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Lot 102
The Thomas 'Flyer'. A 1905 horizontal format catalogue by the E. R. Thomas Motor Co., Buffalo, New York. Containing a colour frontispiece of the 40hp 'Flyer', monochrome plan images of coachwork and chassis, the 60hp Racing car and other body designs. 24pp and an embossed green card, cord-tied cover. The cover a little scratched and rubbed (1)
Lot 130
Handbills & Broadsheets. A good selection of late Victorian and early 20th century, illustrated promotional documents, to include examples for: The Autocar Motor Truck; 'Jackson Doctor's Car' of The Yorkshire Motor Car Co., Ltd.; 'Windora Cars' - Stephen Marples; 'The Critchley'; Motor Carriage Supply Co., Ltd.; Frank Morriss of the Sandringham Motor Works, Kings Lynn; 'Simms' Patent Motor-Wheel'; Roots & Venables 'R&V Car'. 'The Salisbury Car' by The Motor Traction Co., Ltd.; 'l' Am‚ricaine'; Lamb Brothers & Garnet - National Motor Cars; 'La Cenia' of Neuilly, France; 'The Champion' by Higgs of Ironmonger Lane, London; 'Princess Motor Sociable' of 47 Holborn Viaduct, London. All in good or better condition Intending purchasers are asked to respect the vendor's proprietorship of these documents, and not to photograph them prior to purchase. (a quantity)
Lot 15
*Supermarine Schneider Trophy S6 (B) Seaplane model. Nickel-plated on brass, the underwings inscribed Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. Highly detailed, with well-crafted floats, cockpit, engine banks, propeller, etcetera. The Supermarine Seaplane won the Schneider Trophy outright in 1931 at a speed of 357mph. Designed by R J Mitchell, who later designed the Supermarine Spitfire. This example is not actually a mascot, although similar quality models were sold as such. This is a Rolls-Royce Ltd 'trade gift' to celebrate the use of the Rolls-Royce 12-cylinder 'Merlyn' engine, and is probably rarer than the mascot version. Mounted on a marble display base, in excellent condition.13cm long (1)
Lot 222
Self Help Books. The Motor Car - its Use and Management, by Sir Henry Thompson, 106pp; A Glossary of Road Terms by H, Percy Boulnois; Motors & Motoring by Professor Spooner (two copies), The Encyclopaedia of Motoring by R. Mecredy; The Automobile, its Selection and Care by Robert Sloss, and other similar titles. All in used, but clean condition (11)
Lot 225
The High-Speed Internal Combustion Engine, by Harry R. Ricardo, revised by H. S. Glyde, 3rd ed, reprint, 1945. A small 4to (10 x 6.75-ins) hardback copy of this classic work, black cloth covers (a little creased, rubbed and marked) with gilt lettering to the spine, pp (viii), 434, 270 text figures (some folding), fore-edge to the pages marked, but otherwise clean and sound internally (1)
Lot 227
Dunkley's Patent Gas Motor Cars: A Little Guide to Motor Cars, by S. Cotterell & R. Sydney Mason. A 24pp hardbound pamphlet dating from 1897, measuring approximately 5-inches square, and illustrated with seven engravings, including The 'Wolseley' (petroleum) Car, a Daimler Motor Car, an Anglo-French Co.'s Benz Carriage, 'The Coventry Motette' (Bollee), and 'The Dunkley Compressed Gas Car'. Published in Birmingham by Mason Bros., Dale End. Pages yellowing with age, but clean and sound, and bound in what appears to be contemporary plain dark blue cloth covers. An extremely rare volume (1)
Lot 232
Dynamos & Electric Motor Books. A good selection of early hardback titles, all in good condition except where noted, and comprising: Dynamos and Electric Motors: How to Make and Run Them, with Numerous Engravings and Diagrams, by Paul N. Hasluck, tall 12mo, 1st Ed, 1901; Magnetos for Automobilists, by S. R. Bottone, 8vo, 35 text engravings, 1st Ed, 1907; Electric Lighting and Starting for Motor Cars, by H. H. U. Cross, 8vo, 120 text illustrations, 2nd Ed, 1916; Electricity and the Motor Car: Lighting - Engine Starting - Ignition, by F. H. Hutton, 8vo, worn, c.1914; Industrial Electric Vehicles and Trucks, by W. Worby Beaumont, small 4to, 189 illustrations, 