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3. Vice admiral Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal y Maroto, 17th Duke of Veragua,
16th Duke of la Vega, 18th Marquess of Aguilafuente, 15th Marquess of
Jamaica, GE (1925-1986) was a Spanish Navy officer, statesman and the
most senior descendant of Christopher Columbus.[1] He was, for four
decades, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Admiral of the Indies and Adelantado
of the Indies, positions that had been held by his father and all of his
direct paternal ancestors up to Christopher Columbus, who took on the
duties with the Discovery of America in 1492.
In 1986, Colón de Carvajal and his personal driver were killed by Basque separatist group Euskadi
Ta Askatasuna (ETA), which had opened fire at the car they were
travelling in and tossed a hand grenade inside, near Paseo de la
Castellana in Madrid, Spain. Along with the assassination of Carrero
Blanco in 1973, he was the most prominent figure to have been
assassinated by the organization. Signed 4 x 2-1/4 in. card.
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4. Horace James
(1818-1875) was a minister who served as a chaplain in the Union Army
during the American Civil War. He served in the 25th Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was tasked with assisting freedmen in
North Carolina in 1863. SIGNATURE removed from letter dated June 21,
1861. Approx. 5 x 3.5 in. VG................25-35
5. [NAVAL] N.H. Farquhar (Rear
Admiral Norman Von H. Farquhar, USN, (1840-1907). Letter Signed, marked
"Copy", USS Trenton, Apia, Samoa, April 22, 1889, 2 pages, 7-3/4 x
10". We assume that Farquhar did not sign this letter. The original was sent to the Secretary of the Navy,
Washington DC [Benjamin F. Tracy]. This "copy" letter was sent to
Henry Lyon, who became commander of the Nipsic. Dated about a
month after this famous naval incident (The Samoan Crisis ). This
letter is of high praise for Lieut. Commander Henry W. Lyon, saving the
Nipsic "...to his excellent service during the Hurricane of March 16th
and 17th, 1889, and since then in saving valuable property from the
wreck. During the gale, he intelligently carried out my orders;
personally supervising the many plans to keep out water, getting lines
to the Vaudalia to prevent the total destruction of the Trenton and many
other duties besides..." Norman Von Heidreich Farquhar (1840-1907) was
born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, attended the U.S. Naval Academy
during 1854-59. After graduation, he served with the Africa Squadron
until September 1861. Lieutenant Farquhar spent most of the Civil War
off the U.S. Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, serving in the
gunboats Mystic, Sonoma and Mahaska and the cruisers Rhode Island and
Santiago de Cuba. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in
mid-1865, a few months after the fighting ended, and was on duty at the
U.S. Naval Academy from then until September 1868. For the rest of the
1860s and into the next decade, Farquhar served in the warship Swatara,
was Executive Officer of USS Severn and USS Powhatan and Commanding
Officer of USS Kansas. He also had two tours at the Boston Navy Yard on
ordnance duty and as Executive Officer. Advanced in rank to
Commander in December 1872, Farquhar spent nearly five years at the
Naval Academy. He commanded the training ship Portsmouth in 1877-78, and
the steam sloops Quinnebaug and Wyoming in European waters in
1878-1881. Five more years of Naval Academy duty were followed by
torpedo instruction at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1886. From May 1887
until her loss in the March 1889 Samoan hurricane, Captain Farquhar
commanded the steam frigate Trenton. He then served on several of the
Navy's boards and, in March 1890 became the Chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks. During 1894-97, he was Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, Commanding Officer of the cruiser Newark, and President of the
Naval Examining Board. While holding the ranks of Commodore and
Rear Admiral, Farquhar was Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard in
1897-99, commanded the North Atlantic Station during 1899-1901 and was
Chairman of the Lighthouse Board in 1901-02. He retired from active duty
in April 1902, upon reaching the statutory service age limit of 62.
Rear Admiral Farquhar died at Jamestown, Rhode Island, on 3 July 1907.
The letter is in very fine condition. Provenance: Estate of
Admiral Henry W. Lyon, who had a distinguished Naval career, was honored
for his service in the Spanish-American war where he commanded the U.
S. S. Dolphin. Lyon and his wife, Liela, bought a house in Paris Hill,
Maine in 1899 and moved there full time when he retired from the
Navy in 1907. Picture of Farquhar is not included here..........250-350
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6.[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 graphite drawing, not signed, approx. 4-3/4 x 4-1/4 in. VG. Providence: Grippi Estate............Min. Bid $50
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7. [ART] ALBERT STERNER (1863-1946) American artist. Sterner's influence is seen in the works of both Rockwell Kent and George Bellows; he introduced each of them to the technique of lithography and put them in touch with the master printer/artist Bolton Brown. In 1915, Sterner rallied a group of printmakers together to raise the general quality of American prints. The founders of the Painter-Gravers of America included, along with Sterner, Childe Hassam, Bellows, & George Elmer Brown. He became a member of the National Academy, won a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900; gold medal at Munich in 1905, a bronze at Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and Carnegie Prize in 1941. He was President of Soc. of Illustrators, 1907-09. Offered here is an original lithograph, signed A.S. 1913 in the stone (not pencil signed). Provenance: the Sterner summer home estate sale held 1980s in Mass. We purchased a majority of art works offered in this sale. This particular lithograph is in the size when purchased, approx. 10-3/4 x 7 in. This appears to have been cropped by the artist himself......150-200
8. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) William Cave Thomas (1820-1896) British Artist, generally referred to as Cave Thomas was an English painter of historical, religious and literary subjects, also known as a sculptor and author. ALS, 1876, 2pp. See wiki biography, click here. (2) print 1835 gov. doc. re: Indian Affairs, 2pp. (3) New York Times - 1916 letter sent to Howard L. Blackwell. (4) Phillip J. Philbin - US Congressman from Mass. Telegram sent from Philbin 1946. (5) Brenda Kuhn - daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. Signed bank check 1967. (6) Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Unsigned envelope bearing his name and address. (7) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Three 1945 check subs not signed but in her handwriting. (8) James J. Blanchard - 1984 TLS as Gov. of Michigan [assume autopen signature]. (9) Lyndon B. Johnson - 1973 In Memorian First Cober Cover. Attractive but postage stamp is very defective. (10) The Limerick National Bank [Maine] group of 5 signed checks.............MIN. BID $30
9. MARYLAND CONGRESSMEN - A collection of 44 LS's written by House of Representative members from Maryland. Included are Michael D. Barnes (19), Stephen W. Gambrill (1), Gilbert Gude (6), Steny Hoyer (2), DeWitt S. Hyde (2) Gladys Spellman (2), and Newton Steers 12). Content is routine, mostly responding to constituent letters about specific proposed legislation. Dates range from 1929 to 1985. Steny Hoyer was House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011. He is currently House Minority Whip.........Min. Bid $140
10. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Florence Morse Kingsley (1859-1937) American author of popular and religious fiction. Signature on 3.5 x 2.5 in. card which has darkened somewhat. (2) Dee Barton (1937-2001) American jazz trombonist, big band drummer, and prolific composer for big band and motion pictures. Barton is known for his horror-esque style of composing in action thriller films. He created the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood films Play Misty for Me, and the eerie soundtrack to the 1973 film High Plains Drifter. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG. (3) [AMERICANA] three 1840 manuscript documents dated 1840. Shipping goods from New York to New Orleans. Each about 7.5 x 10 in. These are from the Roland G. Hazard papers. VG (4) George Rice Carpenter (1863-1909) was a noted educator, scholar and author. SIGNATURE, approx. 5 x 2.5 in. VG. (5) John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) English writer. He was a prolific author, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married in 1918 as her second husband, for his friendship with D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot, and for his friendship (and brief affair) with Frieda Lawrence. Following Mansfield's death, Murry edited her work. ALS, 1932, 1p., 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG. (6) [IOWA] William B. Allison (1829-1908) US Congressman and Senator from Iowa. By the 1890s, Allison had become one of the "big four" key Republicans who largely controlled the Senate. Three different Republican presidents asked Allison to join their Cabinet, but Allison declined each offer. A significant number of delegates supported his presidential nomination at the 1888 and 1896 Republican National Conventions. CLIP SIGNATURE on 3 x 1 in. slip. VG. (7) Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. He graduated in 1920 and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1924. He served in the US congress from 1943-1971. Offered here are 3 Western Union telegrams from Philbin & 13 to the congressman. Mostly VG. (8) Joseph E. Brennan - TLS, no date, 1p, as Gov. of Maine. VG (9) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. ..............Min. Bid $65
11. [VERMONT HISTORY] Lewis Richard Morris (1760-1825) United States Representative from Vermont and a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris. Born in Scarsdale, New York, he attended the common schools. He moved to Springfield, Vermont, and from 1781 to 1783 was secretary of foreign affairs. He was a member of the Springfield meeting-house committee in 1785, was tax collector in 1786 and 1787, Windsor County court clerk from 1789 to 1796 and was judge of the same court until 1801. He was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1790 and 1791, and was a member of the convention to ratify the United States Constitution . He was secretary of the constitutional convention in Windsor in 1793. He attended the Vermont ratifying convention in Bennington, where he voted in support of the Constitution. Morris was a brigadier general in the State militia in 1793 and major general of the First Division from 1795 to 1817. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797 and 1803 to 1808, and served as speaker. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1803. His abstention from voting assured Thomas Jefferson's election as President over Aaron Burr in the House of Representatives in February, 1801. DOCUMENT SIGNED, signed twice, 2-1/2 pages folio, Windsor, August 29, 1794. Court document, old damp stains along edge. Approx. 7-1/4 x 12 in. See condition in scan below..........150-200
ImportantGeorgia 1828 Document
12. [CREEK INDIANS] Citizens of Georgia - Claims on Creek Indians, Mr. McLean, Committee on Indian Affairs, printed government document, Rep. No. 128, 20th Congress, 1st Session, February 5, 1828.
This original document was removed from a larger, bound volume, 23 pages, complete in itself. Approx. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. Signed in type by John C. Calhoun and others. The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia's colonial period, Creeks outnumbered both European colonists and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. Not until the 1760s did the Creeks become a minority population in Georgia. They ceded the balance of their lands to the new state in the 1800s. On December 20, 1828, the state legislature of Georgia, fearful that the United States would not enforce (as a matter of federal policy) the removal of the Cherokee people from their historic lands in the state, enacted a series of laws which stripped the Cherokee of their rights under the laws of the state. They intended to force the Cherokee to leave the state. Andrew Jackson, who had long favored removal, was elected US president in 1828, taking office in 1829. Important piece of Georgia's history. Excellent condition..................Min. Bid $50
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13. [JEFF DAVIS] printed gov. document signed in type by Jeff Davis, Sec. of War, Feb. 2, 1857, 2pp. ESTIMATES - BARRACKS AT CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA. Bottom left corner missing o/w VG.........25-35
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14.[JEFF DAVIS] printed gov. document signed in type by Jeff Davis, Sec. of War, March 3, 1856, 9pp. fortifications for proper defence of New York and Brooklyn. VG.........25-35
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15. US Senators - group of 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: McNamara [MI], Long [HI], McClellan [Ark], McGee [WY], Miller [IA], Morse [OR], Moss [UT], Pastore [RI], Prouty [VT], Morton [KY]. All have mounting residue at top & bottom edge. Mostly on verso but with some show-thru.............50-75
16. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Henry Sydnor Harrison (1880–1930) American novelist. In 1914, he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He wrote under the pen name "Henry Second," and made contributions to The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. ALS, 1922. Laid down. (2) Granville Stanley Hall (1846-1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. TLS, 1910 with envelope. Laid down. (3) Henry Gartf Holt (1840-1926) American book publisher and author. SIGNATURE laid down. (4) Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. Signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG. (5) Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author and poet. TLS, 1907, 1p. laid down. (6) Harvey Weiss - archaeologist. Signed bookplate. (7) Unsigned color photo of President Reagan. (8) Socialist Labor Party handout. (9) Ella Rhoads Higginson (c. 1862-1940) American author of award-winning fiction, poetry, and essays characteristically set in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. CLIP SIGNATURE. (10) Edward Grossman - Executive Director of the Guild of Composers and Lyricists. TLS, 1964, 1p. Also signed by Milton Ebbins (1912-2008) show-business manager who was a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House. was a Hollywood insider who directed the careers of actors, musicians and comedians................Min. Bid $50
17. [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) 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. Offered here is a collection of 7 signed bank checks, all 1893. VG................700-900
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18. Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet (1793-1849) Scottish politician and a prominent promoter of Sunday Sabbatarianism, which brought him to the notice of Charles Dickens who criticized both his cause and his character. Agnew was Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire, 1830–1837. He stood as a moderate reformer, but soon became deeply attached to the cause of Sabbatarianism, and pressed for the banning of all secular labour on Sunday. For this purpose he introduced no less than four Sabbath Observance Bills in the Commons, none of which passed. It was the third attempt which drew on him the wrath of Charles Dickens, whose essay Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) is very largely a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. Offered here is a postmarked 1837 address panel signed by Agnew [lower left side]. About 4-3/4 x 3-1/4 in. VG................25-35
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19. [SIGNED BOOK] William Henry Channing (1810-1884) American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher. He graduated from Harvard College in 1829 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1833. He was ordained and installed over the Unitarian church in Cincinnati in 1835. Later he became a leader in a movement of Christian socialism. Channing took active part in the early years of the woman’s rights movement. As minister of the First Unitarian Church of Rochester in 1852, he influenced Susan B. Anthony, a member of his congregation who was a young schoolteacher on the threshold of her career as a women's rights activist. Channing was, in 1863 and 1864, the Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Offered here is a book signed in pencil twice by Channing [light pencil signatures], and signed twice [initials] in ink. Inside front flyleaf he writes "To my friends Anna - Marian - Elizabeth Blackwell - Cincinnati, May 27th 1841. W.H.C." He also writes on the title page "Elizabeth Blackwell W.H.C." Condition: spine is gone, foxing and stains inside on pages. Approx. 5x8 in.........200-300
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20. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) George W. Anderson Jr. (1906-1992) Admiral in the United States Navy and a diplomat. Serving as the Chief of Naval Operations between 1961 and 1963, he was in charge of the US blockade of Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Signed card as Ambassador. Laid down. (2) L. de Sales - Secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. CLIP SIGNATURE. (3) Clifford Davis (1897-1970) Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1940 to 1965. TLS, 1960. Mounting traces verso. (4) Alvin M. Bentley III (1918-1969) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. As a U.S. representative, he made national headlines as one of the wounded of the 1954 United States Capito. (5) George H. Fallon (1902-1980), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 4th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1971. Signed card. Mounting traces verso. (6) [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, 1902 bank check. (7) [CHIEF OF REVENUE AGENTS DURING WORLD WAR I] JOHN DONAHOE MURPHY (1885-1949). Lawman, Chief of revenue agents, U.S. Treasury, Washington, D. C., 1918. Murphy went on to serve as partner, Lewis, Murphy & Co.. accountants and tax consultants (1919-26); among his other duties. SCARCE SIGNED BANK CHECK, 1918, The Riggs National Bank, Washington, DC. (8) Unsigned Jimmy Carter Jan. 20, 1977 Inauguration cover. Attractive & clean. (9) John Skelton Williams (1865-1926) United States Comptroller of the Currency from 1914 to 1921 and the first president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. CLIP SIGNATURE..............Min. Bid $45
21. [FRANCE] 1774 autograph letter signed by the Chaplain for Louis XVI, the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. When his father died of tuberculosis on 20 December 1765, the eleven-year-old Louis-Auguste became the new Dauphin. His mother never recovered from the loss of her husband and died on 13 March 1767, also from tuberculosis. The strict and conservative education he received from the Duc de La Vauguyon, "gouverneur des Enfants de France" (governor of the Children of France), from 1760 until his marriage in 1770, did not prepare him for the throne that he was to inherit in 1774 after the death of his grandfather, Louis XV. Throughout his education, Louis-Auguste received a mixture of studies particular to religion, morality, and humanities. His instructors may have also had a good hand in shaping Louis-Auguste into the indecisive king that he became. Abbé Berthier, his instructor, taught him that timidity was a value in strong monarchs, and Abbé Soldini, his confessor, instructed him not to let people read his mind. The letter offered here was written by Soldini. Not translated. 2pp, approx. 6-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. Fine............150-250
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22. Gabriel-Marie Garrone (1901-1994) Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. Signed card 6-1/4 x 4-1/2 in. Fine..............50-75
