The Automobile Engineer: A Technical Journal Devoted to the Theory and Practice of Automobile Construction. A run of ten folio-sized (34.5 x 25cm) hardbound volumes (mixed bindings) containing the issues from Volume 1 No. 1, June,1910 to Volume 10 No. 145, December 1920, with numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations, diagrams, tables, and text figures, and including many folding supplements. Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 6 include title pages and indices. Volumes 2 and 3 are entitled 'Internal Combustion Engineering, incorporating The Automobile Engineer' and have been re-cased, with the original covers and spines laid down (these are a little dull and rubbed) and gilt lettering to the front covers and spines. The journal's title then reverts to The Automobile Engineer, although by Volume 10 the sub-title notes the inclusion of aircraft construction in addition to automobiles. Volumes 5 and 7 are in an early dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spines, while the remaining volumes are all in a much later binding including blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spines. Apart from some page browning through age, all the volumes appear to be clean and sound (10)
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Voiture Automobile - Comment on Construit & Conduit et Entretient, edited by Ren‚ Champly, 251pp, 1906. A rare large 8vo volume, originally from the library of Henri M. Petiet, with detailed text and excellent line-drawings relating to the current designs and inventions. The book has received some positive refurbishment, to include the stiffening of the paper covers and square-backed spine, and now possesses a slipcase to aid conservation. French text (1)
Manuel Pratique d'Automobilisme by M. Derulo. Two editions (1906 1916) of this quintessential French information manual, circa 500pp each, bound in light fawn cloth with black titles and penny-corners. Also, Comment on Construit une Automobile by the same author, the 1906 and 1907 editions, with complementary light fawn cloth bindings and penny-corners. Together with, two similar small 8vo volumes, Les Accesoires of 1913 and La Voiture de Tourisme with 135 separate line drawings and pictures, the latter in quarter leather and marbled boards. All in clean sound condition, save for light use (6)
The Automobile, its construction and management by G‚rard Lavergne. Translated from the French, and edited by Paul Hasluck, 608pp including index, published by Cassell, 1902 1st English edition. A detailed study of the current developments of road transport, in readable prose, with 536 well-defined illustrations. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt titles to the front cover and spine. The corners a little bumped, and the spine top and bottom with wear, otherwise very good. Also, by the same author, Theorique et Pratique de l'Automobile Sur Route, a 1st ed of 1900, 722pp with index and well-defined images of chassis, engines, axles, carburettors, etcetera. The red cloth binding tight and editorial sound (2)
Motor Cars and the Application of Mechanical Power to Road Vehicles by Rhys Jenkins, 1st ed, 1902. A large 8vo hardback volume in dark maroon gilt embossed lettered and decorated cloth (spine faded), pp xviii, 372, top edge gilt, 100 illustrations, some page gatherings becoming loose, but contents complete. Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London. Also, Les Moteurs a Essence Pour Automobiles by L. Marchis, 464pp and index, large 8vo, 1904, bound in dark green cloth. With highly detailed line drawings and commentary on the, at the time, current trends in automobile engineering. Good original bindings on both (2)
The Automobile edited by Paul Hasluck, the 3rd 'Special Subscribers Edition of 1906, the first being 1902, published by Cassell & Co., Ltd. Three volumes in green, gilt-blocked. Volume 1 and 2, 861pp and Volume 3, 416pp with indices, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4-inches. The subtitle, 'A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Modern Motor Cars, Steam, Petrol, Electric and Petrol-Electric' sums up the contents. Profusely illustrated, with detailed line drawings a feature. In fair condition, spines a little loose (3)
Cars and Motor-Cycles. A three-volume quarto hardbound set of the 1929 edition of the work described as 'A complete guide and valuable work of reference for all motorists and motor-cyclists', edited by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and M. Bourdon, published by New Era, London, 1929. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and banding to the spines, 1300pp, colour frontispiece to each volume plus other full-page monochrome and colour plates and numerous text figures and photographic illustrations. Also, Cyclopaedia of Automobile Engineering in four volumes, 1913 to include Aircraft, steam cars, motorcycles and garages, superb detail. All the volumes a little weak internally and the spines with tears and wear (7)
