Trafford Books: Trafford Book Sale, 440, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 04, 2026 - February 04, 2026

Page Size: 169 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Goodeve	Text-Book on the Steam Engine	1887	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 59.80
2		Carton of softback publications including pamphlets, many Architecture related. VG/VF (94).		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 82.80
3		Manchester Evening News	1943	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
4		Cameras and accessories, a selection, including an MPP Microflex TLR Twin-lens reflex, 120 film; a Rolleiflex 3.5 Tessar; a Nikon FE2 35mm;		GBP 280.00 - 320.00	Not Sold
5	Donald Jones	Escape from Sulmona	1980	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 34.50
6		Autograph album, 1960s/70s, including Morecambe & Wise (three of each), Michael Caine, Pat Phoenix, Kathy Kirby, Noel Cantwell, Bobby Charlton		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 62.10
7		Autograph album, 1940s, with signatures of Laurence Olivier, Lord Beaverbrook, Vivien Leigh, Harold Macmillan, John Gielgud, Oscar Rabin, Vera Lynn,		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 71.30
8		Autograph album, mostly with signatures obtained 1919 at The Palace Theatre, Manchester, but with others added in 1961 with the Ryder Cup teams of GB		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 149.50
9		Autograph album, late-1940s/early-1950s, with signatures of Chico Marx, Betty Hutton, Laurel & Hardy, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Vivien Leigh,		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	GBP 460.00
10		Two autograph albums, 1930s/40s, including signatures of Leslie Howard, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Don Bradman, Tyrone Power, Paul Robeson,		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 120.75
11		Autograph album and many loose pages, c.1918-1940s, including signatures of Maurice Chevalier, Tallulah Bankhead, Suzanne Lenglen (tennis star),		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 85.10
12		Autographs in folder, with signed photos, letters, programmes etc, including John Glen (director), Zubin Mehta, Peter Cushing (cut signature),		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 50.60
13		Autographed photos, PC size, in album including Geraldine McEwan, Sonia, Zoe Wannaker, Susan Hampshire, Frank Finlay, Steve Cram, Robin Cousins,		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 71.30
14	Paul Eddington	Paul Eddington signed copies of The Complete Yes Minister		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 41.40
15		Box of old Autograph albums including signatures of entertainers, footballers, personal friends and others, plus quotations, few watercolour sketches		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 41.40
16	Hugh MacDiarmid	A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle	1962	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	GBP 32.20
17	Kitty Laverty	Kitty Laverty: an archive comprising published books (18),		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 64.40
18	Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1907	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 46.00
19		Horror Films posters, all UK quads, comprising The Blair Witch Project		GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 29.90
20	Charlie Cairoli and Paul (Freeman):	an ink-signed PPC, together with an unsigned Blackpool Tower Circus programme of 1969.		GBP 15.00 - 20.00	GBP 13.80
21	Diana Dors:	Diana Dors: fine signed 8.5 x 6.5" photo alongside the Mayor of Charnwood, during her visit to Leicestershire in 1981, plus related newscutting.		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 23.00
22	Hepworth & Massey	Keith Vaughan - The Mature Oils 1946-1977	2012	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 57.50
23	Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams:	Natural Affinities	2008	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 34.50
24		Fashion Plates of French origin, mid-19th Century, large format, hand-coloured. Overall 36 x 29cm (9)		GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
25		Entertainers' autographs, a selection of signed photos, mostly 10 x 8", including Bette Davis, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Marlene Dietrich,		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 120.75

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.