Trafford Books: Books, Ephemera, Cigarette Cards, Postcards, Stamps and Postal History, 428, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 28, 2024 - August 28, 2024
Page Size: 182 items in 8 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52

Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1899-1930, including The Registers of the Parish Church of Whalley, 1900, and similar titles,

1899-1930 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
53

Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1978-1998, a fairly complete run (lacking vols.

1978-1998 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 46.00
54

Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1998-2022, a complete run.

1998-2022 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
55

Chetham Society publications including The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey, 1886-1919, six vols, and fourteen other volumes to 1931;

1886-1919 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 34.50
56

Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire publications (12) from 1884 including Proceedings of the Lancashire Justices of the Peace 1578-1694,1981;

1884 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 29.90
57

Lancashire History with The Diary of the Reverend Peter Williams 1773-74, 2000

2000 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 34.50
58

British Place-Name studies including Carroll & Parsons Perceptions of Place, 2013, a run of the journal Nomina 2005-2021 (13 vols.),

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
59

Public Records, Genealogy, Parish Documents etc, a collection of reference works, h/bk and s/bk.

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 29.90
60

A Visit to the Tower, Being an Account of Several Birds and Beasts, printed by J.

GBP 15.00 - 20.00 GBP 11.50
61

H.M.S. Apollo, 1936-38, a collection of snapshot photos taken on a world tour,

1936-38, GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 105.80
62 Alexander Smellie

Men of the Covenant, Andrew Melrose, 1908, two vols., 'Edition de Luxe', No.609 of 920, signed by the author on limitation page

1908, GBP 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
63

Glass lantern slides, Manchester related, comprising 1890s photographs of Patricroft (4, including 1897 Jubilee Day), Belle Vue Stadium, and Eccles;

1890s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
64

Merseyside related including Foster New Birkdale 1850-1912, Southport,1995, in d/jkt

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 27.60
65 Saddam Hussein

Building Up Iraq Together, Dar al-Ma'mun, 1983, First Edition, ink-signed by Saddam Hussein at the foot of the frontispiece.

1983, GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 437.00
66 James Baillie Fraser

Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains and to the sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges,

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
67 Fridtjof Nansen

Farthest North, Archibald Constable, 1897, 2 vols, first edition, maps and plates complete

1897 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 29.90
68

New Large Scale Atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, with Plans of Towns, George W.

[1881] GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 287.50
69 Sacheverell Sitwell, Wilfrid Blunt and James Russell

Old Garden Roses, George Rainbird,1955-57, 2 vols, folio, half-vellum, gilt, Nos.

1955-57 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 87.40
70

J.W. Jackman & Co.Ltd, Foundry Engineers. Manufacturers of Foundry Plant, Machinery, Equipment, Requisites and Sundries, Manchester & London, 1922;

1922 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 34.50
71

Patents for Inventions: Fifty Years Subject Index 1861-1910, OHMS, 1914-1920, including Aeronautics, Telephones, Torpedoes & Explosives, Tobacco,

1914-1920 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 80.50
72

Work: The Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics, 17th July 1897 to 6th August 1898, bound volume, complete with ten fold-out colour plates

1897-1898 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
73

North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Transactions 1878-1882, bound into four vols, complete with the plates, many folding;

1878-1882 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 82.80
74

Omega Watches Spare Parts Catalogues (2 vols.) for watches produced 1954-62

1954-62 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 64.40
75

Golf Tournament programmes comprising Ryder Cup 1961 (small tear to front cover), and the British Open 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969 and 1974.

1961 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 115.00
76

Football Programmes 1950s/80s, including World Cup 1966, 1982 and 1986 (UK editions)

1950s/80s GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 52.90
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