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Lot 574
George Haite - An artist's folio album of pencil studies (some signed), dated 1894-1899 relating to Seaford, Brentford Canal, Portchester, Yarmouth, Horsham, Greenwich, Betchworth, Portsmouth, New Romney, Kessingland, Beaulieu, Dorchester, Wells and Greenwich etcProv: Purchased by the present vendor at an auction dispersal from the Estate of George Haite's granddaughter in the 1970s
Lot 828
Survey Map of Haddingtonshire, folio edition, surveyed in 1853 by Capt James RE, pub Colonel Hall RE, Superintendent, 9th August 1854, part leather and cloth bound, gilt titled to/with numerous associated titles on Haddington and The Survey Atlas Of Scotland, folio, pub Royal Scottish Geographical Society 1912 (6)
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Lot 1087
Folio Society publications, mostly non-fiction, 1970s and 1980s, mostly 8vos, in the publisher's (often pictorial or patterned) cloth boards or full leather bindings, nearly all titles with original slipcases; works by Rowse, Lawrence, Tannahill, Trevelyan, Darwin, a set of Gibbon's Roman Empire (6 vols.), histories by Macaulay and others, some art reference, with a uniformly-bound series of Surtees' sporting reminiscences illustrated by John Leech, other hunting works by Sassoon [plus:] a 4 vol. set of The Thousand Nights and One Nights from the translation of J.C. Mardrus, 1980 Minor bumping and shelf ware, most books in fine or nearly-new condition (approx. 55 vols, in 3 boxes)
Lot 1044
Assorted 19th century and later artists portfolios to include Frederick Taylers in two volumes, 1844 and 1845; and a folio of reproductions of drawings of Old Masters in the British Museum Part 4, etc Condition Report / Extra Information 22 Frederick Taylers prints.Some foxing and condition issues throughout.
Lot 208
ALBUM OF EARLY TO MID TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD STAMPSincomplete, along with loose world stamps, also with small folio of world stamps including examples from Japan, New Zealand, etc, and loose stamps including examples from Africa, the Far East, Europe - Norway, Germany, France, and Italy etc, the majority dating from early to mid twentieth century
Lot 753
*Comet. D.H. 106. Comet First Prototype Log of Test Flying 1949, compiled by Derek Brown of the de Havilland Aerodynamics Department, manuscript account commencing 2 April 1949 last entry 31 December 1949, giving details of date, flight no, details, programme no, test no and film no, a fascinating account of this historic and successful aircraft, folio with marbled boards, 33.5 x 21cm, sold with an obituary and copied photograph of the Comet Provenance: Sold on behalf of the family. Derek Brown CEng, FRAeS BSc, FCGI (1925-2010), joined the de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School in 1946 as a postgraduate from London's Imperial Colleges and City and Guilds in firsts in engineering, aerodynamics and aeronautics. At the D.H. Technical School he learnt how to make and design aircraft. He then joined the de Havilland aerodynamics department at Hatfield working in the design of D.H.110, Venom, Heron and Comet 1 (the world's first jetliner). One of his responsibilities on the Comet, which had four Ghost engines, was the effect of jet-pipe heat on the surrounding wing structure. The Comet took it's first test flight on 27 July 49 and retired from service 14 March 1997. (3)
Lot 796
Rolls Royce. Rolls Royce Merlin Aero Engines, Pocket Folio of Dismantling, Erecting and Repair Notes, pocket book, title page inscribed Cpl Patterson 568585, 53 printed pages with manuscript notes on rear pages, 15.5 x 10 cm, together with Handbook for the Installation, Running and Maintenance of Rolls-Royce "Kestrel" Aero Engines Series IV to XII (March 1937, Reprinted, 1938) 568585 Corporal J.K. Paterson, mentioned in despatches 11 June 1944. (2)
Lot 833
Smith (Henry Ladd). Airways Abroad, The Story of American World Air Routes, 1st edition, University of Wisconsin Press, 1950, 25 black and white illustrations, some minor toning, original red cloth in price clipped dust jacket, loss to front cover, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Ellis (F.H & E.M.), Atlantic Air Conquest, 1st edition, 1963, numerous black and white illustrations, original cream cloth in price clipped dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Keith (C.H.), Flying Years, Special Edition for The Aviation Book Club, circa 1938, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, some minor toning, original blue cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly toned and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other mid 20th century and modern aviation reference, including publications by Airlife, Jane's, Batsford, Putnam, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 110)
