Two Day Auction of Books, Stamps & Ephemera with Furniture & Interiors (Macclesfield) August 12, 2021 Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Ceramic Figures Stamps Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Oils Furniture: Oak & Vernacular Toys & Games: Trains Doulton Pictures: Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Barometers Ethnic & Tribal Art Ceramics Ephemera Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Watercolours Furniture: Traditional Toys & Games: Dolls & Accessories Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Plated Items Clocks: Longcase Clocks Scientific Instruments Decorative Arts Furniture: Mirrors Books Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Prints Garden and Architectural Toys & Games: Toys Asian Art: Japanese Works of Art Silver Clocks: Wall Clocks Collectors' Items Furniture: Reproduction Metalware Glass Pictures: Traditional Oils Carpets & Rugs Textiles Asian Art: Chinese Works of Art Coins Clocks: Mantel clocks Furniture: Arts and Crafts & 20th Century Design Bronze and Other Sculptures Beswick Pictures: Traditional Watercolours Lighting Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 481-528 of 1211. View Image Lot # Item Title Time Left Your Bids 477 GOULD (J), THE FAMILY OF TOUCANS, Die Familie der Tuckane - La Famille des Toucans, complete with text volume and 51 colour plates, in folding case with pictorial cover, Taschen, 2011 (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportPlates good condition. The folding cover with some light marks. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED View details 478 LEAR (E), THE PARROTS, Die Papageien – Les Perroquets, complete with text volume and 42 colour plates, in folding case with pictorial cover, Taschen, 2009 (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportSlight wear to the corners of the text booklet, otherwise ok. The cover with some light line marks to the pictorial section. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED View details 479 CHEKE (R), HELM IDENTIFICATION GUIDES, SUNBIRDS, with d.j., Christopher Helm, 2001; JOHNSGARD (P), TROGONS AND QUETZALS OF THE WORLD, D.J., 2000; FOGDEN (M), HUMMING BIRDS OF COSTA RICA, Firefly Books, 2006 (3). Auction has ended! Condition ReportSome minor shelf wear but generally ok. Estimate£30 - £40StatusUnsold View details 480 SINCLAIR (G), HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE PRODUCE AND NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF DIFFERENT GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS, with 35 seed specimens on 14 pages and 123 of 129 plates of grasses, pages 11/15/51/65/73 and 145 are blank, later full green leather with gilt heraldic device initialled ‘HAJ’, later end papers, the front end papers embossed with embossed Ex-Libris device for Henry Arthur Johnstone and dated 1899, London, B. M’Millan, 1816 (1). Hen Auction has ended! Condition ReportThe front gutter at the end papers is slightly open and a little loose at the top, some water marks to the top of the end papers. There is some foxing here and there throughout. The seed plates are brown around the specimens and this has offset onto the preceding page. The text and grass plates with expected light browning. The grasses have left an indentation onto the back of the page which they are secured to. Uncut pages with general edge browning, wear and a few minor tears. Binding with light marks throughout, two light scuffs to the front board, some rubbing to the spine and corners and slight split to the top of the front gutter. There is no folding engraved plan. Estimate£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£1,150StatusCLOSED View details 481 A group of books including 'The History of Manchester in Two Volumes with Cuts' by The Reverend Mr Whitaker, the second edition corrected, pub. J. Murray, London 1773, both in tan calf boards, also 'Tales of My Landlord First Series' by Jedediah Cleishbotham in four volumes, fifth edition, pub. Archibald Constable & Co, Edinburgh 1819, in part tan calf and mottled boards, 'A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain' by Reverend F. O. Morris, volumes II Auction has ended! Condition ReportHeavy wear throughout, some bindings loose, scuffs, scrapes, splits to spines of both Whitaker's Manchester. Further losses to 'Tales of My Landlord'. Heavy wear to boards and bindings throughout. Illustrated London News boards loose as well. Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED View details 482 DELAMARCHE (F), ATLAS DE LA GEOGRAPHIE, complete with 36 mostly hand coloured engraved maps as per list, 1/2 leather spine with gilt lettering and detailing, and paper covered boards, Paris, 1832 (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportLeather on spine is rubbed and with a small tear at the bottom. The paper covering to the boards is heavily worn throughout, corners of boards rounded and weak. Front blanks with later scrap book style paper mounts in French, some of the maps with a paper mount to the back of the plate. All pages with age browning, some watermarks to the top and bottom edge and corners worn. Pages and plates lightly grubby around the edge. Creasing to some of the maps and some small tears. A tired but complete copy. Estimate£120 - £180Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details 482A CARY (J), CARY'S NEW AND CORRECTED ENGLISH ATLAS, being a new set of county maps from actual surveys, hand coloured engraved maps, 1/4 leather with marbled boards, London 1793 (1) Auction has ended! Condition ReportExterior heavily worn, appears complete but has not been fully collated, some foxing, spotting, browning, etc. Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£300StatusCLOSED View details 483 JONES (S), illus, THE NEW GRAVING DOCK MILLBROOK, SOUTHAMPTON, FOR THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY TO BE OPENED BY H.M. KING GEORGE V JULY 1933, signed and dated by the illustrator Sidney Jones on the front blank, with a typed letter from Buckingham Palace tipped in before the half title, the letter to the contractors Edmund Nuttall, Sons & Company Ltd and John Mowlem & Company Ltd, conveys His Majesty's thanks for receiving three etchings by Sydney Jones and a copy of this book, cloth boards with Auction has ended! Condition ReportThe glassine wrapper is slightly discoloured. The boards with some spot marks. The letter is foxed and transposed onto the back of one of the blank pages. Corners of boards slightly knocked. Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED View details 484 BRANDT (G), A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A DUTCH PROTESTANT AND A FRANCISCAN FRIAR OF DORT, 24p, unbound, London, J. Johnson 1784 (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportThis is an unbound work. There is an impressed library stamp over the word ‘Protestant’ for Unitarian Home Missionary College. All pages with general age wear browning and wear to the corners. Wear to the outset page along the spine fold, with losses to the paper - some attention may be needed here. Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold View details 485 ALCUIN THE VENERABLE BEDE, limited edition, one of 40 copies on Glastonbury antique laid paper, black cloth, The Eagle Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1966, signed on the front blank 'with best wishes from Frances', with a letter on University of Newcastle Upon Tyne headed paper, dated 6.11.66 to Peter from Frances, a loose Eagle Press bookplate, a greeting for 1966 card signed by Frances and New Year card similar; A VISIT TO MR CLOWES'S PRINTING OFFICE 1833, Birmingham School of Librarianship pamph Auction has ended! Condition ReportAlcuin is in good condition, perhaps just a few slight marks to the bottom of the front board and page edges lightly browned. Mr Clowes in good condition, very slight mark to front cover and a small spot mark to back cover. Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details 486 LE JARDIN LES PLANTES, description complete, historique et pittoresque du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, two vols, with thirty three hand coloured plates, other engraved plates and portraits and text illustrations, 3/4 leather with cloth boards, Paris, 1842; LUCAS (H), LES ARCHITECTES DE LA NATURE, with engraved plates, 1/4 leather with cloth boards, Paris, 1870 (3). Auction has ended! Condition ReportAll books with browning and foxing throughout, all with general rubbing and scuffs externally – the two vol set more so. The folding plan to Vol 1 of Le Jardin is split along most of the length of one of the folds. The plan to the second volume also with a split but lesser so. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED View details 487 CHAMBERS' CYCLOPAEDIA, a dictionary of universal knowledge, ten vols, with numerous folding colour maps, red cloth with gilt lettering, William & Robert Chambers, 1904; WHEATLEY (H), THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ten vols, in d.j., 1928 (20). Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED View details 488 TOLKIEN (J.R.R), THE LORD OF THE RINGS, de-luxe edition, 3rd impression, pictorial black cover and two section box with paper label, George Allen and Unwin, 1974 (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportBox with some wear to edges of the top and to the corners of the base section, heaviest to one corner (see images). Binding with a few light marks. No previous owners name. Initial pages slightly undulated. Odd Fox spot to a page here and there. Some slight creasing to a few of the pages and p227 with a crease at the print stage which impinges on the text. Corners of Took the great smials and The longfather tree with fold over to bottom corner and this has occurred at binding because the fold over section is larger than the page size. Top left corner of folded map with slight tear and crease. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED View details 489 EROTICA; a Japanese concertina with five erotic scenes, height 17.75cm. Auction has ended! Condition ReportGeneral rubbing and wear around all of the edges and some water marks along the bottom edge. Slightly grubby in parts, with wear down some of the folds. Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED View details 490 THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, 20 vols, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 1995 (2). Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details 491 A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 12 vols, Folio Society, blue cloth with gilt lettered spines, in ten slip cases (12). Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED View details 492 THE FOLIO SOCIETY, a collection of forty four books, to include, OSCAR WILDE, three vols in slip case; THE CANTERBURY TALES, 1974; PICARD (L), RESTORATION LONDON; GREENE (G), TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT; MACAULAY (R), THE TOWERS OF TREBIZOND; CHRISTIE (A), AND THEN THERE WERE NONE; GRAVES (R), I CLAUDIUS and CLAUDIUS THE GOD (44). Auction has ended! Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSED View details 493 THE FOLIO SOCIETY, a collection of sixteen mostly travel books, to include, NORWICH (J), A HISTORY OF VENICE; JAMES (T), EGYPT REVEALED; DEFOE (D), A TOUR THROUGH THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN; RUSKIN (J), THE STONES OF VENICE, etc (16). Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED View details 494 THE FOLIO SOCIETY, a collection of thirty four books to include, DUFFY (E), SAINTS AND SINNERS; HIBBERT (C), THE HOUSE OF BORGIA; WHEATCROFT (A), THE HAPSBURGS; HIBBERT (C), THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MEDICI; KINROSS, THE ROMAN EMPIRE; MASSIE (R), NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, etc (34). Auction has ended! Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED View details 495 DURRELL (G), THE OVERLOADED ARK, Book Society edition, 1953; ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS, Rupert Hart-Davies, 1958; THE WHISPERING LAND, Ruper Hart-Davies, 1961; MALLINSON (J), OKAVANGO ADVENTURE, David & Charles, 1973; GRINDLAY (I), VELVET PAWS, Robert Hale, 1966 (5) Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details 496 FLEMING (I), GOLDFINGER, first edition, un-clipped d.j., pictorial black cloth, Jonathan Cape, 1959 (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportThe jacket is in poor condition. Book with a slight lean and with bumping to the corners and edges. Previous owners ink name to the back of the front board, Some brown marks here and there and some odd foxing. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£210StatusCLOSED View details 497 FLEMING (I), THUNDERBALL, first edition, un-clipped d.j., Jonathan Cape, 1961; YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, first edition, clipped d.j., Jonathan Cape, 1964; GARDNER (J), ICEBREAKER, Capr, 1983; PEARSON (J), THE LIFE OF IAN FLEMING, Cape, 1966 (4). Auction has ended! Condition ReportThunderball – jacket lightly grubby / browned, rubbing at all edges and with a two sellotape repairs to the folds. Black cover with some light fading to the top edge and some knocks. Internally with some light browning, some marks to the page edges when closed and odd fox mark. YOLT – Jacket clipped and with wear to all edges, small nicks and tears here and there at edge. Cover with some light marks, edge knocks and rubbing. Light foxing and some browning internally. Rubbing to the top left corner of the front free end paper. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED View details 498 THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, Robert Barker and John Bill, London, 1630, imprinted date at the back 1629, bound with, THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES, London, Companies of Stationers, 1630, full dark tan leather; with, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, Thomas Basket, Oxford, 1749; and, THE CHRISTIANS FAMILY BIBLE, 1763 (3). Auction has ended! Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSED View details 499 BLACK BOB THE DANDY WONDER DOG, four vols, pictorial boards with coloured spines, D. C. Thomson & Co; with, MORE ADVENTURES OF RUPERT, annual 1952; six Eagle annuals and three other annuals (14). Auction has ended! Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details 500 A collection of children's annuals to include Billy Bunter, The Boy's Book of Soccer for 1958, The Treasure Book for Girls, Girl Annuals, Valiant, The Giant Book of Amazing Stories, Tiger Annual 1967, and four Rupert the Bear annuals, 1967, 1975, 1973 and 1979, the latter with a large section missing to one of the text pages. Auction has ended! Condition ReportAll with general play wear, some heavier than others, some of the spines are defective, some of the annuals are incomplete, sold with all faults. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details 501 A collection of children's illustrated books to include, Johns (W), BIGGLES DELIVERS THE GOODS, third impression 1946 with pictorial dust jacket; Pop Annual with pictorial soft cover boards; Little Tommy's Storybook; READ ME A STORY, from Father Tuck's Golden Gift series, etc. Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED View details 502 ALDIN (C), THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, two vols, with colour plates, London, Chapman & Hall, 1910; REYNOLDS (F), THE PICKWICK PAPERS BY CHARLES DICKENS; pictorial red cloth, The Westminster Press; BETJEMAN (J), SUMMONED BY BELLS, John Murray, 1940; TOLKIEN (J.R.R), THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, fourth edition, 1978, with a reprint issue of the Lord of the Rings series and a copy a Tolkien bestiary, (9). Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED View details 503 A miscellany of books and pamphlets to include, THE YORKSHIRE DALESMAN, five issues including number 1, volume 1, April 1939; BEETON'S NEW DICTIONARY OF EVERY-DAY GARDENING, an entirely new edition, red cloth, James Askew & Sons, THE BBC YEAR BOOK FOR 1930, 1931, 1932, 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1952, and a copy of Mrs Beeton's Household Management, and a Blackpool vs Sheffield Utd match pamphlet dated Saturday 23rd February 1946. Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED View details 504 A large collection of 19th century and later hard back and cloth bound books, varying editions and subjects. Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED View details 505 IRELAND (J), HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED, three vols, second edition, engraved frontis portrait and portrait half title page to Vol I, other engraved plates and illustrations throughout, full mottled calf with gilt detailing, London, Boydel, 1793, Vol III 1804 (3). Auction has ended! Condition ReportPagination error in Vol II where pages 81-96 sit between 112 and 113. General rubbing and light wear to the bindings. The upper tab of the spine on Vol II with a slight chip. Both tabs to Vol III with a chip. Internally with general age wear browning to the pages, some foxing and some offsetting. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusCLOSED View details 506 KNIGHT (C), OLD ENGLAND, a pictorial museum, 2 vols, numerous illustrations, colour pictorial frontis to each, gilt red cloths, London, Forbes, Sangster & Co (2). Auction has ended! Condition ReportCovers with age wear rubbing and wear to the corners and top and bottom of the spine. Slightly open at the front gutters. Some foxing internally but generally fair. Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusCLOSED View details 507 ORMEROD (G); THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY PALATINE AND CITY OF CHESTER, 3 vols, engraved frontis and plates, 1/4 red cloth with blue boards, London, George Routledge & Sons, 1882, (3). Auction has ended! Condition ReportAll with heavy external wear and scuffs and marks throughout, and all with damp marks internally and all with open gutter, foxing and dirt, a tired set. Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED View details 508 RAFFE (W); POSTER DESIGN, with black and white and colour illustrations and mounted plates, orange cloth with black lettering, Chapman & Hall, 1929; Pollock (H), NEWNES' PICTORIAL KNOWLEDGE, 8 vols, with colour frontis and colour lithographic at the end of each. Auction has ended! Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED View details 509 FORE-EDGE PAINTING; BIBLE, THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW, title with engraved device, London, John Bill (deceased) Henry Hill and Thomas Newcomb, 1683, bound after, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 1684 and bound before, THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, 1683, and THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, 1683, the page edges painted in ink with flowers, dated 1684 and named George ?????, the full leather binding gilt with C scrolls, foliage and acorns, 12mo (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportThe binding with age wear to the edges and corners and lacking metal mounts. The spine edges have split in four areas and has surface wear and creasing. However, the bible feels structurally ok. End paper gutters open. Pages with general age wear browning, some marks etc. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£320StatusCLOSED View details 510 BIBLE, New Testament in Greek, NOVUM IESU CHRISTI DOMINI NOSTRI TESTAMENTUM, title with small engraved device, Sedani, Ioannis Iannoni, 1628, also dated at the back of the testament 1629, full leather binding with gilt crest of an eagle and floral sprig to the front and back boards, 48mo (1). Auction has ended! Condition ReportThe leather is rubbed / worn to the edges, top and bottom of the spine, lesser so to the corners. The loose marble end paper is lacking at both ends. Front two blanks with 17th and 18th century owners names in ink. The back of the front board with an armorial paste down and the back of the back board with a paste down paper crest matching the boards. Page edges with age wear and general age browning. Pages approx. 77mm x 44mm. Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED View details 511 THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, engraved title, London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1629; bound with, THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES, collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others, London 1630, later bound; with THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, Oxford, 1784; two common prayer books with hallmarked silver mounted front covers and a miniature common prayer book (5). Auction has ended! Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£210StatusCLOSED View details 512 ETIQUETTE ILLUSTRATED OR HINTS ON HOW TO CONDUCT ONESELF IN THE BEST SOCIETY, hand coloured folding concertina, pictorial paper covered board, London, Ackermann, c1840 (af). Auction has ended! Condition ReportThe cover illustrated is browned and with light wear, the binding is generally rubbed throughout. Internally with browning and foxing, the pages are not in good condition with a long tear to one page and several pages detached from one another. Attention will be needed. 21 sides. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£80StatusCLOSED View details 513 A large collection of mostly art history books (4 boxes). Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED View details 514 A large collection of mostly art history books (4 boxes). Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED View details 515 A collection of maritime, crusades and architecture books (4 boxes). Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED View details 516 A collection of antique, history and other general reference books (quantity). Auction has ended! Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED View details 517 A collection of art history and other reference books (quantity). Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details 518 A collection of interior design, style and auction catalogues and interiors magazines (3 boxes). Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED View details 519 A collection of antique reference books on pottery and porcelain and art. Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED View details 520 A collection of mostly architectural reference books (quantity). Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details 521 A collection of arts and antiques reference works including oriental reference, curios, textiles and collectors' items (3 boxes). Auction has ended! Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details 522 Six Jewish torahs/prayer books, three with bone mounted boards, and a further volume with printed illustrations (several af). Auction has ended! Condition ReportWorn condition, loose bindings and mounts, some lost spines, discolouration, etc, will need some attention. Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED View details 523 A collection of jewellery and silver reference books, to include Faberge and a book on the Wiener Werkstaette and another on Jugendstil (2 boxes). Auction has ended! Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£480StatusCLOSED View details Items per page 122448 Previous|1...91011121314...26|Next1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526 Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526 Next
