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Click here to subscribeThe Incorporated Institution of Automobile Engineers. A complete run of thirty-six hardbound volumes of the Proceedings Sessions from 1906-7 to 1938-39 inclusive. All of the octavo volumes are in the standard dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering and are in generally sound condition, although the cloth is somewhat dull or faded on about a dozen volumes and a few have some wear to the covers. (36)
The Automobile edited by Paul Hasluck, fourth and final English edition (first being 1902), published by Cassell 1909. Three volumes in red simulated crocodile, gilt-blocked. Volume 1 with a dissected foldout frontispiece, 480pp, Volume 2, 451pp, Volume 3, 412pp, 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, detailed line drawings a feature, fair condition. The text sequence of the Hasluck series is confusing, with an extended version of the list of 'petrol pleasure cars available in Great Britain' now forming Vol. I, with its own index. The main body of text is now Vols. II and III, with the index for both in Volume III. Pagination runs continuously through volumes II and III with Vol. I independently paginated. (3)
The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile. Published in two volumes (Volume 1 A - L and Volume 2 M - Z) in 2000 by The Stationery Office, London. These large tomes were claimed to be 'The most comprehensive book ever written about the world of cars and set to become a must-have for anyone with a love of motoring'. Editor in Chief Nick Georgano, Foreword by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, each volume 11 x 8¾ inches, profusely illustrated in colour and black-and-white, over 1800 pages in total, and about 1.5 million words of text, giving a detailed background on every make and marque of car ever built. Also, a copy of the (rare) complementary, Encyclopaedia of Coachbuilding, 390pp, 2001 with a foreword by Brian Sewell. Each with a DJ having a little creasing and rubbing, but no splits, otherwise in generally very good condition. (3)
Early Motor Racing. A collection of unusual and some rare books covering the early days of automobile competition, to include: 60 Years of Automobile Competition in Belgium, edited, 230pp, 1981, French text; Gordon Bennett 1905 by Patrice Besqueut, two different editions; Formula 1 1895-149 by Moity, excellent monochrome photographs printed on art paper, French text; La Grand Prix des Frontiers a Chimay, by Biaumet, 168pp softback; Les Grand Prix de Provence et de Marseille by Maurice Louche, 165pp, 1998 with excellent monochrome photographs, French text; Les Grands Prix Automobile de Lyon by Eric Favre, 304pp, 2014, a pictorial hardback cover and Granite & Marble, a directory of Motor Racing Memorials, (an interesting read!) by Charles & Lynn Eddie, 222pp, 2009 with good colour photographs, English text. Also softback books covering the Paris - Madrid of 1903; Paris - Berlin of 1901; Principal Courses of the World 1894-1965, and other titles. All in Good, clean condition. (a quantity)
The World's Automobiles 1881-1931 by G. R. Doyle. A rare privately printed, soft-bound copy dating from 1932, with a rubber stamp, 'Authors Copy' on the title page, 112pp. Also a later 1944 edition with its 'War-Time Supplement' added. Together with later editions for 1959, 1963. The World's Commercial Vehicles 1830-1964 by G.N. Georgano, 122pp, 1965, (two copies); The World's Motorcycles 1894-1963 by Erwin Tragatsch, 192pp, 1964; The Automobile Year Book 1913 and 1914; The Red Book List of Cars 1908-1914; Motor Car Index 1918-1929; Commercial Motor Index 1913-1924 and various other tables and data books. All in used but sound condition, most 8vo and with DJs where appropriate. (a quantity)
Coach Building & Design. A good selection to include: A History of Coachbuilding by George Oliver, 216, 1962 1st ed, no DJ, and Cars & Coachbuilding, 1981, by the same author. The Designers by L. Setright, 199pp, 1976, Automobile Design, edited by R. Barker and A. Harding, 374pp, 1970 with DJ, an excellent book with well-defined line drawings and an overview of many different designers from the Boll‚es' to Colin Chapman. Also, A-Z of British Coachbuilders; Coachbuilding Past & Present; Salmons & Sons and other interesting titles. (9)
