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Interesting Family Group of World War II Medals & supporting documents, 1 group for First Army, 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 Medal, The Second 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-45 Medal relating to Cecil Frederick Leonard Cannon & Wilfred Thomas Joseph Cannon including their Service Pay Books, Silk Card, Personal Photographs
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* Gloster E28/39 prototype W4041/G. A unique and important static presentation model of this first British jet-powered aircraft to fly, built of wood with wartime camouflage upper surfaces, yellow under-wing, national markings, the cockpit hood of black lined silver, on stand and shaped base, black painted with plaque inscribed The Gloster Whittle. The First Jet Propelled Aircraft in the world to fly successfully - May 15th 1941 - Pilot P.E.G. Sayer, O.B.E., 14 in (37 cm) wingspan Constructed under great secrecy, the two prototypes of the E28/39 - W4041 and W4046 were being built at Glosters factory at Hucclecote, the threat of evening action led to the decision to transfer the assembly W4041 to the premises of Regent Motors in Cheltenham. On 7th April 1941 W4041 was removed by road to Hucclecote for initial taxiing trials by P.E.G. Sayer, then Glosters chief test pilot. Sayer made a few hops and Frank Whittle also taxiied W4041. After the initial text, W4041 was taken to Crabtrees garage in Cheltenham for final completion, before being dismantled and re-assembled at R.A.F. Cranwell prior to the first flight preparations. On 15 May 1941 Sayer successfully lifted W4041 off for its momentous first flight which lasted 17 minutes, a day of celebration for Whittle, George Carter (chief designer) and Sayer. W4041 went on to contribute much to jet aircraft design and development and can now been seen in the Science Museum in London. -1
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* Siai Savoia - Marchetti S.M.79C Sparviero, (Hawk). An important period (c. 1937), manufacturers static display model of the Istres-Damascus-Paris race aircraft, serial 1-11, powered by three Alfa-Romeo 126 engines, the wood model with three-blade aluminium propellers, painted in overall red with silver and black, company logo, Italian national markings on the rudder, the fuselage sides decorated with I Sorci Verdi - (The Three Green Mice) logo used for the race, on tricolour stand with Marchetti base, the mainplanes inscribed with presentation inscription, A Dino Gordini Omaggio dell autone cordialimente **** Marchetti 1938 XVI, 28 in (71 cm) wingspan Born during the Golden Age of Italian aviation, the S.79 was one of the most successful Italian aircraft of the period. I-II took part in the Istres-Damascus-Paris race departing Istres on 20 August 1937, the first to reach Damascus was Jan-13 flown by Fiori and Lucchini at an average speed of 424 km/h, over the distance of 6.19 kms, however on the return flight Cupini and Paradisi flying 01-Nov snatched first place at an average speed of 352.76 km/h, second was Fiori and Lucchini in 01-May and with a change of crew Bruno Mussolini and Biseo came third in 1-136. -1
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* Siaia Savoia-Marchetti S.55X. An historic aeronautical trophy, formerly presented to a crew member, unknown of one of the aircraft taking part in the Rome-Chicago-New York-Rome long-distance navigation flight, led by Air Minister Italo Balbo in 1933, these trophies comprise a gilded sphere with winged fin depicting in plan form the twenty-four aircraft taking part with plaque on cube base, 5 in (13.3 cm) high, together with the companion copper model of an S.55X mounted on a sphere with chromium-plated cube-base 4 3/8th in (11.2 cm) high, overall, defective During the night of 30 June/1st July 1933, under the command of Italo Balbo, the Italian Air Force departed on an ambitious project. With twenty-four and one reser highly trained crews Squadriglias Nos. 01-Aug were tasked with the daunting long-distance navigation flight from Rome to New York and return via Chicago. For the first time in aviation history a complete Storno flying in formation flew to New York to a tumultuous welcome. Despite bad weather and some unservicabilitiy the Storno arrived back at the Rome Lido, via Lisbon, after a total flight of approximately 19000 kms on 12 August. -2
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Submarines. An important WWI period photograph album, containing twenty-three fine albumen photos of submarines, each with printed label giving technical details, incl. type, overall length, number built, engine bhp, speed on surface and submerged, etc., image size 25 x 33 cm., orig. black morocco, slightly scratched, oblong 4to the first photograph shows a display of six scale models of submarines, followed by seventeen photographs of submarines at sea or in dock, plus one photograph of a submarine being lifted by a 150 tons crane, a view of a 600 bhp submarine engine and one interior view. The submarines comprise Hollands class, and A, B, C, D, E, G, H, K, L, M, N, O (Australian and British), P, R & V class submarines. -1
