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1. Mary F. Henderson (1842-1931) American author, real estate developer, and social activist from New York who was known as "The Empress of Sixteenth Street". Henderson was a notable supporter of women's suffrage, temperance and vegetarianism. She was born in Seneca Falls, New York, the daughter of Eunice Newton, a scientist and women's rights campaigner who described the Greenhouse Gas effect in 1856 and also held several patents. Eunice was also a signatory of the "Declaration of Sentiments" at the first Women's Rights Convention and a member of the Editorial Committee in 1848. Elisha moved his family to Washington, D.C. during the Civil War while he served as Commissioner of the US Patent Office. In June 1868, she married John B. Henderson, Senator from Missouri (1862–1869) who introduced the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery and one of seven Republicans who voted against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in May 1868. That unpopular decision ended his career as senator. In 1889, after accumulating a fortune, the Hendersons moved back to Washington D.C., where they built a castle-like mansion on Sixteenth Street called "Boundary Castle" or "Henderson's Castle." The Hendersons bought up dozens of lots outside the northern boundary of the city in the area known as Meridian Hill. Mary Henderson's interest in the immediate neighborhood, which coincided with the City Beautiful Movement of the early 20th century, ultimately led to the construction of the Meridian Hill Malcolm X Park and eviction of the community of working-class African Americans who resided in the area.
Mary Henderson bought blocks of real estate and had elaborate residences constructed that she sold as embassies. The architect, George Oakley Totten, Jr., designed nearly a dozen buildings on 15th and 16th Streets in the Meridian Hill area to enhance the area for diplomatic uses. She frequently lobbied Congress for various projects to improve and beautify the Meridian Hill area. She supported two successive plans, by architect Paul J. Pelz in 1898 by Franklin W. Smith in 1900, to construct a colossal presidential mansion on Meridian Hill to replace the White House. In addition to these plans, she also had a home constructed on 16th Street and offered it to the government as use as the Vice President's mansion. She also lobbied for the Lincoln Memorial to be built on the site of Meridian Hill Park. In 1925, Henderson also donated land to the District of Columbia for the construction of the Mount Pleasant Library at 3160 Sixteenth Street. Henderson's most well known crusade was to change the name of 16th Street to "Avenue of the Presidents," and to line the street with busts of all the Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States. While she actually succeeded in having legislation passed to change the name of the street in 1913, the Commission of Fine Arts denied her request to construct the busts. One year later, because the name "Avenue of the Presidents" proved to be unpopular, the original 16th Street name was restored. Following her death at Bar Harbor, Maine in 1931, the Commission of Fine Arts praised her efforts and her vision of Meridian Hill. A report by the Commission stated:
Persistently she labored during four decades, persuading and convincing Senators and Representatives; single-handed and alone she appeared before committees of Congress to urge approval for the work of development. She won.
Offered here is a great 3 pages autograph letter signed [plus 4 lines on page 4], not dated but circa 1905. Written to Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. n 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. She says that one of the lots on 16th Street in consideration for the Carnegie Institute in in the plans for the Lincoln Memorial but not out yet. She continues on about the possibilities for land uses in the area. Approx. 5-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine condition. Quite rare........500-750
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2. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1895 Annual meeting, Springfield, Mass. Document signed by at least 25 members. Includes:
- Bernhard E. Fernow (1851-1923) was the third chief of the USDA's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 to 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much of the groundwork for the establishment of the United States Forest Service in 1905. Fernow has been called the "father of professional forestry in the United States.
- Louis Prang (1824-1909) American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist.[1] He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
- Bushrod Washington James, A.M., M.D. (1836–1903) American surgeon, homeopathist, writer, and philanthropist.
- Albert S. Bickmore (1839-1914) American naturalist and originator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, becoming one of its founders.
- Worcester Reed Warner (1846-1929) American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Ambrose Swasey he cofounded the Warner & Swasey Company.
- Walter LeConte Stevens (1847-1927) well-known physics professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and, later, Professor of Physics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
- Henry Farquhar (1851-1925) Career "G man", working for the US Coast Survey, census bureau, and other departments.
- Dr. Jefferson E. Kershner (b. 1854) Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Franklin and Marshall College.
Plus others. Approx. 8-1/2 x 24 in. long. Needs alot more research. VG........200-300
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3. [ART] Gladys Emerson Cook (1899-1976) perhaps best known for her delightful drawings of dogs, many of which were used as book illustrations. She also drew advertisements, including cat ads for Carter's Ink and Puss n' Boots products. She also painted and did many original prints. Cook studied at the New York Art Student's League with Anthony Thieme and Yarnall Abbott. She exhibited at The National Academy of Design, 1953-1945; NY Public Library, 1942; Library of Congress; National Arts Club, NYC; Society of Illustrators, 1945; Abercrombie and Fitch, NYC and Bronx Zoological Park, 1941. Offered here is a graphite drawing [pencil] of cats. Unsigned. This is one of the few remaining drawings by Cook that we had at one time. Guaranteed to be by Gladys Emerson Cook. The drawing itself is about 7 x 8 in. on larger size transparent paper. Left side edge is damaged...........Min. Bid $50
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4. [ART] Gladys Emerson Cook (1899-1976) perhaps best known for her delightful drawings of dogs, many of which were used as book illustrations. She also drew advertisements, including cat ads for Carter's Ink and Puss n' Boots products. She also painted and did many original prints. Cook studied at the New York Art Student's League with Anthony Thieme and Yarnall Abbott. She exhibited at The National Academy of Design, 1953-1945; NY Public Library, 1942; Library of Congress; National Arts Club, NYC; Society of Illustrators, 1945; Abercrombie and Fitch, NYC and Bronx Zoological Park, 1941. Offered here is a graphite drawing [pencil] of a cat. Unsigned. This is one of the few remaining drawings by Cook that we had at one time. Guaranteed to be by Gladys Emerson Cook. The drawing itself is about 11 x 8.5 in. Edge tape repair on verso but VG...........Min. Bid $50
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5. [ART] Gladys Emerson Cook (1899-1976) perhaps best known for her delightful drawings of dogs, many of which were used as book illustrations. She also drew advertisements, including cat ads for Carter's Ink and Puss n' Boots products. She also painted and did many original prints. Cook studied at the New York Art Student's League with Anthony Thieme and Yarnall Abbott. She exhibited at The National Academy of Design, 1953-1945; NY Public Library, 1942; Library of Congress; National Arts Club, NYC; Society of Illustrators, 1945; Abercrombie and Fitch, NYC and Bronx Zoological Park, 1941. Offered here is a graphite drawing [pencil] of cats. Unsigned. This is one of the few remaining drawings by Cook that we had at one time. Guaranteed to be by Gladys Emerson Cook. The drawing itself is about 4.75 x 5.5 in. On transparent paper; small old tape remains on verso shows through; crease lines; irregular shape...........Min. Bid $40
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6. [ART] Gladys Emerson Cook (1899-1976) perhaps best known for her delightful drawings of dogs, many of which were used as book illustrations. She also drew advertisements, including cat ads for Carter's Ink and Puss n' Boots products. She also painted and did many original prints. Cook studied at the New York Art Student's League with Anthony Thieme and Yarnall Abbott. She exhibited at The National Academy of Design, 1953-1945; NY Public Library, 1942; Library of Congress; National Arts Club, NYC; Society of Illustrators, 1945; Abercrombie and Fitch, NYC and Bronx Zoological Park, 1941. Offered here is a graphite drawing [pencil] of cats. SIGNED bottom right. Titled HIRAM WASHES. This is one of the few remaining drawings by Cook that we had at one time. Guaranteed to be by Gladys Emerson Cook. The drawing itself is about 11 x 9.5 in. Irregular shape...........Min. Bid $60
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7. Conrad K. Grieb (1905-1991) was the author of Uncovering the Forces for War. In the late 1930s he was office manager of Seward Collins's American Review Bookshop in New York. During the war he served with the United States Coast Guard. His book "Uncovering the Forces for War" was a unabashedly pro-German survey of the undercover forces for war: British World Empire, World Finance, and their constant companion, Organized World Jewry. The book was published by Grieb under his Examiner imprint and distributed widely among the remnants of the post-war American far right. Grieb later authored American Manifest Destiny and the Holocausts. Offered here is a full page 1949 TLS to George Andrews Moriarty (1883-1968) American genealogist. Moriarty went to work for the U. S. State Department in the foreign service, and served in consular and secretarial roles in Fiume, Italy; Mexico City; and Guatemala. He returned to Harvard once again to study law, and received his LL.B. in 1916. He practiced law in Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts for over a decade, which time also included a year in the U.S. Army at the end of World War I when he was a captain in military intelligence. In 1927 he ended his career in law and devoted the remainder of his life to historical and genealogical pursuits. In 1986 the National Genealogical Society instituted a Hall of Fame for individuals that had made significant strides in the field of genealogy. In 1990 G. Andrews Moriarty was inducted into that prestigious group, having been nominated by the Genealogical Society of Utah and the American Society of Genealogists. Moriarty was known to be anti-semitic per Maine State Police and a Nazi sympathizer. MORIARTY was deeply interested in the threat of Communism in the United States. He added he believed the Jewish people were behind the Communist Party over the whole world and were using the Russians and the Communist Party to eventually gain mastery over all the world's people. He stated he was desirous of ascertaining who the sender of certain literature was and would cooperate with the FBI in every way. He stated further he would recontact writer in the event he receives any more literature, particularly if a return address accompanies the literature. Offered here are many items from the personal papers of G. Andrews Moriarty. RARE! VG...............Min. Bid $30
8. [CANADA] Robert Bell ISO FRSC (1841-1917) Canadian geologist, professor and civil servant. He is considered one of Canada’s greatest exploring scientists, having named over 3,000 geographical features. CLIP SIGNATURE, small but fine example. Approx. 3-1/4 x 3/4 in.....................25-35
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9. [ARTISTS] Mystery Lot of 10 signed items by American and European artists [20th century]. Includes: Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) important Fransciso Bay artist; Cadious; Robert Camelot plus 7 others...........100-150
10. [FILM] Margaret Kerry (b.1929) born Peggy Lynch, American actress and radio host, best known for her work as the model for Tinker Bell in the 1953 Walt Disney Pictures animated feature, Peter Pan. Signed, inscribed 10x8 photo, scene from OUR GANG. VG...........40-60
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11. 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
12. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Asa Freeman (1788-1867) Asa was born in January, 1788 in Hanover, NH. He was attending Harvard College in 1810. He did not graduate, but instead, he worked in the law office of his brother, Peyton R. Freeman in Portsmouth, NH where he studied under the direction of Isaac Lyman of York, Maine. He was admitted as an attorney in York County, Maine in 1816, and practiced there until 1818 when he moved to Dover, New Hampshire to establish his home and law practice. Despite his lapse at Harvard, he found much success in his professional life. He was appointed a Commissioner of the United States by Judge Story, - was elected a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1850, - he was a NH State Senator in 1851 and 1852, and in - 1857 he was appointed Register of Probate for Strafford County and retained the position until he passed away in 1867. ADS, 1821, 1p, 7-1/4 x 3-1/4 in. Promisory note between Joseph Doe and Abyail & Theodore Atkinson, the amount being $6000. VG.........35-45
See above13. [FRANCE] Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814-1858) French Crown Princess after her marriage in 1837 to the eldest son of Louis Philippe I, Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans. She was the mother of the future Count of Paris and Duke of Chartres. Her descendants include present-day pretenders to the throne of France and Italy and the kings of Spain and Belgium. ALS, 1856, 3pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/8 in. Not translated but ID says she says........You know, Sir, that we never made any claims that did not follow justice & law of the country....." VG................150-200
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Scan 314. [SPACE] WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. From 1962 to 1965, Whisenhant, who was a native of Texas, was the staff photographer for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. During her tenure there she shot photos of astronauts, worked with CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite on a story about astronaut John Glenn, and photographed President John F. Kennedy. Growing up in Livingston, Texas, Willene Whisenhant probably couldn't have imagined sipping lemonade on Air Force One with the president. She most likely didn't think she'd be the first woman ordained into an all-male club. And the idea of being the first and only female photographer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), couldn't have possibly drifted into even her wildest daydreams. Later on, Whisenhant learned that President John F. Kennedy wanted her up front because, as he explained, when he first met his wife, then Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a struggling photographer and no one would give her a break. He therefore wanted Whisenhant to be front and center. That same day, the president asked his men to take the photographer up to Air Force One and give her some lemonade. Offered here is a lithograph picture of Deke Slayton one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, and was responsible for NASA crew assignments.. Whisenhant has written at the bottom "Slayton." Provenance: from the files of Willene Whisenhant. VG...............100-150
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15. [MEDICINE] Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) prominent British surgeon, and an expert in anatomy. Treves was renowned for his surgical treatment of appendicitis, and is credited with saving the life of King Edward VII in 1902. He is also widely known for his friendship with Joseph Merrick, dubbed the "Elephant Man" for his severe deformities. CLIP SIGNATURE, 2-3/4 X 1-3/3 in. mounted to large paper.............150-200
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JEWS ROLE IN CUBA REVOLT
16. [CUBA] Dr. Frederick Solomon (1899-1980) Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (originally Solomonski) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954, Solomon left England to take up 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, Cuba, 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 3 items directly from the estate papers of Rabbi Frederick Solomon. (1) Unsigned manuscript written by Solomon about Jewqs in Havana, Cuba. Not dated but c. 1961. Six pages. (2) His 2 page typescript that of this address that he gave at the Temple Beth Israel, Havana, Cuba. Not signed. (3) A Feb.-March 1959 newspaper from SOCIAL ACTION IN REVIEW (Reform Judaism), 4pp. On the front page is an article written by Frederick Solomon about the early days of the revolt and takeover by Castro. What this means for the Jews in Cuba. VG.............200-300
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17. ENTERTAINMENT] Tommy Sands (b. 1937) American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as early as 1949, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". Signed sheet on which he draws a self-portrait [quickly]. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. Fine...........Min. Bid $25
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18. FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist. Original typed 110 page manuscript signed Fritz Solomonski on title paghhe. The title is: Das Westen des Expressionismus, Sein Entwicklung und das Problem der Naturferne. Anything signed Fritz Salomonski would have been written before he left Germany. He has written Berlin on the title page. NOT TRANSLATED. approx. 8.5 x 13 in. paper. Solomon 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 artist's 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. We purchased his personal papers and most of his drawings at his estate sale. His work is fairly scarce. The photos shown below DO NOT accompany this drawing and are not for sale. Also, showing below is a copy of Royal Academy of Arts notification that Samuel Courtauld has selected a painting by Solomon for purchase in 1945. Courtauld, who would died two tears later, was the founder of the Courtauld Art Institute in England. Courtauld had formed an important art collection including multiple works by Manet, Cezanne, Renoir etc., which he gave to the Courtauld and the Tate. He had purchased at least 5 paintings by Frederick Solomon and when he saw the painting JACOB at Solomon's exhibition at the JABE Gallery he ordered that the painting be sent to the TATE Gallery but he died a few days later and the purchase never took place................500-800
19. [COLONIAL] Solomon Williams (1700-1776) pastor of the Lebanon, Connecticut's First Congregational Church. He was the father of William Williams (1731-1811) who was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1776, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. CLIPPED SIGNATURE, slight loss top edge. Please look at picture before bidding on this.........50-75
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20. [ART] George Perfect Harding (1780-1853) famed British Painter and etcher, especially of miniatures. ALS, 1815, 1p, 7-1/4 x 8-3/4 in. Harding writes he is pleased with the pieces of the Lee Priory, and is willing to trade items with the printers that he did not dispose of, requesting another complete set for a friend. In closing he sends regards to Lady B. VG................50-75
21. [FILM] PATRICIA NEAL (1926-2010) Actress, Academy Award. TNS on card, 2001. Fine.........30-40
22. Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963) Democratic Party politician from New York. He was Governor of New York from 1933 to 1942, and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1950 to 1957. Signed NY Governors card. Mounting stains in 3 corners..........20-30
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23. [BUSINESS] Benjamin Altman (1840–1913) American businessman who in 1865 founded B. Altman & Co., opening a store on Third Avenue and 10th Street in NYC. In 1906, he moved the business to Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. Benjamin Altman died without heirs. Shortly before the death, he founded the Altman Foundation. Until 1985, it owned B. Altman & Co., which latter closed the last store in 1990. Altman was an avid collector of Rembrandt paintings and china, much of which he acquired through art dealer Joseph Duveen. Upon his death, he donated the collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Signed Chemical National Bank check, 1906. VG................50-75
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24. Mr. Tindal (Nicolas Tindal. 1687 - 1774) was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin. Very few comprehensive histories existed at the time and Tindal wrote a three volume 'Continuation', a history of the Kingdom from the reigns of James II to George II. Tindal was Rector of Alverstoke in Hampshire, Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. ALS, in 3rd person, August 22, 1764, 1p, 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG. Archival tape repair on verso.........50-75
25. [from WALT KUHN ESTATE] LaSalle Spier (1890-1982) American pianist, organist, composer and teacher, also a painter. He was the brother-in-law of Vera Kuhn, wife of the noted artist, Walt Kuhn. Offered here is a collection of about 14 letters, not including envelopes. These were written to Walt Kuhn and wife Vera, and also the artist's daughter, Brend from 1934 to 1967. Content is better than routine. VG........300-400.................Min. Bid $75
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26. [CARTOONIST] Brad Anderson (1924-2015) American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Marmaduke. SIGNED and inscribed postcard size print of Marmaduke. VG...............50-75
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27. [FILM] Aileen Marie Quinn (b.1971) American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her role as Annie Bennett Warbucks in Annie. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo as ANNIE. She also make draws an Annie face, dated 1982. VG..................25-35
28. James Oppenheim (1882–1932) American poet, novelist, and editor. A lay analyst and early follower of Carl Jung, Oppenheim was also the founder and editor of The Seven Arts, an important early 20th-century literary magazine. ALS, 1910, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Sun-toned on verso.................50-75
29. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing, signed, c. 1980. Approx. 8 x 10 plus margins. Top of paper has some wrinkling o/w VG..............150-200
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30. Diana Canova (b.1953) American actress, director, and professor. Offered here is a signed sketch, 8-1/4 x 5 in. VG.............50-75
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31. [FILM] Susan Seaforth Hayes (born 1943) American dramatic actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Julie Williams on the NBC drama Days of Our Lives, and her intermittent portrayal of Joanna Manning on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. She began playing the role of Julie Olsen Williams on Days of Our Lives in 1968, and is the only actor to appear on the show for all six decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s) in which it has been on the air. Mrs. Seaforth Hayes still regularly appears on Days as Julie Olsen Williams. Offered here is her signed 1965 contract for the film BILLIE starring Patty Duke. She was paid $750 for 2 week's employment in the role of Jean Carol [changed to Jean Matthews]. Counter 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." Seaforth & Ebbins have also initialed 2 other pages. Approx. 8-1/4 x 14 in. VG.............75-100
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Scan 332. [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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33. [MAINE] Joe Brennan (b. 1934) the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987. He is a former commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission. TLS, 1990, signed Joe. To a publisher, thanking him for sending a book about Maine. Three file holes along left edge. Signed as a member of the US congress..................Min. Bid $10
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34. [ART] Louise Jopling (1843-1933) English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation. ALS, no date, 3pp, 4 x 5-3/4 in. Jopling exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She joined the Society of Women Artists (1880) and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1891); she became the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (1901). VG...............75-100
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Scan 235. [BALLET-Texas] Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948) born in Russia he is considered among the greatest ballet dancers of our time. Offered here is a PROCLAMATION signed by the Mayor of Beaumont, Texas. For "MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV DAY" AUGUST 2, 1983. Approx. 11 x 14 in. Middle fold & stains bottom right corner. Some handwriting on the verso?????. Provenance: Mikhail Baryshnikov personal collection, Swann's Auction, East Coast Books...............300-400
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36. 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
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37. [SCIENCE] David Eugene Smith (1860-1944) American mathematician, educator, and editor. He is considered one of the founders of the field of mathematics education. Signed booklet, RELIGIO MATHEMATICA, 16 pages, octavo. Reprinted in 1921. Presidential address delivered before the Mathematical Association of America. Two mounting traces on front edge o/w VG................50-75
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38. [TV] Lea Thompson (b. 1961) American actress and director. She is best known for her 1990s NBC situation comedy Caroline in the City and her portrayal of Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy. Signed/inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........20-30
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39. [AVIATION] Ruth Rowland Nichols (1901-1960) American aviation pioneer. She was the only woman yet to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female pilot. She has a very interesting biography including her connect to Amelia Earhart. In December 1930, she beat Charles Lindbergh's record time for a cross-country flight, completing the trip in 13 hours, 21 minutes. Offered here is a biographical sheet on which pens about 8 lines [not signed]. Approx. 6 x 8 in. VG............50-75
40. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] a week after his death in 1949, ART DIGEST referred to Walt Kuhn as "one of the most forceful, independent and self-disciplined painters of our time." That glowing evaluation is certainly just as valid today. [Written by Bennard B. Perlman, the art historian-author, from Baltimore]. Offered here are items from the Kuhn Estate in Maine. [1] Kennedy Galleries 1974 letter sending $3000 for month of June. At this time the Kennedy Galleries in New York was handling the Kuhn Estate and Brenda Kuhn received a monthly check of $3000 plus more if something sold. [2] Letter dated 1962 from attorney for Kuhn estate about Maine inheritane tax and a $125 bill for repairs to the painting "Landscape and Brook. [3] Dorsha Hayes (1897-1990) stage actress and dancer during the early 20th century. She was born in Galesburg, Illinois. She made her debut appearance in Pierre Loti's Daughter of Heaven in 1912. TLS, 1983, 1p. [4] Althea Bransom, neice of the noted artist Paiul Bransom. ALS, 1983, 1p. [5] Ruth M. Blaine - ALS, 1983, 2pp. about an UNSIGNED painting from the 1930s WPA project. She wants to know if Brenda thinks it is by Walt Kuhn. [6] Two letters, 1983, fromMaine Historical Society. [7] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1912) Co-manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1949-1956; manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1956-1966; Collection of Brenda Kuhn, Kuhn Estate, Cape Neddick, 1956-1966; founder, Cape Neddick Park, since 1965. President Kuhn Memorial Corporation, Cape Neddick, 1968-1975. Founder Walt Kuhn Gallery, Cape Neddick, since 1980. Brenda Kuhn has been listed as a noteworthy art historian by Marquis Who's Who. SIGNED 1967 bank check. [8] Thank you for donation card 1960, from Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Maine. [9] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) From 1969 to 1978 she was in charge of the art museum at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Later she moved north to Camden and was curator at the Farnsworth Museum. She was a close friend of Brenda Kuhn. 1p. ALS saying she was in Portland and saw "your father's paintings in the Barridoff [gallery' and the Museum." [10] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1985, 2pp. Mentions seeing painting by Walt Kuhn and Marsden Hartley. [11] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984 on postcard - mentions Tea Party painting by Walt Kuhn "still puzzles me." [12] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984, 2pp. Talks about Port Clyde, maine and the church there says that "the Wyeths attend a different church - Ridge". The Wyeths, of course, were Andrew and Betsey Wyeth. [13] 2 page TLS from an attorney about the sale of a Kuhn painting titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." Price $75,000. [14] Brief autograph note dated 1983 re" birthday of a 3 year old child [Cape Neddick, Maine]. [15] Group of 3 Walt Kuhn gallery consignment sheets signed by 3 different artists 1986 & 87. [16] 2 misc. items. In all approx. 20 pieces. VG..............Min. Bid $75
41. Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928) English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays. Montague was against the First World War prior to its commencement, but once it started he believed that it was right to support it in the hope of a swift resolution. In 1914, Montague was 47, which was well over the age for enlistment, but in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. H. W. Nevinson would later write that "Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage." He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war, was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War. Disenchantment criticised the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals. Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will". Montague was the father of Evelyn Aubrey Montague, the Olympic athlete and journalist depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. ALS, Oxford, England, 1927, 1p, 6 x 9 in. VG......................Min. Bid $25
