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Lot 352
A group of automobile related books including British Cars at Le Mans by D. Pascal, a signed Le Mans '59 by Stirling Moss, The Motoring Encyclopedia, A History of the London Taxi Cab by G.N. Georgano, The Unfulfilled Dream The Story of Motor Racing at Aintree by T Bagnall and signed by the author and Stirling Moss, Odhams Motor Manual, Golden Milestone 50 Years of the AA, RAC Guide & Handbook 1966, etc.
Lot 233
Aircraft books - Wings of Fame, vols. 1-20, Aerospace Publishing, War Planes of the Luftwaffe from 1939-1945, American War Planes of WWII, The Aerospace Encyclopedia of Air Warfare and other similar books (29) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Lot 94
NO RESERVE Oriental Art.- India.- Zimmer (Heinrich) The Art of Indian Asia, 2 vol., Bollingen Series XXXIX, New York, 1955 § Smith (V.A.) A History of Fine Art in India & Ceylon, second edition, Oxford, 1930 § Viennot (Odette) Temples de l'Inde Centrale et Occidentale, 2 vol., Mémoires Archéologiques XI, original printed wrappers, Paris, 1976 § Pal (P.) Indian Sculpture, 2 vol., original wrappers, Berkeley etc., 1986 § Meister (M.W.) & M.A.Dhaky, editors. Encyclopedia of Indian Temple Architecture, 2 vol. in 4, Delhi, 1983-91 § Tillotson (G.H.R.) The Rajput Palaces, New Haven & London, 1987, illustrations, all but the third & fourth original cloth, the last two with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and c.25 others on Indian architecture and sculpture, v.s. (c.35)
Lot 160
JAZZ - BOOKS & DVDs. A superlative collection of around 117 books that will leave you brimming with knowledge on the broad subject of Jazz. Titles/authors include The Cover Art Of Blue Note Records Volumes 1 and 2, Prestige Records - The Album Cover Collection, Miles Davis (Ian Carr), Dictionary Of Jazz (Panassie, Hugues & Gautier, Madeleine, 1959 hardback), Sonny Rollins - The Definitive Musical Guide (Wilson), The Latin Tinge, California Cool - West Coast Cover Art, Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia, Thelonious Monk - His Life And Music, Space Is The Place - The Life And Times Of Sun Ra (Szwed), Whitney Balliett, Collected Works - A Journal Of Jazz 1954-2000, The Jazz Exiles, American Musicians Abroad, Jazz Seen (Claxton, Taschen hardback), Jazz People, West Coast Jazz (Gioia), The Jazz Anthology (Miles Kington) and Four Lives In The Bebop Business (Spellman). Also to include a selection of 17 x DVDs including Jazz On A Summer's Day, Charles Mingus - Live In '64, Blue Note - A Story Of Modern Jazz, Jazz In The Black Forest and Bayou Maharajah - A Film By Lily Keber. Condition is generally very good to excellent.
Lot 118
Railway Book Selection includes BR Steam by Paul Bolger -LMR, WR, NER, SR, ER and ScR, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Steam & Rail, LMS 150, Lure of Steam, 20th Century Steam, Wheels, British Railways Steam in the 1950s, British Railways Steam in the 1960s, Treacy's Routes North, The Power of The A4s, The Guinness Book of Rail Facts and Feats, The Gresley Pacifics, LMS, Capital Steam, British Steam Nostalgia, Twilight of Scottish Steam, Great Railway Photographers, British Steam Engines, Classic British Steam Locomotives, 100 Years of Classic Steam, most appear as HBs and have DJs, worth inspecting (26) 2x Boxes
Lot 89A
Mixed Selection of Books to include Classic Aircraft Bombers, History of the RAF, Britain's Best Loved Cars, The Ultimate Illustrated Encyclopedia of Classic Cars, Morris The Cars and The Company, Battleships, Sunderland at War, RAF Airfields of World War II, The World Encyclopedia of Battleships, Handbook of Great Aircraft of WWII, The Air Battle For Malta, Wings Across The World, Rolls Royce & Bentley The Crewe Years, Battle of Britain and Lancaster a bombing legend, mostly HB with DJs, condition appears G overall (15) Box
Lot 824
Darrah (William C.). The World of Stereographs, 1st edition, Gettysburg, 1977, together with Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography, 1st edition, Gettysburg, 1981, both with black & white illustrations from photographs, signed by author to title-pages, original cloth in dust jackets, a little fraying at head of spines, small folio, together with Berg (Paul K.), 19th Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames, 2nd edition, 2003, colour and black & white illustrations from photographs, author's signed presentation inscription for John Hannavy to title, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly rubbed, 4to, plus Warren (Lynne, editor), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 2006, some colour and black & white illustrations, original laminated boards, 4to, plus other photographic history and technical works including a few pamphlets (approx. 40)
Lot 593
Vintage Football Memorabilia; a good collection of assorted vintage Football memorabilia to include four part-sets (some very nearly complete sets) of A&BC Bubblegum trade cards (x4 sets), two vintage ' My Favourite Soccer Stars ' trade card albums (100% complete), a Sun ' Football Encyclopedia ', a vintage West Ham ' Geoff Hurst ' World Cup 1966 pennant, and a collection of Italy 1990 World Cup collector's coins (complete). Great collection. Biggest book measures 30cm-high 21cm-wide.
