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A Hornby companion series book of Dinky toys and modelled miniatures, Meccano toys together with a Corgi toy book and two large collectors guide books.

A collection of Concorde memorabilia, to include note book, city guide, menus, flight certificate etc.

SAMUEL CHIFNEY of Newmarket Genius Genuine, A Fine Part in Riding a Race, London 1804, recent calf spine, original marbled backs, in slip case The first great book by a professional jockey this is primarily a defence of his riding of the Prince of Wales's horse Escape at Newmarket on the 20th and 21st days of October, 1791, a matter that occasioned one of the great Turf scandals and led to His Highness withdrawing his patronage from the racecourse. It was first published in 1792 and here reprinted twelve years later with a new foreward entitled "Samuel Chifney's reasons for this publication" in which he does concede that "Some may say this is an old story, and long since forgotten, and that I am wrong to revive it." But goes on to assert "I have but one answer to make to all such accusations; which is, that I have felt the effects of of the occurrences of those days have operated upon me in the most severe manner, after a lapse of many years." While the Escape issue dominates the book, Chifney also deals with other matters including a complaint that is as familiar at the start of the 21st Century as it was at the beginning of the 19th century: "Why there are so few good runners; or why the Turf Horses degenerate" and then goes on to offer "A guide to recover them to their strength and speed". Provenance: this copy is signed by Edward Chifney, Samuel's son and also carries early names John Morant and Henry St John Mildmay. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

`Outrage`, Ian Nairn, The Architectural Press, Westminster, 1955; and `The Elements of Mechanics...` James Wood, Cambridge, 1841; and `The Kenya Settlers` Cookery Book and Household Guide`, published by Church of Scotland Woman`s Guild

[Locke (James)] Tweed and Don; or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last Fifty Years, second edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, light foxing, bookplates of Arthur E.Wilson-Browne and T.Spence, Edinburgh, 1860 § Rooper (George) Thames and Tweed, presentation copy from the author inscribed by him and another on half-title, [1875] § [Bertram (James)] The Border Angler: A Guide Book to the Tweed and its Tributaries., folding map, Edinburgh, 1858 § Robertson (John) The Hand-Book of Angling for Scotland and the Border Counties, folding map, 1861 § Scrope (William) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed, third edition, frontispiece and additional vignette title (loose), plates and illustrations, bookplate of E.W.E.Siddall, 1885, original cloth, the first four pictorial gilt, rubbed, the first with spine a little worn and stained, 8vo (5).

TWO ALBUMS containing photographs, dateable to circa 1919-1925, including locations in India, Grenada, and Switzerland; together with a book by A.R. Sawyer titled `Mining-Geological and General Guide to The Murchison Range`;and `A Reconnaissance in the Bakhtiari Country. South West Persia` by Major H.A. Sawyer. a/f.

A COLLECTION OF 1940S-1960S THEATRE PROGRAMMES, to include London Palladium, Palace Theatre Manchester, Adelphi, Theatre Royal, St. James Theatre etc., together with a World War II autograph book at The Theatre Royal Norwich, twelve postcards and The Royal Pavilion Brighton guide and history.

A small quantity of military WW2 ephemera to include items from Jerusalem to include a regiment photograph for 1002 Docks Operating Company 'before embarking for Middle East on the HMS Samaria,' a YMCA Jerusalem ticket, 2 period photos of Camel squad camps, 'Your Guide To The Holy Land' manual, arabic train ticket, a 1912 'Cavalry Training' book, 1943 menu etc

A collection of Books incl. 'Everybody's Book of Acting Charades' - debates, dialogues, tableaux, vivants, etc. for the home, school and hall by John J. Pledge, 1893; 'The Complete Angler' by Izaac Walton; 'The Lands of the Broads' by Ernest R. Suffling - a practical and illustrated guide with large coloured map; 'Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book' by the Daily Telegraph - London 1908, Pocket German and Spanish Dictionaries, etc.

