Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 174A

Signed books and ephemera, including Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979, The Sparks Brothers, Hugh Laur...

Signed books and ephemera, including Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979, The Sparks Brothers, Hugh Laurie The Gun Slinger etc

Estimate: £40 - £60

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 174

Collection of local interest books, including Macquoid; About Yorkshire, Mee; The King's England Yor...

Collection of local interest books, including Macquoid; About Yorkshire, Mee; The King's England Yorkshire North Riding, Gordon Home; Yorkshire etc

Estimate: £40 - £60

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 169

Group of books relating to Hull, to include Sheahan J J, History and Description of the Town and Por...

Group of books relating to Hull, to include Sheahan J J, History and Description of the Town and Port of Kingston-upon-Hull, 1864, Oliver George, The History and Antiquities of the Town and Minster of Beverley, 1829, The Post Office Directory of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, with the City of York, edited by E R Kelly, 1872, with two folding maps, plus others

Estimate: £50 - £80

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 164

20th century illuminated hymn books, titled Hull Ballads, two volumes, hand coloured Illustrations a...

20th century illuminated hymn books, titled Hull Ballads, two volumes, hand coloured Illustrations and written text

Estimate: £60 - £90

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 117

Collection of early to mid 20th century magazines, books and ephemera relating to radio and televisi...

Collection of early to mid 20th century magazines, books and ephemera relating to radio and television repair and valves, including price lists, catalogues, service manuals, 1950s and 1960s Practical Wireless, Practical Television and The Radio Constructer magazines, etc as per lists

Estimate: £50 - £100

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5218

Collection of reference books, including William Morris by Himself, Moorcroft by Paul Atterbury, Fra...

Collection of reference books, including William Morris by Himself, Moorcroft by Paul Atterbury, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Photographs, The Complete Book of Modern Drumming, etc

Estimate: £20 - £40

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5200

Children's annuals and books, including Tom Thumb, Bunnykins, Puss in Boots etc ...

Children's annuals and books, including Tom Thumb, Bunnykins, Puss in Boots etc

Estimate: £15 - £40

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5123

Collection of children's books, annuals and similar, including Enid Blyton; Bible Stories, full set ...

Collection of children's books, annuals and similar, including Enid Blyton; Bible Stories, full set of fourteen, Macmillan and Co 1955, Anthony Buckeridge; Rex Milligan Reporting, first edition Lutterworth Press 1961 and Rex Milligan Raises the Roof, second impression Lutterworth Press, 1956, apt. W.E Johns; Kings of Space, Biggles Follows on, Biggles Learns to Fly, Comrades in Arms, thee copies of My Garden an Intimate Magazine for Garden Lovers etc (29)

Estimate: £15 - £40

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5121

Collection of travel books and similar, including Palm Groves and Humming Birds, The Heart of the Fo...

Collection of travel books and similar, including Palm Groves and Humming Birds, The Heart of the Forest, On Fiji Islands, In the Man of Shadow, etc

Estimate: £15 - £40

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5120

Collection of books, to include G A Foan; The Art and Craft of Hairdressing, M Verni; Modern Beauty ...

Collection of books, to include G A Foan; The Art and Craft of Hairdressing, M Verni; Modern Beauty Culture, E L Raymond; Sights and Scenes of the World and Gill & Briggs; The History of Birmingham in two vols, together with six copies of Connoisseur Magazine and three copies of The English Review

Estimate: £15 - £40

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5110

Collection of cookbooks and similar, including handwritten recipes and Beetons Household Management...

Collection of cookbooks and similar, including handwritten recipes and Beetons Household Management

Estimate: £20 - £40

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5100

Collection of empty stamp stock books and first day covers, along with further collectables ...

Collection of empty stamp stock books and first day covers, along with further collectables

Estimate: £15 - £40

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5062

Books - Thirty seven copies of Mutual Air in the Victorian Countryside 1830-1914 by David Neave, fou...

Books - Thirty seven copies of Mutual Air in the Victorian Countryside 1830-1914 by David Neave, four copies of Voices of Hull Real-Life Stories from the Hull City Play edited by Trevelyan Wright, four copies of The Journal of Surgeon Cass Aboard the Whaler 'Brunswick' of Hull, 1824 edited by A G Credland, four copies of This Righteous War by B S Barnes, four copies of Flying Sail Humber Keels and Sloops by Michael E Ulyatt, four copies of Old Beverley by Philip Brown, etc., in two boxes

Estimate: £15 - £25

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5061

Books - a number relating to Hull and surrounding areas of Yorkshire, to include The East Riding of ...

