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A collection of good quality automobile and motorcycle books

A Kings Shropshire Light Infantry enamel and chrome car badge, KSLI, by J R Gaunt London, 13cm (automobile)

A car horn by Desmo Birmingham; together with book of visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the period of 16th April to 17th May 1946 and five photos of vintage cars including Morris Vanguard, etc (7)

Motor Vehicles, a collection, including Beaumont, W.W. Motor Vehicles and Motors. 1902-06. 2 volumes, 4to., plates, original cloth, slight spotting, one hinge weak; Armstrong, J. The Motor. [c.1912]; Young, A.B.F. The Complete Motorist. 1904, original cloth; Hasluck, P.N. The Automobile. 1903, 8vo, original cloth; Spencer, C. Bicycles & Tricyles. [c.1882], 8vo; Tinsley Bros., publishers Bicycling, its Rise and Development. 1876. 8vo, illustrations, original wrappers, spine repaired; and 6 others on motor cycles and cars (13)

A collection of eighteen motoring and motor racing books including The Annual Automobile Review 1953-1954, 1955 & 1956 editions, Drivers in Action and Racing Sports Cars both by Louis Klemantaski and Michael Frostick, Vanwall the Story of Tony Vandervell and His Racing Cars, Stirling Moss's book of Motor Sport and others (18).

South African schoolMixed media with automobile paint Stylised image of face wearing crown, signed indistinctly, 60cm x 48cm

A Royal Automobile Club car mascot, chrome with enamelled Union Jack, together with a rectangular cast bronze plaque, figural scene inscribed Henning F. May 2, 1821 after Raphael, 7 x 10.5in.

SILVER TROPHY.A 1930's silver trophy inscribed 'Viscount Wakefield of Hythe Trophy, Miniature Replica 1938', this being a second prize awarded to Mrs H Wood. London 1938. Height 19.5cm. Approx. 8½oz.Note: The full size silver trophy was presented by Lord Wakefield to the Women's Automobile and Sports Association in 1929 & was awarded between 1932 & 1937. It remains in permanent ownership of the R.A.C. M.S.A.

A collection of Malay and Singapore items including an Automobile Association (AA) of Singapore car badge, a State of Singapore drivers licence, a pair of traditional dolls and others

A good collection of automobile spares and accessories

Automobile related memorabilia, name plates, Badges, chrome filler caps, interior dials clocks etc

Oxford Diecast - A quantity 16 diecast model motor vehicles from the Oxford Automobile Company, all in 1:76 scale. All models appear mint in original display boxes.

Diecast - A quantity of 18 diecast model motor vehicles to include models by, Oxford Automobile Company, Corgi Vanguards, Hongwell and Corgi Classic Models. All models appear mint in original window or display boxes.

Oxford Automobile Company and Oxford Commercials - eleven diecast models comprising eight 1:43 scale Oxford and three others, all mint in plastic cases with outer sleeves [total of 11 models]

Oxford Automobile Company - 28 diecast 1:76 scale model motor vehicles, mint in original plastic cases with card sleeves and three Oxford cata;ogues - Est £50 - £70

Oxford Automobile Company - 29 diecast 1:76 scale model motor vehicles, mint in original plastic cases with card sleeves - Est £50 - £70

Brooklands Automobile Racing Club. A multi-signed printed card advertising an event at which 'M. Pegaud will give demonstrations of latest developments in flying on a Bleriot monoplane at Brooklands, September 25th, 26th and 27th, from 3.30 to 6 (weather permitting) including upside down flying', [1913], printed in blue on off-white card with logo in gilt, minor marks, 14 autographs to blank verso, all but one in pencil including L. Bleriot, A. Bleriot, A. Pegaud (signed upside down to the other signatures), W. Mair Rolph, Harry Delacombe, Norbert Chereau, Pierre Verrier, C.H. Greswell, W.G. Perrin, James Valentine, Spenser Grey and two unidentified including one in green ink, minor marks, 9 x 11 cm (1)

