FS: Collectable Books & Paper Ephemera
Clive Morgan
CBM Language Services
Paper Ephemera and Books
London, England
E-Mail: bo...@sixpence.demon.co.uk
July 4, 1997 LIST (revised weekly)
UKP = British Pounds
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 UKP $ 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 UKP $ 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 portrait of the author. 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$
HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY magazine March 1927. 10.75" x 8.5". 53pp coated
stock includes a two page scouting article with four photographs entitled
"Scouting as an Aid to Health" and various advertisements for medicines,
treatments and therapies with extravagantly meritorious
and efficacious claims.
ref: em40
£6.00 UKP $ 10.00 US$
HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY magazine Holiday Annual 1933. 11" x 8.5". 74pp
coated. Cover pages missing. Articles featuring: cruising, swimming,
cycling, exercise, sun-bathing, nudist holiday, how the Victorians took
their holidays and some wit from the period.
ref: em41
£5.00 UKP $ 8.00 US$
HEALTH AND STRENGTH magazine September 21, 1935. 11.5" x 9.25".32 pp
newsprint. Fitness, glamour, moral advice, advertisements.
ref: em42
£5.00 UKP $ 8.00 US$
Items em40, 41 & 42 offered as one lot at £14.00 UKP 24.00 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$
ANCIENT BIBLE:
A GERMAN BIBLE printed in Gothic Script. 1669. 7.75" x 5.5" x 4.25". Each
'book' illustrated. with woodcuts and each with several scenes related by
alpha/numerical reference to the text. Leather and leather covered card
bound, front board detached, title page intact. In need of partial or
complete rebinding.
Detailed description:
This bible is printed in German Gothic Script in about 8 or 9 point but
also contains a few words on its title page much akin to present day
"Times Roman." Each 'book' is illustrated with one or more woodcuts and
each woodcut depicts several scenes which are related to the text by
randomly written references, that are not set in the horizontal. e.g.
"Buch Elfte, Chron 20, Cap 10."
The many people shown in these illustrations appear in what we would
describe as 'medieval dress.' Buildings too have a European appearance.
There are at least three copiously detailed maps - double page -
illustrating the biblical lands between the Mediterranean, the Red Sea,
the Gulf, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and these are presented in
different aspects, i.e. not lying vertically to north and south.
The binding is interesting. The pages are set in about forty tight
signatures in five main groups. Some of the pages' outer margins have been
cut so as to actually cut into the tiny margin notes, this suggests
that the pages were re-cut at the binding stage since I understand that
early books were not always bound immediately after printing due to the
high cost of binding work and indeed, this book could have been rebound
once or twice.
The front board (5" x 7.5") is present but detached. The spine's flexible
leather binding is approximately 92% complete. The book's external depth
is 4.25" cover to cover. The word "BIBLE" is embossed and inlaid with gold
leaf on the spine and 2 or 3 point lines of gold leaf are laid to each
side of the five, quarter inch deep, spinal horizontal binding bars.
The Old Testament was printed in 1669; the New Testament in 1682 As to the
title page dating, it reads:
Geben in Wittenberg am 21, Augufti bei Jahre Chrifti cI"c" I"c"c
Lx"i"x. Where "c" is a reversed c (even resembling an upside-down e with a
closed 'eye') and "i" is a small I the same height as the c's
and x's. This was a practice of the period in the Low Countries and
Germany.
Translation: Given in Wittenberg on 21st August in the year of Christ 1669
The Bible was prepared under the supervision of Abraham Calovius. D.
Prof. Who was born in 1612 and died in 1686. He was a professor at
Königsberg in 1637, a preacher at Danzig in 1643 and a professor at
Wittenberg in 1650. He was a Lutheran controversialist and was married six
times.
ref: em50
*£350.00 UKP $ 570.00 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$
PAPER TRADE MANUAL (Paper & Allied Trade Handbook) 1955. 7.5" x 5" x 1".
