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BOOKS, MAPS & EPHEMERA

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BOOKS, MAPS & EPHEMERA

485The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1909. Chatto & Windus 6 Vol. Edition. 8vo Hb., black buckram, gilt. £20 - £30

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486Pulteney W. & Brice B.: The Immortal Salient - An Historical Record and Complete Guide for Pilgrims to Ypres, 1925. 1st. Ed. Royal 8vo, rigid card binding. Powerful colour plates of watercolours (?) from the war time front signed by T.C. Hedge or Hodge? (an otherwise unacknowledged War Artist?) and monochrome photographs of the active war time front. Folding maps in rear pocket. Together with two items of related ephemera: 1. Original 'Ypres League' TravelGuide Brochure featuring battlefield tours available, 1925. 2. An original letter from 'Wipers Auto Service', (British Ex-Officers, 19, Rue Surmont De Volsberghe - Private high class automobiles with British drivers for hire), 9.7.25, providing guidance and advice to an enquirer (A.T. Sanderson) about travel routes and costs. £80 - £120

487Percy T.: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets. Edited by Henry Wheatley, 1886. Vols. I,II & III. Crown 8vo, full calf, raised bands, maroon labels, gilt, Aberdeen University Heraldic device on upper boards within decorative panel. Marbled edges. University award dedication after fep. Red & black decorative title page, historiated initials & headings. £40 - £60

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488Red Pottage, by Mary Cholmondley, C. 1904. 8vo Hb. Contemp red cloth. Eight monochrome illustrations. by Rackham, incl. frontis., printed in double-column. Ads. at front & rear. A rare Rackham-illustrated title. Not the 1st. Edition but the early second printing. £60 - £80

489Hitler A.: Mein Kampf, Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes in One. First Volume: A Retrospect. Second Volume: The National Socialist Movement, 1941. Pub. Hurst & Blackett. 8vo Hb + Dj. Red titling & emblem on upper board, Portrait frontis, text. Uncommon edition esp. with Dj. £60 - £80

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490General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music, Containing a variety of Admired Airs never before published, and also The Compositions of Conolan and Carolan: Collected from the Harpers etc in the different Provinces of Ireland and adapted for Piano Forte. Associated with Edward Bunting. Foliohb, together with other music compilations. Nd. C.1750. Engraved title page. Titles of Songs in Old Irish (Gaelic) together with English translations. £40 - £60

491Dante Alighieri: Vita Nuova, 2015; Orwell G.: Nineteen Eighty Four, 2014. 8vo. Folio Society. Both fine copies with slip case and publisher's sealed wrapping. £30 - £40

492Mauriceau H. (Trans. Chamberlen H.): The Diseases of Women with Child and in Child Bed, C. 1736. (7th.Ed.) 8vo. Hb. Later 19th.C. cloth binding, Frontis, single page plate and 4 folding plates. Inspection of condition report recommended. £60 - £80

493Book of Common Prayer & Book of Psalms, 1767. 8vo. Hb. Original 18th. full calf maroon binding, gilt fretwork design on the spine and decorative borders on the boards featuring crowns. Marbled eps. All edges were original gilt. Engraved plates. The BCP has been well-used but remains sound with an attractive ambience. Together with: The Holy Bible for Theological Students, Trinitarian Bible Society, Nd. C.1870. Small qto. Hb., gilt, aeg. Red borders to pages & text to chapter headings; New Testament, 1881 and Paragraph Bible, 1873 in similar decorative bindings. £110 - £140

494Stowe H.: Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America, 1852. Second edition published by George Routledge. 12mo Qtr. binding, gilt. £30 - £40

495Harte B.: The Queen of the Pirate Isle, Nd. C. 1886. 1st. Ed. ?. Small qto hb, original illustrated beige buckram binding. Colour vignette illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Together with a related pb title. £30 - £40

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496Milton J.: Paradise Lost, 1906. Scarce Liverpool Lyceum Press Edition large paper copy with colour plates by William Blake featuring tissue guards with textual references. Qto. Original 'Bickers' binding with buckram spine, paper label and paper covered boards. Roby Myddleton Gotch Library book plate. £100 - £120

497Carroll L.: Through The Looking Glass,1898 (62nd th.). 8vo Hb. Original red cloth, gilt, aeg. Tenniel illustrations; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893. 1st. Ed. 8vo Hb. original red cloth, gilt, aeg. Furniss illustrations. £40 - £60

498Lang A. (Ed.): The Crimson Fairy Book, 1903 & The Brown Fairy Book, 1904. Both 1st. Eds. 8vo Hb. with appropriately matching coloured cloth bindings with gilt titling & illustrations, aeg. illustrated eps. Colour frontis & other plates, line drawn plates & vignettes in the text. £40 - £60

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499Mackenzie Wallace D.: Russia, 1877. Vols. I & II. Royal 8vo hb. gilt cloth. Folding maps at the front of each volume. Original copies uncommon. £120 - £160

500The Poetical Works of John Milton - printed from the original editions with a life of the author by Rev. John Mitford. Bickers & Son, Nd. C.1880. 8vo Hb. Fine binding in faux vellum, gilt titling, panels & corner devices, inner dentelles, marbled eps & aeg. Engraved Portrait frontis, decorative red & black title page, historiated initials and head pieces. £60 - £80

501The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, C.1906. Large folio Hb, cloth. Illustrated with 500 colour maps and diagrams and with colour frontis plate of flags of the British Empire. 500 maps and diagrams with commercial statistics and gazetteer index of 105,000 names. An impressively comprehensive volume. £40 - £60

502Recueil De Planches Sur Les Sciences Les Arts Liberaux et Les Arts Mechaniques, Troisieme Livraison, 1765. Large Folio, full contemp. calf, ribbed spine, gilt. 298 Copper engraved plates (some double page): Marquetry, Enamelling & painting, Spur & pin manufacture, sword duelling, Fayencerie ceramics, Tin smithing, Spinning Wheels, Artificial Flowers, Ore & Forging, Form manufacture, Metal working, Furrier, Glove making, Ice Cream Making & Horology. £300 - £500

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503Exposition Meissonier, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Mars 1893. Large folio, qtr binding, marbled boards & eps., teg & deckle edges. Featuring a list of his various works numbering 1465 and their location together with etched plates fronted by titled tissue guards. £40 - £60

504Bookano Stories No. 5. Small qto. hb. Illustrated boards. Five 'pop up' complete and working models. £20 - £30

505Brayley E.: London and Middlesex; or, an Historical, Commercial & Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great Britain, Sketches of its Environs and Topographical Account, Vols. 1, II, III Part I & part III Part II. (4 vols). 8vo Hb. Qtr binding, marbled boards, speckled edges. Numerous engraved plates. £40 - £60

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506Thackeray W.: The History of Pendennis. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849-1850. First edition in book form, 8vo. Fine half bindings, blue crushed morocco gilt, blue cloth, teg. Engraved frontispiece, additional decorative title and numerous plates. £40 - £60

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507Choral Songs by Various Writers and Composers in Honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, MacMillan, 1899. Square Folio Hb., Vellum, gilt heraldic decoration & titling. Music notation and words - compositions include works by Parry, Elgar, Stainer & Bridge. Scarce - produced in honour of the Queen's 80th. Birthday in a Limited Edition of 100. £80 - £120

