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Click here to subscribec1913 London Underground "MAP of the Electric Railways of London - What to See & How to See it". Undated but CLR shown to Liverpool St plus planned extensions to Ealing and Gunnersbury. Bakerloo planned extension to Queen's Park shown. Cover has red bullseye circle. Ex-guidebook copy with alternative folding. Very fragile with fold tears and one horizontal fold almost severed. [1]
1911 London Underground Railways 'Aids to Travel' GUIDEBOOK 'Coronation Edition' with fold-out official UNDERGROUND MAP. A 32pp booklet with plans (including the Coronation route, street maps, places of interest, season ticket rates etc). The then fairly new UndergrounD logo features heavily throughout. Somewhat worn with stained covers (small annotation on front) although the map is in good condition. A most unusual item. [1]
Wilson, Rev John M "Nelsons' Hand-book to Scotland for Tourists", ills by maps, plans and views, London, T Nelson & Sons (1860), folding map frontis torn, various other engravings and folding maps, some foxing, front board and spine detached, green cloth, blindstamped with gilt decorations to front board and spine "Maxwells Guidebook to the Stewartry of Kirk Cudbright", 7th edition, Castle-Douglas (1902), red cloth, gilt titles together with "Highways and Byways in Wiltshire and Somerset" (4)
SOUTHERN RAILWAY OF ENGLAND (PUB): HINTS FOR HOLIDAYS IN SOUTHERN SUNSHINE 1938 EDITION, OFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY, London 1938, 952pp, original self-addressed booking card tipped in at front, original pictorial wraps depicting water skier + BRITISH RAILWAYS (PUB): HOLIDAY HAUNTS 1960 NO 5 SOUTHERN ENGLAND (KENT TO CORNWALL) AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, London 1960, original pictorial wraps + GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (PUB): THE OCEAN COAST, THE GREATEST CURATIVE POWER IN THE WORLD IS OCEAN AIR, London 1925, original pictorial wraps + S P B MAYS: THE CORNISH RIVIERA, London, Great Western Railway Co 1934 3rd edition, original wraps worn + BRITISH RAILWAYS (PUB): HOLIDAY GUIDE 1954 AREA NO 1 SCOTLAND, London 1954, original pictorial wraps + "PATHFINDER": RAMBLES IN HERTFORDSHIRE, original pictorial wraps, London and North Eastern Railway [no dates circa 1930s], + MAXWELL FRASER: THE COTSWOLD COUNTRY, London, Great Western Railway Co 1936, original pictorial wraps + two others similar (9)
1909 London Underground POCKET MAP. Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co Ltd, interesting features include numbered places of interest (key on the reverse) and the mention of onward LCC tram services from the C&SLR terminus at Clapham Common. The Waterloo & City line is shown albeit uncoloured. Ex guidebook copy with a few scuffs and a cut-out at the left-hand edge but otherwise very reasonable. [1]
TEENAGE MUTANT HERO / NINJA TURTLES; An original Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles American Release Sewer Army Tube playset vehicle. Complete in a good original box, with instructions and guidebook. Note; from a wonderful collection of original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles boxed toys. Most are 100% complete - usually with the extra joke books etc. All are within very good boxes - some appearing to be as new. Buyers are reminded however to satisfy themselves as to condition and completeness before bidding of each individual lot.