Books - a number relating to Hull and surrounding areas of Yorkshire, to include The East Riding of Yorkshire with Hull and York by A G Dickens, 1954, The Scarborough Cricket Festival by J M Kilburn, 1948, Georgian Hull, Written and Illustrated by Ivan and Elisabeth Hall, 1978, etc.

Estimate: £15 - £30

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5060

Books - Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook`s Hill, London, Macmillan and Co., 1906, Ireland, John, Hogar...

Books - Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook`s Hill, London, Macmillan and Co., 1906, Ireland, John, Hogarth Illustrated, Vol I & II, 1806, Williams, John, A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, 1840, and Wilberforce, William, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher & Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real Christianity, T. Cadell in the Strand, London, 1829, (5)

Estimate: £15 - £30

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5059

Books - Natural History - Robert Mudie, Mudies British Birds, The Feathered Tribes of the British Is...

Books - Natural History - Robert Mudie, Mudies British Birds, The Feathered Tribes of the British Isles, two volumes, second edition, Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, London, 1735, chromolithographic plates, Peter Scott, Morning Flight, A Book of Wildfowl, Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd, London and Aylesbury, 1947, F B Kirkman & F C R Jourdain, British Birds, London T C & E C jack Limited, Edinburgh, 1932, plus other examples on ornithology, (7)

Estimate: £30 - £50

Date : 26/04/2024 Lot 5032

Collection of books, including Heroines of Shakespeare, The Life of George Romney, Children's Storie...

Collection of books, including Heroines of Shakespeare, The Life of George Romney, Children's Stories from Dickens, etc

Estimate: £20 - £40

Date : 29/09/2023 Lot 5256

Four reference books of US Military interest comprising Basic Training US Army Training Center Infantry Fort Jackson, South Carolina; two books on the 43rd Infantry Division; and WW2 Combat Squadrons of the USAF; and three other books including German Army & Navy Uniforms and Insignia 1871-1918 (7)

SOLD £20

Date : 02/06/2023 Lot 230

Large collection of motoring and similar reference books, to include Haynes manuals, British Motoring manuals, classic sports car books, Encyclopaedia of Motorcycles, Formula One books etc, in fourteen boxes

SOLD £70

Date : 01/03/2024 Lot 244

Collection of books, to include four 1920s Great Western Railway publications on Abbeys, Castles and Cathedrals, including three hardback examples, together with The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature, The Register of Edmund Lacy Bishop of Exeter 1420-1455 Vols 1-5, Laura Knight by Janet Dunbar, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers 1673-1735, The Parliamentary Survey of the Duchy of Cornwall Parts 1 and 2 and two Bradburys Hallmarks books

SOLD £35

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 5141

Collection of books, to include four volumes of Muspratts Chemistry, The Beatles Unseen Archives, Hobbies magazines, The Encyclopaedia of Sanitary Plumbing and a collection of motor engineering books, etc, in three boxes

SOLD £15

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 5116

Large collection of books, mainly antique reference books, including Miller's guides, Lyle antiques guide, clock guides etc, in five boxes

SOLD £15

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 5075

Collection of fiction and non fiction books, to include Penguin books, and titles by Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway and Gladys Mitchell, together with a chess set

SOLD £15

Date : 15/12/2023 Lot 246

Nine 19th century leather bound books including De L'Action Du Clerge by M. Rubichon. 1929; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. 1860; The Drama: or Theatrical Pocket magazine. Volumes 1,2 & 3 1821-22; and six other books including Twelve Centuries of Jewish persecution by Gustav Pearlson. 1898; Fish Stories - A Collection of Angling Yarns etc

SOLD £60

Date : 15/12/2023 Lot 5192

Large collection of sheet music, fiction books and reference books, in ten boxes

SOLD £30

Date : 17/11/2023 Lot 5175

Collection of books by Terry Pratchett, of mostly Discworld interest, to include hardback edition of Going Postal, and further books such as Men at Arms, Sourcery, Small Gods etc

SOLD £40

Date : 20/10/2023 Lot 5031

Victorian Fry's red velvet chocolate box, with applied shield to cover and silk interior, together with a collection of Brookes tea card books, including Inventors and Inventions and British Butterflies, etc and a quantity of football books

SOLD £15

Date : 19/10/2023 Lot 2710

Great British and World stamps, including Queen Elizabeth II mint decimal stamps in presentation packs, first day covers mostly with printed addresses and special postmarks, Royal Mail Special Stamp books 1989, 1990 and 1991 each with mint stamps, World including Isle of Man, Lundy, Fiji, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany etc, mint and used stamps seen with postmark interest, housed in various albums, stockbooks and folders, in two boxes

SOLD £240

Date : 29/09/2023 Lot 5214

Books and ephemera, mostly related to Freddie Mercury, Queen, Leeds United, musical theatre, four of which bearing authors signatures, and other books etc, in three boxes

