Lot: 21
Mixed autographs including Gary Cooper signed photo; Robert Baden Powell 1906 ALS; Admiral John Jellicoe 1910 ALS; Matthew Arnold ALS; a visitors book with over 100 signatures including Vera Brittain and Val Gielgud; and few other items. VG condition.
Lot: 22
Autographs in six small albums including Maurice Chevalier, Robert Beatty, John Mills, Harry Andrews, Billie Jo Spears, Tony Cottee, Trevor Brooking, Dirk Bogarde, Wendy Hiller and other well-known, plus friends / family. 1940s/80s. (few 100)
Lot: 23
Autographed Photos in folder, mainly 10 x 8”, including Michael Jackson (with I.A.A. certificate), Jenny Seagrove, Nigel Davenport, John Nettles, Julian Glover, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and various others. (39 items)
Lot: 24
Signed photographs and few pages, all framed & glazed, including Darren Clarke, Ellen Terry (plus ALS), Liza Minnelli (with C. of A.), Sam Torrance, Constance Bennett (signed page), and other entertainers and golfers. Various sizes. BUYER TO COLLECT. (10)
Lot: 25
Autographs in carton with signed photos, pages and letters, mostly drawn from the world of entertainment and sport. Wide variety including TV & film, cricketers, ballet, politicians etc. Also some unsigned magazines. (Some 100s
Lot: 26
Public Notices for the Crawshawbooth Literary & Mechanics' Institution 1879-1881, all with faults, two with some loss. 17 x 11”. (3)
Lot: 27
Military Documents 1876-1882 concerning 992.Lance Corporal Charles Gray 2/17th Regiment of Foot, 27th Brigade, with Account and Pay Books, Drill and Education Certificates, comprising Army Forms with manuscript entries, bound together with a makeshift cloth and vellum binding, 49pp + blanks, final leaf cut away. Signatures include Btn.Major Bellaway and Lieut.Col. J.B.H. Boyd. Central fold.
Lot: 28
The Oak Tree: The Journal of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment, cloth bound volumes for 1952-1956 and 1959; Smith War History of the 6th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment 1932, gilt cloth; and other military history and reference. (22)
Lot: 29
Watson The First Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment in North West Europe [1947], gilt cloth, signed by 2nd Lt. Geoffrey Bennett with his ink annotations at rear, 136pp, very scarce; Shakespear The Thirty-Fourth Division 1915-1919, Witherby 1921, many plates, faded cloth; and other military history and reference. (13)
Lot: 30
Military History and reference including pamphlets & training manuals. Battles of the 19th Century in 14 (of 25?) parts, each with a colour or b/w plate. Mixed condition. (32 items)
Lot: 31
Thomas Lediard The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough J. Wilcox, London 1736, three volumes, 43 (of 45) plates including all 17 folding maps/plans all in VG condition, one of the plates of medals missing, another soiled. Vol.2 lacks its frontispiece. Full leather, re-cased employing original boards, new backstrips, gilt, and new endpapers. Occasional marks / spotting but generally VG internally especially the folding maps. An attractive set. (3)
Lot: 32
Manchester interest comprising ‘Plan of Deansgate Improvements 1870', dissected, cloth-backed, hand-coloured, with manuscript annotations dated 1872, in original cover, 13 x 22”; together with Butterworth The Antiquities of the Town and a complete History of the Trade of Manchester 1822 nicely rebound but with many faults internally.
Lot: 33
Gilbert Burnet The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, London 1681-1683, two vols, the second edition, plus the 1715 Supplement, complete with 23 engravings; 4to, old panelled calf, worn, gilt titles,front board of vol.1 detached; few marginal tears to vol.1 but no loss of text. Some browning (espec. the Supplement) but largely clean. Most engravings fine ex. Francis Walsingham which is tape repaired. Together with Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, London 1724-34, two vols, good clean text, folio, full calf, gilt titles, boards of vol.1 detached. All with engraved bookplates of Lyme Hall. (5)
Lot: 34
Edwin Butterworth Historical Sketches of Oldham John Hirst, Oldham 1856, half-morocco, gilt, four plates, abrasions to one page of adverts o/w VG; plus Butterworth's 1817 work on Oldham in poor condition, lacking map. (2)
Lot: 35
WW2 Cartoon softbacks (5) including Froom Tyler Spot-Light on Hitler & Co and similar; together with The Story of 79 Armoured Division Hamburg [1945] fine in d/jkt, well- illustrated. VG condition (6 items)
Lot: 36
Nazi War Criminals, a selection of autographs comprising 1944 document signed by Heinrich Himmler, 1941 document signed by Admiral Erich Raeder, both in VG condition, and small cut signatures of Adolf Eichmann, Josef Falk and Oswald Dohl.
Lot: 37
Louis Mountbatten: a collection of autographs comprising commemorative covers (2), typed letters signed (3), an autographed page dated 1919 (as Captain in the Royal Navy), a signed Japanese banknote, and a dinner invitation additionally signed by General John Auchinleck; together with a 1958 typed letter signed by Edwina Mountbatten. (9).
Lot: 38
Field-Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery: a selection of autographs comprising a signed PPC (additionally inscribed on reverse), a signed Victory menu (also signed by John Ennis), a 1960 ALS, and an autographed 1946 report on Radar. Fair to VG. (4 items)
Lot: 39
Signed commemorative covers 1965-70 and an RAF greetings card with autographs of Douglas Bader (4) and Bernard L.Montgomery. Fine. (5 items)
Lot: 40
King George V ink-signed document, 1930, appointing the Revd. Canon S.A. Alexander to the Royal Victorian Order, with supporting document, pamphlet and correspondence. (5 items)