Trafford Books: Trafford Book Sale, 440, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 04, 2026 - February 04, 2026

Page Size: 169 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Goodeve	Text-Book on the Steam Engine	1887	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 59.80
2		Carton of softback publications including pamphlets, many Architecture related. VG/VF (94).	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 82.80
3		Manchester Evening News	1943	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
4		Cameras and accessories, a selection, including an MPP Microflex TLR Twin-lens reflex, 120 film; a Rolleiflex 3.5 Tessar; a Nikon FE2 35mm;	N/A	GBP 280.00 - 320.00	Not Sold
5	Donald Jones	Escape from Sulmona	1980	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 34.50
6		Autograph album, 1960s/70s, including Morecambe & Wise (three of each), Michael Caine, Pat Phoenix, Kathy Kirby, Noel Cantwell, Bobby Charlton	N/A	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 62.10
7		Autograph album, 1940s, with signatures of Laurence Olivier, Lord Beaverbrook, Vivien Leigh, Harold Macmillan, John Gielgud, Oscar Rabin, Vera Lynn,	N/A	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 71.30
8		Autograph album, mostly with signatures obtained 1919 at The Palace Theatre, Manchester, but with others added in 1961 with the Ryder Cup teams of GB	N/A	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 149.50
9		Autograph album, late-1940s/early-1950s, with signatures of Chico Marx, Betty Hutton, Laurel & Hardy, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Vivien Leigh,	N/A	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	GBP 460.00
10		Two autograph albums, 1930s/40s, including signatures of Leslie Howard, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Don Bradman, Tyrone Power, Paul Robeson,	N/A	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 120.75
11		Autograph album and many loose pages, c.1918-1940s, including signatures of Maurice Chevalier, Tallulah Bankhead, Suzanne Lenglen (tennis star),	N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 85.10
12		Autographs in folder, with signed photos, letters, programmes etc, including John Glen (director), Zubin Mehta, Peter Cushing (cut signature),	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 50.60
13		Autographed photos, PC size, in album including Geraldine McEwan, Sonia, Zoe Wannaker, Susan Hampshire, Frank Finlay, Steve Cram, Robin Cousins,	N/A	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 71.30
14	Paul Eddington	Paul Eddington signed copies of The Complete Yes Minister	N/A	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 41.40
15		Box of old Autograph albums including signatures of entertainers, footballers, personal friends and others, plus quotations, few watercolour sketches	N/A	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 41.40
16	Hugh MacDiarmid	A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle	1962	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	GBP 32.20
17	Kitty Laverty	Kitty Laverty: an archive comprising published books (18),	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 64.40
18	Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1907	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 46.00
19		Horror Films posters, all UK quads, comprising The Blair Witch Project	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 29.90
20	Charlie Cairoli and Paul (Freeman):	an ink-signed PPC, together with an unsigned Blackpool Tower Circus programme of 1969.	N/A	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	GBP 13.80
21	Diana Dors:	Diana Dors: fine signed 8.5 x 6.5" photo alongside the Mayor of Charnwood, during her visit to Leicestershire in 1981, plus related newscutting.	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 23.00
22	Hepworth & Massey	Keith Vaughan - The Mature Oils 1946-1977	2012	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 57.50
23	Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams:	Natural Affinities	2008	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 34.50
24		Fashion Plates of French origin, mid-19th Century, large format, hand-coloured. Overall 36 x 29cm (9)	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
25		Entertainers' autographs, a selection of signed photos, mostly 10 x 8", including Bette Davis, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Marlene Dietrich,	N/A	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 120.75

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.