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Click here to subscribeOVER 100 RAILROAD, TRANSIT AND STEAMSHIP LINE TIMETABLES AND MENUS, EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY. A large variety of material including a 1919 Aquatania meal card, Chessie items, 1952 Braniff souvenir flight packet, Pullman menu, Fred Harvey menus, 1918 Cunard celluloid calendar with scene of the Aquatania, a 1919 Cunard Peace Day booklet, an oriental steamship brochure (circa 1913), a Pan-American Jet Clipper menu and other items, shown partially illustrated.
A VINTAGE TRAVEL BROCHURE AND GUIDE BOOK EPHEMERA GROUP, EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY. Over 70 pieces including four Northwestern and Union Pacific National Park guidebooks, Rocky Mountain views, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway, California and the Grand Canyon of Arizona illustrated booklet by Fred Harvey, 1921, two picturesque souvenirs of Lake Geneva, Utah tourist guide, Knott`s Berry Farm souvenir books together with foreign travel pamphlets including Cook`s Palestine Tours, Manila 1908, Hong Kong 1914, American Express Orient and Through Germany 1935 Hamburg American Line, shown partially illustrated.
A VINTAGE AGRICULTURE TRACTOR, FARM MACHINERY, EPHEMERA AND BOOK GROUP, EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY. 26 pieces including an Oliver pith helmet, Kent Feeds paper fan, Allice-Chamlers WC tractor book, Delaval Cream Separators instruction book, 1903 Iowa State Fair Premium list, two John Deere Centennial Books by Clark, John Deere Handy Farm Account book, Stark Brothers Trees and Shrubs catalog, J.I. Case 20-40 Tractor Parts book, Luthe 1928 Hardware catalog, 1930 Dodge Trucks brochure and a General Motors 1930 Trucks pamphlet with other items, shown partially illustrated.
A small collection of 1930's to 1960's Football Programmes, comprising Souvenir Brochure of Manchester City AFC League Championship Season 1936/37, The Road To Wembley programme Manchester City Football Club Official Souvenir Brochure 1955, final tie programme Birmingham City v Manchester City Saturday 5th May 1956, Manchester City FC Official handbook 1960/61, Manchester City AFC Official Souvenir Brochure 1951/52, with photographic pull out sheet bearing signatures, Leicester City v Manchester City programme Saturday 26th April 1969, also a letter from Christie's Specialist Sports Department dated 14th November 1997 suggesting that this collection would then have had an appropriate auction valuation of approximately £70-£190
COLLECTION OF MAINLY MANCHESTER CITY RELATED FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES AND EPHEMERA to include; F.A. Cup Final Programmes 1956, 1969 and 1981 including replay 14th May together with Football League Cup Final programmes 1970 and 1976, other items to include; Manchester City Official Handbook 1955-1956 and Road to Wembley Souvenir Brochure - selection of black and white press photographs circa 1985, two Manchester City Rosettes for 1981 FA Cup Final, other items to include; 1970 World Cup Mexico official Programme etc.
