LEWIN, Henry Grote:

The Railway Mania and its Aftermath 1845-1852.

London, Railway Gazette, 1936, first edition,pp.xx, 500. Best edition with the 13 maps (several folding) which are not included in the reprint. Original cloth, spine faded and bumped at top, but sound. Internally lacks fron free endpaper, repairs to several of the folding maps where they have torn at the usual place (the maps are on very flimsy paper). One single page map has slight damage from adhering to the adjacent map. A couple of stamps of the LNER Leeds Districf Goods Manager. Just a sound working copy.

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Book number: 3378

Catalogue: Railways

Keywords: railway mania,gauge question,trains,railroads,

LOMAX, Sam and NORRIS, John:

Early Days. Memories of the Beginnings of Automobile Engineering in South Lancashire and Cheshire.

Joseph Cockshoot Ltd, Manchester, (1948). Booklet of 47 stapled pages, card covers. 3000 copies printed, though only a fraction of those will have survived. Covers a bit foxed, creases to some pages, but sound condition. Makes mentioned include not only Rolls Royce and Ford, but Crossley, Rothwell, Newton Pearce, Bell Bros, Turrell etc.

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Book number: 2696

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Motor cars, motor manufacture, Lancashire, Rothwell, Crossley, Rolls Royce,

LONGO, Ugo:

Annigoni Ritrovato.

Edizioni Galleria Levi, Milano, 1971. Profusely illustrated. Text in Italian. Very good condition in the dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author to Tom Blau the prominent portrait photographer.

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Book number: 3385

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Pietro Annigoni,Tom Blau,portrait painting,.

Lord, John:

Bygone Bury.

Rochdale,Clegg,1903, pp.117, frontispiece. Neatly rebound in cloth. There are dusty finger-marks to the title-page and a few other pages, otherwise a good,sound copy.

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Book number: 1789

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Bury,

Lord, John:

Memoir of John Kay of Bury, County of Lancaster, Inventor of the Fly-shuttle, Metal Reeds etc.

Rochdale, James Clegg, 1903, 4to, pp. xix, 174, ( 1 ). Portrait frontis. and numerous other illustrations including 2 folding pedigrees. One of only 300 large paper copies. Original cloth, some light fading to front cover, but very good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3291

Catalogue: Lancashire Family History

Keywords: Lancashire,Bury,John Kay,textiles,flying-shuttle,weaving,spinning,

LOVETT, William:

The Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in his Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge and Freedom.

Trubner, 1876, first edition, pp. viii, 473 plus adverts. Original cloth, pages unopened. Binding dull, spine and corners a bit rubbed, endpapers and a few pages dusty, stitching a little loose, but an acceptable copy. Bookplate of Sir Edward W Watkin, the great railway entrepreneur who became chairman of nine different railway companies.

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Book number: 2897

Catalogue: Chartism

Keywords: chartism, radicals,chartist

LOWE, Norman:

The Lancashire Textile Industry in the Sixteenth Century.

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1972, small 4to,pp. x, 122. Chetham Society, Third Series , Volume XX. Very good condition in excellent in dust jacket which is in a loose protective sleeve.

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Book number: 3330

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Lancashire,textiles,cotton manufacture,industrial history,Chetham Society,isbn 0719011566 0719011566

LUNN, John:

A Short History of the Township of Astley arranged chronologically in sub-titles.

Manchester, 1968, pp. 144, numerous illustrations. An excellent copy in a dust jacket which is in a loose protectiver sleeve.

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Book number: 2941

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Astley,Tyldesley,

LYONS, Rev. P. A:

Two "Compoti" of the Lancashire and Cheshire Manors of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, XXIV. and XXXIII. Edward I.

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1884. Original edition,small 4to, pp.xxviii, 200. Some foxing to first and last few leaves, else very nice, clean condition in the original cloth. Chetham Society, First Series,Vol 112.

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Book number: 2612

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Lancashire,Cheshire,Henry de Lacy,medieval history,Chetham Society,Whalley,ightenhill,Accrington,Burnley,

LYTHAM AND BISPHAM, Lancashire:

The Registers of the Parish Church of Lytham and of Bispham in the County of Lancaster.

Wigan, L.P.R.S., 1908, two parts in one volume, number 33 in the series. Transcribed by Henry Brierley. Lytham comprises baptisms and burials 1679-1761 and weddings 1679-1754. Bispham comprises baptisms 1599-1754 and burials and weddings 1631-1754. Original cloth in good condition. Previous owner's bookplate inside.

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Book number: 3313

Catalogue: Lancashire Parish Registers

Keywords: Lancashire parish registers Lytham Bispham Fylde Blackpool

MacCulloch, John:

Remarks on the Art of Making Wine, with Suggestions for The Application of Its Principles to the Improvement of Domestic Wines .

Longman, Hurst etc, 1817, second edition, pp. viii, 261. Slightly later half calf with marbled boards. Binding a bit rubbed, front hinge a little tender, but still a good, sound copy.

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Book number: 2803

Catalogue: Food and Drink

Keywords: wine, wine making,champagne,claret,fermentation,

MACDONALD, C. Stuart:

A History of Hopwood Hall including the life of Cardinal Langley.

London, Waldegrave,1963, pp. (8), 86, with numerous illustrations. A very nice, clean copy in excellent dust jacket.

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Book number: 3426

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Heywood,Middleton,Rochdale,Cardinal Langley,Hopwood,Gregge,

MACDONALD, Roger:

Manchester United in Europe.

London,Pelham Books,1968, first edition,pp.144,illustrated. Very good in slightly browned d.w.

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Book number: 830

Catalogue: Sport-Football

Keywords: isbn 0720702356,Manchester United,football,soccer,Matt Busby,Bobby Charlton,Crerand,George Best,Old Trafford,Munich Disaster, 0720702356

MACGILL, Patrick:

The Amateur Army.

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1915, pp. 122 plus adverts. original cloth, spine a little dull, but good, sound condition.

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Book number: 2507

Catalogue: Naval and Military History

Keywords: military,world war 1, great war, First world war,

MAGUIRE, Paul:

Follow them up from Carlow.

Leinster Leader, 2002. Very good, clean condition. No dust jacket. With a list of casualties.

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Book number: 2926

Catalogue: Military and Naval History

Keywords: World War 1,first world war,county Carlow,Ireland,