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Lot 5
A 17th century map of Cornwall - John Speed (British 1552-1629), hand coloured with an inset view of Launceston, inscribed 'Are to be sold by Thomas Bassett in Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Churchyard', dated '1610' but probably later, c.1676, English text to verso, in Hogarth double sided frame 39 x 52cm.
Lot 343
Joy Parker Goat Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am an eclectic artist using a variety of mediums and methods for personal expression, exhibition and commission. My personal work is often inspired by travel and sometimes created in collaboration with my husband, writer Robert Leach. I also work on community art projects, often using the medium of mosaic. Education MA in Contemporary Fine Art, University of Cumbria:2008 Arts of India, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education:2006 BA Hons. Fine Art, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle: 2000 Select Exhibitions/Awards Map of Gala: Mosaic. Commission for Eildon Housing at Wilkie Gardens Sheltered Accommodation. 2022 Creative Scotland Open Fund, 2021 The Cockatrice's Egg. Exhibition and publication based on a residency in Shetland. Collaboration with writer Robert Leach. Portrait of the coalminer William Henry Mills installed at The Ruins Project. Pennsylvania 2020. Mosaic. Our Lady Crowned. Mosaic in smalti, St Catherine Labouré Church, Glasgow. 2018 Gallery Representation I work to commission or for exhibition in public galleries. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I love to draw. These four pieces here are based on sketches made when travelling in India. I have then built them up in layers of oil colour from my memory and imagination. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.
Lot 344
Joy Parker Bullock Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am an eclectic artist using a variety of mediums and methods for personal expression, exhibition and commission. My personal work is often inspired by travel and sometimes created in collaboration with my husband, writer Robert Leach. I also work on community art projects, often using the medium of mosaic. Education MA in Contemporary Fine Art, University of Cumbria:2008 Arts of India, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education:2006 BA Hons. Fine Art, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle: 2000 Select Exhibitions/Awards Map of Gala: Mosaic. Commission for Eildon Housing at Wilkie Gardens Sheltered Accommodation. 2022 Creative Scotland Open Fund, 2021 The Cockatrice's Egg. Exhibition and publication based on a residency in Shetland. Collaboration with writer Robert Leach. Portrait of the coalminer William Henry Mills installed at The Ruins Project. Pennsylvania 2020. Mosaic. Our Lady Crowned. Mosaic in smalti, St Catherine Labouré Church, Glasgow. 2018 Gallery Representation I work to commission or for exhibition in public galleries. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I love to draw. These four pieces here are based on sketches made when travelling in India. I have then built them up in layers of oil colour from my memory and imagination. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.
Lot 345
Joy Parker Resting Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am an eclectic artist using a variety of mediums and methods for personal expression, exhibition and commission. My personal work is often inspired by travel and sometimes created in collaboration with my husband, writer Robert Leach. I also work on community art projects, often using the medium of mosaic. Education MA in Contemporary Fine Art, University of Cumbria:2008 Arts of India, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education:2006 BA Hons. Fine Art, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle: 2000 Select Exhibitions/Awards Map of Gala: Mosaic. Commission for Eildon Housing at Wilkie Gardens Sheltered Accommodation. 2022 Creative Scotland Open Fund, 2021 The Cockatrice's Egg. Exhibition and publication based on a residency in Shetland. Collaboration with writer Robert Leach. Portrait of the coalminer William Henry Mills installed at The Ruins Project. Pennsylvania 2020. Mosaic. Our Lady Crowned. Mosaic in smalti, St Catherine Labouré Church, Glasgow. 2018 Gallery Representation I work to commission or for exhibition in public galleries. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I love to draw. These four pieces here are based on sketches made when travelling in India. I have then built them up in layers of oil colour from my memory and imagination. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.
Lot 346
Joy Parker Sweepers Resting Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am an eclectic artist using a variety of mediums and methods for personal expression, exhibition and commission. My personal work is often inspired by travel and sometimes created in collaboration with my husband, writer Robert Leach. I also work on community art projects, often using the medium of mosaic. Education MA in Contemporary Fine Art, University of Cumbria:2008 Arts of India, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education:2006 BA Hons. Fine Art, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle: 2000 Select Exhibitions/Awards Map of Gala: Mosaic. Commission for Eildon Housing at Wilkie Gardens Sheltered Accommodation. 2022 Creative Scotland Open Fund, 2021 The Cockatrice's Egg. Exhibition and publication based on a residency in Shetland. Collaboration with writer Robert Leach. Portrait of the coalminer William Henry Mills installed at The Ruins Project. Pennsylvania 2020. Mosaic. Our Lady Crowned. Mosaic in smalti, St Catherine Labouré Church, Glasgow. 2018 Gallery Representation I work to commission or for exhibition in public galleries. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I love to draw. These four pieces here are based on sketches made when travelling in India. I have then built them up in layers of oil colour from my memory and imagination. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.
