Lot: 37
Edward Baines (Jnr.) The Life of Edward Baines, Longman, 1859, 2nd Edition, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt title, VG; bookplate of William Garnett (M.P. for Lancaster 1857-63) of Bleasdale & Quernmore Park; photographic frontispiece rather faded; 316pp. The biography includes a chilling account of the Peterloo massacre, the failure to prosecute those that ordered the attack and the attempted Government cover-up which followed it, amongst much other contemporary narrative.
Lot: 39
Hulton Colliery, Westhoughton, company day-book containing records of Receipts and Disbursements 1807-1811, quarto, original vellum-covered boards (marked & grimed), sound binding, 192pp of manuscript entries written in a clear hand and clean internally.
Lot: 40
Robert Billings Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of the County of Durham: ecclesiastical, castellated and domestic, George Andrews, Durham, 1846, quarto, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, VG, new endpapers; 64 full-page tissue-guarded engraved plates, occasional minor fox mark.
Lot: 41
Charles Leigh The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts. Oxford, 1700, sm. folio, later full mottled calf, rebacked, VG; complete with folding map, hand-coloured in outline, engraved frontispiece and 24 other plates; text & index complete. The plates & map partially damp-stained also affecting parts of the text.
Lot: 50
Thomas Gent The Antient and Modern History of the Loyal Town of Rippon, 1733, many engraved plates, some added or overlaid on to the existing plates, occasional browning and few repairs; and The History of Ripon, W.Farrer, 1806, two hand-coloured engraved plates, some pages with annotations; both nicely rebound in modern quarter- or half-leather. Together with The Registers of the Parish Church of Adel, 1895, and The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley, 1903. Varied condition. (4)
Lot: 51
F.T. Havergal Fasti Herefordenses; & other Antiquarian Memorials of Hereford, R. Clark, 1869; quarto, contemp. half-leather, gilt, VG. Plates complete, fine internally.
Lot: 61
Arthur Crookenden The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War, Chester, 1949, orig. cloth, spine faded, fine internally with all plates and maps; neat ownership signature front pastedown. 371pp
Lot: 63
Domesday Book Studies: Sussex 1987-88, and Domesday: Surrey, 1987-90, each in 3 volumes, the latter lacking the large folding county map. (6) Fine
Lot: 64
William Nimmo The History of Stirlingshire, 1880, 3rd Edition (enlarged), later half-leather, gilt, fine; t.e.g., some browning to endpapers, folding map with few repairs. (2)
Lot: 65
[John Seacombe] The History of the House of Stanley…[and]…a complete history of the Isle of Man, J. Gleave, 1821, rebound in modern gilt cloth over marbled boards, fine; good internally with all plates, occasional tone marks.
Lot: 67
Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited: Commemoration of Twenty First Anniversary September 1884; Huddersfield Industrial Society Ltd Jubilee History 1910; Sidney & Beatrice Webb The Consumers’ Co-Operative Movement, 1921; all VG/Fine; and other related, all CWS publications 1909-36, all original gilt cloth, some with spines faded. (13)
Lot: 68
Archaeological Reports published by the Society of Antiquaries, 1913 to 1963, all in cloth-bound volumes, concerning Roman excavations in Colchester (3), Richborough in Kent (4), Wroxeter in Shropshire, and the Stanwick Fortifications of North Yorkshire. VG/Fine (9)