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Auction No 376, Category: Local History

14 Lots (displaying 1 - 14)

"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.  

"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.

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)

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

"The Newcastle Diocesan Year Book", for 1959, 1960, 1965 and 1966; SPCK, Newcastle-upon-Tyne;

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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The Newcastle Diocesan Year Book, for 1959, 1960, 1965 and 1966; SPCK, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; original printed wraps, cover of 1965 issue discoloured; each approx. 116pp plus index and adverts; together with Charles Trevelyan Wallington: Its History and Treasures, 1939, signed and inscribed by the author. Good/VG (5)

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

William Blundell "A Cavalier's Note Book Being Notes, Anecdotes, & Observations of William Blundell of Crosby, Lancashire, Esquire"

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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William Blundell A Cavalier's Note Book Being Notes, Anecdotes, & Observations of William Blundell of Crosby, Lancashire, Esquire,  Longmans, Green & Co, 1880, original gilt & blind-tooled cloth, t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; half-title and final page browned o/w VG; and J.W. Ebsworth Cavalier Lyrics: For Church and Crown, Stephen Austin, 1886, No.74 of 150, later half-cloth, gilt, VG. (2)  

Henry Fishwick "The History of the Parish of Bispham, in the County of Lancaster", Chetham Society, 1887;

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Henry Fishwick The History of the Parish of Bispham, in the County of Lancaster, Chetham Society, 1887; tall octavo, publisher’s blind-tooled & gilt cloth, VG; folding pedigrees; foxing to prelims o/w fine internally. Unopened. 142pp

"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments", Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1851, with Blackburn associations

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1851, 4to, full leather, gilt, bronze corners & clasp intact, wear to hinges and foot of backstrip; a.e.g.; gilt morocco presentation bookplate to Miss Eccles from members of the Mill Hill Sunday School, Blackburn; 20 tissue-guarded topographical engravings after W.H.Bartlett, the tissue-guards browned with spotting to the margins of some of the plates; clean text. Family Register completed for the period 1856-1899 commencing James Davenport Kelly’s marriage to Margaret Alice Eccles. VG

"The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince", Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, 2 vols, edited Lithgow;

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £12
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The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, 2 vols, edited Lithgow; original decorated gilt cloth, good; large paper edition, numbered 45 of 100 issued; repair to front inner hinge of Vol.1; uncut two sides; clean text. (2)

William Robertson "Rochdale and the Vale of Whitworth: Its Moorlands, Favourite Nooks, Green Lanes, and Scenery"

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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William Robertson Rochdale and the Vale of Whitworth: Its Moorlands, Favourite Nooks, Green Lanes, and Scenery, Rochdale, 1867, small octavo, original gilt & printed cloth, VG; illustrated including 11 b/w plates. Fine internally.