274pp. Compliled and published by Raghunath Dutt. Includes: brief
histories of printing world-wide and in India, a glossary of paper and
paper making terms and a chronology of paper and print craft. Two
folded pull out diagrams and numerous other diagrams and tables. Printing
& Allied Trades Association lending stamp in front cover. Excellent
condition.
ref: em63
£20.00 UKP $ 33.00 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 otography
: 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$
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Between 4 and 8 pages 8.75" x 6.75" printed both sides, stapled, taken
from various disbound magazines:
viz. Pearson's, Windsor, Harmonsworth. Contemporary half tone photographic
reproductions illustrating the text. List as follows:
MILITARY
8 Items from 1899 to 1901 Covering subjects
With the Red Cross on the battlefield
Blowing up the enemy (mines)
The eyes of an army (scouts and horseback patrols)
The cycle as an ambulance and twin Maxim carrier
The field telegraph at work
The greatest naval gunnery school in the world (Whale Island - Portsmouth)
Is England napping (The question of submarine boats - miniature
submarines)
Firing a torpedo.
ref: em56
£10.00 UKP $ 20.00 US$
1 Item from c1900 3 sides (i.e. 6 pages) Balance and muscular strength
(Feats, including on bicycles)
ref: em57
£1.50 UKP $ 2.50 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$
MINERALS - GOLD - SILVER - DIAMONDS:
MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES by O.E. Kiessling 1933. Published
by U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Mines. Part 1 - Metals.
9.25" x 6" x 2.25". 1,142pp. brown cloth cover, gold embossed lettering.
Very good condition.
ref: em 68
£30.00 UKP $ 50.00 US$
GOLD PAVED THE WAY by A.P. Cartwright 1967 published by Macmillan, London.
8.75" x 6" x 1.5". 313pp plus glossary and index. 40 photographs,
illustrations and diagrams including a map showing the twelve goldfields
operated by 'Gold Fields' in 1965. The story of the South African mining-
finance company founded by Rhodes an Rudd and known as Consolidated
Goldfields. Paper dust jacket over red cloth covered board.
Excellent condition.
ref: em69
£14.00 UKP $ 23.00 US$
DIAMONDS UNLIMITED by P.H.E. Burgess 1960 published by The Adventurers
Club. 8.5" x 6" x .75". 191pp 14 photographs on 7 middle pages. The
account of a former senior Scotland Yard officer appointed as chief
security officer at the Mwadui diamond mine in Tanganyika.
Red cloth cover. Excellent condition.
ref: em70
£10.00 UKP $ 16.00 US$
THE GOLD RUSHES by W.P. Morrell, M.A., D.Phil. 1940 published by Adam &
Charles Black, Soho Square, London. Black's Pioneer Histories. 8.75" x
5.5" x 1.75". 415pp plus 11pp Index. Eight maps including 4 fold-outs.
Eleven chapters headed: I) Before the gold rushes. II) Brazil.
III) Siberia. IV) California. V) British Columbia and the Rocky Mountain
States:- Fraser River & Cariboo - Washoe and the Comstock Lode - Pike's
Peak & Colorado - Boisé, Idaho - The Montana Rushes.
VI) The gold rushes in American history. VII) Ballarat and Bendigo. VIII)
The Australian rushes from the 'sixties to the 'nineties:- Otago and
Hokitika - Queensland - Coolgardie and Kalgoolie. IX) The diamonds of
Kimberley and the gold of the Rand. X) Alaska and the Klondike.
XI) Conclusion.
Hardback. Blue cloth covered board embossed and gilded brightly. Overall
condition very good to
excellent. Covered by dust jacket, faded and slightly torn.
Ref: em71
£45.00 UKP $ 73.00 US$
ROUGH NOTES TAKEN DURING SOME RAPID JOURNEYS ACROSS THE PAMPAS AND
AMONG THE ANDES by Capt. F.B. Head. Second Edition 1826. Published by John
Murray, London. 7.5" x 4.75" x 0.75" . 309 pp all tight. Case: Marbled
paper covered boards and soft leather spine. Front board loose but
attached and in need of refastening. Otherwise condition good.
