1. [SOLOMON ARCHIVE] Collection of 12 typed letters sent to Frederick Solomon, 1957-1961. These appear to be about Rabbinical Pension Board. Some of the signatures: Natalie Martell, Douglas A. Rosen, Henrietta A. Gordon, David Wilkus, Samuel G. Klayf, Lee R. Myer, Natalie R. Solomon. Frederick Solomon (1899-1980). Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (originally Solomonski) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art)................Min. Bid $40

2. Mike Connors (1925-2017)  American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. In the 1959–1960 television season, he had played a crime-fighting investigator known only as "Nick" in another CBS series, Tightrope.  Signed, inscribed 8 x 10 photo. VG............40-60

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3. [FRANCE]  Alfred-Casimir-Alexis Williez  (1836-1911) Bishop of Arras 1892-1911.  ALS, 1904, 2 pages, approx. 5 x 8-1/4".  Speaks of preparation for the great Catholic Youth Congress. Fine...........50-75

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4. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] Includes: (1)  [BANKING] Timothy Wiggin - London banker. Timothy Wiggin's name turns up several times in Ralph Waldo Emerson's diary for 1833. Wiggin was Longfellow's London banker, and it has been conjectured that he served a like purpose for Emerson. Wiggin's bank was also active in the China Trade, etc. Offered here is a clip signature, approx. 5 x 1-3/4 in. VG. (2) Lilian  Bowes Lyon (1895–1949) was a British poet.  She was the first cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.  During the First World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon helped at Glamis Castle (owned by her uncle) which became a convalescence home for soldiers. Her brother Charles Bowes Lyon was killed in the war on 23 October 1914, inspiring her poem "Battlefield" which was later published in "Bright Feather Fading".   After the First World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon studied for a time at the University of Oxford and then moved to London. She was independently wealthy. In 1929, she met the writer William Plomer CBE and through him, Laurens van der Post. bb She published two novels, "The Buried Stream" (1929) and "Under the Spreading Tree" (1931) but thereafter focused on poetry. She published six individual collections with Jonathan Cape and a "Collected Poems" in 1948. Her "Collected Poems" contains an introduction by C. Day-Lewis who noted the influences of Emily Dickinson, Hopkins and Christina Rossetti. Her verse appeared in many periodicals and anthologies including "The Adelphi", "Country Life", "Kingdom Come", "The Listener", "The London Mercury, "The Lyric" (USA), "The Observer", "Orion", "Punch", "The Spectator", "Time and Tide and "Poetry" (USA).  During the Second World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon moved to the East End where she used the Tilbury Docks unofficial air raid shelter and assisted with nursing the injured.  She also had several amputations due to thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's Disease), losing toes, a foot, her lower legs and eventually both her legs below her hips. She returned to her home in Kensington and continued to write poetry despite the thromboangitis obliterans beginning to affect her hands. These poems, found amongst William Plomer’s papers at University of Durham, were published in "Uncollected Poems" by Tragara Press.  ALS, 1935, 2pp, approx. 7 x 9 in. VG. (3) [MICKEY SPILLANE] Arthur Florman (1917-2001) Cinematographer. He sends this letter to Mickey Spillane looking for a job after hearing of Mickey's upcomh TV film series. Says he was the camerman who shot the screen test for Mickey in Newburgh.  He goes on to compliment Mickey. Dated 1955. 1p, 7 x 10-1/4 in. Fine. (4) Vassar Miller (1924-1998) was a writer and poet. She served as Poet Laureate of Texas (1988-1989). Three of her books won the annual poetry prize of the Texas Institute of Letters. In 1982 and 1988 Miller was named Poet Laureate of Texas, and in 1997 she was named to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by the Governor's Commission for Women.  Signed typed poem titled "Precision", 1p. Approx. 7 x 10 in. VG (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) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check.  (7) David L. McDonald (1906-1997) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who served as the 17th Chief of Naval Operations from 1 August 1963 to 1 August 1967 during the Vietnam War era. Signed 3x5 card mounted to album page with small picture and news clippings................Min. Bid $50

5. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) PORTRAIT] Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865) popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney. Original antique engraved portrait of Sigourney, image approx. 3.5 x 4.5 plus wide margins. VG. (2) [THEATRE] Sam Bernard (1863-1927) was an English-born American vaudeville comedian who also performed in musical theatre, comic opera and burlesque and appeared in a few silent films.   Signature dated 1900. Not attractive. Approx. 5 x 2-3/4 in. Laid down. Provenance: Boothbay Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine.  (3) [FILM] Catherine Deneuve (b. 1943)  French actress. Signed color photo, 4-1/8 x 5-7/8 in. Fine. (4) Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Am. artist [listed]. Small unsigned ink sketch of  NYC scene.  (5) Lawrence F. Abbott (1859-1933) American editor and writer, son of Lyman Abbott. In 1891 he became president of the Outlook Company. As well as being a close friend to Theodore Roosevelt, throughout almost his whole life, he also served as secretary to Theodore Roosevelt during the latter's tour of Europe and Africa (1909–10), and edited Roosevelt's African and European Addresses (1910). He was the author of an article on Theodore Roosevelt in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911), and of Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt (1919) and The Story of NYLIC (1930). Signed & inscribed 4-1/4 x 2-3/4 in. card, dated 1921. Attractive and fine.  (6) [NASA] Vance Brand - American astronaut. Signed 3x5 card. (7) Alice Muriel Williamson (1869 - 1933) British novelist. Born Alice Muriel Livingston, she married Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) in 1894 and many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C.N. Williamson. A number of their novels cover the early days of motoring and can also be read as travelogues. Under the pseydonym Alice Stuyvesant she wrote "The Hidden House" serialised in The Cavalier 1913-1914. Alice apparently said of her husband "Charlie Williamson could do anything in the world except write stories": she said of herself "I can't do anything else." She continued to write after her husband's death in 1920. ALS, no year, 3 full pages. To Miss Marshall [journalist]. Nice content.........Min. Bid $50

6.  [SCIENCE] Louis Agricola Bauer (1865-1932) American geophysicist, astronomer and magnetician. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1888, and he immediately started work for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. During 1895-1896, he was instructor in mathematical physics at the University of Chicago, after which he worked in various positions at different locations. The most important of these was as the first director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington,  which was established in 1904. In this position, he set up and carried out a large-scale program of two and a half decades to map the Earth's magnetic field on land and at sea in an attempt to provide accurate, up-to-date information about this important feature. Offered here is a 1896 bank check made out to Bauer and endorsed on the serso by him.  The check is signed by R.S. Woodward. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849- 924) was an American civil engineer, 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 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. VG................100-150

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7. J.S. DILLER (Joseph Silas) [b. 1850] American geologist, born in Plainfield, Pennsylvania. He was graduated at Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1879, and spent two years in postgraduate studies at Harvard and at the University in GSttingen. From 1873 till 1877 he taught in the State normal school in Westfield, Massachusetts, and from 1881 till 1883 was geologist of the Assos expedition. In 1883 he became assistant geologist on the U. S. geological survey, and in that capacity has traveled extensively throughout the United States. He is a member of several scientific societies, and author of numerous papers that have been published in scientific journals in the United States and in Europe, the principal of which are "Notes on the Geology of the Troad" (1883); "Diamonds in the United States" (1886) ¥ and "Notes on the Geology of Northern California" (1886). TLS, US Geological Survey, Nov. 5, 1907, 1p, 4to. To Dr. R.S. Woodward. Sends copy of Miss Bascom's letter. "If there are steep slopes near the 'Race Course' to furnish the angular blocks her view seems possible but the evenness of the upper surface would still be difficult to understand...."etc.................100-150

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8. [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

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9. [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

10.  [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures. Offered here is a collection of 7 signed bank checks, all 1893. VG................700-900..............Min. Bid $300

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11. [PORTRAIT] William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL (1705-1793)  British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland, before moving to London at the age of 13 to take up a place at Westminster School. He was accepted into Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1723, and graduated four years later. Returning to London from Oxford, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn on 23 November 1730, and quickly gained a reputation as an excellent barrister. As the most powerful British jurist of the century, Mansfield's decisions reflected the Age of Enlightenment and moved the country onto the path to abolishing slavery. Offered here is an original portrait of Murray engraved by Henry T. RYALL (1811-1867). Ryall was appointed the royal engraver by Queen Victoria. Forty of his works are in the National Portrait Gallery in London. This engraving dates back to 1863.  The engraved area is about 7.5 x 6 in. very light foxing which is expected and adds a little charm..................50-75

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12.  [FILM] Robert "Bobby" Banas (b. 1933) is an American dancer and actor. He is known for his work on movies such as West Side Story (1961), Always (1989) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), as well as a viral video of a televised performance of the Nitty Gritty dance, which accumulated 3.6 million views in four years.   Natalie Wood was his dancing partner in the Michael Panaieff Children’s’ Ballet Company, to which he received a scholarship and in which Jill St. John and Stefanie Powers were members. Banas also attended the Hollywood Professional School.  He auditioned for the production of Carousel at the LA Civic Light Opera and was cast as Enoch Snow Jr. After that, he appeared in stage productions of Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Plain and Fancy, and Peter Pan.  Offered here is his signed contract appearing as a dancer in the 1965 film BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by H. Bud Otto  (1934-2001) Producer. Approx. 8.5 x 13 in, 1p. Includes a 2 page RIDER ink signed by Bob Banas.  VG.................80-120

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13. [PORTRAIT] Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, KB (1717-1797)  British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign to conquer the territory of New France during the Seven Years' War. Under his command, British forces captured the cities of Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal, as well as several major fortresses. He was also the first British Governor General in the territories that eventually became Canada. Numerous places and streets are named for him, in both Canada and the United States.Offered here is an original portrait of Wellesley engraved by Henry T. RYALL (1811-1867). Ryall was appointed the royal engraver by Queen Victoria. Forty of his works are in the National Portrait Gallery in London. This engraving dates back to 1863.  The engraved area is about  8.5 x 6 in. very light foxing which is expected and adds a little charm.....Min. Bid $10
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14. [SPACE] Original pamphlet ASTRONAUT JOHN H. GLENN ORBITS THE EARTH FOR AMERICA, Feb. 20, 1962. The pamphlet was published after Glenn completed the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, and recounts details of the mission, along with some of Glenn's reflections on the experience and photographs of his training and recovery. Originally sold for 15 cents.  Another example of this pamphlet was offered online at $1000 to $1500 but passed. Heavily illustrated. 12pp., approx. 10 x 7.5 in. VG. Years ago this pamphlet was priced at $95............Min. Bid $50

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15. [AMERICANA] ROSS CUNNINGHAM - ALS, 1869, 1p. Headquarters Army of the United States, Washington DC, TO US GRANT, President of the United States. Application for Consul at  Tripoli. About 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. VG..................50-75

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16. [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

17.  [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering at the University of Michigan in 1872. He was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics. In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. Offered here are 6 letter written in the 3rd person from persons invited to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences circa 1908................Min. Bid $80

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18. [ENGLAND] Charles Lloyd (1784-1829), Regius Professor of Divinity and Bishop of Oxford from 1827 to 1829. Eventually he had to leave and took a job as a tutor to Lord Elgin's children at Dunfermline. This didn't last long as he was asked to return to Oxford to teach mathematics. One of his first jobs was to prepare Robert Peel for his exams. Peel later became prime minister. Charles Lloyd soon gained a reputation as an effective teacher. Address panel signed Charles Oxford, postmarked 1829, a few months before he passed away. Rex wax seal on backside.  Fine................40-60

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19. [FRANCE]  Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville (1849-1932) was a French writer who wrote under the pseudonym GYP.  GYP wrote humorous sketches and novels which brazenly denounced her own fashionable society as well as the French republic's political class. Her best-known work is probably Le Mariage de Chiffon, filmed in 1942 by Claude Autant-Lara.  Because of her unpopular opinions, the comtesse was the victim of several attempts on her life as well as of a sensational kidnapping.  ALS, n.d., 1p, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2".  VG...........100-150

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20. [MAINE] Capt. Elisha Goodwin (1776-1842) farmer, shipbuilder, selectman of the town Eliot, Maine.  Document signed, 1814, as tax collector. Maine was part of Massachusetts then. Approx. 7-1/4 x 2 in. VG.....................25-35

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21.   [FILM] Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) British-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". Signed portrait print, 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............50-75

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22.  [PORTRAIT] original engraved portrait of Henry W. Halleck (1815-1872) Halleck served as the General in Chief of the Armies of the United States from 1862 to 1864. Overall page size is 10 x 7 in. VG................25-35

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23. [JEWISH] 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

24. [FRANCE] Eugene Marcel Prevost (1862-1941)  French author and dramatist. In 1909 he was elected to the Academie française. ALS, 1896, 2-1/2 pp. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG............75-100

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Bill of Sale For $75,000 Walt Kuhn Painting

25. [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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26. [ART] Tony Palazzo (1905-1970) artist; best known  as an illustrator and author of children's books. Mr. Palazzo was a former art director of Esquire, Coronet, Collier's and Look magazines and had taught art at Pratt Institute and the New School for Social Research. Offered here is a collection of 15 Christmas / Season's Greetings card designed by Tony. Three por 4 are likely original prints; at least one is pencil signed by Tony. Scans upon request..........100-150

27. [ENTERTAINMENINDUSTRY] 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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28.  [FILM] Susan Seaforth Hayes (born 1943) American dramatic actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Julie Williams on the NBC drama Days of Our Lives, and her intermittent portrayal of Joanna Manning on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. She began playing the role of Julie Olsen Williams on Days of Our Lives in 1968, and is the only actor to appear on the show for all six decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s) in which it has been on the air. Mrs. Seaforth Hayes still regularly appears on Days as Julie Olsen Williams. Offered here is her signed 1965 contract for the film BILLIE starring Patty Duke.  She was paid $750 for 2 week's employment in the role of Jean Carol  [changed to Jean Matthews].  Counter signed by Milt Ebbins (1912-2008) the  well-connected show business manager who was a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House. Mr. Ebbins was a well-liked Hollywood insider who directed the careers of actors, musicians and comedians. For more than 30 years, he was the personal manager of actor Peter Lawford. Through Lawford, who was married to Patricia Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy's, Mr. Ebbins became a favorite of JFK's and a frequent guest at the White House and on Air Force One. At Kennedy's 45th birthday party in 1962, Mr. Ebbins gave Marilyn Monroe a push onstage at Madison Square Garden as she went out to sing her sultry version of "Happy Birthday." Seaforth & Ebbins have also initialed 2 other pages. Approx. 8-1/4 x 14 in. VG.............75-100

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29. [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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30. GREAT FALLS, NEW HAMPSHIRE - group of 9 documents, receipts for Cyrus Freeman, 1871-1878. VG..............Min. Bid $10

Douglas Volk artist 50 signed checks

31. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 50 signed bank checks, dating 1896-1930.................Min. Bid $399

32.  [THEATRE AND FILM LOT]. Includes: (1) Mabelle Gilman Corey (1874-1960) American actress. She had an affair with William Ellis Corey which led to the dissolution of his marriage, and they later married. Signed 3 x 1-3/4 in. card. VG. (2) Nancy Coleman (1912-2000) American film, stage, television and radio actress. After working on radio and appearing on the Broadway stage, Nancy Coleman moved to Hollywood to work for Warner Bros. studios. Memorable roles include playing the mistress to a Nazi (played by Helmut Dantine) in Edge of Darkness and co-starring with Paul Henreid in In Our Time. In the 1950s, Coleman began making guest appearances on television. She also played Anne Bront_ in the film Devotion (1946) opposite Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino. Signature, inscribed 5-1/4 x 3-3/4 in. VG (3)  [THEATRE] 1949 program starring Melvyn Douglas in TWO BLIND MICE. NOT signed. VG (4) [THEATRE] Hollis St. Theatre broadside feathering Julia Marlow Taber, approx. 5-1/2 x 11 in. Edge faults mailing in top & bottom edges. (5) Katharine Cornell  (1893-1974) regarded as one of the greatest American stage actresses of the 20th century. She was nicknamed "First Lady of the Theatre," a title also bestowed upon her friend Helen Hayes, though each deferred to the other.  Offered are 3 items once owned by Cornell, formerly in the Collection of The Boothbay Theatre Museum [Maine].  Included are: her 1973 Membership card for The Friends of the Theatre and Music Collection, Museum of the City of New York. Also a 1953 color snapshot photo of her holding her dog.  And a piece of her stationery. (6) [THEATRE] Charles Hayden Coffin (1862-1935) was an English actor and singer known for his performances in many famous Edwardian musical comedies, particularly those produced by George Edwardes. Hayden achieved fame as Harry Sherwood in Dorothy (1886), which became the longest-running piece of musical theatre in history up to that time; other similar roles followed. SIGNATURE dated 1892, about 2-7/8 x 1-7/8 in. VG. (7) Ezra Kendall (1861-1910) American actor-comedian, humorist, playwright and author who was known for his depiction of typical New England Yankees. During his time in vaudeville Kendall was said to have been among the highest paid monologist in America. Kendall left school at fourteen to work as a printer's assistant. At seventeen he traveled to New York City where he became a cub reporter on several newspapers and the youngest member of the New York Press Club. Signed 3-1/8 x 1-5/8 in, dated 1903. VG............Min. Bid $70

33. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) George H. Stone (1841-1917) geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey and author of "The Glacial Gravels of Maine". Photo from Kents Hill School, Readfield, Maine. ALS, 1880, as teacher at Maine Wesleyan Seminary Female College, 1880, 1p.  (2) Leland B. Jacobs (1907–1992) was an American professor emeritus of education who was known particularly for his work in the teaching of literature. Signed handwritten poem titled LUCKY. (3) Joseph Paul Lash (1909-1987) American radical political activist, journalist, and writer. 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. Signed typescript from ELEANOR AND FRANKLIN, 1p. (4) Ruta Lee (b.1935) Canadian actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. She had roles in films including Billy Wilder's crime drama Witness for the Prosecution and Stanley Donen's musical comedy Funny Face. Signed, inscribed 4 x 4-3/4 in. vintage photo. (5) Allen H. Miner (1917-2004) film director known for Mission Impossible,  Wagon Train and many others. 1984 Warner Bros. paycheck endorsed on verso. (6) Margret Deland - addressed stamped 1900 envelope - not signed by her. (7) Henry Bascom Ridgaway (1830-1895) taught at Garrett Biblical Inst. in RI. ALS, 1887.  Tipped to album pape. Laid to other side are (8) Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926) American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. CLIP SIGNATURE. (9) William Everett (1839-1910) author who taught at Harvard. CLIP SIGNATURE. (10) Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933) American economist. Farnam was professor of political economy at Yale University from 1880 to 1918. In 1911, he served as president of the American Economic Association. Brief TLS, 1902...............Min. Bid $75 

34. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers Association. Group of 2 typed letters signed "Gene", 1965, one to the actor Peter Lawford and the other to Milton Ebbins, Lawford's agent/partner regarding Lawford.  Plus 3 ink signed memo documents sent to All members of the Society of INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS, which included Marvin Mirisch, Otto Preminger, Ebbins and Lawford.  1965 typed memo signed Gene. (2) Teresa Żylis-Gara (1930-2021) Polish operatic soprano who enjoyed a major international career from the 1950s through the 1990s. Signed 2-question page. (3) Alfred Griffin (or Griffith) Hatfield (1848 or 1850 – 1921) was a performer and minstrel show producer as Al G. Field . Signature 1906. (4) Dick Cheney - Vice President. TLS, 2002. Signature is likely autopen. (5) Dr. Michael DeBakey (1908-2008) DeBakey performed the first successful carotid endarterectomy in 1953. A year later, he pioneered techniques in grafts for the various parts of the aorta. DeBakey was among the earliest surgeons to perform coronary artery bypass surgery. A pioneer in the development of an artificial heart, he was among the first to use an external heart pump successfully in a patient – a left ventricular bypass pump. Signed 3x5 card. (6) Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American artist. Signed 1906 check. (7) Hon. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757-1847) was a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807 and then the Archbishop of York until his death. Signed address panel. (8) Philip Philbin - US congressman from Mass. 1939 telegram from him & one to him. (9) Edwin M. Stanton - printed gov. document re: 100 Days Men. From Stanton in 1866, 5pp., signed in type as Sec. of War. (10) Jack Dempsey - unsigned vintage 1964 photo. (11) Danny Rogers (died 2021) Danny was  in the motion picture industry for more than 42 years as a stuntman and stunt coordinator. He doubled Eric Estrada on CHIPS for 6 years. Danny was voted into "Stunts Unlimited" in 1974 (which he thinks is the top stunt origination in the business). He has done many motorcycle stunts, horse work and fight scenes. Danny has been an all around stunt performer over his many years in the business preforming stunts on some of the "top" movies such as; XXX, Titanic, Fast & the Furious, Pearl Harbor, Hildago, just to name a few.  Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck. (12) Group of 13 Limerick National Bank checks 1915-26. Limerick, Maine..............Min. Bid $70

35. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Oliver North (b.1943)  American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. Signed, inscribed photo, 8x10. Fine. (2) Thomas Alfred Coward (1867-1933) English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history, local history and Cheshire. ALS, 1931, 3-1/4 pp., approx. 3-7/8 x 6-1/4 in. VG. (3) Elizabeth Caroline Hamilton Gray (1800-1887)  Scottish historian and travel author. After marrying John Hamilton Gray, a priest and genealogist, in June 1829, Gray moved to Bolsover Castle in England, where she lived until shortly before her death. Interesting lady. ALS, no date, written on both sides, 3.5 x 4.5 in. VG. (4) Mary Baird Bryan (1861-1930) wife of William Jennings Bryan. She was an American writer and suffragette. Mary Elizabeth would emerge as an important part of Bryan's career, managing his correspondence and helping him prepare speeches and articles. Mary passed the bar exam and learned German in order to help his career. ALS, not dated to Mr. Berger, 2pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in.  On page 2 she says "I was never so proud of Mr. Bryan as now. He possesses powers of strategy & management of which I was not aware."  (5) [FILM] 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." Offered here is a 1967 signed document, 2pp. A union agreement also signed by 2 union officials. Fine.................Min. Bid $50

36. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6-1/4 x 7-1/2 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it........50-75

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37. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Robert P. Casey Sr. (1932-2000)  American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 22nd district from 1963 to 1968 and as Auditor General of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1977. Signed color 5x7 in. photo. Fine. (2) [PUBLISHING] ALS, 1882, to Professor R.E. Thompson (1844-1924) - Am. educator, economist, from Henry B. Leo [?]. (3) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1951 bank check. (4) Henry Hubbard (1784-1857) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1829 to 1835, a Senator from New Hampshire during 1835 to 1841, and the 18th governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844. SIGNATURE [endorsement]. (5) James L. Ford (1854-1928) Editor. Signed 1915 print of a portrait drawing of him. (6) William W. Porter (1856-1928) American attorney and legal author. He served as associate justice of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1903. ALS, 1885, 1p. to William Henry Rawle. (7) Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania.  Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864. A 1904 bank check from his estate not signed by him].  (8)  Henry Phillips (1801–1876) was an English singer, who took on operatic roles in the 1820s and 1830s. ALS 1874, 1p. mounted................Min. Bid $50

38. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Nick Faldo - golfer. Signed 5-3/4 x 8-1/3 color picture. (2) Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882)  Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England and theologian. He was the first Scottish Archbishop of Canterbury.  (3) Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814-1902) Irish poet and critic. A 1861 postmarked-stamped envelope addressed by him but not signed. (4) Pandro S. Berman (1905-1996), also known as Pan Berman, was an American film producer. Berman was the winner of the 1976 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Six of his films were nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Alice Adams and Top Hat (both 1935), Stage Door (1937), Father of the Bride (1950), and Ivanhoe (1952). Signed & inscribed 3x5 card. Fine.  (5) Pierre Werner (1913-2002) Luxembourgian politician in the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) who was the 18th Prime Minister from 1959 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1984. Signed 3-3/4 x 5-3/4 photo. Fine. (6) Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828-1896)  English writer. An 1867 stamped envelope addressed  by her but not signed. (7) Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania.  Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864. Signed 1896 bank check. (8) Wayne Gard (1899-1986)  was a longtime editorial writer for the Dallas Morning News and President of the Texas State Historical Association. He was the author of seven volumes of Texana and southwestern history, including Frontier Justice and The Chisholm Trail, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press. TLS, 1951, 1p.Nice lot................Min. Bid $75

39. Maine Paper - approx. 47 old documents, letters etc. the earliest being 1822 - to about 1906. Receipts, business & legal paper. Needs research. Varied conditions.........Min. Bid $50

40. [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

41. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) ALFRED JOS. STOTHARD [1793-1864] British artist, medallist; he executed medallions of George IV, Byron, Canning, and Sir Walter Scott, exhibiting twenty works at the academy between 1821 and 1845. He designed the grand staircase in Buckingham Palace. ALS, [1823], 1p, approx. 7 x 5". To Mr. Pickering asking that the bearer be permitted to see the Satin Wood Frame....Canterbury....."in order that he may make one for me...." Rather than attempt to describe faults we will picture both sides below. Very uncommon British art autograph. (2) (Theodore Roosevelt) Daniel Tyler Moore. Moore was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and an aide to President Theodore Roosevelt. He boxed with TR in the White House and on one occasion inadvertently landed a punch to the President's eye that blinded him in that eye for the remainder of his life. TR kept this a closely guarded secret and Moore did not find out about it until twelve years after the fact. Offered here is a 1918 bank check signed by Moore.  Moore was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and an aide to President Theodore Roosevelt. He boxed with TR in the White House and on one occasion inadvertently landed a punch to the President's eye that blinded him in that eye for the remainder of his life. TR kept this a closely guarded secret and Moore did not find out about it until twelve years after the fact. Fine condition.. (3) [OLYMPICS] Bonnie Blair (b.1964) American speed skater. She is one of the top skaters of her era, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history. Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, winning five gold medals and one bronze medal.  Signed color picture, 4 x 5.5 in. Fine. (4) Robert Ward (b.1917) American composer. Signed brochure about him. VG. (5) [THEATRE] Benjamin Nottingham Webster (1797- 1882)  English actor-manager and dramatist. First appearing as Harlequin, and then in small parts at Drury Lane, he went to the Haymarket Theatre in 1829, and was given leading comedy character parts. Webster was the lessee of the Haymarket from 1837 to 1853; he built the new Adelphi Theatre (1859); later the Olympic Theatre, Princess's Theatre, London and St James's Theatres came under his control; and he was the patron of all the contemporary playwrights and many of the best actors, who owed their opportunity of success to him. He wrote, translated or adapted nearly a hundred plays. As a character actor he was unequalled in his day, especially in such parts as Triplet in Masks and Faces, Joey Ladle in No Thoroughfare, and John Peerybingle in his own dramatization of The Cricket on the Hearth. Webster took his formal farewell of the stage in 1874. ALS, no date, 1p,  about 4-1/4 x 7 in. Fine. (6) Orrin Hatch (1934-2022) US Senator  from Utah who served from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senator in history. Signed, inscrived color photo, 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. Fine. (7) James Buchanan - US President. Orginal antique ebraved portrait [full body], Much foxing.    (8) Warren G. Harding - US Pres. Printed portrait.

42. [US PRESIDENTS] misc. lot of portrait prints of presidents. None are old and nothing is signed. Includes: Benjamin Harrison, Lyndon B. Johnson,  Millard Fillmore, Thomas jefferson, Calvin Coolidge, John Adams, Warren G. Harding, Dwight Eisenhower. Conditions most good..............Min. Bid $10

43. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Frank H. Simmons (1878-1936) American author. Nice 1917 TLS answering an autograph request. 1p. [2] William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834) was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as US Secretary of War and US Secretary of the Treasury before he ran for US president in the 1824 election. Offered here is a antique engraved portait, approx. 7x 4.5 in. Below is his engraved signature.  (3) [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (November 7, 1828 – August 19, 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures. Signed 1895 bank check. VG. (4) Samuel S. Lowery (1831-1912) American manufacturer and politician from New York.  ALS, 1873, 1p. to Nelson K. Hopkins, NY State Comtroller.  (5) Sec. of the Treasury, J.C. Spencer, signed in type 1844 printed gov. document, 17pp, re: public lands in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Miss., Mich., La., Ark. Document No. 210 for 28th Congress 1st Session. (6) William Platt Pepper (1837-1907) was the first vice-president of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (PMSIA) from 1876-1882, and president from 1882-1897. Lengthy ALS [1897] written on both sides. Numerous condition faults. Mentions Mrs. Cassatt [the famous artist ??].  (7) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Excellent art content about upcoming Walt Kuhn exhibitions including.........Phil  Adams spent all day looking at Kuhn works and getting ideas.  Signed Brenda as usual. Brenda had the habit of keeping ink signed copies of typed letters she sent. Philip R. Adams wrote about Walt Kuhn  for the 1968 Kennedy galleries exhibition. Very good lot......Min. Bid $75

45. [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] George Frederick Hussey Jr. (1894-1983) was United States Navy Vice admiral during World War II, who served as the Chief of Naval Ordnance from December 1943 to September 1947. During the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hussey served with the USS Hopkins within directing the off-shore patrol off Hawaii. Hussey was ordered to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed the director of production within the Bureau of Ordnance. In December 1943, Hussey succeeded Rear admiral William H. P. Blandy and became the Chief of the Bureau. In this capacity, he was responsible for the directing of development and production of Naval arms during World War II. Hussey was decorated with the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his service during the War and finally retired from the Navy in September 1947. Offered here is a April 21, 1944 one page memo from Hussey [not ink signed] to The Chief of the Bureau of Ships.  Captain L.W. McKeehan is  nominated for Special Board, Bureau of Ordnance. McKeehan has signed in ink at bottom left and he has written 21 Apr 1944 in right corner.   Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG................100-150.......Min. Bid $20

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46.  [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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47. [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

48. [FORGER] John Payne Collier (1789-1883) English Shakespearean critic and forger. ALS, 1875, 1p. about 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Two corners  mounted to another sheet. VG+.................50-75

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49. [ART] Salvatore Grippi (1921-2017) 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 pencil signed etching, titled THE CHILDREN OF NIOBE, dated 1953, image 15.5 x 20 in. plus clean margins. Very fine...........Min. Bid $500

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Rare Pioneer Kentucky Document

50. [KENTUCKY] Very rare 1811 pioneer manuscript document from the Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky area signed by several interesting men. Approx. 7-3/4 x 12-1/2 in.  Signed by the following on the front side: Wm. Withers, Ben Helm, James Crutcher, Christopher Bush, Samuel Stevenson, Adam Miller. Also signed on the verso by Christopher Miller and Daniel Waide.  See some biographical information on these pioneers below.

William Withers (1747-1821) born in Virginia he was a Revolutionary War veteran, having served as a Second Lieutenant in the Fauquier County Militia in the Company of Capt. Bronaugh. He came to Kentucky in 1793. 

BEN HELM (1767-1858) known as "Kitchen Knife Whetted on a Brick." He was a surveyor, state senator, clerk of Hardin Co. courts; major in War of 1812; purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Bush] Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was a partner, in the general store business, with Duff Green [later statesman] in the early frontier days of Kentucky. It is likely that young Abe Lincoln visited his store often in his early youth.

MAJOR JAS. CRUTCHER - Pioneer. Came to Kentucky from Virginia with his father & family, arriving at the Falls of the Ohio in early 1780s, and later moved to Bardstown. In 1796, he moved to Elizabethtown and became one of the earliest merchants there. Served terms in the legislature and came close to being elected lieutenant governor. He was at the battle of New Orleans as aide to General Thomas, commander of the Kentucky troops. He was involved in the flatboat business and it was said that after delivering a cargo by flatboat to New Orleans, Crutcher would walk back to Kentucky. On these trips he carried his money in a close fitting deer skin vest which he wore under his shirt.

Christopher Bush Sr. (1730?-1813)  he and his descendents played an important role in Hardin County history. He is said to have been born in Holland about 1730 Íand came to America circa 1750, and to Kentucky at the end of the Revolutionary War. His daughter, Sarah, was to marry Thomas Lincoln [Abraham Lincoln's father] after Nancy Hanks died. Abe was about 10 years old when Sarah became his step-mother, and she is credited with instilling in him the desire to make something of himself. Bush Sr. was illiterate therefore it appears that Crutcher signed for him.

Samuel Stevenson  - came to Elizabethtown in 1806. He taught school at Hardin Academy for about 2 years. Considered a good teacher, he was afterwards a merchant and served a term in the Ky. State Legislature. 

Adam Miller - he was captured by Indians, along with his brother Christopher in 1782. The raiding party which captured Adam and Christopher consisted of Delawares and Shawnees. Adam was taken by the Delawares, Christopher was taken by the Shawnees. Both were taken to Indian towns northwest of the Ohio River. After 7 years Adam was exchanged and returned to his family. 

Christopher Miller - was about 15 years old when captured by Indians. He lived with the Shawnee Tribe for 14 years. Being an active young man, he soon became habituated to the manners and customs and mode of life of the Indians; dressed as they did and spoke their language as his native tongue, and by many it was thought doubtful whether he ever would be returned to the whites. He was in the same tribe with young Tecumseh and they in their youth were friends and playmates.  Miller has told of "many a wrestle with Tecumseh." Adam Miller was serving as a spy for General Anthony Wayne in June, 1794. In what is now Drake County, Ohio, Adam was dispatched with  a party of spies to bring in an Indian prisoner for questioning. The party found three Indians in camp, preparing a meal. They set out to kill two of the Indians and capture the third. They succeeded in the plan and Adam discovered the prisoner to be his long-lost brother Christopher.  Christopher sulked and refused to talk for several days, but on the promise of release, agreed to join Wayne's army as a spy. He kept his word. Wayne sent him on an important peace mission to the Indians, promising him a reward from the government. The following is an account of that mission. After the defeat of General St. Clair the Indians let loose upon the Northwestern Territory. General Washington was distressed and it frustrated his plans for the safety of the thinly settled country in the North-west and it was determined to have a sufficient army to be led by Gen. Anthony Wayne but  Congress and delayed the campaign for nearly two years. On the 14th day of August 1794, Gen. Wayne, having all things in readiness to move on the Indians, Wayne, under the instruction of Washington, decided to give the enemy a chance for peace before attacking. They had to find the right man to carry the white flag, and Christopher Miller being lately returned from the Indians and speeaking their language,  Armed with a flag and this message Miller set out for the Indian camp, arriving at nightfall. In a few minutes his arrival was known all over the entire camp. Then it was, "Kill the runaway, burn him". Miller, knowing the character of Indians, showed no signs of fear but in a loud and defiant voice, in their own tongue, told them that he had brought a flag of peace and as for burning him they had better be a little careful as the Black Snake, meaning General Wayne, had 8 of their warriors in prison and if he was not returned safely in three days that their 8 men would be shot. Immediately a pow-wow was held in which it was determined that Miller should be burned at the stake in the morning. But Tecumseh, a young Shawnee chief, and a friend of Miller, changed their minds.  The Indians sent back their answer with Miller. If Gen. Wayne \waited for ten days and then sent Miller to them again they would give him their decision but if Wayne advanced they would give battle. Miller reached Gen. Wayne with the answer on the 16th day of August 1794. General Wayne rightly concluded that the 10 days asked for by the Indians was simply a scheme to get time and having everything in readiness immediately set out against the Indian camp.  Wayne obtained a complete victory, the loss on both sides was considerable. The battle was fought on the 29th day of August 1794. Christopher Miller was in that engagement. 

Daniel Waide - came to Elizabethtown a few years after 1800. He kept the tavern at THE SIGN OF THE LION, built by Major James Crutcher about 1798. 

This document is in very good condition for its age. In 2015 another document signed by Christopher Miller sold at auction for $1,777 including buyer's premium. Our estimate..................600-800

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51. [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 75 pieces. Mixed conditions...............Min. Bid $25

52. [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. He died in 1924 in Washington, D.C. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics . In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. OFFERED HERE is a page manuscript page  of calculations written by Woodward [not signed], plus a pamphet by Woodward:  MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATION, 1902, 24 pages uncut. The handwritten page has edge tears at top & bottom edges. The pamphlet is in very good+ condition. VERY RARE!................100-150

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53. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Pat Buchanan (b. 1938)  American conservative political commentator, columnist, politician, and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo 1997.  (2) Frederick H. Newell (1862-1932), served as the first Director of the United States Reclamation Service. ALS written in the 3rd person.  (3) Tom Daschle (b.1947)  American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States senator from South Dakota from 1987 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he became U.S. Senate Minority Leader in 1995 and later the Majority Leader in 2001. Signed 10x8 color photo. Fine (4) Kenneth Rose - signed ip. typescript titled WHITE FIGURE. (5) John B. McPherson (1846-1919). Federal judge. ALS, 1885, 2pp.  (6) Harry White (1834-1920) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He entered the Union Army as major of the Sixty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, on December 13, 1861.  ALS, 1885, 1p. to Wm. H. Rawle. (7) [THEATRE] William Horace Lingard (1837–1927)  English comic singer. In 1868, Lingard immigrated to America (along with his wife, Alice Dunning Lingard). He made his comic debut in New York City that year. After this debut—held at the Theatre Comique, on 6 April 1868—Lingard became known as one of the funniest men of the time. He continued his career in New York, and later became manager of Wood's Theatre there. Signed 4 x 2.5 in.  The brown area on left edge could be removed. (8) [ART] Mervin Jules (1912-1994) American painter & printmaker. Jules' woodcuts are represented in numerous collections. He was a teacher of art at the Fieldston School, the Museum of Modern Art (1943-46), the Baltimore Educational Alliance, the Veterans' Art Center and at Smith College. After teaching at Smith College from 1946-1969, in 1969 he became Chair of the Art Department at the City College of New York. He kept a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he died. Brief 1981 ALS, 1p., about selling his prints. VG. (9)  [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry Philpott (1801-1892) Anglican bishop and academic.  He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on three occasions (1846, 1856, 1857). Philpott was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) by royal letters patent in 1847 and was Bishop of Worcester from 1860 to 1890.  He was Clerk of the Closet from 1865 to 1891 and Chairman of the Cambridge University Commission in 1878. ALS, 1863, 1p. laid to another sheet. VG (10) [THEATRE] Dame Irene Vanbrugh DBE (1872-1949) was an English actress. The daughter of a clergyman, Vanbrugh followed her elder sister Violet into the theatrical profession and sustained a career for more than 50 years. n her early days as a leading lady she was particularly associated with the plays of Arthur Wing Pinero and later had parts written for her by J. M. Barrie, Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maugham, A. A. Milne and Noël Coward.  ALS, no year, 1p, to the journalist  Mrs. Marshall. Approx. 4.5 x 7 in. VG. (11) [FILM] Nancy Olson (b.1928) American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sunset Boulevard (1950). She co-starred with William Holden in four films, and later appeared in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel, Son of Flubber (1963), as well as the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974). Olson retired from acting in the early 1980s, although she has made a few rare returns, most recently in 2014. Signed 4 x 5-3/4 in. picture. (12) [POSTAL HISTORY] Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882)  American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen. Offered here is an envelope in the handwriting of Dana. The pencil signature at top was not written by Dana. 5 x 2-3/4 in. VG (13) [THEATRE] Adelaide Ristori  (1822-1906) distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise. Front portion of a postmarked envelope addressed in her handwriting but not signed by her. Approx. 4-3/4 x 2 in. Fine (14) Ken Bartholomew (1920-2012) was a speed skating champion from the United States. Signed 1951 sports cover. VG (15) John Randolph (1749-1813) was a British scholar, teacher, and cleric who rose to become Bishop of London. CLIP SIGNATURE [mounted]. 4 x 1-1/2 in. (16) [OPERA]  Norman Kelley (1911-2006)  American operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1940s through the 1970s. He was notably a regular performer at the Metropolitan Opera between 1957 and 1961, and he sang in several world premieres with the New York City Opera. He also notably translated Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel into English, a version first performed in 1967 and used by opera companies to this present day.  Christmas [1980] greeting card signed inside to Franklyn Lenthall, The Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine. Includes the envelope addressed by Kelley including  handwritten return address.  VG................Min. Bid $100

54. [DEMOCRATS]  Fred R. Harris (b. 1930) American academic, author, and former politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States Senate from Oklahoma. From 1969 to 1970, Harris served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In the 1968 presidential election, Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey strongly considered him as his running mate. Harris unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976. After 1976, he became a professor at the University of New Mexico. Offered here is a TLS, 1968, United Democrates For Humphrey, 1p. Written to Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) of Maine. She was an alternate to the Democratic National Convention, committed to Senator Muskie as favorite son of my home State, Maine. Harris is asking Brenda for advice and suggestions.  Includes is Brenda Kuhn's [retained] typed, ink signed reply that was sent to Harris. Very interesting letter giving her thoughts about Humphrey's TV images. A great letter from Brenda, who was the daughter of the famed American artist Walt Kuhn. Also included with these letters is a vintahe 8x10 photo of Walt Kuhn's famous oil painting THE BLUE CLOWN done in 1931. All are in very good condition..............Min. Bid $75

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55. [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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56.  [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Frank Sinatra - unsigned attractive 2008 First Day Cover. (2) [THEATRE] Florence Williams (1910-1995) American actress. She played many parts in summer stock, where she met future husband scenic designer Leon Whitten, and eventually landed on Broadway performing opposite legendary actress Lillian Gish.  Florence left New York and her entertainment career behind in 1973, retiring with her husband to a quiet life in Rockport, Maine. Although she received many invitations to participate in community theater, Florence felt that she was too old to resume acting and politely declined. However, to keep herself active, she joined a local acting workshop at age 81. Encouraged by her peers, an initially reluctant Florence ultimately participated in The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson. Using the professional name Florence Marshall, she performed her show nationally for the public in a series of benefits for nursing homes and abused children. Florence continued to involve herself in local Maine theater productions until 1992, two years before her death at age 84.  Offered here are 2 ALSs, 1980 and 1986, plus a Camden, Maine theatre program.  Written to Franklyn Lenthall  (1919-2001) director of the Boothbay Playhouse, Boothbay, Maine, and from 1975 to 1990 he managed the Boothbay Theater Museum which contained the nation's largest private theater collection. VG  (3) [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. OFFERED HERE: A signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN".  VG (4) Wlliam Duren (1810-1888) he came from Waterville, Me., about 1827; engaged in lumbering and trade; has served as representative and senator in the Legislature of Maine, and as mayor of Calais, Maine 1872-75. DOCUMENT SIGNED, Calais, Maine, 1865.  Land sale. Also signed by Levi Lincoln Lowell (1805-1880) [signed twice]. Approx. 8-3/4 x 13-1/2 in. Very fine condition. (5) Coleman Barks (born1937) is an American poet, and former literature faculty at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations.  Signed typescript poem titled THE PENGUIN, 1p., 8.5 x 11 in. VG.........Min. Bid $50

57. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) [KENTUCKY] Walter Darlington "Dee" Huddleston (1926-2018)  American politician. He was a Democrat from Kentucky who represented the state in the United States Senate from 1973 until 1985. Huddleston lost his 1984 Senate re-election campaign to Mitch McConnell in an upset by about 5100 votes. A 1959 FDC signed [on address sticker]. (2) Jose Torres (1911-1977) Spanish dancer and choreographer who was dance director at the Paris Opéra. Parents with his dancer wife of Jean-Marc Torres, star of the Roland Petit company. Signed vintage 8x10 photo. VG. (3) SINGER SEWING CO. - ALS, 1864, 1p. by Theo. L. Haynes (1830-1906) , to the Singer Sewing Machine Co. On illustrated letterhead.  Mounting trace along one edge on verso. (4) Albert Forbes Sieveking (1857-1951) English author, known for his books on gardens.  ALS, 1930, 2pp, 5 x 6-3/4". VG. (5)  George Rodney [Eden] Wakefield (1853 - 1940) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Dover and Wakefield. He was educated at Reading School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He began his ecclesiastical career as Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham. After an incumbency at Bishop Auckland - in latter years he was also Rural Dean - he began what his Times obituary described as "nearly forty years of quiet but efficient service to the episcopate". ALS, no yr, written on both sides. VG (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 1907 check made out to Ida Knapp. She signed on the verso as Treasurer of the Art Workers, Club for Women. VG. (7) Henry E. Burnham (1844-1917) US senator from N.H. TLS, 1911, 1p............Min. Bid $50

58. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Joukim J. Outrim - British artist who fl. 1834-1854. ALS, 1850, 3pp. (2) Small newspaper clipping of Frank Sinatra meeting Mrd. & Mrs. Richard Nixon signed Frank Sinatra. We assume its a secretarial signature. (3) Samuel Merriman (1731-1818) Obstetrician. Signature dated 1749, while a student at Iniv. of Edinburgh.  Under signature not in his hand. Foxed. (4)  [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. OFFERED HERE: A signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN".  VG (5) Douglas Volk signed 1922 check. (6) Joseph Peace Hazard (1807-1892) was born into a wealthy Rhode Island family. When he failed in the family's textile manufacturing business, Hazard's family supported him in pursuing his personal interests, which included travel, architecture, and Spiritualism. Signed 1836 document. (7) 1852 printed gov. doc. from Treasury. (8) 1885 letter from a railroad person signed ? Baker. (8) 1840 printed gov. doc. Commerce..................Min. Bid $50

59. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757-1847) was a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807 and then the Archbishop of York until his death. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) 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 bank check [New Orleans] signed, 1844. (3) Henry Bowen Anthony (1815-1884) Gov. R.I. Brief 1883 letter written/signed in 3rd person. (4) [ENTERTAINMENT] Lew Dockstader (1856-1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer. Dockstader performed as a solo act and in his own a popular minstrel troupe.Large bold signature dated Xmas 1898.  Signature on verso looks like Henry E. Dixon [?].  About 5-3/4 x 2-3/4 in . Provenance: Boothbay Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine. (5) [EPHEMERA] 1894 one page letter written from Portland, Maine on illustrated letterhead. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG. (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 1868 made out to Bunn but not signed by him..............Min. Bid $50

