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Lot 327
Sassoon (Siegfried) Rhymed Ruminations first edition one of 3 copies printed for Hester Sassoon and Geoffrey Keynes this inscribed to Hester Sassoon from Keynes Sept. 1939 printed in red throughout title by Laurence Whistler colophon device handsomely bound in original full brown morocco by Gray of Cambridge with single-roll gilt borders and decorative corner-flourishes on covers each cover with gilt central lyre device titled in gilt on spine and with gilt floral dentelles g.e. [Keynes p.102] small 8vo at the Chiswick Press 1939. ***An excellent copy of this key work in Sassoon`s canon both in terms of condition and association. Several of the thirty-three poems present ominously anticipate the encroaching Second World War. The lyre presumably a reference to the lyre of Orpheus could possibly be a nod to Sassoon`s pseudonym `Pinchbeck Lyre` which he adopted to parody Humbert Wolfe in 1931.
Lot 330
Strachey (Lytton) Books and Characters frontispiece modern half morocco 1922 § Middleton (Richard) Letters to Henry Savage one of 750 copies portrait discolouration affecting lower fore-corner of some ff. modern half morocco Mandrake Press 1929 § Emmons (Robert) The Life and Opinions of Walter Richard Sickert plates modern half calf 1941 first editions; and 6 others 20th century similarly bound 8vo(9)
Lot 331
Thompson (Flora) Lark Rise first edition of the first in the Candleford trilogy illustrations by Lynton Lamb a little spotting to early and later ff. original cloth dust-jacket clipped but with price present chipped at corners and spine ends overall a very good copy 8vo 1939. ***Scarce. A third series of the BBC`s adaptation began earlier this year.
Lot 333
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings 3 vol. first editions first impressions vol.III first state maps bookseller`s small sticker to foot of front pastedowns Tolkien Society bookmark original cloth dust-jackets chipped at corners with a few other small chips and tears to edges spines slightly browned rubbed at fore-edges closed tear descending into upper panel of vol.I and lower fore-corner of vol.III housed in later board slip-case 8vo 1954-55.
Lot 347
Verne (Jules) 20k Leagues Under the Seas first English edition half-title plates 6pp. advertisements contemporary & later ink inscription on front endpapers bookseller`s and binder`s small sticker on rear pastedown hinges pulled and split original russet gilt- & black-pictorial cloth spine damaged and lifting with some loss corner tips worn g.e. Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1873.
Lot 353
Wheatley (Dennis) The Haunting of Toby Jugg [1948]; The Prisoner in the Mask 1957; The Satanist second impression 1961; They Used Dark Forces 1964; The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware with friendly T.L.s. from the author loosely inserted 1971 first editions all but third first impressions all with signed brief inscription from the author on title original cloth/boards; and 10 others Wheatley all signed and inscribed from the author 8vo(15)
Lot 354
Wilde (Oscar) The Importance of Being Earnest first edition number 27 of 1000 copies bookplate and small ownership inscription of C.S.Ascherson original salmon pink cloth gilt designs by Shannon corners bumped covers slightly soiled and spine a little discoloured but overall a good tight copy [Mason 381] 8vo 1899
Lot 356
Wodehouse (P.G.) Photograph portrait signed black & white near full-length studio portrait of the author holding a pipe against painted pastoral backdrop mounted with photographer`s studio address printed beneath signed by Wodehouse from lower fore-corner of photograph onto mount actual image 153 x 102 mm. Florence Mason 23 Walpole Street London S.W. n.d. [c.1899]. ***An excellent photographic study of the author as a young man. The contemporary signature contains many elements that can be identified in later examples though the first `e` in `Wodehouse` is different to that more commonly known (see also the following lot).
Lot 357
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Pothunters first edition first issue signed by the author on front free endpaper 10 plates by R.Noel Pocock without advertisements as issued original blue cloth with silver lettering and loving cup illustrations rubbed at edges with some minor marking spine slightly discoloured [McIlvaine A1; Jasen 1] 8vo Adam & Charles Black 1902. ***The true first issue of the author`s first book set at the fictional public school of St. Austin`s; an excellent copy signed thus.
Lot 365
World War I.- Your King and Country Need You Join the Army today 26 original pencil and/or pen & ink cartoon drawings mostly humorous or wry depictions of soldiers during the First World War including pictorial ms. title c. 180 x 215 mm. loosely mounted in modern morocco album oblong folio n.d.; with 3 other loose illustrations also by Allan v.s.
