Lot: 32
North West Labour History (41 issues); Manchester Region History Review (24 issues) and 13 other history journals. 1980s to 2000s. No inscriptions.Good condition. (78)
Lot: 37
John Harland Ballads & Songs of Lancashire, Chiefly Older than the 19th Century, Whittaker & Co., 1865, one of 100 large paper copies, signed by John Harland on front endpaper; manuscript alterations and annotations in the author's hand to “The Blessed Conscience” extending from pp.47 to 55 based on a manuscript provided to the author after the book's initial publication. Original gilt cloth; binding weak between pp.112-113; small ownership stamp to top of half-title. VG. A unique copy.
Lot: 82
G.A. Cooke A Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Lancaster, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London [1825], fine rebind in half-leather, gilt, fine folding map, 4pp of plates (some foxing), clean text, neat ownership signature top of title page; together with Leo Grindon Country Rambles and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers, 1882. Small ownership stamps to endpapers. (2)
Lot: 117
Ranges in album with much N.W. England; includes 1924 Keswick Floods (2 RPs by W.H. Nicoll); ‘Miss England II' speedboat trials at Windermere (3 RPs, one autographed); Eskdale train crash at Muirthwaite; many street scenes including Holloway (RP), Colne, Grassington, Kirkham, Bretherton (RP), Milnthorpe, Ulverston (5, four RPs, two of the Hospital Parade), Appleby (RP), Workington, Penrith (RP), and Criccieth; RP Routenburn Golf Course; 1913 Royal Visit to Oldham RP; 1920 Saltcoats Bowling Club opening of New Pavilion RP; and other useful. Fair to VF (184)
Lot: 146
Bury & district, 1909-15, mostly PU; including several street scenes, notable buildings and rural scenes; 20 are RPs. Good to VF (41)