THIS catalogue presents for sale the first installment, and a

small portion only, of Mr. McKee's collection of Literary and Dramatic Miscellanies. There will be at least two additional sales of this part of the collection.

The sizes given are the smallest to which the prints are adapted for illustrative purposes. A 12mo print, even if on quarto or folio size paper, is described as a 12mo.

Particular attention may be called to the remarkable and nearly complete collection of playbills of Edmund Kean's first appearances in his different characters, original drawings by George Morland, Chalon, Cosway, Harding, DeWilde, George and Robert Cruikshank, Boaden, Fry and others, original manuscripts by Major André, John Howard Payne, Robert Burns, John Keats, John G. Whittier, Allan Ramsay, Adah Isaacs Menken, Charles Macklin and others, an extensive series of excessively rare portraits from the Hibernian Magazine, the original drawings and other choice illustrations for Dr. Lossing's "Memorial to Alexander Anderson," mainly from the Doctor's own collection, a fine assortment of beautiful mezzotint portraits, rare revolutionary and other prints, for the extra-illustration of Sargent's "Life and Career of Major André," drawings and engravings representing scenes in Old New York history, the earliest known New York and Philadelphia playbills, beautiful colored prints, daguerreotypes, choice and rare theatrical portraits illustrating the American and English Stage Histories, etc.

A Collection of

Drawings, Manuscripts, Engraved Portraits and Views,

3259

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ABIN

Autograph Letters and Playbills,

BINGTON (FRANCES) as ROXALANA. 8vo, full length, facing left, line and stipple, from Hibernian Magazine. EXCESSIVELY RARE.

MEZZOTINT PORTRAIT, in plain dress. Folio, three-quarter length, facing left. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, pinxt, J. WILSON, fecit. FINE IMPRESSION.

RARE.

as ROXALANA. 4to, half length, drawing curtain aside, facing right, stipple. J. K. SHIRWIN, after SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. ΟΝ INDIA PAPER. FINE IMPRESSION. RARE.

3262 ADAMS (MISS), afterwards MRS, BARRYMORE, an early Actress on the American Stage, as ZULIMA, 8vo, dancing, J. MARTYN, Sc., from Hibernian Magazine. RARE.

3263 ADAMS (SAMUEL). MEZZOTINT PORTRAIT. "S. ADAMS, Esq., GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1795." 12mo, bust in oval. No name of painter or engraver. EXCESSIVELY RARE.

3264

ENGRAVED PORTRAIT. 8vo, seated, head directed to left where hangs map of CANADA, in left hand a paper "Plan for Reduction of Canada," from the Hibernian Magazine. VERY RARE.

3265 ADOLPHUS (JOHN), noted English Author, A. L. S., 2 pp. 4to, 1796, to CADELL and DAVIES; WM. R. ALGER, wrote "Life of Forrest," A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, 1874; ALEX. ALLAN, Amer. Actor, A. L. S., I p. 8vo, 1881; S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE, referring to DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL, A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, 1855. (4 pieces.)

3266 ALDRICH (T. B.) A. L.S. 1 p. 8vo. To HOWARD PAUL, in acknowledgment of courtesies extended, dated Nov. 1, 1874.

2 pp.

3267 ALDRIDGE (IRA). NOTED AFRICAN TRAGEDIAN. A. L. S. 4to. To the Director of the Stadt Theatre, Dantzig, suggesting the Plays for a coming engagement, Jan. 4, 1855.

711

RARE.

3268 ALEXANDRE (MONS.) VENTRILOQUIST. FINE MEZZOTINT PORTRAIT. Small folio, half length, facing left. LONDON, published

by EDW. EVANS. RARE.

Appeared on the New York and Philadelphia Stage in 1840. His real name was ALEXANDRE VATTEMARE.

3269 ALLEN (STEPHEN). FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY. Signed receipt for payment of $4,600, made by THOS. S. HAMBLIN, for purchase of house at No. 71 Bowery. I p. 4to. March 20, 1835. 3270 ALLYN (ADAM). ORIGINAL WATER COLOR DRAWING of the HEADSTONE erected over the GRAVE of this early COMEDIAN, who performed at the BEEKMAN STREET THEATRE in 1761, also in PHILADELPHIA in 1759. The stone was erected by the Members of the Company, in TRINITY CHURCHYARD, N. Y. 8vo, accompanied by a woodcut reproduction. (1 piece.)

