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
26		Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England City of Cambridge	1959	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
27	Pugin	Examples of Gothic Architecture selected from various Ancient Edifices in England	1895	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
28		Construction & interiors, several in d/jkts including Hewett English Historic Carpentry		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 29.90
29	Chadwick	The Park and the Town	1966	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 16.10
30		Scottish Architectural History including Fraser The Building of Old College	1989	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 59.80
31	Quiney	Town Houses of Medieval Britain	2004	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 34.50
32	Lawrence Weaver	Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens	1913	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 29.90
33	John Cornforth	Country Houses in Britain - can they survive?	1974	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 17.25
34	Economakis	Acropolis Restoration	1994	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 23.00
35	John Bold	Greenwich: An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital for Seamen	2000	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 57.50
36	Peter Pace	The Architecture of George Pace	1990	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 75.90
37	[Sir Walter Scott]	Six Engravings in Illustration of 'The Antiquary' for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
38		John Soane: Architect	1999	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 29.90
39		Ian Dury and the Blockheads: a 1980 autographed EP vinyl record sleeve	1980	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
40	J.C. Trewin	Sybil Thorndike	1955	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
41	Marilyn Monroe	Marilyn Monroe: a signed page inscribed Love and Kisses Marilyn Monroe	13th June 1956	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
42		Autograph album of entertainers, 1930s/50s, including signatures of Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Deborah Kerr (signed photo		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 143.75
43		Autograph album of entertainers, 1940s, including signatures of Billy Cotton, Gracie Fields, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner,		GBP 120.00 - 150.00	GBP 132.25
44		Autograph album with a few signatures including Laurel & Hardy and Frank Sinatra, the latter in pencil and rather faint.		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 172.50
45		Autograph albums, mostly musicians, 1940s, including John Barbirolli, Constant Lambert, Isobel Baillie, and other classical, plus some signed photos		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 50.60
46		Autograph album of 1930s/40s entertainers with signatures of John Mills, Robert Helpman, Leslie Howard, Margot Fonteyn, Jack Buchanan,		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 71.30
47		Press Photos, film stills, lobby cards etc, mostly 10 x 8", largely entertainers, including modern printings of pre-WW2 photos.		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 48.30
48		Glamour Photos, a collection of 10 x 8" photos, mostly coloured, including Demi Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minelli, Diana Dors, Gina Lollabrigida,		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 23.00
49		Autographs of entertainers & TV personalities, a collection of signed photos, mainly 7 x 5", including Paul Barber, Philip Schofield, Ann Mitchell,		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 59.80
50		Entertainers' photos, mostly PC size, all with facsimile autographs, plus few unsigned. Many well-known names. (66)		GBP 15.00 - 20.00	GBP 11.50

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.