Well, you shouldn't be too concerned about 400 on that stove; I'd try to keep it below 700; and if you put a stack thermometer about 2.5-3 feet up the pipe, you can safely run at 400 there. You should not be burning at 160-200 as it is too cool and will produce massive amounts of creosote there. 300 Plus is a safe place to be.
Once you get a fair ignition on this unit, then you should burn two or three fair sized splits to keep it at a reasonable temp. You need two or more so the air can keep the fire going around them.
You will actually find out that stove will put out a significant amount of heat. In the old installations, those stoves would usually have a pipe damper installed so you could reduce the draft/pull. But, your elbows may be doing that, or not. Is there a way to use fewer angles and still get to the chimney?
For mica and other antique items you will find that the folks at :
http://www.goodtimestove.com/ rebuild old stoves for a living and will be able to help you with mica and other items you need. If you have the time it is worth a trip to go there and see the old stoves, he has a number of them burning all the time, and discuss this stuff with him directly. If not go to the web site anyway. If you do go, Yankee Candle's home shop, etc is also there and makes for a nice side attraction as well.
Those stoves are very nice and when kept in good order will do a nice job. They will go through more wood than you might like, but can be worth it. Also, you can get an inline CAT for them to install in the pipe just above the outlet; then they burn clean too. Agree with webwidow's comments on clean out, ash pan, etc. If you don't have an ashpan with the stove, you can get a local duct work maker to bend you up one, usually pretty inexpensively: or use a metal cake pan of aprox. size, etc.
I have a number of these old stoves that I use a little and they are wonderful.
