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Auction No 427, Category: Antiquarian

16 Lots (displaying 1 - 16)

Various including Thomas Rose "Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland", 1833, Vols.1 & 2, engraved plates complete

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £52
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Various including Thomas Rose Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland, 1833, Vols.1 & 2, engraved plates complete (Vol.1 lacking front board); two early-19th Century bound vols. of sheet music (popular arias, rondos, etc); Demmin Weapons of War, 1870; and assorted others. Mixed condition. (12)

Assorted books including "The Spectator", Routledge, 1860, complete in 2 vols, worn leather; Genestoux "Les Trois Petits Chats", Hachette, 1936,

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Assorted books including The Spectator, Routledge, 1860, complete in 2 vols, worn leather; Genestoux Les Trois Petits Chats, Hachette, 1936, in poor d/jkt o/w VG; Mayhew London Labour and the London Poor – Those That Will Not Work, [1861], one leaf of the Contents missing; Brown's Signalling, James Brown, 1920; Smith The Class Book of Anatomy, 1837, old calf, some damp staining to first & last few leaves; and four others. Mixed condition. (10)

Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1899-1930, including "The Registers of the Parish Church of Whalley", 1900, and similar titles,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £90
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Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1899-1930, including The Registers of the Parish Church of Whalley, 1900, and similar titles, many scarce. Seven are ex-library. Gilt cloth. Some shelfwear to bindings. (14)

Chetham Society publications including "The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey", 1886-1919, six vols, and fourteen other volumes to 1931;

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Chetham Society publications including The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey, 1886-1919, six vols, and fourteen other volumes to 1931; plus a selection of seven of their modern publications. Foot of spine of vol.76 frayed o/w fine. (26)

Carr’s Biscuits, Carlisle, a collection of papers 1876-1906, chiefly 1870s, comprising letters (20), legal documents (4) and few other items,

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Carr's Biscuits, Carlisle, a collection of papers 1876-1906, chiefly 1870s, comprising letters (20), legal documents (4) and few other items, including a document concerning the construction of a railway siding by the North British Railway Co to the company's works, plus legal proceedings taken by and against Carr's. VG condition.

Letters to Duncan McCorquadale of Appin and Edinburgh, 1877-1880, mainly from James Sandilands of Eglinton, plus some related ephemera.

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Letters to Duncan McCorquadale of Appin and Edinburgh, 1877-1880, mainly from James Sandilands of Eglinton, plus some related ephemera. Many relate to McCorquadale's acceptance of the Christian faith but one includes description of W.E. Gladstone's visit to Glasgow in 1879. VG condition. (24 items)

Letters and manuscript documents, 1790s and 1800s, concerning John Kirby of Ellingham, Northumberland, and his daughter Mary Kelly,

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Letters and manuscript documents, 1790s and 1800s, concerning John Kirby of Ellingham, Northumberland, and his daughter Mary Kelly, wife to Simon Alexander Kelly of The Strand, London, including copy Wills of John Kirby and Mary Kelly. VG condition. (28 items)

Mid-18th Century to 1830s papers relating to the Genealogy of the Alder family of Northumberland including some Pedigrees,

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £40
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Mid-18th Century to 1830s papers relating to the Genealogy of the Alder family of Northumberland including some Pedigrees, together with a few medical prescriptions for Miss Alder. Some mixed condition but mostly VG/Fine. (44 items)

British Guiana. Papers relating to Thomas Frankland of Northumberland, later President of the Court of Civil and Criminal Justice in Demerara

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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British Guiana. Papers relating to Thomas Frankland of Northumberland, later President of the Court of Civil and Criminal Justice in Demerara and Essequibo, early 19th Century, including an extensive 6pp document of 1813 outlining false accusations of theft & perjury made against Thomas Frankland and his brother William by one John Tarleton, the document drawn up at the Temple, London, for a barrister's opinion. (9 items)

Brissonius "Barnabae Brissonii regii consistorii consiliarii, amplissimique senatus Parisiensis praesidis, De Formulis Et Sollemnibus Populi Romani

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £105
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Brissonius Barnabae Brissonii regii consistorii consiliarii, amplissimique senatus Parisiensis praesidis, De Formulis Et Sollemnibus Populi Romani verbis, Librii VIII. (Eight books in one). Frankfurt, 1592, quarto, old leather binding, recased & rebacked, new endpapers, library blindstamp top of title page. Browning to some leaves. A collection of Roman laws & treatises. (8),750,(84)pp

Marcus Eremitas (5th Cent.AD) "Marci Eremitae, Nicolai, Hesychii Presbyteri, opera quae extant", G. Morel, Paris, 1563; old calf binding

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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Marcus Eremitas (5th Cent.AD) Marci Eremitae, Nicolai, Hesychii Presbyteri, opera quae extant, G. Morel, Paris, 1563; old calf binding with gilt monogram BD to each corner, rebacked; Greek text. (4),299pp; together with William Hawney The Complete Measurer, 1769, requiring rebinding. (2)

[Horace Walpole] "The Castle of Otranto", J. Dodsley, 1782, fourth edition, old worn calf binding

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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[Horace Walpole] The Castle of Otranto, J. Dodsley, 1782, fourth edition, old worn calf binding, boards detached, pp.113/114 damaged & repaired (no loss of text) o/w VG internally; xxiv,200pp

Rev. John Brown "Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible", Edward Slater, Bradford, [1872]; elaborate blind-tooled & gilt leather, brass edges & clasps

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Rev. John Brown Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible, Edward Slater, Bradford, [1872]; elaborate blind-tooled & gilt leather, brass edges & clasps; inner hinges cracked o/w fine internally. Colour litho frontispiece and tissue-guarded plates, further b/w illustrations in text.    

George Nicholson "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening", L.Upcott Gill, [1885-1900], set of 12 volumes, publisher's decorated cloth, gilt,

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £52
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George Nicholson The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, L.Upcott Gill, [1885-1900], set of 12 volumes, publisher's decorated cloth, gilt, complete with the 36 colour plates. A few volumes slightly marked; volume VII has a small puncture hole to the front board which has affected the first plate.

"An Historical Account of all the Voyages Round the World Performed by English Navigators", F. Newbery, 1774, Vol.2 (of 4);

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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An Historical Account of all the Voyages Round the World Performed by English Navigators, F. Newbery, 1774, Vol.2 (of 4); old calf binding in poor condition, front board detached; six plates (one with border partly torn away), lacking endpapers; 440pp plus title.                

"The Wide World Magazine", Newnes, bound volumes for April to Sept. 1899, Oct.1899 to March 1900, Oct.1907 to March 1908, April to Sept.1908,

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £42
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The Wide World Magazine, Newnes, bound volumes for April to Sept. 1899, Oct.1899 to March 1900, Oct.1907 to March 1908, April to Sept.1908, Oct.1909 to March 1910, and April to Sept.1917; the 1899-1900 volumes in fine half-morocco, the 1917 volume in poor condition. (6)