Lot: 37
Edward Baines (Jnr.) The Life of Edward Baines, Longman, 1859, 2nd Edition, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt title, VG; bookplate of William Garnett (M.P. for Lancaster 1857-63) of Bleasdale & Quernmore Park; photographic frontispiece rather faded; 316pp. The biography includes a chilling account of the Peterloo massacre, the failure to prosecute those that ordered the attack and the attempted Government cover-up which followed it, amongst much other contemporary narrative.
Lot: 38
Illustrated London News for July to December 1882, disbound, few illustrations damaged but generally fine internally with good military interest.
Lot: 40
Robert Billings Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of the County of Durham: ecclesiastical, castellated and domestic, George Andrews, Durham, 1846, quarto, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, VG, new endpapers; 64 full-page tissue-guarded engraved plates, occasional minor fox mark.
Lot: 42
Don Carleton A University for Bristol: an informal history, 1984, quarto, presentation copy to Lord Hailsham; bound in full morocco, gilt, by Period Bookbinders of Bath, VF; together with 4 other college/school histories. VG/VF (5)
Lot: 43
Veronica Fiorata, et al: Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton, AD 1461, Oxbow Books, 2000, large format h/bk, 277pp; and 6 others on British Archaeological sites 1948 to 1998, good to VF (7)
Lot: 44
Gilbert Walter Lyttelton Talbot, born September 1, 1891, killed in Action at Hooge, July 30, 1915, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1917, orig. printed wraps, uncut, title page & frontispiece darkened, 111pp; In Memoriam J.R.H.F. 1899-1915, printed wraps, VG; Charles Edmonds A Subaltern's War, 1929; Atkinson The Seventh Division 1914-1918, 1927; and another. Fair to VG (5)
Lot: 45
WWI Medical memoirs including Gertrude Moberly Experiences of a 'Dinki Di' R.R.C. Nurse 1933; [Edward Ticker Edwardes] With the R.A.M.C. in Egypt, 1918; Baroness T'Serclaes The Cellar-House of Pervyse, 1916; and two others; plus Thomas Mawson An Imperial Obligation: Industrial Villages for Partially Disabled Soldiers, Grant Richards, 1917, colour frontisp. Good to Fine (6)
Lot: 46
Military History including Thomas Carter Historical Record of the Forty-Fourth, or the East Essex Regiment of Foot, W.O.Mitchell, 1864, with folding-map, photographs and colour plate; Bennet Burleigh Khartoum Campaign 1898, London, 1899; Albert Hodgkinson The King's Own....in the European War, Lewes Press, 1921; Ward The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France, John Murray, 1922; and others, chiefly WWI. Mixed condition. (14)
Lot: 47
Historical Records of the British Army 1836-1844, various volumes, all in original gilt cloth with coloured plates, comprising Seventh Hussars (2, one poor), Thirteenth Light Dragoons (2), Second Regiment of Foot (ex-library), Third Regiment of Foot, Third Dragoon Guards, and Eighth Regiment of Foot. Some plates loose. Poor to fine. (8)
Lot: 48
James Peller Malcolm Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century, Longman 1810, 2 Volumes, full calf, gilt, the backstrips worn; Vol.1 with 3 plates, Vol. 2 with 42 plates of which twelve are hand-coloured; some topographical plates show some spotting. Portions of the text of volume 1 show damp-staining. (2)
Lot: 49
John Walker An Attempt Towards an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England…… in the Late Times of the Grand Rebellion, London, 1714; folio, full contemp. leather, rebacked with gilt title; slight worming upper left margin; old library stamp & bookplate.
Lot: 50
Thomas Gent The Antient and Modern History of the Loyal Town of Rippon, 1733, many engraved plates, some added or overlaid on to the existing plates, occasional browning and few repairs; and The History of Ripon, W.Farrer, 1806, two hand-coloured engraved plates, some pages with annotations; both nicely rebound in modern quarter- or half-leather. Together with The Registers of the Parish Church of Adel, 1895, and The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley, 1903. Varied condition. (4)
Lot: 51
F.T. Havergal Fasti Herefordenses; & other Antiquarian Memorials of Hereford, R. Clark, 1869; quarto, contemp. half-leather, gilt, VG. Plates complete, fine internally.
Lot: 52
William Granville Eliot A Treatise on the Defence of Portugal, T. Egerton, 1811, 2nd Edition, paper-covered boards poor and in need of rebinding; clean text; complete with large Military Map (with few repairs) loosely inserted, and 6 smaller folding-maps at rear.
Lot: 53
Captain Robert Jameson Historical Record of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Foot or Cameron Highlanders, Blackwood, 1863, original gilt cloth, two colour plates (one heavily foxed) and double-page photo-plate; and other military history, including The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot 1892, two volumes with plates & maps, and other 19th Century. Mixed condition. (13)
Lot: 54
Hampden Gordon & M.C. Tindall Our Hospital ABC, John Lane, c.1916, pictorial boards, VG; and WWI memoirs, mostly medical, including Harold Dearden Medicine & Duty, 1928, Sister Martin-Nicholson My Experiences on Three Fronts, 1916, and Violetta Thurstan Field Hospital and Flying Colours, 1915. Mainly good to fine. (6)
Lot: 55
Richard Cannon Historical Records of the British Army, 1836-1851, various regiments, two rebound, others in original gilt cloth, all with coloured plates, comprising 5th Regt. of Foot, 3rd Regt. of Foot, Royal Regt. of Dragoons, Royal North Regt. of Fusiliers, The King’s Regt.,73rd Regt, 14th Dragoons, and 12th Lancers; mostly good to fine. (8)
Lot: 56
H.R. Sandilands The Twenty-Third Division 1914-1919, Blackwood, 1925, quarto, orig. gilt cloth, VG; gift inscription and a poem in three stanzas on front endpapers; photo-plates, panoramic folding-plate, and 11 large maps at rear.
Lot: 57
Hurst The Manchesters in the East 1918; Headlam The Guards Division in the Great War, 1924, 2 Vols; Magnus The West Riding Territorials in the Great War, 1920; The 21st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, 1934 (cover stained); Shakespear Historical Records of the…Northumberland Fusiliers, 1920; Hodgkinson The King’s Own, 1921; Stanley The History of The 89th Brigade 1914-1918 (faults); and related titles. Mixed condition. (13)
Lot: 58
Coningsby Dawson Khaki Courage: Letters in War-Time, 1917 (spine faded); Watkins With French in France and Flanders, 1915; Liveing Attack: An Infantry Subaltern’s Impressions of July 1st 1916, Heinemann, 1918, text browned; and other WWI memoirs published 1916-30; plus Tonbridge School and the Great War, 1923, backstrip detached. Mixed condition. (12)