508Nansen F.: Farthest North, 1897. 1st. Ed. Vols. I & II. Royal 8vo., original green cloth with gilt titling & illustration. Chromolithograph & monochrome plates, folding maps. £80 - £120

509Wright P.: Spy Catcher - The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, 1987 (7th.Printing): 8vo Hb + Dj. A manuscript dedication on the front paste-down reads: '' To Ray ''The Mole'' Bradbury from Pietri Kanescovitch Moskow 1987 Eingant sa Kolsov!''. *This inscription, believed to be by R.B.'s Soviet literary agent, jokingly harks back to the execution, in 1940, as a spy of Mikhail Voltsov (Stalin's Spanish Civil War special enoy); ostensibly prompted by 'Spycatchers' revelation the buy he planted in the U.S. ambassador's Moscow office (1940/50's) over a seven year period (the bug designed by Leon Theremin- of musical instrument fame) £80 - £120

510 Fletcher Allen: Cook's Traveller's Handbook to North Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, 1933. Small 8vo Hb + Dj. Dust wrapper with some slight wear but in very good condition. Original red cloth, with gilt titles to the front board and the spine. Contains nine folding colour maps and plans (by Bartholomew). This title was developed from Cook's original handbook to Algeria and Tunisia, it is presented here as effectively a new work. There are period advertisements to the rear. Scarce Cook title, particularly with the Dj. £80 - £120

511Wordsworth C.: Christian Institutes, 1837. 1st. Edition. Vols. I - IV. 8vo Hb. Qtr. binding, gilt. Together with a number of other similarly bound volumes including: Mortimer A.: Helps to Meditation, 1888, Vols. I & II; Ruskin J.: Sesame and Lilies, 1899; Doolittle T.: Love to Christ, 1836. £30 - £40Lot 508

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512 The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, Navarre Society Edition, 1924. Royal 8vo. Hb. Maroon cloth, gilt, teg. Vols. 1 - 3, complete. The first edition, 1791, reprinted verbatim with the appendix, ''the principal corrections and additions,'' 1793, and illustrated with twenty photogravure etchings, fifty half-tone plates, and a facsimile autograph letter. Preface by Clement K. Shorter. Together with: Lingard J.: History of England, 1883. Vols. I - X. Complete. 8vo, Hb. £30 - £40

513McDonald D.: A History of Platinum, 1960. Qto. Hb + Dj. 1st. Ed. Signed by author on fep. Classic treatise by a recognised specialist £20 - £30

514Herge: The Adventures of TINTIN in the Land of the Soviets - Reporter for ''Le Petit Vingtieme.''. 1989. 1st. Ed. Les Editions Du Petit '' Vingtieme''. (Sundancer). Folio Hb. Illustrated boards. Together with original related book-mark. £20 - £30

515Herge (Remi G.):Tintin in America,1978; Land of Black Gold, 1984; Tintin in Tibet, 1994; Objectif Lune 1957; Le ''Manitoba'' ne Respond Plus, 1980; L'Etoile Mysterieuse, 1974; Tintin Au Congo, 1970 & L'Ile Noire, 1984. Together with 10+ other Hb titles and 10 soft cover editions. Goscinny R. & others: Asterix et le Chaudron, 1969; Asterix and The Actress, 2001; Le Devin, 1972; Asterix Legionaire, 1971; Le fils d'Asterix, 1983; Asterix et les Normands, 1967 & La Zizanie, 1970. Together with other Hb and soft cover titles and various other similar publications. £30 - £40

516Russian Art Reference Collection. A selection of larger format Art reference books including a title featuring Poster Art 1917 - 1967, Pictorial Souvenirs of Russian Writers, Medieval Icons, Frescoes & Religious Art, Figure Drawing & Anatomy Theatrical Art. £20 - £30

517Bedfordshire Parish Registers edited by F.G. Emmison, Vol. XX: Millbrook 1558 - 1812; Westoning 1560 - 1812 & Harlington 1602 - 1812. Published by Bedford County record Office, 1939. Folio cloth bound hardback, gilt. Typed, duplicated text. Signed by Editor on the front Register Index page. £30 - £40

518Mottram J.: Fly-Fishing - Some New Arts and Mysteries, 1994. Flyfisher's Classic Library facsimile-type limited edition of 950. 8vo Hb with two tone binding, gilt, silk marker. Illustrated. £20 - £30

519Railwayana - Bradford Barton Series: North Eastern Mainline Steam; Southern Steam - South and West / Isle of Wight; London Midland Steam - North Wales / Skipton Carlisle / Around Carlisle / Locomotives 1 / Steam on Shed; North Eastern Steam in Action / Northumbria. Cornwall's Railways; Great Western Steam Through the Years. 12 titles. Small Qto Hb + Hb format. £20 - £30

520Folio Society: A small collection of 17 titles, 8vo format, all with slip cases. £20 - £30


521Military & Warfare: A small collection of 18 titles, 8vo & qto format, all with dustwrappers, including: Ladd J.: SBS The Invisible Raiders, Brown M.: 1918 Year of Victory; Neillands R.: Great War Generals, Western Front 1914-18; Owen B.: History of Welsh Militia & Volunteer Corps - Anglesey & Caernarfonshire. £20 - £30

522Miscellaneous collection of volumes including children's, adventure, topography & natural history titles. Mainly 8vo, Hb with Djs. £20 - £30

523George Orwell: Ninteen Eighty Four, 2014. Folio Society. Royal 8vo Hb + Slip Case. Eight copies of this title. Fine copies in original publisher's cellophane wrap. £60 - £80

524Folio Society Titles - Spark: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Thomas: Under Milk Wood, Bhagavad Gita, Bierce: Devil's Dictionary, The Best After Dinner Stories, Lawrence: Crusader Castles. All fine copies in slip case in publisher's cellophane wrap. £40 - £60

525Beynon John (John Wyndham): Foul Play Suspected, Nd. 1935. 1st. Ed. 8vo. Hb. Green cloth. £80 - £120

526Secord W.: Dog Painting - The European Breeds, 2000. Qto. Hb + Dj. Illustrated. £20 - £30

527Folio Society: Atwood: Handmaid's Tale, Cooper: Talleyrand, Tolkein: The Hobbit, Diary of a Provincial Lady. Fine copies with slip case and sealed in publisher's cellophane. £20 - £30

528Jacobum Rollin, Carolum Jombert & Claudium Baptistam: Novitius Seu Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum, ad usum Serenissimi Delphini ou Dictionannaire Latin-Francois A L'Usage De Monseigneur Le Dauphin. 1750. Large Qto Hb. Early buckram-type binding, marbled eps. £30 - £40

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529Point F.: Ma Gastronomie Flammarion et Cie, Paris, 1980. Qto. Hb. A fine French copy in caramel coloured cloth stamped in maroon, with decorative plate inlay on front cover, in unprinted clear acetate dustwrapper with plain slip case. Introduction by Felix Benoit.. An important book in the Nouvelle Cuisine movement. £30 - £40

