Oil on board, SLR. Sporting marine scene with canvasback ducks flying low over open water beside a marker buoy. 31"h x 41"w framed. John R. Wilson (20/21st century) Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, Jenkintown, PA

Oil on board. SLR. Nautical scene with tall masted ship and figures in rowboat on choppy waves. 12"h x 17.5"w and 18"h x 23"w framed Adolphus Knell exclusively painted marine subjects and flourished during the latter part of the 19th Century. His work has become widely collected in recent years and may be due to the fact that he was quite prolific and that the quality of his work remained high.It is accepted that he was the brother of William Callcott Knell and the son of Wi

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Rare Autographs and Documents

Signed Letter 1876 Dear Sir, "I am very much obliged for the photographs. I think you are very unjust towards them, as they seem to me to show in a quite admirable manner the different expression[s] of a child, whilst hearing a melancholy & an amusing story." With --Two carte-de-visite photographs, half-length portraits by H.G. Smith, each showing an unidentified toddler looking into the camera wearing an expression of delight or worry. One with notes written on verso describ

The Waste Land Signed on the limitation page. 4to, publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards, slight bowing to covers; top edges gilt and others uncut, owner's blindstamp on limitation page at upper left corner; original marbled slipcase, two edges split.  Number 36 of 300 copies signed by Eliot. London: Faber & Faber, (1961); signature: Np, circa 1961. Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni for Faber and Faber. T.S. Eliot 1888- 1965 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelp

"A Fable" A Fable, Signed on limitation page. 8vo, publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in gold, white, and blue over beveled boards; top edges stained blue; original glassine with some scattered tears; publisher's slipcase, faint scattered soiling, one corner bumped. Number 64 of 1000 copies signed by Faulkner . Petersen A31b. (New York): Random House, (1954); signature: Np, circa 1954. William Faulkner 1897 - 1962 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia Rare Autographs and Docum

"Keep us, O keep us the Many in One!" Autograph Quotation Signed, stanza from the end of his poem, "Union and Liberty." 1 page, oblong 8vo, written vertically on personal stationery; some staining along upper edge and lower corners recto, remnants of mounting along upper and lower edges verso with cello tape at corners, vertical folds. "Lord of the universe, shield us and guide us, "Trusting Thee always through shadow and sun! "Thou has united us, -who shall divide us? "Keep

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie With Autograph Quotation Signed, Henry W. Longfellow, two stanzas from his poem, "Maidenhood" 1841 Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847; quotation: Cambridge, 28 October 1846. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Rare Autographs and Documents

"I have been a fool, & am a victim to my too open Heart & Soul" Autographed Letter Signed, to judge of the High Court of Admiralty William Scott. "How much do I esteem and thank you, my dear Sir William, for your kind letter and advice respecting my Case. I wish you had been in town when I sent my narrative to Lords Liverpool & Sidmouth, as I wou'd have been proud to make every alteration you may have Recommended. Deprived of that advantage, I thought it best to state the fac

Thank you letter to Officer Nathaniel Taylor Many thanks for your kind present of Porter which I have accepted, although it is contrary to my established custom. Therefore you will have the goodness to forgive my stating what my resolution is. But I assure you Dear Sir that I feel all your kindness on this occasion as well as for the trouble you was so good as to take with my things in the Foudroyant." [Aboard the HMS Victory ], 7 October 1803. The HMS Foudroyant  served as H

Pikes Peak, Colorado Autograph of Zebulon Pike (1779-1813) United States military officer and explorer of the American west. He led two expeditions through the Louisiana Purchase territory (1805–1806) and (1806-1807) to explore the upper reaches of the Mississippi River and the areas of New Mexico and Texas respectfully. He served in the War of 1812 and he was killed during the Battle of York in Upper Canada because of an explosion of a gunpowder magazine. Autograph on manusc