Lot 160
Pamphlets.- Consequences of Repealing the Triennial Act: in a Letter to Mr. Sh---n, 12pp., J.Baker & T.Warner, 1716 bound with Dubourdieu (James) The Adventures, and Surprizing Deliverances of James Dubourdieu and his Wife: who were taken by Pyrates...also, the Adventures of Alexander Vendchurch, whose Ship's Crew Rebelled against him, and set him on Shore on an Island in the South-Sea..., first edition, errata leaf at end, by J.Bettenham, 1719 and Welchman's Last Will and Testament (The), woodcut vignette to title, by Tho. Bickerton, 1719 and Sterline (William, Earl of) Doom's Day: or, the Last Judgement. A Poem, title with woodcut ornament, for E.Curll, 1720 and [Jacob (Giles)] The Rape of the Smock. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In Two Books, engraved frontispiece, woodcut ornaments, a few leaves shaved at edges, for R.Burleigh, 1717 and 12 other pamphlets, together 17 works in 2 vol., contemporary calf or panelled calf, labelled "Monthly Accounts 1718 & 1719" and numbered 172 & 173 on spines, rubbed, 8vo ⁂ The remaining pamphlets consist of issues of 'Mercurius Politicus: Being Monthly Observations on the Affairs of Great Britain' (one with folding engraved map) and Boyer's 'Political State of Great Britain, with the most material Occurrences in Europe' (some with library stamps to titles).
Lot 194
NO RESERVE Scotland.- Adams (Percy W.L.) A History of the Douglas Family of Morton in Nithsdale (Dumfriesshire) and Fingland (Kirkcudbrightshire), one of 100 copies, plates, folding tables, Bedford, 1921 § Foster (Sandys B.) The Pedigree of Wilson of High Wray & Kendal..., second edition, errata slip, privately printed, 1890 § Johnston (T.B.) & Col. James A.Robertson. Historical Geography of the Clans of Scotland, third edition, folding colour map mounted on linen, plates, Edinburgh & London, 1899, some spotting, all original cloth, rubbed, spines faded, 4to (3)
Lot 207
NO RESERVE Original illustration.- Little Red Riding Hood, 7 illustrations of scenes from the fairy tale, pencil and watercolour, each c.260mm x 130mm (10½ x 5¼ in), each on floating mount, framed and glazed, frame 1190 x 420mm (47 x 16½), [20th century]; and 5 others, miscellaneous works on paper, including a Beatrix Potter framed item, a map, and others, v.s., v.d. (6)
Lot 213
Trollope (Anthony) How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland, first edition, half-title, colour map frontispiece, 14 lithographed plates by Mrs. Hugh Blackburn, 2 mounted photographic plates (becoming loose), foxing, occasional marginal soiling or water-staining, old ink library stamp to head of a few leaves, original cloth, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, small stains to lower cover, rebacked preserving original spine, [Sadleir 51], 4to, 1878.⁂ Account of a trip to Iceland on board the yacht Mastiff, from Wemyss Castle on the Clyde via St.Kilda and the Faroe Islands. It was published by Sir John Burns, owner of the castle and the yacht, as a souvenir of the trip and features Trollope in many of the illustrations and one of the photographs.
Lot 232
Coal-mining.- Sykes (John, editor) The Evidence...of the House of Lords...into...the Coal Trade in the United Kingdom...[with] a List of Explosions & Inundations..., first edition, one of only 200 copies, engraved map and 5 plates, one hand-coloured, light offsetting, ink signature of Robert Pearson with some ink annotations and newspaper cuttings tipped in at end, advertisement for the work mounted on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1829.
Lot 238
NO RESERVE Britain.- Bradshaw's Railway Companion Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables, and Assistant to Railway Travelling, (No.3), folding map of Railways in England and Wales, with hand coloured routes in yellow and pink, 4 double-page city plans, spotting to front pastedown, original cloth, covers mottled and damp-stained, 16mo, 10th Mo. 25th, 1839.
