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Auction No 422, Tag: Railways

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

"Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables" for November 1842. Large single sheet (poster size, 36 x24”), the Birmingham & Derby Jctn.Rly highlighted

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables for November 1842. Large single sheet (poster size, 36 x24”), the Birmingham & Derby Jctn.Rly highlighted with a pink w/colour frame. Folds, peripheral faults (no loss of text). VG. Scarce  

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Railway softbacks & juvenilia including Rev.W.Awdry "Gordon the Big Engine & His Tender pre-cut Model Engine Book";

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Railway softbacks & juvenilia including Rev.W.Awdry Gordon the Big Engine & His Tender pre-cut Model Engine Book; T.A.C. Jarrett Big Bill & Little Bill and The Silly Stoker; a Tuck's Train Travel transfer book; cut-out model cards of The Flying Scotsman and Princess Royal; and other items including some modern prints. (Qty).

Transport history softbacks from 1927, mostly 1970s/80s, chiefly Railway and Canals. Good to VF (34)

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £36
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Transport history softbacks from 1927, mostly 1970s/80s, chiefly Railway and Canals. Good to VF (34) 

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George Bradshaw (1800-1853, founder of Bradshaw’s Railway Guides): an archive comprising 1853 In Memoriam card, dried foliage gathered from his grave

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £100
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George Bradshaw (1800-1853, founder of Bradshaw's Railway Guides): an archive comprising 1853 In Memoriam card, dried foliage gathered from his grave in 1856, an 1853 memorandum issued by members of the Committee of the Manchester & Salford Peace Society expressing their sorrow at the death of “their much valued friend and colleague George Bradshaw”; a clerk's copy of Bradshaw's will; offprints of Press obituaries; a photogravure of his widow (d.1875); and 1870 printed documents concerning The War Victims' Fund Committee of which his son William Bradshaw was a member. The copy will and 1853 memorandum are split the along folds requiring repair.   

"London & North Western Railway Co’s Official Tourists’ Picturesque Guide", 1876, re-cased, 10 maps (3 with tape repairs) and litho plates;

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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London & North Western Railway Co's Official Tourists' Picturesque Guide, 1876, re-cased, 10 maps (3 with tape repairs) and litho plates; Larkman Brown's Marine Electrician for Sea-Going Engineers, 1914; The Railway Magazine, Vol.1, July-December 1897, gilt cloth, VG; and five others including Automobile Repair, Newnes, 1953, four vols. Railway Magazine lacks the original pictorial wraps but contains the b/w plates. Fair to Fine.  (8)