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Auction No 423, Category: Local History

20 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Carton of mainly softback publications, plus some ephemera, 19th Century to 1980s, with local history & guides, Hulme "Familiar Wild Flowers"

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £66
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Carton of mainly softback publications, plus some ephemera, 19th Century to 1980s, with local history & guides, Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers Parts 2 to 9 (most with colour plates), transport, etc, plus sundry prints & engravings, photos, etc. Varied condition. (Large qty., 13 kilos)

Manchester Theatre Programmes 1920s to 1970s with many 1920s to 1940s, notably the Palace, Opera House and Prince’s, 93 in all;

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £32
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Manchester Theatre Programmes 1920s to 1970s with many 1920s to 1940s, notably the Palace, Opera House and Prince's, 93 in all; plus few books, and a folder of photos and ephemera concerning the St.Werburgh's Amateur Dramatic Society (Chorlton) in the 1950s. (Qty)

Rene Bull "Black and White War Albums" Nos.1 to 4, first two issues covering the War in Sudan, bound with views of the UK and elsewhere;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Rene Bull Black and White War Albums Nos.1 to 4, first two issues covering the War in Sudan, bound with views of the UK and elsewhere; Views of Ancient and Modern Liverpool, Liverpool Post, 1907, bound volume and 10 loose issues (covers in mixed condition); and a view album of Notts & Lincolnshire with very worn cover.

Manchester & Salford social, cultural and economic history, b/k & s/bk, including illustrated works and reprints of antiquarian titles.

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Manchester & Salford social, cultural and economic history, b/k & s/bk, including illustrated works and reprints of antiquarian titles. One ex-library. Mainly VG/VF (33)

Manchester & Salford history, especially transport and education;

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £60
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Manchester & Salford history, especially transport and education; others include Anglers' Evenings: Papers by Members of the Manchester Anglers' Association, Third Series, 1894, orig. cloth. Many are softbacks. Good to VF. (74)  

Manchester history including medicine, architecture & the arts, 1870s to modern, h/bk and s/bk, mainly good to fine.

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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Manchester history including medicine, architecture & the arts, 1870s to modern, h/bk and s/bk, mainly good to fine. Includes some pamphlets including 1950s medical reports (ex-library). (48)

Manchester related biography & autobiography with diaries & journals; some scarcer titles including "Henry Theodore Gaddum", 1973;

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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Manchester related biography & autobiography with diaries & journals; some scarcer titles including Henry Theodore Gaddum, 1973; Absalom Watkin: Extracts from his Journal 1814-1856, London, 1920; W.E.A. Axon Cobden as a Citizen, 1907, presentation inscription from Richard Cobden-Sanderson; and Hodgkins The Diary of Edward Watkin, 2013, in d/jkt. Mainly VG to VF. (30)

P.J. Hartog "The Owens College, Manchester: A Brief History", J.E. Cornish, 1900, quarto, gilt cloth,

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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P.J. Hartog The Owens College, Manchester: A Brief History, J.E. Cornish, 1900, quarto, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, bookplate of Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse; and related works, together with early 20th Century reports on Manchester Technical Education, the Manchester Babies' Hospital, and Manchester Museum. Varied condition, a few ex-library. (29)

"The Manchester Genealogist" 2007 to 2022, 43 issues; "Journal of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society", 9 issues 1970s/90s;

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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The Manchester Genealogist 2007 to 2022, 43 issues; Journal of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 9 issues 1970s/90s; The Manchester Review, 10 issues, mainly 1930s; and four other journals.

"Annual Report of the Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges and Homes, and Children’s Aid Society" for 1907, 1908 and 1909;

Lot: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Annual Report of the Manchester and Salford Boys' and Girls' Refuges and Homes, and Children's Aid Society for 1907, 1908 and 1909; complete in a cloth-bound volume, original printed wraps bound in, many photographic plates; backstrip of the binding near detached. Scarce

Vellum Indentures 1803-1891 concerning lands and properties in Gorton and Ardwick, Manchester, together with a related Will of 1875,

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Vellum Indentures 1803-1891 concerning lands and properties in Gorton and Ardwick, Manchester, together with a related Will of 1875, 18 items in all; together with later related documents extending to 1932. The Will soiled & stained o/w VG condition. (Qty)

Legal Documents (8) on vellum and paper, Lancs & Cheshire related, including 1853 & 1871 Assignments relating to land at Barlow’s Croft, Salford;

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Legal Documents (8) on vellum and paper, Lancs & Cheshire related, including 1853 & 1871 Assignments relating to land at Barlow's Croft, Salford; 1882 Conveyance concerning an Estate & Premises at Brook Meadow, Elton, nr. Bury; 1797 Lease of houses in Cheadle Hulme; 1929 Lease of land at Nether Alderley; and a 1915 Abstract of Title on 24 large sheets relating to Lady Francis Cecil & her Settlement Trustees and lands at Cheadle Bulkeley. VG condition; together with vendor's detailed descriptive notes.

Manchester Grammar School related books (4), prospectus (2), and magazines, mostly 1960s/1980s. VG condition. (22)

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
UNSOLD
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Manchester Grammar School related books (4), prospectus (2), and magazines, mostly 1960s/1980s. VG condition. (22)

"Kelly’s Directory of Manchester, Salford and Stretford" for 1951 and 1957; the 1951 edition in poor condition but text intact;

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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Kelly's Directory of Manchester, Salford and Stretford for 1951 and 1957; the 1951 edition in poor condition but text intact; together with Edward Baines History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1824-25, 2 vols, rebound, lacking maps o/w VG. (5)           

Arthur Redford "The History of Local Government in Manchester", 1939-1940, 3 vols, each with a library cancel to front endpaper o/w VG;

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Arthur Redford The History of Local Government in Manchester, 1939-1940, 3 vols, each with a library cancel to front endpaper o/w VG; and a selection of other Manchester history titles from 19th Century to modern. Good to fine. (10)

Scholfield "Batsford’s Manchester Then and Now", 2009, in d/jkt; Calvert "A History of the Manchester Post Office 1625-1900";

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Scholfield Batsford's Manchester Then and Now, 2009, in d/jkt; Calvert  A History of the Manchester Post Office 1625-1900; Bracegirdle The Microscopic Photographs of J.B. Dancer, 1993, in slipcase; and other Manchester history & nostalgia. Mostly VG/VF (40)  

Cheshire local history, mainly Altrincham & Bowdon area, but including Mortimer "The History of the Hundred of Wirral", in d/jkt

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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Cheshire local history, mainly Altrincham & Bowdon area, but including Mortimer The History of the Hundred of Wirral, in d/jkt (Morten reprint); mostly modern titles, chiefly softbacks, VG/VF. Includes few pamphlets. (29) 

James Cocks "Memorials of Hatherlow and of the Old Chadkirk Chapel", Stockport, 1895, orig. gilt cloth, large-paper edition, uncut at foot;

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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James Cocks Memorials of Hatherlow and of the Old Chadkirk Chapel, Stockport, 1895, orig. gilt cloth, large-paper edition, uncut at foot; and other Stockport area titles including A History of Mobberley Village, John Sherratt, 1973, in d/jkt; works on Cheadle Hulme School (2), etc. VG/VF (12)

Manchester & area local history titles, all softbacks, mostly 1970s to modern, mainly good to VF (56)

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £34
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Manchester & area local history titles, all softbacks, mostly 1970s to modern, mainly good to VF (56) 

"Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1888", nine subsequent volumes to 1932, and five more recent;

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1888, nine subsequent volumes to 1932, and five more recent; Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, 1889; plus few other bound journals and monographs including a history of Wythenshawe. (23)