Lot: 41
Buses Illustrated Ian Allan, 1949-1960, complete from Vol.1, No.1, cloth bound in 7 volumes, lacking the original pictorial covers.
Lot: 42
Daily Mirror for May 30th 1927 celebrating Lindbergh’s arrival at Croydon, complete newspaper with additional photos on back cover. Dust-affected along top edge of front page otherwise very good. Central fold.
Lot: 43
Comte F.M.G. De Pambour A Practical Treatise on Locomotive Engines John Weale, 1840, 2nd Edition, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt, worn at hinges, uncut 2 sides, binding rather slack, some light browning to text & the 5 folding-plates at rear (one detached), old ownership signature top of title page, another ownership handstamp to page 1; some light pencil annotations. xlviii + 583pp + plates + 36pp of advertisements.
Lot: 44
Robert Young Timothy Hackworth and The Locomotive LPC, 1923, orig.cloth, gilt, rear cover damp-affected, fine interior; and MacDermot History of the Great Western Railway, GWR, 1927-31, 3 vols, orig.gilt cloth, fine. All first editions. (4)
Lot: 45
Road Transport accumulation with histories, surveys and nostalgia, including the motor car, commercial vehicles, motor racing and trams. 1970s to 1990s, h/bk and s/bk, VG/VF. Includes museum guides (41)
Lot: 46
The Railway Gazette 1913-1950, a collection of special issues and official off-prints including The Railways of India 1913 (two issues,cloth bound together), Great Western Railway Special Centenary Number, 1935, Longmoor Military Railway 1946, etc. Also A Guide to Closed Railways in Britain 1948-75, plus supplement. (23)
Lot: 47
Carton of Shipping titles, 1960s to 1990s including many h/b in d/jkts; including Maund Mersey Ferries 2 volumes (pictorial boards) and many others on passenger vessels, but also D.K. Brown Warrior to Dreadnought, 1997 in d/jkt. VG/VF (15)
Lot: 48
Henri Domengie Les petits trains de jadis Volumes 7 & 8, for West of France (upper corners bumped) and South-West of France. Both in complete dustjackets. (2)
Lot: 49
Railway Clearing House Official Hand Book of Railway Stations London, 1912, quarto, worn cloth; Hamilton Ellis The Midland Railway 1953, 1st Edition in d/jkt; R.M. Ballantyne The Iron Horse, or Life on the Line, 1878, contemporary gilt cloth; and three others. (6)
Lot: 50
The Canals of the British Isles David & Charles, 5 different volumes all in d/jkt, VF; plus other UK Canal literature mostly Robert Wilson published softbacks. (25)
Lot: 51
‘Profile Publications’ of the 1960s on vintage & classic Motor Cars, all with colour & b/w illustrations, each 12pp including cover. (59)
Lot: 52
Thomas Andrews A Paper on the Strength of Wrought-Iron Railway Axles Sheffield, 1890, 38pp, bound with 9 related essays by Andrews 1886-96, complete with the folding half-tone plates referred to in the text, fine; in a very worn half-leather & gilt 19th Century binding.
Lot: 53
Mecanno Magazine, Mecanno Ltd, Liverpool, 1949-1951, 1953-1955, and 1957-1959, all complete years, original pictorial wraps (108)
Lot: 54
F. Claude Francis Milliet de Chales “The Elements of Euclid Explain’d in a New but most Easie Method: Together with the Use of every Proposition through all Parts of the Mathematicks. J. Knapton & D. Midwinter, London, 1720, the 6th Edition; small octavo, full contemp. calf a little scuffed, lacking title labels; 18th Cent. ownership inscriptions to front pastedown; part of rear endpaper torn away; some light browning; [4], 380pp.
Lot: 55
Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1957-58, a group of autographs obtained on board the R.M.S. Rangitoto, during the return journey to England, a signed page, on the ship's notepaper, comprising signatures of the British Explorers and RAF contingent, including Vivian Fuchs, Ralph Lenton, Gordon Haslop, John Lewis, David Stratton, Geoff Pratt, Hal Lister, George W. Marsh, Peter Weston, Ellis Williams, Allan Rogers and Roy Homard; the page laid down on the front endpaper of Fuchs' & Edmund Hilary's book The Crossing of Antarctica, First Edn, 1958, in good dustjacket (foxing to edge of text-block).
Lot: 56
Punch, or The London Charivari 1865, fine bound volume, quarto, publisher's cloth, gilt, a.e.g., numerous cartoons, some full-page, appears complete. Some minor spotting.
Lot: 57
New Zealand selection including Macgregor Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Women of the Colonial Era, 1973-75, two volumes in dustjackets; John Grainger The Amazing Thames, 1951; Flora Spurdle New Stories of Old Whanganui, 1959, wraps; and Gillespie South Canterbury: A Record of Settlement, 1958, in d/jkt. Also John Foster Fraser Round the World on a Wheel, 1916, pictorial cloth. (13)
Lot: 58
Arthur Kipling and Hugh King Head-Dress Badges of the British Army Muller, 1979-1980, 2 volume set, very fine, in dustjackets, numerous illustrations. (2)
Lot: 59
Leif Mills Frank Wild Caedmon of Whitby, 1999, h/bk in d/jkt, signed and dated by the author, the scarce first edition; 343pp.
Lot: 60
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Being the History of the Regiment from December 1688 to July 1914, Constable & Co, 1934, fine hardback in damaged dustjacket. 673pp