A quantity of Books incl. 'The Wonder book of Railways', Penguin 'The British Military Uniforms', paperback about 'Rank and Badges in the Navy, Army and R.A.F. Two copies of the Mariners Mirror Nos. 27 and 29, a Country Camera 1844-1914 and the Dunlop Book, the Motorists Guide, Counsellor and friend

Boner (Charles). Guide for Travellers in the Plain and on the Mountain, 2nd ed., pub. Hardwicke and Bogue, 1876, half-title, b & w wood-eng. illusts., pubs. ad leaf at rear, orig. green cloth gilt, small 8vo, together with Ball (John), A Guide to the Western Alps/Eastern Alps, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1863/new ed., 1869 respec., folding col. maps etc., one or two short closed tears, orig. cloth gilt, modern reback, rubbed to edges, 8vo, plus Caviezel (M.), Tourist’s Guide to the Upper Engadine, Translated from the German... by A.M.H., pub. Edward Stanford, 1877, folding col. map frontis., ads at rear, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed, and other similar guidebooks to Switzerland, including Switzerland Through the Stereoscope, pub. Underwood and Underwood, n.d., c. 1900, Murray’s Hand-Book for Travellers in Switzerland, 5th ed., 1852, with folding wood-eng. panorama of Mont Blanc, Cook’s Tourist’s Handbook for Switzerland, 1908, etc., all orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo. (15)

Cliffe (Charles Frederick). The Book of North Wales. Scenery, Antiquities, Highways and Byeways, Lakes, Streams, and Railways, 1st ed., 1850, engraved frontis., folding map, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, together with Halliwell (J.O.), Notes of Family Excursions in North Wales, taken chiefly from Rhyl, Abergele, Llandudno, and Bangor, printed for the author, 1860, inscribed by the author to title, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, a little fraying to head and foot of spine, and Cliffe (John Henry), Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles among the Mountains, Valleys, and Solitudes of Wales, 1st ed., 1870, advertisement leaf to rear, orig. brown cloth gilt, rubbed to head and foot of spine, plus an identical copy bound in blue cloth, (Cliffe explored the high mountain cwms and summits pre-1870), plus Davies (R. Rice), The Cambrian Sketch-Book. Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales, 1st ed., [1875], wood engraved frontis., orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, plus Ramsay (A.C.), The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales, 1st ed., 1860, folding map, wood engraved illusts, name excised to front endpaper, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, plus Moore (J.L., ed.), A Practical Guide to North Wales, Manchester, [1889], folding map of North Wales, trade adverts to front and rear, orig. pictorial card wrappers, upper cover detached, plus Roberts (Askew), The Gossiping Guide to Wales, 1881, maps and plans including some folding, trade adverts front and rear, orig. cloth gilt, fraying to head and foot of spine, plus other Welsh interest including ‘Round about Snowdon’ by T. Huson, ‘Welsh Scenery’ by Elijah Walton (Neate W13), a typed manuscript by E. Kelvin Lawrence titled “Gwern-y-Gof-Isaf” containing many original photographs, and a folding map of Snowdonia (12)

Davies (Samuel Thomas). Odd Fellowship; Its History, Constitution, Principles, and Finances, pub. Witham: Richard Sutton Cheek, 1858, 23pp., bound with the original manuscript version of the same work, comprising 84 leaves written in a neat contemporary hand to one side of each leaf, plus 4 leaves of manuscript tables, some spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. green half morocco, gilt dec. spine neatly repaired at head & foot, 8vo, together with Gould (Robert Freke). The History of Freemasonry. Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc., 3 vols., n.d., c. 1870s, num. b & w engs., mostly ports., some spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. half morocco, 4to, plus Tudor-Craig (Major Sir Algernon), Catalogue of Contents of the Museum at Freemasons’ Hall in the Possession of the United Grand Lodge of England, 3 vols., 1938, col. and b & w plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, 4to. Author’s gilt morocco book label to upper pastedown of first work. Samuel Thomas Davies (1833-98) was Witham’s first photographer. He was born in Bristol, but by 1860 he was living and working in Witham. By 1874 he was working on his own as a “Photographic Artist and Accountant” and was also the school attendance officer. In 1869 he prepared a guide book to Witham (unpublished), and was librarian at the Literary Institution and secretary and member of ‘Loyal Guithavon Lodge’ for over 40 years. When he died unmarried in 1898, the Oddfellows Friendly Society provided his tombstone in All Saints’ churchyard. (7).

Ogilby (John). Britannia, Volume the First. or an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales., 1675, facsimile edition, pub. Osprey, 1971, add. half title, 100 uncoloured double page road maps, pubs. cloth gilt, folio, together with Sch?ler (C.J.),Mapping the World, 2010, text in English, Dutch and German, numerous colour and b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, d.j., folio, with Westwood (T. & Satchell T.),Bibliotheca Piscatoria, 1883, contemp. gilt cloth, 8vo,Mackenzie (Ian), British Prints, Dictionary and Price Guide, pub. Antique Collectors Club, 1998, numerous colour and b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, 4to, plus Hill (Gillian),Cartographical Curiosities, pub. the British Library, 1978, add. half title, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. limp card, oblong 8vo, with Nevill (Ralph),Old English Sporting Prints and their History, 1923, addn half title numerous b & w and tipped in colour plts. throughout, contemp. cloth gilt, spine faded, folio, together with other map, book and print reference books, important auction catalogues and periodicals (3 cartons).

