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Books & Documents Sale on Wednesday 7th May 2008

Lot numbers:

347-381 of 815

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SPEED QUEEN: Kitty Brunel's Royal Automobile Club 1000 Rally album, 1932. Pictures, ephemera, newspaper cuttings of the rally which seems to have criss-crossed England. Miss Brunel driving a Crossley. Many photographs by Mr Brunel, Kitty Brunel's father. A unique album £200-£300.

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348 SPEED QUEEN: Kitty Brunel's album for the Scottish Rally, July 4th-9th 1932 in an MG Magna, long oblong folio album, photographs, ephemera, press cuttings. Many photographs by Mr Brunel, Kitty's father. Miss Brunel doesn't appear to have been so lucky in this rally as she appears to have been disqualified because her father (a non-woman) was the passenger and that was against the rules. Again a unique record £200-£300.

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349 SPEED QUEEN: Kitty Brunel's RAC 1000 mile rally, Hastings 1933. Oblong folio album which is clearly her personal album of her victory in this race. Newspaper cuttings, photographs, congratulatory telegrams housed in long oblong folio album 'Willesden girl winner of motor rally'. Many photographs by Mr Brunel, Kitty's father. A unique record £200-£300.

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350 SPEED QUEEN: Kitty Brunel, 4 oblong folio albums dealing with Kitty Brunel's rallying career crammed full of album and type photographs of motor race and particularly her Monte Carlo exploits feature in the majority of two of the albums, circa 100 good photographs, newspaper cuttings, ephemera. Most photographs by Mr Brunel, Kitty's father, one of the leading motorsport photographers of the era. A unique record. £600-£1200

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351 RMS TITANIC: Three modern postcards of the Titanic with signatures of survivors and/or relatives. In sound condition. (3) £100-£150.

Nil

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352 TYNEMOUTH HARBOUR: Report on projected improvements for better navigation by Ralph Dodd dated 1796, published Durham, disbound (1) £80-£100.

Nil

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356 AFLALO (F G): 'Seafish. An Account of the Methods of Angling as Practised on The English Coast', London, Routledge, n.d. (c1900). 8vo original decorated green publishers cloth...;TAYLOR (J Paul), 'Fishing & Fishers', London, Ward Lock & Co, n.d. (c1900), 8vo, original publishers red pictorial cloth gilt. Together with approx 53 others, C19-C20, on fish and fishing (approx 55) £150-£200.

Nil

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357 ALLCOCK'S ANGLER'S GUIDE: ...and Abridged List of Fishing Tackle, 1937-38. 8vo, original printed paper covers, slightly rubbed, a few tears. With seven miscellaneous antiquarian vols, including leather bound. (8) £30-£50.

Nil

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358 ARCHERY: Small group of letters concerning Sir Henry Jardine's creation of a medal to be presented to the Royal Company of Archers. The medal to be shot for annually, 1830. Including a design of the medal on card with the reverse bearing the King's Body Guard for Scotland which is the Royal Company of Archers. Sir Henry Jardine was a prominent Scot's lawyer and was a member of the Royal Company of Archers and the King's Body Guard for Scotland which was created in 1824. Uncommon original material. £100-£150.

Nil

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359 BEAGLING: KEMPSON (FC): 'The Trinity Foot Beagles; an Informal Record of Cambridge Sport and Sportsmen During the Past Fifty Years'...London, Edwin Arnold, 1912. 8vo, original decorated green cloth gilt, upper edge gilt; PAGET (J Otho); Beagles and Beagling...London, Hutchinson, 1923. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettered. With two others on the Eton College Hunt (4) £60-£80.

Nil

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360 BROADBENT TROWSDALE (T): 'The Cricketers Autograph Birthday Book'...London, Walter Scott, 1906. Large 8vo original green straight grain publishers cloth, gilt lettered, oval printed pictorial onlay to upper board. Upper edge gilt. Scarce. (1) £80-£100.

Nil

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361 CORGIS: Montage of certificates and rosettes for the Best Corgis owned by Mrs P E Franks. Two of her corgis qualified as Champion at The Kennel Club 1970. £20-£40.

Nil

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362 COX (Harding & Hon. Gerald Lascelles): 'Coursing & Falconry'...London, Longmans, 1892. Badminton Library of Sports & Pastimes. 8vo, original decorated brown publishers cloth gilt, rubbed...;DOUGLAS (W Willes, Mrs) 'Rifle Shooting for Ladies'...London, E Arthur Pearson, n.d. (circa 1920), 8vo, original publishers decorated green cloth...;FOULKES (Arthur Glyndwr): 'The Theory & Practise of Target Shooting'...London, Horace Cox, Field Office, 1895. 8vo, original red cloth gilt...together with approx 65 other volumes on hunting, shooting and field sports, most 19th and early 20th century. (2 shelves) £200-£300.

