FS: Collectable Books & Paper Ephemera - Introduction

[Clive Morgan]

CBM Language Services
Paper Ephemera and Books
London, England

E-Mail: bo...@sixpence.demon.co.uk

June 21, 1997 LIST
UKP = British Pounds

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selection of my Books & Ephemera list. If this intreagues you please ask
me to email the full list to you. That in itself makes fascinating
reading.

OTTOMAN EMPIRE:

SYRIA, THE HOLY LAND, ASIA MINOR, ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS by
JOHN CARNE. 1836. 1st issue. 80pp with 36 full page engraved plates.
Very interesting book detailing the Ottoman Empire. In very attractive
"Gothic" style embossed black leather board cover. A large attractive
book size 8.5" x 11"
ref: em 105
£148.00 UKP 241.00 US$

WESTERN BABARY; ITS WILD TRIBES AND SAVAGE ANIMALS by JOHN DRUMMOND.
1844. 166pp a descriptive book on such as: travel through the land,
executions in Marocco, lion hunting etc. Leather bound marble board
cover.
ref: em 106
£48.00 78.00 US$

CONSTANTINOPLE: THE CITY OF SULTANS by CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT. 1895.
309pp with 20 photographs. Interesting and detailed book with lots of
contemporary information on Constantinople. Attractive cream, red and
blue cloth board cover with gold tooled vignette of a mosque.
IN AS NEW CONDITION.
ref: 107
£115.00 187.00 US$

PHYSICAL TRAINING/HEALTH:

SANDOW'S SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL TRAINING. By Eugene Sandow 1894. Gale &
Polden Ltd. London. 9" x 6.5" x 1". 244pp profusely illustrated from
life studies with 38 photographs and drawings. Cloth covered, edge wear
otherwise good condition.
ref: em36
*£45.00 UKP 73.00 US$

BODY BUILDING by Eugene Sandow circa 1915 published by Gale & Polden
Ltd., London. 7.25" x 4.75" x 0.5". 120pp. 6pp of advertisements
including three for scouting books. Photographic portraits of the
author, his wife and two daughters. Card bound, black printing on dark
red,. Two short tears on paper spine. Top corner of one advertisement
page missing - area of 1.5" x 1". Fair to good condition.
ref: em37
£15.00 UKP 25.00 US$

BOY SCOUT TESTS 1936 Published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. Glasgow.
7.25" x 4.75" x 0.5". 764pp plus 15pp of advertisements including one
for priced scout clothing and equipment. Articles on Tenderfoot Tests,
Second-Class Tests, First-Class Tests and Proficiency Badges in sixty-
eight fields of endeavour.
ref: em38
£12.00 UKP 20.00 US$

GENERAL NON-FICTION

JAPAN. The Nations' Histories. 1916. Beginnings to the Russo-Japanese
War. by F. Hadland Davis. Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Limited, London.
Frederick A. Stokes, New York.
7.5" x 5" x 1". 323pp illustrated with 19 plates of photographs,
drawings and paintings. County library stickers on inside front cover,
numbers on lower spine. Reasonable condition. Front paper broken but
holding
ref: em44
£6.00 UKP 10.00 US$

NATURE DISPLAYED (A Method of Acquiring Languages) 1823. The sixth
edition, volume 1. Printed for the author. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.5" . 147pp
unillustrated. Vocabulary and idiomatic translations. Very readable even
today for students of English or French.
Reasonable condition.
ref: em35
*£15.00 UKP 25.00 US$

BIRDS/ANIMALS:

OUR BIRD FRIENDS. 1900. 205pp all coated stock illustrated with 85
photographs. By C. Kearton. Published by Cassell and Company. 7.75" x
5.5" x 0.75". Featuring, in back pages, photographic equipment
advertisements of interest to natural history photographers. Good
condition. Cloth bound, gold embossed.
ref: em46
£15.00 UKP 25.00 US$

STRANGE DWELLINGS. By the Rev.J.G. Woods, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 1871.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co. Being a description of the
habitations of animals - world-wide.
7.5" x 5" x 1.25". 406pp plus 6pp index, plus Messrs. Longmans, Green &
Co. 1871 General Publications List. 55 engraved illustrations of
burrowing, boring and building creatures. Green cloth covered board
embossed and gilded brightly. Very slight, hardly noticeable damage to
cloth at hinge of front board with spine. Well cut pages. Virtually no
foxing on the coated page stock. Beautiful condition.
ref: em47
£25.00 UKP 42.00 US$