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N.S. Savannah. A rare sales brochure for the first Nuclear-powered ocean-going commercial vessel, commissioned by the American Export Isbrandsen Line and the Joint Project of US Atomic Energy Commission and Maritime Administration of the US Department of Commerce, fully illustrated and including deck-plans etc, with manuscript dedication to the cover by the Captain David B. McMichael, Master, dated July 11th 1964 -1
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Miscellaneous. A quantity of motoring books including Jaguar (Porter), The Great Cars (Stein), Champions at Speed (Corson), Ludovico Scarfiotti (Biondi), Racing Cars (Hough), Sports Car Pocket Book (Boddy), MG: The Sportscar America Loved First (Knudson 1975), Vetaran & Vintage Cars (Roberts), Racing Car Pocket Book (Jenkinson), Modern Motor Cars (vols. I,II & III Judge) and other titles -20
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Lartigue (Jacques Henri). Jacques Henri Lartigue, Photographer, Introduction by Vicki Goldberg, pub. 1998, num. b & w illusts. from photos., some folding, orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, VG Lartigue (1894-1956) was considered a child prodigy, he took his first pictures in the year 1900 at the age of six. The photographs in this volume are wonderfully evocative of the period before the outbreak of World War I and includie racing cars, flying machines, ladies of fashion, etc. -1
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Glanfield (John). The Devils Chariots. The Birth and Secret Battles of the First Tanks, 1st ed., 2001, together with Musgrove (Gordon), Operation Gomorrah. The Hamburg Firestorm Raids, 1st ed., Janes, 1981, and Kinvig (Clifford), Scapegoat. General Percival of Singapore, 1st ed., Brasseys, 1996, b & w illusts. from photos., all orig. cloth in d.j., with others of military interest, mostly recent hardback publications, many in d.j.s, G/Vg -65
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* Gallipoli. A short diary acount by Dr E Ashton 1603 of 87th Field Ambulance, 29th Division, April 1915, in which Ashton arrives in the Dardanelles on the day of the Gallipoli Landing by Australian and New Zealand Troops, Anzac Day, 25th April 1915, Arrived onb 25th Ap at Dardanelles under heavy fire from our fleet and watched from our boat the landing of troops under terrible conditions, showers of bullets and shells were hurled at the troops who however made a splendid stand and on the following Wednesday the Turks were driven back to the village of Krithia a distance of about four and a half miles... (p. 2), Turkish and German troops constantly sheeling our beach, the first days shellign killing no less than 100 horses, the second day 50 horses. After several bombardments the Turkish were forced to retire fromt he redoubts in which many mahcine guns and plenty of ammunition were captured, these places proved to be death traps to our troops. About the end of May HMS Triumph and Majestic were both torpedoed... (p. 3), referring two pages later (August) to how the 87 Brigade were sent to assist the Australians, and ending On Dec 18 after a bombardment of two and a half hours, the 87 Brigade attacked and took two lines of trenches at Cape Helles, a total of seven pages plus a map, first page numbered 2, followed by a two-page letter , also in pencil, plus one page of ink and several pages of pencil notes at rear, some chipping and soiling, orig. paper wrappers, soiled and worn, small oblong 8vo (1)
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* Jobson (Pat, 20th century). The Mallard, King Henry VI, c. 1956, together two gouache paintings on paper, the first signed and dated, approx. 270 x 305 mm (10.5 x 12 ins), and similar, both matching modern black frames, glazed, together with Davies (Roland), An American or Canadian Steam Passenger Train travelling through a landscape, gouache on card, signed, with oval inkstamp of Birn Brothers Limited to verso, image size approx. 275 x 400 mm (11 x 15.75 ins), plus twenty-eight various orig. gouache book illustrations of trains, including a set of eleven illustrations by P. M. White for the Sticker Fun Book of Trains, and ten related photographic reproductions -31
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Beavan (Arthur H.). Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date Locomotion, 1st ed., 1903, frontis., thirty-six text illusts., some of them full-page, orig. cloth, slightly faded and rubbed, 8vo The object of this work is to present the subject of Electrical Locomotion to the public for the first time... giving interesting information about the Tube, Train, Tram, and Motor-car.... Ottley 780 and 4456 -1