Automobile Trade Journal. Eighteen loose issues of this monthly American trade journal, issued in large, generally thick, square-backed octavo format. Prior to 1913, entitled Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal. The lot comprises the copies for August 1906 (incomplete), March 1909 (lacking back cover), February 1911, October and November 1913, March and October 1914, April, November and December 1915 (the last lacking the covers), November 1917, October 1919, January 1920, March, July, August and December 1922 (the first and last lacking the covers), and January 1925 (New York Show number). The issues up to and including November 1915 have spines repaired with tape, while later issues have loose covers where they are present. The publications are profusely illustrated and are packed with period advertisements, many with colour content. (18)
Cycle et Automobile Industriels. A complete year of the weekly issues of this Parisian newspaper for 1913, the 'Organe Officiel du Syndicat General des Agents Marchands de Cycles et d'Automobiles', bound in four quarto volumes with dark blue boards and black cloth spines with paper title labels. Loss to the first six pages of issue No.1, and feathering to the last two leaves of the final issue, but otherwise in exceptionally clean and sound condition. Profusely illustrated with period engravings and advertisements. (4)
Dalton Watson Publications. A set of eight books by this publisher, all 1st ed, to include: The Legendary Hispano Suiza by Jonnie Green, 1977; Duesenberg - The Pursuit of Perfection by Roe, 1982; Rolls-Royce in America, 1975; Rolls-Royce - The Derby Phantoms, 1991 1st ed published by the RREC; Private Motor Car Collections of Great Britain by Peter Hugo, 1973; Vanden Plas Coachbuilders by Brian Smith, 1979; The Coachwork of Erdman & Rossi by Rupert Stuhlemmer, 1979; The Classic Twin Cam by Griffith Borgeson, 1981; The automobile History of Ireland, by Finbarr Cory, 1979. All with DJs and in generally good fettle other than slight damage to several covers. (9)
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. Profusely illustrated with text figures, engravings and photographs. A small quarto hardbound volume in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, incomplete, but holding a good number of the weekly issues from this, the fourth year of publication, all in clean and sound condition, with their covers and advertisements, and with a note of the missing numbers loosely inserted at the front of the volume. The missing numbers are 1-15, 17, 20, 35 and 36. Index (Table Analytique des Matieres) at front of the volume. (1)
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 Locomotion Automobile: two rare volumes for 1899 & 1900. Revue des Voitures et Vehicules Mecaniques, publiee sous le Haut Patronage du Touring-Club de France, Paris. Two small quarto volumes in contemporary marbled boards, quarter-bound with green cloth spines, leather title panels and gilt tooling (rubbed), and holding the weekly issues from these, the sixth and seventh years of publication, bound without the two-colour covers and advertisements. Pages are browned with age, the volume for 1899 lacks the first twelve issues, and a few leaves are loose in the second volume, but otherwise they appear to be complete and sound, with indices at the rear of each. The 1899 volume has approximately 600 pages, and that for 1900, 840 pp. Both are well-illustrated with text figures, engravings and photographs. (2)
Petit Handbooks & Guides. Comprising some early 20th century titles to include: a rare copy of Motor Dicta by Gerald Biss, 1909; The Automobile Handbooks for 1904, 1906, 1908; Michelin Guides for 1900 and 1903; Ignition Devices by Bottone, 1902; The Petrol Engine - Troubles & remidies, c1903; Motor Mechanics Handbooks from the veteran period; Motor & Gas-Power Pocket Book, 1913; The Autocar Handbooks, various years, etc., most of the books with advertisements, most are working copies. (a quantity)
Gotha de L 'Automobile Fran‡aise by Claude Rouxel & Laurent Friry, 384pp, 2010, a superb tome covering French deluxe cars, giving basic specifications amongst a wealth of colour and monochrome images. French text. Also, The Maharajas & their Magnificent Motor Cars by Gautam Sen, 384pp, 2011, English text and The World Guide to Automobiles and Cars of the Great Plains. American Cars 1805-1942 catalogue; King of the Boards by Gary Doyle, 336pp, 2002 with a clean DJ; American car Spotters Guide 1920-1980, 1000pp, 10,000 illustrations; Cadillac The complete history by Maurice Hendry, 4th edition, 1990. With DJs and in smart clean condition. (8)
