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Britton (John). The Beauties of Wiltshire, Displayed in Statistical, Historical and Descriptive Sketches: interspersed with Anecdotes of the Arts, 2 vols., 1801, addn. eng. titles to each vol., twelve eng. plts., contemp. calf, gilt dec. spines, lacking title label to vol. 2, worn to joints & extrems., vol. 2 with boards detached, 8vo, together with Bath, The Original Bath Guide, Containing an Essay on the Bath Waters, with a Description of the City, and a Variety of Useful Information, pub. Bath, n.d., c.1840, five eng. plts. (inc. frontis.), two folding eng. maps and one folding table, initial leaves detached, orig. printed boards, worn & solded, 8vo, with Wiltshire Notes and Queries, An Illustrated Quarterly, Antiquarian & Genealogical Magazine, vols. 1 to 3, Devizes, 1896-1902, b & w plts., contemp. half sheep, rubbed & worn, 8vo, plus seventeen orig. parts from Wiltshire Notes & Queries, plus twenty-two other topography books, mostly Wiltshire and Somerset related (45)

Miles (W.J.). Modern Practical Farriery. A Complete Guide to All that Relates to the Horse .., n.d., c. 1870, eng. plts., some hand-col., some minor scattered spotting, contemp. half-calf gilt, front inner hinge broken, 4to, together with Wood, Rev. J. G., The New Illustrated Natural History, pub. George Routledge, n.d., c.1880, num. wood eng. illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, re-cased with orig. spine laid down, large thick 8vo., plus Moore (Thomas, and Ayres, William P.), The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science, pub William S. Orr & Co., 1855, b&w wood eng. illusts. to text, minor foxing to title, orig. cloth gilt, recased with orig. spine laid down, thick 4to, and four others of natural history interest, incl. The Insets, by Jules Michelet, illusts. Giacomelli, 1875, The Bird World described with pen and pencil, by W. H. Davenport Adams and H. Giacomelli, 1880, Birds of Town and Village, paintings by Basil Ede, text. by W. D. Campbell, pub. Country Life Books, 6th imp., 1975, etc. (7)

English county maps. Lodge (John), Forty uncoloured engraved county maps, pub. J.Murray, 1787-90, each approx. 280 x 330 mm, some minor creasing and occasional light foxing, Middlesex map close-trimmed to left-hand margin, stitched into contemp. brown paper wrappers Chubb CCXLIX. These maps were issued with John Lodge's 'The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military and Literary Journal' between 1787 and 1790. There were forty five maps issued in the series, this collection lacking the general maps of England, Scotland and Wales and the separate maps of the Isles of Wight and Man. (40)

Prints & drawings. Topographical, numismatics, genre, etc., mostly 19th century, including an 18th century whaling engraving entitled 'A View of the Whale Fishery', pub. Universal Magazine and measuring approx. 170 x 280 mm, plus three topographical pencil drawings (approx. 80)

John O'London's Weekly and The Outline, approx. 700 orig. issues, 1926-1939, together with a small quantity of T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly, The Outline, A Weekly Magazine, etc., all orig printed wrappers, occasional wear, slim folio (5 cartons)

The European Magazine, and London Review, vols. 1-2, 4-8, 1782-85, together seven vols., num. engraved plts. incl. folding map entitled 'A Map of the United States of America as settled by the peace of 1783', approx. 215 x 260 mm (with closed tear), and two engs. of Montgolfier's hot air balloon, contemp. calf backed boards, worn, 8vo, together with two unrelated volumes of French history in worn bindings (9)

Miscellaneous books, including some 19th c. antiquarian interest, a quantity of Geoffrey Household Titles, including some signed or initialled by him, William A. Baillie-Grohman, Sport in Art, 2nd ed., 1919, The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table; being a complete system of cookery .., by Charlotte Mason, 9th ed., 1805 (title torn with loss to fore-margin), The Birmingham and Midland Gardeners' Magazine, ed. C. J. Perry and J. Cole, 1852 (with twelve hand-col. eng. litho. plts. of flowers), etc (a carton)