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23. [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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24. [FRANCE] PIERRE DESCAVES - believe he was the French radio critic. Four [4] pages of notes [unsigned] in the hand of Descaves referring to Jean Cocteau. PLUS 3 ephemeral pieces related to Cocteau: 1930 1p. printed page by Cocteau on Opium; small theatre program picturing him; 2-page flyer about him.................50-75
25. 1812 BURLINGTON, VT Postmark TAYLOR Family Letter "Spotted Fever" FAMILY RECORD. Offered here is a rare 3pp. ALS (stampless cover, with a black Burlington Vermont oval postmark and manuscript rate), 7 1/2" x 12 3/4" (folded sheet), dated Burlington March 21st 1812, sent to Miss Priscilla Taylor in GreenBush N York, signed your affectionate sister Dorothy Netter(?), and with the third page addressed to Miss Electa Taylor. This letter has fine personal content: "... we have a large body of snow upon the ground now and I fear we shall have a late spring... I have had several opportunitys of sending your things as far as Troy but I was fearful of your getting them Capt Earle has been at troy this winter but I did not know it until he returned... the spotted fever has got to Mr. Jason Rogers Mr Rogers Brothers wife is sick with it but is likely to recover that young woman that lived at Mr Huberts died with the same in ten hours after she was taken..." Folds (some wear), edge tear, toning, seal tear/ hole affect one word, otherwise quite good; WITH two "Family Record" pages, 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", extracted from some Bible, related to this Taylor family-- giving birth / death dates of several family members (going back to 1748; the author of this letter died in 1833); disbound, small edge tears, toning-- quite good overall. A scarce combination !.................150-200
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26. [MEDIEVAL FRANCE] Offered here is a Medieval document written on vellum [parchment]. Identification that comes with this document says that the date is 1457 [which we can't see]. Approx. 11.5 x 5 in. Not translated but ID says it was signed by André de Laval-Montmorency, seigneur de Lohéac (c. 1408 – 1485) was a Marshal of France. He was the son of Guy XIII de Laval and Anne de Laval, and a leading member of the House of Laval. In 1423 he served in the French army against England, wielding the sword of Bertrand du Guesclin, a symbol of Breton support for France. He had inherited the sword from his maternal grandmother, Jeanne de Laval, who was the widow of the famous constable. In 1428 André was taken prisoner by John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, after the capitulation of Laval, which he was defending. After paying his ransom he was present with Joan of Arc at the siege of Orléans, at the Battle of Patay, and at the coronation of Charles VII. He was made admiral of France in 1437 and marshal in 1439. He served Charles VII faithfully in all his wars, even against the dauphin (1456), and when the latter became king as Louis XI, Laval was dismissed from the marshal's office. After the War of the Public Weal he was restored to favor, and recovered the marshal's baton, the king also granting him the offices of lieutenant-general to the government of Paris and governor of Picardy, and conferring upon him the collar of the Order of St Michael. In 1472 Laval was successful in resisting the attacks of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, on Beauvais. Very good condition for its age.............400-600
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27. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention Nationale, 28 July 1791, 2-pages, signed inprint Duport for the King, 6-1/2 x 8-1/2". Concerns Principaute de Sedan. Very fresh condition..........80-120
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28. [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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29. [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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30. [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
31. [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
32. [THEATRE] Ludwig Barnay (1842-1924) German stage actor. He traveled as a “star,” visiting London in 1881 with the Meiningen Court Company, and in 1882 making a successful tour of the United States. From 1887 to 1894 he managed his Berliner Theater in Berlin. Offered here is a few lines and his signature, the backside of a 1885 letter written by him. The front side has been cropped at the bottom. Approx. 5 x 4 in....................25-35
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34. [AVIATION] Frank Datin (?-1929)
On October 4, 1929 a bit of aviation history took place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, when the Grube Airport officially opened and the first airmail from that airport was flown; Transcontinental Air Mail Service Datin flew 2,200 letters to Pittsburgh, 300 of them signed by him; two days later he died in a biplane crash during a stunt exhibition at Ebensberg, Pennsylvania. Signed Postal Card, heavy stock 9 x 5 in., 1929. Addressed to Mr. G.L. Peebler [?]. Very good. Mild bit of wear. One side of this large picture postcard depicts a typical airplane of the day (likely a Transcontinental Air Mail Service plane) soaring amidst a cloudy sky. The message side bears the 5-cent "Air Mail" stamp and a McKeesport, Pennsylvania cancellation of 1929. The message portion bears a finely printed note: "Dear Sir: -- It was my privilege to carry your Air Mail yesterday. Thanks very kindly for your patronage. My reward will be your continued use of the Air Mail." Above the closing word "Pilot," Datin signs in black ink. A handsome and decorative piece, with a two large blue and red stripes running horizontally across the top with "VIA AIR MAIL" printed between. The record shows that special airmail envelopes were selling well on that day at the dedication -- presumably this very type of commemorative card bearing this special one-day-only cancellation. This would have been one of the 300 items signed by Datin flown on that very day. Ironically, by the time this was further cancelled in McKeesport, Datin had been dead for two days. A most unusual and scarce aviation and philatelic item.................Min. Bid $50
35. [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
3 6. [MAINE] Shipbuilding in Maine, a 1825 document from Steuben [Maine], buying oak planks wood, signed by Mark Wilson (1782-1866) and Moses Colson (1782-1860). Approx. 7-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. VG..................50-75
37. 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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38. [FILM] Edra Jean "E. J." Peaker (b. 1944) is an American actress. Peaker is best known for her appearances in the movie Hello Dolly! and in the TV musical series That's Life. Signed page on which she makes 3 sketches. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. Five.............Min. Bid $10
See above39. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1993) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. Signed, inscribed page from publication, 8.5 x 11"........Min. bid $10
See Raye40. Herman Merivale CB (1806-1874) English civil servant and historian. In 1859 he was transferred to the permanent under-secretaryship for India, receiving the distinction of CB. In 1870, Merivale was awarded the degree of DCL by Oxford University. Signed hand-addressed envelope, 5 x 3-1/4 in. VG.................35-45
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41. [BRITISH] Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869) British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and, to date, the longest-serving leader of the Conservative Party. CLIP SIGNATURE plus original vintage cvd photograph. The signature is only about 1-2/2 x 3/4 in. Photo in VG. Photographer was Mayall.................50-75
42. [ART] Original c. 1900 ink drawing signed F.B.B. Paper size is about 5.5 x 10 in.............Min. Bid $15
43. [ART] Original c. 1900 ink drawing signed F.B.B. Paper size is about 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 in.............Min. Bid $15
44. [BOOK] Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Frederick Warne and Co. N.D., London. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name written inside on flyleaf - Carolyn Virginia Martindale, Christmas 1911. We believe Carolyn was about 10 years old when she signed her book. Carolyn Virginia Martindale (1901-1985) was born on 4 February 1901, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Pennell Martindale, was 42 and her mother, Lena Haines Wilson, was 28. She married Virgil Roy Parker on 20 October 1926, in Oxford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Lower Oxford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Rising Sun, Cecil, Maryland, United States in 1920. She died on 31 January 1985, in Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Forest Hill Memorial Park, Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States..................Min. Bid $100
45. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, KG PC FRS (1815-1891), styled Lord Leveson until 1846, was a British Liberal statesman from the Leveson-Gower family. In a political career spanning over 50 years, he was thrice Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, led the Liberal Party in the House of Lords for almost 30 years and was joint Leader of the Liberal Party between 1875 and 1880. Signed address panel, postmarked 1861. The postage stamp is there. (2) Morgan Dix (1827-1908) American Episcopal Church priest, theologian, and religious author. ALS, 1893, 3pp. (3) Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs KBE (1877-1962) English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. ALS, 1912, 1-1/2 pp. (4) Francis C. Le Blond (1821-1902) US Congressman from Ohio. Signed Free Frank Signature. (5) William Wirt (1772-1834) American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence. He was the longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history. Antique steel-engraved portrait. (6) Bi-Centennial Celebration of George Washington's Birthday, 1932 program, 2pp. (7) Matthew H. Carpenter (1824-1881) US Senator from Wisc. SIGNATURE. (8)Jimmy Carter - 1977 Inauguration cover [not signed]. (9) Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) Springfield businessman, friend & pallbearer at Lincoln's funeral. 1868 letter to Bunn [not signed by him]. (10) Sir Benjamin Hobhouse (1757-1831) English politician. CLIP SIGNATURE, 1818. (11) 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 1967 bank check. (12) John Armstrong Smith (1814-1892) US Congressman from Ohio. CLIP SIGNATURE. Not a great example. (13) Ross R. Mowry (1882-1957) State senator from Iowa. At the time of his death, Mr. Mowry was considered to be probably the greatest historian living in Jasper County. He was a political consultant to Herbert Hoover. U.S. district attorney, appointed by President Coolidge [1924-32]. Prosecuted Keith Collins & Fred Poffenbarger for 2 million dollar train robbery at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and secured their conviction in 1925. Signed 1940 bank document. Signed twice. (14) Philip Philbin - US congressman from Mass. 1950 telegram. (15) [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, 1897 bank check...............Min. Bid $50
46. [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! ..........400-600
47. 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
48. [FROM KUHN ESTATE] Mark Hanna (1917-2003) American screenwriter and actor. He was known for writing the screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s, particularly Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. His first major screenplay was Gunslinger in 1956. He continued to be prolific through the mid-1960s, after which his film credits become sporadic. His last screenplay was for Star Portal in 1998, five years before his death from stroke complications. TLS, 1943, 1p, to the artist Walt Kuhn, who is at Ogunquit, Maine in September. Says............it must be delightful in Maine - read reviews of LAUGH TIME vaude show which opened at the Shubert - terrific raves - helluva good list of acts includes Ethel Waters, Frank Fay & Bert Wheeler - will get tickets for you, Lily [Cushing - Kuhn painted her portrait] & myself - maybe Hope Richardson can make it a foursome. 7-3/4 x 10 in. VG..................50-75
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49. [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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50. [ART] A.B. GRIFFITH - caricature ink drawing of the actress Jean Arthur, signed and dated 1939. About 10-1/4 x 7 in. VG..............Min. Bid $40
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51. [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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52. 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
53. [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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54. [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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55. [WALT KUHN] misc. items from the estate of Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the American artist Walt Kuhn. Includes: (1) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) retained pencil letter written to Larry Salander about the painting CIRUS RING by Walt Kuhn. The letter confirms the painting's authenticity. (2) An internet page showing the sale of this painting at Christie's auction in 2015. It fetched $62,500. (3) Brenda Kuhn signed 1965 bank check. (4) Retained copy of the typed authentication letter sent to Salander-O'Railly Gallery, NYC, dated 1986. (5) A 1948 photograph of Brenda Kuhn likely taken by her father Walt or mother Vera. Rare. (6) Snapshot photo of Kuhn painting WRESTLER 1933 [in Kunin Collection, Minn.]. (7) Snapshot of Kuhn painting GRENADIER which sold at Christie's Auction for $209,000. (8) Albert Wordley 1940 letter to Ringling Bros. - Barnum & Bailey Shows asking for permission for Walt Kuhn to go behind the scenes and make some sketches like he was allowed to do in New York. By now you know from our auctions who Walt Kuhn was.................Min. Bid $50
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56. [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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57. [FRANCE] Old French manuscript page, ca. late 18th century [could be earlier], about Henry IV, French King at Folembray Castle in Laon. Identification with this says "About Jeanne de Flandres and Rites of funerals in Laon in 1320 and 1658 [whatever this means???]. Approx. 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Very fine...........75-100
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58. [PRISON REFORM] RARE letter by LOUIS DWIGHT (1793-1854) American Philanthropist. He graduated from Yale in 1813, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1819. He was prevented from preaching because of weak lungs, caused by inhaling a gas during a college chemical lecture. In 1824 he married Louisa Willis, sister of N.P. Willis, the poet. In that same year [1824] he embarked on a six month horseback ride for his health distributing Bibles among prison inmates in various states. The abuses that became known to him led to the formation in 1825 of the Prison Discipline Society, of which he was the practical manager until his death, effecting many needed reforms. In 1846 he visited Europe and inspected prisons there. The 29 annual reports published by Dwight contained a vast amount of valuable information not to be found elsewhere. Offered here is a ALS, Andover [Mass], 1822, 4pp. Written to Rev. Alfred Ely (1778-1866) who was born in West Springfield, MA. Ely worked as a clerk in Springfield and Hartford, CT before graduating from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1804. In 1806, Alfed Ely was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Monson, MA, where he remained until his death in 1866. Ely was named as a trustee in the founding charter of Amherst College and served as a trustee from 1825 to 1854. Excellent content letter. VG..................200-300
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59. [ART] John Austin Sands Monks (1850-1917) American painter and etcher. Monks studied art and etching techniques in New York under George Inness. These two artists shared the same studio for many years. J. A. S. Monks devoted his art almost exclusively to animal depictions, particularly sheep. He was a full member of the Salamina Club, the New York Etching Club, the Boston Art Club and the Copely Society. Original etching, Feeding Sheep, plate signed, image approx. 4-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. plus clean margins. Fine................200-300
60.[ART] Robert Swain Gifford (1840-1905) American landscape painter. He was influenced by the Barbizon school. Much of his work focuses on the landscapes of New England, where he was born. He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. His painting from the island, "Pettes Cove," is illustrative of his masterful marine work. In the 1870s, he undertook several journeys to Europe and the Middle East and painted some subjects from those regions. In 1899, he was an artist on the famous Harriman Alaska Expedition. Some of his works hang in the most prominent galleries in the USA, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. He was a member of the Society of American Artists. Original etching, signed in the plate, c. 1879, image approx. 7 x 5 in. plus clean margins. Title is Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass. VG................200-300
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61. [EARLY FILM]] Anita Page (1910-2008) American film actress who reached stardom in the final years of the silent film era. Page returned to acting sixty years later in 1996, and appeared in four films in the 2000s. She was the leading lady to Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable (among others) and during the early 1930s, she was one of Hollywood's busiest actresses. ALS, 1982, 1p, 5 x 7 in. accompanied by unsigned photo showing her in her prime. VG................50-75
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62. [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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63. [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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64. [GERMANY] Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) German film director and actress. Hitler was in close collaboration with Riefenstahl during the production of at least three important Nazi films, and they formed a friendly relationship. Offered here is a receipt document from the Munich Agfa Co., issued to Leni Riefenstahl Product. She bought photo papers. She has signed with initials "L.R." and wrote "paid with Post check on 29.11.74". Approx. 8x12 in. VG..............80-120
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65. [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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66. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore of Mass. ORIGINAL drawing, not signed, c/ 1980. This is a Gloucester Harbor scene. Paper size approx. 9 x 7 in. VG................50-75
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Original Etching By German Expressionist 67. [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
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68. [ART] JOSEPH LAUBER (1855-1948) American artist. Original etching , "Head of an Old Man" printed on fine nineteenth century laid paper and with full margins as published in 1881 by George Wistar Hodge Ritchie. It is signed and dated by the artist in the plate to the lower right. An American mural painter, etcher, sculptor, stained glass and mosaic artist, Joseph Lauber came to the United States at the age of nine. He studied art techniques in New York under Karl Muller, Walter Shirlaw and W. M. Chase. Joseph Lauber was a full member of the Mural Painters, New York Architectural League (1889), Artists' Fellowship Inc. (president), Salmagundi Club (1902) and the New York Etching Club. During his career Joseph Lauber was the recipient of many awards and medals, including awards at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) and Atlanta (1895). Joseph Lauber also served as the long time Instructor of Art at Columbia University, New York City. In 1883 the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Boston, held a major exhibition of contemporary American art. Plate mark is approx. 5 x 3-1/2 in. Fine..................100-150
