Lot: 21
Yorkshire Bus Timetables including Brear’s of Bradford Monthly Diary and District Time Table 1884 & 1886, and range of others largely 1960s & 1970s. Fair to Fine (24)
Lot: 22
North West of England Bus Timetables 1968-79, chiefly Cumberland Motor Services (5); six with folding maps, one with rear cover detached. Varied condition. (7)
Lot: 23
South Lancashire & North East Cheshire Bus Timetables 1967-1972, including Manchester City Transport (6, rusted staples), and Ribble (3, with folding maps). Fair to fine (10)
Lot: 24
Great Northern Railway Company Reporter, 1849-1856, a bound volume, with few additional reports on associated companies including The East Lincolnshire, Royston & Hitchin etc; octavo, half-leather with peripheral wear, gilt title; original owner’s signature cut away from front endpaper o/w fine internally; 676pp including some interleaves. Newspaper Tax handstamps applied as appropriate.
Lot: 25
Bus Photographs, b/w and coloured, 1960s to 1980s, 6 x 4”, including Crosville (88), trolleybuses (67), Scottish (100), and various others. Mixed quality but many fine. Mostly mid-distance to close-up. (255)
Lot: 26
Photographs of Lorries and some other commercial vehicles, 1950s to 1990s, plus some repro of earlier photos, mixed quality but many good items; 451 are in colour; most are 6 x 4”. 618 in all. Also an album of 102 snapshot photos. (720)
Lot: 27
Colour slides of South African steam locomotives taken around 1980. VG quality. (308)
Lot: 28
Motor Commerce magazine, 1934 to 1948, pictorial wraps, a good collection, one with spine badly frayed but most are VG to VF (28 issues)
Lot: 29
Illustrated luxury Brochures for the Cunard White Star Queen Mary (two different) and the Queen Elizabeth, including two Clydebank launch souvenirs; large format softbacks, ribbon bound, one with foxing to front cover. Fair to Fine (3)
Lot: 30
Graeme Lothian Fighting Lady, coloured print, 27 x 16” plus border, signed by the artist and 11 former Spitfire Pilots, including Laddie Lucas, Peter Brothers, Bob Doe, Geoffrey Page, and H. Bird-Wilson; unframed. VG
Lot: 31
Mike Bannister and Adrian Meredith: a fine signed colour photo of Concorde in flight over Paris, 10 x 12”, VF
Lot: 32
Gilbert Burnet The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c. In which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland. With other great Transactions both in England and Germany, from the Year 1625, to the Year 1652. Together with many Letters, Instructions, and other Papers Written by King Charles the I. R. Royston, London, 1677, folio, contemp.leather covered boards, rebacked with gilt title label, new endpapers; complete with all four engraved portraits and rarely found intact; light damp-staining largely confined to lower margins; repair to margin of pp.57/58; frontisp, (20),436,(12) pp. Wing 5832
Lot: 33
The Chronicle of the Society of Old Brentwoods, 1931-1944, octavo, six volumes in attractive black half-leather, gilt with raised bands, dark red title labels; original owner’s bookplates. Clean text. Some slight wear at top of spines. (6)
Lot: 34
Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland…..Revised by Laurence Butters, Thomas C. Jack, [1860], 2 volumes, original publisher’s blind-tooled cloth, gilt titles, a little frayed at top and tail of the spines; vol.2 complete with 144 plates (a few loose). Clean internally.
Lot: 35
A New Baronetage of England; Or A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Present English Baronets, With their Arms accurately engraved and blazoned, J.Almon, London, 1769, 12mo, 3 volumes; full leather, gilt; front board of Vol.1 detached, binding to Vol. 3 shabby; plates & text fine and complete.
Lot: 36
Britannicus A review of a late treatise, entituled An account of the conduct of the Dowager D-- of M--, &c. in a letter to a person of distinction, comprising title + 74pp; bound with A continuation of the review of a late treatise, entituled An account of the conduct of the Dow--r D- of M-, &c. In which many misrepresentations are detected. In a second letter to a person of distinction; title + 68pp (lacks final leaf). J. Roberts, 1742. Few ink annotations to title pages. Bound in contemp. full leather, title label largely chipped away.
Lot: 37
John Rushworth Historical Collections Of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments. Beginning The Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618, And ending the Fifth Year of King Charls, Anno 1629, Digested in Order of Time, And now Published by John Rushworth of Lincolns-Inn, Esq., George Thomason, London, 1659, folio, full panelled calf, boards detached, backstrip worn; title page a little dust-affected o/w VG internally with two engraved portraits and folding map (strengthened at one fold), text clean and intact.
Lot: 38
Giulio Ferreti IULII FERRETTI RAVENNATIS.DE RE ET DISCIPLINA MILITARI, Aureus Tractatus ac coelestis, spiritualis, legalis, armatae, instauratae, et illustratae militiae praeceptis: Venice, 1575; folio, vellum covered boards grimed; fine internally; pp.[108], 426, [2], index on [92] pages preceding text.
Lot: 39
[Robert of Avesbury] Roberti de Avesbury Historia de mirabilibus gestis Edvardi III. Edited from the manuscript by Thomas Hearne. Oxford, 1720. Octavo, full leather, worn & chipped; clean text but worming affects a few words of the preface. pp.lvi, 385, (1). Folding plate.
Lot: 40
Henry Coventry Philemon to Hydaspes: or, the History of False Religion in the earlier Pagan World: related in a series of Conversations.Robert Urie, 1761, 4th Edition, small octavo, full contemp.calf, gilt, slightly chipped; occasional minor spotting but generally fine internally. 431pp