1911 London County Council (LCC) Tramways 'OFFICIAL TRAMWAYS GUIDE', The 'Coronation Issue'. A 186 pp BOOKLET including a fold-out MAP of the tram routes, this being before system maps were generally available in other forms. Lightly used with some cover wear, the map has a little damage at the l/h edge from where it is glued into the guidebook. A scarce issue. [1]
1912 London Underground Railways MAP printed by George Philip & Son Ltd and featuring the vertical UndergrounD logo. This issue marks stations with black-outlined white circles and shows the Met station at Hammersmith (Grove). A single-sided map ex-guidebook with small printer's cutaway at lower left-hand edge. In very good condition. [1]
1913 official UNDERGROUND MAP OF LONDON, "What to see and how to see it". Print-code: 187-150 M-1-6-13.This is the map shown on p59 of Capital Transport's "No need to ask" reference work and shows the planned extensions of the Bakerloo, Central and Hampstead Tubes. The cover features one of the first printed versions of the bullseye logo, forerunner of today's roundel. Ex-guidebook issue with small edge-trim. Light wear but generally good. [1]
COLLECTION OF STAMP ALBUMS including British and international stamps, mostly modern examples, also with a 'Collect British Stamps' guidebook and FRANK GODDEN 'THE ROYAL MAIL STAMP ALBUM' including British and international stamps, some older examples Condition varies across the lot. Viewing advised.
BOLSTER R. C Land & Sea Birds of the South West Cape (Inscribed by author) Increasingly collectable early guidebook on the birds of the region. 239 pp with colour plates and text drawings, fold out diagram at back of book, Good condition with sunned dw,some edgewear on dustjacket, some light foxing in prelims only, inscr by author inside covers. Good Cape Town Speciality Press of SA 1931
Original 1954 London Transport double-royal POSTER 'Wild or Savage' by Betty Swanwick RA (1915-1989) who designed posters for LT from 1939-1954. This colourful poster promoted LT's guidebook 'Visitor's London'. Mounted on linen, the poster is in excellent condition with just a little professional repair to the corners before mounting. [1]
LCC Tramways GUIDEBOOK "Round and About London by Tram - Volume II - South of the Thames." 3rd edition, undated but contains the May 1931 LCC Tramways Map & Timetable and has illustration of the re-opened Kingsway Subway. A 308-page illustrated guide to London attractions reached by tram including a list of routes, fares, details of all-night trams etc. Worn covers but very reasonable condition. Ex-libris stamp on cover. [1]
Metropolitan District Railway MAP from 1880 featuring the original title of the District Railway. Shows the newly completed extension to Putney Bridge & Fulham station, the unbuilt but authorised Inner Circle completion and new connecting omnibus services to Putney and Wandsworth in blue. A scarce issue not shown in the reference works. Single-sided with two short inward tears at the fold and an irregular r/h edge where inserted into a guidebook but very good overall. [1]
1923 District Railway MAP "How to reach Hampton Court by UndergrounD" aka "The District Railway Miniature Map of London and Environs - 9th edition", the 8th having been way back in 1908. These DR maps were curiously re-issued, barely updated, in the 1915-1925 period, in this case to promote travel to Hampton Court, pictures of which are on the reverse. In generally good condition, the cut-out on the left edge was done by the printer for insertion into a guidebook. [1]
c1898 Routledges' "SIXPENNY LONDON GUIDE" including The "District Railway" MINIATURE MAP OF LONDON,a Victorian issue of the Underground map which shows the DR extension from Fulham to Wimbledon as an additional panel at the top left-hand side. The 'Miniature Map of London' series of Underground maps ran from c1881-c1898. The guidebook is in very good condition (covers are protected by clear plastic) and the map is excellent. [1]
[Venezia]. Il libro de nobili. [Venezia, 1695-1722].In 4° (186 x 140 mm). [4], 188 carte numerate. Manoscritto cartaceo con numerosi stemmi disegnati e dipinti da mano ottocentesca. Legatura del secolo XIX in mezza pelle testa di moro, decorazione e titolo in oro al dorso (moderni il dorso e gli angoli).Interessante manoscritto sulle famiglie del patriziato veneto prodotto nel 1694-95 con alcune aggiunte che arrivano fino al 1722, che serviva come “pocket political guidebook” durante le elezioni dogali. Gli stemmi sono stati aggiunti e colorati verso la fine del secolo XIX, probabilmente dall’editore Ongania di Venezia. Cfr. Dorit Raines, Office Seeking, "broglio", and the Pocket Political Guidebook in Cinquecento and Seicento Venice, in "Studi Veneziani", n.s., XXII, (1991), p. 137-194. Starting Price: €800
Simon Philippe Thomassin (French, 1638-1722), collection of six copperplate engravings (no. 173-179) of the sculptures in the gardens of the palace of Versailles, France, sight 6 in. x 4 in., framed alike. Note: Commissioned by Louis XIV, Thomassin`s collection of engravings were published as a guidebook of the Palace gardens in 1694 under the title Recueil des figures, groupes, thèmes, fontaines, vases et autres ornemens tels qu`ils se voyent á present dans le Château et parc de Versailles.