Lot 239
Britain.- Belloni (Giuseppe, translator) Viaggio nei Tre Regni d'Inghilterra di Scozia e d'Irlanda del Signor Chantreau fatto negli anni 1788 e 1789, 4 vol. in 2, engraved portrait and 15 plates (14 of which hand-coloured), folding map, later ink ownership inscriptions to vol. 1 front free endpaper, titles to vol. 1 & 3 with contemporary ink name, one plate with imprint trimmed, light foxing, upper hinges weak but holding, contemporary green morocco, gilt, red morocco label to spines, rubbed and lightly soiled, small 8vo, Milan, 1819.
Lot 240
Railways and Canals.- Henderson's Commercial Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland, in which are delineated the Railways with their Stations, Canals, Rivers, &c., large hand-coloured lithograph map, folding in sections and mounted on linen, in stained original cloth slip-case, 1440 x 1110mm., Lithographed by W. Clerk, 1842.
Lot 242
Wiltshire.- Andrews (John) and Andrew Dury. A Topographical Map of the County of Wilts, Describing the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Turnpike and Cross Roads, Canals, &c., Surveyed Originally in 1773..., Second edition, title page, table of contents, double-page index map, 18 double-page map sheets, forming a large scale county map with calligraphic title, large vignette after Cipriani in the lower left, table of the market towns and villages, engravings with outline hand-colouring, each map sheet approx. 560 x 760 mm (22 x 29 7/8 in), good margins, offsetting throughout, some surface dirt, original boards, chipped with losses to spine, rubbed and scuffed, folio, 1810.
Lot 243
NO RESERVE Africa.- Allen (Capt. William) A Narrative of the Expedition ... to the River Niger in 1841, under the command of Captain H. D. Trotter, R.N., 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces 14 plates, one folding with split to foldline and neat tape repair verso, 2 folding maps, illustrations, ex-Church Missionary Society with occasional ink-stamps, new endpapers, later morocco-backed boards, slight rubbing to spine extremities, 1841 § Trotter (Lieut-Col. J. K.) The Niger Sources, frontispiece, 3 plates, folding map, tears with old tape repairs verso, publisher's advertisements at end, ex-Church Missionary Society with ink-stamps to endpapers, original cloth, lightly sunned spine, shelfmark in manuscript to spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1898; 8vo (3).
Lot 244
Africa.- Chapman (James) Travels in the Interior of South Africa, comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, errata leaf in each volume, wood-engraved frontispieces and 6 plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps with routes in red, one badly torn and soiled (loose), some stains and soiling to text, original pictorial cloth, gilt, [Czech p.61], 1868 § Parke (T.H.) My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, second edition, wood-engraved portrait and 16 plates, 32pp. publisher's catalogue, folding colour map in pocket at end, very occasional spotting, [c.1891], both original pictorial green cloth, gilt, the first rather rubbed and stained, 8vo (3)
Lot 245
NO RESERVE Africa.- James (F.L.) The Unknown Horn of Africa, first edition, half-title, 23 lithographs, of which 9 hand-coloured, lacking folding map, faint spotting at beginning and end, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1888 § Wissman (Hermann von) My Second Journey through Equatorial Africa ..., first English edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 31 plates, one folding map, illustrations, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature, slight cockling, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Hosken p.210], 1891 § Du Chaillu (Paul B.) A Journey to Ashango-Land, and ... Equatorial Africa, half-title, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, plates and illustrations, folding map, advertisements at end, scattered spotting, new endpapers, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, New York, 1874; and another, similar, 8vo (4).
