Sale 2519 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, October 10, 2019

18 c   ALBERT; PRINCE CONSORT OF VICTORIA OF ENGLAND. Autograph Letter Signed, “Albert,” to founder of the Economist weekly James Wilson, thanking him for sending his speech on the Navigation Laws. 2 pages, 8vo, with integral blank, horizontal folds. “Buckingham Palace” [London], 27 March 1849 [250/350] Wilson addressed the House of Commons on March 9, 1849, arguing in favor of Henry Labouchère’s bill to repeal the Navigation Acts, which were effectively repealed when the Commons passed Labouchère’s bill on April 23 and the Lords on June 13, 1849. 19 GENERAL LOTS 18 - 73 INCLUDING SCIENTISTS,WORLD LEADERS, BUSINESS LEADERS,ASTRONAUTS, ETC. COTTON CLUB ALBUM 19 c   (ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 50 Signatures, autograph inscriptions Signed, and ink drawings Signed, by Cotton Club entertainers and other notables, kept by a frequenter of the Club. Nearly all leaves written on both recto and verso, 1-2 to a page. Oblong 12mo, publisher’s cloth, worn; terminal leaf with Olsen and Johnson cartoon nearly detached, minor scattered soiling throughout. [New York], circa 1938 [700/1,000] Cole Porter * Joe Louis (2). Each in pencil, one on same page as Bill Robinson * Duke Ellington * Cab Calloway * Orson Welles * Olsen and Johnson. Cartoon by Olsen, signed by both * Ethel Waters (2) * J. Fred Coots. AMQS, three bars from “You Go to My Head” * Jimmy Stewart * Jimmy Durante * Henny Youngman * Jimmy Dorsey * Tallulah Bankhead. In pencil * Ethel Merman * Stepin Fetchit * Ted Koehler. Cartoon featuring a man holding umbrella singing “Stormy Weather” * Dorothy Lamour. Lipstick impression of kiss on the same page * Louis Prima * Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. * others.