Elwood Haynes - The Complete Motorist. A privately printed history and publicity book discussing the design of the 1894 'Pioneer' car claiming, inappropriately, 'The inventor of America's first Automobile', and then progressing to the details and manufacture of Haynes passenger touring cars. With many line drawings and vignettes of components and model specifications. Square-backed with a gilt and grey card cover, uncut fore-edge, short tears to the cover edges (1)

The Farman Automobile Co. Ltd., of Long Acre. Dated January 1903, this brochure illustrates the 12hp and 24hp FAC, together with the products of Clement, Argyll, Darracq, Renault, De Dion and the 70hp Paris-Vienna Racing Panhard. A 66pp, stapled saddle-stitched book, with a soft red illustrated cover, some corner creasing, but fundamentally sound (1)

The Automobile Association Ltd., of Holland Park. A circa 1899 agency catalogue with illustrations, details and prices for The Tourist, Autocycle, Barriere Tricycle, The Automotette, Vall‚e, Cambier, etcetera. Also, Delivery Vans, Dog Carts. 24pp with a cream card cover. Also offered is a March 1899 promotional letter and a 14pp pamphlet for the same company. All in good, sound condition (3)

Paris-Automobile - 1906. A large format promotional book promoting hire cars from the Rue d'Anjou. The joy of this hardbound 24pp book are not only the large monochrome images of vehicles available like Panhard-Levassor, Napier, Hotchkiss and Mors, but also full-page photographs of their racing equivalents in action, namely, Napier, Mors, Panhard-Levassor and Mercedes with Raggio seated in his (September) 1905 Florio Cup winning Italia, together with an image of the cup itself. Faux crocodile skin green boards, the pages are crisp, albeit with several lightly bumped corners. The spine with minor paper loss top and bottom. French text (1)

The Madelvic Motor Carriage Co. Ltd. - 1899. A 42pp brochure by this Edinburgh company, which manufactured a patented electrically-powered 'Automobile Carriage Front'. Printed on yellowed paper, with tinted images, simple descriptions are given but the editorial is effusive about the manufacturing quality and flexible usefulness. The card cover with a vertical crease, otherwise in good condition Historic Note: Founded by William Peck, he offered various bodies to include a Brougham, Parcel Van and Phaeton from his factory at Granton, Edinburgh, between 1898 and 1900. The vehicle was driven by a three-wheeled front axle unit, comprising a motor, batteries and a small central wheel, set behind the axle, which propelled the vehicle. This unit was mounted to the front of a chassis, creating a five-wheeled automobile, but 'could also be attached to any horse-drawn carriage'. The brochure also suggests that they also offered a Bus, Charabanc, Lorry and Omnibus, but print in each case that the 'Illustration is not available at the time of going to press', which probably implies that no such vehicles existed. The company folded in 1900, although the factory building still stands. (1)

Self Help Books. The Motor Car - its Use and Management, by Sir Henry Thompson, 106pp; A Glossary of Road Terms by H, Percy Boulnois; Motors & Motoring by Professor Spooner (two copies), The Encyclopaedia of Motoring by R. Mecredy; The Automobile, its Selection and Care by Robert Sloss, and other similar titles. All in used, but clean condition (11)

Horseless Vehicles Automobiles & Motor Cycles, by Gardner Hiscock. Dated 1900, 459pp including index, and includes a chapter on how to build an Electric Cab with detailed drawings. 316 well-defined illustrations and good, readable text. Although published by Sampson Low & Co., in London, the text is American bias and includes a list of USA Automobile patents from 1856. Bound in red buckram, gilt titles to the spine, edges a little rubbed (1)

