Auction No 423, Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT

214 Lots (displaying 61 - 80)

Scholfield "Batsford’s Manchester Then and Now", 2009, in d/jkt; Calvert "A History of the Manchester Post Office 1625-1900";

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Scholfield Batsford's Manchester Then and Now, 2009, in d/jkt; Calvert  A History of the Manchester Post Office 1625-1900; Bracegirdle The Microscopic Photographs of J.B. Dancer, 1993, in slipcase; and other Manchester history & nostalgia. Mostly VG/VF (40)  

Cheshire local history, mainly Altrincham & Bowdon area, but including Mortimer "The History of the Hundred of Wirral", in d/jkt

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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Cheshire local history, mainly Altrincham & Bowdon area, but including Mortimer The History of the Hundred of Wirral, in d/jkt (Morten reprint); mostly modern titles, chiefly softbacks, VG/VF. Includes few pamphlets. (29) 

James Cocks "Memorials of Hatherlow and of the Old Chadkirk Chapel", Stockport, 1895, orig. gilt cloth, large-paper edition, uncut at foot;

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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James Cocks Memorials of Hatherlow and of the Old Chadkirk Chapel, Stockport, 1895, orig. gilt cloth, large-paper edition, uncut at foot; and other Stockport area titles including A History of Mobberley Village, John Sherratt, 1973, in d/jkt; works on Cheadle Hulme School (2), etc. VG/VF (12)

Manchester & area local history titles, all softbacks, mostly 1970s to modern, mainly good to VF (56)

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £34
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Manchester & area local history titles, all softbacks, mostly 1970s to modern, mainly good to VF (56) 

"Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1888", nine subsequent volumes to 1932, and five more recent;

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1888, nine subsequent volumes to 1932, and five more recent; Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, 1889; plus few other bound journals and monographs including a history of Wythenshawe. (23)

Harry Patch (with Richard Van Emden) "The Last Fighting Tommy", Bloomsbury 2007, First Edition, signed by Harry Patch on the title page.

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £52
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Harry Patch (with Richard Van Emden) The Last Fighting Tommy, Bloomsbury 2007, First Edition, signed by Harry Patch on the title page. Fine in complete d/jacket. No other inscriptions.

Field-Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery "A History of Warfare", Collins, 1968, signed by the author on half-title. First Edition.

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £125
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Field-Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery A History of Warfare, Collins, 1968, signed by the author on half-title. First Edition. Gilt cloth. Slight damp-staining upper left of front board. Fine internally.  

WW2 German Propaganda Air-Drop leaflet, employed for use over Russian occupied areas. Single sheet, 15 x 10cm, text both sides.

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £22
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WW2 German Propaganda Air-Drop leaflet, employed for use over Russian occupied areas. Single sheet, 15 x 10cm, text both sides.

Herman A. Vos "Het ABC van het Naziregiem", A.N.U.M., Leuven & Brussel, [1944]; stapled booklet, 28pp of colour cartoons. Fine

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
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Herman A. Vos Het ABC van het Naziregiem, A.N.U.M., Leuven & Brussel, [1944]; stapled booklet, 28pp of colour cartoons. Fine

Henry Buckton "Voices From The Battle of Britain", David & Charles, 2010, in d/jkt, signed by eight Battle of Britain veterans on a bookplate

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £30
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Henry Buckton Voices From The Battle of Britain, David & Charles, 2010, in d/jkt, signed by eight Battle of Britain veterans on a bookplate laid down on front endpaper. Fine.

WW2 Forced Labour Camps, pair of Work Permits issued to two Polish citizens, Juljan Kaczmarek and Bruno Kudlinski, in 1940 & 1942 respectively,

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £56
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WW2 Forced Labour Camps, pair of Work Permits issued to two Polish citizens, Juljan Kaczmarek and Bruno Kudlinski, in 1940 & 1942 respectively, heavily creased, one with tape repairs. Also a PC posted by a civilian in Warsaw, 1941. (3)     

WW2 German Relationship Declaration, 10/2/1943, with added typed text "Bin weder mit einer Judin noch einem Mischling verheiratet"

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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WW2 German Relationship Declaration, 10/2/1943, with added typed text Bin weder mit einer Judin noch einem Mischling verheiratet. (“I am neither married to a Jew nor to a person of mixed race”). Issued in Berlin, signed in pencil. Central fold, o/w fine.

Holocaust Photographs: a selection of original photos comprising a pair of snapshots of Litzmannstadt Ghetto, one showing a queue for food,

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £210
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Holocaust Photographs: a selection of original photos comprising a pair of snapshots of Litzmannstadt Ghetto, one showing a queue for food, the other clearing snow at the cemetery; two official Press Photos by Czech photographer Jan Bartuse of Prague showing released Concentration Camp victims at a railway station, one overlooked by men in uniform and civilians, each 5 x 7”; and three poor quality privately taken photos depicting the expulsion of Jews from their homes in Warsaw, one apparently depicting looters carrying away property (these photos salvaged from a fire, one with burn marks). (7)

Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1944 notice announcing the availability of clothing, coffee, perfume and other items from 1st to 10th September

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £58
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Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1944 notice announcing the availability of clothing, coffee, perfume and other items from 1st to 10th September at specific locations. Single sheet, 11.5 x 8”, text both sides, some peripheral faults with slight loss at one corner.

Red Cross Armband from Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp, Silesia, with incomplete camp handstamp dated 1944.

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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Red Cross Armband from Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp, Silesia, with incomplete camp handstamp dated 1944.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp Armband for prisoners on work detail with stitched cloth triangle and camp handstamp; and a Kapo Armband

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £175
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Auschwitz Concentration Camp Armband for prisoners on work detail with stitched cloth triangle and camp handstamp; and a Kapo Armband with indistinct handstamp, worn by a ‘prisoner functionary'. The pink triangle used for the prisoner on work detail was used to denote homosexuals.   (2)

Third Reich period Armbands issued to Jews in Ghettos and Concentration Camps, one from Buchenwald Camp with a green triangle

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £300
SOLD £320
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Third Reich period Armbands issued to Jews in Ghettos and Concentration Camps, one from Buchenwald Camp with a green triangle used to denote a professional criminal; an armband inscribed “Jaad” of Dutch origin also bears the handstamp of the Villiampole Ghetto in Lithuania and is unlikely to be genuine, and another with OST sewn patch is of doubtful authenticity. (5)

H.W. Wilson "With the Flag to Pretoria", Harmsworth, 1900, 2 vols, and "After Pretoria:The Guerilla War", Amalgamated Press, 1902, 2 vols,

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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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)

Sainty & Meydel-Mankoo (Editors) "World Orders of Knighthood and Merit", Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 2006, two vols, gilt cloth, in slipcase,

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £96
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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.

"Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage", 2003, 3 volume set in slipcase, small repair to foot of rear hinge of Vol.1 o/w fine;

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 24th Jan 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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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)