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HARDBACK BOOK: "Les Locomotives a Vapeur de la SNCF" by J. Fournereau. 200+pp guide to French locomotive types, pub. by Montchauvet in 1947. (1) £25

LANCASHIRE DERBYSHIRE & EAST COAST RAILWAY map of system showing connections with neighbouring railways. Faded and fragile, but a rarity nevertheless. Possibly ex guide book. (1) £10

LSWR publication: "The Pleasure Grounds of the South West." Illustrated paperback covers, 48pp guide book. Undated. Rusty staples. (1) £20

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY guide book: "The NBR to Scotland's Beauties." Coloured pictorial paperback covers. 48pp fully illustrated guide. Undated. (1) £30

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY publication: "New Holidays on Essex." Hardback 72pp guide book with illustrated covers, undated. A little foxing to cover. (1) £20

ISLE OF MAN RAILWAY guide book: "How to Reach the Historic and Most Beautiful Parts of Manxland." Illustrated paperback covers (dusty), 52pp, dated 1913. (1) £15

INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY CONGRESS 1925 souvenir guide book to London. 164pp plus adverts and fold-out map (torn). Text in French. (1) £5

GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAYS (Ireland) guide book: "Ireland - Gem of The Sea." 88pp coloured pictorial paperback covers (creased), dated 1935. Plus GNR(I) booklet "Holidays in Ireland." Red and green paperback covers, 98pp listing tourist and excursion arrangements, dated 1935. (2) £15

GWR published guide book: "North Pembrokeshire - A Book for Hikers" by E. Roland Williams. Coloured pictorial paperback covers. 136pp plus fold-out map. Pub. 1936. Sellotape repairs to inside of cover. (1) £15

GWR published guide book: "Southern Ireland" by Maxwell Fraser. 72pp plus fold-out map, coloured pictorial paperback covers (slight edge creases), pub. 1932. (1) £15

LNER published guide book: "London - The World's Largest City." Coloured pictorial paperback covers by Fred Taylor. 36pp, undated. Slight damp staining in top left hand corner. (1) £15

LNER guide book: "The Isle of Skye via Mallaig." Grey card covers with title in red. 39pp plus fold-out map, undated. (1) £15

LNER "Holiday Guide to Scotland." Plain covers (stained), 72pp, undated. Plus OUP published hardback book "British Railway Rolling Stock" (poor). (2) £5

LMSR guide book "Scottish Holiday Resorts." Card covers with photo illustration showing scenic view, 416pp plus fold-out map, dated 1929. (1) £10

BR AND RIBBLE MOTOR SERVICES guide book "English Lakeland Travel Guide." Pictorial, coloured covers, 96pp plus fold-out map. Circa 1960s. (1) £5

The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told (1990) D.C. Deluxe hardback book reprinting Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and more. 288 pgs. Book and dust jacket [nm]. With The Adventure House Guide To The Pulps (2000) large softback. 334 pgs [nm]; and 1985 softback reprints of National Comics 1, Jungle Comics 1 and Sheena 1 by Blackthorne Publishers. All [nm] with Marvel Comics 1 deluxe hardback reprint (1990) Marvel. 80 pgs. Book and dust jacket [nm] (6) No Reserve

Bradshaw's Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Transit, and General Guide, for Travellers through Europe, December 1879, fldg. map contained in pocket at rear, single fldg. map of Switzerland bound in, ads. at front and read, orig. maroon cloth gilt, rubbed and some soiling, puncture-mark to centre of rear cover, small thick 8vo, together with Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to Spain and Portugal, by Dr. Charnock, new ed., nd, c.1893, adds at front and rear, sev. fldg. plans etc., fldg. map contained in pocket at rear, orig. red cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, frays to joints and edges etc., 8vo, plus three other Bradshaw's Continental Guides for 1929, July to October 1936 & May-June 1939, various holiday guides, including Cook's Summer Holidays Abroad, for 1927-1930, 1933 & 1937, Dean & Dawson's Holidays on the Continent, 1930 & 1931, Southern Railway Continental Handbooks for 1923, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1933-36 & 1938, etc., mostly bound in orig. pict. printed wrappers, a little rubbed and some marks (generally in good condition), 8vo. (approx. 35)

