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L. Gm Perreaux [Louis Guillaume Perreaux], French engineer and prolific inventor [motorbike etc] Autograph Note Signed "Perreaux" TO [J.B. Delestre, French artist and art historian]. One page, creasing and sunning but text clear and complete, as follows: Cher Monsieur/ Demain ou apres, je doit recevoir chez moi un grand amateur de livres manuscripts, seriez vous assez bon pour remettre au porteur les deux livres Arabes que je vous ai remis il y a quelques temps." Note: A...	French, Science, Medicine and Technology	£400.00
Marquis of Blandford Autograph letters (2) t[Blandford] to a bookseller [prob. Triphook]. (12 Feb.) three pages, 8vo, small tear on fold, discoloration at edges, spike-hole text clear and readable. "I have not yet received Bindley's 3d Catalogue - you must send me the Letter to Mr Peel by one of his Constituents - and Campbell's British Poets, when published - I shall be in Town...	Book Trade History	£400.00
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux; Sir William Soames; John Dryden; Henry Hills junior, London printer The Art of Poetry, Written in French by The Sieur de Boileau. In Four Canto's. Made English By Sir William Soames, Since Revis'd by John Dryden, Esq; 12mo: 40 pp. Disbound. Good, on lightly aged paper. Contemporary ownership inscription of 'William Francklyn" on title-page. This edition is scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Liverpool.	Literature	£400.00
Paul Meyer. Autograph Letter Signed "Meyer" to an unnamed correspondent (a German scholar?). Philologist (1840-1917)("ranked as the chief authority on the French language of his era". In French, written the age of 20. Three pages, 8vo, good condition. "En meme temps que cette lettre, vous recevez les epreuves d'un article qi parait actuellement dans la Bibliotheque de l'ecole des...		£400.00
Richard Strauss, composer. Photograph, 7.5 x 10cms, with inscription appended by Strauss. On page extracted from an album of inscriptions with photographs by composers, actors, etc. Good condition. Inscribed by Strauss as follows: "Herr?] Harry Woord Wolling / Richard Strauss / Wien 15.12.23". The signature is bold. Scan provided on request.	Music and Theatre	£400.00
Robert Cole, antiquary and autograph (and manuscript)-collector of note. A small collections of letters to Robert Cole, and related notes and printed material. The material is loosely sewn together and not bound, much marking and chipping but little textual loss. There is an interchange of information, the main drive being antiquarian material concerning Sir Michael Stanhope, however remote the connection, some elicited by a request for information in...	Book Trade History	£400.00
Rose Fyleman, Two manuscript poems about Fairies Children's writer. One page, sm. fol. Vestiges of hinges. Signed and dated by Fyleman. The Poems written in Fyleman's hand are: "I stood against the window" (2 verses, total 16 lines; and "Have you watched the Fairies?", 3 verses, total 9 lines.	Literature	£400.00
Rudolph Ackermann, publisher, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand [Napoleon Bonaparte; Regency caricature; Georgian London] Allegorical coloured engraved 'Hieroglyphic Portrait' of Napoleon Bonaparte, 'faithfully copied from a German Print', with explanatory letterpress beginning 'NAPOLEON \| THE FIRST, and LAST, by the Wrath of Heaven Emperor of the Jacobins, [...] BM 12202. On piece of wove paper roughly 410 x 280 mm. On lightly aged and spotted paper, with slight wear and small closed tears to extremities. Closely trimmed at head and foot. Repair to blank reverse, which carries a strip of cloth from previous mount. Text and image clear and entire. Image...	Art and Architecture, History, Military and Naval History	£400.00
S.C. Cockerell, museum director and bibliophile (DNB) Two Autograph Letters Signed "Sydney C. Cockerell" and "SC Cockerell" respectively, one to to "May [Morris]", daughter of William Morris, the other to "[Emery] Walker". Six pages, 8vo, water-stained but texts clear and complete. Much of the letters are concerned with elements of his executorship of the will of William Morris - (and trusteeship). In the letter to May he begins by expressing relief that "the Horace [book or manusript] was safe", then discussing a...	Book Trade History, Literature, Printing History	£400.00
Scott Goddard (c.1895-1965), British musicologist Manuscript and Typescript sections of an apparently unpublished work on 'British music and its present state'; 2 Typed Letters Signed, 3 Autograph Cards Signed, 1 Typed Card Signed to Mary Eversley, Covent Garden Opera, with copies of two replies. The collection as a whole is in good condition on aged paper. ITEM ONE: 90-page typescript headed 'II \| ANTECEDENT', beginnning 'It has become a commonplace of musicology, at least in this country, that the first two decades of the Twentieth Century show an immense increase of creative activity...	Music and Theatre	£400.00