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Lot 850
WORLD WAR II MC GROUP OF SEVEN, MILITARY CROSS REVERSE OF LOWER LIMB ENGRAVED 1945, CASE OF ISSUE, 1939-1945 STAR, FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR, DEFENCE MEDAL, WAR MEDAL WITH 'MENTION' EMBLEM WITH CARD AND ENVELOPE ADDRESSED CAPTAIN M C D KING 1/8 MIDDLESEX REGIMENT WISCON HOUSE STEYNING SUSSEX, CORONATION MEDAL 1927, SCARLET CARD BOX, UNDERSIDE OF THE LID INSCRIBED CAPTAIN M.C.D KING 1/8 MIDDLESEX REGT AND EFFICIENCY DECORATION TERRITORIAL SUSPENDER, GRI, REVERSE ENGRAVED 1946, WITH SEVERAL RELATED OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, OFFICER'S IDENTITY CARD OF CAPTAIN MONTAGUE CHARLES DUNCAN KING 1940 AND 8TH BATTALION MIDDLESEX REGIMENT COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET 24TH JUNE 1944 - 4TH MAY 1945 AND A CORRESPONDING SET OF MINIATURE MEDALS47928 MAJOR MONTAGUE CHARLES DUNCAN KING, TD, MC 1910-1961 JOINT OFFICER COMMANDING HQ COMPANY 8TH BATTALION THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT (YOUTH OF CAMBRIDGE'S OWN)MILITARY CROSS: LONDON GAZETTE 1 MARCH 1945, FOLIO 780-781. THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE AWARD OF AN IMMEDIATE MILITARY CROSS READS: "ON OCTOBER 4TH, AS COMPANY COMMANDER OF "A" COY, HE RECEIVED A MESSAGE AT 1800 HRS THAT NO.4 PLATOON NEAR ELST AT MAP REF.702721 WAS HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME BEING SHELLED CONSTANTLY BY THE ENEMY AND HARASSED BY SMALL ARMS FIRE. MAJOR KING, KNOWING THAT THIS PARTICULAR PLATOON WAS WITHOUT AN OFFICER OWING TO CASUALTIES EARLIER ON, WENT UP UNDER SHELL FIRE TO THIS VERY EXPOSED POSITION IN THE 4 S.L.I AREA. HE FOUND THAT OWING TO CONSTANT ENEMY ACTION THAT THE PLATOON WAS A LITTLE SHAKEN. HE IMMEDIATELY HANDED OVER COMMAND OF HIS COY TEMPORARILY TO HIS 2.I/O AND TOOK OVER THE JOB OF PLN. COMMANDER OF 4 PLN HIMSELF. HE ORGANISED THE DELIVERY OF RATIONS PERSONALLY TO SECS. UNDER HEAVY FIRE AND GOT THE PLATOON ONCE MORE ON FIRM FOOTING TO PROCEED WITH ITS HARASSING TASKS REQUIRED OF IT DURING THE NIGHT, IN SPITE OF CONTINUOUS SHELLING AND MORTARING. MAJOR KING SHOWED COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS OWN SAFETY IN THE WAY HE WENT ROUND THE PLATOON ENCOURAGING THEM TO STICK TO IT. HIS CHEERFUL MANNER AND APPARENT ENJOYMENT SHOWED HIS POWERS OF LEADERSHIP JUST AT THE CRITICAL MOMENT. WHEN HE LEFT THE PLATOON THE FOLLOWING MORNING EVERYBODY WAS BACK TO NORMAL AND FULL OF FLIGHT" (COUNTERSIGNED BY FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY)THE EFFICIENCY DECORATION: LONDON GAZETTE 1 AUGUST 1946, S.37671MENTION IN DES: LONDON GAZETTE 26 JULY 1940THE BATTALION'S NORTH WEST EUROPEAN COMMENCED ON D-DAY, 6TH JUNE 1944, LANDING AT ARROMANCHES, THE ACTION THAT GAVE RISE TO KING'S MC OCCURRED ON THE 16TH OCTOBER
Lot 461
HISTORY DIRECTORY AND GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTIES OF CUMBERLAND AND WEST MORLAND BY W. M. PARSON AND W. M. WHITE, WITH COLOURED MAPS, 1829, LEATHER, BOARDS DETACHED, FORD (REVEREND WILLIAM), DESCRIPTION OF SCENERY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT, 4TH EDITION, ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND PLATES, LONDON, 1845 AND WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM), A GUIDE THROUGH THE DISTRICT OF THE LAKES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, 5TH EDITION, WITH FOLDING MAP, LONDON, 1835 (3)
Lot 3197
Stereographic Card Sets Greece Volumes 1 and 2 with book and map; Egypt Volumes 1 and 2 with book and map; Southern Greece; Palestine; Italy and Tiger Hunt (all in cases). Tiger Hunting: 1-6, 8-11Egypt: 1-17, 19-25, 27, 28, 31, 33-35, 37, 38, 40-57, 59-67, 69-100 and one unnumberedPalestine: 1-33, 35-50, 52-56, 58-64, 66, 67, 69-82, 84, 85, 88-100 and one unnumberedItaly: 1, 16, 47, 49-100 extra 60, 69Greece: 16, 17, 30, 39, 68, 81, 82, 86, 87, 90-100 extra 90, 96, 97Southern Greece: 1, 2, 4, 11-13, 16, 24, 30, 36, 37, 40, 43, 44, 55-59, 61-66, 68-72, 75-80 extra 44
Lot 93
