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Auction No 369, Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST

334 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

[Jacques Abbadie] "The History of the Late Conspiracy against the King and the Nation. With a Particular Account of the Lancashire Plot"

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £38
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[Jacques Abbadie] The History of the Late Conspiracy against the King and the Nation. With a Particular Account of the Lancashire Plot, Daniel Brown and Thomas Bennet, London, 1696; late-19th Century blind-tooled and gilt calf, recased with new endpapers; spine faded; clean text. (2),195pp

"Tenants Law: or, The Laws Concerning Landlords, Tenants and Farmers". T. Walter, 1753, 14th Edn;

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Tenants Law: or, The Laws Concerning Landlords, Tenants and Farmers. T. Walter, 1753, 14th Edn; octavo, contemp. calf, repaired, some pages with partial damp-staining. 314pp + (33)pp Index. 

[C.A. Carter] "Victoria, the British El Dorado; or, Melbourne in 1869 shewing the Advantages of that Colony as a Field for Emigration"

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £48
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[C.A. Carter] Victoria, the British El Dorado; or, Melbourne in 1869 shewing the Advantages of that Colony as a Field for Emigration, Edward Stanford, 1870; octavo, original green gilt cloth, VG; front inner hinge weak; folding coloured map and two tissue-guarded colour plates; tissue-guards browned o/w fine internally. 214pp + 28pp publisher’s catalogue.

Brassey and Leyland (Eds.) "The Naval Annual 1919", William Clowes, 1919, tall octavo,

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Brassey and Leyland (Eds.) The Naval Annual 1919, William Clowes, 1919, tall octavo, orig.gilt cloth, good; endpapers browned o/w fine internally with all photo-plates, diagrams, and adverts at rear. 

John Curwen "The Ancient Parish of Heversham with Milnthorpe",Titus Wilson, Kendal, 1930

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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John Curwen The Ancient Parish of Heversham with Milnthorpe,Titus Wilson, Kendal, 1930, tall octavo, original printed cloth, VG; seven b/w plates; uncut and unopened. Light toning to front endpaper o/w fine internally; 89pp 

W.I.Wild "The History of the Stockport Sunday School and its Branch Schools", 1891,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £38
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W.I.Wild The History of the Stockport Sunday School and its Branch Schools, 1891, softback, original printed wraps dust-affected and chipped; VG internally; 399pp + 10 plates. Scarce

Thomas W. Thompson "The Spen Valley: A Local History", Heckmondwike, 1925,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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Thomas W. Thompson The Spen Valley: A Local History, Heckmondwike, 1925, small octavo, printed cloth, a.e.g., VG, bound by Clifford Peel of Heckmondwike; previous owners’ labels front pastedown. No.23 of 100 issued, numbered and signed by the author on limitation page; light browning to endpapers with few other pages showing fox marks; largely fine internally. 355pp + 31 half-tone plates.            

John Holt "Occasional Verses", Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo,

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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John Holt Occasional Verses, Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo, original gilt cloth, fine; a selection of verses written during the 1870s to 1890s, mostly in Lancashire Dialect. B/w portrait. 75pp + prelims. Rare title. A single copy held at the Bodleian library.

"The Barbadian Diary of Gen. Robert Haynes 1787-1836", edited M.W. Cracknell, 1934, 1st Edn,

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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The Barbadian Diary of Gen. Robert Haynes 1787-1836, edited M.W. Cracknell, 1934, 1st Edn, published by The Azania Press, Medstead, Hampshire; octavo, original cloth, gilt, boards slightly bowed o/w VG; 70pp + 6 half-tone plates. [Robert Haynes, born in Barbados in 1769, became a plantation estate owner, and was a member of the House of Assembly during the time the diary was written]

"Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society"

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, bound volumes for 1930 to 1936, 1938, 1939, 1950 and 1951; uniform gilt cloth, fine.; together with W.D. Simpson Brough-under-Stainmore: the Castle and the Church, Titus Wilson, 1947, printed wraps. (12)

Mary Hensman "Dante Map", Guild of Handicraft for David Nutt,1892, hand-coloured lithograph,

