Auction No 430, Category: Books

96 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Pamphlets, historical & literary, including "Instructions of King Henry VIII for the General Visitations of the Monasteries and Nunneries 1538-39"

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Pamphlets, historical & literary, including Instructions of King Henry VIII for the General Visitations of the Monasteries and Nunneries 1538-39, and a related item, both in the Historical Reprints series, 1885-86; Manchester related titles by Ernest Axon (4); Martin Byron's Lyrics, 1940; Williams Mandell Creighton: Modern Carlisle's Greatest Son, 1933; Hubback The Parents in Jane Austen's Novels; and others. Good to VF (21)

Mix in carton with many Cigarette Card sets & odds including album of Ogden Guinea Golds; various PPCs espec. France; transport ephemera;

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £64
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Mix in carton with many Cigarette Card sets & odds including album of Ogden Guinea Golds; various PPCs espec. France; transport ephemera; framed prints & w/colours; 1930s albums of snapshot photos; two Victorian Scrap albums (incl. 3 pages of crests/monograms; etc. (Over 12 kilos)

Carton of softbacks, 20th Century, mainly historical, plus guides, geology, etc many of Architectural interest. Mainly A5 format. Good to VF (80)

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Carton of softbacks, 20th Century, mainly historical, plus guides, geology, etc many of Architectural interest. Mainly A5 format. Good to VF (80)

Various including Wyld "The Physics and Philosophy of the Senses", 1875; Hartley-Hennessy "Healing by Water or Drinking Sunlight", 1951;

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Various including Wyld The Physics and Philosophy of the Senses, 1875; Hartley-Hennessy Healing by Water or Drinking Sunlight, 1951; Bragg The Universe of Light, 1945, in d/jkt; Dods Mohammed, Buddha and Christ, 1899; Plichta God's Secret Formula, 1997, in d/jkt, and four others. Good to VF (9)

An Edwardian Scrap Album, 12" x 10", decorated cloth, 43 pages of mostly chromo-litho scraps of children, animals, soldiers, birds etc,

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £68
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An Edwardian Scrap Album, 12" x 10", decorated cloth, 43 pages of mostly chromo-litho scraps of children, animals, soldiers, birds etc, ownership inscription dated 1903; and a 1920s children's scrap book with 33 pages of scraps and few greetings cards. Some wear to the albums, VG internally. (2)

Harrison Ainsworth "The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of ’45", Tauchnitz, 1873, two vols, half-calf, gilt;

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £92
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Harrison Ainsworth The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of '45, Tauchnitz, 1873, two vols, half-calf, gilt; L'Abbe B. [Bathelemy Baudrand] The Elevation of the Soul to God, trans. Robert Plowden, B.Thorn, Exeter, [1785], 2 vols, rebound in half-calf, gilt, pp.75/6 torn & stained; J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928, first edition; Rowland & ‘Berkeley' Card Tricks & Puzzles, 1902; and Hercat Card Tricks and Conjuring Up to Date, [1899]. (7)

"The Golden Ass of Apuleius", Chiswick Press, 1904, two-colour cloth, rubricated text on hand-made paper, No. 12 of 220 issued;

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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The Golden Ass of Apuleius, Chiswick Press, 1904, two-colour cloth, rubricated text on hand-made paper, No. 12 of 220 issued; G.F. Handel Samson, arranged for the Organ or Piano Forte, London, 1810, folio, text printed from copper engraved plates; The Poetical Works of John Dryden, London, 1813, 16mo, 3 vols (in 2), full calf, gilt, rebacked, each vol. with an engraved plate; The Beauties of Sterne, London, 1799, old tree-calf, gilt; and The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells. (6)

Easton Press ‘Millennium Edition’ selection comprising Cervantes "Don Quixote", Charles Darwin "Voyage of the Beagle",

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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Easton Press ‘Millennium Edition' selection comprising Cervantes Don Quixote, Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle, R.H. Dana Two Years Before the Mast, and Edward Lane (trans.) Stories from the Thousand and One Nights. All in full leather, gilt. VF (4)

"Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical and Agricultural Discoveries", J. Wyatt, London, 1806-1812, eight volume set, half-leather, gilt,

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £160
SOLD £80
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Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical and Agricultural Discoveries, J. Wyatt, London, 1806-1812, eight volume set, half-leather, gilt, worn, marbled boards; occasional foxing, largely confined to title pages and endpapers, Vols.1 and 4 lacking title labels. A good set and very scarce when complete. (8)