Motor-Car Mechanism and Management, by W. Poynter Adams. Two 8vo hardback volumes, being Parts I: The Petrol Car and II: Electric and Petro-Electric Vehicles, both 1st eds, dated 1906 and 1908 respectively, both a little worn, with cloth covers stained/marked, and slightly weak internally, but both very scarce. Plus, six volumes in the series of handbooks issued by the International Book Company, Scranton, PA., in the 1930s: Automobile Friction Clutches; Automobile Valve Repair and Bench Work; Overhauling of Automobile Engine Cylinders; Repair of Automobile Electric Equipment; Elements of Electric Ignition; and Automobile Universal Joints - Steering Gears (8)

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 (1)

Early French and Spanish Motoring. Three rare large 8vo hardback volumes, comprising: L'Automobile a Essence: Principes de Construction et Calculs, by Ed. Heirman, Paris et Liege, 1st Ed, 1908, 70 text figures, a good copy; Annual Baudry de Saunier, 1906, Ouvrage annuel refermant des principals epreuves sportives de l'Annee (Automobile, Cyclisme, Electricite, Chimie, etcetera), 780 pages, numerous text illustrations, period advertisments, cloth dull/rubbed, hinges a little weak; Tratado Practico de Automoviles, by Guillermo Ortega & Ricardo Goytre, 3rd Ed, Madrid, 1914, 600 pages, numerous text figures, some folding illustrations, period advertisements, a little weak and soiled internally, cloth worn, preliminary pages loose, one folding plate torn (without loss); and a 64-page (plus paper covers) brochure: Les Petits Trucs du Chauffeur en panne, by Rene Champly, Paris, 1904, some text illustrations, period advertisements, a little worn and foxed (4)

Motoring Handbooks and Manuals. A good selection of early 8vo hardback volumes, mainly in good condition, comprising: Motor-Car Principles - The Gasoline Automobile, by Roger B. Whitman, New and Enlarged Edition, 1907; Petrol Motors and Motor Cars, by T. Hyler White, 2nd Edition, 1905; The Automobile Industry, by Geoffrey De Holden-Stone, 1st Ed, 1904; The Petrol Engine, Troubles & Remedies, by C. W. Brown, 1st Ed, 1907; The Woman's Motor Manual - How to Obtain Employment in Government or Private Service as a Woman Driver, by Gladys De Havilland, 1st Ed, 1918; plus 8 other similar volumes, including worn copies of O'Gorman's Motor Pocket Book, 2nd Ed, 1907, and The Automobile Handbook for 1906 (13)

Motoring Reference. A mixture of hardback and paperback books and pamphlets, including several in the Profile Publications Series, Shire Albums, The Simms Story from 1891 (two different hardback editions); Motor Badges and Figureheads, by Brian Jewell (hardback and paperback editions); The Dunlop Story, by James McMillan, 1st ed, 1989; Walter Wilson: Portrait of an Inventor, by A. Gordon Wilson, 1st ed, 1986; Carriages Without Horses: J. Frank Duryea and the Birth of the American Automobile Industry, by Richard P. Scharchburg, 1st ed, 1993 (the last three all excellent copies in their DJs); and several other similar volumes (a quantity)

American Motoring History. A selection of 15 volumes, all but one hardbacks, most of which are excellent copies in their DJs, and including: a four-volume large format set, new in its polythene wrapper, Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry, by Michael J. Kollins; Harrah's Automobile Collection, by Dean Batchelor, with photographs by John Lamm, 1st ed, 1984; The Cameron Story, by William T. Cameron, 1st ed, 1990, signed by the author; and The Story of a Stanley Steamer, by George Woodbury, 1st ed, 1950 (15)

European Motoring Histories. A selection of 23 items, some in French, including 8 paperbacks or pamphlets, but the rest hardbacks, and mainly good copies in their DJs, including: In First Gear - The French Automobile Industry to 1914, by James M. Laux, 1st ed, 1976; Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka, by Ivan Margolius & John G. Henry, 1st ed, 1990, signed by the authors on the half-title page; Clement Bayard - Pionnier Industriel, by Gerard Hartmann, 1st ed, 2013 (French text); Armand Peugeot by Piero Casucci, 1st ed, 1988, tri-lingual Italian/English/French text; and Andre Citroen, the Man and the Motor Cars, by John Reynolds, 1st ed, 1996. The paperbacks include a 1956 guide, in French, but well-illustrated to Le Musee Marius Berliet (23)