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530(Pardon G.): The Juvenile Museum of Entertainment, Nd. C.1850. Royal 8vo. Hb, red cloth, gilt. Text with engraved plates, uncommon. Together with: Carroll L.: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Small 8vo Hb+Dj. Illustrated binding, Tenniel illustrations. £20 - £30

531Large folio volume featuring popular Nineteenth Century Music Hall songs (with music notation and words) featuring chromolithograph Cover Illustrations of well known performers of the time including Arthur Lloyd, Harry Clifton, George Leybourne, A.B. Hollingsworth, Albert Steele, Harry Sydney together with references to composers/ writers like G.W. Hunt, F.C. Perry & W. Randall. Songs include: Mrs Mary Plucker Sparrowtail, Mr. Noah He Built an Ark, The Schoolmaster, Not For Joseph, The Weepin Willer, But Of Course It's No Business of Mine & The Broken Hearted Shepherd. Possibly a unique collection, privately bound, to include the chromolithographs which appear to be scarce. £100 - £150

532Garner T. & and Stratton A. The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period, Batsford, 1911. 1st. Ed. Vols. I & II, Elephant folio. Hb. Original green buckram. Garner and Stratton produced an extensive collection of measured drawings, elevations, photographs, and drawings of English Tudor homes. £80 - £120

533Folio Society: Wells: War of the Worlds & 1984; Jerome: Three Men in a Boat; Hassan; Winchester: Surgeon of Crowthorne; Morton: In Search of England; Fermore: Mani & Roumeli (set). All fine copies with slip case in sealed wrap. £40 - £60

534Military: A substantial collection of 42 titles (33 Hb & 9 Pb) relating to the campaigns of the German Army during WWII including: Whiting: Bloody Aachen; Kershaw: It Never Snows in September; Mellenthin: Panzer Battles; Dupuy: Hitler's Last Gamble; Lucas: Last Year of the German Army; Reynolds: Steel Inferno & Sons of the Reich. The volumes are in vg/nf condition. £60 - £80

535Military: A substantial collection of 80+ titles (65+ Hb & 18 Pb) relating to the campaigns of the Allied Forces during WWII including: Carver: War in Italy 1943/45; Thompson: War in Burma 1942/45; Delaforce: The Black Bull, Monty's Iron Sides & Taming the Panzers; Lewis: Hell in the Pacific; Whiting: Battle Hurtgen Forest & Operation Northwind; Eshel: Bravery in Battle; Ungvary: Battle for Budapest; Doherty: A Noble Crusade; White: With The Jocks; Tout: Roads to Falaise; Veld: Forgotten Battle; Blandford: Twto sides of the Beach. The volumes are in vg/nf condition. £80 - £120

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536Bryant P.: Grimsby Chums - Story of the 10th. Lincolnshires in the Great War, 1990 8vo Pb. Scarce regimental history. Text & illustrations. £20 - £30

537Jutras P.: Les Paras US Dans Le Canton De Sainte-Mere-Eglise, 1979. 8vo. Pb. Text & illustrations. Signed dedication from author on verso of front cover. £20 - £30

538Military: A substantial collection of 30+ titles (20+ Hb & 10 Pb) relating to the campaigns and conflicts of WWI including: Battle Fields of the Marne 1914 (Michelin 1917); Haythornthwaite: World War One Source Book; Wilkinson: War Letters of Captain Jack Oughtred; Charlton: Poziers 1916 - Australians on the Somme; MacDonald: Roses of No Man's Land; Brown: IWM Book of 1918 & Book of the Somme; Steel: Passcendale; Nicholls: Cheerful Sacrifice; Hart: The Somme. The volumes are in vg/nf condition. £40 - £60

539World War Aviation : A collection of 30+ titles (18+ Hb & 10+ Pb) relating to the Allied & Enemy Airforces during WWI & WWII including: Steinhoff: Messerschmitts over Sicily; Spick: Luftwaffe Fighter Aces; Middlebrook: Arnhem 1944 - Airborne Battle; Hinchcliffe: Other Battle; Rolfe: Flying Into Hell, Hell on Earth & Gunning for the Enemy; Yates Luck and a Lancaster; Hough Battle for Britain; Bishop: Fighter Boys; Baker: Adolf Galland; Nichol: Tail End Charlies; Shores: Bloody Shambles. Together with Naval titles. The volumes are in vg/nf condition. £40 - £60

540Aviation fiction. A collection of titles, many from the 'Ace' series by John Hamilton publisher including: Lindsay, D.T., The Green Ray; Wings Over the Amazon; Masked Judgement; Rochester, G.E., Captain Robinhood Skyway Man; Jackals of the Clouds; Wings of Doom; Holden, R., Wings of Revolution; The Hornet's Nest. All 57 titles Hb. each with facsimile of Dj. (showing wear) £50 - £60

541Aviation fiction. A smaller collection of titles from the 'Ace' series by John Hamilton publisher including: Lindsay, D., Air Bandits; Holden, J. R., The Hornets Nest; Noy, J., Gangsters of the Air; Clarke, C., Aces Up; together with titles from Greene, L. P., Major Adventures series. All 38 titles Hb. (no Dj.) £20 - £30

542(3 boxes) Jerome J.: Three Men in a Boat, 1889. 8vo. Hb. Original illus. binding. An early edition - first year of printing. Together with: The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, 1898. 1st. Ed. 8vo Hb. Original binding.; Arnold E.: With Sa'adi in the Garden, 1888. 1st. Ed. 8vo. Hb. Original green cloth, gilt titling, silver and green illus. on upper board, bevelled edges, decorative gilt eps. Scarce.; Stevenson R. L.: Island Nights' Entertainments, consisting of Beach of Falesa, Bottle Imp & Isle of Voices, 1893. 1st. Ed. 8vo. Green cloth,gilt illus., frontis & plates; A miscellaneous collection of mainly 19th. & early 20th. century antiquarian titles including: Boulton W. (Ed.): Practical Coal-Mining, Vols. 1 - 6. (Art Nouveau Talwyn Morris binding); Zimmerman M., Solitude considered with respect t the dangerous influence upon the Mind and Heart (translation from original German); Mackay C., Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions; Warner C D., American Men of Letters: Washington Irving; and Smithsonian Institution, 'Animals Desired for the National Zoological Park at Washington, D.C'; Collector's Miscellany: Dunhill A.: The Pipe Book, 1924. 1st. Ed. Colour frontis & illus; Bourdillon F.: A Lost God, 1891. Ltd.Ed. of 500. Engraved illus; Bairnsfather B.:Bullets & Billets, 1916; Home G.:Motor Routes of England, 1911. Col. ill; Holmes O: The One Hoss Shay, 1891. Reverse calf binding, illus; Tennyson A.: Idylls of the King, 1859; Hone W.: Ancient Mysteries Described, 1823. Illus. £60 - £80

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543Wolverhampton Wanders Related: Tommy Lawton's All Star Football Book, 1950. Qto. Hb. with colour illustrated boards. This copy has been signed by the following members of the 'Wolves' team: John Short, Leslie Smith, Bill Baxter, Jim Dunn, Peter Broadbent, Billy Wright & Johnny Hancocks. Also by Jimmy Pemberton, WBA. Two other signatures. With Express & Star and 1960 F.A. Cup cap in Old Gold and Black £20 - £30

