Lot: 56
Saddleworth Surveyed: Selected maps of the township 1625-1851, 1985; Mapping Saddleworth, Uppermill, 2007-2010, 2 Vols; and Saddleworth Villages, 2003; all very fine, in d/jkts; together with a related softback. (5)
Lot: 58
James Boardman Records & Traditions of Deane Church, Village, and Parish, 1904, 2 Vols, orig. gilt cloth, backstrips relaid, small ink inscription foot of title page Vol.1; Dowsett Holcombe Long Ago and Notes on Holcombe, facsimile reprints; Robertson Rochdale Past and Present, 1876, 2nd Edn, gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers, fine colour plates; and related titles. Fair to VF (9)
Lot: 78
Henry Fishwick The History of the Parish of Bispham, Chetham Society, 1887, publisher’s cloth, gilt, VG; folding pedigrees; spotting to prelims o/w fine internally. 142pp
Lot: 81
Frederick Overend History of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Bacup, Kingsgate Press, 1912, original gilt cloth, VG; nineteen b/w plates; fine internally. 280pp
Lot: 82
James Johnston Mawdsley Street Congregational Chapel Bolton-le-Moors 1808-1908, Sherratt & Hughes, [1908], original gilt cloth, t.e.g., front panel partly discoloured; 11 b/w plates; occasional spotting to text.
Lot: 84
Thomas Newbigging History of the Forest of Rossendale, J.J. Riley, 1893, 2nd Edn, octavo, recased, the original gilt cloth relaid, new endpapers; 7 b/w plates; some light browning. 369pp
Lot: 85
J. Marshall Mather Rambles Round Rossendale (Second Series), J.J. Riley, 1894, quarto, original gilt cloth, fine; browning to endpapers, light spotting to tissue-guards, few tone marks in text; 184pp + plates
Lot: 88
Lt.Col. Fishwick (Ed.) Rochdale Jubilee: A Record of Fifty Years’ Municipal Work 1856 to 1906, George Falkner, 1906; quarto, quarter grained-morocco, gilt, fine; bookplate of Richard Heape of Rochdale, and later ownership inscription dated 1933; light browning to endpapers; colour frontisp. and many b/w illustrations; few minor inked amendments to list of Mayors & Aldermen at rear. 316pp plus prelims.
Lot: 89
James Middleton Oldham Past and Present, Edwards & Bryning, 1903; quarto, orig. gilt & blind-tooled cloth, VG; numerous b/w illustrations plus coloured plate; title page with vertical crease o/w fine internally. 204pp
Lot: 94
James Christopher Scholes and William Pimblett History of Bolton: with Memorials of the Old Parish Church, Bolton Daily Chronicle, 1892; quarto, recased, the original gilt cloth relaid, new endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; b/w frontisp., and many textual illustrations; fine internally; xii,[3], 555pp. VG
Lot: 95
Saddleworth history & topography, a collection from 1915; including Bernard Barnes Saddleworth Heritage, 1975, signed by the author; Butterworth The Parochial Chapelry of Saddleworth, 2006 reprint; John Smith Saddleworth Buildings; Stonehouse The Prehistory of Saddleworth; Millett Saddleworth and its People; Ken Booth Roman Saddleworth; mostly softbacks; plus 19 issues of Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society from No.1 (1971), and set of nine Local Interest Trails. VG/VF (38)