catalogue - Greenslade Taylor Hunt
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catalogue - Greenslade Taylor Hunt
ANTIQUES SALEROOM The Collector’s Sale FRIDAY 4th MARCH 2016 10.00am The Octagon Salerooms, East Reach, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3HL Tel: 01823 332525 Email: antiques.saleroom@gth.net www.gth.net ON VIEW: SATURDAY 27th FEBRUARY 9.00am – 12.30pm TUESDAY 1st MARCH 9.00am – 5.00pm WEDNESDAY 2nd MARCH 9.00am – 5.00pm & MORNING OF SALE FROM 8.30am ENQUIRIES PETER RIXON – 01823 332525 ORDER OF SALE COINS 601-623 MEDALS & MILITARIA 624-654 POSTCARDS, STAMPS, EPHEMERA & AUTOGRAPHS 655-728 TIN PLATE TOYS 729-740 GENERAL TOYS 741-743 WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS 744-752 DIECAST MODELS 753-818 MODEL TRAINS 819-824 DOLLS & DOLLS HOUSES 825-830 ADVERTISING & PACKAGING 831-837 MECHANICAL MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 838-841 FILM POSTERS & LOBBY CARDS 842-859 SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS & CAMERAS 860-864 RAILWAYANA, AUTOMOBILIA, NAUTICALIA & AERONAUTICA 865-899 GENERAL COLLECTOR’S ITEMS 900-906 BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS 907-966 SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS REGARDING THE SALE OF BOOKS Unless described in the catalogue as being sold with all faults, books which prove on collation to be defective in illustrations or text, provided such defects are not mentioned, may be returned by the buyer. The sale will then be set aside providing: 1. They are returned in the same condition as they were in at the time of the sale. 2. They are returned within seven days after the conclusion of the sale. Books in multiple lots may not be returned for any reason. A sale will not be set aside due to lack of blank leaves, damaged bindings, foxing or staining, worm holes, inserted advertisements or any subsequently published supplements, volumes or appendices. Please note that books purchased through these rooms are subject to our standard rate of commission, inclusive of VAT at the prevailing rate. COINS Lot 601 601 GREAT BRITAIN - ASSORTED including a George III 'cartwheel' twopence, 1797; George III 'cartwheel' penny, 1797; George III farthing, 1806; Victoria penny, 1848; and George VI threepences (dodecagonal), 1946 & 1949 (x2). £40-50 604 GREAT BRITAIN - ASSORTED SILVER including a George II penny, 1757; Victoria florin, 1887; Victoria halfcrown, 1887; Victoria double-florin, 1889; Victoria crown, 1889; Edward VII florin, 1903; Edward VII halfcrowns, 1907 & 1908; and seven others, (15; approximately 141g). £40-50 605 GREAT BRITAIN - ASSORTED SILVER including a George III halfcrown, 1818; William IV halfcrown, 1834; Victoria shilling, 1886, (total pre-1920 approximately 59g; total 1920-46 approximately 151g); together with three silver proof five pounds, 2007, 2008 & 2009 (each one ounce); and a Gibraltar silver 2007 Diamond Wedding five pounds (28g). £40-50 602 ASSORTED COINAGE Roman and later, including Great Britain Elizabeth II five pounds (13); Elizabeth II two pounds (31); Elizabeth II one pounds (17); U.S. one dollar, 1921; and U.S. silver one dollar, 1987. £40-50 603 ASSORTED COINAGE mainly Great Britain, including a half penny trade token, 1667 (rubbed, possibly Nottingham); William IV halfpenny, 1831; Quebec Bank Token one penny, 1852; Bank of Upper Canada Token one penny, 1857; and Bank of Upper Canada Token, halfpenny, 1850. £40-50 Lot 606 606 GREAT BRITAIN - ASSORTED SILVER including a George III halfcrown, 1817; Victoria crowns, 1889 (x2); Victoria double-florin, 1889; Victoria halfcrowns, 1887 (x2); Victoria florin, 1887; and George V halfcrown, 1914, (total pre-1920 approximately 252g). £50-60 607 GREAT BRITAIN - ASSORTED SILVER including a London six-penny licensed silver token (creased); Victoria crown, 1890; Victoria halfcrowns, 1887 & 1894; Victoria florins, 1885, 1887 & 1901; and Victoria shillings, 1884, 1887 & 1900, (total pre-1920 approximately 123g; total 1920-46 approximately 49g). £40-50 608 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1972 £650-700 Lot 604 609 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1973 £650-700 610 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1974 £650-700 611 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1974 £650-700 Lot 612 Lot 623 612 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1974 £650-700 623 ASSORTED BANKNOTES including a Great Britain Five Pounds (O'Brien), 23 March 1956, C44A 036238; Great Britain Twenty Pounds (Gill), 46T 061125; Great Britain Five Pounds (Hollom), E85 413577; and Great Britain One Pound (Peppiatt), E22E 715352, (total 37, in a peel-page photo album). £50-60 613 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1974 £650-700 614 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1974 £650-700 615 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1974 £650-700 616 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1975 £650-700 617 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1975 £650-700 618 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1975 £650-700 MEDALS & MILITARIA 624 THREE GERMAN IRON CROSSES comprising a 1914 1st Class; 1914 2nd Class; and 1939 2nd Class. £50-60 Lot 619 619 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1980 £650-700 620 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1980 £650-700 621 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1980 £650-700 622 SOUTH AFRICA - KRUGERRAND, 1981 £650-700 Lot 625 625 A QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL TO PRIVATE J. HENNESSY, ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS second type reverse, with three clasps Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, and Driefontein (6020 Pte. J. Hennessy. Rl. Dublin Fus.), officially impressed, unmounted. £140-160 Lot 626 Lot 630 626 AN AFGHANISTAN MEDAL TO PRIVATE I. COX, 60TH FOOT with single clasp Ahmed Khel (2129. Pts. I. Cox. 2/60th. Foot.), engraved, unmounted. £100-120 630 A GREAT WAR PAIR OF MEDALS TO PRIVATE A.E. STACEY, ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY comprising the British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (both Ply. 18428 Pte. A.E. Stacey. R.M.L.I.), officially impressed, unmounted. £40-50 Lot 627 627 A KABUL TO KANDAHAR STAR unnamed as issued, unmounted. £60-70 628 A DELHI DURBAR MEDAL 1911 silver, unnamed as issued. £40-50 629 A GREAT WAR PAIR OF MEDALS TO PRIVATE H.J. MANN, SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT comprising the British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (both 37404 Pte. H.J. Mann. S. Lan. R.), officially impressed, unmounted. £40-50 Lot 631 631 A GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1918-62 TO TROOPER P. TAYLOR, 15TH/19TH KING'S ROYAL HUSSARS George VI Indiae Imp., with single clasp Palestine 1945-48 (19090365 Tpr. P. Taylor. 15/19 H.), officially impressed, unmounted. £40-50 632 A GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1962-2007 TO PRIVATE R.A. BENT, DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S REGIMENT with single clasp Northern Ireland (24314316 Pte. R.A. Bent. DWR), officially impressed, unmounted. £40-50 Lot 636 Lot 633 633 A ROYAL AIR FORCE LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL TO SERGEANT R.E. CURRIE, R.A.F. Elizabeth II without Britt: Omn (612999 Sgt. R.E. Currie R.A.F.), officially impressed, unmounted. £40-50 Lot 634 634 AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY BICORNE HAT by Furnis of New Bond Street [London], complete with plume of white and red feathers (some damage to felt), in its original hat tin. £70-90 635 A GERMAN THIRD REICH POLICE OR FIRE SERVICE PARADE BAYONET by Eickhorn of Solingen, the 25cm blade with manufacturer's trademark, with two-piece chequered black composition grips and a stylized eagle head pommel, in its steel scabbard, overall 40cm long, with leather frog. £50-70 636 A BRITISH ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE DIRK the 45cm blade etched with Royal crowns, fouled anchors and scrollwork, the back edge marked 'London made', the gilt brass hilt comprising a curved quillon with acorn terminals and an R.N.R. device, a wire-bound fish-skin grip, and a lion head pommel, in its leather scabbard with gilt brass mounts and suspension rings, overall 59.5cm long. £80-100 637 A 19TH CENTURY SNIDER ENFIELD CONVERTED THREE-BAND PERCUSSION RIFLE the walnut stock with a steel lockplate engraved '1857 / Enfield' and with a 'VR' cypher, the barrels with various proof marks and folding ladder sight, fitted with a brass fore end tip, trigger guard and butt plate, overall 137cm long (excluding ramrod). £200-300 638 A 19TH CENTURY DOUBLE BARREL PERCUSSION PISTOL the walnut stock with steel furniture, the lockplates, hammers and trigger guard with engraved foliate decoration, the 19.5cm barrels engraved with an indistinct name (possibly in cyrillic), overall 35cm long. £80-100 639 A 19TH CENTURY PERCUSSION BOXLOCK POCKET PISTOL with an octagonal barrel, foliate engraved lockplates, and a walnut rounded butt with a chequered grip, overall 18cm long. £60-80 640 TEN MILITARY & NAVAL SWEETHEART BADGES most silver or part silver, including those of Munitions Workers, 19th Royal Hussars, Warwickshire Yeomanry, Royal Engineers (x2), Royal Corps of Signals and Royal Air Force interest. £40-50 641 A SECOND WORLD WAR CANADIAN PAIR OF MILITARY BINOCULARS by Research Enterprises Limited, impressed 'C.G.B. 40 M.A. / 7 x 50 / 9619-C' and 'R.E.L. / CANADA 1944', in a leather case stamped 'R.E.L. - Canada'. Note: Believed to have been used during the D-Day operation. £40-60 Lot 642 644 NINE MOTHER OF PEARL MILITARY SWEETHEART BADGES including those of Somerset Light Infantry, Suffolk Regiment, Wiltshire Regiment, Hampshire Regiment, and Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment interest. £40-50 645 NINE MILITARY SWEETHEART BADGES most of brass and enamel, including those of Queen's Own Hussars, 12th Lancers, Scots Guards, and Welch Regiment interest (one lacking pin). £40-50 646 NINE ENAMEL MILITARY SWEETHEART BADGES including those of East Surrey Regiment, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, Gloucestershire Regiment, Leicestershire Regiment, Somerset Light Infantry, Lincolnshire Regiment and Hampshire Regiment interest (one lacking pin). £50-60 642 A SECOND WORLD WAR BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER CONTROL PANEL CLOCK Mk III B, by S. Smith & Sons of London, with a twentyfour hour chapter ring, luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary 'Time of Trip' dial and luminous hands, the face marked 'Mk III B No.1878/38 R', 'Ref No.6A/839' and 'L 4/39', the back of the case with Air Ministry crown and numbered '1878', the blackened square frame with four mounting holes, overall 9.5cm wide. Note: Clocks of this type were fitted to Stirling, Hampden, Wellington and Lancaster aircraft. £100-150 Lot 647 647 SIX GREAT WAR TORTOISESHELL SWEETHEART BADGES all but one part silver, including those of Worcestershire Regiment, Artist's Rifles, Royal Air Force and Royal Artillery interest (one lacking pin). £60-70 Lot 643 643 A BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE OMEGA STAINLESS STEEL PILOT'S WRISTWATCH dated 1953, the black dial with Arabic numerals, luminous markers, and military arrow mark, the case with broad military arrow mark and issue markings '6645 101000', '6B/542' and '125 / 53', case diameter 38mm. £600-800 648 TEN MILITARY & NAVAL SWEETHEART BADGES most silver or part silver, including those of Middlesex Regiment, Machine Gun Corps, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal East Kent Regiment, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, East Yorkshire Regiment, and [Royal Air Force] Air Gunner interest (one lacking pin). £40-50 649 A 9CT GOLD & ENAMEL ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS SWEETHEART BROOCH Birmingham 1947, 4.4cm long (3.4g gross). £40-50 Lot 653 Lot 650 650 A ROYAL ARTILLERY SWEETHEART BROOCH stamped '9ct', with two colour detail and enamelled, 3.4cm long (4.5g gross). £50-60 654 A N.A.A.F.I. WALL CLOCK the circular white dial with black Roman numerals, in an oak case, overall 43cm diameter. £80-100 Lot 651 651 A ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS SWEETHEART BROOCH by Deakin & Francis, stamped '9ct', with enamel detail, 5.7cm long (6g gross). £50-60 652 COLDSTREAM GUARDS - OFFICERS' MESS TEA WARES comprising a Mintons milk or cream jug, 12cm high; and a Coalport sugar bowl retailed by T. Goode & Co., 13cm diameter, both with transfer-printed and handpainted regimental badges, (2). £80-100 653 AN AIR RECONNAISSANCE CAMERA, TYPE F117B by Williamson Manufacturing Co. Ltd of London & Reading, serial number 264, with a Ross 6 inch f/4.5 lens, in its fitted wooden travel case. £50-70 Lot 654 POSTCARDS, STAMPS, EPHEMERA & AUTOGRAPHS 655 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately seventy-three cards, including real photographic views of troop transport motor buses lined up in a Paris street; H.M.S. Valiant (several); H.M.S. Malaya firing; 'The Surrender as seen from "Valiant"'; the German ships Derfflinger; Kaiser; Seidlytz; Bayern; and Hindenburg; the Bull Ring, Birmingham (two different); Corporation Street, Birmingham; and nine other Birmingham, (album). £40-50 Lot 658 Lot 656 656 POSTCARDS - THEATRICAL Approximately 375 cards, including real photographic portraits of George Alexander; Allan Aynesworth; Oscar Asche; Maud Allan (fourteen, with three different as 'Salome'); Lily Brayton; Joseph Coyne; Constance Collier; Alice Crawford; Gerald du Maurier; Maxine Elliott; Lily Elsie; Martin Harvey; Gertie Millar; Gabrielle Ray; Ellaline Terriss; and Irene Vanbrugh, (album). £80-100 657 POSTCARDS - INDIA Approximately 120 cards, including views of the Government Dockyard, Bombay; H.M. Mint, Bombay; Green's Mansions, Bombay; Esplanade Road, Bombay; Victoria Terminus & Municipal Hall, Bombay; Old Hunuman Street, Bombay; Elphinstone Circle, Bombay; Palm Grove, Bombay; Miss Neajun of Jeypore; Reversing Stations, Khandala; The Tajmahal Hotel, Bombay; Marwaree Women; Royal Palace, Bangalore; Dhurramtollah Street, Calcutta; The Ferry Boat on Sangam Poona; Post Office, Trimulgherry; Bazaar, Trimulgherry; Esplanade Row, east, Calcutta; Naya Bazaar Street with Fort, Ajmer; Hossainabad Gate, Lucknow; Kyd Street, Calcutta; a hunting cheetah; St. Andrew's Church, Dalhousie Square, Calcutta; General Post Office, Ahmednagar; State Elephant of the Gaikwar; Jetty Strand, Chandernagore; Railway Station, Hyderabad; Street Scene, Hyderabad; Famine stricken victims; General Post Office, Dalhousie; and Swami Narain's Temple, Ahmedabad, (album). £50-70 658 POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL & OTHER Approximately fifty-five cards, including real photographic views of Hungate, Beccles; the unveiling of Beccles War Memorial, 1921; Blyburgate, Beccles; G.E.R. Station, Beccles; the Great Bow Bridge, Langport; 'Duchess of Devonshire' [paddle steamer] ashore at Sidmouth; Buck Hunting, Central Africa; 'Wenhaston Street'; The Oval, Sidcup; Teignmouth Lifeboat Day, 1905 (two different); and the Canadian Pacific S.S. 