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Auction No 351, Category: History

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

British Stereographs 1860 to 1890s, chiefly Chester & North Wales

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £46
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British Stereographs 1860 to 1890s, chiefly Chester & North Wales, including Royal Visit to William E. Gladstone at Hawarden (3 RPs); majority photographic but 19 are gravures. Duplication. Mixed quality. (46)

J. P. Earwaker "East Cheshire, Past and Present: or The History of the Hundred of Macclesfield" 1877-1880, 2 vols

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £46
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J. P. Earwaker East Cheshire, Past and Present: or The History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, London, 1877-1880, 2 volumes, tall quarto, original decorated gilt cloth, a little worn at extremities, front inner hinge to Vol. 1 cracked; two photo-plates and numerous wood engraved & litho plates/illustrations (one coloured). Foxing to prelims of Vol.1 and the index o/w VG internally. 

Sanders & Irvine "Wirral Notes and Queries" 1892-183, Vols I & II complete, and others

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £42
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Sanders & Irvine Wirral Notes and Queries 1892-1893, Vols I & II complete, bound together with Neston Parish Church, 1925; interleaved throughout for additional notes, VG; plus Reilly & Aslan Outline Plan for the County Borough of Birkenhead, 1947 (faded cloth, fine map in pocket), W.W. Mortimer The History of the Hundred of Wirral 1847 (1972 Morten preprint); and 2 others. (5)

"Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society" 1888-2003, various volumes

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £9
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Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society 1881-2003, various annual or biannual volumes, two cloth bound; plus three related publications. (16)

"A History of the Municipal Charities of Chester from 1837 to 1875" G.R.Griffith 1875

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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A History of the Municipal Charities of Chester from 1837 to 1875, G. R. Griffith, 1875, original wraps, VG; Roberta Glasgow The Hardwares of Cheshire, 1948 in d/w, VG; Robert Head Congleton Past & Present, 1987 reprint; and other Cheshire titles. (8)

"Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire" 1902-1997, various volumes

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £36
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1902-1997, various gilt cloth-bound volumes, the 1902 volume poor but others VG/VF. Also T. Thompson Lancashire Lustre, 1937, VG. (15)

James Touzeau "The Rise & Progress of Liverpool from 1551 to 1835" 1910, 2 vols; and others

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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James Touzeau The Rise & Progress of Liverpool from 1551 to 1835, Liverpool, 1910, 2 vols, original gilt cloth, VG; Edward Moore Liverpool in King Charles the Second's Time, Henry Young, 1899, plates & maps complete, one of 250 printed, VG; and other Liverpool titles. (9)

G. Sutherland Dodman "A Voyage Round the World in 500 Days" 1880, 2nd Edn

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £17
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G. Sutherland Dodman A Voyage Round the World in 500 Days, London & Liverpool, 1880, 2nd Edn; original gilt cloth a little worn at extremities, inner hinges frayed; folding Map and plates. Fine internally.

Thomas Archer "The War in Egypt and the Soudan" Blackie 1885, 4 volumes

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Thomas Archer The War in Egypt and the Soudan, Blackie & Son, 1885, quarto, 4 volumes, original gilt decorated cloth, fine; foxing to the 3-page prospectus and half-title otherwise fine internally with all lithographed & wood-engraved plates. (4)

Anthony Eden 1956 typed letter signed, as Prime Minister

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £58
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Anthony Eden 1956 typed letter signed, on No.10 Downing Street notepaper, in reply to a letter from E.A. Baxter, Mayor of Leamington Spa concerning a goodwill visit Baxter made to Yugoslavia; together with a photograph of Eden with Baxter at a political rally in Leamington, and various election leaflets. 

Kaiser Wilhelm II, a signed "Brieftelegramm" to a well-wisher, 1940

Lot: 95

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, a signed "Brieftelegramm" to a well-wisher, dated January 1940, on the occasion of his 81st Birthday, with his carbon impression signature. Folds o/w fine. 

Ross-on-Wye Post Office copy letter book 1904-1932

Lot: 307

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £155
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Ross-on-Wye Post Office copy letter book 1904-1932, comprising a manuscript record of correspondence received by the Ross-on-Wye postmaster from the Surveyor of the GPO and other officials. The entries from 1904 to 1920 are comprehensive but increasingly sketchy and summarised thereafter. The early period provides a fascinating insight into the day to day workings of the postal service in Herefordshire and the management of post office staff. Foolscap, 140pp, plus diary entries thereafter, bound in original boards with OHMS label on front.