ENGRAVING - PRINTING - PAPER - PRINTS - EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY:

FRENCH ENGRAVERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN OF THE XVIII CENTURY by Lady Dilke.
1902. Published by George Bell & Sons. 11.25" x 7.75" x 1.75". 227pp
with 51 tissue protected reproductions by photogravure. (Imperial 8v0)
Cloth bound cover unsightly probably due to earlier storage in damp
conditions. Minimal foxing. In reasonable condition although front
outside titles are illegible.
ref: em52
*£19.00 UKP 31.00 US$

PHOTO-ENGRAVING by W.T. Wilkinson revised and enlarged by Edward L.
Wilson. American third edition. Published by Edward L. Wilson, New York
1888. 202pp. Photo-engraving, photo-etching, photo-lithography in line
and half-tone. Also Collotype and heliotype. Pictorial cloth. Spine
bumped and rubbed, front cover stained. Hinge cracking. Ex-library
edition with usual stamps and pencil marks. Ref: number in white on
spine. Contents acceptable. Fair condition overall.
ref: em66
£20.00 UKP 33.00 US$

THE LOVELY THAMES. 16pp circa 1890s - 1910. Sixteen 8" x 6" (landscape)
full colour litho prints with a pastel quality on white art 12.25" x
9.75" pages with decoratively printed front cover. Stapled. Cover
holding. Printed by Keliher & Co. Litho, London. Illustrating: St.
Paul's, Lambeth Palace and Church, Lake and Museum at Kew Gardens, Palm
House at Kew Gardens, Queen's Cottage at Kew, Richmond Bridge, The Star
and Garter Hotel at Richmond, Eel Pie Island at Twickenham, Teddington
Lock, Kingston-on-Thames, Thames Ditton, South Front Hampton Court, West
Front Hampton Court, East Front and Fountain Hampton Court, Molesley
Lock, Molesley Weir.
ref: em53
£15.00 UKP 25.00 US$

HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHER 1892 by W. J. Lancaster, FCS,.
6.25" x 4.25" x .25". 148pp. A manufacturer's extensive, priced
catalogue of equipment and tips from Messrs. J. Lancaster & Son. List of
Contents:- Apparatus, lenses, accessories, the dark room, chemicals and
plates, the subject, exposing, developing and fixing, failures, things
to be
remembered, paper printing, vignettes and cloud negatives, Formulæ for
experimentalists, instaneous work, detective apparatus, retouching,
magic lantern transparencies, enlarging, enlarging lanterns, and
miscellaneous sundries. A Ladies' Camera and A Boy's Own Set. In fair
condition. Covers intact, spine cover damaged but bearing the words
"AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
ref: em64
£40.00 UKP 66.00 US$

PHOTOGRAPHY IN A NUTSHELL by The Kernel 1906 published by Iliffe & Sons
Limited, London. 7" x 4.75" x .5". 156pp of contents similar to those
listed above in HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHER plus 55pp of Tyler's
(and other) advertisements including magic lanterns and stereoscopes,
enlarging lanterns, carbide gas generators for lanterns and
miscellaneous sundries. In good condition.
ref: em65
£25.00 UKP 41.00 US$

PHOTOGRAPHIC HANDBOOK edited by G.P. Kendall and Frank Witty. The Home
Photographer and Home Movies 1936 Published by Newnes, London. An annual
guide for amateur photographers in six sections headed respectively: The
Art and Craft of Photography : Processing Matters : Money-making
Photography : Cinematography : Review of Recent Processes : Useful Data
and Formulæ.
Preceded by eleven full pages of relevant advertisements.
Soiled yellow cloth covered board. Overall condition: Fair.
Ref: em67
£6.00 UKP 10.00 US$

RAILWAYS:

