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Auction No 420, Category: Local History

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

Assorted books & pamphlets including Havelock Ellis "Sonnets with Folk Songs from the Spanish", Golden Cockerel Press, 1925, fine;

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Assorted books & pamphlets including Havelock Ellis Sonnets with Folk Songs from the Spanish, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925, fine; John Ward Moston Characters at Play, 1905, with folding map, lacking title page; E. Darbyshire Ballads, Poems and Recitations, Sheffield, 1885; John Sutton The Date-Book of Nottingham 1878, 8 parts, and The Nottingham Date-Book, 1884, 19 parts, in the original wraps, mixed condition; Macaulay Essays, 1902 in a fine full-leather prize binding; Barrow Naval Worthies, 1845, ex-library; Wills and Inventories of New Mills People, 1995, Parts 1 & 2; Hewitson Our Churches and Chapels, Preston, 1869 (some loose pages); and various others. (57 items)  

Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks [Isabella Banks] "The Manchester Man", 1896, illustrated by Charles Green & Hedley Fitton, signed by Isabella Banks

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £400 - £500
UNSOLD
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Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks [Isabella Banks] The Manchester Man, 1896, illustrated by Charles Green & Hedley Fitton, signed by Isabella Banks on the half-title, complete with the many plates and three maps (two folding). Large paper edition, top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere. This scarce signed edition was jointly published by Abel Heywood of Manchester, and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, London. Some variable foxing to text, the plates & maps largely unaffected, one map with small marginal tear strengthened with archival tape.

Manchester History, a selection of h/bk (7) and s/bk volumes, plus a pamphlet; including Redford "The History of Local Government in Manchester"

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Manchester History, a selection of h/bk (7) and s/bk volumes, plus a pamphlet; including Redford The History of Local Government in Manchester, 1939-40, 3 vols, two signed by the author; Scola Feeding the Victorian City, 1992; and Spiers Victoria Park Manchester, 1976. Good to fine. (12)

Local History including illustrated works, country-wide, h/bk (10) and s/bk, most of the h/bks in d/jkts, mostly focusing on social change,

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Local History including illustrated works, country-wide, h/bk (10) and s/bk, most of the h/bks in d/jkts, mostly focusing on social change, three with gift or ownership inscriptions, one signed by the author. Chaloner's Social and Economic Development of Crewe complete with map. Includes few pamphlets/journals. Good to VF (25)

Altrincham and Timperley related titles together with Phillips "A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire" 2001, fine in d/jkt. Good to VF.

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £56
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Altrincham and Timperley related titles together with Phillips A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire 2001, fine in d/jkt. Good to VF. None with inscriptions. (7)

Ernest Broxap "Manchester a Hundred Years Ago", John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured);

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Ernest Broxap Manchester a Hundred Years Ago, John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured); and William Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell, [1894] illustrated byTidmarsh, 4to, 3 vols, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, grubby mark in margin to p.vii in Vol.3, rear endpaper missing from Vol.2. (4)