Lot: 1
Carton of mainly softback publications, plus some ephemera, 19th Century to 1980s, with local history & guides, Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers Parts 2 to 9 (most with colour plates), transport, etc, plus sundry prints & engravings, photos, etc. Varied condition. (Large qty., 13 kilos)
Lot: 30
Manchester Theatre Programmes 1920s to 1970s with many 1920s to 1940s, notably the Palace, Opera House and Prince's, 93 in all; plus few books, and a folder of photos and ephemera concerning the St.Werburgh's Amateur Dramatic Society (Chorlton) in the 1950s. (Qty)
Lot: 47
Rene Bull Black and White War Albums Nos.1 to 4, first two issues covering the War in Sudan, bound with views of the UK and elsewhere; Views of Ancient and Modern Liverpool, Liverpool Post, 1907, bound volume and 10 loose issues (covers in mixed condition); and a view album of Notts & Lincolnshire with very worn cover.
Lot: 48
Manchester & Salford social, cultural and economic history, b/k & s/bk, including illustrated works and reprints of antiquarian titles. One ex-library. Mainly VG/VF (33)
Lot: 49
Manchester & Salford history, especially transport and education; others include Anglers' Evenings: Papers by Members of the Manchester Anglers' Association, Third Series, 1894, orig. cloth. Many are softbacks. Good to VF. (74)
Lot: 50
Manchester history including medicine, architecture & the arts, 1870s to modern, h/bk and s/bk, mainly good to fine. Includes some pamphlets including 1950s medical reports (ex-library). (48)
Lot: 51
Manchester related biography & autobiography with diaries & journals; some scarcer titles including Henry Theodore Gaddum, 1973; Absalom Watkin: Extracts from his Journal 1814-1856, London, 1920; W.E.A. Axon Cobden as a Citizen, 1907, presentation inscription from Richard Cobden-Sanderson; and Hodgkins The Diary of Edward Watkin, 2013, in d/jkt. Mainly VG to VF. (30)
Lot: 52
P.J. Hartog The Owens College, Manchester: A Brief History, J.E. Cornish, 1900, quarto, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, bookplate of Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse; and related works, together with early 20th Century reports on Manchester Technical Education, the Manchester Babies' Hospital, and Manchester Museum. Varied condition, a few ex-library. (29)
Lot: 54
The Manchester Genealogist 2007 to 2022, 43 issues; Journal of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 9 issues 1970s/90s; The Manchester Review, 10 issues, mainly 1930s; and four other journals.
Lot: 55
Annual Report of the Manchester and Salford Boys' and Girls' Refuges and Homes, and Children's Aid Society for 1907, 1908 and 1909; complete in a cloth-bound volume, original printed wraps bound in, many photographic plates; backstrip of the binding near detached. Scarce
Lot: 56
Vellum Indentures 1803-1891 concerning lands and properties in Gorton and Ardwick, Manchester, together with a related Will of 1875, 18 items in all; together with later related documents extending to 1932. The Will soiled & stained o/w VG condition. (Qty)
Lot: 57
Legal Documents (8) on vellum and paper, Lancs & Cheshire related, including 1853 & 1871 Assignments relating to land at Barlow's Croft, Salford; 1882 Conveyance concerning an Estate & Premises at Brook Meadow, Elton, nr. Bury; 1797 Lease of houses in Cheadle Hulme; 1929 Lease of land at Nether Alderley; and a 1915 Abstract of Title on 24 large sheets relating to Lady Francis Cecil & her Settlement Trustees and lands at Cheadle Bulkeley. VG condition; together with vendor's detailed descriptive notes.
Lot: 58
Manchester Grammar School related books (4), prospectus (2), and magazines, mostly 1960s/1980s. VG condition. (22)
Lot: 59
Kelly's Directory of Manchester, Salford and Stretford for 1951 and 1957; the 1951 edition in poor condition but text intact; together with Edward Baines History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1824-25, 2 vols, rebound, lacking maps o/w VG. (5)
Lot: 60
Arthur Redford The History of Local Government in Manchester, 1939-1940, 3 vols, each with a library cancel to front endpaper o/w VG; and a selection of other Manchester history titles from 19th Century to modern. Good to fine. (10)
Lot: 61
Scholfield Batsford's Manchester Then and Now, 2009, in d/jkt; Calvert A History of the Manchester Post Office 1625-1900; Bracegirdle The Microscopic Photographs of J.B. Dancer, 1993, in slipcase; and other Manchester history & nostalgia. Mostly VG/VF (40)
Lot: 62
Cheshire local history, mainly Altrincham & Bowdon area, but including Mortimer The History of the Hundred of Wirral, in d/jkt (Morten reprint); mostly modern titles, chiefly softbacks, VG/VF. Includes few pamphlets. (29)
Lot: 63
James Cocks Memorials of Hatherlow and of the Old Chadkirk Chapel, Stockport, 1895, orig. gilt cloth, large-paper edition, uncut at foot; and other Stockport area titles including A History of Mobberley Village, John Sherratt, 1973, in d/jkt; works on Cheadle Hulme School (2), etc. VG/VF (12)
Lot: 64
Manchester & area local history titles, all softbacks, mostly 1970s to modern, mainly good to VF (56)
Lot: 65
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1888, nine subsequent volumes to 1932, and five more recent; Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, 1889; plus few other bound journals and monographs including a history of Wythenshawe. (23)