'Empress of Britain'; with views of Market Street, Beccles; Puddingmoor, Beccles; G.W.R. Motor Bus & Gerston Hotel, Paignton; and Market Street, Liskeard, (loose). £40-50 Lot 659 659 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 260 topographical and other cards, including real photographic views of the 'Duchess of Devonshire' [paddle steamer] ashore at Sidmouth; Connel Ferry Bridge; Woodstock [Canada] under snow, 1907; and Village Street, Boscastle; with views of Dartmoor Prison; Ashurst Church; King's College Road, N.W. [London]; Jacob's Ladder, Falmouth; and Place de la Croix, Vieux Luc-sur-Mer; also artist-drawn by Mabel Lucie Attwell (2), Lawson Wood (1) and Agnes Richardson (1), (two albums). £40-50 660 POSTCARDS - LONDON & SUBURBS Approximately 200 cards, including real photographic views of Nell Gwynne's House; Highgate Archway; Temple of the Sun, Kew Gardens; Entrance to Cassiobury Park, Watford; Marble Arch; and lifeguards on sentry duty, Whitehall; with views of High Street, Hoddeston (by Bryant of Hoddeston); the Tram Terminus, Hampton Court; Grove Road, Sutton; St. Stephen's Road, Hounslow; Highgate Archway; The Town Hall, Tottenham; Polly Nathan's Fish Shop, Petticoat Lane; Canadian Column, Whitehall; Town Hall, Croydon; and view from Benhilton, Sutton, (album). £45-55 661 POSTCARDS - BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL Approximately 208 cards, including real photographic views of Y.H.A. Hostel, Longthwaite, Borrowdale; Hope Memorial Camp, Braithwaite; The Green, Stony Stratford; Church & Village, Lacock; Cardinals Drive, Nyetimber; and the Harbour, Aberdeen; with views of the Town River, Andover; Micklegate Bar, York; St. William's College, York; Castle Arch, Guildford; The Warren, Caversham (two different); Market House, Ross-on-Wye; The Quay, Poole; and the Landing Place and Bridge, Totnes, (album). £45-55 662 POSTCARDS - BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL Approximately 200 cards, including real photographic views of Alfriston, Sussex; Kate Kearney's Cottage, Killarney; Stonegate, York; Queens Road looking north, Craig-y-Don; Roumania Crescent, Craig-y-Don; and The Market Place, Wells; with views of Wood Street, St. Annes-on-Sea; Old Houses at Tarring; Botanical Gardens (great Western Road), Glasgow; Litchfield Street, Wolverhampton; The Mall, High Street, Harlesden; Maid's Head Hotel and Nurse Cavell's Monument, Norwich; St. Michael's Church, Beccles; and Kittywitchs Row, Great Yarmouth, (album). £50-60 663 POSTCARDS - CHILDREN & OTHER Approximately 230 cards, including multi-babies, artistdrawn comic, and angels, (album). £50-60 664 POSTCARDS - GLAMOUR Approximately 240 cards, comprising photographic and artist-drawn portraits, (album). £50-60 real Lot 663 665 POSTCARDS - RAILWAYS Approximately 270 Pamlin Prints cards, mainly locomotive portraits of both the steam and diesel eras, (album). £40-50 666 POSTCARDS - ARTIST-DRAWN GLAMOUR Approximately forty-four cards, the artists including Raphael Kirchner (3); Suzanne Meunier (5); and Philip Boileau (2), (loose). £40-50 Lot 667 667 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 140 cards, including real photographic views of the frontage of Lockharts Dining Rooms [London]; Upper New Harbour Road, Portavogie; Tramore (by Croker of Waterford); and a signed portrait of Nova Pilbeam; with views of the Birthplace of Admiral Blake, Bridgwater (by Belcher of Bridgwater); Enniskerry; and Mill Street, Ashwell; also an Indian Tea advertising card; and four Great War woven silks, (loose). £40-50 668 POSTCARDS - FILM & MUSIC Approximately 150 cards, including portraits of The Beatles (eleven different); Kenneth More (two different); Frank Sinatra (two different) Liberace; Elvis Presley; Richard Attenborough; Stanley Baker; Richard Burton; John Gregson; and Elizabeth Taylor, some with facsimile signatures, (loose). £40-50 Lot 671 671 POSTCARDS - RAILWAY STATIONS Nine cards, comprising real photographic views of Bulford Station; Pewsey Station; and Heytesbury Station; and views of Wootton Bassett Station; Amesbury Station; Chipping Norton Station; Twyford Station; Tilehurst Station; and Reading West Station, (loose). £40-50 672 POSTCARDS - RAILWAY STATIONS Eleven cards, including real photographic views of Goodmayes Station; and Penns Station (by Butler of Walmley); and views of Dunmow Station (by Spalding of Chelmsford); Haverhill Station; Lympstone Station (with faults); Hailsham Station (by Brooke of Eastbourne); and Bargoed Station, (loose). £40-50 Lot 668 669 POSTCARDS - RAILWAY STATIONS Ten cards, including real photographic views of Stevenage Station; and Wittey Station (by Wiles & Holman of Haslemere); and views of Addiscombe Road Station, Croydon; Milford Station; and Muswell Hill Station (by Gordon Smith), (loose). £40-50 670 POSTCARDS - RAILWAY STATIONS Fourteen cards, including a real photographic view of Haworth Station; and views of Thornton Station; Grange-over-Sands Station (by Mason of Grangeover-Sands); Kents Bank Station; Acocks Green Station (by Wright of Acocks Green); and Church Stretton Station, (loose). £40-50 Lot 673 673 POSTCARDS - TRANSPORT Twelve cards, including a real photographic view of Reading Station; and seven ex-works coaches with Duple bodywork, (loose). £40-50 Lot 674 674 POSTCARDS - AVIATION Fifty-one cards, mainly aircraft portraits, including the Air-Co 4A; Air-Co 6; Boulton-Paul Overstrand; Handley Page Heyford; a biplane looping the loop at Aldershot (by Scovell of Aldershot); and Fairey Hendon, some artist-drawn, (loose). £40-50 675 POSTCARDS - SHIPPING Seventy-two cards, including real photographic views of the paddle steamer 'Britannia' (two different); paddle steamer 'Bristol Queen' (three different); paddle steamer 'Cardiff Queen'; paddle steamer 'Princess Elizabeth'; S.S. 'Orsova'; R.M.S. 'Imperator'; S.S. 'King Orry'; S.S. 'Carinthia'; R.M.S. 'Scythia'; R.M.S. 'Missanabie'; M.S. 'Marnix van Sint Aldegonde'; S.S. 'Andania'; S.S. 'Athenic'; S.S. 'Otway'; and S.S. 'Osterley', (loose). £50-60 676 POSTCARDS - SOCIAL HISTORY & OTHER Approximately seventy cards, including real photographic views of a child with a prize-winning marrow; and Plymouth and other trams (six, all with plain backs); with views of 'Lofty' [Jan van Albert], the Dutch Giant; 'Zamo' the living skeleton; Anita the living doll; a 'Two Headed Mermaid... Captured Alive, N.E. Pacific Coast'; P.C. Stephens of Leicester, 'England's Heaviest Constable'; harvest and other rural scenes; individual and group portraits; and Kent County Cricket Team, 1906, (loose). £40-50 677 POSTCARDS - THEATRE, FILM & MUSIC Fifty-four cards, including signed real photographic portraits of Ivy Shilling (seven different); Mabel Russell; Daisy Jerome; Lulu Valli; Fanny Fields; Elsie McDermid; Gerda Maurus; Daisy Dormer; Ellis Jeffreys; Clara Dow; Avice Kelham; and Georgina Delmar, (loose). £40-50 Lot 677 678 POSTCARDS - ARTIST-DRAWN Approximately ninety cards, mainly comic, including five by Bruce Bairnsfather, (loose). £40-50 Lot 679 679 POSTCARDS - ARTIST-DRAWN COMIC Approximately 177 cards, by Tom Browne (approximately 147) and Donald McGill (approximately 30), (loose). £40-50 680 POSTCARDS - ARTIST-DRAWN Approximately 130 cards, by Mabel Lucie Attwell (7), Harry Payne (7), Randolph Caldecott (12), A.R. Quinton (49), and others, (loose). £40-50 681 POSTCARDS - MILITARY & NAVAL Approximately ninety-five cards, including real photographic view of the Officers' Mess, Mandora Barracks, Aldershot; boys on training masts at Shotley Barracks (two different); H.M.S. Andromache (by Willis of Chatham); and a small vessel inscribed verso 'Earl Kitchener in drifter leaving H.M.S. Iron Duke for H.M.S. Hampshire. The last photo ever taken of Kitchener'; with views of a Camp Bakery, Mesopotamia; and a 'British Ambulance Shattered by Shell-Fire at the French (Verdun) Front'; and artistdrawn by Conrad Leigh (7), Harry Payne (4), Cecil Quinnell (2), and others, (loose). £40-50 682 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Twenty-four cards, including advertising examples for Royal Primrose Soap (stamp removal scar); and W. & A. Gilbey's Ports; six real photographic portraits of children with toys; and others, (loose). £40-50 683 POSTCARDS - ANIMALS Approximately 135 cards, mainly artist-drawn, of cats, dogs, birds, horses, rabbits, wild animals and zoo animals, (loose). £40-50 684 POSTCARDS - GREAT WAR SILKS Thirty-two cards, mainly greetings, (loose). £40-50 685 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately ninety-five cards, artist-drawn and other, of glamour, greetings, children with toys, teddy bear, and advertising interest, (loose). £40-50 687 POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL Approximately 200 cards of Scottish (120), Irish (30) and Welsh (50) interest, including real photographic views of Queens Road from Promenade, Craig-y-Don; Queens Road looking north, Craig-y-Don; Dorward Road, Montrose; Art Galleries & Kelvin Hall, Glasgow; The Turnpike, Thurso; and Clyde Street, Helensburgh; with views of Aber Conwy, Conway; Tam O'Shanter Inn, Ayr; the City Square, Dundee; Allan Water Hotel and Spa, Bridge of Allan; Collinton; St. Fillans; Murray Place, Stirling; Quality Street, North Berwick; and Bridge Street, Dunkeld, (album). £50-60 688 POSTCARDS - EDWARDIAN ACTRESSES Approximately 200 cards, including Gladys Cooper (36), Ellaline Terriss (18), and Marie Studholme (64), (album). £40-50 689 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 200 cards, including British and foreign Royalty (over 140); other real photographic portraits; and artist-drawn animals, (album). £40-50 690 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 200 cards, including Charles Dickens (over 100); further literary; Bamforth song; advertising; and others, (album). £40-50 691 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 200 cards, including railway locomotives (64); aviation (18); rural life (over 45); London life (12); and artist-drawn ethic portraits by Erwin Tetuan (11), (album). £40-50 692 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 100 cards, including naval shipping (12), merchant shipping (28), cats (16), and Great War silks (3), (loose). £40-50 Lot 686 686 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 130 cards, of hold-to-light (12), novelty (19), folding multi-view (24), and other interest, (loose). £40-50 693 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 225 cards, including views of Union Street, Aberdeen; Sinclair Street, Helensburgh; Newmarket Street, Falkirk; Cadzow Street, Hamilton; Market Place, Hull; Victoria Square & Monument, Hull; King Edward Street, Hull; Cuilfal Hotel & Coach, Kilmelford; Causewayhead, Fairlie; School Lane, Formby; Post Office, Fleetwood; Old Houses, Main Street, Frodsham; Market Place, Winsford; Wesley Street and Wesleyan Church, Ossett; Market Hall, Pontefract; and Wavertree Free Library, Liverpool, (loose). £60-70 Lot 694 694 POSTCARDS - WEST COUNTRY Approximately 125 cards of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset and Devon interest, including real photographic views of Lullington (Frome photographer); Nether Wallop; Close Gate, Salisbury; the Lake, Eastville Park, Bristol; Pulteney Street, Bath; New Pier and Bandstand, Weymouth; High West Street, Dorchester; and Higher Cross, Lytchett Matravers; with views of a thunder storm at Mere, 1906; The Barracks, Devizes; Clifton Place, Sidmouth; Newbury, Gillingham; and High Street, Swanage, (loose). £40-50 695 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 240 cards, including views of West End Buildings, Barlow Moor Road, West Didsbury; Ye Olde Shoppes and Post Office, Barlow Moor Road, West Didsbury; Wilmslow Road, Didsbury; High Street, Sutton Coldfield; The Parade, Sutton Coldfield; Bell Street and White Hart Hotel, Reigate;Police Station, Hazel Grove (by Leach of Hazel Grove); Police Station, Amesbury (by Tucker of Amesbury); Buckhorn Weston Tunnel; High Street, Strood; and Elwell Street, Upwey, (loose). £60-70 696 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 185 cards, including artist drawn stilllife studies by Tuck, Hildesheimer and others; artist drawn birds and animals; artist drawn topographical after Breanski; and comic by Donald McGill, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Reg Maurice and others, (two albums). £60-70 Lot 696 697 POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 200 cards, including real photographic views of the Post Office, Allensmoor; Allensmoor Court; the Fish Pol, Allensmoor Court; and Allensmoor Lodge; with other topographical, greetings, and comic, (album and loose). £50-60 698 POSTCARDS & PHOTOGRAPHS RAILWAY Approximately forty-three locomotive portraits, including streamlined North American and European subjects, (loose). £40-50 Lot 699 699 CIGARETTE CARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 235 assorted late 19th century cards of actresses, by W.Duke and others (all with adhesion scarred backs). £40-50 700 CIGARETTE CARDS - ASSORTED British American Tobacco, 'Indian Chiefs', 1930, generally good (50/50); Player, 'Butterflies' (Girls), 1928, generally good (10/50); and others, (album). £40-50 Cross Heroes', 1916, variable condition (13/50); and Mitchell, 'Seals', 1911, good to fair condition (11/25). £50-60 703 CIGARETTE CARDS - FOUR SETS Player, 'Life on Board a Man of War in 1805 and 1905', 1905, variable condition (50/50); Wills,'V.C.'s', 1926, variable condition (50/50); Player, 'Badges & Flags of British Regiments' (green-grey back, unnumbered), 1903, variable condition (50/50); and Player, 'Badges & Flags of British Regiments' (brown back, numbered), 1904, variable condition (50/50). £40-50 704 STAMPS AN R.N.L.I. COVER COLLECTION comprising approximately 234 Great Britain, Channel Islands and Isle of Man commemorative covers, (six albums and loose). £60-80 Lot 701 701 CIGARETTE CARDS - A PART SET Smith, 'Battlefields of Great Britain', 1913, mixed backs, variable condition (40/50). £40-50 Lot 702 702 CIGARETTE CARDS - ASSORTED PART SETS & ODDS Taddy, 'Honours & Ribbons', 1915, variable condition (3/25); Taddy, 'Orders of Chivalry', 1911, variable condition (3/25); Taddy, 'Admirals & Generals - The War', 1914, generally good (4/37); Salmon & Gluckstein, 'Traditions of the Army & Navy', 1917, variable condition (15/25); Gallaher, 'Types of the British Army' (Battle Honours Back), 1897, variable condition (32/50); Cohen Weenen & Co., 'Victoria Lot 705 705 STAMPS - A JERSEY COLLECTION, 19411986 mint, (album). £40-50 706 STAMPS A GREAT BRITAIN COLLECTION, 1952-1989 mint, including some definitives and postage dues, (approximate decimal face value £110; album and stockbook). £60-80 707 STAMPS - A WORLD WILDLIFE FUND COMMEMORATIVE COVER COLLECTION, 1976-78 comprising 108 world covers, (album). £40-50 716 STAMPS - A GREAT BRITAIN COLLECTION comprising 125 presentation packs (total decimal face value over £170). £60-70 717 STAMPS - A GREAT BRITAIN COLLECTION comprising 120 presentation packs (total decimal face value over £380). £140-160 708 STAMPS - A GREAT BRITAIN ELIZABETH II COLLECTION, commemoratives and definitives, including unmounted mint 1971-1985 (total face value over £47), regionals and postage dues, (three albums). £50-70 709 STAMPS - ASSORTED including South Africa, Swaziland, Mauritius, and Montserrat, (two albums). £40-50 710 STAMPS - ASSORTED Approximately 500 first day, commemorative and other covers, (six albums). £100-150 711 STAMPS - ASSORTED including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, and Ceylon, (six albums). £60-80 712 STAMPS - ASSORTED including Grenada, Spain, Portugal, and Monaco, (eleven albums). £80-100 Lot 718 718 STAMPS A GREAT BRITAIN COLLECTION, 1840-1970 mint and used, including a Vic. 1d. black (close cropped three margin), 2d. blue imperf., and 1948 Silver Jubilee £1 mint; together with a collection of 1971 Postal Strike interest, (all in peel-page photo albums). £40-50 719 STAMPS A GREAT BRITAIN COLLECTION, 1971-2006 mint and used, including postage due and tv licence fee issues (total decimal mint face value over £600), (six peel-page photo albums). £200-250 713 POSTAL HISTORY - FRANCE Sixteen assorted covers, circa 1788-1858, all but one with franked marks, the later with multiple marks. £40-50 714 STAMPS - AN ALL-WORLD COLLECTION mainly Great Britain (total decimal mint face value over £98) and Canada, (albums, ring binders, on covers, and loose). £50-70 715 STAMPS - A GREAT BRITAIN COLLECTION comprising fifty-six presentation packs (total decimal face value over £250). £100-120 Lot 720 720 STAMPS - A GREAT BRITAIN COLLECTION comprising various stamp booklets (total decimal mint face value over £88), and a small quantity of loose stamps and PHQ cards. £40-50 Lot 725 725 PHOTOGRAPHS SEVEN CABINET PORTRAITS comprising Colonel W.F. Cody 'Buffalo Bill'; a native North American family; and various British soldiers. £40-50 Lot 721 721 A MID 19TH