*1904 A.C.G.B.I. Lapel Badge. Founded in 1897, a rare assayed gold and blue enamel Automobile Club of Great Britain & Ireland membership badge dated 1904, a talisman before the club received its Royal Warrant in 1907; King Edward VII commanding that the 'Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland should henceforth be known as The Royal Automobile Club'. The dark blue enamel surrounding an intaglio depiction of Walter Hancock's oscillating cylinder driven 'Infant (1)' steam carriage of 1830. Made by Spencer & Co, it is in good condition, albeit the rear pin is missing (1)
Le Mans - A Century of Passion. Published by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest in 2006, a limited edition two-volume set, 4to, hardbacks with DJs in slipcase. 365pp & 368pp. with numerous monochrome and colour illustrations. A very clean set with no previous owner's markings or inscriptions. Being the limited-edition set, there are no DJ prices and therefore the corners have not been clipped. English text (1)
Georgano (Nick, editor). The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile, Forward by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2000, colour plates and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with Georgano (Nick, edited), The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Coachbuilding, Forward by Brian Sewell, 1st edition, 2001, colour plates and black & white illustrations, original pictorial boards, large 4to (3)
*Motor Union Badge. Manufactured by George Collins Ltd., numbered 4637, and dating between 1907 and 1910, this rare nickel-plated badge possesses its original screw-on-wings, which had been demanded by the Automobile Association, which claimed that the earlier, non-winged Motor Union badge was a copy of its entwined AA badge. The two clubs merged in 1910. In significantly good condition, the correct embossing and name stampings are present. 20cms high (1)
*The Circle of 19th Century Motorists. A first issue Type-1 badge of 1927 with blue, yellow and red enamels within an escutcheon with '1900' intaglio at the apex, with a winged wheel supporter. The shield rests on a dais with the word 'Member' raised and a dashboard mount. Plated in nickel-silver, the reverse inscribed Robert W. Buttemer. In excellent condition. 4 1/4-inches (10.5cm) total height. Also, from the same source, is a brass plaque, one side inscribed 'BENZ - Mannheim' and the other, 'International Motor Car Co., 15 High Road Kilburn, London, W.' 5 x 10cm. together with a 1930s AA badge and a yellow-back AA badge Historic Note: The Circle of 19th Century Motorists, founded in 1927, was the most exclusive of English motoring clubs, where to be a member you were required to prove that you had driven a car extensively before the turn of the 20th century. The number of members never exceeded 220, and with the passing of time the membership reduced to a point where the last meeting was a Memorial Lunch in 1952. Robert William Buttemer (1870-1951) known to his friends as 'Butty', was not only a founder member of the ACGBI, later the R.A.C., but was a regular contributor to Automotor Journal and The Motorcar Journal, and owned several early cars to include an 1897 Benz voiturette which he campaigned enthusiastically. Although of independent means, he left Cambridge with a MA in Natural Sciences and experimented with electrical engineering and chemistry. Very active with the West Surrey Automobile Club, he was well known to the West Sussex Constabulary having received several letters about speeding in breach of the 1903 Motor Car Act. (4)
German Third Reich DDAC car pennant. A good triangular double sided example of white cotton printed with cross of National colours and DDAC eagle and swastika emblem; white cloth sleeve. GC DDAC (Der Deutsche Automobil-Club) was the German Automobile Club formed in 1933 to bring numerous clubs into one in order to be regulated by NSDAP.
FAMOUS MEN: An excellent colour 21 x 17.5 print entitled Victory by artist Lorne Winters, 1994, the image depicting an athlete victoriously crossing a finishing line against a background of a vast mountain vista, individually signed by a variety of famous men comprising Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) American Astronaut, Commander of Apollo XI (1969) and the first man to walk on the moon, Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion, Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) New Zealand Mountaineer, the first man, with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1953, Hank Aaron (1934- ) American Baseball Player, Gordie Howe (1928-2016) American Ice Hockey Player, Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) American Broadcaster and Lee Iacocca (1924- ) American Automobile Executive. Most have signed in bold pencil (Cronkite and Iacocca in blue inks) with their names alone to the lower white border, which is also signed in pencil by the artist. Limited Edition number 32/100. Matted in red and framed and glazed in a plain black frame to an overall size of 25½ x 22. EX
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