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

295 Lots (displaying 61 - 80)

"Manchester Athenaeum Catalogue of the Books in the Library", 1892, printed boards, worn;

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Manchester Athenaeum Catalogue of the Books in the Library, 1892, printed boards, worn; Ann Brooks & Bryan Howarth Portico Library, a History, 2000, in d/jkt; The Manchester Courier Coronation Souvenir, 1902, printed wraps, fine; Lester Burney Cross Street Chapel Schools Manchester 1734-1942, Manchester, 1977, 93pp, in d/jkt; and other Manchester books and pamphlets, from 19th Century, some fictional. Varied condition, mostly good to fine. (31)     

T. Swindells "Manchester Streets and Manchester Men", Morten reprint, gilt cloth, 5 volumes;

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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T. Swindells Manchester Streets and Manchester Men, Morten reprint, gilt cloth, 5 volumes; J.T. Slugg Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago, 1971 reprint, in d/jkt; Louis M. Hayes Reminiscences of Manchester and its surrounding areas from 1840, 2009 reprint, s/bk; and A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography – Manchester & Salford, 1987 reprint, gilt cloth. Fine (8)    

Jules Baron "L'Art Heraldique contenant la Maniere d'Apprendre Facilement le Blason", Charles Osmont, 1695,

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £58
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Jules Baron L’Art Heraldique contenant la Maniere d’Apprendre Facilement le Blason, Charles Osmont, 1695, New Edition, 12mo, 18th Cent leather, gilt, some wear, ownership inscription to front cover and title page (another signature scratched out leaving small hole); frontispiece and 36 plates, all bar one hand-coloured. VG internally.

Geoffrey Gimcrack [John Stanley Gregson] "Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £56
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Geoffrey Gimcrack [John Stanley Gregson] Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners Ten Years Ago, Manchester, 1833, octavo, contemp. cloth, marked, title label badly worn; engraved frontispiece and seven engraved vignettes (including title page); offset impression on title page; good clean text. 196pp. [This book includes a rare reference to the playing of Golf on Kersall Moor, plus other sporting references]

                        

"The History and Antiquities of the City of Coventry", Rollason & Reader, [1842?], 12mo, full 19th Cent. polished calf, gilt,

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £44
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The History and Antiquities of the City of Coventry, Rollason & Reader, [1842?], 12mo, full 19th Cent. polished calf, gilt, marble-edged, good; wood-engraved plates (4), one as folding frontispiece; fine internally.

Henry Mayhew and John Binny "The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life". Griffin, Bohn & Co., 1862,

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £115
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Henry Mayhew and John Binny The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life. Griffin, Bohn & Co., 1862, tastefully rebound in fine modern half-leather, gilt, marbled boards, sides cleaned; interior shows some faint stamps of the York Subscription Library, mostly applied to the reverse of the plates; light tanning to text due to paper quality; pp.519/520 in facsimile o/w complete. 

Violet Van der Erst "On the Gallows", 1939, in scarce d/jkt; Alfred Marks "Tyburn Tree: its History & Annals", 1908;

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Violet Van der Erst On the Gallows, 1939, in scarce d/jkt; Alfred Marks Tyburn Tree: its History & Annals, 1908; Lucia Zedner Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England, 1991, in d/jkt; and others on prisons and punishment. Mainly in d/jkts. Good to VF (18)

Criminal History including many titles by William Roughead; largely original cloth or in d/jkts,

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £38
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Criminal History including many titles by William Roughead; largely original cloth or in d/jkts, a few modern. Includes a Colin Wilson bibliography. Good to VF (21)

Detective memoirs & police history including Frederick Wensley "Detective Days", 1931;

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £46
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Detective memoirs & police history including Frederick Wensley Detective Days, 1931; William Chadwick Reminiscences of a Chief Constable Manchester, c.1900 (2 copies, orig. gilt cloth); Whitbread The Railway Policeman, 1961, in fine d/jkt; Herbert Fitch Traitors Within, 1933, 3rd Impression; plus later titles in d/jkts. Fair to VF (11)

Gregory Durston "Moll Flanders: An Analysis of an 18th Century Criminal Biography", Barry Rose, 1997,

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Gregory Durston Moll Flanders: An Analysis of an 18th Century Criminal Biography, Barry Rose, 1997, h/bk in d/jkt; vii,304pp. VF

