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Auction No 363, Category: History

13 Lots (displaying 1 - 13)

Collection of UK Mining titles including Trinder & Cox "Miners & Mariners of the Severn Gorge", 2000, d/jkt;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £68
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Collection of UK Mining titles including Trinder & Cox Miners & Mariners of the Severn Gorge, 2000, d/jkt; John Bentley Ingleton Coalfield, 2005; Bryan Chambers Out of the Pennines, 1997; Lindsey Porter The Copper & Lead Mines around the Manifold Valley, 2000, in d/jkt; and others, especially Yorkshire and Wales.  (25)

Charles M. Lefferts "Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution"

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £130 - £150
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Charles M. Lefferts Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution, New York Historical Society 1926, tall quarto, original cloth, VG, complete with 50 tipped-in colour plates, the original signed artwork for two other unused plates loosely inserted, and some other items; together with John P. Langellier Hats Off: Head Dress of the U.S. Army 1872-1912, 1999, fine in dustjacket. (2) 

Graham Hutchison "The Thirty-Third Division in France and Flanders 1915-1919" Waterlow, 1921

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Graham Hutchison The Thirty-Third Division in France and Flanders 1915-1919, Waterlow, 1921, quarto, rebound in modern cloth, plates, photos and maps complete; and Macdonald The History of the Dress of the Royal Regiment of Artillery 1625-1897, Sotheran, 1899, printed boards with some wear. (2)

Mockler-Ferryman "The 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chronicle, 1894" and "The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle, 1896",

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Mockler-Ferryman The 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chronicle, 1894 and The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle, 1896, Eyre & Spottiswoode, latter with boards damp affected; plus O’Donnell Historical Records of the 14th Regiment, A.H. Swiss, 1893, fine colour plates intact, front board detached.

William Wolf "Victory Roll! The American Fighter Pilot and Aircraft in World War II", 2001, in djkt;

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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William Wolf Victory Roll! The American Fighter Pilot and Aircraft in World War II, 2001, in djkt; USA Airborne 50th Anniversary, Turner Publishing, 1990; G.E. Cross Jonah’s Feet Are Dry, 2001, signed limited edition in d/jkt; Jefford The Flying Camels: The History of No.45 Sqn, RAF, 1995, in djkt, signed by the author; and another. (5)

"The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Being the History of the Regiment from December 1688 to July 1914"

Lot: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £32
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The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Being the History of the Regiment from December 1688 to July 1914, Constable & Co, 1934, fine hardback in damaged dustjacket. 673pp

Cromwell's Parliament "An Act for an Assessment upon England, At the Rate of Sixty thousand Pounds"

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £30
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Cromwell's Parliament An Act for an Assessment upon England, At the Rate of Sixty thousand Pounds by the Moneth, for Three Moneths; From the Twenty fifth day of March, 1657, to the Twenty fourth day of lune then next ensuing. London, 1657, folio, untrimmed; title page with coat of arms of the Commonwealth, some grime and small repair, ink notation to lower left border; 73pp of blackletter text, very good. Disbound with remains of leather backstrip preserved, original stitch holes evident. This tax was raised to maintain Britain's war effort against the Spanish.  

[George Buchanan] Georgio Buchanano "Rerum Scoticarum Historia" George Mosman, Edinburgh, 1700,

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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[George Buchanan] Georgio Buchanano Rerum Scoticarum Historia George Mosman, Edinburgh, 1700, 12mo, contemp. leather binding, very worn; front endpaper decayed; frontispiece; index and appendix; [12], 592,[36], 51, [1] pp. Clean text

[Joseph Aston] "Metrical Records of Manchester in which its History is traced (Currente Calamo) from the Days of the Ancient Britons

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £52
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[Joseph Aston] Metrical Records of Manchester in which its History is traced (Currente Calamo) from the Days of the Ancient Britons to the Present Time London, 1822, 1st Edn, small 4to, half-leather, gilt, over marbled boards, VG; bookplate of William Garnett; 105pp + 3pp index; title page and final index page a little dust-affected. 

Camden Pelham "The Chronicles of Crime" 1891, 2 Vols, fifty-two engravings by Phiz, fair condition;

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Camden Pelham "The Chronicles of Crime" 1891, 2 Vols, fifty-two engravings by Phiz, fair condition; and Colin Wilson Encyclopaedia of Murder 1961, First Edition in d/jkt. (3)

Watts Phillips (illustrator) "The Coast in Danger!!! A Laugh at the Threatened Invasion" Ackermann, c.1855

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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Watts Phillips (illustrator) The Coast in Danger!!! A Laugh at the Threatened Invasion Ackermann, c.1855, oblong octavo, boards with pictorial onlay (very darkened), 11pp of hand-coloured cartoons, hinged concertina-style, good. Scarce

[Jacques Abbadie] "The History of the Late Conspiracy against the King and the Nation with a Particular Account of the Lancashire Plot"

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £68
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[Jacques Abbadie] The History of the Late Conspiracy against the  King and the Nation with a Particular Account of the Lancashire Plot and All the other Attempts and Machinations of the disaffected Party, since His Majesty's Accession to the Throne. Daniel Brown, London, 1696; small octavo, 18th Cent polished calf, worn at hinges, title label chipped; inked inscription of author’s name on endpaper; light damp-staining throughout. [2],195pp

[Pliny the younger] C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi "Epistolae et Panegyricus" edited Johannis Minellii,

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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[Pliny the younger] C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolae et Panegyricus edited Johannis Minellii, J.L. Gleditsch & M.G. Weidmann, 1712, 12mo, worn full leather, gilt, red title label; marble edged & endpapers; title page in red & black; engraved initials; text complete but affected by variable degrees of foxing & browning. [12], 1314pp + extensive index.