Extensive personal collection of RAF related ephemera belonging to Fl Lt W E J Bishop (150494) who belonged to the 11th EFTS, Perth, 49th Squadron, 194 Squadron and 77th Squadron. After training with the Canadian Air Force in America he took part in many distinguished missions including Operation Tonga dropping British Airborne forces on D-Day on 6th June 1944. This Lot includes personal photo album of training in America, photo album of personal snapshots in the Far East and Burma, extensive log books, training manuals for aircraft (Tiger Moth, Lincoln I and II, Spitfire 14 and 19, Chipmunk T10, Oxford I and II, Anson I, Harved 2D, Lancaster, Dakota IV, Dakota I and III and Wellington), to also include map calipers in case, quantity of RAF flight maps of America, Assam and South East Asia, paperwork - pay books and pay records and examination papers, also including his original British RAF Type C leather flying helmet with Mk III goggles and oxygen mask (worn but in fairly good condition), together with post-war RAF beret and Officer's service dress cap with bullion cap badge
Lot 18
Negretti & Zambra aneroid barometer in gilt case 3.75” with brass patent forecasting device patented 1915, both in velvet lined box; another 2.75” by Pastorelli & Co. Piccadilly; another similar by Elliot Bros. London; and another unsigned; together with 2 small magnetic compasses and a map reader’s measuring instrument. Average good condition
Lot 213
Our Railway History hardback book by Rixon Bucknall second edition, revised and enlarged 1945. No dust jacket. Map of railways in the UK. 141 pages. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Hospice Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 4036
Local Interest, Industrial Archaeology and Railwayana - Great Northern Railway: Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension, Derby/Friargate, a thirty-six fold engineer's plan/map, part of the line Two Furlongs West of Derby Friargate Station, showing the houses that needed to be demolished off Slack Lane, Scale 44 feet to an inch, pen & ink and watercolour, 36 sheets over canvas folds, contemporary gilt-lettered black leather boards, the upper-cover with owner's name blocked in gilt: Mr G. Thompson, marbled endpapers, 24cm x 16.5cm (folded), 68cm x 180cm overall, c. 1875
![John Speed (1551/52-1629), a two-page map, Somerset Shire Described [...] and citie (sic) of the Bathe (sic, Bath), London: S](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/19534e5a-af71-4c97-b3d3-ab21011c591b/081c957e-5655-4b03-b543-ab2700fb57c7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4002
Joseph Browne (last-quarter, 17th century), a map of Staffordshire, dated 1682 within the plate, the border with the coats of arms of all the armigerous families of the county, the upper-left margin with a Baroque dedicatory cartouche to the Earl of Shrewsbury and surmounted by the full Talbot coat of arms, the lower-right margin with a classical maiden emblematic of cartography, the remaining margins with key and armorial devices in conforming cartouches, from The Natural History of Staffordshire by Robert Plot (1640-1696), [Oxford 1686], etched and engraved with contemporary hand-colouring, 63cm x 54cm
Lot 4062
Nineteenth-Century Thought - Natural History and Anthropology - Darwin (Charles), The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Popular Impression [...], Issued with the Approval of the Author's Executors, London: John Murray, 1902, contemporary green cloth, 8vo; Haeckel (Ernst): The History of Creation [...], Translation Revised by E. Ray Lankester [...], fourth edition, second impression, two-volume set, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1899, lithograph frontispiece, fold-out map and full-page plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2), &, The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy [...], Translated by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co., 1910, original wrappers, 8vo; Ripley (William Z), The Races of Europe [...], London: Kegan Paul, Trunch, Trübner & Co., 1900, 