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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Michel Alcan (1801-1877), French politician and engineer who made numerous innovations in the field of textiles [Exposition Universelle de 1867, Paris, France] Autograph Letter Signed ('Mel. Alcan'), in French, to 'Monsieur le Conseiller d'Etat Commissaire Général'. 4to (27 x 21 cm), 1 p. Nine lines of text. Text clear and complete on lightly aged, creased and foxed paper. Small closed tear at edge along crease line (not affecting text). Bearing the numbered stamp of the Exposition Universelle de 1867, Commission Imperiale. Accepting the position, conferred...	Art and Architecture, French, Science, Medicine and Technology	£65.00
Michel Alcan (1811-1877), 'ingénieur-professeur au Conservatoire des arts et métiers' [Ernest Stamm; Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)?] Autograph Letter to 'Monsieur Delacroix'. 4to, 1 p, 8 lines. Good, on lightly aged paper. Small indentation from paperclip in margin. Reads 'Monsieur Alcan prie Monsieur Delacroix de remettre au porteur le Testament (tissé) de Louis XVI, dont il a besoin pour le cours de ce soir au conservatoire des Arts et metier. \| le preparateur du...	Art and Architecture, French, Science, Medicine and Technology	£28.00
Michel Chevalier. Autograph Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent. En Francais. Political Economist. One page, 12mo, good condition. Difficult to read but he talsk of submitting a "tirage" [printing; proof?] to his correspondet's attention (or vetting), mentioning sending [?] a title and "''indication que [?] extrait du journal d'agriculture".	French	£56.00
Midgley family of Liverpool manuscript by James H Midgley of Eden Grove S. Walden: 'Some act: of the early ways of our little Bessie. \| Mary Elizabeth Midgley. \| born on Good Friday 11TH of 4TH MoTH.. 1879.' The Midgley family were notable Lancastrian Quaker industrialists (cf. the Midgley Reference Library in the John Rylands University Library Manchester). Touching and detailed account ('at about 8.20? PM our little Darling was born - she soon told us she had a good pair of lungs') of the author's...		£150.00
Miklos Erdelyi, Hungarian conductor Autograph Signature. Good, on leaf of blue paper removed from autograph album, dimensions roughly 12 x 16 cms.	Music and Theatre	£18.00
MIlner & Storey (Dulcie Milner and George Storey), vaudeville artists. Newspaper Cuttings (Guardbooks) of reviews of their much travelled act, cartoons and newspaper advertisements. Two vols, hf-lea, one 4to the other 8vo, title "Newspaper Cuttings on front of one, "Cuttings" on spine of the other, boards bumped and bent but mainly good condition, 112pp. and [160]pp, vast majority of items, some substantial and folded, laid down and with a neat statement of the newspaper...	Music and Theatre	£850.00
Milner Connorton Gray, industrial artist and graphic designer (1899-1997) [The Royal Society of Arts] Archive of correspondence with the Royal Society of Arts, consisting of twenty-one letters from Gray, one copy, and carbons of fifteen replies. The collection is in very good condition, with a few staple and pin holes. Gray's letters are signed 'Milner Gray' and occasionally 'Milner'. All but the first two, which are on Society of Industrial Artists letterheads, are on Design Research Unit letterheads. An early letter (5 April 1949), to...	Art and Architecture	£280.00
Mina Curtiss, ed. [Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly] Olive, Cypress and Palm. An Anthology of Love and Death. Compiled by Mina Curtiss. 8vo: xvii + 296 pp. In original black cloth, with design in silver stamped on front board. No dustwrapper. Faded spine and lightly-marked cloth. Inscribed by Curtiss on front free endpaper: 'To Ellery Sedgwick - \| Most gratefully - \| Mina Curtiss \| Christmas, 1932.'	Women	£56.00
Mirabai. Typed Letters Signed (two) to W.G. Raffe, author of "Dictionary of the Dance". Srimathi Mirabai, Indian Classical Dancer - "India's Pavlova". One page each, large 4to, good condition, the second has a representation of an Indian dancer cut from corner (present in first), with some additions in Mirabai's hand. (6 Dec.) She gives information about her activities, the tour,...	Music and Theatre	£250.00
Princess Helena [Helena Augusta Victoria] (1846-1923) of the United Kingdom, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, daughter of Queen Victoria [Colonel Sir William James Colville (1827-1903)] [Queen Victoria’s third daughter Princess Helena, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.] Autograph Letter Signed (‘Helena’), explaining the delay in thanking ‘Col: Colville’ for sending an ‘excellent’ sketch. The princess was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. See her entry in the Oxford DNB. Colville, who was ‘Master of the Ceremonies’ to Queen Victoria, was a talented amateur watercolourist. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly...		£45.00