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Auction No 431, Category: Antiquarian

54 Lots (displaying 41 - 54)

Harold J. Smith (Ed.) "The Manchester Diocesan Magazine", 1904-1913, Vols 1 to 10, complete in half-leather gilt bindings, some wear, fine internally

Lot: 103

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
SOLD £5
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Harold J. Smith (Ed.) The Manchester Diocesan Magazine, 1904-1913, Vols 1 to 10, complete in half-leather gilt bindings, some wear, fine internally, Vol.1 with presentation bookplate. (10)

[John Walker] "Oxoniana", Richard Phillips, [1807], 4 vols, half-calf, gilt, peripheral wear, engraved titles & fold-out facsimiles to each volume,

Lot: 104

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £15
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[John Walker] Oxoniana, Richard Phillips, [1807], 4 vols, half-calf, gilt, peripheral wear, engraved titles & fold-out facsimiles to each volume, browning to first & last few leaves; together with Birch The Royal Charters of the City of Lincoln Henry II to William III, Cambridge, 1911, five plates, spine faded. (5)  

Catherine L. W. Powlett (Duchess of Cleveland) "In Memory of Colonel The Honourable Everard Henry Primrose", privately published, London, [1887];

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Catherine L. W. Powlett (Duchess of Cleveland) In Memory of Colonel The Honourable Everard Henry Primrose, privately published, London, [1887]; half-leather, gilt; frontispiece portrait. Inscribed by the author to Viscount Halifax top of title page. 257pp. A scarce title. [Col. Primrose (1848-85) served in the Grenadier Guards, later as the Military Attache at Vienna. He was the brother of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, UK Prime Minister. His mother, who is the author, was a very close companion to Queen Victoria and was bridesmaid at her wedding].

"Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society", a partial run comprising 1877, 1878, 1882-1899, 1913,

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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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)

Edward Baines "The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster", John Heywood, 1888, revised edition (with Pedigrees), edited by Croston;

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
SOLD £7
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Edward Baines The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, John Heywood, 1888, revised edition (with Pedigrees), edited by Croston; five volumes, quarto, orig. gilt cloth, backstrip of Vol.1 with some damage; small repair to folding map; minor spotting to prelims o/w very clean internally. Partly unopened. (5)

[Sir Walter Scott] "Six Engravings in Illustration of ‘The Antiquary’ for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland"

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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[Sir Walter Scott] Six Engravings in Illustration of ‘The Antiquary' for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1867, folio, original gilt cloth, various artists; together with companion volumes issued 1868-78, similarly bound, each with six engravings for The Lady of the Lake, Old Mortality, The Pirate, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, and The Fair Maid of Perth. Browning to first plate of Lady of the Lake o/w clean throughout, tissue-guards intact. (8) 

John Fisher "An Illustrated Record of the Retrospective Exhibition held at South Kensington, 1896", Chapman & Hall, 1897, quarto, gilt cloth,

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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John Fisher An Illustrated Record of the Retrospective Exhibition held at South Kensington, 1896, Chapman & Hall, 1897, quarto, gilt cloth, 256 b/w illustrations; slight wear to spine o/w fine. 

Colm O Lochlainn "Irish Street Ballads" and "More Irish Street Ballads", both Three Candles Ltd, Dublin, 1965, latter in d/jkt;

Lot: 150

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Colm O Lochlainn Irish Street Ballads and More Irish Street Ballads, both Three Candles Ltd, Dublin, 1965, latter in d/jkt; G.M. Tweddell Rhymes and Sketches to illustrate the Cleveland Dialect, Stokesley, 1875, limp cloth, very worn; and three others, regional poetry. (6)

"Ben Brierley’s Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life", Abel Heywood, 1882-85, nine volumes, gilt cloth; bookplates of W.H. Lever of Thornton Manor

Lot: 151

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Ben Brierley's Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life, Abel Heywood, 1882-85, nine volumes, gilt cloth; bookplates of W.H. Lever of Thornton Manor and ownership stamps of Robert Holland Ford. Most with front endpaper removed, hingeing weak in places, Vol.VI with few loose pages. Some foxing to prelims. (9)

Dialect stories, mostly Lancashire, including works by Edwin Waugh (9), Samuel Laycock, John Hartley and others.

Lot: 152

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £15
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Dialect stories, mostly Lancashire, including works by Edwin Waugh (9), Samuel Laycock, John Hartley and others. Two rebound; two others with tape repairs to inner hinges, and the map in Waugh's Rambles with similar repairs. Fair to fine. (15)

John Harland "Ballads and Songs of Lancashire", Whittaker & Co., 1865, the author's personal copy & signed by him on front endpaper;

Lot: 155

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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John Harland Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Whittaker & Co.,  1865, the author's personal copy & signed by him on front endpaper; alterations and annotations in Harland's hand to 'The Blessed Conscience' extending from pp.47 to 55 based on a manuscript provided to him after the book's initial publication. Small ownership stamp of the collector Robert Holland Ford at top of half-title. Together with Edwin Waugh Th' Owd Blanket and other stories, 1867; and Robert Dottie The Rambles and Recollections of “R' Dick”, Manchester 1898. (3)

Wesleyan interest including John Wesley "Sermons on Several Occasions", John Mason, 1863, 3 vols, gilt cloth;

Lot: 159

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Wesleyan interest including John Wesley Sermons on Several Occasions, John Mason, 1863, 3 vols, gilt cloth; Early Days; or, The Wesleyan Scholars Guide for the Year 1858, John Mason, gilt cloth, engraved plates; a 1779 pamphlet; The Primitive Methodist Hymn Book, 1878, bound in full stippled leather, with brass edges and clasp, and a Book of Common Prayer with similar binding; Swindells Brentnall Street Wesleyan Sunday School, Stockport, 1916; plus five others (one ex-library), and a fine engraving of the Wesleyan Conference Office, London, c.1860. (15)

"Canonical Histories and Apocryphal Legends relating to the New Testament represented in drawings with a Latin text", Milan, 1873, privately printed,

Lot: 168

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Canonical Histories and Apocryphal Legends relating to the New Testament represented in drawings with a Latin text, Milan, 1873, privately printed, sm.folio, full vellum, gilt, darkened, gift inscription of 1874, fine internally, 160 illustrated pages + prelims; together with a Biblia Sacra, Paris 1839, half-leather, recased; and Francis Wormald The Winchester Psalter, Harvey Miller & Metcalf, 1973, in d/jkt. (3)   

James Andrews (1801-76): Botanical studies. A selection of hand-coloured lithographs. Initialled ‘JA' in the designs. Published c.1865.

Lot: 170

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £62
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James Andrews (1801-76): Botanical studies. A selection of hand-coloured lithographs. Initialled ‘JA' in the designs. Published c.1865. Lithographed outlines by J.R. Jobbins. In soft mounts, suitable for framing. Image sizes 19.2 x 12cm. Fine (5)