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Auction No 374, Category: Books

45 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Traditional Bookbinder's Gilding and Finishing Tools, a selection in fine condition. (41)

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £300
SOLD £180
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Traditional Bookbinder's Gilding and Finishing Tools, a selection in fine condition. (41)

Folio Society publications in fine condition, all in VG/VF slipcases. (18)

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £36 - £46
SOLD £38
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Folio Society publications in fine condition, all in VG/VF slipcases. (18)

Folio Society publications including illustrated works by Arthur Rackham and Detmold, all in slipcases. VG/VF (13)

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Folio Society publications including illustrated works by Arthur Rackham and Detmold, all in slipcases. VG/VF (13)

Softback publications, chiefly topography, including 1940s Ordnance Survey Maps (16) mostly 1”,

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £42
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Softback publications, chiefly topography, including 1940s Ordnance Survey Maps (16) mostly 1”, others 2½”, plus many guides 1920s to 1960s, some 1940s Pelicans, and few others. Mainly good to fine. (72)

Admiral Jellicoe "The Grand Fleet 1914-1916", Cassell, 1919, and "The Crisis of the Naval War", Cassell, 1920,

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Admiral Jellicoe The Grand Fleet 1914-1916, Cassell, 1919, and The Crisis of the Naval War, Cassell, 1920, complete with plates and charts; together with The Songs of the late Charles Dibdin, 1850, cartoons by Cruikshank, frontispiece foxed; all original gilt cloth. (3)                                                                                                

G. Tyrrell "Versions and Perversions of Heine and others", Elkin Mathews, 1909, gilt quarter cloth in plain d/jkt;

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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G. Tyrrell Versions and Perversions of Heine and others, Elkin Mathews, 1909, gilt quarter cloth in plain d/jkt; Rafael Sabatini Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition 1913; and William Andrews Bygone Punishments, 1899 (cloth discoloured). Good to VG (3)

Charles Edmonds A Subaltern's War Peter Davies Ltd, 1929 1st Edn, octavo, original gilt cloth,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Charles Edmonds A Subaltern's War Peter Davies Ltd, 1929 1st Edn, octavo, original gilt cloth, spine rolled o/w VG; autographed on half-title by Maj.Gen. Sir George Jeffreys, with contemp. ownership signature of Christopher Heseltine on facing page. Maps as endpapers show some browning.

 

C.J.Wilber "Medicolegal Investigation of the President John F. Kennedy Murder", C.J. Thomas, 1978;

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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C.J.Wilber Medicolegal Investigation of the President John F. Kennedy Murder, C.J. Thomas, 1978; tall octavo, fine hardback in a very good complete dustjacket, the jacket a little crumpled at top of spine; fine internally, without inscriptions; 318pp

Andre Leri "Shell Shock: Commotional and Emotional Aspects" University of London Press, 1919,

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £26 - £36
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Andre Leri Shell Shock: Commotional and Emotional Aspects University of London Press, 1919, octavo, original printed cloth, near fine; browning to endpapers, half-title and final page of text; fox marks to edge of text block; a scarce first edition; no internal inscriptions; 249pp plus publisher's catalogue of Military Medical manuals. 

Richard Harrison "Recollections of a Life in the British Army During the latter half of the Nineteenth Century"

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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Richard Harrison Recollections of a Life in the British Army During the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, Smith, Elder & Co, 1908, 1st Edn; octavo, original gilt cloth, near fine; very fine internally, with all plates; publisher's catalogue at rear; viii,382,[6]pp + 14pp of plates

                                                                                                

J. Butterworth "An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of Oldham"

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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J. Butterworth An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of Oldham, J. Clarke, 1817, octavo, modern quarter cloth, gilt, marbled boards, new endpapers; complete with 3 folding linen-backed Maps, all showing repairs; text block uncut; repairs to three leaves of the Directory; xii,211,(2)pp.   

J.P. Earwaker "East Cheshire Past and Present, or a History of the Hundred of Macclesfield", London 1877-1880

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £140
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J.P. Earwaker East Cheshire Past and Present, or a History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, London 1877-1880, tall quarto, two volumes, original cloth, gilt decoration, recased with new endpapers, fine; VG internally with all photo plates; some occasional minor spotting to plate margins. (2)

"Whitham's Illustrated Historic Almanac and Barnsley Commercial Advertiser 1883", octavo s/back

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Whitham's Illustrated Historic Almanac and Barnsley Commercial Advertiser 1883, octavo s/back, original printed wraps, very good; disbound with remains of leather backstrip intact; illustrated adverts and magazine articles with woodcuts. 124pp

H.C. Smart "Australia in the Great War", Cassell 1918, quarto, h/bk in d/jkt, front panel slightly chipped o/w VG;

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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H.C. Smart Australia in the Great War, Cassell 1918, quarto, h/bk in d/jkt, front panel slightly chipped o/w VG; illustrated throughout, half-tone plates with descriptive captions; 192pp. The last page is partly toned o/w internally fine. 

J. Bartholomew "Post-Office Bolton Directory for 1876-1877", Tillotson & Son, Bolton, 1876;

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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J. Bartholomew Post-Office Bolton Directory for 1876-1877, Tillotson & Son, Bolton, 1876; octavo, original blind-tooled and gilt cloth, spine a little faded, old ownership label on front paste-down; folding-map removed o/w VG; viii + 264pp + 76pp of advertisements

"An Act for Inclosing Farington Moss, and other Commons and Waste Grounds within the Manor and Township of Farington..

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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An Act for Inclosing Farington Moss, and other Commons and Waste Grounds within the Manor and Township of Farington, in the Parish of Penwortham, in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Dobington and Son, 1819, quarto, disbound, 36pp, browning to first page. Good

Ian Allan ABC "British Bus Fleets", 1956 to late-1960s, one with internal markings (in pencil)

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £58
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Ian Allan ABC British Bus Fleets, 1956 to late-1960s, one with internal markings (in pencil), another with pages stuck together, but mostly good to VF. (30)

Bus & Coach Tour and Timetable leaflets and brochures from 1936, mainly 1960s to 1980s, country-wide

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £170
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Bus & Coach Tour and Timetable leaflets and brochures from 1936, mainly 1960s to 1980s, country-wide, including attractive range of Excursion pamphlets & fliers. Mainly good to VF. (330)

Bus and Tram softback publications 1970s to 1990s, history and nostalgia, many of local history interest.

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Bus and Tram softback publications 1970s to 1990s, history and nostalgia, many of local history interest. Good to VF (64)

"The Municipal Tramways Association Journal", various bound volumes, 1925 to 1958, quarter-leather, gilt,

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Feb 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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The Municipal Tramways Association Journal, various bound volumes, 1925 to 1958, quarter-leather, gilt, VG to VF (14)