Lot: 41
Selection of letters from 1711, mostly 19th Century, many written or signed by peers, a few with postal markings, both personal and business matters. (50). Also some cut signatures laid down on a page.
Lot: 42
Victoria Cross winners: a collection of signed pages & PCs, signed commemorative covers (26), few letters & photos, and cut signatures, 19th Century to modern, housed in a folder, a few items with multiple signatures. (65 items).
Lot: 43
An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire, HMSO, 1956, 2 vols, in d/jkts, folding-map in rear pocket of vol.2; Ridpath Border History, Mercat Press, 1979 reprint, in d/jkt; Dickinson A New History of Scotland, 1962, 2 vols, in d/jkts; George Alexander Cooke A Topographical Description of the Southern Division of Scotland, C. Cooke [c.1805], lacking map, rear board detached; and other Scottish titles. Mainly VG/VF (11)
Lot: 44
Nash & Spezzano Unternehmen Ilse: 5. SS-Panzer Division ‘Wiking' Eastern Poland 27 April 1944, RZM Publishing, 2019, large format, pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. 328pp. Fine
Lot: 45
Urbanke & Senholdt Escape from the Halbe Pocket! The Story of Tank Officer Joachim Senholdt, 2021, in d/jkt; Nevenkin Bloody Vienna, 2020, pictorial boards; Urbanke Endkampf um das Reichsgebiet 1944-1945, 2020, in d/jkt; and Volker Ruff Der Tiger 2018, 3 vols. Bilingual German/English texts. Fine (6)
Lot: 46
A.W. Exell Joanna Southcott at Blockley and The Rock Cottage Relics, Shipston-on-Stour, 1977, cloth bound with paper title to spine, No.7 of 12 produced, signed by the author. Colour plate. Spare title label loosely inserted.
Lot: 47
J. Aikin A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester, John Stockdale, London, 1795, half-leather, gilt, complete with the 73 maps and plates, the two large folding maps detached and now loosely inserted. VG condition, some minor foxing, hinges professionally repaired.
Lot: 48
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 1915-1923, 1925-1940, 1956-1962, 1965, 1966, and 1973-1975, twenty-one volumes in gilt cloth bindings, the remainder in original printed wraps. VG/Fine (37)
Lot: 49
Reggie Kray: a four-page letter on two A4 sheets to his ‘adopted son' and pen pal Bradley Lane, written while in prison. Signed ‘Dad'. Some creasing.
Lot: 50
Cours Complet D'Agriculture, 3rd edition, bound with Histoire de L'Agriculture. Garnier Freres, 1845, 18 vols (in 9), quarter-leather, gilt, complete with the many plates. Some peripheral wear, endpapers & title pages browned o/w clean internally. (9)
Lot: 51
English County Maps (8) and assorted engravings, 1740s to 1830s, and a Victorian woven silk bookmark. (18 items).
Lot: 52
Folding Maps, late-19th & early-20th Century, five linen-backed, mostly cloth bound, including Bristol (3), Manchester, Hull, Sheffield, Paris, and Scotland. Also a modern map. Some binding faults, maps VG/Fine. (12)
Lot: 53
London folding maps, 1890s/1900s, five linen-backed, three by W.H. Smith, others by Baedeker 1894 (in book form), Edward Stanford, and Bacon; also a 1951 map, and Philip Norman London Vanished & Vanishing A.& C. Black, 1905, 1st Edn, 75 colour plates. One of the W.H. Smith maps lacks the index, another has splits along the folds.(8 items)
Lot: 54
The Settle to Carlise Railway: a collection of books, pamphlets and ephemera in two cartons. (abt. 50 items)
Lot: 55
Dieter Holtge (and others) Strassen- und Stadtbahnen in Deutschland, Eisenbahn Kurier, Freiburg, 1992-2017, eighteen vols., pictorial boards, well illustrated. Fine, appear unread. (18)
Lot: 56
Magazines comprising The Motor Cycle (5, 1949-62) and Motor Cycling (4, 1950s), mostly TT issues; and Motor (4, 1960s) including Motor Show issues, and The Autocar (1961). Good to fine. Also two showroom brochures. (16)
Lot: 57
Photographs of GWR Steam Locomotives, mostly 1950s/early-1960s BR period, PC size, many annotated on reverse. (c.200)
Lot: 58
Assortment in album, plastic sleeves & loose. Better include Ogden Ocean Greyhounds (46/50), Lambert & Butler Motor Cars 1st & 2nd series (43/50), Moustafa Leo Chambers Dogs' Heads (22/40), and other useful. Mixed condition. (100s)
Lot: 59
Cigarette & Trade Card mix in large carton with sets, part-sets and numerous odds. Hours of sorting! (1000s)
Lot: 60
Mainly Wills' issues in old album c.1910-17 including Musical Celebrities 1st series (50/50), Britain's Part in the War (12/24), Historic Events (43/50), Allied Army Leaders (7), and First Aid (50/50). Very mixed condition. Also a later stuck-down set.