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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
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
Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760-1825), Professor of geography at the Faculté des Lettres, Paris Autograph Letter Signed ('Barbié du Bocage'), in French, to 'Monsieur le Rédacteur de la Quotidienne'. 4to, 1 p. Addressed in autograph on the reverse of the second leaf of the bifolium. Good, though lightly creased and a little grubby. He is sending a notice (not present) announcing the courses for the term 1825-1826 at the Faculté, and asks for it to be inserted as soon as possible 'en totalité...	French	£56.00
Jeffrey Amherst, first Baron Amherst (1717-1797), field-marshall, conqueror of Canada Two Letters in a Secretarial Hand, one of them signed by Amherst ('Amherst'), both to the Rev. Charles William Tonyn (d.1805) of Radnage, Bucks. The signed letter: 4to, 1 p. 11 lines of text. With the address on a separate and similarly-sized leaf. Franked 'War Office \| ', and bearing two circular postmarks, one of them in red with the word 'FREE'. Good, on aged and creased paper. Assuring Tonyn that it will give him 'much pleasure' to...	History	£400.00
Jenny Lind Signature only Bold signature on paper cut to 4" x 1", some staining marginally affecting clarity.	Music and Theatre	£35.00
[Council of Education for the Isle of Man and (from 1947) the Isle of Man Board of Education; Buchan School, Castletown, Malew] [Printed reports.] Run of reports of the Council of Education for the Isle of Man [Isle of Man Board of Education], 1911-1969, with copy of the 'Report of the Buchan School Commission. July, 1951'. 56 items, comprising an unbroken run of 53 issues from 1911 to 1963, together with the issues for 1967 and 1969, and a copy of the 'Report of the Buchan School Commission \| July, 1951'. In two sturdy green cloth boxes ('Supplied for the Public Service'). All 56 items with stamps, shelfmarks and...		£1,800.00
Jenny Lind [Johanna Maria Lind; Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt] (1820-1887), opera singer, known as 'the Swedish Nightingale' Manuscript list of British subscribers' names, headed 'Nightingale Fund. \| Subscription to present Madame Jenny Goldschmidt-Lind with a Marble Bust of the Queen'. 4to, 3 pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with minor evidence of the letter having been laid down on the blank reverse of the second leaf. Thirty names, with sums subscribed. The list is headed 'The Lord Mayor (Salomons) 5. - [five pounds]'. (David Salomons was Lord...	Music and Theatre	£125.00
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792-1836), Quaker schoolmaster (Leighton Road, Woburn), poet and translator of Tasso Autograph Letter Signed, with postmarked envelope and red wax seal, to 'Samuel Lucas, cornfactor, Warwick Street, London'. 4to: 1 p. Very good. Tipped in by reverse edge to leaf removed from autograph album. Envelope similarly mounted, with almost-intact seal and two postmarks, including a circular one in black ink stating 'MORE TO PAY'. He met John Grant the previous day at Wycombe Quarterly Meeting, and was told...	Education	£85.00