Coghlan (Francis). The Iron Road Book and Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, Containing an Account of the Towns, Villages, Mansions, &c. on Each Side of the Line; Times of Arrival and Departure of the Trains at the Several Stations..., 1st ed., pub. A.H. Baily & Co., 1838, twelve eng. maps, folding table, orig. gilt dec. cloth, slightly frayed at head & foot of spine, 12mo in 6s, (Ottley 6451), together with Freeling (Arthur), The London and Birmingham Railway Companion, Containing a Complete Description of Every Thing Worthy of Attention on the Line..., pub. Whittaker and Company, n.d., c.1838, folding eng. map, errata leaf present, ads. at rear (one dated June 1838), orig. gilt dec. cloth, 12mo in 6s, (Ottley 6446), with Wyld (J.W.), The London and Birmingham Railway Guide, and Birmingham and London Railway Companion: Containing a Minute Description of the Railroad, and Every Object Worthy of Notice..., pub. James Wyld, 1838,folding eng. map frontis. (detached & adhesive tape residue to inner margin), folding eng. map, orig. gilt dec. cloth, recent reback, small 8vo, (Ottley 6463), plus Allen (E., publisher), The Midland Counties' Railway Companion, with Topographical Descriptions of the Country Through which the Line Passes..., 1840, eng. frontis. & addn. eng. title, five eng. plts. and numerous wood engs., one folding eng. map, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems., 8vo, (Ottley 6936). (4)

Page, John Lloyd Warden, An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset with notes on its archaeology, London, Seeley and Co, 1890, 8vo (200 x 130mm.), half title, frontispiece, folding map, and plates, map loose, original green cloth gilt, booksellers label of Sellick of Plymouth With ten other works including John Chudleigh's 'Devonshire Antiquities' (Exeter, 1893), Mrs Bray 'A Peep at the Pixies; or, Legends of the West' (London, 1854), H. S. Hawker's 'Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall' (London, 1870), and 'The Route Book of Devon: A Guide for the Stranger & Tourist' (Exeter, n.d.)

Campbell, Reau, Campbell's Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago, Poole Bros. Press, 1895, square 12mo (187 x 140mm.), illustrations, original decorative cloth gilt With two other works, Robert P. Porter's (signed by the author) 'Industrial Cuba' (New York, 1899), and Frederick Palmer's 'Central America'and its Problems' (New York, 1910)

Gouffâ (Jules). The Royal Cookery Book (le Livre de Cuisine), new ed., 1869, wood engraved illusts., advert leaf to rear, owners name to half title, inner hinges stengthened, contemp. qtr. calf, rubbed, together with Francatelli (Charles Elmâ), The Modern Cook; a Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in all its Branches, 1886, eng. port frontis., new endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, sl. marked, plus other 19th/20th century cookery books, some French language, 8vo (13)

Lit: Assorted silver reference books: Waldron, P: The Price Guide to Antique Silver, Wills, G: The Guiness Book of Silver, Delieb, E: Investing in Silver, Link, E.M: The book of silver, Oman, CC: English Domestic Silver (1934 Edition), together with two small titles by Judith Bannister, three by Gerald Taylor and three other volumes. (13)

Struwwelpeter Annual, Leather Bound Poems By Alfred Tennyson (10th. Edition), Illustrated Guide Broads And Rivers Norfolk And Suffolk And Small Autograph Book

COKIN FLITER OUTFIT, together with a Cokin guide book 20-30

'Underglaze Colour, Picture Prints on Staffordshire Pottery' by H.G. Clarke published 1949 and another published 1960, 'Colour Printed Pictures of the Nineteenth Century on Staffordshire Pottery' published 1924, 'The Pot Lid Book 1931' 'The Price Guide to Black and White Pot Lids' by Ronald Dale, a pamphlet by R.E. Porter auction catalogues to Cohen, Mason, Kenkins, Cashmore, Manners and Smith and seven issues of Beckfords (a lot)

Goldney (Frederick Hastings). A History of Freemasonry in Wiltshire..., for Presentation Only, 1880, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed & marked, sq. 8vo, together with Slow (Edward), Wiltshire Rhymes with Glossary of Over 1000 Words, used by the Peasantry in the Neighbourhood of Salisbury, pb. Salisbury, c.1890, occ. spotting, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, with Goodrich (P.J.), Trowbridge and its Times, 1932,orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, and with Besley (Henry, pub.), The Route Book of Devon: a Guide for the Stranger & Tourist, New edition, Exeter, [1850], four folding eng. maps, one map a little frayed to margins, orig. cloth gilt, 12mo, and with four Murrays handbooks relating to Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, plus one other wiltshire related volume (9).

Bookplates. A collection of approx 100 bookplates, mostly 19th and early 20th c., includes the Howard family crest and plates for Kew Gardens and the Earl of Harrington, loosely mounted under plastic overlays, in mock leather album, 4to, together with Warren (John Byrne Leicester). A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris), Manchester, 1900, b&w frontis., num b&w illusts., untrimmed, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus one other related pamphlet, 8vo (3).

