War. After serving for four years he was severely wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga and was forced to resign his commission and returned to New York. President Lincoln offered Millard a job in the Custom House as a recognition of the importance to the country the song "Viva L'America" took on during the Civil War. He wrote another patriotic song, "Flag of the Free," which was also popular. Millard wrote about 300 songs. Offered here is asigned cabinet photograph. The photographer was Gurney. 4 x6.5 in. Very good condition except for some tiny surface spots................150-200....................Min. Bid $45
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335. [WORLD'S FAIR] Columbian Exposition 1893 WASHINGTON PORTRAIT TICKET. There are six 'portrait' tickets – engraved and printed by the The American Banknote Company on heavy bond paper. The four General Admission portrait designs were available by pre-order only and good for any one day. These general admisson tickets were – Columbus, Lincoln, Washington, and the Indian Chief. Two specialty tickets were also printed – the scarce Ben Franklin for a Complimentory Entrance and the hardest-to-find George Handel for Music. Offered here is the George Washing ticket, approx. 3-3/4 x 2-1/4 in. VG..............Min. Bid $75
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336. [WORLD'S FAIR] Columbian Exposition 1893 INDIAN CHIEF PORTRAIT TICKET. There are six 'portrait' tickets – engraved and printed by the The American Banknote Company on heavy bond paper. The four General Admission portrait designs were available by pre-order only and good for any one day. These general admisson tickets were – Columbus, Lincoln, Washington, and the Indian Chief. Two specialty tickets were also printed – the scarce Ben Franklin for a Complimentory Entrance and the hardest-to-find George Handel for Music. Offered here is the George Washing ticket, approx. 3-3/4 x 2-1/4 in. VG..............Min. Bid $75
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337. [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 $50
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338. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. From 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7 x 5.5 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 $50
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339. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7.5 x 5.5 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 $50
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340. [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 $50
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341. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-3/4 x 6 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 $50
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342. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7-1/4 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 $100
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343. [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 $100
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344. [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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345. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 5 x 7-1/4 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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346. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. From 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 6 x 4-1/2 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 $100
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347. [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 $50
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348. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927. Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 8 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 $50
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349. [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 $50
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350. [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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351. [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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