1. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: 1) [MUSIC] Thomas Harper Jr. (1816-1898) English trumpet musician. He was the son of  Thomas Harper (1786-1853) the English trumpet player, playing in important concerts of the day. ALS, 1857, 2pp,  4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. He writes to Roger Kerrison saying the offer for payment is not less than he has been getting for other concerts. Fine. (2) Joseph P. Lash (1909–1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and author. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for Eleanor and Franklin (1971), the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 23, 1939 deeply shook Lash's growing leanings towards the Communist Party, causing him to resign as executive secretary of the American Student Union. Three months later he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (colloquially known as the "Dies Committee" after its chairman) to be questioned about his activities with the American Student Union and the American Youth Congress. Lash was a hostile witness on Nov. 11, refusing to cooperate with the committee in its effort to obtain the names of members of the Communist Party and to expound upon their influence.  SIGNED 1p. typescript from some unknown work. VG (3) WW II] EVELYN W. FARRAND. Assist. to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Chairman of YOUNG AMERICA WANTS TO HELP, operated under the auspices of the British War Relief Society, Inc. Typewritten Letter Signed, New York, July 21, 1941, to Mrs. Burton Musser, the president of the Utah British War Relief Society. One page, 4to. Sending three pages of information on projects for raising funds for immediate aid of the children in Britain to the additional objective of "crystalliz[ing] the sympathy of the youth of America for the youth of Great Britain." Four pages total. (4) Clement Cabell Dickinson (1849-1938), also known as Clement C. Dickinson, was a Democratic Representative from Missouri. TLS, 1926, 1p.  (5) BrendaKuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1963 bank check. (6) Douglas Volk (1856-1935)American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.Signed 1923 bank check................Min. Bid $50


2. [ART] Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC : original LITHOGRAPH, 1927.  Plate signed monogram, from 1927 Henri Floury, ed. 175. Size 7.25 x 5.5 in. plus margins. In excellent condition. This is not a later reprint. Starting bid is obviously very low. Multiple bids expected. Good luck bidders.........300-400 .  MIN. BID $50

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3. [JUDAICA] HANS MARGOLIUS [1902-1984] German philosopher, writer and librarian. TLS, 1975, 1p. to Frederick Solomon [1899-1980] Rabbi German Expressionist artist. The letter is in German. Also included in a 4 page foldout in German. Envelope included. VG...............50-75

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4. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911-1978)  the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Offered here are 2 original vintage photos, both unsigned. Date? 6-3/4 x 5 in. each. VG...........50-75

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5. [INDIANS] 2 printed government documents about Indians Affairs, 1844 and 1848. Both printed for the US Congress. VG..............Min. Bid $10

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6. [KENTUCKY] John Rowan (1773-1843) was a 19th-century politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Rowan's family moved from Pennsylvania to the Kentucky frontier when he was young. From there, they moved to Bardstown, Kentucky, where Rowan studied law with former Kentucky Attorney General George Nicholas. He was a representative to the state constitutional convention of 1799, but his promising political career was almost derailed when he killed a man in a duel stemming from a drunken dispute during a game of cards. Although public sentiment was against him, a judge found insufficient evidence against him to convict him of murder. In 1804, Governor Christopher Greenup appointed Rowan Secretary of State, and he went on to serve in the Kentucky House of Representatives and the U.S. House of Representatives. Offered here is a clip signature, about 2-1/2 x 1-1/8 in. Condition: repaired. It was in 2 pieces, the John separated from last name. Acid-free name on verso.  Not a great repair job...............Min. Bid $20

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7.  [PORTRAIT]  original antique engraved portrait of   Lady Rachel Wriothesley (c. 1636 – 1723)  English noblewoman, heiress, and author. Her second husband was William, Lord Russell, who was implicated in the Rye House Plot and later executed. A collection of the many letters she wrote to her husband and other distinguished men was published in 1773. Engraved by J. Cochran, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Alittle light toning which shows its old.................25-35

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    8. [PORTRAIT] original antique portrait of Dr. Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) English inventor. He became a clergyman of the Church of England. Cartwright began his career as a clergyman, becoming, in 1779, rector of Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire. In 1783, he was elected a prebendary at Lincoln Cathedral. During his time as a clergyman he published the poem Armine and Elvira in 1770, which was followed by The Prince of Peace in 1779. Although he became better-known as an inventor he was awarded the degree of DD in 1806. He was the inventor of the first wool-combing machine and of the predecessor of the modern power loom. His other inventions included a cordelier (machine for making rope; 1792) and a steam engine that used alcohol instead of water. This print (stipple engraving) Dr Cartwright, engraved by J. Thomson, published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, London, c. 1833.  Dr. Cartwright, From a Picture in the posession of Miss Cartwright, Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.  The image area is approx. 4-1/4 x 3-1/2 in.  plus clean margins. VG...............Min. Bid $10 

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9. Reverend Fred Stadtmuller, a German-born Roman Catholic priest in rural Harding County, New Mexico. Reverend Stadtmuller served an 11-church parish that stretched 4,000 square miles – most of it lacking paved roads. In order to get around his parish quickly, the good priest relied on a piper cub airplane called the Spirit of St. Joseph (an obvious parody of Charles Lindbergh’s celebrated Spirit of St. Louis). And in case you’re wondering, there were no airports in the parish – Reverend Stadtmuller’s airplane took off and landed on rough dirt fields. In 1951, a new filmmaker named Stanley Kubrick created the short documentary “Day of the Fight” about Stadtmuller, known as The Flying Padre. Offered here is a signed 3x5 card [mounted]...............25-35

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10.  FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A hand-written sermon,  delivered in Havana, Cuba 1957,  1 page..............Min. Bid $25

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11.  FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A 10 page hand-written sermon,  MOSES" delivered in Havana, Cuba 1958. PLUS a typed copy of MOSES delivered in Far Rockaway, NY in 1962.........Min. Bid $60

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12. [THEATRE] Mary Anne Orger (1788-1849) she was a leading actress, playwright and the mother of the composer Caroline Reinagle in her role as Flippanta in THE CONFEDERACY. Original 1821 engraving, about 4.5 x 7 in. total size. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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13. [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,о on the shores of Kezar Lake in Center Lovell, Maine. [Stephen A.] Douglas Volk was the son of Leonard [W.] Volk, who was famous for his many life casts of Abraham Lincoln. S.A. Douglas Volk studied in Paris and Italy. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York and was a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. He participated in the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and taught at the New York Society for Ethical Culture established by Felix Adler, where he met Karl von Rydingsv_rd. He married Marion Larabee in 1881 and two of their children were dau. Marion and son Wendell. Daughter Marion helped Mother Marion run the Sabatos Studio, which produced woven and printed textiles. Wendell was also a weaver and learned woodcarving from Karl von Rydingsv_rd. WendellÑ’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 _drawnо rugs and with the help of her son Wendell and daughter Marion she began Sabatos Handcrafts in 1901. The Volks gathered together residents of Center Lovell, who then carried out every part of the rug-making process. Twenty years later the Volks began producing block-printed textiles. The rugs and printed panels are extremely rare today. VG...............50-75..............Min. Bid $10

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14. [EPHEMERA] offered here is a 1969 cover picturing Queen Elizabeth welcoming astronauts Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins, Herles of Apollo 11 Moon Landing.  6 x 3.5 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10

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15. [BASEBALL] Max Patkin (1920-1999) was an American baseball player and clown, best known as the Clown Prince of Baseball (a play on "Crown Prince").  Patkin was the third "officially" crowned Clown Prince of Baseball, after Al Schacht and Jackie Price, though that nickname has also been applied to St. Louis Browns third baseman Arlie Latham among others. Patkin performed for 51 years as a baseball clown.  His signature inscribed to Eddie, who was his driver when he visited Boston.  Ob the other side is the signature of Willis O. Underwood [not ID'd]. About 4x6 in. VG..........Min. Bid $10

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16. MYSTERY LOT of about 15 autograph signature. Not identified. For those who like to do the research. Good luck..............Min. Bid $10

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17. [GAME OF BRIDGE] Walter Hackett (1876-1944) was an American-British playwright. Several of his stage works (such as Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure, The Freedom of the Seas, The Regeneration, Hyde Park Corner, The Gay Adventure, 77 Park Lane, The Barton Mystery, It Pays to Advertise and Other Men's Wives) were adapted for film. He was married from 1911 until his death in 1944 to actress Marion Lorne. He was born in Oakland, California, and died in New York City. Offered here is a "neat" typed letter signed about playing bridge. Written from the Whitehall Theatre in 1930, 1p,  7-3.4 x 9-1/2 in. He makes a typo mistake at top typing Hackeet instead of Hackett. Trafalgar Studios, formerly the Whitehall Theatre until 2004, is a West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. Built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style, the theatre regularly staged comedies and revues. It was converted into a television and radio studio in the 1990s, before later returning to theatrical use. The theatre opened on 29 September 1930 with The Way to Treat a Woman by Walter Hackett, who was the theatre's licensee. VG...............80-120

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18. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Joseph Doe (1776-1860) In 1821, Joseph was elected Somersworth's representative to the Lower House of the New Hampshire General Court. He became one of the most articulate leaders of the Federalist Party and formed a party known as the "Doe-faces". In 1826, he was re-elected and became the chief spokesman in the state for the business community. He was an expert to whom special banking questions were referred.  After serving seven terms in the House, Joseph was appointed Justice of the Peace & Quorum in January 1829. His political tradition defined the forces of moderation, which became his son Charles' constitutional principle. Joseph was supporting the last stand in New Hampshire on behalf of government by gentry. He gained the conviction that the democratic process could only survive if wedded to the rights of property and the protection of commerce. This was the political legacy that he passed on to his son Charles. New Hampshire court document, 1816, Somersworth, signed by Doe as Justice of the Peace. Samuel Lord (1788-1871) prominent ship owner and merchant is suing James Buzzel for $12.27. See scans for condition...............50-75.......Min. Bid $10

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19.  FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Signed 12pp talk he gave  re: what is the purpose to study the history of art. Signed & dated 1966..........Min. Bid $50

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To   MIss Mary C. Cooke at Great falls, Somersworth, NH

20. (RELIGIOUS FREEDOM) McLaurin F. Cooke - signed 3 page letter + address leaf, dated Dartmouth College, July 9, 1867, wriiten to his sister,  MIss Mary C. Cooke at Great falls, Somersworth, NH. He is asking his sister to attend the commencement at Dartmouth; tells her of his activities. Interesting content.   The main significance of this relates to about 12 years later [1859].  The Eliot School, Boston, in March, 1859, exhibited cruelty and intolerance such as had been rebuked by the State Superintendent in New York. Thomas J. Whall, a Catholic pupil, was ordered to repeat the Ten Commandments in the Protestant form; he declined, as his father had forbidden him to do so. The teacher sent for McLaurin F. Cooke, the second master, who flogged the boy on both hands for thirty minutes, declaring that he would whip him till he consented, for he had nothing else to do the whole forenoon. The inhuman teacher was tried for assault and battery, and the case was argued at considerable length, but Judge Maine held that the teacher had a right to inflict the punishment, and that it was not excessive or malicious.' One hundred Catholic children were expelled for refusing to submit to the intolerant system, and the monstrous decision of the judge sustaining the cruelty showed Catholics that no recognition of their religious rights could be expected from the State schools, which made open war on their religion, and that they must establish schools of their own. On the 21st of March, Bishop Fitzpatrick addressed a letter to the President and members of the School Committee, in which he stated in clear and convincing language the reasons why Catholics resisted the enforced use of the Protestant version of the Bible, the enforced learning and reciting of the Ten Commandments in their Protestant form, and the enforced union in chanting the Lord's Prayer and other religious chants. This masterly document, while it embarrassed the Board, turned the tide of public opinion, and, a few months later, there were elected as members of the School Committee, a Catholic priest and several Catholic laymen. One small hole on page 3 affects a couple of words [caused by the seal]. The letter is in excellent condition. Very uncommon.....400-600......Min. Bid $100

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21. [SCIENCE]  L.J. Johnson - Harvard Prof. writes letter to Prof. R.S. Woodward who was made President of the Carnegie Institution. Dated Dec. 28, 1904, 1p. approx. 8 x 10-1/4 in. Very good condition. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. He died in 1924 in Washington, D.C. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics . In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. VG......100-150..........Min. Bid $25

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22. Group of 7 early New Hampshire documents, 1810-1885. Some signed by Daniel Humphreys, Andrew Wentworth, F. Cogswell, D. French. Varied conditions........Min. Bid $45

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23.  [SPACE] WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. From 1962 to 1965, Whisenhant, who was a native of Texas, was the staff photographer for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. During her tenure there she shot photos of astronauts, worked with CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite on a story about astronaut John Glenn, and photographed President John F. Kennedy. Growing up in Livingston, Texas, Willene Whisenhant probably couldn't have imagined sipping lemonade on Air Force One with the president. She most likely didn't think she'd be the first woman ordained into an all-male club. And the idea of being the first and only female photographer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), couldn't have possibly drifted into even her wildest daydreams. Later on, Whisenhant learned that President John F. Kennedy wanted her up front because, as he explained, when he first met his wife, then Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a struggling photographer and no one would give her a break. He therefore wanted Whisenhant to be front and center. That same day, the president asked his men to take the photographer up to Air Force One and give her some lemonade. Offered here is a lithograph picture of Deke Slayton one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, and was responsible for NASA crew assignments.. Whisenhant has written at the bottom "Slayton." Provenance: from the files of Willene Whisenhant. VG...............100-150

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24. [ART] XVII-XX Century European & American Paintings, illus, 156 lots. Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog, 1969. No prices............Min. Bid $10

25. [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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ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS OF PRESTIGIOUS AMERICANS FROM THE FIELD OF LITERATURE. THESE ARE CLEAN & READY TO FRAME WITH AUTOGRAPHS. NO ESTIMATES. Literary portraits are much more scarce than military or presidents. Min. Bids $10 each

26. SAMUEL P. BATES  (1827–1902) was an American educator, author, and historian. He is known for his reference works on the American Civil War.

27. GEO. W. CHILDS  (1829–1894) was an American publisher who co-owned the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper with financier Anthony Joseph Drexel.

28. FREDERICK S. COZZENS (1818–1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde.

29. DONALD GRANT MITCHELL {1822-1908) American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel.

30. GEORGE P. MORRIS (1802-1864) American editor, poet, and songwriter.

31. FLETCHER HARPER (1806-1877) American publisher in the early-to-mid 19th century.

32. FITZ-GREEN HALLECK  (1790-1867) American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group.

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33. [MILITARY] 2 printed government documents, 1846 [mineral regions of Lake Superior] and 1856 - a memorial.........Min. Bid $10

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34. [ART] Lucien Quarante (1860-1902) French. Painter and engraver, he was born in Metz (57) in 1860. He died in Paris in 1902. Student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the workshops of Cabanel and Henriquel-Dupont, he then worked under the towards Laguillermie. He made his debut at the 1887 Salon with a portrait after Franz Hals, which earned him an Honorable Mention. He exhibited regularly at the Salon and particularly reproduced the old masters. He was one of the good collaborators of the newspaper "l'Art". Offered here is an original etching, after a painting by Gustave Courtois. Title is PORTRAIT OF MADAME GAUTHEREAU. Image is approx. 12 x 7.5 in. plus large margins. 

Madame Pierre Gautreau (the Louisiana-born Virginie Amélie Avegno; 1859–1915) was known in Paris for her artful appearance. Her renown made the papers throughout France, England, and the United States—from Maine to California. "Among the many important portrait studies in the Fine Arts Department [not one has been more discussed, nor is more remarkable, than this presentation of a well-known American Parisienne by Courtois. It might be said also that scarcely one is so beautiful in color. For, notwithstanding her strongly accentuated head, and the stately simplicity of her pose, Madame Gauthereau's beauty lies in the dazzling, slightly improbable, fairness of her skin and the rich auburn of her hair, to which the lustrous whiteness of her dress adds an admirable setting-off. All these blond tones are rendered by the painter with that brilliancy of technique which is so much more frequently found in Paris than in other cities. As if to demonstrate the range of his accomplishments, the painter supplements this "tour de force" with that serious study of a young girl on her death bed, which was, in some respects, his most noticeable exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1889. The "Mme. Gauthereau" was painted two years later.” VG......................200-300

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35.  [THEATRE] Louis Mann (1865-1931) American theatre actor and sometime director, who in his later life made a few appearances in motion pictures. He was married to actress and playwright Clara Lipman (1864–1952) was an American musical comedy actress and playwright whose career began in 1885 and continued on until her retirement in 1927. She was the wife of comedian Louis Mann and the sister of popular Lieder singer, Mattie Lipman MaruNeither is actually signed. Each about 3 x 1-3/4 in. Fine.........Min. Bid $10

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36. Samuel Freeman (1743-1831) was a prominent citizen of Portland, Maine during the 18th and 19th centuries. He was instrumental in founding the first public library in Portland (then Falmouth), Maine, served in the judiciary system as judge and clerk, as well as held the post of the first postmaster of Portland, in 1775. He was an active patriot during the Revolutionary struggle, was secretary of the Cumberland County convention in 1774, a member of the provincial congress in 1775, and of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1776 and 1778. When the courts were reorganized in 1775 he was appointed clerk, which office he held for forty-five years. He was register of probate until commissioned judge in 1804, remaining in the latter office till 1820. From 1776 till 1805 he was postmaster of Portland. He was an active and efficient friend of Bowdoin College, His publications include "The Massachusetts Justice" (1803); and " Probate Directory" (1803); and he edited the "Journal of Rev. Thomas Smith" (1821). Offered here is a signed 11801 Court Document. Good condition for its age..............75-100

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37. [KENTUCKY PIONEER] BEN HELM (b. Va. 1767) Kentucky Pioneer. Son of Capt. Thomas Helm, pioneer settler who came to Ky. in 1779. Thomas & 2 others built forts in 1780, which grew to become Elizabethtown; the area where Abraham Lincoln was to be born. Ben Helm became a surveyor; state senator; clerk of Hardin Co. Courts. He was a major in the War of 1812. He purchsed the
farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln - stepmother of Abe Lincoln. DS,  Hardin County [1810], 1p. approx. 7-1/4 x 12 in. SIGNED BY BEN HELM. Involves money owed by Elisha Johnston to Ann Johnston, who se attorney was WM. P. DUVAL (1784-1854) Interesting Kentucky pioneer who became Gov. of Florida. Duval's signature was written by Ben Helm. Fine..............100-200

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38. [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..........Min. Bid $10

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39. [ART] Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) A painter, architect, etcher and writer, Charles Adams Platt quickly became one of America's most highly regarded landscape artists during the late nineteenth century. He first studied art at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League of New York before finishing his formal training under Boulanger and Lefebvre, in Paris. During his successful career, Charles Adams Platt received many awards, including the bronze medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900. He was a full member of the Society of American Artists (1888), the National Academy of Design (Associate, 1897: Academician, 1911), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Institute of Architects, the New York Etching Club and the London Society of Painter-Etchers. Offered here is his etching STREET at HONFLEUR, FRANCE, plate signed and dated 1882, image approx. 4 x 8-1/2 in. plus clean margins. Very fine condition..............Min. Bid $75

