Trafford Books: Trafford Book Sale, 440, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 04, 2026 - February 04, 2026
Page Size: 169 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151

Wills's sets in modern album including - Nelson Series

1905 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
152 Wills (Scissors)

Jiu-Jitsu

1910 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
153 Wills

Sports of All Nations

1901 GBP 170.00 - 200.00 GBP 161.00
154 Wills

Cricketers

1908 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 36.80
155 J. Wix

Kensitas Flowers , an accumulation comprising small 1st series (87) and 2nd series (17),

 N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
156 J. Wix

Kensitas Flowers

1934 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
157 J. Wix

Kensitas Flowers

1934 GBP 170.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
158 J. Wix

Kensitas Flowers

1935 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
159

Carton of early 20th Century UK & Foreign views and subject cards. Much useful France noted with some railway interest.

 N/A GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 66.70
160

A mainly 1900s/1920s collection addressed to the Eardley family of Stockport, with early RP Rochdale Steam & Electric Trams, RP of Norden,

 1900s/1920s GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 172.50
161

Edwardian to 1920s collection in old album, mostly beauties and actresses, plus few later including Laurel & Hardy. Mainly good to fine. (289).

 1920s GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 59.80
162

Ranges in two modern albums, with many WWI War Pictures, few soldiers' photos, naval & merchant ships, Price's Patent Candles

N/A GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 89.70
163

UK topography, 1920s to early 1960s, all b/w RPs, including street scenes of Blackheath, Tidworth, Wysall, Cumnor, Haworth, Oundle, Dufftown,

 1920s to early 1960s GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 94.30
164

Entertainers 1900s to 1990s including Fred Astaire, Dan Leno, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Madeleine Carroll, Mai Zetterling, Dorothy Lamour,

 1900s to 1990s GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 39.10
165

France WWI period collection in old album with many pretty ladies in sets/series, topography & social history, few comic etc.

 N/A GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 57.50
166

Greece and Western Turkey 1900s, RPs or b/w, mostly views, few ethnology, nine PU. Good to fine. (30)

 1900s GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 25.30
167

Scarborough bombardment 1914, a good collection including six duplicates, plus Scarborough War Memorial. 10 are RPs. Good/VF (23)

 1914 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 57.50
168

Titanic related comprising three of the ship (including an RP by J.M. Vauxhall), a Bamforth In Memoriam card, and two RPs of the Southampton monument

 N/A GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 105.80
169

United States topography 1900s/1920s, largely coloured, many PU, fair to fine. Interest in New York, Baltimore, Brunswick, Philadelphia and others.

 1900s/1920s GBP 26.00 - 36.00 GBP 20.70
  • 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.