Lot: 24
Great Northern Railway Company Reporter, 1849-1856, a bound volume, with few additional reports on associated companies including The East Lincolnshire, Royston & Hitchin etc; octavo, half-leather with peripheral wear, gilt title; original owner’s signature cut away from front endpaper o/w fine internally; 676pp including some interleaves. Newspaper Tax handstamps applied as appropriate.
Lot: 27
J.O. Westwood British Moths and their Transformations, William Smith, 1843, quarto, 2 Vols, half-morocco, gilt, VG; complete with 124 hand-coloured plates, some occasional minor tone marks o/w VG though 3 plates are repaired.
Lot: 29
Map of the Caucasus, dissected, linen-backed, 1860s, a large engraved relief map with excellent detail of mountain ranges and showing settlements; text in Russian. Fine, in original folder (plus damaged slipcase)
Lot: 32
James Lamont Yachting in the Arctic Seas, Chatto & Windus, 1876, the maps skilfully rebacked; Robert Peary The North Pole, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910; Frederick Cook My Attainment of the Pole, Polar Publishing, 1911; all repaired bindings, the Peary in fine modern half-leather; plus 4 others, two unrelated. Fair to fine. (7)
Lot: 37
Edward Baines (Jnr.) The Life of Edward Baines, Longman, 1859, 2nd Edition, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt title, VG; bookplate of William Garnett (M.P. for Lancaster 1857-63) of Bleasdale & Quernmore Park; photographic frontispiece rather faded; 316pp. The biography includes a chilling account of the Peterloo massacre, the failure to prosecute those that ordered the attack and the attempted Government cover-up which followed it, amongst much other contemporary narrative.
Lot: 38
Illustrated London News for July to December 1882, disbound, few illustrations damaged but generally fine internally with good military interest.
Lot: 39
Hulton Colliery, Westhoughton, company day-book containing records of Receipts and Disbursements 1807-1811, quarto, original vellum-covered boards (marked & grimed), sound binding, 192pp of manuscript entries written in a clear hand and clean internally.
Lot: 40
Robert Billings Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of the County of Durham: ecclesiastical, castellated and domestic, George Andrews, Durham, 1846, quarto, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, VG, new endpapers; 64 full-page tissue-guarded engraved plates, occasional minor fox mark.
Lot: 41
Charles Leigh The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts. Oxford, 1700, sm. folio, later full mottled calf, rebacked, VG; complete with folding map, hand-coloured in outline, engraved frontispiece and 24 other plates; text & index complete. The plates & map partially damp-stained also affecting parts of the text.
Lot: 47
Historical Records of the British Army 1836-1844, various volumes, all in original gilt cloth with coloured plates, comprising Seventh Hussars (2, one poor), Thirteenth Light Dragoons (2), Second Regiment of Foot (ex-library), Third Regiment of Foot, Third Dragoon Guards, and Eighth Regiment of Foot. Some plates loose. Poor to fine. (8)
Lot: 48
James Peller Malcolm Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century, Longman 1810, 2 Volumes, full calf, gilt, the backstrips worn; Vol.1 with 3 plates, Vol. 2 with 42 plates of which twelve are hand-coloured; some topographical plates show some spotting. Portions of the text of volume 1 show damp-staining. (2)
Lot: 49
John Walker An Attempt Towards an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England…… in the Late Times of the Grand Rebellion, London, 1714; folio, full contemp. leather, rebacked with gilt title; slight worming upper left margin; old library stamp & bookplate.
Lot: 50
Thomas Gent The Antient and Modern History of the Loyal Town of Rippon, 1733, many engraved plates, some added or overlaid on to the existing plates, occasional browning and few repairs; and The History of Ripon, W.Farrer, 1806, two hand-coloured engraved plates, some pages with annotations; both nicely rebound in modern quarter- or half-leather. Together with The Registers of the Parish Church of Adel, 1895, and The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley, 1903. Varied condition. (4)
Lot: 51
F.T. Havergal Fasti Herefordenses; & other Antiquarian Memorials of Hereford, R. Clark, 1869; quarto, contemp. half-leather, gilt, VG. Plates complete, fine internally.
Lot: 52
William Granville Eliot A Treatise on the Defence of Portugal, T. Egerton, 1811, 2nd Edition, paper-covered boards poor and in need of rebinding; clean text; complete with large Military Map (with few repairs) loosely inserted, and 6 smaller folding-maps at rear.
Lot: 53
Captain Robert Jameson Historical Record of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Foot or Cameron Highlanders, Blackwood, 1863, original gilt cloth, two colour plates (one heavily foxed) and double-page photo-plate; and other military history, including The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot 1892, two volumes with plates & maps, and other 19th Century. Mixed condition. (13)
Lot: 55
Richard Cannon Historical Records of the British Army, 1836-1851, various regiments, two rebound, others in original gilt cloth, all with coloured plates, comprising 5th Regt. of Foot, 3rd Regt. of Foot, Royal Regt. of Dragoons, Royal North Regt. of Fusiliers, The King’s Regt.,73rd Regt, 14th Dragoons, and 12th Lancers; mostly good to fine. (8)
Lot: 64
William Nimmo The History of Stirlingshire, 1880, 3rd Edition (enlarged), later half-leather, gilt, fine; t.e.g., some browning to endpapers, folding map with few repairs. (2)
Lot: 65
[John Seacombe] The History of the House of Stanley…[and]…a complete history of the Isle of Man, J. Gleave, 1821, rebound in modern gilt cloth over marbled boards, fine; good internally with all plates, occasional tone marks.
Lot: 73
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Genie du Christianisme, or Beautes de la Religion Chretienne Le Nomant, Paris, 1823, octavo, 5 volume set, 19th Cent half-calf, few scuff marks, gilt red titles, marbled boards, VG (5)