Gray (George Carrington). Gray’s New Book of Roads. The Tourist and Traveller’s Guide to the Roads of England and Wales and Part of Scotland on an Entirely new Plan., pub. Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1824, addn. dec. half title with a wood engraving of a rider at a tole-gate, half title with near contemp. ink manuscript ownership signature, folding eng. map of England & Wales with contemp. outline colouring, preface and list of roads and cross roads, forty-nine b & w eng. county and regional maps (including one folding, (‘A Map of Derbyshire’), appears to lack the county map of Derbyshire, index bound at rear, modern half morocco gilt, square 8vo. Chubb CCCXCII. (1).

A collection of various optical lenses including microscope examples, Ardente microphone, cased tools tester, camera lenses and a quantity of glass egg timers, Leica instruction book 111a and 250, Leica Guide and William Home Catalogue.

A small selection of mixed ephemera including beer labels, beer mat from Paris, souvenir booklets, watercolour, Roma, Versailles, postcard book from Middle East, pocket London guide, etc etc together with a 1931 hotel visitors' book, and a state opening of Parliament programme c1920s

Two Mickey Mouse Hardback Books: Mickey Mouse His Life and Times; together with The Mickey Mouse Watch Guide Book (2)

Antiquarian book - The Young Mathematician's Guide, being a plain and easy introduction to the Mathematicks (sic) in five parts by John Ward, ca 1728, calf boards

Northamptonshire Miscellany : Architectural Notices of The Churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton 1849. Fine qtr. binding, engraved plates. Metcalfe W. : Visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618-19 with Northamptonshire Pedigrees 1887. Qto. fine qtr. binding. Engraved frontis, geneaological charts. Adkins R. : Our County. Sketches .... of Representative Men in Northamptonshire 1893. Qto.fine qtr. binding. Portrait plates. Wallis R. & Bull F. : Olla Podrida - Northamptonshire Monthly Magazine Vol.II, 1887-8. : Etched frontis., other monochrome plates. Northamptonshire Leaders, Social and Political 1898. Qto. blue cloth binding, gilt, aeg. Portrait frontis, other portrait plates. (Scarce). Wetton's Guide Book to Northampton, and its Vicinity 1849. 8vo. Original boards, re-backed with slip case. Engraved frontis. together with other plates and vignette illus. (Scarce). Together with Timpson G. : Yeoman Service - A Family History 1581 - 1946. Privately printed 1946. 8vo. Hb. Illus. (Scarce). Craddock T. General Architectural and Monastic History of Peterborough cathedral 1864. Small folio, original printed board binding. Stanfield C. : Stanfield's Coast Scenery in the British Channel 1836. 8vo. original cloth binding, gilt. Engraved tp. & frontis. Engraved plates. CONDITION REPORT: Condition : Churches Archdeaconry Northampton quite foxed. Remaining titles generally vg.

Kelly, Leo – “Antique Golf Ball Reference and Price Guide” 1st ed 1993 – original wrappers slight discolouring to edges otherwise appears unread – the first modern book on golf balls and still a good reference guide.

Scottish Golf Club Histories, Official Handbooks and Guides (5) to incl Kirkcaldy GC handbook 1936/37, Dalmahoy GC H/book c.1938, History of Stromness Golf Courses signed by author G.S. Robertson, Stirling GC Centenary 1969, “200yrs of Golf In Burntisland” and “Lundin Links and Largo Official Guide” – overall (G)

Peter Nicholson; 1825 New Carpenter`s Guide a Complete Book of Lines, 80 plates with some foxing, 11" h/b early edition G

Turner, G – signed – “Fishing Tackle, A Collector’s Log Book” being a limited edition leather bound tackle collector’s guide with stepped index categories incl. auctions, Hardy Bros, lures, rods, reels, etc.

REFERENCE BOOK: Maxtone-Graham, J – “To Catch A Fisherman” 1990 edition, H/b, cloth binding, being a 275 page reference guide to fishing tackle Patents, every collector needs one.

CATALOGUES (15): Collection of 14 Hardy Anglers guides, 1935 & 1936 Supplements, 1974, 78x2, 80, 89x2, 92, 2002, 2004, 2005, Pall mall Centenary Hardy Aid to Angling Book 1st edit and Ogden Smith Anglers guide, all good clean copies.