Motoring History. A large quantity (circa 45) mainly hardback volumes in various formats, many in their DJs, and including: The Golden Age of Motoring, Automobile, Edita Lausanne, 1982; From Veteran to Vintage: A History of Motoring and Motorcars from 1884 to 1914, by Kent Karslake & Laurence Pomeroy, 1st ed, 1956 (2 copies); A Roadside Camera 1895-1915, by Michael E. Ware, 1st ed, 1974; Victorian and Edwardian Cycling & Motoring from old photographs, by A. B. Demaus, 1st ed, 1977; Early Days on the Road: An Illustrated History 1819-1941, by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu & G. N. Georgano, BCA Edition, 1976; The British Motorist: A Celebration in Pictures, by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 1st ed, 1987; Birth of a Giant: The Men and Incidents That Gave America the Motorcar, by Richard Crabb, 1st ed, 1969; and many others, most in good condition (a quantity)

Automobile Year. Various examples starting with No 10 (1962-1963) to No 56 (2008 - 2009). Also, Auto-Universum 1964 and 1965. All in good or better condition with DJs. Together with an advertising poster for the BOAC 1000 Kilometres World Championship Sports Car Race by Dexter Brown, held at Brands Hatch. Organised by the BRSCC, it was held on the 12 April 1970 with BOAC as the main sponsor. In good condition and protected behind a Perspex clip mount, (20 x 30-inches) (17)NB. Quantity in the lot has been amended from 18 volumes.

La Targa Florio. Two volumes, both profusely illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with Italian text, the first a small folio volume, as new in dust jacket, by Gonzalo Alvarez Garcia, sub-titled Gattopardi Piloti Gentiluomini, with some English text beneath the plates, 1st ed, 1986, published by Novocento; the other, a quarto volume without a dust jacket, entitled La favolosa Targa Florio, by Giovanni Canestrini, 1st ed, 1966, published by Automobile Club d'Italia. The red cloth covers slightly marked and faded, and with fewer colour images within, otherwise good (2)

La Locomotion Automobile: a rare volume for 1897. Revue des Voitures et Vehicules Mecaniques, publiee sous le Haut Patronage du Touring-Club de France, Paris. A small quarto volume in contemporary marbled boards, quarter-bound with brown leather spine and gilt tooling (rubbed), holding the weekly issues from this, the fourth year of publication, numbers 1 to 52, and with an issue from the previous year, Number 2 for February 1896, bound in at the back of the volume. Pages browned, in generally clean and sound condition, but without the two-colour covers and advertisements. Approximately 650 pages in all, including index, and profusely illustrated with text figures, engravings and photographs (1)

La Vie Automobile, Premier Semestre, 1905. Bound weekly issues for the first half of the well-illustrated weekly Parisian motoring journal's Cinquieme Annee of publication, from issue 171, 7 Janvier 1905, to 195, 24 Juin 1905, bound together without the covers or advertisements. A hardbound quarto volume with marble boards and a cloth spine (covers rubbed), with title page, and with the index for the period bound in at the rear of the volume. Photocopies of two issues, numbers 174 and 193, which were lacking from the volume, are loosely inserted. French text (1)

La Vie Automobile, Deuxieme Semestre, 1913. Bound weekly issues for the second half of the well-illustrated weekly Parisian motoring journal's 13th year of publication, from issue 614, 5 Juillet 1913, to 639, 27 Decembre 1913, bound together without the covers or advertisements. A quarto volume recently bound in black cloth with a maroon leather title label with gilt lettering to the spine, and with photocopied index pages for the period loosely inserted at the rear of the volume. French text (1)