Ref: em72
£88.00 UKP $ 143.00 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$
HISTORY:
THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD 1928 translated from German. First edition.
Published by Victor Gollanz Ltd. London 9.5" x 6" x 2". 441pp plus 18pp of
notes and bibliography. 25 illustrations: photographs, prints, and
documents. Origins and activities of the family Rothschild. Gilt letters
on green cloth covered board. Board hinges intact. Frontispiece photograph
present but detached and front paper detached from title page though held
by the binding's muslin. Otherwise very fair condition.
ref: em78
£6.00 UKP $ 10.00 US$
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH . 1960 edition reprinted 1985.
By William Shirer published by Book Clubs Association, London. 9" x 5.75"
x 2.25". 1245pp including Index. Unillustrated. Excellent condition.
ref: em79
*£8.00 UKP $ 13.00 US$
PICTORIAL RECORDS of THE ENGLISH IN EGYPT with LIFE OF GENERAL GORDON and
other PIONEERS OF FREEDOM published by James Sangster & Co., London.
c1891. 9.5" x 7" x 1.5". 502pp. Seven pages of chromo-lithographic
portraits, plus one frontispiece and one hundred and twenty wood
engravings. The case is of red cloth covered board bearing a richly
illustrated front board and spine comprising title and emblematic
illustration in intaglio and raised red, black and bright gilt.
All page edges are gilded. Cover slightly soiled but with remarkably
little damage or wear.
ref: em80
*£88.00 $ 143.00 US$
THE PLEASURES OF THE TORTURE CHAMBER 1931 by John Swain. Second edition
published by Noel Douglas, London. 9" x 5.5" x 1". 229pp including
introduction, thirteen chapters and index. Twenty gruesome illustrations
taken from older books. Mostly spine chilling accounts of many varied
methods of torture each calculated to cause excruciating pain - under
the Inquisition and other 'religious' judgements. Binding and end papers
intact and firm. Cover board corners bumped and exposed.
Condition fair to good.
ref: em84
£25.00 UKP $ 41.00 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$
GAMBLING:
MONTE CARLO by Sir Hiram S. Maxim. 1904 First Edition. Published by
Alexander Moring Ltd. The De La More Press, 32 George Street, Hanover
Square West, London. 7.75" x 5" x 1.25". 326pp including 43pp appendix of
statistics and tabular play records. Eight chapters entitled: 1) My first
article to the "New York Herald" and the Evening Up" theory. 2) A few
comments on my first letter. 3) My second letter to the "New York Herald"
with criticisms wise and otherwise. 4) The Martingale. 5) Luck.
6) Anecdotes of Monte Carlo. 7) In defence of Roulette. 8) The games
played at Monte Carlo and the rules which govern them. Appendix: French
reply to Baron Czyllak. Play and Players at Monte Carlo. Roulette
permanencies - records of six days play. Eighteen pen and ink drawings,
some humorous but including plans of trente-et-quarante table and of a
roulette table. Hardback book. Yellow cloth covered board illustrated in
black and red by G.A. Stevens. Slightly worn, slightly bumped.
General condition fair to good.
ref: em96
£22.00 UKP $ 36.00 US$
PUBLISHING:
THE HOUSE OF WARNE by Arthur King and A.F. Stuart. First edition 1965.
Published by Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. Covent Garden, London, England in
their Centenary Year. 8.75" x 5.5" x 0.75". Library of Congress Catalogue
Card No. 65.27894. 107pp. Nine colour illustrations and frequent line
drawings. An intimate account of this publisher of much loved children's
books, probably the most famous of which were the Beatrix Potter stories
and those of Kate Greenaway and Edward Lear. Other publications included;
dictionaries, The Observer Series and Bartholomew's Maps and Atlases.
ref: em98
£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
BRITISH CHEMISTS' LABEL COLLECTION. 109 different. circa 1890s - 1930s.
