Trafford Books

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

295 Lots (displaying 161 - 180)

[Robert Heron] "The Comforts of Human Life; or Smiles and Laughter of Charles Chearful and Martin Merryfellow"

Lot: 161

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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[Robert Heron] The Comforts of Human Life; or Smiles and Laughter of Charles Chearful and Martin Merryfellow, Oddy & Co, 1807, 12mo, quarter-leather, gilt, marbled boards, chipped at top & tail of spine, red sides; hand-coloured folding plate; occasional tone marks in text but generally good internally; xi,226pp

[Laurent Bordelon] "The Management of the Tongue", H. Rhodes, 1707, octavo, later quarter-leather, gilt, a little scuffed,

Lot: 162

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £32
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[Laurent Bordelon] The Management of the Tongue, H. Rhodes, 1707, octavo, later quarter-leather, gilt, a little scuffed, marbled boards; occasional browning or spotting to text, heavy browning around ownership signatures at foot of p.13 and top of title page; [24],272pp.

Edward Chicken "The Collier's Wedding, a Poem", T. & J. Hodgson, Newcastle, 1829, New Edition with corrections

Lot: 163

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £62
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Edward Chicken The Collier’s Wedding, a Poem, T. & J. Hodgson, Newcastle, 1829, New Edition with corrections, octavo, contemp. paper cover, frayed at periphery; fine internally; includes 12pp preface. Engraved title; xii, 32pp. VG

Works of Anthony Trollope, Folio Society, 46 of 48 volumes, all in individual slipcases, VF

Lot: 164

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £76
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Works of Anthony Trollope, Folio Society, 46 of 48 volumes, all in individual slipcases, VF, various issue dates (apparently first printings), no internal inscriptions. (46)

Anthony Powell "A Dance to the Music of Time", Folio Society, 2007- 2008, set of 4 volumes in slipcases, VF. (4)

Lot: 165

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £52
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Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time, Folio Society, 2007-2008, set of 4 volumes in slipcases, VF. (4)

Thomas Warton "The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster"

Lot: 166

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Thomas Warton The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster, Sampson Low, 1859, octavo, original gilt cloth VG, gutta percha binding weak with few loose plates, a few minor tone spots, plates unaffected.

Thomas Brown (1663-1704) "Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c., to which is added A Character of a Latitudinarian"

Lot: 167

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £200
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Thomas Brown (1663-1704) Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c., to which is added A Character of a Latitudinarian, John Sparks, 1699, First Edition; small octavo, full leather, rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the boards overlaid with the original leather covering; light browning affects the text to varying degrees. Worming at foot of last few leaves and a damaged corner to pp.341/2 without text loss. Collated as complete. Pagination errors with pp.113-128 not used and p.349 shown as “493”. Wing 5052. VG

Shakespeare, Marston, Ben Jonson & others "The Phoenix & Turtle", Shakespeare Head Press & Basil Blackwell

Lot: 168

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £24
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Shakespeare, Marston, Ben Jonson & others The Phoenix & Turtle, Shakespeare Head Press & Basil Blackwell, 1937, original wraps & pictorial dustjacket, VG; b/w frontisp; unopened. 31pp. (One of 50 issued) 

Brown Linnet "Why Why and Tom Cat", Illustrated by Gordon Browne; Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co, 1906, 1st Edn,

Lot: 169

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Brown Linnet Why Why and Tom Cat, Illustrated by Gordon Browne; Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co, 1906, 1st Edn, tall octavo, original pictorial cloth, VG; prize bookplate of 1907; many illustrations including frontispiece and 8 full-page plates; 171pp + 24pp illustrated catalogue 

Vernon Scannell "Ring of Truth", 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell

Lot: 170

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Vernon Scannell Ring of Truth, 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell, most in VG/fine d/jkts, comprising The Loving Game 1975, The Winter Man 1973, The Face of the Enemy 1961 (worn d/jkt), and Views and Distances 2000, s/bk; also Of Love & War 2002 unsigned 1st Edition. (6)

"The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince", Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, quarto, 2 Vols

