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Jean Borotra. Typed Note Signed, to Joan Jefferson Farjeon, set designer, daughter of crime writer J.Jefferson Farjeon and descended from American actor Joseph Jefferson, . with other items. Tennis player, one of the Four Musqueteers. One page, 4to, fold marks, very good condition. With original envelope (his initials and address printed on reverse. He is sorry not to have answered her last and thanks her for some books. "But I have been travelling a lot all over Europe and North...		£128.00
Jean Claude Eugène Péclet (1793-1857), French physicist after whom the 'Péclet number' is named Autograph Letter Signed ('Péclet'), in French, to 'Monsieur Danjou'. 12mo, 1 p. Ten lines of text. Good, on aged paper with slight wear to extremities. In a bifolium, with address and four circular postmarks (two in black and two in blue ink) on verso of second leaf. He is 'a la fin de l'impression d'un ouvrage qui doit être pret pour la rentrée et qui depuis...	French, Science, Medicine and Technology	£56.00
Jean Duranel (born 1946), French artist [Lawrence A. Ives] Autograph Letter Signed and three Autograph Cards Signed ('jean Duranel' and 'J. Duranel'), to his patron Lawrence Ives, with two invitations to his shows and a paper cut-out. All the items except the cut-out and the last card (in which he gives the price of a painting) are damp-stained, with part of the text of the letter illegible. One card in French. The first card, from 1982, thanks Ives for payment for 'watercolors'. The cut-out, in red paper, is roughly 10 x 10...	Art and Architecture, French	£100.00
Jean Elmslie Henderson, Viscountess Dunedin Autograph Card Signed [to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts]. Scottish aristocrat and translator (died 1944). Dimensions roughly four and a half inches by three and a half inches. Very good, but with two small staple holes (not affecting text). Docketed and bearing red date stamp. Reads 'Dear Sir - \| I have your letter of March 4th - I enclose £3. 3 &...	Women	£23.00
Jean Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste (1807-1873) [eel fishing; eels; farming; farms; piscatory; angling; anglers] Offprint titled 'Observations on the rearing, migration, transport, feeding, ages, and growth of eels. By Mons. Coste.' 12mo bifolium: 4 pp. Printed on grey paper. Very good. Small print. Detailed exposition, giving 'practical facts and information on eels', with subheadings: 'Migration of the fry of eels.'; 'Transport of the migrating fry of eels.'; 'The feeding of eels, and the sizes to which they attain in a...	Natural History	£25.00
[Pierre Didot, l'ainé, printer; Musée national du Luxembourg, France ] [Printed pamphlet.] Explication des Tableaux, Statues, Bustes, etc. composant les Galerie [sic] du Palais de la Chambre des Pairs de France. 12mo, 72 pp. Stitched. In remains of original grey wraps, with front wrap present (though worn at extremities), but only a trace of rear wrap remaining. Text clear and complete. On aged paper with many dog-eared corners. An ephemeral item by one of the greatest of French printers: COPAC only...	Art and Architecture, French	£125.00
Jean Morison [Mrs Jean Morison Campbell] Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Scottish author. Paper dimensions roughly four and a half inches by one and a quarter. Very good, with some light glue staining. From autograph album. Mounted on larger piece of blue paper. Reads '[...] your welcome letter which \| [...] \| [...] your loving friend Jean M. C. Miller Morison'....	Literature, Women	£20.00
Jean-Baptiste Dugas-Montbel. Autograph Letter Signed "Dugas-Montbel" to "mon cher Confrere", not named. French Hellenist. In French. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He returnsd a letter his correspondent had sent to their colleague, Viennet "pour l'Academie" to which he adds something of Labitte "pur la Collectio Pizarrensis [Pisaurensis?]. He benefits from the offer of ""votre nouveau substitut"...	French	£150.00
Jean-Baptiste Francois Ernest de Chatelain, 'Le Chevalier de Chatelain' Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Hogan; with printed prospectus of one of de Chatelain's works. Anglo-French journalist (1801-81) and friend of Mallarme. Letter: two pages, octavo. Good, though on creased, discoloured and spotted paper. The verso of the second leaf of the bifoliate is ruckled and with glue stains showing through from the verso, which is attached to a piece of ruled paper....	Book Trade History, French	£56.00
Jean-Daniel Colladon (1802-1893), Swiss physicist and engineer, Professor of Mechanics at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris [Eugène Flachat (1802-1873)] [steam engines; railway] Autograph Letter Signed ('Colladon' \| professeur à l Ecole Centrale') to 'Monsieur le Directeur Général des Douanes, Paris'. 4to bifolium: 2 pp, with address on otherwise-blank second leaf. Very good on lightly aged paper. Slight wear to extremities. A significant document, casting light on the relative states of engineering in early nineteenth-century France and England, and the role of the scientist in France at...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£200.00