Mostly from southern England with unusual names such as Hartshorn & Oil,
Sweet Spirit of Nitre, Oil of Swallow.
ref: E 5
£23.00 UKP $ 38.00 US$
SPIRITS BOTTLES LABEL COLLECTION. 17 different. Mostly whisky with some
gin and other spirits. Circa 1890s - 1940s British. An attractive
collection of 17 different labels most with attractive multi spot colour
printing.
ref: E 6
£28.00 UKP $ 46.00 US$
BRITISH CIGARETTE PACKETS & TOBACCO WRAPPERS COLLECTION period circa 1900-
1940s. Collection of 41 different cigarette, tobacco packets, box labels
and printed wrappers also 2 advertising cards some in as good a condition
as when printed. Most of the others in better than average condition
recently obtained from an interesting collection assembled some years
ago.
ref: E 8
£38.00 UKP $ 62.00 US$
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 15
£18.00 UKP $ 30.00 US$
Eight EAU DE COLOGNE LABELS c1930s attractively colour printed all
different 85mm x 63mm portrait orientation.
ref: E 17
£7.50 UKP $ 12.00 US$
TRAM TICKETS. One dozen coloured paper tickets issued in Manchester
c1930s. each ticket numbered and punched. Fares of 1d, 2d, 4d and 5d
(pennies). Advertisements on the reverse. Each fare has its own paper
colour. Printing in black. Size: 63mm x 32mm.
ref: E 18
£6.00 UKP $ 10.00 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. (Three single pages held in stock)
ref: E 48
£27.00 UKP $ 44.00 US$
A PLEA or STATEMENT OF CLAIM for payment of a debt brought before the
King's Court at Westminster (King George II) whilst the debtor a yeoman of
the County of Lancaster (named) was in custody in the Marshalsea debtors'
prison, in London. The plea also requests the King's court that the
sherrif of Lancaster summon a court of twelve men, each with a worth ten
pounds a year or more to come before the Justices at their sessions to
consider the ownership of a cottage, some land and a quantity of dung.
This paper document is dated 16th August 1753.
Document: Four pages. Closed size: 320mm x 195mm. Open: 320mm x 390mm.
ref: E 55
£20.00 UKP $ 33.00 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.
AN ASSORTMENT OF PAPER BAGS. circa mostly WW II, a few earlier, a few
later. Fourteen different paper bags and sheets of illustrated grease-
proof wrapping paper. Including conical snuff bags, an IPSO wrapper and a
pre-war 2-colour unused, flat ORLOX Beef Suet packet
ref: E 61
£12.00 UKP $ 20.00 US$
Three MY GOODNESS MY GUINNESS - DRINK MATS/COASTERS. Copyright Guinness
Brewing Worldwide Limited 1994. Three of a set of six illustrating the
animals/zoo keeper pictures by John Gilroy and originally produced between
1935 and 1956. The illustrations are: 1) Lion running after keeper. 2)
Ostrich has swalled a glass of Guinness. 3) Seal balancing glass of
Guinness on its snout.
ref: E 76
£12.00 UKP $ 20.00 US$
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 of 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 of
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$
LARGE POSTER: STEAMER SAILINGS TIMETABLE MARCH 1886.
17.75" x 11.25" (44.5cm x 28.5cm) Winter Arrangements. Aberdeen,
Edinburgh, Wick, Thurso, Orkney and Shetland. By The North of Scotland and
Orkney and Shetland Steam Navigation Company. Illustrating a sail assisted
steam ship with two raked bare masts and cutter bow. Listing sailing
times, fares and accommodation, and Royal Mail sailings through the
company's agents. Poster in very good condition, good untorn edges,
printed in black on one side only. To be posted flat to purchaser in
existing folds between reinforcing card.
ref: E 33
£58.00 UKP $ 95.00 US$
LARGE POSTER: STEAMER SAILINGS TIMETABLE MARCH 1886. 20" x 10"
(51cm x 25.4cm) Regular Steam Communication between Glasgow, Greenock and
Bristol. Also Glasgow to: Bristol, Swansea and Cardiff via Belfast, and
Glasgow to Newport via Belfast and Cardiff, and their returns.
Illustrating the straight bowed, sail assisted Screw Steam Ship, 'Avon',
set fore and aft on two raked masts each with gaffsails and foresails.
