Lot: 61
Philip Styles & Margaret Walker Warwick County Records, Hearth Tax Returns, Volume I: Hemlingford Hundred – Tamworth and Atherstone Divisions, L. Edgar Stephens, 1957; tall octavo, cloth bound, gilt, fine in the issued d/jkt (slightly frayed); xcviii,433pp + plates
Lot: 62
Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on the Training of Pauper Children; with Appendices, HMSO, 1841; octavo, nicely bound in modern cloth with gilt title; VG internally including folding architectural diagram of a District School; xii,421pp
Lot: 63
George Shaw Old Grimsby, 1897; octavo, gilt cloth, spine badly faded; endpapers browned, title page foxed, binding shaken, clean text & plates. Good reading copy. 261pp plus advertisements.
Lot: 64
Eugene Francois Joseph Tailliar: Four Historical Pamphlets comprising Notice sur la langue romane d'oil et sur son etat, dans le nord de la France, aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles, [1837], 80pp; Essais sur L'Historie des Institutions, [n.d.]; Etudes sur les Institutions Dans leurs rapports avec les monuments. 2me Etude Domination Romaine. Periode Anterieure a L'Avenement de Diocletien en 284. [n.d.],46pp + 12 plates; and Notice sur Origine et l'Organisation des Commune dans le Nord de la France. [n.d.]; bound together in a worn & chipped quarto half-leather binding, gilt, title label still fine; marbled endpapers; two private library stamps of Francois Toraven; some pages with spotting but generally clean, the architectural essay & plates fine.
Lot: 65
John [Williams], Bishop of Lincoln Great Britains Salomon: A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty King, Iames, the late King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c, John Bull, London, 1625; sm.4to; bound in cloth covered boards, black tape repair to spine; lacks frontispiece; clean text; pp.37/8 torn with temporary repair; colophon page damaged (not affecting text); (2),76,(1)pp.
Lot: 66
Jean-Paul Marat, and A. Vermorel (Editor) Oeuvres de J.P. Marat, Decembre-Alonnier, Paris, 1869; octavo, quarter red morocco, gilt, marbled boards & endpapers, a little worn; ownership signature top of title page; tear to lower margin pp.11/12 needs repair; o/w fine internally; vii,326pp
Lot: 67
Clarence Gilbert Hoag and George Hervey Hallett Proportional Representation, Macmillan, New York, 1926, 1st Edition; octavo, gilt cloth, slightly marked upper left front board; old Manchester Guardian library stamps to both sides of title page; newspaper review laid down on front pastedown with brown offset on endpaper; o/w fine internally and in the original binding. Very scarce, and a pioneering work on the concept of proportional representation in the election of governments.; xx, 546pp
Lot: 68
John Leech: Four prints from A Comic History of England. Hand-coloured engravings. Laid down. One with two small tears just affecting image. Good/VG (4)
Lot: 69
The Football and Sports Favourite, 1st November 1924 to 24th October 1925, a complete bound run of 52 issues; large format, pictorial covers intact, six issues damaged, mostly VG/Fine. The volume with recent card wraps.
Lot: 70
Liverpool Grand National Meeting, March 1939…..Charges for Vehicles leaflets, map of the racecourse on reverse. 10x.5.7”. Most with small tear lower right. Good to fine. (10, the same)
Lot: 71
Collection of Railway photographs, all 6.5 x 9”, including steam locomotives (60, especially LMS), and many LNER road-vehicles (some horse-drawn). Mainly VG quality. VG/Fine condition. (104)
Lot: 72
Fred A. Talbot Cassell's Railways of the World, Waverley Book Co. [1924], subscribers' edition, 3 Volumes, quarto, publisher's gilt cloth, corners bumped, first folding plate to vol.1 with some creasing o/w VG. 100s of illustrations. (3)
Lot: 73
Foreign Railway Maps, 1950s/1980s, world-wide including South Africa, Korea, China, Finland, Russia, etc., (29), together with two large folding timetables for Turkey and a 1971 German poster. Good to fine. (32 items)
Lot: 74
Benguela Railway and Trans-African Time Tables 1938, A5 pamphlet, 8pp, amendment slip tipped in, light rusting to staples o/w fine; Benguela Railway: The Great West Gate to Central Africa – Lobita Bay, [1937], octavo s/bk, 32pp, VG; and a print of Lobita Bay.
Lot: 75
Cook's Continental Time-Table, Steamship and Air Services Guide August 1939, octavo, original wraps a little frayed & creased, fine internally with 10 railway maps, bound in later cloth with gilt title label. Over 520pp. Scarce
Lot: 76
Philip Robinson and Stephen Yen Paris to Shanghai, 1903: A Trans-Siberian Journey to China, 2011, and A Winter Journey Through Siberia to China, 1910, 2012; quarto s/bks, pictorial wraps, fine, each 30pp; illustrated throughout with picture postcards posted on the journeys together with maps. Fine (2)
Lot: 77
H. Lartilluex Geographie Des Chemins de Fer Francais, Chaix, 1948-1958, five volumes, tall quarto, quarter cloth, including the rare volumes for the French Colonies (ex Library of Congress) and North Africa; together with the two scarce companion volumes Chemins de Fer d'Europe 1951-53, both ex-library. Some external wear but text & illustrations fine. (7)
Lot: 78
Jonathan Cadwallader and Martin Jenkins Merseyside Electrics, 2010, landscape quarto, pictorial boards, 80pp of colour photos with descriptive captions. VF, appears unread.
Lot: 79
Österreichisches Kursbuch 1914. Eisenbahnkurse in Österreich. Eisenbahn-, Dampfschiff- und Postkurse in Österreich, Ungarn, Bosnien-Hercegovina. Eisenbahnkurse in Serbien, Rumänien, Bulgarien, Montenegro, Griechenland, in der Türkei und in Ägypten. Reisewege nach dem In- und Auslande. Ausgabe Nr. 6 von 1914, August-September. The volumes for Austria, and Hungary & Bosnia. Josef Otto Slezak, 1985-7 reprints; quarto, card wraps, creasing to spine o/w VG; a comprehensive railway timetable for Austria, Hungary & Bosnia at the eve of WWI. Fine internally, without inscriptions. 440pp + 158pp (2)
Lot: 80
Wilfrid F. Simms The Railways of Tunisia, Wilfrid Simms, 1998, A5 s/bk, card wraps, illustrated with photos & diagrams, fine, without inscriptions. 64pp