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Auction No 420, Category: Books

88 Lots (displaying 41 - 60)

Economic & Industrial history including "Lancashire Progress & Commerce 1892", London Printing & Engraving Co., gilt cloth.,VG;

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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Economic & Industrial history including Lancashire Progress & Commerce 1892, London Printing & Engraving Co., gilt cloth., VG; several relating to Trade Unionism. Includes h/bks (17), nine in d/jkt, few pamphlets & reports. Four with ownership inscriptions, three others inscribed by the author. Betty England's Trade Union Problems with library stamps. Fair to VF (34)  

"Social History", Routledge, 2001-2008, (28 issues), together with "The Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin" (23 issues, 1976-87)

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £66
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Social History, Routledge, 2001-2008, (28 issues), together with The Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin (23 issues, 1976-87), and Social History Society Bulletin (16 issues, 1994-2002). VG/VF (67)

"The Economic History Review", Blackwell, 2000-2004 (19 issues), "Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin" (later "Labour History Review")

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £52
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The Economic History Review, Blackwell, 2000-2004 (19 issues), Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin (later Labour History Review) 1980s/90s (16 issues), The Journal of Regional and Local Studies 1980s/90s (13 issues), and a related journal. VG/VF (48)

Schmitz & Thies "Die Truppenkennzeichen der Verbande und Einheiten der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS und ihre Einsatze im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Schmitz & Thies Die Truppenkennzeichen der Verbande und Einheiten der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS und ihre Einsatze im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945, Osnabruck, 1987-1991, Vols. 1 to 3, gilt cloth, VG. (3)

Ignatius Donnelly "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World", Harper & Bros., New York, 1882, First Edition, in original gilt cloth.

Lot: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Ignatius Donnelly Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, Harper & Bros., New York, 1882, First Edition, in original gilt cloth. Some light wear to spine extremities, front endpaper partly torn away, neat gift inscription to second free endpaper dated 25th Dec.1882. Fine internally with maps & illustrations in text; x,490pp

Military History h/bks in d/jkts including Alan Harfield "British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935)", 1984; Beachey "The Warrior Mullah"

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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Military History h/bks in d/jkts including Alan Harfield British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935), 1984; Beachey The Warrior Mullah, 1990; W. Fox The War in New Zealand, 1973 reprint; and The Kaffir Wars 1779-1877, 1973. Also three pamphlets. Mainly VG/VF, no inscriptions. (15)

Gardiner "The First Frigates", 1992 and "The Heavy Frigate Vol.1, 1778-1800", 1994; Lyon & Winfield "The Sail & Steam Navy List", 2004;

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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Gardiner The First Frigates, 1992 and The Heavy Frigate Vol.1, 1778-1800, 1994; Lyon & Winfield The Sail & Steam Navy List, 2004; Parkinson War in the Eastern Seas, 1793-1815, 1954 (with ownership inscription), and related titles. All h/bk in d/jkts, mostly VF. (9)     

"The Navy List, corrected to the end of December,1821", John Murray, London [1822], later half-calf, gilt,

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £56
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The Navy List, corrected to the end of December, 1821, John Murray, London [1822], later half-calf, gilt, library bookplate and stamps of the Institution of Naval Architects, three of the stamps to the text; and other Naval history & reference including Navy Lists for 1766 (reprint), 1914, and 1939 (lacking back cover); together with John Charnock Biographica Navalis (six volume reprint) and various others. Mixed condition. (17)                 

Military reference, British Forces, WWI & WW2, including Territorials, several Orders of Battle, and POWs.