544Classical & Modern Art, Art for Design, Advertising & Illustration. A collection of 30+ titles, mainly larger format. Hb. and Dj., featuring: Christie's - Review of the season 1986; Islam Art and Architecture, Hattstein M. and Delius P. (ed.); Mackintosh, Gentleman, Greenaway, William Morris and three titles from the 'All American Ads' series. £30 - £40

545Black Country Miscellany (Birmingham, Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton). A selection of 45+ books and pamphlets including: Wolverhampton Red Book and Directory for 1901. Very worn but apparently complete, including folding map. Very scarce. Together with West Midlands and Wider UK topography and history. A substantial collection to include: George Allen and Sons., Memorials of Old Staffordshire; Palliser D M., The Staffordshire Landscape; Pitman., The Friendship of Cannock Chase; Parsons H., Portrait of the Black Country; Brighton F., Pattingham. Together with a small folder of early 20th century ephemera relating mainly to local Tamworth businesses and a group of Birmingham area Christmas cards, mostly Mayoral £30 - £40

546Atlases and Maps. A Small collection of modern titles featuring Cornell T. and Matthews J., Atlas of the Roman World; Baynton-Williams R., Investing in Maps; Moule T., the North of England; Potter J., Country Life Book of Antique Maps; Moule T., The County Maps of Old England £20 - £30

547Speedway: A substantial collection of 350+ Speedway Racing Programmes dating mainly from the 1950's to 1980's including those for meetings located at Wolverhampton, Cradley Heath, Belle Vue & Halifax. Together with related ephemera including portrait card signed by Joe Abbott and five early 1950's Birmingham riders lapel badges £30 - £40

548The Engravings of Eric Gill, 1983. Christopher Skelton Press. Limited Edition of 1350 of the 'ordinary edition.' Large folio Hb., cream cloth spine, gilt. Black cloth boards with blind-stamped image of nudes on the upper board. lllustrated with reproductions of engravings by Gill, some folding. Comprehensive references and indexes. Fine copy in original slip case. Together with: Eric Gill 25 Nudes, 1988 2nd.Ed; MacCarthy F.: Eric Gill, 1989; Yorke M.: Eric Gill, Man of Flesh and Spirit, 1981; Shewring W. (Ed.); Letters of Eric GIll. 1947; Engraved Work of Eric Gill, 1980 (HMSO) together with one other related title. Additionally ' Female Nude Lying' - mounted, glazed and framed print. £250 - £300


549The Form and Order of the Service & Ceremonies in the Coronation of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth & the music to be sung, 1937. The Music with the Form and Order of the Service for the Coronation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1953. Royal 8vo Hb., red cloth with gilt decoration & marbled eps. Original service books. With one other related title. £30 - £40

550Bradley-Birt F.: Tewkesbury - The Story of Abbey, Town & Neighbourhood, 1931. White G.:Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne, 1901. Miall & Fowler Ed. 8vo Hb. £20 - £30

551Bell G.: Soldier's Glory - Being the 'Rough Notes of an Old Soldier', 1991; Crozier F.: A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, 1968; Longden S.: Dunkirk - The Men They Left Behind, 2008. All 8vo Hb + Dj. £20 - £30

552Pearson J.: Stags & Serpents - The Story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire, 1983. 1st. Ed. 8vo Hb + Dj. House Crested Book Plate mounted on the fep featuring the following original signatures in varying coloured inks: Dwaehe, Deborah Devonshire, Harrington,Burlington & Amanda Harington. Near fine copy. £60 - £80

553The Royal River - The Thames from Source to Sea, 1885. 1st. Ed. Folio, hb, blue cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and a gilt pictorial cover, aeg Etching frontis, engraved plates & vignettes. £20 - £30

554Martin J. ('The Trent Otter'): The Modern Angler, 1898. 8vo. Hb. Gilt illus. cloth; 'Trent Otter's' Little Angling Book, 1910 & Otter's Modern Angler, Nd. C.1900 - both small 8vo titles in the yellow card illustrated binding, illustrated text. All uncommon or scarce titles. Together with: Burgess J.: Angling, C.1867; Blakey R.: Angling, C.1900 & Amphlett F.: Everybody's Book on Angling, C.1900. Three 12mo Hb. titles, illustrated. £40 - £60

555Malloch P.: Life - History and Habits of the The Salmon, Sea - Trout, Trout and other Freshwater Fish, 1912, Qto. Hb. Illus. cloth, text & illus; Bickerdyke J.: Book of the All-Round Angler, 1922. 8vo Hb. Text & illus. £20 - £30

556Manley J.: Notes on Fish and Fishing, 1877. 8vo. Hb. Gilt illus. cloth binding. Uncom mon; Foster D.: The Scientific Angler, Nd. C.1895. 8vo Hb. Cloth,gilt, chromolithograph fly plates. £30 - £40

557(Foster D.): Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing being the portion devoted to Fly Fishing, etc for the above fish. Nd. C. 1900. 8vo. Hb. Later plain buckram binding. This copy includes 6 double sided colour plates of flies bound in at the front of the book. Possibly a unique copy. £40 - £60

558Sheringham H.: The Early Days of Tackle Dealing, Nd. ?. Slim qto. Hb, cloth binding Probably privately produced quite recently, text & illustrations from another source. £20 - £30

559Fisher P.:The Angler's Souvenir -assisted by several eminent Piscatory Characters with Illustrations by Beckwith & Topham, 1835. 8vo Hb. Original blind-stamped & gilt cloth. Engraved frontis, title page, page borders & illustrations. Salter T.: The Angler's Guide, A Plain and Complete Practical Treatise on the Art of Angling for Sea, River & Pond Fish, together with a Treatise on Trolling, 1841. 8vo. Hb. Original blind-stamped & gilt cloth. Engraved portrait frontis, woodcut illus. £60 - £80

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560Martin J.: Roach and Bream Fishing in Many Waters, 1905. 8vo. Hb. cloth,gilt, Illustrated. Graham J.: To Catch A Fisherman - A Century of Piscatorial Inventions, 1984. Small qto. hb, gilt. Privately compiled & published - officially authorised 'reprod duction of patents not yet in the public domain' - text & illustrations of various angling equipment. Uncommon. £40 - £60

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561Martin J.:Float Fishing and Spinning in the Nottingham Style, 1885. 8vo. Hb. Original binding with gilt cloth spine & illustrated yellow boards. Text & illustrattions. Scarce. £40 - £60

562Orchard-Lisle J.: Fishing Huts, 2008. Qto. hb + dj. Fine copy. scarce. £40 - £60

563Frodin M.: Classic Salmon Flies, History & Patterns, 1991; Ball C. et al: A Century of Carp Fishing, 2000. Signed by Ball on half title; Armstrong R.: Split-Cane and Sable, 1988; Arbery L.: Complete Book of River Fishing, 1993 Signed by Arbery on fep. All qto hb + dj, 1st. Editions. Together with: Herd A.: The Fly, 2003 Pb. All titles vg/nf. £60 - £80

564Beazley D.: Images of Angling - Illustrated Review of Three Centuries of British Angling Prints, 2010; Quinn T.: Angling in Art, 1991. Both qto hb + dj, 1st.Eds. £30 - £40