3271 ALSOP (FRANCES), DAUGHTER of MRS. JORDAN, died in NEW YORK CITY, 1821. A. N. S. I p. 12mo. TO MR. PEAKE Concerning her weekly salary, etc. No date. RARE.

3272 ANDERSON (ALEXANDER). A COLLECTION of nearly six hundred (600) MONOGRAMS DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY THE EMINENT ENGRAVER IN PEN-AND-INK. On the front leaf is written "CyphersAlexander Anderson," and on the last "Finished Feb. 7, 1791." 12m0.

THE ALEXANDER ANDERSON MEMORIAL.

Original Paintings and Drawings, Engraved Portraits and Views, and Choice Specimens of Woodcut Engraving, gathered for the illustration of Benson J. Lossing's "A Memorial of Alexander Anderson, M.D., the First Engraver on Wood in America," all inlaid to royal 8vo size.

A large portion of this collection, including Dr. Anderson's paintings and drawings, came to Mr. McKee directly from the family of the famous engraver.

3273 ADAMS (J. A.) ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH of this excellent AMERICAN ENGRAVER, with AUTOGRAPH, together with 9 specimens of his work, including the STATUE of ALEXANDER HAMILTON, and the SUPERB ENGRAVING from CHAPMAN'S "The Last Arrow," which goes far to show the possibilities of what has become nearly a lost art. (8 pieces) 3274 ALLAN (JOHN). PORTRAIT of the FAMOUS BOOK COLLECTOR, engraved by H. B. HALL, on INDIA PAPER, accompanied by his BOOKPLATE, engraved by DR. ALEX. ANDERSON, mounted. (2 pieces)

3275 AMERICAN WOODCUTS. SPECIMENS of the WORK of Messrs. HARTWELL, GILBERT, LANSING, THORN & REDFIELD, A. Bowen, ALLAN, MORGAN, MASON, HOWLAND, MISS ANN MAVERICK (Dr. ANDERSON'S DAUGHTER, and WIFE of ANDREW MAVERICK). (16 pieces)

3276 ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS. SPECIMENS of DR. ANDERSON'S EARLY PROFESSIONAL WORK. FINE. (8 pieces)

3277 ANDERSON (ALEXANDER). PORTRAITS; ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH; bust in oval, eng. by SUGDEN, proof, (rare); half length in oval, pub. by E. DEXTER, 1875; bust in oval, eng. by himself, on INDIA PAPER; bust in rectangle, eng. by himself, on INDIA PAPER, half length, facing right, 1775-1870; 8vo, with fac-simile signature, A. W. fec.; From PHOTOGRAPH, 1861, D. NICHOLS, SC., 1876; Engraved by himself in his 81st year. (9 pieces)

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ORIGINAL DRAWING of the TOOLS employed by DR. ANDERSON in his ENGRAVING. These were presented to the NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY in 1870.

THREE INTERESTING A. L. S. to his brother, JOHN ANDERSON, JR., one in poetical form, written from BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, each 1 p. 4to, dated Sept. and Nov., 1795. (3 pieces)

ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR PORTRAIT of MRS. SARAH ANDERSON, MOTHER of DR. ALEX. ANDERSON, painted by the Doctor, (reproduced in DR. LOSSING'S "Memorial").

BEAUTIFUL MINIATURE PORTRAIT of DR. ANDERSON'S SECOND WIFE, formerly JANE VAN VLECK, PAINTED BY THE DOCTOR Himself. 238 x 34 in.

CURIOUS DRAWING of GROTESQUE FACES, FORMS, and GROUPS, SEEN IN THE FIRE, (reproduced in the "Memorial "), also, PENCIL DRAWING of "Egyptian Symbol of Time and Eternity," with accompanying explanation signed A. A. BOTH DRAWINGS by DR. ALEX. ANDERSON. (2 pieces)

ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR VIEW of the LAST RESIDENCE of Dr. ALEXANDER ANDERSON (Wayne St., Jersey City), also, WATER-COLOR PORTRAIT of his daughter, MRS. JANE LEWIS, at whose house, and in whose care, he died. (2 pieces)