20th century institutional red cloth, University of Manchester presentation plate, 8vo; Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume III, 1865; Volume V, 1867; Volume VI, 1868; Volume XXIII, 1894; &, Volume XXIV, 1895, harlequin bindings, 8vo, (5); Magenta, [Mahon (Maurice Hartland)], The Treatment of Our Domesticated Dogs, second edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868, contemporary pictorial purple cloth gilt, 12mo; Forrest (Col. Chris.), The Complete American Farrier, and Horse Doctor [...], London: W. Nicholson & Sons, [n.d., c. 1870], pictorial cloth, 12mo; Botany, Culpepper's British Herbal and Family Physician, London: Milner & Company Ltd., [n.d., c. 1860], colour plates, green cloth, 8vo; Politics and Philosophy - Mill (John Stuart), Three Essays on Religion [...], first edition, London: Longmans [...], 1874, contemporary green cloth, 19th century pasted botanical specimen to flyleaf inscribed in ink MS: Leaf of French Honeysuckle from J.S. Mill's Grave, Avignon, 8vo; The Philosophical Works of David Hume [...], four-volume set, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards (some disbound, loose), 8vo, (4); Whately (Richard, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin), Elements of Rhetoric [...], seventh edition, London: B. Fellowes, 1846, contemporary polished calf gilt, crested ownership stamp to title-page, later 19th century Welsh lady's book label: Sarah Atkinson, Bangor, 8vo; Richard Cobden; etc
![John Speed (1552-1629), by and after, a two-page map, Darbieshire defcribed (sic, Derbyshire), London: [...] [A]re to be fold](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/19534e5a-af71-4c97-b3d3-ab21011c591b/81d7a927-7b32-4ca6-bed2-ab2700fb589e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4001
John Speed (1552-1629), by and after, a two-page map, Darbieshire defcribed (sic, Derbyshire), London: [...] [A]re to be fold by Thomas Bafsett [...], [...] Richard Chifwell [...], Now Sold by Henry Overton [...], dated 1666 within the plate but 1713-1743, hand-coloured etching and engraving, 44cm x 55cm, Hogarth-type frame
![Robert Morden (c. 1650-1703), by and after: a set of three maps, The North, East and West Ridings of Yorskhire, [London]: Sol](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/19534e5a-af71-4c97-b3d3-ab21011c591b/526c1175-30ce-45c6-a506-ab280122c706/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4004
Robert Morden (c. 1650-1703), by and after: a set of three maps, The North, East and West Ridings of Yorskhire, [London]: Sold by Sold by Abel Swale, Awnfham (sic) and John Churchill, [n.d., 1695], monochrome etchings and engravings, 49.5cm x 40.5cm, (3); another, two-fold map, Darby Shire (sic, Derbyshire), [London]: Sold by Sold by Abel Swale, Awnfham (sic) and John Churchill, [n.d., 1695], monochrome etching and engraving, 39cm x 44.5cm, (1); Richard Blome (1635-1705), by and after, A Mapp (sic) of Nottingham Shire, upper-lefthand margin with armorial dedication cartouche to the Earl of Chesterfield, two-fold etching, 33.5cm x 28cm, (1), each map mounted and framed en suite, [5]
![John Ogilby (1600-1676), by and after, two-page map, The Road from London to Flamborough Head [...] [Yorkshire], the whole su](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/19534e5a-af71-4c97-b3d3-ab21011c591b/3c21ab04-ea5b-4b87-a1b0-ab2700fb5700/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3996
An early Victorian Scottish hand scrivened watercolour map 'sampler', by Hugh Macmillan, aged 12, with titled vignette of Royal Standard and Crown of England, signed with iniatials and dated 1845, signed again and inscribed Aberfeldy to verso, 42cm x 33cmThe Very Rev Dr Hugh Macmillan FRSE FSA DD LLD (1833-1903) went on to become a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, serving as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1897. He was also a prolific author on theological subjects, perhaps most notably of his Bible Teachings in Nature of 1867 which was published in fifteen editions.