The Automobile in America by Stephen Sears, 352pp including index, 1977 1st ed, a rare 4to with its decorative slipcase. Also, The Checkered (sic) Flag and Great Auto Races, both books featuring the art of Peter Helck. With DJs, with some soiling and short tears (3)

Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia. Fifth edition, Revised and Enlarged, Containing 366 Charts with a Dictionary and Index. Treating on the Construction, Operation and Repairing of Automobiles and Gasoline Engines. A substantial, large octavo hardback volume in blue cloth with white lettering, the covers a little rubbed and marked, running to some 750 pages. Clean and sound internally, numerous text figures, pictorial end-papers, and published by A. L. Dyke, St. Louis, U.S.A., 1916 (1)

La Ville au Bois Dormant - De Saigon a Ang'Kor en Automobile, (Saigon and Ang-Kor (Wat) by Automobile) by the Duc de Montpensier. 1910 1st ed, published by Libraire Plon, Paris. French text. This large octavo volume has modern cream-coloured cloth hard covers with the front cover from the original (with a striking colour design by 'Sahib') tipped-in on the front cover and the title and name of the author in black lettering on the spine. Modern cream-coloured end-papers, 260pp including the preliminaries, page-edges uncut, 89 monochrome photographs by the author in the text and additional full-page plates on thin card, two further full-page colour-plates by 'Sahib' with tissue-guards between pages 146 & 7 and 208 & 9, and two folding maps (with some foxing) at the back of this rare volume (1)

Automobile Quarterly. A complete run in excellent, clean condition from Volume 1, No 1, Spring 1962 to Volume 39, No 4, December 1999, together with seven Index Volumes covering Volumes 1 to 35 (lacking only that for Volumes 17 to 20), but with the 2 additional cumulative Index Volumes for Volumes 1-20 (in publisher's slipcase) and Volumes 21-40. Volumes 1 to 13 inclusive are housed in the publisher's yearly black slipcases, which are somewhat dusty and slightly rubbed. The lot also includes a duplicate of Volume 25, No I, the 25th Anniversary Edition, two special paperback supplements on the Plymouth Prowler and Aston Martin DB7, and four loose issues from 1989 of Automobile Quarterly's Quatrefoil, Book and Automotive Catalogue (a quantity)

The Automobile. A long and complete run of this monthly journal from Volume 1 No. 1, December, 1982 to Volume 18 No. 12, February, 2001 inclusive. The first 12 volumes are nicely presented in the publisher's navy blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the front covers and spines, a ten-year index being included at the back of Volume 10. Volumes 13 and 14 are in navy blue-coloured loose-leaf binders. All of them are bound with their covers. The remaining four volumes are here as loose copies. All are in very good condition (a quantity)

La Vie Automobile. A long run of twenty-three hardbound quarto volumes of this weekly Parisian motoring journal, beginning with Number 66, 3rd Jan 1903, the third year of publication, and ending with Number 670, 1st August 1914, the first semester of the fourteenth year of publication. Each half year is bound without covers and advertisements, the text is in French, and the volumes are well illustrated with text figures and monochrome photographs, and include title pages and indices for each year's two semesters. The first 22 volumes are uniformly quarter-bound in dark green leather with mottled black and green boards (edges a little rubbed), gilt banding and lettering to the spines (spines faded) and marbled end-papers up to and including 1911 (plain thereafter). The last volume, also quarter-bound in leather, has marbled yellow and black board covers (edges a little rubbed), a later maroon leather spine with gilt banding and lettering, and marbled end-papers. There is some page browning through age, but all the content is impressively clean and sound See also lot 224. (23)