Lot 246
Africa.- Middle East.- Stanley (Henry Morton) In Darkest Africa, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 4 maps, of which 3 folding and 2 with short tear at gutter, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.189], 1890 § Cobbold (Lady Evelyn) Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1912 § Lawrence (T. E.) Revolt in the Desert, fourth impression, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered faint spotting, ex-library with label to final pastedown, previous owner's pencil inscription to front free endpaper, cracked hinges, original buckram, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1927 § Wallis (J.P.R.) The Zambesi Expedition of David Livingstone 1858-1863, 2 vol., frontispieces, plates and illustrations, faint abrasion marks to front pastedowns where labels removed, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, 1956; and others Africa or Middle East, 8vo (23)
Lot 247
NO RESERVE Africa.- Moffat (Robert) Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa, second thousand, chromolithograph frontispiece, vignette title, folding map (detached and loosely inserted), plates and illustrations, scattered faint spotting, contemporary half-morocco, rubbing to corners and extremities, 1842 § Andersson (Charles John) Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries ..., second edition, lithograph frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding map at end (tear at gutter), frontispiece and several plates with short marginal tears and neatly laid down, scattered spotting and soiling, modern cloth, 1856 § Mackenzie (John) Ten Years North of the Orange River, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding map, short tear with neat tape repair, scattered spotting, modern cloth, Edinburgh, 1871; and others similar, 8vo & 12mo (9)
Lot 249
Africa.- Portal (Sir Gerald) The British Mission to Uganda in 1893, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece and plate, illustrations, folding colour map, publisher's advertisements at end, faint spotting to first few ff., original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1894 § Patterson (Lieut.-Col. J. H.) The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, reprint, frontispiece, illustrations, map at end, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1907; In the Grip of the Nyika, reprint, half-title, illustrations, maps, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1909 § Lugard (Captain F. D.) The Rise of Our East African Empire, 2 vol., first edition, half-title to vol. 2 only, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 9 colour maps of which 5 folding, one with short tear at gutter, occasional marginal finger-soiling, contemporary half-calf, vol. 2 backstrip beginning to split at joints but holding firm, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1893; and others, Eastern Africa, 8vo (12)
Lot 253
Europe.- Batty (Lt. Col. Robert) The Cities of Europe, engraved title (misbound), engraved dedication, 30 engraved plates, 30 outline plates, hand-coloured engraving from another work loosely inserted, occasional light foxing, spotting and offsetting throughout, 1832 § [Virtue (George)] The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain, folding engraved map frontispiece, additional engraved title,120 engraved plates, tissue-guards, some damp staining and spotting, 1828, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to
Lot 257
India.- Bernier (François) The History of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol together with the most considerable passages for 5 years following in that empire, 2 vol., second edition in English, engraved folding map, this with short repaired tear within image, closely trimmed at outer and lower margins, and with some staining, Printed and sold by M. Pitt ... and S. Miller ... and J. Starkey, 1676 bound with Bernier (François) A Continuation of the memoires of Monsieur Bernier, concerning the empire of the Great Mogol : wherein is contained I. An exact description of Dehli and Agra..., 2 vol. (forming vol.3&4 of the work), translated by H[enry] O[ldenburg], initial imprimatur f., Printed [by S.G.], and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, at the White Hart in Little Britain, 1672, together 4 vol. in 1, woodcut head-pieces, some spotting and [water-]staining, lightly browned throughout, 19th century calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, corners repaired, scorched, [Wing B2044], 8vo⁂ Rare at auction. With a section on Kashmir and a map covering the Indian peninsula as far south as Golconda.
Lot 265
NO RESERVE Russia.- Wilton (Robert) Russia's Agony, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered faint marginal spotting, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1918.
Lot 266
South America.- Villiers-Stuart (H.W.) Adventures Amidst the Equatorial Forests and Rivers of South America; also in the West Indies and the Wilds of Florida, 2 folding maps, plates, one map frayed at edge, 1891; Egypt after the War, being the Narrative of a Tour of Inspection..., folding colour map in pocket at beginning, errata slip, plates and maps, some folding, a few colour, 1883, first editions, some spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed and marked, the second with faded spine and tear at head, 8vo (2)
Lot 269
West Indies.- Edwards (Bryan) The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, 2 vol., first Dublin edition, folding engraved map, 5 folding tables, vol.1 with a little worming to outer margin at beginning slightly affecting map at outer and upper edge, title of vol.2 with upper outer corner torn away not affecting text, contemporary tree calf, black roan labels tooled in gilt, a little rubbed and marked, upper joint of vol.1 cracked but a good copy, 8vo, Dublin, Luke White, 1793.
Lot 31
Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., mixed early editions, vol. 1 second edition, vol. 2 & 3 new edition, vol. 4-6 first edition, half-titles in vol. 1 & 3 only, vol. 2 & 3 with folding engraved map, vol. 2 lacking frontispiece portrait, bookplates, contemporary calf, gilt, rather worn, spines cracked and some ends renewed, 4to, for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776-88.