Lot 835
Army Lists. The New Annual Army List, and Militia List, for 1855, by Major H.G. Hart, 1855, illustrated adverts at front & rear, original cloth gilt, spine faded and frayed at head, 8vo, together with The Army List, for July [August, September & October], 1881, 4 volumes in 2, 1881, illustrated adverts, contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, rubbed to extremities, 8vo, with The Official Army List for the Quarter Ending 30th September, 1881, illustrated adverts at front & rear, occasional spotting, original red cloth gilt, closed tear at foot of spine, large 8vo, and Tyrrell (Henry), The History of the War with Russia: giving full details of the Operations of the Allied Armies, 3 volumes in six, London Printing and Publishing Company, [1855-1858], 59 engraved plates (including titles), seven engraved maps (including 5 double-page), occasional minor spotting, original red cloth with gilt blocked decoration, frayed at head & foot of spines, tall 4to, (29 x 19cm), plus Navy & Army Illustrated, edited by Commander Charles N. Robinson, R.N., volumes 6 & 7 only in four, March 26th, 1898 - March 18th, 1899, black & white illustrations from photographs, contemporary uniform green half calf, some joints cracked and extremities rubbed, folio (14)
Lot 135
Peaches Motor Annual 1905. Published by Messer's Frank Peach & Co, a small folio with 87 illustrated editorial pages, and full-page advertisements. A promotional book covering all forms of road transport, from motorcycles to commercial vehicles, including 'Lamola' underwear. With specifications, prices and good contrast monochrome illustrations of named vehicles from Alldays to Peugeot, together with a highly-detailed list of makes available, descriptions, hp, prices and index. In unusually excellent condition. A square-backed softbound publication with a red cover. Very rare in this condition (1)
Lot 137
A Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing, Volume 1, 1900-1925 by Paul Sheldon. A very good copy of this small folio hardback volume, 1st and only Edition, 1987. Black cloth with silver lettering to the front cover and spine, 12 x 8.5ins, 336 pages, published by St. Leonard's Press, Shipley (1)
Lot 151
BEAN - A. Harper, Sons, Ltd. A 32pp, brochure covering the 1924 season, tinted colour images of the models, prices and full specifications. A small folio size 26pp including cover brochure discussing the '14hp', being a reprint of a Motor Owner article of November 1923, with the excellence of the Motor Owner's colour printing and layout. Also, an advertising pictorial postcard for the 11,9hp motor-car. All in good, clean condition, save for turned corners and a light crease (3)
Lot 224
La Locomotion. A bound volume of this small folio-sized French weekly magazine, sub-titled Automobilisme, Cyclisme, Tramways, Aerostation, Yachting, etc., under the Editorship of L. Baudry de Saunier. This volume, quarter-bound with a leather spine with raised bands and gilt lettering-decoration and marbled boards, holding all the issues from the second year of publication, from No. 14 (4th Jan, 1902) to No. 65 (27th Dec, 1902). Bound without covers, but with half-title and title page, 836 pp including index. Numerous text figures and photographs. Front and rear gatherings slightly loose, otherwise clean and sound. Together with a similarly titled volume in modern black cloth with a red title label to the spine lettered 'La Locomotion 1910' in gilt. Under the same Editor, this journal is sub-titled 'Revue Illustree de l'Automobile et des Industries qui s'y Rattachment', and again, the issues, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 to 17 (8th March to Dec 15th 1910), are bound without covers, but with a half-title and title page, and with the index bound in at the end of the volume, together with a 20-page larger format Officiel des Catalogues de l'Automobile 1911. As with the previous volume, well-illustrated with text figures and photographs, and clean and sound. See lot 323 for the continuation volumes of La Locomotion (2)
Lot 228
