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Auction No 432, Category: Antiquarian

17 Lots (displaying 1 - 17)

Henry Houlding "Rhymes and Dreams, Legends of Pendle Forest, and other Poems", Burnley, 1895, half-leather, gilt, tissue-guarded plates;

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £76
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Henry Houlding Rhymes and Dreams, Legends of Pendle Forest, and other Poems, Burnley, 1895, half-leather, gilt, tissue-guarded plates; Stella Benson Hope Against Hope and other stories, Macmillan, 1931, signed by the author; Tennyson Maud, 1921, illustrated by Edmund Sullivan & signed by him; Jim Sargisson Joe Scoap's Stwories, Whitehaven, 1911; James Macaulay Poems on Various Subjects, Edinburgh, 1790, half-leather, engraved frontispiece, title page creased; Daniel Defoe A Tour Thro' the whole Island of Great Britain, Peter Davies, 1927, 2 vols; and various others. (16)

[Henrietta Wilson] "Things To Be Thought Of. Addressed to the Young", W.P. Kennedy, 1853, gilt calf, rubbed at periphery;

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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[Henrietta Wilson] Things To Be Thought Of. Addressed to the Young, W.P. Kennedy, 1853, gilt calf, rubbed at periphery; The Poetical Works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber, Gall & Inglis, [1881], half leather, gilt, eight fine steel engravings; Compendium of Evidence of Christianity, D.Walther, 1821, six vols bound in three, half-leather, gilt, light foxing to preliminary leaves; and nine other antiquarian books in mixed condition. (12)

Assorted books with William Andrews "Historic Romance: Strange Stories, Characters, Scenes, Mysteries", 1883, and a variety of others

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £15
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Assorted books with William Andrews Historic Romance: Strange Stories, Characters, Scenes, Mysteries, 1883, and a variety of others including four more by Andrews. VG to fine condition throughout. (13)

Victorian leather-bound photo album with family portraits of Co. Durham and Cleveland area, comprising cabinet (16) and carte de visite (14) photos,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Victorian leather-bound photo album with family portraits of Co. Durham and Cleveland area, comprising cabinet (16) and carte de visite (14) photos, including school groups (2) and Kildale church. Also 17 snapshots and four later photos. Album lacks clasp.

Thomas Hood "The Comic Annual" 1830 to 1839 complete, pictorial boards, quarter-leather, gilt; "The Gem, a Literary Annual", 1829, edited by Hood,

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Thomas Hood The Comic Annual 1830 to 1839 complete, pictorial boards, quarter- leather, gilt; The Gem, a Literary Annual, 1829, edited by Thomas Hood, full leather, gilt; and other works by Hood including Whims and Oddities, John Camden Hotten, [1868], later cloth, together a critical biography by J.C. Reid. The 1834 edition of The Comic Annual in poor condition. (16)

Edward Hake "Newes out of Powles Churchyarde", Henry Sotheran, 1872, full vellum, darkened, No.38 of 131 (one of six in vellum), signed by the editor;

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £115
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Edward Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde, Henry Sotheran, 1872, full vellum, darkened, No.38 of 131 (one of six in vellum), signed by the editor; Galsworthy Author and Critic, 1933, No.195 of 300; Charles Doughty Mansoul, 1923, No.53 of 500, author signed; L.A.G. Strong The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce, 1949, full leather, gilt, No. XII of twelve presentation copies, signed by the author; James Henry James Herefordia, Edward Lacey, 1861; Charles Scott Per Contra, 1902, privately printed, signed and annotated by the author, the annotations based on recommendations by Andrew Lang; and various others. Mansoul with boards bowed. (15)

"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: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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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)

William Smith "Old Yorkshire" 1881-84, five volumes, and the New Series additions of 1889-91 in three volumes; gilt cloth, b/w plates.