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40. [ART] Rene Paul Huet (1844-1928) Fr. artist. Original etching, signed in the plate, after Corot, image approx. 5-3/4 x 4-1/2 in. plus slim margins. Printed text on verso. Fine................50-75

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41.  [SACO, MAINE] Lauriston Ward writes a one page letter with postmarked address leaf to William Trafton County Clerk. Concerns a date mistake on Ward. 1843 letter from Saco, Maine, 1p. + postmarked address leaf. VG+......Min. Bid $10

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42. [PORTRAIT]  original antique engraved portrait of  John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, PC, PRS (1651-1716) English Whig jurist and statesman. Somers first came to national attention in the trial of the Seven Bishops where he was on their defence counsel. Engraved by W.T. Mote, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Pretty clean................25-35

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43. [ART] Clarkson Frederick Stanfield RA RBA (1793-1867) was a prominent English marine painter, often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield. He was briefly apprenticed to a coach decorator in 1806, but left owing to the drunkenness of his master's wife and joined a South Shields collier to become a sailor. In 1808 he was pressed into the Royal Navy, serving in the guardship HMS Namur at Sheerness. Discharged on health grounds in 1814, he then made a voyage to China in 1815 on the East Indiaman Warley and returned with many sketches. An accident forced Stanfield to leave active service, but during his voyages he had acquired considerable skill as a draughtsman. In August 1816 Stanfield was engaged as a decorator and scene-painter at the Royalty Theatre in Wellclose Square, London. Along with David Roberts he was afterwards employed at the Coburg theatre, Lambeth, and in 1823 he became a resident scene-painter at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where he rose rapidly to fame through the huge quantity of spectacular scenery and (moving) dioramas which he produced for that house until 1834. Meanwhile, Stanfield developed his skills as an easel painter, especially of marine subjects; he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1820 and continued, with only a few early interruptions, to his death. Offered here is an envelope hand-addressed, and signed, by Stanfield. Approx. 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG.......75-100.........Min. Bid $25

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44. [ART] Morrie Turner (1923-2014) American cartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters. During World War II, where he served as a mechanic with Tuskegee Airmen,  his illustrations appeared in the newspaper Stars and Stripes. After the war, while working for the Oakland Police Department, he created the comic strip Baker's Helper. In 1970 Turner became a co-chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. In 1967, cartoonist Bil Keane created the Family Circus character Morrie, a playmate of Billy and the only recurring black character in the strip, based on Turner. In 2003, the National Cartoonists Society recognized Turner for his work on Wee Pals and others with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award.  Offered here is a First Day Cover, 1973, honoring American Revolution Bicentennial on which he does an ink drawing of "WEE PALS", signed. Great item. 6.5 x 3.5 in. Fine...100-200......Min. Bid $25

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45. [SCOTLAND]1903 manuscript document signed by 12 people, 4pp. 9.5 x 15 in. Not researched. VG................50-75

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46. [ART] Florence Maynard (1867 - 1958) was an American photographer. She has portraits in several American collections. She was raised in Massachusetts and trained as a painter in Boston. She began to study photography while in art school, working as an assistant to Gertrude Kasebier. ALS, 1900, 2pp., to Frank Cowles. She says that a boy studying at the school has some complications. About 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG................50-75

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47. [ART] Selma Gubin (1903 – 1974) was a Russian Empire-born American artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Harvard Art Museums and the Hood Museum of Art. In 1972, Gubin's work was included in a group exhibition of drawings and sculpture, with artists Mimi Gross, Claude Marks, Raphael Soyer, Edith Teitelbaum, and Max Weber. Her work is represented in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of the City of New York, Smith College Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Offered here is an original lithograph from the rare 1956 Improvisations portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York. Leading artists on the New York art scene were invited to contribute original lithographs in the form of advertisements for businesses and institutions supporting the Artists Equity Association; these sponsors allowed the artists complete creative freedom of expression. This lithograph was issued in an edition of 2000; the sheet measures 12 x 8-1/2 inches. Signed by Steed in the plate (not hand-signed). VG...............100-150

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48. [JUDAICA] Frederick Solomon (1899-1980) Rabbi  and Expressionist artst. Single page with dates 1957 - 1962, written on both sides. Mentions Fedel Castro - the success of the Revolution, executions, etc. Solomon was a Rabbi in Cuba 1957-1961. Approx. 8-1/4 x 11 in................100-150

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49.  [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 ink [felt pen] unsigned drawing, approx. 14 x 11 in. VG...................200-300

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50. ENTERTAINMENT] Tommy Sands (b. 1937)  American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as early as 1949, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol".  Signed sheet on which he draws a self-portrait [quickly]. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. Fine...........Min. Bid $25

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51. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] interesting collection of 24 documents from the papers of the Rollins family. These date from 1815 to 1877. Very good overall...............Min. Bid $75

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52. [THEATRE]  Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. Cornell is regarded as one of the great actresses of the American theatre. Group of 8 photos of her and family-friends contains in a photo album that opens to  about 13 x 7 in. VG.  Provenance: Cornell to Boothbay [Maine] Theatre Collection - Richard Oliver Auctions to East Coast Books..........200-300

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53. [ART] William Grainger - British engraver active c. 1784-1793). Original engraving, pre-1800, image about 3 x 3-3/4 in. plus margins. VG.........50-75

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54. [THEATRE] 3 items once owned by Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. Cornell is regarded as one of the great actresses of the American theatre. Offered here are 3 items: [1] A tiny 1.5 x 1 in photo of Katharine. [2] Her Actors' Equity Association card [Expiration date Nov. 1, 1974]. She died on June 9, 1974. [3] A unused piece of her stationery. All are in fine condition............50-75

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55. [NAVAL - JAPAN] Gen. Naomi Taniguchi (1870-1941) Japanese Navy soldier. Admiral of the Navy, who served as 18th Commander-General of the Combined Fleet and 14th Commander of the Army. He is an admiral said to be one of the representatives of the Navy decency school. In 1905-06 he was Attache, USA.  Offered here is a signed handwritten, in the 3rd person brief letter sent to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. About 5-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. VERY FINE.  RARE!..............100-150

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56. [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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57. [ART] Emile F. Salmon (1840-1913) French sculptor and print-maker. He was the son of the painter Theodore Frederic Salmon and the father of the poet and art critic Andre Salmon. Salmon studied under Barye, Hadouin and Gaucherel. He made his debut at the Salon in 1859. As a sculptor he produced small bronzes of animals, but abandoned this for etching. He collaborated on an illustrated edition of Victor Hugo's works. In 1886 he printed a set of JW's Venice etchings. These are now in the National Gallery of Scotland. In 1898 he made a number of engravings of drawings and watercolours in St Petersburg where he was then resident. He notably made an engraving after Rembrandt's Sacrifice of Abraham in the Hermitage. Offered here is an original 1888 etching by Salmon, the title is VACHES AU PATURAGE, IMAGE IS ABOUT 4-1/2 X 6-1/8 IN. PLUS MARGINS. There is a tear top edge which does not touch the image................Min. Bid $25

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58. [AVIATION] Ruth Rowland Nichols (1901-1960) American aviation pioneer. She was the only woman yet to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female pilot. She has a very interesting biography including her connect to Amelia Earhart. In December 1930, she beat Charles Lindbergh's record time for a cross-country flight, completing the trip in 13 hours, 21 minutes. Offered here is a biographical sheet on which pens about 8 lines [not signed]. Approx. 6 x 8 in. VG............50-75

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59.
 [AMERICANA] This document fragment comes directly out of the Estate sale of Josiah Bartlett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first Governor of New Hampshire. This is dated 1739 therefore Josiah didn't write this as he woild have been 10 years old. But IT IS straight out of the Bartlett New Hampshire house. Over the years we've offered various documents from the Bartlett estate. Approx. 7 x 4 in.............300-400..........Min. Bid $50

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60.  (AFRICA) Bond for Compagnie Generale Des Comptoirs Africans, Paris 1927. Folio, with coupons, signed by company officials...............75-100

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61. [ART] Salvatore Grippi (1921-2017) American artist and founder of the art department at Ithaca College. Grippi was born in Buffalo, New York. He attended the Albright Art School and the Museum of Modern Art School. He served in the armed forces during World War II. Upon his return he studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Atelier 17 print studio. He was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship which he used to study at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Florence. Grippi taught at several art schools including the Cooper Union Art School, the School of Visual Arts, and Pomona College. He founded the art department at Ithaca College. Grippi's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Original ink drawing, unsigned, 11 x 8.5 in. From his estate. Guaranteed to be by Grippi. VG.......Min. Bid $75

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

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63.  [From Kuhn Estate] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) - American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. OFFERED HERE: Kuhn writes a lengthy pencil notation on side of TYPED LETTER SIGNED, approx. 7.25 x 10 in.. 1943, from Philip R. Adams to Kuhn. Very good condition. Adams writes about setting up meeting with Kuhn when he gets to New York. At this time Adams was the Director of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts [Ohio]. Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn: Painter, His Life and Work (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1978). The lengthy pencil notation: "enter on Veteran Acrobat, causing ructions in Columbus, Schumacher trying to oust Mrs. Arnold. Everything o.k. with picture accorded a fine hanging after its appearance in the Art News as "picture of the year". VG...............200-300  Min. Bid $50

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64. [ART] Portraits by Dutch XVII Century Masters, illus, 73 lots. Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog, 1939. No prices............Min. Bid $10

65. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Mark Akenside (1721-1770)  English poet and physician. Image is approx. 4-1/2 x 3-3/4 in. plus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $10

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66. Coleman Barks (b.1937) is an American poet. Signed typedscript poem. VG..............Min. Bid $10

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67. Coleman Barks (b.1937) is an American poet. Signed typedscript poem. VG..............Min. Bid $10

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68. [FILM]1940 flyer for the great American motion picture ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS starring Raymond Massey (1896-1983) was a Canadian, later American, actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Among his most well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–1966), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). 6.5 x 10 in. Fine..............Min. Bid $10

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69. [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & television Producers Association. Document signed "Gene",  to ALL MEMBERS, of Society of Independent Producers. Ink Signed memorandum, 1965, sent to about 33 named members of the Society of Independent Producers. Some of the names: Marvin Mirisch, Otto Preminger, Milton Ebbins, Peter Lawford, etc. Regarding FILM EDITORS, IATSE Local #776. 1p. 8.5 x 11. Fine............25-35

70. [FILM] Jack Nicholson - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 8 x 10 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid  $10 

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71. [FILM] Jack Nicholson - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 8 x 10 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid  $10

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72. [FILM] original c. 1949 movie still photo from the film THE HASTY HEART starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal. 10 x 8 in. Unsigned. VG................Min. Bid $10

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73. [FILM] vintage 1960 movie still photograph from the film ON THE WATERFRONT, showing Lee J. Cobb. Marlon Brando is not pictured in this scene. 10x8 in. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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74. [FILM] Marlon Brando - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 10 x 8 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid  $10

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75. [THEATRE-MUSIC] Sofia Scalchi (1850-1922) was an Italian operatic contralto who could also sing in the mezzo-soprano range. Her career was international, and she appeared at leading theatres in both Europe and America. Scalchi helped to make history when she sang in the newly constructed New York City Metropolitan Opera's first ever staged work, Charles Gounod's Faust, which inaugurated the theatre on October 22, 1883. She returned to Mapleson's troupe a year later but went back to the Metropolitan in 1891, where she would spend five further seasons. Offered here is a signed card dated 1882, about 3.5 x 2 in. Fine..............Min. Bid $10

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76. [FILM] Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955) American comedienne, actress. SIGNED STAR TREK BOOKPLATE. VG...........20-30

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77. [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........Min. Bid $10

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78. 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

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79. FOOTBALL - 2 signed pictures by former New England Partiots. Includes Tim Fox - signed and inscribed 3-3/4 x 5-1/2 in. and Larry Eisenhauer, Defensive Ends - signed 5 x 7-1/4 in. The Eisenhauer ink signature hadly shows unless held to the light at an angle...............Min. Bid $10

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80. STATE OF MAINE GRANGE Constitution and BY-LAWS, c. 1918. About 4-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. 56pp..............Min. Bid $10

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81. [MASONS] 1879 Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Jersey, 8 x 10.5 in.............Min. Bid $10

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82. Two 1848 wood-engravings showing Washington DC scenes. Each about 5 x 7-3/4 in. plus margins...........Min. Bid $10

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83. [PORTRAIT]  Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. Original engraved portrait c. 1801. Image 3-1/4 x 2-3/4 in. plus wide margins. Scarce image. VG................Min. Bid $10

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84. William Winter (1836-1917) American dramatic critic and author. Winter wore many literary hats during his long, illustrious career: theater critic, biographer, poet, and essayist. He is known for his Romantic style poetry, and for his long career as an editor and writer for some of New York City's great papers. Winter was a tour de force in the original Bohemian scene of Greenwich Village, going on to become one of the most influential men of letters of the last half of the 19th century and the pre-eminent drama critic and biographer of the times. ALS, April 19th no yr., 2pp, approx. 4 x 6-3/4 in. His handwriting is a little strange but can be read. VG.......Min. Bid $10
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85. Lowell Thomas (1892-1981) American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Thomas shot dramatic footage of Lawrence, then returned to America and began giving public lectures in 1919 on the war in Palestine, "supported by moving pictures of veiled women, Arabs in their picturesque robes, camels and dashing Bedouin cavalry". His lectures were very popular and audiences were large, and he "took the nation by storm" in the words of one modern biographer.  He agreed to take the lecture to England, but only "if asked by the King and given Drury Lane or Covent Garden" as a lecture venue. His conditions were met, and he opened a series at Covent Garden on August 14, 1919. "And so followed a series of some hundreds of lecture–film shows, attended by the highest in the land". Signed 1975 membership card, approx. 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10
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86. [LOT] about 73 letters, notes & telegrams from the files of Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) who was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. These are signed & his carbon copies of letters to and from him, plus a few telegrams................Min. Bid $35

87. [RADIO] Raymond Knight (1899-1953)  American actor, comedian and comedy writer, best known as a pioneer in satirical humor for network radio. Signed and inscribed card, 1931, approx. 3-1/4 x 2-1/4 in. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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88. [PORTRAIT] of CHESTER ARTHUR (1830-1886) Photogravure portrait [1902] after a photograph from life by Sarony. Image area, is about 9.5 x 7 in. including engraved signature below plus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25

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89. [PORTRAIT] of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (1773-1841) Photogravure portrait [1902] from  a painting by E.D. Marchan. Image area, is about 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 in. including engraved signature belowplus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25

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90. [PORTRAIT] of ZACHARY TAYLOR (1784-1850) Photogravure portrait [1902] from  a painting by L. Burn Forest. Image area, is about 9 x 6-3/4 in. including engraved signature below plus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25

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91. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Jules Lecomte (1814-1864); Adolphe Desbarolles (1801-1886), Robert de Clery (1836-1914); plus 6 others.  No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150

92. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Ernest Legouve (1807-1903);  Paul Ginisty (1855-1932); Marquis de Pastoret (1791-1857);  plus 6 others.  No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................60-80

93. [FILM] John Gilbert (1899-1936) American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover".  At the height of his career, Gilbert rivaled Rudolph Valentino, another silent film era leading man, as a box office draw.  Unsigned vintage 1926 photograph, 5x7 in.  The signature is printed. VG................Min. Bid $10

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94. [FRANCE] Fortune du Boisgobey (1821-1891), French writer of fiction, whose real surname was Castille. He served in the army pay department in Algeria from 1844 to 1848, and extended his travels to the East. He made his literary debut in the Petit journal with a story entitled Deux comédiens (1868). With Le Forcat colonel (1872) he became one of the most popular feuilleton writers. His police stories, though not so convincing as those of Émile Gaboriau, with whom his name is generally associated, had a great circulation, and many of them have been translated into English. Brief ALS [1880], 1p....................80-120

95. [ENGLAND] R(ichard) Cobden (1804-1865) British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty. Clip signature MOUNTED. Below is article about him............Min. Bid $10

96. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (1834-1923);  Raoul Gautier (1854-1931); Marcelle Adam  (writer of CATS 1959); plus 6 others.  No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150

Leading Authority on Byzantine Art

97. Charles Diehl (1859-1944) French historian who was a native of Strasbourg. He was a leading authority on Byzantine art and history. He was member of the École française de Rome [1881-1883] and the École française d'Athènes. In 1910 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Diehl was the author of several influential books on Byzantine art and history. His treatise Byzance. Grandeur et décadence was translated into English by Naomi Walford and published in 1957 as "Byzantium: Greatness and Decline". ALS, not dated, 1p, 4.5 x 6.5". VG............40-60

98. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President MARTIN VAN BUREN. From The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents Engraved president's autograph beneath the portrait. Copyright, 1907, Bureau of National Literature & Art & Gravure Company of America. Whole paper size is 19.5 x 16 in. High quality paper. Image size about 12 x 8. Condition VG.........Min. Bid $25 

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99 [BASKETBALL] The Harlem Wizards - color 8x10 photo signed by 3 members.  VG...................25-35

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100. [FILM] Helen Walker (1920-1968) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Walker's film debut came in 1942's Lucky Jordan, a comedy about a gangster (Alan Ladd) who ends up drafted in the Army, where Walker's character reports him AWOL. In the farce Brewster's Millions, her sweetheart inherits $8 million, but can't keep it unless he can spend a million of it within a specified time. Walker also played the romantic interest of Fred MacMurray in the popular comedy Murder, He Says in 1945.  UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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101. John David Merwin (1921-2013) was a former politician of the United States Virgin Islands who served in that territory's Legislature, as government secretary (equivalent to lieutenant governor), and as the first native-born governor. He was perhaps the first "politician" to be made governor as previous appointees were primarily men of the military, industry, or non-elected government servants. Signed bio. page, 7 x 10 in. Clean.......Min. Bid $10

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102. Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams Jr. (1919-2001) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives (1953–1957) and the United States Senate (1959–1982). Williams was convicted on May 1, 1981, for taking bribes in the Abscam sting operation, and resigned from the U.S. Senate in 1982 before a planned expulsion vote. SIGNED 3x5 card. On the other side is Richard Joseph Hughes (1909-1992)  American lawyer, politician, and judge. A Democrat, he served as the 45th governor of New Jersey from 1962 to 1970, and as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1973 to 1979. Hughes is the only person to have served New Jersey as both governor and chief justice.  Hughes was also the first Roman Catholic governor in New Jersey's history.  SIGNED CARD............Min. Bid $10

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103. [BOOK]  MAUD MULLER by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1st edition. Published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867. Illustrations on 12 pages. 6 x 8.5 in. Scuffed cover, minor stains inside. Hardbound. Good..........50-75

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104. BAILEY WILLIS (1857-1949), noted geologist; subject of an Argentine biography as a result of his surveys for a railroad across the Andes; a glacier wall in Mt. Rainier Park is named for him; son of Nathaniel Parker Willis, editor and writer. His papers are in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA. A collection of 3 letters - two ALS plus an LS - all to E. H. Frost re books and maps..............75-100

105. SAM JONES  (1933-2021) Hall of Fame basketball player with Boston Celtics. 2 signatures - one on a 3 x 5 card ("Kindest Regards"); the other on the faded program of a 1972 high school basketball luncheon. The program is badly faded; the signature is not..........25-35

