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PRESIDENTIAL AUTOGRAPHS JOHNSON Lyndon Baines
Color photographic portrait inscribed to Cartha De Loach
No date or place but likely the LBJ Ranch Stonewall Texas ca. 1968. Original color photographic print 10.75" x 7.5" on 14" x 11" card mount; in gallery mat. Inscribed on mount beneath photo: "For Deke De Loach / with appreciation for his dedicated service" signed in Johnson's hand undated. Mild surface abrasions to image; mild soil to mount; photographer's serial stamp to verso of mount "5 JY 68 D897-35." Photographer unidentified but based on location and outfit likely taken during a 1968 photo session at the LBJ Ranch by Frank Wolfe LBJ's official White House photographer. An attractive large-format professional portrait of LBJ in casual dress kneeling in a pasture with his trademark Stetson resting on his knee. An excellent association; Cartha "Deke" De Loach was Deputy Associate Director of the FBI during the Hoover era and a close associate of LBJ's; in 1963 immediately after the assassination of John F. Kennedy Johnson had De Loach assigned to permanent duty at the White House. As described by New York Times reporter Tim Weiner "De Loach was always at L.B.J.'s beck and call night and day he was a talented political hatchet man a trusted deputy to Hoover. He was also crucial to intelligence investigations conducted during the Johnson presidency." Based on the tenor of the inscription we surmise that the portrait was presented to De Loach at the end of Johnson's presidency in 1968. unknown books
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AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS RADICAL AUTHORS EASTMAN Max
Typed Note signed. 1pp to "Miss Mendham" dated March 30 1938
Croton-on-Hudson 1941. Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper addressed to a "Miss Mendham" dated March 30 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival.perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields" in my volume "Kinds of Love" would be appropriate." Adds three further suggestions in holograph beneath signature: "The Sing Sing Alarm" "Isadora Duncan" "To Live in Summer" unknown books
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AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS RADICAL AUTHORS EASTMAN Max
Typed Note signed to "Joesphine" Herbst dated November 25 1945
New York 1945. Brief TNS on Eastman's personal W. 13th St. letterhead addressed to "Josephine" dated November 25 1945. Old folds else Fine with bright clear autograph: "Dear Josephine: Thanks so much for the news -- sad as it all was -- in your letter. It was nice to hear from you. I hope the autobiography may live up to your expectations." The recipient is likely the American proletarian novelist and essayist Josephine Herbst 1892-1969; the "sad news" to which Eastman refers may well have been Herbst's ongoing battles with her former husband and fellow novelist John Herrmann. unknown books
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AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS RADICAL AUTHORS EASTMAN Max
Typed Letter signed. 1pp to "Mr. Simon" dated November 15 1941
Croton-on-Hudson 1941. Brief 1-pp TLS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson letterhead addressed to a "Mr. Simon" dated November 14 1941. Single holograph correction in Eastman's hand. Mailing folds; slightly toned at margins; Very Good. Regarding the recipient's letter to the Reader's Digest of September 24 Eastman had been hired as an editor for the conservative publication earlier in the same year. The subject appears to be the institution of the death penalty in the Soviet Union: ".Nobody questions the fact that the death penalty was decreed for theft of 'socialist property' and the extension of all penalties to children twelve years old automatically extends that one. I am sorry to say I can not tell you offhand when the previous decree was issued but I think it was the Spring of 1934. unknown books
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New York Restaurant Guest Book with seventy five autographs. Old Denmark Restaurant
Gæsteporten
New York 1993. Wooden guest book in the shape of a door wooden metal hinges 50 leaves sewn with pink cord with seventy-five holograph signatures nearly forty of which we have been able to identify. The Old Denmark was a casual restaurant at 135 East 57th Street and later 113 East 65th Street on New York's Upper East Side. A 1964 review gave the restaurant one star and described it as "first and foremost a purveyor of Scandinavian delicacies for the retail trade but it also boasts one table where customers may dine on Danish salads. There is a seating capacity for eight guests at a time and the table is shared by other customers. The food served consists primarily of salads such as cucumber mushroom crab beet and herring but there is also liver paté and smoked salmon." Identified amongst the signators are: Ingrid Bergman Louise Allbritton Virginia Field Mario Lanza Groucho Marx Marlene Dietrich Carl Brick Helen Traubel Miriam Hopkins Elsie D. Alexander Ruth Bryan Rohde Eleanor Roosevelt Robert St John Edward Arnold Princess Revé de Bourbon Lillian Gish Joel Grey Lillian Hellman Faye Dunaway Bill Murray Sergio Franchi Ron Howard Shirley Hazzard Gary Maddox Garrison Keillor and Camilla Roos. Some light soiling to pages scuffing to the wooden doors lacking the original "doorknob". Generally near very good. unknown books
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Books Rare Papers Autographs
CATALOGUE OF BOOKS CHIEFLY RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND COMPRISING A COMPLETE COLLECTIONOF THE LOCAL HISTORIES OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston MA: Herny C. Bird & Co. Very Good. 1871. Softcover. This auction catalogue is soft-bound in light blue printed wrappers. The cover wrappers show some soiling/toning with light wear to the edges. The string binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. . Herny C. Bird & Co. paperback books
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Autographs in Abundance.
Collection of signatures of notable and lesser Mexicans of the colonial era and first three quarters of the 19th century.
Mexico 1646 to ca. 1880. Various small sizes. <br><br>The collection contains approximately 400 clipped signatures of historical political and literary figures including: José María Fagoaga signer of the Act of Independence Manuel Sotarriva signer of the Act of Independence Miguel Cervantes i.e. Marques de Salvatierra. signer of the Act of Independence Juan de Solorzano Pereira jurist and major writer on the law of the Indies Juan Cervantes y Padilla signer of the Act of Independence Jose Maria Heredia poet Jose Fernandez de Jauregui printer Jose Maria Guridi y Alcocer signer of the Act of Independence Valentín Canalizo general supporter and confidante of Santa Anna Marques de San Juan de Rayas signer of the Act of Independence Santiago de Irissarri Independence-era military figure Jose Bustamante signer of the Act of Independence Enrique White governor of East Florida Ignacio Barbachano leader of the 1841 Yucatecan-break-away protonation Vicente de la Concha Queretaro politician Juan Hierro Maldonado Minister of Fomento Colonización é Industria and great politician El Marques de Selva Nevada Jacobo Ugarte y Loyola governor of province of Coahuila y Tejas in the 1790s El Conde de Alcazar Ignacio de Bustamante many times governor of Sonora José Ignacio de Berasueta intendent of Puebla in 1811 José Mariano de Arce chief of revenue for pulque and alcabala Francisco Javier Miranda one of the delegation that offered Mexico to Maximilian! Urbano Tovar conservative politician governor of Jalisco Ramon Gutierrez del Mayo Francisco Robledo Francisco Jose de Urrutia Victoriano Lopez Gonzalo bishop of Puebla Esteban Lorenzo de Tristán y Esmenota bishop of Durango Manuel José Rubio y Salinas archbishop of Mexico Mariano Riva Palacio politician Rafael Mangino politician who crowned Emperor Agustin I José Agustín Domínguez y Díaz bishop of Oaxaca Ignacio Alas railroad entrepreneur Juan Faustino Mazihcatzin Indian leader of Tlaxcala Pedro Saenz de la Guardia naval commander of the San Blas region Vicente Filisola general second in command to Santa Anna in the Texas Campaign Esteban Moctezuma general defeated by Bustamante at Gallinero Jose Mariano Beristain the great bibliographer Manuel Payno novelist and playwright and many more.<br>Â Â Â Â Beyond its simple charm as => a signature gallery both representing and evoking a long era of Mexican history this is a most useful archive of "sample" signatures. All items glued to => both sides of sheets of paper approximately 25 x 21.5 cm; .75 x 8.5" h x w with multiple clipped signatures per sheet 21 sheets total. Glue stains and some early colonial ones with sealing-wax stains. unknown books
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African American Music History Autographs
Dixieland Hall Presents Louis Cottrell and His New Orleans Jazz Band - Signed By Louis Cottrell - Kid Howard - Frog Joseph - Placide Adams.
New Orleans Louisiana: Nobility Recording Company 1965. A 12" record album LP Nobility 703; High fidelity mono. Signed by Cottrell Joseph Howard & Adams on the back cover in various inks. The band participants were: Louis Cottrell clarinet and vocals; Lester Santiago piano; Avery "Kid" Howard trumpet and vocals; Waldren "Frog" Joseph trombone and vocals; Placide Adams bass fiddle; Paul Barbarin drums. Not dated; our research indicates these pieces were recorded live in the 1960s; several band members were dead by the end of that decade. Cover design: Emerson E. Mangum & Richard Malanoski; Recording Engineer: Cosimo Matassa; Cover made by American Box & Tag Co. New Orleans; cover notes by Donald M. Marquis. Illustrated cover-sleeve; plain unprinted liner; some edge tips wear and soiling to cover; signatures clear and strong; very good and clear; disc not played by us to check for fidelity; in good condition. Signed By Performers. Record Album. Record Album . Good. Nobility Recording Company paperback books
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Americana Autographs Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1929 Typed Memorandum for D. Basil O'Connor Initialed By Franklin Delano Roosevelt
United States: Not Published 1929. Typed 'Memorandum' with that imprinted word dated October 18 1929; "for D. Basil O'Connor In regard to Miss Wilkin's Property it seems to me that it would be best for me to wait and not write to H.H. Swift until a week or so after you have paid the full amount of the principal and interest of the mortgage. Let me know when you do this. F.D.R" in type below; D.aniel Basil O'Connor 1892 - 1972 American lawyer who became Franklin Delano Roosevelt's legal advisor and was closely involved with the March of Dimes campaign for polio research and other charity work; approx.5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; on Housatonic watermark note paper; old fold lines; old filing holes punched at side; light wear; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
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African American Music History Autographs
Andre Kostlelanetz and His Orchestra Harold Arlen's Free and Easy Blues Opera Signed By Performing Members of the Show
Bruxelles Belgium: Philips Minigroove 1959. A blues opera album; recorded "Gala Femmes d'Aujourd'hui le mardi 22 decembre 1959"; written by American composter- writer Harold Arlen 1905 - 1986 originally performed by Kostelanetz at Carnegie Hall in 1957 then taken "on the road" to Europe; with several performer signatures including: Lillian Hayman 1922 - 1994 African-American Tony Award-winning actress and singer; Norma Mae Donaldson 1928 - 1994 African-American actress and singer; Paul Harris 1917 -1985 African-American actor personnel manager and music publisher ".in the late 1950s looking for work he left the United States for Europe. He came to Paris with the cast of Free and Easy." Jet Nov 28 1968; and others signed: James Randolph F. Cowen James Randolph Charles "Smiles" Thompson Patti Boon Jacqueline Walcott; the biography "Hi-de-Hoe" the Life of Cab Calloway Shipton 2013 states that this show was not a success and ended stranding the performers in Europe after a short Paris run - Calloway had declined to be part of the production; cover texts in French; 10" Philips Minigroove record in 'shopping bag' handled illustrated cover-sleeve; no inner liner; some edge tips wear creasing and soiling to sleeve; Walcott signature faint all others very good and clear; disc not played by us to check for fidelity; in good condition. Signed By Performers. Record Album. Record Album . Good. Philips Minigroove paperback books
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Portraits & Autographs of Composers and Performers Busby Thomas. 1754 1838
Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes of Music and Musicians Ancient and Modern. - EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH 150 ORIGINAL PERIOD PORTRAITS & AUTOGRAPH INSERTIONS
