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Auction No 364, Category: Books

129 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

London Transport history & nostalgia, a collection of softback titles 1960s to 1990s,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £62
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London Transport history & nostalgia, a collection of softback titles 1960s to 1990s, plus few pamphlets, VG to VF. (35)

"Daily Express Review of the Motor Show" 1956-69 (9 different), plus similar by the Daily Mail 1966;

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £24
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Daily Express Review of the Motor Show 1956-69 (9 different), plus similar by the Daily Mail 1966; issues of The Automobile Engineer (3) 1928-40; and various engineering journals. Mixed condition.

Bus Timetables 1960s to 1990s, mostly Northamptonshire, Essex and Oxfordshire,

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £34
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Bus Timetables 1960s to 1990s, mostly Northamptonshire, Essex and Oxfordshire, plus four Nottingham. A few with folding maps. Fair to VF (28)                  

United Automobile Services Ltd Bus Timetables for Durham, Tees-side, Northumberland and Carlisle,

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £17
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United Automobile Services Ltd Bus Timetables for Durham, Tees-side, Northumberland and Carlisle, 1967-68 all with folding-maps, good to VG. (5)

Bristol Motor Services Bus Timetables 1960s & 1970s for city and country services,

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £48
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Bristol Motor Services Bus Timetables 1960s & 1970s for city and country services, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Cheltenham, etc. All bar two with folding maps. Fair to fine. (18)

South of England Bus Timetables 1960s to 1980s, mostly 1960s, including Southern Vectis (4),

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £56
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South of England Bus Timetables 1960s to 1980s, mostly 1960s, including Southern Vectis (4), Plymouth Joint Sevices (2), Bournemouth Corporation (5), etc. A few with folding maps. (24)

Yorkshire Bus Timetables 1961-89, mostly 1960s including Hebble Motor Services (2),

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £48
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Yorkshire Bus Timetables 1961-89, mostly 1960s including Hebble Motor Services (2), Bradford City Transport (3), Sheffield (3) etc. Eight with folding maps. Fair to fine. (12)

Bus Timetables of the North West of England and Wales, 1958 to 1980s, including Cumberland Motor Services (3),

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £46
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Bus Timetables of the North West of England and Wales, 1958 to 1980s, including Cumberland Motor Services (3), Todmorden, Hyndburn, Blackpool, Forest of Dean, Swansea etc. (21)

Industrial Archaeology, a collection of books and pamphlets, many UK Mining related,

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £28
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Industrial Archaeology, a collection of books and pamphlets, many UK Mining related, largely 1960s/90s softback publications. VG/VF (43)

K. Hinde "Fenland Pumping Engines" 2006; Gale & Nicholls "The Lilleshall Company Ltd: a history" 1979;

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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K. Hinde Fenland Pumping Engines 2006; Gale & Nicholls The Lilleshall Company Ltd: a history 1979; Stephen Hughes The Brecon Forest Tramroads, 1990; J.R.Harris The Copper King: Thomas Williams of Llanidan, 2003; all in d/jkt, together with other Industrial History titles. (10)

Bernard Fontenelle "Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes" Pierre Gosse, 1745, small octavo,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Bernard Fontenelle Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Pierre Gosse, 1745, small octavo, contemp. calf, worn but sound hinges; clean title page & text; lacks frontispiece; 151pp

Francis Darwin "Charles Darwin" John Murray, 1892, First Edn., signed & inscribed by the author

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £94
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Francis Darwin Charles Darwin John Murray, 1892, First Edn., signed & inscribed by the author on front endpapers; original gilt cloth, b/w frontispiece, 348pp. VG

Thomas Burnet "The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £50
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Thomas Burnet The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the General Changes Which it hath already undergone, Or Is To Undergo, Till the Consummation of all Things. The Two First Books Concerning The DELUGE, AND Concerning PARADISE.Walter Kettilby, 1684, First Edn, folio, contemp. polished calf, very worn with parts of backstrip missing, front board detached; (xviii), 327, (i),pp; lacks engraved frontispiece; 2 double-page plates [world maps, with the land masses in relief and California as an island], 9 engraved figures in Book One and 3 in Book Two.

Charles Hulbert "The Select Museum of the World, or one Thousand descriptions of remarkable Antiquities…

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Charles Hulbert The Select Museum of the World, or one Thousand descriptions of remarkable Antiquities……..Vol.I, Asia, C. Hulbert, Shrewsbury, 1822, 12mo, worn half-leather; world map as frontispiece; engraved title; 2 plates. 396pp. Light browning to prelims.

Box of folding-maps from 1828, mostly cloth-backed, mostly Gall & Inglis Half-Inch Maps of England (29),

Lot: 42

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Box of folding-maps from 1828, mostly cloth-backed, mostly Gall & Inglis Half-Inch Maps of England (29), and other early-20th Century. Mainly good to Very Good. (40)

Robert Hooke "Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes and Subterraneous Eruptions" Arno Press, 1978,

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £22
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Robert Hooke Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes and Subterraneous Eruptions Arno Press, 1978, reprint of the 1705 edition, quarto, printed cloth, fine. 

"Reynold's Geological Atlas of Great Britain" James Reynolds, 2nd Edn, [1868], original gilt cloth,

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £72
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Reynold’s Geological Atlas of Great Britain James Reynolds, 2nd Edn, [1868], original gilt cloth, faded, spine with small repair; contemp.ownership signatures; damp staining to text margins but the hand-coloured plates all fine and complete 

James Wyld "Wyld's Map of the Superficial Geology of London and its Environs" 1870

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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James Wyld Wyld’s Map of the Superficial Geology of London and its Environs London, 1870, dissected folding map, cloth-backed, 19.5 x 28”, fine; cloth-bound, ink inscription on publisher’s label o/w VG.

Archibald Geikie "Landscape in History" 1905, and "A Long Life's Work" 1924;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Archibald Geikie Landscape in History 1905, and A Long Life’s Work 1924; Edward Rashleigh Among the Waterfalls of the World, 1935; Richard Fortey The Hidden Landscape, 1993, in d/w, signed by author; and other works on geology, all original cloth. Fair to Fine (10)

Hutton "A Tour to the Caves" 1970 reprint, in d/jkt; Chevalier "Subterranean Climbers" 1951 in d/jkt;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £32
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Hutton A Tour to the Caves 1970 reprint, in d/jkt; Chevalier Subterranean Climbers1951 in d/jkt; Jim Eyre The Cave Explorers, 1981, in d/jkt; Ford Limestones and Caves of Wales, 1989; Martel Spelunca, Vol. VI, Paris 1905, inscribed copy, modern leather, gilt; and three related. Good to VF (8)