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Auction No 406, Category: Antiquarian

17 Lots (displaying 1 - 17)

Joseph Gillow "A Literary and Biographical History or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Joseph Gillow A Literary and Biographical History or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534 to the Present Time, Burns & Oates,[1885], 5 volume set, vols.2 to 4 in original faded cloth, vol.1 rebound; clean internally, no inscriptions. Unopened. (5)

Antiquarian selection, 18th & 19th Cent. including Jeremy Collier (trans.) "The Emperor Marcus Antoninus, his Conversation with himself", 1708,

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Antiquarian selection, 18th & 19th Cent. including Jeremy Collier (trans.) The Emperor Marcus Antoninus, his Conversation with himself, 1708, 2nd Edn; [Joseph  Battell] The Yankee Boy from Home, 1864; tracts by Daniel Defoe (2, c.1704); and 17 others. Fourteen are in leather including several prayer books & bibles in attractive blind-tooled bindings. Fair to fine. (21)

Antiquarian selection in gilt leather bindings comprising H.M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent", Newnes,1899, 2 vols, folding map;

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Antiquarian selection in gilt leather bindings comprising H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent, Newnes, 1899, 2 vols, folding map; Heweston History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Kelly, 1835, 3 vols, browning to plate margins; Nansen Farthest North, Newnes 1898, 2 vols, map torn; and Paul du Challiu The Land of the Midnight Sun, Newnes, 1899; bindings rubbed o/w good. Also Elegant Extracts or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, 1801, and 2 similar, in poor to fair bindings. (11) 

Mark Twain "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and other New Stories", Chatto & Windus, 1893, ink signed on the title page "S.L. Clemens. Mark Twain";

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £600 - £800
SOLD £740
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Mark Twain The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and other New Stories, Chatto & Windus, 1893, ink signed on the title page S.L. Clemens. Mark Twain; original gilt cloth, spine rolled, bumped corners; numbered annotation at foot of title page o/w free of other inscriptions with good clean text and endpapers. Advertising leaf as second front endpaper and 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear. An excellent example of Clemens' autograph together with his pseudonym.

Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol", Chapman & Hall, 1844, 7th Edition, small octavo (158 x 98mm), in a fine 19th Century full calf binding

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
SOLD £360
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall, 1844, 7th Edition, small octavo (158 x 98mm), in a fine 19th Century full calf binding with raised bands, gilt decoration and ruling, marbled edges and endpapers; complete with half-title, four hand-coloured plates by John Leech & four other engravings in the text, and 2pp of advertisements at rear; old tape repair to reverse of frontispiece; fine internally aside from a few minor tone spots. 

Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra (trans. Charles Jarvis) "Don Quixote De la Mancha", Joseph Thomas, 1840, 3 vols, orig. worn cloth, gilt,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra (trans. Charles Jarvis) Don Quixote De la Mancha, Joseph Thomas, 1840, 3 vols, orig. worn cloth, gilt, some damage to backstrips, armorial bookplates of William Henry White; with 800 illustrations after Tony Johannot, each volume with tissue-guarded frontispiece; occasional tone mark but largely clean internally 

John Rotheram "An Essay on Establishments in Religion with Remarks on the Confessional", White & Saint, 1767, bound with four other 1767 tracts

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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John Rotheram An Essay on Establishments in Religion with Remarks on the Confessional, White & Saint, 1767, bound with four other 1767 tracts comprising James Ibbetson A Plea for the Subscription of the Clergy to the Thirty-Nine Articles, Benjamin Page Five Letters on Several Subjects, Nathaniel Forster A Sermon Preached at the Visitation of the Rev.Dr.Moss, and Thomas Weare A Sermon Preached before the University of Oxford; contemp. worn calf, front board detached. Together with Elizabeth Helme Plutarch's Lives Abridged, 1794, half-leather, worn, gilt title label. Both volumes with good clean text. (2)    

"The Library Shakespeare illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank and R. Dudley", William Mackenzie, 1870, quarto, 3 vols,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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The Library Shakespeare illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank and R. Dudley, William Mackenzie, 1870, quarto, 3 vols, green half-leather, worn, marbled edges & endpapers; illustrated throughout including many coloured plates. Some occasional minor spotting o/w VG internally. (3)

William Baron "Bill O’ Jack’s Lancashire Monthly", 1909-1911, issues 1 to 32 complete in three gilt cloth volumes,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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William Baron Bill O' Jack's Lancashire Monthly, 1909-1911, issues 1 to 32 complete in three gilt cloth volumes, lacking orig. printed wraps, darkening to text; together with Baron's Cuckoo Fowt Chronicles, J.D. Howarth, Rochdale, 1906, orig. printed cloth, VG.

Henry Fishwick "The History of The Parish of Rochdale", James Clegg and Elliot Stock, 1889, tastefully rebound in quarter-morocco, gilt,

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £70
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Henry Fishwick The History of The Parish of Rochdale, James Clegg and Elliot Stock, 1889, tastefully rebound in quarter-morocco, gilt, over buckram covered boards; fine internally with all plates, pedigrees and illustrations in text; (8),588pp 

George Catlin "Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians", 1892 reprint of the 1841 edition;

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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George Catlin Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, 1892 reprint of the 1841 edition; two volumes, original gilt cloth, complete with the many plates, the folding map in facsimile. Wear to lower edge of front board of Vol.I, o/w VG. (2)

Naval theme engravings, large format, 18th & 19th Century, plus some later prints, a watercolour etc; with portraits of famous seamen,

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £140 - £170
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Naval theme engravings, large format, 18th & 19th Century, plus some later prints, a watercolour etc; with portraits of famous seamen, few naval engagements, plus some 1950s passenger ships and other merchant vessels. Contained in large art portfolio. Good to VF (50)

Naval engravings, 18th & 19th Century, mostly famous seamen but also naval engagements (13) and few others.

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Naval engravings, 18th & 19th Century, mostly famous seamen but also naval engagements (13) and few others. Also late-19th Century lithograph of the S.S. City of Rome. Various sizes. Varied condition. (48)

William King "A Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England", Palaeontographical Society, 1850; 19th Century half-morocco, gilt;

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £70
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William King A Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England, Palaeontographical Society, 1850; 19th Century half-morocco, gilt; ex-library with labels to endpapers and blind-stamps, the latter applied to each of the 29 o/w fine lithographic plates. Usual offset from plates o/w good clean text, a few leaves with a tear to the upper margin. Free from foxing or inscriptions.

Thomas Dugdale "England & Wales Delineated: Historical, Entertaining & Commercial", John Tallis [1860], Vol.2 (of 2),

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Thomas Dugdale England & Wales Delineated: Historical, Entertaining & Commercial, John Tallis [1860], Vol.2 (of 2), half-leather, gilt, VG, complete with 106 engraved plates plus engraved frontispiece & title page. Some plates with spotting, mainly to margins, but generally clean internally; pp.815-1586.

"The Isle of Wight in a Series of Views printed in Oil Colours", Thomas Nelson & Sons [1875]; landscape octavo, gilt cloth, worn & marked,

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £10
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The Isle of Wight in a Series of Views printed in Oil Colours, Thomas Nelson & Sons [1875]; landscape octavo, gilt cloth, worn & marked, with pictorial onlay; 27 fine coloured plates + preface.

"The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone", Adam & Co, [1880], quarto, half-leather with some wear, gilt title, 18 tinted lithographs;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £18
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The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, Adam & Co, [1880], quarto, half-leather with some wear, gilt title, 18 tinted lithographs; frontispiece loose, some browning mainly affecting text margins.