La Locomotion a Travers l'Histoire et les Meurs, by Octave Uzanne. Illustrations dans le Texte et Hors Texte de Eugene Courboin. Nombreuses Reproductions d'Estampes anciennes, Paris 1900. A rare folio paperback volume, pp xx, 284 (plus full-page plates), in its original black-and-red printed decorative wrappers, the spine carefully re-backed in cloth, in superb condition internally, with many folding coloured plates and other plates with tissue guards, plus numerous text engravings. In very good order, and presented in a later, stout, cloth-covered slipcase which has aided its condition (1)
Lot 229
Automobil und Automobilsport, edited by Walther Isendahl. A two-volume small folio hardback set, published in Berlin, 1908 (German text), in black cloth with white/grey lettering and coloured central decorative panels to the front covers depicting a motor racing event, the pages browning with age, but generally sound and extremely well illustrated. The first volume (Erster Band), with 256 pp, is described as 'Mit farbigen Modell, 265 Illustrationen im Text und 78 Vignetten', and the second (Zweiter Band), with 292 pp (plus several pages of advertisements), as 'Mit 1 Farbendruck, 247 Illustrationen im Text und 173 Vignetten'. The spine titles faded and the edges a little rubbed, otherwise very good fettle (2)
Lot 262
La Targa Florio. Two volumes, both profusely illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with Italian text, the first a small folio volume, as new in dust jacket, by Gonzalo Alvarez Garcia, sub-titled Gattopardi Piloti Gentiluomini, with some English text beneath the plates, 1st ed, 1986, published by Novocento; the other, a quarto volume without a dust jacket, entitled La favolosa Targa Florio, by Giovanni Canestrini, 1st ed, 1966, published by Automobile Club d'Italia. The red cloth covers slightly marked and faded, and with fewer colour images within, otherwise good (2)
Lot 268
Histoire de la Locomotion Terrestre by Dollfus, De Geoffroy & De Saunier. A 1936 single volume folio edition, reprinted in Paris in 1942. 446pp. With copious monochrome and colour illustrations, including a frontispiece. With five fine coloured plates tipped-in on mounts. The title is indicative of the contents. The major part of the work covers the history of carriages, cycling, mechanical transport and automobiles, to include marching, skiing, horse riding, early wheeled and animal drawn transport. Illustrations include some fine reproductions of sepia lithographs of coaching and one of the fine coloured plates is 'Les Premieres Bicyclettes a Changhai, en 1900'. An extremely comprehensive work, with an austerity board binding, upgraded with a new red leather spine and gilt titles. French text (1)
Lot 284
La Vie Au Grand Air (Life in the Open Air), 1899 to 1910. Seven bound folio-size volumes of this weekly French pictorial newspaper, in mixed bindings, devoted to various outdoor pursuits, including motoring, motor-racing, motor-cycling and bicycling. The earliest comprises issues from No. 21, 4 Fevrier 1899 to 11 Avril 1902 (not a complete run, and some of the contents are loose), with five issues from another weekly, Le Sport Universel Illustre (two from 1897, two from 1900, and one from 1901), and issues numbered 1, 5, 6 & 7 (from late 1898) of another weekly, La Vie Illustree, at the back of the volume. This is followed by what appears to be the complete volume for 1902, (Tome V), with title page and table of contents, another volume with an incomplete sequence of issues from 1 Juin 1906 to 18 Janvier 1908), with the first few leaves loose, three volumes in similar bindings covering the period 6 Juillet 1907 to 26 Decembre 1908 (Tomes XII, XIII and XIV), all with their title page and table of contents, and apparently complete, and another volume holding the issues for 1910, possibly complete, although with confusing pagination for the special Christmas Issue, which includes several full-page colour plates (no title page or table of contents). All of these weekly journals, which are now exceedingly scarce, with articles in French, are profusely illustrated, and include a wealth of information relating to transport matters. AF (7)
Lot 325