565Harwood K.: Tight Lines - The Story of Abu, 2007. Ltd. Ed. 293/500. 8vo Hb+Dj; Stockwell G. Fly Reels of the House of Hardy, 1978. 8vo Hb + Dj; Waller P.: Fishing Reels - Collecting for All, Vol. II, The Blue Ribbon Edition, 2002. 8vo. Pb. Signed by Author; Graham J.: Fishing Tackle of Yesterday - A Collector's Guide, 1989. 8vo Pb., printed privately. All 1st. Eds. £40 - £60

566Malavasi M.: The Reelstown guide to ABU Spinning Reels of Sweden - Collector's Reference, 2007. 8vo. Pb. 1st. Ltd. Edition, No. 237/260. Signed on title page. Scarce. Fine copy. £40 - £60

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567Stephenson J.: Rosewood to Revolution, 1993. 8vo Pb. Unnumbered copy of an edition of 500, (scarce) & Understanding Threadlines - A collectors' guide to the early fixed spool fishing reels, 1992. 8vo Pb. Ltd. Ed; Singleton B.: The Allcock Aerial - A Collectors Guide, 2008. 8vo Pb. Ltd. Ed. 466/500. All 1st. Eds. All vg/nf. £35 - £55

568Attwood E.: J.W. Young & Sons - A century of the art of making Fishing Reels, 2009. Small qto hb + dj. Signed on the title page by Attwood & Young. Currently very scarce. Fine copy. £40 - £60

569Vervon S.: Fishing Reel Makers of Kentucky, 1992. Qto. Hb + Dj. 1st. Ltd. Ed. 329/975. £40 - £60

570Sandford C.: The Best of British Baits, 1997. Qto Hb + Dj. Scarce. Vg copy. £30 - £40

571Art Reference: A collection of mainly large format Art Reference titles, featuring a range of mediums, focussed on the lives and works of classical and more recent artists. Individuals include: Rembrandt, Cotman, Constable, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Van Dyck, El Greco, Reynolds, Morris, Durer, Gaillebotte, Pugin, Hockney, Towne, Voysey, Cozens, Ricketts, Ayrton, Friedrich & Escher. Together with some exhibition catalogues. £40 - £60

572Surtees R.: Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities, 1924. Qto. Hb + Dj. Colour plates by Henry Alken. £20 - £30

573Mirabeau H.: Erotika Biblion, 1890. 8vo. Pb. Limited Edition of 500 but un-numbered. Original card covers remarkably well preserved (having been protected by a brown paper cover perhaps for obvious reasons!). Engraved historiated initials and headings. £30 - £40

574Jones H.: Rosaline Woodbridge or The Midnight Visit - A Romantic Tale, 1827. 1st. Ed. 8vo. Engraved frontis and title page and plates. Scarce title. £30 - £40

575Rohan H.: Le Parfait Capitaine ou Abrege Des Guerres - Des Commentaires de Cesar, 1744. 12mo Hb Full calf with gilt heraldic device on both boards, marbled eps. Engraved portrait frontis & title page, speckled edges, engraved historiated initials,head & tail pieces. A general summary of Caesar's Wars. Uncommon. £30 - £40

576Nadell M.: Poles Apart - The History of the London Roach Pole, 2013. No. 57 of a collector's Limited Edition of 220 copies signed and numbered by the author on a bookplate mounted on the fep.,Qto Hb + Dj. Fine copy. £30 - £40

577Kewley C.: Fishing Tackle for Beginners, 1987; Turner G.: Fishing Tackle Collector's Guide, 1989; Calabi S.: Antique Fishing Tackle, 1989. All 1st. Eds. All qto hb + dj. £20 - £30

578Grozier K.: Avon Days & Stour Ways, 2009; Arbery L.: Ripples and Reflections, 2007. Signed limited edition No. 773/895. Both large 8vo Hb + Dj. Vg/nf copies. Uncommon. £30 - £40

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579Piscatorial Pleasures: An angling miscellany which includes copies of significant Auction House Angling Catalogues, various pamphlets on angling topics, copies of The Antique Tackle Observer, David Watson:A Collection of Fishing Priests, Chris Sandford: Best of British Baits, Jess Miller: The Dunkeld Collection, Loose Cigarette Cards and copies of Mr.Crabtree. £40 - £60

580Angling and Natural History Miscellany: A collection of 20 titles in a variety of formats featuring books on Angling and a range of natural history topics. £20 - £30

581Collector's Miscellany: A wide ranging series of 40+ titles covering a variety of collecting subjects in a range of formats including: Golf Antiques, Clocks, Model Soldiers, Collectable Cameras, Advertising Tins and many others. £30 - £40

582Coxall J.: The Walthamstow Tokens, 1988. Folio illustrated card bound monograph. Scarce £20 - £30

583McElhone K.: The Organette Book, 2002. Landscape qto hb + dj. Illustrated concise listing of all known self-playing portable reed organs. (Music Box Society) Scarce. £30 - £40

584Martins J.: The Chronicle of the Fountain Pen, 2007. Folio, Hb + Dj. Profusely illustrated. £30 - £40

585Terry Pratchett collection. 18 titles to include 10 Discworld novels.in Hb. and dj.: Making Money; Raising Steam; The Truth; Monstrous Request; Going Postal; Night Watch; Nation (all 1st ed.); The Wee Free Men; Wintersmith; and Unseen Academicals £30 - £50

586Doctor Who compilation. 23 various titles in 'Doctor Who: The Complete History' - guides to the making of the BBC program. All Hb. Together with 2 'Doctor Who' Hb. graphic novels: The Cruel Sea; The Iron Legion. £20 - £30

587Book shop stock. A large collection of books covering a wide range of subjects. To include: religion; sports (fishing, golf, football, cricket); history; technology; fiction (including titles by Doris Lessing and Spike Milligan). Approx. 260 vols. in 8 boxes £80 - £120

588(2 boxes) Railwayana: Hoole K. (Ed.): Hull & Barnsley Railway; Knock O.: London & North Western Railway; Railway Archaeology; Baugham P.: Chester & Holyhead Railway; North & Mid Wales Railway; Hawkins M.: Somerset & Dorset -Then and Now; Edwards D.: The Final Link; Casserley H.: Wessex. With four other titles.; Railwayana & Tramways Selection. Rowlands A.: God's Wonderful Railway: Clear Ahead; Adley R.: The Call of Steam; Adley R.: In Search of Steam 1962-68; Voice D.: London's Tramways their history and how to model them; Design for Steam 1830-1960; White H P.: Forgotten Railways; together with approx. 60 other titles. ; 'The Gloucester Diary' for the Gloucester railway carriage and Wagon Co. Ltd., 1910, featuring over one hundred engravings of their products and information on stations and junctions £40 - £60

589Collector's miscellany. Dilley, A.U., (1931), Oriental Rugs and Carpets; Impey, O., (1977), Chinoiserie; Gordon, E., (1978), Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain. together with 4 other titles. £20 - £30

