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Auction No 376, Category: History

36 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

"The Liverpool Mercury", July 7th 1815 to June 28th 1816, bound volume, complete text, plus Index;

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £120
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The Liverpool Mercury, July 7th 1815 to June 28th 1816, bound volume, complete text, plus Index; folio, half-calf, worn, backstrip largely missing; spotting to first and last issue o/w VG internally; a weekly newspaper.  

"The Bond of Sacrifice: A Biographical Record of all British Officers who fell in the Great War, Volume I, Aug-Dec.1914"

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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L.A. Clutterbuck (Ed.) The Bond of Sacrifice: A Biographical Record of all British Officers who fell in the Great War, Volume I, Aug-Dec. 1914, Anglo-African Publishing [1916], tall quarto, original gilt cloth, marked & faded; front inner hinge weak; fine internally; xlvii, 459pp

"Edgeside Baptist Chapel, Permanent Rent Book", Waterfoot (Oldham) Dec.23rd 1888-1941

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Edgeside Baptist Chapel, Permanent Rent Book, Waterfoot (Oldham) Dec.23rd 1888-1941, quarto, half-leather, very worn, fine internally; thousands of manuscript entries of rents collected throughout the period.

Henry T. De La Beche, Lyon Playfair and Warrington Smyth "Reports on the Gases and Explosions in Collieries"

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Henry T. De La Beche, Lyon Playfair and Warrington Smyth Reports on the Gases and Explosions in Collieries, William Clowes, 1847, tall quarto, half-morocco, gilt, spine very worn, front hinge cracked; bound with Blackwell Report on Ventilation of Mines, 1850 (title page dust-affected) and Return of all Coals tried at Woolwich and Portsmouth Dockyards, 1858. Complete with all folding plans/diagrams, some hand-coloured, one torn. 171pp      

                                    

Arthur Bulleid & Harold St. George Gray "The Glastonbury Lake Village", Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1911

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Arthur Bulleid & Harold St. George Gray The Glastonbury Lake Village, Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1911, two vols, large quarto, original decorated gilt cloth,t.e.g., near fine; ownership inscription to front pastedown of both volumes; many photographic plates. (2)

"The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston, For Bigamy. Before The Right Honourable The House of Peers", 1776

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £180
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The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston, For Bigamy. Before The Right Honourable The House of Peers, in Westminster Hall, in Full Parliament, on Monday the 15th, Tuesday the  16th , Friday the 19th, Saturday the 20th and Monday the 22nd of April, 1776; On The Last of Which Days the said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston Was Found Guilty. Charles Bathurst, London, 1776; bound with Proceedings in the House of Peers upon the Impeachment….against Simon Lord Lovat, S.Billingsley, 1747; folio, half-leather, worn, hinges weak; bookplate of Sir John Mordaunt; clean text, uncut.  [The trial of the Duchess of Kingston (born Elizabeth Chudleigh in 1721) for the crime of bigamy was one of the sensations of the Georgian Age. The Press devoted endless column inches to the trial and its aftermath]

                                    

"Proof in the Conjoined Processes, George-James Duke of Hamilton, Lord Douglas Hamilton…Against The person pretending to be ARCHIBALD STEWART", 1766

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £60
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Proof in the Conjoined Processes, George-James Duke of Hamilton, Lord Douglas Hamilton…Against The person pretending to be ARCHIBALD STEWART, alias DOUGLAS…1766; Proof for Archibald Douglas of Douglas…..Defender; in the REDUCTION, The Duke of Hamilton, Lord Douglas Hamilton, and Sir HEW DALRYMPLE against him, 1766; A Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown....in the Reign of the Late King Charles II, 1708; Proceedings in the House of Peers upon the Impeachment….against Simon Lord Lovat, 1747; and Medland & Weobly A Collection of Remarkable and Interesting Criminal Trials, 1803 (Vol.1 only) foxing to prelims; all with complete text in VG condition, all with original leather bindings in poor condition. (5)

 

"The History of the Most Remarkable Tryals in Great Britain and Ireland in Capital Cases" 1716

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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The History of the Most Remarkable Tryals in Great Britain and Ireland in Capital Cases, viz: Treason, Heresy, Felony, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Piracy, Murder…A. Bell, London, 1716 [Vol.2]; octavo, later half-leather, gilt, backstrip damaged; title page and prelims darkened, some damp-staining (mainly to last 50 leaves), o/w good internally. Small hole towards foot of title page has removed “Vol.2”. [A similar work was issued in 1715 but each volume is complete in itself] 

Joseph Kingsmill "Chapters on Prisons and Prisoners, and the Prevention of Crime", Longman, 1854, 3rd Edn,