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Dendy Marshall (Chapman Frederick). Centenary History of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 1930, map, twenty-eight plts., some of them coloured, text illusts., together with Two Essays in Early Locomotive History, 1928, folding table, text figs. and illusts., and A History of British Railways down to the Year 1830, 1938 frontis., 101 maps and illusts., and A History of Railway Locomotives down to the End of the Year 1831, 1953, frontis., 104 text figs. and illusts., and A History of the Southern Railway, 1936, two folding plans, four col. plts., num. text illusts.; all in orig. cloth or buckram bindings, slightly soiled and rubbed, royal 8vo and 4to Ottley 6361; 2854; 388; 2887; and 7320 respectively. All are first editions. -5
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* Airships. A good and large collection of photographic and printed artwork postcards, relating to airships & dirigibles, c. 1930s-70s, including history, construction and developments through the 20th century, also including a quantity of decorative First Day Covers and Commemorative issues etc., contained in ring-bound album (approx. 120)
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* Curtis (Alan H., 1897-1983). Wings. A Scrap-Book Portraying Incidents in the Life of a Pilot, c. 1914-1939, a fascinating set of four scrap albums compiled by Alan Curtis (started in 1932 and re-assembled in 1977), detailing his flying experiences from the beginning of the First World War to the early days of World War II, comprising numerous photos. of aircraft and pilots (both vintage and later), official documents, newspaper and magazine cuttings and other related paper souvenirs, including several signed menus, plus typescript reminiscences and manuscript notes by Curtis, incl. extracts from log books and diaries, etc., all carefully compiled in chronological order in four modern plastic ring binders, 4to Alan Harper Curtis, RNAS, RFC, RAF & S/Ldr, RAFVR. First flew at Hendon on 13th July 1914, with Edouard Baumann at the controls of a Wright biplane; joined the Royal Naval Air Service on 18th September 1915 and qualified for his pilots certificate on 7th November 1915 Enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps on 2nd March 1916 and gained his wings on 3rd August 1917 Served with No. 49 Squadron in France 19th October 1917 - 11th June 1918, carrying out bombing raids on French towns and engaging in numerous aerial scraps with the enemy (an extended handwritten account of an encounter that Curtis had on 7 June 1918 with von Richthofens Travelling Circus appears on p. 110 in volume 2). A Summary of Successful War Flights appears on pp. 145-6 in volume 2, including 2 Huns brought down out of control. 137 bombs dropped.
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* Programmes. Bournemouth Centenary Fetes, July 6th-16th 1910, promotion leaflet (folded at centre); First International Meeting in Great Britain, 22 pp. with photographic illustrations, together with National Aviation Day Souvenir Programme - No. 67747, oranised by Sir Alan Cobham, forward by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 32 pp. (2 cut) -3
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Auster Aircraft Co. Beagle G-AVCS. Ministry of Aviation (C.A.29) and (C.A.27) Aircraft and Engine Log books for this aircraft with certificates issued by Shobdon, Shipdham and Wickenby, first flight recorded 18.5-67, last flight recorded 08/08/1976 after 1006 hrs 30 mins, companion Engine log book records transfer of information to New Type Log Book on 30/05/1979 -2
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* Pilots Notes and miscellaneous. A copy of A.P. 2458C for Tempest V aircraft, orig. blue covers, dated July 1944, together with a Souvenir programme for the first South African Flying Circus, a 1937 R.A.F. Hendon display programme, A.M. Pamphlets 122 and 123, Flying and Popular Aviation Special R.A.F. issue and other literature (a lot)
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* Wright Brothers. A typescript copy of a letter from the Wright Brothers to the editor, Aero Club of America Bulletin, dated March 30, 1912, two sheets, the first with embossed heading Wright Brothers Dayton, Ohio, typewritten to recto only A copy of an important letter to the Aero Club of America Bulletin, concerning the validity of the Wright Brothers 1903 patent for their flying machine, which the German Patent Office had pronounced void. The letter provides some particulars of the basis upon which the decision had been made, and states that the Wright Brothers will appeal against the decision. -1
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Barres (Fernand, Bernaud Eugene & Schoeller, Adolphe). Les Transformateurs dEnergie. Generateurs, Accumulateurs, Moteurs, avec les plus recentes applications a la Navigation Aerienne, vol. 2 (Atlas) only, Paris, 1910, thirteen col. litho. plts. on thick card, with colour-printer overlays to each, one or two overlays loose (generally in good condition), orig. pict. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed (generally in clean condition), folio, together with RiviÅre (P.-Louis), Une Promenade au Pays de la Science, 2nd ed., Paris, Delagrave, n.d., c. 1913, b & w illusts. to text, some overall light browning, a.e.g., orig. col. pict. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some minor soiling (generally in good condition), folio The first volume contains illustrations of a locomotive, a gas turbine, a motorcycle, a Daimler automobile, a dirigeable balloon, the Wright aeroplane, the Voisin aeroplane, a Dynamo, a wireless telegraph, etc. The second, more general work, includes a chapter on ballooning, and the early aviators. -2
