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Auction No 428, Category: Antiquarian

16 Lots (displaying 1 - 16)

F. Hackwood "Staffordshire Worthies", 1911, gilt cloth; "The History of the House of Stanley to which is added a Complete History of the Isle of Man"

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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F. Hackwood Staffordshire Worthies, 1911, gilt cloth; The History of the House of Stanley….to which is added a Complete History of the Isle of Man, 1821, nicely rebound in half-leather, five plates, few pages repaired, some loss of text; Bury related pamphlets (4) including Sanitary Inspector Reports for 1883, 1888 and 1895; brochure of 1885 concerning the proposed restoration of the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London, with hand-coloured plan; Lancashire bibliographies, etc. (13)

"Country Life" 1910/1911, 1912/1913, July-Dec.1915, and July- Oct. 1917, bound volumes, the 1912/13 volume lacking Feb. to April 1912,

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £115
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Country Life 1910/1911, 1912/1913, July-Dec.1915, and July-Oct. 1917, bound volumes, the 1912/13 volume lacking Feb. to April 1912, the 1915 & 1917 volumes with light damp staining (a few pages adhering at foot). Occasional colour plate. Gilt cloth. (4)

"The Central China Religious Tract Society’s Union Hymn Book", 1890s, full leather, gilt, Chinese text, the Index in English, printed on rice paper,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £125
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The Central China Religious Tract Society's Union Hymn Book, 1890s, full leather, gilt, Chinese text, the Index in English, printed on rice paper, inscription at top of first page of the index dated 1894, approx 340pp; together with a Chinese edition of The Holy Bible of similar date, quarter-leather, gilt. Both very clean internally. Some minor wear to the hymn book, the bible with few abrasions to front cover, rear board with upper corner chipped away and wear to upper corner of the text block (the printed text unaffected). (2)  

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

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £26 - £36
SOLD £15
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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.    

‘The Ettrick Shepherd’ [pseud. for James Hogg] "The Shepherd’s Calendar - Dreams and Apparitions", in "Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine"

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £50
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‘The Ettrick Shepherd' [pseud. for James Hogg] The Shepherd's Calendar – Dreams and Apparitions, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vols. XXI & XXII, William Blackwood, May to December 1827. bound in contemporary half-leather, gilt, over marbled boards, some minor wear; fine internally, no inscriptions. These two volumes contain the first appearance of James Hogg's Dreams and Apparitions in four parts, part of his sequence of supernatural stories collectively titled "The Shepherd's Calendar".

Thomas Baines and William Fairbairn "Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present", William Mackenzie [1868-69], two vols in four, pictorial gilt cloth,

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Thomas Baines and William Fairbairn Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present, William Mackenzie [1868-69], two vols in four, pictorial gilt cloth, worn at extremities; Division II with binding detached from text-block and foot of backstrip chipped; plates & maps intact, occasional browning to text. (4)  

J. W. Platt "The History and Antiquities of Nantwich", London, 1818, cloth-backed boards; Henry Green "Knutsford: Its Traditions and History", 1887;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £34
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J. W. Platt The History and Antiquities of Nantwich, London, 1818, cloth-backed boards; Henry Green Knutsford: Its Traditions and History, 1887; A Brother Beloved: a record of the life and experience of Mr. Jesse Croft, of Sale, Cheshire, 1925, and other Cheshire related titles. Platt's Nantwich with repair to pp.115/116, a further repair required to pp.57/58. (8)

Thomas Middleton "The History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood", Higham Press, 1932; Swann "Glimpses of Mellor", 1940;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £42
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Thomas Middleton The History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood, Higham Press, 1932; Swann Glimpses of Mellor, 1940; A.J. French The Life of John Birchenall M.R.C.S., F.L.S., of Macclesfield, [1881], photographic plate; Massie The Paintings in Gawsworth Church, Macclesfield, 1853, rebound; Stalybridge Official Handbook [1948], with fold-out map; and three other Cheshire titles. Good to fine. (8)

J. Corbett "The River Irwell", 1907; McKechnie "Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen", 1915, 2nd impression, tipped-in plates;

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £70
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J. Corbett The River Irwell, 1907; McKechnie Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, 1915, 2nd impression, tipped-in plates; Didsbury Coronation Festivities 1911 (2 copies, many half-tone plates); John Booker A History of the Ancient Chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton, Chetham Society, 1857, worn binding; Speake A History of Droylsden, 1953; Grindon Manchester Banks and Bankers, 1877; John Loudon Manchester Memoirs, Royal Exchange Assurance, 1916, half-leather, gilt; Procter Manchester in Holiday Dress, 1866 (spine chipped & faded); and related titles. (18)

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

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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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)

"A Visit to the Tower, Being an Account of Several Birds and Beasts", printed by J. Kendrew, York, c.1820; small pamphlet, 10 x 6.5cm, 16pp,

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £10
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A Visit to the Tower, Being an Account of Several Birds and Beasts, printed by J. Kendrew, York, c.1820; small pamphlet, 10 x 6.5cm, 16pp, wood engravings throughout, some light foxing

James Baillie Fraser "Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains and to the sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges",

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £250
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James Baillie Fraser Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains and to the sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges, Rodwell & Martin, 1820, quarto, lacking map, some light scattered foxing; quarter-leather, very worn, front board detached.

"Work: The Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics", 17th July 1897 to 6th August 1898, bound volume, complete with ten fold-out colour plates

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Work: The Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics, 17th July 1897 to 6th August 1898, bound volume, complete with ten fold-out colour plates (plus one in b/w) usually missing from bound volumes of this title, all in fine condition. Quarto, quarter-cloth, gilt, worn. Together with two Engineering Trade Catalogues of 1927 and 1958 with 100s of half-tone illustrations, cloth bound, VG. (3)    

"North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Transactions" 1878-1882, bound into four vols, complete with the plates, many folding;

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Transactions 1878-1882, bound into four vols, complete with the plates, many folding; octavo, half-leather, rubbed, gilt titles, fine internally. (4)       

"Ellerby & Cheetham's Manchester District Railway Time Table", January 1858 to December 1859, the 24 issues complete, all with original wraps,

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £350
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Ellerby & Cheetham's Manchester District Railway Time Table, January 1858 to December 1859, the 24 issues complete, all with original wraps, bound together as a single volume, the spine rebacked, fine gilt leather title, new endpapers; a small advert cut away from the October 1859 issue o/w fine internally. Includes Omnibus timetables, and unusual timetable for “Swift Packet Boats” on the Dunkinfield to Marple Canal. Very scarce.

Great Britain Postmaster General Annual Reports for 1858 to 1865, 1885 to 1890, 1891 to 1900, and 1901 to 1910, bound into four volumes,

Lot: 151

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Great Britain Postmaster General Annual Reports for 1858 to 1865, 1885 to 1890, 1891 to 1900, and 1901 to 1910, bound into four volumes, the bindings poor, some pages damaged in 1858/65 volume but generally the contents complete and clean and a mine of information.. (33 reports)