SOLD £100

Date : 29/09/2023 Lot 5242

Children's annuals, books and booklets, including Scorcher Annual 1975, Valiant Annual 1977, Beano Annual 2004, 2005 etc, The Big Enid Blyton Book, various Woman's Weekly magazines, Spot's Magical Christmas by Eric Hill and other similar hardback children's books etc, in four boxes

SOLD £20

Date : 11/08/2023 Lot 3137

Six books on handguns/pistols comprising David R. Chicoine: Smith & Wesson Six Guns of the Old West.2004; Chris C. Curtis; Systeme Lefaucheux. 2002; Geoffrey Boothroyd: The Handgun. 1970; William Chipchase Dowell: The Webley Story. 1962; Derek Fuller: Muzzle Loading Pistols. 2002; and George Layman: The British Bulldog. 2006; and three other books on Colt and Winchester guns (9)

SOLD £40

Date : 21/07/2023 Lot 277

Young England An Illustrated Annual 1918; three children's books by Joanna Lloyd; Pettman Grace: Missing The Tide. 1949; and five other children's books; some with dustjackets (10)

SOLD £20

Date : 30/06/2023 Lot 161

Three 19th century Horological Journals, together with other horological reference books, and similar books by J Ruskin

SOLD £25

Date : 30/06/2023 Lot 260

Large collection of steam locomotive and railway reference books, including books on LNER, LMS, Great Western and Great Northern railways, in eight boxes

SOLD £65

Date : 30/06/2023 Lot 261

Large collection of steam locomotive and railway reference books and magazines, including books on Scarborough, Whitby, Leeds and other Yorkshire railways, several issues of The World of Trains and British Steam Railways magazines and multiple volumes of The Locomotives of LNER, in eight boxes

SOLD £40

Date : 30/06/2023 Lot 262

Large collection of international steam locomotive and railway reference books, including titles on the railways of Germany, Africa, China, Europe and North America and multiple books on narrow gauge railways, in ten boxes

SOLD £85

Date : 30/06/2023 Lot 263

Large collection of steam locomotive and railway reference books and magazines, including vol 1-4 of British Railway Standards Steam Locomotives, books on Great Western, LMS and LNER and multiple titles on engine sheds, etc in ten boxes

SOLD £65

Date : 02/06/2023 Lot 182

Three Childrens books, comprising Father Tuck's Once Upon a Time and two french books by Hachette et Cie, together with a folder of Ours The Magazine of Reckitts

SOLD £35

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 317

Two furniture reference books, comprising Frederick Litchfield; Illustrated History of Furniture and Thomas Arthur Strange; French Interiors Furniture, Decoration Woodwork and Allied Arts

SOLD £30

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 240

Collection of antiques reference books, mainly art, including The Pre-Raphaelites, Burne & Jones, Van Gough, The Art of Beatrix Potter, Faberge, Princely Treasures etc

SOLD £30

Date : 01/03/2024 Lot 5767

Collection of books

SOLD £200

Date : 01/03/2024 Lot 5271

Collection of books, including The second Great War, Foxes Book of Marytyrs, Dictionary of the Bible etc, in five boxes

SOLD £15

Date : 01/03/2024 Lot 5252

Three books of Yorkshire interest, to include British Railways Past and Present East Yorkshire, F. Ross Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds and D. Lunn Wetwang Saga II 1800-2015

SOLD £15

Date : 01/03/2024 Lot 5137

Antiques refence books, including examples on watches, clocks and furniture

SOLD £15

Date : 01/03/2024 Lot 5125

Collection of Encyclopedia Britannica together with other books

SOLD £15

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 5090

Great British and World stamps including Nigeria, Malta, Canada, New Zealand, Kenya, Ghana, Southern Rhodesia, Denmark, United States of America etc, housed in various stockbooks, albums and loose

SOLD £20

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 5014

Collection of lace making wooden bobbins, together with lace making books and a handmade storage box

SOLD £25

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 233

Railway memorabilia, including manuals, rule and regulation books, blueprints and diagrams, signature of Alan Pegler, former owner of The Flying Scotsman', etc, contained within a leather suitcase

SOLD £220

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 218

Three Struwwelpeter books, comprising The Struwwelpeter Alphabet, The Political Struwwelpeter and Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

SOLD £50

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 213

Four reference books, comprising Eric Gill Engravings, Saucy Ladies, Wilde's Last Stand and Camp

SOLD £55

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 201

Three USSR books comprising The History of the Civil War in the USSR, Stalin on Lenin and Moscow

