[TURGENEV
(Ivan, 1818-1883, Russian Novelist & Dramatist)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo
showing him seated, nearly three quarter length, three quarter face, with a calm & thoughtful gaze, stamp on verso of distributor Chr. M. Zlatustov of Burgas, the Black Sea port in Bulgaria, 4" x 2½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
38414
£475
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TURGENEV
(Ivan, 1818-1883, Russian Novelist & Dramatist)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo
showing him head and shoulders in an oval, 4" x 2½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
38426
£425
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TURNER
(Dame Eva, 1892-1990, Soprano, Prima Donna)
Fine Photo signed and inscribed
"To David Milner, All best wishes ..." and in capitals she has written "Turandot" (Puccini's last Opera), 8½" x 6½", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
39859
£125
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TWAIN LECTURES ON THE SUBJECTS HE KNOWS "LEAST ABOUT"
TWAIN
(Mark, 1835-1910, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens, American Author of Tom Sawyer) and Thomas HOOD (the Younger, 1835-1874, 'Tom Hood', Humorist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed "Mark Twain" to "The Editor"
saying that with his "permission I desire to say to those societies in London & other cities of Great Britain under whose auspices I have partly promised to lecture, that I am called home by a cable telegram. I shall spend, with my family, the greater part of next year here, & may be able to lecture ... during the autumn upon such scientific topics as I know least about & may consequently feel least trameled in dilating upon ...", 1 side 8vo., written upside down on a piece of paper, headed 52 Bond Street, crossed out, London, 5th November together with an autograph letter signed by Tom Hoodheaded "Mark Twain's Lecture" and sending the instruction "Please pass two & oblige ...", 1 side 8vo., Fun Office, Fleet Street headed paper, 16th December
Item Date:
1873
Stock No:
38122
£7500
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FAN SIGNED BY MARK TWAIN AND MANY OTHER IMPORTANT ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS
TWAIN
(Mark, 1835-1910, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens, American Author of Tom Sawyer), Sarah BERNHARDT (1844-1923, Actress, 'The Divine Sarah'), Pietro MASCAGNI (1863-1945, Italian Composer), Gerhart HAUPTMANN (1862-1946, German Dramatist & Novelist, Nobel Prizewinner, 1912), Hermann SUDERMANN (1857-1928, German Novelist and Playwright), Ruggero LEONCAVALLO (1857-1919, Italian Composer), Bronislaw HUBERMAN (1882-1947, Polish Violinist), Ernest van DYCK (1861-1923, Belgian Wagnerian Tenor), Vasily VERESHCHAGIN (1842-1904, Russian Artist of the horrors of war, here in German spelling 'W. Werestchagin'), Franz von LENBACH (1836-1904, German Painter) & Felix DAHN (1834-1912, German Historian & Novelist)
Superb collection of signatures
(with a few others, including one partly with original smudge, the rest excellent), on a silk fanwith dark wood spokes and the owner's fine silver monogram 'H [von] G' under a heraldic coronet of five pearls, the fan was made in Vienna where most of the signatures were collected, a few at St Moritz, Gastein, Salzburg or Munich, they range from Sarah Bernhardt in 1893, Mark Twain in Vienna 1897 through to Felix Dahn in 1901, Gebrüder Rodeck, Vienna, circa
beautifully framed and glazed with museum glass
Item Date:
1893
Stock No:
28915
£3250
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