106. [JUDAICA] Rabbi Daniel L. Davis (1903-1974) served as director of the New York Federation of Reformed Synagogues for 25 years. A native of Baltimore, he graduated from City College at the age of 14 and later from the Johns Hopkins University. He then attended Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, graduating in 1926. His first assignment as a rabbi was at Temple Beth El in Hammond, Ind., where he remained for a year. He then served for 20 years at Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, in Lancaster, Pa. In Lancaster, Rabbi Davis served as a labor arbitrator and as a member of the Mayor's Postwar Planning Commission. He took the post with the New York federation, which is the regional arm of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, in 1947 and remained until his retirement in 1972. The author of a number of pamphlets on Judaism, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity by Hebrew Union College in 1958. During his service with the federation, he presided over the establishment of many new congregations in the New York area and elsewhere.
A member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, he also served on the National Commission for Rabbinical Placement. 
Offered here are 5 TLSs, all  1p. to Rabbi Frederick Solomon. Plus 2 unsigned copies of Solomon letters. These date 1963. VG..........100-150

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107. [JUDAICA) Frederick Solomon (1899-1980), painter, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he left Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. Solomonski was interned in the Isle of Man in Hutchinson Square camp in the early 1940’s as a prisoner of war along with many other artists. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954 he left England to take a position as Rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here is a handwritten sermon titled  IN THE BEGINNING, 10 pages, delivered AT FAR ROCKAWAY, NY. 1963. About 8.5 x 10 in. Not signed VG..........100-150

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108. [JUDAICA] FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Offered here is Solomon's Havana, Cuba scrapbook, 1957-1958, containing about 95 newspaper chippings plus 5 photographs. Laid in is 1858 printing, 11 pages of articles about Solomon. Some in Spanish. VG.............400-600
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109. Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Captain Louis W. McKeehan, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while attached to the Research and Development Section, Bureau of Ordnance, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 to March 1944. Offered here is a signed 1939 ANNUAL FITNESS REPORT, NAVAL RESERVE OFFICERS. Signed by McKeehan at the bottom. 8 x 14 in.  VG......................150-200

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110. [KUHN ESTATE]  Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. ALS, 1986, 2pp. About Averell Harriman (1891-1986) American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. The son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman, he served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman, and later as the 48th governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956, as well as a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men". Harriman had an important connect qith the artist Walt Kuhn.  harriman's 2nd wife was Marie Norton Whitney (1903-1970) American art collector. During her husband's years as Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958, she served as his Albany hostess and redecorated the governor's residence with art that ranged from colonial to contemporary: Gilbert Stuart, Copley, Whistler, and Walter Kuhn. On their honeymoon in Europe, the Harrimans purchased oil paintings by Van Gogh, Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Renoir.  They later donated many of the works she bought and collected, including those of the artist Walt Kuhn, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 1971, after her death in 1970, Harriman married Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward, the former wife of Winston Churchill's son Randolph, and widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward. The letter offered here is dated about 4 days before Harriman died. Brenda says that Harriman still owned a Kuhn painting and that all of the major Kuhn paintings went to the National Gallery. VG...............40-60

111. [KUHN ESTATE] Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. ALS, 1980, 1p. about Arthur Godrey. Apparently Brenda didn't like Godfrey. She talks about - He died bitter and isolated. No one liked him.  He dumped people without warning of his TV show.  When he wan't hot anymore no one wanted him around. She ends with "With Walt Kuhn "They" waited til he was dead." VG............40-60

112. [From Walt Kuhn Estate]  Offered here is a letter from Teresa Jabelmann to the noted artist Walt Kuhn, March 30, 1943, 2 pages. She was the wife of Otto Jabelmann (1892-1943). He was considered a mechanical genius, and the "hard-nosed ruler of the Union Pacific Railroad mechanical department. He led the team that developed The Big Boys locomotives. He died in Jan. 1943 while in England visiting England to investigate railway problems at the behest of W. Averell Harriman and concluded that British railways needed 1200 more locomotives. Apparently Otto was in poor health then and Teresa says in this letter ".....I did worry constantly as I knew Otto would never try and save himself in any way..."  Envelope is included..............50-75

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113. [MAINE] Ivory Hovey III (1748-1818) Dr. Ivory Hovey was the great grandson of The Reverend Robert Jordan (killed by Indians in Spurwink, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 10 Aug 1703) and Sarah Winter. Dr. Hovey was a surgeon of Colonel Scamman's Battalion during the Revolutionary War and was stationed at Fort Miller, Ticonderoga. Hovey became one of the town's wealthiest citizens and a founder of Berwick Academy in Berwick, Maine. In addition to merchant ships, wharves and warehouses, the Hovey family owned gristmills at Quamphegan and Chadbourne's Falls, a fishing boat, and two gundalows for bringing their wares up-river. At the death of his second wife, Frances. in 1816, the doctor was married again, to a woman from Newburyport, Massachusetts. Folklore claims that the ghosts of Ivory's first two wives, Mary and Frances, ruthlessly haunted his third wife. Maine author Sarah Orne Jewett wrote about Ivory in the fictional short story "River Driftwood" from Country Byways. She wrote of the handsome, generous physician who lived in grand style and hinted at rumors that his first wife, Mary, was murdered and his last wife haunted by both poverty and ghosts. (New England Ancestors, Summer, 2004). Offered here is a signed document, Berwick, Jan. 30, 1802, about 7 x 3.5 in. Account settlement with Capt. Ebenezer Ricker. VG. RARE!...........400-600.................Min. Bid $50

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Roland Young "Topper" Gets a Letter From His Old Friend

114.  [THEATRE & FILM] Matty (A.E. Matthews OBE) (1869-1960) English actor who played num18ous 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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115.  [THEATRE] GERALD SAVORY [1909-1996]  English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies. His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937).  He spent some time in the United States in the 1940s writing for film and television and became an American citizen.  From 1964 to 1965 he was writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five episodes of   ITV Play of the Week; adapting Saki, J.B. Priestley, Noël Coward and Tennessee Williams for television. He then joined the BBC first as then Head of Serials, then Head of Plays. He notably produced five episodes of the thoroughly panned Churchill's People (1975–76) and six of the eight episodes of Love in a Cold Climate for Thames Television in 1980.  TLS, San Francisco, c. 1930s, 1p, 8vo. Mentions two of his plays: UPPER BIRTH and LOVE WENT A-RIDING. To Roland Young, the noted actor who played Topper.............50-75  

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116. [THEATRE & FILM] Matty (A.E. Matthews OBE) (1869-1960) English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades. Nicknamed "Matty", he was christened Alfred Edward Matthews. He was affectionately regarded by the British public over his extraordinarily long career. From World War II until his death he enjoyed renown as one of British cinema's most famous crotchety, and sometimes rascally, old men. Matthews' other most well-known films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Million Pound Note (with Gregory Peck), Inn for Trouble, The Magic Box, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square and Just William's Luck. Offered here is a 3-1/4 page ALS, signed "Matty" to his friend, and fellow actor, Roland Young [1887-1953] best membered for his role as Topper [1937] film starring Cary Grant. Dated 10th , no year. Very good content to his friend.  VG...........75-100 

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117. [World War 2] Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Captain Louis W. McKeehan, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while attached to the Research and Development Section, Bureau of Ordnance, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 to March 1944. Offered here are 2 signed items. [1] Dec. 7, 1944 typed page titled TIME ZONES.  [2] His signed April 1, 1941 NATIONAL REGISTRATION card. Both VG.............100-150

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118. [SCIENCE] William Healey Dall (1845-1927)  American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks. ALS, 1923, 2pp. about 8 x 5 in. VG........50-75

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119.  Job Barnard (1844-1923) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Born in Porter County, Indiana, Barnard served in the United States Army during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865, where he was a First Sergeant in Company K, 73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment. ALS, 1908 written, signed in the 3rd person, to Dr. Robert S. Woodward, accepting invitation to meet members of the National Academy of Sciences. 4 x 5-3/4 in. Fine..............50-75

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120. [ART] William Henry Mote (1803–1871)  British stipple and line engraver, primarily known for his portraits. He produced etchings for reference books, as well as original etchings. Mote became a member of the Royal Academy in his twenties and his portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Offered here is a 19th original engraved portrait of Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot (1753-1823)  French mathematician, physicist and politician. He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. The image area is approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins.  VG...............25-35

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121. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] items from the estate of Brenda Kuhn, daughter of Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) famous American artist. Includes: Edmund Muskie 1968 TLS. Walt Kuhn's Wells, Maine property tax 1948 receipt. Photo of the Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, Maine up on the hill. Photo of later Brenda Kuhn building just down the road. Brenda Kuhn signed check 1967. Cape Neddick Park brochure featuring Walt Kuhn. VG.............Min. Bid $40

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122. [SEC. TREASURY] Thos. Corwin, Sec. of the Treasury and Daniel Webster - printed government document, 1852, 137 pp. Approx. 5.5 x 8.5. VG...........Min. Bid $10

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123. Rhode Island 1841 document, 7-3/4 x 9 in..........Min. Bid $10

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124. [AMERICANA] Nahum Hayward (1790-1858) Plymouth, Mass. Chairman of the Board of Overseers ALS, Plymouth, 1818, 1 page, to  the Selectmen Overseers of the Poor, Middleboro, Mass. Asks that Cyrus Tinkham be removed from jail [debt]. Addressed on the verso. VG............Min. Bid $10

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125. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 1904 document - land and buildings in Ashland, NH. Several signatures. approx. 10 x 16 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10

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126. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 1875 Mortgage Deed from Franklin Gale to Squamscott Savings Bank, signed by William H. Balknap. 8-3/8 x 14 in. VG............Min. Bid $10

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127. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 1892 document - land and buildings in Ashland, NH. Several signatures. approx. 10 x 16 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10

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128. Payson Williston (1764-1856) First Minister at Easthampton, Mass.  Payson was born in West Haven CT. and was the son of Rev. Noah Williston and Hannah Payson. He entered the ministery under the teachings of Dr. Trumball of New Haven CT. and attend Yale College from 1779 through 1783. Before he entered college he spent a short spell in a Militia fighting in the Revolutionary war. Payson was licensed to preach at twenty one years of age, but did not settle into his final role of Pastor of Easthampton until he was twenty six. He became the first Pastor of Easthampton on Aug 13 , 1789, when he was ordained with his father present. He spent forty years as Pastor of Easthampton. In 1790 he married Sarah Birdseye, daughter of Rev. Nathan Birdseye of Stratford CT. Together they had five children; Maria, John Payson, Samuel, Nathan Birdseye and Sarah. In 1805 he traveled to the settlements in New York to teach his ministries and in 1833 at the age of seventy requested to be relieved of his duties as Pastor of Easthampton, which he was granted. Payson past on at the age of ninety two, on January 30th, 1856.  Payson Williston, was the minister in Easthampton’s only church.  Payson was a stern, old-fashioned New England preacher, with strong Calvinist leanings.  Offered here is a 1846, 3pp, folded stampless letter from Payson Williston to his son Nathan B. Williston at Brattleboro, Vermont.   Newsy letter about family - internesting to note about how Pneumonia was treated in one instance.  Three pages plus postmarked address leaf.  Postmarked Easthampton, Mass.  VG...........300-500......Min. Bid $90

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129. [ITALY] Giuseppe Bianchini (1704-1764) Italian Oratorian, biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar. Three (3) UNSIGNED manuscript pages in his hand. Not dated. VG................100-150

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130. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Offered here are 2 letters sent to Spillane plus an unsigned 8x10 photo of Spillane.  All of these items come from Mickey's personal collection. 

     [1] Jim Henaghan (1911-1984) journalist, screenwriter, novelist and columnist. Henaghan, who worked for every major paper in Los Angeles, served as The Hollywood Reporter's Rambling Reporter in the early '50's. Always candidly outspoken and never one to cater to the industry's sacred cows, he wrote an article concerning Preston Sturges' escapades with a nurse while confined in a local hospital. Sturges, far from angry at the humorous reportage, called Charles Feldman and convinced him Henaghan's talents could be better put to use as a screenwriter. He worked as rewrite man at Paramount working on property owned by the studio, and was responsible for rewrites of what were to become "Sunset Boulevard" and "North to Alaska." It was said of him..."he could take 'Stagecoach,' put it on shipboard, and make it a good screeplay." Henaghan served as executive vp of John Wayne's Batjac Prod. for seven years. From 1960-76, he lived and worked writing feature articles on film and film personalities in Europe. Henaghan wrote five novels in the Jeff Pride series, published by Bantam Books and St. Martin's Press. He was a close friend of the actor Robert Walker. In her biography of Walker and Jones, Star-Crossed, author Beverly Linet quotes Walker's friend Jim Henaghan, who was not mentioned in official accounts of Walker's death, as saying that he was present at the time of the events leading to Walker's death. Henaghan stated that he stopped by Walker's house, where they played cards, and Walker was behaving normally. Walker's psychiatrist arrived and insisted that he receive an injection. When Walker refused, Henaghan held him down in order for the physician to administer it. Walker soon lost consciousness, and frantic efforts to revive him failed.
Offered here is a lengthy 2 pages typed letter signed Jim, dated July 15, 1953. Written to Mickey Spillane regarding contract details with Waye - Fellows.  That's John Wayne's company.  Tattered edges.

       [2] Bob Fellows (1903-1969) American film producer who was once a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. In 1952, Wayne and Fellows teamed up to start their own production company, Wayne-Fellows Productions, making (primarily) films starring Wayne, the first one being Big Jim McLain (1952). The following year they produced Island in the Sky (1953). Wayne had seen the venture as a way to produce and direct his own film version of the battle of the Alamo.  Eventually, Fellows became embroiled in a complicated divorce from his wife, necessitating the need to sell his half of the company. Wayne bought Fellows out and started his own Batjac Productions. One of the Wayne-Fellows films was Ring of Fear, featuring Mickey Spillane. Offered here is a July 15, 1953 typed letter signed Bob. Its basically about the same thing Henaghan's letter was about. [3] Unsigned vintage 8x10 photo of Mickey Spillane.  Provenance:  Estate of Mickey Spillane.........100-200

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131. [ART] Judith Zilczer - American art historian and former museum curator. She is known for her work with artists such as Horace Pippin, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Willem de Kooning, and Richard Lindner. Zilczer was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as "the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia."  She curated an exhibit titled "Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900".[4][5] Zilczer served at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in various capacities from 1974-2003. From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of Paintings. Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. TLS,  Sept. 20, 1983, 4pp. To  Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. She thanks Brenda for granting her permission to study the restricted Walt Kuhn Papers in the Archives of American Art. Excellent art content letter. Also includes a signed 1962 Brenda Kuhn bank check. Fine......80-120......Min Bid $25 

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132. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Mickey Spillane (1918- 2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here are 3 letters written to Mickey Spillane. (1) Stan Purdy  (1926-2010) at age 16 he was admitted into the American Federation of Musicians. While in college  he founded the "Stan Purdy Orchestra" and toured the East Coast collaborating with musicians like Duke Ellington, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lou Mecca, and Maynard Ferguson. In Hollywood, he composed and conducted the music for "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," an album based on Spillane's mystery book characters. The music consisted of an orchestral suite with narration done by Spillane. Released through John Wayne's Batjac Productions, the music was also scored for Ring of Fear, starring Spillane, Pat O'Brian, and the Clyde Beatty Circus. In New York, Stan conducted and arranged studio orchestras for many well-known jazz and dance-band musicians as well as string players from the New York Philharmonic. ALS, 1954, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Signed Stan.  Unable to reach Mickey by phone to discuss subjects of importance. Will keep trying.  (2) Stan Purdy (1926-2010) long 2 page typed memo dated same day as letter.  Subject: Liv Lowry. This really important content about the contract regarding Purdy & the Mike hammer album. Signed Stan. (3) Richard (Dick) Irving (1917-1990) was the primary producer of the MIKE HAMMER show on TV. His company was Revue Productions, which filmed many early television series on the lot (including early episodes of Leave It To Beaver).  TLS, 1955, signed Dick.1p. All are very good condition.............200-300..................Min. Bid $50

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133. [FRANCE] Armand Seguin (1767–1835) was a French chemist and physiologist.   In 1802, Bernard Courtois worked with Armand Séguin at the École Polytechnique on the study of opium. In conjunction with Séguin, Courtois isolated morphine, the first known alkaloid, from opium. Séguin presented his first memoir on opium to the French Institute in 1804. Séguin's and Courtois' opium research came to an end at the École Polytechnique in 1804. ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 7-1/4 x 9". Not translated. VG except for one short edge tear middle left border. Rare!............100-150

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134. Janet Loxley Lewis (A1899-1998)  American novelist and poet. Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters. She was an active member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club. She taught at both Stanford University in California, and the University of California at Berkeley. ewis was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. ALS, 1971, 1p.  She pens a poem on the verso. 6 x 9 in. Fine.................100-150...........Min. Bid $20

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135. From the Paper of Charles B. Rounds, Calais, Maine. Group of 11 documents plus one letter written to Rounds from Kansas City,  Mo. 1873, 3pp, signed Geo. M. Chase. These date from 1869 to 1905.  Six of them are signed by Rounds [some in the text].  Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania.  Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864..................Min. Bid $50

136. Robert B. Dresser (1880-1976) wrote right-wing articles and speeches and testified on a number of political topics including the cold war, communism, fair housing legislation, and civil rights.
Offered here is a 1949 TLS  to  Geo. Andrews Moriarty, 1-1/3 pages.  Content: his conservative views/activities.  George Andrews Moriarty (1883-1968) American genealogist. Moriarty went to work for the U. S. State Department in the foreign service, and served in consular and secretarial roles in Fiume, Italy; Mexico City; and Guatemala. He returned to Harvard once again to study law, and received his LL.B. in 1916. He practiced law in Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts for over a decade, which time also included a year in the U.S. Army at the end of World War I when he was a captain in military intelligence. In 1927 he ended his career in law and devoted the remainder of his life to historical and genealogical pursuits. In 1986 the National Genealogical Society instituted a Hall of Fame for individuals that had made significant strides in the field of genealogy. In 1990 G. Andrews Moriarty was inducted into that prestigious group, having been nominated by the Genealogical Society of Utah and the American Society of Genealogists. Moriarty was known to be anti-semitic per Maine State Police and a Nazi sympathizer. MORIARTY was deeply interested in the threat of Communism in the United States. He added he believed the Jewish people were behind the Communist Party over the whole world and were using the Russians and the Communist Party to eventually gain mastery over all the world's people. He stated he was desirous of ascertaining who the sender of certain literature was and would cooperate with the FBI in every way. He stated further he would recontact writer in the event he receives any more literature, particularly if a return address accompanies the literature. RARE! VG.................25-35

137. [SPILLANE] typed 1951 page sent to Mickey Spillane about an incident in Lansing, Michigan where a 28 year old man was arrested on a charge of larceny. Apparently he bought a book but concealed two others under his coat and left without paying for them. According to detectives he admitted stealing the books. They were entitled MY GUN IS QUICK and VENGEANCE IS MINE, both by Spillane.  8.5 x 11 in. VG..............50-75