CENTURY SCRAPBOOK the first page inscribed 'For the dear children / with their Mama's / most affectionate love / Cheltenham / 14th July / 1841', containing clipped engraved illustrations and scraps (some hand-coloured), half leather, approximately fifty leaves, 37cm x 27.5cm. £40-50 722 A LATE 19TH CENTURY SCRAPBOOK containing commercially printed scraps and clipped greetings cards, half leather, approximately twentyeight leaves, 29cm x 24cm. £40-50 726 AUTOGRAPHS - POLITICIANS Assorted signatures, some to portrait photographs and others on headed cards or notepaper, or clipped, including Edward Heath, Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner, Charles Kennedy, Michael Heseltine, Michael Howard, John Redwood, Paddy Ashdown, Denis Healey, Menzies Campbell, Virginia Bottomley, Michael Portillo, Ken Livingstone, Betty Boothroyd, Frank Dobson, Michael Fallon, Martin Bell, William Hague, Glenda Jackson, David Steel, William Whitelaw, and David Owen, (over 260 items). £40-50 723 A LATE 19TH CENTURY SCRAPBOOK containing clipped greetings cards and scraps, artistically arranged with hand-painted watercolour landscape or geometric backgrounds, decorative motifs or borders, green cloth gilt, approximately forty leaves, 37.5cm x 29cm (spine repaired). £40-50 727 AUTOGRAPHS - TELEVISION & RADIO Assorted signed portrait postcards and photographs, including John Suchet, Nicholas Owen, Trevor McDonald, Richard Whiteley, Carol Vorderman, John Craven, Pam Ayres, George Melly, Steve Wright, David Jacobs, Humphrey Lyttelton, Des Lynam, Bob Harris, Terry Wogan and Ed Stewart, (approximately 140). £40-50 724 A LATE 19TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURY SCRAPBOOK containing commercially printed scraps and clipped greetings cards, bevelled pictorial crimson cloth, approximately twenty-nine leaves, 37.5cm x 27.5cm. £50-60 728 AUTOGRAPHS - ASSORTED A Malvern Festival programme, 1932, signed by Laura Knight, Harold Knight, Gordon Bottomley, Barry Jackson, H.K. Ayliff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Leonora Corbett, Scott Sunderland, Margaret Halston, Ellen Pollock, Ralph Richardson, Isabel Thorton, Charles Leighton, Walter Fitzgerald, Frank Moore, Vernon Kelso, Phyllis Shand, Esme Barton, Barrie Livesey, Howell Davies, Hubert Langley, Richard Maxwell, Paul Dornhorst, Frederick Boas, Bonamy Dobree, and others, stiff paper covers. £200-250 731 TWO WELLS BRIMTOY 'POCKETOY' MODEL BUSES the first a double decker bus, red, registration 'AWW 517', plastic wheels, clockwork motor (working), good condition; the second a single decker bus, cream with green flashes and coach lines, destination 'Private', registration 'BRI 17', plastic wheels, clockwork motor (working), excellent condition, both unboxed. £60-70 732 A WELLS BRIMTOY DOUBLE DECKER BUS red with white bands to the upper and lower decks, and a grey roof, destination 'London to Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, Brighton, Bristol', registration 'W1934', printed hub-cap wheels, adverts for 'Thanks for Buying British' to the sides and 'British Toys are the Best' to the rear, clockwork motor (working), generally good condition (lacking conductor figure), 17.5cm long, unboxed. £50-60 Lot 728 TIN PLATE TOYS 729 TWO WELLS BRIMTOY 'POCKETOY' MODEL BUSES the first red with white bands to the upper and lower decks, route '10', cast metal wheels, clockwork motor (working), excellent condition; the second red with white bands to the upper and lower decks, route '10', plastic wheels, clockwork motor (working), excellent condition, both unboxed. £60-70 733 A WELLS SINGLE DECKER BUS cream with red side flashes and coach lines, destination 'Private', registration 'CLX 553', printed red wheels, clockwork motor (working), generally good condition, 18cm long, unboxed. £50-60 Lot 734 Lot 730 730 TWO WELLS BRIMTOY 'POCKETOY' MODEL BUSES the first a trolleybus, red, route '516', registration 'AWW 516', plastic wheels, clockwork motor (working), good condition; the second a double decker bus, red, registration 'AWW 517', plastic wheels, friction drive motor (working), good condition, both unboxed. £40-50 734 A WELLS BRIMTOY 'GREEN LINE' SINGLE DECKER BUS green with yellow coach lines, route '704 Windsor', registration '553 GLX', black plastic wheels, friction drive motor (working), generally good condition, 18cm long, unboxed. £40-50 735 A WELLS 'GREEN LINE' SINGLE DECKER BUS green with yellow coach lines, destination 'London', registration 'GLX 553', printed red wheels, clockwork motor (working), generally good condition, 18cm long, unboxed. £80-100 736 A CHAD VALLEY / CARR'S BISCUITS 'LONDON TRANSPORT' DOUBLE DECKER BUS NOVELTY BISCUIT TIN red with a cream bands to the upper and lower decks, route '25 Victoria Station', registration 'AYV 604', printed wire wheels, adverts for 'Carr's Biscuits' to front, 'Chad Valley Toys' and 'Carr's Biscuits' to the sides, and 'Carr's Biscuits' to the rear, non-motorized, fair condition, 25.5cm long, unboxed (roof, front wheel arches, rear platform body and rear axle bracket replaced). £50-70 737 AN M.L.B. (ITALIAN) TINPLATE FIAT ESTATE CAR grey with lighter grey side panels, sliding sunroof, opening rear door and cream hubs, with a clockwork motor (non-working), generally good condition, 17cm long; and an A.M. (Italian) tinplate Fiat 600, pale fawn, red plastic hubs, with a friction drive motor (working), good condition, 11cm long, both unboxed, (2). £50-70 738 TWO RIVAROSSI FIAT MOTOR CARS plastic, the first a Fiat 500, pale grey with a dark grey sunroof, battery-operated motor (not tested), good condition, unboxed; the second a Fiat 600, grey-green, lift-off bonnet, battery-operated motor (not tested), generally good condition (scrapes to nearside door; nearside rear wheel splayed), both unboxed. £60-80 740 TWO SCHUCO CLOWN MUSICIANS the first playing a violin, and the second playing a drum, both with clockwork mechanisms (working), each 11cm high. £50-60 GENERAL TOYS 741 AN ACTION MAN COLLECTION comprising four figures, three with 'hard' heads and one with flock hair and beard, all with 'hard' hands, and a quantity of clothing and equipment, including Chelsea and World Cup 1970 track suit tops. £60-80 742 DEL PRADO 'MEN AT WAR' FIGURES Approximately 100 standing figures, mainly 19141945, each mint in unopened bubble packaging; together with a quantity of accompanying literature. £100-120 743 TWO TRI-ANG RETAILER'S PRINTED PAPER BANNERS circa 1960s, comprising 'Tri-ang Toys' and 'Tri-ang Tricycles', in unused condition, each 22cm x 124cm. £40-50 WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS 744 TWELVE WHITE METAL & RESIN NAVAL & FLEET AUXILIARY WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS including Hein Muck Models Royal Mail Troopship 'Andes'; Hein Muck Models Heavy Repair Ship 'H.M.S. Artifex'; and Loft Lines Type 45 Destroyer 'H.M.S. Daring', each in a plain card box. £40-50 745 TWENTY-EIGHT MAINLY WHITE METAL OR DIECAST NAVAL & FLEET AUXILIARY WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS unboxed. £40-50 Lot 739 739 A WELLS BRIMTOY DOUBLE DECKER BUS red with white bands to the upper and lower decks, and a grey roof, destination 'London to Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, Brighton, Bristol', registration 'W1934', printed wire-spoked wheels, adverts for 'Thanks for Buying British' to the sides and 'British Toys are the Best' to the rear, complete with conductor figure, clockwork motor (working), good to fair condition, 17.5cm long, unboxed. £40-50 746 FIFTY-TWO RESIN & WOOD WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS by Len Jordan and others, each unboxed. £50-70 747 EIGHT RESIN WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS by Len Jordan, Hein Muck Models and others, each in a plain card box. £40-50 748 NINE RESIN WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS Hein Muck Models and others, including the 'Australis', 'Song of America', and 'Northern Star', each in a plain card box. £40-50 755 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.29A, MOTOR BUS yellow with a silver roof, no adverts, orange plastic wheels, good condition (no obvious sign of fatigue). £60-80 749 ELEVEN RESIN WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS by Len Jordan and others, including 'London Loyalty', 'Hornby Grange', and 'Beacon Grange', each in a plain card box. £50-60 750 EIGHT RESIN WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS each in a plain card box; together with a further thirty white metal and diecast waterline model ships, by Triang Minic and others, each unboxed, (38). £50-60 751 FORTY-SEVEN WHITE METAL & DIECAST WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS by Albatross and others, each boxed, most in a plain card box. £60-80 Lot 756 756 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.27, TRAM CAR green with a cream roof, 'Ovaltine' adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, good condition (minor bowing to lower sides). £80-100 752 FORTY-EIGHT RESIN WATERLINE MODEL SHIPS by Len Jordan and others, each in a plain card box; together with a quantity of quayside buildings and accessories, including five boxed Wiking model lorries. £100-120 Lot 757 DIECAST MODELS 753 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.27, TRAM CAR mid blue with a cream roof, no adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, good condition (no obvious sign of fatigue). £60-80 Lot 754 754 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.29A, MOTOR BUS blue with a cream roof, no adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, good condition (no obvious sign of fatigue). £60-80 757 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.29C, DOUBLE DECKER BUS A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, cast-in stairs, cream over red with a grey roof, 'Dunlop Tyres' advertising, smooth black hubs, white tyres, fair condition (slight sagging in base and one closed crack beneath rear platform; some fatigue crazing to hubs). £40-50 758 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.29C, DOUBLE DECKER BUS A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, cast-in stairs, cream over maroon with a grey roof, 'Dunlop Tyres' advertising, smooth black hubs, white tyres, good to fair condition (small fatigue blister to nearside lower deck; one front wing slightly bent; some fatigue crazing to hubs). £40-50 759 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.29C, DOUBLE DECKER BUS A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, cast-in stairs, cream over blue with a grey roof, 'Dunlop Tyres' advertising, smooth black hubs, black tyres, generally good condition (some fatigue crazing to hubs). £50-60 760 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.29C, DOUBLE DECKER BUS A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, cast-in stairs, cream over pale green with a grey roof, 'Dunlop Tyres' advertising, smooth black hubs, black tyres, good to fair condition (some fatigue crazing to hubs). £40-50 Lot 761 761 A PRE-WAR TRADE BOX OF SIX NO.29C DOUBLE DECKER MOTOR BUSES the yellow box with printed code 'A2226' to the ends and 'BW1214 10M 8-38' to one side, with replacement dividers, containing an immediate post-war Double Decker Bus, A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, no stairs, grey over green, no advertising, smooth black hubs, white tyres, good condition; immediate post-war Double Decker Bus, A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, no stairs, grey over red, no advertising, ridged black hubs, black tyres, fair condition (wing tips broken); immediate post-war Double Decker Bus, A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, no stairs, cream over green, no advertising, ridged black hubs, black tyres, generally good condition; immediate post-war Double Decker Bus, A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, no stairs, lighter sea green over darker green, no advertising, ridged black hubs, black tyres, fair condition; immediate post-war Double Decker Bus, A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, no stairs, grey over green, no advertising, ridged black hubs, black tyres, generally good condition (one wing tip broken); and immediate post-war Double Decker Bus, A.E.C. grille, cutaway wings, no stairs, cream over red, no advertising, ridged black hubs, black tyres, generally good condition. £200-250 762 FOUR DINKY COACHES comprising a French Dinky No.29e, Isobloc Autocar, silver and mid blue, with a smooth roof and mid blue ridged hubs, good to fair condition; Dinky No.29f/280, Observation Coach, grey with red side flashes and grey ridged hubs, very good condition; Dinky No.282, Duple Roadmaster Leyland Royal Tiger, blue with silver coach lines and mid blue ridged hubs, very good condition; and Dinky No.29g/281, Luxury Coach, cream with orange side flashes and cream ridged hubs, good condition, all unboxed. £50-60 763 FIVE DINKY COACHES comprising a Dinky No.29f/280, Observation Coach, cream with red side flashes and cream ridged hubs, very good condition; Dinky No.29g/281, Luxury Coach, mid blue with cream side flashes and pale yellow ridged hubs, good to fair condition; Dinky No.29g/281, Luxury Coach, fawn with orange side flashes and cream ridged hubs, good to fair condition; Dinky No.282, Duple Roadmaster Leyland Royal Tiger, crimson with silver coach lines and crimson ridged hubs, generally good condition; and French Dinky No.29e, Isobloc Autocar, silver and red, with a ribbed roof and crimson ridged hubs, fair to playworn condition, all unboxed. £40-50 764 FIVE DINKY BUSES comprising a Dinky No.290, Double Decker Bus 'Dunlop', Leyland grille, cream over green, mid green ridged hubs, good to fair condition, boxed, the box worn (one replacement end flap); Dinky No.29c/290, Double Decker Bus, Leyland grille, cream over green, mid green ridged hubs, good condition, unboxed; Dinky No.29c/290, Double Decker Bus, A.E.C. grille, cream over red, red ridged hubs, fair condition, unboxed; Dinky No.29c/290, Double Decker Bus, Leyland grille, cream over green, black ridged hubs, good to fair condition (destination boards and number blinds over-painted), unboxed; and Dinky No.282, Duple Roadmaster Leyland Royal Tiger, blue with silver coach lines and mid blue ridged hubs, good to fair condition, boxed, the box poor (lacking both end flaps and one tab). £40-50 767 A FRENCH DINKY NO.541, MERCEDESBENZ SMALL BUS cream over dark red, unpainted concave hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box very good. £50-60 Lot 765 765 TWO DINKY BUSES comprising a Dinky No.292, Leyland Atlantean Bus 'Corporation Transport', cream and red, 'Regent' adverts, spun hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box good to fair; and Dinky No.293, Leyland Atlantean Bus 'Corporation Transport', white and green, 'B.P.' adverts, spun hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box generally good (creased at one corner). £60-70 Lot 766 766 A FRENCH DINKY NO.29F, AUTOCAR CHAUSSON cream over red, with silver trim, red ridged hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box very good. £50-60 Lot 767 768 TWO DINKY COACHES comprising a Dinky No.952, Vega Major Luxury Coach, white with a purple side stripe, blue seats, blue baseplate, with working indicators (not tested), spun hubs, generally excellent condition (some enhanced paint detailing), boxed, the box good; and Dinky No.952, Vega Major Luxury Coach, white with a purple side stripe, blue seats, purple baseplate, without working indicators, cast hubs, excellent condition, unboxed. £50-60 769 FIVE DINKY BUSES comprising a Dinky No.295, Atlantean Bus 'Yellow Pages', silver with adverts to the sides only, plain black wheels, mint, in No.291 bubble packaging, the packaging good to fair; Dinky No.295, Atlantean Bus 'Yellow Pages', dark yellow, good to fair condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging fair; Dinky No.295, Atlantean Bus 'Yellow Pages', lemon yellow with a white bustle, very good condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging good to