"The Brewers’ Almanack and Wine and Spirit Trade Annual" for 1936 and 1937, Review Press Ltd for the Brewers’ Society, printed cloth,

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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The Brewers' Almanack and Wine and Spirit Trade Annual for 1936 and 1937, Review Press Ltd for the Brewers' Society, printed cloth, 368pp and 390pp plus adverts.VG (2)

Folio Society publications including works illustrated by Rackham, Heath Robinson, Detmold (2) and Edmund Dulac. Fine, all in the slipcases. (10)

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £68
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Folio Society publications including works illustrated by Rackham, Heath Robinson, Detmold (2) and Edmund Dulac. Fine, all in the slipcases. (10)      

Various including A. & C. Black topography (7), five illustrated by Heaton Cooper (one rebound in half-leather); Temple "The Gytrash of Goathland",

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Various including A. & C. Black topography (7), five illustrated by Heaton Cooper (one rebound in half-leather); Temple The Gytrash of Goathland, 1928; Pendlebury The Archaeology of Crete, 1967, in d/jkt; and Le Plutarque de l'Enfance, 1812, engraved plates, improvised wraps. (16)     

Joseph Gillow "A Literary and Biographical History or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £44
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Joseph Gillow A Literary and Biographical History or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534 to the Present Time, Burns & Oates, 1885, five volumes, gilt cloth, Vols.2 to 5 faded, Vol.1 rebound. Fine internally. Partly unopened. (5).

"The Bookman - Special Christmas Number 1924", Hodder & Stoughton, including fine tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen (2) & Detmold.

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
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The Bookman – Special Christmas Number 1924, Hodder & Stoughton, including fine tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen (2) & Detmold. First advertisement page with abrasion & tear o/w fine internally.

British Newspapers 1762-1866 with a variety of Newspaper Tax handstamps,including "The London Chronicle" 1762 and 1803,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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British Newspapers 1762-1866 with a variety of Newspaper Tax handstamps, including The London Chronicle 1762 and 1803, The London Gazette 1768-1815 (3), and various others. Fair to fine (9)

"Illustrated London News" for 1947, complete in two bound volumes, spines faded, very clean internally. (2)

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Illustrated London News for 1947, complete in two bound volumes, spines faded, very clean internally. (2)

"Sibford Magazine" and Annual Reports, 1931-73, issued by the Quaker school at Sibford, Banbury. Few early issues in mixed condition, mostly VG/Fine

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
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Sibford Magazine and Annual Reports, 1931-73, issued by the Quaker school at Sibford, Banbury. Few early issues in mixed condition but mostly VG/Fine. (45)  

Scientific pamphlets and academic off-prints, 1920s/1930s, with interest in Seismology, Microbiology, Mechanics, Mathematics water quality, and others

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £82
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Scientific pamphlets and academic off-prints, 1920s/1930s, with interest in Seismology, Microbiology, Mechanics, Mathematics, water quality, and others. Some in two or more parts. Good to fine. (74)                 

Sci-Fi comics and similar including "Flying Saucers Comics" issue Nos.1 and 2, 1967; "UFO & Outer Space" issue Nos.14, 15 & 17, 1970s;

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £42
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Sci-Fi comics and similar including Flying Saucers Comics issue Nos. 1 and 2, 1967; UFO & Outer Space issue Nos. 14, 15 & 17, 1970s; UFO Flying Saucers, No.8, 1975; and The Uncanny X-Men, No.155, 1982. Also The X-Files Annual No.1, signed by Charles Adlard; and issue No.8 of Spacemen magazine, 1964. Good to VF (11)

Hartley Howard and Berkeley Gray Crime Fiction, 1947-79, all (bar one) Collins 1st Editions in d/jkts including Howard’s "The Other Side of the Door "

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £90
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Hartley Howard and Berkeley Gray Crime Fiction, 1947-79, all (bar one) Collins 1st Editions in d/jkts including Howard's The Other Side of the Door 1953 Bowman on Broadway 1954, and Gray's The Spot Marked X, 1948, The Big Brain, 1959, The Conquest Touch, 1948, and Conquest Likes it Hot, 1965. Four with ownership signatures, two others with signature cut away from corner of front endpaper. The jackets fair to fine, mylar-protected, none price-clipped. (14)