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Lot 280

BUNYAN, JOHN; a large edition of The Works of John Bunyan including The Pilgrim's Progress, published in Edinburgh, 1771, in leather binding, and a copy of ''American Railroad Journal'' Volume I No.14, published in New York, March 31st 1832, together with a specimen of a map of the inland navigation, canals, railroads, etc, of Great Britain, printed by R. Nicholls & Co, image 24 x 30cm, framed and glazed (3).

Lot 281

A small collection of railway books comprising A History of the English Railway, 1820-1845, by John Francis, in two volumes, published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851, in board covers with leather mounts, two volumes of Our Railways, The Origin, Development, Incident and Romance by John Pendleton, published by Cassell and Company, 1896, in cloth binding, and Railway Reminiscences, by George P. Neele, late superintendent of the line of the London and North Western Railway, published

Lot 282

A collection of railway books comprising five bound volumes of Railway Magazine, volumes for 1906, 1912, 2 x 1925, and 1941, also The Official Handbook of Stations including Junctions, Sidings, Collieries, Works, etc, for 1938, reprinted 1949, The Railways of England, by W.M. Akworth, published by John Murray, London in 1890, and The Book of the Railway, by G.E. Mitten, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1914 (8).

Lot 283

Two travel volumes comprising WHEELER, JAMES; Manchester: Its Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern, published by Whitaker & Co, London, Love & Barton, Manchester, and Wheeler, Manchester, in 1836, with marbled frontice, probably re-bound in marbled paper with leather mounts, and JENKINSON, HENRY IRWIN; Practical Guide to the English Lake District, published by Edward Stanford, London, in 1876, with pull out maps and views, cloth bound (2).

Lot 284

A collection of three books comprising OLMSTED, FRED LAW; Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, published by David Bogue, London 1852, in cloth binding, and BATES, MRS D.B.; Incidents on Land and Water or Four Years on the Pacific Coast, published for the author in Boston 1860, with black and white engraved illustration, in a cloth binding, and The Old Judge or Life in a Colony, published by Baudry's European Library & W. Galignani & Co, Paris, 1846, in marbled board binding with lea

A silver plated Gretsch Commander alto saxophone, in Selmer case.

A silver plated Besson 600 cornet and a larger Boosey & Hawkes ''Regent'', both cased.

A Boosey & Hawkes ''Regent'' silver plated trombone, cased.

A Roland electric drum set with amplifier.

A walnut cased small scale symphonium, with 25 discs, diameter 11.25cm, case and movement associated, width of case 27cm.

A late 19th century Swiss cylinder musical box playing twelve airs and striking on a drum, five bells and castanets, with original tune sheet, diameter of 6.5cm, width of case 64cm.

A portable gramophone with an album of records, also a plafonnier, set of kitchen scales, a collection of locks and keys, six black and white etchings, and a decorative oil.

An HMV oak cased table top gramophone, width 38cm.

A collection of predominantly loose LP records to include various foxtrots, paso dobles, Artur Rubinstein, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, etc.

A large quantity of classical records including Haydn box sets, Schubert, Beethoven, and Bach.

A large quantity of classical records, also a collection of gramophone records, and a small quantity of 7'' records.

A c.1900 scrapbook detailed throughout with various drawings and watercolours, cut paper silhouette, etc.

A scrap book with sketches, letters and articles, previously belonging to Albert Dunnington, and a quantity of books and ephemera relating to Manchester and Salford.

A quantity of autographs contained in a small album including Sophia Loren, Bette Davis, Laurence Harvey, Miriam Stoppard, Bruce Forsyth, etc.

Two mid 20th century notebooks/autograph albums, predominantly signed by stars of the theatre including pen and ink drawings, watercolour sketches, poems etc

A quantity of ephemera including six postcards of Gaiety Girls postmarked between 1904 & 1906, in a single frame, plus magazine and newspaper ephemera including a copy of the Radio Times 1936, Coronation issue of Country Life, Life Atlantic 1937, Manchester Evening News, Jewish Chronicle, etc.

A quantity of boxing ephemera including edition of ''Famous Fights Past and Present'', ''The Life and Battles of Freddy Welsh'', also some other publications with local and other interest including ''The Story of Hazel Grove and Bramhall'', ''Manchester in 1915'', and some Ordnance Survey maps.

Local interest; a quantity of ephemera including items relating to Whiteley Green Estate, Cheshire, detailing an auction in 1915, also plans, map etc.

A collection of royal ephemera to include copies of ''Illustrated'' and ''Picture Post'', a ''Coronation Souvenir Book 1937'', and ''Weekly Illustrated Special In Memoriam, The Life and Reign of King George V'', contained in a vintage suitcase.

A signed limited edition print portrait of Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970), surrounded with images of various conducting gestures, 23/100, 1999, signed by the maestro's wife Evelyn Barbirolli, 58 x 41cm, framed and glazed.

A ''British Olympic Legends, A Celebration of 100 Years of British Olympic Achievement'' poster by Gary Keane, with signatures.

A quantity of Titanic ephemera and books including after Timothy O'Brien; a signed limited edition coloured print ''The Ship of Dreams'', mounted with a 1912 1d coin and a George V postage stamp, three books relating to the Titanic etc.

Two postcard albums depicting portraits, topographical, some portrait photo cards, a view of the Grimsby lifeboat crew etc, also a Nestle picture ''Wonders of The World'' album and several commemorative brooches.

A large quantity of postcards including vintage examples, topographical examples, advertising examples, flora and fauna, humorous, etc, contained in four boxes and a small album.

A collection of postcards including topographical to include Britain, South Africa, Italy, etc, some vintage real photo 1930s postcards, floral postcards, humorous, etc.

A postcard album containing various cards including a series of Blackpool illuminations, views of aeroplanes, European topographical, some British etc.

A collection of early 20th century postcards predominantly topographical, contained in an album, also some loose examples and a small collection of cigarette cards to include ''Wild Flowers'', ''Wonders of the Sea'' series.

A postcard album containing mainly British topographical cards, also French topographical, portraits, photographic cards etc.

A collection of early 20th century and later postcards, including a group of WWI series contained in an album dated August 1914, a group of topographical examples, Napoleon Bonaparte related examples and Russian royalty, also a collection of 1940s photographs including Scarborough.

A Victorian musical photograph album with decorated page mounts, 30 x 23cm (af).

STEAM RAILWAYS OF GREAT BRITAIN collection of postcard sized real photographs displayed in an album mostly with names identified beneath, plus a further quantity in a box (approx 1000 items).

A stamp album; British and Commonwealth, predominantly early to mid 20th century.

A junior collection of world stamps contained in three stamp albums, plus a collection of British stamps in an album (4).

HELEN BANNERMAN; The Story of Little Black Sambo, fourth edition, London, Grant Richards, 1900.

DICKENS, CHARLES; The Authentic Edition, The Works of Charles Dickens, fifteen volumes and two further volumes relating to Dickens.

TIMBS, JOHN & GUNN, ALEXANDER; Abbeys, Castles, and Ancient Halls of England and Wales, three volumes, published by Frederick Warne & Co, South, Midland and North, in gilt tooled cloth boards.

BELL, BENJAMIN; A System of Surgery, five volumes of a six volume set of Bell's Surgery, with copper plate illustrations, published by Elliot & Kay, 1790, and inscribed to frontice for 1835, in leather bindings, some damage to spines and some boards detached.