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590Folio Society collection. Totman, C., A History of Japan, 2 vol. set; The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; Lukacs, J., Five Days in London May 1940; Abelard and Heloise; The Trial of Charles I (Lockyer, R., ed.); Sprenger, J., and Kramer, H., Malleus Malificarum The Hammer of Witchcraft; Harriette Wilson's Memoirs; and 23 other Folio Society titles. All 8vo with slip cases. Together with 10 vols. of The Oxford History of England. Hb. Dj. VG/NF £40 - £60

591Collector's Miscellany: Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood, 1954 (reprinted 1954). 8vo. Hb + Dj (not price clipped); Philip Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings, 1964, 1st. Edition, second impression, April 1964. 8vo Hb + Dj. (not price clipped); Soldiers' Verse chosen by Patric Dickinson, Nd. C. 1945. 8vo Hb + Dj; Alice Miller: The White Cliffs, 1941. 1st. Ed. 8vo Hb + Dj. £40 - £60

592Paul Bowles Collection: The Sheltering Sky, 1949. (Lehmann, 3rd. Imp.); Up Above the World, 1967 (1st. UK Ed.); The Delicate Prey, 1950. Random House, 1st.Ed. 1st.Printing; Let It Come Down, 1952., 1st. Ed. 1st. Printing & 1st. UK Ed. Lehmann 1952; The Spider's House, 1955, 1st.Ed. 1st.Printing; Their Heads Are Green, 1963. 1st. UK Ed. & 1st. US Ed. 1963. All 8vo. Hb + Dj. Things Gone and Things Still Here, 1977. 1st. Trade Ed. 8vo Hb in acetate jacket; The Thicket of Spring, Poems 1926 - 1969, Black Sparrow Pb. 1972 1st. Ed. Together with: Without Stopping - An Autobiography, 1972; In Touch - The Letters, 1993; and twelve other titles in a variety of formats. £150 - £200

593Titles translated by Paul Bowles: Eberhardt: The Oblivion Seekers; Rosa: Dust on Her Tongue; Mrabet: The Big Mirror, Look & Move On, Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, The Boy Who Set The Fire, Love with a Few Hairs; Frison-Roche: The Lost Trail of the Sahara; Five Eyes - Stories by Boulaich, Choukri, Layachi, & Yacoubi. Together with 25+ other titles in a range of different formats. £40 - £60

594Jane Bowles: Two Serious Ladies, 1943; Plain Pleasures, 1966; In The Summer House, 1954. All 8vo Hb + Dj and 1st.Eds. Feminine Wiles, 1976. Pb; The Collected Works of Jane Bowles; Dillon M.: A Little Original Sin - Life & Work of Jane Bowles & Out In The World - Selected Letters of Jane Bowles 1935-1970. Together with 5 other titles in a variety of formats. £40 - £60

595Mackenzie D.: Myths & Legends, Four Volume Set: Teutonic Myth & Legend, Myths of Babylonia & Assyria, Egyptian Myth & Legend, Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe. Together with: Squire C.: Celtic Myth & Legend. Nd. C. 1910. 8vo. Hb. All titles in a common olive green decorative binding. Colour & monochrome plates. £30 - £40

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596Bean P.: The Chemistry and Practice of Sizing - A Practical Treatise on the Sizing of Cotton Yarns, Size Mixing, Tape Sizing, Ball/Warp Sizing & Hank Sizing. 1910. 'Fat' Royal 8vo Hb. Illustrated. £20 - £30

597Dennis Wheatley: To The Devil a Daughter & Curtain of Fear, 1953; The Island Where Time Stands Still, 1954;The White Witch of the South Seas, 1968; Gateway to Hell, 1970; The Irish Witch, 1973. All 1st. Editions, 8vo hb +dj. £20 - £30

598Paul Bowles - Biographical works and other studies in a variety of formats: Dillon M.: You Are Not I - Portait of Paul Bowles; Stewart L.: Paul Bowles - The Illumination of North Africa; Paul Bowles on Music; Pounds W.: Paul Bowles - The Inner Geography; Patteson R.: A World Outside - Fiction of Paul Bowles; Briatte R.: Paul Bowles; Pulsifer G.: Paul Bowles by His Friends; Hibbard A.: Paul Bowles - A Study of the Short Fiction; Caponi G.: Paul Bowles. Together with 5 other titles. £40 - £60

599Titles to which Paul Bowles contributed: Holiday in France; In Transition; Prize Stories of 1947; A Night With Jupiter; Herbert D.: Second Son; Zero Anthology; New Directions 10; Ten Years Holiday. Together with two other titles. £30 - £40

600Paul Bowles: ''How Could I Send a Picture Into The Desert?'' Photographs, 1994; Yallah, 1957; Logan O.: Al Maghrib, 1989; Bowles/Santoro: Time of Friendship, 1995. £30 - £40

601Paul Bowles: A substantial printed archive of a range of material relating to Bowles in a variety of formats including features in Literary Reviews and Magazines, Paul Bowles Society material, a range of Pb publications and other titles. £60 - £80

602With Much Fire In The Heart: The Letters of Mohammed Mrabet to Irving Stettner, translated by Paul Bowles, 2004. First edition printing signed by the publisher and limited to 1000 copies. Qto card binding, silver gilt. Text & colour photo illustrations. Together with two individual and original typed bodies of correspondence (one of 3 and one of 8 sheets, 1981 & 1982) from Mrabet to Stettner (translated by Paul Bowles) featuring greetings and stories, both signed by Mrabet. Scarce. £200 - £300

603Coverdale C.: Pathfinders 635 Squadron - Definitive History, March 1944 - September 1945. Book dedicated to the men & women who served with 635 Squadron Pathfinder Force at Downham Market, Norfolk, UK. 2009. Signed by author of fep. Folio Hb + Dj. Text and wealth of photographs. Scarce. £60 - £80

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604Hughes E. & Lester M.: The Big Book of Buttons, 1991/3 (2nd. Printing). Folio Hb. Comprehensive text with colour plates. Fine copy of a scarce title. £60 - £80

605Bunyan J. Pilgrim's Progress, Nd. C.1850. Qto. Hb. Original blue cloth with gilt titling and decoration, aeg. Illuminated title page and coloured decorative borders to text pages, stipple steel engraved frontis portrait, wood engraved plates & vignettes. Uncommon edition. £40 - £60

606H. Rider Haggard: ALS from this writer to the Editor of The Spectator comprised of five double sided pages responding in detail to a review of 'She' that evidently featured in that publication (possibly that featured in the archived Spectator issue of 15th. January 1887 although more detailed study would be required to confirm this). The letter is carefully tipped into the rear of a well-used copy of 'She' - which is probably a 1st. Ed. There is also a manuscript transcription of Andrew Lang's poem 'She' (dedicated to H.R.H.) written on the Half Title page - thus reflecting the association between the two men. No date appears with either manuscript and there is no other indication of the provenance of the volume. Also included in this Lot is a copy of Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, 1887 - fifty-third thousand. This is not associated with the 'She' volume by provenance. £200 - £300