Also, listing vessels, captains, sailing times, fares, accommodation, the
company's conditions and booking agents. Poster in moderately fair
condition, two partly torn folds, One display word damaged but completely
legible. Printed in black and red on one side only. To be posted flat to
purchaser in existing folds between reinforcing card.
ref: E 34
£35.00 UKP $ 57.00 US$
Items E 33 and E34 as one lot
£84.00 UKP $ 137.00 US$
FULL, UNUSED BOAT BUILDING PLANS for the British Yachting Monthly 16/19 ft
V-bottom, Bermudan rigged, 2-berth sloop of the 1960s.
Included: the 54 page book - BUILDING CHINE BOATS by Michael Verney.
(Second revised edition) a YM Publication 1965.
The book gives supportive information illustrated by technical drawings
and photographs on construction of the following YM designs:
YM Junior 13ft 6in centreboard double-chine plywood half-decker
YM Senior 16ft CB or bilge-keel double-chine two-berth cabin
sloop.
YM Wild Duck 16/19ft V-bottomed fixed-keel sloop
YM 3-tonner 17/20ft CB or fixed-keel round-bilge sloop,
two/three berths
YM Eventide 18/24ft V-bottomed sloop, twin bilge-keels or fin
keel, three/four berths
Lengthened version 20/26ft., bilge-keels, 4/5 berths
YM Waterwitch 26/30ft V-bottomed sloop or ketch, Mk1 twin
bilge-keels or Mk2 leeboards, five/six berth
The vendor built, wrecked, rebuilt and sold a YM Senior in the 60s
and has sailed Eventides and a Wilduck. He says of the latter, "She would
tear along in a force 8 with her lee rail under water resolutely refusing
to go further and eager to come up to wind.
If ever a home-made boat gave its builder confidence, she was it. Who
wants a smelly motor when you've got such a boat as that."
ref: YM1
£90.00 UKP $ 155.00 US$ Post paid
Twenty-one CHILDREN'S COMICS c1880s to 1960s:
Girls' Crystal No 523 Vol 21 October 27 1945
Harper's Young People No 338 Vol VII May 9 1891
Chatterbox No 12 New Series 1905
Chatterbox No15 New Series 1913
Magnet No 1,368 Vol XLV May 5 1934
Magnet No 1,563 Vol LIII Jan 29 1938
Magnet No 1584 Vol LIII June 25 1938
Merrymaker No3
Buster April 27 1968
Hornet No 148 July 9 1966
Boy's Own Paper No 321 Vol VII March 7 1885
Boy's Own Paper No 558 Vol XI Sept 21 1889
Boy's Own Paper No 1,657 Vol XXXIII Oct 15 1910
Boy's Own Paper No 1,661 Vol XXXIII Novae 12 1910
Girl's Own Paper No 658 Vol XIII August 6 1892
Girl's Own Paper No 923 XVIII Sept 4 1897
The Union Jack No 55 Vol II Jan 13 1881
Boys No 67 Vol II circa late 1880s
Chums No 977 Vol XIX May 31 1911
Chums No 978 Vol XIX June 7 1911
Chums No 1,022 Vol XX April 13 1912
ref: E 14
£21.00 UKP $ 34.00 US$
WIRELESS:
Three issues of THE WIRELESS WORLD (The Practical Radio and Television
Journal - British) 1935 - 1937.
No 846 Vol XXXVII No 20 November 15, 1935
No 850 Vol XXXVII No 24 December 13, 1935
No 944 Vol XLI No 14 October 1, 1937
ref: E 41
£4.50 UKP $ 8.00 US$
Three issues of THE WIRELESS WORLD (The Practical Radio and Television
Journal - British) 1938 - 1939.
