b'16714961496 (Detail)AUTOGRAPHS 1496QUEEN VICTORIA (1819 - 1901)1494 Victoria Reg full ink signature in upper left corner of a partly printed military appointment; counter-signed by the Earl of [VIOLINISTS] Yehudi Menuhin, fine signature to the titleCranbrook (L. Gathorne Hardy) and with two embossed seals. page of his Yehudi Menuhin Unfinished Journey [London :The impressive document records the appointment of Charles MacDonald & Janes; 1976] with dust jacket; and, Isaac SternCecil Oates to a Lieutenants Commission in the Land Forces, autographed label affixed to the blank front endpaper of hisdated December 1874.Isaac Stern : My First 79 Years [New York : Alfred A. Knopf;Attractively mounted, framed and glazed together with a 1999] with dust jacket. (2 vols.) portrait of Queen Victoria and a plaque describing Victoria and $100150her reign.Overall 64 x 86cm.1495 $2,0002,500RICHARD OWEN (1804-1892) signature on single page note, headed British Museum, fully signed Richard Owen, and1497addressed to his college Prof. Paul Gervais, April, 1872. JULES MASSENET (1842-1912), undated autographed letter Owen was a British biologist, palaeontologist and comparativesheet, circa 1900, addressed to a friend, fully signed.anatomist. He was critic of Darwins theory of evolution viaMassenet composed more than 30 operas, of which the natural selection, arguing that the process of evolution wastwo most frequently staged today are Manon (1884) and more complex than Darwins idea. Werther (1892).$100200 $100200 '