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Auction No 417, Category: Local History

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Late-19th Century to 1950s Photographs of Clitheroe and Blackburn origin in two albums and loose; including 19th Century cabinet portraits (8),

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £52
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Late-19th Century to 1950s Photographs of Clitheroe and Blackburn origin in two albums and loose; including 19th Century cabinet portraits (8), 1937 family and holiday snaps in North Wales, and an impressive album of 11 school group photos taken at Low Moor School, Clitheroe, 1953, with research notes. (Qty)

Ben Brierley "Ab-o’th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories", W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Ben Brierley Ab-o'th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories, W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles, one ex-library in poor condition, others good/VG. (8)

Ballard "All Saints, Stand 1826-1951", 1951, 56pp; Holt "Pilkington Park", 1962, 94pp; Tipping "Heaton Park Manchester", Country Life, 1925;

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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Ballard All Saints, Stand 1826-1951, 1951, 56pp; Holt Pilkington Park, 1962, 94pp; Tipping Heaton Park Manchester, Country Life, 1925; and Whiffen The Architecture of Sir Charles Barry in Manchester, 1950, 19pp; all softbacks, VG/VF (4)

Lancashire titles from 19th Century, chiefly Clitheroe & Blackburn related including T. Counsell "Mellor in Blackburnshire", 1929,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Lancashire titles from 19th Century, chiefly Clitheroe & Blackburn related including T. Counsell Mellor in Blackburnshire, 1929, works by Arthur Langshaw, softback picture albums & guides, Ben Wood's Lancashire Sketches (c.1900), etc. Mixed condition. (43)

The Holly Grove Mansion & Estate, Worstead, Norfolk: a fine 2-page manuscript of 1840 outlining Sales Particulars for the estate,

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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The Holly Grove Mansion & Estate, Worstead, Norfolk: a fine 2-page manuscript of 1840 outlining Sales Particulars for the estate, to be offered in seven lots at the Swan Inn, Worstead. Posted from North Walsham as a folded letter sheet to solicitors in Wymondham.

Theatre Royal, Manchester, 1828-32, a selection of four playbills, all with folds/creasing, some peripheral faults. (4)

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £105
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Theatre Royal, Manchester, 1828-32, a selection of four playbills, all with folds/creasing, some peripheral faults. (4)

"The City of Manchester Town Hall Extensions", 1938, 36pp, illustrated throughout; "Manchester Buildings", Corinthian Press, 1966,

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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The City of Manchester Town Hall Extensions, 1938, 36pp, illustrated throughout; Manchester Buildings, Corinthian Press, 1966, 56pp, spine a little frayed; and a rare print of the architect's design for The Christie Hospital & Holt Radium Institute 1931. VG. (3)

J.P. Earwaker (Ed.) "The Constables’ Accounts of the Manor of Manchester from the Year 1612 to…1647, and from 1743 to…1776"

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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J.P. Earwaker (Ed.) The Constables' Accounts of the Manor of Manchester from the Year 1612 to…1647, and from 1743 to…1776, J.E. Cornish, 1891-1892, three vols, good half-vellum bindings with gilt leather titles; ex-library markings, foot of title page of vol.2 cut away; very clean internally; together with Swindells' Manchester Streets and Manchester Men, 5 vols, E.J. Morten reprints.