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £86
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Military reference, British Forces, WWI & WW2, including Territorials, several Orders of Battle, and POWs. Predominantly WWI but including Clutton-Brock Footprints in the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45, 2003, in d/jkt. Many are Westlake reprints; mainly fine, no inscriptions. (13)

Norman Franks & others "The Jasta War Chronology", 1998, "Bloody April….Black September", 1995, and "Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-1920";

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
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Norman Franks & others The Jasta War Chronology, 1998, Bloody April….Black September, 1995, and Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-1920; Williamson The Roll of Honour: Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force for the Great War; Air Ministry Handbook of German Military and Naval Aviation 1918, Imperial War Museum, boards bowed; and a related title. Most in d/jkts. Mainly VF (6)

German Military History WWI/WWII including Chris Bishop "Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939-45"; mainly h/bk, most in d/jkts. VG/VF, no inscriptions. (14)

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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German Military History WWI/WWII including Chris Bishop Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939-45; mainly h/bk, most in d/jkts. VG/VF, no inscriptions. (14)

George Nafziger "The German Order of Battle: Infantry in World War II", 2000, plus the companion volumes on the Waffen SS and Panzers & Artillery,

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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George Nafziger The German Order of Battle: Infantry in World War II, 2000, plus the companion volumes on the Waffen SS and Panzers & Artillery, together with related titles; one s/bk, others h/bk in d/jkts. All fine/VF, no inscriptions. (7)         

[James Caulfield] "Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association:

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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[James Caulfield] Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association: illustrated with Forty-Eight Portraits, from the Original Paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1821; tall 4to. Complete with 48 fine steel-engraved plates, clean internally; full red leather, gilt, some wear, probably re-backed, hinging weak, strengthened with leather strips; ex-library, bookplate removed, blind-stamps to the plate margins. Repairs to two preliminary leaves.

Ernest Broxap "Manchester a Hundred Years Ago", John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured);

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Ernest Broxap Manchester a Hundred Years Ago, John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured); and William Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell, [1894] illustrated byTidmarsh, 4to, 3 vols, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, grubby mark in margin to p.vii in Vol.3, rear endpaper missing from Vol.2. (4)

David Hume & Tobias Smollett "The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time", James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols,

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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David Hume & Tobias Smollett The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time, James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols, publisher's gilt & blind-tooled cloth, a.e.g., wear to spine extremities, 11 (of 12) coloured maps,3 engraved titles, and 94 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates. Browning to tissue-guards, occasionally with minor offset to plates, the plate of Queen Anne badly foxed, o/w very clean internally. (12)

The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates;

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates; publisher's gilt cloth, worn at spine extremities, browning to tissue-guards and few pages with foxing, plates VG/VF. Ownership inscription to front endpaper of one volume. (16)

Andrew Lang "Prince Charles Edward", Goupil & Co, 1900; tall 4to, No.897 of 1500, bound in gilt half-morocco over tartan-covered boards,

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Andrew Lang Prince Charles Edward, Goupil & Co, 1900; tall 4to, no.897 of 1500, bound in gilt half-morocco over tartan-covered boards, worn bookplate of Richard Banastre Crosse; few cuttings tipped on to front endpapers, fine internally with all plates, titled tissue-guards. Small faults to tartan cloth of rear board. 

J.A. Spencer "History of the United States", Johnson, Fry & Co.,[c.1868], 4 vols, half-leather gilt, complete with many steel-engraved plates

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £48
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J.A. Spencer History of the United States, Johnson, Fry & Co., New York, [c.1868], 4 vols, half-leather gilt, complete with many steel-engraved plates; leather corners rubbed & worn, fine internally.

John Keltie (Ed.) "History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments", William Mackenzie, ‘New Edition’, [c.1890], tall 8vo

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £52
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John Keltie (Ed.) History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, William Mackenzie, ‘New Edition', [c.1890], tall 8vo, 3 vols in 2; half-leather, gilt, some wear, complete with the steel engravings and coloured tartans. Front inner hinges cracked (still holding). (2)

The Holocaust, a selection including Daily Mail "Lest We Forget", Associated Newspapers [1945] in d/jkt; Marek Orski "The Last Days of Stutthof";

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £66
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The Holocaust, a selection including Daily Mail Lest We Forget, Associated Newspapers [1945] in d/jkt; Marek Orski The Last Days of Stutthof; The Warsaw Ghetto, Interpress Publishers [1989], in d/jkt; and Bartoszewski Warsaw Death Ring 1939-1944, Interpress, 1968. The d/jkt of Lest We Forget chipped with larger piece missing from lower left. (9)