The Automobile Engineer. A Technical Journal Devoted to the Theory and Practice of Automobile Construction. An almost complete run of eleven folio-sized hardbound volumes (mixed bindings) from Volume 1, No. 1, June 1910 to Volume 15, No. 210, December 1925, lacking only Volumes 2 (1912), 3 (1913), and 5 (1915). The first three volumes are in blue cloth, Volumes 7 (1917) to 13 (1923) are quarter-bound in leather with marbled board covers, and the last two volumes are in green cloth, which is a little worn and marked (the rest of the bindings are very good). All of the volumes appear to be generally sound and clean internally, with just some inevitable page browning though age. Volume I, covering the period June 1910 to December 1911, has been bound with the advertisements, has supplements loosely inserted, and a copy title page and index bound in at the front of the volume. The rest of the volumes are bound without advertisements. Volume 6 (1916) also has a copy title page and index, but loosely inserted at the front of the volume. Volumes 4 (1914) and 9 (1919) to 13 (1923) all have their original title pages and indices bound in at the front of the volumes. Volumes 7 and 8 (1917 and 1918), which are bound in one, and Volumes 14 (1924) and 15 (1925) do not include title pages/indices. The content includes numerous text figures, diagrams, tables, photographic illustrations and other folding illustrations, including some of the folding supplementary pages being loosely inserted (11)
Lot 333
Morris Cars 1913 - 1930 compiled by Philip Garnons-Williams. A folio-size book printed in a limited edition of only 500, this example numbered 402. 412pp with paper cover, excellent images of most models, copies of rare catalogues & chassis drawings. An excellent DJ, which is unusual for the book, albeit with very minor creasing to one edge. Signed by the author (1)
Lot 337
The Automobile Engineer: A Technical Journal Devoted to Design, Manufacturing Methods, and Works Equipment, incorporating Motor Body Building (from 1930). Eleven folio-size hardbound volumes, uniformly bound in Iliffe the publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to the front cover and spines, and containing the issues from Vol. XIX, No. 250, January, 1929 to Volume XXIX, No. 392, December, 1939. Together with Volume XXXII, January-December, 1942, similarly bound, but in a slightly smaller format. Each volume has a title page and the year's index at the front. The contents appear to be generally clean and sound, with numerous text figures, diagrams, tables, plans and photographic illustrations. There are some annotations to a few volumes, mainly in pencil to the front paste-down end-papers. The bindings show slight signs of wear, some are somewhat dull/marked, and the bottom few inches of the front cover of Volume XXIX is damp-stained (12)
Lot 354
Revue Francaise de Construction Automobile, 1905-6. A delightful folio-size quarter-leather and marbled boards hardback volume, with marbled end-papers, containing twelve of the monthly issues of this prestigious journal (bound without the covers), 2e Serie, 2e Annee, Nos. 13, 5th July, 1905, to 2e Serie, 3e Annee, No.24, 5th June, 1906 inclusive, the last issue with an index of the articles included and the vehicles detailed, such as Richard-Brasier, Hurtu, Peugeot, De Dion-Bouton, Gladiator, Bayard-Clement, Renault, and Decauville. Each issue includes many text figures and ends with superb full-page plates of motor vehicles and full-page highly detailed plans of their chassis construction. Ex-Ecole Centrale Lyonnaise, with a few neat ink stamps, and the covers a little rubbed, but otherwise very good (1)
Lot 355
Histoire de la Locomotion Terrestre: Les Chemins de Fer, by Charles Dollfus & Edgar de Geoffroy. A folio-sized volume detailing the history of rail transport and published by L'Illustration, Editions Saint-Georges, Paris, 1935. With marbled board covers and a red cloth spine with silver title lettering (the cover edges a little rubbed), pictorial end-papers, a sumptuously-produced volume of 390 pages (including the preface), profusely illustrated throughout and including a colour frontispiece and other full-page colour plates, some being 'tipped-in'. An extremely comprehensive work, covering the period from the 1550s to the date of publication. French text (1)
Lot 356
Histoire de l'Aeronautique, by Charles Dollfus & Henri Bouche. A folio-sized volume detailing the history of air transport and published by L'Illustration, Paris, 1938. With marbled board covers and a red leather spine with gold title lettering (the cover edges a little rubbed and spine joints slightly worn), marbled end-papers, a sumptuously-produced volume of 646 pages (including the preface), profusely illustrated throughout and including a colour frontispiece and other full-page colour plates, some being 'tipped-in'. An extremely comprehensive work, covering the period from the Renaissance to the date of publication. French text (1)
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