Tine, M.Sh. КАТАЛОГЪ РУССКИХЪ РѢДКИХЪ МОНЕТЪ ЗОЛОТЫХЪ, ПЛАТИНОВЫХЪ, СЕРЕБРЯНЫХЪ И МѢДНЫХЪ, ЧЕКАНЕННЫХЪ СЪ 1699 Г. ПО 1897 ГОДЪ... Rovno, 1910. 24mo, original printed card covers. 43, (1) pages; text illustrations. Quite worn, with taped spine and chipped covers. Good to very good. A general guidebook to Russian coins. Iakovchuk 328, citing a 1911 edition. Tolstoï on Kiev
Greaves, A. (ed.); Gillings, Ken David Rattray`s Guidebook To The Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields - (signed); PLUS Battles Of Kwa-Zulu Natal 8vo/4to The first being an excellent, full colour, illustrated guide, signed by Rattray on the title page, 216pp.; the second being a larger format, glossy, full colour overview of all the battles of Kwa-Zulu Natal (subtitled `A Pictorial Souvenir of the Battles of Kwa-Zulu Natal 1818-1906`), 56pp.Condition: both copies in excellent condition, corners lightly bumped, with light rubbing, and rear bottom edge creasing of first item. excellent Jhb/Dbn Jonathan Ball/ Art Publishers 2003/n.d.(c.2000) Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid
Journal of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District, vols. 1-23 bound in twenty-two, pub. Ulverston, 1907-83, b&w plts. and illusts., vol. 2 is signed at front by ‘John Laycock’ (author of the first guidebook to Derbyshire, Some Gritstone Climbs) vol. 1 orig. printed cloth gilt (spine faded), vols 2 & 3 contemp. half morocco gilt (worn), remainder recent cloth gilt, 8vo, togeth with twelve others related (34)
Mrs Beeton's Household Management, a Complete Cookery Book, Ward Lock & Co., colour frontis, various colour plates, advertisements and illus., quarter leather with grey boards, together with Little, May "A Year's Dinners...Three Hundred and Sixty Five Seasonable Dinners...and 'a Handy Guidebook for Worried Housekeepers", published Harrods Book Department, blue pictorial cloth, a little worn, (2)
Collection of small folding maps relating to London, including:- "Walkers, Middlesex", "Ludgate Hill", "W.H. Smith and Sons Plan of London", "W.H. Smith and Sons Reduced ordnance map of the River Thames", "The Picture of London for 1818", with various folding and other plates, "Map of the Country around London", published by W. Faden, "Blacks Guidebook to London" with folding map frontis, other folding plates and maps etc, green cloth, and a large folding map of London, published by J. Cross, linen backed (8)
BROADER BRITAIN PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTING THE SCENERY, THE CITIES AND THE INDUSTRIES OF THE COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES OF THE CROWN ……, 1895, orig blind stpd cl gt, obl + JOHN L STODDARD: PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS SCENES, CITY AND PAINTINGS ……, [nd], old hf cf gt, slightly worn, obl + GEORGE H BIRCH: THE DESCRIPTIVE ALBUM OF LONDON – A PICTORIAL GUIDEBOOK ……, [nd], orig pict cl gt, obl (3)
GRIBOEDOV -- BULGARIN, F. (ed.). Ruskaia Taliia. Podarok liuboteliam i liubitel'nitsam otechestvennogo teatra. [Russian Taliia. A Present for Lovers of National Theatre.] St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1825. 