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69. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1] Pauline [Ducruet] Augustine [1781-1865] French painter of miniature paintings. She was the wife of the famous French artist of miniature paintings, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. He married his pupil and assistant Madeleine Pauline Ducruet, some of whose works are often not easy to distinguish from his own. Offered here is a rare ALS, 1835, 1p, approx. 8 x 9". She speaks about miniatures. VG. [2]Virginie Demont-Breton [1859-1935] British artist. She was the daughter & student of Jules Breton; wife of painter Adrien Demont. She won a gold medal at the Universal Exposition of Amsterdam in 1883. She was President of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptresses; she was named Officer of the Legion of Honor. ALS, no date, 2pp, excellent condition. In French. [3] FERNAND VANDEREM [b. 1864] Fr. literary man. He was a novelist & reporter. ALS, 1906, 1p. [4] Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (1755-1839) French archaeologist and writer on art. ALS, Paris, 1819, written on both sides. Edge-tipped to another sheet. [5] BEATRICE BRETTY - famous French actress. ALS, [1932], 1p., to the actress Tania Fedor. [6] Pierre] ARTHUR PONROY [b. 1816] Fr. dramatist, poet, historian. Lengthy 4pp. ALS. Interesting content about literature. [7] HENRI TISOT - Fr. actor. ALS, Paris, 1959, on both sides. To Director of La Comédie-Française asking to forgive him for missing a show. In the comedy movie The Fuhrer runs amok by Philippe Clair, Henri Tisot stars stars socceras Hitler who challenges other European countries in matches. VG. [8] GEORGES DOUAY - Parisian man-about-town, theatre fan, and composer of songs and operettas. ALS, 1893, 1p. [9] César Campinchi (1882-1941) French statesman in the beginning of the 20th century. Campinchi was president of the Association générale des étudiants de Paris student organisation, a member of the Radical Socialist Party and deputy for Corsica from 1932 to 1940. He carried out the functions of the Keeper of the seals and presented the Campinchi proposal concerning the protection of minors in 1937. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 7 in. Speaks about politics and Bernstein. Fine. [10] Nicolas Levasseur (1791-1871) French bass, particularly associated with Rossini roles. Levasseur was considered without rivals in his time, possessing a voice of remarkable beauty and grandeur. ALS, 1854, 1p., 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG.........200-300
70. [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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71. [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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72. [COLONIAL] William Vaughan (1703-1746) He graduated from Harvard College in 1722. Circa 1735, he was a ship's Captain, and captured pirates of the Caribbean. He served in the England U.K. Royal Army 1745-1746 attaining Colonel U.K. Army Colonel William Vaughan served in a New England colonial force, aided by a British fleet, during the Siege of Louisbourg, in 1745, when they captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island), during the War of the Austrian Succession, known, in the British colonies, as King George's War. He died circa December, 1746, in London, England, where he went after the Battle of Louisbourg, and became ill. He was buried in New Hampshire. Colonel William Vaughan was a chief organizer of the Louisbourg expedition and son of Lieutenant Governor Vaughan of New Hampshire province. Offered here is a 2-1/2 page document dated 1727, signed by Mark Hunting [twice]. Also signed twice by Eleazer Russell. We believe that it is a later 18th century copy of William Vaughan selling property to George Walker. Very good condition esp. for its age.................200-300
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73 [AMERICANA] Samuel Penhallow (1722-1813) from Portsmouth, New Hampshire he was a highly respected local magistrate and deacon of the North Church, Penhallow lived here for more than 60 years. As a judge, he was known for his swift and impartial dispensation of the law. Autograph Document Signed, 1803, 1p. Rockingham County, NH court case of theft. About 7 x 5-3/4 in. VG...............50-75
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74. [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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75. [KENTUCKY - ILLINOIS] Ninian Edwards (1775-1833) was a founding political figure and slave owner of the State of Illinois. He served as the first and only governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to until the territory was dissolved in 1818. He was then one of the first two United States Senators from the State of Illinois from 1818 to 1824, and the third Governor of Illinois from 1826 to 1830. In a time and place where personal coalitions were more influential than parties, Edwards led one of the two main factions in frontier Illinois politics. Offered is a a rare early signed court document from this years as a lawyer or judge in Kentucky. There is a 1801 [3rd line] on first page. Many condition problems: looks like the bottom half it missing; partial separation at folds; stains etc. This comes from the Christopher Bush papers, Elizabethtown, Ky. The daughter of Christopher Bush, Sarah, became the step-mother of Abraham Lincoln.................400-600
76. [MAINE] Thomas Cutts (1736-1821) early and important figure in Saco, Maine history. The ninth of ten children, Thomas could not expect to inherit a large amount of wealth. At the age of twenty-two, backed with a hundred dollars on loan from his father, he settled in Saco, quickly repaying that debt. Recognizing the important location of what would become Cutts Island, in the middle of the Saco River between two growing towns, he began to buy up land, securing a small piece in 1759, only a year after he arrived in town. He did do a fabulous job of making money. He bought vast tracts of land. He was a founder of the Saco Bank. He formed the Saco Iron Works Company that made huge quantities of nails and much more. See the last link below for more biography of Cutts. Offered here is a ALS, 1811, Saco, 1 full page plus address leaf on verso, addressed to Capt. Samuel Nye (1777-1826) Served in the War of 1812 as a Major in the 3rd regiment of the US Artillery. In 1812 he enlisted in the 3rd Regiment, US Artillery. "Samuel's regiment had been doubled in size early in 1812 in order to man defensive batteries on the shore of lake Ontario. During his three years in uniform, he served in New York State as a doctor. His worn set of surgical instruments may still be seen at York Institute in Saco. He may also have practiced medicine at times after the war, but his correspondence reveals that he was primarily in business. Nye married the daughter of Thomas Cutts. VG...................100-150
77. SPIRIT RATIONS IN THE NAVY - 1854 Resolutions of The Legislature of Maine in favor of Abolishing the spirit rations in the United States Navy. printed gov. document No. 69, House of Rep., 33d Congress, 1st Session, May 5, 1854. 1p. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG............25-35
78. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Augustus Richard Elwood (1819-1881) American merchant and politician from New York. ALS, 1873 Richfield Springs, NY, 1p. to Nelson Hopkins on his election. (2) Douglas Volk (1856-1935) Am. artist. He was one of eight American artists commissioned by the National Art Committee to depict major figures from the Great War (World War I). Signed 1922 bank check. (3) Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, (1814-1906) a prominent British Conservative politician, a moderate, middle-of-the road Anglican. He held cabinet office in every Conservative government between 1858 and 1892 and notably served as Home Secretary from 1867 to 1868 and as Secretary of State for War from 1874 to 1878. ALS, 1883, 1p. written in the 3rd person signed Viscount Cranbrook. Bottom corner edge missing. (4) [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 National Bank check, 1899. VG (5) Martin Van Buren - 1840 gov. doc. signed in type re: Mint at New Orleans. (6) Socialist Labor Party flyer WAR...WHY? c. 1950s. (7) Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) Springfield businessman, friend & pallbearer at Lincoln's funeral. 1877 Harrisburg National Bank document made out to Bunn [not signed by him]. (8) Horace Silliman (1825-1910) businessman and philanthropist. He gave a $10,000 gift to start Silliman Institute, which later became Silliman University, in Dumaguete City, Philippines. CLIP SIGNATURE..............Min. Bid $50
79. [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
80. MITZI GAYNOR - actress. Sig/inscribed 6x4 picture. VG...............Min. Bid $8
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81. 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
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82. [ENGLAND] June 17, 1619 document, LIONEL WRIGHT, executor of the will of Richard Wright, deceased, lately collector of the imposition on tobacco, pays the balance outstanding for two years and 46 days ending Aug. 9, 1617. Richard Wright had also been paymaster of the forces in the Low Countries. Odd size - 15 x 1-1/2 in. On vellum..............Min. Bid $20
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83. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Ross R. Mowry (1882-1957) State senator from Iowa. At the time of his death, Mr. Mowry was considered to be probably the greatest historian living in Jasper County. He was a political consultant to Herbert Hoover. U.S. district attorney, appointed by President Coolidge [1924-32]. Prosecuted Keith Collins & Fred Poffenbarger for 2 million dollar train robbery at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and secured their conviction in 1925. Signed 1952 bank document. (2) Isadore Horwitz - President Congregation Habonim, Chicago, Ill. TLS, 1961, to Rabbi Frederick Salomon [sp. Soloman]. Solomon was a noted artist and Rabbi. (3) Brenda Kuhn - daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. Signed bank check 1966. (4) Henry H. Klein (1879-1955) Lawyer, writer, distributor of antisemitic literature. Investigator for the City of New York in the 1920s. Published books, newspapers, and brochures on corruption and graft. Sought impeachment of Franklin D. Roosevelt and other political figures. Wrote anti-Zionist and antisemitic works about the threat of international Jewish influence. ALS, 1947, 1p. signed with initials. (5) Orra L. Stone - 1950 TLS to Congressman Philip Philbin. (6) Geo. R. Hall - 1868 order sent to Singer Sewing Co. (7) 6 bank checks from The Limerick National Bank [Maine] 1915-20. (8) MILITIA OF THE US, 1840 printed gov. doc. (9) Original steroptican card [photo] 1880s of Boston Post office. (10) 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. (11) Myron Cohen (1902-1986) American comedian and raconteur. Unsigned vintahe 8x10 photo taken by Harry Adler............Min. Bid $50
84. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. Signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG. (2) Gene Arnstein - VP of Society of Independent Producers. Ink signed 1965 memo. (3) Souvenir Map of World's 1940 Fair. (4) E.B. Rideout - Meteorologist. TLS, 1937. (5) Dr. Jose C. Montero - assisted in removal of a live shell from a soldier's body during the Spanish Civil War. Signature. (6) Singer Sewing Machine 1871 letter. (7) Philip Philbin - Mass. congressman. 1944 telegram. (8) Post Offices in Vermont - 1850 printed gov. doc. (9) Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) Springfield businessman, friend & pallbearer at Lincoln's funeral. 1872 letter to Bunn [not signed by him].First National Bank of Elgin. (10) [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. Calais, Maine, 1905 bank check. The signature is not Rounds - its an estate signature...........Min. Bid $50
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85. [CONFEDERATE] Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897) North Carolina merchant, soldier, railroad official, and legislator, born in Morganton. Before the civil war he was involved with the Western North Carolina Railroad. In 1861, after the outbreak of war, Tate volunteered for service in the Confederate army and was appointed captain of Company D, Sixth North Carolina Regiment. Commissioned and promoted to the rank of major on 20 May 1862, he was advanced to lieutenant colonel on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg. There he assumed command of the Sixth North Carolina Regiment after the death of Colonel Isaac E. Avery and led his troops up Cemetery Hill and in the battle on Seminary Ridge. Tate continued to command the Sixth regiment until the close of the war. When the Civil War ended, Tate made his way back to Morganton, where the stockholders of the Western North Carolina Railroad elected him to the presidency of the disorganized and bankrupt organization. Offered here is 1885 bill head document made out to Col. Tate [not signed by him]. 8-1/4 x 4-1/4 in. VG.............25-35 Min. Bid $10
86. [ART] A two color letterpress card, Merry Christmas! signed in plate: Walt Kuhn 1947. 5-1/2 x 4 in. on heavy paper, deckle edge at bottom. An original design of a clown with top hat, holding a small Christmas tree by the American painter, Walt Kuhn (1877-1949). No inscription recto or verso. In very good condition. In 1990 the Midtown Payson Galleries in NYC held an exhibition of artist's Christmas cards. They selected Walt Kuhn's 1947 card for the cover of the brochure. We are only offering the Christmas card here - not the exhibition brochure or invitation. Just the Christmas card.............25-35
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87. [ART] Merv Slotnick [b. 1941] American artist living in Maine. His work is in many collections throughout the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, France, China, Belgium, etc. His work has been included in exhibitions at New York University; Maine Biennial; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Mansfield State College, Pa.; Ball State Univ.; Edison Community College, Cape Coral, Florida; Center For The Arts, Midland, Michigan; Central Michigan Univ.; Saginaw Art Museum; Provincetown Art Association; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Battle Creek Arts Center, Mich.; All Michigan Artists Traveling Show [1970-73] which traveled to various colleges & universities in Michigan; Northern Arizona Univ.; Alaska Pacific Univ., plus others. Abstract expressionist and printmaker Slotnick was born in Lansing, Michigan, and received degrees from Adrian College, Central Michigan University, with additional work at Michigan State University. Slotnick was one of only 50 artists invited to exhibit in 2003's 'SANCTUARY' Exhibition at the Nobel Peace Prize forum held in the U.S. to honor the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize. Two examples of Slotnick's work were exhibited in AMERICAN WORKS ON PAPER. The painter has also been honored to have had Virginia Mecklenburg (Head Curator, Painting & Sculpture, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian) selected one of his works on paper for inclusion in the 16th Visual Arts Association National. Offered here is an original signed color digital print, unlimited edition, image 6-1/2 x 4-3/8" plus margins. Overall 11 x 8.5. The Title: Marcel Duchamp. VG.................50-75
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88. 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
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Douglas Volk artist 50 signed checks89. [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
90. [FILM] Billy Bob Thornton (b. 1955- ) American actor. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35
See above91. Dick Van Patten (1928-2015) American actor, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television sitcom Eight is Enough. He began work as a child actor and was successful on the New York stage, appearing in more than a dozen plays as a teenager. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG...........25-35
92. [ART] Charles Henry White (1878-1918) was born at Hamilton, Ontario, and was educated partly in Europe and partly in the United States. He studied for a time at the Art Student League in New York City, working at illustrations and especially pen drawing. It was Joseph Pennell, the prominent American etcher, whom Mr. White met in Venice, Italy, in 1901, who induced him to take up etching. Original etching, plate signed, [1903], tissue guard still attached, image approx. 3-1/4 x 4-7/8" plus margins. VG.........50-75
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93. (HOLLYWOOD/ENTERTAINERS LOT) FRANCES H. STERNHAGEN (b. 1930) ALS (1982) 2pp with SIGNED inscribed 4x5 photo signed on verso. GEORGE GRIZZARD (1928-2007) Actor SIGNED pencil sketch portrait 7x9. CARLETON CARPENTER (b. 1926) Actor, Novelist. ANS on printed sheet that lists his novels. ROBERT STACK (1919-2003) Actor. SIGNED magazine photograph 8x10. BILL MACY (1922-2019) Actor. ANS (1901). CHITA RIVERA (b. 1933) Actress, Dancer, Singer. SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph. DANA ANDREWS (1909-1992) Actor. SIGNED inscribed 5x7 photograph. VICTOR BORGE (1909-2000) Danish Comedian, Pianist. SIGNED 5x7 card with unsigned 8x11 Hirshfeld print. CAROL BRUCE (1919-2007) Actress, Singer. ANS with her “initials” on personal stationary.............Min. Bid $75
94. (THEATER NOTABLES LOT) FANNY JANANSCHECK (1830-1904) Bohemian Actress. SIGNED CARD. THOMAS WALLACE KEENE (1840-1898) Actor. SIGNATURE, with sentiment. ANTON LANG (1875-1938) German Actor in the Oberammergau and Noted German Potter, Artist. SIGNED postcard portrait of him working on his pottery. WILLIAM HART CRANE (1845-1928) Actor. SIGNATURE, with sentiment. DAME IRENE VANBRUGH (1872-1949) Actress. ALS (1927) signed “Irene”. THE DUNCAN SISTERS ROSETTA DUNCAN (1894-1959) VIVIAN DUNCAN (1897-1986) SIGNED 4x6 photo of them as Little Eva and Topsy (signed by Vivian “Sincerely yours, Topsy and Eva Duncan Sisters. FLORENCE GEORGE (1917-1998) Actress known for her stage and film roles. TLS (1939). GERTIE MILLAR (1879-1952) English Actress and singer mostly in Edwardian comedies SIGNED (light signature) postcard photograph............MIN. BID $50
95. [MARYLAND] Thomas Swann (1809-1883) American politician. Initially a Know-Nothing, and later a Democrat, he served as the 19th Mayor of Baltimore (1856–1860), later as the 33rd Governor of Maryland (1866–1869), and subsequently as U.S. Representative ("Congressman") from Maryland's 3rd congressional district and then 4th congressional district (1869–1879), representing the Baltimore area. Offered here is a State of Maryland document signed, 1868, approx. 15-3/4 x 10-1/2 in. Also signed by J.M. Carter, Sec. of State. Folds otherwise Fine..............80-120
96. 1828 MA Governor LEVI LINCOLN Appoints JAMES AUSTIN Ensign but Austin Declines! Offered here is a 1p. partly-printed DS, 15 1/2 x 10 in., dated July 3, 1828, a Commonwealth of Massachusetts militia appointment, wherein James J. Austin of Boston is elected "... Ensign, of a Company of Light Infantry, annexed to the first Regiment, in the third Brigade, and first Division of the Militia of this Commonwealth...," signed Levi Lincoln [Governor] and Edward D. Bangs [Secretary], and on the verso signed Aaron Capen Maj. Gen.l, noting that Austin "... refuses to accept [the commission]..." Folds (several breaks/ small paper losses, now with tape repair on verso), minor edge wear, light toning, fine paper seal-- overall quite good. LEVI LINCOLN, JR. (1782 –1868) was an American lawyer and politician from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the 13th Governor of Massachusetts (1825–1834) and represented the state in the U.S. Congress (1834–1841). Lincoln's nine-year tenure as governor is the longest consecutive service in state history; only Michael Dukakis (12 years), John Hancock (11 years) and Caleb Strong (10 years) served more years, but they were not consecutive.