Miscellaneous antiquarian, incl. The London Weekly Magazine (late 'The Thief'), vol. 1, 1832-33, frontis. and a few wood engs., contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine, 4to, with other misc. antiquarian, incl. odd vols., plus late 19th c. boys magazines, and similar, incl. The Aldine Half-Holiday Library. A Complete Story of Adventure Weekly, vol. 1, nos. 1-26, n.d., c. 1890, num. wood engs., contemp. cloth, darkened on spine, folio, and others similar, incl. Boy's Comic Journal, Boys of England, Our Boys' Paper, Up To Date Boy's Journal, Boy's Graphic, Boys' Friend, Young Men of Great Britain, Boy's of the British Empire, etc (6 shelves)

Photograph album. A fascinating and important album of photographs of croquet players and tournaments, c. 1905-12, thirty thick card leaves, each side covered with photos. of players of the day, incl. well known names such as the Rev. A. Law, W.H. Peel, A. Lillie and many others, plus tournaments in progress, spectators, etc., plus newspaper and magazine cuttings, autographs, etc., most of the photos. identified, the album disbound and many leaves chipped at edges, oblong folio A few of the photographs have been reproduced in D.M.C. Prichard's volume 'The History of Croquet', 1981. (1)

A Victorian walnut book trough, with carved Art Nouveau decoration over a magazine rack, 57cm

A HARRODS OAK LIBRARY MAGAZINE RACK with brass carrying handle, folding sides and painted panel, 16 1/2" wide.

Six volumes of The Motor Magazine, 1954-55 complete years

Flowers (A. W.) Forty Years Of Steam, cloth, dustwrapper, 1969; thirteen other railway books and two books of Steam Railway Magazine (16).

The Locomotive Railway Carriage And Wagon Review, volumes 33 and 34 (1927-1928), cloth, gilt, 4to, 1927-1928; six volumes of the Railway Observer, Volume 99 of the Railway Magazine and two volumes of Railway Wonders Of The World (11).

Martyn (W. F.) Geographical Magazine, 2 volumes, lacks title pages, volume I with 23 plates and 8 folding maps, volume II with 18 plates and 21 folding maps (lacks preliminaries and title page), contemporary reverse calf, 4to, Circa 1780's (2). * This Lot Is Being Sold With All Faults Not Subject To Return.

AN OVAL MAHOANY VENEERED MAGAZINE TABLE

REPRODUCTION MAHOGANY 3-TIER MAGAZINE RACK on bracket feet, Two further Magazine Racks and Reproduction Mahogany Occasional Table with inset leather top

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY MAGAZINE VOL XXIV NO.3 MARCH 1912; GREAT WESTERN PROGRESS 1835-1935 AND APPENDIX TO NO 7 SECTION SERVICE TIME TABLE MARCH 1941 - SWINDON, GLOUCESTER, CARDIFF AND PYLE and THE RAILWAY SERVANTS (ASRS AND NUR)

A WWII M45 telescopic sight, dated 1943, with spring mounts and clamps; a Sussex Armoury 4x20 telescopic sight, in box; another similar, in incorrect box; part only of a Hakko Electro Dot sight; a BSA reflector sight; a sten gun magazine loading tool; a bore mirror, a quantity of inert ammunition, and a few magazines. Average GC

A de-activated 9mm Sten gun Mark II, number PU 30859, with tubular butt, magazine, webbing sling, canvas cover, and webbing spare parts case dated 1944. GWO & C, with COD

A de-activated 9mm Lanchester mark I sub machine gun, number 48313, with magazine, GWO & C, with COD

A scarce Prideaux's Patent quick loading revolver magazine, with 1914 patent date, for "Webley .455, Webley Fosbery, .455 Service Colt, Smith & Wesson", in its leather pouch with belt loops, in virtually unused condition (some staining to lacquer on loader). (See lot 1198 for illustration).

An engraving by: J*** Hinton 6in. x 8 3/4in. (15 x 22cm) "A perspective view of the City of Chester" Published for the Universal Magazine, 1749; with hand colouring.

Twenty three hand coloured botanical engravings, after Sowerby and Kilburn, mainly grasses, including 'Sparganium ramosum' and 'Achillea Ptarmica,' 17.25 x 10.25in (44 x 26cm). (23). These prints are taken from The Botanical Magazine by William Curtis

An album of photographs, of Irish views and subjects dated 1931, a 19th Century album of Parisian views, other photographs and a quantity of the Bulletin Vintage car magazine.

