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
151		Wills's sets in modern album including - Nelson Series	1905	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
152	Wills (Scissors)	Jiu-Jitsu	1910	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
153	Wills	Sports of All Nations	1901	GBP 170.00 - 200.00	GBP 161.00
154	Wills	Cricketers	1908	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 36.80
155	J. Wix	Kensitas Flowers , an accumulation comprising small 1st series (87) and 2nd series (17),		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
156	J. Wix	Kensitas Flowers	1934	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
157	J. Wix	Kensitas Flowers	1934	GBP 170.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
158	J. Wix	Kensitas Flowers	1935	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
159		Carton of early 20th Century UK & Foreign views and subject cards. Much useful France noted with some railway interest.		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 66.70
160		A mainly 1900s/1920s collection addressed to the Eardley family of Stockport, with early RP Rochdale Steam & Electric Trams, RP of Norden,	1900s/1920s	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 172.50
161		Edwardian to 1920s collection in old album, mostly beauties and actresses, plus few later including Laurel & Hardy. Mainly good to fine. (289).	1920s	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 59.80
162		Ranges in two modern albums, with many WWI War Pictures, few soldiers' photos, naval & merchant ships, Price's Patent Candles		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 89.70
163		UK topography, 1920s to early 1960s, all b/w RPs, including street scenes of Blackheath, Tidworth, Wysall, Cumnor, Haworth, Oundle, Dufftown,	1920s to early 1960s	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 94.30
164		Entertainers 1900s to 1990s including Fred Astaire, Dan Leno, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Madeleine Carroll, Mai Zetterling, Dorothy Lamour,	1900s to 1990s	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 39.10
165		France WWI period collection in old album with many pretty ladies in sets/series, topography & social history, few comic etc.		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 57.50
166		Greece and Western Turkey 1900s, RPs or b/w, mostly views, few ethnology, nine PU. Good to fine. (30)	1900s	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 25.30
167		Scarborough bombardment 1914, a good collection including six duplicates, plus Scarborough War Memorial. 10 are RPs. Good/VF (23)	1914	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 57.50
168		Titanic related comprising three of the ship (including an RP by J.M. Vauxhall), a Bamforth In Memoriam card, and two RPs of the Southampton monument		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 105.80
169		United States topography 1900s/1920s, largely coloured, many PU, fair to fine. Interest in New York, Baltimore, Brunswick, Philadelphia and others.	1900s/1920s	GBP 26.00 - 36.00	GBP 20.70

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.