10 Items from 1899 to 1901 Covering subjects:
The life story of a loco (British) Operating costs
Passengers, investment, profit statistics - British
British G.E.R railway telegraph
Complete working railway in a room (British L.N.W.R.)
Liverpool to Manchester in Eighteen minutes (including mention and
illustration of
Listowel to Ballybunion monorail 1888)
The biggest engine in the world (USA)
The newest things in railway (German Aerial track suspension)
The Cape to Cairo Railway (1. Building 2. Operation)
To the clouds by rail (European mountain railways)
ref: em58
£10.00 UKP 16.00 US$

Items ref: em56, em57 and em58 offered as a pack at £20.00 UKP 33.00
US$

OUR IRON ROADS by F.S. Williams 1884 fifth edition published by Bemrose
and Sons, London. 9" x 6" x 1.5". 511pp plus index and 4pp of
contemporary testimonial notices from British national and regional
newspapers and railway publications. The volume is copiously illustrated
throughout with engravings and line drawings, tables and diagrams. The
history, construction and administration of railways in Britain. The
account touches lightly on railways in north America. Embossed black and
gilt cloth cover, slight edge wear and some bumping. Pages show very
slight signs of discolouration due to age. The pages' outer edges are
all guilded. A sturdy book with a firm binding. Condition: good.
ref: em60
£45.00 UKP 73.00 US$

TOPOGRAPHY - San FRANCISCO:

BAGHDAD-BY-THE-BAY by Herb Caen. 1949. Signed First Edition. 266pp plus
index.
8.5" x 5.5" x 1.25". Author's account of San Francisco. Six
illustrations by Howard Brodie. No dust jacket. Case: very slight ageing
to tan cloth. Otherwise condition: Excellent.
ref: em73
£23.50 UKP 38.00 US$

SPORT:

CLIMBS AND SKI RUNS by F.S. Smythe 1933 popular edition reprint
published and printed by Wm. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburg & London. 8.75"
x 5.5" x 1.75". 307pp. An extensive account of climbs undertaken by the
author in mainland Europe, Corsica, England and Wales featuring
particularly the Eiger, Mont Blanc, the Dolomites and Bernese Oberland.
73 photo-plates illustrating ice slopes, fields and ridges, glaciers,
crevices and precipices. Tight, intact binding. Blue cloth covered board
marked and bumped but not otherwise damaged. Library sticker on front
board from S.S. Orion and number sticker on spine.
ref: em75
£16.00 UKP 26.00 US$

BALLOONING:

MY LIFE AND BALLOON EXPERIENCES 1889 by Henry Coxwell published by
W.H. Allen & Company. 7.5" x 5" x 1.25". 283pp. The emphasis is on war
balloons
and meteorological Experiments, balloon research and ascent records. The
seventeen illustrations are engravings and include pictorial ascent
graphs. Mention of other leading balloonists including a shared ascent
with Glaisher. Many references to ascents and descents in English cities
and towns. Minimal marking. Brown cloth covered board printed in black
and embossed in gilt illustrated by a vignette of two men in a balloon
basket above the clouds. Condition: good.
ref: em85
£75.00 UKP 122.00 US$ (NB Please see our Ephemera list for other
items ballooning items)

EARLY DRAMA:

THE DRAMATICK WORKS of Nicholas Rowe, EfQ; Volume the Third. 1733. 6.5"
x 4" x 1". 60pp. (Rowe b1674 d1718 was decreed Poet Laureate of England
from 1705) Containing the plays: The Royal Convert, Jane Shore, Jane
Gray and The Biter. Leather covered board. Front board partially
separated from spine, held by binding cord. corners bumped. Gilt
embossed lettering and blind embossed patterning to front and back
boards. Condition very reasonable for its age.
ref: em91
£25.00 UKP 41.00 US$

HUMOUR:

BOUDOIR TO BAR STORIES compiled by Eric L. Dunne. First edition 1942.
Published by Thacker & Co., Ltd of Bombay. 7.5" x 5" x a little over
half an inch. 206pp in a utility casing, i.e. board backed. A
collection of spicy, humerous stories to be enjoyed by either of the
adult sexes, produced during World War II, and not a little unkind and
uncharitable in some of it's references to the health and well-being of
leading figures on the 'other side.' Contains a spattering of commercial
& service advertisements of the time including a leader from Lever
Brothers (India) Limited. Surprisingly - printed on antique laid paper
and velvet matt. Pages slighly browned due to age but otherwise in quite
reasonable condition.
ref em99
£12.00 UKP 20.00 US$