60.  [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1] FERNAND VANDEREM [b. 1864] Fr. literary man. He was a novelist & reporter. ALS, 1906, 1p.  [2] Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (1755-1839) French archaeologist and writer on art. ALS, Paris, 1819, written on both sides. Edge-tipped to another sheet.  [3 ] BEATRICE BRETTY - famous French actress. ALS, [1932], 1p., to the actress TaniaFedor. [4] Pierre] ARTHUR PONROY [b. 1816] Fr. dramatist, poet, historian. Lengthy 4pp. ALS. Interesting content about literature.  [5] HENRI TISOT - Fr. actor. ALS, Paris, 1959, on both sides. To Director of La Comédie-Française asking to forgive him for missing a show. In the comedy movie The Fuhrer runs amok by Philippe Clair, Henri Tisot stars stars socceras Hitler who challenges other European countries in matches. VG.  [6] GEORGES DOUAY - Parisian man-about-town, theatre fan, and composer of songs and operettas. ALS, 1893, 1p.  [7] César Campinchi (1882-1941) French statesman in the beginning of the 20th century. Campinchi was president of the Association générale des étudiants de Paris student organisation, a member of the Radical Socialist Party and deputy for Corsica from 1932 to 1940. He carried out the functions of the Keeper of the seals and presented the Campinchi proposal concerning the protection of minors in 1937. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 7 in. Speaks about politics and Bernstein. Fine.  [8] Nicolas Levasseur (1791-1871) French bass, particularly associated with Rossini roles. Levasseur was considered without rivals in his time, possessing a voice of remarkable beauty and grandeur. ALS, 1854, 1p., 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG.........Min. Bid $90

61.  [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

62. [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-joseph napier 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

63. [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

64. [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. Offered here is a 21 page typed response to an article by Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster on "Research and Organization published in the Educational Section of The Weekly Review. This was written by Woodward. Dr. A.G. Webster and Robert Woodward were appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. When Webster died in 1923  it was aid that  "Few Americans have done more than Webster to promote the higher study of physics in this country." New York Times obituary in 1923. WORCESTER, Mass., May 15. -- Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, an internationally known physicist and a member of the Clark University Faculty for more than thirty years, committed suicide in the university laboratory today. His associates are of the opinion tonight that his act was prompted by a belief that his research work and accomplishments in physics were not appreciated by his contemporaries. All of the page handwritten corrections made on the pages were in the hand of Robert Woodward. Top of page 1 is a little tattered but the rest is very good. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. Provenance: from the personal papers of Robert Simpson Woodward. VG....................300-600

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65. [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

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66. [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

67. [AUCTION CATALOG] Witherell's Sept. 21, 2021 auction catalog of items including: guns owned by Ernest Hemingway, Wyatt Earp, Cole Younger, Pat Garrett, Tom Mix, etc.,  Also includes dolls, watches, diamonds, handcuffs, 29pp, 108 lots..................25-35

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68.   [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

69. [PORTRAIT] Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte, KB (1758-1805), also known simply as Admiral Nelson, was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. His inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest naval commanders in history. 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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70. [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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71. [ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL unsigned pencil drawing, sheet size approx. 12 x 9-3/4 in. Very good condition. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of Geolong school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A major book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries. This drawing had been in storage since her death in 1978. Because of the exhibitions, the book, and several articles [including a major article in the Boston Globe], there is at present, more than a little interest in this artist, which is sure to grow. VG. NOT FRAMED....................200-300

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72. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL color drawing, signed, titled GLOUCESTER, c. 1978 Approx. 11 x 14 in. paper size. VG..................200-300

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73. [ART] Offered here is an original photograph from the Estate of Albert Sterner (1863-1946). The photograph is of a pastel portrait drawing Sterner did of Florence "Flossie" Scovel. She was the wife artist Everett Shinn.  On the verso Sterner has written in pencil "Mrs. Scovel - pastel by Albert Sterner. Size 13-3/4 x 9-1/2 in. Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years. Albert Edward Sterner (1863-1946) British-American illustrator and painter. He began doing lithography, painting, and illustrations. He opened a studio in New York in 1885 and began contributing illustrations to magazines including Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Century Magazine, and Collier's. In 1888 he became a student at Académie Julian in Paris.  He has illustrated G. W. Curtis' Prue and I (which established his reputation as a black-and-white artist), Coppée's Tales (1891), Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1894), and Mary Augusta Ward's' Eleanor (1900) and The Marriage of William Ashe (1905). His oil-painting "The Bachelor" received the bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Institutions that have exhibited his work include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Sterner's awards include the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1941. His New York Times obituary stated that he was perhaps best known for his portraits, but "he was also noted for his nudes, religious subjects, landscapes, still-life work and, in his earlier days, his book and magazine illustrations." VG....................Min. Bid $50

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74. [ART] [ART] Offered here is an original photograph from the Estate of Albert Sterner (1863-1946). The photograph is a portrait drawing Sterner did of Jonathan Sturges (1864-1911). Sturges began writing for the Nassau Literary Magazine during his junior year. Four years after graduation, Sturges published The Odd Number, a translation of thirteen stories by Guy dc Maupassant (1850-1893). The Princetonian saluted the achievement, describing the book as having “a very rapid sale. The first edition of 1500 appeared the last of October and sold out almost immediately. The second edition of 1,000 is exhausted and the third edition is in press.” (9 December 1889). Settling in London, Sturges wrote travel letters for The New York Times and short stories for Harper’s and Cosmopolitan. He joined a circle of friends that included Henry James (1843-1916), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), and James Whistler (1834-1903), with whom he collaborated on The Baronet and The Butterfly magazines. After Sturges death in 1911, his sister commissioned a pastel sketch from Harper’s illustrator Albert Sterner (1863-1946), which was completed after a portrait owned by Mary Fuller Sturges (Mrs. Andrew Chalmers) Wilson (1870-1962). The pastel was photographed and one copy hung over Henry James’s desk until his own death four years later. Size 12 x 8-1/2 in.  Albert Edward Sterner (1863-1946) British-American illustrator and painter. He began doing lithography, painting, and illustrations. He opened a studio in New York in 1885 and began contributing illustrations to magazines including Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Century Magazine, and Collier's. In 1888 he became a student at Académie Julian in Paris.  He has illustrated G. W. Curtis' Prue and I (which established his reputation as a black-and-white artist), Coppée's Tales (1891), Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1894), and Mary Augusta Ward's' Eleanor (1900) and The Marriage of William Ashe (1905). His oil-painting "The Bachelor" received the bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Institutions that have exhibited his work include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Sterner's awards include the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1941. His New York Times obituary stated that he was perhaps best known for his portraits, but "he was also noted for his nudes, religious subjects, landscapes, still-life work and, in his earlier days, his book and magazine illustrations."  VG....................Min. Bid $50

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75. [ART] Offered here is an original photograph from the Estate of Albert Sterner (1863-1946). The photograph is a portrait painting Sterner did of Edmond Thomas Quinn (1868 - 1929 in New York City) was an American sculptor and painter. He is best known for his bronze statue of Edwin Booth as Hamlet, which stands at the center of Gramercy Park in New York City. His larger-than-lifesize bronze bust of Victor Herbert stands near The Pond in Central Park, New York City. He exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design, showing paintings in 1891, 1893, 1905, 1906 and 1907. He first showed his sculpture there in 1908, and annually for many years, usually portrait busts. He won a silver medal for his bronze sculpture of model Audrey Munson at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.  He also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (paintings: 1891, 1894, 1897; sculptures: 1899, 1901, 1905–06, 1908–10, 1914–16, 1921, 1923, 1925–26, 1928, posthumously 1930), and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1920, and was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the Century Association, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Players Club, for whom he executed his statue of Booth. Quinn was found drowned off Governors Island, New York City in September 1929, a suicide. Quinn had tried to kill himself four months earlier by drinking poison.

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76. [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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77. [ART] Victor Nehlig (1830 – 1909) French-American artist. During his time in the United States, Nehlig opened a studio in New York City and painted a variety of works in the academic style, often demonstrating his prowess at depicting the human figure. Nehlig returned to his native France in 1872, two years after being elected an academician in the National Academy of Design and shortly after his studio and many of his reference materials were destroyed in a devastating fire. He died in 1909 in New York City. While Nehlig was relatively well known among art enthusiasts during his time, his work has seen less attention in subsequent years. He frequently painted interpretations of American history, taking a special interest in scenes from the American Civil War, the effects of which he witnessed firsthand. An Episode of the War — The Cavalry Charge of Lt. Henry B. Hidden (1875), held in the collection of the New-York Historical Society's Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, and Pocahontas Saving Capt. John Smith (1870), held in the collection of the Museum of Art BYU, are among his only paintings on public display. A number of others exist in private collections. Offered here is an original etching, plate signed 1866, image approx. 8-1/4 x 10 in. plus margins. VG............Min. Bid $50

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78. [ART] Harry Siddons Mowbray (1858 – 1928)  American artist. He executed various painting commissions for J.P. Morgan, F.W. Vanderbilt, and other clients. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 1902–1904.  Mowbray was best known for his decorative work, especially The Transmission of the Law, Appellate Court House; ceiling for the residence of F. W. Vanderbilt; the ceilings in J.P. Morgan's Library and The Morgan Library & Museum's Annex building; as well as the ceiling and walls of the library of the University Club, all in New York City. Original lithograph, approx. 6 x 7-3/4 in. plus margins. VG.................80-120

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79. [ART] Jack Levine (1915-2010)  American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. Original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS [1957] done for Artists Equity, approx. 12 x 8-3/4 in. There is a litho. by Sol Wilson on the verso. Some minor flaws..................50-75

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80. Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866) American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853. Manuscript document signed by him and his wife Mary E. Sparks, receiving property as executor of will, dated Cambridge, Dec. 15, 1850. Text of document is brief. VG............50-75

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81. [NOBEL] Barry James Marshall (b. 1951) Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Signed 4x6 picture. Fine.................40-60

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82. [FILM] Bill Lundigan [1914-1975] American movie and TV actor. His films include "Dodge City" (1939),"The Fighting 69th" (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), and Inferno (1953). From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men Into Space. Signed, inscribed vintage 5x7 photo. VG..............40-60 

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83. (20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)   HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE (1882-1958) Editor & Journalist, Pulitzer Prize. TLS (1955.  EDWARD A. WEEKS (1898-1989) Author, Essayist and Editor of the Atlantic Monthly – ANS on large broadside (9x13) booklet.  TOM WICKER (1926-2011)  &  LUCY IRVINE(1956) & DENISE GESS (1942-2009) & JOHN KATZENBACH (1950) Novelists and Writers. SIGNED by all 4.   BOOK & AUTHOR Luncheon program Philadelphia (1984).    RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1844-1909)  Poet and Editor.  CLIP SIGNATURE.    RITA WEIMAN (1885-1954) Playwright, Novelist and Screenwriter – author of “The Acquittal”,” The Gentle Wife” “Possessed”, which was made into a film with Joan Crawford – TLS from the Literary Digest (1934)  asking her to pronounce her name, she responds at bottom of letter (letter is trimmed at bottom).  CORNELIU;S WEYGANDT (1878-1957) Historian and Biographer, journalist, authored 18 books.   TLS (1928).    ANTHONY LEWIS (1927-2013) Pulitzer Prize Writer, Journalist. TLS (2002).   WILL CARLETON(1845-1912) Poet.  SIGNATURE (1898).   LAURA BENET (1884-1979) Poet and sister of William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet.   TLS (1964)............Min. Bid $50

84. [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

85.  [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Richard F. Deimel (1881-1955) was head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.) from 1907 to 1952. An expert on precision instruments, he was a consultant to the Sperry Gyroscope Company (N.Y.) and author of "Mechanics of the Gyroscope" (1952). ALS, 1907, 1p. to Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924)  American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician, accepting invitation. (2) Hooper Cummings Van Vorst (1818-1889) Judge of the Superior Court of the City of New York. A chancellor of the State of New York, president of the Century Club and founder of the Holland Society. ALS, 1875, 1-1/2 pp. (3) Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American artist. Signed 1922 check. (4)  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 1902 bank check. (5) 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 1833 document. (6) [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...................Min. Bid $50

86. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Alfred Hulse Brooks (1871-1924)  American geologist who served as chief geologist for Alaska for the United States Geological Survey from 1903 to 1924. He is credited with discovering that the biggest mountain range in Arctic Alaska, now called the Brooks Range, was separate from the Rocky Mountains. ALS, written in 3rd person on card. (2) Lydia Thompson (1838-1908) English dancer, comedian, actor and theatrical producer. Signature dated 1872 with old small photo. (3) Herman Vezin (1829-1910) American actor, teacher of elocution and writer. ALS, 1884, 2pp. (4) William Pierce Frye (1830-1911) US Senator from Maine. Ink signed envelope [Free Frank signature]. Envelope conains a printed speech given by congressman John H. Baker in 1880. (5) Jean Navarre(1914-2000) Fr. artist. His signature in return address on 1958 envelope. (6) Mary Carr (1874-1973) American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1915 and 1956. (7) Maclyn Arbuckle(1866-1931) was an American screen and stage actor. He was the brother of actor Andrew Arbuckle and cousin of comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. CLIP SIGNATURE 1900. (8) Edith Atwater (1911-1986) American stage, film, and television actress. CLIP SIGNATURE.  (9)  Sofia Scalchi (1850-1922)  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. Her personal calling card on which she writes a few words [not signed].................Min. Bid $50

87.  [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

88. [ACTORS MIXED LOT] includes: (1) [SILENT SCREEN] FRED SCOTT (1902-1992) American Actor/Silent Screen Star -started out entertaining on vaudeville, acting on Broadway, and singing operetta. He later appeared in many silent comedies, including those of Mack Sennett, and appeared in one feature-length silent film. Later he worked in a few musicals during the early '30s, but soon left movies to spend a few years singing opera. Between the late '30s and early '40s, Scott played a cowboy crooner known as "the Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo" in a few Westerns. - SIGNED 8x10 photograph as cowboy star.  (2) Richard Todd [1919-2009] Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier. Clip signature, approx. 4 x 1.5". (3) Susan  Strasberg (1938 –1999) American stage, film and television actress.  TLS, 1977, 1p. (4) Maureen Stapleton (1925-2006)  American actress in film, theater and television. Signed 3x5 card. (5) Earl Holliman (b. 1928) is an American actor. Signed 8x10 color photo. VG................Min. Bid $50

89. [FRANCE] Jean-Antoine Tinseau (1697-1782) French prelate. Tinseau earned a doctorate in theology from the University of Besançon and canon and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Besançon.  In 1743 he became commendatory abbot of Bitaine and in 1745 Bishop of Belley. He was transferred to the diocese of Nevers in 1751. In 1760 Tinseau built a new episcopal palace and in 1762 he replaced by secular priests Jesuits at college and seminary.  ALS, Nevers, 1782, 2pp, approx. 6-1/4 x 7-3/4".  VG.........60-80

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90. [FILM] BILL WILLIAMS (1915-1992) Actor. SIGNED inscribed 3x5 photograph. VG............40-60

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91. [SCIENCE] Jules Tannery (1848-1910)  French mathematician. Tannery discovered a surface of the fourth order of which all the geodesic lines are algebraic. ALS, Paris, 190?, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Fine................75-100

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92. [PHOTOGRAPHY] offered are 6 small photos from France. These are unsigned. Includes Camille Doucet (1812-1895 in Paris)  French poet and playwright. Henry Bordeaux (1870-1963)  French writer and lawyer. Bordeaux was elected to the Académie française on 22 May 1919. This elite group of writers, popularly known as the "immortals," are responsible for establishing and maintaining the grammar, usage and acceptance of vocabulary into standard French. Postcard photo. Robert de Flers (1872--1927)  French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist. Postcard photo. Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)  French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic. 3 cdv photo. Total of 6 unsigned................Min. Bid $50

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93. [MARITIME HISTORY]  offered here is a rare 8 page typed [retained] letter from Commander R(obert) A.J. English sent to Capt. Geo. S. Bryan, Hydrographic Office, Wash. DC. This is not signed in ink  because it was the retained copy kept by English. English was at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; dated 10 Feb. 1942. An extraordinary letter all about Richard E. Byrd.  Robert English didn't hold Byrd in high regard. Marked PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL, English says a lot of negative things about Byrd. Lieutenant  Robert A. J. English was in command of the S.S. Bear of Oakland, which was getting on in years in 1933 but there was still some great moments ahead for the stout old ship.  In the early 1930s, the famed Arctic explorer, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, USN, was looking for a vessel suitable for operating in ice in his Second Antarctic Expedition.  Hearing that the Bear was available, he opened negotiations with officials of the City of Oakland, California, where the vessel had been serving as a marine museum.  The bargain was concluded for the incredibly low price of $1,050 -- one of the best buys in history.  An entry in her log for 19 June 1932, reveals that she was en-route to Boston for overhaul and refitting with a volunteer crew aboard.Refitting completed, the Bear, on 25 September 1933 left Boston under the command of Lieutenant (j.g.) Robert A. J. English, USN. After a rugged trip, she reached the Bay of Whales and Little America in the latter part of January 1934.  Once again in the United States Antarctic Expedition of 1939-41, Admiral Byrd called upon the Bear's services.  This time, however, her boiler and engine were taken out and a modern diesel drive installed.  Her auxiliary equipment was electrified. By 16 May 1941, she had completed her work in the Antarctic and was back at Boston. By this time, the shadow of World War II was already stretching over the United States.  In 1941, shortly after her return from the Antarctic, the Bear was assigned to the Greenland Patrol.  She took part in the capture of the Norwegian trawler Buskoe which had, been fitted out by the Germans to transmit weather reports and information on Allied ship movements.  The Bear's days of active service were now drawing rapidly to a close.  In June, 1944 she was stricken from the Navy list of active vessels and turned over to the Maritime Commission for sale.  This lengthy letter was written to Capt. (Rear Admiral) George S. Bryan (1885-1964)  U.S.N. retired, of nearby Clark's Green, died yesterday in Moses Taylor Hospital here. He was 79 years old. Admiral Bryan was Navy hydrographer in Washington from 1938 until his retirement in 1946. During World War II his office was responsible for directing preparations of maps of the Normandy landings and for all Pacific islands on which American forces established beachheads. He was a 1906 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. In World War I he commanded the Yangtze River gunboat Monacacy and later became fleet engineer for the Asiatic Fleet. After the war he was commander of the destroyer Yarborough, the destroyer tender Melville and the battleship Maryland.  One of the things English says........"The leading men of his expeditions have a saying which was universally followed. It is When Byd says anything or asks for anything, look for the motive." WOW!!!!! VG................600-800...................Min. Bid $200

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94. Richard E. Byrd (1888 – 1957) American naval officer and explorer.This is a COPY of  page 2  of a Byrd  letter about Robert English, saying English should be given the Distinguished Service Medal. From the Robert English papers. VG........50-75 

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95. Lot of 9 Iowa Abstract of Title documents, 1891-1922. Signatures have not been researched....Min. Bid $18

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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

97.  [BASEBALL] Bob Johnson - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60...............Min. Bid only $1.00

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98. [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

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99. [AMERICANA] 1829 Bill of Lading for 9 bales of yarn being shipped on board the Sloop Venus, Master George Child. Shipped from Providence RI to New York by Roland G. hazard. Signed by George Child. Approx. 8-3/4 x 6-1/2 in..........40-60............Min. Bid only $1.00

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

101. [BASEBALL] Morris Arnovich - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60................Min. Bid only $1.00

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102. [SCIENCE] William Berryman Scott (1858-1947)  American vertebrate paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River Oligocene monographs. He was a professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University. ALS written in the 3rd person, c. 1908, 1-1/2 pages. Fine...............40-60

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103. 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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104. [POSTAL HISTORY]  John A. Cobb - Cobb led the Legion Guards in the 16th Georgia Infantry, Confederate Army. Group of 3 postmarked envelopes all addressed by John A. Cobb to Mrs. Howell Cobb, wife of HOWELL COBB (1815-1868) American political figure. A southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th Governor of Georgia (1851–1853) and as a Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860). Cobb is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederacy, having served as the President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Delegates of the Southern slave states declared that they had seceded from the United States and created the Confederate States of America. These date 1866, 1867 & 1889..........75-100

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105. [FILM] Aileen Marie Quinn (b.1971)  American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her role as Annie Bennett Warbucks in Annie. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo as ANNIE. She also make draws an Annie face, dated 1982. VG..................25-35

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106. [FILM] Katherine Helmond (1929-2019) American actress. Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). Helmond also appeared in a 1993 episode of The Upper Hand, the British version of Who's the Boss?. She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan (the mother of Debra Barone) on Everybody Loves Raymond. She also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows.  Helmond had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and Garry Marshall's Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars film franchise by Disney/Pixar between 2006 and 2017. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. Fine................50-75

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107. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Alice Carrick Skinner (1875-1961) she was an expert on and writer about antiques in the early 20th century and a contributing editor of "Antiques" magazine in the 1930s. In particular she was an expert on American silhouettes. Her collection was donated to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.  As Alice Van Leer Carrick, she was the author of several books on the subject including "The Next-To-Nothing House" (1922). This book recounted her finding inexpensive antiques to furnish the historic Webster house on the campus of Dartmouth College where she lived for decades. Other books included the "Collector's Luck" series describing journeys abroad with family and friends on antiquing expeditions, "Christmas in Our Town," and "A History of American Silhouettes." Her books convey her personality, charm, and enthusiasm. ALS, Webster Cottage, Hanover, New Hampshire, no date, 4pp. to Mrs. Marshall who was a journalist. A long letter suggesting a visit from Mrs. Marshall for an interview. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. VG..............50-75

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108. 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

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109. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - a general catalog of autographs issued by Joseph Rubinfine, List 114. Contains 49 priced listings, some illustrated. Lengthy descriptions for important items. VG......Min. Bid $20

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110. 1776 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - a general catalog of autographs issued by Joseph Rubinfine, List 129. Contains 56 listings, some illustrated. Everything is priced in this catalog. Interesting for research. VG......Min. Bid $20

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111. [FRANCE] Leon Dufourny (1754-1818) French architect  whose works belong to the neo-classical movement of the late eighteenth century.  Leon Dufourny was Commissioner of the French Republic to the King of Naples and made a trip to Sicily from 1787 to 1794 to study the ancient temples Greek.  In 1796 Dufourny was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts and was also appointed Chairman of the Committee of the Fund and the Central administrative board of the Institute of France, and Nivôse Ventôse Year XII (1802).  Around 1800, he seized the castle of Richelieu, confiscated during the Revolution as many emigrated, had been emptied of its furniture collections and then stripped of its materials - before being demolished - the rectangular tray mosaic marble and hard stone of a ceremonial table, completed after a carved wooden base, and preserved from the Louvre (Galerie d'Apollon); a color lithograph nineteenth century this exceptional furniture and a replica of his legs are kept at the Museum of Fine Arts Tours.  ALS, 1806, 1p., approx. 5-1/2 x 5-3/4 in.........100-150

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112. THE 18th Century - a general catalog of autographs issued by Joseph Rubinfine, List 118. Contains 56 priced listings, some illustrated. Lengthy descriptions for important items. VG......Min. Bid $20

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113. MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) George Lincoln Goodale (1839-1923)  American botanist and the first director of Harvard’s Botanical Museum (now part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History). It was he who commissioned the making of the University's legendary Glass Flowers collection. ALS written in the 3rd person, sent to Professor Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924)  American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. n 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He cannot accept invitation. 5x8 in. VG (2) Joseph Bartlett Eastman (1882 – March 15, 1944) was a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1919 until his death in 1944. He made his reputation as counsel in various wage arbitrations from 1913 to 1914. In 1933, he was nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and confirmed by the Senate, to the position of Federal coordinator of transportation. Offered here is a TLS, 1944, 1p, written to John T. Blackwell.  Appears that Blackwell contacted Eastman about because he was a conscientious objector hoping to find a position with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.  7 x 10-1/4 in. With envelope. VG (3)JEFF DAVIS printed gov. document signed in type by Jeff Davis, Sec. of War, March 3, 1856, 9pp. fortifications for proper defence of New York and Brooklyn.  VG (4) [ART] Dudley Hardy, RI, ROI, RBA, RMS, PS, (1867-1922) English painter and illustrator. In 1885 Hardy began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, an association that lasted to his death. Hardy's illustrative work is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, 1903, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2 in.  (5) George Mitchell (b. 1933) served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. TLS, 1992, 1p, 8.5 x 11 in. VG. (6) Mark Hatfield (1922-2011) a Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo dated 1984. VG...................Min. Bid $50

