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Auction No 422, Category: Local History

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Carton of softback publications (many Lancashire related) and sundry ephemera, with Cigarette Cards, military photos, etc.

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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Carton of softback publications (many Lancashire related) and sundry ephemera, with Cigarette Cards, military photos, etc. Early 20th Century to modern. (Qty) (5 kilos)

"The Comprehensive Bible", Samuel Bagster, 1827, tall octavo, full blind-tooled and gilt leather, faded; gift inscription of William Fleming

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £24
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The Comprehensive Bible, Samuel Bagster, 1827, tall octavo, full blind-tooled and gilt leather, faded; gift inscription of William Fleming to his son dated 1829, second free-endpaper with manuscript family tree of the Fleming and Bell families of Coupar, Kilwinning and Glasgow, extended with an additional leaf tipped in, and covering the period 1746-1875. Good clean text.          

"Ancoats Recreation", Ancoats Brotherhood, 1907-1919, sixteen issues of this rare illustrated prospectus, together with three 1907 4pp programmes;

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
SOLD £220
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Ancoats Recreation, Ancoats Brotherhood, 1907-1919, sixteen issues of this rare illustrated prospectus, together with three 1907 4pp programmes; illustrators include Walter Crane, Arthur Gaskin, and others of the Arts & Crafts movement and Pre-Raphaelites. Some occasional foxing, one issue with a photographic plate removed, another with back cover scarred. [The Ancoats Brotherhood was a socialist workers' organisation in Manchester founded by Charles Rowley in 1878. It provided lectures, concerts and exhibitions for the working classes, and lecturers included William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, and George Bernard Shaw.] (19 items).                

Local History publications, mostly Lancs & Cheshire with much Greater Manchester and Merseyside, largely softbacks, several of transport interest.

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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Local History publications, mostly Lancs & Cheshire with much Greater Manchester and Merseyside, largely softbacks, several of transport interest. Some duplication. Mainly VG to fine. (48)

Bus & Coach history & nostalgia, all of Local History interest, h/bk and s/bk; including Charles Hall "Rotherham & District Transport" 1996-1999,

Lot: 104

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £66
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Bus & Coach history & nostalgia, all of Local History interest, h/bk and s/bk; including Charles Hall Rotherham & District Transport 1996-1999, 3 vols, large format s/bks, creasing to back covers of vols. 1 & 3; Hemsell Nottingham City Transport's Buses, 2012; and Smith Austin's – Happy Days, of Woodseaves, Stafford, 2016. Mostly VG/VF, no ownership inscriptions. (23).