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Auction No 370, Category: History

58 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

"John Bull", Jan 1st to Dec 31st 1827, a bound volume, folio, half- leather, lacking backstrip, hinges cracked;

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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John Bull, Jan 1st to Dec 31st 1827, a bound volume, folio, half-leather, lacking backstrip, hinges cracked; mostly VG internally but a few pages heavily toned, first few pages loose, index creased.

"John Bull", Jan 6th to Dec 29th 1828, a bound volume, folio, half- leather worn; VG internally;

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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John Bull, Jan 6th to Dec 29th 1828, a bound volume, folio, half-leather worn; VG internally; includes Index. 

"The London Gazette for the Year 1808", bound volume, small folio, full buckram, gilt leather title,

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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The London Gazette for the Year 1808, bound volume, small folio, full buckram, gilt leather title, worn & dust-affected; first page of Jan 2nd issue grubby o/w fine internally.

"The London Gazette for the Year 1805", bound volume, small folio, full buckram, gilt leather title,

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £42
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The London Gazette for the Year 1805, bound volume, small folio, full buckram, gilt leather title, worn & dust-affected; few items removed including Trafalgar announcement.

Antiquarian selection in need of rebinding including William Salmon "Praxis Medica". "The Practice of Physick",

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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Antiquarian selection in need of rebinding including William Salmon Praxis Medica. The Practice of Physick, 1707; A Visit to London, William Darton, 1820, complete with plates, one folding; E. Hargrove The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its Medicinal Waters, 1789, with 7 plates and folding Map. Mixed condition. (5)

A selection of Antiquarian books all in need of rebinding and restoration including "Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect", 1808;

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £850
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A selection of Antiquarian books all in need of rebinding and restoration including Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, 1808; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, London, 1735; Memoirs of North-Britain, London, 1715; Priscilla Wakefield Perambulations in London, and its Environs, 1814, with all plates; and Lazarus Riverius The Practice of Physick In Seventeen several Books, quarto, 1655 to which is appended an original manuscript by Tobias Wolrich A Collection of Choice and Approved receipts in physic and chirurgery, 1725, 90pp. Mixed condition. (6)

Folio Society publications all in slipcases, some in boxed sets including "Legends of King Arthur" (3 vols),

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £96
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Folio Society publications all in slipcases, some in boxed sets including Legends of King Arthur (3 vols), The Arabian Nights (6 vols, two slightly marked on the spine), Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories (4 vols). Largely fine/VF. (39) 

Harold Dearden "Medicine & Duty: A War Diary", William Heinemann, 1928, 1st Edn,

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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Harold Dearden Medicine & Duty: A War Diary, William Heinemann, 1928, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded, light browning to endpapers, fine internally; xi,233pp.

Violetta Thurstan "Field Hospital & Flying Column", Putnam, 1915, spine faded; and 3 others

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £70
SOLD £52
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Violetta Thurstan Field Hospital & Flying Column, Putnam, 1915, spine faded; Arthur Gleason With the First War Ambulance in Belgium, A.L. Burt 1915, front cover discoloured upper right, signed and inscribed by Einar Hilsen (Norwegian-American humanitarian); Frances Wilson Huard My Home in the Field of Mercy, George Doran, 1917, a signed letter from the author on Red Cross notepaper loosely inserted; and Sister Martin-Nicholson ​My Experiences on Three Fronts, 1916, fair condition only. All first editions in original bindings. (4)

John Sinker "Memoirs of the Rev.Canon Stock, Rector of Windermere (1857-1904)",

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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John Sinker Memoirs of the Rev.Canon Stock, Rector of Windermere (1857-1904), A.W.Johnson, 1905, gilt cloth, spine faded; Arthur Loftie The Rural Deanery of Gosforth, Diocese of Carlisle, its Churches and Endowments, Titus Wilson, Kendal, 1889, 2nd Edn, gilt cloth; and T.N. Postlethwaite Some Notes on Urswick Church and Parish, Ulverston, 1906, printed wraps, some foxing to prelims, a 12-line prayer written out on final blank. Fair to VG. (3)

Joseph Toole (1887-1945) "Fighting Through Life", Rich & Cowan, 1935, 1st Edn, original printed cloth,

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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Joseph Toole (1887-1945) Fighting Through Life, Rich & Cowan, 1935, 1st Edn, original printed cloth, some discolouration; light spotting to prelims o/w VG; publisher’s catalogue at rear; (16),239,30pp. Scarce. [Joseph Toole was Labour M.P. for Salford South in the 1920s, and in 1936 became Lord Mayor of Manchester.]

