Lot: 1
Pamphlets, historical & literary, including Instructions of King Henry VIII for the General Visitations of the Monasteries and Nunneries 1538-39, and a related item, both in the Historical Reprints series, 1885-86; Manchester related titles by Ernest Axon (4); Martin Byron's Lyrics, 1940; Williams Mandell Creighton: Modern Carlisle's Greatest Son, 1933; Hubback The Parents in Jane Austen's Novels; and others. Good to VF (21)
Lot: 2
Mix in carton with many Cigarette Card sets & odds including album of Ogden Guinea Golds; various PPCs espec. France; transport ephemera; framed prints & w/colours; 1930s albums of snapshot photos; two Victorian Scrap albums (incl. 3 pages of crests/monograms; etc. (Over 12 kilos)
Lot: 3
Carton of softbacks, 20th Century, mainly historical, plus guides, geology, etc many of Architectural interest. Mainly A5 format. Good to VF (80)
Lot: 4
Various including Wyld The Physics and Philosophy of the Senses, 1875; Hartley-Hennessy Healing by Water or Drinking Sunlight, 1951; Bragg The Universe of Light, 1945, in d/jkt; Dods Mohammed, Buddha and Christ, 1899; Plichta God's Secret Formula, 1997, in d/jkt, and four others. Good to VF (9)
Lot: 5
An Edwardian Scrap Album, 12" x 10", decorated cloth, 43 pages of mostly chromo-litho scraps of children, animals, soldiers, birds etc, ownership inscription dated 1903; and a 1920s children's scrap book with 33 pages of scraps and few greetings cards. Some wear to the albums, VG internally. (2)
Lot: 6
Harrison Ainsworth The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of '45, Tauchnitz, 1873, two vols, half-calf, gilt; L'Abbe B. [Bathelemy Baudrand] The Elevation of the Soul to God, trans. Robert Plowden, B.Thorn, Exeter, [1785], 2 vols, rebound in half-calf, gilt, pp.75/6 torn & stained; J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928, first edition; Rowland & ‘Berkeley' Card Tricks & Puzzles, 1902; and Hercat Card Tricks and Conjuring Up to Date, [1899]. (7)
Lot: 7
The Golden Ass of Apuleius, Chiswick Press, 1904, two-colour cloth, rubricated text on hand-made paper, No. 12 of 220 issued; G.F. Handel Samson, arranged for the Organ or Piano Forte, London, 1810, folio, text printed from copper engraved plates; The Poetical Works of John Dryden, London, 1813, 16mo, 3 vols (in 2), full calf, gilt, rebacked, each vol. with an engraved plate; The Beauties of Sterne, London, 1799, old tree-calf, gilt; and The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells. (6)
Lot: 8
Easton Press ‘Millennium Edition' selection comprising Cervantes Don Quixote, Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle, R.H. Dana Two Years Before the Mast, and Edward Lane (trans.) Stories from the Thousand and One Nights. All in full leather, gilt. VF (4)
Lot: 9
Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical and Agricultural Discoveries, J. Wyatt, London, 1806-1812, eight volume set, half-leather, gilt, worn, marbled boards; occasional foxing, largely confined to title pages and endpapers, Vols.1 and 4 lacking title labels. A good set and very scarce when complete. (8)
Lot: 10
The Brewers' Almanack and Wine and Spirit Trade Annual for 1936 and 1937, Review Press Ltd for the Brewers' Society, printed cloth, 368pp and 390pp plus adverts.VG (2)
Lot: 11
Folio Society publications including works illustrated by Rackham, Heath Robinson, Detmold (2) and Edmund Dulac. Fine, all in the slipcases. (10)
Lot: 12
Various including A. & C. Black topography (7), five illustrated by Heaton Cooper (one rebound in half-leather); Temple The Gytrash of Goathland, 1928; Pendlebury The Archaeology of Crete, 1967, in d/jkt; and Le Plutarque de l'Enfance, 1812, engraved plates, improvised wraps. (16)
Lot: 13
Joseph Gillow A Literary and Biographical History or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534 to the Present Time, Burns & Oates, 1885, five volumes, gilt cloth, Vols.2 to 5 faded, Vol.1 rebound. Fine internally. Partly unopened. (5).
Lot: 14
The Bookman – Special Christmas Number 1924, Hodder & Stoughton, including fine tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen (2) & Detmold. First advertisement page with abrasion & tear o/w fine internally.
Lot: 15
Cash's Silk Bookmarks, a collection in album and plastic sleeves, together with 20 other modern woven silk bookmarks. Fine (71)
Lot: 16
Woven Silk Bookmarks (17), several by Thomas Stevens, plus printed silks (4) given with Sunday Companion 1924, and embroidered types including few modern. Many 19th Century. Good to VF (47)
Lot: 17
20th Century Bookmarks, most of Advertising interest, various products and services notably Scottish Widows (36) and other insurance companies. About 50% are modern. (190)
Lot: 18
Bookmarks in six albums, mostly publicising the Book Trade including booksellers, authors and publishers, mostly 1970s to 2000s, some earlier, fine throughout. (abt. 800)
Lot: 19
Foreign & Commonwealth Bookmarks, a collection in four albums, largely 1980s to modern. (abt. 680) . Also an album with some 1920s greetings cards and PPCs.
Lot: 20
Bookmarks in eight binders, mostly 1970s to 2000s, one binder also containing many book token cards. Wide variety of themes and issuers. Fine throughout. (abt. 1,100) .