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Lot 7
Antique Maps good group of continental maps 18th c including a map of the Grand Expedition (military campaign by Sir Ralph Abercrombie to Holland) by Luffman a map of the Phillipines by Bonne a map of the Gold Coast Siberia by Lotter Liege and Limbourg by de Vaugondy together with a mid 20th c map of Burma together with a group of 19th c railway maps. Note: sold as a collection not subject to return
Lot 66
Diary – South America a fine travel diary compiled by C H Leach an Englishman from Hatch End Middlesex sent by his employers an insurance company to conduct business on their behalf in South America. The diary covers his tour through Brazil Uruguay Argentina and Chile together with an album of more than 100 photographs taken by him during the journey all of which are captioned and include railway farming and topographical interest as well as pictures of his friends. The diary includes his record of many rail journeys including the Trans Andean crossing from Montevideo to Los Andes. He also records meeting the Chilean President and many other notable people. Together with a large map of South America notated by Leach showing his route and dates of travel
Lot 82
WWI – Trench Map – France – The Battle of the Somme Sheet 57C showing the north eastern area of the Battle of the Somme including the villages of Martinpuich Warlancourt Montauban etc and also featuring Delville Wood Trones Wood and the Butte de Wallancourt. Trenchlines corrected to September 1916 (when the first tank battle took place). Trench lines and other features of war marked in red and with additional features including prospective trench lines marked in both pencil and blue crayon. Overall approx 35x26ins. Together with two general maps of the area. An important historical document of the most infamous battle in British military history
Lot 83
WWI – Trench Map – Belgium and Part of France (area of Armentieres) Sheet 36 trench lines corrected to September 24th 1917. Trench lines and other features of war marked in red. With additional ms insertions in black crayon indicating the position of the Hampshires and the 25th Division. Laid to linen in good condition overall approx 35x26ins together with a duplicate of the map.
Lot 85
WWI – Trench Map – Berthen & Meteren trench lines corrected to May 26th 1918 trench lines marked in blue and given various names also showing reserve lines support lines etc and with further additions in blue crayon and red ink one small area where original join in the map has come apart (easily repaired in our view) laid to linen in good condition overall approx 35x26ins
Lot 104
WWI German intelligence manual on British Indian Army Published in German in Nov 1915 in Lille France by the AOK 6 (Armeeoberkommando = Hqs. 6thArmy) and signed off by the command’s intelligence officer Lubecke. Softcover wrapper 8 by 5.5 ins 37 pp glossy stock with 8 b&w photo plates (printed on one side only) and a folded map at the back. Condition: Some foxing to wrapper and scattered light pencil underlining in text. Binding is tight; there are no loose or unsightly pages; overall very good condition considering age and use as a field manual in a war zone. This manual which good authority holds to be very scarce contains background information photographs foreign language specimens a condensed dictionary and similar material intended to assist in the interrogation of Indian Army POWs captured by the Germans on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Key subjects mentioned in the test include: The 3rd (Lahore) and the 7th (Meerut) Divisions; the Indian Cavalry Division the Ferlsipur Brigade and its component regiments the Djallandar Brigade and its Sikh regiment; the 1st Manchester Regiment (multi-national) among many other units contributing forces to the Allied front. The manual describes the native soldiers of whom an estimated 160 000 fought in France and Belgium objectively and with knowledgeable respect for their training and fighting ability. It encourages German soldiers to treat their captives well “as they can be of good use to us in the present and the future” (p23). There is a reference to the POW camp at Zossen – Wünsdorf near Berlin where thousands of British Indian troops were imprisoned.
Lot 161
WWII – Heinrich Himmler – ephemera world map produced on two sides of a large sheet of brown paper approx 20x16 ins. This is dated 1943 and has a particular inset showing the British Isles with various strategic places highlighted particularly along the South Coast. Together with a printed facsimile of one of Hitler’s WWI watercolours
Lot 331
India – Punjab - history of the Sikhs Rare 1849 ‘suppressed’ First edition in original blind stamped clot binding. The first complete non-bias history of the Sikhs written by Capt J D Cunningham of the British Indian Army. The account was seen as the most honest account of the history of the Sikhs with Cunningham even stating that Sikh Generals were in the pay of the British in the First Sikh War. For this reason this 1849 first edition was suppressed by Dalhousie and is most rare. Cunningham was ordered to revise the book and was demoted causing his death soon after. The book is widely seen as the epitome Sikh study and this edition is extremely scarce especially in original blind stamped cloth binding. Professional repair to the upper spine otherwise very fine complete with map hand coloured in outline.