Exhibition Programmes & Directories. The Cars from Besancon 1900-1930 (two examples), RAC Jubilee Exhibition; Register of Antique Automobiles 1957; Serial Numbers of American Cars 1900-1950; Earls Court Motor Show programmes; Salon de L'Automobile; the London Motor Show 1930; The Automobile Show 1903; Peach's Motor Annual 1905, the latter reprints, together with Automobilia subject titles, Floyd Clymer's Scrapbooks, the Haynes-Apperson Festival publication, Handbook of Gasoline Automobiles 1904-1906, List of Automobiles by Model Type and Body - 1916, and other good reference material. (a quantity)
Reminiscences. A good selection of books to include: Fifty Years of Travel by Land Water & Air by Frank Hedges Butler, 421, 2nd edition, with a loose spine. Alf Roberts Racing Mechanic by Peter Lewis; The Flying Cowboy by Peter Reese; Bl‚riot - Herald of an Age by Brian Elliot, 253pp, 2000; Louis Delƒge - La Passion de L 'Automobile; A Zest for Life - the story of Alexander Keiller by Lynda Murray; Andr‚ Lefebvre and the cars he created for Voisin and Citro‰n by Gijsbert-Paul Berk, English text; They by Rudyard Kipling, and other good books. (a quantity)
L' Automobile by Henri Farman. A rare title published by Reinwald, Schleicher Freres of Paris in 1903. A small quarto bound book in red leather and board, with gilt titles. 56pp with 38 illustrations of various cars in profile, demonstrating coachbuilding styles and detailed text. The rear cover possesses a complete coloured folded-flap cut-away of a four seat tonneau with a lettered explanation. The editorial is sound, but the spine has been damaged with tape, and some staining. Rubber stamped 'Cuitton Claude-2' and pencil manuscript on several pages. (1)
Cinquantenaire de la l'Automobile Club de L'Ouest. A well-produced promotional 4to book celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of The Automobile Club of the West. Published by the club circa 1951, 127pp, with a large number of monochrome pictures printed on art paper. However, the particular joy of the volume being the multiple full-page and half page colour pictures by G‚o Ham (Georges Hamel 1900-1972). Originally a square-backed soft-bound publication, the book has been nicely hardbound in light blue cloth with a gilt titling on the spine, retaining the original colour cover. French text (1)
L'Illustration - l'Automobile et le Tourisme. Three loose issues of this superbly-produced, folio-sized motoring journal, French text, and profusely illustrated in colour, sepia and black-and-white, including tipped-in colour plates. The issues comprise: No. 4674, 1 Octobre 1932, No.4727, 7 Octobre 1933, and No. 4883, 3 Octobre 1936, all generally clean and sound internally, with some wear to the covers, especially to the spines. Together with a cardboard folder holding three clean and sound, much earlier issues (then entitled: L'Illustration - Journal Universel), slightly larger in size, in a plainer style, but still well-illustrated, No. 3038, 18 Mai 1901, No. 3046, 13 Juillet 1901, and No. 3141, 30 Mai 1903. The folder also holds loose issues of La Vie Illustree (No. 241, 29 Mai 1903), a browned and slightly worn folded newspaper entitled L'Auto, for 6 Decembre 1908, including a Motor Show report, a worn copy of Le Monde Illustre - L'industrie automobile dans le monde, No. 4431, Octobre 1947, and several press cuttings regarding motoring, mainly from The Illustrated London News from the early 1900s. Lastly, a 1987 folio-sized hardback volume with a glossy pictorial front cover entitled: Les Grands Dossiers de L'Illustration: L'Automobile - Histoire d'un Siecle 1843-1944, Collection realisee a l'initiative d'Eric Baschet. (a quantity)
L' Automobile - Revue des Locomotions Nouvelles. Ten assorted loose copies of this weekly magazine. Comprising No 54 of October 1904, then Nos 55, 56, 58, 59, 63, 64, 66, 244 and 268 (November 1908). Each magazine with 16pp of editorial and circa 12pp of advertisements to include the covers. Although complete, the spines have split or sticky tape has been applied, with a little paper loss and feathering to some edges, otherwise good. (10)
La Locomotion - A bound volume of the French magazine starting with No 66 (January 1903) to No 116 (December 1903), the magazine changed its name to La Vie Automobile from issue 100, please see lot 248. With a separately printed index. Quarter-bound in red cloth and marbled boards, gilt titles on the spines, bound without covers, cropped. (1)
