Lot: 20
The Newcastle Diocesan Year Book, for 1959, 1960, 1965 and 1966; SPCK, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; original printed wraps, cover of 1965 issue discoloured; each approx. 116pp plus index and adverts; together with Charles Trevelyan Wallington: Its History and Treasures, 1939, signed and inscribed by the author. Good/VG (5)
Lot: 66
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1851, 4to, full leather, gilt, bronze corners & clasp intact, wear to hinges and foot of backstrip; a.e.g.; gilt morocco presentation bookplate to Miss Eccles from members of the Mill Hill Sunday School, Blackburn; 20 tissue-guarded topographical engravings after W.H.Bartlett, the tissue-guards browned with spotting to the margins of some of the plates; clean text. Family Register completed for the period 1856-1899 commencing James Davenport Kelly’s marriage to Margaret Alice Eccles. VG
Lot: 72
Arthur Findlay The Torch of Knowledge, Psychic Press [1936], gilt cloth, VG, gift inscription front pastedown, fine internally, 6 plates, 445pp; and Shaw Desmond Psychic Pitfalls, Rider & Co, 1950, in VG d/jkt, 271pp
Lot: 77
G. Henslow The Proofs of the Truths of Spiritualism, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1919, revised edition; octavo, original cloth, gilt; few pages with pencil annotations. 255pp plus plates
Lot: 78
John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865, in an impressive Victorian leather binding; quarto, elaborate tooled full leather Victorian binding, hinges reinforced o/w fine, sides beautifully decorated with dentelles, marbled endpapers; contemporary gift inscription to free endpaper; illustrated with wood engravings; few minor tone spots o/w fine text; 400pp