Bawden (Edward). Map of the Air Route Cairo-Capetown, Imperial Airways 1934-35, colour-printed brochure, printed concertina-style, with b&w illusts. after photographs and continuous coloured map to one side, and further printed information, extensively decorated with illustrations by Edward Bawden, orig. orange printed wrappers, a little rubbed to edges and one or two small chips, slim 8vo, together with A New Essay upon Tea addressed to the Medical Profession, issued by the Empire Tea Market Expansion Board, 1936, b&w illusts. by Edward Bawden, orig. printed grey boards, some minor marks, slim 8vo. Both of these works are scarce examples of Bawden`s commercial output in the 1930s. (2)
5 interesting items relating to the Hindenburg. A ticket from Friedrichshafen to Frankfurt dated 16.9.36. A flight brochure, ‘Now fly to Europe in 2 ½ days’. A fold out information brochure with significant details and pictures for the Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin. A clean empty envelope ‘Luftschiff Hindenburg’ to front. Plus a coloured luggage label, ‘Airship Hindenburg’, ‘American Airlines Inc’ etc. With Zeppelin and DC3 picture to centre. VGC Plate.41
A pictorial brochure for the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games entitled ‘Part 3-Stadium and the Indoor Tennis 1912, in Images and Words’, consisting of a 20 page booklet, featuring photographs of some principal Swedish team members, interesting photographs of the stadium, and an article on the contenders for lawn tennis honours, also includes photos of A. H. Gobert, C. P. Dixon, Gunnar Settervall (Sweden), Mrs. Edith M. Hannam (England) and Anthony Wilding
A programme for the Closing Ceremony of the London Olympic Games 14th August 1948, sold together a 1948 brochure titled ‘Complete List of Olympic Champions, with Winners’ performance and records’; and a comprehensive 176 page London Games 1948 Official Souvenir, the front cover portraying the official poster design, all generally in very good condition (3)
SMITH ROSS (1892-1922) & KEITH (1890-1955) Australian Aviators, the first people to fly from England to Australia, 1919. Printed brochure signed, by both Ross and Keith Smith individually, the 4to brochure being a short story of the Ross Smith flight from England to Australia under the patronage of the Prince of Wales. Illustrated with a map of the flight from Hounslow to Port Darwin, portraits of the brothers in their flying caps and goggles and also featuring an advert for an illustrated travelogue. Signed by both Ross and Keith Smith with their names alone to light areas of the attractive cover. Some light overall age wear and minor foxing and discolouration to the cover, largely at the edges. Rare. G
COL E.T PEEL &TUNNY EPHEMERA: Collection of Col E T Peel personal ephemera inc a pair of British Tunny Club member cards for F S Russell 1934 and Col G baker 1947 both signed by H J Hardy as Hon Treasurer, (H J Hardy died in 1947)an original b/white large photograph of Col Peel which was used as the front cover of The Glory Days of the Giant Scarborough Tunny, a British Museum Certificate of thanks to Peel for his donation of a Bonito to the collection, various correspondence from the Skandinavisk Tuna Club are 3 fold Scandinavian Tunny Club brochure and more etc.
Football programmes etc - Big Match selection 1960-62-63-73 and Song Sheet 1961, England v R.O.W. 21/10/1953, FAC/F 1970 Daily Mirror Guide and 1966 World Cup Brochure + reprint 1924 Cup Final, Tottenham 1957/58 v Leicester C, Everton, PNE, Wolves, Leicester City FAC, Newcastle. 1958/59 West Ham Arsenal Portsmouth. (approx 18)
A COLLECTION OF FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN RELATED EPHEMERA, including Scarborough's Festival of Britian 'The Adventure of Flight' brochure, signed to the cover by Lord Brabazon of Tara who opened the exhibition on 30th June 1951; tourist event guides, Battersea Park Pleasure Gardens programmes and brochures; commemorative poster stamps; event maps, Festival of Britain literature etc
*Fieseler-Flugzeugbau G.M.B.H. A rare original Fieseler `Storch` manufacturer`s brochure, published in French, Copy No. 329 containing 19 pages of type-written aircraft specification descriptions with tables of performance and graph, also with a fold-out die-line three view drawing of the Fi 156B and five fold-out plates with ten original company publicity photographs including aircraft portraits, cockpit and engine installation details, this aircraft with wings folded for transport and others of similar interest, orig. covers, folio, together with a collection of photographs, press cuttings, advertisements and other related documentation contained in a folder (1)
*Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau A.-G. An original brochure for the Fw.44 `Stieglitz`, c. 1936, 8 pp. photographs after the originals, text in French and Spanish, plus publicity leaflets for the Focke-Wulf W4 float plane and the twin Siemens-Sh 12 engined GL22, with four early Klemm Flugzeugbau publictiy leaflets and twenty four original photographs depicting various Klemm types including the L-25/VL-25, L-26/VL-26 and KL-25, some good ground-to-air and aircraft portraits, contained in a folder (1)
*Saunders-Roe Ltd., Cowes, Isle of Wight. A good collection of manufacturers, press and publicity b & w photographs of seaplanes and flying boats etc., mostly c. 1930s, approx. 350 images, many by Beken of Cowes, including five fine large sepia images of RAF Saro Cutty Sark with two Gypsy II engines, photographer`s embossed stamp to lower right hand corner of each, approx. 23 x 28cm, mounted in folder, other images show aircraft in the air or on the water, aircraft under construction, cockpit and interior views, components, factory interiors and a group of ten large-format b & w photographs by Chas. M. Hiller showing Mr Yoshihara taking delivery of a single engine Cutty Sark built for the Japanese government, many postcard size b & w images by Beken of Cowes, a few miscellaneous snapshots, etc., together with manufacturer`s brochure for the Saro `London` flying boat Mark A27 and five other related publicity brochures (approx. 356)
Hayward (Charles B.). Practical Aeronautics. An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and Essential Facts in Aeronautical Science, with Introduction by Orville Wright, 1st ed., Chicago, 1912, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, diags. to text, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, thick 8vo, together with A Description of the Manly Engine Reprinted from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, pub. Society of Automotive Engineers, New York, 1942, port. frontis., b & w illusts. and diags., orig. cloth gilt, slim 4to, plus The British Aircraft Industry. A Directory of Aircraft, Aero-Engines, Component Parts, Accessories and Materials, pub. Society of British Aircraft Constructors Ltd., 1939, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, folio, plus Wright Double-Row Cyclone 14, pub. Wright Aeronautical Corporation, New Jersey, 1940, manufacturer`s promotional brochure, numerous col. and b & w illusts., thirty sheets of specification and technical data loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, oblong folio, and others of technical and aviation engine interest (2 cartons)
Deutsche Lufthansa 1926-1936. 10 Jahre Deutsche Lufthansa 6 Januar 1926 - 6 Januar 1936. Ein Jahrzehnt! Mehr Nicht! Und Dennoch Mehr!, 96 pp. commemorative brochure with fine col. artwork throughout, orig. stiff wrappers, tied on spine with silk cord, covers a little soiled and darkened at edges, slim folio (1)
The Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd. A Few Types of Fairey Aircraft, n.d., c. 1930, manufacturer`s promotional brochure, six mounted b & w photos, orig. stiff wrappers, lettered and blocked in orange and black, slim 4to. Includes Fairey Series III (land and seaplane), Fairey Flycatcher (land and seaplane), Fairey Fawn (day bomber), Fairey Freemantle (seaplane) and Fairey Fox (day bomber). (1)
*Bleriot & Costes. Bleriot Aeronautique - Appareils Bleriot, Appareils Spad, Ecole de Pilotage, n.d., c. 1920, orig. company brochure in three parts, containing four fine pochoir plts. by G. Hazen, b & w illusts. from photos, a double-page spread of the Bleriot factory and a double-page spread listing the record-breaking achievements of the Bleriot and Spad machines, with b & w portraits of eleven pilots, loosely contained in three embossed paper folders, one signed in pencil by Costes, together with five vintage b & w photographs of Costes and Bellonte after their record-breaking non-stop flight from Paris to New York in September 1930 (3,700 miles in 37 hours) (8)
LZ 130 `Graf Zeppelin`. Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei G.M.B.H., n.d., c. 1939, folding publicity brochure/poster, fine coloured artwork, approx. 35 x 59cm fully opened, VG. LZ 130 was the last of the great German rigid airships built by the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the inter-war period. Often referred to as Graf Zeppelin II, this airship made a total of thirty flights including a propaganda flight on 2nd December 1938 when small parachutes were thrown out with swastika flags and handbills carrying the text `Dein JA dem Fuhrer!` and loudspeakers played music and National Socialist propaganda. The last flight was made on 20th August 1939 and in April 1940, Hermann Goering ordered that both Graf Zeppelins should be scrapped as the metal was needed for the war effort. (1)
