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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Charles Bemont, French scholar and autograph-collector [Alfred Dreyfus message on calling card] Autograph Letter Signed C Bemont [Charles Bemont, French scholar and autograph-collector] to unnamed correspondent [M. Kirkaldy, ref. to Madame Kirkaldy within], with Alfred Dreyfus calling card and autograph message and his own card with message Four pages, 12mo (letter), all items in good condition. He will fulfil his promise of some autograph letters, le plus notable et vivid, which had been relegated to the country but retrieved the day before. He describes a Michelet manuscript, notes taken après la lecture d'un ouvrage de M....	French, History, Literature	£800.00
Anneliese Rothenberger (born 1924), German operatic lyric soprano Autograph Note Signed ('Anneliese'), to 'liebe Liesel', on reverse of photographic portrait postcard. Dimensions roughly 14 x 9 cm. Very good. The photograph, captioned 'Anneliese Rothenberger', is a head and shoulders shot of a smiling Rothenberger. The note on the reverse, in green ink, reads 'dir, liebe Liesel, alles ! \| diese \| [signed] Anneliese \| 1956'.	Music and Theatre, Women	£28.00
Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) [Annibale Carracci] Engraving, with portrait of the artist, of Carracci's funeral memorial. Dimensions of print roughly ten inches by six and a half wide. Mounted on a slightly larger piece of laid paper. Rubbed, worn and heavily aged, with small wormhole at foot. Ornate tomb with sphinxes, ivy, masks, palette, laurel wreath, etc. Central head and shoulders image of Carracci, above...	Art and Architecture	£86.00
[Theatrical Terms] [Printed pamphlet by 'The Directors of the well known Strand Electric and Engineering Company Limited'] A Completely New Glossary of Technical Theatrical Terms [...] With an Appendix of the Colours used for Lighting the Plays [...] Irregular (12 x 23.5 cm), 32 pp. In fair condition, aged and lightly worn. In original wraps, with cover design, in a variety of types and point sizes, imitating an early nineteenth-century handbill, stating that 'all Profits for the Benefit of the Deserving Actors' Orphanage. \| Free list...	Music and Theatre	£80.00
Annie Payson Call Three autograph letters signed to [C.H.] Grinling, socialist, editor of the Woolwich Pioneer (London). Author, associate of Arthur Astor Carey (1857-1923), philanthropist and social worker, of Waltham, Mass. Four, three and two pages, 8vo, respectively, good condition. (1915?). She speculates that she didb't answer his letter because "I think I wanted at first to consider asking my publishers...	Book Trade History, Literature, Social history	£275.00
Annie S. Swan [Annie Shepherd Swan Burnett-Smith] Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. novelist (1859-1943). Paper dimensions roughly four and a half inches by two inches. Very good. From autograph album. Mounted on larger piece of pink paper. Reads 'Yrs sincerely \| Annie S. Swan.'	Literature, Women	£18.00
Annie S. Swan, novelist Autograph Letter Signed "A Bennett Smith / Annie S. Swan" to an unnamed male correspondent. Two pages, 8vo, punch-holes (with loss of one or two letters), closed tear and a small hole in the corner (with some rust marks), but text clear and complete. "In my opinion it is impossible to over estimate the value and importance of the work being done for the troops at home and abroad by the...	Literature, Women	£75.00
The Refectory Club, Mayfair, London; David Mallett, Secretary [Walter James Macqueen-Pope, theatre historian; Anna Zinkeisen (1901-1976), Scottish painter] [The Refectory Club, Mayfair, London.] Three items of club ephemera: publicity booklet, application form and notice. With Typed Letter Signd from club secretary David Mallett, regarding theatre historian Maqueen-Pope’s desire to become a member. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. (See his entry in the Oxford DNB.) Interesting London ephemera: the plans for the Refectory Club were clearly ambitious, but there is little to be gleaned about it, and it is unclear whether it even opened. Zinkeisen and her sister Dora are the subject of a 2022...		£180.00
Anon. [ A Manuscript Valuation of Ecclesiastical Preferments and Royal Patronages in England and Wales] Manuscript, 221pp., 4to, recased, qtr lea. worn, marbled boards. The Index in the front lists the preferments in the bestowal of twenty-six Bishops from Canterbury to Durham (pp. 1-123), the Dean of Lincolnshire, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, the Duke of Rutland (pp.124-129), Royal...	History, Royalty, Social history	£750.00
Anon. A Bill for the more effectual Preservation and Encrease of the Breed of Salmon throughout Great Britain and Ireland 12 pages, folio, disbound (as issued), fold marks some wear and tear, text clear and complete, a few pencilled annotations. With: (printed) "Memorandum for the Game-Keepers. The LAWS relative to preserving and taking of Salmon are as follow: ......", four pages, two of which are blank, torn into...		£100.00