114. [FRANCE] Beautiful French document 1715 with large ornate revenue stamp at top. Lengthy 4 pages, 7-1/4 x 9-1/2 in. Three ornate signatures on last page. 1715 was the fist year of the reign of King Louis XV. VG.................100-200

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115. [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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116. [VERMONT] Luke Potter Poland (1815-1887)  United States Senator and Representative from Vermont. Signed 1841 State of Vermont Supreme Court document, signed as Chief Justice. Attached to 4 other pages, one signed by Frederic Williams Hopkins (1806-1974) was a Vermont lawyer and militia officer who served as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia. In the 1830s and 1840s Hopkins was part of a group of individuals interested in reorganizing and revitalizing the state militias, which had become increasingly dormant in the years following the War of 1812. This group, including Franklin Pierce, Alden Partridge, Alonzo Jackman, and Truman B. Ransom, held seminars to discuss tactics, strategy and recruiting, and carry out maneuvers and drills in an effort to improve unit readiness. Excellent condition..................75-100

117. [ARTISTS MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Stephen James Ferris [1835-1915] influential Philadelphia painter and etcher. Original etching, "Mrs. Nicklin", from a painting by Gilbert Stuart. Stuart painted the portrait of Mrs. Nicklin about 1795, when she was in her thirtieth year. She was one of Philadelphia's celebrated beauties, the wife of Mr. Philip Nicklin, and the daughter of Chief-Justice Benjamin Chew. This plate shows notable characteristics in Mr. Ferris's method of etching, he believing in finish, and striving to obtain depth of tone and suggestion of color by close and careful working. Image 7-1/4 5-1/2" plus fairly clean marhins. Top left corner is soiled. (2)  Wendell D. Volk (1884-1953) American artist. Signed 1943 bank check. Born El Paso, TX, buried Arlington Natinal Cemetery. He was a printmaker and woodcarver, married Jessie J. McCoig, also an artist (1904-2005). The Douglas Volk family built a rustic Tudor cottage, “Hewnoaks,” on the shores of Kezar Lake in Center Lovell, Maine. [Stephen A.] Douglas Volk was the son of Leonard [W.] Volk, who was famous for his many life casts of Abraham Lincoln. S.A. Douglas Volk studied in Paris and Italy. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York and was a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. He participated in the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and taught at the New York Society for Ethical Culture established by Felix Adler, where he met Karl von Rydingsvärd. He married Marion Larabee in 1881 and two of their children were dau. Marion and son Wendell. Daughter Marion helped Mother Marion run the Sabatos Studio, which produced woven and printed textiles. Wendell was also a weaver and learned woodcarving from Karl von Rydingsvärd. Wendell’s wife Jessie left Hewnoaks, lock, stock, and barrel, to the University of Maine. Hewnoaks was the heart of an Arts and Crafts community. Marion Volk decided to improve upon a generations-old native tradition of making “drawn” rugs and with the help of her son Wendell and daughter Marion she began Sabatos Handcrafts in 1901. The Volks gathered together residents of Center Lovell, who then carried out every part of the rug-making process. Twenty years later the Volks began producing block-printed textiles. The rugs and printed panels are extremely rare today. VG  (3) RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing, not signed, 1980. Approx. 9 x 11.5 in.  paper size. VG (4) Madeline Marrable (1833-1916) was a prolific London based watercolourist and oil painter specialising in landscapes with a preference for mountains and snowscapes. She traveled widely to places including Austria, France, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland and Venice. In 1886, Marrable was elected as the first President of the Society of Lady Artists (SLA), formerly the Society of Female Artists (SFA) and since 1899 is now known as the Society of Women Artists (SWA), she retired from the presidency in 1912. CLIP SIGNATURE, 4-1/4 x 1 in. VG. (5) Mary Lucier (b. 1944) American video artist. Concentrating primarily on video and installation since 1973, she has produced numerous multiple- and single-channel pieces. Mary Lucier has presented solo exhibitions at different venues all around the world. Among those are The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the TV Gallery in Moscow , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, and the Media Test Wall at MIT. Signed 1985 exhibition brochure. Fine. (6) Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait painter and the son of noted sculptor Leonard Volk. Best known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one of which hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. He was named after his mother's cousin (Abraham Lincoln's political rival) Stephen A. Douglas. Offered here is a bank check signed by Douglas Volk, 1907.  VG.....Min. Bid $50

118. [PORTRAIT] Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. Offered here is an original portrait of Walpole engraved by J. Cochran.  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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119. [FILM] Peter Graves (1926-2010)  American film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Jim Phelps in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 (original) and from 1988 to 1990 (revival).  Signed 7x9 in. photo. VG................30-40 

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120. (20th AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)   MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940) Poet.   ALS (2000).  JOHN JAKES (1932) Historical Novelist, Author.  SIGNED CARD (1991).   HAYDEN CARRUTH (1921-2008) Poet and Literary Critic.  TLS (2002).    LAURA BENET(1884-1979) Poet and sister of William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet.  TLS (1961).   IRA LEVIN (1929-2007) Author, Dramatist, Songwriter noted works “Deathtrap”, “Rosemary’s Baby”, “A Kiss Before Dying”, “Boys from Brazil”.  TLS (2000).  PHILIP LEVINE (1928) Poet – ANS (ny,nd).    ANTHONY LEWIS (1927-2013) Pulitzer Prize Writer, Journalist.  SIGNED 5x7, inscribed photograph at his desk.   RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1844-1909) Poet and Editor  SIGNATURE (1889)..........Min. Bid $50




121. [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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122. 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



123. 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





124. [NAVAL] Group of 9 letters written to Lt. Comdr. Ellsworth Davis, 1919-32. These were sent by Ellsworth's mother to him while he was serving on the USS Burns & USS McDermut. Each with envelope. We have not read these letters. 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. VG.................60-80

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125. [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................40-60

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126. [ART] Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday & Co. 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 & Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here are 4 original drawings, unsigned. These were done while she was studying at the Art Students League. Provenance: Artist's Estate......Min. Bid $40

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127. MARYLAND CONGRESSMEN - A collection of 44 LS's written by House of Representative members from Maryland. Included are Michael D. Barnes (19), Stephen W. Gambrill (1), Gilbert Gude (6), Steny Hoyer (2), DeWitt S. Hyde (2) Gladys Spellman (2), and Newton Steers 12). Content is routine, mostly responding to constituent letters about specific proposed legislation. Dates range from 1929 to 1985. Steny Hoyer was House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011. He is currently House Minority Whip.........Min. Bid $100

128. ST. LOUIS - 3 original antique wood-engravings; 1845 & 1886. Very good condition.................50-75

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129. [FIXED LOT] includes: (1) Rogers Morton (1914-1979) U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Commerce during the administrations of presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, Jr., respectively. He also served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland. Signed 8x10 photo - looks like auto-pen. (2) Bill Froehlich - Producer, writer  known for MacGyver (1985), Return to Horror High (1987) and The Outer Limits (1995). Warner Bros. pay check, 1985, not signed by him. (3) Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron (1789-1868)  British nobleman, naval officer, peer, politician, and the seventh Baron Byron, in 1824 succeeding his cousin the poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron in that peerage. As a career naval officer, he was notable for being his predecessor's opposite in temperament and lifestyle. Sigbed 1839 address panel. (4) Josiah Bailey (1873-1946) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1931 and 1946. Before turning to a career in law, Bailey was editor of the Biblical Recorder, a newspaper for North Carolina Baptists. Signed 1920 bank check.  VG.  (5) group of 3 signed 3x5 cards signed - not identified. (6) A 1959 FDC postmarked S. Dakota signed [not ID'd]. Says Johnson on back. (7) Three envelopes dated 1929 bearing printed Free Frank signatures of congressmen Edward F. Cooke, Wm. F. Brunner & S. Otis Bland. Needs research..............Min. Bid $25

130. [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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131. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President McKinley. Opposite illustration is historical text of President's life and administration. Copyright, 1907, Bureau of National Literature & Art & Gravure Company of America. Print originates from White House Gallery of Official Portraits of Presidents folio book. Copyright on bottom left of print. Not a reproduction. Photo-gravure after painting by Benziger. Text by William M. Stewart – U.S. Senator from Nevada. Engraved president's autograph beneath the portrait.  Whole paper size is 19.5 x 16 in. High quality paper. Image size about 12 x 7. There is some foxing..........Min. Bid $25

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132. [ART] James Fagan [b. 1864) American etcher. Original etching, titled "MAECENAS", plate signed, c. 1901. Image approx. 4-1/2 x 3-1/2 plus margins. Tissue guard still attached. Gaius Maecenas, (born c. 70—died 8 bc), Roman diplomat and literary patron. He claimed descent from Etruscan kings. VG...................50-75

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133. [ART] William Grainger - 18th century British engraver, active 1784-1793. Original copperplate engraving c. 1790s, image size approx. 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" plus margins. Clean image area and surrounding; spots and stain in outer margins. VG......50-75
 
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134. Leon Uris (1924-2003)  American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976). Signed photo, 8x10 in. VG..........80-120

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135. [US GRANT] offered here is a Boston Post Jan. 2, 1873 newspaper containing HAPPY NEW YEARS PRESIDENT GRANT article on page 4...................20-30



136. [MISSOURI TERRITORY] Boston Recorder Mar. 20, 1819 newspaper with an article inside page FIRST PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.  4pp..............20-30


137. [INDIANS Boston Recorder Jan. 9, 1819 newspaper. Article on page 4 about Cherokee Nation to Surrender to thje United States. 4pp..............20-30



138. [PHOTOGRAPHY] RUBEN  SOBOL (1889-1944) PARIS PHOTOGRAPHER. Offered here is a vintage photograph of the French film actress, Tania Fedor (1925-1985). Approx. 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 in., and ink signed on front by Sobol. Ruben Sobol specialized in portraiture of entertainment personalities including the likes of Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, the Dolly Sisters, Lucienne Boyer, Raquel Meller, Marie Dubas, etc., also staging photo shoots on the prominent stages of Paris including Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, Palace. Fine.................200-300

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139. [PHOTOGRAPHY] RUBEN  SOBOL (1889-1944) PARIS PHOTOGRAPHER. Offered here is a vintage photograph of the French film actress, Tania Fedor (1925-1985). Approx. 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 in., and ink signed on front by Sobol. Ruben Sobol specialized in portraiture of entertainment personalities including the likes of Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, the Dolly Sisters, Lucienne Boyer, Raquel Meller, Marie Dubas, etc., also staging photo shoots on the prominent stages of Paris including Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, Palace. Fine.................200-300

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140. [PHOTOGRAPHY] RUBEN  SOBOL (1889-1944) PARIS PHOTOGRAPHER. Offered here is a vintage photograph of the French film actress, Tania Fedor (1925-1985). Approx. 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 in., and ink signed on front by Sobol. Ruben Sobol specialized in portraiture of entertainment personalities including the likes of Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, the Dolly Sisters, Lucienne Boyer, Raquel Meller, Marie Dubas, etc., also staging photo shoots on the prominent stages of Paris including Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, Palace. Fine.................200-300

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141. [PHOTOGRAPHY] RUBEN  SOBOL (1889-1944) PARIS PHOTOGRAPHER. Offered here is a vintage photograph of the French film actress, Tania Fedor (1925-1985). Approx. 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 in., and ink signed on front by Sobol. Ruben Sobol specialized in portraiture of entertainment personalities including the likes of Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, the Dolly Sisters, Lucienne Boyer, Raquel Meller, Marie Dubas, etc., also staging photo shoots on the prominent stages of Paris including Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, Palace. Fine.................200-300

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142. [PHOTOGRAPHY] RUBEN  SOBOL (1889-1944) PARIS PHOTOGRAPHER. Offered here is a vintage photograph of the French film actress, Tania Fedor (1925-1985). Approx. 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 in., and ink signed on front by Sobol. Ruben Sobol specialized in portraiture of entertainment personalities including the likes of Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, the Dolly Sisters, Lucienne Boyer, Raquel Meller, Marie Dubas, etc., also staging photo shoots on the prominent stages of Paris including Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, Palace. Fine.................200-300

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143. [PHOTOGRAPHY] RUBEN  SOBOL (1889-1944) PARIS PHOTOGRAPHER. Offered here is a vintage photograph of the French film actress, Tania Fedor (1925-1985). Approx. 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 in., and ink signed on front by Sobol. Ruben Sobol specialized in portraiture of entertainment personalities including the likes of Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, the Dolly Sisters, Lucienne Boyer, Raquel Meller, Marie Dubas, etc., also staging photo shoots on the prominent stages of Paris including Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, Palace. Fine.................200-300

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144. [ART] Albert Sterner (1863-1946) original lithograph, KISS OF THE ANGEL, 1914, approx.   14-3/4 x 10-1/4 in. plus margins. VG................200-300

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145.  [ART] Albert Sterner (1863-1946) important artist born to American parents in London. He studied at the Julian Academy in Paris, France. He emigrated to the USA in 1881, moving first to Chicago and then to New York. Sterner was a noted painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Sterner did illustrations for Harper's and LIFE magazines, as well as several other publications. He was president of the Society of Illustrators (1907-1908) and later taught at the Arts Students League in New York (1918). He received many accolades and awards during his career. Lithography was pioneered in America by Albert Sterner (The Model, c. 1920), who with George Bellows (Parlor Critic, 1921) started the organization Painters-Gravers of America in New York in 1915. This was the first artist group committed to the development of lithography as a fine art medium in America and included artists John Sloan and Edward Hopper. George Bellows was introduced to fine art lithography by Sterner in 1916. Bellows was a quick study and soon became the leading printmaker of the Ashcan School. Offered here is a 1924 signed in the stone lithograph of Rollin Kirby (1875-1952) American political cartoonist. In 1922 he was chronologically the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, an honor that he would receive three times. Provenance: Sterner's summer home in Mass. Paper size approx. 19 x 12.5 in. VG...................200-300


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145. [ART] Charles Courtry (1846-1897)  online thew Metropolitan Museum of Art says "One of the most accomplished of French nineteenth century etchers."   He studied etching techniques in Paris under Francois Flameng and Leon Gaucherel.  Courty is also known for copperplate engraving and illustration but during his career focused primarily on etchings, completing around 500. Most of them were interpretive of drawings by others artists including Jean Chardin, Thomas Couture, Mihaly Munkacsy, Francesco Guardi, Joseph Israels and Constant Troyon.  Among his subjects is a portrait of artist, J.L. Ernest Meissonier, dated 1883. He also did an occasional still life etching such as Vase de Chelsea, 1874. Offered here is an original etching, plate signed, 5.5 x 7.5 plus wide clean margins. Fine..............100-200

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146. [ART] Original antique engraved by J. Greig, c. 1812, published c. pre-1850, image approx. 6-1/4 x 8-3/4 in. plus margins. This print is called A BANIAN TREE. VG...............25-35

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147. [ART] Old Master engraving from c. 1673. Offered here is a printed page from some unknown book which contains an original engraving, approx. 3-3/4 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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148. [ART] Old Master engraving from c. 1673. Offered here is a printed page from some unknown book which contains an original engraving, approx. 3 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. [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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150. [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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151. [ART] An antique etching by Charles Bernard de Billy of "The Victory of Faith" After St. George Hare (British, 1857-1933) of the 1891 painting. This version bears an embossed stamp on the lower left corner, from Royal Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The image is about 7-1/4 x 11-3/4 in. plus wide clean margins.............150-250

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152. [ART] Original etching by Emile-Frederic Salmon Xavier after a painting by Paul-Allen-Alfred Leroy entitled "The Blind Men of Jericho".  Salmon (1840-1913) Le Sueur was a noted French printmaker.  Size of the image is 9 3/4 x 8 3/4.  Signed in the plate beneath the image lower center.  Printed for the 1892-1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  Imprint of the Exposition lower left beneath the image.

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153.  Exhibition of Art Work by Walt Kuhn at the Walt Kuhn Gallery, at Cape Neddick Park, Maine, approx. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. Lists 11 oil paintings, 1 watercolor and 1 drawing, each with a price. 3 pages; no illustrations. Accompanied by a 1966 bank check signed by Brenda Kuhn. VG.............50-75

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154. [THEATRE] Julia Marlowe (1865-1950) English-born American actress, known for her interpretations of William Shakespeare's plays. CLIP SIGNATURE. Mounting traces on verso............25-35

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155. (20th CENTURY THEATER DIRECTOR/PRODUCERS LOT) ALEXANDER COHEN (1920-2000) Producer. SIGNED 10x8 photograph.  HAL PRINCE (1928) Director/Producer. TLS (1989) signed with his initials. THEODORE MANN (1924-2012) Director Producer. TLS (1976). VINCENT JULIAN DONEHUE (1915-1966) director of Stage, Film, TV died young. SIGNATURE  (2) on one sheet, with cover letter of Secretary...............50-75


156. [MUSIC] Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1923-2017)  Polish-American classical conductor and composer. AMQS, from his composition SYMPHONY FOR STRINGS, about 7-1/2 x 7 in. Fine................100-150

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157. [WRITERS MULTIPLE LOT] autograph signatures in various forms by: Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970); Jim Tully (1886-1947); Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942); Walter Kerr )1913-1996); Joaquin Miller (1841-1913); Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897); Sidney Kingsley (1906-1995); John F. Kierab (1892-1981); Charles Bertrand Lewis (1842-1924); Lowell J. Thomas (1892-1981) Temple Bailey (1885-1953)....................Min. Bid $100

158. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Hickenlooper [IA], Hickey [WY], Holland [FL], Hruska [NE], Johnston [SC], Jackson [WA], Jordon [NC], Kuchel [CA], Lausche [OH], Cotton [NH]. All have mounting residue at top & bottom edge. Mostly on verso but with some show-thru.............50-75

159. [POLITICAL EPHEMERA] Can America Be Saved? Offered here is a 4x6 in. card feathering Kenneth Goff & Don Lohbeck. Kenneth Goff (1914-1972) was an anti-Fluoride, Christian Identity, anti-Communist minister. He was the 1944 national chairman of Gerald L. K. Smith's Christian Youth for America. Donald Lohbeck (1917-1999) Self-employed as a musician in St. Louis then briefly worked as an organizer for the America First Committee. He was "subversive activity and tendency" which was based upon information received from G2-Army Intelligence that portrayed him as "pro-Nazi" [per FBI]. Arrested with Kenneth Goff for placing placards around front lawn of Russian Embassy in Washington DC. Lohbeck was Editor of Christian Nationalist Crusade magazine The Cross and the Flag (1947-1948). In 1951 Lohbeck ran for U.S. House of Representatives from the 11th Congressional District in Missouri on Christian Nationalist Crusade ticket. In 1952  Lohbeck ran for Governor of Missouri on Christian Nationalist Party ticket. VG..................Min. Bid $10

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160. [MARYLAND] Paul Sarbanes (b. 1933) a Democrat, is a former United States Senator who represented the state of Maryland. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, having served from 1977 until 2007. Group of 3 TLSs, 1977-80, 1p. each. To the President of a financial company, regarding various bills......40-60

161. [SPACE] JOHN GLENN - Guest Speaker flyer 1972, 1p.  About 8.5 x 11 in. Postmarked space stamps affixed..........Min. bid $20

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162. [US SENATORS LOT] Typed signed letters from US Senators to Vernon L. Talbertt, Chief Messenger, Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Includes: Paul H. Douglas, Stephen M. Young, George D. Aiken, Milton R. Young, Thomas H. Kuchel, & Jennings Randolph. These date 1960-1962. All have mounting traces on verso with slight show-thru....Min. Bid $35

163. [US SENATORS LOT] Typed signed letters from US Senators to Vernon L. Talbertt, Chief Messenger, Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Includes: Frank Church, Edward V. Long, Theodore Francis Green, Vance Hartke, George Smathers,  Bill Proxmire.  These date 1960-1961. All have mounting traces on verso with slight show-thru....Min. Bid $35

164. Rockwell Kent  (1882-1971) American artist, illustrator and author. He studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. A transcendentalist and mystic, Kent painted remote and austere lands, including Newfoundland (1914-15), Tierra del Fuego (1922-23), and Greenland (1929; 1931-32; 1934-35). Collotype offered here is from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925.  Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins. Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made paper. This is a proof printing. Fine, black impression, on cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce............100-150

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165. Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861) founded what would become known as Remington Arms. Originally the company was known as E. Remington followed by E. Remington & Son and then E. Remington and Sons. Signed document. Date looks like 1860. About 8 x 3 in. Fine...............200-300

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166. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Norman Robert Foster (b.1935)  English architect and designer. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. Signed 4x6 photo. (2) John Eisenhower (1922-2013) United States Army officer, diplomat, and military historian. He was a son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. Signed, inscribed 3x5 card, 1992. (3) Bonnie Blair (b.1964) is a retired American speed skater. She is one of the top skaters of her era, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history.  Signed 4 x 5-1/4 color picture. (4) Robert Ballard (b1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. He leads ocean exploration on E/V Nautilus. Ballard considers his most important discovery to be that of hydrothermal vents. Signed color 6x4 photo. (5) Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (b.1937) is a Finnish politician, the tenth president of Finland (1994–2000), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a United Nations diplomat and mediator noted for his international peace work. Signed 6x4 picture. (6) Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942)  Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (5 volumes, published after English translation 1907–1909). Ferrero devoted his writings to classical liberalism and he opposed any kind of dictatorship and unlimited government. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty times in six years. TLS with some handwriting, 1903, 1p. Fine.................Min. Bid $90

167. [BOBBY FISCHER] Robert James Fischer (1943- 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Offered here are 2 items once owned by Fischer. We bought his chess magazines at the Fischer Auction held in NY at Swann's Auction. Back around 1968 Fischer arranged thru a book dealer to sell his personal library because he needed money. The Brooklyn Library purchased in library.  Years later Swann's sold many items from the libraries collection. Offered here are 2 items: (1) A 1968 softcover brooklet titled FROM THEORY TO ACTION, 64pp. 8-1/2 x 10-3/4 in. (2) A 1961 page from a chess publication. Fischer subscribed to CHESS ARCHIVES EDITIONED BY DR. MAX EUWE.  They would mail to Fischer on some regular schedule multiple page of chess games. These would then be assembled in a notebook.  One page included here............50-75

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168. [CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE]  a letter dated June 29, 1925, to Albert R. Baird of Waterville, Minnesota, about the earthquake there. Four pages, sent from Santa Monica, Cal......Papers are full about the earthquake at Santa Barbara this morning, two distinct rockings followed a little later by a slighter one. Envelope included.........Min. Bid $10

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169. [CIVIL WAR] Original 1863 commission document from Bedford County, Penn., in which Andrew Gregg Curtin commissions George Smouse Jr., of Snake nSpring Township, a Justice of the Peace. 8 x 6-1/4 in. Signed by George Smouse Jr. Fine.............75-100