BOOK: Turner, G – signed – “Fishing Tackle A Collector’s Guide 1st ed 1989, H/b, D/j (some tears) otherwise generally clean interior.

A Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners and Flight Engineers, compiled by Flt. Lt. Alton, covering period 26-2-1953 to 17-8-65, 106 hours, 25 minutes, various aircraft, including Tiger Moth, Meteor 7, Hastings, Oxford, Canberra and Valetta, together with a Royal Air Force Guide to Service, a Primer of Flying etc and an Army Air Corps 656 Squadron badge, mounted on a wooden shield (defective).

A 19th century Chinese Mah Jong games set box of teak with brass handles together with a guide book

Box of mixed ephemera including ration books, soldiers service and pay book, soldier's release book, How to Run a Lathe, Ariel Motor Cycle Owners Guide 1933-37, Morris Eight Operators' manual Series II, plus trade cards, coins etc (qty)

Dods (Margaret). The Cook and Housewife’s Manual: A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management, 5th ed., revised and enlarged, 1833, a few wood-engs. to text, minor marginal browning, recent half morocco gilt, 12mo, together with Stewart (J.A.), The Young Woman’s Companion; Or, Female Instructor: Being a Sure and Complete Guide to Every Acquirement Essential in Informing a Pleasing Companion, a Respectable Mother, or a Useful Member of Society... , 3rd ed., improved, Oxford, 1815, eng. frontis., additional eng. title (spotted), later cloth, 8vo, plus Jeaffreson (John Cordy), A Book About the Table, 2 vols. in 1, 2nd ed., 1875, orig. quarter morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear to head and foot of spine, thick 8vo, with other cookery and related (3 shelves).

Engers (Joe). The Book of Wildfowl Decoys, 2000, col. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., folio, together with St Aubyn (Fiona), Ivory. A History and Collector’s Guide, 1987, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large 4to, plus Bennion (Elisabeth), Antique Medical Instruments, 1980, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 4to, plus other antique reference related (6 shelves).

[DRAKE, Francis (1696-1771)]. An Accurate Description and History of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St. Peter, York. York: A. Ward, 1768. 8vo. 14 folding engraved plates (lacks all before title [?blank]). Contemporary calf gilt (joints splitting, rubbed). Provenance: old bookseller`s description laid down onto front pastedown. Upcott III, 1371 (citing a 2-volume edition of the same date). With the same author`s Eboracum (York, 1788, 2 vols. attractively bound in contemporary diced calf), Thomas Langdale`s A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire ... second edition (Northallerton, 1822) and George Ayliffe Poole`s An Historical & Descriptive Guide to York Cathedral (York, [n.d.]), and another unrelated 18th-century Italian book attractively bound in half vellum. (6)

A selection of volumes including Observers book of birds, Ward Lock Red Guide, Lake District and a selection of OS Maps

Horology -eighteen reference works: North, John GODÕS CLOCKMAKER, RICHARD WALLINGFORD AND THE INVENTION OF TIME Hambledon and London, London 2005, dj; Barder, Richard C.R. ENGLISH COUNTRY GRANDFATHER CLOCKS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1983, dj; Loomes, Brian ANTIQUE BRITISH CLOCKS A Buyers Guide Robert Hale, London 1991, dj; Joy, Edward T. The Country Life Book of CLOCKS Country Life Limited, London 1967, dj; Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst Von THE BOOK OF OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES Crown Publishers Inc. New York 1964, dj; Macdonald, Peter BIG BEN, THE BELL, THE CLOCK AND THE TOWER Sutton Publishing, Stroud 2004, dj; Loomes, Brian COMPLETE BRITISH CLOCKS Bracken Books, London 1978; Landes, David S. REVOLUTION IN TIME The Belknapp Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA. undated; Cipolla, Carlo M. CLOCKS & CULTURE Collins, London 1967; Britten F.J. THE WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS HANDBOOK DICTIONARY AND GUIDE Antique CollectorsÕ Club reprint of the 1915 eleventh edition, Woodbridge 2000; Beeson, C.F.C. ENGLISH CHURCH CLOCKS 1280-1850 The Antiquarian Horological Society, London 1971; Tait, Hugh CLOCKS in the British Museum The trustees of the British Museum, London 1968, dj; Lippincott, Kristen (and others) THE Story OF Time Merrell Holberton, London 1999; and four further standard works, with a copy of Turner, Gerard LÕE.Collecting Microscopes Studio Vista and Christies, London 1981, dj, and a small quantity of related pamphlets and related minor publications etc (qty).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: A good collection of 6 boxes, noted : Maggs, Voyages & Travel catalogues. Ball & Martin, Price Guide to Baxter Prints. Skelton, Decorative Printed Maps. Barnes, Murder in Print. Speaight, Juvenile Drama. Bibliotheque Erotique Gerard Nordmann; & numerous Sothebys & Christes book catalogues inc. Maccelsfield Library, etc.