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138. Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here is a photocopy of his The Night I Died - Mike Hammer short story published in the anthology Private Eyes - although story was written in 1953, was not published until 1998.  Identified as a 1951 Unproduced Radio Drama.  This photocopy is from the Spillane estate and it is not known if there are other copies. VG. From the Estate of Mickey Spillane..........100-150  Min. Bid $25

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139.  Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant. ALS, 1885, 2pp, 4-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. VG.................60-80

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140. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Edward Howard Griggs (1868-1951) lecturer and educator. He taught at Indiana University and later Leland Stanford University. It is estimated that Griggs gave about 13,000 lectures to over 8 million people. Griggs wrote on a variety of topics including education, philosophy, culture, biology, and "statesmanship". 1918 envelope with his signature in the return address. (2) Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1911. (3)  Lucien Bonaparte Chase (1817-1864) US congressman from Tenn. 1847 postmarked address sheet bearing his ink signed Free Frank signature. addressed to Cave Johnson his fellow congressman from Tenn. (4) Two TLSs 1908 from Moor Brothers, Toledo, Ohio.  To Edward W. Heath, son of civil war general Francis E. Heath. (5)  Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. Signed 1934 check. (6) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (7) Rev. Justus Clement French (1831-1899) author. CLIP SIGNATURE. (8) Douglas Volk (1856-1935)American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.Signed 1922 bank check................Min. Bid $50

141.  [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) John G. Schumaker (1826-1905) US Representative from New York. Signed [free frank] postmarked cover. (2) Clyde Martin Reed (1871-1949) 24th Governor of Kansas and U.S. Senator from that state. Signed 1948 cover honoring William Allen White. (3) Western Union telegram sent from congressman Philip J. Philbin [Mass]. (4) Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 printed gov. doc. re: PUBLIC-LAND LAWS, signed in type, 4pp. (5) Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania.  Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864. Signed 1896 bank check. (6) Kenneth A. Roberts (1912-1989) U.S. Representative from Alabama. CLIP SIGNATURE. (7) CHIEF OF REVENUE AGENTS DURING WORLD WAR I] JOHN D. MURPHY (1885-1949). Lawman, Chief of revenue agents, U.S. Treasury, Washington, D. C., 1918. Murphy went on to serve as partner, Lewis, Murphy & Co.. accountants and tax consultants (1919-26); among his other duties. SCARCE SIGNED BANK CHECK, 1918, The Riggs National Bank, Washington, DC. (8) Thomas Lee "Bum" McClung (1870-1914) American college football player and coach who later served as the 22nd Treasurer of the United States. Brief TLS, 1909. (9) Antique engraved portrait of  Sir Robert Strange................Min. Bid $50

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142.  [FRANCE] Albert Chavanac  (1909-1972) World War French hero who was awarded The Ordre de la Libération ("Order of the Liberation") which is a French Order awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II. It is an exceptional honor, the second highest after the Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honour) and only a small number of people and military units have received it, exclusively for deeds accomplished during World War II. TLS, Conseil Municipal De Paris, 1965, 1p, 8-1/4 X 10-1/2". FINE. NOT TRANSLATED............50-75

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143. [ART] Old Master engraving from c. 1673. Offered here is a printed page from some unknown book which contains an original engraving, approx. 2-3/4 x 5-3/4 in. image. The page is approx. 14 x 9-1/2 in. Light stain o/w VG...........Min. Bid $25

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144. [MIXED LOT] includes: [1] Dallas Lore Sharp (1870–1929) American author and university professor. As a writer he became known through his charming magazine articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books which featured illustrations by American wildlife illustrator Robert Bruce Horsfall as well as artist Elizabeth Myers Snagg. ALS, 1908, written on both sides. Fine.  [2] Herbert Dickinson Ward (1861-1932)  American author, born at Waltham, Massachusetts, son of William Hayes Ward. Graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880 and Amherst College in 1884, he wrote extensively for newspapers and periodicals. Ward married Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on October 20, 1888. ALS, 1899, 1p. Fine.  [3] Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Ted) printed Free Frank signature on envelope. [4] Rudy Vallée [1901-1986) American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1935 bank check made out to Cliff Burwell (1898-1976) American pianist and composer.  [5] Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. [6] Jacob Bunn  (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a brief ALS written to Bunn circa 1877 not signed by him. [7] Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. (1917-1993) American politician. He was a member of the Taft family who served as a Republican Congressman from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971. Taft also served as a U.S. Senator between 1971 and 1976. Printed Free Frank signature on envelope postmarked 1975. [8] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972)  Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Offered here is a April 25, no yr. Western Union telegram sent by Philbin.................Min. Bid $50

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145. Joseph Rubinfine - List 132, offering 47 priced autographs, including John Adams $17,000; George Custer $18,000; Jefferson, Jackson, Lincon, Madison, Monroe etc....Min. Bid  $10

146.  Joseph Rubinfine - List 134, offering 70 priced autographs, includingGeo. Washington  $24,000; Benjamin Franklin $65,000; Winston Churchill, Cornwallis, La Fayette, etc....Min. Bid  $10

147. (KUHN) original photograph of WALT KUHN PAINTING -Dominique Clown, done in 1947. Durand-Ruel blindstamp on verso. 10 x 8, b/w. FROM THE KUHN ESTATE. VG...............50-75

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148. [ART] Old Master engraving from c. 1673. Offered here is a printed page from some unknown book which contains an original engraving, approx. 4 x 6 in. image. The page is approx. 14 x 9-1/2 in. Light stain o/w VG...........Min. Bid $25

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149. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Joseph Doe (1776-1860) In 1821, Joseph was elected Somersworth's representative to the Lower House of the New Hampshire General Court. He became one of the most articulate leaders of the Federalist Party and formed a party known as the "Doe-faces". In 1826, he was re-elected and became the chief spokesman in the state for the business community. He was an expert to whom special banking questions were referred.  After serving seven terms in the House, Joseph was appointed Justice of the Peace & Quorum in January 1829. His political tradition defined the forces of moderation, which became his son Charles' constitutional principle. Joseph was supporting the last stand in New Hampshire on behalf of government by gentry. He gained the conviction that the democratic process could only survive if wedded to the rights of property and the protection of commerce. This was the political legacy that he passed on to his son Charles. New Hampshire court document, 1817, Somersworth, signed by Doe as Justice of the Peace. See scans for condition...............50-75................Min. Bid $10

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150. Nancy Huston Banks (1849-1934)  American journalist, literary critic, and novelist from Kentucky. During the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Banks was on the Board of Lady Managers, and worked for the fair as a writer and editor. Banks moved to New York to pursue a writing career in the early 1890s. She was on staff at The Bookman magazine in its first year as a book reviewer. She also lived in London for a time, and reported from South Africa during the Boer War for a London newspaper. For a time in November 1899, she was reported caught in the Siege of Kimberley, blockaded by the Boer army, in the company of Cecil Rhodes and fellow New Yorker Amalia Küssner, a miniaturist.  Nancy Huston Banks also wrote novels, including Stairs of Sand (1890), Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century (1902), Round Anvil Rock: A Romance (1903), and The Little Hills (1905). In reviewing the last title, Frederic Taber Cooper commented that "Few are so fortunate as Mrs. Banks in knowing the range and boundaries of their intellectual gardens, the thoughts and fancies that will best flower therein."  ALS, NY, [1895], 2pp., to Mr. Bok.  sends photographs. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. VG..................50-75..............Min. Bid $15

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151. [FRANCE - Mixed Lot] includes: (1) [ART] Marie-Clementine de Rochechouart-Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzes [ 1847-1933] French feminist sculptor, she was the 1st French woman to get a driver's licence. Her work was shown in various salons and she was President of the Union des Femmes Paintres et Sculpteurs. ALS, 1910, 1p. Re: an evening of poetry. (2) [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. (3) 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. (4) [THEATRE]  Elisabeth "Bessy" Marbury (1856-1933) was a pioneering American theatrical and literary agent and producer who represented prominent theatrical performers and writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and helped shape business methods of the modern commercial theater. She was the longtime companion of Elsie de Wolfe (later known as Lady Mendl), a prominent socialite and famous interior decorator.  Marbury's clients ranged from the French Academy of Letters to playwrights Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw; to the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle. She was an early promoter of African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance. She also played an instrumental role in developing the modern "Book Musical" that audiences came to know as defining "Broadway" in the 20th century, notably of Cole Porter's first musical, See America First, and Jerome Kern (Nobody Home (1915), Very Good, Eddie (1915), and Love O' Mike (1917))through her American Play company.  ALS, 1894, 1p, about 8 x 10 in. In French - not translated. (5)  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. (6) Jules Mary [1851-1922] Fr. novelist, the modern Alexandre Dumas. Two ALSs, dates [?], 1p and 3pp. The long letter is to a woman novelist with a long criticism of her novel. Both VG. (7) 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. (8) Eugène Brieux (1858-1932), French dramatist.  ALS, n.d., 1p, 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. VG (9) 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................Min. Bid $90

152. [CONGRESSMAN PHILBIN LOT] PhilipJ. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). Offered is a unreseared lot of papers from the files of Philbin. Contains many carbon copies ofletters from Philbin; letters from people seeking advice or assistance, sometimes telegrams etc. About 75 pieces. Mixed conditions........Min. Bid $25

153. [FRANCE] Jean Antoine Aimé Giron (1836-1907) French writer and lawyer. Aimé Giron began his literary career by publishing poems that appeared in La Revue de Paris , while continuing his career as a lawyer in his hometown, where he is secretary of the Société Acadomique du Puy-en-Velay et de la Haute -Loire . In 1863, he published Le Sabot de Noël (with illustrations by Léopold Flameng ) which met with great success and was translated into several languages. During the War of 1870 he abandoned his profession as a lawyer to defend the invaded territory. He settled in Bois-Colombes and became a contributor to Le Figaro , Le Gaulois and La France Illustrée. He was one of the most prolific writers of his time, finding his inspiration in the history and legends of Velay and Haute-Loire.  Offered here are 10 handwritten pages of poetry and  a 7 page letter. These dated 1869-1879. All about  5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Not translated.................100-150

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154.  [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Orren Cheney Moore (1839-1893)  U.S. Representative from New Hampshire. ALS, 1890, 1p. as a congressman. (2) Jacob Bunn  (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a brief letter dated 1868 made out to Bunn but not signed by him. (3) Dallas Lore Sharp (1870-1929) American author and university professor at Boston Univ. ALS, 1898, 1p. (4) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. (5) Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1910.  (6) Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Western Union telegraph sent c. 1946 type signed. (7) John Calhoun Cook (1846-1920) was a 19th-century American politician, lawyer and judge from Iowa. He was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 6th congressional district, each time under unusual circumstances. SIGNATURE. (8) William Wirt Hastings (1866-1938)U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. His printed Free Frank signature in 1929 envelope. (9) Edmund F. Cooke (1885-1967) congressman from NY. His printed Free Frank signature in 1929 envelope. (10) Leslie Waggener - 1st President U. of Texas at Austin 1895-1896, President ad interim - before 1st President Winston who served 1896-1899. TLS, 1886 on U. of TYexas letterhead. (11) Ralph A. Dungan (1923-2013) diplomat and ambassador from the United States to Chile 1964 to 1967. Dungan served as White House Special Assistant to the President in the Kennedy Administration, effective 1961–1964. Signed 3x5 card. (12) Kenneth R. Lesco (1950-2018) was a stuntman and stunt actor who performed stunts in several episodes of Star Trek. Warner Bros. 1984 paycheck, not signed by him................Min. Bid $100

155. [From Walt Kuhn Estate]  a week after his death in 1949, ART DIGEST referred to Walt Kuhn as "one of the most forceful, independent and self-disciplined painters of our time."  That glowing evaluation is certainly just as valid today. [Written by Bennard B. Perlman, the art historian-author, from Baltimore].  Offered here are items from the Kuhn Estate in Maine. [1] Kennedy Galleries 1974 letter sending $3000 for month of June.  At this time the Kennedy Galleries in New York was handling the Kuhn Estate and Brenda Kuhn received a monthly check of $3000 plus more if something sold.  [2] Letter dated 1962 from attorney for Kuhn estate about Maine inheritane tax and  a $125 bill for repairs to the painting "Landscape and Brook.  [3] Dorsha Hayes (1897-1990) stage actress and dancer during the early 20th century. She was born in Galesburg, Illinois. She made her debut appearance in Pierre Loti's Daughter of Heaven in 1912.  TLS, 1983, 1p.  [4] Althea Bransom, neice of the noted artist Paiul Bransom. ALS, 1983, 1p. [5] Ruth M. Blaine - ALS, 1983, 2pp. about an UNSIGNED painting from the 1930s WPA  project.  She wants to know if Brenda thinks it is by Walt Kuhn.  [6] Two letters, 1983, fromMaine Historical Society.  [7] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1912) Co-manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1949-1956; manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1956-1966; Collection of Brenda Kuhn, Kuhn Estate, Cape Neddick, 1956-1966; founder, Cape Neddick Park, since 1965. President Kuhn Memorial Corporation, Cape Neddick, 1968-1975. Founder Walt Kuhn Gallery, Cape Neddick, since 1980. Brenda Kuhn has been listed as a noteworthy art historian by Marquis Who's Who. SIGNED 1967 bank check. [8] Thank you for donation card 1960, from Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Maine. [9] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005)  From 1969 to 1978 she was in charge of the art museum at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Later she moved north to Camden and was curator at the Farnsworth Museum. She was a close friend of Brenda Kuhn. 1p. ALS saying she was in Portland and saw "your father's paintings in the Barridoff [gallery' and the Museum."  [10] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1985, 2pp. Mentions seeing painting by Walt Kuhn and Marsden Hartley. [11] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984 on postcard - mentions Tea Party painting by Walt Kuhn "still puzzles me."  [12] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984, 2pp. Talks about Port Clyde, maine and the church there says that "the Wyeths attend a different church - Ridge".  The Wyeths, of course, were Andrew and Betsey Wyeth. [13] 2 page TLS from an attorney about the sale of a Kuhn painting titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." Price $75,000. [14] Brief autograph note dated 1983 re" birthday of a 3 year old child [Cape Neddick, Maine]. [15] Group of 3 Walt Kuhn gallery consignment sheets signed by 3 different artists 1986 & 1987. [16] 2 misc. items.  In all approx. 20 pieces. VG..............Min. Bid $75

156. Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877), American theologian, was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1834; studied theology at Andover, where his health failed, at Bangor, and, after a year (1836-1837) as librarian and tutor in Greek at Bowdoin, in Germany at Halle, where he became personally intimate with Tholuck and Ulrici, and in Berlin, under Neander and Hengstenberg. He returned to America in 1840, was a tutor for a few months (1840-1841) at Bowdoin, and in 1842, shut out from any better place by distrust of his German training and by his frank opposition to Unitarianism, he became pastor of the Congregational Church of West Amesbury (now Merrimac), Massachusetts. In 1847-1850 he was professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Amherst; and in 1850-1854 was Washburn professor of Church history, and in 1854-1874 Roosevelt professor of systematic theology, at Union Theological Seminary. His health failed in 1874 and he died in New York City on 7 February 1877. Of the old school of the New England Theology, Smith was one of the foremost leaders of the new school Presbyterians. His theology is most strikingly contained in the Andover address, "Relations of Faith and Philosophy," which was delivered before the Porter Rhetorical Society in 1849. He always made it clear that the ideal philosophy was Christocentric: he said that Reformed theology must "'Christologize' predestination and decrees, regeneration and sanctification, the doctrine of the Church, and the whole of the Eschatology." Offered here is a Autograph Letter Signed, Dover, NH, JUne 6, 1855, one page plus integral address leaf. Says he sent papers yesterday giving an account of the Portland outrage - it will help us 10,000 in Maine this fall - put your thumb on that - Neal Dow - Morrill & Know Nothingism - will be among the things passed over this coming Sept. 1855 - Maine will be herself again - God grant it may be so & he will. As you can see there are major stained areas. Beginning to spearate at fold, piece separated on address leaf. Signed with initials.................50-75

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157.   [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Philip van Ness Myers (1846-1937)  American historian who was Professor of Economics and History at the University of Cincinnati and an author of several notable works on history. ALS, 1887, 1p. (2) William Rainey Harper (1856-1906) American academic leader, an accomplished semiticist, and Baptist clergyman. Harper helped to establish both the University of Chicago and Bradley University and served as the first president of both institutions. TLS, 1880, 1p. mounted. (3) Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (1885-1940) Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. He was one of the most popular British authors of the 1920s. TLS, 1937, 1p. (4) Bill Gates - 5 x 6-3/4 color photo signed by autopen. (5) Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine. Signed 1921 bank check. (6) Paul Hervieu (1857-1915) French novelist and playwright. ALS, 1897 on card. (7) Jack J. Furman (1924-2010) Lawyer. Jack enlisted in the Army and was a WWII veteran. He served with the 4th Armored Division under the command of General George Patton and was wounded and awarded a Sharpshooter Medal, the Purple Heart and Bronze Star resulting from action in the invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He received a Letter of Commendation from the Government of France for actions in the liberation of France. TLS, 1957, 1-1/2 pages, to Rabbi Frederick Solomon. (8) Louis I. Egelson, American Rabbi, member Executive Board Central Conference American Rabbis, 1946-1949. Secretary Commision on Information about Judaism, Commision on Military Services.; Served as chaplain, 91st Division, American Expeditionary Force, World War I; Member American Legion. TLS, 1957 to Rabbi Fred Solomon. (9) Allison Smith (b. 1969) actress known for The West Wing and Kate & Allie. Signed, inscribed 3-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. picture [creases]...............Min. Bid $75

158. [ART] Old & Modern Paintings, illus, 66 lots. Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog, 1941. No prices............Min. Bid $10

159. [ART] Paintings By Old Masters, illus, 104 lots. Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog, 1951. No prices............Min. Bid $10

160. Eleanor Elise Robson Belmont (1879-1979)  English actress and prominent public figure in the United States.[1] George Bernard Shaw wrote Major Barbara for her, but contractual problems prevented her from playing the role. Mrs. Belmont was involved in the Metropolitan Opera Association as the first woman on the board of directors, and she founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted, approx. 4 x 1/2 in. VG...........Min. Bid $10

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161.  Bob Packwood (b. 1932) American retired lawyer and politician from Oregon and a member of the Republican Party. Signed 8x10 photo. VG...........Min. Bid $10

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162. Birch Bayh Jr. (1928-2019) U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. Signed, inscribed 8x10 color photo. A couple minor surface dents.....Min. Bid $10

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163. [THEATRE] Agnes Ethel (1846-1903)  Broadway actress of the late 19th century. She performed in New York City, the city of her birth, from 1868 to 1871. She was especially talented in acting emotional roles. Offered here is an unsigned vintage cdv photo, 2-1/4 x 4 in. VG........Min. Bid $10

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164. [THEATRE] [1956]  program starring Barry Sullivan in Too Late The Phalarope. VG..............Min. Bid $3

