Auction No 370, Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST

295 Lots (displaying 41 - 60)

[Richard Keppel Craven] "Sketch of the Late Revolution at Naples. By an Eye-Witness". James Carpenter, 1820,

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £58
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[Richard Keppel Craven] Sketch of the Late Revolution at Naples. By an Eye-Witness. James Carpenter, 1820, octavo, stitch bound, 51pp, plus publisher’s advertising leaf (dust-affected on second page). VG. Scarce

Legal Documents from 1650 on vellum & paper, chiefly Lancashire related especially Walton & Fazackerley

Lot: 42

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £80
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Legal Documents from 1650 on vellum & paper, chiefly Lancashire related especially Walton & Fazackerley areas of Liverpool, plus Lancaster, parts of Yorkshire & elsewhere. Includes several 17th Century. (38). Also some correspondence, schedules etc. Varied condition

Legal Indentures pertaining to Chorley, comprising 1698 paper Agreement of 9pp between Thomas Cross of Cross Hall

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Legal Indentures pertaining to Chorley, comprising 1698 paper Agreement of 9pp between Thomas Cross of Cross Hall and others, and 3 vellum documents concerning John Whittaker & John Clark 1751-1775 including attractive 1751 Portrait Document agreement with Joseph Clarke of Dunham Massey. Good/VG (4)

Carton of Legal Documents 18th and 19th Century, on vellum and paper, mostly relating to people & properties in Manchester,

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £100
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Carton of Legal Documents 18th and 19th Century, on vellum and paper, mostly relating to people & properties in Manchester, some pertaining to Macclesfield and Wilmslow; includes 1826 Deed of Covenant between the Manchester and Oldham Rail Board and its subscribers with 54 signatures & pledges. (50). Also many Bills of Exchange, plus correspondence, assessments, schedules etc. Mixed condition.

Legal Documents from 17th to 19th Century, mostly on vellum, pertaining to lands and families in Surrey, Wales,

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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Legal Documents from 17th to 19th Century, mostly on vellum, pertaining to lands and families in Surrey, Wales, Yorkshire, Middlesex and elsewhere. (28). Also Bacon’s Excelsior Map of Wales and Monmouthshire, and sundry papers. Mixed condition. 

Archive of papers, documents and photographs concerning the life of Wing Commander F.D. Procter DFC

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £58
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Archive of papers, documents and photographs concerning the life of Wing Commander F.D. Procter DFC including his war-time career as a pilot of Mosquitos and other aircraft in the R.A.F. especially in the Middle East; including citation for award of the DFC in 1944, album of WW2 photos, family photographs, invitations, letters etc. VG condition (Qty)

Folder of Photographs c.1890 to 1950s including H.M.S.Durban at Shanghai 1930s, good studies of children,

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £82
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Folder of Photographs c.1890 to 1950s including H.M.S.Durban at Shanghai 1930s, good studies of children, Catholic procession in Liverpool (5), Torquay Carnival (15), etc. Fair to fine. (47)

Album of Photographs (25), programmes & related documents recording the arrival of Sir Archibald & Lady Nye in India

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £68
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Album of Photographs (25), programmes & related documents recording the arrival of Sir Archibald & Lady Nye in India 1946 and Nye’s subsequent appointment as Governor of Madras. VG/VF (39 items). Also 3 snapshots and various newscuttings

A WW2 Correspondence from a driver in the R.A.S.C., many while in the Middle East,

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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A WW2 Correspondence from a driver in the R.A.S.C., many while in the Middle East, approx. 35 letters; plus RAF Cap Badge and Service Certificates etc; and Sir John French’s Despatches WWI, issued by The Graphic with war maps. Mainly VG/VF (Qty)

 

"Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches (June 1916-June 1917)", Dent 1920, orig. gilt cloth, front cover badly faded,

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches (June 1916-June 1917), Dent 1920, orig. gilt cloth, front cover badly faded, front inner hinge cracked; complete with the fine set of Maps of Syria & Palestine, Sinai Peninsula, and Egyptplus a general outline map of the Turkish Empire, all in separate cloth-backed slipcase.