AARON CAPEN (1796-1866) was the great-great-grandson of Samuel Capen, the brother of Reverend Joseph Capen. He became a major general in the Massachusetts Militia at age 32, the youngest to attain that rank. Later in life, Aaron Capen was in the lumber business on the Kennebec River in Maine......................125-175
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97. [ART] WALT KUHN (1877-1949), American painter. After studying in many European countries, he helped organize the famous Armory Show (International Exhibition of Modern Art, New York City, 1913). He is noted chiefly for his vigorous studies of circus performers, chorines, and trapeze athletes. His Blue Clown (1931, Whitney Museum, New York City) is the most popular example of his work. He also did a number of brilliant still lifes, as well as designs for musical reviews. Kuhn helped introduce the techniques and theories of modern art to the American public and to many American artists. Offered here are twenty-seven handwritten letters- twenty-five [25] letters are from 1943, one is 1940 & the last is 1948, the year before Walt died. Most are two pages on 8 x 11 in. sheets. The majority of the letters were written from Ogunquit, Maine where the Kuhn's owned a home with a studio. At the end of 1948 he had a nervous breakdown. In some of his letters he starts to wonder about his mental abilities. Walts' letters run the gamut of town gossip to art gossip mentioning names of artists who summered in Ogunquit, war activity near Ogunquit off Boone Island, descriptions of the areas where he paints, his feelings about tourists, how his painting is going, his art patrons and dealers. A Colliers article about Walts' paintings is mentioned in a few letters and a copy of the article goes with the group. One letter is answering a question from a Chicago woman about a version of the 1913 Armory Show held there. The only archive of Kuhn's letters still in private hands......12,000-18,000
98. [Americana] 4 Bills of Lading printed on one sheet, 1838 concerning goods being shipped by Rowland G. Hazard in New York harbor bound for New Orleans. Approx. 8-1/4 x 10-1/4 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. VG............Min. Bid $10
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99. [PORTRAIT] Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865) popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney. Original antique engraved portrait of Sigourney, image approx. 3.5 x 4.5 plus wide margins. VG...........25-35
100. [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
101. [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 3102. [Country Music] Charlie Pride (1934-2020) American country music singer. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo..........50-75
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103. [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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104.. [FILM] Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977) American actor. Unsigned vintage 1925 photograph, 5x7 in. The signature is printed. VG................Min. Bid $9
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105. [BALLET] Dame Merle Park (b. 1937) prima ballerina. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1954 and became a soloist in 1958. In her career, she was partnered by Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Signed color 5x7 photo. VG.............40-60
106. [NOBEL] THOMAS CECH - American Chemist. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discoveries about the catalytic properties of RNA. SIGNED 4x6 photograph............25-35
Ellis Island Designs 107. Edward L. Tilton (1861-1933) American architect, with a practice in New York City, where he was born. He specialized in the design of libraries, such as the Olean Public Library and Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), two of about a hundred libraries, many of them Carnegie libraries, that he designed in the United States and Canada, and structures for educational institutions. He and the partner that he met in Paris, William A. Boring, won a competition in 1897 to design the first phase of new buildings for the U.S. Immigration Station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor : the Main Building (1897-1900), Kitchen and Laundry Building (1900-01), Main Powerhouse (1900-01), and the Main Hospital Building (1900-01) were all constructed to their designs before the formal partnership was amicably dissolved in 1904. The two architects continued to share an office. A RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED, Dec. 27, 1923, concerning construction supplies for the Knight Memorial Library in Providence, Rhode Island, for $8,579.23. One page plus 2 additional pages of figures.......100-150
108. [MUSIC] JEFF VON DER SCHMIDT is Conductor and Founding Artistic Director of Southwest Chamber Music. A two-time Grammy Award-winning conductor, he has led numerous performances of standard 20th century composers as well as world and local premieres of new work. Mr. von der Schmidt has received six Grammy nominations, including consecutive 2003 and 2004 Grammy Awards as conductor for the Complete Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez Volumes and 2. His performance was nominated for Best Classical Album in 2005 for the Complete Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez, Volume 3 by both mainstream and Latin Grammys. Recent projects include leading cultural exchanges at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, featuring Aura, a major new composition by Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Chinary Ung; and a complete cycle of the chamber music of Carlos Chávez with Southwest Chamber Music and the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble at the UNAM Center in Mexico City in May 2007. His successful 2003 performance at the Library of Congress, with soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson in Richard Felciano’s An American Decameron, was greeted with a standing ovation. He has led cycles of the Los Angeles works of Arnold Schoenberg at Cooper Union in New York City and at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, where Southwest Chamber Music was the first American ensemble to perform at the Center since its relocation from the University of Southern California. Signed [endorsed on verso] 1984 Warner Bros. pay check. VG..............25-35
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109. [MUSIC] Charlotte Mellot Joubert - French Opera singer, noted on the world stage at the turn of the century. Made early recordings. ALS on 4-1/4 x 2-3/4" card, dated 1934. Written on both sides. Includes envelope. VG..........35-45
110. [ALBUM PAGE SIGNED] Includes Mary E. Woolley (J1863-1947) was an American educator, peace activist and women's suffrage supporter. She was the first female student to attend Brown University and served as the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900 to 1937. Arthur Cushman McGiffert (1861-1933) American theologian who became the 8th president of Union Seminary in 1917. Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" (1859-1926) Breton poet, folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. J. Travis Mills [unknown]. SIGNED ON THE OTHER SIDE BY Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (1867-1906) Anglo-American novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pen-name of John Oliver Hobbes. Though her work fell out of print in the twentieth-century, her first book Some Emotions and a Moral was a sensation in its day, selling 80,000 copies in only a few weeks. Blanche Eliot [unknown]. VG...............Min. Bid $45
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111. [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
112. 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
113. (BRITISH RELIGIOUS NOTABLES LOT) WILSON CARLILE (1847-1942) Evangelist who found the Church Army and was Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral. SIGNED card. CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY (1794-1868) Archbishop of Canterbury (1862-1868). ALS (1863). ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHSON BOYD (1825-1899) Minister at St.Andrews, Author, Writer. ALS (1879). DR. HUGH SINGLETON (1851-1934) Roman Catholic Lord Bishop of Shrewsbury. SIGNED postcard photograph (1905). FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR (1831-1903) Church of England cleric, author. SIGNATURE. VG..............75-100
114. [FRANCE] Etienne Émile Marie Boutroux (1845-1921) was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of science and religion, and an historian of philosophy. ALS, PARIS, 1918, 2pp, approx. 4-1/4 x 5-1/4". VG.............50-75
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115. Preston Foster (1900-1970) American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades. Signed, inscribed yellow card, 5x4 in. One fold line down the middle...............25-35
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116. [FILM] Catherine Deneuve (b. 1943) French actress. Signed color photo, 4-1/8 x 5-7/8 in. Fine...........35-45 See above
117. Lawrence F. Abbott (1859-1933) American editor and writer, son of Lyman Abbott. In 1891 he became president of the Outlook Company. As well as being a close friend to Theodore Roosevelt, throughout almost his whole life, he also served as secretary to Theodore Roosevelt during the latter's tour of Europe and Africa (1909–10), and edited Roosevelt's African and European Addresses (1910). He was the author of an article on Theodore Roosevelt in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911), and of Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt (1919) and The Story of NYLIC (1930). Signed & inscribed 4-1/4 x 2-3/4 in. card, dated 1921. Attractive and fine...............25-35
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118. [FILM] Ralph Bellamy (1904-1991) American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, film, and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937). Offered here is a signed sketch [a comical self-portrait], 5-1/4 x 8 in. He made the sketch but apparently didn't like it so he added NOT before the first name. VG.............50-75
See above119. [TAFT-HARTLEY BILL] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. Offered here are 3 typed pages of a speech made before congress against passage of the Taft-Hartley Bill. All of the ink notationa & handwriting on the pages was made by Philbin. Also included is the same typed speech without his handwriting. VG.............Min. Bid $50
120. [TAFT-HARTLEY BILL] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. Offered here are 4 typed pages of a speech made before congress. Appears to be about military pay [Bill H.R. 5007, circa 1950]. All of the ink notationa & handwriting on the pages was made by Philbin. Also included are 3 clean typed copies of the speech without his handwriting. VG.............Min. Bid $50
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121. Mystery Lot of 9 documents, dated 1828 - circa 1950. You do the research. Conditions mostly VG..........Min. Bid $15
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Scan 5122. [MUSIC] Paul Anka (b. 1941) Canadian singer, songwriter and actor. Anka became famous with hit songs like "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby". Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...............30-40
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123. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Stamped postmarked Boston July 14 [no yr] envelope addressed in her hand to Mrs. Mary E. Stearns Care of George L. Stearns, 129 Milk St., Boston, Mass. NOT SIGNED. Mary Elizabeth [Preston] married George Stearns in 1843. George L. Stearns (1809-1867) was an American industrialist and merchant in Medford, Massachusetts, as well as an abolitionist and a noted recruiter of black soldiers for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Approx. 5.5 x 3 in. VG and Scarce!................80-120
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124 . [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish the Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. In 1860 he made a life mask of Lincoln, of whom only one other was ever made (by Clark Mills in 1865). In the early part of spring in 1860, during Abraham Lincoln's visit to Chicago, Volk asked him to sit for a bust. When Lincoln agreed, the artist decided to start by doing a life mask. Lincoln found the process of letting wet plaster dry on his face, followed by a skin-stretching removal process, "anything but agreeable." But he endured it with good humor, and when he saw the final bust, he was quite pleased, declaring it "the animal himself." Volk later used the life mask and bust of 1860 as the basis for other editions, including a full-length statue of Lincoln. OFFERED HERE: Signed 1895 National Bank of Illinois bank check, approx. 3 x 6.25 in., star & one other cancellation. Very good condition...................100-150
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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. [FILM] Butterfly McQueen (1911-1995) American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film Gone with the Wind. She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater. Often typecast as a maid, she said: "I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you got into the business. But after I did the same thing over and over, I resented it. I didn't mind being funny, but I didn't like being stupid." She continued as an actress in film in the 1940s, and then moved to television acting in the 1950s. Photocopy picture of her in role as Prissy. The signature is printed but she has added "as Prissy of G.W.T.W." 8.5 x 11 in. VG..........50-75........Min. Bid $20
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127. [ART] James Fenwick Lansdowne (1937-2008) An important Canadian painter, illustrator, printmaker and author, James Fenwick Lansdowne was born in Hong Kong, China and died in Victoria, Canada, where he had lived since 1940. His bird paintings and prints have been the subject of exhibitions at numerous important venues such as the Beijing Museum of Natural History, China; the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; the National Audubon Society, New York City; the National Geographic Society, New York City; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Offered here is an original signed ink drawing of a bird, dated 1980. Drawn on 8 x 10 in paper. Unobtrusive middle fold mark. Fine............200-300
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128. [FILM] Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) British-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". Signed portrait print, 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............50-75
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129. [FRANCE] 1671 manuscript document, 3pp, written on thick vellum. Numerous signatures not researched. Approx. 7-1/4 x 10 in. VG.......................100-150
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130. [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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131. [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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132. ANTIQUE MANUSCRIPT - approx. 72 pages, some ink drawings on pages. Date c. 1850s. Appears to be about Fluid statics or hydrostatics. 8-1/2 x 10-1/4 in. Provenance: Joe Rubinfine. VG..........400-600
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133. [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
134. [ART] William Henry Shelton (1840-1932) American painter, etcher and illustrator, best remembered for his military art, most specifically his scenes from the American Civil War. W. H. Shelton, in fact, served in a New York State regiment during the conflict and thus his etchings and drawings are based upon actual experiences. He participated as an artillery commander in the Battle of the Wilderness, where he was badly wounded and taken prisoner by the Confederates. As well as producing a number of fine etchings, Shelton also contributed many illustrations to leading periodicals such as Harper’s during the 1870’s and 1880’s. He was a full member of the New York Etching Club and served as the Librarian for the influential New York arts association, the Salmagundi Club. During his career, W. H. Shelton exhibited at such institutions as the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Offered here is his original c. 1883 etching, Artillery Sergeant, image approx. 6-1/2 x 4-1/2 in. plus clean margins. Plate signed. Fine...................150-200
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135. Hans Baur (1897- 1993) Adolf Hitler's pilot during Hitler's political campaigns of the early 1930s. He later became Hitler's personal pilot and leader of the Reichsregierung squadron. Apprehended by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II in Europe, he was imprisoned in the USSR for ten years before being extradited to France on 10 October 1955, where he was imprisoned until 1957. He died in Herrsching, Bavaria, in 1993. Lengthy ALS written on postcard, 1976, to Dr. B.C. West. Those of you who have been in autographs for years will remember B.C. West. VG............200-300
136. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) James J. Blanchard - Gov. Michigan. Signed 5x7 photo [probably autopen]. (2) Lowell Thomas Jr. (1923-2016) American politician and film producer who collaborated with his father, the accomplished reporter and author Lowell Thomas, on several projects before becoming an Alaskan state senator in the early 1970s, and later the lieutenant governor of Alaska (1974–1978). In the 1980s, he owned and operated Talkeetna Air Taxi, an Alaska bush flying service. Small signed picture of him with his father. (3) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Three check registers in her handwriting but not signed, 1945. (4) Clip signature which we can't makeout but in pencil on back it says British Minister at Washington 1854. (5) Warren K. Wentworth Jr. (1930-2018) 4 signed checks. (6) Limerick National Bank [Maine] 4 bank checks 1924. (7) Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, PC (1779-1854) English lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord Chief Justice between 1832 and 1850. Signed 1836 address panel...............Min. Bid $20
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137. [WORLD WAR II] Major Everett E. Worrell, Jr. (1923-2015) World War 2 pilot who flew 35 combat missions in Europe, with his crew coming back uninjured from every single mission. He flew multiple aircraft in World War II including: B-17 bomber, Vultee BT-13 Valiant, B-25 Mitchell (Bomber), and the British de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito. The veteran served as a flight commander with the 381st Bomb Group. He had a special duty as an adjutant, overseeing the American Rest Homes in England or "Flak" houses. Signed postcard photo. 7x 5 in. Fine...............25-35
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138. (Assorted Document Lot) includes: (1) Italian Letter dated 1838, not translated, signed “Giacomo d’Anofrio”. (2) SIGNED document of Samuel Merrill (1792-1855), early leading banker of Indiana , signed bottom of half document dated May 20, 1834. (3) Colonial document of Topsfield, Mass. In 1772, signed by Matthew Standly, in 1772 and by Thomas Baker, John Howe, later signed in 1784 by Nathaniel Saltonstall and Michael Sewall in the transfer of land. (4 & 5) Two French Docuements signed, about 1700’s, not translated. (6) SIGNED transatlantic document which is a ALS, dated August 26, 1873 on Compagnie Generale, Transtatlantique stationary. (7) DS, Col. William Fernald, dated april 14, 1820, making Allen Crofs Sergeant in the Firfth Regiment in the Brigade and 1st Division in the Milita of Mass. All are VG...............100-200
139. [THEATRE - FILM LOT] includes: (1) Clint Eastwood - signed 5 x 7 photo. Although ink signed in our opinion all Eastwood signed photos ARE secretarial signatures. That said we have not researched this one. VG (2) [THEATRE] Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) English stage actor in the Victorian era. Irving is widely acknowledged to be one of the inspirations for Count Dracula, the title character of the 1897 novel Dracula whose author, Bram Stoker, was business manager of the theatre. UNSIGNED vintage photo, approx. 4 x 5.5 in. Some surface faults. (3) 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 1935 bank check made out to Zelly Smirnoff who was a violinist who played for Vallee as well as Charlie Parker. VG (4) James Farentino (1938-2012) was an American actor. (5) [THEATRE] Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple (1902-1998] American theater producer, manager, publicist, and playwright. She was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center, and is best known for her productions there. At City Center, she produced revivals of Our Town, Porgy and Bess, Othello (starring Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer), A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn), Pal Joey (with Bob Fosse and Viveca Lindfors), King Lear (with Orson Welles), and many others. Brief TLS, 1986, 1p. 4 x 6 in. To Franklyn Lenthall, a theatrical producer, director, and teacher. He was the owner of the Boothbay Theatre Museum in Maine. Signed Jean. VG. (6) [THEATRE] Sir George Robey. Originally George Edward Wade [1869-1954]. English comedian. Created many comic roles on stage, esp. in music-hall performances (from 1891); during World War I relieved London with musical comedy The Bing Boys Are Here; also in films, including Don Quixote, Chu Chin Chow, Southern Roses. Signed 2-3/4 x 4 in. photograph in clown makeup. VG. (7) John Hollingshead (1827-1904) English theatrical impresario, journalist and writer during the latter half of the 19th century. He is best remembered as the first manager of the Gaiety Theatre, London. An innovative producer, Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together in 1871 to produce their first joint work, a musical extravaganza called Thespis. ANS, 1874, mounted. (8) [FILM] Ernest Torrence (1878-1933) He was the man you loved to hiss. This towering (6' 4"), highly imposing character star with cold, hollow, beady eyes and a huge, protruding snout would go on to become one of the silent screen's finest arch villains. Unsigned vintage 5x7 photo. VG.................Min. Bid $50
140. [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 $50141. Maine Paper - approx. 85 old documents, the earliest being 1834 - to about 1935. Receipts & business & legal paper. Needs research. Varied conditions.................Min. Bid $60
142. [COLONIAL] John Hancock (1737-1793) American patriot, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Offered here is a 1783 manuscript document. Ebenz. Winter Caless pays John Hancock. The docket handwriting on the backside was written by Hancock. Some loss of paper well away from Hancock's endorsement on the verso. Approx. 7-3/4 x 3-1/2 in.......Min. Bid $350
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143. [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
144. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Louisa Eldridge (1829-1905) American actress also know as Aunt Louisa. As a member of New York's Union Square Theatre company, she specialized in playing older women. C;op signature 1898. (2) Lloyd "Sunshine" Olen Parker (1927-1999) American actor. He appeared in 25 films between 1959 and 1994. He is best known for his roles as Emmet in 'Road House' and Edgar Deems in 'Tremors." He typically played minor roles as either a bum or an old codger. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck. (3) Konstantin G. Fedoseev - TLS, Russian Embassy in Washington DC. TLS, 1956, 1o. Says that Mrs. Senuita does not wish to leave the Soviet Union for the US. (4) Bea Wain (1917-2017) American Big Band-era singer and radio personality born in the Bronx, New York City. She had a number of hits with Larry Clinton and his Orchestra. After her marriage she and her husband became involved in radio, helming a show titled "Mr. and Mrs. Music". Card signed and inscribed by Bea and her husband Andre Baruch(1908-1991) French-American film narrator, radio announcer, news commentator, talk show host, disc jockey and sportscaster. (5) Job Lyman (1781-1870) Vermont politician, attorney and banker who served as Vermont's State Auditor. Signed 1812 Vermont Supreme Court document, 7.5 x 12.5 in. VG. (6) Thomas Gray Fleming - signed printed poem, 1909. (7) Sudie Bond (1928-1984) American actress on film, stage, and television.......Min. Bid $50
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145. [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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146. [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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147. [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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149. [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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150. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) 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. (2) Douglas Volk -American artist. Signed 1923 bank check. (3) Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. Signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG (4) Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, (1731-1806) served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers. Antique engraved portrait, about 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. (5) Charles Clayton Morrison (1874–1966) American Disciples of Christ minister and Christian socialist. TLS 1926, 1p. (6) Hugh Cecil (1869-1956), styled Lord Hugh Cecil until 1941, was a British Conservative Party politician. Signed card. (7) James R. Whiting (1803-1872) American lawyer and politician from New York. ANS 1866. (8) S.G. Winchester - clip signature 1835. (9) John E. Jacob (b. 1934) U.S. civil rights leader. He served as the president of the National Urban League between 1982 and 1994. Signed 4-3/4 x 4-3/4 in. photo. Signed in dark area so poor contrast. (10) Ashbel Green, Jr. (b. 1811) signature..........Min. Bid $50
The following 10 lots are what we call MYSTERY LOT. Very little descriptions, just scans.