Bindings etc., mostly 19th-c., incl. Poems and Ballads by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1st-3rd Series, new ed., 1894-1917, Works by W. Somerset Maughan, 12 vols., c.1903-1933, plus Journals and Journalism: with A Guide for Literary Beginners, by John Oldcastle, 1880, pub. Leadenhall Press, c.1882, etc., an 1830 manuscript cookery recipe book (with only 10pp. filled in), etc. (3 shelves).

Three stamp albums, mostly used stamps of the world [together with an East Yorkshire Guide book].

Acton (Eliza). Modern Cookery, In All its Branches, 1849, b&w frontis., num. b&w illusts. to text, sl. spotted, tape repair to front hinge, rebacked with orig. spine laid down, 8vo, together with Beeton (Isabella). Book of Household Management, A Guide to Cookery in All Branches, 1915, pub. adv. to endpapers and at rear, num. col. and b&w illusts., contemp. boards, rebacked, thick 8vo (2)

Smith, George, The Cabinet-Makers and Upholsterer's Guide: Being A Complete Drawing Book..., London, Jones & Co, 1826, small folio (260 x 200mm.), hand-coloured frontispiece, additional illustrated title, ca. 145 plates, of which 33 are hand-coloured, spotting and browning, contemporary ownership inscription of John Gray on verso of frontispiece and on verso of last leaf, later half calf, lettering piece see illustration)

PLATED WARES Bradbury, F: History of Old Sheffield Plate, 1983, reprint with dust wrapper, Country Life Pocket guide: Victorian Electroplate, by Shirley Bury, D W, Wyllie, B: Sheffield Plate, Wardle, P: Victorian Silver & Silver Plate, 1963 with dust wrapper, Old Sheffield Platers and Their Marks - The Sheffield Assay Office Register and a Pocket book of Marks. (6)

NEWBERY, JOHN, publisher. A Pretty Book for Children: Or, An Easy Guide to the English Tongue. Vol. 1 only. Sixth Edition, 1753. 24mo., orig. floral boards (spine defective). Numerous woodcuts. Containing early printing of Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella. Apparently rare.

FRANCATELLI'S Cook's Guide. 1861. The Savoy Cocktail Book 1933. Hints for the Table 1860 and 3 others. (6)

The Illustrated Hand-Book to Castle Howard, The Yorkshire Seat of The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, Malton, Henry Smithson, 1857, 8vo (155 x 100mm.), frontispiece plate of Castle Howard, 4 plates, advertisement's on verso of last leaf, original blue cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. With part one (only) of Henry Ibbotson's 'The Visitor's Guide to Castle Howard' (Ganthorpe, 1851)

Kew Gardens the Pleasure Grounds and Park A Hand-Book Guide for Visitors, London, H. G. Clarke and Co, [n.d.], 8vo (180 x 125mm.), title vignette, illustrations, double-page plan, advertisements, original paper wrappers. With 'The Pictorial Guide to Eltham Palace by way of Charlton and Shooter's Hill' (London, n.d.)

Guide Book to Visitors of Knebworth The Seat of The Right Hon Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, [n.p., n.d.], small 4to (183 x 120mm.), original paper wrappers. With three other works, 'The Ludlow Guide, containing An Historical Account of The Castle and Town: With a Survey of The Various Seats, Views' (Ludlow, 1808), 'A Guide to Naworth and Lanercost: or, Historical & Descriptive Accounts of Naworth Castle & Lanercost Priory; and A Life of the Lord William Howard' (Carlisle, 1839), and 'A Few Words to the Mothers and Children of Winchcombe' (Lewes, 1868)

Churchill, Winston L. S., A History of the English-Speaking Peoples - Chartwell edition, London, The Educational Book Company, 1956, 8vo (240 x 165mm.), four volumes, half titles, title within red lined border, illustrations, contemporary blue cloth, red morocco lettering label. With a number of other works including 'Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings' (London, 1966), and Ian Mackenzie's 'British Prints Dictionary and Price Guide' (London, 1987)

W. Moss - "The Liverpool Guide, including a sketch of the Environs with a map of the Town", 3rd edition, printed by J. McCreery, Liverpool 1799 (one volume), "The Diary of Samuel Pepys", published by G. Bell & Sons, London 1924 (eight volumes, bound as three, with red leather bindings), "The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900", Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1903 (with green leather binding), and a leather and brass mounted photograph album