![Topography and Antiquarianism - West [William], The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire [...], Illustrated with](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/19534e5a-af71-4c97-b3d3-ab21011c591b/bc8879b5-ae2b-4158-b00a-ab2700fbc024/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4166
Topography and Antiquarianism - West [William], The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire [...], Illustrated with Characteristic Etchings and a Map of the County, Birmingham: Printed and Published by R. Wrightson [...], 1830, contemporary red cloth, 20th century pictorial bookplate to recto pastedown: F.W. Hackwood, 8vo; two copies, Burgess (J. Tom., F.S.A.), Historic Warwickshire, Edited and Revised by Joseph Hill, second edition, Birmingham, Leicester, and Leamington: The Midland Educational Company, Limited, [1893], 4to rebacked in velvet over cloth, top-edge gilt, & 8vo in contemporary red cloth pictorial gilt, (2); Atkinson (D.H.), Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer; His Town and Times, two-volume set, Leeds: Walker and Laycock, 1885-1887, 20th century green levant morocco, gilt spines, top-edge gilt, Amalfi paper endpapers, 8vo, (2); Fletcher (J.S.), Picturesque History of Yorkshire [...], six-volume set, London: The Caxton Publishing Company, [n.d., 1903-1904], contemporary red cloth, gilt armorials to upper-cover, all edges gilt, 4to, (6); Gray (Thomas), The Town of Cambridge: A History, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1925, illustrated, contemporary three-quarter green morocco over cloth by Cox & Allen, stamped, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Roby (John), Traditions of Lancashire, Illustrated, sixth edition, two-volume set, John Heywood Ltd., [n.d. 1900], contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (2), [14]
Lot 4160
Micali (Giuseppe), Antichi Monumenti, Per Servire All'Opera Intitolata L'Italia Avanti Il Dominio Dei Romani, Firenze: Nella Stamperia Pagani, 1821, [v], vi-xiv, illustrated with a four-fold map of Italy by Pélicier (fl. 1800-1820) after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782) and 67 double- and/or full-page engravings, contemporary Italian vellum gilt, two gilt-lettered labels applied to spine, marbled endpapers, medium folio
![Classics - Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies [...], New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936, King's School, Canterbury half-](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/19534e5a-af71-4c97-b3d3-ab21011c591b/eb9ec023-cf74-4706-9300-ab2700fb9705/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4104
Classics - Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies [...], New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936, King's School, Canterbury half-calf and gilt cloth prize binding, marbled endpapers, presentation plate to recto pastedown, 8vo; Aikin (John), A Treatise on the Situation, Manners and Inhabitants of Germany; and the Life of Agricola; by [...] Tacitus [...], and a Map of Antient (sic) Germany), second edition, London: Printed for J. Johnson [...], 1805, contemporary speckled calf boards (upper-cover loose, absent spine), gilt, by C. Lewis, 4 Salisbury Strt, Strand, [London], his ticket, drab endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplate: Sir John Bickerton Williams, Knt, LLD, FSA (1792-1855, nonconformist author and lawyer), 8vo; Robertson (William), An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India [...], eighth edition, London: T. Cadell [...], 1821, fold-out maps, contemporary calf boards only, gilt, 8vo, (disbound); Ovid, Metamorphoses, [Translated by Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, etc], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson [...], 1717, lacking title-page, 6 engraved classical and allegorical plates at the commencement of each book dedicated to aristocratic ladies with their coats of arms, woodcut vignettes and florid initials, contemporary calf boards only (loose), 12mo, (faults); Terence, Comedies Made English, with His Life, and Some Remarks at the End by Mr Laurence Echard, [London, second-quarter 18th century], title-page torn in half, contemporary panelled calf, 16mo; others, various bindings and sizes, (2), [7]
Lot 4117
Miscellaneous - The Life of John Wilkes, Patriot: An Unfinished Autobiography, with illustrations by Donald Higgins, numbered limited edition 107/200, London: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1955, printed in Monotype Caslon Old Face on Chariot Offset Cartridge Paper, illustrated with photo-lithography, contemporary boards, gilt pictorial upper-cover and lettered spine, acid-free paper wrap, 8vo; Topography, Provincial Imprint, Allan (George Esqr., F.S.A.), Historical and Descriptive View of the City of Durham, And its Environs, To which is added a Reprint of Hegg's Legend of St. Cuthbert from the Edition of Late, Durham: Printed & Sold by T. Hoggett [...], [1824], fold-out city map frontispiece, title-page vignette by C. Thomas of Edinburgh, contemporary cloth over blue boards, 8vo, [2]
![Robert Morden (c. 1650 - 1703), by, two-page map, Darbyshire (sic, Derbyshire), [Published and] Sold by Abel Swale, Awnfham (](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/19534e5a-af71-4c97-b3d3-ab21011c591b/0241784e-4ff5-4bb2-84ff-ab2700fb5a7d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 101
Blome, a hand coloured map of Worcestershire, 10.5ins x 13ins, together with a hand coloured map of Glamorganshire, 15ins x 20.5ins, another antique hand coloured map of Worcestershire (Wigorniensis), 10.5ins x 12ins, a Morden map of Warwickshire, 14ins x 16.5ins and another antique map of Worcestershire, 3.5ins x 5.5ins
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