The Automobile Engineer. A Technical Journal Devoted to the Theory and Practice of Automobile Construction. An almost complete run of eleven folio-sized hardbound volumes (mixed bindings) from Volume 1, No. 1, June 1910 to Volume 15, No. 210, December 1925, lacking only Volumes 2 (1912), 3 (1913), and 5 (1915). The first three volumes are in blue cloth, Volumes 7 (1917) to 13 (1923) are quarter-bound in leather with marbled board covers, and the last two volumes are in green cloth, which is a little worn and marked (the rest of the bindings are very good). All of the volumes appear to be generally sound and clean internally, with just some inevitable page browning though age. Volume I, covering the period June 1910 to December 1911, has been bound with the advertisements, has supplements loosely inserted, and a copy title page and index bound in at the front of the volume. The rest of the volumes are bound without advertisements. Volume 6 (1916) also has a copy title page and index, but loosely inserted at the front of the volume. Volumes 4 (1914) and 9 (1919) to 13 (1923) all have their original title pages and indices bound in at the front of the volumes. Volumes 7 and 8 (1917 and 1918), which are bound in one, and Volumes 14 (1924) and 15 (1925) do not include title pages/indices. The content includes numerous text figures, diagrams, tables, photographic illustrations and other folding illustrations, including some of the folding supplementary pages being loosely inserted (11)

Association Generale Automobile Bulletin Officiel. Four small 4to hardbound volumes, quarter-bound with black leather spines, marbled board covers and end-papers, the spines with raised bands and gilt lettering/decoration. The volumes contain a run of the monthly bulletin from No. 1, Mai 1902 (1re Annee) to No. 12, Decembre 1905 (4e Annee), with text in French, and with many period advertisements, plus monochrome photographs, text figures and maps. The bindings are all somewhat rubbed and marked, but the content of all four volumes is extremely clean and sound, albeit with page browning due to age (4)

Modern Motors, Their Construction, Management & Control & Motors of Today by H. Thornton Rutter. Two sets of hardback works by this author, the first, in four volumes, published c1926, the second, in five volumes, c1927. Both well illustrated, Modern Motors being small 4to in format, Motors of Today large 8vo. Together with: Motor Car Maintenance: Motor Repair and Overhauling, Edited by George T. Clarke, c1930, five 8vo volumes; and the Cyclopedia of Automobile Engineering, illustrated with over one thousand engravings (and including many full-page monochrome plates of cars of the period), American Technical Society, Chicago, 1913, four volumes, large 8vo, quarter-bound in red cloth with red leather spines, which are rubbed and worn, though the contents of the volumes are excellent. The first three sets are also good second-hand copies (18)

Lucas: The First Hundred Years by H. Nockolds, two-volume hardback set, 1st ed, 1976, good copies in slightly soiled DJs, but with a rare Bernard Scott bookplate in volume one, together with five other multi-volume motoring sets, comprising: Automobile Engineering, Illustrated with over 1500 Engravings, American Technical Society, Chicago, 1922 (6 volumes); Electrical Equipment of the Car by Herbert J. & Hugh Butler, with 574 illustrations, 24 folding plates and 61 tables, 394 wiring diagrams and 428 electrical specifications, 1926 (3 volumes); The Book of Electrical Installations by Rankin Kennedy, with over 600 diagrams and illustrations and a series of models, 1915 (three volumes); the same author's The Book of the Motor Car, with many hundred illustrations (6 volumes); and The Modern Motor Engineer by Arthur W. Judge (3 volumes) (21)

Reference Material. Motor Car Index for 1918 - 1929 and 1928 -1939, The 1903 Automobile Show at Crystal Palace (2) (reprints), a 1905 Clincher Tyres catalogue, Automobile Accessories 1912, James Grose Ltd. dated 1937 and several books about the history of motor vehicle registration and American licence plates. All in good or better condition (11)