La Vie Automobile. Nine hardbound quarto volumes (mixed bindings) of this weekly Parisian motoring journal, mostly bound without the magazine covers and advertisements, French text. Well-illustrated with text figures and monochrome photographs, and including the title pages and indices for each year's two semesters. All of the bindings show signs of wear to various degrees, that for 1913 particularly so, but the content of each volume is generally quite sound. The sequence commences with 1904, the fourth year of publication (from issue 118, 2 Janvier 1904) through to 1907, the seventh year of publication (ending with issue 326, 28 Dec 1907). The title page of the 1905 volume incorrectly states that the issues start with No. 196, the beginning of the Deuxieme Semestre, whereas the issues for the Premier Semestre are all present at the beginning of the volume. The issues for 1906 are in two volumes. There is no 1908 volume. That for 1909 commences with issue 379, 2 Janvier 1909 and ends with issue 430, 26 Decembre 1909. There is no 1910 volume. The sequence re-commences with 1911, issue 484, 7 Janvier 1911, through to 1913, ending with issue 639, 27 Decembre 1913. At the back of the volume for 1912 there is a very well-illustrated 32-page supplement on various car components. (9)
The Automobile Engineer: A Technical Journal Devoted to the Theory and Practice of Automobile Construction. Four folio-size hardbound volumes (mixed bindings), containing the issues for Vol 1 (1910/11), Vol 2 (1912) Vol 6 (1916), 1914 (Vol IV), 1915 (Vol 5) and 1918 to 1920 inclusive (Vols VIII to X). All the bindings are a little rubbed and worn, especially the spines, those for 1918 and 1920 being in the original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to the front covers and spines. The volumes for 1914 and 1920 have copy title pages and index pages loosely inserted. All are clean and sound internally, with numerous text figures, diagrams, tables, photographic illustrations and other folding illustrations. Also included in the lot is a 67-page article reprinted from a contemporary 1916(?) issue of The Automobile Engineer, hardbound in recent black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, entitled: Enemy Aircraft Engines: Detailed Descriptions of Certain of the Engines in Use and The German Aeroplane Engine Trials. AF (9)
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)
La Vie Automobile (1908-1914). Twenty-six loose issues of this attractive quarto-size weekly Parisian motoring journal, complete with attractive coloured covers & period advertisements. French text, well-illustrated with text figures and monochrome photographs. The collection commences from 1908, issues numbered 329 (18 Janvier), 333 (15 Fevrier), 339 (28 Mars), 343 (25 Avril), 344 (2 Mai), 350 (13 Juin), 356 (25 Juillet), 361 (29 Aout), 362 (5 Septembre), 368 (17 Octobre), 373 & 374 (21 & 28 Novembre), and 378 (26 Decembre); from 1909, numbers 405 (3 Juillet), 414/5/6/& 7 (4/11/18/25 Septembre), & 420/1 (16/23 Octobre); from 1911, number 489 (11Fevrier); from 1913, numbers 592 (1 Fevrier), 608/9 (24/31 Mai), & 610 (7Juin); and from 1914, number 642 (17 Janvier). Rusty staples and some wear to the covers of the later issues, but those for 1908 are in particularly fine condition. (2 bundles)
La France Automobile: Organe de L'Automobilisme et des Industries qui s'y Rattachent. Four hardbound folio-sized volumes (mixed bindings) holding four years' worth of issues of this Parisian weekly motoring journal. French text. Well-illustrated with text figures, cartoons, maps, and monochrome photographs. Bound without the magazine covers and advertisements. The collection comprises: 1899 (Fourth Year of Publication) in a modern brown cloth binding, with 'La France Automobile 1899' in gilt on the spine and index at the end of the volume; 1901 (6th Year), in contemporary panelled red buckram (rubbed) with gilt lettering, including title page and index; 1902 (7th Year), half-leather with marbled boards (rubbed), with issue No. 25 and the index pages present in bound-in photocopy, photocopies of pages 795/6 loosely inserted, and some neat marginal repairs to other pages; and 1907 (12th Year), in a half-leather binding with black boards (rubbed), the spine embossed and banded, with gilt lettering and decoration, and with title page and index. Also included with the lot are three loose issues from 1898, namely those for 7 Mai, 18 Juin, and 19 Novembre, including the advertisement pages, and each in a clear plastic sleeve (7)