8° (145 x 110mm). Engraved additional title and 5 engraved portraits. (Some light marginal spotting, light soiling on the engraved title.) Contemporary half calf, red morocco spine label (corners rubbed). Provenance: Mikhail Dmitriev (initials stamped on the spine). An excellent copy of the finest miscellany of Russian theatre in the age of Pushkin, including THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF GRIBOEDOV'S 'GORE OT UMA' ('Woe from Wit'): the only publication of any part of Griboedov's masterpiece during his lifetime. With engraved portraits of A. Shakhovskii, and the actors K. Semenova, V. Karatigin, A. Istomina, and K. Teleshova by Geitman. Mikhail Dmitriev was nephew of the fabulist Ivan Dmitriev. Bokarius, Guidebook for the National Pushkin Museum Library, p. 67; see also the catalogue 'Centenaire de Pouchkine. Exposition Pouchkine et son époque' which illustrates this title (pl. XV); Smirnov-Sokol'skii Al'manakhi 271 ('one of the best Russian miscellanies dedicated to the theatre'). View on Christie's.com
Byerley, L. W. - In Merry Portsmouth Town: A Story of the Days of Lord Anson . Not dated (early 20th c.). Photo frontis of King James Gate. Orig. dec. cloth / gilt. Together with Dolling, R. - Ten Years in a Portsmouth Slum . 1906. And a rebound 19th c. Portsmouth guidebook with 6 engraved plates by Charpentier of High Street, Portsmouth (c.1855). (3)
FEUR Baedeker (Karl) The Riveria and South Eastern guidebook c.160 x 110 x 20mm. slight browning and damp staining some edges slightly frayed Leipzig 1931; with 7 Ward Lock & Co. Illustrated Guide Books of Minehead Towyn Newquay Penzance the Isle of Wight Cromer and Tenby late 19th- early 20th century; with a French guidebook of Paris edited by Leconte late 19th- early 20th century (9).
Architecture.- Taia (Agostino) Descrizione del Pal first and only edition half-title small ownership inscription excised from title engraved bookplate of the Gladstone family of Fasque Kincardineshire contemporary vellum 8vo Rome Niccolæ 8215; e Marco Pagliarini 1750. *** A detailed guidebook to the Vatican Palace.
Collection of official World Cup football programmes 1978 onwards: to include 1978 (UK edition),` 82 (French edition),` 86 (UK edition),` 90 (Italian edition),` 94 (US edition),` 98 (French edition), 2002 (Japanese/English edition) plus 2002 Official Guidebook (UK edition) - including to duplicates (10)
Ciani, L., Les Monnaies Royales Franaises de Hugues Capet ˆ Louis XVI, Paris, 1926, 502pp, engraved illustrations in text; Schembri, H.C., Coins and Medals of the Knights of Malta, London, 1966, xii + 262pp, 80 plates; Boudeau, E., Catalogue GŽnŽral IllustrŽÉde Monnaies Franaises (Provinciales), Maastricht, 1970, 313pp, engraved illustrations in text; Smith, R.B., The Anglo-Hanoverian Coinage, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1970, 98pp including 11 plates; Cresswell, O.D., Chinese Cash, London, 1971, engraved plates; Remick, J.H., and others, The Guidebook and Catalogue of British Commonwealth Coins 1649-1971, 3rd edn, Winnipeg, 1971, 568pp, illustrations in text; Metcalf, D.M., Coinage in South-Eastern Europe 820-1396, London, 1979, xxii + 371pp, 8 plates, dj; together with other references on World coins (22), by Valentine, Carson, Higgins, Harris, Grierson, Plant, etc [29]. Publishers Description Footnote
Michael Jackson Autograph, Obtained from Michael Jackson, by the Vendor at the Epcot Centre, Florida on February 4, 1992, the Autograph Reads `Love Michael Jackson` with `Victoria & Mark` (the Vendors grandchildren) below and is on the Reverse of the Epcot Centre Guidebook. Included are 2 Photographs of Michael Jackson, one of him seated with a young boy, taken by the Vendor at the same time and place. As Provenance the Flight Ticket, Holiday Inn Bill, Disney Park Entrance Ticket and Magic Kingdom Guidebook pertaining to the Vendor`s Holiday are also included.
