Lot: 10
Leather bindings including Works of Shakespeare in fine prize-binding; Egmont Hake Paris Originals, 1878, inscribed by the author,20 etchings, some spotting; ‘A Market-Gardner' The Farm and Fruit of Old, 1862, full leather; Missel des Apotres, Marc Barbou, Limoges, n.d, full morocco, gilt, illustrated throughout; [William Johnstone] The Table Talker,1840, 2 vols, ex-library; and Gilbert Abbott a Beckett The Comic Historyof Rome, Bradbury & Evans, n.d., 10 hand-coloured plates by John Leech. Fair to VF (12)
Lot: 12
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)
Lot: 25
William Bliss Sanders Examples of Carved Oak Woodwork in the Houses and Furniture of the 16th & 17th Centuries, 1883, and the 1894 companion volume Half-Timbered Houses and Carved Oak Furniture, both Bernard Quaritch published; folio, some wear to bindings, bookplates of Chelsea Library, fine internally with all plates. (2)
Lot: 26
I. Harris (engraver) The South Prospect of the Cathedral of Christ Church & St. Mary at Chester, J. Smith, 1727, a large copper engraving, 44 x 53.5cm, framed & glazed. Back board bears bookseller's label of Henry Sotheran. Some light creasing o/w fine. [The buyer of this lot to be responsible for its collection.]
Lot: 31
R. Banks (Manchester photographer) State Visit of the Lord Mayor of London (Alderman Frank Green) and Mr. Alderman and Sheriff, W. Vaughan Morgan and Mr. Sheriff J. Lawrence, M.P., to Manchester on the 2nd and 3rd August, 1901. One Hundred and five fine quality mounted photographs, mostly 4 x 6”, in a gilt cloth binding, now disbound. Foxing to printed pastedown at front. (105 photos).
Lot: 32
Legal Documents (4), insurance policies & correspondence, 1881-1928, concerning Nathan Charles Haring, Jacob Lorenz Meyer, Babet Meyer Haring, Moritz Nathan, and William Goodman, all of Manchester's Jewish Community. (Qty.) [These papers were discovered in 2005 behind a loose brick in the wall of 118 Chorlton Road, Manchester.]
Lot: 39
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)
Lot: 40
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)