Grand Prix Racing 1906 - 1914 by TASO Mathieson, published by Connoisseur Automobiles, 1965. 260pp with good illustrations and text concerning the golden age of motor racing under the guise of 'De Automobile Club de France'. In sound condition, but the illustrated slipcase a little rubbed on the corners. Also, a very rare limited edition (Numbered 410 of 1500 printed) French text issue of the same publication, 260pp, 1965 1st ed, with a black leatherette binding with gilt title to the spine, and housed in a black card-covered slipcase. The book in excellent condition, the case a little rubbed. (2)
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)
Automobiles - A Practical Treatise. A set of nine slim large octavo hardbound volumes in red cloth with black lettering/decoration (cloth a little dull and slightly rubbed) issued by the American School of Correspondence, 1909/10, very well-illustrated with text figures and monochrome photographs, various authors, comprising: Automobiles Parts I & II, Electric Automobiles, Automobile Driving, Types of Automobiles, Automobile Mechanisms Parts I & II, and Steam Automobiles Parts I & II, each volume with about 60 pages, together with an overview volume of some 200 pages by Hugo Diemer (this in very good condition) entitled: Automobiles - A Practical Treatise on the Construction, Operation, and Care of Gasoline, Steam, and Electric Motor-Cars, including Mechanical Details of Running Gear, Power Plant, Body, and Accessories, Instruction in Driving, etc. A few weak hinges internally, but a generally clean and sound set of volumes. (10)
Grand Album Illustre de L'Industrie Automobile. Three folio (15 1/2 x 11 3/4-inches) hardback volumes containing modern copies of the three annual volumes issued by the Automobile Club de France for 1900, 1901 and 1902, and originally edited by Huguet & Minart, Paris. Each volume is recently half-bound in dark green cloth to the spine and cover corners, the covers being in maroon cloth with gilt lettering and embossed with the Automobile Club de France emblem in gilt. Each volume is very well-illustrated, with much of the printed text in tri-lingual French, English and German format. The 1900 volume has 128 pages, 1901 144 pages and 1902 116 pages. Also included with the lot is a dis-bound quantity of original pages from all three volumes, many in very poor, fragmentary and damp-stained condition, between the worn original front and back boards of the 1901 album. (4)
The Motor Car in Art by John Zolomij, 300pp, 1990, a full colour landscape-format 4to volume, a well-written treatise on art related to the automobile. In excellent condition, with a DJ. Also, Car Mascots by Sirignano & Sulzberger, 1977; Motor Badges & Figureheads by Brian Jewell, 1978; Car Badges of the World by Tim Nicholson, 1970 1st ed, Automobilia by M. Worthington-Williams, 1979; The Price Guide & Identification of Automobilia by Gardiner and Morris, 1982 1st ed and San Sylmar, a coffee table book about the Nethercutt Collection, 1978. All with good DJs where appropriate. (7)
Ten Years of Motors & Motor Racing by Charles Jarrott, 297pp, 1906 1st ed, with its original much worn cloth cover; Motoring by Berriman, 308pp, 1914 1st ed, with a decorative green binding; Also, When James Gordon Bennett was Caliph of Bagdad by Albert Crockett; Romance of Motoring (two editions) by Bridges & Tiltman; The Antique Automobile and Romance Amoungst Cars, both by St. John Nixon; The Badminton Library 'Motors' a 1902 2nd ed. Tight spines. (8)
The Automobile edited by Paul Hasluck, 3rd ed of 1905, published by Cassell, 'specially prepared for subscription'. The subtitle, 'A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Modern Motor Cars, Steam, Petrol, Electric and Petrol-Electric' sums up the contents. Profusely illustrated, detailed line drawings a feature, three matching volumes in green cloth, gilt-blocked. Each volume with a photographic frontispiece, Volume 1 and Volume 2, 863 pp, Volume 3, 451pp with index. 6 1/4 x 8 3/4-inches. Good, clean condition, bindings a little loose. (3)
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)