42. [ART] Morrie Turner (1923-2014) American cartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters. During World War II, where he served as a mechanic with Tuskegee Airmen, his illustrations appeared in the newspaper Stars and Stripes. After the war, while working for the Oakland Police Department, he created the comic strip Baker's Helper. In 1970 Turner became a co-chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. In 1967, cartoonist Bil Keane created the Family Circus character Morrie, a playmate of Billy and the only recurring black character in the strip, based on Turner. In 2003, the National Cartoonists Society recognized Turner for his work on Wee Pals and others with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Offered here is a First Day Cover, 1973, honoring American Revolution Bicentennial on which he does an ink drawing of "WEE PALS", signed. Great item. 6.5 x 3.5 in. Fine..............100-200
43. [MEDICINE] Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson FRS FRCP (1828-1896) British physician, anaesthetist, physiologist, sanitarian, and a prolific writer on medical history. He was the recipient of the Fothergill gold medal, awarded by the Medical Society of London in 1854 and of the Astley Cooper triennial prize for an essay in physiology. He was a close personal friend, and professional colleague, of John Snow. On Snow's sudden death he took over the final editing of Snow's draft On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics and supervised its publication in 1858. Richardson was a sanitary reformer, who busied himself with many of the smaller details of domestic sanitation which tend, in the aggregate, to prolong the average life in each generation. ALS, 1877, 2pp., written to Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) the Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. Fine.............100-150
44. Mary Baird Bryan (1861-1930) wife of William Jennings Bryan. She was an American writer and suffragette. Mary Elizabeth would emerge as an important part of Bryan's career, managing his correspondence and helping him prepare speeches and articles. Mary passed the bar exam and learned German in order to help his career. ALS, not dated to Mr. Berger, 2pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. On page 2 she says "I was never so proud of Mr. Bryan as now. He possesses powers of strategy & management of which I was not aware."................Min. Bid $45
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45. 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...............25-35
See above46. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 50 signed bank checks, dating 1896-1930.................Min. Bid $450
Douglas Volk artist 50 signed checks
47. [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..............50-75
48. [NAZI PERSECUTION] the following letters are from the personal papers of Frederick Solomon (1899-1980). Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (originally Solomonski) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954, Solomon left England to take up 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. Dr. Solomon left Havana in 1960 and relocated to Laconia, N.H., where he served as rabbi at Temple B’nai Israel until 1963. He and his wife then moved to Rochester, N.H. in 1963, where he opened the New English Art Gallery and Studio. In his later years, Solomon served as the chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Nathaniel Hawthorne College in Antrim, New Hampshire. He died in in 1980. Offered here is a collection of letters written to Frederick Solomon. It includes items sent to Solomon from The United Restitution Organization (URO) that was established in 1948 as a legal aid service to assist victims of Nazi persecution living outside Germany in making restitution and indemnification claims against Germany and Austria. The URO has served over 250,000 clients. It helped Jews, Roma, and other victims of Nazi crimes. At its most expansive, the URO maintained 29 offices in 15 countries around the world. British barrister Norman Bentwich was the chairman of the URO board from 1948 until his death in 1971, and Kurt May, a German-born lawyer who had fled the Nazis in 1934 after he defended a leading Social Democrat wrongly accused of being a Communist, served as its director from the early 1950s until 1990. INCLUDES a TLS, 1939 signed by Alexander J. Burnstein (1900-1980) Rabbi who was born in Kiev, Ukraine and, after making his way to the United States, graduated from Northwestern University. On December 1, 1938, upon the successful arrangement of this position by Cyrus Adler (who had presided over Burnstein's ordination less than a decade before), became the executive secretary of the Advisory Committee on Refugee Jewish Ministers from 1938 to 1942. Burnstein was one of two Jews, both rabbis (the other being Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel), who contributed to a volume celebrating the lifework of Reinhold Niebuhr.[20] Burnstein, a Jewish "admirer" of Niebuhr, wrote of his disagreement with Niebuhr in focusing on teshuvah rather than original sin in understanding human behavior. Also Else Bienheim (1905-1998) TLS, 1970, from the United Restitution Organization (URO). A lengthy TLS, 1937 signed LUDWIG KLAAR from Stockholm. Not translated. Leslie I. Edger (1905-1984) TLS, 1939, 1p. Bruno Buchwald - TLS, 1938, 1p. PLUS 8 others dating 1938-39. VG. Certainly worthy of research. There are Solomon papers in the collection of the Univ. of New Hampshire and Miami University in Florida...................200-300
49. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Thomas Say (1787-1834) the American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist. His definitive studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. He served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society, and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Image approx. 3-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. plus clean margins. Fine................Min. Bid $10
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50 [PORTRAIT] King William 4th (1765-1837) King of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Antique original engraved portrait. Approx. 2-3/4 x 2-1/4" plus wide margins. VG..........Min. Bid $10
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51. [COLONIAL MAINE] small manuscript document, Kittery, Maine, dated 1781, paying Capt. Roger Mit(chell), signed by Charles Chauncy (1729-1809) he was the nephew of Sir William Pepperell (1696-1759). The right side is partially missing. Approx. 4 x 4-1/4 in. Signed 1782 on verso by Capt. Roger Mitchell (1742-1817). Expected age wear.............50-75
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52. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Isaac A. Hill (1827-1903) Probate Court Register; he was the son of Isaac Hill, the governor and US Senator. Document Signed, 1873, about 7.5 x 9.5 in. VG.............25-3553. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART 1962. TWO letters written in 1962 between Brenda Kuhn and William E. Woolfenden. Mostly about the Montress Gallery and the Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition. William E. Woolfenden, who made it his mission to gather every artifact, photograph, scrap of paper and taped recollection he could about American artists, collectors, curators and dealers, was the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Mr. Woolfenden, who was born in Detroit and had bachelor's and master's degrees from Wayne State University, went to work for the Detroit Institute of Arts and was its director of education when the museum's director, Edgar P. Richardson, had an idea that would change both their lives. Mr. Woolfenden, who was associated with the archives from the beginning, was named assistant director in 1960, and after Mr. Richardson's retirement from the museum, he became the archives' first full-time director. During the next 19 years Mr. Woolfenden, who made Manhattan his headquarters, built what had begun as a modest depository into the world's largest archive devoted to American art, a treasure trove for scholars. The letter from Woolfenden was signed by his secretary. Brenda Kuhns letter was her signed retained COPY as was her practice when sending letters.......200-300 Min. Bid $50
54. [FROM MELVILLE INGALLS FILES] small archive: [1] Melville Ingalls [1842-1914] TLS, 1900, 1p., to J.A. Barnard. [2] John T. Dye - 1900 TLS, 1-1/2 pp. re: estate of Abbie Ingalls, who was the grand-daughter of Melville Ingalls. [3] John Alfred Barnard (b. 1861) TLS, 1900, 1p. Barnard, John Alfred, Ex-General Manager Peoria & Eastern Ry. Address Indianapolis, Ind. Born Aug. 27, 1861, at Grenville, Que. Educated at the Galt Collegiate Institute at GaIt, Ont. Entered railway service 1878 as stenographer in general superintendent's office Kansas City St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Rd. since which he has been consecutively clerk in assistant and. general superintendents' offices; engineer's, auditor and assistant treasurer's offices; clerk in general manager's office Hannibal & St. Joseph Rd; clerk treasury department Chicago Burlington & Quiney Rd at Chicago, Ill.; one year assistant paymaster same road; 1887 to April 1889, purchasing department Ohio & Mississippi Ry at Cincinnati, O.; April to Oct. 1, 1889, purchasing agent same road; Oct. 1, 1889. to March 1, 1890. general manager Ohio Indiana & Western Rd; March 1, 1890 to July 1, 1891, assistant general manager Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Ry; July 1, 1891 to Feb. 1905. general manager Peoria & Eastern Ry (Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Ry Co., lessee); March 1900 to March 12, 1901, also vice-president Peoria & Pekin Union Ry; March 12, 1901 to March 10, 1903, also president Peoria & Pekin Union Ry. Plus other pages................200-300 Min. Bid $35
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Scan 555. [FILM] Warren Berlinger (1937-2020) American character actor, with Broadway runs, movie and television credits, and much work in commercials. His signed contract for the film "BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milt Ebbins who was Peter Lawford's business manager. Includes 3 additional Rider pages, each signed with the initials of Berlinger and Ebbins. VG..........100-150
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Portrait of Berlinger
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56. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL pencil drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. Fine. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it................50-75
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57. [GEORGE WASHINGTON] 2 antique engravings: (1) Washington's House, Mount Vernon. Image approx. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 plus margins. (2) The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon. Image approx. 7 x 4 plus margins. VG.........50-75
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58. [VERMONT] Benj. Swan (1762-1839) was an American merchant, banker and politician. He was an important political figure in Vermont and served as State Treasurer.A Federalist, Swan served in local offices including Postmaster. He served as Justice of the Peace when holders of that office still heard court cases. He was also active in the militia, and achieved the rank of Major.In 1796 Swan was appointed County Clerk, an office in which he served until his death. Swan was elected Vermont State Treasurer in 1800. He served until 1833, and is the state's longest-tenured Treasurer. This is an original document, dated Woodstock, 1811, a double sided writ for non-payment of debts....signed twice on the front by Benjamin Swan and once on the back side. Document is 9-3/4 x 15 in. Also signed by Job Lyman (1781-1870) was a Vermont politician, attorney and banker who served as Vermont's State Auditor. Overall very good condition................100-200
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Scan 259. From the Paper of Charles B. Rounds, Calais, Maine. Group of 11 documents plus one letter written to Rounds from Kansas City, Mo. 1873, 3pp, signed Geo. M. Chase. These date from 1869 to 1905. Six of them are signed by Rounds [some in the text]. Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864..................Min. Bid $50
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60. [COLONIAL] James Otis Jr. (1725-1783) was an American lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer, and legislator in Boston, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against the policy of Parliament which led to the American Revolution. His well-known catchphrase "Taxation without Representation is tyranny" became the basic Patriot position. ALS, Boston, 1763, 1p. money transfer. Approx. 7-1/4 x 5 in.Nunerous old tape repairs detract..................Min. Bid $200
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61. [FILM] Don "Red" Barry (1912-1980) American film and television actor. He was nicknamed "Red" after appearing as the first Red Ryder in the highly successful 1940 film Adventures of Red Ryder; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane. Barry went on to bigger budget films following Red Ryder, but none reached his previous level of success. On July 17, 1980, Barry shot himself in the head at his home, shortly after police had left the residence after investigating a domestic dispute.[5] He was estranged at the time from his second wife, Barbara, with whom he had two daughters. Offered here is a Warner Bros. check dated 1984 paying DECEASED Donald Barry $191.29, endorsed on the verso by Barbara Barry. Therefore not actually signed by Red Barry. Fine.................Min. Bid $10
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62. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Mickey Spillane (1918- 2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here are 3 letters written to Mickey Spillane. (1) Stan Purdy (1926-2010) at age 16 he was admitted into the American Federation of Musicians. While in college he founded the "Stan Purdy Orchestra" and toured the East Coast collaborating with musicians like Duke Ellington, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lou Mecca, and Maynard Ferguson. In Hollywood, he composed and conducted the music for "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," an album based on Spillane's mystery book characters. The music consisted of an orchestral suite with narration done by Spillane. Released through John Wayne's Batjac Productions, the music was also scored for Ring of Fear, starring Spillane, Pat O'Brian, and the Clyde Beatty Circus. In New York, Stan conducted and arranged studio orchestras for many well-known jazz and dance-band musicians as well as string players from the New York Philharmonic. ALS, 1954, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Signed Stan. Unable to reach Mickey by phone to discuss subjects of importance. Will keep trying. (2) Stan Purdy (1926-2010) long 2 page typed memo dated same day as letter. Subject: Liv Lowry. This really important content about the contract regarding Purdy & the Mike hammer album. Signed Stan. (3) Richard (Dick) Irving (1917-1990) was the primary producer of the MIKE HAMMER show on TV. His company was Revue Productions, which filmed many early television series on the lot (including early episodes of Leave It To Beaver). TLS, 1955, signed Dick.1p. All are very good condition.............200-300
63. [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
64. [SPANISH - AMERICAN WAR] group of 6 color stereoview cards of fighting ships. VG..............50-75
65. First Light Infantry of Providence, Letter sent from L.C. Warner, April 26, 1859, 1p. about 5 x 7-3/4 in. VG.......25-35
66. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL pencil drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. Fine. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it................50-75
See Bakshi drawing
67. [WASHINGTON] Early 19th century engraving of George Washington by W. Humphreys from a picture by Gilbert Stewart, printed at London by William Mackenzie. Fine, measures x 4 in. plus margins...............25-35
68. [FILM] John L. Russell Jr. (1905-1967), sometimes credited as Jack Russell, was an American cinematographer who was known for his work on films like Psycho (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination) as well as his extensive work on TV. Offered here are 3 items: [1] His signed 1965 contract for the movie BILLIE starring Patty Duke, 12 legal size pages, signed by Russell and Milt Ebbins on the last page. [2] Unsigned carbon copy of Ebbins letter to Russell. [3] Memo from Ebbins, ink signed with his initials, to John Bowman about Russell's contract. All VG...........100-200.......Min. Bid $40
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69. [LARGE LOT] Philip Joseph 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. He graduated in 1920 and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1924. He served in the US congress Signed as Secretary of the Board of from 1943-1971. Large misc. lot of about 107 pieces including 18 signed letters to Philbin.................Min. Bid $35
70. Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884) American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of the world's first plastic surgeons. Along with colleague H.A. Ackley, he was known for successfully artificially propagating trout and other fish. He was also a talented fine art sculptor. It has been suggested that Garlick made the first daguerreotype photograph taken in the United States, and later the first daguerreotype taken in the shade. Rare ALS, Cleveland, 1867, to E.A. Brown. Some sort of financial matter. One page, 7.5 x 9.5 in. Envelope is included. This is another item just recently discovered amongst of holdings after many years. VG..................200-300
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71. [ENGLAND] Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB PC (1814-1892) British Liberal politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884. ALS, 1889, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG......40-60
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72. [ENGLAND] Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863) English glassware manufacturer and politician. His main interest lay in the chemistry of glass-making. In 1819, he took out his first patent for the manufacture of "sulfides" or Cameo Incrustations. Pellatt originally called them "Crystallo-Ceramie," reflecting their French origin. The process involved the embedding of ceramic figurines into the glass sides of paperweights, jugs, decanters, etc., by cutting a hole in the hot glass, sliding in the insert, and resealing the glass afterward.
Pellatt became the most famous and successful producers of sulfides in England from 1819 to the mid-century rivalled only by Baccarat in France. He described their manufacture in a book on glass-making entitled "Curiosities of Glassmaking" published in 1849. After his retirement around 1850, the glass-works went into decline in the hands of his brother Frederic. ALS, 1857, 2pp, 4-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. The edge is laid to backing sheet which doesn't allow the front page to show fully..................50-75
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Scan 273. Ernest Harold Baynes (1868–1925) American naturalist. He was "the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Doctor Dolittle; all sorts of New England birds and animals–foxes, wolves, chickadees, bears and bison were known to roam around and in and out of his house." He treated animals like friends, but unlike Doolittle, never claimed to talk to them. He was instrumental in bringing to public attention the near demise of songbirds and of the bison. He founded the American Bison Society, of which President Teddy Roosevelt was honorary chairman. SIGNATURE clipped away from letter. About 5-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG..............50-75
74. [AMERICANA] Freegift Vandervoort (1844-1929) was a prominent lawyer in Carrigo Springs, Texas; Union Veteran. Offered here is a letter to John E. Boos [famous Lincoln collector]. Says he was in an adjoining county and planned to go to the Lincoln-Douglas Debate but did not. Letter is dated 1917, 1p, 6.5 x 9 in. VG..............35-45
75. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Benj. F. Butler, a major general of the Union Army. Page size approx. 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. This would work well if framed with an autograph...............Min. Bid $10
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76. [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (November 7, 1828 – August 19, 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures. Signed 1893 bank check. VG..............100-150
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77. [HANS HOFMANN] Burton Hasen (1921-2007) Paris-trained artist whose widely seen work was tinged with Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. A long time teacher at the School of Visual Arts, Hasen's canvases and prints hang in the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the National Academy of Design. Offered here is a great 1972 letter, 2 pages. Hasen talks about studying with Hans Hofmann. He talks about the importance of Hofmann but how important to him was what he learned from all of the other artist studying there with him. He mentions artists like Larry Rivers, Mondrian, Albers, Peter Kahn. Basically he's saying that while he learned a great deal in case from hans Hofmann, he learned more after class from his fellow students probably drinking beer in a local bar or some studio. Lenthy 2 page letter................Min. Bid $90
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78. [WORLD WAR I] Henry Mackinnon (1852-1929) British Army General during World War I. He was later appointed Director of Auxiliary Forces in 1905 and Director General of the Territorial Force in 1908.[2] He was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1910; he retired in 1916. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 4-1/2 x 1 in. VG..............25-35
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79. [ART] Stephen James Ferris [1835-1915] influential Philadelphia painter and etcher. Original etching, "AN EASTERN PRINCESS", from a painting by J.G. Jacquet. Image 8-1/8 x 4-3/4" plus margins which are fairly clean with only the slightest signs of age.............80-120.................Min. Bid $25
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Original Etching By German Expressionist 80. [ART] FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist. Original etching, unsigned, image approx. 5 x 3.5 in. plus margins. Comes with biographical information. This is, without doubt, by Solomon and guaranteed to be so without a time limit. Solomon 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 artist's 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. We purchased his personal papers and most of his drawings at his estate sale. His work is fairly scarce. The photos shown below in 2nd scan DO NOT accompany this etching and are not for sale........100-150
Click to see Solomon81. Kim Hunter (1922- 2002) American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Lengthy TLS, 1980, signed Kim, 1p. Fine.........35-45
82. [THEATRE] Edward Terry (1844-1912) English actor. Signed 3-1/4 x 5-1/4" photo, dated 1905. Mounting traces on verso but front is pretty good...........50-75
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83. [LAW] Richard H. Thornton (1845-1925) The son of a prominent English Wesleyan clergyman and Latin tutor, Richard Hopwood Thornton was born in 1845 in Didebury, Lancashire, England. After attending New Kingswood School near Bath, he passed the entrance examination for Oxford University in 1862, but instead entered a London business house. After a visit to Paris in 1870 he went to Canada in 1871 where he taught school in various places. Receiving a small legacy from his mother in 1874, he travelled throughout North America, attended Columbia University law school in Washington, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1878. In 1884 Thornton received an invitation from Judge Matthew P. Deady to come to Oregon and serve as the first dean of the University of Oregon law school. Thornton accepted the position and held the post in Portland for the next nineteen years. After his retirement in 1903 he travelled in Europe with his wife, and after her death he moved to London in 1907. There he compiled the work An Amercian glossary, which was published in 1912. He returned to the U.S. in 1916 and eventually took up residence again in Portland, Oregon, where he died in January of 1925. Offered here is an extraordinary ALS, Law School of The University of Oregon, 3 full pages written to Wm. Henry Rawle (1823-1889) the noted Philadephia lawyer. Excellent content about an address that Rawle gave before the Phi Beta Kappa Society Honor Society. Notice the $45 price [1984] written in pencil at top left corner. This was from the noted autograph dealer Paul Richards, who had the practice of writing prices on letters. Very fine..........200-300
84. [DOE FAMILY] 1848 letter from Joseph Bodwell Doe (1818-1890) to his brother Charles Cogswell Doe (1830-1896) who would later become Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. This letter was sent while Joseph was ion Saratoga Springs, NY. Mainly talking about family and a possible visit from Charles. 1-1/2 pp., 7-1/2 x 9-3/4 in. Jos. B. Doe was born in New Hampshire, he was first a merchant, but when business failed, traveled west. He married Anna Marcher in 1840 and settle in Janesville in 1842, where he opened a general store. For a time he was editor of the Janesville Daily Recorder newspaper. He also loaned people money. In 1853 he entered a partnership with William Morrison Tallman known as the Central Bank of Wisconsin. This eventually became the First National Bank of Janesville. Doe served as the second mayor of Janesville. Along with several other businessmen, he helped establish the early Janesville Academy. Charles C. Doe was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of New Hampshire from 1859 to 1874, and then, after a brief period when the court was dissolved to be reorganized as the New Hampshire Supreme Court, as Chief Justice from 1876 to 1896. Roscoe Pound called Doe one of the ten greatest jurists in American history, the "one judge upon the bench of a state court who stands out as a builder of the law since the Civil War." A contemporary commentator has described Doe as "the most creative state judge of the nineteenth century. VG...............Min. Bid $25
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Scan 285. [POSTAL HISTORY] Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (1792-1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was an English mathematician and the wife of poet George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron. Offered here is an envelope addressed by Lady Byron but NOT signed by her. Approx. 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. The stamp has been removed. VG.............80-120.................Min. Bid $25
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86. [FRANCE] LOI De La REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, No, 1546, Year VI (1798), 24 pages, 7-1/2 x 10". Concerns the creation of Income Tax during the French Revolution. Edges toned on last page..........100-150
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87. [REV. WAR] Luke Drury (1737-1811) Patriot. He was a farmer and grist mill operator. He served as the town's constable, deputy sheriff, collector, assessor, selectman, and representative to the Massachusetts General Court. In 1757 he became a member of the town's militia during the French and Indian War. In 1773 Drury was a member of a Grafton committee organized to give bonds to the Indian trustees so that the town would come into possession of the tribe's "School Lots and meeting house with the four acres of Land by Sd. meeting house and Burying place." He captained the minute-men at the Lexington and Concord alarms and at Bunker Hill, and served the course of the Revolution. In 1786 Drury likely participated in Shay's Rebellion. He served on Worcester's "committee of the people" and may have participated in the attempt to take the Springfield arsenal. Imprisoned for his rebel activities "as a person dangerous to the state," in 1787, he was released and in June elected to the Massachusetts General Court. In early fall of that same year, Drury served on a committee of Hassanamisco Indian affairs. He removed to Marlborough in 1803, where he died in 1811. Offered here is a Manuscript Document [Deed] Signed by Drury on the front. The last 9 lines were also written by Drury. Signed on the back by Sam Bartlett (1752-1821) American patriot, and a noted silversmith from Concord, Mass. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Bible Society, a member of the Cambridge Humane Society, and also from 1795-1820 the elected Register of Deeds for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Deafened by cannon fire during the Boston massacre, he gave up his acedemic studies and became a smith. He worked from circa 1775 to 1795 as a silversmith in Concord Mass.. Although he worked in the town for two decades, Bartlett's most active period in Concord seems to have been between 1785 and 1795. With the aid of journeyman silversmith Joseph Lasinby Brown, of Concord, Bartlett executed communion silver commissions for three towns in Middlesex County, and produced domestic silver for resale and wholesale markets. At the end of the period, he was elected register of deeds for Middlesex County and moved to Cambridge, retiring from the role of silversmith. Bartlett marked 12 pieces of communion silver, including three flagons, one tankard and eight cups. About 25 pieces of Bartlett's domestic hollowware are known, including canns, porringers, creampots, and a unique miniature teapot. In addition, Bartlett marked teaspoons, tablespoons, ladles, and shoe buckles. Offered here is a 1820 Charlestown, Mass. document concerning Henry Van Voorhees of Charlestown Morocco manufacturer. Sam Bartlett has signed on the back as Register of Deeds, Middlesex County, Mass. Approx. 9 x 14.5 in. Very good condition..................600-800
Rare Pioneer Kentucky Document
88. [KENTUCKY] Very rare 1811 pioneer manuscript document from the Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky area signed by several interesting men. Approx. 7-3/4 x 12-1/2 in. Signed by the following on the front side: Wm. Withers, Ben Helm, James Crutcher, Christopher Bush, Samuel Stevenson, Adam Miller. Also signed on the verso by Christopher Miller and Daniel Waide. See some biographical information on these pioneers below.William Withers (1747-1821) born in Virginia he was a Revolutionary War veteran, having served as a Second Lieutenant in the Fauquier County Militia in the Company of Capt. Bronaugh. He came to Kentucky in 1793.