"An Account of the Manchester Musical Festival, 1828….with a Description of the characters who attended the Fancy Dress Ball"

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £26
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An Account of the Manchester Musical Festival, 1828….with a Description of the characters who attended the Fancy Dress Ball, T.Sowler, Manchester, 1828, octavo, brown paper wraps with remains of original title label on front; worn at corners and last page of text darkened. Frontispiece & two fine folding plates. The publication includes an alphabetical list of all those known to have attended the event detailing their costume for the evening, over 3000 names. 129pp

[Richard Penn Smith] "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas", T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia, 1836,

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £125
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[Richard Penn Smith] Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas, T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia, 1836, First Edition, 12mo, contemp. cloth marked & faded, title label badly worn; endpapers damp affected and bearing manuscript notations dated 1839; foxing throughout; comprises advert pages (4), frontispiece, title page & preface (viii pages), and main text with pagination 13-216. 

Jerome Caminada "Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life", Manchester, 1895-1901, 2 Vols, orig.gilt cloth, foxing to prelims;

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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Jerome Caminada Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life, Manchester, 1895-1901, 2 Vols, orig.gilt cloth, foxing to prelims; Charles Arrow Rogues and Others, 1926, front endpaper partly torn away; and others on crime. Fair to fine. (13)

James Butterworth "A History & Description of the Towns and Parishes of Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne…

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £58
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James Butterworth A History & Description of the Towns and Parishes of Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne….Manchester, 1827; Crump Ancient Highways of the Parish of Halifax, 1914; John Hall A History of South Cave, 1892; Travis Notes…of Todmorden and District, 1896; Recollections of Old Liverpool, J.F.Hughes, 1863; Mather Rambles Round Rossendale, 1888-94, 2 Vols; all with binding and/or other faults, all requiring repair or restoration. (7)

Charles Murray "Travels in North America, including a Summer Residence with the Pawnee Indians"

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £72
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Charles Murray Travels in North America, including a Summer Residence with the Pawnee Indians, Richard Bentley, 1854, 2 Vols, 3rd Edn, original cloth, gilt, VG; inner hinges frayed at front of Vol.1. VG (2)

"Guide for Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates of The Church Lads' Brigade"

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Guide for Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates of The Church Lads’ Brigade, and Church Lads’ Brigade Infantry Training, London 1910, pocket-size softback, original printed wraps with piece missing from upper left corner of front cover;  inscribed Orsett Troop (Essex) in ink along fore-edge, some light browning to text o/w fine internally; 262pp including 27 half-tone plates or diagrams. Scarce.

Walter de Gray Birch "The Royal Charters of The City of Lincoln", Cambridge, 1911, original gilt cloth,

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Walter de Gray Birch The Royal Charters of The City of Lincoln, Cambridge, 1911, original gilt cloth, foot of spine discoloured, endpapers browned, five Plates, few marginal glosses in pencil; Reginald Dudding (Ed.) The First Churchwardens’ Book of Louth 1500-1524, Oxford, 1941, orig.gilt cloth, VG, b/w frontispiece, 234pp; and Eric Iredale A History of Sempringham, 1983, s/bk, 62pp. Good to fine. (3)

Charles Pratt "History of Cawthorne", Barnsley, 1882, octavo, original gilt cloth, nine laid down photographs as plates

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Charles Pratt History of Cawthorne, Barnsley, 1882, octavo, original gilt cloth, nine laid down photographs as plates (one loose); few minor fox marks; binding worn at extremities; vi,175pp

A. Crosfield [and Thomas Langdale] "The History of North-Allerton, in the County of York. To which is added a Description of the Castle-Hills"

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £58
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A. Crosfield [and Thomas Langdale] The History of North-Allerton, in the County of York. To which is added a Description of the Castle-Hills. J. Langdale, Northallerton, 1791; contemp. quarter calf, marbled boards, worn, head & tail of backstrip chipped; spotting to endpapers, pastedown with bookplate; clean text. 80pp

"An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town of Lancaster", C. Clark, 1811, 2nd Edn,

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £90
SOLD £50
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town of Lancaster, C. Clark, 1811, 2nd Edn, octavo, original boards, backstrip largely worn away; uncut, fine internally with folding Map, folding Plans (2) and a further plate; lacks front endpaper, half-title intact; index, errata leaf; vii,128,[5]pp