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Auction No 420, Category: Transport

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Hocking "Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam", gilt cloth, 2 vols, VG; plus mainly s/bk publications including WW2 HMSO (5),

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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Hocking Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam, gilt cloth, 2 vols, VG; plus mainly s/bk publications including WW2 HMSO (5), The Railway Gazette 1926 (2 issues), WW2 Air Crashes in UK & Ireland (5), and several relating to UK military aircraft including 11 Profile Publications pamphlets. Varied condition. (39)

Underhill "Sail Training and Cadet Ships", Brown & Ferguson, 1973, with folding diagrams; "Chronological List of Actions, &c. with Indians 1837-1891"

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £56
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Underhill Sail Training and Cadet Ships, Brown & Ferguson, 1973, with folding diagrams; Chronological List of Actions, &c., with Indians 1837-1891, Old Army Press, 1979; Lamb The March of the Barbarians, 1940; Gosse The History of Piracy, Longmans, 1932, ownership signature; Wycherley Buccaneers of the Pacific, 1935 (rebound); and others. All h/bk, six in d/jkt. VG/VF (11)

Amundsen and Ellsworth "Our Polar Flight", Dodd, Mead & Co.,1925, first edition, fine in scarce d/jkt; Umberto Nobile "My Polar Flights", Muller, 1961

Lot: 95

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £125
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Amundsen and Ellsworth Our Polar Flight, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1925, first edition, fine in scarce d/jkt; Umberto Nobile My Polar Flights, Muller, 1961, first edition, in d/jkt, near fine; and two related, plus another on airships. All in d/jkts, the jacket of the Amundsen with peripheral faults and faded. (5)   

Selection of Maps by G.W. Bacon, comprising "Transport Map of South England and part of Wales", c.1923, districts of Scotland (set of 13),

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £44
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Selection of Maps by G.W. Bacon, comprising Transport Map of South England and part of Wales, c.1923, districts of Scotland (set of 13), and Bacon's New Survey Map of Northampton, Huntingdon, Cambridge & Bedford. Cloth-backed, cloth-bound, all folding, Transport Map and New Survey very large. VG/VF (15)

Bridgman "Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1955-56", in d/jkt, front board bowed, fine internally; "British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 to 1999"

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £96
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Bridgman Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1955-56, in d/jkt, front board bowed, fine internally; British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 to 1999, pictorial boards, VF; Higham Britain's Imperial Air Routes 1918 to 1939, 1961, in d/jkt; Stroud European Transport Aircraft since 1910, 1966, in d/jkt; and other civil aviation, including two s/bks. Good/VF (9)

"The Mariner’s Mirror: The International Journal of the Society For Nautical Research", 1985 to 2016, a complete run of 128 issues,

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £115
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The Mariner's Mirror: The International Journal of the Society For Nautical Research, 1985 to 2016, a complete run of 128 issues, issued quarterly, together with Index volumes (5), annual Bibliographies (22), newsletters etc. Includes few special issues. VG/VF, no inscriptions. (Qty)

UK Bus and Coach company histories, h/bk and s/bk, mostly modern publications in very fine condition, none with ownership inscriptions. Countrywide.

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £115
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UK Bus and Coach company histories, h/bk and s/bk, mostly modern publications in very fine condition, none with ownership inscriptions. Countrywide. VG/VF (30)       

T. Barker "Transport in Great Yarmouth", Bristol, 1980-1987, three vols, pictorial boards, corner of half-title of vol.1 cut away o/w VG;

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £82
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T. Barker Transport in Great Yarmouth, Bristol, 1980-1987, three vols, pictorial boards, corner of half-title of vol.1 cut away o/w VG; and many other tram & bus history & nostalgia titles, h/bk and s/bk, 1960s to modern, one with an ownership signature, good to VF. (36)

UK Bus and Coach history & nostalgia with company histories and much local history interest, h/bk and s/bk, from 1970s, mostly modern, countrywide

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £96
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UK Bus and Coach history & nostalgia with company histories and much local history interest, h/bk and s/bk, from 1970s, mostly modern, countrywide, one ex-library o/w largely fine, one signed by the author, none with ownership signatures. (52)

London Underground pocket maps 1961-87, mostly pre-1979 with ten 1960s. Includes issues No.1 and 3 for 1968. Good to VF (20)

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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London Underground pocket maps 1961-87, mostly pre-1979 with ten 1960s. Includes issues No.1 and 3 for 1968. Good to VF (20)