Rochdale Book Company

Parochial Chapelry of Colne. Register of Baptisms and Burials, 1774-1789.

Whittaker and Spencer: · 1969

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Colne, 1969. Card covers, 165 pages. Good condition.

Mast and Pannage, a History of Swinton to 1765.

MULLINEUX, C. Elsie: · 1964

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Pendlebury, 1964. Card covers, comb bound, 4to, pp. xiv, 82, folding map and other illustrations. Good condition.

The Records of Oldham Church, from 1558 to 1661.

SHAW, Giles (editor): · 1889

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Oldham, 1889. Original dull cloth, 250 pages, 8 illustrations. Binding rubbed and worn at the spine, but still tight and sound. Pencil notes on blank leaves at the end. Inscribed by the editor " fifty copies only were printed". This No 33.

A History of the Parish of Flixton. (with Urmston and Davyhulme)

LANGTON, D.H: · 1898

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Manchester,Taylor,Garnett,Evans & Co.,1898, first edition,8vo, pp.160,folding map and numerous illustrations. An ex-library copy bound in library cloth, map split in two down a fold, but all present, stamps to front endpaper and back of title page. However, still a clean and s...

Historical Notices of the Grammar School: Middleton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

SHAW, Giles: · 1887

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

Not Published, 1887. Original ,cloth-backed printed boards. Frontispiece, four illustrations,18 pages printed one side only,, interleaved with blanks and with further blanks at the end. Short tear to one page, boards rubbed and dusty, but a sound copy of a very scarce book, wi...

Astley Hall, Chorley.

PORTEUS, T. C: · 1923

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Chorley, 1923. Original cloth. Presentation copy from the author. Two small marks to the front cover, else very good condition.

Extracts from the Diary of the Rev. Peter Walkden, Noncomformist Minister for the years 1725, 1729 and 1730.

DOBSON, William (editor): · 1866

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Preston, 1866. Attractive original cloth gilt, pp. viii, 118, (2). Neat label and name inside. Some inoffensive light pencil underlining. Very good condition.

Annals of Rochdale: A Chronological View from the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1898.

MATTLEY, Robert D: · 1899

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Rochdale, James Clegg, 1899. Original cloth, spine darkened, some foxing to first and last few leaves, two pages browned from where a newspaper cutting has been inserted, couple of neat names inside, but a good, sound copy.

A Historical and Descriptive Account of Blackpool and its Neighbourhood.

THORNBER, William: · 1837

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,090)

Blackpool,for the author,1837, first edition, small 8vo, pp.345,(3). Without the folding pedigree of Tildesley found in some copies. Unusual original binding of patterned boards with a leather spine. Previous owner's name and label inside ( the Blackpool historian W J Smith )....

The Story of Cockey Moor otherwise Ainsworth.

BULLOCK, K. P: · 1973

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Ainsworth, 1973. Original card covers, 213 pages. A few light marks to the pale covers, else good condition. Published at only 90p, but now rather scarce.

The Registers of the Parish Church of Bolton.

SPARKE, Archibald (Editor): · 1914

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Bolton, Tillotson, 1914, pp. x, 629. Original cloth, some light rubbing with some faint marks down the spine, but in good, tight, clean condition. Covers Baptisms 1573-4, 1590-1660, Weddings 1573, 1587-1660, Burials 1573-4, 1587-1660.

The Story of the Ancient Parochial Chapelry of St.Mary's, Oldham.

PERRY-GORE, George: · 1906

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

Oldham, Clegg,1906, first edition, pp.195, illustrated. Original cloth-backed boards with paper label. Spine faded with a mark at the foot, boards dusty, neat name inside. A sound copy.

the Gorton Historical Recorder.

HIGSON, John: · 1852

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,090)

Droylsden, 1852. Original plain limp cloth, 227 ppages, approx 5.5x3.5 inches. Pencil notes on final blank page, and newspaper cuttings pasted to rear endpapers. Some very light rubbing, but a nice clean copy of a famously rare and sought-after Manchester book.

The Survey of the Manor of Rochdale, Made in 1626.

FISHWICK, Henry: · 1913

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1913, small 4to, pp. xviii, 270. Original cloth, spine faded, else very good, sound condition. Largely unopened. Chetham Society, New Series, Volume 71. Very scarce because there were fewer than 100 personal members of the society at this time.

The Royal Military Calendar, or Army Service and Commission Book.

Anonymous: · 1820

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

No publication details. Five volume reprint of the third edition of 1820. The preferred hardback edition. Gilt lettering on the spine of volume five dull else in excellent condition. Detailed accounts of the careers of over 2000 officers.

Nicholson: being a compilation of family trees of Nicolson and Nicholson and variants of the same name.

Nicholson, Rev'd Nigel: · 1996

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Privately printed, 1996. Original cloth gilt. Very nice condition With letter from the author.

Some Farrer Memorials 1610-1923.

FARRER, Thomas Cecil, Second Lord: · 1923

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

George Sherwood, Privately Printed, 1923. Original cloth. Two tiny splash marks to the spine, else very good, clean condition. Bookplate of T W Hanson the Halifax historian.

PAPER PEEPSHOWS: THE JACQUELINE & JONATHAN GESTETNER COLLECTION.

HYDE, Ralph: · 2015

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

Antique Collectors'Club, 2015. Fine condition in protected dust jacket.

Automata A Historical and Technological Study.

CHAPUIs, Alfred and DROZ, Edmond: · 1958

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Batsford, 1958. First English Edition, translated by Alex Reid. 4to, original cloth with glacine wrapper,18 coloured plates and nearly 500 illustrations. A couple of trivial marks, but a very nice, clean copy.

Old Godley.

MIDDLETON, Thomas: · 1900

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Hyde, 1900, pp. 145. The scarce first edition in original cloth. Staples rusted and first hew leaves spotted, but good, sound conition.