* Lowth (Robert, 1710-1787). Portrait by an unidentified artist, late 18th century, oil on canvas, half-length, seated and with one hand placed upon a copy of his book ‘De sacra poesi Hebraeorum’ on the desk in front of him, a few scratches and marks, two tears including one with slight loss, both to background area away from the portrait upper left, 92 x 73cm, gilt frame. This portrait is not a copy of the portrait by Robert Edge Pine, c. 1777, held at New College, Oxford, after which an engraving by John Keyse Sherwin was made. Robert Lowth, Biblical Critic, Grammarian and Bishop of London, was born at Winchester on 27 November 1710. He made a name for himself as a young man through his composition of verses in both English and Latin. In June 1741 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, a post he held for ten years, during the course of which he delivered the thirty-four “Praelectiones de sacra poesi Hebraeorum” that were to make his name and were published in 1753. ‘In 1762 Lowth published ‘A Short Introduction to English Grammar’, in which he extolled the simplicity of the form and construction of the English language while remarking that it could still not rival the most ancient of languages, Hebrew, in this respect. Lowth intended his work to provide a succinct guide to grammar and to overcome imperfect or imprecise usage, even when found in the Authorized Version of the English Bible. It proved immensely popular in Great Britain and America and was published dozens of times during the 18th century alone; more than 34,000 copies had been printed by 1781’ (DNB). (1)

A rare 18th century leather bound book: A Guide to The Perfect Knowledge of Horses by M De Saunier containing nine folding plates; publ. London W Nicoll, Newbery & Carnan, 1769 (stained and outer boards broken).

3 boxes of books on art inc. `The 20th Century Art Book`, guide books etc.

A vintage boxed mahjong set with bamboo tiles, bone sticks and instruction book. CONDITION REPORT: Eight honour tiles and four blank tiles plus complete suite comprising 4 x the four winds (E, S, W, N), 4 x the three dragons (red, green and white), 4 x suite of circles, 4 x suite of bamboo and 4 x suite of characters. Total number of tiles 148 including honour and blank tiles. Complete with scoring sticks, four miniature dice in wooden case, counter, and instruction book "Mah Jongg: A Complete Guide to The Fascinating Game fro China". Box at fault and parts held together with tape.

