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Auction No 388, Category: History

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

Various including "Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain", c.1884; "Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande",

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £28
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Various including Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, c.1884; Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Oxford, [1937], in d/jkt; Ian McEwan The Cement Garden, Simon & Schuster, 1978, 1st Edn in d/jkt; T.H. James Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.21: Three Reflections, printed on rice paper, rear cover torn; and various others. (22)                 

Lytton Strachey "Elizabeth and Essex", Crosby Gaige, New York, 1928, paper-covered boards, cloth backstrip, gilt, VG; b/w frontispiece

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Lytton Strachey Elizabeth and Essex, Crosby Gaige, New York, 1928, paper-covered boards, cloth backstrip, gilt, VG; b/w frontispiece and five other plates; signed by the author opposite half-title; number 795 of 1060.

Catherine Lucy Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland "In Memory of Colonel the Honourable Everard Henry Primrose", London c.1887,

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Catherine Lucy Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland In Memory of Colonel the Honourable Everard Henry Primrose, London c.1887, half-morocco, gilt, wear to extremities; front inner hinge weak; photographic frontispiece; signed and inscribed by the author to the Viscount Halifax. Fine clean text. 254pp

George Psalmanaazaar "An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan",

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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George Psalmanaazaar An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan, Robert Holden, 1926, quarto, quarter-vellum gilt, VG; uncut two-sides, t.e.g., b/w plates, fine internally. 288pp       

Charles Royle "Opened Doors: The Autobiography of Charles Royle, Ex-Mayor and Ex-M.P. for Stockport", Meat Trades’ Journal, 1949;

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Charles Royle Opened Doors: The Autobiography of Charles Royle, Ex-Mayor and Ex-M.P. for Stockport, Meat Trades’ Journal, 1949; in slightly worn & spotted dustjacket; signed by the author. Fine internally. 112pp plus plates. 

Robert Dent "Old and New Birmingham", 1880; and 1860s/1870s Birmingham related Acts of Parliament in 5 bound volumes;

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Robert Dent Old and New Birmingham, 1880; and 1860s/1870s Birmingham related Acts of Parliament in 5 bound volumes; one volume very worn, Dent’s history repaired. (6)

Innes & Castle "Covenants with Death", Daily Express, 1934, original printed cloth, worn corners, illustrated throughout.

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
UNSOLD
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Innes & Castle Covenants with Death, Daily Express, 1934, original printed cloth, worn corners, illustrated throughout.

James Greenwood "Unsentimental Journeys: or, Byways of the Modern Babylon", London, 1867, gilt cloth, spine faded;

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £64
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James Greenwood Unsentimental Journeys: or, Byways of the Modern Babylon, London, 1867, gilt cloth, spine faded; and Henry Mayhew London Characters, London, 1874, pictorial cloth, VG. B/w plates. (2)

Biographical works including Ernest Boulton "George Jeffreys: A Ministry of the Miraculous", 1928; MacDiarmid "Scottish Eccentrics", 1936;

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £80
UNSOLD
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Biographical works including Ernest Boulton George Jeffreys: A Ministry of the Miraculous, 1928; MacDiarmid Scottish Eccentrics, 1936; J.L. Paton John Brown Paton, 1914; Sherlock Ann Jane Carlile: A Temperance Pioneer, 1897; and Sketches of Distinguished American Authors, Represented in Darley’s New National Picture entitled Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside, 1863, original printed wraps marked, in fine leather bound folder, gilt. Good to VG. (8)