Various books including Windsor Magazine, Strand Magazine etc

A small mahogany occasional table, with galleried octagonal top on reeded legs with understage, 1ft 6ins and a magazine rack, 1ft 6ins

PEPYS (S), DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS... 4 vols (Braybrooke ed) quarter leather and marbled boards, royal 8vo, 1887; and 4 vols (only) from another edition; MACAULAY (LORD), CRITICAL & HISTORICAL ESSAYS ... 3 vols, quarter leather and marbled boards, 1849; THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE, volumes I-IV, 1860/61 (15)

The Strand Magazine, Vols 8 (July-Dec. 1894), 11 & 14-18 (July-Dec. 1899). London: Newnes, as dated. 8vo, illus., uniformly bound in dark maroon half leather; together with another five odd volumes of the same (some duplication), (12).

Sports Illustrated Magazine Signed on Front Cover by Muhammad Ali; and an album of entertainers signatures including Arthur Askey (2)

Four boxes of magazine and periodicals relating to buses, trams and railways

EDWARD TENNYSON REED (1860-1933), 'The Mandarin Yuh Peh-hai', (And you'll probably higher before he's done), signed with initials, original drawing for Punch magazine, inscribed to Monica Hills and dated November 28 1904, 6" x 3 1/2".

Roscoe (Thomas). The London and Birmingham Railway; with the Home and Country Scenes on Each Side of the Line; including Sketches of Kenilworth, Leamington, Warwick, Guy's Cliff, Stratford, &c, n.d., c.1830s, addn. engraved title, folding eng. map and num. engraved plts., wood engs. to text, contemp. cloth gilt, upper cover detached (but extant), 8vo, together with Pambour (F.M.G. de), A Practical Treatise of Locomotive Engines upon Railways, pub. John Weale, 1836, four folding plts. (somewhat foxed), contemp. cloth, lacking spine, 8vo, and Drake's Road Book of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, London & Birmingham, 1840, eng. frontis. and map, num. wood engraved adverts to rear, upper inner hinge split, orig. gilt dec. cloth, small 8vo, plus The Patent Journal, and Inventors' Magazine, vols. 1, no. 1-26, May 30-November 21, 1846, folding wood eng. frontis. of Stephenson's locomotive, num. wood eng. illusts. thoughout, contemp. green half calf, rubbed, 8vo, and others incl. railway interest (19)

Two editions of "Popular Science Magazine", one dated August 21st 1926, the other January 1st 1927.

A collection of various motoring memorabilia, to include various 1930s issues of "The Motor" magazine, "Motor Repair and Overhauling" magazine, and various other handbooks.

Copper Plate Magazine. The Copper Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints, consisting of Sublime and Interesting Views in Great Britain and Ireland, Beautifully Engraved by the Most Eminent Artists from the Paintings and Drawings of the First Masters, 2 vols. in one, n.d., c. 1790, 128 uncol. copper plt. engs., including views in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, some minor scattered spotting, mainly to margins, a.e.g., contemp. red morocco gilt, heavily rubbed, oblong 4to (1)

Curtis (William). The Botanical Magazine; or Flower Garden Displayed..., Vols.1 & 2, 1787-88, 72 fine hand-col. engrs., some minor marks, occasional slight foxing, contemp. half calf gilt dec. spines, rubbed and some wear, joints cracked, outer corners showing, 8vo (2)

Paxton (Joseph). Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Vols. 1-6, 1834-39, 258 hand-col. plts. and one uncol. plt., incl. some folding, contents generally clean, a.e.g., contemp. uniform half blue-black morocco, rubbed and scuffed, some wear to extremities, small 4to (6)

Basileona. [A magazine. Edited by members of King's College, Cambridge], 7 issues bound together, pub. 1900-02, litho title-pages, few b & w illusts., some browning, recent qtr. calf gilt, 4to (1)

Vogue. A collection of approx. 320 orig. issues of Vogue magazine, c. 1943-80, the majority covering the 1950's and 1960's, num. col. and b&w ads., illusts., all orig. printed wrappers, generally in very good condition (a few issues with some wear to spines), 4to From the collection of the designer Phyllis Dalton M.B.E. (approx. 320)

