Lot: 3
F. Hackwood Staffordshire Worthies, 1911, gilt cloth; The History of the House of Stanley….to which is added a Complete History of the Isle of Man, 1821, nicely rebound in half-leather, five plates, few pages repaired, some loss of text; Bury related pamphlets (4) including Sanitary Inspector Reports for 1883, 1888 and 1895; brochure of 1885 concerning the proposed restoration of the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London, with hand-coloured plan; Lancashire bibliographies, etc. (13)
Lot: 5
Recording Britain, Oxford, 1946-49, 4 vols, in d/jkts (spines of jackets poor); and various small books including Holland & Britain and Greece and Britain; About Britain Nos.1 to 9, Collins, 1951; King Penguins (5), and eight of the In Praise Of series, Frederick Muller 1949-59. Fair to VF. (32)
Lot: 45
Thomas Baines and William Fairbairn Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present, William Mackenzie [1868-69], two vols in four, pictorial gilt cloth, worn at extremities; Division II with binding detached from text-block and foot of backstrip chipped; plates & maps intact, occasional browning to text. (4)
Lot: 46
J. W. Platt The History and Antiquities of Nantwich, London, 1818, cloth-backed boards; Henry Green Knutsford: Its Traditions and History, 1887; A Brother Beloved: a record of the life and experience of Mr. Jesse Croft, of Sale, Cheshire, 1925, and other Cheshire related titles. Platt's Nantwich with repair to pp.115/116, a further repair required to pp.57/58. (8)
Lot: 47
Thomas Middleton The History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood, Higham Press, 1932; Swann Glimpses of Mellor, 1940; A.J. French The Life of John Birchenall M.R.C.S., F.L.S., of Macclesfield, [1881], photographic plate; Massie The Paintings in Gawsworth Church, Macclesfield, 1853, rebound; Stalybridge Official Handbook [1948], with fold-out map; and three other Cheshire titles. Good to fine. (8)
Lot: 48
J. Corbett The River Irwell, 1907; McKechnie Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, 1915, 2nd impression, tipped-in plates; Didsbury Coronation Festivities 1911 (2 copies, many half-tone plates); John Booker A History of the Ancient Chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton, Chetham Society, 1857, worn binding; Speake A History of Droylsden, 1953; Grindon Manchester Banks and Bankers, 1877; John Loudon Manchester Memoirs, Royal Exchange Assurance, 1916, half-leather, gilt; Procter Manchester in Holiday Dress, 1866 (spine chipped & faded); and related titles. (18)
Lot: 49
Edward Kennedy ink-signed 10 x 8” photograph, some light creasing
Lot: 50
Lewis The Medieval Earthworks of the Hundred of West Derby, British Archaeological Reports, 2000, and other BAR publications including Evans Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes of Cumbria, 2008, and similar. A4, card wraps. (9)
Lot: 51
The Agricultural History Review, British Agricultural Society, 1995 (part II) to 2023, a complete run, each volume in two parts. No inscriptions. (77)
Lot: 52
Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1899-1930, including The Registers of the Parish Church of Whalley, 1900, and similar titles, many scarce. Seven are ex-library. Gilt cloth. Some shelfwear to bindings. (14)
Lot: 53
Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1978-1998, a fairly complete run (lacking vols. 117, 119 & 120). One with annotations to front endpaper o/w uninscribed. Gilt leatherette bindings. (24)
Lot: 54
Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1998-2022, a complete run. Vols. 176 & 177 with ownership initials o/w uninscribed. Gilt leatherette bindings. (57)
Lot: 55
Chetham Society publications including The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey, 1886-1919, six vols, and fourteen other volumes to 1931; plus a selection of seven of their modern publications. Foot of spine of vol.76 frayed o/w fine. (26)
Lot: 56
Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire publications (12) from 1884 including Proceedings of the Lancashire Justices of the Peace 1578-1694, 1981; The Family Records of Benjamin Shaw, Mechanic of Dent, Dolphinholme and Preston, 1991, Crown Pleas of the Lancashire Eyre 1292, 3 vols, 2014-15, and similar, together with twelve others issued by the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire and related organisations. (24)
Lot: 57
Lancashire History with The Diary of the Reverend Peter Williams 1773-74, 2000; Wadsworth The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire 1600-1780, 1965; Farrer The Court Rolls of the Honor of Clitheroe, Vol.1, 1897 (rebound); Baines History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, David & Charles reprint, 2 vols; and various others, h/bk and s/bk. (29)
Lot: 58
British Place-Name studies including Carroll & Parsons Perceptions of Place, 2013, a run of the journal Nomina 2005-2021 (13 vols.), and Ekwall Studies on English Place-Names 1936. (35)
Lot: 59
Public Records, Genealogy, Parish Documents etc, a collection of reference works, h/bk and s/bk. (32)
Lot: 61
H.M.S. Apollo, 1936-38, a collection of snapshot photos taken on a world tour, during which the ship sailed East to West through the Panama Canal, the first ship to do so, with interest in Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Colombia, Panama, Canada and elsewhere, as well as photos of the ship and its crew. Many of the photos have pencil or ink captions on reverse. VG condition. (338)
Lot: 62
Alexander Smellie Men of the Covenant, Andrew Melrose, 1908, two vols., ‘Edition de Luxe', No.609 of 920, signed by the author on limitation page (of Vol.1), monochrome art plates, gilt cloth, VG
Lot: 64
Merseyside related including Foster New Birkdale 1850-1912, Southport, 1995, in d/jkt; R.J. Broadbent Annals of the Liverpool Stage, Edward Howell, 1908; J.F. Smith & others Liverpool Past, Present, Future, Northern Publishing 1948, foxing to boards; and various others, s/bks & h/bks. Mostly VG/Fine. (13)