Auction No 405, Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT

251 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

Raymond Richards "Old Cheshire Churches", Morten, 1973, revised edition in d/jkt, complete with folding map, 905pp; and other local history,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £70
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Raymond Richards Old Cheshire Churches, Morten, 1973, revised edition in d/jkt, complete with folding map, 905pp; and other local history, mostly Lancashire & Cheshire including Banks The Manchester Man, 1896. Mixed condition. (18)

"The Trial of German War Criminals by the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremburg, Germany", H.M.S.O., London, 1946;

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £66
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The Trial of German War Criminals by the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremburg, Germany, H.M.S.O., London, 1946; full set of 24 volumes, softbacks, including Opening Speeches and Verdict; two in original printed wraps, others with replacement plain wraps; ownership signatures, good condition. Also Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3rd 1939, and a related document; together with six odd volumes of The Trial of German War Criminals in the original gilt cloth bindings, one in d/jkt in slipcase, others in poor condition. (32)     

Adam Sharpe (and others) "St.Just: An Archaeological Survey of The Mining District,Truro",1992, 2 volumes, A4 softbacks, VG/Fine. (2)

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Adam Sharpe (and others) St.Just: An Archaeological Survey of The Mining District, Truro, 1992, 2 volumes, A4 softbacks, VG/Fine. (2)

Catherine Lorigan "Delabole: The History of the Slate Quarry and The Making of its Village Community", 2007; Brown & Acton "Exploring Cornish Mines"

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £92
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Catherine Lorigan Delabole: The History of the Slate Quarry and The Making of its Village Community, 2007; Brown & Acton Exploring Cornish Mines, 1996-2001, 5 volumes; Bob Acton Exploring Cornwall's Tramway Trails, 2000-2001, 2nd Edn, 2 vols; and other Cornish history, all softbacks, mostly Industrial especially Tin Mining. No ownership inscriptions. VG/VF (89)

J. Ewing Ritchie "The Life and Times of the Right Honble. William Ewart Gladstone", James Sangster [c.1900], pictorial edition in 6 vols;

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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J. Ewing Ritchie The Life and Times of the Right Honble. William Ewart Gladstone, James Sangster [c.1900], pictorial edition in 6 vols; quarto, elaborate pictorial cloth, some wear to inner hinges; slight damp staining to the chromo-litho plates o/w fine internally. (6)

Manor of Newcastle, Stafford: 1615 copy document of a legal Agreement fixing the Fee Farm Rents within the Manor,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £42
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Manor of Newcastle, Stafford: 1615 copy document of a legal Agreement fixing the Fee Farm Rents within the Manor, the final leaf largely torn away, comprising 11 full pages of text, 41 x 34cm, with a later outer cover, all stitched together upper left; peripheral faults with some marginal loss of text, browned throughout. Reference is made to this document in Ward's History of Stoke on Trent. 

"The Firefly" Jan-June 1916, 26 issues complete; and "Playbox" July 14th to Dec.29th 1931, 13 issues complete; both Amalgamated Press file copies,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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The Firefly Jan-June 1916, 26 issues complete; and Playbox July 14th to Dec.29th 1931, 13 issues complete; both Amalgamated Press file copies, fine, in publisher's gilt cloth bindings.      

"Film Fun Annual 1938", Amalgamated Press, pictorial boards worn at periphery, VG internally. 160pp

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Film Fun Annual 1938, Amalgamated Press, pictorial boards worn at periphery, VG internally. 160pp 

"Poems of Thomas Hood. Illustrated by Birket Foster", E. Moxon, 1872; quarto, orig. decorated cloth, gilt, worn at corners;

Lot: 29

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  • Est: £20 - £30
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Poems of Thomas Hood. Illustrated by Birket Foster, E. Moxon, 1872; quarto, orig. decorated cloth, gilt, worn at corners; 22 fine tissue-guarded engravings. VG       

Leonard C. Smithers (Ed.) "The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour", H.S. Nichols, London 1893; tall octavo, large paper edition,

Lot: 30

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  • Est: £20 - £30
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Leonard C. Smithers (Ed.) The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour, H.S. Nichols, London 1893; tall octavo, large paper edition, one of 650 printed; three-quarter cloth over marbled boards, gilt leather title, minor wear; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere; some light spotting to prelims o/w fine internally, no inscriptions.VG

Paul Dunbar "Les Aventures de Staline", Cirque Divers, Liege, 1980, large format s/bk, card wraps, worn at periphery;

Lot: 31

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  • Est: £30 - £40
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Paul Dunbar Les Aventures de Staline, Cirque Divers, Liege, 1980, large format s/bk, card wraps, worn at periphery; a graphic novel style account of the life & career of Joseph Stalin. Fine internally. 56pp

Winifred Wolfe (1923-81) "Yesterday's Child", Hammond & Co, 1964, 1st UK Edition, gilt cloth in VG complete d/jkt (mylar protected);

Lot: 32

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  • Est: £30 - £40
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Winifred Wolfe (1923-81) Yesterday's Child, Hammond & Co, 1964, 1st UK Edition, gilt cloth in VG complete d/jkt (mylar protected); spotting to edge of text block o/w fine, no inscriptions.