Artists and Writers. Collection of Autograph Letters Signed, etc ., including W.S.Gilbert (signatures and good wishes written at an angle on writing paper), Alfred Austin, Andrew Lang (envelope stuck to letter), Marcus Stone (signed photograph), Alfred Parsons, Alma Tadema (card signed by him and his wife), Linley Sambourne, Lord Roberts, Lord Rosebery, J.A.Spender, William Hunder Kendal, Lord Minto, Alfred Harmsworth (letter advising an editor on improving his magazine), Sir Edward Grey, Hugh Cecil, Arthur A.Beckett and others, traces of former hinges (approx. 30)

BBC Broadcasting. Ariel: The BBC Staff Magazine, nos. 1-13, June 1936 to December 1938, a run lacking issue no. 10, b&w illusts. from photos., nos. 1-8 bound in two vols., contemp. cloth, rubbed and faded, orig. printed upper wrappers retained, nos. 9 & 11-13 orig. printed wrappers, a little rubbed, all 4to, plus a related book (7)

Sassoon (Siegfried, 1886-1967). A good Autograph Letter Initialled, Craiglockhart, 19th September [1917], to (his cousin) Joan Farjeon, thanking her for writing to him, 'I don't think they can do anything to [Kenneth] Hooper, except the sort of humbug they applied to my own case', continuing that it is ignorance that causes apathy among other soldiers, 'They just blunder on & pray each day that the end may come soon, or that they may be lucky & get back to Blighty', mentioning that he has a new room mate, a theosophical bloke who 'irritates me beyond words', saying that he has done some good things lately, most of which will be in the next issue of the Cambridge Magazine, mentioning that he does not know how long he will be at Craiglockhart, 'I never speak to any of the doctors now that dear old [W. H.] Rivers has gone away', then saying '[Thomas] Hardy wrote that he likes the new poem ["editorial impressions"?] very much indeed. His encouragement is everything to me', including with love to Bertie and to Aunt Agatha [Thornycroft], 2 pages, 8vo, with orig. postmarked envelope (1)

Wells (Herbert, George, 1866-1946). Autograph Letter Signed ('H.G. Wells'), Spade House, Sandgate, 19 November 1904 , [to Eric Parker, editor of the Country Gentleman], explaining that any short stories he writes are under a monopoly agreement to be submitted to the Strand Magazine and any articles to the Daily Mail and that in any case he finds them an interruption of 'the more ambitious dreams I cherish of writing novels', 2 pages, 8vo (1)

The Germ, 1901 "Being a facsimile reprint of the literary organ of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, published in 1850". In the small portfolio as issued (lacks tie), containing the Preface booklet by WM Rossetti and a reprint of each of the four issues of the magazine. With: The Quest No.2 March 1895 (printed at the Press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, & published by Cornish Brothers); & Cammell's XXI Poems (Poseidon Press, Edinburgh 1943, signed author's copy from an edition of 100) (3)

(Motor Racing) A quantity: Fangio's My Twenty Years of Racing (1961, in dw); Molter's Juan Manuel Fangio (nd, in dw); Moss' All But My Life (1963, in dw); Rainey's Alfa Romeo Ferrari (in dw, 1993, with author's inscription); Motor Racing Year (1961, in dw); Hough's A History of the World's Racing Cars (1965, in dw); Klementaski's Drivers in Action (1955, in dw); Moss' Le Mans '59 (1959); Jackson's The Romance of the Motor Car (c1925); Ferrari's The Enzo Ferrari Memoirs (1963, in dw); Lonsdale Library Motor Racing (c1935); Garrett's The Wild Wheel (2nd imp 1952, in dw); Hawthorn's Challenge Me the Race (1958); Eyston's Motor Racing & Record Breaking (1935, ex-lib copy); May's Shelsey Walsh (1946); Wheelspin (1945); More Wheelspin (1948); Wheelspin Abroad (1949); Birkin's Full Throttle (2nd edn c1932); Tompkins' Speed Camers (1946); Stanley's The Grand Prix Year (1961); 3 copies of the ERA Club magazine 'Hearsay' (Dec 1938, July 1939, Aug 1939); 2 1997 hill climb programmes; a small loose-leaf binder of 1930's magazine cuttings of racing cars; & 2 small framed and glazed recent pictures of racing cars (29)

