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Auction No 358, Category: Books

55 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

Railway softbacks plus some other transport related, 1960s to 1990s with many on Preserved Railways;

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £42
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Railway softbacks plus some other transport related, 1960s to 1990s with many on Preserved Railways; includes brochures and leaflets. Also some related tickets. (130++)

"Handbook of Information of the Flushing Royal Mail Route (Zeeland Steamship Company)", 1924

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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Handbook of Information of the Flushing Royal Mail Route (Zeeland Steamship Company), 1924, pocket timetable, 64pp plus cover, some minor creasing upper left corner otherwise fine.

Aviation books, periodicals, airline brochures & memorabilia in carton, c.1945 to 1970s,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £56
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Aviation books, periodicals, airline brochures & memorabilia in carton, c.1945 to 1970s, both civil and military aircraft; including BP Airspotter Logbooks (6); Raymond Webb Early Ringway, 1978 (2); Air Show Programmes; etc. (10 kilos)

Aviation periodicals including "The Aeroplane Spotter" 1941-1948 (210 issues),

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £74
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Aviation periodicals including The Aeroplane Spotter 1941-1948 (210 issues), and Royal Observer Corps Gazette 1946-58 (70 issues, punched into a binder). Fair to Fine. Also The Aero 1909-1910 (2) and Flight 1911-12 (5) all with covers detached but clean internally and apparently complete.

GWR Locomotives and trains, an album of Photographs, largely 6 x 8", mounted on to pages at the corners

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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GWR Locomotives and trains, an album of Photographs, largely 6 x 8", mounted on to pages at the corners, many with descriptive captions; majority of the photos date from the 1960s showing ex-GWR locos in service with British Railways. From the John Crawley collection. (110)

Glaisdale-Whitby Bus Service folding pocket timetable, c.1925; Tickets (8) for the Heather Motor Services 1930s

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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Glaisdale-Whitby Bus Service folding pocket timetable, c.1925; Tickets (8) for the Heather Motor Services 1930s (Robin Hood's Bay); and approx 450 1950s & 1960s London Transport Bus Tickets including Country Buses.

"Salford Corporation Tramways: Instructions to Female Conductors", Manchester, 1918

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Salford Corporation Tramways: Instructions to Female Conductors, John Heywood, Manchester, issued to Rebecca Chapman of Higher Broughton, original gilt cloth, worn & faded, 49pp; together with her Permit and Licence issued by Salford Borough Council 1918. Scarce group. (3)

Anne Pratt "The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain", SPCK, 1860s

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
UNSOLD
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Anne Pratt The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, SPCK, 1860s, octavo, complete in 3 volumes, worn half-leather, gilt, with 297 coloured plates (one with a corner torn away) plus one uncoloured. Some minor spotting to plates (confined to borders), some marks in text and occasionally at foot of plates. (3)

W.J. Lucas "British Dragonflies", L. Upcott Gill, 1900, 1st Edition,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
UNSOLD
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W.J. Lucas British Dragonflies, L. Upcott Gill, 1900, 1st Edition, rebound with original decorated cloth over new boards & endpapers, some external wear; uncut two sides; fine internally with 27 coloured plates. 356pp + prelims, adverts & plates.

John Henry Leech "British Pyralides, including the Pterophoridae", R.H.Porter, 1886, 1st Edition,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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John Henry Leech British Pyralides, including the Pterophoridae, R.H.Porter, 1886, 1st Edition, original gilt cloth, worn at extremities, front inner hinge weak; ownership inscription of 1899; fine internally with 18 coloured lithograph plates. 121pp + prelims & plates. 

W.J. Holland "The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a knowledge of the Butterflies of North America" 1905

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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W.J. Holland The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a knowledge of the Butterflies of North America Doubleday,1905, later gilt cloth & endpapers, fine; quarto, 48 colour plates with titled tissue-guards; 382pp + prelims.  

Charles Barrett "The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol.I: Rhopalocera" L. Reeve, 1893, 1st Edition,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
UNSOLD
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Charles Barrett The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol.I: Rhopalocera L. Reeve, 1893, 1st Edition, quarto, half-leather over worn marbled boards, gilt; marbled endpapers and 40 fine coloured lithograph plates; occasional pencil marking in text margins. 314pp + plates.

"My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan", Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, signed copy

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £42
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My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, 1st Edition, signed by Nancy Reagan on the title page, hardback in dustjacket. 

Softback books especially Local History and Transport with many 1970s & 1980s publications;

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £54
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Softback books especially Local History and Transport with many 1970s & 1980s publications; emphasis on Greater Manchester. (48)

"Smith's Indicator Map of London" Smith & Son, c.1860, linen-backed folding map, hand-coloured,

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £56
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Smith's Indicator Map of London Smith & Son, c.1860, linen-backed folding map, hand-coloured, complete with 25" tape measure marked in half-inch divisions. A little darkened at extreme left otherwise fine. Overall 16.5 x 25" (The Map shows the Eastern Counties Railway - amongst others - which was absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway in 1862).

Box of Newspapers, largely 1940s especially 1945-1946, comprising British (14) and Australian (12),

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £32
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Box of Newspapers, largely 1940s especially 1945-1946, comprising British (14) and Australian (12), plus few others including an American magazine. (31)

Edward R. Harrison "Harrison of Ightham" Oxford University Press, 1928, 1st Edition, original gilt cloth,

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
UNSOLD
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Edward R. Harrison Harrison of Ightham Oxford University Press, 1928, 1st Edition, original gilt cloth, top of spine a little frayed otherwise very good. Fore-edge uncut. B/w photo plate. 395pp

French Film Magazines 1943-1953, all featuring Alan Ladd on front cover,

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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French Film Magazines 1943-1953, all featuring Alan Ladd on front cover, including Film Complet series (4) and Mon Film (6) all featuring illustrated stories based on his films; all different. (13)

Laurence Stephen Lowry Drawings of L.S. Lowry, edited Mervyn Levy,

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £350
SOLD £210
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Laurence Stephen Lowry Drawings of L.S. Lowry, edited Mervyn Levy, Cory Adams & Mackay, 1963, First Edition, signed and inscribed by L.S. Lowry on the title page, quarto, original cloth, fine, in a worn but near complete dustjacket which has a few repaired peripheral tears.

Connoisseur's Choice and Modelling Review, c.1958-62, a collection of 43 issues,

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £60
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Connoisseur's Choice and Modelling Review, c.1958-62, a collection of 43 issues, largely 24pp including cover but including enlarged Scandinavian Special. Fine throughout. (43)