BEN HELM (1767-1858) known as "Kitchen Knife Whetted on a Brick." He was a surveyor, state senator, clerk of Hardin Co. courts; major in War of 1812; purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Bush] Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was a partner, in the general store business, with Duff Green [later statesman] in the early frontier days of Kentucky. It is likely that young Abe Lincoln visited his store often in his early youth.
MAJOR JAS. CRUTCHER - Pioneer. Came to Kentucky from Virginia with his father & family, arriving at the Falls of the Ohio in early 1780s, and later moved to Bardstown. In 1796, he moved to Elizabethtown and became one of the earliest merchants there. Served terms in the legislature and came close to being elected lieutenant governor. He was at the battle of New Orleans as aide to General Thomas, commander of the Kentucky troops. He was involved in the flatboat business and it was said that after delivering a cargo by flatboat to New Orleans, Crutcher would walk back to Kentucky. On these trips he carried his money in a close fitting deer skin vest which he wore under his shirt.
Christopher Bush Sr. (1730?-1813) he and his descendents played an important role in Hardin County history. He is said to have been born in Holland about 1730 Íand came to America circa 1750, and to Kentucky at the end of the Revolutionary War. His daughter, Sarah, was to marry Thomas Lincoln [Abraham Lincoln's father] after Nancy Hanks died. Abe was about 10 years old when Sarah became his step-mother, and she is credited with instilling in him the desire to make something of himself. Bush Sr. was illiterate therefore it appears that Crutcher signed for him.
Samuel Stevenson - came to Elizabethtown in 1806. He taught school at Hardin Academy for about 2 years. Considered a good teacher, he was afterwards a merchant and served a term in the Ky. State Legislature.
Adam Miller - he was captured by Indians, along with his brother Christopher in 1782. The raiding party which captured Adam and Christopher consisted of Delawares and Shawnees. Adam was taken by the Delawares, Christopher was taken by the Shawnees. Both were taken to Indian towns northwest of the Ohio River. After 7 years Adam was exchanged and returned to his family.
Christopher Miller - was about 15 years old when captured by Indians. He lived with the Shawnee Tribe for 14 years. Being an active young man, he soon became habituated to the manners and customs and mode of life of the Indians; dressed as they did and spoke their language as his native tongue, and by many it was thought doubtful whether he ever would be returned to the whites. He was in the same tribe with young Tecumseh and they in their youth were friends and playmates. Miller has told of "many a wrestle with Tecumseh." Adam Miller was serving as a spy for General Anthony Wayne in June, 1794. In what is now Drake County, Ohio, Adam was dispatched with a party of spies to bring in an Indian prisoner for questioning. The party found three Indians in camp, preparing a meal. They set out to kill two of the Indians and capture the third. They succeeded in the plan and Adam discovered the prisoner to be his long-lost brother Christopher. Christopher sulked and refused to talk for several days, but on the promise of release, agreed to join Wayne's army as a spy. He kept his word. Wayne sent him on an important peace mission to the Indians, promising him a reward from the government. The following is an account of that mission. After the defeat of General St. Clair the Indians let loose upon the Northwestern Territory. General Washington was distressed and it frustrated his plans for the safety of the thinly settled country in the North-west and it was determined to have a sufficient army to be led by Gen. Anthony Wayne but Congress and delayed the campaign for nearly two years. On the 14th day of August 1794, Gen. Wayne, having all things in readiness to move on the Indians, Wayne, under the instruction of Washington, decided to give the enemy a chance for peace before attacking. They had to find the right man to carry the white flag, and Christopher Miller being lately returned from the Indians and speeaking their language, Armed with a flag and this message Miller set out for the Indian camp, arriving at nightfall. In a few minutes his arrival was known all over the entire camp. Then it was, "Kill the runaway, burn him". Miller, knowing the character of Indians, showed no signs of fear but in a loud and defiant voice, in their own tongue, told them that he had brought a flag of peace and as for burning him they had better be a little careful as the Black Snake, meaning General Wayne, had 8 of their warriors in prison and if he was not returned safely in three days that their 8 men would be shot. Immediately a pow-wow was held in which it was determined that Miller should be burned at the stake in the morning. But Tecumseh, a young Shawnee chief, and a friend of Miller, changed their minds. The Indians sent back their answer with Miller. If Gen. Wayne \waited for ten days and then sent Miller to them again they would give him their decision but if Wayne advanced they would give battle. Miller reached Gen. Wayne with the answer on the 16th day of August 1794. General Wayne rightly concluded that the 10 days asked for by the Indians was simply a scheme to get time and having everything in readiness immediately set out against the Indian camp. Wayne obtained a complete victory, the loss on both sides was considerable. The battle was fought on the 29th day of August 1794. Christopher Miller was in that engagement.
Daniel Waide - came to Elizabethtown a few years after 1800. He kept the tavern at THE SIGN OF THE LION, built by Major James Crutcher about 1798.This document is in very good condition for its age. In 2015 another document signned by Christopher Miller sold at auction for $1,777 including buyer's premium. Our estimate..................600-800Scan 1
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89. [ENGLAND] 4 signed address panels - 2 on each side of same sheet. Includes: Robert Fowler - eminent Anglican bishop in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries. Signed as Bishop of Ossory 1835. Hugh Percy (1784-1856) signed 1835 as Bishop of Carlisle. Other side is: Edward Harcourt (1757-1847) signed 1835 as Bishop of York; Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874) signed 1832 as Bishop of Winchester.........Min. Bid $40
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90. [KUHN ESTATE] The following from the Estate of Walt, Vera and Brenda Kuhn. [1] a 4-1/2 x 3-1/4" photo of the Walt Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, maine, taken by his daughter Brenda. [2] a 1989 Midtown Galleries exhibition brochure for Walt Kuhn. [3] receipt for Walt Kuhn's property tax bill, Wells, Maine, 1941. This would have been for the house shown in the photo offered here. [4] Walter Hatch TLS, 1941, to Walt Kuhn, saying there was an error in in tax bill. All items are directly from the Kuhn Estate...........100-150
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91. [RUSSIA] Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov (1798-1883) Russian statesman from the Gorchakov princely family. He has an enduring reputation as one of the most influential and respected diplomats of the nineteenth century. Signed manuscript page, 1878 date, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. Not sure how to describe this [see scan]. VG........80-120
92. Joseph Barnes (1817-1883) American physician and the 12th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1864–1882). On August 22, 1864, he was advanced to the position of Surgeon General, with the grade of Brigadier General and on March 13, 1865, he received the brevet of major general for faithful and meritorious service during the war. On April 14, 1865, at the time of the assassination of United States President Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward, Barnes attended the death bed of Lincoln and ministered to the successful restoration of Seward.
The morning after Abraham Lincoln's death, three Army Medical Museum pathologists entered the White House to perform an autopsy on Lincoln's body. Overseen by Barnes, the autopsy was conducted by Colonel Joseph Woodward and Major Edward Curtis. The autopsy began at 11 a.m. on April 15, 1865. In 1881, during the long struggle of President James A. Garfield to live after being shot, Barnes was one of the surgeons who for weeks served in the chamber of the dying president. Offered here is a CLIP SIGNATURE on 5 x 2 in. slip. VG..............Min. Bid $125
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93. [ART - WALT KUHN ESTATE] 1927 Invitation card to Walt Kuhn Exhibition at Grand Central Art Galleries. On the verso is an original color drawing that we assume was drawn by Kuhn's daughter Brenda when she was 16 years old. Approx. 6 x 3.5 in. VG..............75-100
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94. [ART - WALT KUHN ESTATE] 1947 Whitney Museum of American Art document - Received from Walt Kuhn, 112 East 18th Street, The Green Pom Pom, for 1947 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1947-1948. Mostly likely Walt himself wrote in pencil "After 12". About 5 x 7-3/4 in. Condition : see scan. This painting is now in the collection of The Butler Institute of American Art. It was painted by Walt Kuhn in 1944................100-150
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95. [ART - WALT KUHN ESTATE] Alfred M. Frankfurter (1906-1965) Editor of the Art News during the critical years of Abstract Expressionism. After free-lancing as an art critic for two years, Frankfurter was named editor in 1936 of the Art News, America's oldest art magazine. Under his leadership, he turned the journal into a seminal source for art information and criticism. His importance lies in his editorship of an art journal developing at the same time as the New York art scene itself. The French government made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his services to French art. TLS, Art News, 1941, 1p, to Walt Kuhn. For some unknown reason he writes to Kuhn about a problem he was having with Richard L. Rideout, an art dealer. Walt Kuhn has written on the received envelope "Frankfurter - Rideout". Frankfurter has included a copy of his 2 page letter to Rideout. This letter details the problem Frankfurter has with Rideout. It begins with a $20 loan never repaid........................100-150
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96. An 1801 Kentucky Pioneer document from Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky. promisory note signed by several prominent pioneers. Signed on the front by Charles Helm and George Helm. Charles HELM [1777- 1831 [?] - a merchant, politician, soldier. He served for many years in the state legislature and was said to be the most popular man in Hardin County. During the War of 1812, he was in Col. Aaron Hart’s company, a mounted force, each man furnishing his own horse, gun, ammunition, & rations for himself & horse. He served for a number of years in the Kentucky State Senate and House of Representatives. GEO. HELM (1774-1822) signs on the verso. In 1798 he was appointed sheriff of Hardin County; was in the State Legislature 1813, 1814 and 1816. Resigned temporarily in 1814 to serve on the staff of General John Thomas, who commanded the Kentucky troops at the Battle of New Orleans. His son became Governor of Kentucky. Geo. Helm was involved briefly in the following incident. In Elizabethtown the first execution took slave April 2, 1796. Jacob, a slave, killed his master John Crow in Dec. 1795. He fled to Vienna, but was captured and returned to Elizabethtown. Tried by a special court, he was condemned to be hanged. When Jacob was arrested he said, "I killed Crow, but you prove it." He pleaded guilty though, and was sentenced to be hung. The court not agreeing on the value of the negro, a jury was impaneled who fixed his value at 80 pounds. Confined in an old log jail, he made a desperate dash when the door was opened to feed him. George Helm, being in sight, and being then a stout young man, pursued the prisoner about 400 yards, crossing Valley Creek & ascending a hill, caught & brought Jacob back. The execution was witnessed by a large crowd. The Sheriff having a distaste for the hangman's office [by consent of Jacob] procured the services of a black man to tie the noose and drive the cart from under. For years after the matter was spoken as "The time Jacob was hung." SIGNED ON THE VERSO BY Squire Larue, James Crutcher, Ben Helm, & Michael Campbell. In 1813 Hardin County had the unique distinction of having two future presidents of the United States living within its borders: Abraham Lincoln, a boy of four years, and James Buchanan, then a young man of 22 years. Buchanan, in 1796, became part owner with James Dickey, of 3610 acres of land in Hardin County, purchased for one dollar per acre from Michael Campbell.SQUIRE LaRUE [1785-1861] the only son of John LaRue, for whom LaRue County was named. He was a Lincoln neighbor who’s son was born the day before Abraham Lincoln. His mother, Mary Brooks LaRue Enlow, was present at the birth of Squire LaRue’s son, and she was very close to the Lincolns. Legend tells us that she walked the short distance to the Lincoln cabin and was “Granny-mother” at the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Squire LaRue served in the General Assembly of Kentucky and was also County Judge of Hardin County. MAJOR JAS. CRUTCHER - Pioneer. Came to Kentucky from Virginia with his father & family, arriving at the Falls of the Ohio in early 1780s, and later moved to Bardstown. In 1796, he moved to Elizabethtown and became one of the earliest merchants there. Served terms in the legislature and came close to being elected lieutenant governor. He was at the battle of New Orleans as aide to General Thomas, commander of the Kentucky troops. He was involved in the flatboat business and it was said that after delivering a cargo by flatboat to New Orleans, Crutcher would walk back to Kentucky. On these trips he carried his money in a close fitting deer skin vest which he wore under his shirt. BEN HELM (1767-1858) known as "Kitchen Knife Whetted on a Brick." He was a surveyor, state senator, clerk of Hardin Co. courts; major in War of 1812; purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Bush] Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was a partner, in the general store business, with Duff Green [later statesman] in the early frontier days of Kentucky. It is likely that young Abe Lincoln visited his store often in his early youth. VG.......400-600 Min. Bid $100
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97. [NAVAL HISTORY] 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. Offered here is an ink signed memo dated 3 Sept. 1946, JOINT TASK FORCE ONE [Navy Department], Washington DC. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............100-150
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98. [PIONEER KENTUCKY] Col. Joseph Barnett (1730 or 31 - 1795) an early pioneer in Kentucky who built Barnett's Station, one of the earliest forts erected near Severns Valley, Kentucky. He was also one of the founders and preacher of Regular Baptist Church of Severns Valley [Elizabethtown, KY], the oldest Baptist church in Kentucky. Barnett's Station was established by brothers Joseph and Alexander Barnett who came from Virginia to Kentucky in early 1780s. Settlement was frequently raided by Indians. During an attack in April 1790, two children were killed and Hanna Barnett, the ten-year-old daughter of Joseph, was carried off and held captive for six months. He was also one of the first judges in Elizabethtown. He, with his brother Robert, was at Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. His brother Robert was killed there. When the Revolutionary War came on some twenty years later he entered the northern wing of the army. He was in the Battle of Yorktown (October, 1781) and there met up with his brother Alexander. After some discussion they made arrangements to come to Kentucky. The following year they met at the fort where Elizabethtown now stands. To quote from Haycraft’s History "Honorable Judge Joseph Barnett . . . lived near Hartford, and traveled upwards of seventy‑five miles to sit in court. He did indeed possess a large landed estate ‑-27,934 acres at the time of his death. He was a dealer in lands on a large scale, Jefferson County (then Virginia) entries alone totaling 155,370 acres, and the early records of Nelson and Hardin Counties are full of land transactions to which he was a party. Offered here is a signed document dated 1791. Barnett is transferring 400 acres od land in Kentucky. Signed by Joseph Barnett, Thomas Allen, Robert Allen, and Anne Allen. Approx. 7-3/4 x 12-1/2 in. There are numerous condition faults and repairs using very thin, strong acid-free tissue coated with acid-free adhesive which is non-yellowing. Some text loss along right side...............600-800
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99. [MEDICAL] Tito Vanzetti (1809-1888) was a famous surgeon and professor of medicine of the 19th century. He studied surgery at the University of Padua under Bartolomeo Signoroni (1797-1844) and at the University of Vienna with Joseph Wattmann (1789-1866). Several years later, he was appointed professor of clinical surgery and ophthalmology at the University of Kharkiv. In 1853 he returned to Padua as a professor of clinical surgery. In 1846 he performed the first ovariotomy in Russia. Vanzetti is credited for introducing a procedure of manual compression for treatment of popliteal aneurysms. He became rector of the University of Padua in 1864. Together with other 16 professors, he was dismissed in 1866, after the annexation of Venetia to Italy, because of his position of support to old Austrian rule. He was reintegrated soon after, under international pressure. Offered here is a 2 page manuscript written and signed by Vanzetti, dated 1870. Translation of the Heading is Proposal of a way to stop bleeding in the palm of the hand and other regions of the body. RARE! Fine condition................600-800101. [CIVIL WAR] William A. Tooley (1841-1865) Union solider. At age 21 he enlisted, August 19, 1862, at Granville, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. K 123rd New York Infantry, September 1, 1862; captured in action, May 3,1863, at Chancellorsville, Va.; paroled, no date; killed in skirmish, April 10, 1865, at Aiken's Creek, N. C. Offered here is a 3 page letter written to his brother Eber, from Tennessee, April 1, 1864. He says - sorry that the President has had to make another call for me - says that only God can end the war, and not be force of arms - 2/3rds of the men were married during their 30 days furlough etc. About 5x8 in. VG................50-75
100. [ART] Marie-Anne Calame (1775-1834) artist and founder of Billodes. Her father taught her enamel painting and ivory engraving. But more serious questions occupied her mind. Worried about the sad future of children from poor families, she decides to tackle the problem. With a group of friends, in 1815 she created the Work Establishment of Billodes, intended to take in poor girls and young girls and give them a job. There is a street named after her, Rue Marie-Anne-Calame, in Le Locle, Switzerland. ALS, 1833, 2pp, plus address leaf, approx. 6 x 7.5 in. Not translated. VG.................300-400
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102. [FRANCE] 1656 document from Suche de Nevers, speaks about la Princesse Palatine and a canal. Several signatures. 2 pages, 7 x 10 in. Not researched. VG.................100-150
103. [DESERT STORM WAR] Original Kuwait Quarter Dinar note captured from Iraqi soldiers who had previously stolen this note from the Kuwaitis. When the Iraqi soldiers surrendered during Desert Storm this note was found on one of them. This csarce note bears the official MINISTRY OF DEFENCE handstamp. Few of these exist. About 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG.............100-150
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104. [ART] Wendell D. Volk (1884-1953) American artist. Signed 1943 bank check. Born El Paso, TX, buried Arlington Natinal Cemetery. He was a printmaker and woodcarver, married Jessie J. McCoig, also an artist (1904-2005). The Douglas Volk family built a rustic Tudor cottage, “Hewnoaks,” on the shores of Kezar Lake in Center Lovell, Maine. [Stephen A.] Douglas Volk was the son of Leonard [W.] Volk, who was famous for his many life casts of Abraham Lincoln. S.A. Douglas Volk studied in Paris and Italy. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York and was a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. He participated in the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and taught at the New York Society for Ethical Culture established by Felix Adler, where he met Karl von Rydingsvärd. He married Marion Larabee in 1881 and two of their children were dau. Marion and son Wendell. Daughter Marion helped Mother Marion run the Sabatos Studio, which produced woven and printed textiles. Wendell was also a weaver and learned woodcarving from Karl von Rydingsvärd. Wendell’s wife Jessie left Hewnoaks, lock, stock, and barrel, to the University of Maine. Hewnoaks was the heart of an Arts and Crafts community. Marion Volk decided to improve upon a generations-old native tradition of making “drawn” rugs and with the help of her son Wendell and daughter Marion she began Sabatos Handcrafts in 1901. The Volks gathered together residents of Center Lovell, who then carried out every part of the rug-making process. Twenty years later the Volks began producing block-printed textiles. The rugs and printed panels are extremely rare today. VG.....................50-75
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105. [WOMEN] Emma Stone Lawrence Blackwell (1851-1920), sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who married George W. Blackwell; she became a school teacher, later worked for “The Woman’s Journal,” she was Lucy Stone’s niece, one-time president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's New Jersey chapter; she was a founder of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) and attended its initial meeting in February 1890. She served as its recording secretary in 1894-95. She served as the NJWSA secretary in 1900, historian in 1903, and president in 1905-07. Offered here is a 1907 ALS, 2pp. signed "Emma". Written to her father Henry Lawrence. Fine.........50-75
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106. Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946. Born in Warrenton, North Carolina, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University). Before turning to a career in law, Bailey was editor of the Biblical Recorder, a newspaper for North Carolina Baptists. Elected to the United States Senate in 1930, defeating longtime incumbent Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Bailey earned a reputation as a conservative while in office. In 1937, he coauthored the bipartisan Conservative Manifesto, a document criticizing President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and proposing more conservative alternatives. Among other things, the Manifesto called for lower taxes and less spending. During his time in office, he served as chairman of the Committee on Claims and Committee on Commerce. Signed Check dated 1924...............40-60
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107. [NASA] John A. Manke (1932-2019) served as a research pilot, Chief of Flight Operations, and as site manager NASA's Flight Research Center, later the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, CA, during a 22-year career with NASA. SIGNED COVER HONORING MANKE POSTMARKED 1973. Fine............25-35
108. [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 are some handwritten notes written by Walt Kuhn on 2 pages. It begins with "On entering first gallery...." He continues talking about the art he was viewing there, whereever that was. Not dated but c. 1940-45. About 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. Beginning to separate at some fold lines. UNSIGNED. Rare!..............300-400...............one time Min. Bid $90109. [SCIENCE] James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944) American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public (or SSP), from 1921–1944. The New York Times hailed him as "the dean of American science." Yet Cattell may be best remembered for his uncompromising opposition to American involvement in World War I. His public opposition to the draft led to his dismissal from his position at Columbia University, a move that later led many American universities to establish tenure as a means of protecting unpopular beliefs. Offered here is a ALS, written in the 3rd person to Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Diller and his wife accept invitation from Woodward to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences. All of the handwriting is by Cattell. Approx. 3-3/4 x 6 in. Very good. Provenance: Estate of Robert S. Woodward' s summer home in New Hampshire...............Min. Bid $50
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110. [FRANCE] Charles-Robert Boutin (1722-1810) noted French lawyer. He was successively deputy of the Attorney General of the Parliament of Paris ( 1741 ), adviser to the first chamber of requests (February 5, 1743), master of requests (February 17, 1749), president of the Grand Council (April 19, 1754), King's Commissioner to the Compagnie des Indes ( 1756 ), Intendant of Bordeaux ( 1758 - 1766 ). In 1762, with Querdisien Tremais, he interfered with Canada's Intendant BIGOT's operations with the Jewish merchant Abraham Gradis and with Biot's dishonest fur trade in Canada. Offered here is a 1783 manuscript document concerning Boutin's garden and work done by Maingot, Master Sculptor. Not signed. Approx. 8 x 12.5 in. VG.............100-150
111. [MILITARY] George Miller Sternberg (1838-1915) U.S. Army physician who is considered the first U.S. bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886). Offered here is a 1896 bank check endorsed on the verso by Sternberg. The check was sent and signed by Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Woodward sends $100 to Sternberg who was Treasurer of the Pasteur Monument Committee. Fine. VERY RARE! ..........300-600
112. [SOMERSWORTH, NH] archive of documents from the Rollins Family, dating from 1807-1841. Includes Andrew Rollins (1770-1833), Daniel Rollins (1794-1879), Ichabod Rollins (1769-1843), and John Rollins. Andrew represented Somersworth in the
New Hampshire Legislature from 1816 - 1820. Others person included: Harper Ricker, Josiah Bean, James Richardson, Samuel Roberts, Benjamin Carter etc. Generally very good condition. 12 documents................Min. Bid $75
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113. [AMERICANA] 1793 manuscript document from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. John Manning (1753-October 6, 1793) promises to pay Robert O. Treadwell 1,795 pounds. Witness was Isaac Ringe who was quite prominent; aided in establishing the northeast boundary, and during Governor Wentworth's operations erected a house here. As he was a loyalist, the Provincial Congress directed him, November 15, 1775, to remove himself to some place at least fifteen miles from Portsmouth, there to remain until he was granted leave to go abroad. This restriction was removed January 3, 1776. Wolfeborough was doubtless the place of his exile, as he evidently lived here before and after Governor Wentworth left the town. Approx. 7 x 3.5 in. Bottom edge ruff but generally very good overall.............50-75
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114. [AMERICANA] Benjamin Wadsworth (1750-1826) undated manuscript document signed Mr. Wadsworth making a payment to Dr. Holten. Wadsworth was the pastor of the First Church in Danvers, Massacustetts. Samuel Holten was a Continental Congressman from Massachusetts. Approx. 6 x 3-3/4 in. VG................80-120
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115. [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
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116. [PORTRAIT] of James Boaden (1762–1839) English biographer, dramatist, and journalist, engraved by William Ridley (1764-1838). Image approx. 4-1/2 x 3-1/4" plus margins. VG............Min. Bid $10
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117. [MUSIC] Buddy Cage (1946-2020) American pedal steel guitarist, best known as a longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Popular both as a performer and session musician, he played with many bands and recording artists, including Anne Murray, Bob Dylan, Brewer & Shipley, David Bromberg, and the Zen Tricksters. Signed album page. Also signed on the verso John DeSanto. About 4x6 in. VG.............25-35
118. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1934 bank check made out to Arthur Tanner. VG............30-40
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119. [FRANCE] Jean-Antoine Tinseau (1697-1782) French prelate. Tinseau earned a doctorate in theology from the University of Besançon and canon and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Besançon. In 1743 he became commendatory abbot of Bitaine and in 1745 Bishop of Belley. He was transferred to the diocese of Nevers in 1751. In 1760 Tinseau built a new episcopal palace and in 1762 he replaced by secular priests Jesuits at college and seminary. ALS, Nevers, 1782, 2pp, approx. 6-1/4 x 7-3/4". VG.........100-150
120. [SOUTH CAROLINA] 1845 Letter Edgefield District, South Carolina. J.D. Hill Laments Female Slaves, Eat Best Hogs.