Yorkshire Engine Company Ltd, Locomotives, nd (c1922) Card covers (2 small mounted photos on front cover) with 24 tipped-in monochrome illustrations (after photographs) of locos manufactured by the YEC. With: the Locomotive Magazine Souvenir of Barclay Locomotives (nd c1922, 32 tipped-in illus, and one colour illus mounted on front cover); Davies' The Railway Centenary A Retrospect (LNER 1925); & 5 modern reprints of The Daily Mirror (for April 16-17-18-19-20 1912) largely devoted to the loss of the Titanic (8)

(Lewis Carroll) A number of books by/about Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig (1977, in dustwrapper); Useful & Instructive Poetry (1954); The Rectory Magazine (1975); The Collected Verse (1932); A Selection of the Letters .... to his Child-Friends (1933); Through the Looking Glass (1948 'ordinary' Macmillan/Tenniel edn); de la Mare's Lewis Carroll (1932); Gardner's The Annotated Alice (1993 reprint, in dw); & Guiliano's Lewis Carroll An Annotated International Bibliography 1960-77 (1980, in dw) (9)

My Garden, 1934-47 Twenty-seven vols in the 'official' gilt-decorated green bindings, nos. 1 3 4 6 7 9 13-15 17-26 28-35, together with the Index volume for 1934-1938, and a loose copy of the magazine (Oct 1948) (29) (See lot 185 for illustration).

(Bindings) The Connoisseur magazine (12 vols quarto uniformly bound with dark blue leather spines, from the 1905-10 period); Rollin's Ancient History (1821, 8 vol set in half-leather); & Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1855, 8 vol set in worn full leather) (28)

(Unframed maps) A small miscellany: Pinkerton's Scotland (2 double-page folio sheets, c1812); Hondius' Scotia Septentrion (c1618, in a mount); Kitchin's Berwickshire (coloured, from the London Magazine); Dugdale's Buckinghamshire (coloured, in a mount); Moule's Cambridgeshire, & Huntingdonshire; Fullarton's Cornwall (1836, in a mount); The Land Utilisation Survey's Harrogate (c1939, double-page folio sheet); Mackenzies's Plan of Leeds (c1880); & 6 others (16)

The Map Collector A run of 40 copies of the quarterly journal, from issue 37 (1986) to issue 74 (1996); also issue 3 (1978) & issue 8 (1979). With issues 3/4/5 of Vol 1 (1996) of Mercator's World magazine (45)

Kitchin (T), The West Riding of York Shire, 1749 From the October 1749 number of the London Magazine. Coloured. 19x20cm

Seale (RW), The West Riding of York Shire, nd (1764) From the Universal Magazine for March 1764. Coloured, 22x18cm

A Plan of the Intended Navigable Canal from Leeds to Selby....,1774 From the Gentleman's Magazine of August 1774. Coloured, in a mount, 34x20cm

"OLYMPIC GAMES, London 1948, Official Souvenir", 4to illus. magazine; & a small q. of ephemera, brochures etc., unrelated (Q).

STRAND MAGAZINE, vols. 2-6, cloth, incl. Sherlock Holmes material, cloth, 1891 (2nd 1-2) - 1893, and a few odd, later vols. (10).

[Doyle, Arthur Conan]. The Strand Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly, edited George Newnes, vols. 1-12, 1891-96, num. b & w illusts., index at rear of each, uniform contemp. dark green half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, large 8vo Contains the first appearance of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, and Rodney Stone, as well as a short story (in vol. 1) entitled The Voice of Science. (12)

The Lady's Magazine; Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated solely to their Use and Amusement, vol. 11, 1809, hand-col. fashion plts. and other engs., some spotting and soiling, contemp. half calf, broken, 8vo, together with Collins (Arthur), The Peerage of England, vols. 2 & 4 only, 2nd ed., 1741, eng. coats-of-arms, contemp. calf, some wear, 8vo, plus other misc. antiquarian (a carton)

Victorian bound periodicals, incl. The Strand, Harper's Magazine, The Quiver, etc., mixed bindings (6 shelves)