Lot: 5
Earl of Rochester Poems on Several Occasions with Valentinian; a Tragedy. To which is added Advice to a Painter, London, 1710; worn half-leather, boards detached, lacking backstrip; first eight leaves foxed; shaved at top edge, affecting some page numbers; together with The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell Tonson, 1710, in old leather binding, front board detached. (2)
Lot: 8
Old Album of 19th Century Autographs, mostly cut signatures laid down, plus 29 complete letters; Peers & Celebrities including Hall Caine (ALS), Robert Peel, 15th Earl of Derby, Joseph Hulme (ALS), Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery, Earl Grey (1898 ALS), Joseph Chamberlian (2), Earl Shaftesbury (1846 note), G. Linnaeus Banks, Edward Stanhope, Annie Swan, Marie Corelli, Joseph Hocking (ALS), Alfred Lord Tennyson, Seymour Hicks, and various others. Some pages removed. (149)
Lot: 9
Old Album of 19th & early-20th Century Autographs, mostly cut signatures plus few complete letters, including Lord Robers V.C. (ALS), Dan Leno, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, J. Forbes-Robertson, Judge Lumley Smith, Herbert Asquith, King George III, Wilhelm Steinitz (Chess Champion), and others. Neatly mounted in slit corners, marginal annotations in pencil. (55)
Lot: 20
La Commedia di Dante Allighieri illustrata da Ugo Foscolo, Pietro Rolandi, London, 1842-45, four vols (in two), full calf, gilt, boards detached, title labels chipped, marble edges and endpapers; fine internally, good clean text. (2)
Lot: 22
Henry Nutter Local Rhymes, B. Moore, Burnley, 1890, signed and inscribed by the author; limp cloth (bowed) with gilt title; staples rusted o/w good. 160pp + index
Lot: 30
Fashion Plates of French origin, mid-19th Century, large format, hand-coloured. Overall 36 x 29cm (9)
Lot: 32
Pugin Examples of Gothic Architecture selected from various Ancient Edifices in England, 1895, Vol.3 only, gilt cloth, complete with the many fine plates; and various others on Church architecture. (14)
Lot: 50
Sussex related 19th Century documents and ephemera, several concerning The Mid Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway including a Petition against its enactment with 21 named petitioners, plus engraved billheads, London Brighton and South Coast Railway items, etc. VG condition. (25 items)
Lot: 51
James Browne A History of the Highlands and of The Highland Clans, A. Fullarton, Glasgow, 1838, four vols, worn half-leather by John Condie of Paisley, complete with the engraved plates, folding map badly torn and incomplete; good clean text, some minor spotting to plates.
Lot: 52
[Daniel King] The Vale-Royal of England, or, The County Palatine of Chester Illustrated, Daniel King, Chester 1656, bound with James Chaloner A Short Treatise of The Isle of Man, Daniel King, 1656; later full panelled calf, gilt title, raised bands; complete with 20 plates (three in text) and three folding maps. Occasional minor contemp. annotations o/w fine. Tall octavo (28 x 18.5cm).
Lot: 53
F.O. Morris A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, [1880], six vols., bound in leather-covered bevel-edged boards, elaborate gilt decoration, rubbed at extremities, complete with 240 fine coloured tissue-guarded plates; foxing to endpapers, occasional minor spotting elsewhere, the plates largely unaffected. (6)
Lot: 57
Miller Hoghton Tower, Preston, 1948, signed picture of the author loosely inserted; Fielding The Rambler 1905-06, bound volume of this journal; Eaton A History of Samlesbury Blackburn 1936; Priestley Mills of the Ryburn Valley 1933, author signed; Newbigging History of the Forest of Rossendale 1868, spine damaged; and others including pamphlets; together with an 1860s Map of Lancashire by J. Archer. (18 items)
Lot: 58
Plan of the Proposed Turnpike Road from New Hey in the County Palatine of Lancaster to Huddersfield in the County of York, 1805, 15.5 x 19.5”, plus border; and Plan of an Intended Road from Hollinwood to Featherstall, both in the County Palatine of Lancaster 1804, 11.5 x 17.5”, plus border. Folds, few small splits requiring repair. (2)
Lot: 59
Archive of Documents and Correspondence 17th Century to 1830s relating to the Entwistle family of ‘Foxholes Estate' Rochdale and Ormskirk, including vellum Indentures of 1686 (2), Articles of Agreement 1686 (2), 1695 appointment of Edmund Entwistle as Archdeacon of Chester with Seal of the Bishop of Chester, all in good condition; later correspondence etc in mixed condition. (26 items)
Lot: 60
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with notes by Milman, Guizot and William Smith, John Murray 1881, eight volumes, fine rebind in gilt green cloth, complete with engraved portrait and Maps; small damp-stain to foot of portrait, folding maps at rear of Vol.1 strengthened with archival tape. Top right corner of title page to Vol.1 torn away, part of front folding map to Vol.8 missing, good clean set.
Lot: 61
William Anderson The Scottish Nation; or, the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Fullarton, 1860-63, three vols, tall octavo, worn half-leather, gilt; a genealogical table from Vol.3 missing o/w plates and tables complete. Damp staining to plates in Vol.1; foxing to tissue-guards. (3)
Lot: 65
Political autographs, largely 1790s to 1840s, and mostly ‘Free' fronts laid down in a makeshift album plus few letters; including Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston (ALS), E.L. Bulwer, William Cobbett, Joseph Hulme, Lord Holland (William Pitt), Earl of Derby, etc, some with nice postal markings. Also few engravings. (around 80 autographs).