Offered here is a superb 1p. ALS (stampless cover, with no postal cancels, hand-carried by slave Charles), 8" x 12 3/4", dated October 29, 1845, sent to Colonel John Bauskett in Edgefield District, South Carolina, signed J. D. Hill, with terrible spelling and grammar but with excellent plantation content: "... The meete hogs has been up in the feels on pees & punking for some time but I think will not be fat anough untill crismass or near that time for they are very small & must have time to gro & fatten & the nigerase as eate all the largist & fatist till there are very few to kill the nigerase sertanly geats the best half of all the hogs that are rased hear..."Folds (pinholes), some ink smear/ tone spot-- otherwise very good. Reasearch indicates that there was a COLONEL JOHN HILL who operated a plantation in the Edgefield District of South Carolina. He commanded the Springfield Beat Company of South Carolina militia (1830-1843). There was also a COLONEL JOHN BANSKETT who operated a large plantation in Edgefield District and owned some 68 slaves..........................Min. Bid $150
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121. [TV] John Larroquette (b. 1947)American film, television and stage actor. His roles include Dan Fielding on the 1984-1992 sitcom Night Court (winning a then-unprecedented four consecutive Emmy Awards for his role); Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride, John Hemingway on The John Larroquette Show, and Carl Sack in Boston Legal. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35
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122. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Robert Henry Goldsborough (1779-1836) US Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) Geo. R. Dennis (1822-1882) Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (3) John S. Spence (1788-1840) Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (4) William D. Merrick (1793-1857) Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (5) James B. Groome (1838-1893) Gov. and Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (6) Edwards Amasa Park (1808-1900) American Congregational theologian. Park was one of the most notable American theologians and orators. He was the most prominent leader of the new school of New England Theology. Signature on envelope. (7) George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a prominent American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1877 to 1904 who belonged to an extended family that became politically prominent in 18th- and 19th-century New England. DS, receipt dated 1904 a couple months before he died. (8) Jimmy Carter - Jan. 20, 1977 Inauguration cover, not signed............Min. Bid $40
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123. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) S. Ward Loper - Curator, Museum Westleyan University. Brief ALS 1896. Soiled. (2) DOUGLAS VOLK (1856-1935) Portrait Painter. DS, a check dated (1909, made out to, and endorsed on verso by Alfred L. Seligman (1864-1912) sculptor. (3) Limerick Nation Bank [Maine] 3 checks, 1920. (4) Paul Reid Roman (1936-1991) actor. Warner Bros. pay check to him [not signed on back] 1985 . (5) Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (1914-2005) American actor, voice actor and bass singer known as the booming voice behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. He was also the uncredited vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Unsigned Warner Bros. pay check 1985. (6) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1958 bank check. (7) Charles Reade (1814-1884) English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Stamped envelope addressed by Reade [not signed], 1857. Soiled. (8) Secretary of the Treasury 1836 printed gov. doc. signed in type by Levi Woodbury. (9) Edwin Whitefield (1816-1892) was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. Original lithograph from c. 1880.................Min. Bid $35
124. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention Nationale, 28 June 1791, 3-pages, signed inprint Duport for the King, 7-1/2 x 9-1/2". Very fresh condition..........80-120
125. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) US Sec. Navy 1840 printed gov. doc signed in type by J.K. Paulding. 2pp. (2) Bill of Lading, goods being shipped by R.G. hazard from Boston to New Orleans inn1841. (3) New Hampshire 1809 document about property tax. (4) RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, Hartford, Ct. 1823 document. (5) 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. 1868 bank document, not signed by Bunn. (6) Sheet signed by ? Buchanan, 2nd Comptroller US Treasury and E.B. French, Auditor US Treasury. (7) Print of US Treasury building in Washington DC. (8) Group of 4 Limerick National Bank checks [Maine] 1925. ....Min. Bid $25
126. [SHOW BIZ] includes: (1) John Schneider (b. 1960) actor best known for The Dukes of Hazzard. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. (2) Warner Baxter (1889-1951) American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter became known for his role as the Cisco Kid. Unsigned color photo. The following are 1984 & 1985 Warner Bros. paychecks. None are signed (endorsed) on verso. (3) R.B. MITTLEMAN (4) Michael J. London - actor, known for Police Story (1973), ER (1994) and Falcon Crest (1981). (5) Robert C. Lindsley {b. 1949) English stage and TV actor. (6) Mugwump Prods. (7) R.L. Getchell (8) Heather Skillman (9) John A. Fegan Jr. - editor, producer. (10) Lee Barton is an actor and director, known for A Debt in the Life (2009), Let It Bleed (2016) and Scramble (2017). (11) Todd Basse - actor, known for Mitchell (1975), Gunsmoke (1955) and Run, Joe, Run (1974). (12) Brooke Baxes - actress, known for Friends (1994), Monkeybone (2001) and The Price Is Right (1972)................Min. Bid $40
127. [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
128. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Edward Jordan (1820-1899) American lawyer who served as Solicitor of the United States Treasury. LS, Treasury Department, 1866, 2pp. Much mounting trace along left edge. (2) James L. Edwards - clip signature. He was Commissioner of Pensions [1836]. Signed on other side by Joseph Healy [1836] US congressman from New Hampshire. (3) Seaman Block Jacobs(1912-2008) American screenwriter. He wrote episodes for several TV shows, such as The Addams Family, The Lucy Show, I Dream of Jeannie, F-Troop, The Andy Griffith Show, Here's Lucy and Diff'rent Strokes. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1978 for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special for The George Burns One-Man Show in 1977. Warner Bros. 1884 check for him [not signed on back]. (4) Maude Raymond - signed card dated 1910. Think she was a dancer. (5) James E. Carter Inauguration cover [not signed] postmarked Annapolis, MD, Jan. 20, 1977. (6) Shirely O'Hara - wife of the noted artist Eliot O'Hara. ALS, 1932, 2pp. (7) Gordon Dorrance (b. 1890-?) publisher, author. TLS, 1936, 1p, ro the noted cartoon Wally Wallgren. (8) Philip Philbin - US Congressman from Mass. Group of 5 carbon copy typed letter [not signed]. (9) Chancery of New Jersey court document, 1907. (10) Printed 1852 gov. doc. in the US Senate re: land claim in Louisiana, 1p. (11) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (12) [CIVIL WAR] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164, July 20, 1864. Signed Calais, Maine promisory document, 1901. Lines drawn over signature means paid. (13) Unidentified clip signature 1864 from Treasury Dept. (14) Socialist Labor Party - Who Speaks For Socialism. 4 page handout. ? date. (15) Styles Bridges (1898-1961) 63rd Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career in the United States Senate. US Senate envelope bearing printed Free Frank signature, postmarked 1947................Min. Bid $75
129. [SCIENCE] Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan FGS FRSE (1797-1879) English naturalist and geologist. The standard author abbreviation Trevelyan is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. ALS, no year, written on both sides of 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 in. paper. VG..............100-150
130. [COLONIAL TIMES] John Keyes (1674-1768) John Keyes, youngest son of Solomon and Frances, was born in Chelmsford, Mass. We first hear of him in Marlboro, Mass., where is recorded the birth of his children. He probably moved to Shrewsbury about 1720, and was one of the founders of the church there. He married March 11, 1696, Mary, daughter of Gersham and Hannah (Johnson) Eames. Gersham Eames died in Watertown, Mass., Nov. 25, 1676, and Mary was born four months after her father's death. Her mother subsequently married a Ward, and became the m128yes, in Shrewsbury. On the night of the 7th, the house being nearly finished, was burned, as also the old one near it in which Major John was then residing. Six persons were sleeping in the new house. Three sons of Capt. Keyes, and two of Bragg's apprentices were burned, and Bragg saved himself by jumping from the window. John, usually known as the famous Major John Keyes, lived with his wife 72 years. Their son-in-law, Daniel Rand, married Martha Bruce for his 2nd wife, was married by Major John who had then passed his 95th year, and afterward lived with his father-in-law. His farm was subsequently known as the Rand farm, and was purchased by Col. Joseph Henshaw of Rand or his heirs. Maj. John died March 31, 1768. Mary, relict of Maj. John died April 16, 1772, aged 95 years and one month. Offered here is a signed document, Shrewsbury [Mass], 1747, signed by Jonathan Livermore (1700-1801). Signed on the verso by John Keyes. A land transaction. Approx. 6 x 5.5 in. VG..............100-150..................MIN. BID $40
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131. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing, not signed, 1980. Approx. 9 x 11.5 in. paper size. VG..............50-75
132. [THEATRE] antique engraving of the actor Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849. In this print he is Hamlet. The engraver was John Chester Buttre (1821-1893) American steel-plate engraver and lithographer, responsible for some 3,000 engraved portraits of American political, naval and military personalities. He published "The American Portrait Gallery" in 3 volumes (1880–81) with text by his daughter, Lillian C. Buttre. Overall size 8.5 x 11 in. Stun-toned line above image & soft crease....................25-35
133. [ART] William Grainger - 18th century British engraver, active 1784-1793. Original copperplate engraving c. 1790s, image size approx. 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" plus margins. Clean image area and surrounding; spots and stain in outer margins. VG......50-75
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134. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6-3/4 x 8 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it. VG.....100-150
135. [ENGLAND] Charles Lloyd (1784-1829), Regius Professor of Divinity and Bishop of Oxford from 1827 to 1829. Eventually he had to leave and took a job as a tutor to Lord Elgin's children at Dunfermline. This didn't last long as he was asked to return to Oxford to teach mathematics. One of his first jobs was to prepare Robert Peel for his exams. Peel later became prime minister. Charles Lloyd soon gained a reputation as an effective teacher. Address panel signed Charles Oxford, postmarked 1829, a few months before he passed away. Rex wax seal on backside. Fine................40-60
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136. [CUBA] (Daniel M. Braddock 1906-1980) was serving as Chargé d'affaires ad interim when the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba in January 1961. On January 3, 1961, in a 1 a.m. telegram, the U.S. embassy in Cuba reported receipt of a diplomatic note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations indicating that the size of the American diplomatic and consular presence in Habana must be cut to 11 persons within 48 hours. Daniel Braddock, the U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Cuba, reported that a staff of that size could not maintain a useful operation and recommended breaking relations. President Dwight Eisenhower held a meeting at 9 a.m. the same day to discuss how to respond to the Cuban note. Even though there was some sentiment to move with more deliberation, President Eisenhower decided to break relations and ordered Secretary of State Christian Herter to take that action as soon as possible. Offered here is a ALS [signed Dan], 1972, 1p. 7 x 10-3/4 in. To Frederick Solomon who was a Rabbi in Havana, Cuba during the time leading to severed relations with Cuba. Friendly letter about getting back together. Envelope is present. Included here is a TLS signed R.E. Stedman [Claims Department] Foreign Offer, dated 1967, 1p. To Solomon. Headed CUBA-PROPERTY CLAIMS. Two letters................75-100
137. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Frank Richards (1909-1992) American character actor, typically portraying a hoodlum or thug with a menacing appearance. Warner Bros. 1985 paycheck not signed by Richards. (2) Engraved 1863 portrait of John Jay, light toning. (3) Little Mexican Lottery ticket 1893. (4) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Signed 1947 bank check. (5) Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie. CLIP SIGNATURE. (6) Printed portrait of President Franklin Pierce. (7) Grover A. Whalen(1886–1962) was a prominent politician, businessman, and public relations guru in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Signed card. (8) Frank H. Buck (1887-1942) U.S. Representative from California from 1933 to 1942. House of Rep. 1942 envelope bearing his printed Free Frank signature. (9) [CIVIL WAR] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164, July 20, 1864. Signed Calais, Maine, 1899 bank check. (10) 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 1963 bank check. (11) Bill Badalato (b. 1940) He is a producer and production manager, known for Alien: Resurrection (1997), Men of Honor (2000) and Broken Arrow (1996). Warner Bros. 1984 paycheck not signed...................Min. Bid $50
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138. [FRANCE] Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques. Baron de l' Aulne [1727-1781]. French administrator and economist. Intendant of Limoges (1761-74); minister of marine (1774); controller general of finance (1774-76); removed because of opposition to his Six Edicts. Member of the Physiocrats. As intendant, abolished the corvée, constructed roads and bridges, reformed interest rates, and distributed the burden of taxation more justly. As finance minister, introduced a rigid economy, abolished certain feudal privileges, and attempted to restore free trade in grain between the provinces. Best known works were Lettres sur la tolérance (1754) and Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses (1766). ORIGINAL ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of Turgot [1853], image approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. Engraved by W.T. Fry. UNSIGNED, of course. Very good condition..............Min. bid $10
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139. [PORTRAIT] circa 1840 engraved porait of Sir William Jones (1746-1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European. Jones is also credited for establishing the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the year 1784. Engraved after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The image is about 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG.................50-75 140. [ART] Stephen James Ferris [1835-1915] influential Philadelphia painter and etcher. Original etching, "Mrs. Nicklin", from a painting by Gilbert Stuart. Stuart painted the portrait of Mrs. Nicklin about 1795, when she was in her thirtieth year. She was one of Philadelphia's celebrated beauties, the wife of Mr. Philip Nicklin, and the daughter of Chief-Justice Benjamin Chew. This plate shows notable characteristics in Mr. Ferris's method of etching, he believing in finish, and striving to obtain depth of tone and suggestion of color by close and careful working. Image 7-1/4 5-1/2" plus fairly clean marhins. Top left corner is soiled.........75-100
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141. Richard Rovere (1915 – 1979) American political journalist. During the Great Depression, he joined the Communist movement and wrote for the New Masses. In 1939, as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, he broke with Stalinism and became an anticommunist liberal. Signed 3x5 card dated 1978. VG..............Min. Bid $9
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142. [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 in this lot.................Min. Bid $35
143. [PORTRAIT] Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (1743-1820) English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Original engraved portrait c. 1850, image approx. 5-1/4 x 4 in. plus wide clean margins. Fine...............40-60
144. [NASA] group of 8 covers postmarked 1983. VG..................50-75
145. Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. (1854-1926) American businessman and politician who served as the 34th Governor of New York from 1901 to 1904. Document Signed 1901 - THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION signed as Governor. Also signed by his secretary. Approx. 9-3/4 x 15 in. Gold embossed seal and document are in very good condition....................80-120
146. Frederick Smyth (1819-1899) American banker, railroad executive, and politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. Born in 1819 in Candia, New Hampshire, he became City Clerk of Manchester at the age of 30. A Republican, he served four terms as mayor of Manchester from 1852 to 1854 and again in 1864, and was twice elected Governor of New Hampshire. Document Signed, 1865, approx. 15 x 11 in. Justice of the Peace appoinment. Edge tears repaired on verso. Red seal is in very good condition...........75-100147. [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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148. [FILM] Dominic Frontiere (1931-2017) American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the television series The Outer Limits. At age twelve, he played a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. After a period with a big band in the late 1940s and early 50s, Frontiere moved to Los Angeles, where he enrolled at UCLA. He eventually became musical director at 20th Century Fox. He scored several films under the tutelage of Alfred and Lionel Newman, while also recording jazz music. An association with director and producer Leslie Stevens led to several projects, such as his innovative blend of music and sound effects for The Outer Limits. He scored several iconic themes of the '60's such as The Rat Patrol, Branded, The Flying Nun, and for producer Quinn Martin The Invaders, The Fugitive, and Twelve O'Clock High. After scoring for TV shows, he went on to compose the music for the Clint Eastwood film Hang 'Em High. The title theme for that movie became a top-10 hit for the group Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He also composed the soundtrack to the 1971 motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday, which featured Steve McQueen and was directed by Bruce Brown. Frontiere became head of the music department at Paramount Pictures in the early 1970s, where he again worked on television and film scores, while concurrently orchestrating popular music albums for, among others, Chicago. Examples of Frontiere's sweeping, cinematic orchestrations appear in the opening and closing songs of the 1977 album Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg. He won a Golden Globe for the score to the 1980 film The Stunt Man. He also composed a jingle for the studio's television division. In 1986, Frontiere was incarcerated for nine months in a federal penitentiary after scalping tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl, which he obtained through his then-wife, Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere. He was estimated to have scalped as many as 16,000 tickets, making a half million dollars in profit that he failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service. Frontiere pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year and one day in prison, three years probation, and fined $15,000 for failing to report income from the sale of the tickets and for lying to the IRS. Georgia Frontiere filed for divorce shortly after Dominic's release from prison. OFFERED HERE is a 1965 contract for composer for the movie BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milton Ebbins (1912–2008) Film executive, songwriter ("Yale Blues", "Basic Boogie") and composer. Ebbins helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962, Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly — sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one of the few allowed inside the White House after the JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project about the Kennedy assassination. Ebbins music career began in 1936, he formed his own orchestra, then became music director at CBS, and went to New York in 1938, joining an advertising agency's radio department. He also had been a road manager for the Jack Jenny and Count Basie orchestras, and then a personal manager. He left his career as bandleader and became a talent manager, rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs for his clients. He also represented actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for 35 years. Signed in the final page 11. Fine condition....................200-300
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149. [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] George Frederick Hussey Jr. (1894-1983) was United States Navy Vice admiral during World War II, who served as the Chief of Naval Ordnance from December 1943 to September 1947. During the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hussey served with the USS Hopkins within directing the off-shore patrol off Hawaii. Hussey was ordered to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed the director of production within the Bureau of Ordnance. In December 1943, Hussey succeeded Rear admiral William H. P. Blandy and became the Chief of the Bureau. In this capacity, he was responsible for the directing of development and production of Naval arms during World War II. Hussey was decorated with the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his service during the War and finally retired from the Navy in September 1947. Offered here is a April 21, 1944 one page memo from Hussey [not ink signed] to The Chief of the Bureau of Ships. Captain L.W. McKeehan is nominated for Special Board, Bureau of Ordnance. McKeehan has signed in ink at bottom left and he has written 21 Apr 1944 in right corner. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG................100-150
See above150. [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...............50-75
151. [US NAVAL] Navy Department Orders for Lieut. Commander Ellsworth Davis, 7 April, 1925, both sides with signatures. Signed by John Irwin Jr., E.H. Campbell, and on other side signed by J.L. Kauffman, W.D. Brotherton, Jas. P. Aitken, E.HG. Barber, and A.B. Canham. Concerns Ellsworth Davis's duty on the U.S.S. Mississippi. Brief information on some of the signers: Edward Hale Campbell (1872-1946) became a Vice Admiral - with the US being pulled into World War I, he took the precaution of drawing up plans to protect the new Panama Canal; James L. Kauffman(1887-1963) Vice Admiral, the USS Kauffman (FFG-59), in 1986 was named for him and his son; also signed by Ellsworth "Dave" 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. Normal age wear..................100-200
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152. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811-1864), styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851, was a British politician. From 18 June 1859 to April 1864, he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies in Lord Palmerston's Liberal administration. In 1860, while holding this office, he went to Canada and the United States, in company with the Prince of Wales. Neatly inlaid. VG...............75-100
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153. [Suffragist] Sallie W. Hovey (1872-1932) Charity Worker and Suffragist from Portsmouth, NH. In 1913 Sallie was elected President of the Woman's Suffrage Association in Portsmouth. She ran the organization from her home at 214 State Street, and was active both on the state and national levels of the movement. Sallie W. Hovey was the New Hampshire representative to the national board of the National Woman’s Party, and she picketed the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago, where, as is mentioned in The Suffragist, she was pulled aside by the governor of New Hampshire and commended for her work. In 1924 Sallie wrote a book titled The Rehabilitation of Eve that was published by Hyman-McGee. There is little known about the book other than it was 214 pages and was considered a feminist manifesto. Sallie, beyond fighting for women’s right to vote, remained active in the women’s rights movement and became part of the 1924 Valentine’s Day delegation to Washington, D.C. to visit President Coolidge, where she helped champion the Equal Rights Amendment. Sallie was photographed there with other women of the National Woman’s Party. Offered here is a July 1931, 2 full ALS, written from Eliot, Maine. She lived in Eliot the last two years of her life. This letter talks about being sued by Emery. In 1931 Sallie was involved in Emery v. Hovey, a case brought before the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Emery had earlier sued Sallie in Maine for the same issue, and the court had ruled against Emery. The New Hampshire court refused to hear the case again. Interesting letter about her court trial, saying that plaintiff's lawyers were dishonest. She says that one of the opposing lawyers was so disgusted by the opposing lawyers that he came over to her side to help her. Fine..............400-600