Lot: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £10
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William Smith Old Yorkshire 1881-84, five volumes, and the New Series additions of 1889-91 in three volumes; gilt cloth, b/w plates. Some minor spotting to prelims. Attractive set. (8)  

"An Old York Church. All Hallows in North Street", York, 1908, folio, gilt cloth, No.218 of 500, many plates;

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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An Old York Church. All Hallows in North Street, York, 1908, folio, gilt cloth, No.218 of 500, many plates; Caine The Martial Annals of the City of York, 1898, gilt cloth, 60 illustrations; Widdrington Analecta Eboracensia – Some Remaynes of the Ancient City of York, C.J. Clark, 1897, gilt cloth, No.27 of 265, twenty-six plates; Memoirs illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York, John Murray, 1847-48, two vols., with plates, title pages foxed; and York Bridgemasters' Accounts, York Archaeological Trust, 2002, 497pp, damage to foot of the spiral binding. (6)

George Benson "Coins:Especially those relating to York", 1914, and "The Ancient Painted Glass Windows in the Minster and Churches of the City of York"

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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George Benson Coins: Especially those relating to York, 1914, and The Ancient Painted Glass Windows in the Minster and Churches of the City of York, 1915, both in later cloth, gilt; Solloway The Alien Benedictines of York, 1910, gilt cloth, No.122 of 250, b/w plates; Ritchie The Ecclesiastical Courts of York, 1956, in d/jkt; Depositions from the Castle of York, Surtees Society, 1861, gilt cloth, and others including two bound volumes of York Historian 1976-2003. (9)

"Conclusion of the Trial of Laurence Balfe and Edward McQuirk for the Murder of George Clarke, at Brentford Election". S.Bladon, London, 1769.

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £32
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Conclusion of the Trial of Laurence Balfe and Edward McQuirk for the Murder of George Clarke, at Brentford Election. S.Bladon, London, 1769. A pamphlet, disbound, 16pp, browning to front cover. 

"The Woman in the Cage on London Bridge"; "The manner of burying Wm.Wiseman in the Fields, who died in Prison";

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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The Woman in the Cage on London Bridge; The manner of burying Wm.Wiseman in the Fields, who died in Prison; Twenty Two Prisoners in one Band from Colchester to London; and The Burning of Rose Allins Hand by Edmund Tyrill. 18th Century copper engravings, two engraved by Thomas Bowles, Approx 6.5 x 8”. On watermarked paper of the period. Large margins. Fine. (4)       

The Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812, comprising a hand-coloured etching by Dennes Dighton of the assassin John Bellingham at the Old Bailey,

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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The Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812, comprising a hand-coloured etching by Dennes Dighton of the assassin John Bellingham at the Old Bailey, and an Act of Parliament to provide for the widow & children of Spencer Perceval. Also four other Acts including an 1842 Act for establishing a Prison at Pentonville, and two concerning Prisons at Millbank and Perth. The print 29 x 21cm, with some browning and manuscript annotations. (6)

Maidstone Police document, 1838, signed by 16 police officers, acknowledging payment for their services from the 23rd to 29th September. 16 x 13”,

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Maidstone Police document, 1838, signed by 16 police officers, acknowledging payment for their services from the 23rd to 29th September. 16 x 13”, framed & glazed.

Charles Welch "History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames", London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in,

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Charles Welch History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames, London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in, few newscuttings laid down on final two leaves, half-leather, gilt; Dasent Piccadilly in Three Centuries with some account of Berkeley Square and The Haymarket, Macmillan, 1920, in chipped d/jkt; and other London titles. (12)

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

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £10
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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)

Horace Hutchinson "The Book of Golf and Golfers", Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, 1st Edn., 71 plates, spotting to frontispiece;

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Horace Hutchinson The Book of Golf and Golfers, Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, 1st Edn., 71 plates, spotting to frontispiece; J.L.Low F.G. Tait – A Record, J. Nisbet & Co [1901], worn cloth, endpapers browned; E.A.H.Alderson Pink and Scarlet, or Hunting as a School for Soldiering; and Mountaineering, Lonsdale Library, in d/jkt. (4)