Lot 337
India – Rigobert Bonne Map – Sikh 1780 Punjab. A rare early (1780) engraved map of India by cartographer Rigobert Bonne. Hand coloured this map is the first known map to recognize Sikh Misl territory in the Punjab/Lahore region. The word Schiecks on the map refers to the Sikhs. For an identical map please refer to the Arts of the Sikh kingdoms (Canadian Collection). The Misl refers to the twelve sovereign states in the Sikh Confederacy during the late 18th Century Rigobert Bonne (French 1727-1795) was one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century. The work of Bonne is highly regarded for its detail historical importance and overall aesthetic appeal.
Lot 372
India – large Delhi & Punjab states map. A 1928 Punjab map outlining the Punjab States published by Survey of India Office Calcutta at scale of I in:32 inches. The coloured map in outline shows various Punjab princely states including Kapurthala Patiala Chamba Bahwalpur etc. Folding map backed with lined. Opens to 20 inches x 24 inches closes in card covers with title in manuscript.
Lot 387
India – Map Road Map of India 1933 – 1:50 miles 1933. Hardcover. A large bound road map of India showing all the road routes in 1933 at scale of 1=50 miles published under the direction of Colonel H J Couchman DSO Officiating Surveyor of India 1933. Folding map opens up to size of 80cm x 100cms coloured in outline and strengthened with buckram backing. Bound in blue cloth binding with title in manuscript on front board. From the library of Sir Conrad Corfield secretary to the Viceroy of Indian 1921-47 with his bookplate to the front pastedown.
Lot 401
India various 19th century maps of India. All large folding c1853 mostly coloured inc. India & Adjacent Countries – Afghanistan Baluachistan & Persia; Political Map of India with details of acquisitions to British India with chronological table c1850; Military Map of India by John Walker coloured; Revenue Map of India; British Possession of the North West Frontier of India coloured in outline; General Commercial Map of India and Adjacent Countries and Islands
Lot 537
Railway Maps. Offical Railway Map of the West of England,together with Offical Railway Map of the South of England, pub. The Railway Clearing House, 1908, two folding lithographed maps joined together to depict the whole of Southern England from Cornwall to Kent, original hand colouring, laid onto linen in sections as issued, a few minor fold tears, the whole 77 x 221 cm, contained in contemp. black sheep covers stamped in gilt ñSouthern Railway. Secretaryî, together with two other copies of the same map dated 1924 (one in four separate parts), plus other maps published by the Railway Clearing House of Ireland (1927) and South Wales (1910) (8)
Lot 814
* Liverpool Scottish and Bomber Command. A small collection belonging to Francis Justin Collins, including 2 cap badges and a pair of shoulder titles of the Liverpool Scottish Regt, a plastic economy AAC cap badge, his cloth pilot`s wings (and duplicate), rank badges, Africa Star tunic ribbon with silver rosette denoting North Africa 1942-43, a regimental kilt, two photograph albums and loose photographs and postcards showing Collins in the Liverpool Scottish in 1939 and as a flying officer in the RAF, group photos 129 Squadron, etc, a military compass in case, 3 silk and another map, various ephemera, an aeroplane clock mounted in a wooden stand Francis Justin Collins, a Liverpool descendant of the Irishman Michael Collins, enlisted in the Liverpool Scottish (a Territorial Bn of the Cameron Highlanders) in the late 30s and transferred to the RAF, was commissioned and flew bombers in North Africa. (1 box)
Lot 960
* A Great War M.C. Group to Major J.H. Des Voeux, North Staffordshire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps, one of the first Officer`s to be commissioned into the M.G.C., Later service saw him present at the Jallianwala Massacre, India 13.4.1919, Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in presentation case of issue, 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. J.H. Des Voeux. N. Staff.R.), British War and Victory Medals (Major J.H. Des Voeux.), Defence and War Medals, good very fine and better, together with dress miniature awards, a large hand drawn and coloured map on velum `Map of German Offences 1918`, 122 x 149cm WW1 Machine Gunners` Pocket Book, Field Service Pocket Book, and The Mounted Officer`s Book on Horses and Mules for Transport, Illustrated, red cloth hard back and a photograph album assembled by Des Voeux, covering his service with the Staffordshire Regiment from Devonport, France and Flanders, Trench Life and Hospital Ships the latter section shows a series of images titled `with 46 Squadron on 3 days course at Le Hameau. Jan1-4th 1918` M.C., London Gazette 3.6.1918 2nd Lt. (A.Capt.) John Hamilton Des Voeux. N. Staff. R., attd. M.G. Corps. Major John Hamilton Des Voeux (b.1898), Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Hampshire Regiment (aged 16) 3.9.1914, advanced to Major, North Staffordshire Regiment and attached to the Machine Gun Corps, according to the biography included with this lot Des Voeux was present at the Jallianwala Massacre. The Jallianwala or Armritsar Massacre took place on the afternoon of 13th April 1919, about 10,000 people including women and children gathered the garden of Jallianwala Bagh near Armritsar, India to hold a peaceful protest against the arrest of two leaders of the Indian National Congress. The order was given by The British General, Edward Dyer without any kind of warning to open fire at the unarmed crowd. For twenty minutes or so the soldier`s unloaded bullets at the crowd, killing 400 and severely wounding a 1000. The aftermath of the massacre resulted in an Indian uprising and insurgence and ultimately led to independence for Indian. (12)
Lot 105
FREELING, Arthur, The Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, another London Southampton and Isle of Wight, The Official Guide to the London and North Western Railway, 17th edition, The Official Guide to the Midland Railway 1883, lacks boards and SIDNEY, Samuel, Rides on Railways, folding map and illustrations, incomplete (5)
Lot 106
A Handbook for Travellers along the London and Birmingham Railway, CORNISH`s Grand Junction and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion, BLACK`s Guide Books Road and Railway Travelling Map of England Reading for the Railroad, 1848, fold Map of the North Staffordshire Railway and Canal, by McCorquodale & Co, no date (4)
Lot 46
* Air Reconnaissance. Royal Italian Air Force 1916-1918, a fine collection of aerial photographs from the archives of numerous Squadrons serving with various Groups,Squadrons include nos. 2 S.V.A., 2, 10, 12, 13, 23, 27, 31, 86, and others, many images with manuscript notes attached, others with stamps verso including Commando Raggruppamento Squadriglie da Bombardamento, Aviazione per Artiglieria, 7 Gruppo Aeroplani and Laboratorio Fotografico, many signed by Pilot, Observer and Commanding Officer, each image dated, some with overlays others inscribed in white ink to show enemy dispositions, rare images of the airfields of Belluno and St. Giustina, which carefully examined, show hangers, landing strips and parked aircraft, other images show a war-torn shell marked landscape with damaged trench systems and other military sites, approx. 105 images, a map and other ephemera contained in a modern ring binder (a lot)
Lot 174
* Imperial Airways/BOAC. 50th Anniversary issue of Speedbird, the Staff Magazine for the Overseas Division of British Airways, April 1974,front cover with illustration, after the original painting by F. H. Coventry, together with B.O.A.C. route map with colour cover design after Laban, c. 1958, B.O.A.C. Christmas/New Year greeting card with illustration of the new hanger at Heathrow, with Boeing `Stratocruiser` and Bristol `Britannia` aircraft after the original oil painting by Bagley, copy of B.O.A.C. News Letter dated Apl. 1950, with report on `Comet` progress, The Story of B.O.A.C., 1956/57, B.O.A.C. `Speedbird` fan and two ashtrays (-)
Lot 180
Imperial Airways. The Comfort of Air Travel by Imperial Airways. The British Airline, c. 1932-3,full colour double-sided brochure/poster, artwork by V. L`Danvers, cut-away details of Heracles, Hannibal, Scylla, Atlanta and Scipio Classes, worn in folds, some staining, minor loss to one corner, together with Imperial Airways - Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, c. 1934, full colour double-sided brochure/poster with artwork by Severin, cut-away details of Heracles, Hannibal, Scylla, Atlanta and Scipio Classes, some minor age wear to folds, with another copy of the same brochure/poster, partly split in folds, all approx. 49 x 75 cm, and Imperial Airways - Map of Empire Air Routes, c. 1935, a rare single-sided publicity map printed in red, blue and gold, creased where previously folded, several minor marginal tears (small loss to lower margin), approx. 63 x 39.5 cm (4)
Lot 182
Imperial Airways. Map of the London-Paris Route, n.d., c. 1930s,folding col. litho. map showing the route from Croydon to Le Bourget, with printed notice proclaiming `Shell are sole suppliers of Petrol to Imperial Airways whose fleet has flown more than 850,000 miles on spirit supplied by Shell`, approx. 75 x 50 cm, contained in orig. printed card folder, somewhat faded, together with The Air Way. Official Handbook Describing the Activities of Imperial Airways, [1930], 80 pp., b & w illusts. from photos, ads. both front and rear, orig. printed stiff wrappers, some minor dust soiling, 8vo, and The Empire Flying-Boat. The New Class of Flying-Boat now under Construction for Imperial Airways, [1936], 16 pp., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, title page border designed by Paul Nash, orig. blue paper wrappers, sewn on spine as issued, some minor soiling, slim 4to, and three other items including Imperial Airways Limited Share Prospectus (6)