Motoring in Europe. A good selection of octavo hardback volumes, comprising: Through the Alps to the Apennines by P. G. Konody, 1st ed, 1911(93 illustrations from photographs and pencil sketches by E. A. Rickards and colour frontispiece by Robert Little); Motoring Abroad by Frank Presbrey, First U. S. Edition,1908; Seeing Europe by Automobile by Lee Meriwether, First U. S. Edition, 1911; The Automobilist Abroad by Francis Miltoun, 1st ed, 1907; Abroad in a Runabout by A. J. and F. H. Hand, First U. S. Edition, 1911 (all of the foregoing with pictorial cloth covers); A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton, First U. S. Edition, 1908; A Motor Car Divorce by Louise Closser Hale, 1st ed, 1906; Three Men in a Motor Car by Winthrop E. Scarritt, First U. S. Edition, 1906 (some wear to base of spine); Europe from a Motor Car by Russell Richardson, First U. S. Edition, 1914; and The Escape from Monotony by L. H. Lovegrove, paperback, Number 154 of a Limited Edition First Reprint of 512 copies. Generally sound and clean copies. (10)
Motoring in Europe. An interesting selection of octavo hardback volumes, comprising: Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by Francis Miltoun, 1st ed, 1909 (with pictures in colour and black-and-white by Blanche McManus); A Motor Tour in Belgium and Germany by Tom R. Xenier, 1st ed, 1913; The High Roads of the Alps: A Motoring guide to One Hundred Mountain Passes by C. L. Freeston, 1st ed, 1910; The Motor Routes of Germany: To The Rhine, The Moselle, The Black Forest, The Thuringian Forest, The Taunus and Bavaria by Henry J. Hecht, 1st ed, 1914; My Motor Milestones by The Baroness Campbell von Laurentz, 1st ed, 1913 (Presentation copy from the author to Sybil Lascelles Campbell, Inverary, with her bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper); Three Thousand Miles in a Motor Car (map missing) and Three Men in a Motor Car (spine worn), both by Hugh Rochfort Maxsted and both 1st eds, 1905 and 1904 (all of the foregoing with pictorial cloth covers); A Trip Through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and Southern France by W. K. Vanderbilt, Jnr., Privately Printed, New York, 1918; En Route: A Descriptive Automobile Tour Through Nine Countries and Over Nineteen Great Passes of Europe by Roy Trevor, 1st ed, 1908, (ex-library); and Escape From Peace by David Scott-Moncrieff, 1st ed, 1949 (in slightly worn DJ). Generally good copies, apart from the faults mentioned. (10)
Motoring in Canada and the Americas. A good selection of octavo hardback volumes, all 1st eds unless otherwise noted, comprising: A Motor Tour Through Canada by Thomas W. Wilby, 1914 (some internal foxing and a few pages roughly opened); Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile: Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, 1902; By Motor to the Golden gate by Emily Post, 1916; Motor Camping by J. C. and John D. Long, New York, 1923; The Saga of the Roaring Road by Fred J. Wagner as told to John M. Mitchell, Boston, 1938 (some staining to the covers); El Toro: A Motor Car Story of Interior Cuba by E. Ralph Estep, Detroit, 1909 (some internal foxing, pictorial board covers rubbed and marked); and Modern Gypsies: The Story of a Twelve Thousand Mile Motor Camping Trip Encircling the United States by Mary Crehore Bedell, New York, 1924. Generally sound apart from the faults mentioned. (7)
Les Roses d'Isfahan - La Perse en Automobile a Travers la Russie et le Caucase by Claude Anet, 213pp, 1906, 4to (296 x 205mm), published by Juven of Paris. This rare book is about an automobile expedition throughout Persia and the Caucuses in two Mercedes tourers and a Fiat motor-car during 1905, this being a particularly significant journey through unknown territory, and possibly the first to journey into the Russian Steppes. Well-illustrated with 40 well-defined monochrome photographs and detailed French text. Contemporary dark red quarter calf with marbled boards the tight spine in five compartments of gilt bands, with gilt tooling on 2, 3 and 4. With marbled free end-papers, this example would appear to be a special binding around the original pictorial soft cover. Lower corners knocked, a little surface loss to the rear and front cover, otherwise sound Claude Anet was the pseudonym for Jean Schopfer (1868? - 1931) and used during his writing career. Schopfer was a tennis player competing for France, having reached two singles finals at the Amateur French Championships, winning in 1892 over British player Fassitt, and losing in 1893 to Laurent Riboulet. (1)