*Vickers Armstrong Ltd. A `Viscount` 700 Series brochure, spiral bound, embossed gilt cover, 64 pp., pub. Vickers Armstrong Ltd., numerous colour plates and photographs after the original, text, diagrams, together with a brochure for the Vickers V.C.10 Freighter nose-loading cargo system, another for the Vickers Super V.C.10, a `Vanguard` progress report brochure, text, diagrams and photographs after the original, 28 pp., dated March 1958 (some staining to covers), and an aerial photograph by Aerofilms Ltd. of the Vickers Aviation Ltd., Weybridge works adjacent to the old Brooklands racing track (5)
WWI RFC & RNAS. `About The Aeroplane School`. A very rare early 20th-c. brochure for the Seaplane School (Bowness on Windermere) by Northern Aeroplane Co., c. 1912, 12 pp. photo-illustrated, together with a folio of early brochures & publications including `Principles of Flight` A.E. Berriman 2nd Ed. 1913, 46pp soft-covers with fold-out tipped-in illustrative plates & diagrams and artwork illustrated pages, also with RNAS `Navigation Magnetism Deviation of the Compass` instructional handbook for pilots & observers inscribed Air Dept. Admiralty April 1917, 76pp with fold-out charts, also with a very rare `Signals Between Aeroplanes & Artillery` flying observer`s instructional card for in-cockpit reference use during a patrol, heavily waxed thick card 4pp single-fold format, stamped WO 40/349, and with a glass plate negative depicting a captured German Hannover observation aircraft c. 1918, all contained in a period folio folder with applied label inscribed `Aeronautics Historical` (1)
*Imperial Airways. A rare 1935-36 Egypt-Australia route-map brochure, with fold-out pages illustrating the route from Cairo to Melbourne in colour, with photos, after the originals of various aircraft including the Handley-Page H.P. 42, de Havilland airliner, Short Flying Boats and sights seen en-route, together with various B.O.A.C. leaflets, an album of `civil aircraft` cigarette cards by J. Player & Sons, a reproduction silk World War II escape map of North Africa, a Richard Pearse World Aviation pioneer medallion with history booklet contained in a folder, and die-cast models of Avro `York` G-AGJG, Lockheed `Constellation` VH EAA and Boeing `Clipper` G-AGCA (-)
*`Concorde`. A collection of menu cards and other printed ephemera for the First Transatlantic Day Trip, London-Washington-London 15 June 1977, with associated Daily Mirror copy, a `Concorde` Flight Certificate, a USA-London-Bahrain-Singapore brochure and other ephemera, contained in an official British Airways on board carry wallet, plus a John Player `World Tour` time calculator in original fitted leather wallet, complete with instruction manual and index card, 6.75in (17.2cm) wide, a lapel badge for the 8th-23rd November 1986 World Tour, a match slip, a cased gilt-metal commemorative medal in case and a group of associated printed ephemera, contained in an official British Airways `Concorde` onboard carry wallet, and a collection of BOAC and British Airways timetables and other ephemera, including a VC-10 pocket information pamphlet, others for Caribbean, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, and Jamaica, B.O.A.C. Route Maps, Nos. 1-3, B.O.A.C. & B.A. World Time-Tables for 1973, 1974, 1981, 1984, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002, with three Jeppesen pilot`s en-route charts a Quantas Flight Guide and `Concorde` ephemera, contained in two folders (-)
Naquin (Yves). Le Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco; Story of a Legend 1929-1960, n.d., c.1990s, numbered 1000 to front blank, numerous b & w photo. illusts., orig. red leather gilt, square folio (327 x 304 mm), as new in cardboard packing box, together with others including an early reprint of the 1905 Rolls-Royce brochure titled `The New All-British Motor Car`, 20 pp., printed card wrappers, plus a modern reprint of the same, plus a 1980 Silver Spirit brochure, a book commemorating 75 years of Rolls-Royce, and others similar (approx. 20)
A Rare Original Jaguar 1954 Le Mans Victory Poster A rare large-format factory-issued victory poster, celebrating Jaguar`s success at the 1954 Le Mans 24-hour endurance event, this red and dark green on white victory poster, features the image of a D-type (by artist Roy Nockolds, as used on the original Jaguar D-type sales brochure) at the top with text below celebrating the 2nd place finish of the Rolt/Hamilton team, plus a 4th place finish of another one of their cars. Printer`s name to lower edge, English language, mounted to linen for preservation & framed/glazed in a quality wooden frame, chosen to mimic the dashboard of a Jaguar of the period. Very good condition, save for some light staining & fold lines. 30.5" x 41.5" Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
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