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165.  [MAINE] Alexander Dennett (1811-1889) He conducted a general store at York, Maine, and owned coasting vessels. He removed to Kittery and lived on the ancestral homestead until his death.  During the civil war he was appointed inspector of timer at the navy yard. He was a Whig in politics in early life, a Republican afterward. He was trial justice for many years; represented his district in the legislature in 1849-50-51; was delegate to the convention when the Free Soilers and Whigs fused at the time the Republican party was organized; was frequently moderator of town meetings and selectman of the town. He was active in good works and interested in the great questions of the day, supporting the anti-slavery and temperance movements heartily. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance, and was active in the Methodist Episcopal church, being charter member of the Second Methodist Episcopal church, of Kittery. Offered here is a 1864 legal writ document signed twice as Trial Justice.  Approx. 8.5 x 14 in. A noticeable repair on left side..............50-75 ..............Min. Bid $10

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166. [ART] William Radclyffe (1783-1855) was an English engraver and painter.  Born in Birmingham and self-educated, he was apprenticed to a letter engraver and studied drawing under Joseph Barber with his cousin John Pye. Both planned to move to London when their apprenticeships were complete in 1801, but Radclyffe remained in Birmingham for financial reasons and set up as an engraver and copperplate printer.  Radclyffe became well known as an engraver of landscapes, making prints after David Cox, J. M. W. Turner and Peter De Wint and illustrating numerous works of travel literature.  Original 19th century engraving by Radclyffe after W.M. Craig, image approx. 7 x 4-3/4 plus image.  Text offset showing.............Min. bid $10

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167. WAR DEPARTMENT Orders No. 35, 1872, 2pp. 5 x 7 in.....Min. Bid $10

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168. WAR DEPARTMENT Orders No. 34, 1872, 1p. 5 x 7 in.....Min. Bid $10

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169. (NEW YORK CITY) 1864 SOLDIER'S  DEPOT, HOSPITAL [4TH FLOOR] D. T. VALENTINES MANUAL.  Color lithograph, approx. 7.25 x 9 in., 2 vertical folds [as published folded into the manual].  Still tipped to the print back is a 1/2 page from the Manual with description of the facility. Valentine's Manuals, each volume officially titled, Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York...............Min. Bid $10

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170. [JUDAICA]  FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Offered here is a large group of letters related to the purchase in 1956 of a piano in Williamport, Pa. Apparetnly Solomon wasn't making the monthly payments because he had gone to Cuba shortly after the purchase There are many signed letters sent to Solomon from the Central Conference of American Rabbis trying to get him to pay for the piano. Solomon does pay the full bill but didn't like the tone of the letters sent to him. This collection includes: TLSs signed by Rabbis Emil W. Leipzinger [6]; Sidney A. Simon [2];  Sidney L. Regner [3]; Jacob P. Rudin.  This is about 15 signed letters. Also about 22 unsigned letters to & from Solomon; the original invoice for the piano; 3 handwritten pages by Solomon and 1 signed Solomon TLS.................Min. Bid 100

171. [SCIENCE] William John McGee, LL.D. (1853-1912) American inventor, geologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist. While largely self-taught, McGee attended a rural one-room schoolhouse north of Farley, Iowa during the four winter months from about 1858 to 1867. He devoted his early years to reading law and to surveying. He invented and patented several improvements on agricultural implements. He was appointed geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1881. In 1884 McGee authored the article Map of the United States exhibiting the present status of knowledge relating to the areal distribution of geologic groups for the USGS Journal. While with the USGS, McGee travelled to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886 for the purpose of studying the earthquake disturbances in its vicinity. McGee was ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1893 to 1903. In 1895, he explored the Isla del Tiburón, Gulf of California, home of the Seri Indians. In 1904 he was chief of the department of anthropology that organized the "Anthropology Days" at the 1904 Summer Olympics / Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the 1904 World's Fair. In 1907 he was appointed a member of the Inland Waterways Commission by President Roosevelt.      His other prominent positions were: acting president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897–1898); president of the American Anthropological Association (1902–1912); and president of the National Geographic Society (1904–1905).  Excellent TLS, 1895, 2pp. to Professor Robert S. Woodward. 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............100-200

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172. [ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY] Irving Salkow (1909-1989) Legendary Hollywood agent. This is one of the first and most historic agencies in town, for it was founded by Salkow in 1940, during the golden age of Hollywood. One of the agents during this time was Ray Stark, who later turned into one of the industry's premier movie directors. Some of Salkow's clients at that time were movie stars Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe and William Holden. TLS, 1964, 1-page, regarding William Asher. Stapled to letter are 2 carbon copies of letters Milt Ebbins.  William Asher (1921-2012) was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom. Fine...........100-150.........Min. Bid $25

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173. [MIXED LOT] includes: [1] 1854 gov. doc. - Maine, spirit rations for navy. [2] Nice engraved portrait of Felix Grundy. [3] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania.  Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864. A 1902 bank check signed by him. [4] Gov. doc. Land Claims 1852. [5] Joseph Warren - 1835 engraved portrait. [6] New Jersey Supreme Court document 1913. [7] 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. [8] Isodore Horwitz - 1961 TLS to Rabbi Frederick Solomon...................Min Bid Min. Bid $40

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174. [BOOK] DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE, Vol. LVI, 1922, pages 637-693 [complete], paperbound, about 7 x 10.5 in., illustrated. Faulty covers are present but detached. International content are very good...................Min. Bid $10

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175.  [FILM] The Wynne family - 8 x 10 photo including Ed Wynn, Keenan, and his two sons around a birthday cake. c. 1950s. 10 x 8 in.  VG for its age. Provenance: once owned by actor Van Johnson. ........50-75

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176. [NORTH CAROLINA]  Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946. Senator from North Carolina; born in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., September 14, 1873; moved with his parents to Raleigh, N.C., in 1877; attended the public schools and Raleigh Male Academy; graduated from Wake Forest College in 1893; editor of the Biblical Recorder 1893-1907; member of the State board of agriculture 1896-1900; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C.; United States collector of internal revenue for North Carolina 1913-1921; member of the North Carolina Constitutional Commission in 1915; trustee of the University of North Carolina 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942, and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Raleigh on December 15, 1946; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses), Committee on Commerce (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses). ALS, 1910, 1p, to Eleanor, a lady that he wrote love letters to. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG...............50-75

 
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177. [THEATRE] 1958 program starring Sana Andrews & Anne Bancroft in TWO FOR THE SEESAW. VG..............Min. Bid $5

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178. [FRANCE] Jean-Barthélémy Hauréau (1812-1896) French historian and writer. Born in Paris, he was educated at the Louis-le-Grand and Bourbon colleges in his native city, and won high honours at his public examination. After graduating he became a journalist, and soon was a contributor to several democratic papers: La Tribune, Le National, Le Droit, and La Revue du Nord; at Le National, he was praised by Théophile Gautier as the "tribune" of romanticism. At the age of twenty he published a series of apologetic studies on the Montagnards &emdash; in later years, regretting his youthful enthusiasm, he attempted to destroy the studies. In 1838 he took the chief editorship of the Courrier de la Sarthe and was appointed librarian of the city of Le Mans , which position he retained until 1845, when he was dismissed on account of comments of his on the daring speech of the Mayor of le Mans to the Duke of Nemours. He returned to Paris and once more became one of the editors of Le National. At this time he seemed destined for a political career, and after the revolution of February 24, 1848 was elected to the National Assembly; but close contact with revolutionary men and ideas cooled his old ardour. Throughout his life he opposed innovation, not only in politics and religion, but also in literature. After the coup d'état he resigned his position as director of the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Nationale , to which he had been appointed in 1848, and refused to accept an administrative post until after the fall of the empire. Having acted as director of the national printing press from 1870 to 1881, he retired, but in 1893 accepted the post of director of the Fondation Thiers. He was also a member of the council of improvement of the École des Chartes. From the time of his appointment to the Bibliothèque Nationale up to the last days of his life he was engaged in making abstracts of all the medieval Latin writings (many anonymous or of doubtful attribution) relating to philosophy, theology, grammar, Canon law, and poetry, carefully noting on cards the first words of each passage. After his death this index of incipits , arranged alphabetically, was presented to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a copy was placed in the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Nationale. ALS, 188?. written on both sides of 4-1/2 x 7" page. Includes a small ink drawing [man's head on one side and women's on the other side]. We assume the drawing is by Haureau. He speaks about a bust by Power and of Boulanger, Louis Napoleon and politics. Ends with "How humiliating it is to be French." Fine condition...........100-150

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179. [FRANCE] Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Charles Percier, originally his friend from student days. Starting from 1794, it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities in their work. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich and grand, consciously archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognize as Directoire style and Empire style: see Charles Percier. ALS, 1801 [STAMPLESS COVER], 1p, approx. 6-1/4 x 8 in. About General Bernard. Seal removal has caused loss of paper on both sides affecting a few words............100-150

180. Albert-Auguste Cochon de Lapparent [1839-1908]. French geologist and mining engineer. Professor at Catholic Institute, Paris (from 1876); author of Traitéde géologie (1882), Leçons de géographie physique (1896), etc. ALS, Paris, 1891, written on both sides of 4-3/4 x 3-1/2 in. card. About an article in a scientific magazine written by a priest and which made him "Penaud" (crestfallen). VG.........50-75

181.  [FRANCE] Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (usually known as Joseph Gratry) (1805-1872) French author and theologian. Gratry was born at Lille and educated at the École Polytechnique of Paris. After a period of mental struggle which he has described in Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, he was ordained priest in 1832. After a stay at Strasbourg as professor of the Petit Séminaire, he was appointed director of the Collège Stanislas in Paris in 1842 and, in 1847, chaplain of the École Normale Supérieure. He became vicar-general of Orleans in 1861, professor of ethics at the Sorbonne in 1862, and, on the death of Barante, a member of the French Academy in 1867, where he occupied the seat formerly held by Voltaire. Together with others (abbé Pétitot, curé of Saint Roch, and Hyacinthe de Valroger) he reconstituted the Oratory of Jesus and of Mary Immaculate, a society of priests mainly devoted to education. Gratry was one of the principal opponents of the definition of the dogma of papal infallibility, but in this respect he submitted to the authority of the First Vatican Council. Offered here are 4 ALSs, total of 10 pages, one letter dated 1869. VG.......100-150

182.  [FILM] Collection of 10 pay checks from Warner Bros. They are dated 1984 or 1985. The Social Security umbers have been blocked out. Includes: [1]  George Davis (1889-1965) Dutch-born American actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1916 and 1963. Signed by Davis on verso.  [2] Michael Herman Elias(b.1940) is an American writer, film director and producer. NOT signed. [3] JamesBurrows (b.1940) sometimes known as "Jimmy" Burrows,  is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s. Burrows has directed over 50 television pilots and co-created the long-running television series Cheers. Not signed. [4] Timothy May - is known for The Wolverine (2013), Unbroken (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016).  Signed. [5] Nick Martinis - actor. Signed. Five more checks not signed or researched: David Sartuche; Harry Porter; Daniel A. Miller; Dan Barrows and Gary L. Sherwin. All are in very good condition.......Min. Bid $40

183. [ART] 4 original etchings [book illus.] by Oreste Cortazzo (1836-1910) Italian-born French painter, graphic artist and illustrator. From 1870 to 1885, he was a regular participant in showings at the Salon. He also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle (1878) and the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Glasgow. After that, he derived inspiration from the English Romantics and produced numerous landscapes in that style. His works received honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle (1889). Image sizes are approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. These etchings date to 1898. VG...............50-75

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184. The Secretary of War - printed 1847 government document, 114 pages.  Issued by Sec. of War W.L. Marcy, 30th Congress - 1st Session, House of Representatives: CONTRACTS UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. VG............40-60

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185. [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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186. [NAVY] JOSEPH HAROLD WELLINGS (1903-1988) Rear Admiral. By 1940, the war in Europe was already a year old, and Britain stood alone and besieged by Hitler’s war machine. During that summer, Wellings was sent to England as an observer of the British Home Fleet, with additional duty as assistant naval attaché in London. Interested in the operational aspects of the Royal Navy’s forces, he served as operations officer in HMS Rodney during the search for and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941. Later he wrote an unpublished manuscript describing those events. Returning to the United States in June 1941, he served briefly on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations before a three-month assignment with the Fleet Training Division. Appointed commanding officer of USS Strong (DD 467), he prepared the ship for commissioning at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in August 1942. The Strong was involved in convoy operations in the Caribbean and Atlantic before participating in the Casablanca invasion. Assigned to the Pacific, the ship saw action in the Solomon Islands, where she was hit by a Japanese torpedo and sank on the night of July 4–5, 1943, off New Georgia. Wellings courageously stayed with his ship as she went down and was seriously injured when her depth charges exploded. As a result, he spent the next six months in the hospital. Wellings returned to destroyer commands in March 1944, when he assumed command of Destroyer Division One Hundred and Twenty. Transferred to Destroyer Squadron Two, he again saw action in the Pacific at Lingayen Gulf, the Philippine Islands, in January 1945. Five months before the war’s end, he returned to the United States to an assignment with the Bureau of Personnel. For the next year and one half he was involved in establishing policy for the postwar Naval Reserve and in transferring naval reservists to the regular navy. Signed slip, mounted to scrapbook paper................25-35

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187. [INDIANS] John H. Artichoker, Jr. (1930-2013) he was the youngest man ever appointed head of an Indian reservation in the U.S., and the first Indian to be superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Agency in Lame Deer, Montana. Signedn3x5 card removed from scapbook. VG................25-35

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188. Estate of Francis Kuhn 1929. Kieffer and Woodward - 1929 re: Estate of Francis Kuhn, deceased. Sent to Walt Kuhn [son]. On the envelope Walt Kuhn has written : Receipts for all documents left with Kieffer at time of settling of Francis Kuhn estate. VG. Approx. 8.5 x 10.5 in...............200-300

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189. [NEW YORK]  John Van Ness Yates (1779-1839) born  in Albany, New York, the son of Robert Yates, later Chief Judge of the New York Supreme Court of Judicature. He studied law in the office of John Vernon Henry, a leading member of the Albany bar, and once he had been admitted to the bar, he set up a very successful law office in Albany. In 1806, when New York was required to raise a quota of 12,000 men to combat British aggression, John Van Ness Yates commanded a Light Infantry company that immediately offered its services to the President, and confirmed their immediate readiness. Yates was appointed a master in Chancery in 1808, and, the following year, was the subject of a series of cases, In Re John Van Ness Yates, involving a jurisdictional tussle between the New York Supreme Court of Judicature and the New York Court of Chancery. Upon the conclusion of this litigation, Yates sued the Chancellor, seeking the monetary penalty provided under the Habeas Corpus Act (Yates v. Lansing). Although Yates did not prevail, the case established the principle that a judge of a court of general jurisdiction cannot be called upon to answer in a civil action for an error of judgment in any matter within his jurisdiction. In 1816, with Aaron Burr as co-counsel, Yates represented the plaintiff in Gardiner v. The Trustees of the Village of Newburgh, et al. John V. N. Yates served as New York Secretary of State from 1818 to 1826, and was appointed by the Legislature to add notes and references to the revised laws of New York. His work was acclaimed and he also published Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of the State of New York, Containing the Case of John V. N. Yates and the Case of the Journeymen Cordwainers (New York, 1811); A Collection of Pleadings and Practical Precedents, with Notes thereon (2d ed., 1837); History of the Province of New York (Albany, 1814); and, with Joseph W. Tillinghast, a Treatise on the Principles and Practice, Process, Pleadings, and Entries in Cases of Writs of Error (Albany, 1840). A contemporary described John Van Ness Yates as a wit, a poet, a belles-lettres scholar, and a boon companion, whose joke was ever ready, and whose laugh was contagious. Offered here is an early New York Supreme Court document 1815 signed by Yates, approx. 7-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG.............80-120

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190. [KUHN ESTATE] Archive of about 35-40+ letters and documents  concerning the Estate of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn (1877-1949). Includes:  Kuhn ALS [1]; 15 TLSs by Brenda Kuhn; 13 letters from estate accountants [or attorneys ??]; 5 Brenda Kuhn signed bank checks; several Tax documents. These date 1961-1963.  Some of Brenda's letters have good art content about her father, esp. his painting ATHELETE IN WHITE FACE.  Needs further research for sure. VG..........400-600...........Min. Bid $150

191. [INDIANS] Frederick (Fredrak) W. Fraske (March 8, 1872 – June 18, 1973) is believed to have been the last surviving veteran of the Indian Wars. At the age of 21, in Chicago, which was his home town, he enlisted in the U.S. Army to help his widowed mother support her family of seven.  He was assigned to Fort D.A. Russell, which was near Cheyenne, Wyoming, serving as a private with company F of the 17th infantry as a first aid man and letter carrier. He spoke about Cheyenne of that time as a quiet but wild town, where cattle were unloaded, and the residents were a tough breed. Fraske commented on the fact that he was glad that he never fired a shot in battle with American Indians, and didn't feel any ill will towards them either. He also felt that he understood the difficult position they were in. Fraske never personally had anything other than peaceful encounters with them. Signed  3x5 card removed from scrapbook.................25-35

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192. (INDIANS) Hugh McGinnis (1870-1965 in Iron Mountain, Michigan) emigrated from Ireland to America in 1887, he lived in New York and St Louis, Missouri with his sister prior to enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1890. He was a twenty-year-old private in Co. K, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry during the Wounded Knee Massacre, where he was wounded twice. When he died he was the last survivor of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee. McGinnis wrote an extensive account of his experiences at Wounded Knee. Two signature written in 1964 mounted to scrapbook page......50-75

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193. [INDIANS[ Harry E. Brockman (b. 1874) of St. James, Mo., was recruited at a frontier dance in the early 1890s and sent to Fort Grant, Ariz. He was one of the last of the old time Indian fighters. Signed 3x5 card. Removed from scrapbook. Mounting traces on verso...............20-30

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194. [INDIANS] 1886 PRINTED HOUSE OF REP. DOCUMENT, Message from the Presudent, Grover Cleveland re: Funds of the Miami Indians, 2-1/2pp.  Irregular left edge..............Min. Bid $10

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195. [INDIANS] 1898 Printed US Senate document from the Sec. of the Interior re: Agreement With The Five Civilized Tribes, 4pp. VG...........Min. Bid $10

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196. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Billot (1828-1907, Paris) French general and politician. He pursued a brilliant military career under the Second French Empire. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War, at first as Chief of staff under general Laveaucoupet, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division integrated into 2nd Army Corps of general Frossard. Billot participated in the battles of Sarrebruck, Forbach where he was mentioned in dispatches, Borny and Noiseville. He managed to escape after the capture of Metz and put himself in the service of the Government of National Defence. He was promoted to colonel, then général de brigade and provisional général de division. Chief of staff then commander of the 18th Army Corps, Billot was beaten at Beaune-la-Rolande on 28 November 1870. Confirmed as permanent général de brigade, he fought in the battle of Villersexel in January 1871. Offered here is a signed letter, 1882, 1p., to Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez (1821-1892) was a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. VG....................100-150

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197. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) American poet and writer. Five handwritten lines signed. Comes with unsigned postcard. VG............300-400

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198. Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, shared with Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers. Offered here is a 2 page ALS written to Miss Marshall who interviewed her. No date but comes with postcard photo dated 1926 on verso..............50-75