Lot 66
Edouard Detaille (1848 - 1912). Oil on canvas depicting a scene of dragoons interacting with Alsatian villagers during the Napoleonic Wars. Painting is signed and dated 1895 along the lower right.Provenance: Graham Gallery, New York, New York.Biography: Edouard Detaille is known as one of the greatest French military painters. His paintings possess the heroic, romantic spirit favored by his contemporaries, but are also known for their accuracy and detail, aided by both his artistic training and his actual military experience.Born in Paris in 1848, Detaille showed an early talent for art. After completing a standard education, he went to work with Ernest Meissonier. Meissonier (1815-1891) was a well-respected French military painter, known particularly for his detailed approach to painting, a method he had learned from studying the work of the 17th century Dutch masters. Detaille learned this detail-oriented approach to painting from Meissonier, a characteristic that would define his paintings throughout his career. Detaille first displayed his work at the 1867 Salon, showing a painting titled The Corner of Meissonier’s Studio. Meissonier touted his student’s work, and Detaille quickly become known in his own right. As The Art Journal put it in 1888, “the student surpassed the master.”In 1870, Detaille joined the French military, serving in the Fourth Corps d’Armée during the Franco-Prussian war. He was stationed at St. Maur, and sketched all of the battles he participated in directly after the fact. Later during the war, he became personal secretary to General Félix Antoine Appert (1817-1891), which allowed him to fully witness many of the major events of the war, such as the siege of Paris. The scenes he observed during the war--and his sketches of them--later formed the basis for many of his paintings, as well as providing him with the basis of realism he used to create paintings which depicted war in a much more accurate way than many of his contemporaries, including the horrors alongside the heroism.After his brief military career, Detaille focused exclusively on painting, creating many works based on his own experiences as well as from other wars. Along with individual paintings, he provided illustrations for several books about the military, and was the driving force behind a heavily illustrated two-volume encyclopedia of French Military uniforms. He even traveled to other countries to study their military uniforms, and became quite a collector of uniforms and military paraphernalia. In keeping with this interest in history, he completed many paintings of historical battles and military activity. While he obviously did not observe these battles firsthand, he retained his dedication to accuracy in these historical paintings, often visiting the battle sites for research.This painting is one of these carefully researched historical paintings. It depicts trumpeters of the 23rd Regiment of Dragoons greeting Alsatian villagers during the Napoleonic wars. It illustrates the close relationship between the soldiers and the villagers, demonstrating Detaille’s interest in Alsatian sympathies to the French cause. An excellent example of Detaille’s work, particularly due to its size and number of figures and horses, this painting brilliantly uses the dramatic sloping lines of the roof to draw the eye to various vignettes within the painting. In addition, this work is notable for the inclusion of a dog. Detaille enjoyed hiding dogs in his paintings, and this particular dog appears in several of his works.Dimensions: Unframed; height: 23 1/2 in x width: 28 3/4 in. Framed; height: 30 1/2 in x width: 36 1/2 in.Condition: Good condition; for a detailed condition report, please contact us.
Lot 60
Bob Monkhouse private collection of horror genre film books inc The complete Stephen King encyclopedia by Stephen J Spignesi, La Belle et la Bette by Jon Boullet, Spellbound in Darkness, The Tourist guide to Transylvania, Psycho, The Overlook film encyclopedia of Horror edited by Phil Hardy, The Dracula collection, World of Monsters, Phil Hardys Horror Encyclopedia, Classics of the Horror film etc. (1 box)[A]
Lot 67
Bob Monkhouse collection of books inc signed Bob Monkhouse Claridges Encyclopedia of Hollywood by Scott & Barbara Siegel, a book inscribed to Bob dated "1.6.92 Happy Birthday Bob Helene" Remembering Charlie by Jerry Epstein, The Legend of Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin by Dennis Gifford, Three classic silent screen comedies starring Harold Lloyd, The Films of Charlie Chaplin, The Players, Immortals of the screen, Retakes, by John Eastman, America on Parade, 1975 Walt Disney, Of Mice and Magic, The Hollywood Walk of Shame, W. C. Fields, etc. (2 boxes)[B]
Lot 68
Bob Monkhouse film books A Cast of Thousands vols 1, 2, & 3 by Cory Ochoa, Film Superlist Minus & Hale vol 8, 17, 1950 - 1959, plus the Motion Picture guide A - J & K - Z, Harrisons Reports and Film reviews vol 8 - 15 inclusive, plus the Motion Picture Guide vol 1 to 10 inclusive, plus The New York Times encyclopedia of film 1896 - 1979 inclusive plus index, Whos Who in Hollywood by David Ragan, vol 1 & 2, plus the American film institute catalog F2 & F6. In 6 boxes.[C]
Lot 63