P‚kin-Paris Automobile en Quatre-Vingts Jours (In Eighty Days) by Jean du Tallis. 318pp, Nov 1907 1st ed. A rare 4to volume published under the auspices of the newspaper, Le Matin, a description of the event in French by Dutchman Jean Tallis with a preface by Gaston Leroux. With many full-page and half-page monochrome photographs, the text is well spaced and easy to interpret. Bound in figured green cloth, the binding is tight, with just a little fraying on the hinges and the spine a little rubbed. (1)
La France Automobile (1896 to 1906): Organe de L'Automobilisme et des Industries qui s'y Rattachent. Eleven hardbound folio-sized volumes (mixed bindings) holding eleven years' worth of issues of this Parisian weekly motoring journal. French text. The collection comprises: 1896 (the First Year of Publication) through to 1906 (the Eleventh Year of Publication). Generally bound without the covers or advertisements and with the year's index at the back of the volume, the exceptions being the 1896 Volume, which includes the covers, and the 1897 Volume, which has the Index for 1896 (absent from the 1896 Volume) bound in at the back instead of the Index for 1897, and the 1904 Volume, which has a photocopied index loosely inserted at the back of the volume, together with a copy of the missing page 857. The 1899 Volume includes advertisements. A couple of pages in the first volume have had sections cut out, and there are neat marginal repairs to a few pages and foxing to the first few pages. There is no right-hand half to pages 719/720 of the 1901 Volume. Apart from the faults mentioned, the volumes appear to be complete and generally clean and sound. As the years pass, the issues become more substantial, from 8 pages per issue in 1896 to 16 per issue in 1906. The number of illustrations increase, becoming progressively more well-illustrated with text figures, cartoons, maps, and monochrome photographs. (11)
La France Automobile (1909). See previous lot. The complete weekly issues for 1909, the 14th Year of Publication, bound with their covers and advertisements in a modern dark blue cloth binding with the words La France Automobile 1909 in gilt lettering on the spine. The editorial for the 46th issue (13 November) has been bound in as photocopy. The index for the year forms the last few pages of the last of the year's issues. A very substantial, clean and sound volume (1)
The First Hundred Road Motors by R. W. Kidner. 58pp, 1950, 8vo, published by Oakwood Press. A rare book today as it appears to have been privately printed. Together with: Horseless Carriage Days by Hiram Maxim (the younger), 175pp, 1937 1st ed, with good images of the early days of American motoring, with unusually a DJ, albeit in torn condition. Also, The World's Commercial Vehicles 1830-1964 by G. N. Georgano, with a good DJ (and another without); The World's Automobiles 1880-1955 by G. Doyle; The Motor Car & Commercial Index for 1940; Automobile Salesmanship by J. Newmark, a fascinating overview on the psychology of commerce in a simple style, and Questions & Answers (relating to automobile driving & repair), c1910. (8)
Lee's American Automobile Annual 1900. Published by Laird & Lee, Chicago, small 8vo, and edited by A. R. Chambers, 275pp. The first of only two editions of this very rare book. The editorial is delightfully plain and simple, but possesses many line-drawings, photo/images, well-defined engravings, cut-aways chapters on steam and electric vehicles. Retaining its original red leather binding with its gilt title and depiction of a motorised carriage. The spine has deteriorated and the cover edges worn, but the binding is tight and the editorial sound. (1)
The Automobile Club of America - Year Book 1909. 128pp, small 8vo. The book discusses the club's garage and its use, types of membership, machine shop, constitution, and list of members, being a total of 1929 souls. With a canvas and grey board cover, gilt title to the spine and white script to the front, now a little worn. Also, a similar Year Book for 1915. (2)
Allgmeine Automobil-Zeitung, 1914. Three consecutive issues of the official weekly journal of the Austrian Automobile Club, covering the Alpine Trials for June-July 1914. The issues are: from Volume II, Nos. 25 (21 June), 26 (28 June) and 27 (5 July). The covers of all three are loose and a rather soiled, and the gatherings within loose or becoming so, but the actual content is clean and complete, although the pages are browned with age. German text. Pictorial content includes text figures, numerous monochrome photographs, and many period advertisements. (3)