Lot: 171

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, quarto, 2 Vols, original gilt cloth, VG; large paper edition, No.45 of 100 issued; front inner hinge to Vol. 1 frayed o/w fine. (2)

Horace G. Hutchinson "A Saga of the 'Sunbeam' ", Longmans, 1911, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded,

Lot: 172

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £32
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Horace G. Hutchinson A Saga of the “Sunbeam”, Longmans, 1911, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded, endpapers browned, some minor tone spots elsewhere but generally fine internally with frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. Blindstamp of the Royal Forth Yacht Club at foot of title page. This work chronicles a voyage from the Moray Firth to Iceland, thence to Newfoundland and Canada in the ocean-going yacht Sunbeam; xviii,211pp.

Wilkie Collins "Rambles Beyond Railways; or Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot". Richard Bentley, 1851, First Edition

Lot: 173

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £60
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Wilkie Collins Rambles Beyond Railways; or Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot. Richard Bentley, 1851, First Edition, fine later half-calf, gilt, over marbled boards by G. Winstanley of Manchester; marble edged; foxing to free endpapers and occasionally the margins of a few of the 12 tinted lithograph plates which are otherwise fine; clean text. (8),304pp.

Ordnance Survey and Bartholomew's Maps, plus few others, 1920s to 1970s, mostly 1 inch or Half-Inch,

Lot: 174

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Ordnance Survey and Bartholomew’s Maps, plus few others, 1920s to 1970s, mostly 1 inch or Half-Inch, printed cloth or card covers, country-wide. Poor to VF (81)

James Breeks "Primitive Tribes & Monuments of the Nilagiris", Cultural Publishing House, 1983, in chipped d/jkt;

Lot: 175

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £66
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James Breeks Primitive Tribes & Monuments of the Nilagiris, Cultural Publishing House, 1983, in chipped d/jkt; Samuel Baker The Albert N’Yanza, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962, 2 vols, in slipcase; The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr.John Kirk, edited Foskett, 1965, 2 vols; and three other travel titles.  All in dustjackets. (8)

Mrs. Ernest Hart "Picturesque Burma, Past and Present" J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased

Lot: 176

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £76
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Mrs. Ernest Hart Picturesque Burma, Past and Present J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased incorporating the original decorated cloth, new endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; occasional light spotting; fine photo-plates, maps and gravures.           

Charles Gutzlaff "Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 & 1833"

Lot: 177

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £66
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Charles Gutzlaff Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 & 1833, Frederick Westley, 1834, contemp.gilt cloth worn at extremities; frontispiece damp-stained; title page with manuscript inscription of the Sion Meeting House Library, Alnwick; folding map intact but near detached; clean text. 347pp

Priscilla Wakefield "The Traveller in Asia; or, a Visit to the most Celebrated Parts of the East Indies and China"

Lot: 178

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Priscilla Wakefield The Traveller in Asia; or, a Visit to the most Celebrated Parts of the East Indies and China. Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1817, 12mo, contemp leather badly stained with front board partly detached, gilt title intact; folding hand-coloured Map intact, reinforced with archival tape; good clean text. Index and advert leaf. Ownership signature to free endpaper dated 1817; iv,237,[10]. 

James Richardson "Travels in Morocco", Charles Skeet, London, 1860, 2 Volumes, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth,

Lot: 179

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £155
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James Richardson Travels in Morocco, Charles Skeet, London, 1860, 2 Volumes, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, worn, the backstrips shabby with pieces missing at head & foot, rear board of Vol. 2 cracked and repaired; good internally, each volume with frontispiece and engraved title; minor spotting to prelims; woodcuts in text; p.241/2 of Vol. 1 with tear in margin; advertisements at rear of Vol. 2; (vol.1) xxvi, 302pp.; (vol.2) vi, 320, [4]pp.

Herbert Tichy "Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods", Methuen, 1957, First English Edition, fine, in a VG near complete d/jkt

Lot: 180

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £92
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Herbert Tichy Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods, Methuen, 1957, First English Edition, fine, in a VG near complete d/jkt (slightly chipped at foot of spine), complete with 26 plates (4 coloured). 196pp