607Antiquarian and Bindings Miscellany: De Bourrienne M.: Memoirs of Napoleon, Nd. C.1880. Royal 8vo. Qtr. binding, gilt, engraved plates etc; M.T. Ciceronis Orationes, 1729. 8vo. Fine recent full calf; Salignac F.: Les Avantures De Telemaque Fils D'Ulysse, 1745. 8vo. Contemp. speckled calf, gilt. Engraved frontis & plates, Head & Tailpieces; Cervantes M. (Florian); Don Quichotte De La Manche, Nd. C.1800. Vols I - 6 Complete set. 12mo. Composite leather binding, tree calf/green spines gilt; Ambert J.: Louvois, D'Apres Sa Correspondence 1641 - 1691. 1881. Folio, qtr binding, gilt, engraved frontis & plates; Layard A.: Discoveries at Nineveh, 1851. 8vo Qtr binding, gilt. Plates; Christopher Davies G. (Ed.) White's Natural History of Selborne, nd. C.1880. Full calf prize binding. Together with 15 + further comparable subjects and bindings in varying formats. £80 - £120

608Eberlain H. & Hubbard C.: Historic Houses and Buildings of Delaware, 1963. Limited Edition of 500 Privately published. Signed by both authors on the margin of an illustrated fep. Folio, two tone cloth Hb., gilt. Text with photographic illustration. £40 - £60

609Bishop H.: Pictorial Architecture of the British Isles, 1894. Landscape folio hb. Illustrated cover with gilt titling. Text with engraved illustrations. Together with: Richards J. (Ed.): The Bombed Buildings of Britain, 1947 (2nd. enlarged edition). Qto Hb + Dj. text with photo illustrations. £20 - £30

610Armaments & Defense: A collection of various publications in varying formats including: War Dept. Manual Browning Machine Gun Cal. .50, M2, Aircraft, Basic; U.S.M.C. Sniping; Sten Assembly; Rottman: The Bazooka; Identification List for Carbine, Machine, Sten, Mark 5 1951; The Official SKS Manual; Harrison's Note - Book U.S. Military Arms; Armax Journal. Together with others. £30 - £40

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611Visser H. (Ed.): The Exhibition of Chinese Art of the Society of Friends of Asiatic Art, Amsterdam 1925. Martinus Nijhoff, 1925. Large rigid portfolio which contains textual introduction and description of the plates. Plates are indexed I - LXI (although plates 49 - 66 are not present). £60 - £80

612- 619Spare Lots

620Book Press. An antique hard wood book press with an oval metal maker's label on the cross bar - Clements & Newling, 96 Wood Street, London. The overall height is approximately 50 cm., 38 cm. in length and 25 cm. in depth. The maximum dimensions of the upper & lower plates are 30 cm. by 22 cm. The maximum space between the pressure plates is 14.5 cm. The main frame is secured to the base by means of two metal bolts. The press has an attractive patina clearly derived from use and age. £200 - £300

621Bookbinder's Lying Press - A hardwood lying press with blocks measuring 70.5 cm in length and the wooden screws measuring 42 cm thus allowing a maximum clamping width of approximately 22 cm. The screw mechanism is operated by means of slightly curved rotating blocks. £180 - £220

622Bookbinder's vintage 'Dryad' Finishing Press - An antique hardwood press with blocks measuring 56 cm in length and the wooden screws measuring 38 cm thus allowing a maximum clamping width of approximately 20 cm. The screw mechanism is operated by means of the usual slotted rods. £120 - £150

623Bookbinder's Vintage Dryad Hardwood Plough 18cm in length with a screw 37cm in total length. Parallel metal rods and adjusting screw and slot for the blade. £80 - £120

624Bookbinder's Vintage Backing Hammer and Paring Knife. £40 - £60

625- 649Spare Lots

650Aviation/Aeronautical Ephemera from the 1960s including: Gazelle Aircraft Engine Mechanical Details Handbook; Napier Eland 503 Propeller-Turbine Overhaul Manual (Helicopter) together with various other technical handbooks on power plants for VTOL & STOL Aircraft. £30 - £40Lot 620


651Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. A substantial collection of 50 editions mainly from the 1950s featuring illustrated technical & historical articles & related contemporary advertisments. £20 - £30

652Bedfordshire Archaeology: A substantial collection of specialist Journals including copies of: Bedfordshire Archaeology Journal 1962 - 2010 & Monographs 1,3,5 & 6; Manshead Archaeological Society Journal 1958 - 1996. Together with 'Local History News' 2013 - 2017, 'The Local Historian Journal 1999 - 2016 and other related publications. £30 - £40

653Mulberry Harbour, Normandy WWII: A collection of 27 original (official) large format (26 x 20cms) press monochrome photographs relating to the construction and use of the Mulberry Harbour circa 1944. Each photo has an applied typewritten caption on the verso. Subjects include: The Prime Minister Winston Churchill visiting construction workers on site, the caissons under construction, the piers at Arromanches, discharging cargo from piers, caisson under tow; line of blockships sunk at high tide, general views of the prefabricated ports and an aerial view of port. £200 - £250

654Large collection of modern, card bookmarks. Wide variety contained in 4 shoebox-size boxes. Together with 2 folders of late 19th/early 20th century bookmarks housed in film front bags, including many foreign examples. (Approx. 4,000 items) £20 - £30

655Justin Huntly McCarthy, 1859 - 1936. Playwright, Novelist, Politician & MP. Archive. A collection of manuscript copies of Dramatic Works, Writings, Diaries, Photographs etc (including a work produced in collaboration with Jerome K. Jerome) reflecting his life and times. McCarthy J. H.: A collection of 33 type-written manuscripts of plays produced during his life time. Titles include: The Fogey, The Airship,The Land of Cocaigne, The Lady of Loyalty House, The Proud Prince, Don Quixote, Stand and Deliver etc. Most of the works are are presented in the form of several card folders housing each act. Some bear evidence of having been proof read and there are examples of corrections. (3 boxes) £150 - £200

656McCarthy J. H.: A large collection of typed manuscripts of stories created during his life time. Some bear evidence of having been proof read and there are examples of corrections. Together with other similar, miscellaneous documents. (3 boxes) £40 - £50

657Farming by Motor - All About Farm Tractors & Motor Ploughing. Temple Press. Nd. C.1917. 8vo. Stiff card covers. Numerous contemporary illustrated advertisements for various farm machinery followed by text and detailed photographs & charts about particular models including: Martin, Goliath, Bates Mule, Avery & Allis Chalmers etc. Scarce £20 - £30

658Small 8vo Victorian Family album with an embossed maroon leather binding featuring a number of family members in period dress, some wearing Masonic Regalia (Aprons). Children also feature. £20 - £30

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659Qto hb Album containing a small collection of mainly local Bedford postcards, some quite early of Bedford Regatta 1904 and the High Street and three others featuring the R101 Airship and the associated Memorial Garden. £20 - £30

660Patents for Inventions: Abridgements of Specifications Relating to Anchors, 1796 - 1866. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1874. Printed for the Office of Commissioners of Patents for Inventions. Original blue card covers. Text listing inventions & inventors. Original copies very scarce. £20 - £30

661A miscellaneous collection of antiquarian engravings featuring locations and buildings in Bedfordshire, some hand coloured and loosely mounted in clear protective sleeves. Some quite scarce. £40 - £60