fair; Dinky No.295, Atlantean Bus 'Yellow Pages', lemon yellow, very good condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging good; and Dinky No.295, Atlantean Bus 'Yellow Pages', lemon yellow with reversed lettering to lower front sticker, good condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging good. £40-50 770 FOUR DINKY BUSES comprising a Dinky No.291, Atlantean Bus 'Kenning', white, very good condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging good to fair; Dinky No.291, Atlantean Bus 'Kenning', orange with a white bustle, excellent condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging good to fair; Dinky No.291, Atlantean Bus 'Kenning', orange with a dark blue bustle, very good condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging good to fair; and Dinky No.291, Atlantean Bus 'Kenning', pale blue, near mint, in bubble packaging, the packaging fair. £40-50 771 THREE FRENCH DINKY NO.29D, RENAULT TN4H PARIS BUSES the first cream over green, with a black baseplate, smooth black hubs and white 'Dunlop' tyres, generally good condition (roof with retouched chips; fatigue crazing to body and hubs; base of rear platform with two glued fatigue cracks); the second repainted cream over green, with a silver baseplate and unpainted mazak wheels; the third repainted cream over green, with a silver baseplate, yellow ridged hubs and black tyres. £40-50 772 FOUR PRE-WAR DINKY NO.26, G.W.R. RAIL CARS the first with a lead body, red over green, green plastic roller wheels, fair condition; the second with a lead body, cream over red, green plastic roller wheels, playworn; the third with a mazac body, cream over blue, green plastic roller wheels, fair condition (fatigue blister to one end); the fourth with a mazac body, cream over pale green, cast metal wheels, playworn but no obvious sign of fatigue. £40-50 773 FOUR DINKY BUSES comprising a Dinky No.961, Vega Major Luxury Coach 'PTT', yellow with a white roof and red side stripe, cast hubs, generally very good condition (front slightly faded), unboxed; Dinky No.293, Swiss PTT Bus, yellow with a white roof and red side stripe, very good condition, in bubble packaging, the packaging good; Dinky No.283, Single Decker Bus, red with a white side stripe, cast hubs, near mint, boxed, the box lacking one end flap and with one detached tab; and Dinky No.283, Single Decker Bus, metallic red with a white side stripe, cast hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box generally good but lacking one tab. £50-60 774 A DINKY NO.925, LEYLAND TIPPER TRUCK white and orange with a blue cab roof and blue plastic hubs, mint, boxed, the box generally good (lid with scarred patch to one end panel). £70-80 775 A DINKY NO.958, GUY SNOW PLOUGH black and yellow with a silver plough and yellow grooved hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box good. £60-70 Lot 775 776 A DINKY NO.617, VOLKSWAGEN KDF WITH 50MM P.A.K. ANTI-TANK GUN military grey-green with matching plastic hubs / wheels, near mint (lacking shells), boxed, the box very good. £40-50 777 TWO DINKY CARS comprising a Dinky No.164, Ford Zodiac Mk 4, silver, good condition, boxed, the hard plastic box fair (lid cracked and lacking label); and Dinky No.152, RollsRoyce Phantom V Limousine, dark blue-black, very good condition, boxed, the hard plastic box fair (lid cracked); together with a Meccano Ltd typed note identifying the latter model as a factory replacement, (2). £40-50 778 A DINKY NO.132, FORD 40-RV silver with a red side stripe, very good condition, boxed, the hard plastic box good; together with a Corgi No.156, Cooper Maserati F/1, dark blue, racing number '7', near mint, boxed, the box very good, (2). £50-60 779 THREE DINKY CARS comprising a Dinky No.160, Mercedes-Benz 250 S.E., metallic blue, near mint, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap with torn lip); Dinky No.156, Saab 96, metallic red, very good condition, boxed, the box fair (one end flap taped closed); and Dinky No.168, Ford Escort, pale blue, generally good condition (with applied transfer detail), boxed, the box good to fair (one tab detached; purchase date written in ink), (3). £50-60 783 A DINKY NO.981, HORSE BOX 'BRITISH RAILWAYS' maroon with red grooved hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the striped box good to fair (lid punctured and one end flap torn, without loss). £40-50 Lot 780 780 A PRE-WAR DINKY NO.29B, STREAMLINED BUS cream over mid blue, open rear window, darker blue smooth hubs, white tyres, fair condition (fatigue crazing; roof with two blisters). £40-50 781 THREE PRE-WAR DINKY BUSES comprising a Dinky No.29a, Motor Bus, yellow with a silver roof, 'Marmite' adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, playworn (no obvious sign of fatigue); Dinky No.29a, Motor Bus, green with a cream roof, 'Marmite' adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, playworn (no obvious sign of fatigue); and Dinky No.29a, Motor Bus, pale blue with a repainted cream roof, 'Marmite' adverts (varnished), metal solid spoked wheels, fair condition (no obvious sign of fatigue). £40-50 782 THREE PRE-WAR DINKY TRAMS comprising a Dinky No.27, Tram Car, blue with a cream roof, 'Ovaltine' adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, fair to playworn condition; Dinky No.27, Tram Car, yellow with a cream roof, 'Ovaltine' adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, playworn condition; and Dinky No.27, Tram Car, orange with a cream roof, 'Ovaltine' adverts, metal solid spoked wheels, playworn condition. £50-60 Lot 784 784 A DINKY NO.956, BEDFORD TURNTABLE FIRE ESCAPE red with red plastic hubs, windows to cab, brightwork ladder, very good condition, boxed, the box good and complete with inner packing pieces and instruction leaflet. £50-60 Lot 785 785 A DINKY NO.513, GUY FLAT TRUCK WITH TAILBOARD dark green with a mid green load area and mid green grooved hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box good. £60-80 Lot 783 786 A FRENCH DINKY NO.24C, CITROEN DS 19 dark orange with a cream roof, glazed windows, unpainted hubs, white rubber tyres, very good condition, unboxed; and Tri-ang Minic No.119M, Watney's Barrel Lorry, green with red diecast hubs, generally good condition (transfer to rear of barrel with significant loss), unboxed, (2). £40-50 787 A DINKY NO.401, COVENTRY CLIMAX FORK LIFT TRUCK orange with mid green forks and ridged hubs, and with an unusual gilt metal winding handle, excellent condition, boxed, the box good and complete with inner packing piece; Dinky No.921, Bedford Articulated Lorry, yellow with black tractor unit wings and red ridged / grooved hubs, fair to good condition, boxed, the box fair; and assorted other items, including a small quantity of lead figures. £50-60 788 FOUR DINKY CARS comprising a Dinky No.207, Triumph TR7 Rally, white with double red and blue chevron to bonnet (possibly a design trial or factory error), racing number '8', mint, boxed, the box generally good; Dinky No.207, Triumph TR7 Rally, red with hand-painted dark blue lower sides and 'British Airways' chevron to bonnet, racing number '7', grey plastic interior, boxed, the box good; Dinky No.211, Triumph TR7 Sports Car, black, boxed, the box generally good; and Dinky No.211, Triumph TR7 Sports Car, polished bare metal, boxed, the box very good. £100-120 789 FOURTEEN MECCANO PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES comprising promotional images of models in the Dinky range, circa 1975-79. £40-50 790 A CORGI NO.508, HOLIDAY CAMP SPECIAL COMMER BUS orange and white, excellent condition (lacking green plastic covered luggage), boxed, the box generally good; Husky No.7, Duple Vista 25 Coach, white over sea green, mint, in opened bubble packaging; Corgi Junior No.7, Duple Vista 25 Coach, white over yellow, plain black wheels, near mint (one side slightly faded), in opened bubble packaging; and Corgi Junior No.7, Duple Vista 25 Coach, white over mauve, foiled black wheels, mint (one side slightly faded), in opened bubble packaging; also an Efsi Scania Jonckheere Bermuda, white over yellow, mint, in bubble packaging, (5). £40-50 791 TWO CORGI CARS comprising a Corgi No.264, Oldsmobile Toronado, dark metallic blue, cast wheels, generally very good condition (windscreen cracked), boxed, the box generally good; and Corgi No.337, Customized Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, yellow, generally very good condition (plating worn), boxed, the box very good, (2). £40-50 792 TWO CORGI CARS comprising a Corgi No.316, N.S.U. Sport Prinz, metallic dark pink, very good condition, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed); and Corgi No.239, Volkswagen 1500 Karmann Ghia, red, good condition, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed), (2). £40-50 Lot 793 793 A CORGI NO.235, OLDSMOBILE SUPER 88 pale blue with a white side stripe, near mint, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed). £50-60 Lot 794 794 A CORGI NO.237, OLDSMOBILE SUPER 88 SHERIFF CAR black over white, excellent condition, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed). £45-55 795 TWO CORGI CARS comprising a Corgi No.263, Marlin Rambler Fastback, red with a black roof, spoked front wheels, cast rear wheels, near mint, boxed, the box good to fair (one tab torn and taped); and Corgi No.443, Plymouth Sports Suburban U.S. Mail, good condition, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed), (2). £40-50 796 A CORGI NO.440, FORD CONSUL CORTINA SUPER ESTATE CAR metallic blue, near mint (lacking golfer, caddie, trolley and bag), boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed). £40-50 798 FOUR CORGI CARS comprising a Corgi No.258, The Saint's Volvo P.1800, white, fair condition, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed); Corgi No.256, Volkswagen 1200 East African Safari, fair to playworn condition (lacking rhino), boxed, the box fair (one end flap taped closed); and two other models, both playworn, both boxed, (4). £50-60 799 THREE CORGI CARS comprising a Corgi No.485, Austin Mini Countryman, sea-green, very good condition (lacking surfboards and surfer), unboxed; Corgi Classics No.9041, 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, silver, near mint, in bubble packaging, the packaging good; and Corgi No.318, Mini Cooper S 'Monte Carlo 1965', red with a white roof, racing number '52', fair to playworn condition, unboxed; also an empty box for a Corgi No.317, MiniCooper S 'Monte Carlo 1964', fair to poor (one end flap detached; lacking two tabs); a Dinky No.110, Aston Martin DB5 Convertible, metallic red, generally very good condition (lacking headlight lenses), unboxed; and a plastic Wiking lorry with draw-bar trailer, unboxed, (6). £40-50 800 A CORGI NO.1151, 'CO-OP' SET comprising a Scammell Articulated Lorry, white and pale blue, excellent condition; Commer Milk Float, white and pale blue, cast hubs, near mint; and a Commer Van, white and pale blue, cast hubs, fair condition, all unboxed, (3). £40-50 Lot 797 797 A CORGI GIFT SET NO.40, THE AVENGERS comprising John Steed's Vintage Bentley, red with a black chassis, very good condition, complete with seated Steed figure, and Emma Peel's Lotus Elan, white, good condition, complete with standing Peel figure, boxed, the box generally good (one end flap taped closed). £80-100 Lot 801 801 A CORGI NO.206, HILLMAN HUSKY silver over metallic blue, smooth hubs, near mint (scratch to roof), boxed, the yellow and blue box fair (owner's name and some outlining in blue ink). £40-50 802 TWENTY-NINE MATCHBOX 1-75 SERIES MODELS circa 1950s-70s, variable condition with many good; together with two Corgi Juniors, all unboxed, (31). £40-50 803 TWENTY-TWO MATCHBOX 1-75 SERIES MODELS circa 1960s-70s, variable condition, most generally good, all boxed (three in incorrect boxes; all but one box lacking one end flap and two tabs). £40-50 804 A CHAD VALLEY 'WEE-KIN TOY' NO.240, COMMER AVENGER COACH blue with silver side flashes, with a clockwork motor operated via an off-side key hole (not tested), generally good condition, unboxed. £40-50 805 ASSORTED DIECAST MODEL VEHICLES circa 1950s-60s, including a Dinky No.107, Sunbeam Alpine, dark pink, racing number '34', cream ridged hubs, very good condition; Matchbox Major Pack No.2, Bedford Articulated Lorry 'Davies Tyres', orange and silver, black plastic wheels, very good condition; and assorted others by Dinky, Corgi, Matchbox and Morestone / Budgie, each good condition or better, all unboxed, (13). £50-60 806 ASSORTED DIECAST MODEL VEHICLES circa 1950s-60s, comprising a Dinky No.967, B.B.C. TV Mobile Control Room, green, grey grooved hubs, good condition; Dinky No.969, B.B.C. TV Extending Mast Vehicle, green, grey grooved hubs, good to fair condition (lacking mast head attachment); Dinky No.968, B.B.C. TV Roving Eye, green, grey grooved hubs, good to fair condition (lacking roof aerial); SpotOn No.260, Rolls-Royce Phantom V, maroon, fair condition; and assorted others by Dinky, Matchbox, Corgi, and Morestone / Budgie, variable condition, many good, all unboxed, (31). £50-60 807 A TAYLOR & BARRETT NO.204, TROLLEY BUS red with a grey roof and black trolley poles, route '621 Finchley', adverts for 'Dominion Petrol' to the sides and 'National Benzole' to the rear, black hubs, white tyres, generally good condition (adverts possibly replacements; added conductor figure), unboxed. £80-100 808 A TAYLOR & BARRETT NO.152, MOTOR COACH cream with a green band around windows, green wheel arch flashes, and a green chassis, destination 'London', green hubs and white tyres, generally good condition, unboxed. £60-80 809 TEN DIECAST MODEL BUSES by Dinky, Corgi, Matchbox and Budgie, circa 1976-81, including a Dinky No.289, Routemaster Bus 'Woolworth Welcomes the World', silver, speedwheels, mint, boxed, the box good; and Dinky No.289, Routemaster Bus 'Queen's Silver Jubilee', silver, speedwheels, mint, boxed, the box good, all boxed. £40-50 810 THREE TAYLOR & BARRETT NO.197 TROLLEY BUSES the first red, route '617 Holborn', adverts for 'Dominion Petrol' to the sides, cast wheels, good condition (adverts possibly replacements); the second red, route '617 Holborn', adverts for 'Champion's Malt Vinegar' to the sides, cast wheels, fair to playworn condition (one advert a replacement); the third red, route '617 Holborn', without adverts, cast wheels, playworn, all unboxed. £40-50 811 A JOHN HILL & CO. 'LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL' TRAM red and white, route '33 Herne Hill / Bloomsbury', cast wheels, playworn; together with a John Hill & Co. 'General' Double Decker Bus, red and white, route '8 Oxford St. / Bank / Old Ford', cast wheels, playworn; another John Hill & Co. 