Australia & New Zealand 1910. A well written Edwardian journal recording a six month trip by Englishman William Lucas, containing over 75 loosely inserted or tipped-in pieces of original printed ephemera collected on the trip, written in two journals in ink in a neat hand on 81 and 97 pages respectively on the rectos only, the first journal concerning Australia, the second New Zealand, all pages present, a few detached and creased, the loosely inserted ephemera including hotel receipts & business cards, picture house programmes, a Chinese laundry price list and receipt, a signed permit to visit the Victorian Railways workshop at Melbourne, 2 Parramatta Ferry tickets, Upper Cove Ferry ticket, 4 Melbourne tram tickets, Barracluff’s Ostrich Farm business card and postcard, printed menu cards, luggage tags and tickets, Blackheath School of Arts membership form, Medlow Bath ticket, New Zealand Shipping Co. SS “Ruahine” receipt, permit to inspect institutions in Sydney, SS Wimmera menu card, an engraved RMS Turakina list of passengers, Tuhourangi Maori Troupe programme, 2 Maori guide business cards (Whakarewarewa & Okere Falls), pack of Orient Line playing cards, dining room passes, and other printed epehemera. William Lucas (born 1844 Clapham) was a publishers agent who, at the age of 66 and presumably after retirement, set off on a six month trip to Australia and New Zealand aboard the steamship “Ruahine” arriving in Melbourne on 30 October 1910 and finding the city full of visitors for the Melbourne Cup which Lucas attends “The sight was well worth the money, there was plenty of seats under the trees and many husbands bought their wives and families for a picnic...every hotel was packed and they don’t seem to mind what they spend”. On a visit to “The Book Lover” bookshop he meets the wife of the influential socialist Henry Hyde Champion (1859-1928) and is invited to meet Hyde at his house where he tells Lucas about the Trafalgar Day riots and his subsequent prison sentence. Lucas also visits the Melbourne Federal Houses of Parliament and sees Billy Hughes (1862-1952) speak, and describes visits to many Melbourne suburbs including St Kilda, Mornington, the tents at Mordialloc, Spotswood Glass Works, etc. In Sydney he takes several boat tours and visits the spot where Lady Fitzroy (wife of Governor Sir Charles Fitzroy) was killed - “while I was looking at the monument a young man came up, he was the son of a farmer and...told me his father said Sir Charles Fitzroy was driving the carriage and he was mad drunk at the time...Sir Charles carried on with the landlord’s daughter while his wife was laying there [dying] and it became such a scandal that the landlord kicked him into the street soon after”. Lucas is also told an interesting story about Sir John Henniker Heaton (1848-1914) who had once worked for the teller’s grandfather in very straightened circumstances. He also observes “surf bathing” at Bondi and Manly beaches and while visiting La Perouse’s memorial enters a nearby aborigine reservation “got talking to one of the men who had a boomerang in his hand, he said he would teach me how to throw it...it rose in the air to about 30 feet and made two complete circles...”. Lucas is very sociable and strikes up converstaions and friendships with many people he meets. He observes the fashion in Sydney for gold dental fillings and starts to incorporate Australian slang in his own journal including swagman, back-blocker, mate, cornstalk, etc. A man at Coogee Bay tells him “Australia was the land for the working classes...the men talk to the bosses not the other way about as in the old country”. He spends Christmas week in the Blue Mountains and enjoys trips organised by butcher Nick Delaney of Blackheath who tells him “one Christmas he sat down to dinner with 25 blacks in Western Australia and there was not another white man within a hundred miles”. Upon arriving in Auckland he observes that the Maori women “after 30 get very fat and tubby, the girls dress in the height of fashion that was in vogue 10 years ago”. He spends some time among the hot geysers and springs at Rotorua and Whakarewarewa and is shown around by Maori guides, describing the Kaka and many Maori people and customs. At Wellington he befriends Mr L.H. Fox, the House Steward of Wellington Hospital, and enjoys many evenings with him playing cribbage. While in Wellington he tours the huge Gear Meat Co. and provides a long description of the industrial process of slaughtering sheep. He finally travels home on the SS Turakina, via Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro, interestingly meeting a Mr Maloney on board who was returning to County Sligo after 37 years in Australia and who knew Ned Kelly and provides a description of Kelly’s capture. Lucas arrives in London on 27 March 1911. (-)

Acton (Eliza). Modern Cookery for Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts... Newly Revised and much Enlarged edition, 1860, eight engraved plates, pubs. list at end, some light soiling, endpapers renewed, original cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Housekeeping. A Guide to Domestic Management, by Mrs. Humphrey, 1893, adverts. front and rear, previous owner signature, original red cloth, spine faded, 8vo, plus Everybody’s Confectionary Book; Containing the Whole Art of Making Cakes, Buns, Tarts, Biscuits, Pies, Custards, Cheesecakes..., Halifax, 1865, a few spots, endpapers renewed, original blue cloth, spine and edges rubbed, 16mo, with other cookery, housekeeping etc., some defective (17)

A collection of assorted books comprising Howard (Robert E) - 'The Ultimate Triumph' with illustrations by Frank Frazetta, limited edition no.83/125, bound in brown cloth with red lettering complete with original dust jacket and matching slip case, The Brothers Hildebrant's 'Lord of the Rings', 'Pocket Companions', both signed editions, paperback books by Greg & Tim Hildebrant comprising 'The Tolkien Years' (2), one signed, further other books to include a signed edition of 'The Labyrinth Tarot' by Louis Royo, 'McCaffrey (Anne) - 'Dragonflight', limited edition no.6/500, bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering complete with original dust jacket and slip case, Adams (Neal) - 'The Sketch Book', signed, published by Arlen Schumer, Achilleos (Chris) - 'Medusa', signed edition, paperback, a 'Star Wars Pop-up Guide to the Galaxy', further Star Wars books, etc. (16)

A Shelley porcelain forty piece tea service, decorated in the green blocks pattern, in the regent shape, comprising two bread plates, twelve side plates, twelve saucers, twelve tea cups, cream jug and sugar bowl, printed factory marks and pattern no.12456 to base, pattern featured on page 89 of the Shelley Style Book a Collectors Guide by Susan Hill

A large quantity of Meccano literature arranged in three files, file one contains spare parts lists, Meccano book of models for sets 2,3,and 4, the Meccano constructors guide by B N Love, instruction for the Army Multi kit, an instruction book for Meccano Multikit Crane Building set and a book of models for number 9 set. The second file contains a Triang Hornby and Minic Motorway catalogue, several older Meccano instruction books, spare parts lists, some special model leaflets, Meccano Power Drive set instructions and others, file three contains various 1970's Meccano catalogues and copies of instructions for Meccano Supermodels

An early 20th century Ward Lock Swanage Guide together with a Swanage illustrated book, stamp album and various advertising items.