Lot 366
Wyndham (John) The Day of the Triffids first edition inscribed by the author with triffid doodle on half-title original cloth 8vo 1951.hn ***The contemporary inscription reads “To Les Aaronberg / from / John Wyndham / alias / J.B.Harris”. The drawing is almost identical to the one gracing the original dust-jacket`s upper panel with an additional flourish depicting the venomous sting. Scarce signed thus.
Lot 73
* Messerschmitt Me 262. A fine collection of photographs of this first generation jet fight aircraft, compiled from many sources and with images from Messerschmitt A.G. Harold Martin, Warren Brodie, R.A.E. Farnborough, the U.S. Navy, and similar agencies, including 35 images of the preparation for, and the take-off and first flight of PC & UC on 18th July 1942, other images of PC & UB, PC & UE and VI & AA complement this collection of scarce photographs, together with a remarkable series of Luftwaffe and private images of this important aircraft in operation, aircraft becoming airborne, mechanics servicing, ground aircraft portraits, captured examples, in service with the post-WWII Czech” airforce, pressured aircraft and others of similar interest, approx. 160 images, a few with signs of damp damage and most captioned verso (approx. 160)
Lot 77
* Aerial Photography. A miscellaneous collection of military photographs, with others taken by observers during the First World War and photo-reconnaissance aircraft during WWII, numerous images of bomb damage, trench systems, shelled “moonscape” on the Western Front, bombs seen falling on target, direct hits on bridges, railways, airfields, shipping and other targets, most images with neat inscriptions and provenance note (Capt. W. E. Johns), an historic, collection, many unpublished, approx. 90 images, contained in a ring binder (approx. 90)
Lot 83
* Bristol Type 188N. A good, but small, collection of official company photographs of this stainless steel research aircraft XF926, first flown from Filton to Boscombe Down on 14th April 1962 by Chief Test Pilot G. L. Auty, (16 images), together with a collection of photographs of Bristol aircraft compiled from various sources including the company archive and Rolls-Royce, approx. 50 images, contained in a folder (approx. 50)
Lot 119
Sarkar (Dilip). Bader’s Duxford Fighters. The Big Wing Controversy, 1st ed., 1997, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, (one of 100 signed copies), together with thirteen other volumes by the same author, mostly with presentation inscription from Dilip Sarkar to Peter Brothers, comprising Spitfire Squadron - No. 19 Squadron at War 1939-1941; The Invisible Thread - A Spitfire’s Tale; Through Peril to the Stars - RAF Fighter Pilots who Failed to Return 1939-45; Battle of Britain - Last Look Back; Battle of Britain - The Movie; Johnnie Johnson - Spitfire Top Gun, Part 1; Missing in Action - Resting in Peace?, 2 copies; Guards VC - Blitzkrieg 1940; Spitfire! Courage & Sacrifice; Battle of Britain - The Photographic Kaleidoscope; Battle of Britain - The Photographic Kaleidoscope, vol. 3 (1 of 100 copies, signed by Lady Bader, Air Commander Ian Brothers, Wing Commander G.C. Unwin, Squadron Leader G. Pushman, Squadron Leader L. Thorogood, Squadron Leader P.F. Morfill, Flight Lieutenant G. Parkin and Mr. J. Milne), Fighter Pilot - The Photographic Kaleidoscope, all VG. The first volume is signed by the following:- Lady Odette Dowding, Lader Bader, Air Commodore P.M. Brothers C.B.E. D.S.O. D.F.C., Wing Commander G.C. Unwin D.S.O. D.F.M., Wing Commander B. Jimms A.F.C. D.F.M., Wing Commander D.G.F.R. Cox D.F.C., Wing Commander James Thomson, Squadron Leader V. Bergman D.F.C., Flight Lieutenant W. Cunningham D.F.C., Flight Lieutenant L.G. Batt, Flight Lieutenant R.L. Jones, Warrant Officer A. Markiewicz, Mr. E.W. French, and the author. (14)
Lot 138
Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft, 22 vols., 1936/77, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, first vol. ex-lib and lacking spine, many vols. with dates in white ink on spines, the final three vols. with d.j.s, plus reprints for the years 1913 and 1945-6, folio. This lot includes volumes for 1941, 1943 (x 2), 1945, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1957-64 (plus duplicate of 1963), 1969, 1975-77. (24)
Lot 140
Jane (Fred T., ed.). All The World’s Air-Ships (Flying Annual), 1909, with a Special Chapter on Aerial Engineering by Charles de Grave Sells, 1909, 374 pp. + single addenda leaf at end (sellotaped to inner margin), numerous b&w illusts., after photos, with oval library inkstamp to half-title of the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, endpapers renewed, orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, frayed to corners and extrems., oblong folio. The first annual issue of Jane’s Airships. Rare. (1)
Lot 141
Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft, 1918 & 1919, numerous b&w illusts., commerical ads. at front and rear, some soiling and marks to endpapers, orig. dark blue cloth, lettered in silver, rubbed and frayed with some wear to extrems., upper joint to first vol. partly cracked at foot, oblong folio. The 9th and 10th years of issue. (2)
Lot 143
Jones (Lloyd S.). U.S. Bombers B1-B70, Los Angeles, 1962, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in frayed d.j., small folio, together with Green (William), Famous Fighters of the Second World War, 1st and 2nd Series, New York & London, 1957-62, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, the first vol. with sellotape repair at head of spine and d.j. torn with loss, both large 8vo, plus Juptner (Joseph P., ed.), U.S. Civil Aircraft, vols. 1-3, Aero Publishers, 1962-66, b&w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in rubbed and sl. frayed d.j.s, small folio, plus other miscellaneous avation interest (3 shelves)
Lot 147
Nowarra (H.J. and Brown, Kimbrough S.). von Richthofen and the Flying Circus, 3rd ed., enlarged, pub. Harleyford, 1964, col. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. chipped d.j., slim 4to, together with Quill (Jeffrey), Spitfire. A Test Pilot’s Story, 2nd imp., 1983, author’s presentation copy, signed and inscribed on title, also signed on title by Endsleigh Castle, with ALS from Jeffrey Quill loosely inserted, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Bruce (J.M.), War Planes of the First World War. Fighters, vols. 1 & 2 (Great Britain), 1st eds., 1965 & 1968, author’s presentation copies to Endsleigh Castle, both signed and inscribed on flyleaf, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in sl. torn d.j., small 4to, plus Green (William), The World Guide to Combat Planes, vols. 1 & 2, 1st eds., 1966, with handwritten cryptic note on each title “Jacket design and * 23 ( * 15) “three-view” monotone studies of aircraft without due attribution by P. Endsleigh Castle”, all the unattributed illustrations now signed in the gutter margin by P.E.C., orig. boards in sl. frayed and chipped d.j., oblong 8vo, and others of aviation interest, many with the ownership signature of Endsleigh Castle, a few with author inscriptions, plus a carton of aviation magazines (approx. 100)
Lot 149
Putnam Aeronautical Books. British Civil Aircraft Since 1919, 3 vols., 2nd ed., 1973-74; German Aircraft of the First World War, 2nd ed., 1970; German Aircraft of the Second World War, 1st ed., 1972; Russian Aircraft Since 1940, 2 copies, 1st eds., 1975; Aeroflot - Soviet Air Transport Since 1923, 1st ed., 1975; The World’s Airliners, 1st ed., 1962; British Aviation - The Great War and Armistice 1915-1919, 1st ed., 1969; British Aviation - The Adventuring Years 1920-1929, 1st ed., 1973; Miles Aircraft Since 1925, 1st ed., 1970; Shorts Aircraft Since 1900, 1st ed., 1967; Gloster Aircraft Since 1917, 1st ed., 1971; Vickers Aircraft Since 1908, 1st ed., 1969; Handley Page Aircraft Since 1907, 1st ed., 1976; Fairey Aircraft Since 1915, 1st ed., 1974; Avro Aircraft Since 1908, 1st ed., 1965; Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909, 1st ed., 1968; The British Bomber Since 1914, 1st ed., 1967; Hawker Aircraft Since 1920, new edition, 1971; Boeing Aircraft Since 1916, 1st ed., 1966; num. b & w illusts. from photos, and others in the same series, all orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, G/VG (43)
Lot 157
Schneider Trophy. The Schnedier Trophy Contest, Royal Aero Club Official Souvenir Programme, 2 copies, 1929, b&w illusts. and ads., one colour plate to each, double page course map centrefold, race card in each book completed in ink and one with notes to map, together with the souvenir programme for the 1931 contest, race card not completed, a little soiling and fraying, all orig. pictorial wrappers, first two sl. spotted and soiled, the third with covers det. and sl. chipped and soiled, all large 8vo (3)
Lot 198
Schneider Trophy 1931. An historically important group of three 78 rpm recordings by the three most important men involved in the 1931 Schneider Trophy Contest which Great Britain won outright, retaining the Trophy in perpetuity having won the race three times consecutively (1927, 1929 & 1931), viz. R.J. Mitchell, aircraft designer, A.J. Rowledge, Rolls-Royce engine designer, and Flight Lieutenant J.N. Boothman, pilot. Recorded on HMV 12 inch yellow label “Private Record” discs, but never issued commercially, the British Library Sound Archive is believed to hold copies, probably given to them for posterity by R.J. Mitchell’s son, Dr. Gordon Mitchell. Each recording is introduced by a professional narrator in typical period “BBC” style, and lasts just over four minutes. A set of CD recordings is being sold with this lot.. R.J. Mitchell (part transcription). “... in a very few words I will endeavour to