Trafford Books

Auction No 370, Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST

295 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

A selection of Antiquarian books all in need of rebinding and restoration including "Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect", 1808;

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £850
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A selection of Antiquarian books all in need of rebinding and restoration including Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, 1808; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, London, 1735; Memoirs of North-Britain, London, 1715; Priscilla Wakefield Perambulations in London, and its Environs, 1814, with all plates; and Lazarus Riverius The Practice of Physick In Seventeen several Books, quarto, 1655 to which is appended an original manuscript by Tobias Wolrich A Collection of Choice and Approved receipts in physic and chirurgery, 1725, 90pp. Mixed condition. (6)

Folio Society publications all in slipcases, some in boxed sets including "Legends of King Arthur" (3 vols),

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £96
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Folio Society publications all in slipcases, some in boxed sets including Legends of King Arthur (3 vols), The Arabian Nights (6 vols, two slightly marked on the spine), Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories (4 vols). Largely fine/VF. (39) 

William Peterson "A Bibliography of The Kelmscott Press", 1985 in d/jkt; and Colin Inman "The A. & C. Black Colour Books"

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £38
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William Peterson A Bibliography of The Kelmscott Press, 1985 in d/jkt; and Colin Inman The A. & C. Black Colour Books, 1990, in d/jkt; fine. (2)

            

Bernard Middleton "A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique", 1963, in d/jkt,

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £22
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Bernard Middleton A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, 1963, in d/jkt, and The Restoration of Leather Bindings, 1984, large format s/bk; together with Eric Burdett The Craft of Bookbinding, 1978, orig.cloth. VG (3)

A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including "The Astrologer's Magazine"

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £135
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A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including The Astrologer’s Magazine ( formerly The Conjuror’s Magazine) August to December 1793; W. Cockburn The Nature and Cures of Fluxes, 1724; Michael Quin A Steam Voyage down the Danube, 1836, with folding map; Bayle The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, 1743, with frontisp; Marksman’s The Dead Shot, four different editions; and J. Clarke The Wreck of the Orion, 1851, with litho plate. Most have clean text, but The Astrologer’s Magazine suffers from intermittent foxing. (15)

George Grosz "A Post-War Museum", Faber, 1931, printed wraps, Criterion Miscellany No.31, fine;

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £24
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George Grosz A Post-War Museum, Faber, 1931, printed wraps, Criterion Miscellany No.31, fine; and others in Faber & Faber’s Criterion Series including H.G.Wells Imperialism and the Open Conspiracy, and John Middleton Murry The Fallacy of Economics. Good to Fine. (9)

"The Liverpool Lion; or Lancashire Charivari", 1847-48, from Issue No.1, a selection of issues bound together,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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The Liverpool Lion; or Lancashire Charivari, 1847-48, from Issue No.1, a selection of issues bound together, now lacking boards, the binding spine retained; many cartoons in the style of Punch, some full-page plates. Old library stamp on p.11.  Some occasional spotting. Approx 360pp 

"The Liverpool Wasp and Liverpool Punch", 1880, from Issue No. 1, bound volume, now lacking boards,

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £52
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The Liverpool Wasp and Liverpool Punch, 1880, from Issue No. 1, bound volume, now lacking boards, 53 issues including Christmas Supplement, a few pages repaired

Harold Dearden "Medicine & Duty: A War Diary", William Heinemann, 1928, 1st Edn,

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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Harold Dearden Medicine & Duty: A War Diary, William Heinemann, 1928, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded, light browning to endpapers, fine internally; xi,233pp.

Violetta Thurstan "Field Hospital & Flying Column", Putnam, 1915, spine faded; and 3 others

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £70
SOLD £52
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Violetta Thurstan Field Hospital & Flying Column, Putnam, 1915, spine faded; Arthur Gleason With the First War Ambulance in Belgium, A.L. Burt 1915, front cover discoloured upper right, signed and inscribed by Einar Hilsen (Norwegian-American humanitarian); Frances Wilson Huard My Home in the Field of Mercy, George Doran, 1917, a signed letter from the author on Red Cross notepaper loosely inserted; and Sister Martin-Nicholson ​My Experiences on Three Fronts, 1916, fair condition only. All first editions in original bindings. (4)