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170. (BRITISH THEATER NOTABLES LOT) DAME MADGE KENDALL (1848-1935) Actress. SIGNED CARD (1889).  WILLIAM H. KENDALL (1848-1917) Actor.  SIGNED CARD (1894) KATE RORKE (1866-1945) Actress, debut 1878 Geroge Bernard Shaw’s 1st “Candida” and 1st actress ever to smoke on stage. ALS (1892) 2pp.  LAWRENCE GROSSMITH (1877-1944) Actor.  The last of of the prominent acting family appeared in early Sherlock Holmes films and was brother in law of Vernon Castle.  SIGNATURE.  ELEANOR ROBSON (1879-1979) Actress.  SIGNED CARD (1903). EDITH WYNNE MATTHISON (1875-1955) Actress. ALS (1903) 2pp.  GRACE ARNOLD (1899-1979) Actress.  AQS from “Brewster’s Millions” (1908). WILLIAM FAVERSHAM (1868-1940) Actor.  SIGNATURE (1930)...............Min. Bid $50

171.  [AMERICANA] Richard E. Pairo, Attorney Ar Law writes an 1885 letter to attorney J.W. Pickering in Boston. It seems that Margaret Mockler made a claim as the widow of Thomas Mockler, deceased, formerly a Laudsman on the USS Fernandina and collected $36.13 Prize money.  Years later a man claiming to be Thomas Mockler makes a claim.  3-1/3 pages,  5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in.  Pairo is asking for additional information to begin the process of determing who the imposter is, Margaret or the other man. VG..........Min. Bid $25

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172. WILLIAMS, JACK. Governor of Arizona 1967-75. Dated Nov. 20, 1967, Williams expresses sympathy and encloses an autographed photo. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text. Some off-print from ink signature when folded..........20-30

173. [FILM] George Segal Jr. (1934-2021) American actor, comedian and musician. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as Ship of Fools (1965) and King Rat (1965), he co-starred in the classic drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Signed, inscribed 5x7 picture. Fine..................50-75

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174. Malcolm Taylor Dougherty (pen name Malcolm Taylor) (1888-1989) author of boys' books and a poet. An archive of 10 ALSs  dated 1983-1989, PLUS 7 Christmas cards, each with long notes written by him on them; plus a photo and funeral card. Interesting reflections by a centenarian. Most are signed "Doc." VG.......Min. Bid $35

175.  ROBERT S. DOCKING - Governor of Kansas 1967-75. Letter dated Nov. 20, 1967, sending autographed photo and expressing regret for addressee's son's illness.....20-30

176. J. Glenn Beall (1894-1971) Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1953-1965. He was also a United States Congressman, representing the sixth district of Maryland from 1943-1953. Group of 5 TLSs, 1957-1975, to Vernon Talberett [1] & 4 to another person. Only the letter to Talberett has the mounting residue on the verso...........25-35

177. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Gerard Bauer (1888-1966);  Jean-Jacques Weiss (1827-1891); Alfred de Courcy (1816-1888);  plus 6 others.  No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150

178. [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

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179. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs:  [1] Lahaye, Louis-Marie de. Viscount de Cormenin [1788-1868] French lawyer and political writer. Member of Chamber of Deputies (1828-46, 1848); opposed to Louis-Philippe; appointed councilor of state (after 1848). Author of Droit administratif (1821), Les Entretiens de village (1846), etc. ALS, no date, 1p, 5 x 7 in.   [2] Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis [1866-1934]. French diplomat. Son of Marcelin Berthelot. Entered diplomatic service (1889); adviser to Briand and active in Allied liaison during World War I; secretary general of ministry of foreign affairs (1920-21, 1925-32). TLS, 1925, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. To the poet Aime Giron.  [3] GUSTAV SIMON - Paris dramatist. ALS, 1911, 2pp. Blue pencil word underlined on front.  [4] LEON RIOTOR - FR. AUTHOR. ALS, 1928, 1p. re: about adapting novel for film.  [5] Pierre Girault de Nolhac (1859-1936) French historian, art historian and poet. ALS, no yr., 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine.  [6] Séverin Faust (1872-1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. ALS written on back of picture postcard, not postmarked VG   [7] Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart (1859-1942), French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1907 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ALS, 1920, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in.  [8] Pierre François Hercule de Serre (1776-1824) Minister of Justice [1818-21]. ALS, Paris, no date, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG.  [9] Paul Ferrier (1843-1928) French dramatist. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he secured real success with two short pieces, Chez l'avocat and Les Incendies de Massoulard. Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations (1876); L'Art de tramper les femmes (1890), with M. Najac. One of Ferrier's biggest successes was the production with Fabrice Carré of Josephine vendue par ses sÏurs (1886), an opera bouffée with music by Victor Roger. His opera libretti include La Marocaine (1879), music of Jacques Offenbach; Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1896) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of A Messager; La Fille de Tabarin (1901), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. Only minor faults.  [10] Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891) French novelist. His novels deal with crime, the police, and Parisian life. They had a high circulation, and the greater part of them have been translated into English. ALS, 1880, 1p. Moderate foxing throughout.......200-300

180. [FILM] Lois Moran (1909-1990)  American film and stage actress. Moran's stage activities included singing and dancing at the Paris National Opera when she was 13 years old. Moran's film career began when she made her first film in Paris at age 14. She is probably best known for her role as Laurel Dallas, daughter of the title character, in the 1925 film Stella Dallas, which was her Hollywood film debut.  She appeared in early sound movies such as Behind That Curtain (1929), and some musical movies, such as A Song of Kentucky (1929), Words and Music (1929), and Mammy (1930). She then moved to Broadway, where she appeared in the play This Is New York (1930), and the musicals Of Thee I Sing (1933) and Let 'Em Eat Cake (1934).  ALS, 1986, 1-1/2 pp. Discusses her favorite movie she appeared in [God Gave Me Twenty Cents 19260, and  director Henry King. With envelope. VG..............50-75

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181. [RELIGION] PERRAUD, Orat., Adolphe-Louis-Albert [1828-1906] French Cardinal. ALS, 1888, 1p, 5 x 8 in. VG...........50-75

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182. [FRANCE] Pierre Patte (1723–1814) was a French architect who was the assistant of the great French teacher of architecture, Jacques-François Blondel, whose Cours d'architecture which ran to nine volumes by 1777, he saw through the press after Blondel's death in 1774.  He has been credited for having been the first to illustrate a city street plan with buildings and sewer system shown in a section view, a reference to a section he produced in 1769, though recent study has shown the irrefutable influence of a similar drawing produced by the Portuguese engineer Eugenio dos Santos in the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Under the reign of Louis XV Patte theorized in the middle of the 18th century about thinking about the overall structure of the city as an urban organism where changing one aspect would affect the whole thing. A century later some of Patte's ideas would help change Paris under the direction of Baron Haussmann.  Offered here is 7 lines identified as written by Patte, dated 1768, 1p, 7.5 x 9 in. Fine.............50-75

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183. [FRANCE] group of French autographs:  [1] Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire  (1834-1923)  magistrate and French writer. As a prosecutor about the Court of Appeal of Paris , he drew up an indictment against the General Boulanger . He resigned when the Dreyfus affair came before the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court (1899) and campaigned against the Dreyfus. He is known as a writer under the pen name "Jules Glouvet", "Jules Glouvet" and "Lucia Herpin." The guide Paris-Paris, who considers 1899 as a "reputation of Parisian life," says that he "is a journalist in a fit of bad temper".  ANS, written on both sides of his calling card.  [2] Louis-François Du Bois(first written Dubois) was born in Lisieux on 16 November 1773 and died in Mesnil-Durand on 9 July 1855, was a historian, poet, translator, scholar, agronomist, politician and administrator.  ALS, 1843, 1p. [large stains].  [3] Alexandre Mercereau  (1884-1945)  writer and poet.  ALS, 1907, 3pp.  [4] Alphonse Lemerre (1838-1912) Fr. editor.  ALS, nd, 2pp.  [5] Alphonse Huillard-Breholles  (1817-1871) historian. ALS, Paris, 1869, 3pp., signed H.B.  [6] Charles Mere ( 1883-1970)  French film director, screenwriter and playwright. ALS, 1967, 2pp., about his play 'Les Trois Masques'.  [7] Emile Berr (1855-1923) Fr. journalist. ALS, 1896, 1p.................150-250



184. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (1878–1961) was an American historian of the South, author, and the founder of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he spent most of his academic career. He published books and articles about the history of Reconstruction but his most influential role was as an archivist, collecting manuscripts from around the South that form the core of the Southern Historical Collection.  TLS, 1943, 1p, to Peter Brannon, Department of Archives and History, State of Alabama.  VG................60-80 

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185. Looks like a postcard signed by many persons [?].......Min. Bid $10    CLICK HERE

186. Signed 1912  card. Signatures not identified............Min. Bid $10  CLICK HERE

187. [WEST VIRGINIA] John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (b.1937) is a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. He was the 29th Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally progressive Republican dynasty. Document signed, 1969, 2pp, 8.5 x 13 in. He signs as the Sec. of State for West Virginia, a Certificate, a finance company...............50-75

188. Gabriel-Marie Garrone (1901-1994) Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. Signed card 6-1/4 x 4-1/2 in. Fine..............50-75

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189.  [GREAT BRITAIN] group of signed address panels: (1) Sir William Horne (1774 – 13 July 1860) was a British barrister and Liberal politician. Postmarked 1834. (2) Stephen Lushington (17892-1873)  British judge, Member of Parliament and a radical for the abolition of slavery and capital punishment. He served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1838 to 1867.Postmarked 1833. (3) Benjamin Lumley (1811-1875) was a Canadian-born British opera manager and solicitor. Born Benjamin Levy, he was the son of a Jewish merchant Louis Levy. Postmarked 1833. (4) Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician. Postmarked 1826. (5) Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, GCB, PC (9 January 1780 – 21 July 1845) was a British Tory politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835. Postmarked 1833. VG.............100-150

190. Cyril Ritchard (1897-1977) Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director. He is probably best remembered today for his campy performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan. DOCUMENT SIGNED, April 21, 1961, 1p, 4to. An agreement to appear on the Hy Gardner Show [TV]. Fine............50-75 

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191. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (1784-1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain was at the height of its imperial power. Signed address panel, sent to Sir Herbert Taylor, undated, marked PRIVATE.  Taylor was most likely Sir Herbert Taylor (1775-1839) the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, serving Kings George III, George IV and William IV. About 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. Fine...............60-80

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192. Carlos P. Romulo [1899-1985] Filipino diplomat. He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942. Signature mounted with Philippines stamp......25-35

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193. Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) American socialite, heir, businessman, and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. He was the favorite grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who left him $5 million, and the eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, who left him close to $70 million. In his turn he succeeded them as head of the New York Central and related railroad lines in 1885. Signature on 4-3/4 x 2-1/4" slip. Different color in "Yours respectfully" above signature. Faint fold line; slightly soiled...........50-75

194. [FRANCE - MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Georg JACOBI [1840-1906] Violinist, composer, conductor. ALS, 1878, 1p. "The music of the Golden Wreath being not published and having no time to spare I beg to excuse me if I can not grant your desire to plat some of my music. I am very much obliged for your kind letter and also pleased to know you like my music." Laid to mounting paper board. (2) Albert Thibaudet (1874-1936) French essayist and literary critic. A former student of Henri Bergson, he was a professor of Jean Rousset. He taught at the University of Geneva, and was succeeded in his post by Marcel Raymond. ALS, no date, written on both sides. VG. (3) Pauline Dameron (1825-1890) Mezzo-soprano.  She sang the roles of Ines in the premiere of Le trouvere at the Opera in Paris in 1857, having begun her career there around 1847.  ALS, no year, 1p, 4 x 5-1/4 in. VG (4) Jean Pierre Conty, born Jean Pierre Walrafen (1917-1984)  French writer , known for his spy novels . The hero of most of his works is Akiha Mr. Suzuki, a Japanese spy. He also published under the pseudonym Jean Crau. ALS, dated but can't make it out, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG. (5) Victor Bérard (1864-1931) was a French diplomat and politician. Today, he is still renowned for his works about Hellenistic studies and geography of the Odyssey.  Bérard's "L'Angleterre et l'impérialisme" was translated into English and published in 1906 as "British imperialism and commercial supremacy". LETTER SIGNED, 1913, signed on verso, 1-1/2 pp.,  8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG. (6) Henri Bremond (1865-1933)  French literary scholar, sometime Jesuit, and Catholic philosopher, one of the theological modernists.  ALS, not dated, 1p,  approx. 6 x 8 in.   VG................Min. Bid $50




195. [ACTORS MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Edith Fellows (1923-2011) brief ALS. (2) Butterfly McQueen (1911-1995) ANS on verso of printed picture of her and David Hartman on the Mike Douglas Show. (3) Betty Blythe (1893-1972) ALS, no date, written on both sides. (4) Sir Alan Bates (1934-2003) signed 3x5 bright color card. (5) Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) ALS 1884. (6) Shirley Booth (1898-1992) signed card - also signed by Ilka Chase................Min. Bid $50


196. [US SENATORS LOT] Typed signed letters from US Senators to Vernon L. Talbertt, Chief Messenger, Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Includes Pete Williams 1919-2001) NJ. Russell B. Long (1918-2003) La.  Carl T. Curtis(19005-2000) Neb. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (1903-1960) Mo. Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) ILL. Ernest Gruening (1887-1974) Alaska Gov. & Senator.  These date 1960-1961. All have mounting traces on verso with slight show-thru..................Min. Bid $35

197. [AMERICANA] Benjamin Wadsworth (1750-1826) undated manuscript document signed Mr. Wadsworth making a payment to Dr. Holten. Wadsworth was the pastor of the First Church in Danvers, Massacustetts. Samuel Holten was a Continental Congressman from Massachusetts. Approx. 6 x 3-3/4 in. VG................80-120....................Min. Bid $20

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198.  [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+..........50-75

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199. 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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200. John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940) American architect who worked in the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style. He designed more than 1,000 buildings in the state of Maine. TLS, Portland, Maine, 1925, 1p, re: reserving a book for him. VG.............100-150 

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201.  [SHOW BIZ] Mixed Lot: [1] Dame Edith Evans [1888-1976] Eng. actress. Signature. [2] Mary Healey- actress. Sig. 3x5 card. [3] Sylvia Sidney [1910-1999] actress. Sig 3x5 card w/note. [4] Olga San Juan - signed album page [1947]. [5] CRAIG STEVENS (1918-2000) American Actor - He was well showcased as a soft-hearted gangster in At the Stroke of Twelve, a 1941 two-reel adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Old Doll's House, but his feature film roles were merely adequate at best. By 1950, Stevens was reduced to playing a standard mustachioed villain in the Bowery Boys epic Blues Busters. His saving turnaround came about when Stevens was cast in the title role of the 1958 Blake Edwards-produced TV private eye series Peter Gunn. Though obviously imitating Cary Grant in the early episodes of this three-season hit, Stevens eventually developed a hard-edged acting style all his own. He later re-created his TV role in the 1967 theatrical feature Gunn. Subsequent TV-series assignments for Stevens included the British-filmed weekly Man of the World (1962) and CBS' Mr. Broadway (1964). SIGNED 3x5 card with sentiment. SLIGHT SMEAR TO 1st letter. [6] (Hortense) Rhea [1844-1899] Belgium actress. Sig. card, w/sentiment, 1894. [7] Stuart Robson [1836-1903] stage actor. Signature w/sentiment. [8] Henry Wilcoxon (1905-1984) was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films. VINTAGE SIGNATURE WITH SENTIMENT ON ALBUM PAPER. [9] Gladys Walton [1896-1993] Am. actress of the silent screen. Signature, inscribed. [10] Lillian Gish [1893-1993] Am. actress. Signed 3x5 card............100-150

202. [ENTERTAINMENT] Ed Asner (1929-2021) American actor, voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his role as Lou Grantduring the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............40-60

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203. [TV] Robert Urich (1946-2002) American film, television and stage actor and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, Urich starred in a record 15 television series.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........40-60

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204. [FILM] Samantha Eggar [b. 1939] English actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.....25-35

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205. [MUSIC] Edward Gregson [b. 1945] English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He has made a major contribution to the repertoire of brass and wind bands and ensembles including for brass. AMQS, inscribed, from his 1979 "Trombone Concerto". 6x4. VG.............50-75

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206. [FILM] Benjamin Bratt (b.1963) American actor, producer, and activist.  Signed 10 x 8 photo. Fine..........25-35

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207. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 13, 1953, 6pp. Her contract with the William Morris Agency for 3 years. Signed on last page; also signed by her agent............50-75

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208. [CABINET] Cyrus Vance Sr. (1917-2002)  United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Signed & inscribed color 5x7 photo plus TLS, 1977. Fine.............50-75

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209.  [MUSIC] Ivan Erod (b. 1936) Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist. AMQS on 6x4 card. Fine........60-80

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210. [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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211. [THEATRE] Richard Mansfield (1857-1907)  English actor-manager best known for his performances in Shakespeare plays, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and the play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. SIGNATURE on 3-1/4 x 1-1/2 in. card. Fine................40-60

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212. [TV] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) Canadian actress known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions. She was twice married to actor George C. Scott. SIGNED 1961 contract to act in The Play of The Week: "No Exit." She was paid $650. 4 pages; signed on pg. 1 and pg. 4. Unique.......50-75

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213. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Grayson Louis Kirk (1903-1997) was president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also a Professor of Government, advisor to the State Department, and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations. Signed photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh [original, with Karsh blindstamp on verso. 8 x 10 in. VG..............200-400...............Min. Bid $80

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214. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Lucy Cotton (1895-1948) was an American actress who appeared in 12 films between 1910 and 1921. Brief ALS, 1919, 1p. with envelope.  About 5-1/4 x 4-1/4 in. VG (2) Mrs. G. H. Gilbert (1821-1904) British actress. Signed 3x2 in. card, dated 1904. (3) Leueen MacGrath (1914-1992)  English actress and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman. ALS, not dated, written to Franklyn Lenthall, 1p.  Lenthall (1919-2001) was an actor, known for Kiss of Death (1947) and Carnegie Hall (1947). He was the Founder of the Boothbay [Maine] Theatre.  Provenance: The Boothbay Theatre Museum Collection. VG (4) [FILM] Karl Alexander (1938-2015) American fiction writer.  He was the son and nephew of screenwriters—his father, William Tunberg, wrote the screenplay for Old Yeller, and his uncle, Karl Tunberg, wrote the screenplay for Ben-Hur—and worked on a number of films himself. Alexander's first novel Time After Time was published by in 1979. It was adapted as a successful 1979 film of the same title, as a musical in 2010, and as a television series to premiere in the fall of 2016. He became internationally known for his role in the film le Fou 4 in 2004. Jaclyn the Ripper, Alexander's sequel to Time After Time, was published in 2009. Signed [verso] Warner Bros. paycheck, 1984. Fine. (5) Oscar Handlin (1915-2011) American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history, virtually inventing the field of immigration history in the 1950s. Handlin won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Uprooted (1951).  Handlin's 1965 testimony before Congress was said to "have played an important role" in passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that abolished the discriminatory immigration quota system in the U.S. Signed 1p. typescript from THE UPROOTED. 8.5 X 11. VG (6) Lynn Bari (1913-1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 movies for 20th Century Fox from the early 1930s through the 1940s. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG. (7) Claire Trevor (1910-2000)  American actress. She appeared in 68 feature films from 1933 to 1982,[2] winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937). Trevor was billed first for Stagecoach (1939); her profile was higher than John Wayne's at the time. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG.................Min. Bid $50

215. [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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216. [FRANCE] Pierre Loti (1850-1923) French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories. Three lines written on black-boarded card signed Pierre, 5-1/4 x 4-1/4 in..........50-75

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217. [FOREIGN MIXED LOT] mostly French autographs. Includes: (1) Alice Verlet (1873–1934)  Belgian-born operatic coloratura soprano active primarily in France. She sang principal roles at the operas in Lyon, Nice, and Monte Carlo; at His Majesty's Theater in London; at La Monnaie in Brussels; and at the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique. In the United States, although not entirely absent from the operatic stage, she was known primarily as a concert singer and was a featured singer on Edison records. Large signature on 7-1/2 x 6-1/4" slip. VG (2) Marthe Fiel [1873-1949] French writer of novels for young people. She also wrote under the pseudonym Claude Grey. Two ALSs, 1923 & 1944, each written on both sides. Not translated. Red pencil notation marks on each. (3) Yvette Horner (b. 1922-2008)  French accordionist. ALS, no date on 3x5 card. VG. On the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille occurred Horner 1989 with the Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Quincy Jones  she gave in the Palais des Congrès de Paris, a concert with Marcel Azzola and the Orchestre Philharmonique Européen led by Hugues Reiner. (4) Hazel Court (1926-2006) English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG (5) Philippe Berthelot (1866-1934) was an important French diplomat, son of Marcellin Berthelot. He was a republican (as opposed to monarchists and the Far-right leagues at that time).  He entered the French diplomatic service in 1889 and joined the foreign office in 1904. In 1920, he became secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the rank of ambassador. After a violent campaign of Far-right leagues he was forced to step aside from 1922-1925 because of his involvement in the scandal opposing Banque Industrielle de Chine, controlled by his brother, and Banque d'Indochine (linked to Paul Doumer).  He was friends with, and important in the diplomatic careers of, Paul Claudel and Saint-John Perse.  ALS, nd, 1-1/2 pages. Fine. (6) Robert R. Parrish (1916 - 1995) American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul. Brief TLS, no date. (7) ALBERT BATAILLE [1856-1899] judiciary journalist noted for his coverage of the Dreyfus Affair; wrote a book on this important event in French history. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, 1893. Although not mentioned this is to the French poet Aime Giron. Fine. (8) Francois Debret [1777-1850] French architect. He designed the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique. He was a controversial and overzealous restorer of historic buildings. ALS, 1827, 2pp., plus address leaf. VG (9) Marie-Louis Marcellus (1795-1865) French diplomat and writer.  He published many works on Greece, Palestine and Chateaubriand. Through his involvement the Venus de Milo statue ended up in the Louvre Museum in Paris. News of the discovery of the statue took longer than normal to get to the French ambassador. The peasant grew tired of waiting for payment and was pressured into selling it to Nicholas Mourousi, Grand Dragoman of the Fleet, working as a translator for Sultan Mahmud II in Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey).  The French ambassador's representative, Vicomte de Marcellus, arrived just as the statue was being loaded aboard a ship bound for Constantinople and seized the statue and persuaded the island's chief citizens to annul the sale. Upon learning of the reversal of the sale, Nicholas Mourousi presumably had the chiefs whipped and fined.  In 1821, Mourousi was executed by order of Sultan Mahmud II in front of the arsenal in Constantinople. This was amidst massive executions of Phanariote Greeks and the beginning of the Greek War of Independence.  Offered here is a brief ALS, no date, 1p.  The address leaf is addressed to Marquis de Belleval and bears a black wax seal still in tact. Approx. 4-1/4 x 6-1/2". VG..................Min. Bid $90

218. [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 75 pieces. Mixed conditions...............Min. Bid $25

219. 38 Letters From Hicks family in Massachusetts. Offered here are about 38 letters, with their envelopes, 1917-1919. 13 letters are from Charles L. Hicks to his mother Carrie E. Hicks. Looks like Charles is in the navy. There are 25 letters from mother Carrie E. Willis Hicks (1866-1948) to her daughter Ada Hicks [Mills] (1898-1980. These date 1915-18. We have not read ANY of the letters.............80-120

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220. [U.S. SENATE] 17 typed letters ink signed by the following US Senators: Harry F. Byrd Jr., Wallace F. Bennett, Arthur Capper, Simeon D. Fess, Samuel M. Shortridge, David A. Reed, Clarence D. Clark [light in sig.], Millard E. Tydings, George H. Moses, Guy D. Goff, Walter E. Edge, Quentin N. Burdick, William Cabell Bruce, James E. Murray, Jesse H. Metcalf, Carroll S. Page, H.D. Hatfield, Roscoe C. McCulloch. These dates  1901 - 1973. VG................150-200