662Cigarette & Tea Card Dedicated Album featuring: Carreras 'Views of London', Players 'Motor Cars', Philips 'Soldiers of the King', Lyons 'Australia', 'HMS 1902-1962' & 'Kings of Speed'. All cards loosely mounted & detachable. £20 - £30

663Royal Tank Corp in Palestine 1936/37 - King Farouk's Coronation. Landscape qto album featuring original & contemporary photographs of the Regiment on parade and involved in various desert patrol in various formats. Also included are photos of the Coronation of Farouk and associated parades & salutes; various Egyptian anti quities, native market scenes and other locations in Palestine. All with tissue guards £60 - £80

664Album cover (only) of a qto. stamp album with a very elaborate embossed leather binding featuring gilt & blind-stamped foliate design with raised brass studs and a functioning clasp. Central metal cartouche on the upper board. £20 - £30

665Postcards: A collection of 50+ early 20th.C. (1930s) mainly monchrome photo -postcards featuring various locations and prominent buildings in France and elsewhere in Europe. £20 - £30

666Monochrome Photo-Postcards: Collection of 30 original cards featuring urban war damage and destruction at various locations in France. Some locations pencilled on reverse. £20 - £30

667Two large landscape folio Albums from a Russian context containing monochrome photographs of varying formats featuring Actors and theatrical scenes together with what appear to be photos of family groups and members. Probably dating from 1950s/60s with no apparent information with regard to provenance or identity. £60 - £80

668Cigarette Cards. A collection of loose cards featuring bundles of cards from the following series: RAF Badges, Military Uniforms, Speed, Garden Hints, Cricketers and others from 1930s Wills & Players issues together with other cards in Albums. £20 - £30


669Francis Frith Collection:Four large format, mounted, framed & glazed monochrome reproduction photographs of Bedford High Street, 1921. £20 - £30

670Cigarette & Tea Cards: A varied collection of Wills, Players & Carreras cigarette cards featuring loose sets in wallets of the series: Britian's Part in the War; Animalloys; Do You Know; British Birds; Cycling; Garden Flowers together with Regent 'Do You Know' & Liebig Naval Vessels & loose sets of Tea Cards & Albums. £20 - £30

671Savage Sword of Conan, 1975. Numbers, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,15,16,17 & 18. Published by the Marvel Comic Group. Each in a protective sleeve. Together with one box of Conan - Art of the Hyborian Age Trading Cards (Ritten House Archives). £30 - £40

672'Fantastic' Comics, 1967. A collection including Numbers 1,3,5 - 36. February 1967 - October 1967. £40 - £60

673Philateley: Four small qto. storage albums featuring a wide variety of early & mid 20th.C. stamps from a range of countries including Europe, North & South America, Australia, New Zealand, African Countries, China, Ceylon, Egypt, Lebanon and the UK. £80 - £120

674Philately: A collection in two albums mainly featuring FDCs and other recent issues together with a loose selection. £30 - £40

675A collection of 20+ recent original brochures for Ballet, Theatre, Musical and other shows including: Oliver, Les Miserables, Vienna Festival Ballet, Riverdance, London City Ballet, Miss Saigon, Chess, Phantom of the Opera and Cliff Richard £20 - £30

676Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1864 - 1878 Facsimile set, J. Wisden 1991. Limited Edition, 398/1000. Fine set, 15 vols, in original, side drop, yellow cloth slip case £150 - £200

677- 690Spare Lots

691William Darton: A selection of Maps from the Atlas to Walker's Geography, 1802. Included are UK and European countries, Asia, India, Africa and West Indies. Loosely mounted in binder. Together with two other maps framed & glazed. £20 - £30

692Cartographic Miscellany: John Seller: Maps of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire from Grose's Antiquities (18th.C.); Robert Morden: Huntingdon, from The New Description and State of England published 1701; Thomas Kitchin: Buckingham shire & Bedfordshire, 18th. C.; Owen/Bowen Road Map - London to Flamborough; Joseph Ellis: Bedfordshire, 18th.C; James Wallis: Buckinghamshire, C.1820; J. & C. Walker: Plan of Bedford, C.1835. All hand coloured (except Walker) and mounted, framed & glazed. £60 - £80

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693Jansson J.: Anglia Regnum, nd. C 1645. Engraved map with strapwork titular cartouche, other heraldic devices and a mileage scale. Cartouche, devices and map hand coloured (map in outline), probably contemporary. Text to verso. £70 - £80

694Folding Maps: A collection of early 20th.C. Ordance Survey (1915, 1919 & 1935), Barthol omew and Bacon Maps of Bedfordshire together with two facsimiles. £20 - £30

695Ogilby John.: The Road from London to Oakeham Co.Rutland together with The Road from London to Holy-Head, Co. Anglesey, North Wales. Both hand coloured engraved strip road maps, Nd. C. 1780. Mounted, framed and glazed. £60 - £80

696John Speed: Bedfordshire, printed date 1610. Panels featuring heraldic cartouches, 'Bedforde' town plan, scale and an historical note about the River Ouse. Camden text to verso. £60 - £80

697Carey J.: A New Map of Bedfordshire Divided into Hundreds Exhibiting its Roads, Rivers, Parks etc as engraved features 1811. Hand coloured. Published in London by Carey in loose sheets sold separately from 1801 or in 'Careys' New English Atlas, being a complete set of County maps etc., in 1809. £20 - £30

698Cary J.: Map of Bedfordshire, 1805. Hand coloured in outline, engraved features. £30 - £40

699Smith C: A New Map of the County of Bedford Divided into Hundreds, 1801. Hand coloured, with engraved physical features. £40 - £60

700 Carrington Bowles: New Pocket Map of the County of Bedford, divided into its Hundreds with Roads and Distances, with features engraved. C.1782. Hundreds hand coloured in outline. £40 - £60

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Thursday 21st SeptemberTO BE SOLD BY AUCTION Commencing at 11am

Agricultural Bygones, Architectural SalvageA specialist sale to include (subject to delivery) Agricultural Bygones, Vintage Memorabilia, Automobilia, Architectural Salvage, Reclaims, Horticultural Effects and many other vintage decorative items.

Viewing: Wednesday 20th September 9am to 8pm and morning of sale from 8.30am

Auction Sale Entries InvitedSt Neots Auction Centre 75 New Street, St Neots PE19 1AJ 01480 474 550 or [email protected]

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Friday 6th OctoberTO BE SOLD BY AUCTION Commencing after 3pm

Collectable ToysOur Collectable Toys & Childhood Memorabilia sales include a fascinating mix of dolls, teddy bears, tinplate and other toys from the 19th Century through to more recent times. Past sales have uncovered some hidden treasures, with toys achieving remarkable results under the hammer.

Viewing: Friday 29th September – 5pm to 8pm, Saturday 30th September – 9am to 1pm, Thursday 5th October – 9am to 6pm, Morning of sale from 9am

Auction Sale Entries InvitedBedford Auction Centre 26 Newnham Street, Bedford MK40 3JR 01234 266 366 or [email protected]

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SEPTEMBER SALE OF SELECTED ANTIQUE FURNITURE, COLLECTORS ... · Wright P.: Spy . Catcher - The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence . Officer, 1987 (7th.Printing): 8vo Hb