Nil

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363 DOGS: Album of ephemera and photographs relating to prize dogs, Crufts Dog Shows, tickets, pedigree, photographs, prize tickets, early 1930s in battered album. £100-£200.

Nil

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364 FISHING ACTS: A group of 87 Acts of Parliament, 18th & 19th century, relating to fishing and fisheries. All folio, disbound, condition generally sound. (87) £30-£50.

Nil

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365 FOOTBALL: Arsenal silk shirt No:10, Bercamp, and endorsed 'there's only one'. In sound condition. £50-£80.

Nil

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366 HORSE RACING: Folio ephemera album owned by Mr W Butler, son of the founder of the tobacconists Lambert & Butler, containing mainly cuttings to do with horse racing including the death of Ormond. Cuttings from Tattersalls Auctions. £30-£50.

Nil

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367 MISCELLANY: 2 large cartons of assorted and largely unsorted antiquarian books, most C19 including some earlier. Includes Lindley Murray's 'English Exercises Adapted to the Grammar', York, 1802 (2 cartons) £50-£80

Nil

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368 PEEK (Hedley): 'The Encyclopedia of Sport', London, Laurence & Bullen, 1897. 2 vols. 4to, original green publishers cloth gilt, a.e.g., spine browned. Together with 2 large cartons of miscellaneous antiquarian books including illustrated, leather bound etc. (2 cartons) £60-£100.

Nil

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369 POLLARD (Hugh B C): 'British & American Game Birds'...London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. 4to, original red publishers cloth, dustjacket, vg, Together with vol2 of Foljambe's 'The Eton Ramblers Cricket Club', 1937, Lord Harewoods 'Flat Racing (Lonsdale Library) and 2 others, cricket related (5) £30-£40.

Nil

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370 RACING: Fred Archer. Very attractive chromolithograph print. Fred Archer's Last Derby Mount, which was of course the famous horse Ormond, 1886. Archer committed suicide later in the year. Uncommon. £60-£100.

Nil

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371 SAILING: Signed photograph of Sir Francis Chichester receiving knighthood; signed postcards of Sir Alec Rose and Clare Francis; fine photograph of Robin Knox-Johnston on his yacht endorsed 'nearly there'. In sound condition. (4) £120-£150.

Nil

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372 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY FC: Small autograph book, 6 x 3 inches with signatures of the Sheffield Wednesday players 1937. In sound condition £50-£100.

Nil

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373 TAYLOR (Samuel): "Angling in All its Branches Reduced to a Complete Science"...London, A Strahan, 1800. 8vo, original paper-covered boards, rebacked. With half title, 6pp pub. ads at rear. (1) £50-£80.

Nil

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376 BEATLES: HARRISON (George, & Taylor, Derek): 'Fifty Years Adrift'; Guildford, Genesis Publications Ltd, 1984. 4to, original publishers brown half-calf gilt, a.e.g., in custom-made slip case, some light handling wear. Review copy, not numbered or signed and not part of the limited edition associated with this publication. (1) £70-£100.

Nil

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377 BERNARD LEACH: Signed card The Pottery, 16 July 1960 about his retrospective show at The Arts Council, addressed to Nora, no further clues. £40-£60.

Nil

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378 BUKOVIC (Lela, actress): An archive of pre and post-war correspondence relating to German actress Lela Bukovic (later Wallace?). Photographs, correspondence, cuttings and other ephemera, contained in a vintage suitcase. A quantity, potentially worthy of research, relating to life in wartime Germany. (Quantity) £60-£100.

Nil

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379 EVANS (Edith, actress): Quantity of autographed letters and photographs concerning the early career of Edith Evans the actress. £200-£300.

Nil

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380 GILBERT (W.S.): Illustrated Savage Club menu of dinner given by Lord Charles Beresford Saturday 9th May 1896. W S Gilbert is shown responding to a toast to literature, arts, science, music & drama. Framed and glazed in sound condition. £60-£80.

Nil

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381 HASSALL (John): Three coloured posts for Drury Lane pantomimes: 'The White Cat' and 'The Babes in the Wood' (two different images); unframed, one with tape marks to top corners, one with small losses, otherwise sound condition, 50 x 76cms (3) £150-£200.

17.5%

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