Lot: 1
The Illustrated London News bound volumes for 1875 (2 vols), July-December 1877, July-December 1878, and July-December 1879, quarter-leather, gilt; bindings & endpapers in poor condition; contents fine ex. first few leaves of 1877 volume chipped & soiled lower right corner. (5)
Lot: 2
Assortment in carton including trade catalogues of English Chairs (2), Pragnell The London Panoramas of Robert Barker and Thomas Girtin, 1968, motoring magazines, Scottish Field magazine 1956, etc.
Lot: 12
Social & Economic History, plus few local history titles, largely h/bks in d/jackets, a few with ownership signatures o/w VG/VF, none ex-library. (38)
Lot: 13
Aviation. A selection of modern titles, chiefly military/RAF, some civil aircraft, many WW2 related including airfields & crash sites. Mainly softbacks, some h/bk in d/jackets. Fine. No ownership inscriptions. (21)
Lot: 27
Ernest H. Shepard: a scrapbook of late-1940s illustrations taken from Punch and other periodicals, including political cartoons, the marriage of Elizabeth & Philip, and verses celebrating life in post-war Britain. A few suffer from browning. (23)
Lot: 61
James Weir French Machine Tools Commonly Employed in Modern Engineering Workshops Together with a Series of Sectional Models Illustrating the Arrangement of the Parts and the Details of Some Typical Tools, Gresham, 1911, 2 vols, tall quarto, complete with ten sectional models and many other illustrations in text; gilt cloth, worn at extremities, o/w VG; and Modern Power Generators, Gresham, 1908, Vol.1 (of two), with five sectional models, near fine. (3)
Lot: 74
W. Heath Robinson (illustrator) Then and Now, Port of Manchester Warehouses Ltd., 1921, with eight full-page illustrations by Robinson, and additional cartoons in the text. Quarto, printed wraps, light staining to lower margin affects a few of the pages, o/w VG.