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
76		The London Bus Review	1973	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
77	Brian Hardy	London Underground Rolling Stock	1976-1993	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 50.60
78	Ken Blacker	The STLs	1984	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 43.70
79		Two autograph albums 1950s/60s, mostly Football autographs including the 1960 teams of Manchester Utd and Manchester City,		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
80		Don Bradman: an autographed pictorial envelope, together with The Bradman Albums	1988	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 23.00
81		Tri-ang R.354 Lord of the Isles		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 23.00
82		Hornby #2024 '00' gauge 2-8-0 Express Goods Train set (incomplete) comprising fine Evening Star		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
83		Quantity of '00' gauge railway lineside and station buildings, goods wagons (2) and accessories, mostly VG/Fine,		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
84		Hornby 20732 '00' gauge 2-4-2 locomotive with motorised tender, slight wear.		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
85		Selection of kit-built '00' gauge locomotives, 1950s, four with tenders, all well-constructed and expertly painted. (6 + tenders)		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 57.50
86		Meccano 1940 clockwork Motor Car Constructor comprising constructed saloon car, attachments, and instruction booklet. Some wear and lacking key,		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 96.60
87		Chad Valley pre-WW2 Conjuring kit in original box, fairly complete, box in poor condition.		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
88		A vintage Waddy - Physogs card game		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
89		Box with 48 Trade & Cigarette Card sets in plastic sleeves with many Brooke Bond including - Poly Filla Modelling Cards		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
90		Football sets in modern album including R. & J. Hill - Famous Footballers	1939	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
91		Football sets in album including Gallaher - Footballers in Action		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
92		Scouting interest in sets comprising Ogden's - Boy Scouts		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 94.30
93		Motor Cycling sets comprising Lambert & Butler - Motor Cycles	1923	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 105.80
94		Film, TV & Radio interest in sets comprising R. & J. Hill - Who's Who in British Films	1927	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	GBP 59.80
95		Sports interest, mostly in sets including Player's - Championship Golf Courses		GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 172.50
96		Football collection in two modern albums with many sets including Churchman - Footballers		GBP 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
97		Cricket sets including Millhoff - Famous Test Cricketers	1928	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
98		Carton with 30 sets in two modern albums & plastic sleeves including Gallaher - Tricks & Puzzles Series	1933	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
99		Trade card selection comprising A. & B.C. Gum - Battle Cards		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 36.80
100		Sport part-sets & odds, mostly Football and Cricket, very mixed condition but with many VG/VF including Ardath - Famous Footballers		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	Not Sold

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.