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: 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
Lot: 61
Journals & publications of the Orders and Medals Research Society (39) with several on the Rifle Brigade; plus reference books on Medals, and selection of Glendinning's auction catalogues. (51)
Lot: 62
David Harvey Monuments to Courage: Victoria Cross Headstones & Memorials K.& K.Patience, 1999, 2 volumes in d/jkts. VF; The London Gazette (Falklands Awards),1982, gilt cloth; Douglas-Morris The Naval Long Service Medals 1830-1990, A4 softback, 288pp; and others, most relating to the Victoria Cross. (8).
Lot: 63
H.M.Walker A History of the Northumberland Fusiliers 1674-1902 John Murray, 1919, 502pp, folding maps, VG; C.N. Barclay The History of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1919-1945, 1952, in d/jkt; and related titles including Duckers The Delhi Durbar Medal 1911 to the British Army. (10)
Lot: 64
Military History including Records and Badges of the British Army 1906 (1970 reprint); Churchill History of the British Army Infantry Collar Badge, 2002; Forbes Barracks, Bivouacs and Battles, 1894; Maurice The Last Four Months: The End of the War in the West, 1919; Eric Williams The Tunnel, 1951, 1st Edn, signed by the author and a fellow escapee; and Haines The Rifle Brigade: A Critical Bibliography, 1996. Chiefly h/bk. (19)
Lot: 65
Simon Dunstan For England and St. George: A History of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 2000; Verdin The Cheshire (Earl of Chester's) Yeomanry 1898-1967, 1971; Creighton-Williamson The York & Lancaster Regiment, 1968; McInnes The Yeoman of the Guard 1823-1903, 1907; all hardbacks in dine d/jkt; plus other military history. (8)
Lot: 66
G.E. Cross Jonah's Feet are Dry: the Experience of the 353rd Fighter Group during World War II, 2001, large format h/bk, No.148 of 2000; John Akehurst We Won a War: The Campaign in Oman 1965-1975, 1982; Peter Hart Somme Success: The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of the Somme, 1916, Leo Cooper, 2001; all in d/jkts, plus other military history. (7)