London 1825. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 3 volumes. 12mo crushed brown morocco with gilt-lettered spine by Rivière & Son edges rubbed some bowing to boards; bookplates of Frances Amelia Adams front hinge of first volume cracked with front free endpaper detached moderate foxing and offsetting scattered throughout. An extraordinary set extra-illustrated with 5 autographs and over 150 18th and 19th-century engravings bound in with many inlaid to size. Most illustrations are cut down to 12mo some with slight losses to the images; some are flush mounted to an inset window; some are larger formats folded down. Engravings are generally in very good to fine condition many with toning to the edges some with light foxing and some with light plate marks.<br style="">A remarkable collection and veritable encyclopedia of portraiture of the period assembled with great care whereby at nearly every mention of a name within the printed Busby text whether in passing or as the object of more extended focus the collector Frances Amelia Adams has found and inserted a relevant portrait or in a few cases an original document of that person.  <br style="">Thomas Busby himself a composer published several notable works on music including A Grammar of Music and A General History of Music. The present work is charmingly gossipy informative and highly entertaining and yields all manner of insights into musical life through history. Approximately a thousand anecdotes are assembled across the three volumes as a delightful potpourri. Among much else Volume 1 includes discussion of Sir John Hawkins and Beethoven's eccentricity Volume 2 with entries on Italian castrato Farinelli and English lutist Thomas Mace and Volume 3 includes pieces on the music of ancient Greece and Rome along with the work's index.<br style="">A detailed catalogue of the complete illustrations and insertions is found below:<br style="">The autographs bound in include:<br style="">George III; King of England. Clipped Signature "George R" on a scrap of vellum probably removed from a document. 1 1/4x3 1/2 inches; mounted to paper trimmed to size and inlaid faint scattered foxing and soiling. Np nd. First volume<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="">John Frederick William Herschel. Autograph Letter Signed "JFWHerschel" to "Dear Sir" inviting him and his sister to tea and adding that it "is very improbable that the Moon will shew herself in such a Sky as has prevailed During the greater part of the day but we can but take our chances." 1 page 12mo; some loss to few letters at points along left edge folds inlaid. Slough "Thursdy Evg" no year. First volume<br style=""><br style="">William Edward Parry. Clipped portion of an Autograph Letter Signed "WParry" in full: "return from the Hecla to town to-morrow when we get underway." 3 1/4x4 1/2 inches; mounted to a page. Np nd. Second volume<br style="">Thomas Moore. Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Sir" wittily declining to break off an engagement with someone else. 1 page 12mo; toning to edges folds. Np "Saturday Morning" no year. Third volume<br style="">John Braham. Brief Autograph Letter Signed "Dear Sir I think I can come on Monday next. Will that be convenient to you." 1 page oblong 12mo; folds. Brompton 14 July no year. Third volume---First volume:<br style="">Engraving captioned "View of the magnificent Box erected for their Majesties in Westminster Abbey under the Direction of Mr. James Wyatt at the Commemoration of Handel."  First published in the European Magazine and London Review by J. Sewell June 30 1784.  Engraved by W & J Walker.  18.5 x 27.5 cm; folds creased and rough edges.<br style="">Johann Nepomuk Hummel.  Engraved portrait by an unknown artist possibly not listed in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits published by the Verlag vom Bibliographischen Institut zu Hildburghausen.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Ludwig van Beethoven. Engraved portraits of the composer in full-length walking and in bust "after an original drawing" "nach einer Original Handzeichnung" with two facsimile signatures. Not listed in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Luigi Cherubini. Engraved portrait of the composer as a young man half-length right profile Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue no. 3.  Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Richard Corbet Bishop of Norwich and noted poet.  Engraved by J. Romney after J. Thurston "from a picture by Cornelius Jansen in the hall of Christ Church College Oxford." 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Joseph Haydn. Engraved portrait bust to right looking to front.  From the painting by T. E. Mansfeld engraved by J. Newton not listed in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits.  Published September 1 1784 by J. Sewell.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Thomas Arne.  Engraved portrait bust to left oval.  From the painting by R. Dunkarton engraved by Rhodes Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2.  Published by Harrison & co. March 1 1794.  6.8 x 8 cm.<br style="">Georg Friedrich Handel.  Engraved portrait half length to left in a long wig and fancy coat.  From the painting by Thomas Hudson Royal Collection 405649 engraved by J. Thomson Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 6.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Engraved portrait bust right profile oval in rectangular frame.  After the print by C. Kohl 1793 engraved by J. Thomson Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 11.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Angelica Catalani.  Engraved portrait with the caption "Madame Catalina" sic half length to right with a flower in her hair.  From the painting by S. DeWilde engraved by Cheesman Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 10.  10.5 x 17 cm.<br style="">William Shakespeare.  Engraved portrait half length to right stipple and line engraving mid- to late-eighteenth century.  Unknown artist and engraver National Portrait Gallery D5944.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Robert Ker Porter.  Engraved portrait bust looking to left stipple engraving and etching.  From the painting by John Wright engraved by Samuel Freeman Yale Center for British Art B1977.14.12524.  Published by Verner Hood & Sharpe 1809.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Hugo Grotius.  Engraved portrait bust to left stipple engraving and etching.  Oval with a small rectangular vignette below showing actors on stage.  Engraved by J. Chapman Stanford Special Collections Leon Kolb Collection 0567.  Published by J. Wilkes 1805.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Louis XIV of France.  Engraved portrait bust to left with long wig and armor.  After a print by Robert Nanteuil engraved by Parker British Museum 18690612.72.  Published by John White and John Scott 1808.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Queen Anne of England.  Engraved portrait three quarter length looking to left with right hand to bust and left hand to side.  Crown visible at left window visible at right.  Possibly after the portrait by Godfrey Kneller in mirror image by an unidentified engraver. 10 x 12.7 cm.<br style="">Christoph Willibald Gluck.  Engraved portrait half length profile to left in oval.  By an unidentified engraver possibly after a mirror image of the engraving by Edmé Quenedey Bibliothèque nationale de France département Musique Est. Gluck013 which was based on the bust by Houdon.  Not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Mary Ann Paton. Engraved portrait as Mandane in Artaxerxes full length standing and looking up to left in costume. After the painting by T. Wageman engraved by T. Woolnoth Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 28. Published by John Cumberland 1828. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Queen Elizabeth I of England.  Engraved portrait full length in ornate dress and holding orb and scepter. By an unidentified engraver probably after the engraving by Crispijn de Passe the Elder National Portrait Gallery D25180.  Cut to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Joseph Vernon. Engraved portrait as Macheath in The Beggar's Opera full length looking to left and holding a glass in his right hand.  After the drawing by J. Roberts engraved by Thornthwaite Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 4.  Published for Bell's British Theatre 1777.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Étienne-Nicolas Méhul. Engraved portrait bust left profile in octagon.  After Quenedey engraved by Wachsmann Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2.  Mounted below a short biography of Méhul in German. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">King Edward VI of England. Engraved portrait three quarter length facing front.  After a portrait formerly attributed to Holbein now attributed to Scrots engraved by T. A. Dean see Royal Collection RCIN 600932 with a different caption.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Engraved portrait bust right profile in clouds. Engraved by Carl Mayer after his own drawing Beethoven-Haus Bonn B1291.  Not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">King George III of England.  Engraved portrait bust looking to left with Garter star on left breast.  After Hopwood engraved by Thomas Woolnoth Royal Collection RCIN 604459. Published by Dean & Munday 1820. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">John Wilkins D.D. Bishop of Chester.  Engraved portrait bust looking to right in oval with ribbons above. By an unknown engraver probably after Mary Beale for The Gospel Magazine February 1780.  Published by Vallance and Hogg 1780.  10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Samuel Johnson. Engraved portrait half length seated with a book on the table in front of him looking to right.  In an ornate engraved frame.  Engraved by R. Page.  Published by Bumpus 1822. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor. Engraved portrait bust to left looking to front. In oval above a pedestal with "Ioseph II."  Engraved by H. Lips. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Maria Poole Dickons. Engraved portrait half length to left almost full face holding music. Engraved by Marie Anne Bourlier Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 4. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Engraving captioned "View of the Orchestra Organ &c erected in Westminster Abbey under the Direction of Mr. James Wyatt for the Commemoration of Handel."  First published in the European Magazine and London Review by J. Sewell May 25 1784.  Engraved by W & J Walker. 1 page 28 x 18.5 cm; folds slightly creased edges.<br style="">Ann Maria Tree. Engraved portrait as Viola full length standing with feathered hat in left hand. By an anonymous engraver Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 20. Published by W. C. Wright. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">King Henri IV of France. Engraved portrait half length full face. After Mme. de Léomenil engraved by Pannier. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">André Grétry. Engraved portrait full length seated at a spinet with books and quills. After J. B. Isabey engraved by Geille Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 3. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Jean Jacques Rousseau. Engraved portrait half length to right looking to front. Engraved by Robert Hart published in Arthur Thomas Malkin The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs vol. 5 1835. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm with a caption partially visible at the foot.<br style="">King Charles II of England. Engraved portrait half length seated looking to right with armor holding helmet and baton. From Charles Gavard's 'Galeries historiques de Versailles' published in the 1830's and 1840's Royal Collection RCIN 602463. Cut down significantly to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Clara Fisher. Engraved portrait as Madame Josephine in Actress of All Work three-quarter length holding castanets; in an ornate rectangular frame. After T. Wageman engraved by J. Rogers Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 12. Published by T. & I. Elvey 1822. 10.5 x 17.5 cm. <br style="">Ludwig van Beethoven. Engraved portrait bust looking to left in oval. After Joseph Stieler engraved by Rudolf Rahn Beethoven-Haus Bonn B589; not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 8.5 x 12 cm mounted to 12mo.<br style="">Gertrude Elizabeth Schmeling Mara. Engraved portrait half length left profile with a scarf around her head in oval. After J. L. David engraved by W. Ridley Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 1. 9 x 13 cm.<br style="">Gioachino Rossini. Engraved portrait bust looking to right wearing a high collar and cravat. With the caption above: "La Romance." By an unidentified engraver possibly not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Elizabeth Weichsel Billington. Engraved portrait half length to front looking to left wearing a hat with feathers. After R. Cosway engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 13. Dated 1790. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">James Hook. Engraved portrait bust looking to right wearing spectacles. After S. Drummond engraved by T. Blood Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 1. Published by Asperne 1813. 10.5 x 17.5 cm; fine. With 4 pp. numbered 91-94 from the European Magazine and London Review of August 1813 titled "Memoir of James Hook Esq." 21 x 12 cm.<br style="">John Frederick William Herschel. Autograph Letter Signed "JFWHerschel" to "Dear Sir" inviting him and his sister to tea and adding that it "is very improbable that the Moon will shew herself in such a Sky as has prevailed During the greater part of the day but we can but take our chances." 1 page 15.3 x 10.5 cm; some loss to few letters at points along left edge folds inlaid. Slough "Thursdy Evg" no year. With an engraved portrait of Herschel half-length to left holding an astronomical document. Engraved by E. Scriven after John Russell National Portrait Gallery D35725. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">George III; King of England. Clipped Signature "George R" on a scrap of vellum probably removed from a document. 9.3 x 4.5 cm; faint scattered foxing and soiling. Np nd.<br style="">Étienne Méhul. Engraved portrait bust looking to left with bold pencil marks. By an unknown engraver Bibliothèque nationale de France IFN-8422484; not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. Cut down significantly to 10.5 x 17.5 cm with caption cut separately and mounted below.<br style="">Thomas Warton the younger. Engraved portrait half length to left in oval frame. Engraved by R. Stanier after Sir Joshua Reynolds National Portrait Gallery D14136. Published in the European Magazine. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Jean-Philippe Rameau. Engraved portrait bust right profile oval in rectangle with ornaments and birth and death dates. Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no.1. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm; wear to edges.<br style="">Lekain Henri Louis Cain. Engraved portrait full length seated with right elbow on a table looking up to the left. Engraved by Mauduison after Chasselat Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 4. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm with caption mounted at the foot.<br style="">King Louis XVIII of France. Engraved portrait bust wearing sash and badge of S. Esprit in an oval frame with crown and sword above. By an unknown engraver for La Belle Assemblée No.57; Royal Collection RCIN 617508. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Carl Maria von Weber. Engraved portrait half length looking to left. Engraved by H. Adlard not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Friedrich Gottfried Klopstock. Engraved portrait half length left profile. With rectangular frame below with a harp and a banner labeled "Messiah." Engraved by J. Chapman Stanford Special Collections Leon Kolb Collection 0756 and published by Adlard & Jones 1812.