Lot: 21
The Potteries, Newcastle and District Directory, Staffordshire Sentinel, 1912; orig. gilt decorated cloth, some wear, fading to spine; VG internally; xxxviii, 1248pp
Lot: 22
[Charles II] An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester: drawn up by himself. To which are added his Letters to several persons. John Scott & others, 1803, bound in fine modern quarter-leather, gilt; b/w frontispiece and three other plates; browning to frontisp.,title and last few leaves.
Lot: 23
Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory – Staffordshire, Isaac Slater, 1862, in a fine 20th Century quarter-morocco binding, gilt; title page with some tone marks, fine hand-coloured folding map. 178pp of advertisements at rear and coloured 4pp brochure of Royal Insurance Co. bound in; (8),232,178,(4)pp
Lot: 24
Local History selection, mostly Staffordshire related, including Swinscoe, Blore and the Bassetts 1998; Redfern History of Uttoxeter, 1865, (with map); M. Wright The Best of Cannock Chase, 1933; Stephens History of Congleton, 1970; The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, Vol.VIII, 1963; and various others, mostly h/bk, some in d/jkts, varied condition. (25)
Lot: 25
Gregory King (edited Armytage & Rylands) Staffordshire Pedigrees based on the visitation of that County made by William Dugdale, Harleian Society, 1912; 4to, original gilt cloth, small spilt to foredge of front board; few leaves with a corner crease o/w VG internally; viii,295,20,(6)pp
Lot: 26
Aleyn Lyell Reade The Reades of Blackwood Hill in the Parish of Horton Staffordshire. A Record of Their Descendants: With a Full Account of Dr.Johnson's Ancestry His Kinsfolk and Family Connexions, privately printed for the author, London, 1906; tall 4to, orig. gilt cloth, slightly marked, lower right corner of front board bumped; browning to endpapers and front tissue-guard; 18 photo plates and 29 tabular pedigrees; 285pp plus introduction, index and pedigrees. One of 350 printed.
Lot: 27
Diane Baker Workhouses in the Potteries, City of Stoke on Trent, n.d.; A4 s/back, stapled binding; well illustrated including 3 fold-out plans/elevations. 51pp. VG
Lot: 28
William Scarratt Old Times in the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, 1906; original illustrated cloth, gilt, some fading; fine internally. B/w plates in text. 202pp
Lot: 29
Percy W.L. Adams John Henry Clive 1781-1853 of North Staffordshire and his Descendants, Newcastle, 1947; orig. grained cloth, gilt; thirty tissue-guarded plates; folding pedigree loosely inserted; xviii,144,(2)pp. A prospectus of the book and a hand-written letter from the author are also loosely inserted. Front board bumped at foot o/w fine, no inscriptions.
Lot: 30
Benjamin Gregory Consecrated Culture: Memorials of Benjamin Alfred Gregory, T. Woolmer, 1885; original gilt cloth, spine faded; tissue-guarded frontispiece; good clean text. A biography of a Methodist minister; viii,416,(8)pp
Lot: 31
Josiah C. and Joshua G.E. Wedgwood Wedgwood Pedigrees, Titus Wilson, 1925; quarter vellum with silver title, pictorial boards, minor wear; uncut two sides; bookplate of Reginald Bladen; some slight spotting mostly confined to foredge and folding plate at rear; ix,384pp. Together with Robert Nicholls The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, 1930, orig.cloth; and three related softbacks. Good/Fine (5)
Lot: 32
E. J. D. Warrilow History of Etruria, Etruscan Publications, 1952, gilt cloth, fine, in a complete but damaged d/jkt (rear panel of jacket badly torn). Fine internally, without inscriptions. Numerous photo-plates. 396pp
Lot: 33
Descriptive Catalogue of the Series of Coins found at Tutbury, in the County of Stafford, in the bed of the River Dove, in June, 1831, and supposed to have been part of the Military Chest of the Earl of Lancaster. Temp.Ed.II. Derby, [c.1835]; octavo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth; bookplate of the Dalry Library dated 1904; (4),62pp. Fine
Lot: 34
Hermann Goring: autographed page from a notebook, inscribed in pencil Hermann Goring, 1945, Nurnberg. Some creasing and slight staining o/w VG. Together with a PPC of Goring PU 1940, and a 3-page statement (with covering letter) dated 1981 from one M.F Clarke who attended the Nuremburg Trials as U.S. delegate to the International Military Tribunal and who obtained the autograph through one of Goring's guards.
Lot: 35
Clement Attlee autograph letter: 1953 letter to his cousin Jenny in South Africa, on House of Commons notepaper, signed Your affectionate cousin, Clem, with original cover postmarked HOUSE OF COMMONS SW1 cds. Tear to flap of cover o/w fine.
Lot: 36
Propaganda Leaflets 1950s to 1960, mostly dropped by air, comprising Greek (4), Japanese (1960 protest against Eisenhower visit) and Italian. Also German & Rhodesian items both damaged. Pencil annotations in English on reverse. Mainly VG/Fine (8)
Lot: 37
Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf, Franz Eher Nachfolger, 1933, original gilt cloth, a little worn, some fading to spine; title page with the handstamp of the German Embassy in Lisbon with manuscript catalogue numbers, and a further bilingual handstamp Sold by the Allied Committee on German External Assets in Portugal – 1949. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. The complete text (two vols in one). VG
Lot: 38
Charles Mackay The History of the United States of America, Virtue & Co, London [1861-63], tall octavo (26cm), two volumes, original gilt and blind-tooled cloth, rebacked, worn & marked; uncut; few loose pages in Vol.I with edges frayed, plate of James Munro cut down & torn, o/w VG internally with all maps and engravings. 816pp + 772pp
Lot: 39
Scale of Charges for the attendance of the Salford Fire Brigade, within and beyond the Borough, County Borough of Salford, 1894; a public notice, single-leaf, 33cm, folds, laid down on thick board.
Lot: 40
Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland 1941, rebound in cloth with paper title label; complete with map which has a small repair o/w fine internally.