Auction No 421, Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST

260 Lots (displaying 61 - 80)

WW2 Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, a selection of recent publications, three of the volumes h/bks in d/jkts,

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £82
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WW2 Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, a selection of recent publications, three of the volumes h/bks in d/jkts, one s/bk with small ownership initial to front endpaper o/w fine. Hamilton's Panzergrenadiers to the Front! includes the map volume. (6)

WW2 German Military History, a selection of recent publications, mostly focusing on German military operations on the Eastern Front

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £82
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WW2 German Military History, a selection of recent publications, mostly focusing on German military operations on the Eastern Front especially in Poland, mainly h/bks, some in d/jkts (where issued). Three with small ownership initial to front endpaper o/w fine. (13)

W.B. Heweston "History of Napoleon Bonaparte, and Wars of Europe, from the Revolution in France to the Termination of the Late Wars",

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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W.B. Heweston History of Napoleon Bonaparte, and Wars of Europe, from the Revolution in France to the Termination of the Late Wars, Thomas Kelly, 1835, 3 vols, half-leather, gilt, some wear, binder's tickets of W. Nicholls, Cambridge; the plates with variable foxing / staining, frontispiece of Vol.3 hand-coloured. (3)

Winston S. Churchill "The World Crisis 1911-1918" and "The Aftermath", Easton Press, 1991, six volume set, full leather, gilt,

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £130
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Winston S. Churchill The World Crisis 1911-1918 and The Aftermath, Easton Press, 1991, six volume set, full leather, gilt, moire silk endpapers, ribbon bookmarkers, each volume with an unused bookplate loosely inserted. No inscriptions. VF (6)

"Government Gazette - British Honduras", bound volumes for 1897 and 1907, quarto, half-leather, gilt, binding of the 1907 volume worn & marked,

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £92
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Government Gazette – British Honduras, bound volumes for 1897 and 1907, quarto, half-leather, gilt, binding of the 1907 volume worn & marked, complete with supplements; 1897 issues with filing spike hole at top and occasional ink mark in margins.  (2) 

William Hamilton "St. Lucia in the West Indies taken Possession of by Admiral Barrington, Monsieur de Micoud and the Inhabitants having Capitulated

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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William Hamilton St. Lucia in the West Indies taken Possession of by Admiral Barrington, Monsieur de Micoud and the Inhabitants having Capitulated the 30th of December 1778, being the day after Count d'Estaign left the Island much disconcerted. Alex Hogg, 1783, copper engraving on watermarked paper of the period; some light creasing to lower margin and few minor fox marks o/w VG. Prepared for the 1783 edition of Edward Barnard's History of England. 31.5 x 21cm.

George Trevelyan "The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay", Longmans, 1876, 2 vols, fine three-quarter morocco by Hatchards of Piccadilly

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £40
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George Trevelyan The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Longmans, 1876, 2 vols, fine three-quarter morocco by Hatchards of Piccadilly showing minimal wear; small ownership stamp to front pastedown of each volume, fine internally. (2)

Thomas Babington Macaulay "The History of England from the Accession of James the Second", Longman, Green & Brown, 1850-55, ten volumes in five,

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £64
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Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Longman, Green & Brown, 1850-55, ten volumes in five, bound in fine half-leather, gilt; marbled page edges; internally fine other than some browning to half-titles and final index pages. (5)      

Henry Heginbotham "Stockport: Ancient and Modern", Sampson Low, 1882-1892, full leather, gilt, recased preserving the original gilt decoration

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £56
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Henry Heginbotham Stockport: Ancient and Modern, Sampson Low, 1882-1892, full leather, gilt, recased preserving the original gilt decoration and marbled endpapers; fine internally with all plates and illustrations in text. (2)

Cheshire history & topography especially Stockport & environs, few Wirral titles, etc; including Fletcher Moss "Pilgrimages in Cheshire & Shropshire"

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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Cheshire history & topography especially Stockport and environs, few Wirral titles, etc; including Fletcher Moss Pilgrimages in Cheshire & Shropshire, 1972 Morten reprint; Elizabeth Jones Old Heatonians, 1997; Marple Local History Society publications (5); Selections from the Prose, Verse & Sketches of the late Thomas Kay of Stockport, privately printed,[1918] half-vellum, with plates; and various others, h/bk and s/bk, of which four are ex-library. Mostly VG/VF (44)