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Bibliothek fur Lƒftschiffahrt und Flugtechnik. Nos. 1, 4, 10 (2 copies), 12 & 16, together 6 vols., Berlin, Schmitt & Co., 1910-17, num. b & w plts. and illusts. inc. some after photos., diags. etc., printed advertisements to endpapers, all orig. cloth (first 2 vols. with pict. cover printed in colours), final vol. in orig. cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed and minor fraying to extrems., 8vo The titles are Kritik der Drachenflieger, by Ansbert Vorreiter, 2nd ed., 1910, Die Kunst zu Fliegen, by F. Ferber, 1910, Handbuch fƒr Flugzeug-Konstrukterure, by Camillo Haffner, 1913, (2 copies), Flugzeug-Modelbau, by P.G. Bigenwald, 1914 & Die Statik im Flugzeugbau, by Ober-Ing. Schwengler, 1917 -6
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Flight. First Aero Weekly in the World. A Journal Devoted to the Interests, Practice and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport, approx. 450 orig. issues, 1909-1915, incl. some dups., num. b & w illusts. and ads., all orig. printed wrappers, some a little frayed and chipped at edges, together with approx. 150 orig. weekly issues of Flight from the 1950s (approx. 600)
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* Flintham (Vic). Aircraft in British Military Service. British Service Aircraft Since 1946, pub. Airlife, 1998, together with Bishop (Cliff T.), Fortresses of the Big Triangle First. A History of the Aircraft Assigned to the First Bombardment Wing and First Bombardment Division of the Eighth Air Force from August 1942 to 31 March 1944, pub. East Anglia Books, 1986, num. b & w illusts. from photos., both orig. cloth in d.j., folio, VG, with others of aviation interest (2 cartons)
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Wilkins (Captain George H.). Flying the Arctic, 1st ed., New York, 1928, authors presentation copy, signed and inscribed on dedication leaf, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., dec. endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, a little faded on spine, together with First Over Everest. The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933, by Air-Commodore P.F.M. Fellowes, L.V. Stewart Blacker, Colonel P.T. Etherton, and Squadron Leader the Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, 1st ed., 1933, port. frontis. of Lady Houston, num. b & w illusts. from photos., one anaglyph plt. (made to appear in stereoscopic relief when using the special glasses contained in rear pocket), orig. cloth gilt, faded on spine, plus Travels in the Air, by James Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier, 1st ed., 1871, twelve uncol. litho. plts., two or three with minor repairs to foremargins, some scattered spotting, later cloth, all 8vo, and an autograph letter signed, by George Binney, leader of the 1924 Oxford University Arctic Expedition, thanking J. Lord Esq., of A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., for his assistance and kindness and asking him to accept a polar bear skin which had been shot off the north coast of North Eastland, on Expedition headed notepaper, dated Jan 13, 1925 -4
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Godden, G.A., Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852, Barrie & Jenkins 1982; Rissik Marshall, H., Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, Ceramic Book Company 1977; Sandon, H., Flight & Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, ACC 1978; Sperio, S., Worcester Porcelain - The Klesper Collectioin, Minneapolis Institute/Lund Humphries 1984; and four further books and three cataolgues about Worcester Porcelain (11)
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Heber (Reginald). Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 (with notes upon Ceylon), an Account of the Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, 3 vols., 4th ed., 1829, wood eng. plts., incl. some double-page, large folding eng. map hand col. in outline and sectionalised on linen, contained in front pocket of first vol., orig. blindstamped cloth, gilt dec., spines darkened, and rubbed to extrems. with some fraying, 8vo (3)
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Jennings (Robert, pub.). Fenner's Pocket Atlas, of Modern & Ancient Geography; The first Series shewing the Different States of Europe, Asia, Africa & America...The second Series or Classical to Illustrate Ancient History..., 2 parts in 1 vol., [1828], engraved title, separate contents page to each part, 9 double-page maps and 61 single page maps, all uncoloured and complete as listed, one double-page geographical plate, some light dampstaining and a few marks, tear with loss to final blank, contemp. marbled boards, modern leather reback, 8vo Scarce. (1)
