Lot: 61
Norman Franks & others The Jasta War Chronology, 1998, Bloody April….Black September, 1995, and Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-1920; Williamson The Roll of Honour: Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force for the Great War; Air Ministry Handbook of German Military and Naval Aviation 1918, Imperial War Museum, boards bowed; and a related title. Most in d/jkts. Mainly VF (6)
Lot: 62
Selection relating to the R.A.F. and US Air Force, mostly during WW2, all h/bks, together with various s/bks concerning UK Airfields (10) and J.J. Halley The Lancaster File, 1985. Good to fine, no inscriptions. (18)
Lot: 63
German Military History WWI/WWII including Chris Bishop Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939-45; mainly h/bk, most in d/jkts. VG/VF, no inscriptions. (14)
Lot: 64
George Nafziger The German Order of Battle: Infantry in World War II, 2000, plus the companion volumes on the Waffen SS and Panzers & Artillery, together with related titles; one s/bk, others h/bk in d/jkts. All fine/VF, no inscriptions. (7)
Lot: 65
Box of mainly Naval and R.A.F. Photographs from WWI, mostly 1940s to 1970s, in small albums and loose; some illustrating personnel but mostly ships and fighter aircraft. Snapshot size to 6x4”. Includes some colour slides and negatives. (Few 100s)
Lot: 66
Box of Naval Ships' photographs, PC size, b/w, all classes including battleships, submarines, supply ships, frigates etc. Some in plastic sleeves. VG/VF (approx..700)
Lot: 67
[James Caulfield] Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association: illustrated with Forty-Eight Portraits, from the Original Paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1821; tall 4to. Complete with 48 fine steel-engraved plates, clean internally; full red leather, gilt, some wear, probably re-backed, hinging weak, strengthened with leather strips; ex-library, bookplate removed, blind-stamps to the plate margins. Repairs to two preliminary leaves.
Lot: 68
Ernest Broxap Manchester a Hundred Years Ago, John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured); and William Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell, [1894] illustrated byTidmarsh, 4to, 3 vols, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, grubby mark in margin to p.vii in Vol.3, rear endpaper missing from Vol.2. (4)
Lot: 69
David Hume & Tobias Smollett The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time, James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols, publisher's gilt & blind-tooled cloth, a.e.g., wear to spine extremities, 11 (of 12) coloured maps,3 engraved titles, and 94 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates. Browning to tissue-guards, occasionally with minor offset to plates, the plate of Queen Anne badly foxed, o/w very clean internally. (12)
Lot: 70
The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates; publisher's gilt cloth, worn at spine extremities, browning to tissue-guards and few pages with foxing, plates VG/VF. Ownership inscription to front endpaper of one volume. (16)
Lot: 71
Andrew Lang Prince Charles Edward, Goupil & Co, 1900; tall 4to, no.897 of 1500, bound in gilt half-morocco over tartan-covered boards, worn bookplate of Richard Banastre Crosse; few cuttings tipped on to front endpapers, fine internally with all plates, titled tissue-guards. Small faults to tartan cloth of rear board.
Lot: 72
J.A. Spencer History of the United States, Johnson, Fry & Co., New York, [c.1868], 4 vols, half-leather gilt, complete with many steel-engraved plates; leather corners rubbed & worn, fine internally.
Lot: 73
John Keltie (Ed.) History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, William Mackenzie, ‘New Edition', [c.1890], tall 8vo, 3 vols in 2; half-leather, gilt, some wear, complete with the steel engravings and coloured tartans. Front inner hinges cracked (still holding). (2)
Lot: 74
The Holocaust, a selection including Daily Mail Lest We Forget, Associated Newspapers [1945] in d/jkt; Marek Orski The Last Days of Stutthof; The Warsaw Ghetto, Interpress Publishers [1989], in d/jkt; and Bartoszewski Warsaw Death Ring 1939-1944, Interpress, 1968. The d/jkt of Lest We Forget chipped with larger piece missing from lower left. (9)
Lot: 75
Collection of Politicians' Autographs in album, 1985/86, including Tony Benn, Patrick Duffy, Clare Short, Roy Mason, Jack Ashley, Bernard Wetherill, Peter Shore, Mo Mowlam, Hugh Jenkins, and others, 72 in all, several ‘back to back'; together with few signed photos & letters including William Hague & Virginia Bottomley, and extensive biographical notes. (Qty)
Lot: 76
George Goodwin Butterworth: a collection of his WW2 Cartoons cut from issues of The Daily Dispatch and laid down in an old scrap book, the front cover of the scrap book with peripheral tears, the cartoons in good condition. 172 cartoons in all covering the period 1939-43.
Lot: 77
F. Gordon Roe The Bronze Cross, 1945, signed internally by Victoria Cross winners Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Richard Burton, George Eardley, and Edward Chapman, the d/jkt damaged, binding weak; together with four Christmas cards signed by V.C. or G.C. Winners, and a copy of The Register of the Victoria Cross, 1981, in fine d/jkt; both books with ownership inscriptions at front.
Lot: 78
Classical CDs, a collection including several boxed sets. Fine condition throughout. Some emphasis on sacred music. (108)
Lot: 79
Ralph Stanley (Bluegrass musician/vocalist, 1927-2016): fine autograph on reverse of ticket for the B.B.King Blues Club & Grill, New York.
Lot: 80
Bill Monroe (Bluegrass musician, 1927-1996, ‘The Father of Bluegrass'): signed programme notes for 1993 Roots of American Music Festival, held at the Lincoln Center. Obtained in person by the vendor. In sunken card mount, framed. Fine.