Lot: 22
Matthew Willis The Mountain Minstrel: or, Effusions of Retirement. Poems. William Alexander, York, 1834; small octavo, original cloth, a little faded, printed title label to front board; unopened; some minor spotting; 195pp
Lot: 23
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, George Bell, 1885-87, six volume set, the Aldine Edition, octavo, half-leather, gilt, worn at periphery, fine internally. (6)
Lot: 24
Mr. Addison Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments, tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality, London, 1795-1797, thirteen volumes, octavo, worn half-leather gilt bindings, some foxing; a rare set. (13)
Lot: 25
Gary Oldman, Jack English and Eric Clapton Nil By Mouth, SE8 Group, 1997, large format h/bk in d/jkt, No.2 of 200, signed and numbered by Gary Oldman in silver pen on the front endpaper; complete with Waterstones publicity band. Fine
Lot: 26
Powys Evans Eighty-Eight Cartoons, The Cayme Press, 1926, tall quarto, full buckram, printed title labels, fine, in scarce though faded d/jkt; minor spotting to prelims o/w fine. One of 500 produced. Signed and inscribed by the artist on front endpaper.
Lot: 28
Ikin’s Bolton Guide, 1923, complete with 4 folding maps; Bolton & District Year Book 1929; Tillotsons Bolton Directory 1932, gilt cloth, map removed; The Book of Bolton 1929, 1948, 1953/54, 1961 and 2 later; and a collection of other Bolton guide books, histories and maps, mostly good to fine (over 40 items)
Lot: 29
John Kirk Memoir of Mrs. Eliza Kirk, of Edinburgh. By Her Husband. Ward & Co, 1860, 2nd Edn; 12mo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, good; contemp. gift inscription; engraved portrait and two woodcuts; some minor spotting. 204pp
Lot: 30
Francis Camps Medical and Scentific Investigations in the Christie Case, Medical Publications Ltd, 1953, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, backstrip worn at top & tail of spine, front board bowed; fine internally with all b/w and colour illustrations. Ownership signature front endpaper. 244pp
Lot: 31
The Three Trials of William Hone, for publishing Three Parodies, together with Trial by Jury and Liberty of the Press, 1818, the four sections bound together, each with a title page and separate pagination, various editions; original boards, worn, backstrip frayed; text sound and clean, uncut.
Lot: 32
The Trial of Mr. Hunt, Mr. Johnson, and others for a Conspiracy at the Manchester Meeting, on the 16th August last, John Barr, Leeds, 1820; 19th Cent. half-leather, very worn, requiring rebinding, folding plate foxed; bound with The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, and John Thomas Brunt, and others, for High Treason, John Barr, 1820, complete with frontispiece; text & endpapers intact and clean, final text leaf of Thistlewood torn but no loss; uncut. A few leaves loose; 120pp + 101pp.
Lot: 33
Harold Dearden Such Women are Dangerous, Hutchinson, 1933, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, good; endpapers browned; 288pp + 8pp of ads.
Lot: 34
Robert Richardson A state of the evidence in the cause between His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and others, pursuers, and Archibald Douglas, of Douglas, Esquire, defender. With remarks. C. Bathurst, 1769, quarto, private-library binding in quarter-morocco, gilt, VG, with bookplate to front pastedown; occasional slight browning o/w good clean text without library stamps. [12],392pp
Lot: 35
R.S. Crossley Accrington: Chronological Notes and Men of Mark, Accrington Observer and Times, 1924; original gilt cloth, fine; gift inscription on reverse of title page. 173pp
Lot: 36
William Blundell A Cavalier's Note Book Being Notes, Anecdotes, & Observations of William Blundell of Crosby, Lancashire, Esquire, Longmans, Green & Co, 1880, original gilt & blind-tooled cloth, t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; half-title and final page browned o/w VG; and J.W.Ebsworth Cavalier Lyrics: For Church and Crown, Stephen Austin, 1886, No.74 of 150, later half-cloth, gilt, VG. (2)
Lot: 37
Trials of Timothy John Evans and John Reginald Halliday Christie, William Hodge, 1957, 1st Edn in VG d/jkt; the scarce dustjacket slightly worn at top & tail of spine o/w complete; fine internally without inscriptions.
Lot: 38
Henry Fishwick The History of the Parish of Garstang, 1878-79, two vols; The History of the Parish of Kirkham, 1874; and The History of the Parish of St.Michaels-on-Wyre, 1891; all Chetham Society publications, original gilt cloth, VG, St. Michaels inscribed by the author to his daughter. (4)
Lot: 39
Elliott O’Donnell Great Thames Mysteries, Selwyn & Blount, 1929, original printed cloth, spine dulled, VG internally without inscriptions; eight b/w plates (one loose); few pages affected by light foxing in the margins.288pp
Lot: 40
Andrew Clark (Ed.) Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, composed in 1661-6, by Anthony Wood, Oxford Historical Society, 1889, tall octavo, original cloth, gilt, 3 volumes; recased with new endpapers, some small repairs to backstrips; fine internally with all folding Maps and Plans. (3)
Lot: 41
Charles Goldmann With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa, Macmillan, 1902, octavo, gilt cloth, backstrip worn and partly detached; few loose pages; complete with 61 plates, 4 folding panoramas, 45 maps, plus 8 additional maps in rear pocket. Repair required to tears to p.219 and two of the maps.
Lot: 42
Reminiscences in the Life of Joshua Bradley, W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1904, octavo, original gilt cloth, VG, light browning to prelims o/w fine internally; b/w frontispiece and 8 other plates. 281pp