154. [ART] Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) Dutch painter and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. The most important aspect of Raemaekers’ career is undoubtedly his role in Allied war propaganda. ALS, 1916, 3 pages, approx. 5-1/4 x 7 in. VG.................50-75
155. [NOBEL PRIZE] Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898 – 1988) American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. CLIP SIGANTURE, approx. 6 x 2-3/4 in. slip. Mounting trace on verso slows............40-60
156. [JOHN F. KENNEDY] (1917-1963) US. President. One of the original Mass cards given out at his funeral. 3.5 x 5.5 in. This comes with imprinted card from Mes. Kennedy, 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. Both are in fine condition..............80-120
157. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Original photograph taken in 1910 of Laura Jean Libbey (1862-1924) the American writer. Over fifteen million copies of her books were published. This vintage photograph was taken by Luther S. White [NYC] in 1910. Paper size 9.5 x 6.5 in. VG.................75-100
158. [FRANCE] a 1788 2-page document signed, from Dreux, France to Nantes, France.................80-120
159. [FRANCE] 17th century French Mystery document on paper, 3-pages, from Fouchanges, approx. 7-3/4 x 10-3/4". VG............100-150
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Two Important Catholic Personalities160. [RELIGION] Pierre Simon de Dreux-Breze (1811-1893) Priest since 1825 , Vicar General and Canon Emeritus of Paris, he distinguished himself as a preacher, and was appointed Bishop of Moulins October 28, 1849, by the President of the Republic Called to Rome by Pope Pius IX on 7 January 1850, it was dedicated to Our Lady of Paris on 14 April and took possession of his see on 1 May. Near Dom Prosper Gueranger, he established the Roman rite in his diocese a pastoral letter by the 21 November 1853 and was a promoter of the Gregorian chant. [internet translation]. ALS, not dated, 3 full pages, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". On the verso of page 3 is an ALS by Xavier de Ravignan (1795-1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821. Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds. Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France. Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave. VG..........200-300
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161. [SCIENCE] Jules Tannery (1848-1910) French mathematician. Tannery discovered a surface of the fourth order of which all the geodesic lines are algebraic. ALS, Paris, 190?, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Fine................75-100
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162. [FRANCE] CHARLES BUET [1846-1897] Fr. novelist & dramatist. ALS, 1886, 1p.....50-75
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163. [PENNSYLVANIA] autograph signatures of congressmen from Pennsylvania: (1) S.E. Ancona (1824 - 1913). (2) Daniel Myers Van Auken (1826-1908). (3) Samuel Jackson Randall (1828- 1890) served in a Union cavalry unit in the American Civil War. (4) John Dodson Stiles (1822-1896). (5) Washington Townsend (1813- 1894). (6) Joseph Reed Ingersoll (1786-1868) In 1852, President Millard Fillmore sent him to the United Kingdom as the U.S. Minister. (7) Christian Markle Straub (1804 – 1860) irregular shape. (8) Owen D. Leib (1803-1848) Free Frank signature on envelope. (9) John Blanchard (1787-1849). (10) Samuel Myron Brainerd (1842-1898) (11) William D. Kelley (1814-1890) Kelley was a man of strict principles, advocating the recruitment of black troops in the civil war, and the extending of the vote to them afterwards. (12) Not identified signature from Pittsburgh on same sheet as W.D. Kelley. (13) Not identified signature from Gettysburg.....................Min. Bid $40
164. [CIVIL WAR] Joel Funk Asper (1822-1872) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Asper raised a company for the Civil War in 1861 and served as its captain. He was wounded in the Battle of Winchester. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1862. He mustered out of the service in 1863, because of wounds received in action. He became the Colonel of the 171st Ohio (a One Hundred Day Regiment) in May 1864 to August 1864. He served at the Prisoner of War Camp at Johnson's Island, Ohio. He was forced to surrender to John Hunt Morgan seven of the regiment's companies at Keller's Bridge, Kentucky on June 12, 1864. The units were illegally paroled. Asper and the regiment returned to Johnson's Island. He mustered out at end of term of service. His autograph signature mounted to larger page. See scan...............25-35
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165. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Glenn Frank 1887-1940) president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and The Century Magazine's editor-in-chief. TLS, 1922. (2) Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (1834-1924) the 41st Governor of Vermont, was a Republican Party politician, a teacher, a lawyer and an American Civil War veteran. Small 1866 document signed on front & back. (3) Renee Oriana Haynes (1906-1994), also known as Renée Tickell was a British novelist and psychical researcher. Signed typescript THE EVIL EYE. Signed on 3rd page. (4) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. (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, 1910. (6) Printed government document dated 1867, signed in type by Sec. of War Edwin M. Stanton - SURVEY OF ROCK AND ILLINOIS RIVERS, 1 page. (7) Boston & Maine Railroad 1925 memo, 1 page. (8) Vermont court document 1851. (8) Myron Cohen (1902-1986) American comedian and raconteur. Unsigned vintage 8x10 photo taken by Harry Adler. (9) Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) American illustrator of Russian origin active in the United States, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs. Original wood-engraving print removed from publication. About 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. (10) Charles H. Townsend (1859-1944) American zoologist and naturalist who served as the director of the New York Aquarium, from 1902 to 1937. Brief ALS, 1923. (11) Two telegrams to congressman Philip Philbin (12) Four bank checks. (13) Unsigned photo - can't remember who but music related. (14) Letter 1872 to Singer Sewing Machine Co................Min. Bid $50
166. [ENGLAND] George Willmer - collector of the new imposition of 3d. in the pound of goods and merchandise imported or exported by foreign merchants, pays a sum collected since Michaelmas 1617. Dated July 25, 1618. On vellum, approx. 13 x 1-5/8 in. VG...............50-75
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167. Paul H. Douglas (1892-1976) U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career, he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and becoming known as a war hero. Shortly after losing the primary, Douglas resigned from the Chicago City Council and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a private at the age of 50, one of the oldest men in Marine Corps history to do so. Offered here is a TLS, 1950, 1p. to congressman Philip J. Philbin [Mass. Rep]. He encloses a letter from a women in Webster, Mass. She is having a problem with her town. Unusual as she is asking for help from a US Senator from Illinois instead of her own state. Her letter, lengthy 3 pages, is included. She writes at conclusion P.S. Will you run for President some time, I hope? VG...............50-75
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168. [PORTRAIT] original 19th century engraved portrait of David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United States Mint. Engraved by James Barton Longacre (1794-1869) American portraitist and engraver, and the fourth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1844 until his death. Longacre is best known for designing the Indian Head cent, which entered commerce in 1859, and for the designs of the Shield nickel, Flying Eagle cent and other coins of the mid-19th century. The image is approx. 3-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. plus margins. Light age foxing o/w VG...............Min. Bid $15
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169. [MEDICINE] Robert Gallo (b. 1937) American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research. SIGNED, inscribed 10 x 8 in. photo dated '91. Fine................50-75
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170. [FILM] Luise Rainer (1910-2014) German-American-British film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award and, with that, the first to win back-to-back; at the time of her death, thirteen days shy of her 105th birthday, she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient, a superlative that has not been exceeded as of 2019. SIGNED, inscribed 4 x 6 in. photo. VG.....................50-75 171. [ART] Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801-1886) French artist. He is considered the father of modern chiromancy, aka palmistry or palm reading, a form of divination. A friend of Dumas he accompanied him on many trips abroad. ALS, 1876, 2-1/2pp................50-75
172. José María Pemán y Pemartín (1897-1981) Spanish journalist, poet, novelist, essayist, and right-wing intellectual. Photograph 5 x 6 mounted, signed & inscribed, 1970. Overall 7 x 9 in. Pemán was one of the few prominent intellectuals to support Francisco Franco and the Falangist movement. This ensured his professional success during and after the Civil War, but damaged his international reputation. VG..................50-75
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173. [ITALY] Tommaso Minardi (1787-1871) Italian painter and author on art theory, active in Faenza, Rome, Perugia, and other towns. He painted in styles that transitioned from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. ALS, 1849, 3pp, 8-1/2 x 10-1/4 in. VG...............100-150
174. Newburyport, Mass. 1809 document, about 7-1/4 x 3 in. Less than very good condition............Min. Bid $8
175. (ART) WILSON LOWRY (1762-1824) Celebrated English Engraver and Inventor who’s creative genius revolutionized printed art. Also a founding member of the “Geological Society”, elected fellow of the “Royal Society” in 1812. ALS, 1818, 2pp. VG............100-150176. [TV] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) Canadian actress known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions. She was twice married to actor George C. Scott. SIGNED 1961 contract to act in The Play of The Week: "No Exit." She was paid $650. 4 pages; signed on pg. 1 and pg. 4. Unique.......50-75
177. [France] Misc. group of items from France. Worthy of research, many are accompanied with biographical information in either English or French. [1] Maurice Donnay [1859-1945] dramatist. Signature. [2] Rene Cagnat [1852-1937] historian. ALS, 1896, 2pp. [3] Auguste Chavannes [1810-1879] Zoologist. ALS, 1867, 1p. [4] Jean-Marie Magnaud [1848-1926] jurist, feminist pioneer. ALS, 1906, 1p. [5] Amable Pierre Floquet [1797-1881] historian, ALS, 2pp. [6] Henri Leroy-Beaulieu [1842-1912] publicist and historian. His signature on page from book. [7] Emile Perrin [1814-1885] Director of Paris Opera. ALS, 1878, 2pp. [8] Pierre De La Gorce [1846-1934] historian. ALS, 1p. [9] Charles Laubry [1872-1960] physician. ALS, 1p. [10] Charles Louvet [1806-1882] Minister of Commerce. ALS, 1p..........200-300
178. [ENGRAVING] Battle of the Thames - death of Tecumseh / painted by A. Chappel ; engd. by W. Wellstood. Engraved c. 1857. Image is approx. 5-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. plus margins. Print shows the death of Tecumseh from a bullet fired by Colonel Richard Johnson at the Battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada, on October 5th, 1813. A few light foxing spots o/w VG...........Min. Bid $22
179. [POLITICAL EPHEMERA] Can America Be Saved? Offered here is a 4x6 in. card feathering Kenneth Goff & Don Lohbeck. Kenneth Goff (1914-1972) was an anti-Fluoride, Christian Identity, anti-Communist minister. He was the 1944 national chairman of Gerald L. K. Smith's Christian Youth for America.
Donald Lohbeck (1917-1999) Self-employed as a musician in St. Louis then briefly worked as an organizer for the America First Committee. He was "subversive activity and tendency" which was based upon information received from G2-Army Intelligence that portrayed him as "pro-Nazi" [per FBI]. Arrested with Kenneth Goff for placing placards around front lawn of Russian Embassy in Washington DC. Lohbeck was Editor of Christian Nationalist Crusade magazine The Cross and the Flag (1947-1948). In 1951 Lohbeck ran for U.S. House of Representatives from the 11th Congressional District in Missouri on Christian Nationalist Crusade ticket. In 1952 Lohbeck ran for Governor of Missouri on Christian Nationalist Party ticket. VG..................Min. Bid $25
180. Dorothy Hamill (b.1956) American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles.Offered here are 2 signed pictures, 3-3/4 x 4 and 3.5 x 6 in. One is also inscribed. VG................40-60
181. [NEW YORK CITY] Richard E. Enright (1871-1953) American law enforcement officer, detective, crime writer and served as NYPD Police Commissioner from 1918 until 1925. He was the first man to rise from the rank-and-file to assume command of the NYPD and, until the appointment of Lewis Joseph Valentine, he was the longest serving commissioner.
Although his eight-year tenure as commissioner received heavy criticism at the time of his resignation, mostly as the result of controversial actions of then Mayor John F. Hylan, his accomplishments and successes were eventually recognized as valued contributions during his near 30-year service on the police force. TLS, 1936, 1p, 7 x 10 in. Mounting traces on verso.................25-35
182. [ENGLAND] Benjamin Boothroyd (1768 – 1836) English Independent minister and Hebrew scholar. Born at Warley Town, in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, Booth was the son of a shoemaker there. He was sent to the village school, leaving it when six years old. He helped his father to make shoes for a time, but when about 14 years old he ran away. In Lancashire he found work with a Methodist; and later returned to Warley to superintend his father's trade. In 1790 he was chosen minister at Pontefract. Ordained there, he succeeded in filling his chapel and a new one was built. He also opened a shop as a bookseller and printer. OFFERED HERE is a ALS, 1836, one full page with 4 lines and signature on verso. Approx. 4.5 x 7 in. Content appears to be about property, stables, Chapel, school house etc. Small pieces missing from 2 corners o/w VG..............80-120
183. George Lincoln Goodale (1839-1923) American botanist and the first director of Harvard’s Botanical Museum (now part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History). It was he who commissioned the making of the University's legendary Glass Flowers collection. ALS written in the 3rd person, sent to Professor Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. n 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He cannot accept invitation. 5x8 in. VG........50-75
184. [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 $100
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185. Sam Bartlett (1752-1821) American patriot, and a noted silversmith from Concord, Mass. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Bible Society, a member of the Cambridge Humane Society, and also from 1795-1820 the elected Register of Deeds for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Deafened by cannon fire during the Boston massacre, he gave up his acedemic studies and became a smith. He worked from circa 1775 to 1795 as a silversmith in Concord Mass.. Although he worked in the town for two decades, Bartlett's most active period in Concord seems to have been between 1785 and 1795. With the aid of journeyman silversmith Joseph Lasinby Brown, of Concord, Bartlett executed communion silver commissions for three towns in Middlesex County, and produced domestic silver for resale and wholesale markets. At the end of the period, he was elected register of deeds for Middlesex County and moved to Cambridge, retiring from the role of silversmith. Bartlett marked 12 pieces of communion silver, including three flagons, one tankard and eight cups. About 25 pieces of Bartlett's domestic hollowware are known, including canns, porringers, creampots, and a unique miniature teapot. In addition, Bartlett marked teaspoons, tablespoons, ladles, and shoe buckles. Offered here is a 1820 Charlestown, Mass. document concerning Henry Van Voorhees of Charlestown Morocco manufacturer. Signed on front by Kendal and Anne Bailey.? Sam Bartlett has signed on the back as Register of Deeds, Middlesex County, Mass. Approx. 8 x 13 in. Very good condition..................200-300
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186. Payson Williston (1764-1856) First Minister at Easthampton, Ma. . 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 afddress leaf. Postmarked Easthampton, Mass. VG...........300-500
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187. [MAINE] Samuel Freeman (1743-1831) was a prominent citizen of Portland, Maine during the 18th and 19th centuries. He was instrumental in founding the first public library in Portland (then Falmouth), Maine, served in the judiciary system as judge and clerk, as well as held the post of the first postmaster of Portland, in 1775. He was an active patriot during the Revolutionary struggle, was secretary of the Cumberland County convention in 1774, a member of the provincial congress in 1775, and of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1776 and 1778. When the courts were reorganized in 1775 he was appointed clerk, which office he held for forty-five years. He was register of probate until commissioned judge in 1804, remaining in the latter office till 1820. From 1776 till 1805 he was postmaster of Portland. He was an active and efficient friend of Bowdoin College, His publications include "The Massachusetts Justice" (1803); and " Probate Directory" (1803); and he edited the "Journal of Rev. Thomas Smith" (1821). Offered here is a 1810 legal document signed, written on both sides, approx. 8 x 9 in. Written on the verso is 8 lines and signature of Samuel Tappan, Deputy Sheriff. Samuel Tappan (1781-1868) was an interesting man. Born in Saco, Maine. When nine years old he went to reside with an uncle in Massachusetts. His father was a Quaker in religious opinion, a zealous advocate of their peculiar principles until his death. On the death of his father Samuel was placed with a man in Saco, to learn the tailor's trade. Disliking this business he was soon after bound as an apprentice to a shoemaker, and commenced his “servitude," as he called it, August, 1793. He obliged his apprentice to assume the dress, and conform to the mode of worship of the Quakers, both of which were repugnant to the feelings of the young man. In 1801, with the help of friends he purchased his freedom from his apprenticeship, and returned to Saco and worked at his trade about two years, studying what he could in the mean time to fit himself for a school teacher. In 1803 he taught his first school, in which occupation he was mainly employed for a number of years. In 1809 he was appointed deputy sheriff for York and Oxford counties, which office he held for two years. In 1811 he removed to Pittstown, Rensselaer county, N. Y. The troubles between the United States and Great Britain thickening at this time, on his application he was appointed an Ensign in the Infantry in the United States Army, and assigned to duty in the 18th Regiment, and stationed in the recruiting service at Hoosic, N. Y. After war was declared in 1812, he was transferred to the 23d regiment. In May, 1813, he was ordered with his company to the Niagara frontier. Fort George, at the mouth of Niagara river, on the Canada side, was taken by our forces, and Ensign Tappan was sent with forty men to plant the American flag on the fort, which was the first time that flag was raised over conquered British territory in that war. Ensign Tappan was now appointed adjutant. In September he was sent with a convoy of prisoners to Greenbush, being twenty-one days on the road. He remained in Greenbush the next autumn and winter, teaching school in the mean time. We could could continue with his biography but will stop here and include a longer printed bio with this document when mailed. This document is also signed by Stephen Chase (1783-1844). Also the witness printed signature was Stephen Longfellow, the father of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Excellent condition...............200-300...............Min. Bid $75
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188. [ART] Marion L. Volk (1859-1925) American artist who was married to the artist Douglas Volk. In 1881 Volk married the artist Marion Larrabee (1859–1925). She became the first instructor at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. By the turn of the century, Marion Larrabee Volk had begun using traditional area looms to weave textiles and rugs. Rather than cotton, she became known for handwoven woolen work. Her designs were based on motifs from Native American art, and she made her own dyes out of natural materials – apple, yellow oak and maple tree bark; goldenrod, barberry, St. John's wort and madder root. In a communal effort with her children and local residents, she produced "Sabatos" rugs and textiles, named for a nearby mountain. The Volk family held their large property for 100 years. Jessie McCoig Volk, Wendell's widow, was the last to live there. Following her death in 2004, the property was bequeathed to the University of Maine, and a portion of the family records went to the Smithsonian Institution. University officials arranged for an auction of much of the property's contents and family papers, including art and craftwork by the Volks, and art they had collected. In October 2006, the contents grossed more than $700,000 at auction, drawing especially high prices for two paintings by the illustrator Howard Pyle and photographs of Native Americans by the Norwegian Frederick Monsen (1865–1929). One item sold at the 2006 auction was Marion Larrabee Volk's first Sabatos rug. It is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many of their friends in the Arts and Crafts Movement were houseguests, including artists J. Alden Weir, Frank Benson, Childe Hassam, and William Merritt Chase; architect John Calvin Stevens, interior designer John Scott Bradstreet, and Swedish-born woodcarver Karl A. von Rydingsvärd. Von Rydingsärd carved frames for a number of Volk's paintings, and taught woodcarving to Wendell Volk, their son. Offered here is a 1923 bank check made out [signed] by Douglas Volk to Marion L. Volk. She has signed on the verso. Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American artist best remembered for his portrait of Abraham which appeared on a U.S. postage stamp issued in the 1950s, and is now at the National Gallery of Art.Lincoln. Volk was elected to the Society of American Artists in 1880. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1898, and became a full academician in 1899. Excellent condition................100-150
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189. David Stacton (1923-1968) American novelist, historian and poet. David Stacton's earliest published works were poems, often betraying the influence of T.S. Eliot, which were published in American little magazines. Faber Finds has republished seven of Stacton's novels. TLS, not dated, to Jon Silkin (1930-1997) the British poet. Stacton sends [typed in body of this letter] his latest poem, saying.......my only latest work is the below---which I doubt if you'd care for, but I do at the moment. The last line and signature are on the verso. VG..............50-75
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190. [THEATRE] GERALD SAVORY [1909-1996] Playwright. ALS, NY, 1939, 2pp, 8vo. To Roland Young. All his plans have clashed badly on the verge of a production in London. Seriously considering a return to Hollywood if you should hear of an assignment..........75-100
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191. William James Rolfe, Litt.D. (1827–1910) was an American Shakespearean scholar and educator, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. His Shakespearean work began with an edition of George Lillie Craik's English of Shakespeare (1867). This led to the preparation of a complete edition - the Friendly Edition - of Shakespeare (forty volumes, 1870–83; new edition, 1903–07). He also edited a complete edition of Tennyson (twelve volumes, 1898) and verse by many of the other great English poets. He wrote a very useful Satchel Guide to Europe, revised annually for 35 years. Signature dated Cambridge, Mass., April 16, 1885. Fine.............Min. Bid $4
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192.