 

221. [AMERICANA] Mystery document  [pre-1800] from the Estate of Josiah Bartlett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the First Governor of New Hampshire.  It is simply a list of 22 names. Not known who wrote this but it comes directly out of the home of Bartlett in Kingston, NH. Years ago the was an estate auction at that home. The auctioneer was Martin Willis and it appears online when googled. Approx. 4.5 x 7.5. VG..............25-35

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222. [FRANCE] Jean-François de Hercé  (1776-1849) was a dignitary of the Catholic Church and French politician, mayor of Laval then bishop of the diocese of Nantes. ALS, 2pp, approx. 8-1/2 x 13". VG.  He played a role in the 1848 Revolution...........100-150

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223. [NEWSPAPER]  New York Tribune, 1852. On page 5 - article about the funeral of Daniel Webster being postponed.  Describes the burial case [coffin].  VG.......Min. Bid $20

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224. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Emmanuel des Essarts (1839-1909); Henri Bernstein (1876-1953); Bertrand-Theobald-Joseph Lacrosse (1796-1865); plus 6 others.  No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150

225. [FRANCE] approx. 17 signed petitions to save the Olympia Music Hall in Paris [1970]. Signed by musicians, dancers etc. Each 8.5 x 11. All VG. Needs research..........100-150

226. [FRANCE - MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Georges Léonnec (1881 – 1940), the brother of the novelist Félix Léonnec, began his career as a cartoonist selling drawings to newspapers in 1899. After participating in World War I he worked as an illustrator for the magazine La Vie Parisienne. He worked for several other publications including Fantasio and Le Sourire. He was also well known for his advertising illustrations for Byrrh apéritif wine, Dufayel department stores, and the Casino of Paris. Lengthy ALS, no yr., 2-1/2 pp. (2) Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux (1874-1959) French politician. TLS, 1950. (3) Georges Chamarat (1901-1982)  French actor. He appeared in 109 films and television shows between 1929 and 1981. He starred in the film The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Full page ALS c. 1955-60. (4) Pierre Descaves (1924-2014) was a French politician. ALS 1952. (5) Paul Reboux, born André Amillet (1877-1963), French writer, humorist, literary critic and painter. He was the son of the journalist Charles Ernest Amillet (1829–1884) and the milliner Caroline Reboux. He later took his mother's maiden name with "Paul" as a pen name, and is usually known as Paul Reboux. Lengthy ALS, no date, 2pp.  (6) Henri-Camille Marcel called Henry Marcel  (1854-1926) was a 19th–20th-century French senior official, general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1905 to 1913. ALS, 191?. (7) Théodore Anne (1797-1869)  French playwright, librettist, and novelist. Engaged in the army in 1814, until the July Revolution of 1830 he was a member of the compagnie de Noailles then, still faithful to the Bourbons, he resigned. ALS 183?, 1p. All with some bio. info.................Min. Bid $75

227. [BUSINESS] Andrew William Mellon (1855-1937), sometimes A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from March 9, 1921 to February 12, 1932, presiding over the boom years of the 1920s and the Wall Street crash of 1929. TLS, 1924, 1p, as Sec. of the Treasury. Written to James H. Beck, Solicitor General, Washington DC thanksing Beck for his book on the Constitution and for pictures relating to the new art gallery in Philadelphia. The ink signature is a little on the light side o/w the letter is very good...............150-200

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228.  Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia, as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II, raised international controversy. TLS, 2000, 1p. Fine..............50-75

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229. [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 78 pieces. Mixed conditions...............Min. Bid $25

230.  Group of about 22 letters & documents, mostly receipts, from the Chas. B. Rounds papers. Date c. 1888-1905. he died around 1903 or 4. Don't think anything is signed by Rounds. 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 $10

231. PORTRAIT] Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1841-1909) French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Antique original wood-engraved portrait by R.G. Tietze. Approx. 7 x 5" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..............Min. Bid $10

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232. [WW 2 NAVAL] WILLIAM H.P. BLANDY (1890-1954), known to friends as "Spike", was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. He participated in the occupation of Veracruz, Mexico in 1914 and served on board the battleship USS Florida (BB-30) (BB-30) with the British Grand Fleet during World War I. During World War II he was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance from 1941 to 1943. Here he had a controversial role in the infamous torpedo scandal  involving the initially practically useless Mark 14 torpedo, and the long delays incurred on the work testing and launching the electric Mark 18 torpedo. In December 1943 he became Commander, Group 1, Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, and commanded the pre-invasion bombardment group during the campaign for Iwo Jima. Offered here are 2 document from the personal files of Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Captain Louis W. McKeehan, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while attached to the Research and Development Section, Bureau of Ordnance, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 to March 1944. These are: (1) Nov. 10, 1942. McKeehan has written at bottom "Mines Development".  (2) Oct. 22, 1943 Bureau of Ordnance Circular Letter, 4pp. - printed, signed Blandy in type. Both VG...............50-75

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233.  [ART] Francis Holl (1815-1884), was an English engraver and the son of prominent engraver William Holl the Elder (c1771-1838), to whom he was apprenticed. He was both successful and fashionable, producing work for book and print publishers. He spent twenty-five years engraving Queen Victoria's pictures during which period he executed commissions of other royal portraits. Often working from paintings by fashionable artists, he exhibited twenty engravings at the Royal Academy between 1856 and 1883, and was elected an associate engraver in 1883.[1] He was the father of Frank Holl and was the brother of engraver William Holl the Younger.  original engraving, "HUNTING BUFFALOES", after F.O.C. Darley, image approx. 5-3/4 x 8.5". VG...........Min. bid $20

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234. [ART] original engraving by Lovegrove - 18th century British engraver. Original copperplate engraving c. 1793, image size approx. 3 x 3-3/4 in. plus margins. Clean image area, slight toning in outer margins. VG...........Min. Bid $20

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235. [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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236. 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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237. [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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238. [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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239. [CHESS] 1965 printed page of chess once owned by Bobby Fischer. Approx. 5-3/4 x 9 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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240 [SPACE] A vintage original black and white portrait of John Glenn, Gus Grissom, and Alan Shepard in spacesuits in front of a Mercury-Redstone spacecraft. A black number photograph, with explanatory text stamped on the verso in purple/blue ink. The 3 Mercury Redstone pilots participated in Mercury's first manned space flights from the cape. Left to right is John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard. UNSIGNED as usual. Very scarce. Another example of this photo was offered at auction in 2020 with an estimate of $800-$1200 but it failed to sell. We believe this photo was taken by WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. Provenance: Willene Whisenhant collection. Fine..............400-600

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241. [DEMOCRAT PARTY]  Dorothy S. McAllister (1899-1983) born Grand Rapids, Michigan, she was one of the most important women on the Democratic National Committee. From 1937 to 1941, during the second administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. McAllister served as the director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee. In this capacity, she gave speeches throughout the country in support of the New Deal and Roosevelt. She was also strongly involved in the Division's "Reporter Plan," a system designed to make the average citizen more aware of policies and activities of the Roosevelt Administration. Mrs. McAllister resigned her political positions when President Roosevelt appointed her husband a federal judge. Soon thereafter, she accepted a Presidential appointment to the Volunteer Participation Committee in the 6th Army Corps Area Office of Civilian Defense. After World War II, her involvement in civic affairs was primarily on the state and local level. Offered here is a 1939 TLS with good political content, 1p.  8.5 x 10.75 in. VG...............50-75

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242.  SPORTS SIGNED SHEET from the Michael Bolton Celebrity Softball Challenge (1997) SIGNED by 13:  KYLE ROTE (1928-2002) Football THOMAS W. BROWN (1940) Football RON WALLER (1933) Football MIKE MEADE (1960) Football MICHAEL SANDOR SOMMER (1934) Football CHET HANULAK (1928) Football DIONNA HARRIS (1968) Olympic Gold Champion others unidentified...........50-75

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243. Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)  English author and poet. Signed poem, TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON, approx. 6 x 7 in. The poem is not in the hand of Gallienne but the signature is. VG.............80-120

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244. [BOOK] A GENEALOGICAL MEMOIR of the Family of RICHARD OTIS, prepared by Horatio N. Otis of New York, publ. Boston, 1851, softcover, 46pp, about 5-1/4 x 9 in. Age wear................50-75

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245. [CONGRESSMAN PHILBIN LOT] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). Offered is a unreseared lot of papers from the files of Philbin. Contains many carbon copies ofletters from Philbin; letters from people seeking advice or assistance, sometimes telegrams etc. About 76 pieces. Mixed conditions...............Min. Bid $25

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

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247. [AMERICANA] Linus Parmele (d. 1843) ALS, 1804, Haddam, Ct. to Rev. David Seldon (1761-1825) Congregational Minister of the Middle Haddam Church. One long page, 7.5 x 12.5 in. A lengthy letter about their Literary Society in Haddam, Ct. VG..................50-75

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248.  Deborah Raffin (1953-2012) American model, film and television actress. Offered here is a signed & inscribed  sketch, 8-1/4 x 5 in.  The signature in yellow is hard to see. VG.............50-75

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249. 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.................25-35

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250. [IRISH] Sir James Charles Mathew (1830-1908) was an Irish-born judge. Mathew was a driving force behind the creation of Commercial List in 1895, the forerunner of the modern Commercial Court, and was the first judge in charge of the List. CLIP SIGNATURE on 4-1/2 x 4-1/4 in slip. VG...............25-35

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251. [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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252. REPRESENTATIVES REPORT OF THE NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE ROYAL CLAN O.S.C. Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 29, 30th and July 1st 1887.  T.G. Fleming writes a 25 page handwritten report "To the worthy Chief, Officers and Clansmen of Clan Gordon No. 19, Hartford, Conn. Scottish Clans. VG..................100-200

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253. [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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254. [ENGLAND] George Pryme (1781-1868) British economist, academic and politician. In 1799, Pryme entered Trinity College, Cambridge, winning a scholarship there in 1800 and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1803. In 1804, he began studying law at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1806, practising in London until health problems forced him to return to Cambridge in 1808. In 1816, Pryme began conducting lectures on political economy at Cambridge, the first teaching of such a topic at any English university, and in that same year his lectures were published as a book entitled A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of Political Economy. In 1828, he was made Professor of Political Economy by the university senate, although a chair was not established for the topic at Cambridge until just before his retirement. He was politically active, and successfully opposed parliamentary candidates sponsored by the Duke of Rutland, and eventually winning a seat in the House of Commons representing Cambridge as a Whig. Pryme worked hard in the parliament, pushing for university reform at Oxford and Cambridge until his poor health prompted his family to urge his retirement from parliament. He returned to Cambridge and bought an estate in Wistow while continuing to lecture and practice as a barrister on occasion. He died in 1868. In 1870, his memoirs were published, Autobiographic Recollections of George Pryme, edited by his daughter Alicia Bayne. ALS, 1837, written on both sides. To Joshua Walmsby accepting invitation to dinner of the Reform Association of Liverpool.............50-75

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255. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL ink drawing, signed, titled Bridgewater, dated 1976. Approx. 8-3/4 x 11.5 in. VG...........50-75

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256. [WOMEN] Norma G. Zarky (1917-1977) was a prominent lawyer in Los Angeles, active in the fight for abortion rights and other civil rights. She co-authored a number of briefs with Rauh on civil rights cases during the 1950s. In 1954, during the McCarthy Era, the Department of Justice sought to fire her husband, Hilbert Zarky from his position with the Department, based primarily on Norma's very brief involvement with Communism when she was an undergraduate in the mid-1930s, along with such "crimes" as their belonging to a liberal book club and being at meetings attended by "suspect" individuals. After she and her husband filed numerous declarations from friends and prominent individuals regarding their loyalty to the United States, he was reinstated to his position. In 1961 she joined the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, where her husband worked, becoming the firm's first woman partner in 1968. At Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, she practiced primarily in the field of entertainment law.  Zarky was the first woman to serve as President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and was a founding member of Women in Film. She was also a recipient of Women in Film's first Crystal Award, "given to honor outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work in film, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry. In 1979, Women in Film established The Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award, which "is presented to individuals who, like Ms. Zarky herself, have demonstrated enlightened support for the advancement of equal opportunity for all and devotion to the improvement of the human condition."  Offered here are 5 letters concerning Bill Asher (1921-2012) the American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. He was married to Elizabeth Montgomery. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and was hyperbolically credited in one magazine article with "inventing" the sitcom. INCLUDES: 1963 TLS signed by Norma G. Zarky, to Milt Ebbins, Chrislow Productions; Milton Ebbins carbon copy replying; another ink signed 1962 TLS from Zarky to Ebbins re" Billy Asher Employment Agreement; a 1963 letter from Ann Swartz, Secretary to Zarky concering Asher; plus a 1963 copy of letter Asher.  So there are 2 ink signed tped letters from Norma Zarky. VG.....................100-150


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257. 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 indided. VG..............50-75

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258. [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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259.  [WOMEN] Emma Stone Lawrence Blackwell (1851-1920), sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who married George W. Blackwell; she became a school teacher, later worked for “The Woman’s Journal,” she was Lucy Stone’s niece, one-time president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's New Jersey chapter; she was a founder of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) and attended its initial meeting in February 1890. She served as its recording secretary in 1894-95. She served as the NJWSA secretary in 1900, historian in 1903, and president in 1905-07.  Offered here is a 1907 ALS, 2pp. signed "Emma". Written to her father Henry Lawrence. Fine.........50-75

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260. [ART - WALT KUHN ESTATE] 1947 Whitney Museum of American Art document - Received from Walt Kuhn, 112 East 18th Street, The Green Pom Pom, for 1947 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1947-1948.  Mostly likely Walt himself wrote in pencil "After 12".  About 5 x 7-3/4 in. Condition : see scan. This painting is now in the collection of The Butler Institute of American Art. It was painted by Walt Kuhn in 1944................100-150

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261. [ART - WALT KUHN ESTATE] 1927 Invitation card to Walt Kuhn Exhibition at Grand Central Art Galleries. On the verso is an original color drawing that we assume was drawn by Kuhn's daughter Brenda when she was 16 years old. Approx. 6 x 3.5 in. VG..............75-100

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262. [ART] Sir John M. Rothenstein CBE (1901-1992)  British arts administrator and art historian. From 1938–64 Rothenstein was Director of the Tate Gallery in London. Rothenstein's directorship — the longest to date — was one of the most successful. Offered here is a caricature drawing of Rothenstein, signed by him. The drawing was done by JACK ROSEN (1913-1989) was Director of Security at New York's Waldorf Astoria for thirty years (1932-1962), drawing caricatures of the many US Presidents, film stars and other celebrities who stayed there. He continued these drawings when he moved to the Battery City Park Authority. He also drew more than 25,000 images of US military personnel from three wars: World War II, Korea and Vietnam, many executed near the front. Collections of his caricatures are held by Boston University, while many others are displayed at his son's hotel and restaurant in Orlando, Florida. Approx. 10 x 7-1/4 in. Drawn on transparent paper so with white paper behind it will show up well. VG..............150-250

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

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First Dr. Watson in a Sound Film 

264. [EARLY FILM] Harry Reeves-Smith (1862-1938) English born stage actor who achieved success in Broadway productions at the turn of the twentieth century. He went to the U.S. in 1887 and toured with John Sleeper Clarke. In the U.S. he toured with actresses Henrietta Crosman and Grace George. He is mainly remembered for appearing in several hit plays. Ethel Barrymore became a stage star in Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines (1901) but Reeves-Smith's character Robert Jinks is the title of the play. In 1910 he appeared in another play with Barrymore, Mid-Channel, about a feuding couple. In 1912 he was opposite Laurette Taylor in her huge success Peg o' My Heart. In The Unchastened Woman (1915) the star was Emily Stevens. His last Broadway part was as Johan Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1935, at the age of 73. Reeves-Smith appeared in only three motion pictures, two silents and one sound. His last was The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) with Clive Brook, which holds the distinction of being the first Sherlock Holmes film to be shot in sound and Reeves-Smith the first Dr. Watson in a sound film. He pens 4 lines on verso of his personal calling card, signed with initials. 3 x 1-1/2 in. Fine.........50-75
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265. [ART] Paul-Victor Avril (1843-1904) etching, title is JETSAM, done after Edouard Rosset-Granger, 1893, image approx. 9 x 12 in. plus margins. VG..................150-200

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266. [ART] THE SINGING LESSON - etching by Chas. Alphonse Deblois , c. 1893, image approx. 8.5 x 12 in. plus margins. VG.............200-300

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267.  [NAVAL HISTORY] Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Offered here is an ink signed memo dated 3 Sept. 1946, JOINT TASK FORCE ONE [Navy Department], Washington DC. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............100-150

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American Physicist Louis W. McKeehan

268. [SCIENCE - WAR] The following are from the papers of the American physicist Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Offered here is a hand-drawn graph by McKeehan, dated 11 Oct. 1943, 1p, about 8 x 10.5 in. About EXPLOSIVES. Everything is in the hand of McKeehan.  VG.................75-100

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Rare Theatre Item

269. [THEATRE] George S. Knight (1850-1892) a popular comedic actor who specialized in German-dialect roles–in the title role of “Rudolph, Baron von Hollenstein.” Los Angeles Herald 12 February 1892: He Was a Brilliant Actor Until Disappointment Drove Him Crazy. Many people, before poor George S. Knight's death, drew a parallel between his condition and that of W. J. Scanlan, the clever and famous Irish comedian, who recently became a victim of paresis. There was considerable injustice to Knight in that. Scanlan's mind gave way under the awful strain put upon it by gambling and other dissipations—Knight's failed because of disappointment. He literally went mad of a broken heart. He was never a dissipated man. He was probably the best German comedian America ever produced. His real name was Sloan. He became famous through his work in "Over the Garden Wall." After he had played this piece all over America and in several English cities he bought a play called "Baron Rudolph" of Bronson Howard. He devoted every energy that was in him to making a success of this play, but failed. His sorrow over its failure was beyond a doubt what led to the brain trouble that kept him a prisoner in an insane asylum for years before his death and finally killed him. After his mind gave way came one of tht most splendid examples of wifely devotion the public hits ever seen. During his prosperity he married Sophie Worrell, an actress. They were very happy together. Before his faculties were wholly dimmed he begged his wife never to accept charity in his behalf. She never did. Moreover the stories that he was suffering from privations were wholly untrue. Sophie Knight's hard work and wifely love surrounded her husband with every comfort until the bitter end. Offered here is an ALS, 1887, on Rudolph, Baron von Hollenstein letterhead. Rare! Approx. 8 x 10 in. Fine..........Min. Bid $100

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270. [ART] Charles Volkmar (1841-1914) American painter, etcher. During his career, Charles Volkmar exhibited his etchings, paintings and pottery at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Boston Art Club, the American Watercolor Society and at the Brooklyn Art Association. Today his fine art is included in such noteworthy collections as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Original etching, A FAMILY OF QUACKS, plate signed, image approx. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. plus clean margins. Fine................200-300.......Min. Bid $50

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271. [CUBAN REVOLUTION] Dr. Frederick K. Solomon (1899-1980) signed typed manuscript REVOLUTION IN CUBA, 9pp. All of the pencil corrections are in the hand of Solomon. The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. The revolution began in July 1953, and continued sporadically until the rebels finally ousted Batista on 31 December 1958, replacing his government. Dr. Frederick Solomon was a progressive rabbi active in Havana’s Cuban-Jewish community during the 1950s and 60s. Dr. Solomon had escaped Nazi - occupied Europe for London and eventually established a congregation in Havana, Cuba. As a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Dr. Solomon served as the rabbi of 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. The rabbi 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. Rare................300-400

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The First Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in the United States

272. [MEDICINE] Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) was a veterinary surgeon. He earned the first D.V.M. degree awarded in the United States, and spent his career studying animal diseases for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He gave his name to the Salmonella genus of bacteria, which were discovered by an assistant, and named in his honor.   In 1883 he was asked to establish a veterinary division within the Department of Agriculture. It became the Bureau of Animal Industry and he served as its chief from 1884 to December 1, 1905. Offered here is a Signed document dated Sept. 20/96  [1896], which is a receipt for $100 contribution made by Salmon to the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science to the international fund for the erection of the Pasteur monument in Paris, France. This document comes out of the papers of Prof. Robert S. Woodward who had received the contribution check. This document is signed by Daniel E. Salmon as President of the Pasteur Monument Committee of the United States and  also signed by its secretary Emil Alexander de Schweinitz (1866-1904) American bacteriologist.  He taught chemistry in Tufts College, Massachusetts, and then became a Professor of Chemistry at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky.  After becoming associated with the chemical division of the Agricultural Department, Washington, D.C. in 1888, he was appointed as director of the biochemical laboratory of the department's Bureau of Animal Industry in 1890, a position he remained in until his death. He was a member of the American Public Health Association from 1896. He was also chair of chemistry and toxicology in the Columbian University and later its dean. He specialized in bacteria and immunity, and studied the bacterial products of tuberculosis, hog cholera and glanders. Among other essays, he published Laboratory Guide (1898). This document is is fine condition. Provence: from the personal papers of Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician.  He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. Also included here is a 1895 bank check signed by Woodward. This check is not connected to Salmon's contribution.  Rare!.........2000-3000

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273. [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 1 page manuscript written by Woodward [not signed], plus a pamphlet by Woodward: THE CENTURY...............100-150

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274. [SCIENCE] Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he was hired by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall as assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1902, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.  In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. Offered here are 2 handwritten pages written by Woodward about motion-rotation. About 8 x 10-1/4 in. PLUS a printed 11 page listing of published papers by Woodward [1903]. Both are fine condition. RARE!............200-300

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275. [JUDAISM] Maurice N. Eisendrath (1902-1973) was a leader of American Reform Judaism, the head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1943 until his death, an author, and an activist, particularly active in the U.S. Anti-war Movement of the 1960s. The Maurice N. Eisendrath Bearer of Light Award, one of the highest honors bestowed by the American Reform Movement, is named in his honor. On April 24, 1967, Eisendrath, Martin Luther King Jr., and other cultural and religious leaders formed the peace action group, Negotiation Now. Awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 1961. Offered here is a TLS signed Maurice, 1958, to Rabbi Frederick Solomon in Havana, Cuba. 1p. 7 x 10-1/2 in. Fine. Interesting content.....................100-150

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276. [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 $90

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277. [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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278. THE SECRETARY OF WAR - 133 printed gov. doc. signed in type Lew. Cass. Re: HALF PAY-COMMUTATION-BOUNTY LAND, 6pp., about 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG................Min. Bid $10

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279. [ART] Charles Henry White  (1878-1918) was born at Hamilton, Ontario, and was educated partly in Europe and partly in the United States. He studied for a time at the Art Student League in New York City, working at illustrations and especially pen drawing. It was Joseph Pennell, the prominent American etcher, whom Mr. White met in Venice, Italy, in 1901, who induced him to take up etching. Original etching, plate signed,  [1903], tissue guard still attached, image approx. 3-1/4 x 4-7/8" plus margins. VG.........50-75

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280. [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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281. Robert Steed (1903-1995) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey.  He is known as a painter, teacher, designer. He is best known for abstract oil paintings. His papers are held in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. Offered here is an original lithograph from the rare 1953 Improvisations portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York. Leading artists on the New York art scene were invited to contribute original lithographs in the form of advertisements for businesses and institutions supporting the Artists Equity Association; these sponsors allowed the artists complete creative freedom of expression. This lithograph was issued in an edition of 2000; the sheet measures 12 x 8-1/2 inches. Signed by Steed in the plate (not hand-signed). VG.................100-150

