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A Selection of a Highly Important Archive KERVORKIAN (Jack), MD: Selection from his Archives from the Sale of his Estate, collectively dated 1982-2007. Sold four months after his death, Dr Kervorkian's archive comprises nearly a dozen historical lots inventoried in his estate auction sale, a copy of the catalogue is likewise included: 1. 2pp. typed interviews transcript with three San Quentin death row inmates… Ler mais sobre este item

CULTURAL REVOLUTION MODEL OPERA Manuscript Ledger (Master Inventory): General Record of Stage Props for a traveling Chinese theatrical repertory company introducing Revolutionary Opera into its program including costs for creating silk stage props, sets, costumes and scenery, with various paper slip receipts (some loose) dated from 1963 to 1969. Oblong album measuring 7-3/4 x 10-5/8 inches, contents with 20 numbered… Ler mais sobre este item

ZOLA (Emile): Nouvelle Campagne 1896 Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1897. 8vo, [v], 296pp + [1] index; blue contemporary French quarter-calf with Campbell Clarke's initials at the foot of the spine, marbled sides, original printed. First edition. Presentation copy from Zola to [Sir] Campbell Clarke, inscribed "á Campbell Clarke/son dévoué confrère/Emile Zola." With the bookplate of Sir Campbell Clarke inside front cover. A collection of articles, mostly from… Ler mais sobre este item

Original carte-de-visite photographs of Charles Sherwood Stratton, better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", a dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum, here photographed with his wife Lavinia Warren, AUTOGRAPHED in Stratton's handwriting on verso "Genl Tom Thumb & Mrs Tom Thumb - 1863 August". The couple were married in… Ler mais sobre este item

CLINTON (George), First Governor of New York State, 1777-1795, 1801-1804; also 4th Vice-President of the United States, 1805-1812 under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. "Kingston laid in ashes by the Enemy" ... 8vo (7-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches), 1-1/2 pages on laid paper, with integral address leaf (remnants of wax seal, some fading to text and signature, scattered minor It should be noted… Ler mais sobre este item