EPHEMERA

SNUFF, Counter ADVERTISING CARD (Unused) circa 1930s. Manufacturer: Van
der Cruysen's.
French. Printed in five spot colours. Landscape orientation. With three
half-tone illustrations of tins of snuff. 270mm x 208mm. Headline: EN
VENTE ICI.
ref: E 9
£12.00 UKP 20.00 US$

SNUFF, Counter ADVERTISING CARD (Unused) circa 1930s. Manufacturer: Van
der Cruysen's.
Netherlands. Stamped and raised silver metallic foil plus four spot
colours and half tone bag and tins illustrations. Landscape orientation.
Size overall 325mm x 190mm. Headline: PEPERMUNTSNUFF.
ref: E10
£12.00 UKP 20.00 US$

CARRIER CYCLE Advertising Leaflet. Circa: 1910. Two fold landscape
orientation plus insert. Size closed: 150mm x 113mm Size opened: 340mm x
151mm. Green printing on cream paper. Featuring half-tone vignettes of
five sign-written carrier bicycles, specifications and prices from The
Battery Cycle Works, Prince Rock, Plymouth, Devon, England.
ref: E 12
£ 7.00 UKP 12.00 US$

FRENCH FASHION CATALOGUE. Toutmain "The Best Couturier in the Champs
Elysées"
Winter of 1937-1938 Size: 235mm x 171mm. 48pp plus cover. Outside back &
front covers printed in colour. Women's and girls' wear. Every page
illustrated in Black & White. Listing and showing priced: dresses,
skirts, jackets, gowns, outerwear, bridal dresses, cloaks, ensembles,
hats, veils, belts, furs, stockings, shoes and handbags. Sizes guide.
Conditions of transport/export.
ref E 14
£18.00 UKP 30.00 US$

EARLY EXAMPLE OF PRINTING. circa 1480s - 1500. A printed page from a
Book of Devotions printed in Latin. Black type interestingly hand over-
coloured in red sentence capital letters. This example is within twenty
to thirty years of Caxton inventing the printing process which
superceded hand written books. Page size: 285mm x 185mm portrait
orientation printed both sides.
ref: E 48
£27.00 UKP 44.00 US$

One BOX OF TEN SLATE PENCILS. circa 1900. Made in Germany. Certainly
pre-world war I. 146mm x 40mm x 16mm. Weight: 145gms. The Britannia Box
of Slate Pencils. Box label illustration bears Britannia flanked by the
flag of the Union and a UK heraldic flag, steam and sail assisted steam
warships (British, of course) and advancing courageous cavalry and
infantry.
ref: E 60
£14.00 UKP 23.00 US$ NB Cannot be sent insured postage.

INFORMATION

CANAL BILLS of EXCHANGE were bank drafts issued by a shipper for goods
being transported by canal (mostly to London).
Pickford was a major shipper of goods quite early in the nineteenth
century and is still in existence as a road haulage company. Most of the
bills listed below were issued from their Manchester office and are
uniquely numbered and impressed with the government's revenue poundage
stamp.

Three CANAL BILLS OF EXCHANGE issued from Manchester by Messrs. Pickford
dated 1815.
Each bill 9.5" x 4" printed in black with extensive hand-written
annotations and bearing a vignette, one of a coat of arms and one of the
Manchester Exchange Building. The third bill in similar style to the
above but unillustrated, issued from Braunston (Leics). Each bill bears
hand-written endorsements on the reverse.
ref: E 11
£28.00 UKP 46.00 US$

Three CANAL BILLS OF EXCHANGE issued from Manchester by Messrs. Pickford
dated 1816.
Size 9.5" x 4" printed in black with extensive hand-written annotations.
Two of the bills bearing a vignette of the Manchester Exchange Building.
The third bill in similar style to the above but unillustrated, issued
from Braunston (Leics). Each bill bears hand-written endorsements on the
reverse.
ref: E 19
£26.00 UKP 42.00 US$

Three CANAL BILLS OF EXCHANGE issued from Manchester by Messrs. Pickford
dated 1816.
Size 9.5" x 4" printed in black with extensive hand-written annotations.
Two of the bills bearing a vignette, one of a coat of arms and one of
the Manchester Exchange Building. The third bill in similar style to the
above but unillustrated, issued from Braunston (Leics). Each bill bears
hand-written endorsements on the reverse.
ref: E 20
£28.00 UKP 46.00 US$