SOLD £75

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 185

Three books of cookery interest by Elizabeth David comprising 'Italian Food', 'English Bread and Yeast Cookery' and 'South Wind Through the Kitchen'

SOLD £50

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 112

Early 20th century ephemera, to include signed photographs of Charles Boyer and Walter Pidgeon etc, a printed letter from Winston Churchill, two albums and a quantity of transfer books of Players and similar cigarette cards, including Boy Scout and Girl Guide Patrol Signs and Emblems and RAF Badges, a collection of greetings cards and postcards, a photograph album containing black and white photographs of Caius College Cambridge and guides and pamphlets on travelling Switzerland and the UK

SOLD £40

Date : 19/01/2024 Lot 111

George IV Coronation ephemera, comprising a hand written description of the Coronation Procession as experienced by J.Rivington Hill, sent to his sister Miss Hannah Maria Hill, dated 26th July 1821, a hand drawn map of the Coronation route, probably by the same hand and newspaper cuttings from 1937, relating to the Coronation of George VI, together with a three hand written extracts of William Pitts speech in support of William Wilberforce on the abolition of slavery in 1792, taken from two books, including Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, by Philip Henry Stanhope and a printed copy of the 'Memoir of the Late Henry Park Esq Surgeon of Liverpool'

SOLD £420

Date : 26/01/2024 Lot 3236

Military Collectors Service: set of three books on WWII German uniforms and badges; and Mollo Andrew: Uniforms of the SS. Volumes 1,4,5,6 & 7 (8)

SOLD £45

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4007

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): 'Old North Bridge Hull', monochrome watercolour and ink signed and dated '97, titled in a later hand verso 8.5cm x 12cm; Hull Views, three circular watercolours, two signed, max dia. 15.5cm (unframed) (4) Notes: Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News, whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £170

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4006

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): Hull Views, four monochrome watercolours and ink signed, max 14cm x 24cm (4) (unframed) Notes: Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News, whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £180

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4005

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): 'Albion Street' and Market Place - Hull, two pencil drawings signed, the former dated Jan 1891, 22cm x 31cm and 8.5cm x 12cm (2) Notes: Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News, whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £110

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4004

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): 'Carr Lane 1885' and Lowgate looking to St Mary's - Hull, two monochrome watercolours and ink unsigned, the former titled in the margin 16cm x 12cm and 17cm x 11cm (2) Notes: Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News, whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £75

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4003

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): 'Yarmouth Arms' and the Wilberforce Monument - Hull, two monochrome watercolours and ink signed, the former dated 1913, 15cm x 21cm and 13cm x 19cm (2) Notes: the Yarmouth Arms was located near George Yard Entry on High Street and later became the Wilberforce Arms. Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News, whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £80

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4002

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): King William Statue and a Hull Street Scene, two monochrome watercolours and ink signed 15cm x 22cm and 14cm x 19cm (2) Notes: Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News, whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £85

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4001

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): 'Vanishing Newland' - Hull Street Scene, monochrome watercolour and ink signed, titled extensively inscribed and dated 1908 along the bottom edge 22cm x 40cm Notes: Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News, whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £85

Date : 08/02/2024 Lot 4000

Frederick Schultz Smith (Hull 1860-1925): 'Manor Square' Hull, monochrome watercolour and ink signed and dated 1902, extensively inscribed along the bottom edge 27cm x 44cm Notes: Born in Worthing, Sussex in 1860, F S Smith came to Hull as a small child and lived most of his life in the old St. John's Wood area in west Hull; he was still drawing in his sixties shortly before his death in 1925. Much like his near contemporary and fellow Yorkshire artist Albert Thomas Pile (1882-1981), his drawings are visual 'snapshots' in time, often produced to record buildings that were due to be demolished. Smith was commissioned to produce around three hundred drawings for C E Fewster, a paint maker in Hull who collected historical records. Some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the 'Eastern Morning News', whilst others were sold to the owners of premises which he had drawn.

SOLD £100

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 5257

Collection of books, to include W. Leon Solders Masterpieces of British Art, Wilfred Gibson, Norman Squire How to Win Roulette, Various authors Things being Various etc

SOLD £20

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 5254

Walter Dening, Japan in Days of Yore; Wounded Pride and How it was Healed, together with W.Somerset Maugham, Sheppey a Play in Three Acts, three books by Beverley Nichols and five others

SOLD £15

Date : 09/02/2024 Lot 5194

Two Oriental style wooden stands, wooden chequers set, book stand and six Edwardian and later books on wood carving, book binding etc

SOLD £35

Date : 16/03/2024 Lot 1440

Maitland-Smith - four drawer chest in the form of a stack of leather-bound books, the top drawer with metal label inscribed 'Maitland-Smith', on turned feet

SOLD £300