Lot 192
Potters Bar Zeppelin L31. An original mimeographed copy of Chief Inspector Walter Crook`s duty report for the night of the 1st October, Enfield Police Station, 2nd October 1916,beginning at 6:59pm, then at 11:02 pm the first sounds of an airship engine are noted, by 11:38 pm a Zeppelin was sighted travelling east and giving readings for the following fifteen minutes, noting that she caught fire at 11:55 pm and then began to fall, then `She came to the ground & there was a momentary increased glare of light. We verified the position from our Map & reported at once to OR that we estimated the position where the Zeppelin fell at Potters Bar. During the time the Zeppelin was in sight there was not so much gunfire as usual, & that only from about 11:40 to 11:46 pm. Two or three shells seemed to come very near her & one in particular appeared to burst very close to & slightly above her nose... `, continuing to record further details following the event until they were dismissed by OR at 3:17 am, 4 pp. on four sheets, damp stained, soiled and frayed with some bleeding of ink but no loss of legibility of any text, folio The Zeppelin L31 was under the command of Kapitan Heinrich Mathy, a Zeppelin flying ace on his fifteenth raid. On this occasion Second Lieutenant Wulstan Tempest engaged the Zeppelin just before midnight and it crashed near Potters Bar with all nineteen crew dying. It was the second downing of a German airship in the area in a month, a wooden airship having been brought down over Cuffley on the 3rd September. Tempest was later promoted to Major and order the DSO. (1)
Lot 225
* Cohen (Gil). `Return to Halesworth`, On March 8th 1944, Captain Walker M. Mahurin returned to the 56 Fighter Group`s base at Halesworth with three more enemy aircraft to his credit and on that day, became the first American fighter pilot in the ETO to reach and surpass the mark of twenty air-to-air combat victories,signed in pencil by the artist lower left and by Mahurin lower right, 42 x 66 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (limited edition 264/1000), together with a half-size facsimile map titled RAF Bomber Command Targets in Northern Germany, 1942-45, signed by Arthur T. Harris lower left and Air Vice Marshal D.C.T. Bennett CB, CBE, DSO, 53 x 72 cm, framed and glazed (limited edition 271/1000), and a number of similar unframed prints, each signed by distinguished pilots and crew including Taylor (Robert), `Wellington`, signed in pencil by Arthur T. Harris and two other distinguished pilots, 35 x 47 cm (13)
Lot 298
A small collection of WWII German items, comprising a waterproof Luftwaffe map of Great Britain and part of Northern Europe, a wrist compass, a sports leader`s armband, and a telephonic mouth piece. (4) Owing to the large number of reproduction Third Reich items that have been produced, we can give no assurance or guarantee as to the authenticity of any such item. Prospective bidders must satisfy themselves in this regards before bidding.
Lot 858
ILLUSTRATED. Rackham, Arthur, illustrator, & Wagner, Richard. The Ring of the Niblung (The Rhinegold / The Valkyrie / Siegfried / The Twilight of the Gods), translated by Margaret Armour, new impression, Heinemann, London 1920. Pale brown cloth gilt, thirty-four paper-protected colour plate illustrations, quarto (bookplate to front pastedown; cancelled ownership inscription to front free endpaper; new gift inscription to following preliminary page); and Spence, Lewis. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine, Harrap, London 1915. Brown cloth gilt, thirty-two colour and collotype plate illustrations by Louis Weirter, folding map at end, quarto, (2).
Lot 865
CHILDRENS. Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh, first edition, Methuen, London 1926. Dark green cloth gilt, cream map endpapers, illustrations by Ernest Shepard, octavo; and Greenaway, Kate, illustrator, & Levoisin, J. La Lanterne Magique, Librairie Hachette, Paris no date. Cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, French text, colour illustrations throughout, quarto, (2).
Lot 874
TRAVEL. Howard-Bury, Lieut.-Col. C.K. Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921, first edition, Arnold, London 1922. Navy cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, maps, quarto; Bruce, Brig.-Gen. C.G. The Assault on Mount Everest 1922, first edition, Arnold, London 1923. Maroon cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, maps, quarto; Wills, Sir Alfred. Wanderings Among the High Alps, first edition, Blackwell, Oxford 1937. Grey cloth, dustjacket (torn, with minor loss), illustrations, octavo; Treves, Sir Frederick. The Lake of Geneva, first edition, Cassell, London 1922. Two-tone blue / grey cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, quarto; ten other works, including five by F.S. Smythe; and a folding map, Topographischer Atlas der Schweiz, Interlaken-Murren-Meiringen, Bern 1904, (15).
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