151. MYSTERY LOT of 13 items, dating from 1820s to 1978............Min. Bid $25
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152. MYSTERY LOT of 7 items, dating from 1840 to 1930............Min. Bid $15
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153. MYSTERY LOT of 10 items, dating from 1816 to 1966............Min. Bid $25
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154. MYSTERY LOT of 7 items, dating from 1785 to 1962............Min. Bid $15
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155. MYSTERY LOT of 15 items, dating from 1889 to 1996............Min. Bid $25
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156. MYSTERY LOT of 13 items, dating from 1820 to 1984............Min. Bid $25
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157. MYSTERY LOT of 11 items, dating from 1828 to 1981............Min. Bid $25
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158. MYSTERY LOT of 10 items, dating from 1842 to 1985............Min. Bid $25
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159. MYSTERY LOT of 12 items, most are 19th century...........Min. Bid $20
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160. MYSTERY LOT of 12 items, most are 19th century............Min. Bid $20
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161. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Original photograph of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864-1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism. NOT signed by Nellie Bly but signed in pencil by the photographer Emile Brunel (France 1874 - 1944 NY) was a noted artist, painter, filmmaker and photographer. Brunel worked as a photojournalist for the New York Times Magazine and earned a certain degree of fame as a portrait photographer. In 1910 he founded the New York Institute of Photography (NYIP), which continues to train photographers today. Brunel would also develop a one-hour film development process, a process unique and ahead of its time. In 1918 Brunel began operating a successful Catskills resort called Chalet Indien in Boiceville. In 1918 Brunel also began work as a sculptor, creating a series of works between 1918 and 1944 that can still be seen today. The photo is 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 in. There are some soft creases and minor corner chips. Very Scarce!...........200-300
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162. [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
163. [FRANCE] group of French autographs: [1] Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (1834-1923) magistrate and French writer. As a prosecutor about the Court of Appeal of Paris , he drew up an indictment against the General Boulanger . He resigned when the Dreyfus affair came before the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court (1899) and campaigned against the Dreyfus. He is known as a writer under the pen name "Jules Glouvet", "Jules Glouvet" and "Lucia Herpin." The guide Paris-Paris, who considers 1899 as a "reputation of Parisian life," says that he "is a journalist in a fit of bad temper". ANS, written on both sides of his calling card. [2] Louis-François Du Bois (first written Dubois) was born in Lisieux on 16 November 1773 and died in Mesnil-Durand on 9 July 1855, was a historian, poet, translator, scholar, agronomist, politician and administrator. ALS, 1843, 1p. [large stains]. [3] Alexandre Mercereau (1884-1945) writer and poet. ALS, 1907, 3pp. [4] Alphonse Lemerre (1838-1912) Fr. editor. ALS, nd, 2pp. [5] Alphonse Huillard-Breholles (1817-1871) historian. ALS, Paris, 1869, 3pp., signed H.B. [6] Charles Mere ( 1883-1970) French film director, screenwriter and playwright. ALS, 1967, 2pp., about his play 'Les Trois Masques'. [7] Emile Berr (1855-1923) Fr. journalist. ALS, 1896, 1p.................150-250
164. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (1784-1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain was at the height of its imperial power. Signed address panel, sent to Sir Herbert Taylor, undated, marked PRIVATE. Taylor was most likely Sir Herbert Taylor (1775-1839) the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, serving Kings George III, George IV and William IV. About 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. Fine...............60-80
See above165. [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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166. 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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167. 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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168. [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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169. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Charles W. Tobey (1880-1953) Governor and US Senator from NH. Signed postmarked 1938 cover honoring 150th Anniversary of New Hampshire Ratified the Constitution June 21, 1788. Sticker addressed. VG.................50-75
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170. [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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171. [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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172. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Thruston B. Morton [KY]; Lee Metcalf [MT]; Pat McNamara [MI]; Gale McGee [Wy]; John McClellan [Ark]; Warren G. Magnuson [Wash]; Russell Long [LA]; Oren E. Long [Hawaii]; Frank Lausche [OH]; B. Everett Jordan [NC].........50-75
173. [FRANCE] Paul Madeline (1863-1920, Paris) French Post-Impressionist painter; known for his landscapes and village scenes. In 1926, the Salon des Indépendants presented a major retrospective of his works. ALS, 1914, 2pp. to Mr. Hubert, Editor of LeMonde Illustre. Not translated. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine............100-150
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174. [FRANCE] Lizinska de Mirbel (1796-1849) French painter of miniature portraits. She was very fashionable among the aristocracy of Paris during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. ALS, 1848, 3pp. Curious letter about her very old husband. Not translated. 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG............100-150
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175. [ART] Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) American artist, illustrator and author. He studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. A transcendentalist and mystic, Kent painted remote and austere lands, including Newfoundland (1914-15), Tierra del Fuego (1922-23), and Greenland (1929; 1931-32; 1934-35). Collotype offered here is from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925.? Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins. Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made paper. This is a proof printing. Fine, black impressions, on cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce..............100-150
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176. [FRANCE] Gilbert-Louis Duprez (1806-1896) French tenor, singing teacher and minor composer who famously pioneered the delivery of the operatic high C from the chest (Ut de poitrine, as Paris audiences called it). He also created the role of Edgardo in the popular bel canto-era opera Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835. ALS, 1842, 1p. approx. 5 x 8 in. VG.................50-75
177. [FRANCE] Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (F1803-1891) French actor and playwright. ALS, not dated, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG..............50-75
178. [ENGLAND] Edward Carr [Glyn] Petriburg (1843 - 1928) was an Anglican bishop in England the late 19th century and the early 20th century. He was the Bishop of Peterborough from 1896 to 1916. After a curacy in Doncaster, he was the domestic chaplain to William Thomson, the Archbishop of York, and then held incumbencies at St Mary's Beverley, St George's Minster, Doncaster and St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. He became an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen and was the Bishop of Peterborough from 1897 until 1916. ALS, The Palace Peterborough, 1905, 2pp. VG.........50-75
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179. [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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180. (British Literature) Lady Margaret Sackville (1881-1963) poet and children’s author. ALS, nd, 3pp. Henry Wickham Steed(1871-1956)) journalist and historian. He was editor of The Times from 1919 until 1922. Appointed by Joseph Pulitzer as Paris correspondent for the New York World, Steed joined The Times in 1896 as a foreign correspondent, working briefly out of Berlin before transferring successively to Rome ( from 1897 until 1902) and then Vienna (1902–13). In 1914 he moved to London to take over as foreign editor of The Times. TLS 1928. Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890- 1973) Novelist who wrote many short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism. Quote SIGNED, from the Marx Brothers. Henry Major Tomlinson (1873-1958 1958) writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. SIGNED presentation title page from his book “Gallions Reach” (1927). Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873 - 1935) American-born British writer. Her novels explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans. Her best-selling novel Tante was made into a 1919 film, The Impossible Woman and The Little French Girl into a 1925 film of the same name. In 1931, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Four of her books were on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1912, 1924, 1927, and 1929 as determined by the New York Times. ALS, 2pp. Al Alvarez (1929--) poet, novelist, essayist and critic, ANS, 2000. Richard Pryce (1864-1942) Novelist, Dramatist, ALS, 1913, 2pp...........100-150
181. Amy Leslie (1855-1939) American actress, opera singer, and drama critic who was the first wife of Frank Buck. Her personal calling card on which she has written 4 words [not signed]. 3-1/8 x 2-1/4 in. VG.............20-30182. [FILM] Eddie Quillan (1907-1990) American film actor and singer whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s. Ink Signed page on which he answers two questions. His answers are typed. 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............40-60
183. (20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT) WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1912)
Realist Author, Crtic. Clipped SIGNATURE, mounted to larger card. NORMAN HAPGOOD (1868-1937) Writer, Journalist, Editor and Critic. TLS (1907). ARTHUR GUITERMAN (1871-1943) Writer, Poet noted for his humorous poems. TLS (1935). DAVID EWEN (1900-1985) Editor, Wrtier Biographer of Gershwin, Koussevitsky, Bernstein, Berlin, Cole Porter. TLS (1928). MAX FRANKEL (1930) Pulitzer Prize Journalist. ALS (2001). FANNIE HURST (1889-1968) Novelist. SIGNATURE mounted to larger card . LOWELL THOMAS (1892-1981) SIGNATURE on card. EAMALIEL BRADFORD (1863-1932) Biographer, Critic, Poet, Dramatist. He was regarded as “Dean of American Biographers”. ALS (1913) 2pp...................100-150
Roland Young "Topper" Gets a Letter From His Old Friend
184. [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 2-page ALS, signed "Matty" to his friend, and fellow actor, Roland Young [1887-1953] best remembered for his role as Topper. Dated Jan. 30 , no year. "Dear Roland and Lady Roland. The only reason we were left out of the honeurs is that we were ___? Leslie Banks and a fellow [I forget his name, he plays Macbeth & ?, have both stuck to their wives, well its too late now so lets forget it. Aubrey Smith id the same. Charles Hawbrey was an exception! I should have written you before we had a good time on tour. We do Boston next Monday for 2 weeks then back to New York. We rose to capacity in Chicago and Detroit we had 19 thousand - here we are going the same. What about you? Have you fixed anything - have you heard about Freddie's Play which opened last Monday or this Monday in Edinburgh. Pat tells me he is sailing for New York. What about we both doing a musical. I have suggested it to Shubert and he likes the idea. Better still we both open in London with a new play. Have read 4 and don't like any of them..............I gave up drtink the last week in Chicago I mean till after the Play, and have knocked 10 minutes off the play. Milton Shubert saw the Play and advised me to go back to the drink. I do hope you have a job for me. Love to you both Matty." Fine.......70-90
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185. (AMERICAN THEATER LOT) Georgia Caine (1876 –1964) who performed both on Broadway and in over 80 films in her 51 year career. SIGNED large Card. Arthur Hiller Penn (1922 –2010) American director and producer of film, television and theater. Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as The Chase and Bonnie and Clyde. SIGNED, inscribed 4x5 photograph. Wilson Barrett (1846 –1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. He presented and acted many works in America. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever. A Quote SIGNED, with unsigned postcard portrait photograph. Selma TAMBER (1907-1991) Producer - produced several Broadway and Off Broadway shows, including "Boccaccio 70" and "Viva Madison Avenue." She also managed artists like Hanya Holm, the choreographer of "Kiss Me, Kate," "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot," and helped further the careers of the composers and lyricists Richard Adler and Stephen Sondheim. Tamber was born in New York City. In the 1930's, she supervised various Broadway musicals as the head of the department of composers and arrangers for the music publisher Chappell-T. B. Harms, where she worked with composers like George Gershwin and Cole Porter. . ALS, 1982. William Jermyn Conlin (1831 –1891) better known by his stage name William J. Florence, actor, songwriter, and playwright. A QUOTE SIGNED February 1879. Jean Dalrymple (1902 –1998) theater producer, manager, publicist, author and playwright who was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center and is best known for her productions there. SIGNATURE 1960................80-120
186. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1] Lahaye, Louis-Marie de. Viscount de Cormenin [1788-1868] French lawyer and political writer. Member of Chamber of Deputies (1828-46, 1848); opposed to Louis-Philippe; appointed councilor of state (after 1848). Author of Droit administratif (1821), Les Entretiens de village (1846), etc. ALS, no date, 1p, 5 x 7.5 in. [2] Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis [1866-1934]. French diplomat. Son of Marcelin Berthelot. Entered diplomatic service (1889); adviser to Briand and active in Allied liaison during World War I; secretary general of ministry of foreign affairs (1920-21, 1925-32). TLS, 1925, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. To the poet Aime Giron. [3] GUSTAV SIMON - Paris dramatist. ALS, 1911, 2pp. Blue pencil word underlined on front. [4] LEON RIOTOR - FR. AUTHOR. ALS, 1928, 1p. re: about adapting novel for film. [5] Pierre Girault de Nolhac (1859-1936) French historian, art historian and poet. ALS, no yr., 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine. [6] Séverin Faust (1872-1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. ALS written on back of picture postcard, not postmarked VG [7] Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart (1859-1942), French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1907 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ALS, 1920, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in. [8] Pierre François Hercule de Serre (1776-1824) Minister of Justice [1818-21]. ALS, Paris, no date, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG. [9] Paul Ferrier (1843-1928) French dramatist. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he secured real success with two short pieces, Chez l'avocat and Les Incendies de Massoulard. Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations (1876); L'Art de tramper les femmes (1890), with M. Najac. One of Ferrier's biggest successes was the production with Fabrice Carré of Josephine vendue par ses sÏurs (1886), an opera bouffée with music by Victor Roger. His opera libretti include La Marocaine (1879), music of Jacques Offenbach; Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1896) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of A Messager; La Fille de Tabarin (1901), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. Only minor faults. [10] Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891) French novelist. His novels deal with crime, the police, and Parisian life. They had a high circulation, and the greater part of them have been translated into English. ALS, 1880, 1p. Moderate foxing throughout.......200-300
187. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) DAME BERYL M. BAINBRIDGE (1932-2010) Novelist. SIGNED 4x6 photograph. HENRY FESTING JONES (1851-1928) Biographer awarded the first James Tait Black award for literature 1919 for his biography of author Samuel Butler. ALS (1920) 3pp. JOHN HARTLEY MANNERS (1870-1928) Playwright known for “Peg O’ My Heart”. ALS. SIR JAMES JOHNSTONE (1815-1878) Publisher of the “Standard” and “Morning Herald”. ALS (1857) 4pp. ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE (1809-1891) Historian and Travel Writer. His best known work “Magnum Opus” 7 volumes. Kinglake Australia and National Park named after him. ALS. JUSTIN McCARTHY (1830-1917) Irish politician, Historian, Novelist. ALS (1875). HENRY ARTHUR JONES (1851-1929) Dramatist. Clipped SIGNATURE..............80-120
188a. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) RICHARD ADAMS (b. 1920) Novelist who best known work “Water Ship Down”. SIGNED 4x6 portrait photograph. EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974) Poet, Author, Critic. SIGNED presentation page from his book “Near & Far”(1929). HENRY ARTHUR JONES (1951-1929) Dramatist “The Silver King” (1882) “The Crusaders” 1891 others. SIGNATURE. ARCHIBALD FORBES (1838-1900) celebrated War Correspondent. ALS, (trimmed affecting some writing). EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS (1868-1938) Popular Novelist of almost 100 books also noted for his essays and biography of Charles Lamb. ANS. SIR JOHN MASTERMAN (1891-1977) Academic, Sportsman, Author mostly noted for his being chairman of the “Twenty Committee” which during WW2 ran the Double Cross System, the scheme that controlled double agents in Britain. ALS (1973). SIR WILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984) Poet, Literary Critic. SIGNATURE, with sentiment.................80-120
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188b. (19th CENTURY LITERATURE LOT) JULIAN HAWTHORNE (1846-1934) Writer/Journalist, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. SIGNATURE removed from TLS, mounted on larger sheet with portrait. JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE(1827-1916) Author. SIGNATURE, mounted to card. CLYDE FITCH (1865-1909) Dramatist. SIGNATURE on CARD (1903). EDWARD EGGLESTON (1837-1902) Historian and Novelist. SIGNATURE, with sentiment. JOHN B. GOUGH (1841-1886) Author and Temperance Leader. SIGNATURE, with sentiment. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART (1854-1943) Historian. SIGNATURE on collectors card (1921). AMELIA EDITH BARR (1831-1919) Author of Historical Tales, Novelist. SIGNED CARD (1897). WILL CARLETON (1865-1912) Poet SIGNATURE on card. L. CLARKE DAVIS (1834-1904) Journalist, Essayist and Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Husband of Rebecca Harding Davis the Author. SIGNATURE. REBECCA HARDING DAVIS. Signature.................100-150
188c. 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
189. [England] an old, very old album page containing 2 autographs glued to each side. On one side is Bishop of Ely, Bowyer Edward Sparke(1759-1836) & Bishop of Durham, William Van Mildert (1765-1836) was the last palatine Bishop of Durham (1826–1836), and one of the founders of the University of Durham. On the other side is the Bishop of London, Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857) British divine and classicist, and a Church of England bishop for 32 years & the Bishop of Norwich, Henry Bathurst (1744-1837) English churchman, a prominent Whig and bishop of Norwich. Overall 7 x 8.5 in. Not very attractive...............Min. Bid $25
190. (MIXED LOT) Sir Edwin Arnold (1832 –1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. SIGNATURE, mounted to card. TITO GUIZAR (1908 –1999) Mexican singer and actor. Together with Dolores del Río, José Mojica, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, Guízar was among the few Mexican people who made history in the early years of Hollywood. In a career that spanned over seven decades. TLS, 1988. HAROLD TAYLOR (1914-1993) American Philosopher of education, college president, and social activist, . He was a recognized spokesperson for Progressive education at the postsecondary level. TLS, 1974. ARTHUR BURNS(1904-1987) American Economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1970-1978). SIGNED FDC on Banking. Clara McBride Hale (1905 –1992) known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian who founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs. SIGNED 5x7 photograph. Harold Herman Greene (1923-2000) federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Judge Greene presided over United States v. AT&T, the antitrust suit that broke up the AT&T. In 1990, Greene sentenced the 1983 United States Senate bombing suspects, Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans, to prison. SIGNED, inscribed 10x8 photograph. Hanna Holborn Gray- historian of political thought in the area of the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor and former President of the University of Chicago. TLS, 1990...........100-150