describe one or two of the interesting features of the S6B and also some of the problems of the designer. In the design of a seaplane of this type, the one outstanding and all important requirement is speed, every feature has to be sacrificed to this demand. The result of this is that every part of the aircraft just, and only just, fulfils its requirements... It is not good enough to follow conventional methods of design, it is essential to break new ground and to invent and involve new methods and new ideas... The floats are made so small for the load they have to carry that their reserve buoyancy is less than 40%. The usual reserve buoyancy for seaplane floats is about 100%. The cooling of the engine presents many interesting features. The usual methods employed either by air cooling or by means of honeycomb radiators have very high air resistance, on the S6B the engine is cooled without adding any air resistance. The cooling water is circulated over both surfaces of the wings and most of the surface of the floats, the covering being of a special double-skin construction. Similarly, the oil is circulated along the sides of the body and over the surface of the fin. During flight heat equivalent to 1000 horsepower is being given to the air from these surfaces. The S6B has been aptly described as a flying radiator... I must express the very greatest admiration for the pilots of the High Speed Flight of the Royal Air Force who carried out trials and operated these machines. Their job required great courage and great skill and they played a very important part in developing the machines to their final state. The question is often asked, will higher speeds be attained in the future, I feel quite sure they will. The problems of still higher speeds are no more intense at this stage than they have been at any period in the past. For the present, however, it is generally considered that high speed development has served its purpose. It has accumulated an enormous amount of information which is now being used to improve the breed of everyday aircraft. It is helping to develop our great airlines and ocean-going flying boats and is thus bringing closer together the outlying parts of the British Empire. This indeed is an objective worthy of all our greatest efforts”. A.J. Rowledge (part transcription). “It was not until Lady Houston so generously came forward with her offer to defray the cost of the machines that the decision was made for Great Britain to take part in the 1931 Schneider Trophy contest. This indecision might easily have been fatal to our chances as very little time, only seven months was left for the development of the design to the new standard and the construction of the actual racing engines In preparing the engines for the 1929 contest we were in many ways at the beginning of a development of this particular engine. In 1931 we had more knowledge and data to enable us to tackle the job but at the same time we had a smaller field for development. The 1931 engine, besides giving more power was a more efficient engine than its predecessor... almost every piece of material in the engine is working at its limit of stress or heat capacity, even for the short life required for such an engine We think it will be agreed by most people who saw the engines perform that they did their work in quite a gentlemanly fashion, and that besides giving good power, they were docile and ran smoothly.Looking at the engine, it is perhaps difficult to believe that the engine fitted to it can possibly give more power than a railway engine which has such an imposing size and weighs so many tonnes In conclusion the satisfactory result was due to team work, and in addition to the people already mentioned, a word of praise is due to the suppliers of the materials and the work people”. Arthur Rowledge (1876-1945) joined Napier & Son in 1913 as Chief Designer. After designing car engines and, more notably, the Napier Lion aero engine, Rowledge took up a similar position at Rolls-Royce Limited in 1921, where he became known as “Rg” in company shorthand. He is credited with designing the Condor III, Kestrel and the Rolls-Royce R racing engine, that was used with great success at the 1929 and 1931 Schneider Trophy races. Development work on the Merlin engine was one of his last contributions to aero engine design along with responsibility for the Exe and Pennine projects, before retiring from Rolls-Royce in 1945 at the age of 70. J.N. Boothman (full transcription). “It is rather difficult to record impressions after an event such as the Schneider Trophy Contest because, at the time, one is concentrating so utterly on the job in hand that the prospect of having to make a record later does not enter one’s head. For the contest last year, the former navigability test had been abolished and replaced by a take off, a climb to 50 metres