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Auction No 367, Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST

192 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

Crosville Bus Timetables. chiefly North Wales & Cheshire, plus one Merseyside,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Crosville Bus Timetables. chiefly North Wales & Cheshire, plus one Merseyside, 1960s & 1970s, five with folding maps. Fair to VF (9)

North-West of England Bus Timetables including Isle of Man (7), 1960s & early 1970s,

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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North-West of England Bus Timetables including Isle of Man (7), 1960s & early 1970s, notably Ribble (4) and North Western Road Car (3). Five with folding maps. Fair to fine. (16). Also many Bus Maps, country-wide, chiefly 1980s to modern. 

Yorkshire Bus Timetables 1960s & 1970s (plus one later), eight with folding maps, mostly East & North Yorkshire,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £38
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Yorkshire Bus Timetables 1960s & 1970s (plus one later), eight with folding maps, mostly East & North Yorkshire, plus four of Sheffield. Fair to VF (16)

Great Northern Railway Company Reporter, 1849-1856, a bound volume, with few additional reports

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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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.

Official Programme for the 1910 Aviation Meeting at La Champagne, with lists of the pilots and their colours,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £52
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Official Programme for the 1910 Aviation Meeting at La Champagne, with lists of the pilots and their colours, 20pp, string bound, 24 x 14.5cm, some peripheral wear to cover o/w VG; together with eight colourful publicity labels for French Aviation meetings of the period 1910-1911. 

Souvenir Programme for the 1913 Aviation Meeting at Gisors, including vignette portraits of 3 pilots,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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Souvenir Programme for the 1913 Aviation Meeting at Gisors, including vignette portraits of 3 pilots, list of tunes to be played by the military band, advertising etc.12pp including cover, some rusting to staples o/w VG

J.O. Westwood "British Moths and their Transformations", William Smith, 1843, quarto, 2 Vols,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £140
SOLD £145
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J.O. Westwood British Moths and their Transformations, William Smith, 1843, quarto, 2 Vols, half-morocco, gilt, VG; complete with 124 hand-coloured plates, some occasional minor tone marks o/w VG though 3 plates are repaired.  

UK Folding Maps and Plans 1929 to 1970s with many town and city street plans, mainly 1950s & 1960s;

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £88
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UK Folding Maps and Plans 1929 to 1970s with many town and city street plans, mainly 1950s & 1960s; many are by 'Geographia'. Fair to VF, mainly VG/Fine. (58)

Map of the Caucasus, dissected, linen-backed, 1860s, a large engraved relief map

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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Map of the Caucasus, dissected, linen-backed, 1860s, a large engraved relief map with excellent detail of mountain ranges and showing settlements; text in Russian. Fine, in original folder (plus damaged slipcase) 

Simkin, Siebert et al "Volcanoes of the World", Hutchinson Ross, 1981, pictorial boards, VG;

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Simkin, Siebert et al Volcanoes of the World, Hutchinson Ross, 1981, pictorial boards, VG; and Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Moscow Publishing, 1991, 2 volume set in VG/F djkts. (3)

H. Tazieff & J.C. Sabroux "Forecasting Volcanic Events", Elsevier, 1983, 635pp; Sigurdsson "Melting the Earth",

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £26
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H. Tazieff & J.C. Sabroux Forecasting Volcanic Events, Elsevier, 1983, 635pp; Sigurdsson Melting the Earth, O.U.P., 1999, in fine d/jkt; Taverne Vulkaanstudien op Java, [1927]; and five others on volcanoes (one in damaged d/jt). Mainly VG/VF (7)

James Lamont "Yachting in the Arctic Seas", Chatto & Windus, 1876, the maps skilfully rebacked;

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £42
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James Lamont Yachting in the Arctic Seas, Chatto & Windus, 1876, the maps skilfully rebacked; Robert Peary The North Pole, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910; Frederick Cook My Attainment of the Pole, Polar Publishing, 1911; all repaired bindings, the Peary in fine modern half-leather; plus 4 others, two unrelated. Fair to fine. (7)

Herbert Ponting "The Great White South", Duckworth, 1922, original cloth somewhat faded, fine internally

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £46
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Herbert Ponting The Great White South, Duckworth, 1922, original cloth somewhat faded, fine internally with all photo-plates, spotting to edge of text block; Elisha Kane The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, Sampson Low, 1854, rebound in modern cloth; and two other Polar titles. Good to fine. (4)

E.R. Hill "Rambles & Scrambles in the Tyrol", T. Woolmer, 1885, original pictorial cloth, new endpapers,

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £44
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E.R. Hill Rambles & Scrambles in the Tyrol, T. Woolmer, 1885, original pictorial cloth, new endpapers, VG; Francesca Wilson In the Margins of Chaos, 1944, 1st Edn; Freya Stark Letters from Syria, 1942, 1st Edn; M.A. St. Clair Stobart Miracles and Adventures, 1936; and another. Good to VG (5)

Peary "Nearest the Pole", 1907, 1st Edn; Chapman "Northern Lights", 1932 (spine faded); Hutchinson "A Saga of the Sunbeam",

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Peary Nearest the Pole, 1907, 1st Edn; Chapman Northern Lights, 1932 (spine faded); Hutchinson A Saga of the Sunbeam, 1911; Seaver ​Birdie Bowers of the Antarctic, 1938 (rebound), and two other polar titles. Fair to VF (6)

Early to mid-20th Century Photographs in album and loose, various sizes, including Chichester Fire Brigade

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £62
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Early to mid-20th Century Photographs in album and loose, various sizes, including Chichester Fire Brigade posed group, 1930s Royalty press photos, quarrying at Castleton nr. Rochdale, views and people of Saltash, Cornwall; and wide range of others. (Few 100)

Edward Baines (Jnr.) "The Life of Edward Baines", Longman, 1859, 2nd Edition, original blind-tooled cloth,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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Edward Baines (Jnr.) The Life of Edward Baines, Longman, 1859, 2nd Edition, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt title, VG; bookplate of William Garnett (M.P. for Lancaster 1857-63) of Bleasdale & Quernmore Park; photographic frontispiece rather faded; 316pp. The biography includes a chilling account of the Peterloo massacre, the failure to prosecute those that ordered the attack and the attempted Government cover-up which followed it, amongst much other contemporary narrative. 

Illustrated London News for July to December 1882, disbound, few illustrations damaged

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Illustrated London News for July to December 1882, disbound, few illustrations damaged but generally fine internally with good military interest.

Hulton Colliery, Westhoughton, company day-book containing records of Receipts and Disbursements 1807-1811,

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £72
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Hulton Colliery, Westhoughton, company day-book containing records of Receipts and Disbursements 1807-1811, quarto, original vellum-covered boards (marked & grimed), sound binding, 192pp of manuscript entries written in a clear hand and clean internally.      

Robert Billings "Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of the County of Durham: ecclesiastical, castellated and domestic"

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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Robert Billings Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of the County of Durham: ecclesiastical, castellated and domestic, George Andrews, Durham, 1846, quarto, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, VG, new endpapers; 64 full-page tissue-guarded engraved plates, occasional minor fox mark.