'General' Double Decker Bus; and two other double decker buses, variable condition, all unboxed, (5). £40-50 Lot 812 812 A DINKY NO.290, DOUBLE DECKER BUS 'DUNLOP' Leyland grille, cream over green, spun hubs, excellent condition, unboxed; together with a Corgi Major Pack No.1120, Express Coach 'Midland Red', red with a black roof, near mint, unboxed, (2). £40-50 813 FOUR MODEL BUSES comprising Budgie No.296, Motorway Express 'Midland Red', red with a black roof, silver plastic hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box generally good but lacking one end flap lip; Dinky No.295, Standard Atlas Kenebrake, pale grey over pale blue, red interior, mint, boxed, the box fair (one end flap detached); Dinky No.290, Double Decker Bus 'Dunlop', Leyland grille, cream over red, spun hubs, good condition, unboxed; and Dinky No.290, Double Decker Bus 'Dunlop', Leyland grille, cream over green, mid green plastic hubs, good condition, unboxed. £40-50 Lot 818 814 THREE ROUTEMASTER BUSES comprising a Corgi No.468, London Transport Routemaster Bus 'Naturally Corgi Toys', red, spun hubs, excellent condition, boxed, the box good; Dinky No.289, Routemaster Bus 'Schweppes', excellent condition, boxed, the box good; and Milton Routemaster Bus 'Milton Mini Cars', red, very good condition, unboxed. £50-60 819 [OO GAUGE]. A HORNBY DUBLO COLLECTION comprising a No.EDL7, S.R. Class N2 0-6-2 tank locomotive, 2594, malachite green livery; three Pullman coaches ('Aries'; 'Car No.74'; 'Car No.79'), brown and cream livery; a B.R. Sleeping Car, lined maroon livery; a breakdown crane; and a cattle wagon, all unboxed. £40-50 815 TWENTY ASSORTED MODEL BUSES including Code 3 Matchbox 'Model of Yesteryear' and Corgi issues, most mint or near mint, each boxed. £60-70 820 [OO GAUGE]. A G.W.R. COLLECTION comprising a Mainline No.37058, G.W.R. Collett Class 2251 0-6-0 tender locomotive, 3205, green livery, boxed; Mainline No.37084, G.W.R. Class 57xx pannier tank locomotive, 5764, green livery, boxed; and ten assorted kit-built or modified wagons, all unboxed, (12). £40-50 816 TWENTY 1/76 SCALE MODEL BUSES by Exclusive First Editions (19) and Corgi 'Original Omnibus Company' (1), including an E.F.E. promotional A.E.C. Regent 'Star Construction Group Ltd', and a Code 3 E.F.E. A.E.C. Regent 'London Toy & Model Club 1992', various liveries, each mint or near mint and boxed. £50-60 817 TWENTY-FOUR EXCLUSIVE FIRST EDITIONS 1/76 SCALE MODEL BUSES including a special edition A.E.C. Regent 'Midland / The Evening Despatch', and a promotional A.E.C. Regent 'Star Construction Group Ltd', various liveries, each mint or near mint and boxed. £50-60 818 THREE MODEL TAXIS comprising a Corgi No.418, Austin London Taxi-Cab, black, smooth hubs, near mint, boxed, the box very good; Budgie No.101, London Taxi-Cab, black, mint, boxed, the box generally good (one flap lacking lip); and Budgie No.703, London Taxi FX4 'De Danske Redningskorps', grey, mint, boxed, the box generally good (two scarred patches). £45-55 MODEL TRAINS 821 [OO GAUGE]. A B.R. (W) COLLECTION comprising an Airfix No.54125, B.R. Castle Class 4-60 tender locomotive 'Pendennis Castle', 4079, lined green livery, boxed; three Mainline B.R. coaches, maroon and cream livery, each boxed; and two Lima 'C.W.S. Milk Service' tank wagons, each boxed, (6). £40-50 822 [OO GAUGE]. A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION comprising Mainline No.37090, G.W.R. Class 43xx mogul 2-6-0 tender locomotive, 5322, green livery, boxed; Dapol No.D19, G.W.R. Class 14xx 0-4-2 tank locomotive, 1466, green livery, boxed; Lima No.205117, G.W.R. Class 45xx 2-6-2 prairie tank locomotive, 4589, green livery; four G.W.R. Coaches, including an Autocoach, two of them boxed; and eight assorted wagons, including a Siphon G, all but one boxed, (15). £60-70 823 [OO GAUGE]. A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION comprising buildings, lineside accessories, and scenic supplies, some in unopened packaging. £40-50 825 AN OTTO REINECKE BISQUE SOCKETHEAD DOLL with a cropped brown wig, sleeping blue glass eyes, and an open mouth with two upper teeth, on a fivepiece bent-limb composition body, the head impressed 'P.M. / 914 / Germany / 9', 46cm high. £60-80 826 AN ARMAND MARSEILLE 'FLORADORA' BISQUE SOCKET-HEAD DOLL with a brown wig, sleeping brown glass eyes, and an open mouth with four upper teeth, on a jointed composition body with movable wrists, the head impressed 'Made in Germany / Floradora / A. 5/0 M.', 28cm high; and a Heubach Koppelsdorf bisque socket-head doll, 18cm high, (2). £40-60 Lot 824 824 A 2 1/2 INCH GAUGE SPIRIT-FIRED LIVE STEAM MODEL OF L.N.E.R. CLASS A3 TENDER LOCOMOTIVE 'FLYING SCOTSMAN', [4472] built by Major T.H. Vitty, blue livery, 94.5cm long; together with a length of display track. Note: Boiler history unknown. £400-500 DOLLS & DOLLS HOUSES Lot 827 827 AN ARMAND MARSEILLE BISQUE SOCKET-HEAD DOLL with a long brown wig, sleeping grey glass eyes, and an open mouth with four upper teeth, on a ball jointed composition body with movable wrists, the head impressed 'Armand Marseille / Germany / 390 / A 9. M', 64cm high. £60-80 Lot 825 Lot 828 828 A SCHOENAU & HOFFMEISTER 'HANNA' BISQUE SOCKET-HEAD DOLL with a cropped blonde wig, sleeping blue glass eyes, and an open mouth with two upper teeth, on a fivepiece bent-limb composition body, the head impressed 'S PB H / Hanna / 4', 39.5cm high. £80-100 829 FIVE ASSORTED CLOTH DOLLS by Norah Wellings and others, the largest 36cm high. £50-70 high, 98.5cm wide, 55cm deep; together with a quantity of furniture and household effects, including nine dolls (two ladies, two maids and five children see note below); five dining chairs, a sofa, a console table and a drawing room table all in the French style; a pair of corner what-nots; davenport; games table; four-fold screen; sideboard; canopied bed; dresser; gateleg table; work table; white metal pole screen; white metal purdoneum; pair of circular gilt metal mirrors; tin bath; painted tin hot water can; glass topped faux tortoiseshell table; chest of drawers; pictures and other items. Provenance: By family repute the house was made for Eleanor Crawley (b.1809), the present vendor's great, great grandmother, who lived at Grove House, Hackney, following her marriage to Henry Norris in 1833. It has remained in the same family, passing by direct descent, ever since. Note: According to the memoirs of one former owner the inhabitants consisted of ‘Mr Fair and his wife, Lady Fair, and Elspeth and Tommy and the baby… There was [also] Blockhead the butler… and two anonymous maids’. £2500-3000 ADVERTISING & PACKAGING Lot 831 Lot 830 830 A 19TH CENTURY DOUBLE FRONTED DOLLS HOUSE retaining its original painted stonework, the rear elevation comprising four side-hinged glazed doors opening to reveal an internal arrangement of four rooms, three with fitted fireplaces and one with a tin kitchen range, beneath a shallow pitched roof, 103cm 831 A MACKINTOSH'S TOFFEE NOVELTY CONFECTIONERY SHOP MONEY BOX TIN with a hinged awning, the sides attractively printed with tinned stock, one end with a girl in the entrance doorway, and the rear with a delivery van and driver, the pitched lift-off lid with a coin slot, overall 9.5cm high. £50-70 832 A HUNTLEY & PALMER'S BISCUIT TIN 'GYMKHANA', 1898 the lid and sides printed with equestrian scenes, including a polo match and a donkey derby, 9cm high, 13.5cm wide, 13.5cm deep; together with a Sharp's Super-Kreem Toffee novelty confectionery tin, in the form of a barrel or churn, 11.5cm high (lacking handle); and four other assorted tins, (6). £40-50 Lot 835 836 A WEAVERS DAIRY CUBES ENAMEL WALL SIGN with white lettering against a blue ground, 51cm x 76.5cm. £40-50 Lot 833 837 A ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS PUBLIC INFORMATION POSTER circa 1940s-50s, 'Pyjamas are Safer than Nightdresses / Dressed & Guarded for Safety', depicting a girl with her teddy bear dressing before an electric fire, 74cm x 48cm, framed and glazed. £40-50 833 A CALIFORNIA WINES 'BIG TREE BRAND' ADVERTISING PICTURE depicting a labelled flagon flanked by grapes and vine leaves, framed and glazed in an oak frame (loss to lower right corner of frame). £40-50 834 A CHAMPIONS VINEGAR ENAMEL WALL SIGN by Orme Evans & Co. of Wolverhampton, with dark blue lettering against a light blue ground, 41cm x 183cm. £60-70 835 A BROOKE BOND TEA ENAMEL WALL SIGN with black lettering against an orange ground, and a black and white chequered border, 101cm x 101cm. £100-120 Lot 838 838 A LATE 19TH CENTURY POLYPHON DISC MUSIC BOX serial number 91186, with a gilded metal bed, the lid with a pictorial papered interior, 18.5cm x 34cm x 30.5cm; together with one 11 inch (28cm) disc, (comb with two broken teeth). £80-100 839 AN H.M.V. MODEL 109 TABLE GRAND GRAMOPHONE with an H.M.V. No.4 reproducer, in an oak case. £40-60 Lot 842 843 A BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTER 'THE MATRIX' 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 844 TWO BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTERS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER comprising 'The Terminator' and 'Total Recall', each 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 Lot 840 840 AN H.M.V. TABLE GRAND GRAMOPHONE WITH A LUMIERE PLEATED DIAPHRAGM in a quarter-cut oak case. £300-400 841 A VIOLIN the two-piece back 35.5cm long, stamped 'Stainer' below the button, the interior unlabelled, cased; together with a bow, unnamed. £50-70 FILM POSTERS & LOBBY CARDS 842 FOUR BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTERS CLINT EASTWOOD comprising 'High Plains Drifter'; 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'; 'Joe Kidd'; and 'Beguiled', each 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £80-100 Lot 845 845 FIVE BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTERS HARRY POTTER comprising 'The Philosopher's Stone'; 'The Chamber of Secrets'; 'The Goblet of Fire'; 'The Order of the Phoenix'; and 'The Half Blood Prince', each 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £100-120 846 A BRITISH FILM POSTER 'STAR WARS' (1982) with 'Revenge of the Jedi' (sic) trailer banner, approximately 104cm x 68.5cm. £40-50 850 APPROXIMATELY EIGHTY-SEVEN FILM POSTERS including 'Tango & Cash'; 'Young Adult'; 'Arachnophobia'; 'Clear & Present Danger'; 'Parenthood'; 'Hudson Hawk'; 'Flatliners'; 'Babe'; 'Backdraft'; 'My Blue Heaven'; 'Barb Wire'; 'The War of the Roses'; 'The Flintstones'; 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves'; 'Jetsons, The Movie'; 'King Ralph'; 'Mermaids'; and 'Cadillac Man', most 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £60-80 851 OVER THIRTY-THREE FILM POSTERS including 'Memphis Belle'; 'Dragon Heart'; 'A Knight's Tale'; 'Hot Shots'; 'The Naked Gun 2 1/2'; 'The Lawnmower Man'; 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'; 'The Phantom'; and 'Earth Girls are Easy', most 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £50-70 Lot 846 847 A BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTER 'BLADE RUNNER. THE DIRECTORS CUT' 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 Lot 852 852 A BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTER 'THE TOWERING INFERNO' 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 Lot 848 848 TWO BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTERS comprising 'Joan of Arc'; and 'Marco Polo', each 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 849 TWENTY BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTERS including 'Spies Like Us'; 'American Gigolo'; 'Stripes'; 'Capricorn One'; and 'The Best Little Whore House in Texas', each 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 853 TWO BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTERS comprising 'Ben Hur'; and 'The Ten Commandments', each 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm); together with a book, Cary, John. Spectacular! The Story of Epic Films, Castle Books, 1974, ring-bound, folio, (3). £50-70 854 A BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTER 'DUEL' 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 Lot 859 Lot 855 SCIENTIFIC CAMERAS INSTRUMENTS & 855 A BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTER 'ENTER THE DRAGON' 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £100-150 856 A BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTER 'AIRPORT' 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 Lot 860 Lot 857 860 A 19TH CENTURY BRASS TELESCOPE, BY DOLLOND OF LONDON with a short brass tripod stand, in a fitted mahogany case. £200-300 857 A BRITISH QUAD FILM POSTER 'THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI' 30 inches x 40 inches (approximately 76cm x 101cm). £40-50 858 THIRTY-FIVE ASSORTED LOBBY CARDS mainly singles, including those for 'Mary Poppins'; 'Pal Joey'; 'Last Stagecoach West'; 'Pale Arrow'; 'Planet of the Apes'; and 'Frankenstein'. £40-50 859 THIRTY-FIVE ASSORTED LOBBY CARDS mainly singles, including those for 'The Plank'; 'Wuthering Heights'; 'Munster Go Home'; 'Samson and Delilah'; 'El Cid'; 'Trouble in Store'; and 'Too Hot to Handle'. £40-50 Lot 861 861 A HILGER & WATTS LTD SURVEYOR'S LEVEL serial number 117515, with a hammered grey-green finish, in a fitted wooden box; together with a tripod and ranging poles. £50-70 862 AN A.G. THORNTON LTD SURVEYOR'S LEVEL the japanned body with lacquered brass fittings, in a fitted wooden box. £50-70 863 A NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA ANEMOMETER serial number B.7927, in a (worn) leather case; together with a Vulcan pressure gauge, in a leather case; and a German gimbal-mounted compass, overall 17.5cm diameter, (3). £40-50 864 A CORONET MIDGET CAMERA in mottled red bakelite, the case in good condition (mechanism not tested). £40-50 RAILWAYANA, AUTOMOBILIA, NAUTICALIA & AERONAUTICA 865 RAILWAY LUGGAGE LABELS A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Approximately 194 pre- and post-grouping labels, comprising those of Great Eastern Railway (82), Southern Railway (26), Great Western Railway (21), British Railways (19), London & North Eastern Railway (13), Midland & Great Northern Railways (11), London & South Western Railway (8), Great Northern Railway (5), and other (9) interest, (loose). £40-50 866 RAILWAY LUGGAGE LABELS A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Approximately 230 pre- and post-grouping labels, comprising those of Great Eastern Railway (143), Great Western Railway (21), Southern Railway (19), London & North Eastern Railway (19), Midland & Great Northern Railways (17), London & South Western Railway (8), and British Railways (3) interest, (loose). £40-50 867 RAILWAY LUGGAGE LABELS A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Approximately 230 pre- and post-grouping labels, comprising those of Great Eastern Railway (143), Great Western Railway (21), Southern Railway (19), London & North Eastern Railway (19), Midland & Great Northern Railways (17), London & South Western Railway (8), and British Railways (3) interest, (loose). £40-50 868 RAILWAY LUGGAGE LABELS A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Approximately 230 pre- and post-grouping labels, comprising those of Great Eastern Railway (143), Great Western Railway (21), Southern Railway (19), London & North Eastern Railway (19), Midland & Great Northern Railways (17), London & South Western Railway (8), and British Railways (3) interest, (loose). £40-50 869 RAILWAY TICKETS - A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Approximately 430 pre-grouping, grouping and postnationalization travel and other tickets. £40-50 Lot 866 Lot 870 870 RAILWAY TICKETS - A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Over 400 pre- and post-nationalization travel and other tickets, including Holiday Runabout and other rover cards, tours and excursions, with some continental; together with a quantity of related ephemera. £40-50 875 A GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY NICKEL CASED POCKET WATCH by Record, with a 15 jewel Swiss movement, the circular white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and a subsidiary seconds dial, the case engraved 'G.W.R. / 0.1401', 58mm diameter. £40-50 871 RAILWAY TIMETABLES - SOUTHERN Eleven timetables comprising London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, 1912-13 (No.44); Southern Railway (Brighton Section), 1923; and Southern Railway, various, 1927 to 1947. £40-50 872 RAILWAY TIMETABLES - SOUTHERN Twenty-three timetables comprising various British Railways (Southern Region), 1948 to 1965. £40-50 873 RAILWAY TIMETABLES - MIDLAND & WESTERN Thirty timetables comprising London, Midland & Scottish Railway, various, 1934 to 1947 (8); British Railways (Midland Region), various, 1949 to 1963 (8); and British Railways (Western Region), various, 1949 to 1963 (14). £40-50 874 RAILWAY TIMETABLES - NORTHERN & EASTERN Thirty-seven timetables comprising Great Eastern Railway (Appendix), 1919; London & North Eastern Railway, various, 1936 to 1947 (11); and British Railways (Northern & Eastern Regions), various, 1948 to 1961 (25). £40-50 Lot 875 Lot 876 876 A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY THREE ASPECT BULLS-EYE HAND LAMP repainted black, complete with clear, blue and red filters, 'N.E.R. Co.' reservoir, burner and a later reflector, the body with a pleated cap, applied embossed 'N.E.R.' brass plaque, and stamped marking 'L.N.E D2', 30cm high. £40-50 877 TWO RAILWAY HAND LAMPS comprising a London, Midland & Scottish Railway three aspect hand lamp, repainted maroon, complete with slatted clear, blue and red filters, reservoir, burner and reflector, the body with applied embossed 'L.M.S. 47282' brass plaque, and further embossed 'LMS', 31.5cm high; together with a British Railways three aspect hand lamp, repainted light grey, complete with clear, blue and red filters, reservoir, burner and reflector, now additionally wired for electricity, the body embossed 'B.R.', 28.5cm high, (2). £40-50 878 TWO RAILWAY LAMPS comprising a British Railways three aspect hand lamp, polished copper, complete with clear, blue and red filters, reservoir, burner and reflector, the body embossed 'B.R.', 28.5cm high; and a British Railways (Western Region) lamp, with a repainted black square sectional upper body and a circular copper reservoir base, stamped 'B.R. WR', 23.5cm high, (2). £40-50 879 TWO RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE TAIL LAMPS both repainted white, each complete with red lens, reservoir, burner and reflector, one additionally wired for electricity, the bodies stamped 'BR (W)' and embossed 'B.R.' respectively, 53cm and 52cm high respectively (inclusive of raised carrying handle), (2). 