Auction No 421, Category: Books
106 Lots (displaying 61 - 80)
William Mills "The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921", 1922, orig. leather-covered boards, worn at extremities o/w fine;
William Mills "The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921", 1922, orig. leather-covered boards, worn at extremities o/w fine;
Lot 74
Lot: 74
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
MORE DETAILSWilliam 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)
"Manchester Region History Review" 1990-1992 (6 issues); Manchester & Salford history publications by Neil Richardson (13),
"Manchester Region History Review" 1990-1992 (6 issues); Manchester & Salford history publications by Neil Richardson (13),
Lot 76
Lot: 76
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £46
MORE DETAILSManchester 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
Manchester Ship Canal (and Trafford Park), mostly modern s/bks but including 1950s Harbour Master’s list of names of employees
Lot 77
Lot: 77
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
MORE DETAILSManchester 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,
"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
Lot: 78
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILSH.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.
William Pitt "A Topographical History of Staffordshire; including the Agriculture, Mines and Manufactures". J. Smith and others, 1817;
William Pitt "A Topographical History of Staffordshire; including the Agriculture, Mines and Manufactures". J. Smith and others, 1817;
Lot 81
Lot: 81
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILSWilliam Pitt A Topographical History of Staffordshire; including the Agriculture, Mines and Manufactures. J. Smith and others, 1817; fine modern rebind in faux leather, gilt; title page foxed, pp.33/34 repaired and darkened, a further tear to pp.39/40 requiring attention, final leaf of index foxed with a piece missing; some ink marks to pp.27/30; lacking map. Generally good clean text; xxvi,319,(14)pp.
Cromlechs, Dolmen, Long Barrows and other ancient stone monuments, a collection of good 1930s photographs in three albums,
Cromlechs, Dolmen, Long Barrows and other ancient stone monuments, a collection of good 1930s photographs in three albums,
Lot 82
Lot: 82
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £52
MORE DETAILSCromlechs, Dolmen, Long Barrows and other ancient stone monuments, a collection of good 1930s photographs in three albums, neatly annotated throughout, especially Wales and West of England, some Kent, Guernsey and elsewhere. (177)
Frederick Lloyd "An Accurate and Impartial Life of the Late Lord Viscount Nelson, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Bath
Frederick Lloyd "An Accurate and Impartial Life of the Late Lord Viscount Nelson, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Bath
Lot 83
Lot: 83
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £250 - £350
SOLD £180
MORE DETAILSFrederick Lloyd An Accurate and Impartial Life of the Late Lord Viscount Nelson, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Bath …Comprehending authentic and circumstantial details of his Glorious Achievements: together with Private Anecdotes, and Various Interesting Particulars, never before published. J. Fowler, Ormskirk, 1806, First Edition. Bound in original sheepskin covered boards with gilt title label; professionally repaired at head & foot of the backstrip, the hinges strengthened; front pastedown with bookplate of the Literary Institute, Arkingarthdale; 19th Century ownership signature to first endpaper of George Harker, Bolton. Occasional finger marks and toning but generally clean internally, the text and endpapers intact. Several page corners are creased, one leaf (pp.77/8) with a corner torn away (not affecting text) and two other leaves roughly cut at fore-edge. Of the original 11 plates, 9 are present including frontispiece; most plates show browning and the folding plates have splits to the folds, now strengthened with archival tape. The final plate and last few leaves show damp-staining to upper right corner. The two missing plates are the portraits of Lord Hood and the Earl of St.Vincent.
An unpublished WW2 Journal in five hardback exercise books, written by Jessica Eliot of 45 Codrington Hill, Forest Hill, London,
An unpublished WW2 Journal in five hardback exercise books, written by Jessica Eliot of 45 Codrington Hill, Forest Hill, London,
Lot 84
Lot: 84
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £250 - £350
SOLD £270
MORE DETAILSAn unpublished WW2 Journal in five hardback exercise books, written by Jessica Eliot of 45 Codrington Hill, Forest Hill, London, with detailed description of daily life, the many air-raids, comment on the progress of the war, Flying Bombs, V2 Rockets etc. Witten in a clear hand, partly in pencil, partly in ink. Condition is very good. Examples of the entries are: 1940. Fri.29 Nov. Planes droning at 11.50. Sirens wailed at 11.55, and at 12.45 heard a loud crash, then Sirens to 1.10p.m.; at 6.20 guns began almost simultaneously with the Sirens. Left papers in the house, & in lull went in to get them. Soon the guns were appalling, shells tore through the air with great ferocity, like red hot iron hissing through steam, as well as the rattling noise of the machine guns. Every few minutes they come, & fresh outpourings of fire, by far the loudest we have had. On looking out of a creek of the door, we can see the flames to the Eastward, & parachute stars & concentration of searchlights. Next morning we heard one bomb had fallen in Sunderland Rd, & much damage in Stepney", and "1944. Oct. 31st. 6.10p.m. Heavy explosion, which must have been distant, as we did not hear reverberations. I stamped on the floor, for want of something else to do. 6.35p.m. Another – seems in docks direction again. 9.10 p.m. loud double explosion. Seven Flying Bombs today. 11.35 p.m. distant explosion. Wed,1st Nov. 2.15a.m. double explosion, nearer. 5.10 a.m. not a 'demon' but a DREADFUL demon – sounded about as loud as the New Cross bomb. Sprang up, & ran to the door, but could not see anything. Heard during the morning that several fell at & around Charlton (beyond Woolwich) during the night, & that the dreadful one was at Friern Road, Dulwich (5.10a.m.) & the 6 people were killed (not far from Peckham Rye). It is said that the Heinkels have been so destroyed by day, they have now been obliged to fly by night. 6.30 p.m. more horrible explosion than ever. Shook me well up. Smoke drifting over the Brockley Jack, & over the Jargonelle pear tree & house. Poor South London again. Probably a rocket.". Many newscuttings are loosely inserted between the pages together with some notes made by the author and a few letters from relatives.