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191. [KUHN ESTATE] Archive of about 35-40+ letters and documents concerning the Estate of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn (1877-1949). Includes: Brenda Kuhn ALS [1]; 15 TLSs by Brenda Kuhn; 13 letters from estate accountants [or attorneys ??]; 5 Brenda Kuhn signed bank checks; several Tax documents. These date 1961-1963. Some of Brenda's letters have good art content about her father, esp. his paiting ATHELETE IN WHITE FACE. Needs further research for sure. VG..........400-600...........Min. Bid $150
192. [MUSIC] Johanna Emilia Agnes Gadski (1872-1932) German soprano. She was blessed with a secure, powerful, ringing voice, fine musicianship and an excellent technique. These attributes enabled her to enjoy a highly successful career in New York City and London, performing heavy dramatic roles in the German and Italian repertoires. Large bold signature dated 1916 on 5 x 6.5 in. paper. Fine............25-35
193. Robert Loggia (1930-2015) is an American film and television actor and director, who specializes in character parts. In 1985, Loggia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of crusty private detective Sam Ransom in the thriller Jagged Edge. Signed 8x10 photo. VG.....25-35
194. [NOBEL PRIZE] Arthur L. Schawlow (1921-1999) American physicist. He is best remembered for his work on lasers, for which he was awarded a 1981 Nobel Prize. HIS STATIONERY SIGNED, 1982, inscribed in type to collector..............25-35
195.[FILM] Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010) Canadian born, naturalized American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG............30-40
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196. [ENGLAND] Albert Woods (1816-1904) English officer of arms, who served as Garter Principal King of Arms from 1869 to 1904. He officiated at the coronations both of Queen Victoria and of Edward VII. ALS, June 1 (no year), 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG..............50-75
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197. [CHAS. M. CONRAD] Conrad was Secretary of War under Fillmore. This lot includes two ALS's written by Anne H. Lloyd. As one of the letters is addressed to Hon. Charles M. Conrad in Washington and is written to "My precious Jean', and signed "Your loving mother", it appears that the writer was Conrad's mother-in-law. One letter,1p dated Sep. 5th 1852 to "My precious children" begins "I have news for you that will gladden our hearts and I trust fill you with thankfulness. Our beloved Nelson is with us. We are all happy and I trust thankful that after peril by land and by water he is brought to us safely in health. He was shipwrecked twice on his journey home and lost everything but the clothes on his back." The second letter is 3 full pages plus an integral address leaf. It is dated Nov. 24th 1857. It is written to "My precious Jean". It primarily consists of interesting family news. In part, "I knew you would feel a great deal as to the intelligence my last letter conveyed. I must reply to parts of yours. When our Heavenly Father afflicts us, we should ever remember that there is mercy in his judgments. Altho we see it not it is far more comfortable to feel that he does not willingly afflict his children and to say at all times "Tho he slay me yet will I trust him." More religious content follows.............40-60
198. James Farley (1888-1976) Postmaster General under the first two administrations of President Franklin Roosevelt. Signed 1971 postmarked cover. VG................25-35
Controversial US Senator 199. [OREGON] John H. Mitchell (1835-1905) controversial American lawyer and politician, who served as a Republican United States Senator from Oregon on three occasions between 1872 and 1905. He also served as State Senate President, did the initial legal work involved in the dispute that led to the landmark Supreme Court case of Pennoyer v. Neff, and later was involved with the Oregon land fraud scandal, for which he was indicted and convicted while a sitting U.S. Senator, one of only eleven sitting U.S. Senators ever indicted, and one of only five ever convicted. The town of Mitchell, Oregon, was named after him. Signature.........25-35
200. [FRANCE] Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French Republic. His works include: Études sur Aristophane (1867), Le Romantisme des classiques (1882), and the controversial Catholicisme et socialisme (1850). As a result, Napoleon III forced him into exile between 1851 and 1859. He later became a professor at the Collège de France and in 1881 became a lifetime member of the French senate. A street bearing his name is located in Paris's VIIe arrondissement bordering the Champs de Mars. ALS, 1869, 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in. Not translated. One soiled corner.........50-75
201. [FILM] David Lloyd Wolper (b.1928) American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He also produced numerous documentaries and documentary series like Biography (TV series 1961-63), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (TV), Appointment with Destiny (TV series), This is Elvis, Three Days in November, Imagine: John Lennon, and others. He directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space, which was nominated for an Academy Award. His 1971 film (as executive producer)about the study of insects The Hellstrom Chronicle won an Academy Award. TLS, 1968, 1p,, signed "David."..............25-35
202. [FILM] Nanette Fabray (1920-2018) American actress, singer, and dancer. Signed & inscribed 5 x 7 in. photo plus unsigned music sheet from "Mr. President". Two items. VG...............35-45
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203. EDGAR FAWCETT (1847-1904)
American writer. Clip signature............20-30
204. Edna Bryner [1866-1967] American
writer. Signature, 1929............20-30
208. [RELIGION] Charles-Francois Turinaz [1838-1918] Catholic Archbishop. Extremely long ALS, 1902, 4 very full pages. Fine. Not translated.........80-120
209 . [MUSIC - FILM] Eddie Dean (1907-1999) American western singer and actor whom Roy Rogers and Gene Autry termed the best cowboy singer of all time. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO. VG..........25-35
212. [FRANCE] Léon Gozlan (1803-1866) French novelist and playwrite. ALS, no date, 1p. Re: president for a prize for novelists. VG........60-80
213. [FRANCE] Alfred Masson-Forestier (1852-1912) French writer, born at Le Havre. He studied law and from 1884 to 1899 practiced his profession at Rouen. After 1899 Masson-Fortier settled in Paris and devoted all his time to literature, contributing to the Revue des Deux Mondes, Le Temps, La Revue, etc. His stories, usually short and sober in content, are reminiscent of Merimée and Maupassant. The last years of his life were spent in a study of Racine and he published in 1911 Autour d'un Racine ignoré. ALS, 1911, 2 full pages about Racine and graphology. VG.............60-80
214. [MUSIC] Jean Baptiste Chollet (1798-1892) French baritone, later tenor. He appeared as a baritone in Switzerland, in Le Havre (1823–25), at the Paris Opéra-Comique (1825), and in Brussels (1826). Returning to the Opéra-Comique, he turned to tenor roles and sang in the premiere of Hérold’s Marie (Aug. 12, 1826). He then created the title roles in Auber’s Fra Diavolo (Jan. 28, 1830) and Hérold’s Zampa (May 3, 1831) there. After engagements in Brussels (1832–34) and The Hague (1834–35), he returned once more to the Opéra-Comique and created the role of Chapelou in Adam’s Le Postillon de Longjumeau (Oct. 13, 1836). In 1844 his health declined and in 1847 he was compelled to leave the Opéra-Comique. After serving as director of theaters in Bordeaux (1847–48) and The Hague (1851), he resumed his career as a singer with appearances in Toulouse (1848), London (1850), and Paris (1852–54) before retiring from the operatic stage. Great theatre letter, 1832, 1p., to the singer Batiste of the Strasbourg Theatre, naming his friends, actors and actresses. He is coming back. Boldly signed. Fragile aloing edges, esp. right edge where there is slight loss. Address leaf on verso......100-150
See Chollet portrait
215. [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
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218. [FILM] Robert "Bobby" Banas (b. 1933) is an American dancer and actor. He is known for his work on movies such as West Side Story (1961), Always (1989) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), as well as a viral video of a televised performance of the Nitty Gritty dance, which accumulated 3.6 million views in four years. Natalie Wood was his dancing partner in the Michael Panaieff Children’s’ Ballet Company, to which he received a scholarship and in which Jill St. John and Stefanie Powers were members. Banas also attended the Hollywood Professional School. He auditioned for the production of Carousel at the LA Civic Light Opera and was cast as Enoch Snow Jr. After that, he appeared in stage productions of Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Plain and Fancy, and Peter Pan. Offered here is his signed contract appearing as a dancer in the 1965 film BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by H. Bud Otto (1934-2001) Producer. Approx. 8.5 x 13 in, 1p. Includes a 2 page RIDER ink signed by Bob Banas. VG.................80-120216. [ART] Louis-François Raban [1795-1870] French engraver and writer. At age 19 Raban enlisted in the artillerymen, in 1814 and participated, with the polytechnic School, in the defence of Paris. He was an avid admirer of the Emperor Napoleon and wrote a book about him under the pseudonym, the Comte de Barins. He was a member of the Secret Society of Les Saisons [very important in the 1839 Revolution]. He was arrested in the act of making bullets for the revolutionaries. Despite being an exceedingly prolific writer not only of biographical dictionaries but also 'bodice-rippers', and (as we have seen) that he tried to profit from contemporary politics to enhance his sales, he never managed to emerge from extreme poverty and died supported by his daughter at the fall of the Second Empire in 1870. "The issue of the powder plot of the Rue de Poursine was the condemnation of twenty-four individuals to various sentences of fine and imprisonment, from 300 to 3000 francs, and from four months to two years. Among the rest, Blanqui, Beaufotir, and Robier, figured as the highest mulcts, the longest terms, and each two years of surveillance at the expiration of their punishment. In November 1838, another manufactory of cartridges was discovered, and Raban, an en graver in the Palais Royal, the principal, condemned to two years in prison, two of his associates to eighteen and three months. A very large quantity of ammunition was also seized ; and every thing went to prove that the formation of secret societies to overturn the government had not ceased for an instant...." Two ALS letters, both 1829, written to Cassin. One is a lengthy 2-page letter [age toned paper], and the other one-page. Certainly worthy of further research!............100-150
217. [POETRY] John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978) American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. He wrote fourteen books of poetry and was co-winner of the 1962 Bollingen Prize. As an editor, he is noted for discovering young poets like May Swenson and James Dickey. Signed 1p. typescript of his poem "To You, Perhaps Yet Unborn, That Some Day May Read These Rhymes."..........50-75
219. [CINEMA]
Édouard Molinaro (b. 1928) is a French film
director, actor. SIGNED & INSCRIBED sheet to
which is mounted his picture.........20-30
220 . [ART] A.B. GRIFFITH - ink drawing
signed 1943. Subject: Julia Sanderson (1887-1975) Broadway
actress and singer. 7 x 5 in. VG.............50-75
See above
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221. [FRANCE] Lucien
Descaves (1861-1949) French
novelist. A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and
the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire
d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate
(1883) followed strongly the naturalism
movement. The anti-military novel, Sous-Offs
(1889) provoked a scandal. Though acquitted of
charges of offending the army and public
morality, he was stripped of his military rank.
ALS written on his calling card [both
sides], signed with initials...........40-60
222. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs.
Includes: Auguste Hesse (1795-1869); Stephen Liegeard (1830-1925); Abel Etienne Lous Transon (1805-1876);
plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS
in here.................100-150
223. [MUSIC] Jean Jacques
Debillemont [1824-1879] French violinist,
composer. ALS, no date, 1p, 5x8".
VG.........40-60
224. [MUSIC] Andrew Litton (b. 1959) American orchestral conductor. Signed, inscribed color 5x7 photo. VG.........25-35
225. [MUSIC] Keely Smith (b. 19320 American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among others, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra. TLS, 1995, 1p. VG..........25-35
226. (AMERICAN SINGERS LOT) GLORIA GAYNOR (1949) SIGNED,
inscribed 4x5 photograph. GLENN YARBROUGH (1930) SIGNED 10x8
photograph, inscribed . JERRY BUTLER (1939) TLS
(2002). Julius La Rosa (1930) TLS . EDDY ARNOLD
(1918-2008) TLS (1989). BARBARA LEWIS (1943)
ALS. IREENE WICKER (1905-1987) Singer/Actress on radio (1930’s
&1940’s) SIGNED, inscribed postcard color photograph on verso.
EARTHA KITT (1927-2008) ANS, with initials about her book on slip from a
letter with unsigned 8x10..................70-90
227. Madge Kennedy (1891-1987)
movie and stage actress of the silent film era.
ANS on 3x5 card.......20-3
228. [ART] Walt Kuhn (
(1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show
of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European
Modernism. Walt Kuhn is best remembered today for his key role in
planning the Armory Show. Ironically, a man who was in the forefront of
the modern movement and was seen as an advocate of adventurous new art
in 1913 came to be labelled, because of his on-going commitment to
representation, a conservative artist by future generations of art
historians. Nevertheless, he holds a place in American art history as a
skilled cartoonist, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor and painter.
Although he destroyed many of his early paintings, his works that remain
today are powerful and are a part of most major American art
collections. His portraits of circus and vaudeville entertainers are
some of the most memorable, confidently painted works of
twentieth-century American art. They are reminiscent of commedia
dell'arte actor portraits done by the French masters centuries earlier.
The Tragic Comedians (1916) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum
and The White Clown (1929) in the collection of the National Gallery of
Art are intense, arresting images and are among his most respected
paintings. Offered here is a 2-3/4 x 4-1/4 in. paper card on which
several notes for himself - things to do. Writes: Circus opens
Wed. Apr. 7 - closes Sun. May 9, etc. Not signed by Kuhn of
course. Provenance: Kuhn Estate in Maine...................Min. Bid $75
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230. Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (b. 1914) American politician. He
represented Virginia in the United States Senate
from 1965 to 1983. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo,
2001. Very slight creasing at one corner [not
bad]..........20-30
232. [MUSIC] Ben Davies (1858-1943)
Welsh tenor, who appeared in opera with the Carl
Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera,
and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was
spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd, as a
leading British tenor, and retained something of
his style and repertoire in concert performance.
Clip Signature.............Min. Bid $10
233. CLAUDE AVELINE [1901-1992] Fr. writer. SIGNATURE with sentiment............20-30
234. [MUSIC] Johnny Desmond (1919-1985) American popular music singer. Signed vintage album page...........25-35
237. Ruth Draper [1884-1956] Am. playwright. CLIP SIGNATURE..........20-30
238. Rex Allen (1920-1999) American actor, singer, and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Walt Disney nature and Western productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Rex Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. SIGNED large limited edition poster, matted & shrink-wrapped. Plague on front says edition number 45 of 300. The Certificate of Authenticity on back says 45 of 134. "The prints were personally signed by Rex Allen at his home in Arizona between August and November 1999. ....Unfortunately he met his untimely death after signing 134 posters." Overall size 20 x 24". VG...........50-75
239. [MUSIC] Tito Petralia (1896-1982) Italian composer and conductor. Signed, inscribed 4.5 x 7 in. photo mounted to large sheet. VG.......40-60
240. Truman Virgil "Pinky" Tomlin
(1907-1987) was a singer, songwriter, bandleader, and actor of the
1930s and 1940s. In addition to performing in occasional motion
pictures, he wrote and published 22 songs, several of which were in the
top ten on the "Hit Parade". A song he had written in 1938, "In Ole
Oklahoma", was named as Oklahoma's state song by the Oklahoma State
Junior Chamber of Commerce. Signed 5x7 photo, mounting traces on
verso.............35-45
241. Martha
Ostenso (1900-1963) Canadian
novelist and screenwriter. Ostenso was born in Haukeland, near
Bergen, Norway, but emigrated with her family to the United
States in 1902. They first settled in South Dakota and Minnesota
before immigrating to Canada in the province of Manitoba.
Ostenso is probably best known for the award-winning novel Wild
Geese, published in 1925 (and filmed as After the Harvest in
2001). She signs at bottom of an autograph request typed letter,
1929...........20-30
242. [EARLY FILM] Beulah Marie Dix
(1876-1970) American screenwriter of the silent and sound film eras, as
well as a playwright and author of novels and children's books.[4] She
wrote for more than 55 films between 1917 and 1942. Brief ALS 1908, 4 x
5-1/4 in. Fine.............50-75
243. [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. Offered here are 5 signed bank checks,
1921-1923.................Min. Bid $45
See above
244. [POET] Paul
Hamilton Hayne [1830-1886]. American poet, b.
Charleston, S.C. ANS, 1881, on 4 x 3-1/4
slip............100-150
245. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Jack Dempsey -
Boxing Champion. Original c. 1964 vintage UNSIGNED 8x10
photographer of Dempsey in business suit, photographer A.
Bryce Currie. VG..............Min Bid $10
See above
246. [FILM] Beverly
Bayne (1894-1982) American actress who appeared in
silent films beginning in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, where she
worked for Essanay Studios. Vintage 1925 photo, 5x7.
VG...........Min. bid $9
247. Anne Tracy
Morgan (1873-1952) American
philanthropist who provided relief efforts in aid to France
during and after World War I and World War II. Morgan was
educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongst
the wealth her father, banker J. P. Morgan, had amassed. She
was awarded a medal from the National Institute of Social
Science in 1915, the same year she published the story The
American Girl. In 1932 she became the first American woman
appointed a commander of the French Legion of Honor. TLS,
1938, 1P, approx. 7-3/4 x 10 in. She declines an invitation.
VG................60-60
248. Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C.
Forbes. He was known as a promoter of capitalism and for
extravagant spending on parties, travel, and his collection of
homes, yachts, aircraft, and art. Signed color 8x10 photo.
VG............50-75
250. [FRANCE] Pierre
Louis Parisis - Roman Catholic bishop
of the Bishopric of Langres from 1835 to 1851. He was one of
the strongest right wing figures in the French Catholic Church
of his era. In 1847 he formed the Archconfraternity of
Reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of Sunday to promote
Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ. He is also noted for his
efforts within the Assembly of 1848 for establishing the
ecclesiastical college of St. Dizier and for his discussions
concerning the educational reforms. He was a member of the
commission which prepared the draft project for the Falloux
Laws increasing the Catholic clergy's influence in French
education. ALS, 1856, 1p, 7x9 in. Addressed to De Loisne. Not
translated. VG............75-100
See above
251. [FRENCH CINEMA] JEAN TOULOUT [1885-1962] Fr. actor. ALS, no date, 1p.............35-45
252. [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
See above
253. [FILM] Julie Christie - British
actress. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the
1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and
Screen Actors Guild Awards. Signed 4x6 photo.
VG............40-60
See above
254. Offered here is a lot of (25) early 19th century Pennsylvania document, sizes varying from 7 3/4" x 1 1/4" to 8" x 5 3/4", all related to the estate of James and Rebecca McCune, with the earliest dated 1809 (majority dated 1825), most being receipts paid by the estate of the recently deceased James McCune, with the 1809 document signed by James (and his future wife Rebecca). Many names here from the Plain Grove area of Pennsylvania: William Emery, James Clark, Wm. Dennison Jr., John Pollock, Benj. Park, William Scott (Sheriff), Thomas Rodgers, George Bruce, John Munson, Jonathan Dean, James George, Charles Gilkey, Wm. Rankin, Joseph Emery (Tax Collector), etc. Folds, some edge wear (occasional small tears/ breaks, some chipping), light toning-- overall quite good. JAMES McCUNE (1771-1825) husband of Sarah Suzanne Nelson and Rebecca Armstrong McCune. He was a pioneer shoemaker of this new country. James McCune was Captain of Militia in old Slippery Rock Township, when it was in Mercer County and was out twice at Erie during the War of 1812-15. After the war he continued to serve as Militia Captain. He died in Plain Grove in 1825................150-200
Scan 3PENN. DOCUMENT ARCHIVE War of 1812 Veteran JAMES McCUNE (1771-1825) Shoemaker
255. [NAUTICAL AMERICANA] Offered
here is a pair of early 19th century nautical receipts, each a
1p. MDS, related to the Brig Fountain out of Portland, Maine,
7 3/4" x 2 1/2" and 7 3/4" x 4", dated Portland August 22,
1825 and October 3, 1825, for Brimstone, ship bread, flour
barrels, and Coopering Flour Barrels, one signed Horatio G.