<br style="">Catherine the Great of Russia. Engraved portrait half length looking to right in large and very ornate frame. By an unidentified engraver. Cut down to 10 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Jean-François Le Sueur. Engraved portrait half length looking to left. By an unidentified engraver perhaps from a set with the above engraving of Étienne Méhul. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm with caption mounted at foot.<br style="">Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia. Engraved portrait half length to left in an oval frame with stonework captioned in French. Engraved in 1788 by Marais after Graf. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Emma Lady Hamilton. Engraved portrait half length with flower crown. Engraved by Jean Condé after George Romney National Portrait Gallery D46093. 9 x 14.3 cm.<br style="">André Ernest Modeste Grétry. Engraved portrait bust to right oval in rectangle. Engraved by Gottschick after Lebrun not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Engraving captioned "Commemoration of Handel in Westminster Abbey 1784." Engraved by W. Read. 20 x 17 cm; folded down the center.<br style="">Alexander Pope. Engraved portrait half length with right elbow on table and hand supporting head. Oval in rectangle with ornate frame. Engraved by Joseph Collyer the Younger after Sir Godfrey Kneller Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 6; National Portrait Gallery D27572. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Engraved portrait half length to left seated. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 6. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Charles Borde. Engraved portrait half length to left in oval frame with cherub instruments and telescope. Engraved by C. Boily Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon Coste 13347. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Jean-Baptiste Lully. Engraved portrait full length seated with score of "Armide." Engraved by Geille after Johannot Bibliothèque nationale de France département Musique Est.LullyJ.B.020; not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. Cut down significantly to 10.5 x 17.5 cm with caption mounted at foot.<br style="">King Louis XV of France. Engraved portrait half length with sash and badge. Engraved by Basan after Le Moine. Published in Paris by Odieuvre. Royal Collection RCIN 617226. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Johann Adolf Hasse. Engraved portrait half length to right in oval frame with fabric and sheet music below. Engraved by Kauxe after Rotari Bibliothèque nationale de France département Musique Est.Hasse001; not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 7.5 x 14.3 cm.<br style="">Faustina Hasse Bordoni "Signora Faustina." Engraved portrait bust to right looking to left in oval. Engraved by Grignion after Rosalba Carriera New York Public Library Muller Collection Bordoni Faustina #2; possibly Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2. 8 x 10 cm.<br style="">Stéphanie Félicité Comtesse de Genlis "Madame de Genlis." Engraved portrait half length to right with headscarf. Engraved by Henry Meyer from an original drawing Bibliothèque nationale de France département Musique Est.Genlis002.10.5 x 16.5 cm.<br style="">Pietro Metastasio. Engraved portrait half length in oval with ribbons and trumpet above. Engraved by Gaucher after Steiner Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Handschriftenabteilung Inventar-Nr. Portr. Slg / Lit. m / Metastasio Pietro Nr. 2 b043753. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Joseph Haydn. Engraved portrait half length to right. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 9. 9.5 x 16.3 cm.<br style="">Abraham Gottlob Werner. Engraved portrait bust left profile in octagon. Engraved by Rosmäsler after Derniani and published by Schumann Zwickau. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Chart entitled "Sound. Compass of voices and instruments shewing the extent of each." The ranges of various voices and string wind and brass instruments are displayed on a large table. Published by Neele & Son. 18 x 25 cm; folds and creased edges.<br style="">Second volume:<br style="">Engraving titled "Flight and Robson's Apollonicon." 10 x 17 cm.<br style="">Torquato Tasso. Engraved portrait bust right profile in oval frame with cherubs and harp. Engraved by Lapi 1777 and published in an early edition of La Gerusalemme Liberata. 12.3 x 6.7 cm.<br style="">Martin Luther. Engraved portrait half length seated with book and quill. Engraved by C. E. Wagstaff and published in The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs 1833. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">King Louis XI of France. Engraved portrait bust profile to left. Engraved by Pinssio after Boizot. Published in Paris by Odieuvre. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Francois Marie Voltaire. Engraved portrait half length to left. Engraved by Bosselman and published by Furne Paris. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art Prints and Photographs: Print Collection The New York Public Library. "Voltaire." Not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">William Pitt the Younger. Engraved portrait half length seated to left. Engraved by S. Freeman after Gainsborough. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Leonardo da Vinci. Engraved portrait half length to right. Engraved by J. Posselwhite Wellcome Library ICV No 6273L. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">King Francis I of France. Engraved portrait half length to left. Engraved by Francis Holl after Titian. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">William Edward Parry. Engraved portrait to right with telescope and waves in the background. Engraved by James Thomson Thompson after Samuel Drummond National Portrait Gallery NPG D38801 and published in the European Magazine. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.With an autograph from Parry taken from the closing of a letter: ".return from the Hecla to town to-morrow when we get underway. Believe me my dear Sir yours very truly obliged W. Parry." Undated. Light foxing. 11.5 x 8.5 cm.<br style="">Charles Burney. Engraved portrait half length to left holding scroll of music. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Isaac Newton. Engraved portrait three-quarter-length seated to right. After John Vanderbank National Portrait Gallery NPG D27326 published by William Cole Feb. 1925. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">I. H. Rolle. Engraved portrait bust in oval with book and branch below. Engraved by Geyser after Fischer Music Division The New York Public Library. "I. H. Rolle." 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Niccolo Jomelli. Engraved portrait bust to front facing and looking to right. By an unidentified engraver possibly Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 3; see upper half of Halberstadt Gleimhaus Inventar-Nr. P3 Jomelli 2. Cut down to 10.5 x 15.6 cm.<br style="">Thomas Britton. Engraved portrait half length to right. Engraved by T. Maddocks after John Wollaston National Portrait Gallery NPG D27353; not in Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Horace Walpole. Engraved portrait half-length standing to left with head turned to look to front supporting a book with his left hand upright on a table. Engraved by G. E. Madeley after Eccardt British Museum 19131101.54. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">William Congreve. Engraved portrait half-length seated to right with left hand on book. Engraved by J. Fittler after J. Thurston Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 17 and published by W. Walker London 1820. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Peter Pindar John Wolcot. Engraved portrait half length to right. Engraved by Corner after Opie British Museum 18650520.133 and published in the European Magazine. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Benjamin Incledon. Engraved portrait as Captain Macheath in Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" half-length to right with drinking glass. Engraved by H. R. Cook after Clater Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 12 and published by Simkin & Marshall 1818. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">King Henry VIII of England. Engraved portrait half length to right wearing chain and feathered hat. By an unidentified engraver late 18th-early 19th century. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Anna Selina Storace Miss Storace. Engraved portrait as Euphrosyne in Miton's "Comus" full length to right standing with cup. Engraved by Thornthwaite after DeWilde Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 8 and published by J. Bell 1791. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Thomas Lowe. Engraved portrait "at Sadler's Wells" full-length in character holding a whip. By an unknown engraver Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2 and published by J. Bow 1778. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Henrietta Maria Queen of Charles I. Engraved portrait three quarter length standing with right hand resting on a table beside a vase filled with flowers and a crown. Engraved by H. T. Ryall after Van Dyke Royal Collection RCIN 602001. 9.5 x 13.5 cm with caption mounted below.<br style="">King Charles II of England. Engraved portrait three-quarter-length to right in armor with crown in the background. By an unidentified engraver after Lely; similar content but not the same engraver as Royal Collection RCIN 602450. 9.5 x 12.5 cm.<br style="">Henry Purcell. Engraved portrait half-length to right. Engraved by H. Adlard after John Closterman British Museum 19441014.277; not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 10 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Cardinal Richelieu. Engraved portrait full-length to left in long robes. By an unidentified engraver. Cut down significantly to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">King Henry IV of France. Hand-colored engraved portrait half-length to left in ruff & armour badge of St Esprit on blue ribbon blue cloak over shoulder. Engraved by Ridé after Sergent Royal Collection RCIN 616649. Cut down to 10.5 x 15 cm.<br style="">Jean de la Fontaine. Engraved portrait bust-length to right. Engraved by James Hopwood the Younger after Hyacinthe Rigaud British Museum 19261230.13. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Pépin le Bref King of the Franks. Engraved portrait half-length to right wearing crown and holding sceptre. Engraved by Pannier after Amiel. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Giovanni Boccaccio. Engraved portrait half length to left wearing laurel crown and holding book. Engraved by W. H. Worthington after Raphael and published by Pickering London 1825 as frontispiece to his edition of The Decameron. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Petrarch Francesco Petrarca. Engraved portrait half-length with wreath of laurel and holding book. Engraved by Robert Hart after Stefano Tofanelli British Museum 18680822.1479. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Dante Alighieri. Engraved portrait bust to right wearing laurel crown. Engraved by Gerhard von Kügelgen and published by Felix Halm Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek Inventar-Nr. A 4338. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Oliver Goldsmith. Engraved portrait bust to right nearly profile. Engraved by P. Audinet after J. Reynolds Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 23. 6.5 x 8.3 cm.<br style="">John Gay. Engraved portrait half-length to right wearing turban. By an unidentified engraver not in Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits published by John Wood 1761. 7.6 x 14.1 cm.<br style="">William Hogarth. Engraved portrait after his self-portrait in the Tate; half-length to right in an oval; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; his dog stands in the right foreground. Engraved by J. Mollison after Hogarth British Museum 19271126.1.28.27. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">William Shield Shields. Engraved portrait half-length to left oval. Engraved by Ridley after Opie Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 5 and published by Bellamy for the Monthly Mirror 1798. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Emma née Lyon Lady Hamilton. Engraved portrait half-length to left wearing feathered hat. Engraved by K. Mackenzie after William Mineard Bennett National Portrait Gallery D23540. 7 x 11.4 cm.<br style="">Rev. Rowland Hill. Engraved portrait half-length to right as an older man wearing preaching bands in rectangular frame. Engraved by Derby after Freeman. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art Prints and Photographs: Print Collection The New York Public Library. "Rev. Rowland Hill." 7.3 x 10.5 cm.<br style="">Rev. George Whitefield. Engraved portrait half-length in an oval slightly turned to the left dressed in an academic gown with bands at his neck and a powdered bobwig on his head the title in a cartouche below illustration to the Universal Magazine. By an unknown engraver published by John Hinton British Museum 18680822.4944. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Maurice de Saxe. Engraved full-length portrait. Unknown engraver origin.  10 x 17.2 cm. <br style="">Farinelli. Engraved portrait bust to right looking to front. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Philip V of Spain. Engraved portrait three-quarter-length to left seated with wig sash badge and sword. By an unidentified engraver name cut off beginning with Le after Hyancinthe Rigaud. With plate number 2491 at the head. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon. Engraved portrait bust to right wearing white lace cravat and fur collar. By an unidentified engraver publisher's name cut off leaving the address: Rue des Petits Augustins 5. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Hannah Pritchard. Engraved portrait as Harriet in Garrick's play 'The Guardian'; full-length standing in profile to left holding out a furled fan. Engraved by Garnett Terry after Thomas Stothard British Museum K62.239; not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits published by Harrison1779.<br style="">George Frederick Handel. Engraved portrait to right nearly full face in wig and gown. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 13. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Torquato Tasso. Engraved portrait half-length to left wearing laurel crown and holding book. Engraved by Robert Hart after Raffaelle Morghen The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art Prints and Photographs: Print Collection The New York Public Library. "Tasso. From a print by Raffaelle Morghen. Under the Superintendence of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Richard Boyle 3rd Earl of Burlington. Engraved portrait; half length to the left looking to the front; left hand on hip wearing sash and star; illustration to Walpole's 'Anecdotes of Painting in England' 1762-1771. Engraved by Thomas Chambars after Godfrey Kneller British Museum G5.76. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 with caption 19.5 cm wide and folded in.<br style="">John Milton. Engraved portrait; bust to the right looking at viewer; with shoulder length waved hair wearing cloak and white collar; in oval; illustration to Knight's 'The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs' London: 1833-1837. Engraved by Thomas Woolnoth after William Faithorne British Museum 19201211.944. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Lewis Francis Roubiliac. Engraved portrait; three-quarter length standing in three-quarter profile to left working on the model for his marble figure of Shakespeare; illustration to Walpole's 'Anecdotes of Painting in England' London: 1762. Engraved by Thomas A. E. Chambars after Adrien Carpentiers British Museum 18621011.648. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Jean-Antoine Watteau. Engraved portrait three-quarter length standing to left leaning on a book and holding a paintbrush. By an unidentified engraver name cut off beginning W. Hibbar. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Mary Queen of Scots. Engraved portrait three-quarter-length with hair under a lace cap left arm at side and right raised holding jewelled pendant. Engraved by J. Thomson after "the original in the collection of the right hon.ble the Earl of Morton." Plate to Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Royal Collection RCIN 618280. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Henry Stuart Lord Darnley. Engraved portrait three-quarter-length to the left one glove held in his hand a feathered hat on his head and a sword and poniard hanging at his side. Engraved by H. Robinson after Hans Eworth and published in Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Royal Collection RCIN 618338. 9.5 x 12.7 cm with caption mounted separately directly below the image.<br style="">Mary Ann Wrighten. Engraved portrait as Peggy in "The Gentle Shepherd" full-length to front standing with flowers in right hand. Plate to Bell's British Theatre 1777 Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 5. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington. Engraved portrait bust forward with head very slightly to right wearing uniform and medals in an ornate rectangular frame. By an unidentified engraver printed by A. Adlard and published by Knight & Lacry London 1827. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">André Ernest Modeste Grétry. Engraved portrait bust facing forward in oval with harp and quills below. Engraved by Jean-Pierre Simon after Jean-Baptiste Isabey Bibliothèque nationale de France département Musique Est.GrétryA.-E.-M.017; not in the Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits. 9 x 15.5 cm.<br style="">Engraving entitled "Fac Similes of Celebrated Composers." 2 sheets folded in 30 and 32 x 16.5 cm.<br style="">Third volume:<br style="">Engraving entitled "Fac Similes of Celebrated Composers."  1 sheet folded in 31 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">St. Louis King Louis IX of France. Engraving of his statue full-length standing on plinth holding sceptre and book. Engraved by Pigeot. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">William Collins. Engraved portrait at the age of 14 half-length to left looking forward in oval. Published by James Asperne and "engraved for the European Magazine from an Original Drawing in the possession of the late William Seward" National Portrait Gallery D13926. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Thomas Moore. Engraved portrait half-length to front looking to left; wearing black neckerchief with pin and high white collar. With facsimile signature below image. Engraved by G. Adcock after F. Sicurec and published by Fisher Son & Co London 1831. Illustration to Jerdan's 'National Portrait Gallery' 1829-32. British Museum 18650114.469. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.With an Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Sir" wittily declining to break off an engagement with someone else. 1 page 10.5 x 17.5 cm. Toning to edges folds. Np "Saturday Morning" no year.<br style="">Jean Baptiste Lully. Engraved portrait bust to left in long wig. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 1. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Athanasius Kircher. Engraved portrait bust to right wearing cornered hat. Engraved by Johann Friedrich Schmidt after C. Bloemaert Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek Inventar-Nr. A 11048. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Charlemagne. Engraved portrait full-length stepping to right looking to left wearing robes and crown carrying orb and sceptre. By an unknown engraver possibly British Museum 19001231.226. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Jean Baptiste Lully. Engraved portrait bust to left looking forward wearing long wig in oval. By an unidentified engraver. Cut down to 10.5 x 17.5 cm with caption mounted separately below image.<br style="">Thomas Arne. Engraved portrait half-length profile to right in wig and making a grimace. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 7. 10.5 x 16.5 cm.<br style="">Susannah Maria Cibber. Engraved portrait as Monimia in Otway's "The Orphan" full-length standing left profile left arm extended in gesture. Engraved by Thornthwaite Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 11. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">John Montagu 4th Earl of Sandwich. Engraved portrait bust-length in profile to left in oval frame surrounded by two laurel branches. Engraved by J. Corner and published by J. Sewell.  Illustration to the 'European Magazine' 1787. British Museum 18650520.145. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Charles Wesley. Engraved portrait half length seated to left holding bible. Facsimile signature below. Engraved by T. A. Dean after "an original painting in the possession of the Family." 10.5 x 16.5 cm. Slight wear and soiling.<br style="">Richard Suett. Engraved portrait as Bayes in Duke of Buckingham's "The Rehearsal" full-length to right bowing slightly in the street. Engraved by W. Skelton after J. Graham. Plate to Bell's British Library 1796 Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 4. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Frederick William III King of Prussia. Engraved portrait in uniform with medals; bust to right. Engraved by Thomas Blood after Johann Friedrich Bolt and published in the European Magazine 1814 British Museum 18750710.5748. 8.5 x 13.5 cm.<br style="">Louis Lazare Hoche. Engraved portrait bust to right in oval. By an unidentified engraver Coburg Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg Inventar-Nr. XIII12464. 6.3 x 10 cm.<br style="">George Gordon Byron Lord Byron. Engraved portrait half-length seated to front with head in three-quarter profile to left. Engraved by H. Robinson after R. Westall. Illustration to William Jerdan's 'National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century' London: 1831. British Museum 18661013.615. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Captain Cook. Engraved portrait bust-length slightly turned to the left and looking to the right seated. Engraved by Edward Scriven after Nathaniel Dance and published by William Mackenzie British Museum 19011022.1749. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">John Wesley. Engraved portrait half-length to right wearing preaching bands and wig; oval in rectangle. Engraved by J. Posselwhite after J. Fittler and J. Barry Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Bildarchiv und Grafiksammlung Porträtsammlung Inventar-Nr. PORT_00134179_01. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Catherine Essex Miss Stephens Countess. Engraved portrait half-length to front looking to right. Engraved by H. Meyer after G. H. Harlow and published in the European Magazine by J. Asperne 1818 Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Charles V Holy Roman Emperor. Engraved portrait half-length to right in doublet chain and flat hat. Engraved by W. Holl after Holbein University of Edinburgh Corson P.7046. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Engraved portrait at age 27 bust left profile in oval. Engraved by C. A. Schwerdgeburth after Chodowiecky and G. M. Kraus Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig G II/14. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Geoffrey Chaucer. Engraved portrait bust to left with cloth headpiece in oval. On a plinth with relief of men on horseback and Chaucer's name. By an unidentified engraver published by D. Bogue London in "Literary History of the Middle Ages" by Rev. Joseph Berington 1846. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Engraving entitled "Cannons in Middlesex the seat of Wm. Hallett Esqr." View of Cannons House in north London; looking down the approach to the manor house horses and cows on either side of path a wide gate with iron fence before formal grounds of house. Engraved by William Watts after John Alexander Gresse British Museum 19271126.1.17.54. 20 x 17.5 cm bound in as 2 pp.<br style="">Engraving entitled "View of the Orchestra in Vauxhall Garden." Showing ladies and gentlemen standing and walking in a garden listening to an orchestra and singer perform in an elevated pavilion. Published by J. Bew as frontispiece to the "Vocal Magazine" 1 May 1778. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">John Edwin. Engraved portrait as Autolycus in "The Winter's Tale" full-length standing holding up a purse in left hand; oval in rectangle. Engraved by C. Grignion after H. Ramberg and published by J. Bell as a plate to "British Theatre" 1785 Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 5. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Pietro Aretino Pierre Aretin. Engraved portrait bust forward looking slightly to left wearing hat with peak to left. In oval frame with inscriptions in French. By an unidentified engraver after Titian published by Daumont Paris Münster LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Porträtarchiv Diepenbroick Inventar-Nr. C-507647 PAD. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Eight small engraved portraits of Shakespearean actors: Hannah Pritchard Sarah Siddons George Frederick Cooke Charles Macklin John Henderson Charles Kemble Thomas Betterton and David Garrick. Each portrait is individually cut out in an oval and laid down separately over 2 pp. of four portraits. From one engraving of all eight in ornate frames by Robert Cooper published by Sherwood & co. 1825 British Museum 18680808.1336. Each portrait approx 2 x 4 cm.<br style="">George Gordon Noel Byron Lord Byron. Engraved portrait bust-length to front with head in three-quarter profile; wearing neckerchief and frill. Engraved by Thomas Blood after Richard Westall and published by James Asperne as illustration to the 'European Magazine' 1814 British Museum 18680808.1399. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Anna Maria Crouch. Engraved portrait as Princess Lodoiska Lodoisk half-length to left looking to front in hat right hand holding scarf on shoulder. Engraved by J. Rogers after Stevens and published by Simpkin & Marshall 1824 Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 15. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">James II King of England. Engraved portrait while Duke of York; three-quarter-length with long hair lace collar armour and sash over right shoulder. With left hand on helmet and right holding gauntlet. With French inscription below. By an unknown engraver published in Charles Gavard's 'Galeries historiques de Versailles' published in the 1830s and 1840s Royal Collection RCIN 602793. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Jonathan Swift Dr. Swift. Engraved portrait bust-length in an architectural oval in profile to the right his head bare with an open collar and a mantle. By an unidentified engraver after Rupert Barber published by Robert Baldwin in the London Magazine 1754 British Museum 19011022.1732. 10.5 x 16.5 cm.<br style="">Ben Jonson. Engraved portrait half-length turned slightly to the right looking at viewer; wearing high lace-trimmed collar and embroidered gown; with short hair and beard. Engraved by Edward Scriven and published by Charles Knight in 'The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs' London: 1833-1837 British Museum 18711209.916. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">John Gay. Engraved portrait bust to left wearing turban in oval. Engraved by P. Rothwell after W. Aikman and published by Harrison & co. 1795 Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 2. 6.5 x 8 cm.<br style="">Julius Caesar. Engraved portrait on a coin half-length profile to left holding shield and orb. With Latin inscriptions on coin and "Julianus Imperator" at the foot. By an unidentified engraver. Cut down significantly to 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">William Herschel. Engraved portrait half-length in an oval frame in profile to the left in oval with a globe a celestial map and telescopes below the title on a cartouche below. By an unidentified engraver published by John Sewell in the European Magazine 1785 British Museum 18650520.79. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Thomas D'Urfey. Engraved portrait half-length in profile to the left holding two closed books under left arm and reading sheet of music held in right hand. Engraved by Charles Pye after J. Thurston and published by W. Walker 1821 British Museum 19201211.527. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Engraved portrait half-length in a frame slightly turned to the left seated and resting one arm on a pile of books dressed in a dark tailcoat over his waistcoat. Engraved by Henry Meyer after Henry Edridge published by Lackington & Co 1816 British Museum 18590709.1313. Cut down significantly to 10 x 13.8 cm.<br style="">Queen Mary II. Engraved portrait bust-length directed to right; wearing fur-trimmed jewelled dress pearl jewellery; in oval frame. Engraved by J. Taylor after Godfrey Kneller and published by James Buckland 1776 British Museum 18730510.940. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Joseph Addison. Engraved portrait half-length to the left eyes to viewer; wearing long white curled wig jacket and open-necked white shirt. Engraved by J. Thomson after Charles Jervas and published in Knight's 'The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs' London: 1833-1837 British Museum 18750508.544. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Sir Hans Sloane Bt. Engraved portrait half-length to right looking forward wearing a long wig in oval. By an unidentified engraver National Portrait Gallery NPG D27596. 9 x 13 cm.<br style="">Thomas Topham. Engraving of the strong man performing a feat of lifting three barrels standing on a scaffold. One of several versions of this engraving by an unknown engraver after C. LeighWellcome Library London ICV No 7498L. Cut down significantly to 10.5 x 17.5 cm with caption mounted above.<br style="">John Braham. Engraved portrait half-length looking to right. Engraved by H. Adlard Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 7. 8.5 x 13 cm.With brief autograph letter signed "Dear Sir I think I can come on Monday next. Will that be convenient to you." Brompton 14 July no year. 10 x 17.5 cm with folding creases and light foxing.<br style="">John Palmer. Engraved portrait half-length to left facing and looking to right. Engraved by W. Ridley Harvard Theatre Collection Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits no. 20. 8 x 11 cm.<br style="">John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough. Engraved portrait half-length to right with head turned to look towards the viewer; wearing fur mantle sash over armour and neckerchief. Engraved by James Posselwhite after Godrey Kneller British Museum 19001231.41. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">William Mason. Engraved portrait half-length in an oval with ribbons in profile to the right dressed in a dark frockcoat with his hair powdered and curled. Engraved by William Angus and published in the European Magazine by Fielding 1783 British Museum 18650520.108. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Aristotle. Engraved portrait bust profile to right wearing round cap with French caption below. Engraved by Anton Pailler Münster LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Porträtarchiv Diepenbroick Inventar-Nr. C-500616 PAD. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style="">Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Engraved portrait half-length to left in dress uniform with sash and medals. Engraved by T. Blood for the European Magazine and published by J. Asperne 1814. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.<br style=""><br style=""> hardcover books
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Americana Autographs Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration Presidents
1935 Three Typed Notes on White House Letterhead Signed By Marguerite 'Missy' Le Hand M.H. McIntyre and H.M. Kanee to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Washington D.C.: Not Published 1935. Three notes typed and sent to the Warm Springs Foundation oft-visited by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in an effort to the ameliorate the effects of his polio condition: January 9 1935 "Respectfully referred to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. signed M.A. Le Hand" from Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand 1898 - 1944 private secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt for 21 years; with January 23 1935 "My dear Mr. Little: Reference is made to your letter of January eighteenth enclosing copies of White House and Mr. McIntyre's accounts. I have been assured by Mr. Sanderson that vouchers for these two bills are now on Mr. Howe's desk and as soon as they are signed by him will be forwarded to the Warm Springs Foundation. With kind regards Sincerely signed H.M. Kanee Secretary to Mr. McIntyre with hand written note added at bottom "How is your golf We all envy you - Snowing up here."; and May 1 1935 "Memorandum for Arthur Carpenter Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Thought you would be interested in the photographs attached which came with a letter inviting the President to make use of the facilities of the Children's Hospital in San Diego. I have not had an opportunity to show them to the President. signed with initials M.H.M" Marvin Hunter McIntyre 1878 - 1943 journalist and Presidential Secretary to FDR; all on The White House Washington imprint letterhead notepaper two later notes approx.6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; on "American Eagle" watermark note paper; the note from Le Hand 5 1/4" x 8" plain paper; old fold lines; old filing holes punched at tops; light wear; in very good condition. Signed by Author. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
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FLAG SPACE FLOWN Space Shuttle "Columbia"
This flag and crew patch were flown aboard the Space Shuttle "Columbia" STS-1 / April 12-14 1981 / Presented to / Adlai Stevenson / In recognition of the significant contributions you made to the success of this mission
Original space-flown flag 5½" X 4¼" and cloth patch 4¼" X 4 3/4" presented on a 12 3/4" X 16 3/4" cream colored heavy stock in turn mounted to a 16" X 20" pale blue mat board. Very good. Bit of slight soiling. The cream colored stock bears glossy photographs on the upper left takeoff and lower right landing corners. At lower left is a circular flute-edged NASA gold foil seal and the space-flown flag is mounted at upper right -- consisting of the State Seal of Illinois with the word "ILLINOIS" below against a white background. The printed text cited above appears immediately below this flag and the crew patch below this text. JOHN YOUNG born 1930 signs boldly in black ink to the left of the patch while ROBERT L. CRIPPEN born 1937 signs to the right. The Columbia STS-1 flight was called by NASA "The boldest test flight in history." It was the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle program lasting 54½ hours and orbiting the Earth 37 times; commanded by John Young and piloted by Robert Crippen it was the first to use solid-fuel rockets in a U.S. manned launch. These rare relics were presented to Illinois' then-senator ADLAI E. STEVENSON III born 1930 who was instrumental in guiding U.S. space policy. unknown books
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CROKER J. Wilson 1780 1857
Autograph Letter Signed
This Irish-born British literary critic essayist and satirist is remembered for his controversial 1831 edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson"; as Member of Parliament and long-time secretary to the admiralty 1810-30 he is best known for slashing the size of the Royal Navy. ALS 4pp lettersheet 4½" X 7" Aldeburgh Great Britain 1831 October 2. Addressed to George Lamb 1784-1834 British politician and writer; appointed under-secretary of state in 1830. Very good. Mild wear; being a four-page lettersheet there's remnants of old archival tape along the fold. Croker comments on Lamb for answering his letter to British secretary of state The Viscount Melbourne -- George Lamb's own brother William Lamb. Regards some cryptic naval incident -- in part: "I think it proper to observe that you do not appear to have seen the difficulty which I intended to submit to Lord Melbourne. My doubt did not apply so much to the treatment of the seamen who might be stranded as to that of the town into which such persons may have been thrown" and he goes on at length to explain that the whole town may have been subjected to the stranded seamen. Good content from the tail end of Croker's admiralty career and the beginning of his literary career. unknown books
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BATES Kinzie 1839 84
Partly-Printed Document Signed
This son of the first white child born in Chicago daughter of pioneering fur trader John Kinzie served with the 1st Michigan Infantry in the Civil War later serving as a battalion commander at the frontier in 1869 in General Nelson Miles' "Yellowstone Campaign." Partly-Printed DS 1p 11" X 8¼" Standing Rock Dakota Territory 18 August 1876. Very good. Partly-printed "Receipt for Quartermaster's Stores" a secretarially-completed by Lieutenant William Badger form signed boldly by Bates as infantry captain at lower right. Notes receipt of two "Common Tents" two sets of "Common Tent Poles" and five sets of "Common Tent Pins" noting their condition as "Serviceable" and "New." Penned just four weeks after the Battle of Little Big Horn and from the military post where Sitting Bull would later be kept. Scarce and unusual. unknown books
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MARTINEAU Harriet 1802 76
Autograph Quotation unsigned
The first female sociologist" according to some and a feminist at a time when that word was unknown this versatile English writer penned nonfiction essays poetry novels short stories travelogues economics and more and was one of the few self-supporting women writers of her age. Autograph Quotation unsigned 1p 7 3/4" X 6 3/4" n.p. n.y. Very good. Mild age toning and old not weakened folds; tipped to similar-size sheet. Four 4-line stanzas from Martineau's 1866 poem "The Coming of Christ in Power" the first stanza reading: "Lord Jesus come! for still / Vice shouts her maniac mirth. / And famished thousands crave their fill / While teems the fruitful earth." And the last stanza reads: "Come as in days of old / With words of grace & power! / Gather us all within thy fold / And never leave us more." Interestingly the phraseology of these four stanzas differs considerably from some printed versions of it. Vertically along the right edge a different unknown hand notes "Composed and written by Harriet Martineau. / Given to me by Mrs. Follen." Eliza L. Follen 1787-1860 was an American abolitionist and wife of poet Charles Follen; in 1844 she wrote the introduction to the American edition of Martineau's book "Life in the Sick-Room: Essays." An intriguing Martineau text though not signed and with interesting provenance. unknown books
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TRACY Spencer 1900 67
Inscribed Photograph Signed
This highly-regarded versatile and prolific leading man -- considered by many one of the greatest actors ever -- won an Oscar for "Captains Courageous" 1937 and "Boy's Town" 1938. IPS 8" X 10" n.p. n.d. Very good. Slightest of edgewear with faint tape stain at each corner. Handsome studio portrait taken for "The Mountain" costarring Robert Wagner and Claire Trevor showing a benevolent older Tracy in sportscoat and ascot boldly inscribed in black ballpoint in a light portion at the upper left "To Donald / best wishes / Spencer Tracy / 7/14/61." A lovely example. unknown books
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REEVES Jim 1924 64
Inscribed Photograph Signed
Known as "Gentleman Jim" this influential Country Western singer of the '50s and '60s achieved great popularity with such hits as "He'll Have to Go" 1960; he died at age 40 in a plane crash in Tennessee. Color IPS verso heavy stock 3½" X 5½" n.p. n.d. Near fine. Handsome color picture postcard issued by RCA Victor Records the recto featuring a nice half-length portrait of Reeves in tie and red sweater. Verso features message and address portions and across this in bold large script as red as his sweater Reeves writes "To / Donald / Best of luck always / Gratefully / Jim Reeves." The signature itself which runs from the lower left corner to the upper right corner measures a full 5½"! A superb example of this rarity. unknown books
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CORTOT Alfred 1877 1962
Autograph Letter Signed
Renowned Swiss-French composer and pianist famed as an interpreter of Wagner and the Romantics. ALS in French 2pp single leaf 5¼" X 8¼" n.p. 25 November 1947. Addressed to "cher Monsieur" American pianist and music school founder John G. Leiser. Very good. Faintly visible triangular 3½" X 3" stain tea at upper left of first page reverse on recto. On his green imprinted Neuilly-sur-Seine France letterhead which address he crosses out Cortot complains about having never received his correspondent's first letter noting in part rough translation "I have lived in Switzerland for two years so it's probable the postmaster where I used to live is very disorganized and neglected to forward your letters. Since you show interest in my projects and my return to the United States I can tell you that I am having talks about touring your big country during the winter of 48-49 where I have dear and faithful friendships. On the other hand concerning my recordings I just made a dozen recordings in England for His Master's Voice. I would be surprised if you couldn't buy them." Nice music content penned large and bold in Cortot's legible hand. With French transcript. unknown books
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ANTOBAL Don Mario Eusebio Azpiazu 1890 1966
Inscribed Photograph Signed
This Cuban became influential in introducing and popularizing Latin music in the United States first by managing the band of his brother Don Azpiazu and then by taking the stage name Don Mario Antobal and forming "Antobal's Cubans" who toured the U.S. and became popular throughout the 1930s; he later founded a music publishing company. IPS 7" X 5" n.p. n.y. Very good. Minor silvering. Black and white reproduction of a stylized cartoon rendering of "Antobal's Cubans" performing. Across the lower black area in bold white ink he inscribes and signs "Merry Xmas / and a / Happy New Year -- Antobal." A superb example of this uncommon autograph. unknown books
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SARNOFF David 1891 1971
Typed Letter Signed / Unsigned Photograph
This giant of the telecommunications world headed RCA Radio Corporation of America from 1919 to 1970 -- but began as a lowly Belarus immigrant office boy in 1907 with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America in New York working his way up the radio and television ladder. TLS 1p 8½" X 11" New York NY 1966 May 10. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates Literary Editor of the Lincoln Herald 1914-93 noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar. Near fine. On "Radio Corporation of America" letterhead Sarnoff discusses a biography of him that Eugene Lyons had authored: "Thanks you for your kind letter. and the reprint of your excellent review of my biography which appeared in the 'Lincoln Herald.' I am naturally pleased that you found the book so rewarding and I appreciate your thoughtfulness in writing to me." Early in 1966 Harper & Row had published a book by Sarnoff's cousin Eugene Lyons "David Sarnoff: A Biography." Large bold signature in blue ink. Accompanied by a fine glossy 9" X 7" black and white news agency photograph International News Photos a candid closeup of Sarnoff smiling alongside a beauty contestant winner. Caption at bottom which dates this 23 April 1956 describes the scene: "David Sarnoff RCA chairman and chairman of the National Security Training Commission names Barbara Lyman Washington Cherry Blossom Queen an honorary colonel in the Washington Army Reserve at a kick-off luncheon for military reserve week. unknown books
