Lot: 12
Legal Documents, mostly on vellum, 1657 to 1776, relating to lands, properties and families in Leeds, Idle, Bradford and elsewhere, most with impressed or affixed Duty Stamps but three of the vellums incomplete. External grime but generally good to fine internally. (20)
Lot: 27
Thomas W. Thompson The Spen Valley: A Local History, Heckmondwike, 1925, small octavo, printed cloth, a.e.g., VG, bound by Clifford Peel of Heckmondwike; previous owners’ labels front pastedown. No.23 of 100 issued, numbered and signed by the author on limitation page; light browning to endpapers with few other pages showing fox marks; largely fine internally. 355pp + 31 half-tone plates.
Lot: 55
The Rev. Oliver Heywood B.A. (1630-1702); His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdote and Event Books; illustrating the general and family history of Yorkshire and Lancashire, with illustrations. Edited by J Horsfall Turner. Bingley, 1882-1885, octavo, 4 volumes, original gilt cloth, VG; endpapers of Vol. 4 browned o/w fine internally.
Lot: 66
William Grainge The History and Topography of the Townships of Little Timble, Great Timble and the Hamlet of Snowden, in the West Riding of the County of York, William Walker, Otley, 1895; small 8vo, original printed & gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers; fine internally; two b/w plates; 240pp
Lot: 79
[Samuel Midgley] Revenge Upon Revenge: or, an Historical Narrative, of the Tragical Practices of Sir John Eland, of Eland, High Sheriff of the County of York, E. Jacob, Halifax, 1789, octavo, bound in modern cloth with title label, fine; browning to last page of text, occasional light toning elsewhere. Re-issue of a work first published in 1695. [2],70pp
Lot: 243
Topographical collection in album, 1930s to 1980s, largely GB views with many RPs; interest in pre-1960s Scotland, North West of England, Yorkshire, and elsewhere, plus Shipping, Quintons, novelty pull-outs, etc. Fair to VF (298)