Industrial archaeology, engineering and technology, a very large collection, including:Skemtpon, A.W. John Smeaton F.R.S. 1981, Dust-jacket; Raistrick, A. Quakers in science and industry. 1968. Dust-jacket; Buchanan, R.A. & G. Watkins The industrial archaeology of the stationary steam engine. 1976. Dust-jacket; Wagenbreth, O. & E. Wächtler. Dampfmaschinen. Leipzig, 1986. Signed by the authors, dust-jacket; Kidney, W.C. Working places. Pittsburgh, 1976. Dust-jacket; Hudson, Kenneth World industrial archaeology. Cambridge, 1979. Dust-jacket; Weitzman, D. Windmills, bridges & old machines. New York, 1982. Dust-jacket; Hudson, K. Food clothes and shelter. Twentieth century industrial archaeology. 1978. Dust-jacket; Hudson, K. Industrial archaeology, a new introduction. 1976. Dust-jacket; Pannell, J.P.M. The techniques of industrial archaeology. 1981. Dust-jacket; Trinder, B. The making of the industrial landscape. 1982. Presentation copy, dust-jacket; Wilson, A. London`s industrial heritage. 1967. Dust-jacket; Rolt, L.T.C. Landscape with machines. 1971. Dust-jacket; Brunel, I. The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer. 1971. Dust-jacket; Gooch, Sir D. Memoirs & Diary. 1972. Dust-jacket; Falconer, K. Guide to England`s industrial archaeology. 1980. Dust-jacket; Booker, J. Essex and the Industrial Revolution. 1974. Dust-jacket; Rees, D.M. Mines, mills and furnaces... industrial archaeology in Wales. 1969. Dust-jacket; Buchanan, C.A. & R.A. The Batsford guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Central Southern England. 1980. Dust-jacket; Hareven, T.K. Amoskeag.1979. Dust-jacket; Hills, R.L. Richard Arkwright and cotton spinning. 1973; Aspin, C. James Hargreaves and the spinning Jenny. 1964; Wright, N.R. Lincolnshire towns and industry 1700-1914. 1982. Dust-jacket; South Kensington Museum. Catalogue of the special loan collection of scientific apparatus. 1877. Cloth; South Kensington Museum. Another copy, German edition of the catalogue. 1877; Ashmore, O. The Industrial Archaeology of North-West England. Manchester, 1982; Barbey, M.F. Civil engineering heritage. Northern England. 1981. Dust-jacket; Cossons, N. The B.P. book of industrial archaeology. 1975. Dust-jacket; Hume, J.R. The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland. 1. The lowlands and borders. 1976. Dust-jacket; Brook, F. The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles. 1. The West Midlands. 1977. Dust-jacket; Buchanan, A. & N. Cossons. Industrial Archaeology of the Bristol region. 1969. Dust-jacket; Binnie, G.M. Early Victorian water engineers. 1981. Dust-jacket; Dickinson, H.W. Sir Samuel Morland, diplomat and inventor 1625-1695. 1970. Dust-jacket; Buchanan, R.A. Industrial Archaeology in Britain. 1980. Dust-jacket; Brentjes, B. & S. Richter. Geschichte der Technik. Leipzig, 1978. Dust-jacket, slipcase; Newcomen Society Transactions, volume 48. 1978. Cloth; Fraser-Stephen, E. Two centuries in the London coal trade. 1952; Baker, E.C. Sir William Preece, F.R.S. 1976. Dust-jacket; Reyburn, W. Bridge across the Atlantic. 1972. Dust-jacket; Rolt, .T.C.Thomas Telford. 1958. Dust-jacket; Penfold, A. Thomas Telford, Engineer. 1980. Dust-jacket; Pugsley, A. The works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. 1976; Emmerson, G.S. John Scott Russell. 1977. Dust-jacket; Berridge, P.S.A. The girder bridge after Brunel and others. 1969. Ex-library; Jackson, P. London Bridge. 1971. Dust-jacket; Shepherd, C.W. A thousand years of London Bridge. 1971. Dust-jacket; Walker, R.J.B. Old Westminster Bridge.1979. Dust-jacket; Hopkins, H.J. A span of bridges. 1970, Dust-jacket; Donaldson, R. Bicentenary of the James Watt patent for a separate condenser for the steam engine. 1969. Dust-jacket; Braithwaite, D. Savage of King`s Lynn. 1975. Dust-jacket; Hay, G.D. & G.P. Stell. Monuments of industry. 1986. Dust-jacket; Sande, T.A. Industrial Archaeology... American heritage. 1976,. Dust-jacket; Baker, D. Living with the past. 1983. Dust-jacket Cantacuzino, S. New uses for old buildings.1975; Lindley, K. Seaside architecture. 1973. Dust-jacket; Ward, J.T. The factory system. 1970. 2 volumes.Gimpel, J. The medieval machine. 1977. Dust-jacket; Weitzman, D. Traces of the past. New York, 1980. Dust-jacket; all original cloth; and a large quantity of specialist books, monographs, pamphlets and offprints (quantity)