Robert Peters (1924-2014) American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin. His poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis. The book commemorating this loss, Songs for a Son, was selected by poet Denise Levertov to be published by W. W. Norton in 1967, and it still remains in print. Songs for a Son began a flood of poetry. Peters is a prolific poet, having published some 30 books of poems, and he is an important critic of contemporary American poetry. Signed 1p. typescri[pt of his poem "State of Mind." VG..........40-60 See poem
193. Coleman Barks (b, 1937) is an American poet who makes frequent international appearances and is well known throughout the Middle East. Barks' work has contributed to an extremely strong following of Rumi in the English-speaking world. Signed short poem titled Skin, 1p. Typed on 8.5 x 11 paper. Signed in ink. VG..............50-75
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194. PETER BROWN (1935-2016) American actor best known for his four-year role as young Deputy Johnny McKay opposite John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop in the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Lawman and as Texas Ranger Chad Cooper on NBC's Laredo from 1965 to 1967. SP, 4x6. Signed 1997............Min. Bid $10
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195. Rutland [Vermont] court documents regarding the case of Daniel Lincoln vs Alanson Norton and Silas Stanley. Six documents dated around 1860. VG.................Min. Bid $25
196. [MIT] Julius Adams Stratton (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator. He served as the president of MIT between 1959 and 1966. He also served as the chairman of the Ford Foundation between 1964 and 1971. TLS, MIT, 1958, 1p........Min. bid $10
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197. [OLYMPIC SKATERS] BONNIE BLAIR & NANCY KERRIGAN - both have signed OLYMPIC HEROES page from some publication. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4................Min. Bid $9
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American Physicist Louis W. McKeehan198. [SCIENCE - WAR] The following are from the papers of the American physicist Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Offered here are several pieces. Includes: 1940 letter to his wife Grace [scan 1]; a 1932 Naval Reserve Fitness document signed by McKeehan [scan 2]; an interesting 1940 document pencil signed by McKeehan [scan 3]; plus 5 other pieces, all showing below...........200-300
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199. [NAVAL HISTORY] Samuel Gerrish (1742-1807) Capt. Samuel Gerrish was the captain of the Brigantine Aurora in service to the continental forces. The brigantine had eight cannons. The ship was captured by the HM Frigate Cerberus on May 14, 1780. Captain Gerrish was held at Mill Prison near Plymouth, England beginning July 25, 1780, he escaped December 28, 1780. He survived the war. He died November 12, 1807 at age 65. How did Gerrish escape? We found the following account written by a fellow prisoner - "Captain Samuel Gerrish made his escape over the wall into the French prison. He remained in the French prison all night and went off about eight o'clock this morning. We were informed that Captain Gerrish got the French barber to dress his hair this morning in the prison. A little while after, Mr. Cowdry with some French officers came into the yard, and when they retired Captain Gerrish placed himself among them, and went out bowing to the Agent who did not know him. He has not been heard of since. The Agent ordered all the prisoners shut up at noon. After dinner we were all called over, but no Captain Gerrish. The Agent is pretty good-natured. Mr. Saurey brought us our money, and says he has enough for us all winter. " Offered here is a Signed document, Kittery [Maine], Feb. 9, 1775, approx. 6 x 7.5 in. This is a receipt signed by Gerrish who receives payment from Capt. Robert Follett who was also an interesting person. Robert Follett (1737-1780) was also a physician. He Commanded a company of Artillery at Kittery Point, Me., by return of Nov. 5, 1775. Was appointed Master of the Continental frigate, "Raleigh" Capt. T. Thompson, June 24, 1776; was discharged about Jan. 1, 1777. On the verso Follett pay John Randel money, 1775. The USS Raleigh was one of thirteen ships that the Continental Congress authorized for the Continental Navy in 1775. Following her capture in 1778, she served in the Royal Navy as HMS Raleigh. The ship is featured on the flag and seal of New Hampshire. VG..............Min. Bid $100
200. [FRANCE] Jérôme Marie Champion of Cicé (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: Déclaration 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 Abbé Sieyès 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 Jérôme Champion de Cicé. 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........Min. Bid $250
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201. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 13, 1953, 6pp. Her contract with the William Morris Agency for 3 years. Signed on last page; also signed by her agent............50-75
202. Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here is a photocopy of his The Night I Died - Mike Hammer short story published in the anthology Private Eyes - although story was written in 1953, was not published until 1998. Identified as a 1951 Unproduced Radio Drama. This photocopy is from the Spillane estate and it is not known if there are other copies. VG. From the Estate of Mickey Spillane..........100-150 Min. Bid $25
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203. [FRANCE] Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Craven (1808 – 1891) French author. ALS, no yr., 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG.........60-80
204. [RELIGION] ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER [1837-1890] He was originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, united with the Unitarian church in 1866, was pastor of large churches in Chicago and Boston, and at the same time became a popular lecturer and writer of magazine articles. His principal published works are "Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons" (Boston, 1869)'" Meditations on the Essence of Christianity" (1876); and "English Home Life" (1885). ALS, 1869, 1p............50-75Early Texas Figure
205. WILLIAM WHITTY HALL (1810-1876) physician and pioneer editor of health magazines, was born in Paris, Kentucky. After graduating from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, with the intention of becoming a Presbyterian missionary, he studied theology and medicine at Transylvania University, where he received an M.D. in 1836, the same year he was ordained to the ministry. Intending to support himself as a missionary through his medical practice, he began work in Louisiana. But he subsequently came to Texas, met Sam Houston near Nacogdoches, and rode with him to the first presidential inauguration in Texas. Hall preached in Houston and the surrounding area and served as chaplain in both houses of the Texas Congress. He helped collect funds to build a Presbyterian church in Houston and was active in organizing an ecclesiastical vigilance committee to prevent imposters from posing as ministers. In 1837 Hall left the Republic in time to attend the Synod of Kentucky, which convened in October. There he urged the Presbvterian Church to become involved in missionary work in Texas. The General Assembly of the church adopted his recommendation in 1838. Hall gradually abandoned preaching for the practice of medicine and went first to New Orleans, then to Cincinnati, where he married Hannah Matlock. In 1851 he established a consultation practice in New York City, where he married Magdalene Matilda Robertson. While in Cincinnati, he had published several books on consumption and other lung ailments. In New York in 1854 he began the publication of Hall's Joumal of Health. In 1875 he started another periodical, Hall's Medical Adviser. Never weighing more than 125 pounds and working from five in the moming until ten at night, a violation of his own health rules, Hall fell in a fit on a street in New York and died aimost immediately on May 10, 1876. ALS, 2pp, dated June 30, 1857 giving health advice. VG..........100-150
206. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Grayson Louis Kirk (1903-1997) was president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also a Professor of Government, advisor to the State Department, and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations. Signed photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh [original, with Karsh blindstamp on verso. 8 x 10 in. VG..............200-400
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207. [TV] Linda Evans (b.1942) American actress known primarily for her roles on television. She rose to fame playing Audra Barkley, the daughter of Barbara Stanwyck's Victoria Barkley, on the 1960s Western TV series, The Big Valley (1965 -1969). Evans' most prominent role was that of longsuffering heroine Krystle Carrington on the 1980s ABC prime time television soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989. SIGNED, INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG...........20-30
208. [SPILLANE] typed 1951 page sent to Mickey Spillane about an incident in Lansing, Michigan where a 28 year old man was arrested on a charge of larceny. Apparently he bought a book but concealed two others under his coat and left without paying for them. According to detectives he admitted stealing the books. They were entitled MY GUN IS QUICK and VENGEANCE IS MINE, both by Spillane. 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............50-75
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209. [FILM] The Wynne family - 8 x 10 photo including Ed Wynn, Keenan, and his two sons around a birthday cake. c. 1950s. 10 x 8 in. VG for its age. Provenance: once owned by actor Van Johnson. ........50-75
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210. Bernard Jacques Joseph Maximilien de Ring (1799–1873) French archaeologist; born at Bonn, Rhenish Prussia, May 27, 1799; died at Bischleim, Alsace, in 1873. He devoted himself from his sixteenth year to the study of archaeology, and published ‘Picturesque Views of the Old Castles of Baden’ (1829); ‘Celtic Settlement in Southern Germany’ (1842); ‘Roman Settlement of the Rhine to the Danube’ (1852–53), crowned by the French Academy; and ‘History of the Opiques People: Their Legislation, Customs, and Language’ (1859). ALS, 1854, 2-1/2 pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in. PLUS another letter dated 1834, 1-1/2 pp. plus address leaf, by a different "archeologian" [so described]. Neither letter is translated. VG..........100-150
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211. [COMEDY] Allen & Rossi was a comedy team composed of Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, active from 1957 until 1969. They appeared on over 700 television shows including 44 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, including three of the four Ed Sullivan episodes on which The Beatles appeared. The team also appeared in a spy spoof film The Last of the Secret Agents (1966). OFFERED HERE ARE 2 SEPARATE SIGNED CONTRACTS, 1965, to appear on the Hy Gardiner Show. One signed by Rossi and the other signed by Allen. Each 1p.............50-75
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212. [POSTAL HISTORY] offered here is a postmarked envelope addressed in the hand of Francis Parkman [not signed] to Professor Charles E. Norton. Approx. 4-1/2 x 3-3/4 in. Francis Parkman 1823-1893) important American historian, author. Charles E. Norton (1827-1908) American author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States. Fine...................Min. Bid $25
213. (HOLLYWOOD/ENTERTAINER LOT) WALTER HAMPDEN (1879-1955) Stage, Film, TV Actor ALS . ANITA BJORK (1923-2012) Actress SIGNED inscribed 4x6 photograph. FLORENCE NASH (1888-1950) Stage, Theater, Film Actress ALS (1908). ARLENE DAHL - Actress ALS on verso of postcard size photograph (2001). NORM CROSBY - Comedian, actor. SIGNED inscribed 8x10. GLADYS HENSON (1897-1982) Film, Stage Actress most remembered in film in “Prince and the Showgirl with Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. SIGNED postcard photograph (bend left side) dated 1957. RAOUL JULIA (1940-1994) Actor SIGNED card.........80-120
214. [POSTAL HISTORY] Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was a United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings. Offered here is an envelope addressed in the hand of Smith. Approx. 4.5 x 3.5 in. VG.........Min. Bid $25215. [MAINE] Spinney Family of Kittery, Maine - group of 4 letters written to Alice Spinney from her daughter, brother, niece, and another plus another envlope [empty] addressed to Ephraim C. Spinney. 1872-1889.........20-30
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216. Coleman Barks (born1937) is an American poet, and former literature faculty at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations. Signed typescript poem titled THE PENGUIN, 1p., 8.5 x 11 in. VG...........50-75
217. [NASA] group of 6 covers postmarked 1966-1982. VG........60-80.........Min. Bid $20
218. [NASA] group of 6 covers postmarked 1975-1982. VG..................60-80..................Min. Bid $20
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219. Roland George Dwight Richardson (1878-1949) prominent Canadian-American mathematician chiefly known for his work building the math department at Brown University and as Secretary of the American Mathematical Society. Signed picture. G..............25-35
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220. Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb. ALS, 1919, 1p, laid to sheet. VG................50-75
221. [Sec. of War] Jan. 17, 1866 printed government document, from Edwin M. Stanton, Sec. of War, to the US Senate, Ex. Doc. 12, 63 pages. VG..............40-60 Min. Bid $10
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222. [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...............50-75
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223. [THEATRE] Anton Lang (1875-1938) German studio potter and an actor in the Oberammergau Passion Play. He played the role of Jesus Christ in 1900, 1910, and 1922. He was the Prologue Speaker in 1930 and again in the Jubilee Production of 1934. Signed in ink postcard photo, 1924. Approx. 3.5 x 5.5 in. VG.............Min. Bid $50
224. [BRITISH NAVAL] Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet KCB FRS[1] (1868-1951) was a British naval architect and engineer. As Director of Naval Construction for the Royal Navy, 1912–1924, he was responsible for the design and construction of some of the most famous British warships. He was also chairman of the Landship Committee at the Admiralty, which was responsible for the design and production of the first military tanks to be used in warfare. Brief 1934 TLS answering request. 7-3/4 x 10 in. VG........50-75
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225. [COLONIAL] Offered here is a fine 1p. MDS, 7 1/2" x 12 1/2", dated November 10, 1736, a Bristol County [Massachusetts] sheriff's writ wherein Thomas Moffett of Boston [merchant] "... Recovered Judgment against John Salsberry of Bristol in the County of Bristol Blacksmith for the Sum of Eight Pounds Ten Shillings money Debt... We Command you Therefore that of the Goods Chattles or Lands of the said John Salsberry within your Precinct you Cause to be paid and Satisfied unto the said Tho. Moffett... and For Want of Goods Chattles or Land... To take the Body of the said John Salsberry and him Committ unto our Goal in Bristol...," signed (twice) Timothy Fales (Clerk), and on the verso in a dated ADS of November 12, 1736, signed Charles Church (Sheriff). Folds (pinholes), minor edge wear, light toning, otherwise very good. CAPTAIN TIMOTHY FALES ( 1690-1777 ) was the son of James and Deborah (Fisher) Fales. Fales graduated from Harvard College in 1711 and was soon a sea captain (sometime before 1720). In 1724, having left the sea trade, he was given a commission as Justice of the Peace and later appointed the first clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and the Court of Sessions of Bristol County. Fales married (first) Alethea Paine in 1717, and (second) Elizabeth (Gardner) Thomas, widow of Nathaniel Thomas, in 1748. He retired from the Court in 1774, having served some fifty years of public service. CHARLES CHURCH (1682-1747) son of Benjamin Church, married Hannah Paine in Bristol, Rhode Island on May 20, 1703. He was a Lieutenant in the militia when he married, Capt. when he was baptized, and Col. when his daughter Mary married in 1746. These titles were not complimentary merely for he accompanied his distinguished father on two of his expeditions against the French and Indians. He filled a number of important civil offices: Representative, Sheriff of the County, field driver, assessor of taxes, etc. He served with Capt. William Throope as commissioner to survey and lay out 600 acres of undivided land in Bristol Co., Deposition 18 Nov., 1737. He was on the committee appointed to lay out the town of Ashburnham MA. His house in Bristol was standing in 1848. His will gives to his wife Hannah among other things a negro woman and boy and certain buildings on Mrs. Elizabeth Vernon's land "which I build for a calash (coach) house and to grind chocolate in." His estate amounted to 1153 pounds 3s 6d, much of it in land some of which he left to the Church of Christ in Bristol for the support of the Gospel "in the Presbyterian or Congregational way". He seems to have had luxurious ways for his wearing apparel was inventoried at 70 pounds and he left 70oz. 16 pwt of silver, 76 pounds of pewter, a negro woman and two girls valued together at 320 pounds, besides "negroes Rhino, Dido, and Rebecca." His wife also disposed of a large estate when she died eight years after her husband. Her daughterss Dorothy, Sarah, and Mary received 600 pounds each, and granddaughter Hannah 300. The total value was 2439 pounds 8s 4d. (Bristol RI records) VG for age..................400-600
226. [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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227. Francis A. March (1825- 1911) American polymath, academic, philologist, and lexicographer. He is considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon. March applied the methods of studying the Latin and Greek classics towards the study of English literature, and led the way for the first scientific study of the English language. He graduated from Amherst College in 1845, and received a M.A. degree from Amherst in 1848. After studying law and teaching for three years, he became instructor at Lafayette College. March occupied the chair of English language and comparative philology at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1857 to 1907. It was the first post of its kind. March was one of the first professors to advocate and teach English in colleges and universities. In addition to English, March also taught French, German, Greek, Latin, botany, "mental philosophy", political economy, the Constitution, and law. He also served as president of the American Philological Association (1873-1874; 1895-1896), the Spelling Reform Association (after 1876), and the Modern Language Association (1891-1893). March was the first American superintendent over the volunteer reading program of the Oxford English Dictionary, thus providing valuable support to James Murray in the compilation of this monumental work. ALS, no year, 1p, to the widow of a friend, offering assistance. 4 x 6-1/4". VG...........50-75
228. [ART] Esther [Bensusan] Pissaro [1870-1951] British wood engraver & artist. She was married to Lucien Pissaro [1863-1944] artist and son of the famed artist, Camile Pissaro. ALS, 1923, 1p, concerning a certain work of art that her husband never did, but the recipient of letter would be welcomed if they came to England. Her letters are not common. One mail fold o/w excellent condition................50-75
229. [FILM] Fritz Feld (1900-1993) film character actor actor who appeared in over 140 films, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a "pop!" sound. TLS, 1966, 1p, mentioning several films. VG.............40-60
230. Carlos P. Romulo [1899-1985] Filipino diplomat. He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942. Signature mounted with Philippines stamp......25-35
231. Two page ALS, 4" x 5" (folded sheet), undated [circa 1820], sent to Smith Weed in Albany, New York, signed G. S. Murfey. SMITH WEED (1755-1839) was born in Stamford, Connecticut. During the Revolutionary War, Weed saw service from 1780 to 1783. He saw action in several major battles and was wounded several times. Weed acted as Assistant Commissary of Issues. After the War, Weed settled in Albany, New York, where he established a successful mercantile business. The letter offered here has wonderful horticultural content: "... I send you a few of my choice squash seeds. They must have very rich ground and a plenty of room, not more than 3 seeds to a hill, put a plenty of manure in the hill. I had but 3 seeds last year only one of which survived, that produced Eleven squashes Gross weight 623# the largest weighing over 90#... They make a pie in the estimation of many equal to custard..." Folds (one small break, with archival tape repair), seal tear/ hole no effect to letter, otherwise very good..................30-40
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232. [FRANCE] Louis-Léonard de Loménie (1815-1878) French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works. Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie française in 1871. Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie française in 1871. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG........50-75
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233. [PORTRAIT] of The Earl of Moira (1754-1826) engraved by William Ridley (1764-1838) c. 1811. Image approx. 3.5 x 3" plus margins. VG........25-35
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234. [FRANCE] Mystery French Document 1565 on paper, from the Reign of Charles IX, doesn't appear signed, 1p., about 6 x 9.5". VG...........100-150
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235. [FILM] Bill Lundigan [1914-1975] American movie and TV actor. His films include "Dodge City" (1939),"The Fighting 69th" (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), and Inferno (1953). From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men Into Space. Signed, inscribed vintage 5x7 photo. VG..............40-60
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236. Original 17th century portrait engraved by Simon François Ravenet (1706 - 1764) French engraver. He was one of William Hogarth's assistants. He was born in Paris, where he studied engraving under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas before moving to London in 1750, where he founded a school of line engraving and is credited with the revival of engraving in England. He died in London. Some of his work remains on display at the National Portrait Gallery as well as at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ravenet was buried in Old St. Pancras Churchyard on 6 April 1764. His name is now listed on the monument erected by Baroness Burdett Coutts, listing the graves of eminent persons lost over the years. Offered here is a Ravenet portrait engraving of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) the English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology. In 1715 he supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France he became foreign minister for the Pretender. He was attainted for treason, but reversed course and was allowed to return to England in 1723. He is best known as the philosopher of the Country Party. The plate mark is 4 x 4 in. plus margins. There are numerous light foxing spots in the margins and the image area..............50-75
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237. [MUSIC] Edward Gregson [b. 1945] English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He has made a major contribution to the repertoire of brass and wind bands and ensembles including for brass. AMQS, inscribed, from his 1979 "Trombone Concerto". 6x4. VG.............50-75
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238. [FRANCE] Marcel Dubois (1856-1916) French geographer. He was a co-founder of the Annales de Géographie, a journal of academic geography. ALS, 1886, 3 full pages, 4-1/4 x 7 in. Not translated. Fine...............100-150
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239. 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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240. [AMERICANA] 1851 Stampless Cover CHARLESTON, NH Rope Cuttings to RR Depot DANIEL RICE. Offered here is a wonderful 1p. ALS (stampless cover, with a light blue and red postal cancels and manuscript rate), 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" (folded sheet), dated Philadelphia May 5th, 1851, sent to the Clerk of Rail Road Depot in Charleston, N.H. by Daniel Rice, with business content: "... I have caused to be sent to your depot by Messrs Blanchard Sherman & Co of Boston 56 Bales of Rope Cuttings. If you have room to store them for ten days you will oblige me by doing so..." Folds, seal tear/ hole has no effect to letter-- very good overall.............Min. Bid $10
241. Mark Hatfield (1922-2011) a Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo dated 1984. VG.................Min. Bid $10
242. [WW 2] GILCHRIST OF GOFFSTOWN, NH. Small archive of paper by George Gilchrist from Goffstown, New Hampshire. Includes 4 letters 1944-45 and 11 postcard with letters 1943-44 all written to his mother at Hancock, NH. . These are mostly written from Florida. Two on US Naval Air Training Center letterheads. Three other misc. pieces. A service man writes home. Doesn’t say much..................Min. Bid $10
243. Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1859-1915) American actor, monologist, humorist and sketch artist. In 1883 Wilder traveled to London where he became a favorite of the British Royal Family. While still the Prince of Wales, King Edward VII became an admirer of Wilder and over the years would attend nearly twenty of his performances. Wilder's career eventually branched into vaudeville and in 1904 embarked on a round the world tour. Though nearly forgotten today, Wilder was heralded in his lifetime and did not let his dwarfism be an excuse for cheap entertainment. Wilder shunned offers by showmen like P.T. Barnum to instead become an established legitimate stage actor and sketch artist. He made his earliest motion picture appearance in 1897, for which he received $600, and his last in 1913. Offered here is a CLIP SIGNATURE, about 3 x 1-1/4 in..............25-35
244. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Offered here are 2 letters sent to Spillane plus an unsigned 8x10 photo of Spillane. All of these items come from Mickey's personal collection. [1] Jim Henaghan (1911-1984) journalist, screenwriter, novelist and columnist. Henaghan, who worked for every major paper in Los Angeles, served as The Hollywood Reporter's Rambling Reporter in the early '50's. Always candidly outspoken and never one to cater to the industry's sacred cows, he wrote an article concerning Preston Sturges' escapades with a nurse while confined in a local hospital. Sturges, far from angry at the humorous reportage, called Charles Feldman and convinced him Henaghan's talents could be better put to use as a screenwriter. He worked as rewrite man at Paramount working on property owned by the studio, and was responsible for rewrites of what were to become "Sunset Boulevard" and "North to Alaska." It was said of him..."he could take 'Stagecoach,' put it on shipboard, and make it a good screeplay." Henaghan served as executive vp of John Wayne's Batjac Prod. for seven years. From 1960-76, he lived and worked writing feature articles on film and film personalities in Europe. Henaghan wrote five novels in the Jeff Pride series, published by Bantam Books and St. Martin's Press. He was a close friend of the actor Robert Walker. In her biography of Walker and Jones, Star-Crossed, author Beverly Linet quotes Walker's friend Jim Henaghan, who was not mentioned in official accounts of Walker's death, as saying that he was present at the time of the events leading to Walker's death. Henaghan stated that he stopped by Walker's house, where they played cards, and Walker was behaving normally. Walker's psychiatrist arrived and insisted that he receive an injection. When Walker refused, Henaghan held him down in order for the physician to administer it. Walker soon lost consciousness, and frantic efforts to revive him failed. Offered here is a lengthy 2 pages typed letter signed Jim, dated July 15, 1953. Written to Mickey Spillane regarding contract details with Waye - Fellows. That's John Wayne's company. Tattered edges. [2] Bob Fellows (1903-1969) American film producer who was once a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. In 1952, Wayne and Fellows teamed up to start their own production company, Wayne-Fellows Productions, making (primarily) films starring Wayne, the first one being Big Jim McLain (1952). The following year they produced Island in the Sky (1953). Wayne had seen the venture as a way to produce and direct his own film version of the battle of the Alamo. Eventually, Fellows became embroiled in a complicated divorce from his wife, necessitating the need to sell his half of the company. Wayne bought Fellows out and started his own Batjac Productions. One of the Wayne-Fellows films was Ring of Fear, featuring Mickey Spillane. Offered here is a July 15, 1953 typed letter signed Bob. Its basically about the same thing Henaghan's letter was about. [3] Unsigned vintage 8x10 photo of Mickey Spillane. Provenance: Estate of Mickey Spillane.........100-200
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245. Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey - 1858 printed government document, 38 pages: CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, printed for the House of Rep., 35th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 82. Approx. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG..............25-35
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246. Deborah Raffin (1953-2012) American model, film and television actress. Offered here is a signed & inscribed sketch, 8-1/4 x 5 in. The signature in yellow is hard to see. VG.............50-75
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247. [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..............40-60
