Lot: 54
[Octavien de Guasco, Comte de Clavieres] De l'usage des statues chez les anciens, essai historique. J.L. De Boubers, Brussels, 1768; quarto, contemp. full leather, worn, gilt title chipped; 14 fine plates at rear; author’s name entered in ink on title page; xxiii, 505, (2)pp, plus plates. Clean text.
Lot: 55
[Rugby School] The Rugby Miscellany, March 1845-October 1846, nine issues, all bar one with original printed wraps, the March 1845 issue with cover worn & loose. (9)
Lot: 56
The Acts Made in the First Parliament of Our most High and Dread Soveraign, Charles the First [with] The Laws and Acts Made in the First Parliament of Our most High and Dread Soveraign, Charles the Second [with] The Laws and Acts Made in the Second Parliament of Our most High and Dread Soveraign, Charles the Second. David Lindsay, Edinburgh, 1683; 12mo, 3 books in one, each with separate title pages; nicely rebound in quarter leather, gilt, with raised bands, marbled boards, a.e.g. Light browning to text. 640pp
Lot: 57
Agreement for the Commutation of Tithes in the Parish of Tarleton in the County of Lancaster, 1845, a copy document, folio, half-leather, comprising 90pp of hand-written text with lists of landowners and tenants. Hingeing partly cracked; fine internally.
Lot: 58
Johannis Pistory Illustrium veterum scriptorum, qui rerum a Germanis per multas aetate gestarum historia vel annales posteris reliquerunt. Andrae Wecheli, Frankfurt, 1583, folio, 2 Volumes, bound in full vellum-covered boards dated 1609, later gilt leather titles and red sides; the covers wormed but text unaffected. Text fine and complete. Bookplates of Edward Davenport.
Lot: 59
The Whole Proceedings in the House of Peers upon the Impeachment Exhibited by the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, in Parliament Assembled, in the Names of Themselves and of all the Commons of Great Britain; against Simon Lord Lovat, for High Treason. Samuel Billingsley, 1747, folio, worn quarter-leather, 188pp; bound with Proceedings for High Treason against 3 others, 1746, 39pp; text and preliminaries clean and complete.
Lot: 63
John Watson The History and Antiquities of The Parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire, T. Lowndes, 1775, quarto, full calf, rebacked with gilt title label & raised bands, and new endpapers; title page has signature cut away at top; complete with 10 plates (4 folding); some light browning, largely confined to margins.
Lot: 68
John Harland The Lancashire Lieutenancy of the Tudors and Stuarts, Chetham Soc., 1859, 2 Vols, the plates affected by foxing; Abraham Stansfield Poems, Sonnets & Translations, 1903, 1st Edn, b/w frontispiece, VG; Frederick Overend History of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Bacup, 1912, VG, 19 plates, presentation bookplate of 1948 signed by the Pastor & four others;and other local history, chiefly Lancashire. Fair to Fine. (15)
Lot: 69
Theodore Armstrong The Hazel Grove Industrial & Equitable Co-Operative Society Ltd 1860-1910: An Historical Sketch, CWS, Manchester, 1910; small octavo, original gilt cloth, spine faded; light browning to endpapers o/w fine internally; 64pp including 11 full-page photo-plates. Scarce
Lot: 71
John Sugden Slaithwaite Notes of the Past and Present, John Heywood, 1905, First Edn., original printed cloth, VG; ownership signatures to front pastedown; fine internally; xvi,220pp, 10 plates.
Lot: 72
John Holt Occasional Verses, Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo, original gilt cloth, fine; a selection of verses written during the 1870s to 1890s, mostly in Lancashire Dialect. B/w portrait. 75pp + prelims. Rare title. A single copy held at the Bodleian library.
Lot: 83
Thomas Whitaker An History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe to which is subjoined an Account of the Parish of Cartmell, George Routledge, 1872-74, 4th Edition, 2 volumes, recased with new endpapers and employing much of the original gilt cloth binding; VG internally with all plates and folding pedigrees; browning to tissue-guards partially transferred to plate margins. (2)
Lot: 89
William Hale Treatise on the Comparative Merits of a Rifle Gun and Rotary Rocket considered as a mechanical means of ensuring a correct line of flight to a body impelled through space. W. Mitchell, Military Bookseller, 1863, First Edition; octavo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, VG; ownership inscription at top of title page o/w fine internally; 39pp plus folding diagram.
Lot: 91
R.J.H. Douglas The Works of George Cruikshank Classified and Arranged with references to Reid’s Catalogue, H.Sotheran & others, 1903, quarto, orig. gilt cloth, VG; title-page slightly detached o/w fine internally. 301pp
Lot: 93
Captain Seccombe Army and Navy Drolleries, Frederick Warne, [1876], quarto, pictorial cloth, gilt, very good; 24 full-page chromo-litho plates printed by Kronheim (one placed as a frontispiece).
Lot: 95
Albert Adam Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes, Hautecoeur Freres, Paris, c.1870, sm.folio, gilt cloth, fine, 32 hand-coloured lithographs on 16 pages, plus hand-coloured title page. Few small fox marks o/w fine internally.
Lot: 102
Gabrielle Le Brasseur Hints on Cookery, 1891; Allison Wright The Wright Cookery Book, 1911; Herisse The Art of Pastry Making, French and English, 1893; Charles Francatelli The Modern Cook, 1883, spotting to title & frontispiece; and two related. All original cloth, good to VF. (6)
Lot: 104
Beeton’s Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book, Ward Lock, original gilt cloth, VG, colour plates, gift inscription of 1881, some small faults; What to do with the Cold Mutton, 1887; Modern Domestic Cookery, John Murray, 1851, original gilt cloth, repaired; and Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management, Ward Lock, 1923, VG. Good to VG (4)
Lot: 105
W.H. Roberts The British Wine-Maker and Domestic Brewer, A. & C.Black, 1849, 5th Edn, small octavo, original blind-tooled and gilt cloth relaid with new endpapers, sporadic light spotting/browning affects some pages; xv,384,16pp.
Lot: 111
Henry Carey The Dramatick Works of Henry Carey, S. Gilbert, 1743, first collected edition, later full leather, ex-library; title and dedication pages heavily foxed, some spotting and peripheral browning elsewhere; pp.187/188 missing; some other pages repaired. Offered “as found”.