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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Christopher Love [PROPHECY; CODES; CODE BREAKING; CIPHERS; CYPHERS] Manuscript entitled 'The Prophecy of Christ[ophe]r Love'. Welsh puritan (1618-51), executed for plotting against the Commonwealth. The passage in cipher is presumably Love's prophecy that the world would be destroyed in 1805, followed by an age of everlasting peace when God would be known by all. Two pages, on the two leaves of a quarto bifoliate. On...		£400.00
Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and youngest brother of the poet William Wordsworth Autograph Signature ('Chr: Wordsworth') on fragment of letter to his 'dear Brother' [either Richard, John or William Wordsworth]. On piece of paper roughly 3 x 9 cm. Good: lightly aged and mounted on a piece of card docketed 'Revd. Dr. Wordsworth. brother of the poet'. Reads 'Ever, my dear Brother, \| Very affectionately yours \| [signed] Chr: Wordsworth.'	Literature	£45.00
Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, when Archdeacon of Westminster. Autograph Note. Wordsworth (1807-85) was made Archdeacon of Westminster in 1865 and Bishop of Lincoln four years later. 1 page, approximately 3 inches square. In good condition. Neat tight handwriting. 'With Archdeacon Wordsworth's compts. requesting a receipt for 5 - 13 - 0. \| enclosed'.	Religion	£25.00
Christy's Minstrels [The Christy Minstrels; Edwin Pearce Christy; George Christy [Harrington]; George Lumbard] Autograph Letter Signed by George Lumbard ('Geo Lumbard') to unnamed correspondent. One page, 12mo. Good on piece of lightly-creased and aged paper, neatly mounted on slightly-larger piece of paper. Enclosing funds 'for the Use of St Andrews Hall April 2nd. 3rd. & 4th./66 for Christys Minstrels Concerts'. Postscript requests that receipt be sent to Reading in Berkshire: '...	Music and Theatre	£125.00
Church Missionary Society [New Holland (Western Australia); Australiana; Sierra Leone; Africa] Church Missionary Paper. For the use of weekly and monthly contributors. [With engravings 'of the oldest and latest Missions of the Society - those in West Africa, and in New Holland'.] 12mo (leaf dimensions 21 x 13.5 cm), 4 pp. Unbound bifolium. Text and illustrations clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper with sunning to margin in top outer corner. Circular 1 cm red ink stamp of the Webster Collection, with number 2600, at foot of final page. Short article on first page,...	Religion	£75.00
City of Rochester. Document signed by Benjamin Graydon, Mayor of Rochester (a "Constat") "To . . .Chamberlains . . ." Vellum Document, C.36 (thirty-six) x 15, fold marks, two small holes staining, but legible. It names all citizens (65) to pay rents, on which properties, and amount. There are crosses by about half of the entries (unpaid?).	Social history	£150.00
Claire-Eliane Engel [Captain Markham Sherwill; William Upcott; Edward Bootle Wilbraham] Markham Sherwill's collection of autographs. Reprinted from 'The Alpine Journal,' November 1938. Octavo: 9 pp. Stitched. In original grey printed wraps. Good. Inscribed by the author to the embryologist Sir Gavin de Beer ('For Mr. G. S. de Beer [sic] With my best wishes C. E. Engel'), author of 'Early Travellers in the Alps' (1930). The article describes the correspondence amassed by...		£75.00
Clara Jecks (1857-1951), English actress and singer, briefly associated with the D'Oyly Carte Company, daughter of Harriet Coveney and actor-manager Charles Jecks Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mrs Willows'. Three pages, 12mo. Good, on lightly spotted and aged paper. Traces of glue and previous mount adhering to blank verso of second leaf of bifolium. Concerns a 'concert on June 16yh in aid of the <?> L G[uild] at Mrs. Beudel's house'. 'It grieves me more than I can express to find that I...	Music and Theatre	£45.00
Clarkson Stanfield, Michael Meredith Autograph Signatures on fragment of a document. Stanfield was a marine and landscape painter (1793-1867); Meredith was employed by the auctioneers Machin and Debenham of King Street. Paper dimensions roughly five and a half inches by four inches. Folded twice. Grubby and lightly creased, with dog-eared corners. Reads '[signed] Michael...	Art and Architecture	£26.00
claud cockburn A collection of contracts and related material Memorandum of Agreemen (Cockburn and Sidgwick & Jackson)t, 3 Dec. 1971, for "The Devil's Decade", 4pp., fol., signed by Cockburn. Memorandum of Agreement (Penguin), "Bestseller", photocopy, 6pp., unsigned. Memorandum of Agreement (Sidgwick & Jackson and Penguin), "Bestseller", 5pp., not...	Literature	£150.00