1st Ed, 1920; Feilden's Magazine: The World's Record of Industrial Progress, Three monthly issues for April, May and June 1901 (Vol. 4, Nos. 4 to 6), small 4to, bound in fading plain maroon cloth, approximately 300 well illustrated pages, with articles on such matters as Machinery Appliances and Processes, Motor Cabs in Paris, The Ferranti Rectifier,The Glasgow International Exhibition, etcetera; and The Motor Industry : Its Growth etc, by Horace Wyatt, small 8vo, well-illustrated, period advertisements, a little worn with occasional small ink stamps internally, c.1928. Plus 2 early motoring French/English and English/French/German dictionaries dated 1918 & 1907 respectively, and A Compendious Dictionary of the French Language by Gustave Masson, with spine crudely repaired, 1896 (10)
Lot 239
Veteran Period Books. Omnibuses & Cabs by H. C. Moore, a rare 1902 dated overview with 31 well-defined illustrations in 282pp. The spine loose and an ex library copy, a green cloth with black decoration, a little rubbed; The Book of the Motor Car by R. T. Sloss. A rare book dated 1905, 372pp with a pictorial red binding, an excellent American bias book with 100 monochrome images, printed in London; The Motor by J. Armstrong, 374pp, 1912, well-illustrated with red cloth binding; The Amateur Motorist by Max Pemberton, 328pp with 68 illustrations and index, 1909; The Complete Motorist by A. B. Filson Young, 1904 3rd ed, 352pp, and by the same author, The Happy Motorist, 1906 and three other good titles. All 8vo in sound condition (9)
Lot 241
Motor Shows and Motoring. A good selection of hardback and paperback books, including: Earls Court Motor Show Official Catalogues for October 1955 and October 1956; The Book of the Motor Museum 1912, founded by ''The Motor', and facsimile, 1984, of the work, excellent hardback in DJ; The Story of the S.M.M.T. 1902-1952, by St. John C. Nixon, printed privately, 1952, with a loosely enclosed letter, apparently signed by the then President, Henry Spurrier, and Director, R. Gresham Cooke, hardback in frayed DJ; The Joy of the Road: An Appreciation of the Motor Car, by Filson Young, 1947, one of a limited edition of 600 hardback copies, boards and spine soiled, but contents good; four 'as new' paperbacks by Bryan Goodman: American Cars in Europe, 1900-1940; American Cars in Prewar England; Motoring Around Surrey; and (with Tim Harding), Motoring Around Kent, the first three each signed by the author on the title page. Plus, about two dozen other similar volumes, most in good condition (a quantity)
Lot 244
General British Motoring & Motor Racing. A mixture of mainly larger format hardback volumes, most in good condition, several with their DJs, including very good copies in their DJs of: Motoring: A Pictorial History of the first 150 Years, by L. T. C. Rolt, 1st U.S. Edition, 1974; Motoring My Way, by Stanley Sedgwick, 2nd Edition, 1991; Roads to Oblivion: Triumphs and Tragedies of British Car Makers 1946-1956, by Christopher Balfour, 1st ed, 1996, signed by the author on the half-title page; One Hundred Years of Motoring: An RAC Social History of the Car, by R. Flower & M. Wynn Jones, 1st Ed, 1981; Thousand Mile Trial, by E. Bennett, and 19 other volumes (24)
Lot 252
Motoring Biographies & Motoring History. Fourteen hardback octavo volumes in their DJs, most in good condition, and including: Mr. Lionel: An Edwardian Episode, by Martin Harper, 1st ed, 1970 (2 copies); Five Roads to Danger: The Adventure of Transcontinental Motoring 1919-1930, by T. R. Nicholson, 1st ed, 1960; the same author's A Toy for the Lion, 1st ed, 1965; The Age of Motoring Adventure 1897-1939, edited by R. R. Nicholson, 1st ed, 1972; Nine Lives Plus: Record-breaking on Land, Sea, and in the Air, by The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, 1st ed, 1977, signed by Guy Griffiths on the front free end-paper; Looking Back, by Harold M. Gilbert, 1st ed, 1990, signed by the author; Motoring is My Business, by John Bolster, 1st ed, 1958; French Vintage Cars, by the same author, 1st ed, 1964; plus 5 others (14)
