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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Charles Mackay. Autograph Letter Signed to J. Marshall, Hull. Poet and Journalist (DNB). Three pages, 8vo, evidence of having been laid down, minor damage not affecting text, ow good condition. "My terms for a [?] Lecture at Hull would be Ten guineas and my travelling expenses". He suggests an approximate date, and outlines the subjects of his lectures on...	Literature	£125.00
Charles Magnus (1826-1900), German-born American engraver and printseller [New York; steel engraving; maps; travel; topography] Steel engraving captioned 'Birds Eye View of the City and County of New-York with Environs.' Dimensions of print 11.5 x 19.5 cm. At the head of the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium (leaf dimensions 28 x 22.5 cm). The print itself is clear and undamaged, on aged paper. With traces of cuttings mounted onto the internal pages, and closed tear to the blank second leaf. An impressively...		£80.00
Charles Maxwell Knight One Autograph Letter Signed, one Typed Letter Signed, two Autograph Cards Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed by another party and forwarded to F. J. Epps, F.G.S. Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society (1900-68); fascist; writer of thrillers; intelligence officer for MI5 who recruited Ian Fleming, Tom Driberg and Anthony Blunt; jazz drummer; friend of Aleister Crowley; said to have been the individual on whom the M of the James Bond books is based...	Military and Naval History	£150.00
Charles McMoran Wilson, 1st Baron Moran [Lord Moran] (1882-1977), Sir Winston Churchill's personal physician [Charles Noon (d.1957), senior surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital] Two Typed Letters Signed ('Moran') to Noon. Both items good, on lightly-aged paper, each with a punch-hole to the top left-hand corner. Letter One: 12mo, 1 p. Concerning 'the Committee' and two surgeons. Letter Two: 4to, 1 p. Twenty-three typed lines and a four-line autograph postscript. Possibly relating to the Royal College of...	History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£75.00
[Report of R. J. Thomas and D. R. Hicklin of the St Anne's Board Mill Company Limited, Bristol, to the USA and Canada] [Mimeographed Typed Report, with plans and diagrams.] St. Anne's Board Mill Company Limited \| Visit of Mr. R. J. Thomas and Mr. D. R. Hicklin to the U.S.A. and Canada - 1954'. [v] + 135pp., folio. With diagrams and plans in text, and one large fold-out diagram of '100 Ton Waste Paper Cleaning System'. A well-produced item, well-typed and with clear diagrams, bound in navy buckram with 'REPORT ON AMERICAN VISIT \| 1954' on the spine. In good condition, on lightly-aged...		£220.00
Charles Neaves, A.D. [The Black Isle Riot, 1843; Royal Burgh of Cromarty, Scotland; Scottish law; Edinburgh assizes] Printed Edinburgh Assize paper, a summons to be served to those accused of 'Mobbing and Rioting', 'Obstructing a Presbytery' and 'Assualt', in which Neave sets out the case against them. With 'List of Witnesses' and 'List of Assize. Edinburgh'. Ten quarto pages (paginated 1 to 10) on three loose bifoliums. Stabbed as issued. Text clear and complete. On aged paper with chipping and short closed tears to edges. Begins 'ANDREW HOLM, labourer and fisherman, now or lately residing at Ferrytown in the united parishes of Kirkmichael and...	History, Law	£100.00
Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, commanded ship against the Armada, Admiral, Elizabethan and Jacobean Grandee. Document Signed TSuffolke and others: Feoffment of a Messuage and 3 Acres of Pasture Six Oxgangs of Land in Leasingham [Lincs] to John Lambe, yeoman. One page, vellum, 60 x 35cm, somewhat crumpled but clear and complete, with attractive seals including the Earl of Suffolk's signet seal, in very good condition.	History	£450.00
Charles Pražak [Charles Prazak], engineer of Prague, Bohemia [Carilian-Goeury, Parisian bookseller; the French nineteenth-century booktrade; Czechoslovakia; the Czech Republic] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Monsieur Carilian-Goeury, Libraire-éditeur à Paris'. 12mo, 3 pp. Good, on browned and lightly creased paper with some wear to extremities. In French. Long thorough order with instructions for delivery, casting light on the logistical problems encountered in international trade in nineteenth-century Europe. Pražak is sending 'six pièces d'or à...	French, Science, Medicine and Technology	£75.00
Charles Prestwich Scott (1846-1932) Liberal politician and editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1872-1929 Autograph Note Signed ('C. P. Scott') to unnamed male correspondent [Rev. E. J. F. Davies]. One page, 12mo. Very good: lightly aged and creased. 'You are welcome to my autograph for what it is worth.' From the collection of the Rev. E. J. F. Davies.	History	£30.00
Charles Rivington, bookseller and publisher, Assignment of Leasehold premises in Brunswick Square, William Reader to Charles Rivington Indenture, 28 x 24", folded, good condition. Signed by Rivington and Reader. When he died in 1831 Rivington, according to the family history, had just "taken a house in Brunswick Square". The reverse is signed by another Charles Rivington, a lawyer and presumably a member of the family.	Book Trade History, Printing History, Travel and Topography	£100.00