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248. [THEATRE] Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906) distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise. Front portion of a postmarked envelope addressed in her handwriting but not signed by her. Approx. 4-3/4 x 2 in. Fine.............25-35
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249. [WWI] Davenport - ALS, London, 12 Jan. 1917, 2pp, 4to. Re: contributions to the Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich "in recognition of the splendid & signal services of our Merchant Navy during the war. Whether on transports, on mine-sweepers, on patrol duty, or on trade routes carrying the cargoes which are the life-blood of the Empire they have faced not only the perils & hardships of the Sea, but the deadly risk of submarines, mines, & other enemy devices..." VG.....80-120 Min. Bid $20
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250. [PHOTOGRAPH] John Warne Gates (1855 - 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire. Gates was the president of Republic Steel and of the Texas Company, later known as Texaco. He was instrumental in changing the steel industry's production methods from the Bessemer process to the open hearth process and in building the city of Port Arthur, Texas. Offe3red is is an original photograph signed in pencil by John Leonard Gates, dated 1903. The photo itself is 6 x 8 plus mount. NOT SIGNED by the subject. VG...............50-75
251. Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862) American educator. He was regent of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as professor of Greek literature and president of Harvard University. Clip signature [not much margin].....Min. Bid $10
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252. [FRANCE] Count de Froissard - ALS, 1816, 1p, 6-1/2 x 8-1/4". Not translated. Identified as "was there around Napoleon in 1814. Speaks about the 1816 election." VG..........75-100
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253. SIR WALTER BESANT (1836-1901) English Novelist and Historian Prolific writer of novels main Novels Children of Gibeon, Dorothy Forster, Conditions of Men, he also wrote largely on the history and topography of London in the 18th century. ALS (1887), 2pp, 4.5 x 6.5 in. VG............75-100
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254. [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............Min. Bid $35
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255. [U.S. NAVAL] Capt. Paul Cassard (1891-1972) Navy officer who served in both World Wars. In 1941 Captain Cassard was the officer who welcomed Winston Churchill on the British battleship Duke of York off the Virginia Capes and escorted him to Washington for his conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was born in Prince Frederick, Md., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1913 and served in World War I with a destroyer force based in Queenstown, Ireland. In World War II he was as signed to the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington and to New York headquarters of the Eastern Sea Frontier. He retired in 1950, at which time he was president of the Navy board of review of discharges and dismissals. Offered here is a TLS, Navy Department, 12 April 1948, 1p. Written to Philip J. Philbin, US Congressman from Massachusetts. Cassard, at this time was President, Board of Review, Discharges and Dismissals. Concerns the discharge of Francis A. Gregg. This lot includes a TLS, March 18, 1948, 1p. from Congressman Philbin to Francis A. Gregg saying he has received enclosures from Admiral Colclough. At bottom of this letter is brief typed note signed in ink by Francis A. Gregg. PLUS 7 carbon copies of letters [retained copies] from Philbin concerning this case. Total 9 pieces. VG..............Min. Bid $25
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256. [THEATRE] Robert Tabor (1865-1904) American Broadway actor. In 1888 he joined the company of the actress Julia Marlowe and became the company's leading man. According to many who knew her, Marlowe sacrificed her own interests many times in order to promote Taber's career, as when he played Hotspur to her Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1.[4] They married in May 1894 in Philadelphia, separated in 1899 and divorced in 1900. Offered here is his CLIP SIGNATURE, on 5 x 2.5 in. slip. VG...................30-40
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257. [WAR] 1840 printed government document from the Secretary of WAR, J.R. Poinsett, 19pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. VG.................Min. Bid $10
258. [THEATRE] Louis Mann (1865-1931) American theatre actor and sometime director, who in his later life made a few appearances in motion pictures. He was married to actress and playwright Clara Lipman (1864–1952) was an American musical comedy actress and playwright whose career began in 1885 and continued on until her retirement in 1927. She was the wife of comedian Louis Mann and the sister of popular Lieder singer, Mattie Lipman MaruNeither is actually signed. Each about 3 x 1-3/4 in. Fine..................25-25
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259. [PORTRAIT] Daniel Morgan (1735-36 ?–1802) American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia. One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791–1794. Steel-engraved portrait, image approx. 5-1/4 x 7-1/2 in. plus margins. Not signed of course. VG.................25-35
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260. [ART] Walter 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.TLS, Nov. 7, 1936, 1p, signed in ink by Walt Kuhn. Kuhn had the habit of keeping copies of letters sent to others, and actually signing them. This letter was his retained copy to the water dept. in Kennebunk & Wells, Maine, which also covered Ogunquit back then. Kuhn says that they didn't use their Maine cottage during the past season, water pipes not connected, therefore he did not pay a water bill. A day later the water dept. sends Kuhn a letters basically saying that if he had just sent them a letter before the billing to let them know he would not have gotten a bill. They cancelled the charge for 1935. Although this letter seems rather routine you should know that Walt Kuhn throughout his life was often a difficult person with others. By the 1940s, Kuhn’s behavior began to take on unsound characteristics. He became increasingly irascible and distant from old friends. He also became frustrated by the lack of attention his own work was receiving and was particularly strident about the Museum of Modern Art's support of abstraction and neglect of American art in the postwar period. In 1948, he was institutionalized, and on July 13, 1949, he died suddenly from a perforated ulcer. VG.......................200-300
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261. [MUSIC] Zelia Trebelli-Bettini (1836-1892) also known as Zelia Gilbert or by her stage name Trebelli, was a French opera singer. Mme Trebelli's artistry was greatly admired by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote about her a number of times in his various reviews. In particular, he admired her interpretations and her exemplary English diction, rare for a non-native English speaker. SIGNATURE 4-1/4 x 3-3/4 laid to larger album page. Fine................25-35
See above262. [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...............50-75
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263. Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was a prominent American journalist and academic of the early 20th century. In the autumn of 1890 Shaw was elected professor of international law and political institutions at Cornell University but resigned the post in 1891 to accept Stead's invitation to establish an American edition of the Review of Reviews . Shaw served as editor-in-chief of this publication until it ceased publication in 1937, ten years before his death at the age of ninety. He was the author of "Abraham Lincoln" [1929]. ALS, Hastings On Hudson, NY, Feb. 4, 1947, 2-1/2 pages. This letter was sent to Who's Who In America. 'I have been listed in every volume of Who's Who since Mr. Marquis began its publication..." Excellent condition............40-60
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264. [PORTRAIT] John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy 1852 & 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. Representative from the Maryland's 4th congressional district. Antique original engraved portrait. Approx. 6.5 x 5 oval" plus margins. Neatly inlaid. VG..........25-35
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265. [ENTERTAINMENT] Lew Dockstader (1856-1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer. Dockstader performed as a solo act and in his own a popular minstrel troupe.Large bold signature dated Xmas 1898. Signature on verso looks like Henry E. Dixon [?]. About 5-3/4 x 2-3/4 in . Provenance: Boothbay Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine............Min. Bid $10
266. [EPHEMERA] 1894 one page letter written from Portland, Maine on illustrated letterhead. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG.....................Min. Bid $9
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267. REPRESENTATIVES REPORT OF THE NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE ROYAL CLAN O.S.C. Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 29, 30th and July 1st 1887. T.G. Fleming writes a 25 page handwritten report "To the worthy Chief, Officers and Clansmen of Clan Gordon No. 19, Hartford, Conn. Scottish Clans. VG..................100-200
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268. 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 $20
269. [THEATRE] Jane Coombs (1842-1901?) The daughter of a socially prominent New York family, Jane Coombs sought out the renowned actress Clara Fisher Maeder for instruction in acting. It was Maeder who connected her with Fred Niblo and other New York producers enabling her sudden emergence as a favorite on the eve of the Civil War. During the 1870s, Coombs may have been the most highly esteemed tragedienne regularly appearing on the American stage. She embodied for many an ideal of feminine dignity. It is not approach to exaggeration to say she is the most beautiful woman on the American stage," wrote an 1880 critic for the New York World. While her preeminence was challenged by Mary Anderson in the 1880s, Coombs enjoyed the highest approbation when performing the roles of the standard repertory from Shakespeare to Sheridan as her troupe toured the continent well into the 1890s. Of contemporary roles, her most famous was Lady Dedlock and Hortense in the stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House." Offered here is a signed card, about 3 x 2 in. VG...............50-75
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270. Shirley Booth (1898-1992) American stage, film, radio, and television actress. Offered here is a sketch on which she writes it is of her cat Carrie; and says she is now legally blind, Sorry Shirley Booth. 8 x 5-1/4 . VG...........50-75
271. [ART] Salvatore Grippi (1921-2017) important American artist. One of the underrepresented figurative expressionist members of the New York School featured in Herskovic’s 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 O’Hara, Franz Kline, Grippi’s 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 signed ink drawing, approx. 13 x 10 in. VG.............200-300
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Roland Young "Topper" Gets a Letter From His Old Friend272. [THEATRE & FILM] Matty (A.E. Matthews OBE) (1869-1960) English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades. Nicknamed "Matty", he was christened Alfred Edward Matthews. He was affectionately regarded by the British public over his extraordinarily long career. From World War II until his death he enjoyed renown as one of British cinema's most famous crotchety, and sometimes rascally, old men. Matthews' other most well-known films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Million Pound Note (with Gregory Peck), Inn for Trouble, The Magic Box, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square and Just William's Luck. Offered here is a 3-1/4 page ALS, signed "Matty" to his friend, and fellow actor, Roland Young [1887-1953] best membered for his role as Topper [1937] film starring Cary Grant. Dated 10th , no year. Very good content to his friend. VG...........75-100
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273. [PORTSMOUTH NH] Col. Otis Baker (1727-1801) He served during his life as: Colonel, Representative, Judge, Court of Common Pleas; Man of Committee of Safety (1776-77); Muster and Company Pay Master, 1776, 1777, 1778 (War years). Offered here is a 1773 document concerning land in Portsmouth, NH. Concerns Thomas W. Waldron, his wife Constant and son William. It appears that all of the handwriting is by Otis Baker, Justice of the Peace. Thomas Westbrook Waldron was a prominent political figure in Dover, New Hampshire and a military officer that fought in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He later became a commissioner at Albany, New York and then a Royal councillor in 1782. During the American Revolution, Waldron abandoned his loyalist friend, New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth (governor) to become a patriot of the United States. He became a captain in the New Hampshire militia in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He commanded one of the whale boats that landed under fire from the Fortress. His correspondence from Louisbourg to his father gives a rare glimpse of life after the Siege. His letters to his father describe with some bitterness that the spoils of war did not go to New Englanders and rightly predicted that the men would be "Lul'd along" into occupying Louisbourg through the winter. Waldron is critical of General Samuel Waldo, referring to him as "Duke Trinkelo". Approx. 6-1/2 x 14+ in. Written on both sides. As you can see the top edge is very damaged..................200-300
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273A. [NAVAL HISTORY] Samuel Smallcorn (c.1735-1793) Revolutionary War Naval Gunner and First Lieutenant. Appointed Gunner, Aug. 12, 1776, of the Continental frigate "Raleigh," Capt. Thomas Thompson, at wages of $15 a month. He did not remain on her long, as on Sept. 30, 1776, he was First Lieutenant of the brigantine "Reprisal," a privateer, then lying at Boston, Capt. John Wheelright; she was of about seventy tons, carried eight carriage guns (three pounders) and ten swivels, and seventy men, also provisioned for a cruise.Capt. Samuel Smallcorn married Jane Moore, Dec. 11, 1785, at Kittery, both residents. Offered here is a Signed document, Kittery (Maine), Feb. ? 1775, approx. 6 x 7-1/4 in. This is a receipt signed by Smallcorn who receives payment from Capt. Robert Follett who was also an interesting person. Robert Follett (1737-1780) was also a physician. He Commanded a company of Artillery at Kittery Point, Me., by return of Nov. 5, 1775. Was appointed Master of the Continental frigate, "Raleigh" Capt. T. Thompson, June 24, 1776; was discharged about Jan. 1, 1777. Also signed by others on verso. VG..............Min. Bid $100
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274. [FILM] Marge Champion (1919-2020) American dancer and actress. At a young age she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a TV show based on song and dance. In 1947, she married dancer Gower Champion (1919–1980). Together as a dance team, the Champions performed in MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s, including their first MGM musical Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), Show Boat (1951) and Everything I Have Is Yours (1952). Offered here is a signed sketch [a comical self-portrait], 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG.............50-75
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275. Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891) American poet, writer, teacher and socialite whose home was the central gathering place of the literary elite of her era. In 1845, Lynch met the famed actress Fanny Kemble, who became very attached to her and introduced her to a wider circle of literary friends". In the same year she moved to Manhattan with her mother. She began teaching English composition at the Brooklyn Academy for Young Ladies; she continued her writing and was published in periodicals such as the New-York Mirror, The Gift, the Diadem, Home Journal, and the Democratic Review. In New York, she also continued her literary receptions which she held every Saturday evening. It was at one of these receptions that she introduced the unknown Edgar Allan Poe to the literary society of New York. In 1848, her book "Poems" by Anne C. Lynch, was published by George P. Putnam. Edgar Allan Poe said of her: "She is chivalric, self-sacrificing, equal to any fate, capable even of martyrdom, in whatever should seem to her a holy cause. She has a hobby, and this is, the idea of duty." Anne Lynch lived in Washington DC from 1850 to 1853, while serving as the personal secretary to Senator Henry Clay. For many years she was a well-known and popular leader in society. She hosted intellectual gatherings, seemly without the least bit of effort or pretension, at her home on West 37th Street. It was said of her salons that no one was either neglected or treated like a celebrity, and every one went away feeling stimulated, refreshed, and happy. At Mrs. Botta's receptions every Saturday night, attendees would find the most well-known writers, actors and artists, such as Poe, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Horace Greeley, Richard Henry Stoddard, Andrew Carnegie, Mary Mapes Dodge, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Butler, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Delia Bacon, Grace Greenwood, Bayard Taylor, William Cullen Bryant, Helen Hunt Jackson, actress Fanny Kemble, Daniel Webster, and many more. Offered here is a ALS, no year, 1p, responding to a request for an autograph. Approx. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine..............100-150
276. [MAINE] John W. Hubbard (1837 - 1863) Union Captain in the American Civil War. Assistant Adjutant on Gen. Weitzel's staff. Killed on May 27, 1863, at the battle of Port Hudson. His father John Hubbard (1794-1869) was the 22nd Governor of Maine. Offered here is a very fine letter written from Portland, Maine by John [Hubbard] to his father John Hubbard at Hallowell, Maine [stamp removed]. Dated Feb. 27, 1860, 4 full pages signed John. The Tom mentioned in the letter is his brother Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (1838-1915) who was a Union Army colonel from Maine during the Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, for meritorious service. Letter mentions the loss of the SS Hungarian, steamship of the Canadian Allan Line that was launched in 1858, completed in 1859 and sank in 1860; and the stealing or obtaining of Peck's safe by Neal Dow. Dow, who was of course famous for other things, became entangled in scandal when the State Treasurer, Benjamin D. Peck, lent out state funds to private citizens (including Dow) contravening state law. Peck lent large sums to himself, which were lost when his business ventures failed. Dow had guaranteed some of Peck's borrowing, and faced ruin as it became clear that Peck could not repay the state treasury. Dow was able to settle the debts and conceal much of his role in the affair, but enough of the scandal became known that some of his many enemies attacked him in local newspapers. Even some of his prohibitionist allies became less openly supportive of him. Hubbard writes that some say that Neal Dow was the bigger rascal of the two, Peck & Dow. He goes on the talk about the Hungarian sinking; Capt Jones had dined at their boarding house the day before he left Portland to England, his last trip. Fine condition.................Min. Bid $200
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277. [Americana] Bill of Lading 1835 concerning goods being shipped by Rowland G. Hazard on board the ship called Shakespeare, in New York harbor bound for New Orleans with 9 bales of domestic goods. Approx. 10-1/2 x 5 in. 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 products to planters in the southern United States, particularly Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. He spent 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 from 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. Nice woodcut vignette. This does have some condition problems.............50-75
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278. (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
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Our Most Prominent Pacific Coast Scientist
279. GEORGE DAVIDSON [1825-1911] pioneer west coast scientist. Probably no name is better known in the scientific world of the Pacific Coast than that of Professor George Davidson, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. His active and untiring efforts, extending over a long period of time in advancing the interests of science on this coast, are well known; and the work he has accomplished in the service in which he holds high rank has earned for him a name and reputation which might be envied by any man. He determined the Eastern boundary, 120th meridian, of California in 1873. Lengthy ALS, 1908, WRITTEN IN THE 3RD PERSON. "Mr George Davidson expresses his thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Woodward for their kind invitation to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences on the evening of Wednesday the twenty-second of April, and regrets his inability to be present. San Francisco Cal. March 22/08." VG...........Min. bid $25
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The First Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in the United States280. [MEDICINE] Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) was a veterinary surgeon. He earned the first D.V.M. degree awarded in the United States, and spent his career studying animal diseases for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He gave his name to the Salmonella genus of bacteria, which were discovered by an assistant, and named in his honor. In 1883 he was asked to establish a veterinary division within the Department of Agriculture. It became the Bureau of Animal Industry and he served as its chief from 1884 to December 1, 1905. Offered here is a Signed document dated Sept. 20/96 [1896], which is a receipt for $100 contribution made by Salmon to the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science to the international fund for the erection of the Pasteur monument in Paris, France. This document comes out of the papers of Prof. Robert S. Woodward who had received the contribution check. This document is signed by Daniel E. Salmon as President of the Pasteur Monument Committee of the United States and also signed by its secretary Emil Alexander de Schweinitz (1866-1904) American bacteriologist.
He taught chemistry in Tufts College, Massachusetts, and then became a Professor of Chemistry at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. After becoming associated with the chemical division of the Agricultural Department, Washington, D.C. in 1888, he was appointed as director of the biochemical laboratory of the department's Bureau of Animal Industry in 1890, a position he remained in until his death. He was a member of the American Public Health Association from 1896. He was also chair of chemistry and toxicology in the Columbian University and later its dean. He specialized in bacteria and immunity, and studied the bacterial products of tuberculosis, hog cholera and glanders. Among other essays, he published Laboratory Guide (1898). This document is is fine condition. Provence: from the personal papers of Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician. 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. Also included here is a 1895 bank check signed by Woodward. This check is not connected to Salmon's contribution. Rare!.........2000-3000
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281. [NASA] Homer E. Newell Jr. (1915-1983) was a mathematics professor and author who became a powerful United States government science administrator—eventually rising to the number three position at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In the early 1960s, he either controlled or influenced virtually all non-military unmanned space missions for the free world. Signed 1955 First Day Cover. Fine..............Min. Bid $40
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282. Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965) American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters, and became a philanthropist. Interesting signed vintage photograph even with its condition faults. Baruch has signed and inscribed this photo to Leon Henerson (1895-1986) who was the administrator of the Office of Price Administration from 1941 to 1942. Henderson worked as an economic adviser in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration before he was appointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1939.[4] In 1941 he became head of the Office of Price Administration. Baruch signed & dated this photo 1941. Condition: still contained in an old mat; one burn mark top edge [very visible]; also a surface flaw when held an an angle. Baruch signs "B.M." Doesn't add Baruch. Photo itself is 8x10 in..................80-120
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283. [OPERA] Ruby Mercer [1906-1999] Am. soprano. Signed album page..........Min. Bid $10
284. [THEATRE] Florence St. John (1855-1912) English singer and actress of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras famous for her roles in operetta, musical burlesque, music hall, opera and, later, comic plays. ANS..........25-35
285. [MUSIC] Ray Stevens (b. 1939) American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty song as well as his recent involvement in the Tea Party movement. Signed, inscribed music composition sheet on which he has written "Everything is Beautiful", his biggest hit [1970]. VG..........25-35
286. [MUSIC] Debroy Somers [1890-1952] British band leader, composer. Signature with sentiment on card.........Min. Bid $10
287. [OMAR BRADLEY] original 1949 International News Photo. The caption included says it is the first photograph of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the New National Security Organization. The photographer was A.E. SCOTT. 9 x 7 in. VG.................Min. Bid $50
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288. Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant. ALS, 1885, 2pp, 4-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. VG.................60-80
289. Thomas Tod Stoddart (1810–1880) was a Scottish angler and poet. Signed 3 page manuscript poem, 7-1/4 x 9 in. One punch hole at edge o/w VG.......75-100 MIN. BID $25
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290. ANTONIO RUIZ SOLER "Antonio " (1922-1998) Spanish Dancer/Choreographer. One of the most celebrated Flamenco and Ballet stars of Spain in the last century. Became Director of the Spanish National Ballet. SIGNED/inscribed 5x7 dtd 1982. VG..........25-35
291. Geo. Shirley [b.1934] renowned tenor opera singer. ISP, 8x10..............Min. Bid $10
292. [FRANCE] Guillaume-René Meignan (1817-1896) French Catholic apologist and scriptural exegete, Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal. ALS, 1887, 1-1/5 pp, 8vo. Not translated. VG........50-75
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293. [FRANCE] Letter identified as written by J.M. Perisse, Ampere's brother-in-law. Not dated and doesn't appear to be signed. André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. Written in Frencn, not translated. Approx. 8 x 11". VG.............75-100
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294. [MUSIC] Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941. Signature.........Min. Bid $10
295. Parke Godwin (1929-2013) American writer. He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1982 for his story "The Fire When It Comes". Godwin is known for his novels of legendary figures placed in realistic historical settings. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies. His short story "Influencing the Hell out of Time and Teresa Golowitz" was the basis of an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. Signed 3-1/4 x 2 in. card, dated 1977. VG...............25-35
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296. [MUSIC] Jack Palmer (1900-1976) American composer, pianist, Jazz musician. Signed, inscribed vintage 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35
297. [MUSIC] Bruna Castagna [1905-1983] Italian Mezzo Soprano at the Met. Signature on 5-1/4 x 4-1/2 slip...........25-35
298. Clarence Cook (1828-1900) American author and art critic. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard in 1849 and worked as a teacher. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Cook was known for his expertise in archeology and antiquities and was instrumental in the criticism of the collection of General di Cesnola. In the mid-1850s Cook began to read works by John Ruskin and associated with a group of American artists, writers, and architects who followed Ruskin's thinking. Through this group he became aware of the British Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1863, with Clarence King and John William Hill he helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, an American group, similar to the Pre-Raphaelites, who published a journal called The New Path. In 1869 Cook wrote A Description of the New York Central Park. In 1877, articles on home furnishings that Cook had written for Scribner's Monthly were published as a book entitled The House Beautiful. In 1879, Cook served as editor for Wilhelm Lübke's History of Art. ALS, 1879, 2pp, To Mr. Koehler, saying that Mr. Schoff of Boston had applied to Mr. Wunderlich for work. Cook gives his opinion of Schoff's work. VG...........50-75
299. Alice Childress (1912-1994) American playwright, actor, and author. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photograph, dated 1984 on verso. VG........40-60
300. Maurice Abravanel [1903-1993] conductor. Signature........Min. Bid $10
301. MARTHA OSTENSO (1900-1963) Canadian Novelist and screenwriter. Many of her novels are of Minnesota farm life. ALS, 1930, 1p. VG......60-80