The Spanish Civil War, selection of original photographs of the Republican Army including the International Brigade 1934,

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £64
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The Spanish Civil War, selection of original photographs of the Republican Army including the International Brigade 1934, and the Republican Militia 1937. Various sizes, between 17x 12cm and 17 x 23.5cm, all laid down on album pages. VG (5). Also a related propaganda anti-fascist picture postcard (adhesion marks on reverse).

Burnley Legal Documents 1863-1910, all on vellum, various properties & families;

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £62
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Burnley Legal Documents 1863-1910, all on vellum, various properties & families; including the Burnley Conservative Sick and Burial Society, Clifton Weaving Shed, properties at Calder Vale, etc. All with seals and duty stamps intact. (23). Also 1906 Auction particulars with Plan, and an 1895 notice. Good to VF

Vellum Conveyances (2) & a Mortgage, 1867-76, concerning lands & dwelling-houses in Dunham Massey (2) and Bowdon,

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Vellum Conveyances (2) & a Mortgage, 1867-76, concerning lands & dwelling-houses in Dunham Massey (2) and Bowdon, two with a hand-drawn plan, one signed by the Earl of Stamford & Warrington. Fine (3)

[Avery Allyn] "A Ritual, and Illustrations of Free-Masonry and the Orange and Odd Fellows' Societies"

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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[Avery Allyn] A Ritual, and Illustrations of Free-Masonry and the Orange and Odd Fellows’ Societies, S.Thorne, 1835, later cloth, 24pp of line-drawings (2 heavily browned), some scattered foxing, 260pp, scarce; and C.W.Leadbeater The Hidden Life in Freemasonry, Theosophical Publishing House, Madras, 1926, 1st Edn, rebound, plates complete, p.324 rather grubby o/w fine internally. (2)

Church Papers, a bound volume of Reports to the House of Commons 1811-1823, modern cloth, gilt,

Lot: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Church Papers, a bound volume of Reports to the House of Commons 1811-1823, modern cloth, gilt, chiefly statistical returns from the Church of Ireland and the Church of England, bound with a few related Acts of Parliament of the period 1824-1840. Few pencil annotations o/w fine. 

Francis William Newman "Lectures on Political Economy", John Chapman, 1851, 1st Edn, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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Francis William Newman Lectures on Political Economy, John Chapman, 1851, 1st Edn, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, VG, recased with new endpapers; previous owner’s bookplate removed; spotting to prelims and first few pages of the text o/w fine internally. Uncut lower edge. 

"Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great: with the Trial of Francis Ravaillac"

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £56
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Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great: with the Trial of Francis Ravaillac, Edinburgh, 1819, 5 volumes, octavo, attractive later full calf gilt bindings with raised bands and thistle designs in the compartmentsmarble edged & endpapers; bookplates of Robert Allfrey; the frontispiece and title pages of each volume heavily toned o/w clean internally. (5)       

Arthur Reade "The Tragedy of the Streets", Wilmslow, 1912, rebound incorporating the original gilt cloth;

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Arthur Reade The Tragedy of the Streets, Wilmslow, 1912, rebound incorporating the original gilt cloth; reverse of title page and first page of the preface badly stained o/w VG; 134pp plus advert leaf. This rare title is an important defence of women driven or seduced into prostitution, and calls for equality of the sexes before the law. 

WW2 interest with Poolman "Ark Royal", 1956, 1st Edn in worn d/jkt; Neil McCallum "Journey With a Pistol", 1959, 1st Edn

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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WW2 interest with Poolman Ark Royal, 1956, 1st Edn in worn d/jkt; Neil McCallum Journey With a Pistol, 1959, 1st Edn in near fine d/jkt, and another copy, a 3rd Impression, in price-clipped d/jkt; and A.O. Pollard Epic Deeds of the R.A.F. 1940, 1st Edn in very worn d/jkt. (4)

"The Rev. Oliver Heywood B.A. (1630-1702); His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdote and Event Books;

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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The Rev. Oliver Heywood B.A. (1630-1702); His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdote and Event Books; illustrating the general and family history of Yorkshire and Lancashire, with illustrations. Edited by J Horsfall Turner. Bingley, 1882-1885, octavo, 4 volumes, original gilt cloth, VG; endpapers of Vol. 4 browned o/w fine internally.