AXON, SUTTON, BROWNBILL:

Chetham Miscellanies, New series,Volume III.

Manchester,Chetham Society,1915, small 4to,pp.xi,35,viii,43,viii,69. Original cloth, spine faded, else very good condition. Chetham Society,New Series,Vol.73. The three separate items in this volume comprise Documents Relating to the Plague in Manchester, A Survey of the Manor of Penwortham and List of Clergymen Etc. in the Diocese of Chester 1691.

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Book number: 2976

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Chetham Society,Lancashire,Chester,Penwortham,Manchester,Plague,

AXON, Ernest (editor):

Oliver Heywood's Life of John Angier of Denton.

Manchester,Chetham Society,1937, small 4to,pp.178. A very nice, bright copy in the original cloth. Chetham Society,New Series,Vol 97. Includes Angier's diary and extracts from his "An Helpe to Better Hearts": also Samuel Angier's diary. Very scarce.

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Book number: 2056

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Chetham Society,Lancashire,Denton,Dukinfield,Puritans,Presbyterians,diaries,English civil War,Restoration.

AXON, W. E. A:

On the Plague of Caterpillars (Charaeas graminis) at Clitheroe. A paper read before the United Field Naturalists at Greenfield, Sunday, 19th June, 1881,

Not Published, 1881, tiny pamphlet of just 7 pages. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets, so no covers, but sound condition.

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Book number: 2885

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Clitheroe,Axon,caterpillars,insect plagues,

BAILEY, John Eglington, (editor):

Inventories of Goods in the Churches and Chapels of Lancashire Taken in the Year A.D. 1552.

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1879-1888, two volumes, small 4to. Excellent condition in the original cloth. Part 1 covers Salford Hundred and Part 2 West Derby, Blackburn and Leyland Hundreds. Chetham Society, First Series, Vols 107 and 113.

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Book number: 2702

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Chetham Society,Lancashire,Salford,Manchester,West Derby,Liverpool,Standish,Penwortham,Meols,Trafford,Middleton,Blackburn,Leyland.

BAILEY, Michael R. and GLITHEROW, John:

The Odin Project. Design and Construction of Denmark's First Locomotive.

Danish Railway Museum, 2004. Lanscape format, card covers, 95 pages, profusely illustrated. Light corner wear, but very good, clean condition and apparently very scarce.

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Book number: 3288

Catalogue: Railways

Keywords: isbn 8798222775,,railways,Denmark,Odin project,locomotives, 8798222775

BAILEY, John E:

Old Stretford.

T. J. Day, Manchester, 1878, pp. 60. The de luxe edition bound in limp leather and the pages interleaved with blank leaves. Very slight rubbing at spine ends, else very nice, bright condition. Illustration of a rush-cart pasted inside back cover.

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Book number: 3309

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire

BAILEY, John Eglington (editor):

The Palatine Note-book.

Manchester, J. E. Cornish, 1881 to 1885. Originally issued in monthly parts.Complete set of four volumes. A fifth volume was started but only the first issue appeared dated May 1885 and this is here bound in the back of volume four. The title continues " for the Intercommunication of Antiquaries, Bibliophiles, and other Investigators into the History and Literature of the counties of Lancaster, Chester etc. " A mine of out of the way information. Old half leather bindings, rubbed, but sound except that the front cover of volume four has cracked at the spine and is strengthened internally with a strip of paper. A thoroughlyl useable set. One important feature is the detailed description of the various sets of early 19th century views of Manchester.

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Book number: 3138

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Cheshire,

BAKER, Sir Thomas:

Memorials of a Dissenting Chapel, its Foundation and Worthies; Being a Sketch of The Rise of Nonconformity in Manchester and of the Erection of The Chapel in Cross Street, with Notices of its Ministers and Trustees.

Simpkin, Marshall, 1884 pp. xviii, 170, with 11 illustrations. Original cloth, just very slightly rubbed, but good, clean condition.. With a useful bibliography of works by ministers of the chapel.

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Book number: 3306

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Manchester,Lancashire,Cross Street Chapel,nonconformity,

BAKEWELL, F.C:

Electric Science; Its History, Phenomena and Applications.

Ingram, Cooke, London, 1853, pp. 200, illustrated. Original cloth, rubbed and dull, but sound. Marginal tear to frontispiece, early name and address written across title page ( Blas Rangel, a recorded Victorian photographer), lightly used, stitching a little weak, but a reasonable copy. Two of Rangel's portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery.

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Book number: 2717

Catalogue: Science and Technology

Keywords: electricity, Franklin, telegraph, lightning,voltaic,electro-magnetism,

BALSTON, Thomas:

Sitwelliana 1915-1927: Being a Handlist of Works By Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell and of Their Contributions to Certain Selected Periodicals .

London, Duckworth, 1928, pp. 24, with three portraits by Albert Rutherston. Original patterned paper bords, spine darkened, covers a little dusty, but a good, sound copy. Postage will be less than the standard rate.

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Book number: 2214

Catalogue: Bibliography

Keywords: Sitwell, bibliography,

BAMFORD, Samuel:

Early Days

Simpkin, Marshall, 1849, first edition, pp. viii, 312. Original cloth, a trifle rubbed, small ink spot to spine, but a very good, sound copy. A scarce account of the formative years of this well known Radical.

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Book number: 3109

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Sam Bamford, reform,radicals,peterloo,Manchester,Middleton,Lancashire

BAMFORD, Samuel:

Homely Rhymes,Poems,and Reminiscences.

London and Manchester,1864, revised and enlarged edition,pp.viii,248,portrait frontis. Original cloth in very good condition. Title page for some reason slightly shorter than the rest of the pages, one section proud, but contents tight and sound. Contains over fifty more poems than the previous edition of 1843.

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Book number: 3079

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Lancashire Dialect,Samuel Bamford,

BAMFORD, Samuel:

Passages in the Life of a Radical,

London, Simpkin,Marshall and Co, 1844. Two volumes, pp. 288, 282. The first edition with a London imprint (though actually printed in Heywood and Manchester). First issued in parts between 1839 and 1840, then in volume form in 1842. In this edition the glossary is withdrawn from volume one and a table of contents is added, and four extra chapters dated 1844 are added to volume two. Original cloth a little rubbed, but sound. Contents a bit used, with some dirty thumb marks, but still an acceptable pair.

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Book number: 3110

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Sam Bamford, Peterloo, Manchester,Radicals,Reform,Henry Hunt,Lancashire

BANKS, A.G. and SCHOFIELD, R.B:

Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: an Engineering Study.

Newton Abbot, David Charles,1968, pp.156,illustrated. The dust jacket has few marks and has been covered in sticky-back plastic to preserve it, the book is very good. With a presentation inscription signed by the two authors.

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Book number: 3349

Catalogue: Industrial History

Keywords: Brindley,Duke of Bridgewater,mining,Wet Earth,Manchester,Clifton,Salford,collieries,

BARNES, Bernard:

Saddleworth Heritage.

Saddleworth, 1975, first edition, landscape format, pp.63. Illustrated with 15 drawings and a map by Geldart. Original spiral binding with glossy, flexible, illustrated covers. SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator. Very good, clean and bright condition.

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Book number: 3247

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Saddleworth,Geldart,Greenfield,Dobcross,Grasscroft,