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Auction No 350, Category: History

11 Lots (displaying 1 - 11)

"Chairman Mao Memorial Hall" China Building Industry Publishing House, 1978, First Edition

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £400 - £600
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Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, China Building Industry Publishing House, March 1978, First Edition, original decorated boards, complete with English language publisher's band and 12-page English language supplement loosely inserted; VG condition in fine original acetate dustjacket. 107pp

"The Designs and Correspondences of the present Committee of Estates and That part of the Scotish Nation which is now entred into this Kingdom"

Lot: 100

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £52
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The Designs and Correspondences of the present Committee of Estates and That part of the Scotish Nation which is now entred into this Kingdom in Hostility, In some measure discovered by two Packets of Letters intercepted in the North, and sent up to the House of Commons. Edward Husband, London, 1648, octavo, later half leather, spine very worn; title page with some stains otherwise clean text, uncut two sides. 20pp

William Arthur Shaw "Manchester Old and New" Cassell & Co., 1894

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £38
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William Arthur Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell & Co., 1894, tall quarto, three volume set, gilt cloth; numerous illustrations by H.E. Tidmarsh

Edward Fairholme & Wellesley Pain "A Century of Work for Animals: The History of the R.S.P.C.A., 1824-1924"

Lot: 106

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Edward Fairholme & Wellesley Pain A Century of Work for Animals: The History of the R.S.P.C.A., 1824-1924, John Murray, 1924, 1st Edition, original printed cloth, VG; some pages affected by foxing. 298pp + 8pp of photo-plates

T. Swindells "Chapters in the History of Eccles" James Wilkinson 1914; and others

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £20
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T. Swindells Chapters in the History of Eccles, James Wilkinson, 1914, original gilt cloth, some wrinkling to boards, 92pp; and Manchester Streets and Manchester Men, 5 volume set, the Morten reprint, VG; ownership stamps to front endpapers

Doris Garland Anderson "Nigger Lover" L.N. Fowler [1938], VG

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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Doris Garland Anderson Nigger Lover, L.N. Fowler [1938], original printed cloth, slightly rubbed otherwise VG; no internal inscriptions. Few fox marks to edge of text block.

"The Franco-British Exhibition Illustrated Review 1908" Chatto & Windus

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £42
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The Franco-British Exhibition Illustrated Review 1908 Chatto & Windus, tall quarto, gilt cloth, very worn, with pictorial onlay; the interior is fine with pictorial card wraps & adverts intact; numerous b/w illustrations. Front board bowed.

Julian Trevelyan "Indigo Days" Macgibbon & Kee, 1957, First Edition

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Julian Trevelyan Indigo Days, Macgibbon & Kee, 1957, First Edition, in a very good complete dustjacket which shows slight wear at the corners; neat ownership signature front endpaper; minor spotting to prelims and edge of textblock otherwise very good internally. B/w frontispiece, and 12pp of Plates.

"Le Panorama. Exposition universelle de 1900. Beaux Arts Musees Retrospectifs"

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £62
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Le Panorama. Exposition universelle de 1900. Beaux Arts Musees Retrospectifs. L. Baschet, Paris, 1900, oblong large format pictorial boards, some wear; 100s of half-tone illustrations. 82pp. First few pages with slight staining to upper margin. 

Arbeitsbuch of 1935 issued to Richard Schiebel, woodworker of Krems, born 1895

Lot: 218

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Arbeitsbuch of 1935 issued to Richard Schiebel, woodworker of Krems, born 1895, together with a delightful hand-carved spring-action bell-ringing toy bear which he made for his daughter.

Ross-on-Wye Post Office copy letter book 1904-1932

Lot: 308

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
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Ross-on-Wye Post Office copy letter book 1904-1932, comprising a manuscript record of correspondence received by the Ross-on-Wye postmaster from the Surveyor of the GPO and other officilas. The entries from 1904 to 1920 are comprehensive but increasingly sketchy and summarised thereafter. The early period provides a fascinating insight into the day to day workings of the postal service in Herefordshire and the management of post office staff. Foolscap, 140pp, plus diary entries thereafter, bound in original boards with OHMS label on front.