Internal Combustion Engineering. Volume II. January, 1912 - December, 1912. A single folio-size hardback volume (34 x 25cm), re-cased some years ago, using the rather shabby original covers and spine, the gilt lettering to the latter being faded. Some weakness to the front and rear hinges. Internally generally quite clean and sound, however, with the year's index following the title page. The work's sub-title is: Devoted to the Construction, Development, and Application of Modern Prime Movers, and Incorporating The Automobile Engineer. The issues from No. 20 to No. 35 are all present (516 pp), together with the four full-page supplementary plates, a double-page supplementary chart of Diameter Increments for Bevel Gears and a twelve-page photographic supplement at the back of the volume entitled 'Motor Ships of the Year'. The volume is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, text figures and diagrams. (1)
Motor-Car Exhibition Catalogues 1899-1908. A rare set of official catalogues for the motor shows held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, varyingly under the auspices of the Automobile Club and Cordingley & Co. Each circa 130pp and advertisements, wide-8vo, soft-backed brochures bound in matching red cloth bindings, except for 1900. Commencing with June 1899 (At Richmond); April 1900; May 1901; (1902 missing); March 1903; March 1904; March 1905; March 1906; April 1907 and March 1908. Each catalogue bound with its covers, with the pages in excellent condition. As to be expected, the books are full of floor plans; lists of entrants; lists of exhibits; quality images; and multiple advertisements. (9)
A. W. Gamage Ltd., 'Everything for Motorists'. Two 4to-size catalogues, 1908/09 and 1915, 180pp and 120pp with good images and text, soft-bound with original card covers. Also, similar catalogues for Castle 1906; Automobile Supplies 1914; Rotherhams 1914; Leo Swain & Co., 1913; Ward & Goldstone 1927 and R. Cadisch & Sons 1930/31, 643pp, hardbound and all in good, clean condition. (8)
60 Vetture ai Raggi X, by Giovanni Cavara. A large horizontal format (30 x 40cm) paperback volume with superb prints of cutaway drawings by Cavara of sports cars dating from the late 1930s to the 1960s. Sub-titled: I piu' superbi modelli sport a competizione realizzati in Italia. Italian text. Introduction by Giovanni Lurani Cernuschi. Historical and technical notes by Paolo Perduca. 130 pages, the paper dust jacket slightly worn and browned through age, the contents clean and sound. Published by the Automobile Club d'Italia, 1967, 1st ed. (1)
Porsche. Two items: Porsche Catalogue Raisonne 1947-1993, by Stefano Pasini. An excellent two-volume quarto (29 x 25cm) hardback set in their dust jackets and in a sturdy slipcase, numbered 180 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Technical data by Ippolito Alfieri and Stefano Solieri, English text, very well-illustrated in black-and-white and colour, black cloth covers with silver lettering to the spines. Published by Automobilia, Societa per la Storia e l'Immagine dell' Automobile, May 1993. Also, Porsche 917: Archiv und Werkverzeichnis 1968-1975 by Walter Naher. A new hardback copy of this comprehensive work, still sealed in its polythene wrapper. German text, and very well-illustrated. Horizontal format (25 x 31cm), Edition Porsche Museum, Published by Delius Klasing. (2)
*'Bloques' by Georges Meunier (1869-1942), French Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator and Poster Designer - a limited edition signed print. A large image in a horizontal format depicting a veteran car stranded in the middle of a field surrounded by a huge flock of sheep, the driver and his two passengers gesticulating wildly while a group of farm-workers look on in the right-hand background and, on the left-hand side, a steam passenger train passes by on a railway embankment. Apparently issued in 1905 in a limited edition of 100 copies, this one numbered 60, and signed by the artist in pencil in the bottom margin on the right-hand side. The red print in the bottom margin reads: Ed. Sagot - Editeur -Paris, Imp. Chaix, Paris, Tous droits reserves. Printed artist's signature and the date '05' in the bottom right-hand corner of the image. Very good colour, as illustrated in The Motor Car in Art by Zolomij, Automobile Quarterly Pub, 1990. Print size, including the margins, 36 x 53cm, mounted, framed and glazed. (1)
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