One CANAL BILL OF EXCHANGE issued from Manchester by Messrs. Pickford.
Dated 10 October 1816.
Size 6.75" x 3" printed in black bearing a scrolled vignette of an
anchor.
ref: E 21
£12.00 UKP 20.00 US$

One CANAL BILL OF EXCHANGE issued by Messrs. Pickford's bankers, Praeds,
Macworth & Newcombe to the Grand Junction Company. Dated 15 October
1816.
Size 6.75" x 3" printed in black.
ref: E 22
£26.00 UKP 42.00 US$

Two CANAL BILLS OF EXCHANGE issued from Manchester by Messrs. Pickford.
Dated 1816. Both bearing a vignette of the Manchester Exchange and
endorsements on the reverse. One bearing a stamp mark by the Bank of
England.
Size 6.75" x 3" printed in black.
ref: E 23
£26.00 UKP 42.00 US$

One CANAL BILL OF EXCHANGE issued by Messrs. Pickford at Manchester.
Dated 3 August 1816.
Size 7.75" x 3.25" entirely handwritten in black with several exchange
endorsement on the reverse and bearing a stamp mark by the Bank of
England.
ref: E 25
£26.00 UKP 42.00 US$

One CANAL BILL OF EXCHANGE issued from Manchester by Messrs. Pickford.
Dated 1816.
Size 6.75" x 3" printed in black bearing a scrolled vignette of an
anchor.
ref: E 24
£9.00 UKP 15.00 US$

SCARCE BILL of LADING DUTY STAMP. A 6d (old pennies) duty levied on
exports and impressed on the Bill of Lading. This stamp, designated
"Bill of Lading" was in use from 1846 until 1875.
This particular stamp is impressed upon a document concerning the
shipping of a box of books from London to Madeira in November 1872 on a
vessel called "The Star of The East" - master: J.B. Fritzwater.
Document size: 11" x 6"
ref: E 28
£18.00 29.00 US$

RHEINDAMPFER FAHRTEN (STEAM BOAT TRAVEL on THE RIVER RHINE - GERMANY)
A comprehensive, very detailed time table of boat travel on the Rhine
from Easter to October 1937. Text in German including priced menu and
wine list. Colourful pictorial representation of the Rhine from
Düsseldorf to Karlsruhe showing cities, towns, villages, castles,
trubutaries, wine growing, produce and hunting districts.
Size closed (two fold):210.5mm x 105mm open: 210.5mm x 301mm : Portrait
orientation.
Four sheets/8 pages.
ref : E 30
£8.00 UKP 13.00 US$

CANADIAN FREE POST ENVELOPE circa 1870s -1880s. A white paper envelope,
size 135mm x 80mm bearing on the back an embossed red stamp, (NY Police
Dept shield shaped) with the Dieu et Mon Droit heraldry emblem. lion
rampant to the left, unicorn to the right and surmounted by a crown and
underneath the words - Crown Lands Canada. The envelope was cleanly slit
open along the uppermost edge and was addressed to: Wm White Esq,
Secretary, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Ca.
There is a crude rubber stamp marked word in capital italics 6mm high
"FREE" above the address just to the left of the position where nowadays
a postage stamp would be affixed.
ref : E 62
£6.00 UKP 10.00 US$

TERMS OF BUSINESS: PAYMENT WITH YOUR ORDERS PLEASE
Payment by cheque, postal order or international money order in British
pounds made payable to: C.B. Morgan.
Full refund given for items returned in dispatch condition within ten
days if they fail to give satisfaction but not for change of mind.
Postage (and insurance if any) is not refundable. All items herein are
offered subject to fluctuation and subject to being unsold. There is no
extra charge for postage on the UK mainland, except for heavy items
marked with an asterisk.
Overseas purchasers please ask about and add postage. All orders over
£60 are sent as Registered Mail inland UK.
Most overseas orders are sent Registered Airmail except to USA & Canada
where UK registered post is not accepted; other arrangements available.

Sole proprietor: C.B. Morgan

We will gladly email the full list to you on request - thankyou
for your time.

Paper Ephemera & Books
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