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Auction No 428, Category: Local History

15 Lots (displaying 1 - 15)

Books & ephemera; including 1887 Sales Particulars for property in Broughton-in-Furness with two large folding Plans;

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £64
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Books & ephemera; including 1887 Sales Particulars for property in Broughton-in -Furness with two large folding Plans; T.C. Emmott An Outlaw in the Twentieth Century, Wycollar, c.1970; Poets of Merseyside Merton Press, 1923; various trade catalogues & handbooks including Highland Dress by Paisley's, 1952, and John Harvey's Wine List, 1952; Crosby Carnival Programme 1950; and various other items. Fair to VF. (over 5 kilos)

Thomas Baines and William Fairbairn "Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present", William Mackenzie [1868-69], two vols in four, pictorial gilt cloth,

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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Thomas Baines and William Fairbairn Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present, William Mackenzie [1868-69], two vols in four, pictorial gilt cloth, worn at extremities; Division II with binding detached from text-block and foot of backstrip chipped; plates & maps intact, occasional browning to text. (4)  

J. W. Platt "The History and Antiquities of Nantwich", London, 1818, cloth-backed boards; Henry Green "Knutsford: Its Traditions and History", 1887;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £34
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J. W. Platt The History and Antiquities of Nantwich, London, 1818, cloth-backed boards; Henry Green Knutsford: Its Traditions and History, 1887; A Brother Beloved: a record of the life and experience of Mr. Jesse Croft, of Sale, Cheshire, 1925, and other Cheshire related titles. Platt's Nantwich with repair to pp.115/116, a further repair required to pp.57/58. (8)

Thomas Middleton "The History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood", Higham Press, 1932; Swann "Glimpses of Mellor", 1940;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £42
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Thomas Middleton The History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood, Higham Press, 1932; Swann Glimpses of Mellor, 1940; A.J. French The Life of John Birchenall M.R.C.S., F.L.S., of Macclesfield, [1881], photographic plate; Massie The Paintings in Gawsworth Church, Macclesfield, 1853, rebound; Stalybridge Official Handbook [1948], with fold-out map; and three other Cheshire titles. Good to fine. (8)

J. Corbett "The River Irwell", 1907; McKechnie "Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen", 1915, 2nd impression, tipped-in plates;

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £70
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J. Corbett The River Irwell, 1907; McKechnie Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, 1915, 2nd impression, tipped-in plates; Didsbury Coronation Festivities 1911 (2 copies, many half-tone plates); John Booker A History of the Ancient Chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton, Chetham Society, 1857, worn binding; Speake A History of Droylsden, 1953; Grindon Manchester Banks and Bankers, 1877; John Loudon Manchester Memoirs, Royal Exchange Assurance, 1916, half-leather, gilt; Procter Manchester in Holiday Dress, 1866 (spine chipped & faded); and related titles. (18)

Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1899-1930, including "The Registers of the Parish Church of Whalley", 1900, and similar titles,

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1899-1930, including The Registers of the Parish Church of Whalley, 1900, and similar titles, many scarce. Seven are ex-library. Gilt cloth. Some shelfwear to bindings. (14)

Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1978-1998, a fairly complete run (lacking vols. 117, 119 & 120).

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1978-1998, a fairly complete run (lacking vols. 117, 119 & 120). One with annotations to front endpaper o/w uninscribed. Gilt leatherette bindings. (24) 

Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1998-2022, a complete run. Vols.176 & 177 with ownership initials, o/w uninscribed

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1998-2022, a complete run. Vols. 176 & 177 with ownership initials o/w uninscribed. Gilt leatherette bindings. (57)

Chetham Society publications including "The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey", 1886-1919, six vols, and fourteen other volumes to 1931;

Lot: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Chetham Society publications including The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey, 1886-1919, six vols, and fourteen other volumes to 1931; plus a selection of seven of their modern publications. Foot of spine of vol.76 frayed o/w fine. (26)

Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire publications (12) from 1884 including "Proceedings of the Lancashire Justices of the Peace 1578-1694",1981;

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire publications (12) from 1884 including Proceedings of the Lancashire Justices of the Peace 1578-1694, 1981; The Family Records of Benjamin Shaw, Mechanic of Dent, Dolphinholme and Preston, 1991, Crown Pleas of the Lancashire Eyre 1292, 3 vols, 2014-15, and similar, together with twelve others issued by the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire and related organisations. (24)     

Lancashire History with "The Diary of the Reverend Peter Williams 1773-74", 2000; Wadsworth "The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire 1600-1780"

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Lancashire History with The Diary of the Reverend Peter Williams 1773-74, 2000; Wadsworth The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire 1600-1780, 1965; Farrer The Court Rolls of the Honor of Clitheroe, Vol.1, 1897 (rebound); Baines History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, David & Charles reprint, 2 vols; and various others, h/bk and s/bk. (29)

British Place-Name studies including Carroll & Parsons "Perceptions of Place", 2013, a run of the journal "Nomina" 2005-2021 (13 vols.),

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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British Place-Name studies including Carroll & Parsons Perceptions of Place, 2013, a run of the journal Nomina 2005-2021 (13 vols.), and Ekwall Studies on English Place-Names 1936. (35)

Public Records, Genealogy, Parish Documents etc, a collection of reference works, h/bk and s/bk. (32)

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Public Records, Genealogy, Parish Documents etc, a collection of reference works, h/bk and s/bk. (32)

Glass lantern slides, Manchester related, comprising 1890s photographs of Patricroft (4, including 1897 Jubilee Day), Belle Vue Stadium, and Eccles;

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Glass lantern slides, Manchester related, comprising 1890s photographs of Patricroft (4, including 1897 Jubilee Day), Belle Vue Stadium, and Eccles; and 1920s group of 12 hand-coloured advertisements for the clothing retailers G.F. Leather of Withington (presumably for screening at local Cinemas). Fine throughout. (18)

Merseyside related including Foster "New Birkdale 1850-1912", Southport,1995, in d/jkt; R.J. Broadbent "Annals of the Liverpool Stage", Edward Howell

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Merseyside related including Foster New Birkdale 1850-1912, Southport, 1995, in d/jkt; R.J. Broadbent Annals of the Liverpool Stage, Edward Howell, 1908; J.F. Smith & others Liverpool Past, Present, Future, Northern Publishing 1948, foxing to boards; and various others, s/bks & h/bks. Mostly VG/Fine. (13)