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Auction No 430, Category: Local History

15 Lots (displaying 1 - 15)

Manchester Gaiety Theatre "Christmas Annual", 1908, edited by Henry Austin and inscribed by him on front card cover.

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Manchester Gaiety Theatre Christmas Annual, 1908, edited by Henry Austin and inscribed by him on front card cover. Bound in gilt cloth-covered boards. Numerous photo-plates. Light damp-staining to advertisements o/w fine internally. 168pp

Fishwick "The Survey of the Manor of Rochdale", Chetham Society, 1913, fine; and Raines "The Vicars of Rochdale", Chetham Society, 1883, 2 vols,

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Fishwick The Survey of the Manor of Rochdale, Chetham Society, 1913, fine; and Raines The Vicars of Rochdale, Chetham Society, 1883, 2 vols, rebacked, some library stamps. (3)

Evans & Rose "Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax Returns Michaelmas 1664", British Record Society, 2000; and companion works on Durham, Kent, Westmorland

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £32
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Evans & Rose Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax Returns Michaelmas 1664, British Record Society, 2000; and companion works on Durham, Kent, Westmorland and West Riding, all in d/jkts; together with Parkinson The Establishment of the Hearth Tax 1662-66, 2008, card wraps. (6)

Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society publications including Curwen "The Later Records Relating to North Westmorland or The Barony of Appleby

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £105
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Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society publications including Curwen The Later Records Relating to North Westmorland or The Barony of Appleby, Titus Wilson, 1932; Graham The Barony of Gilsland: Lord William Howard's Survey taken in 1603, 1934; Grainger & Collingwood The Registers and Records of Holm Cultram, 1929; Taylor The Websters of Kendal, 2004, in d/jkt; and three others including two modern reprints. VG/Fine (7)

"An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset", Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1970-75, seven volumes,

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £34
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An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1970-75, seven volumes; and companion volumes on Stamford, Salisbury, West Cambridgeshire and North Northamptonshire. Fine in VG/VF d/jkts. (11)

"Bewsey Old Hall Research Report", Warrington, 1980, 79pp + folding plans; Marshall "Furness and the Industrial Revolution", 1958;

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £32
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Bewsey Old Hall Research Report, Warrington, 1980, 79pp + folding plans; Marshall Furness and the Industrial Revolution, 1958; Bailey & Culley General View of the Agriculture of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, 1972 reprint; Gray The History of Bury Lancashire from 1660 to 1876, 1970; and other local history, mainly softbacks. VG/VF (18)

"Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society" 1957-2008, mostly cloth-bound, gilt, and mainly 1990s/2000s. VG/VF (28)

Lot: 97

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £32
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Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1957-2008, mostly cloth-bound, gilt, and mainly 1990s/2000s. VG/VF (28)   

"The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey", Chetham Society, 1886-1919, six volumes, unopened; and "The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey", Chetham Society,

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £42
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The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey, Chetham Society, 1886-1919, six volumes, unopened; and The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey, Chetham Society, 1898-1909, five (of six) vols, lacking Vol.1, part II. Publisher's gilt cloth. VG/Fine

Harold J. Smith (Ed.) "The Manchester Diocesan Magazine", 1904-1913, Vols 1 to 10, complete in half-leather gilt bindings,

Lot: 103

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Harold J. Smith (Ed.) The Manchester Diocesan Magazine, 1904-1913, Vols 1 to 10, complete in half-leather gilt bindings, some wear, fine internally, Vol.1 with presentation bookplate. (10)

"Cottrill’s Police Directory of the Borough of Newcastle-Under-Lyme for 1836", Newcastle, full diced calf;

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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Cottrill's Police Directory of the Borough of Newcastle-Under-Lyme for 1836, Newcastle, full diced calf; The Newcastle and Pottery General and Commercial Directory for 1822-23, Hanley [1822], fine modern rebind in half-leather, tape stains to first few leaves; and The Potteries, Newcastle and District Directory, 1912, lacking maps, weak hinges, 1,250pp. (3)  

[John Walker] "Oxoniana", Richard Phillips, [1807], 4 vols, half-calf, gilt, peripheral wear, engraved titles & fold-out facsimiles to each volume,

Lot: 106

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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[John Walker] Oxoniana, Richard Phillips, [1807], 4 vols, half-calf, gilt, peripheral wear, engraved titles & fold-out facsimiles to each volume, browning to first & last few leaves; together with Birch The Royal Charters of the City of Lincoln Henry II to William III, Cambridge, 1911, five plates, spine faded. (5)  

John Graves "The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York", Carlisle, 1808, worn half-leather, gilt title, fine folding map

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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John Graves The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York, Carlisle, 1808, worn half-leather, gilt title, fine folding map hand-coloured in outline, folding pedigree, and engraved plates; preliminary leaves browned and stained, front hinge weak; and Elgee The Moorlands of North Eastern Yorkshire, 1912, fine folding map & plates, ownership signature front endpaper. (2)

Henry Fishwick "The History of The Parish of Rochdale", James Clegg & Elliot Stock,1889, rebound in quarter-morocco, gilt, over buckram-covered boards

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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Henry Fishwick The History of The Parish of Rochdale, James Clegg & Elliot Stock, 1889, rebound in quarter-morocco, gilt, over buckram-covered boards; minor spotting to half-title o/w fine with all plates, pedigrees and illustrations in text; and The Works of John Trafford Clegg: Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes chiefly in the Rochdale Dialect, James Clegg, 1895, two vols., orig. gilt cloth, 18 b/w plates. (3)

William Mills "The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921", Manchester 1922, privately printed, full leather, gilt, eight plates;

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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William Mills The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921, Manchester 1922, privately printed, full leather, gilt, eight plates; and Royal Residential Schools for the Deaf, Old Trafford, Manchester, Centenary of the Founding of the Schools, Manchester, 1923, in d/jkt, 26 photo-plates. (2)

Edward Baines "The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster", John Heywood, 1888, revised edition (with Pedigrees), edited by Croston;

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Edward Baines The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, John Heywood, 1888, revised edition (with Pedigrees), edited by Croston; five volumes, quarto, orig. gilt cloth, backstrip of Vol.1 with some damage; small repair to folding map; minor spotting to prelims o/w very clean internally. Partly unopened. (5)