MILITARY MUSIC. Auguste GUÈS. Signed autograph musical manuscript, Pot Pourri composé d'airs anciens et modernes pour musique militaire, [circa 1840]; one oblong in-4 volume (25 x 31.5 cm) of 44 pages, bound in white moiré silk, gilded filleting and gilded rocaille ornamentation on the boards, with inscription on the upper board in gilded letters A S.A.R. la Princesse Clémentine. The title page, carefully calligraphed and decorated, tells us that Auguste Guès is "Chef de musique au 10e Régiment d'Infanterie légère". The work is dedicated to Princess Clémentine d'Orléans (1817-1907), the last daughter of Louis-Philippe, who married Prince Auguste of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha in 1843. A handsome manuscript, carefully notated on 16-line paper, for a line-up including petite flûte, petite clarinette, clarinet solo, 3 clarinets, horns, trumpets, pistons, ophicleide, 2 bassoons, 3 trombones, bass drum and snare drum. The medley successively includes a Breton air (L'anigous), a vaudeville air, a romance (Adieu, mon beau navire), the Carillon de Dunkerque, the Charge, and so on.