and an alighting, following which the machine had to taxi for about 2 minutes before taking off to cross the starting line of the speed test proper. These new conditions meant a take off at full load, always an extreme test of a racing seaplane, followed by an alighting and a take off at practically full load. On September 13th 1931, the day when the contest was flown, the weather conditions were fairly good, the sea being rather rough but improving rapidly. After a preliminary flight, to test the conditions, I took my seat in the Vickers Supermarine Rolls-Royce S6B and was slipped from the pontoon as the starting gun was fired at 2 minutes past one. The first take off was effected in 40 seconds, the machine making no difficulty about lifting her 6000 pound weight despite the enormous loading of nearly 42 pounds per square foot of wing surface. As soon as we were off the water, the engine with throttle down to half speed in order to conserve fuel, and a left hand circuit made. Over Cowes, the throttle was shut and an alighting made close to the take off position. In spite of the heavy load and the high landing speed of about 110 mph or more, the floats took the rough-ish water beautifully. After taxiing, throttle right down for the specified time, the second take off was started. This one was not so pleasant, the floats running into the wash left from my first effort, the machine receiving rather a hammering from the rough water. Forty seconds saw us in the air again and after a right hand turn, the nose was pointing at Ryde Pier, the starting line of the speed course. This course consists of seven triangular laps of just over 31 miles each. With the throttle wide open we passed over the pier towards the destroyer marking the southern turn near Bembridge in the Isle of Wight, then a gentle left hand turn around the pylon and across the eight miles of open sea to Wittering. The sea here was bad, a heavy swell rolling in from the Channel making any hopes of a successful forced alighting rather small. However the clock-like running of the engine and the perfect way th
Lot 199
* Supermarine Spitfire Mk I K9789. A fine hallmarked silver model of this aircraft raised on a triangular cross-section curved tapering support mounted on a polished marble base, with enamelled silver badge for 19 Squadron, Royal Air Force, applied with silver plaque engraved, “Spitfire Mk 1 K9789. The first production Spitfire to to into service with the R.A.F. It was delivered to 19 Squadron at Duxford on 4 August 1938. Model specially made for Dr. Gordon Mitchell by Jack Spencer (Goldsmiths) Ltd, Sheffield”, both aircraft and plaque marked J.S. Sheffield, 1989, wingspan 23cm, overall height approx. 28cm (1)
Lot 210
* Schneider Trophy Races: RAF High-Speed Flight 1929-1931. Two important personal scrap-albums compiled by Gordon Mitchell during the series of races won by the Supermarine Racing Seaplanes designed by his father Reginald J. Mitchell, which achieved everlasting fame for consecutive victories and outright-winning of the trophy in perpetuity in 1931, whilst setting many Air Speed Record achievements in the process, meticulously compiled from press-cuttings and news reports from many newspapers & journals, each page with hand annotations, captions and dates etc., together with a set of four small-format scrap albums containing similar news cuttings, plus a further album relating to “The First of the Few” the film made about the life of R.J. Mitchell, the birth of the “Spitfire” and the Battle of Britain, a propaganda feature-length film made with the support, agreement and collaboration of the Mitchell family following the death of the subject in 1937, with hand annotations ,1941-42, and an album of obituary notices (1937) and three family photograph albums c. 1937-43, annotated by Gordon Mitchell (12)
Lot 211
* Mitchell (R.J., Florence, and Gordon). A group of family memorabilia and personal documents and papers etc., 1930s-1970s, including passports in the name of Florence Mitchell (widow), counter-signed in ink by Anthony Eden (Foreign Office) authorising the holder “To Pass without Hindrance”, dated 27th August 1927, and a further passport, together with contracts with Misborne Pictures relating to the Film “The First of the Few” giving her permission and support in collaboration with the film company to provide photographs and historical material in aid of the production starring Leslie Howard, signed, dated 18th September 1941, and various subsequent contracts relating to the film, a will and related documents in the name of Mrs Florence Mitchell signed and dated 1946, further passports in names of Kenneth Gordon Brunt Mitchell, Mrs M.A. Mitchell, variously dated 1962 & 1970, Post Office Savings Book for Florence Mitchell and in the name of K.G. Mitchell, together with estate and investment register documents of the late Reginald Mitchell and Family Trust, and other Wills & Settlement documentation including solicitors letters, re Monies in Trust and Transfer Settlement, bank statements and cheque-book stubs etc., contained in black japanned metal deed box (with keys) and one box file (2)
