Auction No 392, Category: Local History

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

Ammon Wrigley "Songs of the Pennine Hills", Whittaker & Sons, 1938, first edition, original cloth, minor spotting to prelims, VG;

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £62
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Ammon Wrigley Songs of the Pennine Hills, Whittaker & Sons, 1938, first edition, original cloth, minor spotting to prelims, VG; and Songs of a Moorland Parish, [1962], 50th Anniversary reprint in gilt leatherette, fine.

"The Works of John Trafford Clegg: Stories, Sketches and Rhymes chiefly in the Rochdale Dialect", Aldine Press, Rochdale, 1898;

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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The Works of John Trafford Clegg: Stories, Sketches and Rhymes chiefly in the Rochdale Dialect, Aldine Press, Rochdale, 1898; octavo, two volumes, original gilt cloth, VG; 18 b/w plates; fine internally though one tissue-guard has fox marks. (2)   

John Addy (Ed.) "The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese", Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire,

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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John Addy (Ed.) The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese, Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, 3 volume set, 1987-97, VG in complete d/jkts, neat ownership signatures.

Henry Broxap "A Biography of Thomas Deacon: The Manchester Non-Juror", Manchester University Press, 1911, orig. cloth, gilt, fine;

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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Henry Broxap A Biography of Thomas Deacon: The Manchester Non-Juror, Manchester University Press, 1911, orig. cloth, gilt, fine; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere with some spotting to edges; b/w frontispiece and folding-plate. 215pp + 22pp publisher’s catalogue.        

"Advertiser Notes and Queries. Reprinted from the Stockport Advertiser, Vol. IV", Stockport 1884; octavo, half-leather, gilt,

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Advertiser Notes and Queries. Reprinted from the Stockport Advertiser, Vol. IV, Stockport 1884; octavo, half-leather, gilt, some wear to extremities; marble-edged and endpapers. Fine internally. 197pp

"A New General and Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford", W. Whellan & Co., Manchester,1852;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £140
SOLD £100
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A New General and Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, W. Whellan & Co., Manchester, 1852; octavo, rebound in fine modern three-quarter black morocco, gilt, red title label; the volume includes most of the Greater Manchester area including villages & hamlets; 932pp plus 38pp preface; list of bankers and adverts at rear. VG

The National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918, Section XIV, Salford", National Publishing Co, London, n.d.; quarto, gilt cloth, VG; half-title and fin

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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The National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918, Section XIV, Salford, National Publishing Co, London, n.d.; quarto, gilt cloth, VG; half-title and final page of text browned o/w fine internally. 360pp 

James Croston "Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire", John Heywood, 1882, one of 600 printed for subscribers;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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James Croston Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire, John Heywood, 1882, one of 600 printed for subscribers; quarto, original gilt decorated cloth, foot of backstrip damaged with partial repair; contemporary ownership inscription of Abraham Lord of Alkrington Hall (son of one of the subscribers). Plates complete. Fine internally

Christopher Wordsworth "Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury" Cambridge University Press, 1901,

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th May 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Christopher Wordsworth Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, Cambridge University Press, 1901, octavo, original gilt cloth, t.e.g., uncut elsewhere, browning to endpapers; includes woodcuts from the Sarum Processionale of 1502 and fine folding diagram. Pencilled notations to rear endpapers plus a few in the text. Good