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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Cécile Aubry Les vacances de Lumineux petit cheval de cirque. PRESENTATION COPY: inscribed on half-title 'Pour Louise \| avec mon bien amical souvenir - \| Cécile Aubry'. 32 pages, quarto. In printed coloured boards, with decorated endpapers. llustrated by Aubry in colour (one double-page and nine full page) and black and white (five vignettes) and red (...	Art and Architecture, French, Literature	£60.00
Cedric Sharpe (1891-), cellist and composer; Ethel Hobday (1872-), pianist; Marjorie Hayward, violinist; Dora Stevens, soprano [autographs of British classical musicians] The signatures of the four musicians on one leaf. On light-yellow page (roughly 11 x 14 cm) removed from autograph album. Four glue stains showing through from the reverse (not affecting the signatures), otherwise good. Reads 'Dora Stevens \| Ethel Hobday \| Marjorie Hayward \| Cedric Sharpe'. Lightly docketed in pencil.	Music and Theatre	£56.00
Cesar Jean Salomon Malan [ Solomon Caesar Malan ] Fragment of Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent. Oriental linguist and biblical scholar (1812-94). Paper dimensions roughly sixteen centimeters by eight. Paper creased and foxed. Mounted on slightly-larger piece of brown paper. In French. Reads 'Que la paix de Dieu multipliee a toute votre famille, et que cette dispensation soit dirigee a la...	French, Religion	£36.00
Ch[arles] [Auguste-Charles-Jean?] Michelot, geographer. Autograph Note, third person, starting "Ch. Michelot", to [Aime Andre, bookseller]. In French. One page, 8vo, dulled but text clear and complete. Name and address of the bookseller on bifolium, missing a corner, not affecting text. "Ch. Michelot prie M. Aime Andre de lui envoyer le plutot possible [underlined] 1 [nouvel?] exemplaire du dictionnaire geographique Mac carthy".	French, Travel and Topography	£38.00
Winston Churchill [Winston Churchill; leaflet] Beating the Invader. A Message from the Prime Minister Two-sided leaflet, edges have been in the Wars, fold marks (quartering), with 2 small holes with no loss of text. See image of recto. See descriptions by my colleagues on abebooks for comment on its status as a first edition, scarcity, etc. WITH: Another two-page leaflet, but 8vo, City of...	History	£220.00
Cham (de Noi). Autograph Note Signed to [Puggi?]. In French. Noé, Amédée-Charles-Henry de (1818-1879). French cartoonist.. - caricaturist. One page, 8vo, laid down, sl. damaged but text clear and complete. He says that Madame de Noe [avec accent] is fully recovered from illness and wonders if his correspondent can dine next sunday. "Un mot de reponse s.v....	Art and Architecture, French	£78.00
Chapman Cohen (1868-1954), Editor of 'The Freethinker' [John Cuming Walters (1863-1933), Editor, Manchester City News] Autograph Letter Signed ('C. Cohen') to Walters. 4to, 2 pp. Good, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Thirty-seven lines of text. He finds himself 'very much in accord' with the views expressed by Walters in his address on 'The New Religion'. His 'chief difference' is 'a dislike to the use of the word "Religion." It has, to me, associations that...	Social history	£75.00
Empire Industries Association, London [ German Mandated Territories; League of Nations Class C Mandates ] [ Empire Industries Association, London. ] Printed pamphlet titled 'Mandated Territories \| The Constitutional Position'. 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium on grey paper. In fair condition, aged and with rust spotting. The document begins: 'In view of the numerous discussions with regard to the status of the Mandated Territories, and the possibility of a request from Germany for the restoration of some or all of the former...		£120.00
H. G. de Bunsen [ Henry George de Bunsen ] (c.1819-1885), Vicar of Lilleshall, 1847-1869, son of Christian Karl Josias Bunsen [ Baron Bunsen ] (1791-1860), Prussian ambassador in London, 1841-1854 [ Rev. Henry George de Bunsen, Vicar of Lilleshall. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('H G de Bunsen') to 'Mr Clarke \| Hodnet', discussing the motives behind collecting autographs. 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Replying to a request for autographs, he is sending 'an Envelope addressed by my Father' and (writing in a postscript) another 'addressed to me by the Dean of Westminster', but he 'cannot give you one of the great Niebuhr'. He agrees with...		£56.00
Charles Rabot, French geographer, glaciologist, traveler, journalist, lecturer, translator, and explorer [ AMUNDSEN ] [Antarctic] Autograph Postcard signed "Charles Rabot" to [Marin?] Two sides of postcard, in French, in a difficult hand, probably sent in 1913, the year in which this French Societe awarded a medal to Amundsen (GRADE MÉDAILLE D'OR DES EXPLORATIONS - of the south), text clear and complete. He is discussing the arrangements for the visit of Amundsen, saying...	Travel and Topography	£150.00