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WEYERHAEUSER Frederick 1834 1914
Partly-Printed Document Signed
The eighth wealthiest American of all time was a German-born lumber magnate who began his empire in Rock Island Illinois in 1856 starting as a night fireman at a sawmill and working his way up until he owned this sawmill then began adding more until the "Weyerhauser Syndicate" was enormous; he moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1900 where the firm still operates and is the world's largest timber seller. Partly-Printed Document Signed 1p 8 3/4" X 3 3/4" Rock Island IL 1881 November 15. Very good. Ornate check drawn on the Peoples National Bank printed in black on blue stock and featuring decorative border a variety of ornate typefaces and a steel-engraved vignette at left showing a puffing locomotive at a train station. The check has been made out to Weyerhaeuser in the amount of $25000 and is signed by the bank president Bailey Davenport. Davenport 1823-90 was the son of Davenport Iowa's murdered founding father fur trader/Indian agent/frontiersman Colonel George Davenport 1783-1845 and was himself a wealthy banker real estate entrepreneur and mayor of Davenport during the Civil War. On the check's verso Weyerhaeuser signs boldly adding "pat to the Order / of H C Putnam" above. Below this Putnam then signs. Henry Cleveland Putnam 1832-1912 was a Wisconsin lumber baron and philanthropist one of the founders of Eau Claire. Three more unidentified persons also sign below Putnam. Twenty-five thousand dollars was a huge sum of money in 1881. Real estate developer Davenport and Weyerhaeuser who also served on the board of directors of this bank surely had many and complex business dealings -- as Weyerhaeuser likewise also had with fellow lumber baron Putnam. Weyerhaeuser's syndicate was vast and he had arrangements with a large number of other lumber businesses. It's possible the transaction had to do with the purchase of timber lands but this warrants further research. In any case a unique and intriguing document. unknown books
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KEILY Daniel J. 1829 67
Autograph Note Signed
This Union officer served on the staff of Brigadier General James Shields whose troops faced Stonewall Jackson's Confederate troops in the Shenandoah Valley in June 1862 and later commanded the Second Louisiana Regiment Cavalry; he was a good friend of famed Irish soldier Miles W. Keogh 1840-76 killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn who served under him in the Papal Army during the Italian rebellion in 1860 and who fought with him in the Battle of Port Republic; he's reported to have become enamored with famed Southern spy "Belle" Boyd" at one point and to have unwittingly revealed military secrets to her. Outstanding pencilled ANS 2pp recto and verso heavy stock 4" X 2½" card "Conrad's Bridge" Virginia n.d. ca. early June 1862. Addressed to "General" probably James Shields. Very good. Lightly age toned. In this remarkable small report Keily reports in a small tight but fairly legible hand to his commander that "Col. Carroll moves his comm'd. at p.m. and will push on as rapidly as possible some cannonading heard this morning in the direction of Harrisonburg I would respectfully submit that if the Infantry did not move rapidly enough to carry out your views at Wainesborough before Jacksons arrival there a reconnaisance composed of cavalry conducted cautiously might attain the object with a good Guide which we have procured I would be glad to undertake it -- respectfully" and signs off adding his rank "Capt. A.D.C" beneath. A rather light challenging to transcribe postscript reads "P.S. Just received information from a reliable source that Jackson has --- --- --- Train on the --- Pt. Republic Road." It's difficult to precisely date Keily's note but General Shields did write General McDowell on June 4 1862 that "Colonel Carroll. after a forced night's march reached Conrad's Bridge this morning at 5 o'clock which bridge he found burned" -- which likely dates Keily's letter from this date or shortly after. Whether Shields took Keily up on his offer to lead a cavalry reconnaissance is unclear. Shields 1810-79 is perhaps best remembered as the Illinois politician who almost fought a duel with Abraham Lincoln in 1842; he's also the only person in American history to serve as U.S. senator from three different states Illinois Minnesota and Missouri; as a brigadier general of volunteers in the Civil War his lackluster performance as commander of the 2nd Division of the V Corps in the Army of the Potomac during the crucial Valley Campaign caused him to resign his commission. On June 9th the Battle of Port Republic took place a costly Confederate victory in which Jackson's 6000 troops faced off 3500 Union troops losing just over 800 men to the Union's loss of just over 1000 men -- a battle at which Keily himself was severely wounded in the face while leading a charge of Ohio cavalry up a hill into a barrage of Confederate artillery fire. The following year after painful recuperation Keily ended up on the staff of General Charles P. Stone in New Orleans recruiting cavalry troops in that occupied state. Late in the war he was court-martialed for "conduct unbecoming an officer" but the charges were shown false and by the end of the war he was brevetted a brigadier general. Keily died from yellow fever in Louisiana at age 38 shortly after the war's end making his autograph material quite scarce -- and a choice war-date item such as this most desirable. This remarkable war-date communication sheds interesting light on Shields as commander during the disastrous Valley Campaign. unknown books
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McPHATTER Clyde 1933 72
Autograph Letter Signed
This legendary R & B tenor hit the charts in the mid-50s with the Drifters and such hits as "Money Honey" "Such a Night" and "Honey Love" before going solo. ALS 1p 8½" X 11" New Rochelle NY 1958 January 2. Addressed to Donald. Very good. Yellowed tape stain at each corner and one 1¼" at each side. On delightfully corny letterhead of "Clyde McPhatter's Tune Shop" this rare letter was written shortly after his split from the Drifters and the height of his fame as a soloist. A gracious letter to an admirer reading in part: "Hope that you will like the little verse that I am sending you. Very sorry that I don't have any pictures at this time hope when you write again I'll have some on hand. So until then be good." Bold full signature. The alcoholic McPhatter died of a heart attack at age 39 making his autograph material quite uncommon. unknown books
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Castaing autographs
L' echiquier autographes et documents historiques with Autographes Frederic Castaing 10 catalogues no duplications
Paris: dealer 1980. Various paginations in fact various formats; sleeker as M. Castaing becomes more prosperous. Not much sign of wear or handling; the lot:. dealer unknown books
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AUTOGRAPHS
LIBER SCRIPTORUM: The First Book of the Authors Club Second Book of the Authors Club.
<p>First Authors Club volume #10/251 with literary pieces by 109 contributors each signed by its author. Includes signed pieces by Mark Twain "The Californian's Tale" Theodore Roosevelt "A Shot at a Bull Elk" Andrew Carnegie "Genius Illustrated from Burns" &c. A lavish anthology printed on fine paper watermarked "Authors Club" with contributions by Samuel Clemens W. D. Howells Theodore Roosevelt Charles Dudley Warner Frank R. Stockton F. Hopkinson Smith E. C. Stedman Henry Van Dyke and many others. Each piece including Clemens's "The California Tale" is signed by its respective author 109 in all. </p><p>Second Authors Club volume #237/251 with literary pieces by 129 contributors of which 117 are hand-autographed. Among the signed contributions are pieces by George Washington Cable George Barr McCutcheon and Albert Payson Terhune.</p><p>The Authors Club of New York was organized in 1882 as a club for noted persons and authors. The First Book of the Authors Club Liber Scriptorum was published in 1891 to raise money for a permanent home for the social club. The second volume was conceived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first volume but publication was delayed due to World War I. When finally published in 1921 it contained 129 stories poems and essays in a limited edition signedby each author at his contribution. Contributors include: Irving Bacheller George Washington Cable George Wharton Edwards John Erskine Franklin Henry Giddings George Bird Grinnell Rossiter Johnson John Uri Lloyd Brander Matthews George Barr McCutcheon Albert Payson Terhune Carl Van Doren and Henry van Dyke &c but as noted in the table of contents and errata slip not all of the authors were able to sign: eight died before the presses had finished so facsimiles were used for Joseph Alexander Altsheler Julius Chambers William Henry McElroy Charles Augustus Stoddard Stephen Henry Thayer Calvin Thomas James Terry White and William Young; two had gone blind James Thompson Bixby and Richard Rodgers Bowker and could no longer sign their name consistently; one contributor was off traveling Frank Crane while the last was ill William Ordway Partridge. </p><p>BAL 3438. In his bibliography of Mark Twain Merle Johnson notes that though "there are presumed to be 251 copies of the book; actually over 30 of these were not bound but were sold as separate articles." Many copies have also been broken up over the years so the autographs could be sold separately. The majority of intact copies now reside in institutions. <br /></p><p><br /></p> The Authors Club hardcover books
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RICHTER Johann Paul Friedrich 1763 1825
Autograph Letter Signed
Jean Paul" a much-admired and much-maligned German writer of the Romantic period whose prolific output included such novels as "The Invisible Lodge" 1793 "Hesperus" 1795 "Siebenkäs" 1796-97 "Titan" 1800-03 "The Awkward Age" 1804-05 and many others. ALS in German 1p 6¼" X 8" Hof in Vorgtland Germany 13 December 1789. Addressed to in translation "Highly honored and respected Sir." Very good. Mounting traces along left edge verso only. An unusually early example boldly penned in dark brown ink during a period when he was living with his mother and tutoring children in a nearby village; his pseudonymously-published poorly-received "Selections from the Devil's Papers" was published earlier this same year. In this letter he writes an unnamed publisher that in translation "I take the liberty to send you the beginning of a manuscript and beg you to give me your opinion as to its probable acceptance or rejection at your earliest convenience. I have the honor to sign myself with the greatest respect." Boldly signed "J.P.F. Richter." Richter's next book "The Invisible Lodge" wasn't published until 1793 and parts of it such as "Life of the Cheerful Schoolmaster Maria Wutz" are believed to have been written in 1790 so it's quite possible that he was submitting some other portion of "The Invisible Lodge" with this query. An interesting example worth further research. Very scarce. unknown books
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SMOCK Nell Stolp 1896 ?
Original Book Illustration Art
This east coast watercolorist and children's book artist illustrated and often also wrote a wide array of children's books from the 1930s into the 1960s -- including "Wilderness Pet" "Wiggly and Giggly the Little Twin Bears" "Whitetail: King of the Forest" "The Three Puppies" "The Small One" "The Nutcracker of Nuremberg" "The Bluebird" "The Night Before Christmas" "The Enchantment of Santa Claus" "The Christ Child" "Pussy Cat Talks to Her Kittens" "Polly Parrot" "Piccolino" "Is There a Santa Claus" as well as some "Dick and Jane Basic Readers." Offered here is the near-complete original illustration art for Smock's 1937 children's book "Jocko" written by Dorothy Winchell and published by Albert Whitman & Co. of Chicago. Represented here is almost the entire book from front cover art through closing "The End" image -- lacking only 3-4 pages front board graphic frontispiece pages 21 and 31. Most are in the form of ca. 10" X 15" heavy stock art boards most with typeset text blocks pagination and other typeset elements stripped in. All are beautifully inked in black and shaded in pale blue. There is a smaller form full-color title page and half-title page and sixth text page these with the text portions entirely hand lettered. Very good. Stripped-in text blocks are usually slightly discolored from the rubber cement with which they were affixed; occasional light soiling and bit of occasional edgewear. Many original tissue overlays are present and these are generally heavily chipped and sometimes partial given their delicate nature though many contain pencilled coloring instructions etc. Four drawings are present in oversize form two 22" X 15" two 15" X 18½". Overall quite attractive and quite displayable. Jocko the monkey is a fictional character seen in 19th century texts such as the 1875 short story "Jocko the Monkey" by Fanny P. Seaverns. The Steiff company issued a monkey stuffed animal named Jocko in the late 19th century and various other Jocko the Monkey products have appeared over the years from cookie jars to posters. There were a series of silent short films about Jocko in the 1920s etc. -- all interesting predecessors to Hans and Margret Rey's "Curious George" which debuted in France in 1939. "Jocko" is the charming tale of "a bright little monkey" named Jocko and his owner an organ grinder named Rollo. Through no fault of his own Jocko gets lost and causes accidents and chaos all about him. He ends up the center of attention at a circus parade. Jocko is asked to join but luckily Rollo finds him at the last moment and they are happily reunited. A delightful collection from the height of this illustrator's fame. It's most unusual to find the nearly complete artwork from an entire book of this period. unknown books
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SLAVERY WRIT OF REPLEVIN ST. CHARLES MISSOURI. TUTER Reuben ? ?