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Le Brun (Cornelius). A Voyage to the Levant: or, Travels in the Principal Parts of Asia Minor, the Islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, &c. with An Account of the most Considerable Cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land, Jacob Tonson, 1702, engraved frontis., portrait and map, 96 engraved plates including many folding panoramas and double page engravings, numerous engravings to text, all plates complete as listed, small hole to inner margin of frontis., some minor creasing to folding plates, inoffensive worm trail to lower margin of first few leaves and some occasional marginal spotting, 18th century panelled calf, rubbed and marked with peeling to extrems., folio Atabey 160. Ex-libris Charles Cholmondeley of Vale Royal with his bookplate to verso of title page. (1)
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Oriental Annual. The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India..., 1834 & 1838, forty-eight steel engs. after William Daniell complete as lists, incl. frontis. and vign. title to each vol., first vol. large paper, and with plts. on india paper (one detached), descriptive letterpress by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, a.e.g., orig. blindstamped morocco, gilt dec., rubbed, 8vo (2)
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Ruttledge (Hugh). Everest 1933, 1st ed., 1934 & Everest, The Unfinished Adventure, 1st ed., 1937, numerous b&w plts., folding maps, etc., tissue-guard to title of first vol., with some juvenile drawing (a little offset to lower portion of frontispiece), both orig. dark blue cloth gilt, some minor foxing to fore-edges, both in d.j.s, rubbed and a little frayed to extrems., spine of d.j. to second vol. with some splash marks, both large 8vo (2)
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Godwin-Austen (Captain H.H.). Description of a Mystic Play as Performed in Ladak, Zaskar &c., Contained in [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, part 1, no. 2], Calcutta , 1865, ten mounted arched top albumen prints of Ladakh ghost dancers, mounted two to a page, pin-hole worming to images 2, 4 & 6 and worm tracing in upper part of images 8 & 10, some spotting & soiling throughout, paper damage to first two leaves and litho. plt. (of an unrelated article), one further folding plt. and lower wrapper, stitching broken and several leaves detached, slim 8vo Possibly the first photographs to be taken in this region. (1)
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Pouncy (John). Dorsetshire Photographically Illustrated, the Detail and Touch of Nature Faithfully Reproduced by a new Process on Stone, by which Views are Rendered, Truthful, Artistic, and Durable, 4 vols. in two, n.d., c. 1850s, uncol. litho. title and seventy-four (of 76) photo litho. plts. of views in Dorset (inc. one double-page), with accompanying letterpress, a few pages loose, some minor spotting, contemp. cloth, rubbed, oblong folio 'The first book in which photographs were actually transferred onto lithographic stones... Pouncy's important work was a transitional stage between drawing and unretouched photography in book illustration'. McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing. (1)
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Sache (John Edward & Westfield, photographers). Panorama of Calcutta, taken from the Ochterlony Monument on the Maidan, Calcutta, c. 1865, seven-section albumen print panorama mounted on linen, a few marks and a little edge-wear, a vertical crease to first section, overall approx. 21 x 205 cm, orig. printed label with title captions for each section to rear pastedown, orig. cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, soiled and some wear, oblong folio Sache formed his partnership with Westfield in Calcutta in 1865. This photographic panorama is near-identical to one taken by Samuel Bourne in 1865, the livestock and figures in the foreground being the only obvious differences. (1)
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* Sutcliffe (Frank Meadow, 1853-1941). Whitby Harbour [and] Goathland Moors, c. 1890, two albumen prints, the first showing boats in a night-lit harbour, the second showing the backs of two children and a donkey at a crossroads on the Moors, both initialled in the negatives and the latter numbered 374, both with some spotting and the first with minor creasing, 185 x 145 mm and 150 x 200 mm respectively (2)
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Ashmole (Elias). The Antiquities of Berkshire, 3 vols., 1719, eng. port. frontis. to first vol. (relaid), large folding map with Prospect of Windsor Castle by W. Hollar dated 1666, (browned & several tears to folds, tape-repairs to verso), some spotting, endpapers renewed, contemp. panelled calf, rebacked, corners worn, 8vo (3)
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