[Abolition of the Death Penalty] William Sandford Phillips "Considerations on the Increase and Progress of Crime, accompanied by documentary evidence
[Abolition of the Death Penalty] William Sandford Phillips "Considerations on the Increase and Progress of Crime, accompanied by documentary evidence
Lot 85
Lot: 85
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
MORE DETAILS[Abolition of the Death Penalty] William Sandford Phillips Considerations on the Increase and Progress of Crime, accompanied by documentary evidence as to the propriety and necessity of a revision and amendments of the existing penal statutes. With a View to the Abolition of corporeal punishments; and more particularly The Awful Penalty of Death. Liverpool, 1839. Octavo. Fine 20th Century rebind in gilt quarter-calf, marbled boards; viii, 83pp, lacking prelimary pages v & vi otherwise fine internally.
History of the Iraqi Armed Forces 1921-1981 [title in Arabic], Baghdad, 1981, ink-signed by Saddam Hussein at the foot of two frontispiece photos.
History of the Iraqi Armed Forces 1921-1981 [title in Arabic], Baghdad, 1981, ink-signed by Saddam Hussein at the foot of two frontispiece photos.
Lot 87
Lot: 87
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £300 - £350
SOLD £180
MORE DETAILSHistory of the Iraqi Armed Forces 1921-1981 [title in Arabic], Baghdad, 1981, ink-signed by Saddam Hussein at the foot of two frontispiece photos. Large format, cloth bound, in d/jacket. Illustrated throughout. Text in Arabic. The jacket is slightly chipped at spine extremities; ownership stamp bleached out on front endpaper o/w fine. 174pp. [Provenance: presented by the Iraqi Embassy in Belgrade to a Government Official of the former Yugoslavia].
Ignatius Donnelly "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World", Harper & Bros., New York, 1882, First Edition, in original gilt cloth.
Ignatius Donnelly "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World", Harper & Bros., New York, 1882, First Edition, in original gilt cloth.
Lot 88
Lot: 88
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
MORE DETAILSIgnatius 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
[James Caulfield] "Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association
[James Caulfield] "Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association
Lot 89
Lot: 89
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
MORE DETAILS[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);
Ernest Broxap "Manchester a Hundred Years Ago", John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured);
Lot 90
Lot: 90
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £42
MORE DETAILSErnest 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,
David Hume & Tobias Smollett "The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time", James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols,
Lot 91
Lot: 91
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILSDavid 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;
"The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography", William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates;
Lot 92
Lot: 92
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £20 - £40
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILSThe 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,
Andrew Lang "Prince Charles Edward", Goupil & Co, 1900; tall 4to, no.897 of 1500, bound in gilt half-morocco over tartan-covered boards,
Lot 93
Lot: 93
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
MORE DETAILSAndrew 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.
Della Grace "Love Bites", 1991; "Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs", 1991; "Nothing But The Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image", 1996;
Della Grace "Love Bites", 1991; "Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs", 1991; "Nothing But The Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image", 1996;
Lot 94
Lot: 94
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £44
MORE DETAILSDella Grace Love Bites, 1991; Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs, 1991; Nothing But The Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, 1996; Elmer Batters Legs that Dance to Elmer's Tune, 1997, large format h/bk; and Martin Schreiber Madonna Nudes 1979, Taschen, 1992. All first printings, no inscriptions, all bar one s/bks. VG/VF (5)
"Le Décor de Votre Reve est dans Cette Collection", c.1925, landscape quarto, printed wraps with some creasing also affecting title page;
"Le Décor de Votre Reve est dans Cette Collection", c.1925, landscape quarto, printed wraps with some creasing also affecting title page;
Lot 95
Lot: 95
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
MORE DETAILSLe Décor de Votre Reve est dans Cette Collection, c.1925, landscape quarto, printed wraps with some creasing also affecting title page; 12 full-page colour plates of art-deco interiors, initialled ‘CR' in the design.
Signed souvenir programmes, large-format, including signatures of Mick Jagger, Julio Inglesias, Cilla Black, & Barry Manilow;
Signed souvenir programmes, large-format, including signatures of Mick Jagger, Julio Inglesias, Cilla Black, & Barry Manilow;
Lot 101
Lot: 101
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
MORE DETAILSSigned souvenir programmes, large-format, including signatures of Mick Jagger, Julio Inglesias, Cilla Black, & Barry Manilow; the Rolling Stones programme with damp-staining lower right and creasing. (7)
Alan Sugden and John Edmondson "A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914", Batsford [1926], 1st Edition; tall quarto, bound in blue cloth, gilt;
Alan Sugden and John Edmondson "A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914", Batsford [1926], 1st Edition; tall quarto, bound in blue cloth, gilt;
Lot 108
Lot: 108
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £76
MORE DETAILSAlan Sugden and John Edmondson A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914, Batsford [1926], 1st Edition; tall quarto, bound in blue cloth, gilt; uncut two sides;70 tipped-in colour plates and 190 half-tone illustrations. In the fine original dustjacket. Appears unread. The book is housed in its original presentation box which is very worn.