Document Signed
Confidant of Missouri pioneer Jonathan Bryan 1759-1846 of the noted St. Charles family whose relatives included their neighbor Daniel Boone. DS 1p 7½" X 12" St. Charles County MO 1847 February 2. Near fine. Acknowledgment that Tuter who signs himself as "Administrator of the Estate of Johnathan Bryan" has had a writ of replevin made out and issued to the St. Charles sheriff Edward C. Cunningham 1809-65 for delivery to an unnamed offender. The writ seeks to recover the following property apparently wrongfully taken from Jonathan Bryan's estate: "one negro man a Slave named Heney one Two horse waggon and one pair of Briches Two Black horses one Lorrel horse with bold face one walnut Cupboard one clock one Bureau one bedstead and bedding one walnut Table one Trunk one Bible." In other words everything but the kitchen sink. Signed at the conclusion by Tater in his definitely untutored hand. Tales of slaves are found in the Bryan family lore such as: "Mrs. Jonathan Bryan a kinswoman of Daniel Boone was working in her yard with a slave woman when a boy slave screamed. She saw an Indian warrior heading for them with a tomahawk in one hand and a gun in the other. The women ran for the house. Just as they were slamming the door they caught the warrior's head and right arm between the door and facing. The slave woman grabbed the hatchet from his hand and killed him with a sharp blow. The women had barely recovered from their fright when the boy shouted again." Could the slave boy in this old family legend by none less than the "Slave named Heney" whose return is demanded in this replevin suit Quite unusual slavery item with an intriguing history. unknown books
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BROCK Emma L. 1886 1974
Original Book Illustration Art
This noted Montana-born children's book author and illustrator is remembered for "The Runaway Sardine" her first book 1929 and 35 others most published by Knopf: "The Greedy Goat" "Drusilla" "The Topsy-Turvy Family" "Mr. Wren's House" and others. Offered here is the near-complete original ink and watercolor artwork for an early title illustrated but not authored by Brock: Louise F. Encking's translation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic "The Nutcracker and the Mouse=King" published by Albert Whitman & Co. of Chicago in 1930 when Brock was just starting out and hungry for work. Consists of 25 slightly translucent leaves each two sheets either stapled or tipped together at top approximately 13" X 17" 14 containing a large single black ink line drawings six signed by Brock at lower margin and the remainder mostly containing two small drawings per sheet. All 25 have an overlay sheet on top of the ink drawings bearing the hand colored elements. Below each ink drawing Brock pens a caption which often differs from the caption that appears in the published book. Very good overall. Minor occasional soiling most about edges and edgewear. Bold and handsome illustrations for almost the entire book some with pencilled editor's notes in the margins including one or two illustrations omitted from the published book. Front cover art is absent present only in the form of an 8" X 10" glossy black-and-white photograph used for production purposes. The simple rear dust jacket art is present on a 12½" X 16½" heavy card stock board as well along with an 8" X 10" glossy black-and-white production photograph of same. A fabulous and quite scarce archive that shows the creative process at work. unknown books
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AICARD Jean 1848 1921
Autograph Manuscript Signed
This well-known French poet novelist and playwright was elected member of the Académie française in 1909; his home at La Garde on the French Riviera is now a museum. AMS 20pp rectos only. 8" X 10 3/4" n.p. n.y. ca. 1890. Very good to near fine. Custom bound in half grey cloth with gilt spine lettering and marbled paper over boards. Binding is very good showing mild edgewear. Holograph manuscript for "La Noel du petit Jean" penned boldly in black ink on heavy stock leaves and boldly signed at the conclusion. Clearly a working draft for it contains crossouts insertions and corrections throughout. Apparently this was a novel for the journal "Bulletin Bibliographique" and other scholarly sources of 1890-91 list an Aicard work by this title one even noting 754 pages -- though perhaps these are lists of works in progress for no published novel by this title can be found. To confuse matters further the gilt title of this bound manuscript notes "1909" although this could be an error or simply the year this was bound. After the closing signature on the final leaf Aicard pens the address of the "journal le Figaro" in Paris. An intriguing manuscript worthy of further research. hardcover books
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AUTOGRAPHS
Graphology for All: A Key to the Character Reading of Handwriting For Quick Reference With Numerous Facsimile Autographs as examples by Graphique
London Frank Hollings 1916 1916. 8vo. Illustrated with autograph facsimiles. Original light blue cloth stamped in white and blue with pictorial design of a hand writing. Very good. 64 pages 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. No dust jacket. Analysis of handwriting of Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy Rudyard Kipling Oscar Wilde and others. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Frank Hollings, 1916 hardcover books
Référence libraire : 229354
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Demangeot, Jean. Envoi autographe signe
Les espaces naturels tropicaux
Paris: Masson Coll. Géographie 1976. Broché. Bon état Masson, Coll. Géographie, unknown
Référence libraire : 34655
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Boye, Marc. Envoi autographe signe
Expéditions polaires françaises. Missions Paul-Emile Victor I. Glaciaire et périglaciaire de l 'Ata Sund Nord-Oriental Groenland
Paris: Hermann & Cie Editeurs Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles 1950. Broché. Bon état. In fine 47 figures et une carte Hermann & Cie, Editeurs, Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles, unknown
Référence libraire : 34541
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Touchart, Laurent. Envoi autographe signe
Les lacs. Origine et morphologie
Paris: L 'Harmattan 2000. Broché. Bon état L 'Harmattan, unknown
Référence libraire : 35005
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Izis . Textes autographes de Audiberti, Breton, Carco, Cendrars, Cocteau....
Paris des rêves
Lausanne: Clairefontaine 1950. Relié-Jaquette éditeur. Très bon état. 76 photos N/B tirées en héliogravure. Exemplaire de la version reliée. Clairefontaine, unknown
Référence libraire : 36130
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Izis Bidermanas. Textes autographes de Audiberti, Breton, Carco, Cendrars, Cocteau....
Paris des rêves
Lausanne: laguilde du Livre 1950. broché sous couverture rempliée. in-4. Bon état. 75 photos N/B tirées en héliogravure. laguilde du Livre, unknown
Référence libraire : 36131
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Alphonse ALLAIS
"Et bien envoie-moi le n° du Figaro illustré d'il y a un mois ou deux où il y avait des choses de Toulouse-Lautrec."" • Signed autograph letter
Honfleur: s. n. 1895. Fine. s. n. Honfleur s.d. ca 1895 14 x 22 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter signed addressed to a journalist friend at Figaro illustré 28 lines in black ink. Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion a lack to upper corner of the letter without any damage to the text. Alphonse Allais must do a favor for his friend: ""Un peu de patience mon cher Abel un peu de patience. Sitôt rentré à Paris ma première démarche sera pour ton parapluie que je choisirai en soir gorge-pigeon et manche d'argent."" A little patience my dear Abel a little patience. As soon as I return to Paris my first errand will be for your umbrella which I will choose in pigeon-throat evening silk with a silver handle.; he therefore also allows himself to solicit the kindness of his correspondent: ""Et bien envoie-moi le n° du Figaro illustré d'il y a un mois ou deux où il y avait des choses de Toulouse-Lautrec."" Well then send me the issue of Figaro illustré from a month or two ago where there were things by Toulouse-Lautrec. He concludes his letter with a sententious: ""Donne-moi ta main loyale que je la serre. Ton Alphonse Allais. Bonjour aux amis."" Give me your loyal hand so I may shake it. Your Alphonse Allais. Greetings to friends. s. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 88099
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Andre MALRAUX
Carte de visite sur laquelle André Malraux a ajouté quelques mots de remerciements à ses amis Minka et Karl Hans Strauss
s. l.: s. n. 1973. Fine. s. n. s. l. 1973 13.50 x 9 cm une feuille Printed calling card on which André Malraux added in blue ballpoint pen these few words for his friends Minka and Karl Hans Strauss: ""I am touched dear friends by the affectionate part you take in my grief. And what else is there to say.""  s. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 88071
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Anatole FRANCE
"Travaillez travaillons de concert à la paix du monde"" • Autograph manuscript signed abundantly corrected
Londres 1913. Fine. Londres 12 décembre 1913 20 x 25.50 cm en feuillets Complete autograph manuscript in French by Anatole France 7 pages in black ink on 7 leaves and a signed autograph note on a bifolium. Complete and extensively corrected speech by Anatole France on the occasion of a banquet given in his honor in London. The future Nobel Prize winner for Literature delivers a passionate appeal for peace between nations and an ode to England - its philosophy literature and politics - less than a year before WW1. The writer offered this manuscript with a signed note: “Keep dear colleague and friend keep these leaves of paper if they are of any value to you. Anatole France London December 12 1913”. Anatole France's English biographer witnessed this speech which foreshadowed the absolute necessity of a close relationship between France and England based on their long and rich relationship: ""In December 1913 the Master paid a brief but memorable visit to this country. The central event of his sojourn in London was the banquet given in his honour at the Savoy Hotel. On this occasion it was apparently decided in those remote and exalted circles where such decisions are made that the socialist should be ignored his turn was to come later with the Fabians but that honour could and should be paid to the man of genius the foremost man of letters of the day. The feast was therefore presided over by a peer the late Lord Redesdale himself a gifted writer. The company was numerous and distinguished. . Monsieur France though an inimitable talker is not a speaker and on this occasion he read his discourse. All that I now remember of it was the rich deliberate music of the voice that uttered it and the words which he repeated with strange insistency: 'Travaillons de concert a la paix du monde'—'Let us work together for the peace of the world.' This was in December 1913. The exhortation thus reiterated seemed even then to be fraught with ominous significance and now looking back over the years of horror that were so soon to follow one wonders whether this old man with his strange inscrutable eyes and musical melancholy voice had somehow seen the shadow of the coming catastrophe."" J. Lewis May Anatole France the man and his work: an essay in critical biography p. 98-99. The manuscript contains numerous crossed-out and rewritten passages and shows the genesis of the writing of this beautiful speech: “M.M. I am not sure that I am not dreaming. Welcomed with this splendid cordiality by so many men whose names works and thoughts represent so much greatness strength and beauty. . Your compatriots have authored masterpieces of this kind for two centuries. Need I remind you of Richardson and Fielding Swift and Daniel Defoe Walter Scott Dickens and Thackeray George Elliott . the novel is in England in its favorite soil like the apple in Normandy and the orange in Valencia. Why It takes a large volume or a single word to explain it. Well let's say it in a word. This word Lord Redesdale gave us a foretaste of it. It is that the novel is intimate cordial and familiar by nature and that the English has a familiar intimate and cordial spirit. Gentlemen I am not dreaming: it is a banquet I see the shining cups and the benevolent faces of the guests. And I can understand why you invited me. I am a symbol an allegory for you. I represent at this table the French literati just as at the festivals of the French Revolution the citizen Momoro represented the goddess Reason. Without being a goddess or particularly reasonable this idea puts me at ease and I won't quibble too much with you about the choice of your symbol. I tell myself that perhaps you didn't mind having a Frenchman at your table who having the weakness to write at least had the merit which you greatly value of never disguising his thoughts. And what is infinitely precious to your host in the honor you do him is the opportunity he has to unknown
Référence libraire : 88289
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
"Enfin. je pardonne à vous."" • Bristol Signed Autograph Addressed to a Friend
s. l.: S. n. 1910. Fine. S. n. s. l. 1910 18 x 11.50 cm une feuille recto verso Autograph signed card from the dandy count 9 lines written in black ink addressed to a friend on cardboard paper: ""Chère amie C'était donc pour ""Femina ! "" Je devrais vous en vouloir moi qui avais prononcé contre ce lieu les formules exécratoires ! Enfin. je pardonne à vous ! A vous Robert de M. 910."" Dear friend So it was for ""Femina!"" I should hold it against you I who had pronounced execratory formulas against this place! Well. I forgive you! Yours Robert de M. 910. S. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 87879