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Joseph Kingsmill Chapters on Prisons and Prisoners, and the Prevention of Crime, Longman, 1854, 3rd Edn, octavo, original gilt cloth, faded, inner hinges frayed (cracked at rear), fine text; signed and inscribed by Joseph Kingsmill to his cousin on front endpaper. [Kingsmill was a prominent commentator on prisons and worked as a prison chaplin]. Scarce 

Geoffrey Bles 'Famous Trials Series' including "The Trial of Norman Thorne" [1929], "The Peltzer Case" 1928

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Geoffrey Bles 'Famous Trials Series' including The Trial of Norman Thorne [1929], The Peltzer Case 1928, The Trial of Herbert John Bennett 1929, The Trial of Jim the Penman 1930, and two similar. All original cloth, three with spine significantly faded, o/w good to fine. (6)

                                                                                                

Elliott O'Donnell "Rooms of Mystery" Philip Allan & Co, 1931, 1st Edition, in original dustjacket;

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £130 - £180
SOLD £165
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Elliott O’Donnell Rooms of Mystery Philip Allan & Co, 1931, 1st Edition, in original dustjacket; the d/jkt showing some peripheral faults most noticeably pieces missing at the top & tail of the spine (title & publisher’s imprint intact); the book with original gilt cloth and without internal inscriptions; there is an area of light staining at the foot of p.59 which is largely confined to the margin o/w the text is clean.

                                                                                                

Shirley Green "Rachman", Michael Joseph, 1979, 1st Edn, octavo, fine in VG price-clipped d/jkt,

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Shirley Green Rachman, Michael Joseph, 1979, 1st Edn, octavo, fine in VG price-clipped d/jkt, complete with publisher’s Erratum slip apologising for the references to Diana Dors. 240pp

A.H. Millar "The Black Kalendar of Scotland: Records of Notable Scottish Trials", John Leng & others, 1884;

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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A.H. Millar The Black Kalendar of Scotland: Records of Notable Scottish Trials, John Leng & others, 1884; original limp cloth, gilt, slightly marked, remains of ancient price label upper left; VG internally; bookplate of the Scottish writer H.Vincent Whitelaw; 138pp + advert leaf

Theodore Besterman "The Druce-Portland Case", Duckworth, 1935, octavo, original cloth, gilt, good;

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £18
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Theodore Besterman The Druce-Portland Case, Duckworth, 1935, octavo, original cloth, gilt, good; spine a little faded, few pages with tone spots; four b/w plates. 308pp

                                                                                     

Walter de Gray Birch "The Royal Charters of The City of Lincoln", Cambridge, 1911, original gilt cloth

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Walter de Gray Birch The Royal Charters of The City of Lincoln, Cambridge, 1911, original gilt cloth, foot of spine discoloured, endpapers browned, five plates, few marginal glosses in pencil; xlix,(1),308pp

Thomas Newbigging "History of the Forest of Rossendale", J.J. Riley, Rawtenstall, 1893, 2nd Edn (revised);

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £8
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Thomas Newbigging History of the Forest of Rossendale, J.J. Riley, Rawtenstall, 1893, 2nd Edn (revised); quarto, original gilt cloth, recased, new endpapers, VG; fine text and plates.369pp + frontispiece & 8 other plates.

Thomas Middleton "Annals of Hyde and District", Cartwright & Rattray, 1899, original gilt cloth, VG,

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Thomas Middleton Annals of Hyde and District, Cartwright & Rattray, 1899, original gilt cloth, VG, facsimile folding plate with small repair, 350pp; and Middleton’s The History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood, Higham Press, 1932, original gilt cloth, spine faded, fine internally, 579pp plus plates. (2)

Manchester history titles including Thomas Heywood (Ed.) "The Diary of the Rev.Henry Newcome",1849,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £54
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Manchester history titles including Thomas Heywood (Ed.) The Diary of the Rev.Henry Newcome, 1849, few pages with foxing; Thomas Baker Memorials of a Dissenting Chapel, 1884; William Edmondson Making Rough Places Plain: Fifty Years’ Work of the Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges and Homes 1870-1920, 1921; and three others; all in original bindings, fair to VF. (6)

"Reminiscences in the Life of Joshua Bradley", W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1904, octavo, original gilt cloth, VG

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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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

"Pierce Egan's Account of the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt". Knight & Lacey, 1824, octavo, quarter-leather, gilt,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Pierce Egan’s Account of the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt. Knight & Lacey, 1824, octavo, quarter-leather, gilt, worn, front hinge cracked; bookplate of the Detection Club; engraved frontispiece toned; five wood-engraved plates; some pages of text stained. 105pp