Cook and the other John Elder. Folds, minor
edge wear, light toning-- overall quite good. An early
document pair pertaining to this ship, the Brig Fountain was
built in Portland, Maine around 1823, its owner being John
Fox. Fox was
a Maine shipowner, whose Privateer FOX was active during the
Revolutionary War, and co-owned with Benjamin Titcomb
(1726-1798). During
the War, the FOX captured a letter of marque of 18 guns with a
valuable cargo. The
vessel was later taken to Boston where its arms and equipment
were confiscated for Colonial use...................40-60
256. [NAUTICAL AMERICANA] Offered here is a pair of early 19th century nautical receipts, each a 1p. MDS, related to the Brig Fountain out of Portland, Maine, 7 1/4" x 3" and 8" x 3", dated Jan. 9, 1825 and Sept. 1 & 10, 1825, for clouts, nails, Twine, etc., both signed Charles & George Fox. One has light folds, minor edge wear, light toning/ staining-- quite good overall. An early document pair pertaining to this ship, the Brig Fountain was built in Portland, Maine around 1823, its owner being John Fox. Fox was a Maine shipowner, whose Privateer FOX was active during the Revolutionary War, and co-owned with Benjamin Titcomb (1726-1798). During the War, the FOX captured a letter of marque of 18 guns with a valuable cargo. The vessel was later taken to Boston where its arms and equipment were confiscated for Colonial use...............40-60
257. [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
258. [FILM] Charlton Heston (1923-2008)
American actor. Signed 5 x 7 photo. VG................25-35
259. [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
Scan 1
Scan 2
260. Dover, New
Hampshire - 4 documents, dated 1816-17, all signed by Mark
Walker. He was from Dover. These are from the Andrew Rollins
papers. Each about 7 x 3"...........Min. Bid $10
See documents
261 [MUSIC] Bobby
Short (1924-2005) American
cabaret singer and pianist. Signed & inscribed
8x10 photo. Very nice. VG...........40-60
See
above
262. [FILM] Group
photo of friends Van Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn and
Peter Lawford. c. 1950s. 8 x 10 in. From the personal collection
of Van Johnson. VG for its
age.........150-200 Min. Bid $35
264.
[FILM] Debra
Paget
(born 1933) is
an American
actress and
entertainer.
She is perhaps
best known for
her
performances
in Cecil B.
DeMille's epic
The Ten
Commandments
(1956) and in
Love Me Tender
(1956) (the
film debut of
Elvis
Presley), and
for the risque
(for the time)
snake dance
scene in The
Indian Tomb
(1959). Signed
&
inscribed 8x10
photo PLUS ANS
on separate
sheet.................40-60
See
above
265. [FILM] Eleanor
Parker (1922
–2013) American actress who appeared
in some 80 movies and television
series.[1] An actress of notable
versatility, she was called Woman of
a Thousand Faces by Doug McClelland,
author of a biography of Parker by
the same title.At the age of 18,
Parker was signed by Warner Brothers
in 1941. She was nominated three
times for the Academy Award for Best
Actress in the 1950s, for Caged
(1950), Detective Story (1951) and
Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role
in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup
for Best Actress at the Venice Film
Festival. One of her most memorable
roles was that of Baroness Elsa
Schrader in the 1965 musical The
Sound of Music. Signed inscribed
8x10 photograph.
VG.............35-45
See
above
267. Dennis Conner (born
September 16,
1942)
American
yachtsman,
known as "Mr.
America's
Cup". He is
noted for
winning the
bronze medal
at the 1976
Olympics, two
Star World
Championships,
and four wins
in the
America's Cup.
Signed 1987
cover honoring
America's
Cup...............Min.
Bid $10
268. Jack
(John Ludlow)
Gould
(1914-1993)
American
journalist and
critic, who
wrote
commentary
about
television. He
started as a
copy boy at
the New York
Herald Tribune
in 1932. In
1937 he moved
to The New
York Times,
writing for
the drama
department and
in the 1940s
writing also
about radio.
In 1944 he
became the
newspaper's
radio critic,
and in 1948
the chief
television
reporter and
critic. At one
point he had
eight people
working under
him. In the
early 1960s he
was a CBS
executive for
a short time
but returned
to the Times.
Gould's
columns and
reviews (along
with those of
rival John
Crosby of the
Herald
Tribune) were
widely read by
decision
makers in the
fledgling
medium of
television,
and Gould had
many
professional
and personal
relationships
with prominent
industry
figures such
as Edward R.
Murrow and
Fred Friendly.
He did not
hold back
harsh
criticism,
even when The
New York Times
itself
produced its
own public
affairs
program in
1963; he
was aware of
the potential
power of
television as
a force for
social good.
His colleagues
dubbed him
"the
conscience of
the industry",
to his own
embarrassment.
Offered
here is a TLS,
NY Times, Dec.
19, 1967, 1p,
approx.
8.5 x 7 in. To
Orville S.
Poland of Blue
Hill, Maine.
Interesting
content
people's
opinions.
VG............50-75
269.
[WAR]
Printed
government
document,
Letter from
The Secretary
of War, J.C.
Calhoun. March
15,
1820.
Approx. 5
pages plus 21
foldout
charts. Light
foxing but
very
good.........50-75
271. [FILM] Joyce
Compton (1907
- 1997) American actress.
Among her films were Imitation
of Life, Magnificent
Obsession, The Awful Truth,
Rose of Washington Square,
They Drive by Night, Christmas
in Connecticut, Mildred
Pierce, The Best Years of Our
Lives, and Sorry, Wrong
Number. ALS, 1966, written
on both sides to a fan. Nice
letter. VG..........40-60
273. [FRANCE] Mun, Albert de [1841-1914]. French politician. Founder of
Circles of Catholic Workmen (1871); member of Chamber of Deputies
(1876-78, 1881-93, 1894-1914); opponent (1905) of bill for separation of
church and state. Among his books were La Loi des suspects (1900),
Contre la séparation (1905), Ma vocation sociale (1908), and L' Heure
décisive (1913). AUTOGRAPH NOTE UNSIGNED, 5+ lines on his personal card,
1894. Cover included. Fine............50-75
274. [FRANCE] Gabriel Monod (1844-1912) French historian, the nephew of
Adolphe Monod. In 1875 he founded the Revue Historique, which rapidly
became a great authority on scientific education. Monod married Olga
Herzen, daughter of Russian political thinker Alexander Herzen, in 1873.
ALS, no year, written on both sides, 4x5 in. About the poet
Pomairol.........50-75
275. [FRANCE] Louis Antoine
François de Marchangy
(1782-1826) French lawyer, author and politician. He was a
passionate supporter first of Napoleon and later of the
Bourbons, and an impressive force in the courtroom. He was a
Deputy from 1822 to 1824. In 1813 he published his first
work, la Gaule poétique, a two-volume study of the history of
France in terms of its poetry, speeches and beaux-arts. This
book made his reputation. Six editions were published between
1813 and 1826. ALS, no date, brief 1p, 4-3/4 x 7-1/4
in. PLUS a lengthy 1p. letter by Countess de Marchangy..............80-120
276. [FRANCE - MUSIC] Aimable Antoine-Elie-Elwart was a composer , musicologist and French musicologist born in 1808 and died in 1877. ALS, 186?, 1p, 5x8 in. VG...........50-75
277.
[THEATRE] Warren
William (1894-1948)
was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely
popular during the early 1930s; he was later
nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code".
UNSIGNED 1943 playbill, Wilson Theatre,
starring in THERE'S ALWAYS JULIET. 6 x 9. Four
pages. VG.............Min. Bid $9
278. [FILM] Lew Ayres
(1908-1996) American actor, best known for starring as
Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr.
Kildare in nine movies. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.
VG...........40-60
279.
[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
See above
280.
[FILM] Martha Raye
(1916-1994) nicknamed The Big Mouth, was an American comic
actress and singer who performed in movies, and later on
television. She also acted in plays, including Broadway. She was
honored in 1969 at the Academy Awards as the Jean Hersholt
Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer efforts and
services to the troops. Signed and inscribed 8x10 photo.
VG........50-75
281.
[MUSIC] Ray Conniff
(1916-2002) American musician. AMQS, "Somewhere My
Love" on 3x5 card. Fine............50-75
283. Brander Matthews (1852-1929} Am. writer and educator. Matthews was the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature. From 1892 to 1900 he was professor of literature at Columbia, and thereafter held the chair of dramatic literature. His influence was such that a popular pun claimed that an entire generation had been "brandered by the same Matthews". ALS, 1918, written on both sides. Re: why doesn't the Dunlap Society pay its debts?".............50-75
284. Rudy
Vallee
(1901-1986)
American
singer, actor,
and radio
host. He was
one of the
first modern
pop stars of
the teen idol
type. Signed
1935 bank
check.
VG................30-40
285. [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
See
above
286. [FILM] Suzy Parker (1932-2003)
American model and actress active from 1947 into the early 1960s.
Her first film role was in Kiss Them for Me (1957), opposite Cary
Grant and blonde-bombshell, Jayne Mansfield. In Kiss Them for Me,
Parker's character is the main interest of Cary Grant's
character. Signed 3x5 card...........20-30
287. Mike Connors (1925-2017) American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. In the 1959–1960 television season, he had played a crime-fighting investigator known only as "Nick" in another CBS series, Tightrope. Signed, inscribed 8 x 10 photo. VG............40-60
288. [THEATRE] Josephine Victor [1885-?] turn of the century actress, appearing in
Britain, America, and on Broadway. She was married to theatre
manager Freancis Reid. She appeared in many of Channing
Pollock's plays. AQS, 1908. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who
will be clever."......25-35
289. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Honoré
Raymond Capefigue (1801-1872) French historian and biographer.
He became editor of the Quotidienne, and was afterwards
connected, either as editor or leading contributor, with the
Temps, the Messager des Chambres, the Revolution de 1848 and
other papers. ALS, no date, 1p..............35-45
291. [WEST VIRGINIA] John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (b.1937) is a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. He was the 29th Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally progressive Republican dynasty. Document signed, 1969, 2pp, 8.5 x 13 in. He signs as the Sec. of State for West Virginia, a Certificate, a finance company...............50-75
292. [MARYLAND] Charles McC. Mathias,
Jr. (1922- 2010)
Republican member of the United States Senate,
representing Maryland. GROUP OF 5 TLSs, 1965-78, each 1p.
All to the President of a financial corporation discussing
minimum wage, Federal Trade Commission, etc. All very good
condition..........50-75
293. Annie Fields (1834-1915) American writer. Fields was a
forward-looking, philanthropic and multi-talented woman, who
encouraged the talents of others even as she followed the good
of the intellect. Although Fields often turns up in the
pantheons of 19th century poetry, it is for her short
sympathetic biographies that she is now remembered. ALS, 1910, 1p,
laid to mounting page. With original envelope........50-75
294. [RELIGION] Mystery Document Signed. Approx. 12 x 8" on paper. Appears to be from Italy or Spain of religious content. We have just received the following information about this document. It says - This is a fairly routine document issued IN THE NAME of Archbishop Francesco Saverio Mastrilli, C.R., of Taranto Italy (1699-1777). It has something to do with the Congregation of the Universal Inquisition, now known as the Propagation of the Faith. It probably was the granting of church approval for publication of a book or some dispensation/approval. See scan below. Certainly worthy of research..........100-150
See document295. [MARYLAND] Paul Sarbanes (b. 1933) a Democrat, is a former United States Senator who represented the state of Maryland. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, having served from 1977 until 2007. Group of 3 TLSs, 1977-80, 1p. each. To the President of a financial company, regarding various bills......40-60
296. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Hickenlooper [IA], Hickey [WY], Holland [FL], Hruska [NE], Johnston [SC], Jackson [WA], Jordon [NC], Kuchel [CA], Lausche [OH], Cotton [NH]. All have mounting residue at top & bottom edge. Mostly on verso but with some show-thru.............50-75
297. James Truslow Adams [1878-1949] American writer. TLS, 1941, 1p, recommendation for his wife's cousin's daughter. Quite lengthy.........40-60
298. [MUSIC] Jan Peerce [1904-1984] Opera star. ISP, 8x10, 1982.........25-35
301. [MUSIC - FRANCE] Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau
(1857-1934) French composer who played a key role in
the introduction of realism in French opera. In
1887, he produced his first opera, Kérim. The
following year, Bruneau met Émile Zola, launching a
collaboration between the two men that would last for two
decades. Bruneau's 1891 opera Le rêve was based on the
Zola story of the same name, and in the coming years Zola
would provide the subject matter for many of Bruneau's
works. Bruneau was decorated with the Legion of
Honor in 1895. Five lines written in his hand on
his calling card. Not signed. VG...........60-80
302.
[THEATRE] MARY
F.
SCOTT-SIDDONS
(1844-1896)
Indian
born-English
Actress. She
was born in
India. Scott
Siddons made
her
professional
debut at
Nottingham,
England, as
Lady Macbeth.
She first
appeared in
London in 1867
at the
Haymarket
Theatre, as
Rosalind in
"As You Like
It." Her
American debut
was at the
Boston Museum
and her New
York debut was
as Rosalind in
"As You Like
It" at the
Worrell
Sisters'
Theatre in
1868. She
joined
Augustin
Daly's company
in New York in
1869 SIGNED
card.........25-35
303. [THEATRE] Alice Kauser
(1872-1945) theatrical agent.
Born in Budapest, where her father was the
American consul, she received most of her
schooling on the Continent. Her mother was
the celebrated opera singer Berta Gester,
who introduced her to many theatrical
figures. These connections served her
handsomely when she became a play broker in
the late 1890s. Klauser helped get several
Sardou plays produced here and was one of
the first to take up cudgels for Ibsen. She
also fought to achieve recognition for such
American clients as Edward Sheldon and
Langdon Mitchell, proving instrumental in
the production of such plays as Salvation
Nell and The New York Idea. Among her other
clients were Channing Pollock and Edward
Childs Carpenter. Three TLSs, all
1925, 1p. each, to Marcel Ballot,
French Society of Authors, Composers
and Dramatists, Paris, France. In
English about the play PALS
FIRST..............60-80
306. [ENTERTAINMENT] EDDIE
PEABODY (1902-1970) Entertainer, singer and
known as “King of the Banjo” TLS, 1995, 1p. Says Chicago
audiences have always been kind to hom. Nice
example..........40-60
309. [THEATRE] Henry de GORSSE [1868-1936] Fr. dramatist. ALS, no date, 1p.
Speaks about his play. Not translated. Fine................40-60
310. [LITERATURE] Sir Hall Caine [1853-1931]. English novelist. Secretary to Dante G. Rossetti (1881-82). Author of Shadow of a Crime (1885), Son of Hagar (1886), The Deemster (1887), The Bondman (1890), The Manxman (1894), The Christian (1897), Eternal City (1901), Prodigal Son (1904), The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1913), The Master of Man (1921), and Life of Christ (1938). Signed card.........25-35
311. [EARLY FILM] Odette
Myrtil [1898-1978] French born American actress.
One of the highlights of her career was acting the title
role of Odette in Jerome Kern's :The Cat and the Fiddle"
[1931], written especially for her. Written in TLS form,
a document dated 1936, re: contract with Samuel Goldwyn,
Inc. 1-page, she signs at bottom "Approved and
Accepted." VG.......50-75
312.
Bertha Behrens (1850-1912) was a German
novelist, who used the pen name W. Heimburg. She
completed Das Eulenhaus, a posthumous novel by Marlitt
in the Gartenlaube, in which periodical most of her
novels appeared. Signature in form of return address
on back of envelope, 1885 [mounted to larger
sheet...........20-30
313. Harold MacGrath [1871-1932]
American writer. Signature...........20-30
314. [MUSIC] Armand Crabbe
(1883-1947) Belgian operatic baritone.
In 1904 he made his professional opera debut at La
Monnaie as the Nightwatchman in Richard Wagner's
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He was a leading
performer at the Royal Opera House in London from
1906 to 1914 and again in 1937. He performed with
the Manhattan Opera House from 1907 to 1910 and
with the Chicago Grand Opera Company from 1910 to
1914. He made several appearances with the Teatro
Colón and La Scala during the 1920s. He was active
at the Vlaamse Opera up until his retirement in
the early 1940s. ALS, BRUSSELS, 1930, 2pp.
VG.......50-75
315. [EARLY FILM] Corinne Griffith [1894-1979]
American actress. Dubbed "The Orchid Lady of the Screen", she
was one of the most popular film actresses of the
1920s and widely considered the most beautiful
actress of the silent screen. Shortly after the
advent of sound film, Griffith retired from acting
and became a successful author. TLS, 1961, 1p, on her personal stationery. Re:
typist changing recipient's name; hopes he likes the
book; happy Christmas. Fine
condition...........40-60
316. [SWINDLER] Horatio William Bottomley [1860-1933]. English journalist and financier. Made fortune floating speculative stocks; established weekly John Bull (1906), vehicle of rabid patriotism during World War I; M.P. (1906-12, 1918-22). Bankrupt (1911); regained fortune in lotteries, etc.; finally convicted of misappropriation of funds held in trust (1922), and imprisoned for 5 years. Brief TLS, 1918, 1p. "I am obliged for your letter. The message I send you is my earnest wish for a speedy and triumphant conclusion of the War." Rust mark from paperclip top edge...........50-75
317. [MUSIC] Xavier
Boisselot [1811-1893] Fr. composer,
pianist. ANS, 1854.........25-35
318. Bill Proxmire (1915-2005)
US senator from Wis. Signed on lined side........15-20
319. [THEATRE] George Graves
(1876-1949) English comic actor who created The Gazeka, a
mythical beast. He introduced it as a bit of by-play in the
musical, The Little Michus at Daly's Theatre, London, in 1905.
