Lot: 61
Sturge & Clark The Mount School, York, 1785-1814 & 1831-1931, J.M. Dent, 1931, orig. gilt cloth, front endpaper signed by the staff & girls of the school with over 30 signatures including Winifred Sturge one of the co-authors. B/w plates. Foxing to half-title with few tone marks on next few leaves. Unusual item.
Lot: 62
Conclusion of the Trial of Laurence Balfe and Edward McQuirk for the Murder of George Clarke, at Brentford Election. S.Bladon, London, 1769. A pamphlet, disbound, 16pp, browning to front cover.
Lot: 63
The Woman in the Cage on London Bridge; The manner of burying Wm.Wiseman in the Fields, who died in Prison; Twenty Two Prisoners in one Band from Colchester to London; and The Burning of Rose Allins Hand by Edmund Tyrill. 18th Century copper engravings, two engraved by Thomas Bowles, Approx 6.5 x 8”. On watermarked paper of the period. Large margins. Fine. (4)
Lot: 64
The Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812, comprising a hand-coloured etching by Dennes Dighton of the assassin John Bellingham at the Old Bailey, and an Act of Parliament to provide for the widow & children of Spencer Perceval. Also four other Acts including an 1842 Act for establishing a Prison at Pentonville, and two concerning Prisons at Millbank and Perth. The print 29 x 21cm, with some browning and manuscript annotations. (6)
Lot: 65
Maidstone Police document, 1838, signed by 16 police officers, acknowledging payment for their services from the 23rd to 29th September. 16 x 13”, framed & glazed.
Lot: 66
Charles Welch History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames, London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in, few newscuttings laid down on final two leaves, half-leather, gilt; Dasent Piccadilly in Three Centuries with some account of Berkeley Square and The Haymarket, Macmillan, 1920, in chipped d/jkt; and other London titles. (12)
Lot: 67
Winston S. Churchill The Second World War, Cassell, 1948-54, a good set of first editions, the jackets of Vols.1 & 2 poor. Vol.2 with brief gift inscription to front endpaper. Also 3 other WW2. (9)
Lot: 68
H. Montgomery Hyde Norman Birkett: The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston, 1964, 1st Edn,, gilt cloth, signed and warmly inscribed by the author, in defective d/jkt.
Lot: 69
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, a partial run comprising 1877, 1878, 1882-1899, 1913, 1915-1923, 1925-1940, 1956-1962, 1965, 1966, 1973-1975, and 14 later to 2015. Also two Index vols., and a commemorative volume. 22 of the 1913-40 period are cloth bound, gilt. Many of the 19th Century volumes have faults to the paper covers (1897 & 1899 covers damaged and detached) o/w VG/VF (75)
Lot: 70
German Military ‘In Memoriam' Cards WWI (46) and WW2, plus few civilian, including 65 illustrated with portraits of the servicemen. A good collection in modern album. Several accompanied by collector's research notes. Nine are photogaphic reproductions. Some mixed condition but mostly VG/Fine. (106)
Lot: 71
Collection of ‘In Memoriam' cards 19th and early-20th Century, many of residents of North-East Yorkshire and Co. Durham, with the parishes named in which they lived, plus some for WWI soldiers killed in action and later items. In four modern albums. VG/VF (302)
Lot: 72
Military Aircraft, mainly WW2, a collection of modern photographs, mainly coloured, 6 x 4”, contained in twelve albums. Includes close-ups of engines and components. Also an album with 25 photos of fire engines. (580)
Lot: 73
Cheshire photographs, comprising negatives (65), and duplicated 10 x 8” modern printings taken from some of the negatives, notably Knutsford & Prestbury, plus Alderley Edge, Great Warford, Macclesfield and others.
Lot: 74
C.H. Dick Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick, Macmillan, 1916, first edition, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, folding map; and others, mostly Scotland, with interest in hiking & topography, many in d/jkts (one ex-library). (41)
Lot: 75
George Bridge The Mountains of England and Wales, 1973, first edition, in d/jkt; Gray The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui, 1970, first edn., in d/jkt; Robertson George Mallory, 1969, first edn., in d/jkt; and related works from 1906. (44)
Lot: 76
Lake District interest including Sansom Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War, 1982, first edn., in d/jkt; Dudley Hoys Below Scafell, 1956, in d/jkt, signed by the author; Nancy Price Vagabond's Way, 1914, first edn., gilt cloth, some fox marks; and others, many in d/jkts, Hunter Davies' Wainwright signed by the author. (32)
Lot: 77
Mountaineering and Rambling with many Wales related, plus few West of England, and some Alpine titles; many in d/jkts, some mixed condition. (36)
Lot: 78
Beneath the Lakeland Fells: Cumbria's Mining Heritage, Red Earth, 1992, in d/jkt; and a selection of other Lake District titles from 1899, many of fell-walking interest, many in d/jkts. (40)
Lot: 79
Highland photography, mostly Scotland but including Poucher The Surrey Hills, 1949 and Peak Panorama, 1946, both first edns., in d/jkts, and other works by Poucher incl.The Magic of Skye, 1949, first edn. Surrey Hills with small tape stains to endpapers. (32)
Lot: 80
Mountaineering in the Himalayas, a collection, many in d/jkts including W.H. Murray The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951, first edn; M.S. Kohli Nine Atop Everest, 1989, first edn; Ullman High Conquest, 1943 (Travel Book Club); Chris Bonington The Everest Years, 1986, signed first; John Jackson More Than Mountains 1955, signed first; Noyce Climbing the Fish's Tail, 1958, first edn; and various others (3 ex-library). (37)