Lot: 41
Operatic and Classical Music autographs comprising signed photos (3), a programme, and signed pages (33) a few with multiple signatures; includes Tito Gobbi, Leon Goossens, Malcolm Arnold, Lesley Garrett, Rostropovitch, Joan Sutherland, Adrian Boult, Gerald Moore (ALS), Stuart Burrows and other well-known. VG/VF
Lot: 42
H.W. Wilson With the Flag to Pretoria, Harmsworth, 1900, 2 vols, and After Pretoria:The Guerilla War, Amalgamated Press, 1902, 2 vols, tall quarto, bound in quarter-leather, gilt, VG, very clean internally, no inscriptions. (4)
Lot: 43
Sainty & Meydel-Mankoo (Editors) World Orders of Knighthood and Merit, Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 2006, two vols, gilt cloth, in slipcase, Vol.2 with light crushing to top of spine, fine internally, no inscriptions. Slipcase with split at one corner.
Lot: 44
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 2003, 3 volume set in slipcase, small repair to foot of rear hinge of Vol.1 o/w fine; and Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain – The Kingdom in Scotland (19th Edition, Vol.1), 2001, bound in leather, gilt, fine. (4)
Lot: 45
John Lilly Reports and Pleadings of Cases in Assise, for Offices, Nusances, Lands and Tenements, London, 1719, sm. folio, 19th Century half-leather worn at edges, marbled boards; some light foxing, contemp. manuscript annotations to title page and margins of seven pages, underlining to two pages of the preface and few other minor markings. Generally very clean internally. Ownership stamp of a Burnley solicitor to front pastedown; xxxii,129,(7)pp.
Lot: 46
British Military prints, 19th Century, two of Scottish regiments, colour lithographs heightened with hand-colouring to the uniforms & weapons, each 10.3 x 17.5cm, professionally framed & glazed. (3)
Lot: 47
Local History publications, mostly Lancs & Cheshire with much Greater Manchester and Merseyside, largely softbacks, several of transport interest. Some duplication. Mainly VG to fine. (48)
Lot: 48
F.O. Morris (ed.) A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie [1880], odd volumes comprising Vols. 1 to 3 (two of each) and Vol.4, all with the coloured plates. Publisher's gilt cloth, some wear. Foxing, mostly to the text and occasionally the plate margins. Hinges weak or cracked, some loose pages. (7)
Lot: 49
Basil Kennett Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome, London, 1737, tenth edn., 14 fine engraved plates (some folding), few pages of text with small stains; together with Alexander Adam Roman Antiquities, Edinburgh, 1797, good clean text. Old worn calf bindings; front board of Kennett's work detached, bearing armorial bookplate of Thomas Hunt. (2)
Lot: 50
Winston S. Churchill The World Crisis, Folio Society, 2007, five volume set; and two other Folio Society publications. All VF, in fine slipcases.
Lot: 51
Kamen Nevenkin Fortress Budapest: the siege of the Hungarian capital, 1944-45, 2020, two vols, and Szamveber Last Panzer Battles in Hungary, 2020, all in pictorial boards, front cover of Panzer Battles slightly marked o/w fine, no inscriptions. (3)
Lot: 52
WW2 Immigration of European Refugees to the United States: correspondence to Erwin Hirsch of Ohio concerning applications for immigration from his brother and family, refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia, at that time living in the United Kingdom; this archive includes Austrian & Czech ID papers, letters from the National Refugee Service (7), Department of Justice, the US Senate, the War Manpower Commission, and the US Consulate in London, plus a welcome card from The Daughters of the American Revolution with a miniature flag.
Lot: 53
Woven Silk by W.H. Grant of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. In original card mount, complete with descriptive back, c.1901. VG
Lot: 54
Knockaloe Internment camp, 1919: a letter from the Home Office to an internee, G. Kuhl, regarding his application to remain in the UK, exempting him from repatriation as an alien enemy. Stamped signature. Lower right corner torn away.
Lot: 55
Immigration and other Official Documents 1939-56 concerning L/Cpl. Stanislaw Bukielski and his wife Cpl. Julia Bukielska, both of the Polish Army, M.E.F., both granted permission to work with the Polish Resettlement Corps in the UK, together with two documents pertaining to Stanislaw Bukielski's Naturalization as a United States citizen in 1963, and four further documents supplied by the Polish Government 1949-1970s. VG condition. (23 documents)
Lot: 56
Scrapbook compiled by E. Dorothy Browne of Plumtree Rectory, Nottingham, 1897-1911, with some manuscript commentary of events in London, e.g. the 1897 Diamond Jubilee celebrations, funeral of Queen Victoria, and 1902 Coronation Procession. Includes programmes, cuttings and few photos, laid down or tipped-in with interest in Royal Events, fox-hunting, Adelina Patti concert 1903, Epsom Races programmes for 1908 (2), Doncaster Aviation meeting 1909, EVII Funeral programmes (2). One page of commentary torn away.
Lot: 57
Social & Political History, mainly UK related, with many h/bks in d/jkts, a few with ownership inscriptions, VG/VF. (No ex-library) (33).
Lot: 58
The 1926 General Strike, pair of anti-strike posters, one issued in the name of Sir John Simon M.P., each 36 x 24”, with folds; and a [Liverpool] Daily Post billboard poster concerning the Mersey Pilot Boat Disaster. VG (3)
Lot: 59
H.M.S. Endurance 1981-82 Deployment: A Season of Conflict, [1983], A4 s/bk, printed wraps, signed by Vivian Fuchs, Rex Hunt, and five others, a related letter from Lt.Cmdr. Andrew Lockett loosely inserted. 150pp plus 50pp of photo-plates. Scarce. Some wear to corners o/w VG.
Lot: 60
Bernard L. Montgomery signed Arnhem 25th Anniversary cover inscribed Montgomery of Alamein F.M. Fine. COA tipped on to reverse.