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282. [ART] JOSEPH LAUBER (1855-1948) American artist. Original etching , "Head of an Old Man" printed on fine nineteenth century laid paper and with full margins as published in 1881 by George Wistar Hodge Ritchie. It is signed and dated by the artist in the plate to the lower right. An American mural painter, etcher, sculptor, stained glass and mosaic artist, Joseph Lauber came to the United States at the age of nine. He studied art techniques in New York under Karl Muller, Walter Shirlaw and W. M. Chase. Joseph Lauber was a full member of the Mural Painters, New York Architectural League (1889), Artists' Fellowship Inc. (president), Salmagundi Club (1902) and the New York Etching Club. During his career Joseph Lauber was the recipient of many awards and medals, including awards at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) and Atlanta (1895). Joseph Lauber also served as the long time Instructor of Art at Columbia University, New York City. In 1883 the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Boston, held a major exhibition of contemporary American art.  Plate mark is approx. 5 x 3-1/2 in. Fine..................100-150

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283. [ART] George Forest Brush  N.A. (1855-1941) American painter and Georgist. In collaboration with his friend, the artist Abbott H. Thayer, he made contributions to military camouflage, as did his wife, aviator and artist Mary (called Mittie) Taylor (Whelpley) Brush, and their son, the sculptor Gerome Brush. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York, and also studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where Thayer was also a student. Among his many awards were gold medals at the Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Exposition Internationale (Paris, 1900), Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, 1901), and Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, 1904). He was elected to the Society of American Artists, the National Academy of Design (1908), and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1910). Offered here is an original lithograph, stone signed, image approx. 10 x 8 in. Some faults in outer margins..................75-100

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284. [ART] Original wood-engraving, VIEW OF PITTSBURGH , 1848. Image approx. 4 x 6 in. From the collection of Katherine Ebert, author of OLD AMERICAN PRINTS FOR COLLECTORS. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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285. [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.............80-120

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286. [FRANCE]  Jules Charles-Roux  (1841-1918)   manufacturer, shipowner and French politician. The death of his father, he took over the management of the factory that completely modernized. In 1877, he teamed with his brother Charles Canaple and two, they manage to represent 10% of the Marseille production end of the century. It is named that year director of the Banque de France to Marseille in 1877, along with Gustave Luce and Joseph Bonnasse .  He led an active struggle for the recognition of the profession of soap manufacturer. He also won several international awards and medals coming devote his business.  In the year 1900 , he crowns his career by going to chair several shipping companies, including the General Transatlantic Company, which he rectifies the situation in 1904. He also exercises the chairmanship of several other companies linked with maritime transport (shipyards, banks and insurance companies), the Marseilles Company steamship Fraissinet and C ie, Building and Ateliers de Provence, the Building Workshops and Saint-Nazaire , the Building Society Levallois-Perret, of "The Land-Transport» Marine Insurance Company, and then became president of the Central Committee of France Shipowners from 1910 to 1917.  ALS, 1905, 4 full pages...............80-120

287. [FRANCE] CHARLES BUET [1846-1897] Fr. novelist & dramatist. ALS, 1886, 1p.....50-75

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288. [RELIGION] Charles-Francois Turinaz [1838-1918] Catholic Archbishop. Extremely long ALS, 1902, 4 very full pages. Fine. Not translated.........80-120

289. Albert C. Ritchie (1876-1936) Maryland's longest-serving governor, with almost 15 years of service (14 years, 11 months, and 27 days) and a record four terms.  TLS, 1927, as governor, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Includes envelope. VG..............25-35

290. [THEATRE] Francesco Dall'Ongaro [1808-1873] Italian writer, poet and dramatist. He was educated for the priesthood, but abandoned his orders, and taking to political journalism founded the Favilla at Trieste in the Liberal interest. In 1848 he enlisted under Garibaldi, and next year was a member of the assembly which proclaimed the republic in Rome. On the downfall of the republic he fled to Switzerland, then to Belgium and later to France, taking a prominent part in revolutionary journalism; it was not till 1860 that he returned to Italy, where he was appointed professor of dramatic literature at Florence. Subsequently he was transferred to Naples, where he died on the in 1873. His patriotic poems, Stornelli, composed in early life, had a great popular success; and he produced a number of plays, notably Fornaretto, Bianca Cappello, Fasma and Il Tesoro. His collected Fantasie drammatiche e liriche were published in his lifetime. Rare ALS, no year, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. Fine condition...........75-100 

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291. [FRANCE] Letter identified as written by J.M. Perisse, Ampere's brother-in-law. Not dated and doesn't appear to be signed.  André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)  French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. Written in Frencn, not translated. Approx. 8 x 11".  VG.............75-100

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292. [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............50-75

293. [FRANCE]  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

294.  [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



295. [FRANCE] Denis-Bernard QUATREMERE-DISJONVAL [1754-1830] eccentric scientist [physicist & chemist]. Large [9-1/4 x 13-3/4 in.] ALS, 1826, 4 full pages. Not translated.VG..................100-150

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296. [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

297. Signed card [?]. Fine..........Min. Bid $10    CLICK HERE

298. [MUSIC] cover signed once or twice [?].......Min. Bid $10    CLICK HERE

299. Harry Liedtke (1882-1945) German film actor. Signed postcard photo......Min. Bid $10   CLICK HERE

300. Bobby Franco - actor. Signed postcard photo.....Min. Bid $8    CLICK HERE

301. [AMERICANA] 1836 Bill of Lading shipping hood from Providence, RI to Phila. 8.5 x 5 in. Age signs...............Min. Bid $10

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302. Roland Douglas Sawyer (1874-1969) was a Congregationalist minister and Massachusetts state legislator. He is best remembered as one of the leading Christian socialists of the first decade of the 20th century and as the author of an array of self-published books and pamphlets on genealogy and the local history of New England. In 1898, Sawyer took a position as a pastor at Hope Chapel in Brockton, Massachusetts, the first of four Congregational churches he would head. In about 1907, the previously conservative Sawyer began to gain an interest in Christian socialism, a growing movement in that day. Sawyer joined the Socialist Party of America and ran for Governor of Massachusetts on the Socialist ticket in 1912. Running as a Democrat in the fall of 1913, Sawyer ran for the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature. Unlike his previous electoral experiences, this time Sawyer won his race for office. He ran for re-election and won every two years thereafter for more than a quarter century, sitting in the Massachusetts General Court until 1941. Sawyer took an interest in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two anarchists accused of murder in conjunction with a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, and was active in the unsuccessful campaign to win the pair a stay of execution and a new trial.  In the Massachusetts General Court, Sawyer was regarded as a crusader against political corruption. Group of 4 postcards sent to family in Kingston, NH, 1898-1926.  One has minor corner fault..............Min. Bid $40

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303. UTICA, NY.Y - original 1852 woodengraving by Weekes, approx. 4-3/4 x 8 in. plus margins. Printing on verso. Excellent condition................25-35

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304. [MUSIC] Harrison Millard (1830-1895) American composer who wrote the music to the Christian hymn "Abide with Me, 'Tis Eventide"—the words of which are by Presbyterian evangelist Martin Lowrie Hofford (1825–1888). He served as a first lieutenant of the New York Nineteenth Regiment in the Union forces in the American Civil War. After serving for four years he was severely wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga and was forced to resign his commission and returned to New York. President Lincoln offered Millard a job in the Custom House as a recognition of the importance to the country the song "Viva L'America" took on during the Civil War. He wrote another patriotic song, "Flag of the Free," which was also popular. Millard wrote about 300 songs. Offered here is asigned cabinet photograph. The photographer was Gurney. 4 x6.5 in. Very good condition except for some tiny surface spots................150-200

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305. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Manchester Beef Co., Manchester, NH, 1874 bill of sale with attractive letterhead illustration, approx. 8 x 5.5 in. Light stain top edge...................Min. Bid $5

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306. [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...............25-35

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

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308. [THEATRE] 1981 program starring Mickey Rooney & Ann Miller in SUGAR BABIES. VG..............Min. Bid $5

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309.  [THEATRE] Louis Mann (1865-1931) American theatre actor and sometime director, who in his later life made a few appearances in motion pictures. He was married to actress and playwright Clara Lipman (1864–1952) was an American musical comedy actress and playwright whose career began in 1885 and continued on until her retirement in 1927. She was the wife of comedian Louis Mann and the sister of popular Lieder singer, Mattie Lipman MaruNeither is actually signed. Each about 3 x 1-3/4 in. Fine..................25-25

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310. [THEATRE] Henry Clay Barnabee - American actor, well-known in his time, particularly for playing the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1891 London production of Robin Hood.  He was a leading member of the Bostonians. The Boston Ideal Opera Company, later The Bostonians, was a comic opera acting company based in Boston from 1879 through 1905. Offered here is a NEW ORLEANS PRESS CLUB Visitor's card, dated 1899, given to H.C. Barnabee. Issued by J.M. L. Byrd.  On the back of the card is written "Press Club boat. Byrd."  3-3/4 x 2-1/4 in. VG................25-35

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311. [SPILLANE]  James B. O'Connell - Editor  of Cavalier Magazine 1952-1958.  In its original format, Cavalier was planned by Fawcett to feature novelettes and novel excerpts by Fawcett's Gold Medal authors, including Richard Prather and Mickey Spillane. TLS, 1956, 2pp, to Spillane  offering a couple of ideas for non-fiction pieces. Interesting content.  Front page shows some wear....................50-75

312  [AVIATION] Original booklet with 16 cinderella stamps each honoring a particular aviator. Circa 1938. CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT'S STAMP ALBUM AIR HEROES." Given as a free premium by Skelly. Shows Captain Midnight in aviation attire with airplane in background. Among the aviators honored are Wilbur and Orville Wright, Jimmy Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, Richard E. Byrd, Louise Thaden (first woman to hold the Bendix trophy), Frank M. Hawks, Jack Knight, Wiley Post and Gladys O'Donnel (winner of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Trophy Race 1937. Expected age/handling wear................50-75

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313. [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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314. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President US Grant. 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 is VG.........Min. Bid $25

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315. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President Grover Cleveland. 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 is VG.........Min. Bid $25

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316.  [FILM] Iron Eyes Cody (1904-1999) Italian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements, "Keep America Beautiful".  Signed and inscribed newspaper clipping about Gen. george A. Custer. Approx. 6-3/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG.................25-35

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317. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President Franklin Pierce. 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 is VG.........Min. Bid $25

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318. [PORTRAIT] Official portrait of President Rutherford B. Hayes. 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 7. Condition is VG.........Min. Bid $25

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319. [PORTRAIT]  original antique engraved portrait of   Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer(1661-1724) English and later British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. Engraved by W.T. Mote, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Toning which shows its old.................25-35

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320. [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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321. [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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322. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL color drawing, signed, dated 1981 on verso. Approx. 10 x 7-7/8 in. VG..............80-120

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323. Joseph Bowne Elwell (1873-1920), also known as J. B. Elwell, was an American bridge player, tutor, and writer during the 1900s and 1910s, prior to and during development of the auction bridge version of the card game. He is better known as the victim of an unsolved murder. Elwell learned the new card game "bridge"—now called bridge whist or straight bridge to distinguish it from later versions—in the course of establishing a young men's club in church, where its play was a popular activity. His fascination with the card game took over his life. In the early morning hours of June 11, 1920, Elwell was murdered with a gunshot to the head from a .45 automatic in his locked house in New York City. The murder has never been solved. A 1921 confession was determined to be the false utterance of a deranged man. The crime generated considerable publicity: The New York Times covered it almost daily until the end of July, the Chicago Tribune published eighteen articles, and the Los Angeles Times published twelve. This classic "locked room murder" was the inspiration for S.S. Van Dine's mystery novel The Benson Murder Case (1926), which introduced his famous fictional detective Philo Vance. Offered here is a CLIP SIGNATURE, dated 1907, The Whist Club. About 3-3/4 x 2-3/4 in. VG. EXTREMELY RARE!..............100-200

324. [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

325. [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

326. [MAINE] Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater). Smith was an early opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy. On June 1, 1950, she gave her Declaration of Conscience speech on the floor of the Senate, earning McCarthy's permanent ire and the epithet "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. In 1954, when McCarthy attempted to challenge her seat by sponsoring a primary challenger, the Maine voters rejected the effort. POSTCARD picturing her, signed on the verso. VG...........25-35

327. [FILM] Sam Flint (1882-1980) American actor. Flint appeared in more than 230 films, often as a judge, lawyer, military officer, senator, sheriff, chief of police, or doctor. Vintage signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. Pin holes in corners............50-75

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328. GEORGE DAVIDSON  [1825-1911] pioneer west coast scientist. Probably no name is better known in the scientific world of the Pacific Coast than that of Professor George Davidson, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. His active and untiring efforts, extending over a long period of time in advancing the interests of science on this coast, are well known; and the work he has accomplished in the service in which he holds high rank has earned for him a name and reputation which might be envied by any man. He determined the Eastern boundary, 120th meridian, of California in 1873. Lengthy ALS, 1908, WRITTEN IN THE 3RD PERSON. "Mr George Davidson expresses his thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Woodward for their kind invitation to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences on the evening of Wednesday the twenty-second of April, and regrets his inability to be present. San Francisco Cal. March 22/08." VG...........Min. bid $25

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329. [GOLF LOT] includes: (1) David Duval -  Signed magazine cover. (2) Jose Maria Olazabal -  Signed 4 x 5-3.4 in. color picture. VG . (3) Craig Stadler (b. 1953)  American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG. (4) Ben Crenshaw (b. 1952) American professional golfer. In 1973, Crenshaw became the second player in Tour history to win the first event of his career. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 8x10 color photo. Fine..............Min. Bid $50

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330. [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

331.  [SCIENCE] Van Orstrand, C. E. (Charles Edwin) (1870-1959) geophysicist; born near Manito, Ill. He served the U.S. Geological Survey (1901?40), where he made major contributions to a series of mathematical tables, then patented instruments for determining temperatures in deep wells and oil fields. TLS, Dept. of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1909, to Professor Woodward, returning Woodward's 8 page manuscript sent to Van Ostrand. The manuscript is included here. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) the American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872, and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington , whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. He died in 1924 in Washington, D.C. Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics. In the course of his work with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found expression in a number of valuable papers. Generally good to VG................200-300

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332.  [FRANCE] Louis d Argouhes, Marquis de Ranes (1669-1748) Military officer [Dragons], Field Marshall, Governor for the king duchy [Louis XIV].  Autograph Document Signed, 1708, 1p, 6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. VG. Not translated.......200-300...................Min. Bid $50

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333. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Henry Heath (1828-1908) was a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) pioneer, explorer, settler and lawman in the frontier Utah Territory, United States. He was celebrated later in his life as one of the original Utah pioneers of 1847. Henry Heath worked as a law enforcement officer from as early as 1862 until at least 1868. During that time he participated in several cases that typified the rough-hewn legal system in the American West. The most famous, the apprehension of a grave robber, has been widely embellished. In 1862, Henry discovered evidence of grave robbery in the city cemetery when following up on the burial of an indigent criminal (Moroni Clawson) killed in a shoot-out with other officers. His investigation soon led him to the house of the grave digger, Jean-Baptiste, where he found piles of clothing pilfered from graves in the cemetery. Henry feared that the grave-digger may have disturbed the grave of his daughter, Sarah Malissa, who had died within the last year. He apprehended Baptiste and took him to Sarah's grave site. Interviewed years later, Henry said he had determined to kill Baptiste on the spot if he had robbed his child's grave.  Baptiste was able to satisfy Henry that Sarah's grave was untouched and so his life was spared.With Baptiste apprehended, Henry's problem quickly turned from revenge to protection. He reported that, "The news of our discovery and Baptiste's confession spread like wildfire and it was with difficulty that we got him to the county jail in safety."  Baptiste had been at his macabre misdemeanors for some time and so his crimes touched hundreds in the community. But grave robbing, however repugnant, was not a capital offense, even in the frontier west and Baptiste's capture posed the problem of how to both protect and punish him. It meant death to him to turn him loose in the community. So, to give him a chance for his life, to save him in reality from an exasperated public, it was decided to banish him and a well-stocked island in the Great Salt Lake was chosen for his future home. He was conveyed there but there was not ball and chain or shackles or gyves of any kind on his limbs. He was absolutely untrammeled." Baptiste's forehead was tattooed, "Branded for robbing the dead," with ink, not with hot irons.  Some recent dramatizations of Baptiste's case have his ears being clipped or "docked." Offered here is a CLIP SIGNATURE on 5-1/4 x 2 in. slip..............25-35 

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334. 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

335. [ART] Original c. 1900 ink drawing signed F.B.B. Paper size is about 5.5 x 10 in.............Min. Bid $15

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336.  [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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337. Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928) English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays. Montague was against the First World War prior to its commencement, but once it started he believed that it was right to support it in the hope of a swift resolution. In 1914, Montague was 47, which was well over the age for enlistment, but in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. H. W. Nevinson would later write that "Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage." He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war, was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War. Disenchantment criticised the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals. Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will". Montague was the father of Evelyn Aubrey Montague, the Olympic athlete and journalist depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. ALS, Oxford, England, 1927, 1p, 6 x 9 in. VG......................Min. Bid $25

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338.  [ART] A.B. GRIFFITH - ink drawing signed 1943. Subject: Julia Sanderson (1887-1975) Broadway actress and singer. 7 x 5 in. VG.............50-75

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339 [from WALT KUHN ESTATE] LaSalle Spier (1890-1982) American pianist, organist, composer and teacher, also a painter. He was the brother-in-law of Vera Kuhn, wife of the noted artist, Walt Kuhn. Offered here is a collection of about 14 letters, not including envelopes. These were written to Walt Kuhn and wife Vera, and also the artist's daughter, Brend from 1934 to 1967.  Content is better than routine. VG........300-400.................Min. Bid $75

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340. [ART] Alexander POPE [1849-1924] important American artist. One of his paintings realized $186,000 at a Maine auction, a record in Maine for a work of art that stood for many years. We purchased his drawings, both childhood and adult, and his scrapbook & some of his photographs of his paintings over a decade ago. The ORIGINAL ink drawing offered here is unsigned and guaranteed without a time limit to the original purchaser. On 4 x 5 in. sheet. Removed from scrapbook containing Alexander Pope's drawing done from age 6 to 16. As you can see below there is one mount on top right corner. Otherwise in very good condition...................200-300

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341. [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). Offered here is an unsigned autograph manuscript page dated 1 Nov. 1944, written on both sides, 8 x 10-1/2".  These are notes he kept for himself. Rare! VG...............100-150

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342. [MARYLAND]  Francis Thomas (1799-1876)  Maryland politician who served as the 26th Governor of Maryland from 1842 to 1845. He also served as a United States Representative from Maryland. Collection of  4 Documents signed, 1844. Appointing District Justices. Approx. 10-1/4 x 16-1/4 in. Expected folds o/w VG...................Min. Bid $60

343. [ART] A.B. GRIFFITH - ink drawing signed and dated 1911. About 7 x 4-3/4 in. VG............25-35

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346. [ART]  RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore of Mass. ORIGINAL  drawing, not signed, c/ 1980. This is a Gloucester Harbor scene. Paper size  approx. 9 x 7 in.  VG................50-75

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347. [FILM] Eddie Quillan (1907-1990) American film actor and singer whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s. Ink Signed page on which he answers two questions. His answers are typed. 8.5 x 11 in. VG.............Min. Bid $10

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345. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) John Walter Drake (1875-1941) served in the Navy during the Spanish American War and practiced law in Detroit, Michigan, from 1896-1908. He was president and later chairman of the Hupp Motor Car Company which he co-founded with his brother Joseph R. Drake in 1908. Drake was assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1923-1927 and in 1929 headed the U.S. delegation to the Second Pan American Highway Congress in Rio de Janeiro. SIGNATURE. (2) Porter James McCumber (1858-1933) was a United States senator from North Dakota. He was a supporter of the 1906 "Pure Food and Drug Act", and of the League of Nations. SIGNATURE. (3) Grover Cleveland - 1893 printed gov. doc. re: China, signed in type as President. (4) 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 1923bank check. (5) Dorothea Mary Stanislaus Gerard (Mme Longard de Longgarde, 1855-1915) was a Scottish-born novelist and romance-writer. SIGNATURE. (6) Philip J. Philbin - US congressman from Mass. Western Union telegram c. 1948. (7) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) was the daughter of Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), a painter and organizer of the 1913 Armory Show. Signed bank check 1966. (8)  Henry Bernard Carpenter (1840-1890), was an Irish Unitarian clergyman, orator, author, and poet. ALS, no date, 2pp. (9) Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898) was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, between 1864 and 1885. Cooley was appointed Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, a position he held until 1883. Thomas M. Cooley Law School of Lansing, Michigan, founded 1972 and now affiliated with the Western Michigan University since 2014, was named after Justice Cooley. TLS, Ann Arbor [Michigan], 1886, 1p. (10) Ross R. Mowry (1882-1957) State senator from Iowa. At the time of his death, Mr. Mowry was considered to be probably the greatest historian living in Jasper County. He was a political consultant to Herbert Hoover. U.S. district attorney, appointed by President Coolidge [1924-32]. Prosecuted Keith Collins & Fred Poffenbarger for 2 million dollar train robbery at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and secured their conviction in 1925. Signed 1919 document..............Min. Bid $100

348. "Declaration of Independence" sold by Charles Magnus. Engraving c. 1855-70. 4-1/2 x 6-3/4 (image) plus borders.  Two sheet writing paper. Charles Magnus was a prolific publisher of maps and prints before,  during and after the American Civil War.  Many of his Civil War images were promotional publications used by newspapers to be given away or included with other publications.  Images were also used for letter heads and envelopes such as this fine example. In the 1850s much graphic material was published to keep the states together, and during the war, it evolved into Northern propaganda.  After the war such images were used to bind the wounds and achieve reconciliation as the nation approached its centennial in 1876.............100-150.......Min. Mid $25

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349. George Mitchell (b. 1933) United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, being appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Obama.  TLS, 1987, 1p. Sends editor thanks for sending a book.  Signed George.  VG...............25-35

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350. [ART] Douglas Volk [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Offered here are 5 signed bank checks, 1921-1923.................Min. Bid $45

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351. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) National Tea Co. 1940 stock certificate. (2) Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) English writer and poet/ ALS, 1925, 2.5 pp.  (3) Ted Noose (1930-2010) actor. Unsigned Warner Bros. paycheck.  (4) Colleen Walker (1956-2012) American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.  (5) A 1950 telegram from Congressman Philip J. Philbin of Mass.  (6) Vintage 1906 stereopti can card of the San Francisco Earthquake. (7) Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1883 – 1967) English actress, lecturer, writer, and suffragist. Card signed in pencil 1921. (8) Small antique engraving of William 4th. (9) Emerson Hough (1857-1923) American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels. Signed card 1916. (10) Rabbi Louis I. Engelson - TLS 1956 to Rabbi Fred Solomon. (11) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (12) The White House envelope postmarked 1925. Ink signature on verso reads G. Coolidge [probably a secretarial signature].......Min. Bid $50

352.  Diana Canova (b.1953)  American actress, director, and professor. Offered here is a signed sketch, 8-1/4 x 5 in. VG.............50-75