Early Motoring Handbooks. Auto-Cars: Cars by D. Farman, translated from the French by Lucien Seraillier, 1st English ed, 1896, the first book on motoring in English, with 112 illustrations; A Catechism of the Motor Car by John Henry Knight, 1st ed, 1908, decorated board covers, 29 text figures; Motors and Motoring, by Henry J. Spooner, 1st ed, 1905, 21 illustrations; The Light Car Handbook, by 'Candidus', c.1916, numerous illustrations, preliminary pages loose, folding frontispiece split at centre-fold (but complete); The Chauffeur's Companion, by 'A 4 inch Driver', revised 2nd Edition, 1909, board covers worn; Chauffeur-Schule, by Julius Kuster, Berlin,1909, 146 text figures, German text; Krausz's ABC of Motoring, by Sigmund Krausz, 1st US Edition, 1906; Automobile Catechism, by Forrest R. Jones, revised 2nd Edition, New York, 1906, limp cloth covers; and The Motorist's A. B. C., by L. Elliott Brookes, 1906, loose in limp cloth covers. All 8vo volumes, in good condition, unless otherwise noted (9)

The Antique Automobile. An excellent long run in 14 hardbound volumes of this 4to motoring journal, the Official Publication of the Antique Automobile Club of America, commencing with Volume 14 No. 1, March 1950, and ending with Volume 44 No. 6, November-December 1980. All are uniformly bound in grey cloth with black lettering/banding to the spines, the glossy covers being bound in at the rear of each volume. Volumes 14 to 30 are in a vertical format, after which the publishers changed the format to horizontal. Initially published quarterly, the journal became bi-monthly in 1958. The first three volumes each hold three volumes of the journal, the rest two volumes in each binding. The lot also includes some additional loose issues: Volume 12, Nos. 1, 2, & 4; Volume 13, Nos. 2, 3, & 4; Volume 45, Nos. 1, 4, & 5; Volume 47, No.2; and Volume 49 (Jan to Dec 1985) complete. All appear to be clean and sound (a quantity)

The Automobile Engineer: A Technical Journal Devoted to Design, Manufacturing Methods, and Works Equipment, incorporating Motor Body Building (from 1930). Eleven folio-size hardbound volumes, uniformly bound in Iliffe the publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to the front cover and spines, and containing the issues from Vol. XIX, No. 250, January, 1929 to Volume XXIX, No. 392, December, 1939. Together with Volume XXXII, January-December, 1942, similarly bound, but in a slightly smaller format. Each volume has a title page and the year's index at the front. The contents appear to be generally clean and sound, with numerous text figures, diagrams, tables, plans and photographic illustrations. There are some annotations to a few volumes, mainly in pencil to the front paste-down end-papers. The bindings show slight signs of wear, some are somewhat dull/marked, and the bottom few inches of the front cover of Volume XXIX is damp-stained (12)

Omnia: L'Usage Pratique du Pneumatique. Comprising a quarto-size booklet with a decorated soft cover, discussing the manufacture and use of pneumatic tyres. Some very interesting photographs and line drawings, French text. Also, The Automobile Engineer Reference Book for 1912, 1914 and 1922; Motor Body Work on Commercial Cars, 1916, 77pp and many full-page advertisements; Chroniques de L'Automobile Volume 1, No 2, 1995 and issued to the ACF membership, with very good photographs, French text. All in good, clean condition (6)

Early Motor Year-Books and The Light Car. Two early hardback copies of Methuen's The Motor Year Book for 1905 and 1906, both with decorated cloth covers, the first 8vo, with 53 illustrations, the other large 8vo, and sub-titled 'and Automobilist's Annual. Also, a good copy of The Book of the Light Car, by E. T. Brown, 1st ed, 156 pages, with text figures and several pages of photographic plates. The lot is completed by a 64-page brochure, somewhat worn, published by the RAC on Jan 1st, 1915, including a 'Table of Motor Cars Manufactured During the Years 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915 inclusive; a French brochure from 1913, hardbound, including the thin card covers (orange with black lettering), in brown cloth with a leather title label to the spine, entitled Le Catalogue des Catalogues, Guide de l'Acheteur Automobile, 1re Edition, Tous les prix, Toutes les caracteristiques, De toutes les marques, with numerous period ads; and a thick French paperback, L'Automobile, by H. Petit & P. Meyan, 404 pages (largely unopened), numerous text figures and 40 pages of photographic illustrations, 7th ed, Paris, 1913. All in good, clean condition (6)