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Andre BRETON
"Ecris tout ce qui te passe par la fenêtre"" • Autograph preparatory manuscript in homage to Lise Deharme
1953. Fine. s.d. 1953 22.30 x 27.60 cm un feuillet manuscrit et un feuillet tapuscrit ""Write down everything that passes by your window"" said Lise Autograph preparatory manuscript by André Breton for the preface to the sale catalogue of the Lise Deharme collection. One half-page handwritten in black ink and one half-page typescript with manuscript corrections each on the verso of a sheet with letterhead ""A l'étoile scellée / Rue du Pré-Aux-Clercs - Paris VIIe"". Precious working manuscript by André Breton extensively crossed out with numerous variants. The father of Surrealism here signs the preface to the sale of Surrealist books and modern paintings of a major protagonist of the movement: the novelist Lise Deharme. The sale took place at the Hôtel Drouot on March 6 1953 under the hammer of Maurice Rheims. Accompanying the manuscript is the typescript of the text with Breton's very last corrections in black ink. Lise Deharme and Breton had met in 1924 the year of publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism. She fascinated Breton who made her a muse of the movement and a true symbol of the Surrealist revolution. Deharme was immortalized in Nadja and maintained a complex and symbiotic relationship with the writer throughout her life. Breton here pays homage to her through this preface blackened with corrections and reworked many times: through this presentation ""he signs a manner of acknowledgment of debt toward the one who had offered him Nadja's glove"" Association André Breton. "" What will be dispersed here let it be said that for some it is a bit of time's treasure. Of the manna from which we draw what we need to make ourselves this shell_ the furnishing in the very broad sense where it conditions as much the choice of books as of ornaments plants or birds. So rare are those who like Lise Deharme have known how to extract what is electively made for them from both the interior exterior and the exterior interior. ""To the country that resembles you"" is it not of this that Baudelaire spoke And one finds again his melancholy in seeing in the wind fly like seeds fly in the wind like a thistle these things that so much passionate discernment had gathered as if around the one who surrounded herself with them they had come obeying a law of pure attraction. The poetic taste of an epoch in what it has of specific has sparkled there as nowhere else. That in particular it may be permitted me to say that in its sovereign caprice and what it exalted of the present and retained of the past Surrealism through several of us has keenly undergone the ascendancy of this sovereign caprice. ""Write down everything that passes by your window"" said says Lise and no longer thinks today of keeping anything for herself only the here she adds: keep nothing but what you hold from the source's murmur of that year and from the perfume of the Moss Pot. But everything from which she separates thanks to her will remain so charged with spirit that nothing will be able to extinguish it in its gravitation toward other destinies"" unknown
Référence libraire : 87851
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Maurice BLANCHOT
" être au plus près de chacun dans la pensée ""communiste"" là où tout souffre tout se reconnait se découvre"" • Bristol autograph dated and signed addressed to his sister Marguerite Blanchot
s. l.: S. n. 1969. Fine. S. n. s. l. 11 Décembre 1969 10 x 7.50 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph card dated and signed by Maurice Blanchot to his sister Marguerite 12 lines in black ink. Manuscript envelope included. ""Cher marg voici donc des paroles comme testamentaires accueille-les non comme venant de moi mais d'une recherche qui a par hasard et sans mérite ni démérite passée par moi qui m'y suis soumis comme j'ai pu qu'est-ce qui importe finalement être au plus près de chacun dans la pensée ""communiste"" là où tout souffre tout se reconnait se découvre être en ce coeur pour chacun pour tous. Avec toute mon affection. Maurice."" Dear Marg here then are words like testamentary ones receive them not as coming from me but from a search which has by chance and without merit or demerit passed through me who submitted to it as I could what matters finally to be as close as possible to each one in ""communist"" thought where everything suffers everything recognizes itself discovers itself to be in this heart for each one for all. With all my affection. Maurice. S. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 87858
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Maurice BLANCHOT
Bristol autographe adressé à sa nièce Annick Blanchot
s. l.: S. n. 1965. Fine. S. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1965 10 x 7.50 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph card from Maurice Blanchot to his niece Annick 5 lines in black ink. Manuscript envelope included. ""Pour Annick on the envelope ce livre ne t'apportera rien de consolant mais du moins reçois-le comme le témoignage de mon affection qui ne te manquera pas aussi longtemps que vivre sera possible - et peut-être au-delà par le souvenir."" For Annick this book will bring you nothing consoling but at least receive it as testimony of my affection which will not fail you as long as living remains possible - and perhaps beyond that through memory. S. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 87859
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Anna-Elisabeth, Comtesse de NOAILLES
"J'observai avec crainte et curiosité ce visage qu'une gloire dangereuse éclairait à travers la tristesse "" • Admiring autograph letter dated and signed about his meeting with Pierre Louÿs and his works
Paris 1925. Fine. Paris 23 Juin 1925 27 x 21 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by the Countess de Noailles 34 lines in black ink in which she reminisces about her discovery of Pierre Louÿs. Fold marks inherent to postal handling. Anna de Noailles is still amazed by her first and memorable encounter with the scandalous writer: ""J'ai rencontré il y a vingt-cinq ans chez des amis un jeune homme silencieux qui ne riait pas dont le regard était à la fois distrait et obstiné. C'était Pierre Louÿs. Jeune fille je n'avais pu lire Aphrodite et les Chansons de Bilitis qu'en dérobant et en replaçant les livres dans la bibliothèque de mon frère."" ""I met twenty-five years ago at friends' a silent young man who did not laugh whose gaze was both distracted and obstinate. It was Pierre Louÿs. As a young girl I could only read Aphrodite and the Songs of Bilitis by stealing and replacing the books in my brother's library."" She was soon captivated by reading La femme et le pantin: ""Peu de temps après le roman espagnol La femme et le pantin m'arriva. Cet excès de passion de jalousie de taquinerie voluptueuse ce bagne de l'amour n'a pas cessé de m'éblouir."" ""Shortly after the Spanish novel La femme et le pantin came to me. This excess of passion jealousy voluptuous teasing this prison of love has never ceased to dazzle me."" but also terrified: "". on retrouve le même goût de poivre det d'oeillet dans un conte où une femme rieuse tue son amant en lui enfonçant dans le coeur à travers la persienne qui sépare la chambre de la rue un couteau dont l'auteur dépeint miraculeusement le mortel trajet."" "". we find the same taste for pepper and carnation in a tale where a laughing woman kills her lover by plunging into his heart through the shutter that separates the bedroom from the street a knife whose fatal path the author miraculously depicts."" She concludes her dithyrambic letter with this splendid confession: ""Tout ce que les journaux ont publié de Pierre Louÿs depuis sa mort - études critiques confidences lettres et poèmes m'onr paru resplendir d'une classique et absolue beauté."" ""Everything the newspapers have published about Pierre Louÿs since his death - studies criticism confidences letters and poems seemed to me to shine with a classic and absolute beauty."" unknown
Référence libraire : 87970
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Prince Georges GHIKA - (Isabelle EBERHARDT) - (Rene-Louis DOYON)
"Isabelle Eberhardt ! ah ! l'avons-nous lue et relue."" • Autograph letter signed probably addressed to René-Louis Doyon concerning his biography of Isabelle Eberhardt
Paris 1944. Fine. Paris s.d. ca 1944 13.50 x 18 cm deux pages et demi sur un bifeuillet Autograph letter signed by Prince Georges Ghilka 31 lines in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the Majestic Hotel in Paris probably addressed to René-Louis Doyon who devoted in 1944 a biography to Isabelle Eberhardt entitled ""Au pays des sables Isabelle Eberhardt"". Fold mark inherent to the mailing. Prince Georges from the House of Ghika a princely family of Romania of Albanian origin married in Paris in 1910 the most famous Amazon of All Paris Liane de Pougy. René-Louis Doyon sent his work to his friend the prince who thanks him for it: ""Nous avons lu votre livre et c'était délicieux comme une causerie avec vous une causerie qui emporte dans ces pays aimés du soleil et d'Isbelle Eberhardt que vous vous plûtes à citer. Merci encore pour ce grand plaisir que vous nous avez donné."" We read your book and it was delightful like a conversation with you a conversation that carries one away to those beloved lands of sun and of Isabelle Eberhardt whom you took pleasure in quoting. Thank you again for this great pleasure you have given us. unknown
Référence libraire : 87922
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Andre MALRAUX
Carte de visite sur laquelle André Malraux a ajouté quelques mots de remerciements à son amie Minka Strauss
s. l.: s. n. 1973. Fine. s. n. s. l. 1973 13.50 x 9 cm une feuille Printed visiting card signed by André Malraux to which he has added in black ballpoint pen these few words for his friend Minka Strauss: ""All my thanks dear Minka for the pastries. I am also sending you a small bibliophilic gift. Most affectionately."" s. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 87973
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Andre MALRAUX
Carte de visite sur laquelle André Malraux a ajouté quelques mots de remerciements à son amie Minka Strauss
s. l.: s. n. 1973. Fine. s. n. s. l. 1973 13.50 x 9 cm une feuille Printed visiting card on which André Malraux has added in blue ballpoint pen these few words for his friend Minka Strauss: ""Thank you dear Minka for your charming and useful attention. My regards to K.H. I beg you and my affectionate respects."" s. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 87972
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Andre MALRAUX
Carte de visite manuscrite à son amie Minka Strauss
s. l.: s. n. 1974. Fine. s. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1974 13.50 x 8.50 cm une feuille Printed visiting card of André Malraux on which he added these few words for his friend Minka Strauss: ""All my affectionate regrets dear Minka but I could not have made it to your elevator."" Handsome copy. s. n. unknown
Référence libraire : 88006
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Jean COCTEAU
"J'accepte d'être en secret mis à ma place et publiquement remis à ma place."" • Signed autograph letter exceptional prefiguration of his epitaph
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1953. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 29 Août 1953 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter dated and signed by Jean Cocteau 26 lines in blue ink to Olivier Quéant editor of the magazine Plaisir de France sent from villa Santo-Sospir. Fold marks inherent to postal handling. Quéant journalist and notably editor of the magazine Plaisir de France maintained a fine friendly and literary correspondence with the writer. He notably delivered a glowing review of Antigone at its premiere in 1944: ""depuis Racine l'on avait rien écrit d'aussi beau d'aussi grand et d'aussi profondément humain"" since Racine nothing so beautiful so great and so profoundly human had been written L'Illustration. Jean Cocteau at the twilight of his life rebels and complains about his diminished and merely symbolic role in French theater of the 1950s. The second sentence of this letter will be taken up almost word for word in the famous verses of his longest poem Requiem 1962: ""Il est juste qu'on m'envisage / Après m'avoir dévisagé"" It is right that I should be considered / After having been stared at which will also serve as his epitaph. Despite official recognition Cocteau felt until his death ""méconnu inconnu invisible"" misunderstood unknown invisible Jean Cocteau sur le fil du siècle 2003 - a malaise masterfully expressed through these lines. ""Voilà plusieurs années que j'accepte d'être en secret mis à ma place et publiquement remis à ma place. Bref de n'être pas envisagé mais dévisagé. Il est beau de recevoir des lettres ""retournées"" où Anouilh me dit ""Sans vos pièces je n'aurais pas écrit une ligne des miennes"" et Giraudoux ""Rilke avait raison. Nos figures blanches à côté du hâle de tes séjours dans l'antiquité."" Il est beau d'être comme le Pisanelle - enterré sous les roses ."" For several years I have accepted being secretly put in my place and publicly put back in my place. In short not being considered but stared at. It is beautiful to receive ""returned"" letters where Anouilh tells me ""Without your plays I would not have written a line of mine"" and Giraudoux ""Rilke was right. Our pale faces beside the tan of your sojourns in antiquity."" It is beautiful to be like Pisanello - buried under roses . Interesting and touching missive from Cocteau with disordered and furious handwriting twisting and stretching in the manner of a calligram. unknown
Référence libraire : 88024
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