Firuzabadi (Majd al-Din al-). Al-Qamus al-muhit wa'l-qabus al-muhit, Ottoman territories, early 19th century, Arabic manuscript in black ink on glazed laid paper, 543 leaves, 2 parts in 1 volume, part 1 with countermarks HB and GB bisected by single rods bearing trefoils, part 2 on thicker paper stock mainly countermarked S [second initial cropped] and transcribed by a different copyist possibly at a slightly later date, part 1 with various naskh script, 33-6 lines to the page, illuminated headpiece to folio 1b, text within polychromatic frames throughout, keywords and headings in a larger thuluth script and frequently rubricated, many headings in part 2 in green, inner hinges cracked but holding, opening bifolium soiled and repaired with paper disruption along frame of folio 2, repaired tear in folio 148 obscuring a few words, a few other marginal repairs, moderate spotting and staining but generally a fresh copy with wide margins, contemporary red goatskin, decorative blind frames to boards enclosing vegetal filigree lozenges in blue, envelope flap front board gilt-lettered in Arabic 'matn al-Qamus ['text of the Qamus'] 'Ali 'Abd al-Raziq', remains of labels to spine, matching red morocco slipcase with flap and marbled paper onlays to sides (worn), folio (29 x 19 cm) An attractive copy of the great Arabic dictionary compiled by Iranian polymath al-Firuzabadi (d. 1414). 'The Qamus ... has become the most widely used of all the dictionaries and has exercised considerable influence in the West' (Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, volume 2, page 468). The countermark GB is recorded as belonging to Treviso papermaker Giovanni Berti (c. 1789-1828. See Biddle, 'New Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts', page 31, in Friedrich et al., eds., Studies in Manuscript Cultures, volume 12. (1)
Lot 488
Large collection of books on the history of Scotland, to mainly involve GallowayTo include "The History of Gallway from the Earliest Period to the Present Times", two volumes, with foldout maps, published by John Nicholson, 1841, bound in tan calf, Agnew (Sir Andrew) "The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway", two volumes, published by David Douglas, Edinburgh 1893, further volumes by Agnew of the Sheriffs of Galloway, Murray (Thomas) "The Literary History of Galloway", published for Waugh & Innes, Edinburgh 1822, Mactaggart (John) "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, printed for the author, London 1824, McDowall (William) "Chronicles of Lincluden", number 126 of a limited edition of 350 copies, printed for Adam & Charles Brack, Edinburgh 1886, "History of Ayrshire Familes" Volume One, Stewart (Reverend Archibald) "History Vindicated in the Case of the Wigtown Martyrs". (95)
Lot 497
Sell (Henry) "Sell's Dictionary of the World's Press and Advertisers Reference Book 1892"Published by Sells Advertising, London, containing numerous illustrations, Kendal (Edward-Augustus) "A Pocket Encyclopedia", in two volumes, Thomson (James) "The Seasons", printed Perth 1794, "The Works of Josephus", by William Whiston, in two volumes, published for William Baynes, London 1825, further leather bound books etc. (41)
Lot 518
Two pallet loads of legal books Ideal for decorators or for law students in Africa, to include Chitty's Annual Statutes, The English & Empire Digest, The Accountant from years 1900 onward, Butterworths Annotated Legislation Service for Statutes, Halsburys Statutes of England, The Laws of England, Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents etc.
Lot 523
Hammerton (Sir John) "The War Illustrated Complete Record Of The Conflict By Land And Sea And In The Air"In eight volumes, published by The Amalgamated Press, bound in red calf, "Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia", in twelve volumes, bound in half black calf with blue boards, a copy of The Wide World Magazine, Wilson (H W) "The Great War, the Standard History of the All Europe Conflict", nine volumes, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. (30)
Lot 560
A collection of vintage books ans trade journals dating from the early 20th Century, to include The Outlines Of Military Geography by Colonel A. C. MacDonnell printed by Hugh Ressa Ltd 1911, British Railways Southern Region Instructions manual, British Railways Supplement No. 3, Sectional Maps of the British Railways, Dykes Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia and bound copies of The Cycle and Moped Trade Journal 1963 and 1964.
Lot 1500
A George III style walnut reproduction crossbanded chest of four long drawers, with brass drop handles with pierced backplates and raised on bracket feet. Width 65.5 cm. NOTE - This desk belonged to Dr Stanley B. Whitehead renowned horticulture author writing for Observer Books and The Everyman's Encyclopedia of Gardening for many years. He wrote his books between 1939 up until the mid 1980's, much of his work being produced on this desk. CONDITION REPORT: The chest is in first class condition with no issues. All drawer fronts are in good order. All handles are in good condition also. The bracket feet are in good order also with only minor marks as one might expect. The sides are in good condition with no splits. The back is in good order also.
Lot 713
8 volumes of North American Indians, including “Fighting Indians of the West”, by Schmitt & Brown, 1948; “Indians, Contemporary photographs of North American Indian Life, 1847-1929” by Scherer and Walker 1973; “The George Catlin Book of American Indians” by Hassrick, 1977; “Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes” by Waldman, 1988; “America 1585 - The complete drawings of John White”, by Hulton, 1984, etc; 6 other associated booklets, and “Guide to Collecting Masks” by Teuten, 1991. GC to VGC (15)
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