Trafford Books: Books, Ephemera, Autographs, Photographs, Cigarette Cards, Postcards, Stamps and Postal History., 425, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 17, 2024 - April 17, 2024
Page Size: 169 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Antiquarian Booksellers' Catalogues,

1910 to 1970s GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 52.90
2

The Saturday Evening Post

1958-1959 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
3

Bayle St.John selected works comprising The Louvre, or Biography of a Museum ; Purple Tints of Paris

1855, 1854 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 94.30
4

Antiquarian selection including Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Vols. XXI-XXII,

1827; GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
5

Antiquarian selection including W. Romaine Twelve Discourses upon the Law and the Gospel

1793 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 105.80
6

Freemasonry and Friendly Society related including The Loyal Ancient Shepherds' Quarterly Magazine

Ashton-u-Lyne, 1847 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
7

Scrap Album, large format,

c.1910-1920 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
8 Charles Atlas

Health and Strength stapled booklets,

1950s GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 166.75
9

Photos and ephemera, relating to Walmsley's Tobacconists, Cross St., Manchester

1880s to 1950s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 73.60
10

Various softbacks including Maurice Beck The Modern Light Aeroplane

c.1932 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 34.50
11

Castrol flicker-book of Capt. Eyston breaking the world land speed record 1937

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 71.30
12

Books, pamphlets, programmes etc, 1880s to 1970s, much Manchester related;

1880s to 1970s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 46.00
13

The Illustrated London News

1947 -1950 GBP 160.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
14

The Illustrated London News

1951, 1953, 1954 GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 110.40
15

The Illustrated London News

1955-1957, GBP 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
16

Victorian carte-de-visite (68) and cabinet (22) portrait photos, the cabinet photos duplicated;

19th Century GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 75.90
17

Carton of books, ephemera, stamps, PPCs etc, all-periods, wide variety;

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 34.50
18

Festival of Britain related including Post Cards and related collectibles of the Festival of Britain

2001 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
19 George Watson (Ed.)

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

1969-77 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
20

Four small autograph albums, mostly Footballers, Motor Cycle Scramblers, and Entertainers,

1950s/70s GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 41.40
21 [Addison and Steele]

The Spectator

1778-97 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 43.70
22 Alex Graham

Fred Basset

1967- 1997 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 23.00
23 Mary Tourtel

The Big Rupert Story Book

[1951] GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
24

Charles Dickens Library

c.1910 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
25 Louis Raemaeker (and Francis Stopford, editor)

The 'Land & Water' Edition of Raemaekers' Cartoons

1916- 17, GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
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