Lot: 21
Victorian scrap album including 19 pages of chromo-litho scraps with some better items. Album damaged, contents in good condition.
Lot: 22
Selection including signed first editions in d/jkt by P.D. James (2), William Boyd (3), Ruth Rendell, Gracie Fields and Ginette Spanier. Good to VF (23)
Lot: 23
ABC Television, 1950s/1960s, a collection of Photographs (129) of various sizes, some 10 x 8”, varying from amateur snaps to professional, plus some related ephemera. Includes well-known performers, play scenes, equipment etc. (Qty)
Lot: 24
Mrs Beeton’s Household Management, Ward Lock, 1930s, in complete dustjacket; colour & b/w plates. Fine
Lot: 25
Magic, card tricks, conjuring: a selection of 1930s to 1970s pamphlets and journals, much 1940s, fair to fine. (41)
Lot: 26
Mayfair men’s magazines, largely 1970s, mainly good to fine. (27)
Lot: 27
Mayfair men’s magazines, largely 1970s, mainly good to fine. (27)
Lot: 28
Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin: signed frontispiece of a Liverpool concert programme, 22nd October 1966. Fine
Lot: 29
Selection of 1930s programmes for the Altrincham Garrick Society, large format softbacks. Fair to VG. Together with The Collectors' Circular for March 5th 1904. (5 items)
Lot: 30
19th Century Letters, plus some early 20th Century, including A.L.S. from Robert Cadell (Edinburgh publisher), William Stebbing (Journalist), Walter Besant (novelist), Richard Haldane (politician), William Mather (Manchester manufacturer), and others including three 1919 A.L.S. from an Officer in the Queen Victoria’s Rifles. Good to VF (23). Also collector’s research notes.
Lot: 31
Slavery in St. Vincent: 1st June 1834 letter written at Park Hill Estate sugar plantation, St. Vincent, including monthly statistics detailing staff including 238 slaves, together with a full page report of recent activity on the estate. Sent to Edinburgh but no postal markings. Slavery was abolished in St. Vincent on 1st August that year and was replaced by an apprenticeship system. Fine. The letter is accompanied by the vendor’s research notes.
Lot: 32
A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings upon High-Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II to the End of the Reign of King George I. London, 1742, volumes 3 and 5 only; folio, contemporary full leather, worn, boards detached from volume 5. Fine internally. (2 vols)
Lot: 33
Government Gazette: British Honduras, a bound volume for 1907, complete with supplements, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, backstrip partly detached, fine internally. 255pp
Lot: 34
Government Gazette: British Honduras, a bound volume for 1897, complete with supplements, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, VG; a filing spike hole through the top of each issue and a few pages with ink marks in border. 329pp
Lot: 35
Bertram Benas Later Records of the Jews in Liverpool, 1929, printed boards slightly marked; Philip Ettinger Hope Place in Liverpool Jewry, 1930, in worn d/jkt; Izak Goller Cohen & Son, 1932, pictorial wraps detached; and related ephemera.
Lot: 36
Vellum documents, mostly 19th Century, concerning land, property and families mostly in the Greater Manchester area, all with revenue stamps affixed, some with hand-drawn plans. Mainly VG/Fine (39)
Lot: 37
19th Century large folding Maps, chiefly European countries but including South America, all hand-coloured, mostly in outline only. One with splits along the fold o/w VG/Fine. (14)
Lot: 38
Maps, mainly 1800s to 1860s, chiefly European plus South American countries, India (3) and few others; mostly hand-coloured in outline, some later with printed colours. Also selection of plans of battles. Mainly good to fine. (73)
Lot: 39
Nicholas Monardes Joyfull Newes out of the Newe Founde Worlde, Constable, 1925, 2 vols, VG; Ernest Seton Arctic Prairies, Constable, 1912, VG; and Egerton Young Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires, 1893, binding shaken & marked. All in original gilt cloth. (4)
Lot: 40
Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North America, Oxford 1978-1994, nine volume set, quarto, all fine in VG/VF dustjackets, vol.1 price-clipped. (9)