Lot 257
Motor Cars and the Application of Mechanical Power to Road Vehicles by Rhys Jenkins, 1st ed, 1902. A large 8vo hardback volume in dark maroon gilt embossed lettered and decorated cloth (spine faded), pp xviii, 372, top edge gilt, 100 illustrations, some page gatherings becoming loose, but contents complete. Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London. Together with The Motor Car Manual by R. Moffat Ford, the larger part from the French of Maurice Farman, 150 pages, small 8vo, illustrated, with limp card covers, a little worn and marked, with a modern spine, and with a sellotape repair to the front hinge and some loss to the illustration on the reverse of the front cover, but the rest of the content sound. Published by The Motor Car Company, London, 1899. Sections on early Mors, Benz, Panhard & Levassor, Peugeot, and De Dion Bouton (2)
Lot 315
Speedboats and Seaplanes. A quantity of mainly hardback volumes in their dust jackets, most in very good condition, and including the following large format titles: The Real Runabouts Volumes III, V and VI, by Bob Speltz, 1986 (4th Printing), 1984 and 1987, all in their DJs and each signed by the author on the front free endpaper; From Sea to Air: The Heritage of Sam Saunders, by A. E. Tagg & R. L. Wheeler, 1st ed, 1989; From River to Sea: The Marine Heritage of Sam Saunders, by Raymond L. Wheeler, 1sr Ed, 1993; The Legend of Chris-Craft, by Jeffrey L. Rodengen, 2nd Ed, 1993; Model Power Boats, 1st ed, 1929, and Model Sailing Boats, New and Revised edition, 1929, both by Edward W. Hobbs, both octavo-size in matching brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering (no DJs) in Cassell's 'Model' Series; Cutwater: Speedboats and Launches from the Golden Age of Boating, text and photography by Robert Bruce Duncan; and A Speedboat Scrapbook, Compiled by Bill Campbell, three volumes in photocopy covering the periods 1903-1919 (paperback), 1920-1950 (hardbound in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to the front cover), and 1938-1956 (plain navy blue cloth binding); plus 15 other, mainly 8vo, volumes (a quantity)
Lot 332
Early Motoring Handbooks. Auto-Cars: Cars by D. Farman, translated from the French by Lucien Seraillier, 1st English ed, 1896, the first book on motoring in English, with 112 illustrations; A Catechism of the Motor Car by John Henry Knight, 1st ed, 1908, decorated board covers, 29 text figures; Motors and Motoring, by Henry J. Spooner, 1st ed, 1905, 21 illustrations; The Light Car Handbook, by 'Candidus', c.1916, numerous illustrations, preliminary pages loose, folding frontispiece split at centre-fold (but complete); The Chauffeur's Companion, by 'A 4 inch Driver', revised 2nd Edition, 1909, board covers worn; Chauffeur-Schule, by Julius Kuster, Berlin,1909, 146 text figures, German text; Krausz's ABC of Motoring, by Sigmund Krausz, 1st US Edition, 1906; Automobile Catechism, by Forrest R. Jones, revised 2nd Edition, New York, 1906, limp cloth covers; and The Motorist's A. B. C., by L. Elliott Brookes, 1906, loose in limp cloth covers. All 8vo volumes, in good condition, unless otherwise noted (9)
Lot 340
Early Motoring. Hardback 8vo volumes, comprising: Light Motor Cars and Voiturettes, by John Henry Knight, 1st ed, 1902, 69 text figures/illustrations, 2 copies, covers of both a bit soiled/dull, period advertisements; Motor Cars, or Power-Carriages for Common Roads, by A. J. Wallis-Taylor, 1st ed, 1897, becoming loose in binding, 76 text figures, period advertisements; Motoring, by R. P. Hearne, c1908, 48 illustrations, period advertisements; The Motor Book, by R. J. Mecredy, 3rd ed, c1907, small 8vo, numerous text figures and plates; and Notes on Motor Carriages, with Hints for Purchasers and Users, by J. H. Knight, 1st ed, 1896, text figures, illustrations and period advertisements, board covers a little rubbed and soiled (6)
Lot 344