Racing and Equestrian. A library of equestrian books including the General Stud Book and supplements, the Racing Calendar, Ruff's Guide to the Turf, The Bloodstock Breeder's Review, The Hunters' Improvement Society Stud Book, the National Light Horse Society Stud Book, the National Pony Stud Book, Raceform & other miscellaneous titles, varying condition (a quantity)

Newlands J, The Carpenter & Joiner's Assistant, 1867. With Riddell The Carpenter & Joiner (nd); The Practical Carver & Gilder's Guide (4th edn); Crosby's Builder's New Price-book for 1804; and 8 others (waf) (12)

Ward Lock & Co. - Town Guides, 'Whitby', 'Weymouth', 'Minehead', 'Taymouth', 'Falmouth', 'Tenby', 'Cromar', 'Sherringham', 'Nottingham', 'Lowestoft', 'Penzance', 'Colwyn Bay', 'Ilfracombe', 'Weston-Super-Mare', 'Eastbourne', 'Worthing', 'Margate', 'Malvern', 'Paignton' and 'The Isle of Wight', London, Blacks Guide Book to the English Lakes and English Towns and Villages, by H.R. Wilton Hall, various editions (23 volumes total)

Hay Fleming's Penny Guide to St. Andrews, illus., ND; also Guide Book for St. Andrews by James Howie (2).

STEWART (J.) - Sketches of Scottish Character, cloth, 1857; and a Guide Book of Perth (2).

GENEALOGY & HERALDRY: METCALFE, W.C. A Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath and Knights Bachelor, frontispiece, 1885; SHARPE, J. Sharpe's Genealogical Peerage of the British Empire, 2 vol., contemporary half calf, 12mo, [circa 1850]; MARSHALL, G.W. The Genealogist's Guide, 8vo, 1903; Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights, spine faded & rubbed at head, 8vo, 1873; GATFIELD, G. Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts relating to English & Foreign Heraldry and Genealogy, one of 300 copies, 8vo, 1892; WRIGHT, A. Court-Hand Restored, 30 plates, joints worn, 4to, 1879; BURKE, B. The Rise of Great Families, 8vo, 1873; LODGE, E. Life of Sir Julius Caesar, Knt., 20 engraved plates, rather spotted, early cloth-backed boards, worn, 4to, 1827; FOSTER, J. The Baronetage & Knightage of the British Empire, 1882, most original cloth; and 2 others (12)

Anderson (C.W.) To the Pindari Glacier: A Sketch Book and Guide, illustrations, slight worming, later cloth-backed boards, Calcutta & Simla, 1921 ~ Kaulback (Ronald) Tibetan Trek, plates, light foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1934; and 6 others, Himalayas, 8vo (8).

Coolidge (W.A.B.) Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide-Books, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, (Neate C129; Perret 1098), 8vo, 1889; The Alps in Nature and History, engraved frontispiece, plates and folding maps, (Neate "his most readable book" C127; Perret 1105), 1908, first editions, half-titles, occasional foxing, original cloth, 8vo

A brown leather fishing case, containing a quantity of fishing flies, together with the book 'Fly Dresser's Guide' by John Veniard

Measom (George) The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway, bound with: The Illustrated Hand-Book to London, numerous wood-engraved illustrations including a panorama of the Thames, 1800 x 150mm., folded concertina-style, a street map of London, 173 x 280mm., and a map of London and Twenty Miles Round, 242 x 360mm., with one short tear into image, panorama with a few slight spots and one fold with small loss, surface dust, contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, Richard Griffin and Co., c.1855.

Blake (A.V., publisher) Poster announcing publication of The Mechanic's Own Book and Artist's Guide, 600 x 510mm., letterpress printed on yellow paper within a bold key-pattern border, 16 small wood-engraved illustrations, old folds and light offsetting otherwise in very good condition, S.Adams, printer, New York, Blake and Boston, Ives and Dennett, c.1860.

[Berthoud van Berchem (Jacob Pierre)] Itineraire de la Vallee de Chamonix, d'une Partie du Bas-Vallais et des Montagnes Avoisinantes, first edition, half-title, folding engraved map and folding plate, some light marginal water-staining, uncut in original drab wrappers, spine ends chipped, an excellent copy, [Meckly 20; Perret 433], 12mo, Lausanne, 1790; *** The first detailed guide book of the Mont Blanc region according to Coolidge, p.27.

