Lot: 60
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
Lot: 85
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)
Lot: 86
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)
Lot: 88
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)
Lot: 89
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)
Lot: 94
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)
Lot: 97
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1957-2008, mostly cloth-bound, gilt, and mainly 1990s/2000s. VG/VF (28)
Lot: 101
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
Lot: 103
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)
Lot: 105
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)
Lot: 106
[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)
Lot: 107
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)
Lot: 109
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)
Lot: 113
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)
Lot: 117
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)