Le Tourisme en Automobile, by Leon Auscher, avec une preface de M. L. Baudry de Saunier, 1st ed, Paris, 1904. A large 8vo hardback in dark green cloth with gilt lettering/lining, top edge gilt, pp x, 464, numerous text figures/photographs, some internal foxing, but generally a very good copy. Together with Automobiles, Camions et Tracteurs, Principes et Utilisation, avec 145 figures et 12 planches, by L. De Montgrand, 1st ed, Paris/Nancy, 1917. A large 8vo paperback volume, rebound in orange cloth with the paperback's front cover mounted centrally, and a leather title label to the spine. Some minor foxing/soiling, but overall a very good copy. Several of the illustrations are multi-fold documents, with occasional marginal tears and some repairs (2)

The History and Development of Light Cars by C. F. Caunter, large 8vo hardback, 1st ed, 1957; 4e Annee Agenda-Buvard du Chauffeur et de l'Alcool, Edite par Juliette Lockert, Paris, 1906, large 8vo, hardback, 230pp, well-illustrated with advertisements, theatre plans, cartoons, etcetera, the variously coloured pages interleaved with diary pages, some of which have neat ink entries for the day, pages browned through age, and the contents loose in the binding, which is rubbed and marked; Le Moteur Roi: Origines de l'Automobile, by Louis Bonneville, Preface by Gabriel Voisin, 1st ed, 1949, large 8vo paperback, 216pp, 55 text figures, a little worn; Modern Motor-Vehicles, by Lt.-Col. Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, 1st ed, 1907, 8vo paperback, 122pp, text figures and 3 folding plates, presentation copy from the author to F. W. Lanchester, covers worn but contents good; Moroccan International Rally, April 23rd to May 3rd, 1935, Official Rules, Automobile-Club-Marocain, a 24pp stapled brochure, including rather soiled pictorial card covers, with good period advertisements and illustrations, and including a fold-out Route Time table to Gibraltar and Tangier as the last page, English text. Plus 6 other items (11)

Das Auto in Der Karikatur, by Dr. Anton Klima, (Automobile Caricature Art) 1st ed, Amsterdam/Berlin, 1928. A 4to hardback volume, with rough-textured covers, the front cover lettered in brown with a central caricature, and with a cloth spine, pp (viii), 138, 124 black-and-white illustrations, German text. Many of the illustrations are full-page and the content covers a wide range of English and European artists from the 1800s to the 1920s. A good, clean copy (1)

Revue Francaise de Construction Automobile, 1905-6. A delightful folio-size quarter-leather and marbled boards hardback volume, with marbled end-papers, containing twelve of the monthly issues of this prestigious journal (bound without the covers), 2e Serie, 2e Annee, Nos. 13, 5th July, 1905, to 2e Serie, 3e Annee, No.24, 5th June, 1906 inclusive, the last issue with an index of the articles included and the vehicles detailed, such as Richard-Brasier, Hurtu, Peugeot, De Dion-Bouton, Gladiator, Bayard-Clement, Renault, and Decauville. Each issue includes many text figures and ends with superb full-page plates of motor vehicles and full-page highly detailed plans of their chassis construction. Ex-Ecole Centrale Lyonnaise, with a few neat ink stamps, and the covers a little rubbed, but otherwise very good (1)

The Scottish Reliability Trials for Touring Cars 1905-1909. A single bound 8vo book, published by the Scottish Automobile Club, and containing the regulations, entry list, instructions, control timings, routes etcetera. Highly detailed. Bound in red cloth with a red leather spine and gilt title. The contents a little loose, clear-taped corners. This book was probably part of the RSAC reference library until the clubhouse in Blythswood Square, Glasgow, was sold in 2002 (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 4128, and dating between 1907 and 1910, this rare and original 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)