Travel, various. CUTTING (S) The Fire Ox, 1947; COLLIS (Maurice) The Land of the Great Image, first edition 1943; Foreign Mud, 1946; The Grand Peregrination, 1949; Quest for Sita, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 1946, ltd ed (500); MOOREHEAD (Alan) The Blue Nile, 1962; BLUNT (W) The Golden Road to Samarkand, 1973; a small Bamiyan guidebook, 2nd edition Kabul 1967; few others on the ancient world (17)
The Companion of Honour group of three awarded to Harold Arthur, Viscount Dillon, first Curator of the Tower of London Armouries, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and of the Society of Antiquaries, Trustee of the British Museum and of the Wallace Collection, a leading authority on the history of arms and armour and medieval costume the Order of the Companions of Honour, G.V.R., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon 1921’, with length of neck ribbon; Jubilee 1897 (Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon PSA, PRIA); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £2500-3000 Ex Hayward’s Gazette, December 1975. harold Arthur Lee Dillon was born on 24 January 1844, and was educated at a private school at Eltham, Kent, and at Bonn University. He joined the Rifle Brigade in 1862, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1866, and served in India and Canada during the Fenian troubles of 1868-71. He left the regular army in 1874, but was promoted to Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and eventually retired with the rank of Major in 1891. In the following year he succeeded his father as the 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen. on leaving the army Dillon became interested in modern military subjects such as equipment and dress, which eventually led him to the history of arms and armour and medieval costume. Dillon traced hundreds of illuminated manuscripts and illustrated works and made a series of brass rubbings. When he would enter a gallery he would focus only on those paintings with military themes, concentrating on sword hilts, armour and horse trappings, and skillfully copied them. his first works were published shortly after he left the army. These articles related to his home, Ditchley in Oxfordshire and described flint tools excavated from the area and objects from the collections in the house. He published many articles on the subjects of arms and armour and military history which appeared in academic journals such as the Archaeological Journal and Archaeologia as well as journals of popular and military general interest such as Antiquary and Colburne's United Service Magazine. He would also write on the subjects of arms and armour in pictures, on monuments and in Shakespeare, on tournaments, military equipment, soldier's arms, equipment and life. His first major undertaking was a revised edition of F. W. Fairholt's two volume Costume in England, published in 1885. Three years later he published a paper on the sections of the great 1547 Inventory of the possessions of Henry VIII. In his writings Dillon focused on the defensive and offensive characters of armour rather than as a work of art. many of his articles appeared under his own name, but he would sometimes use the pseudonym 'Armadillo.' The animal was so closely linked with Lord Dillon that the designer of a commemorative medal produced for the National Portrait Gallery used an image of an armadillo for the reverse of a medal bearing the portrait of Lord Dillon. although Dillon was associated with the Tower of London Armouries from 1892, serving as the consultant scientific expert, he was not officially appointed curator of the Armoury until 1895. He was tasked with producing an accurate and up to date catalogue of the collection. As curator he was able to reduce historic inaccuracies that had built up over the previous years. In 1827 Samuel Meyrick had brought expert knowledge to the collection, but it had then fallen into the hands of the War Office storekeepers and unfortunately most his work was lost. Labels were misplaced, and suits wrongly mounted and erroneous traditions had been established for public amusement. his research led him through the State Papers, especially those of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, in which he discovered interesting and valuable details about the making and issue of arms and armour. Dillon dismantled nearly every piece of armour in the collection to see how it was worn and the reason for certain constructional details. Most of the pieces were those of Henry VIII. Dillon even tried them on himself to see how the rivets and the joints of the harness worked and discovered that many of the