Lot 213
* Mitchell (J.W.). Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054 taking off at Eastleigh aerodrome Southampton on 6th March, 1936, flown by Mutt Summers, original oil on canvas, signed by the artist and dated “86, 51 x 72cm, framed. “Popular folklore has it that the first flight of the Spitfire was on 5 March 1936 but I flew Mutt to Eastleigh for the particular purpose of making that first flight on 6th March”. See Jeffrey Quill, Spitfire A Test Pilot’s Story, p. 71. The artist Jim Mitchell, was RJ’s nephew, and he has included in the background of this picture his uncle’s 1936 yellow Rolls-Royce motor car. (1)
Lot 216
* Mitchell (J.W.). “First Flight of the Spitfire”, 5 March 1936, pub. Mirage Fine Art, 1986, col. print after the original by the artist, signed in pencil by Jeffrey Quill (test pilot), Humphrey E.J. (RAF test pilot), Sammy Wroath (RAF test pilot) and Jim Mitchell (artist), image 38 x 56cm, framed and glazed, (limited edition 192/975), together with Taylor (Robert), “Victory over Dunkirk. Bob Stanford-Tuck claims an Me110, one of three enemy aircraft he shot down over Dunkirk, 23 May 1940, pub. Military Gallery, Bath, 1983, coloured print after the original by the artist, signed in pencil by Bob Stanford-Tuck, image 31 x 46cm), framed and glazed, plus Bagley (Laurence), “Glittering Wings”. The Supermarine Southampton Flying Boat designed by R.J. Mitchell... , n.d., c. 1980s, coloured print after the original by the artist, image 50 x 75cm, framed and glazed, with eleven other aviation pictures, all framed and glazed (14)
Lot 220
* Ballooning. A group of six oil paintings on board of balloons and dirigibles, prob. late 19th and early 20th c., three from the collection of Colonel R. L. Preston [sold Sotheby’s 1962], two of these depicting the first free ascent of a balloon with aeronauts Pilatre de Rozier and marques d”Arlandes from Paris, 21st November 1783, and one depicting Vincent Lunardi ascending in his first balloon from HAC Ground Moorfields, 15th September 1784, labels and inscriptions to verso in English and French with additional marques “Collection Siva” (nos. 3, 42, & 299), a fourth painting depicting the flight of Gaston and Albert Tissandier’s dirigible on 26th November 1883, marked “Collected Sessut no. 511B” to verso, the first three with indistinct signatures Ritton or Rintto and the fourth signed Suttro (?), the final two oil paintings showing a dirigible basket with two figures and a tethered balloon rising from farmland with a second balloon airborne in the distance, both very crackled with some paint loss, unsigned, printed labels of F. J. Ward’s Bookshop to versos, all somewhat crude and all painted on board with gilt frames, approx. 20 x 34cm and smaller (6)
![* Bristol Boxkite. An original colour lithograph titled Bristol Biplanes [with] the Aviator’s Tetard & Jullerot fly](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2793276/224-2010427101249_468x382.jpg)
Lot 224
* Bristol Boxkite. An original colour lithograph titled Bristol Biplanes [with] the Aviator’s Tetard & Jullerot flying over the Avon Gorge, 1910, lithograph in muted colours of green, brown, and blue with white highlights, showing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and two boxkites above, a little spotted and faded, 84 x 42cm, framed and glazed. One hundred years ago on 14th November 1910 the aviators Maurice Tetard and Henri Jullerot gave the first public demonstration of the Bristol Boxkite in Bristol on the Downs. (1)
Lot 243
* Holt (Alan S.). “Return to France”. On 10th June 1944 “Johnnie” Johnson’s 144 Canadian Spitfire Wing landed at St. Croix-sur-Mer, Normandy: the first Allied fighters to land on French soil since 1940, pub. 1991, coloured print after the original, signed by the artist in pencil with orig. pencil remarque of two Spitfire aircraft, also signed by Johnnie Johnson, approx. 41 x 50cm, framed and glazed. Limited edition of 850, this copy numbered A.P. 16/50. (1)
Lot 262
* Seago (Edward Bryan, 1907-1974). “Battle of Britain”. An RAF pilot exits his Hawker Hurricane, c. 1940, an original artwork preliminary sketch, depicting a Battle of Britain period scene, ink & watercolour wash, signed lower left in ink by the artist, in matted mount, unframed, 10 x 14in (26 x 36cm). Seago, a now highly acclaimed artist & illustrator, served with the Royal Engineers during WWII but was invalided out in 1944 to become an official War-artist doing propaganda work for HMSO making sketchbook and related studies for such wartime activities and wrote & illustrated several books including “A Generation Rising” (1942), and “High Endeavour” the biography of his friend Jimmy Chipperfield, Circus supreme & self-motivated RAF Pilot. A 1944 first-edition copy of which is included with this lot. (2)
