Auction No 362, Category: Books

126 Lots (displaying 41 - 60)

The Railway Gazette 1913-1950, a collection of special issues and official off-prints including "The Railways of India"

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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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)        

Carton of Shipping titles, 1960s to 1990s including many h/b in d/jkts; including Maund "Mersey Ferries"

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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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)

Henri Domengie "Les petits trains de jadis" Volumes 7 & 8, for West of France (upper corners bumped)

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £44
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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)        

Railway Clearing House "Official Hand Book of Railway Stations" London, 1912, quarto, worn cloth;

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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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)

"The Canals of the British Isles" David & Charles, 5 different volumes all in d/jkt, VF;

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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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)

'Profile Publications' of the 1960s on vintage & classic Motor Cars, all with colour & b/w illustrations,

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £44
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‘Profile Publications’ of the 1960s on vintage & classic Motor Cars, all with colour & b/w illustrations, each 12pp including cover. (59)

Thomas Andrews "A Paper on the Strength of Wrought-Iron Railway Axles" Sheffield, 1890, 38pp,

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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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.

"Mecanno Magazine", Mecanno Ltd, Liverpool, 1949-1951, 1953-1955, and 1957-1959, all complete years,

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £36
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Mecanno Magazine, Mecanno Ltd, Liverpool, 1949-1951, 1953-1955, and 1957-1959, all complete years, original pictorial wraps (108)

F. Claude Francis Milliet de Chales "The Elements of Euclid Explain'd in a New but most Easie Method:

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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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.             

"Punch, or The London Charivari" 1865, fine bound volume, quarto, publisher's cloth, gilt,

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £7
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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.

New Zealand selection including Macgregor "Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Women of the Colonial Era"

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £66
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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)

Arthur Kipling and Hugh King "Head-Dress Badges of the British Army" Muller, 1979-1980, 2 volume set,

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £28
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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)

Leif Mills "Frank Wild" Caedmon of Whitby, 1999, h/bk in d/jkt, signed and dated by the author,

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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Leif Mills Frank Wild Caedmon of Whitby, 1999, h/bk in d/jkt, signed and dated by the author, the scarce first edition; 343pp.

"The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Being the History of the Regiment from December 1688 to July 1914"

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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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

Journals & publications of the Orders and Medals Research Society (39) with several on the Rifle Brigade;

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £24
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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)

David Harvey "Monuments to Courage: Victoria Cross Headstones & Memorials" K.& K.Patience, 1999,

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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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). 

H.M.Walker "A History of the Northumberland Fusiliers 1674-1902" John Murray, 1919, 502pp, folding maps, VG;

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £72
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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)

Military History including "Records and Badges of the British Army" 1906 (1970 reprint);

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £70
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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)

Simon Dunstan "For England and St. George: A History of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers" 2000;

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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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)

G.E. Cross "Jonah's Feet are Dry: the Experience of the 353rd Fighter Group during World War II"

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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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)