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353. [ART] Olivier Debré (1920–1999) French abstract painter. It was following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figurative painting to abstraction, and the influence of André Lanskoy that awakened his marked fondness for colour. The painter's work has also been the subject of a fantastic contemporary ballet: Signes directed by the choreographer Carolyn Carlson. A unique performance that associates painting, music and dance, presented at the Bastille Opera in Paris in 1997 and performed again in July 2013. Olivier Debré's works are collected all over the world, in the major international museums such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée d'Histoire et d'Art de Luxembourg, The Phillips Collection in Washington, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, as well as in private collections and famous foundations such as the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art in Geneva. Offered here is a 1963 exhibition catalog, SIGNED & inscribed. Approx. 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in, softcover. There was 34 works in the show;  8 full page illustrations. VG................75-100

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354. [ART] C. Jac Young (1880-1940) artist  who was born with the name of Charles Jacob Jung. He exhibited his works under C Jac Jung until about 1919 when he took the last name of Young.  C Jac Young came to the United States around 1881 and studied in New York at the Academy of Design with Robert Henri, Charles Yardley Turner, and Edgar Melville Ward. C. Jac Young has had exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Society of Independent Artists, Brooklyn Society of Etchers, Newark Art Club, Philadelphia Print Club, Contemporary Club, Newark Association, Yonkers Art Association and many more. His work is exhibited in collections including but are not limited to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Newark Public Library, Toronto Art Gallery, University of Nebraska School of Fine Arts, Milwaukee Art Institute, Chicago Society of Etchers, Brooklyn Museum, Addison Gallery of American Art. A 1931 bank check signed  by Douglas Volk [the well known artist], to Young who has signed on the verso. VG........75-100.........Min. Bid $25

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355. [PORTRAIT] William H. Prescott (1796-1859) American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory. Offered here is an original portrait, approx. 7.5 x 5.5 in. plus margins. VG............25-35

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356. [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..............25-35

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357. [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.............50-75

358. [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.............50-75

359. [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 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD THEATRICAL NEGOTIATIONS--NO. 6. 2 pages. 8.5 x 11. Fine.............50-75

360. George W. Biddle (1843-1886) American lawyer and author of A Treatise on the Law of Stock Brokers with his brother Arthur Biddle. A Treatise on the Law of Stock Brokers (Philadelphia, 1882), which has become a recognized authority. ALS, Phila., 1885, 2pp. Pleased to Wm. hewnry Rawle's Phi Beta Kappa Society address at Harvard. 5 x 7-3/4  in. VG..............50-75

361. [ART] Jack Coggins (1911-2006) was an artist, author, and illustrator. ALS written inside Seasons Greetings card. Cover shows a Coggins illustration of a boat. Fine................Min. Bid $10

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362. Barbara  Boxer (b.1940) American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017.  Signed 8x10 photo. Fine..............25-35

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363. [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

364. [CUBAN REVOLUTION] Dr. Frederick K. Solomon (1899-1980) signed typed manuscript REVOLUTION IN CUBA, 9pp. All of the pencil corrections are in the hand of Solomon. The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. The revolution began in July 1953, and continued sporadically until the rebels finally ousted Batista on 31 December 1958, replacing his government. Dr. Frederick Solomon was a progressive rabbi active in Havana’s Cuban-Jewish community during the 1950s and 60s. Dr. Solomon had escaped Nazi - occupied Europe for London and eventually established a congregation in Havana, Cuba. As a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Dr. Solomon served as the rabbi of 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. The rabbi 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. Rare................300-400

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365. [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 $25

366.  [FILM] Warren Berlinger (1937-2020)  American character actor, with Broadway runs, movie and television credits, and much work in commercials.  His signed contract for the film "BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milt Ebbins who was Peter Lawford's business manager.  Includes 3 additional Rider pages, each signed with the initials of Berlinger and Ebbins. VG..........100-150

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367. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Charles Wepner (b.1939) American former professional boxer.[2][3] He fell just seconds short of a full fifteen rounds against world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a 1975 championship fight. Wepner also scored notable wins over Randy Neumann and former world heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell. He was also the last man to fight former undisputed world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.  Wepner's boxing career, and fight with Ali, inspired the 1976 film Rocky, and other life events were chronicled in the 2016 film, Chuck. He was also the subject of the 2019 film The Brawler. Signed 3x5 card. (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, 1910.  (3) Hiram Ypsilanti Smith (1843-1894) was a nineteenth-century Republican politician, lawyer and clerk from Iowa. For three months, he represented Iowa's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, after winning election to serve out the term of John A. Kasson following Kasson's appointment as U.S. Envoy to Germany. SIGNATURE. (4) Christiane Schmidtmer (1939-2003) was a German actress, fashion model, nude model, and memoirist. Signed, inscribed 1985 photo, 8x10.  (5) Willis L. Moore (1856-1927) the weather guy. Signed card mounted beside picture. (6) Edwin W. Fiske - Mayor, Mount Vernon, NY. Signed card. (7) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1958 bank check. (8) Gerald R. Ford - US President. Ink signed color 8x10 photo. We assume the signaturenis autopen......................Min. Bid $50


368. Maine Paper - approx. 47 old documents, letters etc. the earliest being 1822 - to about 1906. Receipts, business & legal paper. Needs research. Varied conditions.........Min. Bid $50


369. [PORTRAIT] Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Had she outlived both her grandfather George III and her father, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom, but she died at the age of 21, predeceasing them both. Offered here is an original portrait of Charlotte engraved by Henry T. RYALL (1811-1867). Ryall was appointed the royal engraver by Queen Victoria. Forty of his works are in the National Portrait Gallery in London. This engraving dates back to 1863.  The engraved area is about 7.5 x 6 in. very light foxing which is expected and adds a little charm..................50-75

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370. [PORTRAIT]  original antique engraved portrait of Frances Theresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond. Engraved by H. Robinson, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Light foxing.................25-35

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371. [PORTRAIT]  original antique engraved portrait of  Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, KG, PC (1641-1702)  English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family. An able and gifted statesman, his caustic temper and belief in absolute monarchy nevertheless made him numerous enemies. He was forced to flee England in 1688, but later established himself with the new regime after the Revolution of that year. Engraved by W.H. Mote, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Light foxing.................25-35

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372. [PORTRAIT]  original antique engraved portrait of  William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford KG PC (1616-1700)  English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited his Peerage as 5th Earl of Bedford and removed to the House of Lords. He fought in the Parliamentarian army and later defected to the Royalists during the English Civil War. Engraved by J. Cochran, image about 7.5 x 6 in. plus margins. Light foxing.................25-35

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373. [MAINE] Thos. Vose (1765-1848) an interesting historic Maine figure. He moved to Robbinston, Maine, in 1790, with his wife and infant daughter, to take charge of the interests of Lieut. Gov. Edward Robbins, the first proprietor and from whom the town was named. Governor Robbins was one of the commissioners for building the state house in Boston, and the large timbers for the building were obtained by Mr. Vose from land that Gov. Robbins owned in the southwestern part of Calais, Maine. The twelve pillars on the front of the building were made of great pine trees which must have been over three feet in diameter, and were cut between Mount See All and Vose Lake. Mr. E. H. Vose says: "I well remember, when a boy of eight years, of my grandfather charging me to 'go and look at those pillars' when I went to Boston, and to 'remember that my old grandfather got them.'"  He built the first vessel in Robbinston in 1792, a schooner called the "First Attempt," and afterward built a number of ships at Robbinston and some at St. Andrews, New Brunswick. For some years he was engaged in the fishing trade largely with the Indians of the Passamoquoddy tribe who were always the firm friends of him and his descendants. He was a member of the convention which formed the constitution for the state of Maine, when it was set apart from Massachusetts, and was a member of the legislature. He was one of the selectmen of the town and active in town affairs. He kept his interest in politics and town affairs until his death. Offered here is a document signed, Robbinstown [Maine] 1798, approx. 7.5 x 3.5 in.  He receives from James Dyer 11 pounds 5 shillings.  VG................80-120

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374. AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, Henry V. Poor, Editor, July 7, 1855 issue. 8pp. 9 x 11.5 in. Right top corner missing..............Min. Bid $10

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375. [FILM] Peter Lawford - the American actor's RCA VICTOR Factory Service Contract, 1957, 2pp. not actually signed by Lawford. 8.5 x 11 in. VG...............25-35

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376. [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 painting, not signed, 8 x 5-1/4 in. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG...................Min. Bid $25

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377. [ART] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. His ink signed letter dated 1937 about his property tax for his home in Ogunquit, Maine. He had a habit of keeping returned signed copies of correspondence. About 8-1/2 x 10-3/4 in. VG...................400-600.................Min. Mid $100

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378. [FILM] Lilia Skala (1896-1994) Austrian-American architect and actress. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film Lilies of the Field (1963), for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination. During her career, Skala was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Before Skala decided to be an actress, she practiced architecture as a profession. She was one of the first women architects in Austria and was the first female member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Offered here is a signed copy of a newspaper article picturing her in her Lillies Of The Field role with Sidney Porter. She signs at top with long inscription. VG...............80-120

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379. [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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380. [ART] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. Rare b/w print pulled directly from the original block. The block was made for a 1932 Kuhn family Christmas card. During the 1930s up until around 1940, the Kuhn family sent out cards printed from the blocks that were hand-colored by Walt Kuhn and Brenda [daughter]. It is unknown how much watercoloring that each did on all those cards. In later years, Brenda had photo-mechanical reproductions made, which she herself hand-colored and sent out. One of those hand-colored [by Brenda] reproductions of this 1932 print is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. Over the years we've noticed that these Christmas cards have been sold as original watercolors. To be more specific - those Christmas cards could technically be described as watercolors although since it is known how much of the coloring was done by Walt himself it seems a little misleading to call those prints watercolors by Walt Kuhn. The black & white print offered here was pulled from the original block which we own. Image approx. 5-1/2 x 8 in. plus margins. PICTURE of Kuhn is NOT included here.................80-120

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381.  [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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382. [ART] Clara Klinghoffer (1900-1970) A woman who became a famous painter overnight at the age of 19. Now universally recognized as one of the greatest English woman painters, she was a poor and utterly unknown young girl from the East End when her first exhibition took the artistic world by storm in 1919. Hailed everywhere as the girl who could draw like Raphael, her superb technique has always been compared with the Old Masters, but at the time of her first show she had never seen any of the great Old Masters pictures. While living in Holland in 1939, discovering German spies had been planted in the household staff and aware that the invasion of Holland was imminent, the family returned to London briefly before departing for the United States. Before leaving Holland, their household furniture and some of her artwork were placed in storage in a Haarlem warehouse and subsequently stolen by the Nxxxs. In 1945, following the war, Clara divided her time between her studios in London and New York. Although she had exhibited in the United States during the forties, fifties and sixties, she refused to join the abstract expressionism which had become so popular in America. Offered here is an 1957 [plate signed] original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS. Noted artists drew directly on the lithographic plates. Each was used as an ad for various businesses. The proceeds went to Artists Equity. Sheet size is approx. 12 x 8.5 in. VG...............150-200.......Min. Bid $50

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383. [ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL pen and ink drawing, unsigned as usual. Paper size approx. 16-1/2 x 13-3/4 in. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of George Luks and Mt. Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, she was inspired by such school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries.............400-600...............Min. Bid $100

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Walt Kuhn's Autopsy Results

384. [WALT KUHN]  Vera Spier Kuhn (1885–1961) studied jewelry-making in Washington D.C. and Woodstock, NY, and opened a studio on East 23rd Street in 1908. There, she met Walt; they married the next year. Vera Spier Kuhn (1885–1961) studied jewelry-making in Washington D.C. and Woodstock, NY, and opened a studio on East 23rd Street in 1908. There, she met Walt; they married the next year.  Retained ink signed TLS, July 30, 1949, 1p, to James H. Wall, M.D., asking for the results of Walt's autopsy. She wants to know the connection between Kuhn's ulcers and his emotional disturbance. By the 1940s, Kuhn’s behavior began to take on unsound characteristics. He became increasingly irascible and distant from old friends. When the Ringling Brothers Circus was in town, he attended night after night. (During a hard-pressed period in the 1920s, Kuhn had worked as a designer and director for revues and circus acts.) He also became frustrated by the lack of attention his own work was receiving and was particularly strident about the Museum of Modern Art's support of abstraction and neglect of American art in the postwar period. In 1948, he was institutionalized, and on July 13, 1949, he died suddenly from a perforated ulcer. Includes Dr. Wall's reply giving Vera an explanation about uclers and how they were associated with "individuals of Mr. Kuhn's temperament."  The handwritten noter top corner is by Vera for Brenda, her daughter. Envelope to Brenda is present. Extremely Rare!.............700-900

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385.  [AMERICAN NAVAL]  Commander John Mitchell Hawley -  a native of Northampton, Mass., a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent families of the town. He made his home here until he was appointed to the Naval Academy, from which he was graduated in 1868. In 1869 he was made an ensign, in 1870 a master, and in 1874 a lieutenant, and from the time of his graduation until 1887 he rendered valuable service in several coast survey expeditions and in the hydrographic office. From 1887 to 1890 he was executive officer of the Nipsic, one of the United States fleet sent to Apia, Samoan islands, during the uprisings in 1889. The American, British and German fleets in the bay were overwhelmed by a fearful hurricane which swept the islands in March, 1889, and the Nipsic was one of the two or three vessels that escaped total destruction. Commander Hawley received a vote of thanks from the Legislature of Massachusetts for rare courage and ability displayed during the hurricane, and was commended to the Navy Department by Rear Admiral Kimberley, '"for zeal and energy in getting the Nipsic afloat after -she was beached. He had entire charge of this work, and to his efforts, in a large measure, is due the fact that the Nipsic is now afloat without more serious injury." In 1894 he was promoted to be lieutenant-commander and in 1896 was ordered to duty as assistant to the chief of the Bureau of Navigation, having charge of enlisted men. During the Spanish-American war, he was engaged in recruiting men from the west for the navy, having charge of three parties who secured nearly two thousand men for the service. He was promoted to commander March 3, 1899, and in May was ordered to the command of the Hartford, Admiral Farragut's old flagship, which is to be used as a practice-ship.  Offered is is a 1p. typed letter, undated but c. 1889, from John M. Hawley [signed only in type],  sent to Lieut. Henry W. Lyons offering his testimony if desired.  The dockets in pencil are in Lyon's hand.  VG............100-150

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386. [NAVAL] N.H. Farquhar (Rear Admiral Norman Von H. Farquhar, USN, (1840-1907). Letter Signed, marked "Copy", USS Trenton, Apia, Samoa, April 22, 1889, 2 pages, 7-3/4 x 10".  The original was sent to the Secretary of the Navy, Washington DC [Benjamin F. Tracy].  This "copy" letter was sent to Henry Lyon, who  became commander of the Nipsic. Dated about a month after this famous naval incident (The Samoan Crisis ).  This letter is of high praise for Lieut. Commander Henry W. Lyon, saving the Nipsic "...to his excellent service during the Hurricane of March 16th and 17th, 1889, and since then in saving valuable property from the wreck. During the gale, he intelligently carried out my orders; personally supervising the many plans to keep out water, getting lines to the Vaudalia to prevent the total destruction of the Trenton and many other duties besides..." Norman Von Heidreich Farquhar (1840-1907) was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania,  attended the U.S. Naval Academy during 1854-59. After graduation, he served with the Africa Squadron until September 1861. Lieutenant Farquhar spent most of the Civil War off the U.S. Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, serving in the gunboats Mystic, Sonoma and Mahaska and the cruisers Rhode Island and Santiago de Cuba. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in mid-1865, a few months after the fighting ended, and was on duty at the U.S. Naval Academy from then until September 1868. For the rest of the 1860s and into the next decade, Farquhar served in the warship Swatara, was Executive Officer of USS Severn and USS Powhatan and Commanding Officer of USS Kansas. He also had two tours at the Boston Navy Yard on ordnance duty and as Executive Officer.  Advanced in rank to Commander in December 1872, Farquhar spent nearly five years at the Naval Academy. He commanded the training ship Portsmouth in 1877-78, and the steam sloops Quinnebaug and Wyoming in European waters in 1878-1881. Five more years of Naval Academy duty were followed by torpedo instruction at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1886. From May 1887 until her loss in the March 1889 Samoan hurricane, Captain Farquhar commanded the steam frigate Trenton. He then served on several of the Navy's boards and, in March 1890 became the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. During 1894-97, he was Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Commanding Officer of the cruiser Newark, and President of the Naval Examining Board.  While holding the ranks of Commodore and Rear Admiral, Farquhar was Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1897-99, commanded the North Atlantic Station during 1899-1901 and was Chairman of the Lighthouse Board in 1901-02. He retired from active duty in April 1902, upon reaching the statutory service age limit of 62. Rear Admiral Farquhar died at Jamestown, Rhode Island, on 3 July 1907. The letter is in very fine condition.  Provenance: Estate of Admiral Henry W. Lyon, who had a distinguished Naval career, was honored for his service in the Spanish-American war where he commanded the U. S. S. Dolphin. Lyon and his wife, Liela, bought a house in Paris Hill, Maine  in 1899 and moved there full time when he retired from the Navy in 1907. Picture of Farquhar is not included here..........250-350

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387. [ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL SIGNED drawing, sheet size approx.14-3/4 x 12 in. Bottom corners little wrinkled o/w very good condition. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of Geolong school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A major book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries. This drawing had been in storage since her death in 1978. Because of the exhibitions, the book, and several articles [including a major article in the Boston Globe], there is at present, more than a little interest in this artist, which is sure to grow. VG. NOT FRAMED.................Min. Bid $300

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388. [ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL unsigned ink drawing, sheet size approx. 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. Very good condition EXCEPT FOR LONG SOFT CREASE LINE ACROSS DRAWING. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of Geolong school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A major book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries. This drawing had been in storage since her death in 1978. Because of the exhibitions, the book, and several articles [including a major article in the Boston Globe], there is at present, more than a little interest in this artist, which is sure to grow. VG. NOT FRAMED.............200-300....................Min. Bid $75

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389. [ART] Clara Klinghoffer (1900-1970) A woman who became a famous painter overnight at the age of 19. Now universally recognized as one of the greatest English woman painters, she was a poor and utterly unknown young girl from the East End when her first exhibition took the artistic world by storm in 1919. Hailed everywhere as the girl who could draw like Raphael, her superb technique has always been compared with the Old Masters, but at the time of her first show she had never seen any of the great Old Masters pictures. While living in Holland in 1939, discovering Nazi spies had been planted in the household staff and aware that the invasion of Holland was imminent, the family returned to London briefly before departing for the United States. Before leaving Holland, their household furniture and some of her artwork were placed in storage in a Harlem warehouse and subsequently stolen by the N - Germans. In 1945, following the war, Clara divided her time between her studios in London and New York. Although she had exhibited in the United States during the forties, fifties and sixties, she refused to join the abstract expressionism which had become so popular in America. Offered here is an 1956 [plate signed] original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS. Noted artists drew directly on the lithographic plates. Each was used as an ad for various businesses. The proceeds went to Artists Equity. Sheet size is approx. 12 x 8.75 in. VG.................200-300...................Min. Bid $50

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390. [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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391. 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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392. James A. Farley (1888-1976) American politician and Knight of Malta who simultaneously served as chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Postmaster General under President Franklin Roosevelt, whose gubernatorial and presidential campaigns were run by Farley. Farley was commonly referred to as a political kingmaker, as he was responsible for Roosevelt's rise to the presidency. TLS, 1940, to Mr. Siver.  VG...............50-75

393. 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...............25-35

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394. [ART] Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to Emily Clarissa King (Barlow) Volk and the sculptor Leonard Wells Volk. He was named for his mother's maternal cousin, Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1860, who lost to Republican presidential nominee Abraham Lincoln. Congressman Lincoln posed for a bust by Leonard Volk in early 1860, and the sculptor made plaster casts of his face and hands. Four-year-old Douglas entertained the future president. Offered here are 10 signed Douglas Volk bank checks made out to Marion V. Bridge [his daughter] dated 1919-1927. VG................200-300

395. [GERMANY] Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015) German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Signed postcard photo, 4 x 5.5 in. VG...............50-75

396. [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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397. [ART]  Eugene-Andre Champollion (France, 1848-1901) an 1893 etching signed in the plate, image approx. 9 x 11 in. plus margins. Bearing the official blindstamp of the World's Columbian Exposition to the lower left. Description: (Spoils of War, Slaves). VG........Min. Bid $75

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398. [ART] MARGARETT SARGENT (1892-1978) ORIGINAL unsigned drawing, dated 1919, sheet size approx. 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 in. Very good condition. In the exhibition of her work in NYC at the gallery that handled her estate there were 19 works on paper and all but 3 were unsigned which is NOT unusual for her works on paper. MARGARETT SARGENT, American artist. An unconventional member of an aristocratic Boston family and fourth cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent, she was an artist who rebelled against both the social conventions and artistic tastes of her class and time. Student of George Luks and Mt. Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, she was inspired by such school-of-Paris Modernists as Matisse, Picasso and the German Expressionists. She began to exhibit in 1916, eventually participating in as many as than 30 shows. She was a great beauty who challenged her conservative family to pursue a career in art. Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, gave her a solo exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, in a season that included Maurice Prendergast, Buckminster Fuller Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Calder performed his famous miniature circus at Sargent's Boston home. Bernice Abbott photographed her, Marie Laurencin painted her daughter's portrait. She met Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein, and collected works by Derain, Vlaminck, De Chirico Degas, Gauguin, Vuillard, Villon and Toulouse-Lautrec. She carried on affairs with lovers of both sexes, including the writer Jane Bowles, and also suffered from severe bouts of manic-depression and alcoholism. At the same time, Sargent was married to a wealthy Bostonian and had four children by him. Francoise Gilot (artist and mother of two children by Picasso) wrote that she was like Zelda Fitzgerald who struggled to be freed from the constraints imposed on them by society. An exhibition of her work was held at the Davis Art Museum (Wellesley College). A major book on her life and art has been published and the exhibition traveled from the Davis Museum to New York for exhibition at the Berry-Hill Galleries. This drawing had been in storage since her death in 1978. Because of the exhibitions, the book, and several articles [including a major article in the Boston Globe], there is at present, more than a little interest in this artist, which is sure to grow. VG. NOT FRAMED. VG..............200-300

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399. [MEDICAL] Tito Vanzetti (1809-1888) was a famous surgeon and professor of medicine of the 19th century. He studied surgery at the University of Padua under Bartolomeo Signoroni (1797-1844) and at the University of Vienna with Joseph Wattmann (1789-1866). Several years later, he was appointed professor of clinical surgery and ophthalmology at the University of Kharkiv. In 1853 he returned to Padua as a professor of clinical surgery.  In 1846 he performed the first ovariotomy in Russia. Vanzetti is credited for introducing a procedure of manual compression for treatment of popliteal aneurysms. He became rector of the University of Padua in 1864. Together with other 16 professors, he was dismissed in 1866, after the annexation of Venetia to Italy, because of his position of support to old Austrian rule. He was reintegrated soon after, under international pressure. Offered here is a 2 page manuscript written and signed by Vanzetti, dated 1870. Translation of the Heading is Proposal of a way to stop bleeding in the palm of the hand and other regions of the body. RARE!  Fine condition................600-800

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400. [ENTERAINMENT]  a 1961 contract signed by Peter Lawford [the actor] of Chrislaw Productions Inc. and Billy Asher [employee]. 11 pages, signed at conclusion by Lawford and Asher. You already know who Peter Lawford is - Bill 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.  Included here is a carbon copy of another letter plus a copy of a contract with William Asher. VG..................300-400 

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