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199. [JUDAICA] Nelson Glueck (1900-1971)  American rabbi, academic and archaeologist. He served as president of Hebrew Union College from 1947 until his death, and his pioneering work in biblical archaeology resulted in the discovery of 1,500 ancient sites. During World War II, Glueck used his intimate knowledge of Palestine's geography to help the Office of Strategic Services develop a contingency plan for a retreat from German field marshal Rommel's advance through Northern Africa. Rommel was stopped, however, and the plan was not needed. Glueck's scholarship led to personal relationships with many world leaders: he delivered the benediction at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961; and he was personal friends with many of the State of Israel's early leaders, including David Ben-Gurion, Abba Eban, Golda Meir, Henrietta Szold and Judah Magnes. His autograph signature written on slip with other handwriting on it..............25-35

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200. [ENGLAND] Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset PC (1792-1848) was a British Tory politician. He held office under Sir Robert Peel as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests between 1834 and 1835 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1841 and 1846. Signed front portion of address panel postmarked 1839. About 4.5 x 3 in. VG..............Min. Bid $8

201. [FRANCE] French manuscript document signed, 5pp, 6.5 x 10 in. Pencil notation top of first page says 1640; when LOUIS XIII was King of France.  4-1/2 pp. VG................200-300

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202. [WORLD WAR 2] H.P. LeCaire - Commander US Navy. In 1918 he was in the Radio Div. Bureau of Steam Engineers. Offered here is a 27 Feb. 1941 MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN GREENLEE, signed on page 5. From the personal papers of Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. VG.................75-100...................Min. Bid $25

203. [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. He died in 1924 in Washington, D.C. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics . In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. OFFERED HERE is a 25 page manuscript written by Woodward [not signed], plus a pamphet by Woodward: OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT, 1901, 21 pages uncut. Both in very good+ condition.............400-600

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204. Group of 6 vintage snapshot photos [unsigned] of: Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney, Van Heflin, Roddy McDowall, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster. Sizes are 2.5 x 3.5 to 3.5 x 5 in...............Min. Bid $25

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205.  [WORLD WAR I] William Jason Mixter, M.D. (1880-1958) prominent American surgeon. By the early 1930s, Mixter was considered to be one of the nation's leading experts in spinal surgery, and he went on to become the first chief of the neurosurgery department at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served in the U. S. Army in both world wars. In 1934, at the age of 54, Mixter and Joseph S. Barr published an article on the intervertebral disc lesion in the New England Journal of Medicine. That article fundamentally changed the popular understanding of sciatica at that time, and for this work Mixter is generally credited by his contemporaries as being the man who best clarified the relation between the intervertebral disc and sciatica. Mixter and Barr's landmark report helped to establish surgery's prominent role in the management of sciatica at the time. Over the next few decades, discectomy surgery increased in popularity tremendously, and some refer to that period as the "dynasty of the disc." Offered here are 5 items circa 1915 while Dr. Mixter was serving overseas.  Two are documents plus a photo of him plus 2 other small photos. VG................100-150

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206. [Nazi Persecution] Collection of about 19 letters from the collection of Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (née Solomonski) (1899-1980), painter, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he left Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. Solomonski was interned in the Isle of Man in Hutchinson Square camp in the early 1940’s as a prisoner of war along with many other artists. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954 he left England to take a position as Rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here are 9 copies of Solomon letters written in the 1950s while he was a Rabbi in Havana, Cuba during the Revolution. Also included are 10 TLSs, 1953-1959 from Dr. Franz Seligsohn (1880-1964). For many years he was the legal Advisor at the London UNITED RESTITUTION OFFICE in London, England.  The letter by Seligsohn are all written in German. Generally in very good condition........Min. Bid $75

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207. [NEW ORLEANS] attractive 1835 Bill of Lading from the Rowland G. Hazard papers. About 10.5 x 5.5 in. VG................25-45

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208. [NAVY] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer.  Led Marine squad in 1914 when U.S. troops stormed and occupied Vera Cruz during the Mexican Revolution.  He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here are 4 1915 postcards he wrote on while in Barcelona, Spain. to family members back home in Connecticut. Also, 1915 Request for Leave document signed by Davis & Commander [can't read signature]; a 1913 letter to Davis from Navy Dept. saying the President of the United States, with consent of the Senate has appointed him an Ensign in the navy;  plus about 23 additional document dated 1916-1925. Good-Vg conditions for their age.............300-400 ....................Min. Bid $90

209. [PORTRAIT] of CHESTER ARTHUR (1830-1886) Photogravure portrait [1902] after a photograph from life by Sarony. Image area, is about 9.5 x 7 in. including engraved signature below plus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25

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210.  [PORTRAIT] of Sir Ralph Abercromby KB (1734-1801) was a Scottish soldier and politician. He twice served as MP for Clackmannanshire, rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was appointed Governor of Trinidad, served as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, and was noted for his services during the French Revolutionary Wars. Offered here is an original portrait of Nelson engraved by  William Finden (1787 – 1852)  English engraver. His neat style and smooth finish made his pictures very attractive and popular, and although he executed several large plates, his chief work throughout his life was book illustration. The largest plate executed by William Finden was the portrait of King George IV seated on a sofa, after the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. For this work he received two thousand guineas, a sum larger than had ever before been paid for an engraved portrait. This engraving dates back to 1863.  The engraved area is about  8 x 6 in. very light foxing which is expected and adds a little charm..................50-75

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211. [PORTRAIT] of ZACHARY TAYLOR (1784-1850) Photogravure portrait [1902] from  a painting by L. Burn Forest. Image area, is about 9 x 6-3/4 in. including engraved signature below plus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25

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212. [VERMONT] collection of 22 court/legal documents, many signatures, dating 1845-1862. Not researched. Very good condition................50-75

213.  Hermon Carey Bumpus (1862-1943) American biologist, museum director, and the fifth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University). Signed 1894 $100 receipt document  for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Approx. 8-1/4 x 3-1/4 in. VG...............25-35 


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

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215. Francis Elias Spinner (1802-1890) American politician from New York. He served as Treasurer of the United States from 1861 to 1875, and was the first administrator in the federal government to employ women for clerical jobs. He served under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson and US Grant. He served from  March 16, 1861 – July 30, 1875. Offered here is a lengthy 8 page ALS written to Spinner from John C. Hopper, Secretary, Office of the National Revenue Reform Association. Dated Sept. 20, 1875.  Spinner has docketed and dated on the verso of last page. VG...................100-200

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216. [SCIENCE]  Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910) American scientist and engineer. Brief ALS, 1909, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. Provenance: Paul Richard's collection. VG...............100-150................Min. Bid $25

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217.  [PORTRAIT] of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (1773-1841) Photogravure portrait [1902] from  a painting by E.D. Marchan. Image area, is about 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 in. including engraved signature belowplus margins. VG.........Min. Bid $25

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218. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President MARTIN VAN BUREN. From The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents Engraved president's autograph beneath the portrait. Copyright, 1907, Bureau of National Literature & Art & Gravure Company of America. Whole paper size is 19.5 x 16 in. High quality paper. Image size about 12 x 8. Condition VG.........Min. Bid $25 

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219. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President W.H. HARRISON. From The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents Engraved president's autograph beneath the portrait. Copyright, 1907, Bureau of National Literature & Art & Gravure Company of America. Whole paper size is 19.5 x 16 in. High quality paper. Image size about 12 x 8. Condition: some toning in margin below image o/w VG.........Min. Bid $25

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220. [SCIENCE] Charles Frederick Marvin (1858-1943) American meteorologist. He was born at Putnam, Ohio. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1883, and was appointed to the United States Army Signal Corps of the United States Army. On July 1, 1891, an Act of Congress created the Weather Bureau from the signal service. All the men and duties relating to weather were transferred from the War Department. He became professor of meteorology in 1903 in the Weather Bureau, and chief there in 1913.  Marvin conducted important experiments for determining the amount of moisture in the air, invented instruments for automatically measuring and recording rainfall, snowfall, etc., and produced other advancements during the time when man first began the employment of powered aircraft. Marvin wrote numerous pamphlets and papers published by the Weather Bureau. He contributed to the New International Encyclopedia. Offered here is a 1905 autograph note signed, written in the 3rd person, accepting invitation from National Academy of Sciences.  5-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine..................75-100

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221. [JUDAICA) Frederick Soloman (1899-1980), Rabbi and artist, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he left Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. Solomonski was interned in the Isle of Man in Hutchinson Square camp in the early 1940’s as a prisoner of war along with many other artists. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954 he left England to take a position as Rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here are about 70 pieces from his personal papers basically related to Judaica.  Dated c. 1953-1976............Min. Bid $75

221A.  FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Group of papers related to his Cuba Property Claims, dating 1959-1967. The large pink document in Spanish is signed on the back by Solomon. Also a 1961 TLS from the British Embassy in Havana, Cuba signed by I.J.M. Sutherland; 1967 TLS from Foreign Office; 5 handwritten pages by Solomon plus 3 small note pages written by him. Also Temple B'Nai Israel page dated 1961 - Cuba re: loss and damage..............Min. Bid $25

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221B. FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. Typed sermon "ANGLES" delivered WRAK Williamsport, Pa.] July 27, 1956, 4pp, with many handwritten notes on it. includes a handwritten page saying ANGLES was deivered in . 1967 at Rockaway, NY. Also includes 3 typed from from ANGLES with no handwriting on it..............Min. Bid $50 

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221C.  FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A hand-written sermon, THE BRIDGE, delivered in 1961 & 1962, 12 pp...............Min. Bid $60

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221D.  FREDERICK SOLOMONSKI (Solomon) (1899-1980) German Rabbi artist. A hand-written sermon,  delivered in 1962, Far Rockaway, NY,  12pp...............Min. Bid $60

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222. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) [FILM] [James Poe]  (1921-1980)  American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Around the World in 80 Days for which he jointly won an Accademy Award in 1956, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.  He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably "Three Skeleton Key" and "The Present Tense", both of which starred Vincent Price.  Offered here is a 1967 bank c heck made out by James Poe HOWEVER, someone at some time has torn his signature away. Nothing on verso. He has written on front "Am ExpChex - Horses".  Since there are no cancellation marks it is assumed the check was never used and the torn away signature was like a cancel??? Odd item. (2) [NEW YORK SUPREME COURT] Anson Cary (1764-1842) came from Windham, Ct., to Union, Broome county, where he resided for a short time, and then departed for Oxford in 1792. He came up the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers in a canoe paddled by an Indian named Seth, and took up the lands owned by the Charles A. Bennett estate. Mr. Cary was a Revolutionary pensioner, having entered the army at the age of 16 and served in three campaigns of the war. He was a very large and obese man, and was the first blacksmith to locate in Oxford. He worked at his trade and carried on his farm a great many years, and was also famous as a pettifogger before Justice’s courts. He held the office of justice of peace, was appointed sheriff of the county March 1, 1805, and for a considerable time one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Offered here is 1811 New York Supreme Court document signed by Anson Cary as judge. Approx. 7.5 x 9 in. VG.  (3) [MUSIC] Elsa Clay - Assistant Executive Director of Composers and Lyricists Guild of America.  TLS, 1963, 1p. to Milt Ebbins, informing Ebbins that Erroll Garner is now a member in good standing the Guild. (4) [MICKEY SPILLANE] Bud Yorkin (1926-2015) American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor. Known for The Tony Martin Show, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, All In The Family, Maud, Sanford and Son, etc. He was a partner with Norman Lear. In 2002, Yorkin was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. TLS, 1956, 1p. to Mickey Spillane. Approx. 8.5 x 11 in.  VG. (5) Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) was an American industrialist, politician, and social reformer from Rhode Island.   He was educated in a Quaker boarding school in Burlington, New Jersey, where he developed a particular interest in mathematics.  In 1819 he returned to Rhode Island to join his elder brother Isaac in the management of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. One of Rowland Hazard's responsibilities was selling the company's prodent winters in New Orleans from about 1833 to 1842 to sell goods that included cotton bagging cloth, pre-cut garments, low-priced shoes, and raw "Negro cloth" for use by African-American slaves.  The activity that Hazard considered "as the greatest effort of his life" (according to his granddaughter) began when he was in New Orleans on business in the winter of 1841. After he learned that a free African-American man from Newport, Rhode Island was in custody in Louisiana as an escaped slave, his investigations found that many free African-Americans were being detained under the assumption they were escaped slaves. He worked with Jacob Barker, then a New Orleans lawyer, to obtain freedom for nearly 100 people being held as slaves. The action later led to charges being filed against several public officials who were responsible for the illegal detentions.  His involvement with abolitionist causes and in the Republican Party eventually caused his company to lose favor with its markets in the southern United States. This helped to prompt the Peace Dale mills' transition from making cheap cotton products to selling higher quality woolens. Hazard retired fromucts to planters in the southern United States, particularly Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. He sp the textile business in 1866 and invested in the Union Pacific Railroad. After Union Pacific fell into financial disarray and became a party to the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1872, Hazard spent much time dealing with the company's financial affairs. Offered here is a Providence, RI document signed, 1839, about 8 x 3-3/8 in. Cancel hole over signature  which is blurred.................Min. Bid $50

223. [AVIATION] Clyde Kelly (1883-1935) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was engaged in newspaper publishing at Braddock, Pennsylvania, in 1903 and established the Braddock Leader in 1904. During his tenure as Congressman, Clyde introduced a resolution to permit private contracting of airmail service. This resolution, the Air Mail Act of 1925 was signed into law on February 2, 1925, prompting many companies to venture into the aviation field (e.g., Boeing, Douglas, and Pratt & Whitney). The Airmail Act of 1925 was the foundation that commercial aviation is built upon. Page with his nphoto and another photo unidentified, both signed below the photo.  Size of sheet 9 x 6-3/4 in. VG.............50-75

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224. [1968 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION] About 26 pieces from the collection of Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. She was an Alternate  Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Includes: [1] Brenda Kuhn TLS, 1968, 1p. mentions Walter Mondale.  [2] Printed letter from Senator Clailborne Pell asking that Humphrey and McCarthy release their delegates. [3] Signed letter from Brenda suggesting Plank for democratic National Platform. [4]Ink signed TLS, 1p. 1968,  to Brenda Kuhnfrom a Candidate for US President. His name was Chester K. Rudnicki, who apparently ran for president more than once. In 1988,as a candidate he was arrested on criminal charges. He sues saying the charges were made because he was a candidate. He was jailed. Looks like he was bringing law suits all the time. [5] Long  4 page letter [not ink signed] from Rabbi Harold S. White, sent in Democrats for Humphrey envelope to Brenda Kuhn, basically saying he will support HHH, noy McCarthy. [6] Peter N. Kyros - US Congressman from Maine. TLS, thanking Brenda for being a gracious hostess. Plus other items connecting to the 1968 convention, including a Eugene McCarthy pamphlet. Collection includes about 19 items + 8 newspaper clippings. VG..........Min. Bid $50



225. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Karl E. Mundt (1900-1974) US Senator from South Dakota. TLS, 1964.  (2) Red Adair (1915-2004) American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore. Signed, inscribed  5 x 6-3/4 in. color photo. Signed twice [contrast isn't very good because photo is darker]. (3) Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (4) C. Delano - Sec. of the Interior. Signed in type 1875 printed gov. document, INDIAN SERVICE IN CALIFORNIA. (5)  Douglas Volk - artist known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp. Signed 1906 bank check. (6) James Edward Murray (1876-1961) US Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961. (7) Tony Lavelli (1926-1998) NBA player. Sig. inscribed 3x5 card. (8) George Mitchell - US Senator from Maine. TLS, 1985, signed George.  Thanks publisher for sending him a book.  (9) Group of 26 Limerick, Maine bank checks c. 1917.  (10) [ILLINOIS-LINCOLN] Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him.  Approx. 5.5 x 7.5 in. VG..................Min. Bid $50

226. George H.W. Bush (1824-2018) 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo [autopen signature]. Fine................50-75

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227. Steve Forbes Jr. (b.1947)  American publishing executive and politician, who is the editor-in-chief of Forbes, a business magazine.  Signed, inscribed 8 x 10 color photo. Fine.................25-35

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228.  [MIXED LOT] includes: (1)  Charles Edward Courtney (1849-1920) American rower and rowing coach from Union Springs, New York. A carpenter by trade, Courtney was a nationally known amateur rower. Courtney never lost a race as an amateur and finished a total of 88 victories. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) Douglas Volk [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Signed 1910 bank check. (3) Anne Campbell (1852-1935) signed 14 line handwritten poem. (4) Ida Mulle - singer/dancer. Signed card 1926. (5) Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1911. (6) Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972)  Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Signed 1946 Maintenance Service Agreement. (7) BRENDA KUHN (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer. Signed 1965 bank check..........Min. Bid $50

229. [ART) Frederick Soloman (1899-1980), painter, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he left Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. Solomonski was interned in the Isle of Man in Hutchinson Square camp in the early 1940’s as a prisoner of war along with many other artists. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954 he left England to take a position as Rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here are about 80 pieces from his personal papers basically related to art [not religion].  One is dated 1928 and the rest c. 1954-1977............Min. Bid $75

230. [JUDAICA) Frederick Soloman (1899-1980), Rabbi and artist, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he left Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. Solomonski was interned in the Isle of Man in Hutchinson Square camp in the early 1940’s as a prisoner of war along with many other artists. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954 he left England to take a position as Rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here are about 70 pieces from his personal papers basically related to Judaica.  Dated c. 1953-1976............Min. Bid $75

231.  [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Daniel Waldron  (1775-1821) was the fifth and last generation of his family to hold the substantial Waldron estate in Dover, New Hampshire. With his bankruptcy Dover realized a new life and economy as a center of textile manufacturing. Court document dated 1820 signed as Clerk. 8 x 12 in. Fine................75-100

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232. [PHOTOGRAPHY] 2 original color photographs of Frank Sinatra at the Columbus Day Parade in New York City. The photographs were taken Frank Mastro, the famed celebrity photographer probably best remembered for his photos of Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. Approx. 5 x 3-1/4 in. Unsigned. Fine..........Min. Bid $50

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233.  Albert Stanburrough Cook (1853-1927)  American philologist, literary critic, and scholar of Old English. He has been called "the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." ALS, New Haven, 1893, 4pp. About 5 x 8 in. VG.................75-100

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234. [INGALLS LETTERS] group of 45 letters [ALS], 1905-1908 written from Fay Ingalls (1882-1957) to his future wife Rachel C. Holmes [Ingalls] 1885-1966. Most with faulty envelopes. Not read. Fay Ingalls was an attorney and the son of Melville Ezra Ingalls (1842-1914) who was a Massachusetts state legislator who went on to become president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad).  We have not read any of the letters which are generally lengthy. VG...................400-600....................Min. Bid $75

235. Joshua Hatton (1850– 1920) English writer, poet and editor, the brother of Joseph Hatton, Editor of The People). His exact date of death in late 1920 is uncertain, but it was reported at the beginning of 1921. He was aged 70. Hatton commonly used the pseudonym Guy Roslyn, although he is more often regarded by that name as a bogus biographer reduced to poverty and begging from the subjects of his biographies in his later life. ALS, 1879, 3pp. There is damage along the fold line...............Min. Bid $10

