Auction No 423, Tag: Manchester

20 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Assortment in carton including fine group of 1960s 10x8” Photos of buildings in the University area of Manchester (47 in all), plus large folding plan

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £110
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Assortment in carton including fine group of 1960s 10x8” Photos of buildings in the University area of Manchester (47 in all), plus large folding plan; sundry Manchester related ephemera from 19th Century including pamphlets, programmes, billheads, and correspondence; souvenir napkin for the opening of the New Library 1934; and other items including 1787 Entire Letter with good MANCHES / TER handstamp. (Large qty)

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)

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)

Parliamentary Papers, two bound volumes comprising 1852 "Report from the Select Committee on Manchester and Salford Education", 603pp,

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Parliamentary Papers, two bound volumes comprising 1852 Report from the Select Committee on Manchester and Salford Education, 603pp, fifteen coloured maps/plans bound in at rear, all with faults; together with 1852-53 part two of the Report, bound with Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Devon and Dorset Railway Bill and a Report on Communication between London and Dublin. Gilt cloth bindings, VG; ex-library. (2)

"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)  

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) 

Bradshaw’s Manchester Tram Timetable for April 1907, partly laid down on paper folder, the map unaffected;

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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Bradshaw's Manchester Tram Timetable for April 1907, partly laid down on paper folder, the map unaffected; City of Manchester Map of Bus and Tram Routes for 1929, 1936 and 1936, the 1930s issues with frayed covers; plus Manchester Bus Guides for 1930 and 1931. (6)

North of England topography, plus Scotland (30), with some street scenes of South Manchester, Newcastle and others. Fair to fine. (144)

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £40
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North of England topography, plus Scotland (30), with some street scenes of South Manchester, Newcastle and others. Fair to fine. (144)  

Flixton together with Urmston & Davyhulme, a collection of photographic PPCs and plain-back photos, mainly 1980s, some earlier,

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £62
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Flixton together with Urmston & Davyhulme, a collection of photographic PPCs and plain-back photos, mainly 1980s, some earlier, mostly annotated on reverse. Some mixed quality but mainly VG/VF; includes many street scenes, some local events and notable buildings. (140)