John Sinker "Memoirs of the Rev.Canon Stock, Rector of Windermere (1857-1904)",

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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John Sinker Memoirs of the Rev.Canon Stock, Rector of Windermere (1857-1904), A.W.Johnson, 1905, gilt cloth, spine faded; Arthur Loftie The Rural Deanery of Gosforth, Diocese of Carlisle, its Churches and Endowments, Titus Wilson, Kendal, 1889, 2nd Edn, gilt cloth; and T.N. Postlethwaite Some Notes on Urswick Church and Parish, Ulverston, 1906, printed wraps, some foxing to prelims, a 12-line prayer written out on final blank. Fair to VG. (3)

Joseph Toole (1887-1945) "Fighting Through Life", Rich & Cowan, 1935, 1st Edn, original printed cloth,

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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Joseph Toole (1887-1945) Fighting Through Life, Rich & Cowan, 1935, 1st Edn, original printed cloth, some discolouration; light spotting to prelims o/w VG; publisher’s catalogue at rear; (16),239,30pp. Scarce. [Joseph Toole was Labour M.P. for Salford South in the 1920s, and in 1936 became Lord Mayor of Manchester.]

William Royle "History of Rusholme, with a gossipy talk of men and things", Manchester, 1914, original gilt cloth,

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £52
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William Royle History of Rusholme, with a gossipy talk of men and things, Manchester, 1914, original gilt cloth, presentation copy from the author, folding map & plates, fine, an autograph note by the author loosely inserted; together with Bacon’s Environs of Manchester, coloured folding map, 1” to 1 mile, c.1890, in original gilt cloth cover, VG. (2)

Christopher Whitfield "A History of Chipping Campden", 1958 in VG d/jkt; Norman Jewson "By Chance I Did Rove"

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Christopher Whitfield A History of Chipping Campden, 1958 in VG d/jkt; Norman Jewson By Chance I Did Rove, Earle & Ludlow, Cirencester, [1951],one of 250 issued, original pictorial boards, quarter cloth, VG; J.P. Nelson Broad Campden, 1971, one of 500; and another. Good to VF (4)

"Fund for the Relief of Distress in the Manufacturing Districts", Manchester, 1862-63, Reports, Returns & Balance Sheets;

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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Fund for the Relief of Distress in the Manufacturing Districts, Manchester, 1862-63, Reports, Returns & Balance Sheets; a bound volume, folio, gilt cloth, VG. 

Thomas Baines & William Fairbairn "Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present", William Mackenzie

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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Thomas Baines & William Fairbairn Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present, William Mackenzie [1868-69], quarto, 2 volumes in 4, original gilt cloth, backstrips a little worn & faded; engravings complete; occasional foxing including a plan of Manchester Waterworks scheme and one page of text heavily foxed. (4)

Commissioners' Reports on Municipal Boundaries, 1830s, a bound volume, folio, original cloth,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £250
SOLD £150
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Commissioners’ Reports on Municipal Boundaries, 1830s, a bound volume, folio, original cloth, each report with one or more hand-coloured maps, comprising Liverpool, Clitheroe, Oldham, Rochdale, Lancaster, Wigan, Newton, Preston, Ashton-under-Lyne. Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Salford, and Warrington, plus general maps of Lancashire. VG

P. Louis Maimbourg "Histoire du Schisme des Grecs", Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris, 1677, First Edition,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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P. Louis Maimbourg Histoire du Schisme des Grecs, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris, 1677, First Edition, tall octavo, contemp.leather, worn, backstrip damaged, light damp staining to the upper part of the book; fine copper engravings comprise frontispiece, and head & tail pieces to each section; [28],702,[22]pp.

"Grant of the custody of the person and care and management of the Estate of Sarah Cash, a person of unsound mind

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Grant of the custody of the person and care and management of the Estate of Sarah Cash, a person of unsound mind, to The Reverend Samuel Hasse and Ebenezer Adamson, 1847, Queen Victoria Portrait Document, Great Seal of Great Britain (cracked) attached in tin box; small areas of damage along lower fold with some loss. Sarah Cash was a resident of Hayfield, Derbyshire

"An Act for Dividing, Alloting, and Inclosing the several Open Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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An Act for Dividing, Alloting, and Inclosing the several Open Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the parish of Hemsworth, in the West Riding of the County of York, 1803, folio, stitch bound, ownership inscription top margin, 25pp.VG