suits had been wrongly assembled This exercise enabled him to rectify countless inaccuracies. He also examined the internal mechanisms of the crossbow, pistol and gunlocks. in 1910 Dillon's Illustrated Guide to the Armouries was published, being a summary catalogue of the arms and armour as he had arranged and exhibited them, and the various manuscript inventories of the collection. Dillon carried out a complete reorganisation of the collection in preparation for the new catalogue, and made a detailed examination of all the major pieces as well as identifying a number of those with important historical associations, and corrected inaccuracies. The catalogue was more in the format of a guided tour rather than a systematic catalogue. dillon considered his task to be one of preserving and studying a closed collection rather than expanding it and spreading knowledge of it outside the Tower. His two significant acquisitions for the collection were a pistol of Prince Charles, purchased in 1898 and a part visor of King Henry VII found in St James' Palace in 1906. One of his most valuable contributions was the Armourer's Album which appeared for sale in Paris and by Dillon's efforts was purchased and preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The album contained a number of watercolour drawings of suits of armour of the Elizabethan period that were made at Greenwich, many of which were in the Tower, together with the names of the owners, which proved invaluable for establishing provenance and for identifying pieces in the Tower, Windsor and other private collections. lord Dillon contemplated retiring in 1909, but finally retired from his post of Curator in 1912, and handed the Armouries over to Charles Foulkes. Dillon left the Armouries on its way to becoming a modern museum. A catalogue had been completed, a programme of inspections of loans had been established, and regular inventory checks were carried out. Armour and weapons were displayed according to the techniques of the day, with labels and a guidebook describing the displays. he received an honourary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and the Order of Companion of Honour by the King in 1921. Dillon served as a trustee to the British Museum, secretary to the Royal Commission on Westminster Abbey, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute of the Wallace Collection, Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, Honourary Member of the Armourers and Brasier's Company of London, Fellow of the British Academy and Antiquary of the Royal Academy. Harold Arthur Lee Dillon died on 18 December 1932. The group is sold with a ‘Souvenir Album of the Tower of London, with Historical and Descriptive Notes by The Viscount Dillon P.S.A.’ £2500-£3000
Zeiler, Martin Itinerarium Galliae. Strasbourg: Inverlegung Lazari Zetzners S. Erben, 1634. First edition, 8vo., Black letter, text in German, portrait of the author and cityscape on engraved first title, printeres woodcut device on second title, topographical headpieces and ornaments, contemporary vellum over boards, edges rubbed, late 17th century presentation inscription and early shelfmark on upper pastedown, library stamp on title-page, very slight fraying on first two leaves in blank margins, some browning and foxing, light waterstaining in lower outer blank corners, very small tear in M1, edges somewhat soiled Note: BM STC 17th century German Books Z81. Not in Brunet or Graesse. This German guidebook to France forms the first part of a combined work on both France and Britain; the present copy contains a second title-page headed ÔItinerarii Galliae, et Magnae Britanniae, pars prima.e The second part, devoted to Britain, was again published separately in 1674.
Mann (J.H.). A History of Gibraltar and its Sieges, 1870, sixteen mounted albumen prints, a little faded, single-page map, recent navy-blue half morocco, gilt dec. spine with raised bands, 4to, together with A Popular History of Gibraltar, Its Institutions and its Neighbourhood on both sides of the Straits, and a Guidebook to their Principal Places and Objects of Interest... Compiled by Major Gilbard, Garrison Librarian, 2 copies, pub. Gibraltar, January 1881 & January 1884, folding map, double-page col. plt. of flags, commercial ads. at rear, orig. morocco, worn and broken on spine/contemp. cloth, small 4to, plus Report of a Special Committee on the Gibraltar Shields, together with the Minutes of Evidence, etc., printed at the War Office, 1868, num. folding col. litho. plans of the proposed shields for coast defences, modern half calf gilt folio, and others related (23)
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