880 TWO RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE HEAD OR TAIL LAMPS comprising a British Railways (Western Region) double bulls-eye lamp by G. Polkey, repainted black, complete with sliding clear glass filter, reservoir and burner, the body with an applied embossed maker's plaque 'G. Polkey Ltd / Manufacturers / Birmingham' and embossed 'BR (W)', 48cm high; and a British Railways double bulls-eye lamp, repainted white, complete with sliding red glass filter, reservoir and burner, additionally wired for electricity, the body embossed 'BR', 46cm high, (2). £60-80 882 TWO RAILWAY LAMPS comprising an Adlake No.22 Non Sweating Lamp, by Lamp Manufacturing & Railway Supplies Ltd, repainted black, complete with lift-out inner body containing reservoir and burner, repainted white and with applied plaque 'LMS Railway', the outer body with applied brass maker's plaques, 38cm high; and a later Adlake Non Sweating Lamp, by Lamp Manufacturing & Railway Supplies Ltd, repainted black, with reservoir and burner, the hinged top with inner framework marked 'BR (M)', 38cm high, (2). £50-60 883 TWO GERMAN RAILWAY LAMPS comprising a Deutsches Reichsbahn carbide hand lamp, by A. Sartorius, the top with indistinct embossed maker's name and the back with 'DR' winged wheel, 20.5cm high; together with a later signal lamp, repainted black with red and white triangular panels to the sides, complete with reservoir and burner, additionally wired for electricity, embossed 'DB 74' [Deutsches Bundesbahn], 52.5cm high inclusive of carrying handle, (2). £40-50 884 TWO HAND LAMPS comprising a lamp of square sectional form, repainted green, complete with reservoir, burner and reflector, with a pleated cap, the body and reservoir stamped 'S[E]R', possibly South Eastern Railway, 33cm high; and a three aspect hand lamp, the top repainted yellow, complete with slatted blue and red filters, reservoir, burner and reflector, the body without markings, 29cm high, (2). 885 A GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY CAST IRON SIGN '... / Notice / All Persons are Warned Not to Trespass / ...', 50cm x 72cm. £40-50 Lot 881 881 TWO RAILWAY LAMPS comprising a Southern Railway bulls-eye locomotive head lamp, repainted red, complete with reservoir and burner, the body embossed 'SR', 41cm high; and a Southern Railway Welch-type bulls-eye lamp, by Lamp Manufacturing & Railway Supplies Ltd, complete with reservoir and burner, the body with a rubbed applied brass maker's plaque and embossed 'SR', 30cm high, (2). £40-50 886 A BRITISH RAILWAYS (SOUTHERN REGION) TRAVEL POSTER 'THE CHANNEL ISLANDS' designed by Frederick Griffin, printed by Jordison & Co., 101.5cm x 126cm. Note: Originally sent to Coulsdon North station for display. £700-800 Lot 886 887 THREE CARBIDE BICYCLE LAMPS comprising a chromed Powell & Hanmer Ltd 'Chieftain'; chromed Powell & Hanmer 'Panther'; and a brass Joseph Lucas Ltd 'Calcia Club'. The largest 17.5cm high. £40-50 888 A CHROMED CAR BONNET MASCOT in the style of the Spirit of Ecstasy, unmarked, 12.5cm high (excluding mounting screw). £50-70 889 A GILT METAL MOTOR RACING MEDAL, 1955 the obverse depicting racing cars entering a corner in low relief, and marked 'Montini', the reverse engraved 'Rally S.R. / 19-6-55', 5cm diameter. Note: Won by the vendor's father, who entered various rallying events at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, Brazil during the 1950s, and established a friendship with the Fittipaldi family. The vendor recalls playing alongside a young Emerson Fittipaldi who would later go on to become Formula 1 World Champion in 1972 and 1974. £40-60 Lot 890 891 A GERMAN STIFF PAPER CUT-OUT ZEPPELIN KIT 'Luftschiff (nach dem Modell des Grafen v. Zeppelin)', printed in black, cream and silver, across a large folded sheet, with an applied instruction sheet, overall 36cm x 86.5cm. £100-120 892 A GERMAN 'MODELL ATLAS' circa 1910, containing colour printed sectional illustrations of an airship, compound steam engine, railway locomotive, dynamo, steam turbine, and motor war, with an instruction booklet, the whole contained in a card wallet. £100-120 890 A SHIP'S COPPER MASTHEAD LIGHT with an applied embossed brass plaque 'Meteorite / C26696 / Patent No. 546575', complete with reservoir, burner and reflector, additionally wired for electricity, 58cm high. £40-60 Lot 893 893 A SWISS AIRSHIP POSTER 'Ecole Superieure D'Aeronautique et de Constructions Mecaniques de Lausanne (Suisse)', circa 1910, printed by A. Bovard-Giddey, with New York State Library accession stamp dated 14 Dec. 1916 to upper right corner, 70cm x 49.5cm (laid down and linen backed). £150-200 Lot 897 897 JAMES GOULDING (BRITISH, 1923-2010) The Douglas DC-3, a multi-perspective original study for Profile Publications Number 96, gouache on artist's board, 41cm x 53cm; together with a copy of the published periodical in which the illustrations appear. £40-60 Lot 894 894 A FRENCH AIRSHIP POSTER 'Compagnie Generale Transaerienne / Billancourt / Paris', depicting an airship in flight, the passenger under-carriage marked 'Astra', 78cm x 116.5cm (laid down and linen backed). £400-500 895 AN ORIGINAL ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF THE FINLEY AEROCRUISER 'THE ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY' designed by Thomas Finley, the craft depicted flying above The White House, Washington, watercolour and gouache, the lower border comprising a series of sectional views, 69cm x 94.5cm, framed and glazed. £150-200 896 FIVE AIRFIX CALENDAR PAGE PRINTS by Roy Cross, comprising a Douglas TBD-1 Devastator; Mig21; Handley-Page 0/400; Focke-Wulf FW189; and the Prince Eugen, each signed in blue ink by the artist; together with another Airfix calendar page print, of a 1930 Supercharged Bentley, after a different hand, unsigned, each 37cm x 50cm, unframed, (6). £40-50 Lot 898 898 JAMES GOULDING (BRITISH, 1923-2010) The Avro Vulcan, a multi-perspective original study for Profile Publications Number 162, gouache on artist's board, 53cm x 81cm; together with a copy of the published periodical in which the illustrations appear. £80-100 899 A ROYAL NAVY AIR STATION YEOVILTON AIR DAY POSTER, 1962 depicting a pilot looking skyward beneath the white ensign, 75cm x 49.5cm, framed and glazed. £60-80 904 SEVEN CONSTABULARY GENERAL PURPOSE LAMPS including one by Freeman Thomas & Co. of Birmingham and two by Hiatt & Co. of Birmingham, most repainted black, five with pleated caps, the largest 26cm high (exclusive of carrying handle). £50-70 905 FIVE GENERAL PURPOSE HAND LAMPS including two by Chas. Andrews of London, one by Rose Bray & Co. of Deptford, and a candle lantern. £40-50 Lot 899 GENERAL COLLECTORS ITEMS 900 AN ALLEN & HANBURY POST-MORTEM INSTRUMENT SET late 19th or early 20th century, comprising a universal handle with saw and amputation / incision knives, scalpels, bowel scissors, hook and chain retractors, a needle and other items, in a fitted mahogany case with inset ivorine maker's plaques, overall 25cm long. £50-70 901 TWO SERVICE ISSUE HAND LAMPS both repainted green, each complete with clear, blue and red filters, reservoir, burner and reflector, one additionally wired for electricity, the bodies with a pleated caps, stamped 'C.E. & S. / [ordnance arrow mark] / 1955 / A 2348' and 'C.E. & S. / [ordnance arrow mark] / 1956 / A 2348' respectively, each 33cm high, (2). £40-50 902 TWO SIGNAL LAMPS both repainted red, of differing designs, with red and red / green filters respectively, each complete with reservoir and burner and additionally wired for electricity, 45cm and 43cm high respectively. £40-60 903 FIVE ASSORTED GENERAL PURPOSE HAND LAMPS all repainted, all complete with reservoirs and burners, the largest 24cm high. £40-50 906 TWO RACING YACHTS of glass reinforced plastic construction, the first 'Hytalk', mid blue, with a weighted keel, 129cm long; the second 'Blue Daze', light blue, lacking keel, 130cm long; together with three main masts and associated sails. £50-70 BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS 907 [CHILDRENS]. ILLUSTRATED Detmold, E.J., illustrator. Fabre's Book of Insects, retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation by Mrs R. Stawell, Hodder & Stoughton, London, no date [circa 1921], ivory cloth gilt, twelve mounted colour plate illustrations, quarto; Hamer, S.H. The Princess and the Dragon, Duckworth, London, no date [circa 1914], green cloth with pictorial onlay, twelve colour plate illustrations after John Hassall, small quarto; Harrison, Florence. The Rhyme of a Run, Blackie, London, no date, pictorial green cloth, twenty (of twenty-one) mounted colour plate illustrations (most with creasing), oblong quarto (lower joint torn and holed); and two other works, (5). £40-50 908 [CHILDRENS]. LADYBIRD BOOKS Seventy-eight assorted non-fiction titles, including The Builder; The Miner; The Fisherman; The Car Makers; The Nurse; The Fireman; The Airman; The Sailor; and The Lifeboatman. £40-50 Lot 909 909 [HISTORY] Beaumont, G. The Warrior's Looking-Glass: wherein is shewn... The Trivial Causes, Cruel Nature, Direful Effects, and Anti-Christian Spirit and Practice of War, by Crome, Sheffield, 1808, original boards, octavo. Provenance: The family of John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971), author and journalist, war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and Russo-Finnish War, by direct descent. £40-50 910 [HISTORY]. POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS Hirschfeld, Magnus. Racism, translated by Eden & Cedar Paul, Left Book Club / Gollancz, London, 1938, limp orange cloth, octavo; Koestler, Arthur. Spanish Testament, Left Book Club / Gollancz, London, 1937, limp orange cloth, octavo; Gannes, Harry, & Repard, Theodore. Spain in Revolt. A History of the Civil War in Spain in 1936 and a Study of its Social, Political and Economic Causes, Left Book Club / Gollancz, London, 1936, limp orange cloth, octavo; Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China, Left Book Club / Gollancz, London, 1937, limp orange cloth, octavo; Brady, Robert. The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism, Left Book Club / Gollancz, London, 1937, limp orange cloth, octavo; and a further twenty assorted Left Book Club works, uniformly bound in limp orange cloth, (25). Provenance: The family of John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971), author and journalist, war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and Russo-Finnish War, by direct descent. £50-70 911 [HISTORY]. POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS Hill, Elizabeth, & Mudie, Doris, translators and editors, The Letters of Lenin, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1937, portrait frontispiece, limp green cloth, octavo; Russia Today: The Official Report of the British Trade Union Delegation, International Publishers, New York, 1925, stiff paper covers, folding map, octavo; and assorted other works; together with various periodicals, including a near continuous run of Labour Monthly, May 1937 to February 1940 (twentytwo issues); and a near continuous run of Left Review, August 1936 to April 1938 (twenty issues), (box). Provenance: The family of John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971), author and journalist, war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and Russo-Finnish War, by direct descent. £40-50 912 [HISTORY]. POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS Miff, P. China's Struggle for Freedom, Modern Books Ltd, London, no date [circa 1937], pictorial stiff paper covers, pamphlet; Ovcharenko, Ivan. In a Ring of Fire. Memories of a Partisan, Modern Books Ltd, London, no date, pictorial stiff paper covers, pamphlet; Marchbank, John, & Little J.C., foreword. Fascism Fight it Now, Labour Research Department, London, 1937, pictorial stiff paper covers, pamphlet; and assorted other pamphlets, (approximately 90). Provenance: The family of John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971), author and journalist, war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and Russo-Finnish War, by direct descent. £40-50 Lot 913 913 [HISTORY] Las Cases, Count de. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, new edition, eight parts in four volumes, Colburn, London, 1824, half leather gilt, eight plate illustrations (four hand-coloured; one folding), two folding maps, octavo. £40-50 914 [MILITARY & NAVAL] Field, Col. Cyril. Britain's Sea-Soldiers. A History of the Royal Marines and their Predecessors and of their Services in Action, Ashore and Afloat, and Upon Sundry Other Occasions of Moment, two volumes, The Lyceum Press, Liverpool, 1924, black buckram backed blue cloth gilt, colour and half-tone plate illustrations, text illustrations, quarto. £40-50 915 [MODERN FIRSTS] Greene, Graham. Stamboul Train, first edition, second issue, Heinemann, London, 1932, black cloth, 'Quin Savory' on p.78, 'Chaucer' on pp. 81, 82 etc, octavo; Greene, Graham. The Quiet American, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1955, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Greene, Graham. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1950, black cloth, octavo; and a further five works by the same, (8). £40-50 916 [MODERN FIRSTS] Spark, Muriel. The Bachelors, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1960, scarlet cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, , first edition, Macmillan, London, 1961, green cloth, octavo; Spark, Muriel. Doctors of Philosophy: A Play, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1963, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Spark, Muriel. The Mandelbaum Gate, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1965, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and a further eight works by the same, (12). £50-60 Lot 918 918 [MODERN FIRSTS] Yeats, W.B. Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1927, crimson cloth, two colour plates and further black and white illustrations by Norah McGuinness, octavo. £40-50 919 [MODERN FIRSTS] Yeats, W.B. Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1926, blind stamped green cloth, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece, one mounted colour plate illustration, three further portrait plate illustrations, octavo; Yeats, W.B. The Winding Stair and Other Poems, first edition reprint, Macmillan, London, 1933, green cloth with blind stamped upper cover, octavo (covers with damp marked fore edges); Yeats, W.B. Wheels and Butterflies, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1934, green cloth with gilt masks motif, octavo; Yeats, W.B. Last Poems & Plays, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1940, green cloth with blind stamped upper cover, octavo (covers with damp marked fore edges), (4). £50-70 917 [MODERN FIRSTS] Yeats, W.B. Per Amica Silentia Lunae, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1918, blue cloth gilt, octavo (later bookplate to front pastedown). £60-80 Lot 920 920 [MODERN FIRSTS] Dundy, Elaine. The Dud Avocado, first edition, Gollancz, London, 1958, red boards, dustjacket, octavo; Dundy, Elaine. The Old Man and Me, first edition, Gollancz, London, 1964, red boards, dustjacket, octavo; and Dundy, Elaine. The Injured Party, first edition, Joseph, London, 1974, black boards, dustjacket, octavo, (3). £40-50 921 [MODERN FIRSTS] Beecham, Audrey. The Coast of Barbary, first edition, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1957, red boards, dustjacket, INSCRIBED & SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY 'For R.S. Thomas / with all good wishes / from / Audrey Beecham', octavo; Moore, Marianne. The Arctic Ox, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1964, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Ridler, Anne. The Nine Bright Shiners, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1943, yellow cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Ridler, Anne. The Golden Bird and Other Poems, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1951, yellow cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and a further seven assorted works, most first editions, including five by Robert Lowell (one ex library), (11). £40-50 922 [MODERN FIRSTS] Auden, W.H. Nones, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1952, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Auden, W.H. Epistle to a Godson & Other Poems, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1972, cloth-backed boards, dustjacket, octavo; Auden, W.H. City Without Limits, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1969, black cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and Auden, W.H. Thank You, Fog: Last Poems, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1974, cloth-backed boards, dustjacket, octavo, (4). £40-50 923 [MODERN FIRSTS] Auden, W.H. New Year Letter, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1941, grey cloth, octavo; Auden, W.H. For the Time Being, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1945, brick red cloth, octavo; Auden, W.H. The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1948, yellow cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Auden, W.H. The Enchafed Flood or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea, Faber & Faber, London, 1951, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and a further eleven works by the same, many later impressions or editions, (15). £40-50 924 [MODERN FIRSTS] Cameron, Norman. The Winter House and Other Poems, first edition, Dent, London, 1935, boards, dustjacket, octavo; Cameron, Norman. Collected Poems, 1905-1953, first edition, The Hogarth Press, London, 1957, boards, dustjacket, portrait frontispiece, octavo; Campbell, Roy. Pomegranates, first edition, Boriswood Limited, London, 1932, stiff paper covers, drawings by James Boswell, 18.5cm x 13.5cm; Binyon, Laurence. The Burning of the Leaves and Other Poems, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1944, stiff paper covers, 22cm x 14cm; Kavanagh, P.J. Real Sky, limited edition of 500, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, The Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1980, stiff paper covers, 22.5cm x 16.5cm (ownership inscription to title page); Jones, David. The Kensington Mass, first edition, Agenda Editions, London, 1975, soft covers, octavo; Raine, Kathleen. David Jones and the Actually Loved and Known, first edition, Golgonooza Press, Ipswich, 1978, stiff paper covers, 22.5cm x 15cm; Jarrell, Randall. The Lost World, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1966, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and a further six assorted works, some first editions, (14). £40-50 925 [MODERN FIRSTS] Moore, Marianne. Poems, Poems, first edition, The Egoist Press, London, 1921, stiff paper covers with onlaid title label, 21.5cm x 14cm (foxed; ownership signature to front free endpaper; cover papering neatly torn along spine, without significant loss). £40-50 926 [MODERN FIRSTS] Betjeman, John. Ghastly Good Taste or, A Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1933, cloth-backed decorative boards, folding street panorama, octavo; Betjeman, John. Antiquarian Prejudice, first edition, The Hogarth Press, London, 1939, stiff paper covers, 18.5cm x 12cm; Betjeman, John, & Piper, John. Poems in the Porch, first edition, S.P.C.K., London, 1954, stiff paper covers, 22cm x 14cm; and Betjeman, John. Summoned by Bells, first edition, Murray, London, 1960, blind stamped green cloth, dustjacket, octavo, (4). £40-50 Lot 927 927 [MODERN FIRSTS] Waugh, Evelyn. Scott-King's Modern Europe, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1947, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Waugh, Evelyn. Work Suspended, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1948, blue cloth, octavo; Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1952, blue cloth, octavo; Waugh, Evelyn. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1957, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Amis, Kingsley. I Like it Here, first edition, Gollancz, London, 1958, red boards, dustjacket, octavo; Amis, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman, first edition, Gollancz, London, 1963, red boards, dustjacket, octavo; and three other works, (9). £50-60 928 [MODERN FIRSTS] Huxley, Aldous, editor. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1932, brown cloth, dustjacket, plate illustrations, quarto, ASSOCIATION COPY: SIGNED BY FRIEDA LAWRENCE; Lawrence, Frieda. "Not I, But the Wind...", first edition, Heinemann, London, 1935, brown cloth, octavo; Brett, Dorothy. Lawrence and Brett, first edition, Secker, London, 1933, fawn cloth, plate illustrations, octavo; Lewis, Wyndham. Left Wings Over Europe: or, How to Make a War About Nothing, first edition, Cape, London, 1936, scarlet cloth, octavo; Green, Henry. Back, first edition, Hogarth Press, London, 1946, grey cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and Macaulay, Rose. Catchwords and Claptrap [Hogarth Essays, Second Series], Hogarth Press, London, 1926, decorative boards, octavo, (6). £50-60 929 [MODERN FIRSTS] Joyce, James. Chamber Music, third edition, Egoist Press, London, 1923, dark green cloth, octavo; and Joyce, James. Stephen Hero, first edition, Cape, London, 1944, black cloth, dustjacket, octavo, (2). £50-60 930 [MODERN FIRSTS] Eliot, T.S. The Family Reunion, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1939, grey cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Eliot, T.S. The Cocktail Party, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1950, green cloth, octavo; Eliot, T.S. The Confidential Clerk, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1954, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Eliot, T.S. The Elder Statesman, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1959, crimson cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Eliot, T.S. Poems Written in Early Youth, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1967, purple cloth, dustjacket; and six further works by the same, (11). £40-50 931 [MODERN FIRSTS] Bowen, Elizabeth. The Hotel, first edition, The Dial Press, New York, 1928, black cloth with title label to spine, octavo; Bowen, Elizabeth. The Last September, first edition, Constable, London, 1929, grey cloth, octavo (spine / hinges repaired); Bowen, Elizabeth. Friends & Relations, first edition, Constable, London, 1931, brown cloth, octavo; Bowen, Elizabeth. The House in Paris, first edition, Knopf, New York, 1936, scarlet cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Bowen, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart, first edition, Gollancz, London, 1938, black cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and five further works by the same, (10). £40-50 Lot 932 932 [MODERN FIRSTS] O'Brien, Edna. The Country Girls, first edition, Hutchinson, London, 1960, black boards, dustjacket (gift inscription to front pastedown; ownership name to front free endpaper; jacket toned, with scratch along spine and chipping at spine head); and O'Brien, Edna. August is a Wicked Month, first edition, Cape, London, 1965, grey boards, dustjacket, octavo (jacket faded along spine), (2). £50-60 933 [MODERN FIRSTS] Morand, Paul. Closed All Night, limited edition 126/250, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Chapman, London, 1924, black cloth gilt, quarto; Morand, Paul. Black Magic, translated by Hamish Miles, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1929, decorative cloth with applied title labels, illustrations by Aaron Douglas, octavo; Frost, Robert. A Witness Tree, first edition, Cape, London, 1943, blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and four other assorted works of poetry, (7). £40-50 934 [MODERN FIRSTS] Stafford, Jean. Bad Characters, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1965, brown boards, dustjacket, octavo; Purdy, James. Eustace Chisholm & the Works, first edition, Cape, London, 1968, black boards, dustjacket, octavo; Braybrooke, Neville. The Idler, first edition, Secker & Warburg, London, 1961, black boards, dustjacket, octavo; Burt, Nathaniel. Leopards in the Garden, first edition, Murray, London, 1969, tan boards, dustjacket, octavo; Gerhardi, William. Resurrection, first edition, Cassell, London, 1934, green cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and a further eighteen assorted works, (23). £50-60 935 [MODERN FIRSTS] Mansfield, Katherine. The Aloe, limited edition of 750, Constable, London, 1930, brown buckram, top edges gilt, octavo; Coppard, A.E. Silver Circus, first edition, Cape, London, 1928, quarter black cloth and silver boards, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo (lacking front free endpaper); Brooke, Rupert. Letters from America, first edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1916, dark grey cloth, title label to spine, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece, octavo; Thomas, Dylan. The Map of Love, first edition, Dent, London, 1939, mauve cloth, portrait frontispiece, octavo; and a further nine assorted works, (13). £40-50 936 [MODERN FIRSTS] Plath, Sylvia. Ariel, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1965, red cloth, octavo; Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1966, green cloth, octavo; Prince, F.T. Memoirs in Oxford, first edition, Fulchrum Press, London, 1970, black cloth, SIGNED & INSCRIBED 'For Philip Toynbee, / with kind regards / from / Frank Prince', octavo; Pound, Ezra. Guide to Kulchur, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1938, apple green cloth, octavo; and sixteen assorted other works, including further titles by Ezra Pound and two pamphlets, (20). £40-50 937 [MODERN FIRSTS] Stephens, James. The Hill of Vision, first edition, Maunsel, Dublin, 1912, quarter buckram, octavo; Stephens, James. Here Are Ladies, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1913, green cloth, octavo; Stephens, James. The Demi-Gods, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1914, green cloth, octavo; Stephens, James. The Adventures of Seumas Beg / The Rocky Road to Dublin, reprint, Macmillan, London, 1916, blue cloth, octavo; Stephens, James. Reincarnations, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1918, blue cloth, octavo; and a further eight works by the same, (13). £40-50 Lot 938 938 [NATURAL HISTORY]. BOTANY [Hey, R.]. The Moral of Flowers, second edition, for Longman et al., London, 1835, half leather, top edges gilt, twenty-four hand-coloured plate illustrations (as called for), octavo (upper hinge weak; binding tender; spine scuffed; printed ownership label to upper cover). £40-60 939 [NATURAL HISTORY]. BOTANY [Hey, R.]. The Spirit of the Woods, first edition, for Longman et al., London, 1837, half leather, top edges gilt, twenty-six hand-coloured plate illustrations (as called for), octavo (spine scuffed and with a few worm holes; gilt blocked owner's name and acquisition date, together with a printed label to upper cover). £60-80 Lot 940 940 [NATURAL HISTORY] Wright, Lewis. The Illustrated Book of Poultry, revised edition, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, 1880, pictorial bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, fifty colour plate illustrations (as called for), further text illustrations, quarto. £40-60 941 [NATURAL HISTORY]. BOTANY Lee, Mrs R. Trees, Plants, and Flowers: Their Beauties, Uses, and Influences, Grant & Griffith, London, 1854, green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, eight hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo (upper joint torn); Johnson, C. Pierpoint. British Wild Flowers, reprint, Van Voorst, London, 1876, bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, frontispiece and a further eighty-nine hand-coloured plate illustrations by John Sowerby, quarto; Lindley, John. Ladies' Botany: or, A Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, fourth edition, Ridgway, London, no date, dark green cloth, twenty-five hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo (binding weak); Wakefield, Priscilla. An Introduction to Botany, seventh edition, for Darton, Harvey & Co. Et al., London, 1816, half leather, nine engraved plate illustrations, octavo; and seven other works of related interest, (11). £50-60 942 [NATURAL HISTORY]. BOTANY Johnson, C. Pierpoint. The Useful Plants of Great Britain: A Treatise Upon the Principal Native Vegetables Capable of Application as Food, Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufactures, Kent, London, 1862, decorative bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, twenty-five hand-coloured plate illustrations by John Sowerby, quarto; Johnson, C. Pierpoint. British Wild Flowers, reprint, Van Voorst, London, 1863, dark green cloth (replacement endpapers), all edges gilt, eighty-nine hand-coloured plate illustrations by John Sowerby (lacking frontispiece), quarto; Johnson, C. Pierpoint. British Wild Flowers, reprint, Gurney & Jackson, London, 1890, bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, frontispiece and a further eighty-nine handcoloured plate illustrations by John Sowerby, quarto; Lindley, John. Ladies' Botany: or, A Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, second edition, Ridgway, London, no date, dark green cloth (rebacked), twenty-five hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo; Lee, Mrs R. Trees, Plants, and Flowers: Their Beauties, Uses, and Influences, Grant & Griffith, London, 1854, blue cloth gilt, eight hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo, (5). £50-60 943 [NATURAL HISTORY]. BOTANY Loddiges, Conrad. The Botanical Cabinet, Volume 8, Arch et al., London, 1823, half leather, all edges gilt, 100 hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo; Johnson, C. Pierpoint. British Wild Flowers, Sowerby, London, 1860, half leather, frontispiece and a further seventynine hand-coloured plate illustrations by John Sowerby, octavo (covers with torn and incomplete papering); Martyn, Thomas. Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, for White, London, 1799, boards (rebacked), twenty-nine hand-coloured plate illustrations (only), octavo (with annotations); Lindley, John. Ladies' Botany: or A Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, two volumes, fourth / second editions, Ridgway, London, no date, dark green cloth (both rebacked), fifty hand-coloured plate illustrations (25 + 25), octavo, (5). £50-60 944 [NATURAL HISTORY]. BOTANY Marnock, Robert, editor. The Floricultural Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening, Volume II (1837-8), Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and Ridge, London / Sheffield, 1838, half calf (new endpapers), handcoloured half title and a further nine hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo; Johnson, C. Pierpoint. British Wild Flowers, reprint, Van Voorst, London, 1876, bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, frontispiece and a further eighty-nine hand-coloured plate illustrations by John Sowerby, quarto; Brook, Richard. New Cyclopaedia of Botany and Complete Book of Herbs: Forming a History and Description of All Plants, British or Foreign which are Known to be Useful to Man, Farrah / Brook, London / Huddersfield, no date, full calf (rebacked), frontispiece, vignette half title, and a further ninety-six hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo; and Rhind, William. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; Embracing Comprehensive Descriptions of the Plants Most Interesting from their Uses to Man and the Lower Animals..., Blackie, London, 1868, modern blue cloth, vignette half title and further plate and text illustrations, some handcoloured, quarto, (4). £40-50 945 [SCIENCE]. MATHEMATICS Brown, W. (and Thacker, A.). A Treatise Containing an Entire New Method of Solving Adfected Quadratic, and Cubic Equations, with their Application to the Solution of Biquadratic Ones..., second edition, Aris et al., Birmingham, 1748; and Brown, B. Problems in Geometry, Aris et al., Birmingham, 1748, bound as one, quarter leather, octavo (covers lacking papering and leather, but binding tight; some neat marginal notes; second work with some centre-fold staining). £40-50 946 [SPORTING] Dane, Sir Richard. Sport in Asia and Africa, first edition, Melrose, London, 1921, blue cloth, twenty-one (of twenty-four) plate illustrations, octavo (one plate detached, with creased and nicked fore edge); Gouldsbury, C.E. Tiger Slayer by Order, second edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1916, blue cloth (faded), twenty-three (of twenty-four) plate illustrations, some with containing double images, octavo; AshleyCooper, F.S. Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers, Saxton, Nottingham, no date [1923], green cloth, octavo (lacking front free endpaper); and three other works, (all ex library), (6). Provenance: Osborne House library, with stamps. £40-50 947 [SPORTING] Thevenot, Melchisedech. The Art of Swimming, illustrated by proper figures with Advice for Bathing, to which is prefixed a prefatory discourse concerning artificial swimming, or keeping ones self above water by several small portable engines, in cases of danger, first English edition, for Brown, Midwinter & Leigh, and Knaplock, London, 1699, full leather (covers detached), English text, frontispiece (worn and now tipped-in on front free endpaper), forty plate illustrations (one with excised margins and now detached), duodecimo. Provenance: The library of H.R. Clarke, National Association of Swimming Instructors, by family descent. £1000-1200 Lot 947 948 [TOPOGRAPHY]. GREAT BRITAIN The Tourist's Manual; or, An Account of the Principal Pleasure Tours in Scotland, eighth edition, for Thomson et al., Edinburgh, 1832, half calf (rebacked), ten illustrations (of twelve; lacking two maps; another folding map incomplete), octavo; and A Description of England and Wales..., Volume II, for Newbery & Carnan, London, 1769, full speckled calf (rebacked), comprising Cheshire, Cornwall, The Scilly Isles and part of Cumberland, nine engraved plate illustrations, further text illustrations, octavo, (2). £40-50 949 [MILITARY] Wauchope, Maj.-Gen. A.G. A History of The Black Watch [Royal Highlanders] in the Great War, 19141918, Volumes II (Territorial Force) and III (New Army), The Medici Society, London, 1926, uniform black cloth gilt with regimental device, plate illustrations, quarto; Sym, John. Seaforth Highlanders, Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1962, brown cloth gilt, octavo (lacking title page; ex library but generally clean: front pastedown and front free endpaper scarred); Salmond, J.B. The History of the 51st Highland Division 1939-1945, Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1953, crimson cloth gilt, dustjacket, plate illustrations, quarto; and Ray, Cyril. Algiers to Austria. A History of 78 Division in the Second World War, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1952, green buckram, octavo (title page with hand-written note 'Proof copy / Not corrected'); Boyle, Capt. R.C. A Record of the West Somerset Yeomanry 1914-1919, The Catherine Press, London, no date, quarter pale grey cloth, plate illustrations, octavo (upper joint torn); and Godfrey, Maj. E.G. The History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1939-45, The Regimental History Committee, D.C.L.I., 1966, dark green cloth, maps, octavo, (7). £40-50 950 [TOPOGRAPHY]. SPAIN Laborde, Alexander de. A View of Spain; comprising a Descriptive Itinerary of Each Province, and a General Statistical Account of the Country, English translation from the French, five volumes, for Longman et al., London, 1809, original boards, folding engraved map frontispieces, octavo (spines with incomplete papering; two volumes with detached upper board; one volume with loose initial gathering). Provenance: The family of John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971), author and journalist, war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and Russo-Finnish War, by direct descent. £60-80 951 [TRAVEL] Stigand, Capt. C.H. To Abyssinia Through an Unknown Land, first edition, Selley & Co., London, 1910, brick red pictorial cloth gilt, thirty-four plate illustrations (as called for), folding map (torn with near total loss), quarto (one plate detached, with creased and nicked edges); Prioleau, John. The Adventures of Imshi. A Two-Seater in Search of the Sun, Jarrolds, London, no date [circa 1922], plum cloth gilt with motor car motif, twenty-four plate illustrations (as called for), some with double images, quarto; Hedley, John. Tramps in Dark Mongolia, second edition, Fisher Unwin, London, 1912, black cloth gilt, thirty-two plate illustrations, folding map, octavo; and five other assorted works, (8). Provenance: Osborne House estate. Some volumes with Osborne House library stamps. £40-50 952 [TRAVEL] Macintyre, Maj.-Gen. Donald. Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas, new edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1891, green- grey pictorial cloth, thirty-two illustrations (as called for), octavo; Lethbridge, Sir Roper. The Golden Book of India, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1900, scarlet cloth gilt, all edges gilt, period advertisements, octavo; Warburton, Sir Robert. Eighteen Years in the Khyber 1879-1898, Murray, London, 1900, green cloth library binding, seventeen plate illustrations, quarto (lacking folding map); Neve, Arthur. Thirty Years in Kashmir, Arnold, London, 1913, green cloth library binding, seventeen plate illustrations (as called for), some with double images, folding map at end, quarto; and five further works, most on India, (9). £40-50 Lot 953 953 [TRAVEL] Laborde, M. Leon de. Journey Through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, first English edition, Murray, London, 1836, blind-stamped cloth, sixty-five plate and text illustrations (as called for) including folding maps, fourpage publisher's list, octavo (covers damp marked; front pastedown and early pages water stained up to and including frontispiece and title). £40-50 Lot 954 954 [TRAVEL]. EXPLORATION Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, Murray, London, 1821, half calf, twenty plate illustrations (as called for) including charts, quarto; and Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, Murray, London, 1824, uniform half calf, twenty-nine (of thirty-one) plate illustrations, eight folding charts, quarto, (2). £100-150 Among the North-West American Indians, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, for Seeley & Son, London, 1824, uniform half leather, three plate illustrations (as called for), octavo; Chappell, Lieut. Edward. Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond, containing some Account of the NorthEastern Coast of America..., for Mawman, London, 1817, uniform half leather, folding map frontispiece, nine further plate and text illustrations (as called for), octavo; and Cella, Paolo Della. Narrative of an Expedition from Tripoli in Barbary, to the Western Frontier of Egypt in 1817, by the Bey of Tripoli, translated by Anthony Aufrere, for Arch, London, 1822, folding map frontispiece, text illustrations, octavo, (8). £300-400 956 [TRAVEL]. EXPLORATION Ross, Sir John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, Webster, London, 1835, blue cloth with gilt decorated title to spine, frontispiece (detached), twenty-nine plate illustrations (one folding), folding chart at end, quarto (spines ends torn and frayed; foxed; lower edge staining). £50-70 Lot 955 955 [TRAVEL] English, George Bethune. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar, Under the Command of his Excellence Ismael Pasha, Murray, London, 1822, half leather, octavo; Mitchell, James. A Tour Through Belgium, Holland, Along the Rhine, and Through the North of France in the Summer of 1816, second edition, for Allman et al., London, 1819, uniform half leather, octavo; Royal Memoirs on the French Revolution, Murray, London, 1823, uniform half leather, frontispiece, octavo; A.P.D.G., Sketches of Portuguese Life, Manners, Costume and Character, for Whittaker, London, 1826, uniform half leather, twenty coloured plate illustrations (as called for), octavo; Monson, W.I. Extracts from a Journal, Rodwell & Martin, London, 1820, uniform half leather, two plate illustrations, octavo; West, John. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America; and Frequent Excursions 957 [MISCELLANEOUS]. JOHN LANGDONDAVIES Langdon-Davies, John. Behind the Spanish Barricades, first edition, Secker & Warburg, London, 1936, black cloth, portrait frontispiece, further plate illustrations, octavo; Langdon-Davies, John. Air Raid: The Technique of Silent Approach High Explosive Panic, first edition, Routledge, London, 1938, red cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, octavo; Langdon-Davies, John. Nerves Versus Nazis, first edition, Routledge, London, 1940, grey boards, octavo; Langdon-Davies, John. Russia Puts the Clock Back. A Study of Soviet Science and Some British Scientists, first edition, London, 1949, green cloth, octavo; together with a further nine titles by the same; also Garnett, David. War in the Air: September 1939 to May 1941, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1941, blue cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, octavo, (14). Provenance: The family of John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971), author and journalist, war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and Russo-Finnish War, by direct descent. £40-50 958 [MISCELLANEOUS]. HISTORY & OTHER Garnett, David, editor. The Letters of T.E. Lawrence, first edition, Cape, London, 1938, brown buckram, plate illustrations, folding maps, quarto; Lawrence, T.E. The Mint. A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes, first edition, Cape, London, 1955, slate blue cloth, dustjacket, quarto; Lee, Laurie. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, first edition, Deutsch, London, 1969, boards, dustjacket, octavo; Chaplin, Ralph. Bars and Shadows. The Prison Poems, second (revised) edition, Nellie Seeds Nearing, Ridgewood, 1923, red boards, dustjacket, portrait frontispiece, INSCRIBED by N.S. Nearing to John Langdon-Davies, octavo; and a further ten assorted works, (14). Provenance: The family of John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971), author and journalist, war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and Russo-Finnish War, by direct descent. £40-50 959 [MISCELLANEOUS] Durand, Ralph, & Wildman, William. Oxford, its Buildings and Gardens, limited edition de luxe 20/100, Grant Richards, London, 1909, full vellum gilt, top edges gilt, thirty-two paper-protected tipped-in colour plate illustrations, quarto (covers water marked and slightly warped); Montgomery, James. Poems, edited by Robert Willmott, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, London, 1860, full crimson calf gilt, all edges gilt, text illustrations after Birket Foster et al., engraved by the brothers Dalziel, quarto; and Chesterfield, Earl of. Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son..., eleventh edition, four volumes, for Nichols et al., London, 1800, half leather gilt, £40-50 960 [MAPS & ATLASES] Greenwood, C. & J. Atlas of the Counties of England from Actual Surveys made from the Years 1817 to 1833, Greenwood & Co., London, 1834, half leather (rebacked), vignette title page, forty-six hand-coloured double-spread maps, folio. £800-1000 961 [DOCUMENTS]. WILLITON (SOMERSET) Stuckey's Banking Co. Williton Signature Book, containing manuscript entries of the usual signature, name, address and occupation of customers circa 1883-1910, full leather, folio; together with Saunders, Philip. Stuckey's Bank, Barnicott & Pearce, Taunton, 1928, dark grey cloth, frontispiece and a further eighteen plate illustrations, subscribers list, octavo, (2). £40-50 962 AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE BOOK with dated entries for the period 1817-1846, containing hand-written verses (some apparently original), and watercolour and pencil illustrations, all edges gilt, full crimson leather gilt, approximately 110 leaves, 21cm x 26cm (scuffed; printed ownership label to upper cover). £50-70 963 AN EARLY TO MID 19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE BOOK the few dated entries for the period 1835-49, with some earlier and others later, containing hand-written verses and prose, clipped engravings and scraps (some hand-coloured), further illustrations and clipped printed verses, half leather, approximately 100 leaves, 30.5cm x 24cm (binding broken and tape-repaired at across spine and along hinges). £40-50 Lot 964 964 AN EARLY TO MID 19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE BOOK the hand-painted bookplate page dated 1829 and the final entries 1860, containing hand-written verses and prose, original artwork, including butterflies and four silhouette portraits, clipped engravings, and dried plants, full leather gilt, all edges gilt, approximately 80 leaves, 23.5cm x 19cm (upper cover detached; spine strip incomplete; scuffed). £40-50 965 A MID 19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE BOOK containing hand-written verses and prose, original artwork, clipped engravings and printed colour illustrations, full maroon leather gilt, approximately 100 leaves, 24cm x 20cm. £40-50 Lot 966 966 AN EARLY TO MID 19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE BOOK containing hand-written prose, original artwork, including caricatures and birds, two Stevengraphs, embossed classical portrait profiles, cameos, clipped engravings and ephemera, full black leather gilt, all edges gilt, approximately seventy-two leaves, 23.5cm x 19cm (spine strip detached). £50-60 The Octagon Salerooms Spring Sporting Sale Friday 8th April Entries close Monday 14th March Contact Stuart Triggol CONDITIONS OF SALE 1. 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From the Motorway: Follow the signs to the Town Centre. (Pass Rowcliffes Dealership on the left hand side and turn right at the Traffic Lights by the White Hart Public House. Friday 6th May (Warner Dailey Collection Militaria, Part 3) Friday 3rd June (to include Great War Memorabilia) Friday 2nd September Friday 2nd December SPORTING SALES Friday 8th April (Spring) Friday 7th October (Autumn) MONTHLY GENERAL SALES At Sedgemoor Auction Centre FREE VALUATION THURSDAY 17th MARCH MORNINGS Viewing from 9.00am on the morning of sale and sales commence at 11.00am Every Monday 9.00am – 1.00pm Entries will be taken on the day prior to sale from 9.00am – 4.00pm at The Octagon Salerooms SOLD IN OUR DECEMBER COLLECTOR’S SALE 19th century French automaton music box £1,600 Kings pattern corkscrew by W. Dray £1,200 From a collection of waterline model ships £5,750 The Octagon Salerooms, East Reach, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3HL Tel: 01823 332525 Email: antiques.saleroom@gth.net www.gth.net