Lot 298
* Bearman (Robert). A North American P-41 Mustang of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, orig. acrylic, signed on the mount by four “Red Tails” viz. Leo R. Gray, 100 FS, Alexander Jefferson, 301 FS, William H. Holloman III, 99 FF and E.E. Haig, 99 FS, with four other paintings, comprising a Fairey Battle, as flown by Eddie Whelan DFC, 150 Sqdn., Newton & Stradishall, 1940; a Hawker Hurricane as supplied to the Russian Air Force, the mount signed by four Russian pilots from 1, 176, 122 & 32 Sqdns. who visited Great Britain for the first and only time c. 2006/7 making this a rare signing; a Boulton Paul Defiant in its night fighting colours, as flown by F/Lt Bill Wild, 256 Sqdn., Squires Gate, Blackpool, 1941-42, signed on the mount by Wild; a Fairey Swordfish, the mount signed by Stanley Brand, Q Flight, 836 Sqdn., Lt. Commander Edgar Lee DSO VRD RNR, 825 Sqdn., Ark Royal, 1944, and B. Duckingfield, 501 Sqdn., all images approx. 20 x 30cm, signed by the artist (5)
Lot 316
* Autographs. An album containing approx. fifty autographs, mostly early 20th century, the majority clipped signatures including Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell, Flinders Petrie, H. M. Bateman, Frank Dicksee, Irene Vanbrugh, J. Forbes-Robertson, Ian Hamilton, Roberts, Austen Chamberlain, Ronald Storrs, T. Stanhope Sprigg, A. C. Lyall, Erika Morini, Richard Whiteing, and including a few autograph letters signed by the aviator H. C. Biard, (30th November 1925 referring to a photograph - no longer present - “of the machine which won the Schneider Cup for England at Naples in 1922”), Arthur Weigall, Colonel W. P. Drury, Jeannie Gunn and an autograph note signed by George Kemp, “From the Cradle of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, the Haven Hotel, Sandbanks, Parkstone, Dorset, the first listener-in, G. S. Kemp”, some leaves det., and some orig. numbered leaves now missing, contemp. limp cloth, rubbed, oblong 8vo (1)
Lot 318
* B.A.C., Sud. Aviation “Concorde”. A good collection of brochures, documentation, in-flight packs, postcards, colour photographs, flying suit patches, a “First Flight at Mach 2” first day cover dated 12-11-70, plus a Concorde Supersonic Flight Certificate issued to Mr. D. Dyson dated 22-6-85, a Concorde accident evacuation leaflet, numerous magazines and other printed ephemera, “confidential” documentation, preliminary report on the accident to Concorde Flight AF4590, a collection of colour photographs, some b&w, one signed by Brian Trubshaw - Chief Test Pilot (a.f.), five poster prints and literature of similar interest (a carton)
Lot 319
* Bader (Group Captain Sir Douglas, 1910-1982). An original pilot’s flying log book belonging to Douglas Bader, for the period 2nd June to 28th August 1945, containing over seventy entries in blue ink on eight pages (remainder unused), orig. light blue cloth, rubbed and some surface soiling, small 4to, together with a bound photocopy of Bader’s flying log book for the period November 1939 to 8th August 1941 [when he was shot down and captured], and June 1945 to May 1959, light blue cloth, a little rubbed, folio. An important document covering Bader’s first three months of flying at the Fighter Leader School in Tangmere, following his release from Colditz in April 1945. Bader’s wartime log book was presented to the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, with this photocopy as the pilot’s personal souvenir. The pilot’s log book for the months immediately following the end of the war contains entries for flights undertaken by Bader in the Spitfire Mk IX as Fighter Leader School exercises, aerobatics, test flights, etc. (2)
Lot 326
Bleriot (Louis). Recherches AŽronautiques. L. BlŽriot. IngŽnieur des Arts & Manufactures, 16, Rue Duret, 16, Paris, 1909, 48 pp., num. illusts., orig. apple-green paper wrappers, upper wrapper printed in black and gold, some minor fraying to edges, (23 x 18cm). An excellent copy of Louis BlŽriot’s first catalogue. A rare item. (1)
Lot 335
* Doncaster, Oct 15-23, 1909. An illustrated souvenir booklet for the first aviation meeting held in England, pub. J. Weiner, London, 1909, cover design and pilot portraits after the original drawings by Dudley Hardy, 16 pp., together with an official programme including a list of Aviators and colour Code of Signals, 8 pp., printed by J. Weiner and a rare souvenir crepe-paper illustrated handkerchief, pub. Mrs S. Burgess, London, 37 x 37cm square (3)
Lot 336