302. [FILM] Arthur Lubin (1898-1995) American film producer and director who directed many Abbott & Costello films. Later, Lubin directed TV shows like Bronco (1958), Maverick (1959), Bonanza (1960), Mister Ed (1961) and The Addams Family (1965). Lubin's last work was the TV series called Little Lulu (1978). TLS, 1990, 1p.............20-30
303. ALFRED AUSTIN (1835-1913) English Poet, Poet Laureate (1896-1913). ALS, 1908, 2pp. VG............80-120
304. [MUSIC] Andrew Imbrie [b. 1921] American composer. TLS, 2003........Min. Bid $10
305. [MUSIC] RONNIE GILBERT (b. 1926) Folk Singer with ”The Weavers”. Brief ALS, no date, on verso of collector's letter.......25-35
306. Harold Giles Hoffman (1896-1954) was an American politician, a Republican who served as the 41st Governor of New Jersey, from 1935 to 1938. He also served two terms representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931. He is probably best known for being one of the most provably corrupt governors of that state. As governor, Hoffman secretly visited convicted Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in his death row cell on the evening of October 16, 1935 with Anna Bading, a stenographer and fluent speaker of German. Hoffman urged the other members of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals , then the state's highest court, to visit Hauptmann. Despite Governor Hoffman's doubt regarding Hauptmann's guilt, Hoffman was unable to convince the other members of the court to re-examine the case, and Hauptmann was executed on April 3, 1936. Signed photograph, approx. 6.5 x 8.5". VG........50-75
307. [MUSIC] Sherman Edwards (1919-1981) American songwriter. Brief ALS, nd.......25-35
308. [MUSIC] Goffredo Petrassi [1904-2003] influential Italian compser. SIGNATURE W/SENTIMENT, DATED ROME 1983...........20-30
309. William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, GBE, CH, FRS (1877-1963) English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered as the founder of the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Trust and Nuffield College, Oxford, as well as being involved in his role as President of BUPA in creating what is now Nuffield Health. He took his title from the village of Nuffield in Oxfordshire, where he lived. Siganture dated Dec. 14, 1938 on 5 x 3 slip. VG.................50-75
310. [US POLITICIANS] TLSs by US senators: Wm. Spong, Harold E. Hughes, William Proxmire, Ernest Hollings, Birch Bayh. ALSO congressmen Carl Albert, and 7 others. These date 1969-1972.............80-120
311. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1] Armand Carrel (1800-1836) French journalist and political writer. He had a deep admiration for the great generals of Napoleon , and his uncompromising spirit and independent views marked him as a leader. Entering the army as sub-lieutenant, he took a secret but active part in the unsuccessful Belfort Conspiracy. At the outbreak of war with Spain in 1823, Carrel, whose sympathies were with the liberal cause, resigned, and succeeded in escaping to Barcelona. He enrolled in the foreign legion and fought gallantly against his former comrades. The legion was compelled to surrender near Figueres , and Carrel was taken prisoner by his former general, Damas. There was considerable difficulty about the terms of his capitulation, and one council of war condemned Carrel to death. The sentence was not carried out, and he was soon acquitted and freed. ALS, no date, lengthy 1p., 6-3/4 x 9-1/4 in. VG. [2] JACQUES NORMAND [b.1848] Fr. writer, poet & playwright. ALS, 1888, on both sides. [3] REBE DE PONT-JEST [1830-1904] Fr. writer. ALS, 1878, 1p, 8vo. Fine [4] Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (1859-1940), French dramatist and man of letters. As a writer, Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form. In 1891 he produced at the Théâtre Français Une Famille, followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on the nobility, afterward re-named Les Descendants. ANS, no date. [5] Joseph-Marie JOUANNIN [1783-1847] Fr. writer. ALS, no date, not translated. 1-page. [6] B. Noric - French painter. ALS, no date, written on card to M. Hubert, director of magazine Le Monde Illustre. [7] Mlle Cécile Charlotte Furtado (1821-896) was chiefly known for her philanthropy in the areas of medicine, education, and religion. During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, she supported the Red Cross and the ambulance services; and in 1895 she bequeathed her villa in Nice as a hospital and sanatorium for wounded and convalescent soldiers. In 1884 she founded and endowed an orphanage in the 14th Arrondissement on the street which was renamed Rue Furtado-Heine in her honour after her death, as well as similar children’s establishments in Bayone and Montrouge. She was a generous donor to the Institut Pasteur, and her commemorative bust still adorns the halls of the Institute. Mme Furtado-Heine also generously contributed to numerous Jewish charities and benevolent organisations; and financially supported the building of new synagogues in France and Belgium. Her charitable and philanthropic endeavours were recognised by the Government of France, and in 1896 she became the Officer of the Legion d’Honneur, a distinction very rare for a woman in the nineteenth century. Letter Signed, nd, 2pp. [8] Alfred Le Roux (1815-1880) Commerce Minister. ALS, 1867, 2pp. [9] Arthur Levasseur (1875-1955) French politician. ALS, 1925, 1p. [10] Henri-Leon Camusat de Riancey [1816-1870] politician and writer. ALS, nd, 1p.............200-300
314. [MUSIC] Annie Louise Cary (1842-1921) American singer. Signed card, 1899, with envelope.......25-35312. Hezekiah Butterworth [1839-1905] American writer of books for young people, and a poet. Signed quote of Don Jose de San Martin, the great Spanish General. Written in Spanish with English translation on verso [in another hand]...........35-45
313. [THEATRE] Aline MacMahon (1899-1991) American actress. Her career began on stage in 1921. She worked extensively in film and television until her retirement in 1975. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944). Document Signed, The Theatre Guild Inc., NYC, 1945, 1p. Signed contract to act in radio performance of "Storm Over Patsy", for run of an hour, and she will be paid $750. VG............50-75
315. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Paul Margueritte (1860-1918); Emmanuel des Essarts (1839-1909); Pierre Lanfrey(1828-1877); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
316. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (1834-1923); Raoul Gautier (1854-1931); Marcelle Adam (writer of CATS 1959); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
317.[THEATRE] Francesco Dall'Ongaro [1808-1873] Italian writer, poet and dramatist. He was educated for the priesthood, but abandoned his orders, and taking to political journalism founded the Favilla at Trieste in the Liberal interest. In 1848 he enlisted under Garibaldi, and next year was a member of the assembly which proclaimed the republic in Rome. On the downfall of the republic he fled to Switzerland, then to Belgium and later to France, taking a prominent part in revolutionary journalism; it was not till 1860 that he returned to Italy, where he was appointed professor of dramatic literature at Florence. Subsequently he was transferred to Naples, where he died on the in 1873. His patriotic poems, Stornelli, composed in early life, had a great popular success; and he produced a number of plays, notably Fornaretto, Bianca Cappello, Fasma and Il Tesoro. His collected Fantasie drammatiche e liriche were published in his lifetime. Rare ALS, no year, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. Fine condition...........75-100 Scan 1
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318. [FRANCE] Denis-Bernard QUATREMERE-DISJONVAL [1754-1830] eccentric scientist [physicist & chemist]. Large [9-1/4 x 13-3/4 in.] ALS, 1826, 4 full pages. About spiders..............100-150
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319. [FRANCE] Francisque Sarcey (1827-1899) French journalist and dramatic critic. ALS, no date, 1p. VG........50-75
320. [FRANCE] Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury (1802-1887) French historian and literary critic. ALS, 1856, 3pp. VG............50-75
321. 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...............25-35See Cousin letter
322. [FRANCE] Jules Cousin [1830-1899] Fr. archaeologist, historian; specialist of Paris and Vietnam. ALS, 1884, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8. VG.........50-75
323. [FRANCE] Bernard Potier, duc de Gesvres, Military governor of Paris 1739-1757. Some sort of letter or document signed, 1749, 1p, approx. 6-5/8 x 8-1/4 in. VG............100-15
324. [OPERA] Count Nicolo Gabrielli di Quercita (1814-1891) Italian opera composer. Gabrielli was a very prolific composer, and from 1835 onwards worked at many melodramas, opera buffas, commedias and farsas. In 1840 he was appointed musical director of the Royal Theatre of San Carlo in Naples, a position that enabled him to travel all over Italy and abroad and make acquaintance with the international society. ALS, [dated ?], 1p,approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Not translated.............80-120
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325. [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...........40-60326. Andrew Ainslie Common FRS (1841 - 1903) English amateur astronomer, best known for his pioneering work in astrophotography. His most notable work with this telescope were the long time exposures he made of the Orion Nebula between 1880 and 1884. His 1883 photograph of that nebula for the first time showed films ability to record stars and other features invisible to the human eye. ALS, 1886, 3pp, in English. To Admiral [Ernest] Mouchez, the great French astronomer. SUPERB content letter about photographs of the stars. Rare as such. Fine condition...........100-150
327. [MUSIC] Bobby Helms (1933-1997) American country music singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957 with the seasonal hit "Jingle Bell Rock". His other hits include "Fraulein" and "My Special Angel". SIGNED 8x10 portrait photograph........60-80
328. [FILM - THEATRE] Dame WENDY HILLER (1912-2003) English Actress, Stage and Film. Typed note signed on verso of postcard photograph, 1973, approx. 3.5 x 5.5.............25-35
329. [MUSIC] Edward Jakobowski (1858 - 1927) English composer best known for writing the comic opera Erminie. ALS, 1895, 1p. Old price & other pencil notations erased from top but pencil pressure left its mark o/w in very good condition..........50-75
330. [THEATRE] Shirley Booth [1898-1992] American actress. Primarily a theatre actress, her Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received a Tony Award in 1950. She made her film debut, reprising her role in the 1952 film version, and won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance. Despite her successful entry into films, she preferred stage acting, and made only four more films. From 1961 until 1966, she played the title role in the sitcom Hazel, for which she won two Emmy Awards, and was acclaimed for her performance in the 1966 television production of The Glass Menagerie. Signed Playbill from the play "Goodbye, My Fancy", 1949. She signs inside..........25-35
331. [MUSIC] Frederick Martin Reiner (1888-1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music. Signed album page...........40-60
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332. JEAN DIEUDONNE (1906-1992) French Mathematician. He was one of the two main contributors to the Bourbaki series of texts. He began his mathematical career working on the analysis of polynomials. He worked in a wide variety of mathematical areas including general topology, topological vector spaces, algebraic geometry, invariant theory and the classical groups. His best known books are La Géométrie des groupes classiques (1955), Foundations of Modern Analysis (1960), and Algèbre linéaire et géométrie élémentaire (1964). SIGNED/inscribed booklet titled Remise a Jean Dieudonne - signed on front cover 5x7............25-35
333. [SHOW BIZ] Judy Canova (1913-1983) American comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955. DOCUMENT SIGNED, CONTRACT, NOV. 1, 1957, 3PP, WITH THE WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY. VG............50-75
334. [FRANCE] Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy [1803-1891] chief administrator of the Comédie-Française [1848]. ALS, no date, 2pp.......50-75
335. [FRANCE] Ernest Daudet [ 1837-1921] NOVELIST AND HISTORIAN; BROTHER OF Alphonse Daudet. ALS, no yr., 1p............50-75
336. Florence George [1917-?] American actress. In films from 1938, stage and TV. TLS, 1938, 1p. Talks about the movie "College Swing" preview "...and it is most unfortunate that so many feet of film were cut from the picture. Being a newcomer in films, my scenes had to suffer, however, there is enough left to give you a fair idea of my performance..." VG...........30-40
337. [FILM] Bea Lillie [1894-1989] actress and comedic performer. Following her 1920 marriage to Sir Robert Peel in England, she was known in private life as Lady Peel. Signed 3x5 card..........25-35
338. Clinton Scollard [1860-1932] was a prolific American poet and occasional writer of fiction. He was a Professor of English at Hamilton College, and collaborator and husband of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse. Brief ALS, 1895. Two lines in his hand............25-35
339. Kuno Francke [1855-1930] American (German-born) educator and historian. Most of his career was spent at Harvard University where he eventually became a professor of history and German culture and curator of the Germanic Museum. He played an important role in his time as the foremost German-American cultural ambassador. ALS, 1914, 2 full pages. "...It is not entirely sure that I shall be here next winter. If the war is over by that time - frant God that it will..."........40-60
340. [NJ] Harold (Giles Hoffman) (1896-1954) Republican who served as the 41st Governor of New Jersey, from 1935 to 1938. He also served two terms representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931. He is probably best known for being one of the most corrupt Governors of that State. As governor, Hoffman secretly visited convicted Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in his death row cell on the evening of October 16, 1935 with Anna Bading, a stenographer and fluent speaker of German. Hoffman urged the other members of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals , then the state's highest court, to visit Hauptmann. Despite Governor Hoffman's doubt regarding Hauptmann's guilt, Hoffman was unable to convince the other members of the Court to re-examine the case, and Hauptmann was executed on April 3, 1936. On March 18, 1954, Governor Robert B. Meyner uncovered a significant embezzlement scheme perpetrated by Hoffman, and suspended him from his position of Employment Security Division Director. Three months later, in June 1954, Hoffman died in a New York City hotel room of a heart attack. Just before dying, the disgraced former governor wrote a confession and admitted that he had embezzled over $300,000 from the state. TLS, 1942, 1p, signed Harold. To Danny Sullivan. Sullivan is in the hospital going to have an operation...........35-45
341. [THEATRE] Dame Anna Neagle [1904-1986) popular English stage and motion picture actress and singer. Signed sheet music from "A Broken Doll." Signed on cover picturing her & Michael Wilding. VG............40-60
342. John Cameron Swayze [1906-1995] popular news commentator. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........35-45
343. Joel Benton (1832 - 1911) American poet. He was born in 1832 in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York. As well as producing poetry, he wrote Emerson As A Poet (1882), The Truth About Protection (1892), Greeley on Lincoln (1893), In the Poe Circle (1899) and The Life of Phineas T. Barnum. He died in 1911 in Poughkeepsie. ALS, 1905, 1p, about 5x8". VG..........25-35
344. [FRANCE] Jean Henri Dupin [1787-1887] Fr. dramatist, author. He often collaborated with Eugene Scribe. ALS, 1838, 1p............50-75
345. [ART] ANNI ALBERS (1899-1994) Textile Artist considered the foremost textile artist of the twentieth century. Born in Berlin she studied weaving and taught at the Bauhaus until it was closed in 1933, and afterwards immigrated to the United States where she continued to make innovative textiles and prints From the time she was a young student at the, she created wall hangings that stand on their own as abstract works of art, comparable in their boldness and modernism to some of the bravest paintings of the epoch. In her upholstery, drapery fabrics, and other functional materials. She married the great painter Josef Albers. Brief TLS dtd 2/10/83.................50-75
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346. JOHN T. CONNOR - Sec. Commerce. TLS, 1972................20-30
347. Julian Hawthorne [1846-1934] Am. writer. Signature..........20-30
348. [DANCE] Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) was a modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art. She was co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dance and the teacher of several notable performers. Signed collectors card, dated 1921. VG.........35-45
349. [ART] Bernie Fuchs [1932-2009] Am. illustrator. Signature in pencil............20-30
350. GENE SAKS (1921-2015 ) American Actor/Director - He began directing in 1963, helming such Neil Simon Broadway plays as Biloxi Blues and Brighton Beach Memoirs and such Simon-scripted films as Barefoot in the Park (1967), The Odd Couple (1968), and Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1986). Saks made his film acting bow in 1965, recreating his stage role as paranoid kiddie-show host Chuckles the Chipmunk in A Thousand Clowns. Saks is married to actress Beatrice Arthur, who co-starred in his 1974 film version of Mame.. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 PHOTO........................25-35
351. Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) was a movement conservative and author. Signed 3x5 card..............Min. Bid $10
352. [FILM] Helen Hunt (b. 1963) American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Signed 3x5 card..........20-30
353. Edmund Blunden, MC [1896-1974] English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Signed in ink limited edition page [proof page] from the "hand-set edition of Near & Far," 6-1/4 x 9-1/2". Fine...........30-40
354. [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett [1846-1904] Brit. actor. AQS Hamlet 1896.....35-45
355. Sir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE (1832-1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. Signed picture [removed from some publication, signed in ink, 4.5 x 6.5". VG.............50-75
356. [FILM-MUSIC] Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) American soprano opera singer and film actress. She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers". ALS, 1962, written on both sides, sending thanks for birthday greetings to friends and saying she had been suffering with the "shingles." VG.........60-80
357. [MUSIC] Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (b. 1923) composer, conductor. Signed, inscribed 4x7 photo. VG...........25-35
358. [MUSIC] Leslie Stuart (1863-1928) English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers of the King". A song from Florodora, "Tell me, pretty maiden", became a vaudeville standard. Signature with sentiment on stationery, 4 x 6"............25-35
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359. [MUSIC] BERNARD RANDS (b. 1934) composer of contemporary classical music. Signed 16 page catalog of his work. Signed on front cover. 5.5 x 8.5". Fine..........35-45
360 HARRIET DOER (1910-2002 ) American Author/Short Story Writer. She started very late in life, . In 1982, she won the Henfield Foundation Award for a group of short stories which led to the publication of her first novel, Stones for Ibarra, two years later. Written under a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the book went on to win the American Book Award for First Fiction. In 1990, she published a book of short stories, Under an Aztec Sun. Her second novel Consider this Senora was released in 1993. In 1995, she published another collection of short stories, Tiger in the Grass: Stories and other Inventions. SIGNATURE/inscribed with unsigned 5x7 portrait photograph...........20-30
361. [ACTRESS] FLORENCE STANLEY (1924-2003) American Actress. She launched her career on Broadway and was a regular on television shows including "Barney Miller," She appeared on Broadway in "Fiddler on The Roof," "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" and was in the Manhattan Theater Club's "What's Wrong with This Picture?" before heading to Hollywood. Her TV appearances include Judge Margaret Wilbur on "My Two Dads" and Bernice Fish on "Barney Miller," as well as numerous guest roles on shows including "Dharma & Greg" in 2002. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph with sentiment.................20-30
362. [POETRY] Riccardo Bacchelli (1891-1985) Italian writer. SIGNED handwritten poem, 1975, written on both sides, inscribed. In Italian. Folds o/w FINE..........50-75
363. [FILM] Myrna Loy (1905-1993) American actress. Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. She was originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, but her career prospects improved greatly following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. Fine..............25-35
364.LEVANDER, HAROLD. Gov. of Minnesota 1967-71. Letter as governor dated Nov. 28, 1987 sending photo and expressing warm sentiments concerning addressee's ill son. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text...........20-30
365.[MUSIC] Julius Eduard Meyer (1830-1899) composer, violinist. He was a violinist of note and was preferred by Felix Mendelssohn to perform his works. Signed card, 3-1/4 x 1-1/2"..........25-35
366. [MUSIC] David Amram (b.1930) American composer, musician, conductor. SIGNED 1p. WRVH permission form on which he makes list of musicians, and conductor to be used on a tape, dated Jan. 16, 1984........40-60
367. Alfred L. Atherton Jr. [1921-2002] career United States Foreign Service officer. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt in 1978-1979. Signed/inscribed photo, 1983, as Ambassador to Egypt...............25-35
368. [MUSIC] Efraim Guigui [1926-2007] American conductor, musician. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo, 1983. VG..........40-60
369. [OPERA] Nino Martini [1902-1976] lyric tenor. Signature...........Min. Bid $10
370. [MUSIC] Irene Scharrer (1888-1971) English classical pianist. Vintage SIGNATURE, with sentiment, dated 1919, on her stationery........25-35
371. [OPERA] Jennie Tourel [1900-1973] mezzo-soprano. Sig. album page...........Min. Bid $10
372. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Gerard Bauer (1888-1966); Jean-Jacques Weiss (1827-1891); Alfred de Courcy (1816-1888); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
373. [MAINE] Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater). Smith was an early opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy. On June 1, 1950, she gave her Declaration of Conscience speech on the floor of the Senate, earning McCarthy's permanent ire and the epithet "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. In 1954, when McCarthy attempted to challenge her seat by sponsoring a primary challenger, the Maine voters rejected the effort. POSTCARD picturing her, signed on the verso. VG...........25-35
Bass family in Virginia
374. 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
375.[VERMONT] George David Aiken [1892-1984] Gov. of Vermont from 1937-41; US senator 1941-1975. TLS on Senate stationary, 1967..............25-35
376. [FILM] Eddie Foy Jr. (1905-1983) American character actor. Signed & inscribed 5x7 photo. VG..........25-35
377. [FILM] Aileen Quinn (b. 1971) American actress. She is best known for having played the title role in the film Annie (1982). TLS postmarked 1983, signed "Aileen" on verso is picture as Annie......25-35
378. [TV] Jonathan Harris (1914- 2002) American stage and character actor. Two of his best-known television roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in The Third Man, and the comic villain Dr. Zachary Smith, in the popular 1960s sci-fi series, Lost in Space. ALS, 1989, conlusion & signature on backside. PLUS another autograph letter UNSIGNED..........30-40
379. Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888 - 1967) was an English poet and critic. He worked as a civil servant: his experience as an inspector of taxes meaning he could help out his friend Walter de la Mare. He was knighted in 1951. He had a classical education at the University of Oxford, and later compiled anthologies of Latin and Greek verse for Nonesuch Press. He was a published war poet of World War I, known for the rather conventional and sentimental A Cross in Flanders. His book The Tell-Tale Article on the Auden Group made an impact by the expedient of counting the proportion of definite articles in Auden 's verse, remarking that it was much higher than in older styles. In general he was a steady conservative in matters of literature. He was a director of the Poetry Book Society, and well connected as a correspondent of many literary figures; including E. R. Eddison and Owen Barfield. AQS, "A Judge Reflects" from The Carved Stone 1952. On 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 white card. VG...........30-40
380. Frank R. Stockton [1834-1902] Am. writer, humorist. Signature..........20-30
381. [FILM] Ben Lyon (1901-1979) American actor. TLS, 1967, 1p..............25-35
382. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen [1848-1895] Norwegian born American author and college professor. He is best remembered for his novel Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life, generally considered to have been the first novel by a Norwegian immigrant in America. TLS, 1902, 2pp. To Julian Ralph saying he will "take up with Mr. Walker payment for your articles on Hanna and Rockefeller..."...............35-45
383. LOUISE DRISCOLL (1875-1957) American Poet. She was the author of many works of prose, some of her most famous poems were: Harbury, The Accused, The Highway others. SIGNATURE, with sentiment............20-30 384. [Pakistan] Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI [1893-1985] Pakistani politician, diplomat, international jurist, and scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, known for drafting the Pakistan Resolution, for his representation of Pakistan at the United Nations, and serving as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. SIGNED CARD, DATED NOV. 22, 1939.............20-30
385. [MUSIC] John Lessard (b. 1920) American composer. AMQS from his "cello Sonata". 6x4 in. Fine............50-75
386. [FRANCE] Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890) French critic and man of letters. Imbued by family tradition with legitimist sympathies, he began by attacking the followers of the encyclopaedists and their successors. In the Assemblée nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation. Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in volume form: Contes et reveries d'un planteur de choux (1845); Causeries du samedi (1857-1860); Nouveaux samedis (1865-1881), &c. But the most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. Pontmartin died at Avignon on 29 March 1890. ALS, Paris, no year, 1p., to Marie-Louis Marcellus (1795-1865) noted French diplomat and write. VG.........50-75
387. [FRANCE] Anatole de Monzie (1876-1947) French administrator, encyclopaedist (Encyclopédie française), political figure and scholar. ALS, no date, 2pp. First page has light sunned marks............40-60
388. [FILM] Ben Lyon (1901-1979)American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive. His greatest success as an actor came in 1930 with the film Hell's Angels. TLS, L.A., Calif., 1973, 1p. To Harriet. In part - "...When we were visiting Colleen Moore up north last week, Barbara called from London..." VG.............50-75
389. [POETRY] Robert C. Waterston [1812-1893] Unitarian Clergyman, poet, born Kennebunk, Maine. Pastor at various Boston churches, he had charge of a sailor's Sunday-school. Signed holograph poem, "Familiar Things", 3pp, 4to. VG............50-75
390. Joan Davis (1907-1961) American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy. Signed album page. One fold crease down middle [not bad]..........25-35
391. [MUSIC] Edward Dannreuther (1844-1905) German pianist and writer on music resident from 1863 in England. He trained as a musician at the Conservatoire at Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. Dannreuther became a champion of Wagner, and founded the London Wagner Society in 1872. Dannreuther became a professor of piano in the Royal College of Music in 1895, a position which he held until his death. An enthusiast for new music, he was an important influence on the composer Hubert Parry. Clip signature [irregular shape].........20-30
392. [MUSIC] Lugi Ottolini - Italian Opera Singer, associated with the Chicago Lyric Opera and Metropolitan Opera Co. ANS, no date.......25-35
393. [MUSIC] John Anthony Lennon (b. 1950) American composer. AMQS dated 1999, from his "ECHOLALIA." Fine......50-75
394. [MUSIC] Timothee Adamowski [1858-1943] Polish born American conductor, composer and violinist. Signature. Fine........25-35
395. Bebe Neuwirth (b. 1958) American actress, musician and dancer. She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife (later ex-wife), on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role), and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). On stage, she is also known for the role of Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity, the role of Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago (for both of which she won Tony Awards) and for the role of Morticia Addams in The Addams Family musical. SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph.......25-35
396. Alexander Godunov [1949-1995] Russian ballet start & actor. Sig. 3x5 card.........20-30
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397. [MUSIC] Jan Bach (b. 1937) American composer. AMQS from his "Laudes" written in 1971. Dated 1983. 6x4 in. Fine........50-75
398. Andre LeBon [1859-1938] French statesman, diplomat; one of the most influential men of his time. Signature........Min. bid $10
399. Florence George [b.1917] Am. actress/singer. TLS, 1940........25-35
400. [MUSIC] Gottfried von Einem (1918 -1996) Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ. SIGNATURE on trimmed portion of concert program..........25-35