Altrincham & Sale area titles including "A Century of Golf at Ashton-on-Mersey", 1997;

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £36
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Altrincham & Sale area titles including A Century of Golf at Ashton-on-Mersey, 1997; Bayliss A Town in Crisis: Altrincham in the mid-nineteenth Century, 2006; works on Altrincham Grammar School, Hale United Reform Church, etc. Mostly fine but three are ex-library. (20)     

John Ward "Moston Characters at Play", 1905, and "Moston Characters at Work", 1911; both orig. gilt cloth; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere, VG;

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £54
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John Ward Moston Characters at Play, 1905, and Moston Characters at Work, 1911; both orig. gilt cloth; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere, VG; both signed & inscribed, and complete with fine folding maps of Moston in 1848; browning to endpapers; the 1905 title with a patched hole top left of front endpaper. (2)

Manchester & Salford history & topography,1868 to modern, h/bk and s/bk including illustrated works and scarce pamphlets.

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Manchester & Salford history & topography, 1868 to modern, h/bk and s/bk including illustrated works and scarce pamphlets. Includes a reprint of Aiken's 1795 Description of the Country Round Manchester. Mostly VG/VF (31)

William Mills "The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921", 1922, orig. leather-covered boards, worn at extremities o/w fine;

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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William Mills The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921, 1922, orig. leather-covered boards, worn at extremities o/w fine; W.E.A. Axon Handbook of the Public Libraries of Manchester and Salford, 1877, gilt cloth, some light toning to prelims; and others relating to the Portico and Chetham's Libraries including three modern pamphlets. Good to VF (10)

"An Act for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages and Places within the Towns of Manchester and Salford",1792

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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An Act for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages and Places within the Towns of Manchester and Salford, 1792, 88pp; plus ten other Manchester related Acts of Parliament 1790-1849, and Charity Commission Reports (2) for Manchester and Eccles 1904. Good to fine. Also four antiquarian books, Lancashire related, in poor condition, three with engravings. (17 items) 

"Manchester Region History Review" 1990-1992 (6 issues); Manchester & Salford history publications by Neil Richardson (13),

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £46
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Manchester Region History Review 1990-1992 (6 issues); Manchester & Salford history publications by Neil Richardson (13), and a collection of related softbacks, mostly illustrated. Mainly VG/VF. (40 in all). Also a related DVD.

Manchester Ship Canal (and Trafford Park), mostly modern s/bks but including 1950s Harbour Master’s list of names of employees

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
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Manchester Ship Canal (and Trafford Park), mostly modern s/bks but including 1950s Harbour Master's list of names of employees in foolscap exercise book, and a 1970 typed report (with photographs) of safety issues along the canal. Varied condition. (24 items)   

"H.M.S. Endurance 1982-82 Deployment: A Season of Conflict", [1983], A4 s/bk, printed wraps, signed by Vivian Fuchs, Rex Hunt, and five others,

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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H.M.S. Endurance 1982-82 Deployment: A Season of Conflict, [1983], A4 s/bk, printed wraps, signed by Vivian Fuchs, Rex Hunt, and five others, a related letter from Lt.Cmdr. Andrew Lockett loosely inserted. 150pp plus 50pp of photo-plates. Scarce. Some wear to corners o/w VG.

Bernard L. Montgomery signed Arnhem 25th Anniversary cover inscribed "Montgomery of Alamein F.M." Fine. COA tipped on to reverse.

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Bernard L. Montgomery signed Arnhem 25th Anniversary cover inscribed Montgomery of Alamein F.M. Fine. COA tipped on to reverse.

Documents and booklets pertaining to 2209589 Sgt. C.W. Heaps, air gunner, RAF, including flight log book 1944-46,

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £82
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Documents and booklets pertaining to 2209589 Sgt. C.W. Heaps, air gunner, RAF, including flight log book 1944-46, plus later items including Lancashire County Cricket Club. Mixed condition. (Qty.)