* Graf Zeppelin. An extremely rare original passenger ticket (no. 5254), Hamburg-Amerika Linie, issued in the name of Ignaz Anton Tierne(?), for a round trip flight from Pernambuco, [Brazil], starting on 21 October 1931, printed in blue and black, with manuscript additions, creased where previously folded, split along centrefold with old sellotape stains, 31 x 19cm. Count Von Zeppelin, the inventor of the rigid airship, was almost 62 when his LZ1 first flew on 2 July 1900. When LZ127 appeared in 1928, the new liner of the air was called Graf Zeppelin in his memory. For almost a decade, this giant carried passengers and cargo, crossing the Atlantic many times and, in 1929 flew around the world at an average speed of 113 kph (70 mph). (1)
Lot 344
* National Air Races Cleveland Ohio. A rare original First Day Cover, flown from the event by the famous Aviatrix Ruth W. Stewart and autographed in green ink by the pilot, decorative colour lithograph designs frontis & verso with applied 5 cents postage stamp, franked dated September 4th 1931, minor tear to sealed flap, 4 x 9in (10 x 24cm). Ruth Stewart one of America’s finest women private-pilots tragically lost her life a year later on a routine flight, when her plane crashed in dense fog near Harrisburg PA in January 1932, flying in adverse conditions when persuaded against her instincts by fellow-aviators to make the trip against the clock. (1)
Lot 351
Rheims Aviation Meeting, 1909. A group of three rare “Verascope Richard” glass stereo slides showing pioneer aviators, early flying machines and spectators at this historic meeting, each image is captioned in English “Tissandier’s Wright machine”, “Mme. Delgrange”, “A group [of spectators]”, each 4 x 10cm. The “Grand Semaine de Champagne” was the first international aviation meeting in the world. It was a spectacular affair, financed by the cathedral city of Rheims and the neighbouring Vintners. The ten-square kilometre flying field boasted hangars, grandstands, barber shops, florists, and a sixty-seater terrace restaurant. (3)
Lot 409
* RAF, Royal Navy & Fleet Air-Arm Aircraft Serviceability Board. A rare warning sign for aircrew and air-mechanics etc., c. 1930s-1940s, flat metal “Duralloy”, twin-sided with hinged-over flaps to top variously inscribed, to indicate state of serviceability of aircraft under repair, used in conjunction with “Form 700” (“535” prior), painted olive drab with black panels for aircraft registration numbers etc, and brass hanging chain affixed to top, stores ref. 4A/44 21386/32. Initially used by the RAF and subsequently adopted by the Navy & Fleet-Air Arm, these boards were in regular use on aircraft carriers during WWII. The over-painted serial number on this panel indicates the last aircraft serviced using this board was K3516 Fairey Seal 1933, first assigned to No1 Flying Training School, thence to No2 A.A. Unit, finally to C-Flight at Lee on Solent, struck-off charge in 1940. Also indistinctly inscribed in pencil verso with names of flight-crew members including F/O Dennis, Cpl Harvey, A. Barnett, D. French and Mitchell. (1)
Lot 453
* WWI Royal Flying Corps. “In Memoriam” Raymond W. Stanley, two mementos of a pilot of the RFC comprising a fine enlarged portrait photograph of the subject by F.N. Birkett of London, c. 1916, depicting the aviator in full flying attire beside his early biplane trainer, three-quarter length portrait, signed in black ink lower right by the photographer, mounted in original stained-oak frame with gilt liner (26 x 22in 66 x 53cm), together with a propeller souvenir from an early aeroplane flown by the subject, which crash-landed during a training flight at Hounslow, mahogany and laminated hardwood with damage and loss to the end of one blade, variously stamped markings inscribed “J5 No. 4”. Also with a full obituary notice appended to the photograph detailing his career and untimely death in an accident dated Jan 17th 1917. Raymond Stanley had qualified as a First-class Air-Mechanic serving with the RFC during the early years of the war, qualified as a pilot via membership of the Royal Aero Club in June 1916. Training on a variety of machines he was due to leave for service with 42nd Reserve Squadron on the Western Front, but suffered a fatal accident on his last trial flight the day prior to departure on January 17th 1917. (2)
Lot 501
* Bristol “Fighter” Type F.2B. A well-built flying scale model of this much admired and possibly the finest fighting aircraft of the First World War, affectionately known as “Brisfit”, the fabric covered wooden airframe finished in “splinter” camouflage of brown over cream, the strut and wire braced upper and lower main planes with flying controls, with fully working elevators and rudder, dummy near Lewis gun on Scraff ring mounting, the dummy 12-cylinder Hispano-Suiza 200 hp engine cover concealing a single-cylinder glow-plug engine driving a two-blade 19in (48.2cm) diameter mahogany propeller, on rubber tyred main wheels with tail skid, 78in (198cm) wingspan (1)
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