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235A. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday and Company. She was also an exhibiting artist, having work shown at the Krausharr Gallery in New York in 1949. Other exhibitions include: Wilmington Museum, Delaware 1940-45; Maracaibo 1936-39; Barbizon Plaza, NYC 1940; Lake Placid Club, NY 1940, etc. She studied at the Art Students League with Jules Gotlieb, Bridgman and Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here is a drawing, not signed, about 2.5 x 2.5 in. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG..............25-35

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236. [ENGLAND] a handwritten note, signed with initials. Do not know who wrote this. It reads..............Please telegraph how Mr. Gladstone is and kindly express to Mrs. Gladstone my hopes for Mr. Gladstones speedy recovery. In a different hand below is written Sent Aug. 8/80. Gladstone's illness, Downing Street, August 1880. The scene at 10 Downing Street, Central London, was anxious as people waited for news of the condition of Prime Minister William Gladstone, recovering from a lung infection. - Year: August 1880. The page is 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 in. Mounted to another sheet.............40-60

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  237.  [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Anna Kaskas - Metropolitan opera singer. Sig., inscribed 8x10 photo, 1943. Two punch holes left side. (2) Dennise E. Stires - Warner Bros. 1984 paycheck endorsed on verso. (3) Gladys Hanson (1884-1973) was a stage and silent film actress. Signed card. (4) [ILLINOIS-LINCOLN] Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him.  (5) National Tea Co. 1943 stock certificate. (6) Rudy Vallée (1901-1986) American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed bank check, 1935. VG (7) Louise Andrews Kent(1886-1969) American author. Her handwriting on bank check register. Three check stubs written but not signed by her, 1947. (8) George Huddleston (1869-1960)  U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1929 envelope bearing his PRINTED Free Frank...........Min. Bid $50

238. Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946. Group of 10 signed bank checks, 1924-25. VG..............Min. Bid $80

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239. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] George Waldron (1732-1805) 1793 Portsmouth, N.H. document signed concerning bthe Estate of James King.  7.5 x 6 in.  VG.................25-35

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240. INTERESTING LETTER signed Baring Brothers, London, 19 Sept. 1844, written on both sides of 7.5 x 8.5 in paper. This was written to John Howard Payne  (1751-1852) American actor, poet, playwright, and author best emembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States and the English-speaking world.  In 1842, Payne was appointed American Consul to Tunis, where he served for nearly 10 years until his death. The letter mentions Joshua Bates (1788-1864) American international financier who divided his life between the United States and the United Kingdom. A merchant and a banker, in 1828 Bates became associated with the great house of Baring Brothers & Co. of London, of which he eventually became the senior partner. He was arbitrator of the commission convened in 1853 to settle the claims of American citizens arising from the War of 1812. Fine................200-300................MIN. BID $50

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241. [CORNELL UNIVERSITY] 4 items owned by Ralph E. Sheldon who attended Cornell 1896-1905.  VG.................25-35

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242. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) George W. Bush For President bumper sticker. Fine. (2) [WWI] Davenport - ALS, London, 12 Jan. 1917, 2pp, 4to. Re: contributions to the Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich "in recognition of the splendid & signal services of our Merchant Navy during the war. Whether on transports, on mine-sweepers, on patrol duty, or on trade routes carrying the cargoes which are the life-blood of the Empire they have faced not only the perils & hardships of the Sea, but the deadly risk of submarines, mines, & other enemy devices..." VG (3) Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was a prominent American journalist and academic of the early 20th century. In the autumn of 1890 Shaw was elected professor of international law and political institutions at Cornell University but resigned the post in 1891 to accept Stead's invitation to establish an American edition of the Review of Reviews . Shaw served as editor-in-chief of this publication until it ceased publication in 1937, ten years before his death at the age of ninety. He was the author of "Abraham Lincoln" [1929]. ALS, Hastings On Hudson, NY, Feb. 4, 1947, 2-1/2 pages. This letter was sent to Who's Who In America. 'I have been listed in every volume of Who's Who since Mr. Marquis began its publication..." Excellent condition. (4) Loretta Lynn (b. 1932) American singer-songwriter. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck for $143. (5) Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929-2017) American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Photo signed by autopen. (6) Pat Carroll (b. 1927) actress. Clip signature obtained 1980 from Provincetown Play House while she was playing Gertrude Stein. (7) William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) American romantic poet. Antique engraved portrait. (8) Andre Kostelanetz (1901-1980) Russian-born American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music. Signed 1973 FDC.  End of signature is smeared................Min. Bid $50

243. [WORLD WAR 2] Dr. Ralph D. Bennett (1900-1994) His career was varied and most distinguished. He served as a professor of physics at M.I.T; as a naval officer, responsible for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Washington; and director of the Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory near Livermore, Calif., for the General Electric Co. He subsequently became V.P. and director of research for Martin Marietta. Dr. Bennett was a man uniquely placed to bring about significant changes in the way the Navy handled its research and development in those early years. Having both a Captain's rank and a respected technical background, he played a major role in the development of the Military-civilian partnership at NOL, and saw its use accepted universally in the rest of the Navy's R&D management. The Navywide system of Commander/Technical Director management owes its origins to Dr. Bennett. Offered here is an ink signed memorandum from Bennett to Capt. L.W. Mckeehan, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Navy Yard, Washington DC, 8 December 1943, 2pp. Discusses, by names, using certain people.  Louis Mckeehan has written and signed a response on page 2. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. VG.................150-250

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244.  [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] John H. Newton (1881-1948)  Commander, Cruisers, Scouting Force at the outbreak of war. At the moment of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was in tactical command of the Lexington task force, which was on the way to deliver aircraft to Midway. After war broke out, the Lexington force was given to the more senior Brown, and Newton commanded its screen. Relieved before the end of the year, he was given command of the South Pacific Area in June 1944, when it had lost almost all strategic relevance. Offered here is a 1p. memo from Newton dated Nov. 7, 1942. Not ink signed. The ink date below is in the hand of Louis McKeehan. VG.................50-75

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245. [AVIATION] Thomas C. McMurtry (1935-2015) American mechanical engineer, and a former naval aviator, test pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center and a consultant for Lockheed Corporation. McMurtry joined NASA as a research test pilot in 1967. The first project he was assigned to as the project pilot was the F-8 Supercritical Wing project. He flew its first flight on 9 March 1971 and that of the NASA AD-1 on 21 December 1979. He was project pilot on the TF-8A Supercritical Wing testbed and the AD-1. He was co-project pilot on the F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Airplane, the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and performed digital electronic F-15 engine efficiency control tests. On 26 November 1975, the X-24B dropped from the sky for the last time, piloted on its 36th flight by McMurtry.  [1] McMurtry co-piloted the 747 Carrier Aircraft as it transported the Space Shuttle Enterprise to its first launch on 12 August 1977. McMurtry logged over 11,000 hours of flying time since earning his pilot's wings in 1958. A graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School, he has flown many aircraft including the U-2, X-24B, F-8A, AD-1, YF-12C, F-104, and F-15. McMurtry became chief research test pilot and then Chief of the Research Aircraft Division for the NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility. He eventually rose to be the Director for Flight Operations at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, and retired on June 3, 1999, after 32 years of service and one day shy of his 64th birthday. Offered here is a TLS, 1973. VG..................50-75

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246. [U.S. NAVAL] U.S.S. SHAWMUT June 30, 1865 document. Library List [books/publications] for Lt. Comdr. J.G. Walker. USS Shawmut was a 593-ton steamer acquired by the U.S. Navy and put to use by the Union during the American Civil War. Shawmut served the Union Navy primarily as a gunboat with howitzers for bombardment, and various other rifles and cannon for use at sea in apprehending blockade runners attempting to "run" the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. John Grimes Walker (1835-1907) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the Civil War. After the war, he served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, head of the Lighthouse Board, and commander-in-chief of the Squadron of Evolution and of the North Atlantic Squadron. In retirement, he led commissions to investigate the construction of a Central American canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. At the siege of Vicksburg, Walker commanded the naval gun battery attached to the 15th Army Corps. His subsequent war service included operations which resulted in the capture of Fort Fisher, and he participated in the ensuing bombardments of Forts Anderson and Caswell on the Cape Fear River and in the capture of Wilmington, North Carolina. Rear Admiral Walker died at the age of 72, at Ogunquit, Maine.  Kaye & I walk by his house on our Ogunquit walks many times. Approx. 8 x 13 in. Good+...............100-150

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247. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) American romantic poet, journalist 1852 letter from Bryant but not signed by him. (2) Kaaren Lee - actress, known for The Right Stuff (1983), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and T.J. Hooker (1982). Unsigned Warner Bros. paycheck 1984. (3) Edward Grossman - Executive Director, Composers and Lyricists Guild of America.  TLS, 964, 1p. Also signed by Milt Ebbins (1912-2008) the  well-connected show business manager who was a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House. Mr. Ebbins was a well-liked Hollywood insider who directed the careers of actors, musicians and comedians. For more than 30 years, he was the personal manager of actor Peter Lawford. Through Lawford, who was married to Patricia Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy's, Mr. Ebbins became a favorite of JFK's and a frequent guest at the White House and on Air Force One. At Kennedy's 45th birthday party in 1962, Mr. Ebbins gave Marilyn Monroe a push onstage at Madison Square Garden as she went out to sing her sultry version of "Happy Birthday."  (4) Wilson Thomas Hogue (1852–1920) American bishop of the Free Methodist Church, elected in 1903. He was born 6 March 1852 in Lyndon, New York. His parents were Scottish-English Methodists. He was the founder of Greenville College. His career also included service as a Pastor and a District Elder. TLS, 1900, 1p. Toned. (5) Mary Hannah Krout (1851-1927) American journalist, author, and advocate for women's suffrage. ALS [no yr], 2pp. to Harry McClure. (6) Jacob Bunn  (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him.................Min. Bid $50

248. [AVIATION] Irv Burrows (b. 1928) test pilot. The first F-15 pilot. Irv Burrows began his flying career in New York when he was a teenager. In 1950, after serving in the Navy and graduating from Williams College, he continued his aviation career by being selected to attend Pilot Training in the United States Air Force. TLS, 1973, 1p. VG...............50-75

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249. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Bob Dole - a 1987 typed 4 page letter sending two Preferred Tickets to his for formal announcement to run for President of the United States. His signature is, of course, printed.  One of the tickets is included here. All are in fine condition. (2) Lorenzo Marrett (1816-1887) was born in Standish, Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1838. He practiced law with a specialty in the administration of estates. He joined the Board of Aldermen in 1849 and was active in local and state politics. ALS, East Cambridge, 1857, 3 pages, 4-3/4 x 7-3/4 in. Includes original envelope [stamp removed]. VG. (3) [POSTAL HISTORY]  Levi P. Morton (1824-1920)  the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a US representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York.  Offered here is a postmarked envelope. 1900, hand-addressed by Morton [not signed] to Lola Greene Baldwin (1860-1957) who was one of the first policewomen in the United States. In 1908, she was sworn in by the City of Portland, Oregon as Superintendent of the Women's Auxiliary to the Police Department for the Protection of Girls (later renamed the Women's Protective Division), with the rank of detective. Approx. 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. VG. (4) [THEATRE] 1964 program starring Ben Gazzara & Mildred Dunnock in TRAVELLER WITHOUT LUGGAGE. VG (5) [MUSIC] Helen Lemmens-Sherrington (1834-1906)  English concert and operatic soprano prominent from the 1850s to the 1880s. Born in northern England, she spent much of her childhood and later life in Belgium, where she studied at the Brussels Conservatory. After engagements in mainland Europe she made her London debut in 1856. Her singing career was mostly in concert, but in the first half of the 1860s she appeared in opera at Covent Garden and other leading London theatres. ALS, no date, 2pp, no date, approx. 4 x 6-1/8 in.  Declines invitation. VG. (6) James Clarke Hook RA (1819-1907)  English painter and etcher of marine, genre and historical scenes, and landscapes. Artwork by Hook is held at the Tate Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts and Guildhall Art Gallery in London. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 4-1/4 x 1-1/2 in. (7) [RACING] Michael Andretti (b. 1962) American semi-retired auto racing driver and current team owner. Statistically one of the most successful drivers in the history of American open-wheel car racing, Andretti won the 1991 CART PPG Indy Car World Series and amassed 42 race victories, the most in the CART era and fourth-most all time. Signed color magazine picture, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Two fold lines. (8) Robert Adams (1917-1984)  English sculptor and designer. While not widely known outside of artistic circles, he was nonetheless regarded as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. In a critical review of a retrospective mounted by the Gimpel Fils gallery in London in 1993, Brian Glasser of Time Out magazine described Adams as "the neglected genius of post-war British sculpture", a sentiment echoed by Tim Hilton in the Sunday Independent, who ranked Adams' work above that of his contemporaries, Ken Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick and Bernard Meadows. Nice ALS, 1978, 1p., 8 x 9-3/4 in. plus envelope. Re: selling drawings. Fine example.........Min. Bid $70

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250. George Francis Train (1829-1904) American entrepreneur who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; he also organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States in 1864 to construct the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and a horse tramway company in England while there during the American Civil War. In 1870 Train made the first of three widely publicized trips around the globe. He believed that a report of his first journey in a French periodical inspired Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days; protagonist Phileas Fogg may have been modeled on him.  In 1872, he ran for president of the United States as an independent candidate.  That year, he was jailed on obscenity charges while defending suffragist Victoria Woodhull against charges regarding an article her newspaper had published on an alleged adulterous affair. Despite business successes in early life, he was known as an increasingly eccentric figure in American and Australian history. Offered here is a strange looking sheet dated 1903 on which he has written and signed. It is 7 x 4 in. Plus, hand-addressed envelope postmarked/stamp. Both pices are mounted to an album page...............200-300

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251. [ART] Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925)  American architect. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects after 1892 and was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to the United States Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C.  Offered here is a 1923 bank check made out to Brunner, endorsed on verso by him. Check is signed by Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine. VG...........Min. Bid. $25

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252. [THEATRE] A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starring Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn, The Plymouth Theatre, 1950 playbill, 8pp, not signed. VG................10-20

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253. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the PISCATAQUA PIONEERS. Paper bound, published 1940, 12pp, approx. 3-3/4 x 6 in. Nice piece of NH ephemera.............Min. Bid $10

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254. [ART] Hermann Richter lived and painted in California in the early part of the 20th century. He was born in Hamburg Germany, on July 29, 1875, came to the U.S. in 1927, and lived in California for 14 years. He died in San Diego, California on May 03, 1941. Original pastel, signed, approx. 11 x 8.5 in. VG...............200-300..................Min. Bid $50

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255.  [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Stephen Alonzo Schoff (1818-1904) American engraver and etcher in New York and Boston. Original antique engraved view of FRANCONIA NOTCH, WHITE MOUNTAINS, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Image is approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. plus margins. There is a large water stain over the top-right portion otherwise in excellent condition...............Min. Bid $10

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256. [ART - FRANCE] Pierre Filloeul  (1696; died Paris after 1754) French printmaker. He was the son of the engraver Gilbert Filloeul (1644-1714). He was his father's pupil (and not, as is sometimes claimed, that of Jacques-Philippe Lebas). His oeuvre extends from 1731 to 1754 and numbers c. 150 prints.  Original etching, Portrait of Louis Duc D'Orleans, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/2" plus margin. This is an 18th century impression. VG. Mounting trace top edge on verso............100-150 

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257. [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Offered here is a 19 page manuscript in the handwriting of Dr. Woodward, titled Diffusion[? of Heat in Recton[?] Solids. Not signed of course. 8 x 10.5 in. Excellent condition...........400-600...............Min. Bid $200

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258. [FRANCE] Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832), known as Georges Cuvier. He was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. Offered here is a 1 page ALS written in the 3rd person. Addressed to John Phillips on a separate sheet. John Phillips FRS (1800-1874) was an English geologist. In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented.  This letter is written in French - has not been translated. Provenance: Bill Luetge, who died in 2004 and was a well known autograph collector/dealer years ago. He was one of the 1st Presidents of the UACC. The original typed description that came with this says - "Autograph Letter Signed  written in the third person as was the custom of the day........Regarding a request made of John Phillips. When you research signed letters by Cuvier you will see is large signature style but remember- this letter is written in the 3rd person. It was customary to begin 3rd person letters at the top [front] and not use the normal signature style, instead signature looks like the handwritten style, which is often different than the signature. In our opinion this letters was written by Cuvier BUT its expected that others might have doubts therefore the reason for a lower Min. Bid amount.  We are not selling this with a authenticity guarantee as we usually do................Min. Bid $100

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259. [GREAT BRITAIN] Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1985) British aristocrat and politician. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'.  He participated in the creation of the National Union of the Conservative Party. Winston Churchill was his son. Offered is is a strange monogram signature written in pencil. This came to us from the collection of Bill Luetge, who died in 2004 and was a well known autograph collector/dealer years ago. He was one of the 1st Presidents of the UACC.  The size is about  1-1/4 x 1-3/8 in. odd shape. Torn away from something. We are not able to find another example of this type of Churchill signature. Not guaranteed..........Min. Bid $20

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260. (NEW MEXICO TERRITORIAL MINING) E.H. Wilson. President, Massachusetts and New Mexico Consolidated Mining Co.  Document Signed, Portland, Maine, 1883. Certificate for 500 shares of stock. Attractive mining vignette...........75-100

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261. [FANTASTIC MIXED LOT] [1] Robert Henry Scott FRS (1833-1916)  Irish meteorologist, who was president of the Royal Meteorological Society. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar. Lengthy ALS, 1860, 7pp, not translated.  [2] WAR DEPARTMENT 1872printed General Order No. 43 - an Act granting Davenport and  St. Paul Railroad Co. right of way. 2pp. [3]  John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (1743-1783) British peer and politician. Vintage 1800 engraved portrait. [4] Woodward Hudson - President of the Boston and Maine Railroad. TLS, 1919, 1 full page. Comes with envelope. [5] [JOHN F. KENNEDY Postal Stamps] group of 6 foreign postage stamps. See JFK stamps
[6] [CONGRESS] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972)  Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Offered here is an archive of letters & carbon copies, 1948 concerning appearl of Mr. Remo Rossi that his daughter, Inez Rossi, residing in Italy, be permitted to enter the United States for permanent residence.  Two of the letters are signed by Philbin. About 43 pieces. [7] William Harold Cox (1901-1988) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. He was known for presiding over United States v. Price (1965) and for his resistance to racial integration. Constance Baker Motley, a longtime civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge, called Cox "the most openly racist judge ever to sit on a federal court bench" in the United States. SIGNED 3X5 CARD, soiled. [8] Clinton Presba Anderson (1895-1975) was an American politician who represented New Mexico in the United States Senate from 1949 until 1973. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1945 until 1948 and represented New Mexico's at-large congressional district from 1941 until 1945. CLIP SIGNATURE. [9] John Arthur Love (1916-2002)  Republican politician who served as the 36th Governor of the State of Colorado from 1963 to 1973. SIGNED CARD. [10] Campbell P. Berry (1834-1901) Calif. congressman. ALS, 1882, 1p. to Ben Pearly Poore, noted journalist.  Advises Poore of errors in his biographical sketch in the Congressional Directory. VG. [11] Edwin Whitefield [1816-1892] was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. Born in Dorset, England, he emigrated to the United States in 1838. Offered here is an original lithograph of The Paine House, Conanicut, R.I. Unsigned, circa 1882. Image 5-1/4 x 3-1/8" plus margins. Excellent condition. Caption says probably built by Capt. Thos. Paine, who married the daughter of Gov. Carr. Caleb Carr (1624-1695) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving a very short term prior to his death by drowning. See Paine House  
[12] Beverly Washburn (b. 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the Walt Disney drama Old Yeller (1957) and the American General Pictures horror Spider Baby (1967). Signed Warner Bros. 1984 pay check..........Min. Bid $75