William Royle "History of Rusholme, with a gossipy talk of men and things", Manchester, 1914, original gilt cloth,

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £52
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William Royle History of Rusholme, with a gossipy talk of men and things, Manchester, 1914, original gilt cloth, presentation copy from the author, folding map & plates, fine, an autograph note by the author loosely inserted; together with Bacon’s Environs of Manchester, coloured folding map, 1” to 1 mile, c.1890, in original gilt cloth cover, VG. (2)

Christopher Whitfield "A History of Chipping Campden", 1958 in VG d/jkt; Norman Jewson "By Chance I Did Rove"

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Christopher Whitfield A History of Chipping Campden, 1958 in VG d/jkt; Norman Jewson By Chance I Did Rove, Earle & Ludlow, Cirencester, [1951],one of 250 issued, original pictorial boards, quarter cloth, VG; J.P. Nelson Broad Campden, 1971, one of 500; and another. Good to VF (4)

Thomas Baines & William Fairbairn "Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present", William Mackenzie

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Thomas Baines & William Fairbairn Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present, William Mackenzie [1868-69], quarto, 2 volumes in 4, original gilt cloth, backstrips a little worn & faded; engravings complete; occasional foxing including a plan of Manchester Waterworks scheme and one page of text heavily foxed. (4)

P. Louis Maimbourg "Histoire du Schisme des Grecs", Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris, 1677, First Edition,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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P. Louis Maimbourg Histoire du Schisme des Grecs, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris, 1677, First Edition, tall octavo, contemp.leather, worn, backstrip damaged, light damp staining to the upper part of the book; fine copper engravings comprise frontispiece, and head & tail pieces to each section; [28],702,[22]pp.

"Grant of the custody of the person and care and management of the Estate of Sarah Cash, a person of unsound mind

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Grant of the custody of the person and care and management of the Estate of Sarah Cash, a person of unsound mind, to The Reverend Samuel Hasse and Ebenezer Adamson, 1847, Queen Victoria Portrait Document, Great Seal of Great Britain (cracked) attached in tin box; small areas of damage along lower fold with some loss. Sarah Cash was a resident of Hayfield, Derbyshire

"An Act for Dividing, Alloting, and Inclosing the several Open Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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An Act for Dividing, Alloting, and Inclosing the several Open Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the parish of Hemsworth, in the West Riding of the County of York, 1803, folio, stitch bound, ownership inscription top margin, 25pp.VG

[Richard Keppel Craven] "Sketch of the Late Revolution at Naples. By an Eye-Witness". James Carpenter, 1820,

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £58
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[Richard Keppel Craven] Sketch of the Late Revolution at Naples. By an Eye-Witness. James Carpenter, 1820, octavo, stitch bound, 51pp, plus publisher’s advertising leaf (dust-affected on second page). VG. Scarce

Album of Photographs (25), programmes & related documents recording the arrival of Sir Archibald & Lady Nye in India

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £68
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Album of Photographs (25), programmes & related documents recording the arrival of Sir Archibald & Lady Nye in India 1946 and Nye’s subsequent appointment as Governor of Madras. VG/VF (39 items). Also 3 snapshots and various newscuttings

A WW2 Correspondence from a driver in the R.A.S.C., many while in the Middle East,

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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A WW2 Correspondence from a driver in the R.A.S.C., many while in the Middle East, approx. 35 letters; plus RAF Cap Badge and Service Certificates etc; and Sir John French’s Despatches WWI, issued by The Graphic with war maps. Mainly VG/VF (Qty)