No 985 Vol XLIII No 2 July 14, 1938
No 1,029 Vol XLIV No 20 May 18, 1939
No 1,032 Vol XLIV No 23 June 8, 1939
ref: E 42
£4.50 UKP $ 8.00 US$
ELECTRICAL:
"RADIO HT ELIMINATOR" product advertising leaflet 210mm x 145mm closed :
210mm x 440mm opened, circular letter and reply postcard of 1930 from
Lissen Limited of Isleworth, London. Black & Green printing. Concerning
their Radio HT Eliminator. Four, half-tone reproductions of
transformers/rectifiers for use on AC and DC mains.
ref: E 45
£16.00 UKP $ 26.00 US$
"DICTIONARY OF ELECTRICAL TERMS" Booklet. 12pp, 123mm x 183mm, black
printing on white paper circa late 1940s/early 1950s??? Partially
illustrated. Published by British Patents, Ringwood, Hants.
ref: E 46
£3.00 UKP $ 5.00 US$
"ELECTRICAL HEATING AND MOTOR INSTALLATIONS including cookers and water
heaters" Booklet. 16pp, 123mm x 183mm, black printing on white paper circa
late 1940s/early 1950s. Mention and illustrations of various two and three
pin plugs and sockets, ring circuits and BS specs.
ref: E 49
£3.00 UKP $ 5.00 US$
MUSIC:
MELBA CONCERT TOUR PROGRAMME (thought to be year 1912)
12 pp printed in black and brown. Size: 283mm x 220mm. Two black and white
photographs of Dame Melba, one of Edmund Burke and one of Professor
Lapierre. Notice in the inside back page states: The next Festival at
Bayreuth will not take place until 1914. Back page carries an
advertisement for Chappell Pianos with list prices of 95 and 52 guineas.
re: E 47
£16.00 UKP $ 26.00 US$
BALLOONING:
PRINT taken at some time from a disbound book or magazine circa late
1800s. Uncoloured woodcut of the Ascent of the Nassau Balloon.
143mm x 145mm.
ref: E 50
£4.00 UKP $ 7.00 US$
CONTEMPORARY PRINT taken at some time from a disbound book.
Copper or steel engraving 244mm x 155mm entitled "Aeronautics" of nine
uncoloured drawings and diagrams of:
i) Blanchard's Balloon
ii) Garnerin Descending
iii) Montgolfier's Balloon
iv) Form of the wings employed by Blanchard
v) Form of the wings employed by Lunardi
vi) Garnerin Ascending
vii) Charles & Robert's Balloon
viii) Lanas Aeronautic Machine
ref: E 51
£10.00 UKP $ 16.00 US$
CONTEMPORARY PRINT taken at some time from a disbound book.
Uncoloured woodcut 263mm x 207mm entitled "Aerostation" printed in 1806
featuring:
i) Methods of balloon inflation
ii) Envelope suspended from an aerial wire at early stage of
inflation
iii) Parachute type balloon ascending
iv) Parachute type balloon descending
ref: E 52
£30.00 UKP $ 50.00 US$
CONTEMPORARY PRINT taken at some time from a disbound book.
Hand-coloured (five colours) entitled "Balloons" printed copper or steel
engraving featuring:
i) Lanas Aeronautical Machine
ii) Charles & Robrt's Balloon - being inflated
iii) Montgolfier's Balloon - in 'flight'
iv) Blanchard's Balloon
vi) Parachute type balloon a) parachute closed. b) parachute open.
ref: E 53
£35.00 UKP $ 57.00 US$
CONTEMPORARY PRINT taken at some time from a disbound book.
Copper or steel engraving 250mm x 167mm entitled "Aeronautics" seven
uncoloured drawings and diagrams engraved by Gray & Son for Blackie &
Son, Glasgow of:
Blanchard's Balloon, Garnerin Descending, Garnerin Ascending,
Montgolfier's Balloon,
Charles & Robert's Balloon - being inflated, Lunardi's balloon, process of
inflating a balloon.
ref: E 54
£10.00 UKP $ 16.00 US$
Book Size: Is measured in Imperial inches and is approximate to one
quarter of an inch.
Dimensions are overall that is, including the board where appropriate:
1) front, from head to foot.
2) width from outside of spine to the page edge or concavity of page edge.
3) depth from outside front cover to underside back cover.
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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
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