The Dunlop Book, The Motorist's Guide, Counsellor and Friend, Picture Show Annual for 1939, The Home Guard in Britain by Charles Grace, a quantity of watercolours and prints, (2 boxes) and one large framed print (3)

Books - Designs of Art Deco; guide to Islamic pottery Artistic Japan; Camehl, the Blue China Book; etc. (6)

A vintage folding railway map printed by McCorquodale & Co Ltd, London, Complete Guide to Heraldry by AC Fox-Davies, and The Book of The Gun by Harold L Peterson (3).

A Sotheby's antique guide 1986 edition Alan Oliver's Book of Horsemanship, Horse & Hound Year Book 1971-72 and a Cookery for every household by Florence, B-Jack

Book - The Recollections of the Great Exhibition 1851. Original cloth portfolio housing twenty-four lithographs, mounted and laid loose, includes title page, produced as a souvenir guide

Books (41) all but one being numismatic titles includes Spink Standard Catalogues (9) 2005, 2006 (2), 2007, 2010 (3), 2011 (2), English Paper Money by Duggleby (2) 6th and 7th Editions, Krause World Coins (7) 1601-1700 (2) 1st Edition, 3rd Edition, 1701-1800 2nd Edition, 1801-1900 2nd Edition, 1901-2000 (2) 27th and 36th Edition, 2001-date 3rd Edition, Coin Yearbooks (8) 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010, Medal Yearbook 1998, USA Red Book 2000, Collector`s Banknotes 14th Edition, Coins Market Values (4) 2003, 2004, 2007 (2), A Guide Book of English Coins 1968 by K.Bresset, all in good condition (Total weight over 36 Kilos)

BOOK. THE BALL-ROOM GUIDE, WARNE`S BIJOU BOOKS, EMBOSSED PURPLE CLOTH, STAINED AND FADED 1869

Box: Childrens Books including Childrens Book Collectors Guide, The Iron Wolfe, Party Puddle, The Friendly Robot and many other titles (box)

A SELECTION OF STONELEIGH ABBEY MEMORABILIA to include photographs of the Abbey, a photograph of George VI Coronation with K Bowes Lyon inscription verso, and a guide book of the Abbey signed as book No. 1 by Leigh

Creuzbauer`s German Money Guide BookCirca 1840. Being A Companion to John Murray`s Handbooks for Travellers in Northern and Southern German, published Carlsruhe, at the German and Foreign Library; comprising four engraved plates with accompanying text illustrating then current German coins and giving their English equivalents, bound in boards, with original slipcase, with ownership inscription at front dated 1844. 88 grams, 18.5 cm x 11 cm. (7 1/4 x 4 1/4"). [No Reserve]Good condition, the slipcase stained and rubbed, the pages somewhat browned and lightly foxed. Rare.Starting Price: £5

A signed Music Performed at the National Gallery book by Myra Hess and photograph, a 1950`s West Indies tour guide souvenir programme and a souvenir programme from the New Year production of East Wood Young Peoples Fellowship.

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 55 PIECE GROUP OF WORLD`S FAIR EXPOSITION MEMORABILIA AND BOOKLETS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Comprising 1876 Philadelphia Centennial picture booklet, 1893 Chicago World`s Fair album, 1893 Illustrated Glimpses Through a Camera book, 1904 Sites, Scenes and Wonders views book, 1904 Ferris Wheel postcard, 1904 Railway System guide, Beauties of the World`s Fair 1904 plus 1933 Century of Progress items including hardbound and paperback books, 1939 World`s Fair items and other material, shown partially illustrated.