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £30
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Mary Hensman Dante Map, The Guild of Handicraft for David Nutt, 1892, hand-coloured lithograph, linen backed, with explanatory booklet bound in; contemp. cloth, a little discoloured; map size 550 x 870mm. VG 

P.A. Whittle "Bolton-Le-Moors and the Townships in the Parish: An Historical, Statistical, Civil, and Moral Account

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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P.A. Whittle Bolton-Le-Moors and the Townships in the Parish: An Historical, Statistical, Civil, and Moral Account of the Corporate and Parliamentary Borough of Bolton, in the Division of the Hundred of Salford, County Palatine of Lancaster. John Crompton, Bolton, 1857; half-leather, worn, hinges weak and reinforced internally; double-page engraved Map; clean text. (4), 434pp. 

Thomas Pennant "Some Account of London", Dublin, 1791, 3rd Edn, rebound in modern full leather, gilt titles

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £22
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Thomas Pennant Some Account of London, Dublin, 1791, 3rd Edn, rebound in modern full leather, gilt titles, new endpapers; VG internally with fine folding map, frontispiece & 13 other plates. Subscribers list. iv, [2],479, [8 index]pp.

William Cubbon "A Bibliographical Account of Works Relating to the Isle of Man", Oxford, 1933-39,

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £22
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William Cubbon A Bibliographical Account of Works Relating to the Isle of Man, Oxford, 1933-39, two volumes, original gilt cloth, VG.

Henry, the Lord De la Mere "The Late Lord Russel's Case with Observations Upon It"

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £17
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Henry, the Lord De la Mere The Late Lord Russel’s Case with Observations Upon It, Awnsham Churchill, 1689, quarto, 16pp including Advertisement leaf at rear; stain in lower margin, few fox marks. In a modern card binder.

                        

[Lord John Russell] "The Causes of the French Revolution", Longman, Rees, Orme, 1832, 1st Edn, octavo,

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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[Lord John Russell] The Causes of the French Revolution, Longman, Rees, Orme, 1832, 1st Edn, octavo, original cloth-back boards, bumped corners, worn backstrip & title label; bookplate of Arthur Henry Davenport; uncut; light spotting to endpapers; clean text. (4),274pp.

 

Legal Documents/Indentures, 1659 to 1843, majority on vellum with impressed or adhesive Duty Stamps,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £72
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Legal Documents/Indentures, 1659 to 1843, majority on vellum with impressed or adhesive Duty Stamps, various locations and families mostly in Manchester or Lancashire; including agreements, marriage settlement, leases etc. Mostly 17th or 18th Century. Poor to fine (one document wormed). (14)      

Thomas Harwood "Alumni Etonenses; or, a Catalogue of the Provosts & Fellows of Eton College & King's College, Cambridge,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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Thomas Harwood Alumni Etonenses; or, a Catalogue of the Provosts & Fellows of Eton College & King’s College, Cambridge, from the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, Cadell & Davies, J. Deighton, and M. Pote, 1797; quarto, contemp. worn half leather over marbled boards, marble-edged, by R. Davies of Birmingham; ownership inscription of 1932; fine clean text. pp.viii,363,(1).

"Reception in the Town Hall Manchester May 22nd 1930 on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Jubilee of the Victoria University

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £15
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Reception in the Town Hall Manchester May 22nd 1930 on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Jubilee of the Victoria University of Manchester, ribbon-bound programme; together with related Order of Service at the Cathedral, Garden Party Programme, and Degree Ceremony Ticket. Good to VF (4)

[Hugh E. Howson] "Two Men – A Memoir", Oxford University Press, 1919, 1st Edn, octavo, cloth-backed boards,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £50
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[Hugh E. Howson] Two Men – A Memoir, Oxford University Press, 1919, 1st Edn, octavo, cloth-backed boards, printed title and additional title label to front board, VG; endpapers browned, ownership signature of 1926; six photogravure plates; occasional fox mark, mostly between pp.263-275; a biography of  Evelyn H.L. Southwell and Malcolm G. White who came together as masters at Shrewsbury School in 1910, left together in 1915, joined the Rifle Brigade, and were both killed in the Battle of the Somme; pp.viii,302.