Auction No 421, Tag: Manchester

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Carton of Newspapers (abt. 42) from 19th Century including many issues of "Manchester Guardian Weekly" 1938; together with greetings cards, photos

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Carton of Newspapers (abt. 42) from 19th Century including many issues of Manchester Guardian Weekly 1938; together with greetings cards, photos and sundry ephemera. Varied condition. (Qty) 

"Manchester Evening News", February 1943, bound volume, editorial department's file copy. Half-leather, gilt, marbled boards

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Manchester Evening News, February 1943, bound volume, editorial department's file copy. Half-leather, gilt, marbled boards. Some wear to binding; few leaves with peripheral faults, generally VG internally.

"Manchester Evening News", August 1943, bound volume, editorial department's file copy. Half-leather, gilt, marbled boards.

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Manchester Evening News, August 1943, bound volume, editorial department's file copy. Half-leather, gilt, marbled boards. Some wear to binding. VG internally.

John Ward "Moston Characters at Play", 1905, and "Moston Characters at Work", 1911; both orig. gilt cloth; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere, VG;

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £54
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John Ward Moston Characters at Play, 1905, and Moston Characters at Work, 1911; both orig. gilt cloth; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere, VG; both signed & inscribed, and complete with fine folding maps of Moston in 1848; browning to endpapers; the 1905 title with a patched hole top left of front endpaper. (2)

Manchester & Salford history & topography,1868 to modern, h/bk and s/bk including illustrated works and scarce pamphlets.

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Manchester & Salford history & topography, 1868 to modern, h/bk and s/bk including illustrated works and scarce pamphlets. Includes a reprint of Aiken's 1795 Description of the Country Round Manchester. Mostly VG/VF (31)

William Mills "The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921", 1922, orig. leather-covered boards, worn at extremities o/w fine;

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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William 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)

"An Act for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages and Places within the Towns of Manchester and Salford",1792

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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An Act for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages and Places within the Towns of Manchester and Salford, 1792, 88pp; plus ten other Manchester related Acts of Parliament 1790-1849, and Charity Commission Reports (2) for Manchester and Eccles 1904. Good to fine. Also four antiquarian books, Lancashire related, in poor condition, three with engravings. (17 items) 

"Manchester Region History Review" 1990-1992 (6 issues); Manchester & Salford history publications by Neil Richardson (13),

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £46
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Manchester 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.

Ernest Broxap "Manchester a Hundred Years Ago", John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured);

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £42
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Ernest 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)

Manchester architecture & culture including Bill Birch "Keeper of the Flame: Modern Jazz in Manchester 1946-1972"; Terry Wyke "Manchester Theatres";

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Manchester architecture & culture including Bill Birch Keeper of the Flame: Modern Jazz in Manchester 1946-1972; Terry Wyke Manchester Theatres; W.T. McIntire Manchester Historical Pageant 1938; Len Grant Built to Music: The Making of the Bridgewater Hall, 1996, in d/jkt; and various others. Good to fine. (17)