Lot 4
Braybrooke (Richard Lord, editor) Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portraits and folding map, some spotting and off-setting, contemporary half calf, rebacked, preserving original back strip, 1825 § Bray (William, editor) Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, 2 vol., second edition, engraved plates, some foxing, later black half calf, rubbed, 1819; and 40 others, most leather bound, 4to (44)
Lot 78
Istanbul.- Allom (Thomas) and Rev. Robert Walsh. Constantinople, and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, 2 vol. in 1, first and second series, additional title, engraved map and plates after Thomas Allom, all with fine hand colouring, occasional spotting, modern red half morocco, preserving original decorative gilt cloth covers, g.e., 4to, Fisher, Son & Co., [c.1840]
Lot 79
Istanbul.- Pardoe (Julia) The Beauties of the Bosphorus, first edition, additional engraved title, engraved plates after W. H. Bartlett, all with fine hand-colouring, engraved map, occasional very minor spotting to fore-edge of plate margins, handsomely bound in modern purple morocco, upper cover with mounted onlay of ?original pictorial cloth in gilt, green morocco labels to spine, gilt borders and decoration, large 4to, Virtue and Co., [1838]
Lot 563
An exceptionally rare original French poster advertising the train and ferry boat service between France and the islands of Jersey and Guernsey by the new line to Carteret, dated 1st July 1889. The Jersey service operated from Gorey Harbour to Carteret and Port-Bail and on to Paris, Gare Saint Lazare. The poster titled “Chemins de Fer de L’Ouest, Service entre la France & les iles de Jersey & de Guernesy [sic], par la nouvelle ligne de Carteret a dater du 1er Juillet 1889”. Featuring a main colour illustration of Mont Orgueil and colour vignettes of Corbiere Lighthouse, St Helier and Gorges de Plemont together with a route map, timetables and prices, lithographed by F. Appel and published in Paris, bears a franked French postage stamp, or tax stamp, upper centre denoting that the revenue had been collected from the printer, 46 x 31 (116.8x 78.7cm.). *In excellent condition with no folds which is highly unusual for a poster of this age. Poster shows the trim marks at the edge which suggests that it had not been displayed and had always been kept flat and out of the light.
Lot 196
* Hurricane P3049. A superb WWII aircraft canvas roundel recovered from Hurricane P3049, presented in a glazed frame with the remains of an airman's map, biographical information and two black and white photographs, frame size 65 x 126.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Private collection, West Country and formerly in the collection of Andy Saunders, Military Aviation Historian and Author.Hurricane P3049 was shot down in combat over the Thames Estuary on 7 September 1940. The aircraft crashed at Elmley, Spitend Point, Isle of Sheppey. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Hugh Richard Aden Beresford of 257 Squadron was reported 'missing'.The aircraft was excavated in 1979 and revealed that his remains were still in the cockpit. Beresford was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery on 16 November 1979.
Lot 83
* Zeppelin Raids. A collection of WWI Zeppelin Raid related ephemera, including 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 traveling 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, together with 10 others, most in original stapled or tied print wrappings as issued mostly 4to/8vo, including The Morning of Third September: 1916, Destruction of Zeppelin at Cuffley By Lieut. W. L. Robinson..., Six pictures by H. Scott Orr, published at his Studio Woodford Green, Essex, Ramsgate During the Great War..., Souvenir of the Most Raided Part of England illustrated from a unique series of Copyright Photographs, printed by The Thanet Advertiser & Echo, Ramsgate, 1919, Records of the Raids, put together by the Right Rev. Henry Luke Paget, DD, Bishop of Stepney, printed by The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, London, 1918, Pictorial Souvenir of the "Strafed" Zeppelin L. 48, which was brought down in flames in East Anglia on the morning of Sunday June 17, 1917, published by J. S. Waddell, photographer, The Hayling Studio, Leiston, two copies in alternative colour wrappings, Illustrated Memorial of the German Eats Coast Raids and Bombardment by Sea and Air, published by Hood & Co Ltd, Middlesbrough, 1915, The Great Air Raid on England, September 3rd 1916, Souvenir Photographs of the Wrecked Zeppelin, L 21, also with a photograph of Lieut. William Leefe Robinson, V.C., Worcester Regiment & R. F. C. who attacked the Zeppelin under circumstances of great difficulty and danger, and sent it crashing down to the ground as a flaming wreck [awarded the Victoria Cross], printed by St Jame's Press (T.U) London, A pictorial Record; Hull and the Zeppelins. Scenes of Damage Sustained in Hull, 1915-1918.., reproduced from views published in the Hull Dailey News and Hull Weekly News, Zeppelin or Aeroplane Bombs, 12 Households in Yarmouth had all damage from bombs paid by the Daily News, two-sided broadsheet, Possible Air-Craft Raid over Maidstone, Caution, In an event of a Zeppelin or Aeroplane Raid, Maidstone must be Immediately placed in total darkness..., broadside of Mayor W. H. Martin's instructions to the people of Maidstone in the event of an Airraid, 28th January 1915, Printed By Vivian & Baker, General Pritners Kingstreet, Maidstone QTY: (11)NOTE: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.
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