As a result, Graves's little idea became a fad of the season and
a competition was mounted to encourage artists to give sketches
of what the beast might look like. Charles Folkard won the
competition and the Gazeka suddenly appeared in the form of
various items of novelty jewellery, charms, etc, and was taken
up by Perrier , the sparkling water makers, for a series of
advertisements. The Gazeka also featured in a special song and
dance in the entertainment Akezag, at the London Hippodrome at
Christmas, 1905. ALS, no date, 1p..............25-35
320. [FILM] Henry
Armetta (1888-1945) was an
Italian-born American character actor
who appeared in at least 150 American
films, starting in silents around 1915
to 1946, when his last film Anchors
Aweigh was released posthumously. Signed
& inscribed vintage 8 x 10 sepia
photo. VG.........50-75
321. Russell Arms [1920-2012] American actor, singer. Signed 5x7 photo........20-30
325. [OPERA] Dame EDITH COATES (1908-1983) British Mezzo Soprano - A most successful career at the Old Vic, Sadler Wells, covent Garden. She was fortunate to have a long caeer. She was an impressive singing-actress. She created the role Auntie in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, Bardeau, in Sir Arthur Bliss' The Olympians, and other great roles in Gloriana and The Parlour. TLS dtd 1/12/81 ...................35-45
332. Susan Ertz (1894 - 1985) British fiction writer and novelist. ALS on notecard, no date, 5-1/4 x 3-1/4. VG.........40-60
334. Isaac Seligman [1834-1928] German-American merchant banker and philanthropist. He was the youngest of eight brothers, all of whom emigrated to America and became involved in running various branch offices of the merchant banking house J. & W. Seligman & Co., co-founded in Manhattan, New York City in 1846 by Isaac's elder brothers, James and Joseph Seligman. TLS, 1904, 1p, to Lt. Gov. of NY, William F. Sheehan [1859-1917] who was an influential lawyer and politician. VG..........60-80
See Seligman
335. Russell Long [1918-2003] LA. Senator. SP, 8x10. VG......25-35
338. JOSEPH
MITCHELL CHAPPLE
(1868-1950) American Author/Newspaperman -He was a most
celebrated jounalsit who covered the Spansih-American War,
to Spain in the 1930's. He was the author of a book on
President Warren G. Harding and was author of numerous
articles for over 60 years. ANS dtd
9/29/40............20-30
339. [FILM] Hume
Cronyn (1911-2003)
Canadian-born actor who was married to Jessica Tandy. TLS, 1957, 1p.
Mentions the play "The Man In The Dog Suit" not yet finished. To
M. Abbott Van Nostrand, the publisher of plays.
VG...........40-60
340. [FILM] EMIL SITKA (1914-1998) American Actor. He spent many years as a comic foil for the Three Stooges, from 1957-1965, first appearing with the Stooges in Half-Wits Holiday. He himself was about to become a Stooge in 1975 when Moe Howard passed away and broke up the trio forever. Sitka started out working odd jobs in mid-'30s Hollywood to support his family. Tiny acting roles were among those jobs. Sitka continued to appear in over 500 short films working with some of Hollywood's brightest stars, including Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, and Red Skelton. SIGNED/inscribed 3x5 card...........20-30
341. Adlolfo [b.1933] Cuban-American designer. Signature..........15-20
342. Henry Major Tomlinson [1873-1958] British novelist. Fine signature......15-20
343. [ART/THEATRE] John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923) Victorian English historical and portrait painter as well as an accomplished theatrical costume designer. As his reputation grew, Lucas increasingly mixed in society circles, and became firm friends with the famous society portrait painter John Singer Sargent who was his almost exact contemporary. A portrait of Lucas executed by John Singer Sargent is displayed in Tate Britain . Towards the 1890s John Seymour Lucas executed a number of major works for prestigious public buildings or royal clients. These include: The Flight of the Five Members (Houses of Parliament), The Granting of the Charter of the City of London (Royal Exchange), Reception by HM King Edward VII of the Moorish Ambassador (Royal Collection), HRH the Prince of Wales in German Uniform (Royal Collection). ALS, 1916, 2pp., written on both sides......50-75
344. HENRY DENKER
(1912-2012) American Playwright/Novelist/Screenwriter. His plays are: A
Case Of Libel, A Far Country, Horowitz and Mrs. Washington, The Second
Time Around, Time Limit, Venus At Large, What Did We Do Wrong, many
books and screen plays. Signed 8x10 photo. Signed in dark area- poor
contrast.............Min. Bid $10
345. William Rockefeller (1919-1990) American businessman. TLS, 1971, 1p., setting up a meeting with Jackson W. Moore from Nashville. VG......40-60
346. William Hepworth Thompson (1810-1886) English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. ALS, 1873, 4pp.........50-75
347. LOUIS ADAMIC
(1899-1951) American Author, translator. TLS (1938) 1p.
Signature is dark but letter's typed text has
lightened...........25-35
348. [MILITARY] 1880 Orders Signed RICHARD C.
Drum, Dept. of Texas COL. DAVID S. STANLEY (MOH).
Offered
here is a 1p. printed Special Orders signed, 7 1/2 x
9 1/2, dated Washington, December 17, 1880, signed R. C.
Drum (and in TYPE "By Command of General Sherman"), with
orders mentioning five soldiers, including: Colonel
D. S. Stanley "... 22d Infantry, is assigned duty
according to his brevet of major general while in command
of the Department of Texas..." and Musician Robert J.
Anderson "... Company A, 25th Infantry, having enlisted
under false pretences, will be discharged..." Minor
edge wear, small ink smear on verso, red ink notation at
bottom, otherwise very good. RICHARD
COULTER DRUM (1825 – 1909) was
Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1880 to
1889. He was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and
graduated from Jefferson College before entering the
printing business. At the outbreak of
the Mexican–American War in 1846, he enlisted as a private
in the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers, and, the next year,
was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 9th Infantry
of the Regular Army. He took part in many of the battles
of the war, including Chapultepec and Mexico City.
349. [MUSIC] Anton van Rooy [1870-1932] Dutch bass-baritone. He had a voice of enormous proportions and is most remembered for his association with the music dramas of Richard Wagner, especially the Ring Cycle, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and Parsifal. ALS, no date, 2pp, about 4-3/4 x 6-1/2". Written in pencil. Not translated. Wrinkled..........50-75
Portrait
350. [FRANCE] Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (1853-1905), French politician. He was Minister of War. In July 1898, he read in the chamber a document which definitely incriminated Captain Alfred Dreyfus. On August 30, however, he stated that this had been discovered to be a forgery by Colonel Henry , but he refused to concur with his colleagues in a revision of the Dreyfus prosecution, which was the logical outcome of his own exposure of the forgery. Resigning his portfolio, he continued to declare his conviction of Dreyfus's guilt, and joined the Nationalist group in the chamber, of which he became one of the leaders. ANS on both sides of his personal calling card. Very fine................50-75
352. (John) BEVERLY
NICHOLS (1898-1982) English writer,
playwright, novelist and composer. He was a member of the
“Bloomsbury Group” Author of many plays, novels, but now most
remembered for his garden books, which were illustrated by Rex
Whistler. ALS, no date, 1p. VG...............50-75
353. [MUSIC] Joseph Edgar Howard
(1878-1961) Broadway composer, lyricist, and librettist. A
famed member of Tin Pan Alley his credits, along with wife and
composer Ida Emerson as part of the song writing team of Howard
and Emerson whose hits include Hello Ma Baby, and
Broadway tunes like The District Leader.
Clip Signature, 1944. Fair condition......40-60
355. Marty Allen
(1922-2018) American stand-up comedian,
actor, and veteran of World War II. He has worked as a comedy
headliner in night clubs and as a dramatic actor in TV roles.
SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph.........25-35
357. [PRINTING PRESS] Peter Smith (1795-1824) American who designed and changed the way printing was made by developing a hand printing machine, which changed the course of printmaking. Rare clip signature [mounted]. About 2-1/4 x 1/2 in. mounted.........50-75
See above
361. [FILM] Shannon Day (1896 - 1977) American silent film actress who appeared in supporting parts in numerous productions. She also performed on the Broadway stage as a teenager. Her career did not survive the sound era. Her first film was Cecil B. DeMille's Forbidden Fruit. Signed card, approx. 3-1/2 x 2-1/4", with envelope, 1921..............20-30
362. NO LOT
363.
[FRANCE] François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (1773-1850)
was a French writer on ethics, political science and political
economy. Droz's own legal studies led him to Paris in
1792; he arrived the day after the dethronement of King Louis
XVI of France, and was present during the massacres of
September. On the declaration of war he joined the volunteer
battalion of the Doubs, and for the next three years served in
the Army of the Rhine. Discharged on health grounds, he obtained
a much more congenial post in the newly founded école centrale
of Besançon; and in 1799 he made his first appearance as an
author by an Essai sur l'art oratoire (Paris, Fructidor, An
VII.), in which he acknowledges his indebtedness more especially
to Hugh Blair. As he advanced in life, Droz became more and more
decidedly religious. Handwritten page, 1806,
from his hand but not signed. Approx. 8 x 10 in.
VG. Rare!..............100-150
365. [FRANCE]
Leon Xanrof (1867-1953) French
playwright and songwriter, noted for writing the play The Prince
Consort, which was used to create the 1929 film Parade d'amour
(The Love Parade). Brief ALS, [1930s], 1p, 8-1/4 x 5 in.
Accompanied by 4 small portraits, 2 of which are original
photos. VG..........50-75
368.
[FRANCE] 1769 ARRET, DE LA COUR DE
PARLEMENT, concerning censorship by the Church, 6
pages, approx. 7 x 9 in. In very fine
condition.............100-150
373. [FRANCE] Rene Cagnat (1852-1937) Fr. teacher and philosopher. As holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy and Roman antiquities' at the Collège de France, in 1888, he set up L'Année épigraphique (The Epigraphic Year, or AE) the French publication on epigraphy. ALS, no date, 2-1/2 pp., 4 x 5-3/8", sent to the poet, Noel Giron. VG............50-75
374. William Vann Rogers, generally known as Will Rogers, Jr. [1911-1993], was the son of legendary humorist Will Rogers [1879-1935] and his wife, the former Betty Blake [1879-1944]. He was a Democratic Congressman from California from January 3, 1943 until May 23, 1944, when he resigned to return to the United States Army. Rogers had several other careers, notably as a newspaper owner/publisher, an actor, writer, and a political commentator. Signature in return address clipped from envelope.....20-30
377. [TV] Robert Horton (b. 1924), American television actor, was most noted for the role of Flint McCullough in the TV series Wagon Train (1957-1962). ANS, 1991, on back of postcard picturing him......20-30
See above
378. [FILM] Susanna Foster [1924-2009] American film actress best known for her leading role as Christine. Signed, inscribed color 10x8 movie still photo. VG..........25-35
See above
379. Richard Pike Bissell (1913-1977) American author of
short stories and novels. One of which, 7 1/2 Cents, was turned into the Broadway
musical The
Pajama Game.
This won him (along with co-author George Abbott) the 1955 Tony
Award for Best Musical. He wrote a book about the experience
called Say,
Darling, which
chronicled the ins and outs of a broadway musical production and
featured characters based on those (such as Harold Prince) he
worked with; this book was also turned into a musical, also
called Say, Darling, in 1958. ALS, 1965, 1p, inquiring about a job for his
son who was coming for the summer to Boothbay, Maine. Written to the owner of the
Boothbay Theatre Museum. VG..........50-75
380. W.S. Lilly - British essayist. ALS, 1870,
2pp..........25-35
381. ROBERT FITZGERALD
(1910-1985) American Poet/Critic/Translator. He started out as a
reported for the New York Hearald Tribune, then worked as a
writer for Time Magazine. His poetry is collected in "A Wreath
for the Sea(1943),In the rose of Time(1956), Spring Shade(1971).
Translated The Odyssey, The Iliad, and The Aeneid.
SIGNATURE/inscribed with sentiment on Harvard University
Stationary, dtd 5/27/73...........20-30
384.
[FRANCE] PIERRE DESCAVES -
believe he was the French radio critic. Four [4] pages of notes
[unsigned] in the hand of Descaves referring to Jean Cocteau.
PLUS 3 ephemeral pieces related to Cocteau: 1930 1p. printed
page by Cocteau on Opium; small theatre program picturing him;
2-page flyer about him...........50-75
385. [FRANCE] Edmond Desbonnet
(1867 - 1953) French academic and photographer who championed
physical culture. He made physical education fashionable in
belle époque France through the publication of fitness journals
and by opening a chain of exercise clubs. BRIEF ALS, 1927 [?],
1P. To the autograph collector and writer, Felix Bonafe. Edge
toned............25-35
386. [FRANCE] Eugène Brieux (1858-1932), French dramatist. ALS, n.d., 1p, 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. VG..........60-80
387. [FRANCE] Stephen-Jean-Marie Pichon (1857-1933) French politician of the Third Republic. The Avenue Stéphen-Pichon in Paris is named after him. He served as French Minister to China (1897–1900), including the period of the Boxer Uprising. An associate of Georges Clemenceau, he served several times under Clemenceau and others as Minister of Foreign Affairs, a role in which he proved amiable, but not particularly effective. His most notable service was under Clemenceau during the latter part of the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, but, like most of the other foreign ministers at the conference, Pichon was largely sidelined by the more forceful figure of his head of government. ALS, 1907, 1p, 4-3/4 x 7 in. VG..............75-100
389 . [MUSIC] Attila Molnar [b. 1970] Hungarian composer and jazz musician.
AMQS from his "Hugarian Fantasy for Violin and Piano." Approx.
3x5. VG.........50-75
391. Alfred Wigan [1814-1878] Brit. Victorian
actor. Sig. address panel.............20-30
393. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. ANS, 1921, mounted to sheet. About 5x5 in. Wrinkled............75-100
See above
See other side
394. [FRANCE] Hugues Le Roux (1860-1925) French journalist, writer, Senator in the Third Republic. ALS, 1909, 2 full pages. VG..........50-75
395.
[FRANCE] Natalis
de Wailly
(1805-1886) French archivist,
librarian and historian. In
1841, as head of the Administrative
Section of the Royal Archives, he
wrote a ministerial circular, issued
by Count Tanneguy Duchâtel, Minister
of the Interior, stating that
records should be grouped according
to the nature of the institution
that has accumulated them and
formulating the principle of respect
des fonds (up until that point,
archives had often been sorted
according to subject, date or
place). In 1854, he was
appointed head of the manuscript
department of the Bibliothèque
impériale. A member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et
Belles-Lettres since 1841 and of
several learned societies, he was a
renowned paleographer and published
scientific editions of medieval
chroniclers. ALS, 1846, 4pp, 5
x 7-1/4 in. Fine............50-75
396. [FRANCE] Antoine-Nicolas Bailly (1810-1892) important French architect. In 1850, with the support of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , Bailly became the architect of the dioceses of Bourges, Valencia and Digne. From 1875 to 1886, he served as diocesan architect of Limoges, and he was also the supervising architect of the Notre Dame de Paris from 1883 to 1886, after Viollet-le-Duc's restorations. In 1854 Bailly was appointed inspector of works in Paris. As such he participated in the completion of the Old Town Hall and the construction of the Fontaine Molière under Louis Visconti. In 1860, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann commissioned Bailly with the administrative building for the 4th arrondissement of Paris, which served as a model for others. His best-known work overall, although not the most admired, is the Tribunal de commerce de Paris (Commercial Court of Paris) on the Île de la Cité, completed in 1865, which Napoleon III had requested be designed in the style of the town hall of Brescia . Its business courts are organized around a glass atrium reaching the entire height of the building. The exterior features architectural sculpture by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Letter Signed, 1885, 1p. To the Director of the Mint about a bronze medal of the Salon. VG...........75-100
397.
[FRANCE] André Soubiran
(1910-1999) French physician and
writer. He is known for his war diary I was a
doctor with the tanks, and especially The
Diary of a woman in white who asks company of
abortion in the 1960s, describing its reality.
Can't make out the date, 1p. Written to
thecritic, Robert Kemp. VG............50-75
398. [FRANCE] Jean-François Barrière (1786-1868) French historian. He wrote about the
French revolution, most notably an annotated biography of Madame
Roland entitled Memoirs de Madame Roland, Avec une Notice sur sa
Vie, des Notes et des Eclaircissemens historiques par MM.
Saint-Albin Berville et Jean-François Barrière, edited and
published in 1827 by Honoré de Balzac. Barrière served 18 years
in the Préfecture of Paris, rising through the ranks to become
division chief. He was removed from office and forced to retire
following the Revolution of 1848. ALS, no year, 3pp, 5-1/4 8-1/4". Long letter about
history and someone who said that Louis XVI was Louis XV's son.
VG............60-80
399.
[FRANCE] Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy
(1805-1866)
was the second
bishop of
Algiers, from
25 February
1846 to 16
November
1866. He
erected, July
11, 1846, the
hatch Staouëli
an abbey and
inaugurated on
May 9, 1850,
the first
chapel of
Notre-Dame de
Santa Cruz in
Oran. He
started the
construction
of the
Basilica of
Our Lady of
Africa in
1858. He
is also known
for a famous
sermon in the
cathedral of
Algiers during
the Lent of
1853, on the
relationship
between Islam
and Jesus
Christ.
Two ALS,
1851 and 1853,
both 1-page. One
speaks of
Algeria.
Included also
is letter from
his brother.
Three
letters.............80-120
See portrait of Pavy