Motoring Illustrators. Four uncommon 8vo hardbacks in decorated cloth, comprising: How to be a Motorist, by Heath Robinson & K. R. G. Browne, 1st ed, c1935, with pictorial end-papers and numerous drawings throughout, a slightly worn copy; You Have Been Warned: A Complete Guide to the Road, by Fougasse & McCullough, 6th ed, 1936, again with pictorial end-papers, illustrations throughout, and a little worn; good copies of the Rubaiyat of a Motor Car, by Carolyn Wells, with illustrations by Frederick Strothmann (full-page plates in three colours), 1st ed, 1906; and My Enemy the Motor, A Tale in Eight Honks and One Crash, by Julian Street, with Illustrations by Horace Taylor, 1st U.S. ed, 1908. A 56-page plus card covers work in French by Maurice Goudard, entitled La Carburation et son interdependance avec certains organs de la voiture, with amusing line drawings by Delarue-Nouvelliere, and a photographic portrait frontispiece of the author, Paris, 1930, completes the lot. All in good, sound condition (5)
Lot 384
1937 Rolls-Royce 'H. R. Owen' Coachwork. A prestige promotional brochure of 16 pp., spiral bound, opening to reveal specifications and details for their Sedanca Coup‚, Aerofoil, Sedanca de-Ville, Sedanca Coup‚, Visa Saloon and Villa Sedanca, details of the model recto, a tipped-in colour traditional image verso, some discolouration to the cover, spiral-spine cracked (1)
Lot 537
*Telescope. A four-part extending pocket telescope, 'The Tourist', by H. R. & Co of London, with a leather grip and lanyard loops to allow for shoulder hanging. Optically correct with a sliding eyepiece cover and a dust cover at the focus end. 14cms closed, 42cms extended. In the most delightful condition (1)
Lot 576
*Raleigh Gentleman's Roadster. A restored bicycle with a 26-inch frame numbered 816463, likely to date from the early 1920s, and featuring 20-inch handlebars, chain-case, stirrup brakes operated by roller levers, rear rack and an R. H. Lea rear reflector. An older restoration with a black enamel finish, and looking smart with appropriate logos, lining and nickel-plating. The saddle cover is new, but the Brooks badge has broken and the handlebar grips need replacing (1)
Lot 601
*Raleigh Gentleman's Roadster. A restored bicycle with a 27 1/2-inch double-top-tube frame numbered C30978, and likely to date from the 1920s (?). Featuring 18-inch handlebars with turned wood grips, chain-case, stirrup brakes operated by roller levers, rear rack and a three-speed hub gear with a quadrant control on the top tube. An older restoration with a black enamel finish and cream lining, Brooks long-nose saddle, R. H. Lea reflector and a steering lock (1)
Lot 618
*Raleigh Cycles Ltd. 'Superbe' X-Frame Roadster. Making an interesting comparison with the previous lot, a circa 1919 bicycle with a 26-inch frame clearly numbered 636828, with a chain-case, 7-inch cranks, a three-speed Sturmey Archer hub gear and a Sturmey Archer slotted control on the 18-inch handlebars, centre-pull stirrup brakes operated by roller levers, bell, a Brooks leather saddle with separate 'OO' motif, rear mounted rack and an 'R' motif lamp bracket. Refurbished in dark green (1)
Lot 619
*A Dursley Pedersen Gentleman's Bicycle. Dating circa 1907 with a frame number of 3493, this is a size 7 machine in good, sound condition, currently finished in black enamel. The woven saddle is in good, useable condition, and both the front and rear brakes are correctly controlled by inverted levers mounted to the standard 19-inch wide handlebars. A three-speed Pedersen gear is fitted and still retains its cover. Other features include a rare rear luggage rack, Lucas bell, lamp bracket, rear mounting step and an R. H. Lea rear reflector. A sound machine (1)
Lot 112
Football autographs/programme, a small selection inc. 6 Turf cigarette cards signed by R Lewis, D Lishman, B Mozley, G Smith, J Morris & R Bentley, a signed W Mannion Topical Times card, Torquay U FC signed autograph book pages etc. Sold with a programme, England v Switzerland at Chelsea 11th May 1946 (gen gd)
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