Hans Richter (German 1888-1976) Title at T , 1973 Collage on paper 13.5 x 17.5 (in); 14.75 x 19 x 1.5 (in) framed Initialed and dated in pencil HR '73, lower right Titled and dated on The Betty Parsons Gallery stamp, verso. Provenance: Estate of Simone Withers Swan, Tucson, Arizona. Dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 (in); 14.75 x 19 x 1.5 (in) framed Medium: Collage on paper Circa: 1973 Hans Johannes Siegfried Richter (/ˈrɪktər/; German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; 6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a

" I have received your offering and heartily thank you for it in the name of those whose sufferings will be relieved thanks to your charity. " During the famine that struck Russia's Black Earth region and the Volga basin, Tolstoy was one of the most active organizers of relief. He helped establish soup kitchens, raised funds, and used his international reputation to draw attention to the suffering of the rural farmers. He openly criticized the tsarist government and the Ortho

[Mark Twain]. Samuel Clemens Autograph Letter Signed. One page, 5 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches; [New York City]; May 15, 1901. Clemens writes to his real estate agent, George V. W. Duryee: " I enclose lease signed & first payment ($150.) I am a little tardy, but I have been busy with unnecessary things. Mrs. Clemens says, 'When you send the inventory, will you kindly send the size of the dining table, as she wishes to know what size cloth to take up.' Yes, we shall be glad to give the

Georges Jacques Danton Signed Document Concerning the Mounted Gendarmes. Two pages front and back, 9 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches; Paris, [France]; September 5, 1792. Document written in French during the September Massacres, in part [English translation]: " The mounted Gendarmes of the Twenty-ninth division announce that they are departing the day after tomorrow in order to go to the frontiers. They state that having equipped themselves at their own expense, they have been obliged t

Ulysses S. Grant "Affix-the-Seal" Document Signed. Partially printed page of a bifolium, 8 1/2 x 11 inches; Washington; December 21, 1872. The document reads, in part: " I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to a Warrant for the pardon of Elijah A, Peyton ." Signed, " U. S. Grant ." Docketed in pencil on verso. Condition: Evenly toned with flattened folds. Small separations at intersections along integral fold. Scattered

Abraham Lincoln Signed Naval Appointment. One partially printed page on vellum, 13 1/4 x 16 inches (sight), Washington; November 11, 1862. Matted and framed alongside a printed photograph of Lincoln and an engraved plaque to an overall size of 34 1/4 x 28 inches. Nearing the end of the second year of the Civil War, Lincoln appoints Naval officer " John R. Grainger...Gunner in the Navy of the United States, from the 23rd day of November 1861. " Signed, " Abraham Lincoln ," as

Nathaniel Lyon Autograph Letter Signed. One page, 7 3/4 x 10 inches, " St. Louis Arsenal "; March 27, 1861. Lyon, the first Union General killed in the Civil War, writes to Colonel Lorenzo Thomas in Washington while stationed at the St. Louis Arsenal in Missouri. Lyon had requested to be named commander of the arsenal after he suspected that Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson would try to seize it in rebellion if war broke out. His letter reads, in full: " The letter from y

Abstract Composition 1915 Watercolor & Pencil on buff paper 8 1/8" x 8 3/4" Alexander Vasilyevich Shevchenko (1883-1948) was a Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, art theorist, and avant-garde artist. In the midst of the struggle for new forms in art in the 1910s, Shevchenko was the most traditional of the artists. Larionov, in his assessment of Shevchenko's painting, wrote that he "introduced the forms of Cubists, Futurists, and Radians into a strictly academic pain

Special Order No 6 I Lieut Jas C Harrison of 3d U.S.C. Arty (Hvy) having reported at this office pursuant to S.O. No 4 dated Fort Pickering Tenn February 11 1866 will proceed in charge of guard to the plantation of Duck Ward, four and a half miles beyond Lafayette, Tenn on the Macon Road arrest the following and report them to this office Without delay Viz: Archy Fuller, Duck Ward, Scott Ward, Joseph Grant, Duck Ward's brother      By Order of Capt Jno A Stanley Lt. Pro Mars