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Catherine Sinclair

Autograph Quotation Signed.

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.

Autograph Poem Signed.

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

Typed Letter Signed to [Brian?] Mercer, [Secretary,?] Royal Society of Arts; together with a carbon of the Typed Letter to which it is a reply.

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
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