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Auction No 364, Category: Local History

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

K. Hinde "Fenland Pumping Engines" 2006; Gale & Nicholls "The Lilleshall Company Ltd: a history" 1979;

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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K. Hinde Fenland Pumping Engines 2006; Gale & Nicholls The Lilleshall Company Ltd: a history 1979; Stephen Hughes The Brecon Forest Tramroads, 1990; J.R.Harris The Copper King: Thomas Williams of Llanidan, 2003; all in d/jkt, together with other Industrial History titles. (10)

John H. Cooke "Bibliotheca Cestriensis, or a Biographical Account of Books, Maps, Plates, and other Printed Matter

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £32
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John H. Cooke Bibliotheca Cestriensis, or a Biographical Account of Books, Maps, Plates, and other Printed Matter relating to….The County of Chester. Mackie & Co, 1904, tall quarto, half-vellum, gilt, VG, No. 89 of 200 issued; fine internally; 218pp + index + tissue-guarded half-tone plates. Some light foxing to fore-edge. Upper-right corners bumped. 

Box of Photographs and postcards from late-19th Century to 1920s, some in a modern album,

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £56
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Box of Photographs and postcards from late-19th Century to 1920s, some in a modern album, the photos mainly by North West of England photographers; including six superb mounted 6 x 8” photos of Tom Fletcher’s Butcher’s Shop at Blackpool by T. Fitzgerald, c.1900, and interior Radcliffe old Sunday School 1903 by F. Danby. Most photos are family portraits.  (Qty)

Co-Operative Society related including Catherine Webb "The Woman with the Basket" CWS, 1927;

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Co-Operative Society related including Catherine Webb The Woman with the Basket CWS, 1927; Edward Jackson Industrial Co-Operation in Bristol, CWS, 1911; Thomas Rigby Co-operation in Bury, 1905; etc. Varied condition. (11)

Local History softbacks, mostly A4 format, including Penny McKnight "Stockport Hatting"

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £26 - £36
SOLD £34
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Local History softbacks, mostly A4 format, including Penny McKnight Stockport Hatting, Neil Richardson A History of Wilsons Brewery 1834-1984, Dorothy Flowers My Dukinfield Childhood, etc. VG/VF (18)

Caroline Greg (b.1829) "Studies in Germany" 1851, oblong octavo, a sketch-book of 37 drawings,

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Caroline Greg (b.1829) Studies in Germany 1851, oblong octavo, a sketch-book of 37 drawings, 5 completed in watercolour, some others heightened with white, executed by Caroline Greg during a tour of 1851. Some wear to spine o/w VG. The Greg family were manufacturers whose interests included ownership of Styal Mill, Cheshire.