262. [CONGRESSMAN PHILBIN LOT] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). Offered is a unreseared lot of papers from the files of Philbin. Contains many carbon copies ofletters from Philbin; letters from people seeking advice or assistance, sometimes telegrams etc. About 77 pieces. Mixed conditions...............Min. Bid $10

263. US TREASURY - group of 10 printed documents, 1823-1898.  Multiple pages. VG............Min. Bid $10

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264. [NEW JERSEY] Group of 10 Chancery of New Jersey legal documents, 1911-1914. Most are 2 pages or longer..............Min. Bid $10

265. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] [1] Beverly Washburn (b. 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the Walt Disney drama Old Yeller (1957) and the American General Pictures horror Spider Baby (1967). Signed Warner Bros. 1984 pay check. [2] [POSTAL HISTORY] Wilson Barrett (1846-1904)  English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. Offered here is a postmarked envelope [1896] ink addressed by Barrett but not signed by him. VG. [3] [THEATRE] Henry Hutchinson Howe (1812-1896) English actor whose real name was Henry Howe Hutchinson, was born of Quaker parents in Norwich on 31 March 1812. His father would not hear of his becoming an actor, so he ran away from home at the age of nineteen to join a travelling company. He died at Cincinnati, while travelling in the United States as a member of Sir Henry Irving’s company. ALS, 1888, 2pp., to the artist Walt Paget (1862-1935) thanking him for a portrait. Some mounting remains affect nothing. Scarce. VG. [4] [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & television Producers Association. Document signed "Gene", 1966, to ALL MEMBERS, of Society of Independent Producers. Ink Signed memorandu. Regarding SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG) SINGERS (ON SCREEN AND OFF SCREEN).  1p. 8.5 x 11.  The Agreement  or waiver  is intended to encourage the use of groups of singers by reducing the payments to each singer.    Fine. [5] Marion Barry (1936- 2014) American politician who served as the second and fourth mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG. [6] Lisa Weinstein - actress known for Ghost (1990), Greased Lightning (1977) and Fatal Exposure (1991). Unsigned Warner Bros. 1985 pay check. [7] Pat Brown (1905-1996) American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he was later elected Attorney General of California in 1950 before becoming the state's governor in 1959. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo, 1990. VG. [8] [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Robert Gordon [not identified], paper size 9-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. VG  [9]  [BASEBALL EPHEMERA] 2 flyers from THE NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM. 3.5 x 8.5 in. Both are in fine condition. [10] Renee Bates - actress known for I Am a Witness (2015), Escape (2017) and Taking Flight (2015). Unsigned Warner Bros. 1984 pay check. [11]  [MAP] 1939 North Carolina and South Carolina. [12] 
 [SCIENCE] Joseph (J.) Garrott Allen (1912-1992) was a research associate in the Health Division of the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project. Allen joined the Met Lab on July 24, 1944. In the Health Division, Allen worked in radiation pathology. Brief TLS, 1972, signed J.G.A.  [13] Henry L. Nunn (1878-1972) American Business Leader, one of the founders of the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company and a pioneer in the development of good labor-management relations. His papers are in the collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society, including records of Nunn's participation in a mission in 1951 for the Economic Cooperation Administration, the  United States government agency set up in 1948 to administer the Marshall Plan. TLS, 1954, to Dorothy Nunn or Alice Josephine Nunn. Sends a check for Alice's Trust Find...................Min. Bid $75

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266. [ART] Alfred L. Seligman (1864-1912) American sculptor. One signed bank check from [signed] Douglas Volk to Seligman, endorsed on the verso by Seligman.  Douglas Volk (1856-1935)  American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. Douglas painted at least nine posthumous portraits of Lincoln, basing them on the plaster life-mask that his father had made in 1860. One of them hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom at The White House. Another appeared on a U.S. postage stamp issued in the 1950s, and is now at the National Gallery of Art. VG.............Min. Bid $10

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267.  TO THE SELECTMEN OF STEUBEN, MAINE - 1868 printed letter from D. Brastow asking that a list of the names and ages of all the orphans of soldiers and seamen of your town be sent to the Governor at Augusta or to Brastow. Stamped address portion................Min. Bid $10

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268. Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL (1862-1925)  English essayist, poet and academic,[1] and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the lyrics of Edward Elgar’s Coronation Ode, including the words of the patriotic song "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902). His literary criticism, poems, and volumes of essays were highly regarded. He was also noted as an author of ghost stories. ALS, 1906, 3pp. Fine...........50-75

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269. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. Lithograph, signed in the print, not titled, dated 1978. Approx. 8.5 x 11 in. VG.............Min. Bid $10
 
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270. [RHODE ISLAND] group of 2 documents signed  by  Isaac Peace Hazard (1794-1879)  the eldest of the nine children of textile manufacturer Rowland Hazard I and Mary Peace of South Kingstown, R.I. He attended the Friends School in Westtown, Pennsylvania through 1810 before returning to South Kingstown to help run the family textile mill. In 1819, his father retired from active business, and Isaac took control of the mill with his brother Rowland G. Hazard I (1801-1888). They did business as I.P. & R.G. Hazard until 1828, when they added a third brother, Joseph P. Hazard, and became R.G. Hazard & Co. From about 1820 to 1824, Isaac also had a side partnership with Aza Arnold, acting under the name Hazard & Arnold. He was also in a partnership with a distant cousin, Jonathan N. Hazard, until 1826.  The Hazard businesses lost a great deal of money circa 1829.  Isaac served as president after the partnership with his brothers was incorporated as the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company in 1848 through his retirement in 1864. He also served intermittently as a representative in the state General Assembly from 1838 to 1843, and as a state senator in 1853. Among his other activities, he helped found Butler Hospital for the Insane, and also played a major role in founding the Charleston and Augusta Railway Company. Circa 1849, he moved from Peace Dale to Newport, where he lived with four other unmarried siblings: his brother Joseph and his three sisters Eliza, Mary and Anna. The 1870 census of Rhode Island lists him as a woolen manufacturer with a personal estate valued at $115,000. He was raised as a Quaker, but in 1841 purchased a pew in the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Wakefield, R.I. He never married or had any children, and died in 1879. Both are promisory notes, 1826 and 1837, about 6.5 x 2.5 in.  VG.............40-60

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271.  [CHESS] two 1965 printed pages of chess once owned by Bobby Fischer. Approx. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Provenance: Robert "Bobby" Fischer - Brooklyn Library - Swann's Auction - East Coast Books. In the late 1960s Fischer is said to have needed money so he sold his chess library to the Brooklyn Library, who then sold off some of their holding at auction in NYC, some 25 years later. Rare!. Fine................Min. Bid $10

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272. [AMERICANA]  The State of Maine imposes a $500 fine on the Town of Plymouth, Maine for not repaiting a road.  Dated 1834, 1p,  7-3/4 x 12 in. VG..........Min. Bid $10

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273. [HARRY TRUMAN] 1949 document nominating Karl L. Rankin of Maine  [diplomat] signed by fasc. signature. Signed in ink by Dean Acheson, Secretary of State. Karl Rankin (1898-1991) was an American diplomat from Wisconsin. In 1949 Rankin was promoted to U.S. Consul General in Canton, China; and also became Consul General in Hong Kong from 1949 to 1950. Rankin was appointed U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to the Republic of China, based in Taipei, from 1950 to 1953, before being named Ambassador from 1953 to 1957. Finally, Rankin returned to Yugoslavia, serving as U.S. Ambassador from 1957 to 1961. FRAMED. Full size 16-1/4 x 12-1/4 in. VG.........Min. Bid $200

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274. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] THE DESCENT FROM MOUNT WASHINGTON, wood-engraving, c. 1830s..............Min. Bid $5

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275. George Mitchell (b. 1933) United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, being appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Obama.  TLS, 1987, 1p. Sends editor thanks for sending a book.  Signed George.  VG............Min. Bid $10

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276. [JUDAICA] 1956 letter to Rabbi Frederick Solomon (1899-1980) the German Expressionist artist. Signed by Rabbi Louis I. Egelson (1885 -1957) administrative secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Sidney L. Regner (1903-1993) Reform rabbi and organizational executive. A lifelong peace activist, he was elected vice president of the Jewish Peace Fellowship in 1980. Richard N. Bluestein - of Hebrew Union College. 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. VG..............25-35............Min. Bid $10

277. [RELIGION] 2 brief ALSs by:  [1] Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900)  American Congregational clergyman. Closely cropped on both sides. Signature value only. [2] Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822-1909)  American Presbyterian minister and writer. ALS on postcard dated 1875..............Min. Bid $10

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278. Robert E. O'Brien - 1964 TLS to the actor Peter Lawford - apologize again for having subjected you to that onslaught of autograph seekers...." Includes 2 newspaper clippings...............Min. Bid $10

 
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279. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here is a signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs E. Davis USN. VG................Min. Bid $10

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280. Gilbert Hilton Scribner (1831-1910) was an American lawyer and politician who was Secretary of State of New York from 1870 to 1873. ALS, 1872 plus 1868  United States Legation card [sun-toned].................Min. Bid $10

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281. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] RALEIGN DAY 1776-1927 Piscataqua Pioneers - Annual Meeting and Outing  - Portsmouth, N.H. Aug. 10, 1927.This a ribbon that would have been worn by those attending, approx. 1-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. VG.....50-75...........Min. Bid $10

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282. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] 2 vintage photographs. One is DOUBLE-HEAD from Eagle Mt. House, Jackson, NH. Other is Carter Notch from Eagle Mt. House, Jackson NH. Photos are approx. 6.5 x 2 in. each........Min. Bid $10
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283. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Richard Boyle (1694-1753). was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl".  Engraved by  William Henry Mote (1803–1871) was a British stipple and line engraver, primarily known for his portraits. He produced etchings for reference books, as well as original etchings. Mote became a member of the Royal Academy in his twenties and his portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Circa 1850, paper size approx. 11 x 7 in. The engraving says W.T. MOTE, which is misspelled - should say W.H. Mote. VG........Min. Bid $10

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284. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Charles Watson Wentworth (1730-1782)  most notable for his two terms as prime minister of Great Britain.  Engraved by  William Henry Mote (1803–1871) was a British stipple and line engraver, primarily known for his portraits. He produced etchings for reference books, as well as original etchings. Mote became a member of the Royal Academy in his twenties and his portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Circa 1850, paper size approx. 11 x 7 in. The engraving says W.T. MOTE, which is misspelled - should say W.H. Mote. VG........Min. Bid $10

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285. [PORTRAIT] Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613)  English diplomat and scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford. An 1830 engraved portrait, image approx. 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 in plus margins. Very light age foxing in margins o/w VG.....Min. Bid $10

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286. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, KG (1665–1745) was an Irish statesman and soldier. Engraved by Henry Robinson.  Circa 1850, paper size approx. 11 x 7 in.Light foxing o/w VG...............Min. Bid $10

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287. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, KG, GMB, PC, FRS (1690 – 1749), styled Viscount Monthermer until 1705 and Marquess of Monthermer between 1705 and 1709, was a British peer. Engraved by William Finden (1787 –1852) English engraver. Circa 1850, paper size approx. 11 x 7 in. VG...................Min. Bid $10

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288. [PORTRAIT] antique engraving of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 – 1751)  English politician, government official and political philosopher.  Engraved by William Thomas Fry (1789–1843) was a British engraver. He occasionally exhibited his engravings at the Suffolk Street exhibition. Circa 1850, paper size approx. 11 x 7 in. VG.................Min. Bid $10

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289. [NEW ORLEANS] Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) was an American industrialist, politician, and social reformer from Rhode Island.   He was educated in a Quaker boarding school in Burlington, New Jersey, where he developed a particular interest in mathematics.  In 1819 he returned to Rhode Island to join his elder brother Isaac in the management of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. One of Rowland Hazard's responsibilities was selling the company's prodent winters in New Orleans from about 1833 to 1842 to sell goods that included cotton bagging cloth, pre-cut garments, low-priced shoes, and raw "Negro cloth" for use by African-American slaves.  The activity that Hazard considered "as the greatest effort of his life" (according to his granddaughter) began when he was in New Orleans on business in the winter of 1841. After he learned that a free African-American man from Newport, Rhode Island was in custody in Louisiana as an escaped slave, his investigations found that many free African-Americans were being detained under the assumption they were escaped slaves. Document signed, New Orleans, 1841, signed on both sides, approx. 8.5 x 3 in. Also signed by John Tadlock (1792-1845). VG............35-45

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290.  [EPHEMERA] group of 4 Limerick National Bank [Maine] checks, 1924-26..............Min. Bid $1.00

291. [AMERICANA] Ornate Victorian Marriage Certificate, dated 1880, 11-1/2 x 15-1/2, Thos. Hunter Lithographer, Phila. , Pa, Copyright 1880 by H.M. Crider, York, Pa. Never used, has space for pictures of the bride & groom, spaces to be filled in including witness signatures. Printed partly in gold ink. Many possibilities. This is old and not a recent printing. VG condition. Would look great framed with old photos. VG.  We have several of these...........Min. Bid $40 each

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292.   [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Fern Barry (1901-1981) actress best  known for The Rifleman (1958), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Perry Mason (1957). Warner Bros. paycheck 1984 made out to Fern Barry Deceased. Endorsed verso by Lester R. Berry [?]  (2) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1967 bank check.  (3) Ralph Bernal (1783-1854) was a British Whig politician and art collector. Signed address panel postmarked 1829. (4) Henry White Warren (1831–1912) was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop and author. CLIP SIGNATURE. (5) Lyman J. Abbott (December 18, 1835 – October 22, 1922)[1][2] was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. SIGNED CARD mounted. (6) John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916) American author. (7) Philip J. Philbin (May 29, 1898 – June 14, 1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Western Union telegraph sent 1946 type signed. (8) Lester M. Jacobs - President Temple B'Nai Israel, TLS 1956. (9) David Paul Brown - author, lawyer. Clip signature dated 1842...............Min. Bid $50

293. Ray Charles (1930-2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly due to glaucoma. Offered here is a signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. I assume it is not authentic, esp. since it is dated "89". Therefore............Min. Bid $10

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294.  [ART] RUDY POZZATTI - noted American printmaker [listed everywhere], original wood engraving, signed in the block. A commissioned print to commemorate the Inauguration of John Stephen Bailey as the 4th President of Nasson College [Springvale, Me.], 1970. Image is 5 x 4, sheet 10-1/4 x 7. Fine condition.............25-35....Min. Bid $10

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295. [MUSIC] Baron Armand-Marie Limnander van Nieuwenhove (1814-1892)  Belgian composer of choral and orchestral works and church music. Knight of the Order of Leopold, he was the founder and conductor of the choral chamber ensembles Société Symphonique and Réunion Lyrique in Belgium.  ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG..........50-75

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296.  [MILITARY MEDICAL] Newton D. Baker Jr. (1871-1937) served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915. As U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921, Baker presided over the United States Army during World War I. Offered here is a 1917 document, appointment for Paul Stanley Hill. Not signed by President Woodrow Wilson but it is signed by Newton Baker.  Approx. 16 x 19 in. on vellum. Lightly aged o/w VG..............100-200

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297. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Henry N. Ward (1826-1880) signed 1870 Rhode Island court document. (2) John W. Dean - 1894, 1p. ALS, Boston. (3) T.W. Hammond - of the Worcester and Nahua RR Co. ALS, 1862. (4) Joseph Peace Hazard(1807-1892) was born into a wealthy Rhode Island family. When he failed in the family's textile manufacturing business, Hazard's family supported him in pursuing his personal interests, which included travel, architecture, and Spiritualism. Signed 1840 document. (5) John H. Nunn - lawyer. ALS, NJ, 1890. (6) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Her  handwriting on bank check register. Three check stubs written but not signed by her, 1945 (7) A.W. Sulloway - Sulloway Mills in Franklin Falls, NH. ALS 1899. (8) Unidentified CLIP SIGNATURE [looks like it dates to 1844]. (9) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check............Min. Bid $50

298.  Mystery French Document from Napoleonic period dated 1806 on paper, signed [?], 1p, about 7-1/4 x 9-1/2". VG.........50-75

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299. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] BRENDA KUHN (1911-1912) Co-manager, Kuhn Estate, daughter. Group of 3 lengthy ink signed typed letters to Brenda's attorney. These letters concern the Kuhn Estate, IRS etc. Brenda had the habit of saving copies of typed letters sent by her, and signing them.  Each is 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............75-100..................Min. Bid $25

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300. [WALT KUHN] an interesting piece of KUHNIANA.  A 1942 TLS from the McMillen Inc., Interior Devotation company in NYC, sent to Walt Kuhn saying that the war makes it impossible to secure adequate insurance for his paintings while in their establishment. He has to insure them or let them stay without protection except for fire or theft. At first we were somewhat puzzled - why would a famous American artist be exibiting his paintings with a interior decoration store. So we researched Walt Kuhn McMillen  and now see why his work was there. There was an important exhibition at McMillen in 1942 where Jackson Pollock shows Birth in "American and French Paintings" exhibition at McMillen Inc. Curated by John Graham it paired American artists with French artists and included works by Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Andre Derain, Stuart Davis, Walt Kuhn, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. Krasner exhibited Abstraction. Pollock exhibited Birth (c. 1941). Graham was very important, and he discovered Pollock. Envelope is present. Also included are 2 photos taken by Brenda Kuhn. The clown painting was exhibited ar Colby College [Maine] in 1954; and a 1957 snapshot photo taken by Brenda in 1957 of the last Maine home of Walt Kuhn, which is in Cape Neddick. All VG...............100-150

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Bill of Sale For $75,000 Walt Kuhn Painting

301. [ART] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer.  Typed Document signed by Brenda Kuhn, an AGREEMENT AND BILL OF SALE, for a painting by Walt Kuhn titled "Brenda in Ogunquit."  The painting was 50 x 30 in., sold by the Midtown Galleries in New York for the Kuhn Estate.  The document has the signature of a Notary Public, dated 1989.  VG......100-150......Min. Bid $25

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302. [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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303. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Gift from Kuhn to Whitney Museum of American Art. Receipt from the Whitney Museum of American Art to Walt Kuhn, dated Jan. 29, 1946. receoved from Walt Kuhn LONGHORN MUSEUM & WESTERN CAFE. Approx. 5 x 7-3/4 in. The handwritten notes on the verso are most likely by Walt Kuhn. Poor condition; beginning to separate at fold.........200-300 

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304. [PORTRAIT]  1845 antique engraved portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer.  Image is approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG...............25-35

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305. [PORTRAIT] original antique portrait engraving of Thomas Jefferson, image approx. 5-1/8  x 4-1/4 in. plus margins. Margins are toned..............25-35

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