[Charles Benjamin Taylor, 1797-1875] "A Fireside Book, or the Account of a Christmas Spent at Old Court", J.A. Hessey, London, 1828; first edition,

Lot: 33

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  • Est: £40 - £50
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[Charles Benjamin Taylor, 1797-1875] A Fireside Book, or the Account of a Christmas Spent at Old Court, J.A. Hessey, London, 1828; first edition, sm.octavo, original boards, scuffed & marked, the later paper backstrip and title label fine; uncut; engraved frontispiece after George Cruikshank; small repair to corner of the Dramatis Personae leaf o/w VG internally, a few minor tone marks; no inscriptions; (3)229,(2)pp.    

Edward Waring "A Letter to The Reverend Dr.Powell….In Answer to his Observations on the First Chapter of a book called Miscellanea Analytica,

Lot: 34

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  • Est: £60 - £80
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Edward Waring  A Letter to The Reverend Dr.Powell….In Answer to his Observations on the First Chapter of a book called Miscellanea Analytica, and his Defence of those ObservationsThurlbourn & Woodyer, Cambridge, 1760, 47pp plus plate; bound with [W.S. Powell] A Defence of the Observations on the First Chapter of a Book called Miscellanea Analytica, T. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 38pp; and [John Wilson] A Vindication of the Miscellanea Analytica: in Answer to a late Pamphlet entitled Observations, &c. T. & J. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 22pp plus blank leaf. Disbound, remains of leather backstrip. Good clean text, plate and title pages. (3)         

Ewan McColl "Uranium 235: a Documentary Play", William MacLellan [1948], First Editon, pictorial boards, worn at corners,

Lot: 35

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  • Est: £60 - £70
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Ewan McColl Uranium 235: a Documentary Play, William  MacLellan [1948], First Editon, pictorial boards, worn at corners, cloth spine with gilt titles, rear board a little grubby; previous owner's signature; good clean text & endpapers. 92pp

Don Eugenio de Ochoa (Ed.) "Tesoro de los Romanceros y Cancioneros, Caballerescos, Moriscos y Otros", Paris, 1838;

Lot: 36

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  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £10
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Don Eugenio de Ochoa (Ed.) Tesoro de los Romanceros y Cancioneros, Caballerescos, Moriscos y Otros, Paris, 1838; octavo, full calf by Clyde, some wear; gilt title; front endpaper with ownership inscription; minor browning to text. Lacks frontispiece. 582pp

Selection in fair to fine d/jkts, including Edna O’Brien "Casualities of Peace" 1966, 1st Edn., and "August is a Wicked Month", 1967, both signed

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Selection in fair to fine d/jkts, including Edna O'Brien Casualities of Peace 1966, 1st Edn., and August is a Wicked Month, 1967, both signed by the author, latter also with ownership signature; Richard Adams Watership Down, Rex Collins, 1976; Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, 1969, 1st Edn; W.H. Auden Thank You, Fog, Faber 1974, 1st Edn; and another. Most with ownership inscriptions. (6)

[Daniel Defoe] Tracts and Pamphlets comprising "A New Discovery of an Old Intreague: A Satyr levell'd at Treachery and Ambition";

Lot: 38

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  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £82
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[Daniel Defoe] Tracts and Pamphlets comprising A New Discovery of an Old Intreague: A Satyr levell'd at Treachery and Ambition; An Elegy on the Author of the True-born English Man; The Storm, An Essay; A Hymn to the Pillory; A Hymn to Victory; The Pacificator; The Double-Welcome: A Poem to the Duke of Marlborough; and The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge. London, c.1730; octavo, later quarter-leather over marbled boards; bound together with continuous pagination; lacks title and half-title. Commences at page 1. One gathering loose, some browning to text. 192pp. The final tract is not complete. 

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha", trans. Charles Jarvis,

Lot: 39

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  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £44
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Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, trans. Charles Jarvis, S.A. & H. Oddy, London, 1809; 2 vols, half-morocco, gilt, some wear; complete with plates but lacking folding map, the plates foxed and few leaves of text heavily browned. Four leaves with pieces missing from the margin resulting in a single letter missing from page 9 of Vol.1 o/w text unaffected. (2)

"Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales", T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1914], illustrated by Cecile Walton with 16 colour plates; orig.cloth with pictorial onlay,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Nov 2021 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1914], illustrated by Cecile Walton with 16 colour plates; orig.cloth with pictorial onlay, spine darkened; uncut two sides; title page with 7cm tear to inner margin requiring repair; browning to endpapers; a few minor fox marks to text but largely clean internally. Uninscribed.