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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Claud Muirhead, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. The causes of death among the assured in the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society from 1874 to 1894 inclusive. 4to. Pages: viii + 103. Appendix consisting of nine detailed actuarial tables. Tight copy, in grubby, stained and worn printed paper boards. From the library of the librarian of the Medical Society of London, Nehemiah Asherson, and with the Society's oval stamp on the verso of the title. Small...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£50.00
Claude Carloman de Rulhiere [Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia; Russian eighteenth-century history; revolution of 1762] The History, Or Anecdotes, Of the Revolution in Russia, In the Year 1762. Translated from the French of M. De Rulhiere. 8vo: [ii] + xxiv + 178 + [ii] pp. With half-title, and final leaf containing two pages of 'New Publications printed for T. N. Longman, No. 39, Paternoster-Row.' Frontispiece, becoming detached, of 'Catherine II. Empress of Russia, Taken from an Original Bust.' Tight copy, on aged and lightly...	History, Women	£180.00
Claude Genest [editor, 'La Revue du XIXème siècle'] Autograph Letter Signed ('C. Genest'), in French, to unnamed male recipient. 12mo, 1 p. 20 lines of text. Clear and complete. On aged paper and lightly-creased paper. Writing to ask how the recipient wishes to deal with 'traités de Botanique et de Chimie' in his reviews. Written during the first of several incarnations of the 'Revue', this one beginning around 1836.	French, Literature	£38.00
David Melvill, 6th Earl of Leven, Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1759-61; Dep. Gov., Bank of Scotland; a Lord of Police 1772-82; High Commissioner, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Autograph Letter Signed "Leven & Melvill" to King's representative, having received the King's reply to the Address of the General Asembly. One page, 8vo, edges sunned, mainly good condition. "My LOrd, Having retired tot her Country after dissolving the General Assembly [of the Church of Scotland], I only had yesterday the Honour of receiving your Grace's Letter of the 7th, informing me of His Majesty's Gracious Acception of their...		£220.00
Claude-Emmanuel Lhuillier, dit Chapelle (1626-1686), French poet and author Engraved portrait. On a piece of paper 24 x 15.5 cm. Dimensions of image roughly 6.5 x 6 cm. Paper heavily foxed and creased at foot. Image clear and uncreased. Titled 'CHAPELLE.' Head-and-shoulders engraving of a tousle-haired Chapelle, with open white shirt, waistcoat and cloak hanging off shoulders.	Literature	£28.00
Clifford Dobell. Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek And His "Little Animals" Being Some Account of the Father of Protozoology and Bacteriology and His Multifarious Discoveries in These Diciplines FIRST U.K. EDITION, pp.[viii].435,plates, very good in original white cloth, sl. soiled, INSCRIBED by historian of science, Douglas McKie (see Dictionary of National Biography).	Natural History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£45.00
[ Victorian valentine card, engraved and hand-coloured ] [ Royal Mail; Post Office; women's fashion ] [ Victorian valentine Card. ] Hand-coloured engraved Victorian valentine card, depicting a young lady in shorts posting a letter, with the caption 'A valentine for my little friend'. On one side of a piece of 14 x 9 cm paper, with embossed design to the scalloped edges. Hand-coloured in yellow, pink, red, purple, grey and plum. A smiling young girl, blonde-haird and rosy cheeks, in gentleman's hat, muffler, plum velvet jacket, purple shorts and red tights, stands on the...		£65.00
John Rutherford Gordon (1890-1974), editor of London 'Sunday Express' [ Lord Northcliffe [ Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (1865-1922), 1st Viscount Northcliffe ], press baron, owner of Daily Mail ] [ John Rutherford Gordon, editor of the 'Sunday Express'. ] 'Rough draft' of typed article, with autograph emendations, on Lord Northcliffe, 'the incomparable journalist of the age', written from personal knowledge. 21pp., fourteen of them in 4to, and the other seven pages cut down. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Stapled together, with the first leaf detached. The article is complete but untitled. It is unattributed, but comes from the J. R. Gordon papers. A well-written and incisive piece,...		£350.00
Clifton College, Bristol [John Percival, Bishop of Hereford; Rev. William Done Bushell] Programme, with names of performers, for a 'Choir Concert' held at Clifton College. 12mo (leaf dimensions 19 x 12 cm), 3 pp. Bifolium. Printed on pink paper. Text clear and complete. Creased, and with the blank reverse of the second leaf adhering to a leaf from a contemporary album. The first page is headed 'Clifton College. Choir Concert, Wednesday evening, December 20, 1865...	Education, Music and Theatre	£35.00
Clive Arden (pseud. of Lily Clive Nutt), English novelist Autograph Letter Signed ('(Miss) "Clive Arden" \| (L. Clive Nutt).') to the editor of the Daily Graphic. 4to: 2 pp. 26 lines. On lightly discoloured and spotted paper. She will be happy 'to send you word occasionally of any work or other matter concerning myself which might interest your readers'. Her 'new book', 'Enticement', 'has just been published by Leonard Parsons. At present I have not...	Literature, Women	£38.00