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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester Printed Receipt Signed, with Manuscript Additions in another hand, for money lent to Queen Anne. Wit (1657-1717), mistress of James II. One leaf, dimensions roughly seven inches by ten and a half. Printed text with manuscript additions on recto with calculations in a contemporary hand on the reverse. Good, but grubby. Receipt 'of the Right Honourable James Vernon Esq; One of the Four... |
History, Women | £200.00 | |
Catherine Sinclair Scottish novelist (1800-1864). One page, 8vo, good. She quotes Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name?” and appends hersignature. |
Literature, Women | £25.00 | |
Catherine Sinclair (1800-1864), Scottish novelist Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Wedderburn; and Autograph Note to Mr and Mrs G. Wedderburn. LETTER: One page, 12mo. Good, on aged, creased paper, with trace of stub on blank verso. Crest at head. 'It will give my brother & me much pleasure to accept your kind invitation for Tuesday evening the 16th. - I dine that day with Lady Sempill which will make me later than I should wish,... |
Literature, Women | £28.00 | |
Catherine Sinclair. Scottish novelist (1800-1864). One page, trimmed, removed from an album, 7 x 4.5", text cldear and apparently complete, as follows: "Lines on the death of a Christian Hero.- // Let not a tear upon his grave be shed / The common tribute to the common dead, / But let the good, the [?], & the... |
Literature, Women | £85.00 | |
Cecil Day-Lewis British Poet Laureate (1904-72). Day-Lewis's letter, 1 page, 8vo. On grey paper. Good, but lightly creased and with a few staple holes. Thanks Mercer for the 'kind invitation'. 'I am afraid I could not manage to prepare the paper you suggest for January 24, since I have to be busy till near the... |
Literature | £65.00 | |
Cecil Day-Lewis, writer Autograph Postcard Signed "Cecil" to Kenneth Bredon, Brighton bookseller. Good condition. "Dear Kenneth / Many thanks for your congratulations - greatly appreciated. I hope all goes well with you & send best wishes for 1968." Day-Lewis had recently been appointed Poet Laureate. |
Book Trade History, Literature | £35.00 | |
Cecil Day-Lewis, writer Typed Note Signed "C Day -Lewis" to John Crosby, R.D.I., Waipukurai, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.. One page, 8vo, good condition. "I have pleasure in sending you my autograph." |
Literature | £30.00 | |
Cecil Henry Desch Typed Letter Signed to W. Perry, Royal Society of Arts. Eminent British metallurgist (1874-1958). One page, quarto. Very good. 'I should have been pleased to take the chair at Professor Bragg's Lecture, but I have already undertaken to preside at a similar lecture by Professor Bragg [...] and to have the same Chairman on both occasions, the lectures... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £45.00 | |
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 |