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
1

Mix in carton with many softback publications,19th Century portrait photographs (25), various PPCs, and assorted ephemera;

19th Century GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 43.70
2

Sibford Magazine and Annual Reports, 1931-73, issued by the Quaker school at Sibford, Banbury.

1931-73 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
3 F. Hackwood

Staffordshire Worthies, 1911

1911 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
4

Selection of Bookplates (11) from 1808, together with booksellers' and binders' tickets (21) and gramophone records tax labels (78).

1808 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 48.30
5

Recording Britain, Oxford, 1946-49, 4 vols, in d/jkts (spines of jackets poor)

Oxford 1946-49 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 23.00
6

Victorian Valentines, a selection of three unused examples, together with a related decorated envelope.

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 59.80
7

Selection of small tin boxes issued by Collectable Tins, mostly reproducing images from Carreras Amusing Tricks & How To Do Them cigarette cards,

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
8

A post-WWI Photo Album with a collection of snapshot photos, mainly views of the South West of England and Isle of Wight,

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 39.10
9

Country Life 1910/1911, 1912/1913, July-Dec.1915, and July- Oct. 1917

1910-1917 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 132.25
10

Books & ephemera: including 1887 Sales Particulars for property in Broughton-in-Furness with two large folding Plans;

1887 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 73.60
11 Herge

The Adventures of Tintin

Egmont 2015 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 23.00
12 James Joyce

Ulysses

2017 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 138.00
13 W. Audry

Troublesome Engines

1967 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
14

Children's books by Dr.Seuss (26) and Roald Dahl (21), most with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 34.50
15

Children's comic-strip books, chiefly Asterix titles, plus few Beano Annuals and similar.

GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 13.80
16

Children's Books by Alison Uttley (43, fourteen in d/jkts), and Jill Barklem's 'Brambly Hedge' series (14, nine in d/jkts).

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
17 Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter selection, 1940s/60s, all with pictorial onlay to front boards, six in d/jkts, good to fine;

1940s/60s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
18

Rupert Bear annuals (22) from 1970, VG/Fine, and seven 1930s/50s children's annuals with some peripheral wear to the boards.

1970 GBP 15.00 - 20.00 Not Sold
19

Illustrated Children's Books, mostly 1970s/1990s with a few 1930s, the majority with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts.

1970s/1990s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
20

Children's Fiction 1900s to 1990s, including Helen Bannerman The Story of Little Black Sambo, 1911

1900s-1990s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
21 Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton selection from late-1940s, some in d/jkts, including Secret Seven, Noddy, and various others.

GBP 15.00 - 20.00 Not Sold
22

Pop-Up Books, mostly 1970s/90s, a collection in very good condition, all pop-ups in good working order.

1970s/90s GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
23

Pop-Up, Lift-Flap, Lever-Change and other novelty books, including 13 reproductions of Ernest Nister 'Revolving Picture' books & similar.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
24 Ronald Welch

Ensign Carey, Oxford, 1976, First Edition in a complete d/jkt, spine a little faded, neat gift inscription front endpaper;

1976 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 34.50
25

The Central China Religious Tract Society's Union Hymn Book, 1890s, full leather, gilt, Chinese text, the Index in English, printed on rice paper,

1890s GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 143.75
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
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    Futurism
    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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