[Feltham (John)] A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places, folding engraved frontispiece, 57 plates and maps, including 6 folding, contemporary calf, lacking lower cover and upper cover detached, n.d. § Leigh (Samuel) New Picture of England Wales, 30 engraved plates, original sheep, upper cover detached, spine badly worn and defective, 1820; New Picture of London, folding engraved frontispiece, 38 plates, 1 large folding map, torn with majority detached, original sheep, upper cover and spine detached, 1822 § Williams (Samuel, illustrator) The Book of United Kingdom, engraved frontispiece map hand-coloured in outline, plates and illustrations, contemporary decorative sheep, worn at spine, g.e., n.d. (4).

Lakeland (R.) The Teesdale Angler, viii, 96pp., half-title, bookplates of J. Cresswell and Alice Edleston and one armorial bookplate, newspaper article relating to angling in the Tees area loosely inserted, original cloth, paper label mounted on upper cover, head and foot of spine very slightly rubbed, [Westwood & Satchell p.129], 12mo, Barnard Castle, at the office of R. Barker, 1858. *** A scarce little book, which "though bearing a local title, is intended as a help and guide to Trout fishers generally, especially those of Yorkshire, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland."

March (J.) The Jolly Angler; or Water-side Companion, first edition, [viii], 96pp., engraved frontispiece and pictorial title, illustrations, browning to frontispiece and title, a little light browning throughout, a few small holes to frontispiece, later half calf, rubbed with a little worming to calf, [Westwood & Satchell pp.143-44], 12mo, by J. March, Engraver On Wood, G. Berger and B. Steill, n.d. [1833]. *** Scarce in this first of seven editions; popular and jocular guide to angling, for which March also made the engravings, and printed and published the book. It is difficult to determine the priority of issue of this copy, however, as 'G. Berger' is not listed as publisher in the copies in both Westwood and Satchell and Heckscher.

Matson (Walter J.) Salmon & Trout Fishing in Ireland, the Angler's Pocket-Book and Guide, viii, 199pp., folding map showing the fishery districts, 6 colour plates of flies, 4ff. advertisements at beginning, bookplate of The Museum of American Fly Fishing, Vermont, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Dublin, Browne & Nolan, Limited, 1910. *** Chapters include details of fishing resorts, suitable flies and baits for each area, and general information about railway lines, stations, hotels, etc.

Salter (T.F.) The Angler's Guide ... , to Which is Added a Treatise on Trolling, extra-illustrated large-paper copy, xii, 382pp., sixth edition, engraved title vignette, portrait frontispiece, numerous plates including 3 hand-coloured, illustrations in the text, folding map, modern half calf, gilt, t.e.g., [Westwood & Satchell p.187], 8vo, for Sherwood & Co., 1825. *** Extremely scarce in first edition. It's not uncommon to see 3 Heckscher bookplates in 1 book, showing the evolution of artwork to that of the one on the right.

Gordon-Brown (A.) Year Book & Guide to East Africa, maps, illustrations, original cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, rubbed, spine darkened, 1955 ~ Neville ( Sir Sydney O.) Seventy Rolling Years, presentation copy signed by the author, ownership inscription on front endpaper, original buckram, dust-jacket, tanned, spine ends chipped, 1958; and a quantity of others, Miscellaneous, v.s. (qty).

Gradus ad Cantabrigiam; or New University Guide to the Academical Customs..., 4 hand-coloured plates only (of 6), lower corner of A to B2 torn, repaired, contemporary half calf, extremities rubbed, g.e., for John Hearne, 1924 ~ M'Diarmid (John) The Scrap Book; a Collection of Amusing and Triking Pieces, in Prose and Verse, third edition, contemporary morocco, gilt spine, Edinburgh, 1823 ~ Taylor (Jane) The Contributions of Q.Q. to a Periodical Work, 2 vol. 1829 ~ Niebuhr (B.G.) Lectures on Roman History, 3 vol., college binding, 1855, contemporary calf, gilt spines; and a quantity of others, Literature, Fine Bindings, 8vo (qty).

More Fragments from France, Vol II Bruce Bairnsfather, good; a humorous book "OLur Hospital Anzac British Canadian" third edition with lithographic pictures by Joyce Dennys (covers worn at edges otherwise good); a 1951 Festival of Britain Guide; Players adhesive album of cigarette cards and City of Sheffield Coronation Festivities programme 1911.

The Pictorial Pottery Lid Book by HG Clarke, 1960, Colour Printed Pictures on Staffordshire Pottery by HG Clarke, 1924, The Price Guide to Pot-Lids by A Ball, 1970, Collecting Pot Lids and Collecting Pottery both by A Ball, various Pot Lid Circle newsletters, 1988-present, and various auction catalogues (a lot)