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289 The Highway and Its Vehicles by Hilaire Belloc. A good ex-library copy of a quarto hardback volume published in an edition limited to one thousand two hundred and fifty copies (this copy unnumbered) by The Studio Limited, 1926. The green cloth covers, with gilt lettering/decoration, are dull, rubbed and marked, and the front hinge is cracked, but a generally clean and sound copy internally. 11.5 x 9 inches, pictorial end-papers, 56 preliminary and text pages, 131 monochrome and tipped-in colour plates, the latter (amounting to 24 pages) with tissue guards, top edge of the pages gilt. Library label on front pastedown end-paper and small circular ink library stamp in the margin of many pages, including in the margin of all the plate pages
Lot 295
292 Dyke’s Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia. Fifth edition, Revised and Enlarged, Containing 366 Charts with a Dictionary and Index. Treating on the Construction, Operation and Repairing of Automobiles and Gasoline Engines. A substantial, large octavo hardback volume in blue cloth with white lettering, the covers a little rubbed and marked, running to some 750 pages. Clean and sound internally, numerous text figures, pictorial endpapers, and published by A. L. Dyke, St. Louis, U.S.A., 1916
294 Motoring Travelogues. A dozen 8vo hardback volumes, in good condition but lacking their DJs, including: By Motoring to the Front Line: An Artist’s Notes and Sketches with the Armies of Northern France, by Walter Hale, 1st U.S. Edition, 1916; The Silver Lady, by Neville Minchin, 1st ed, 1961; By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne, by E. Alexander Powell, 1st ed, 1923; Motor Ways at Home and Abroad , by George D. Abraham, 1st ed, 1928; Motoring in the West Country and Motoring in Sussex and Kent, both by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell, 1920s; plus 6 others
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£30-60
291 Cars & Motor Cycles, edited by Lord Montagu and Marcus Bourdon, 1268pp, 1929. In three volumes, with blue boards, gilt tooling and titles. Profusely illustrated and in good, clean condition with tight bindings
293 La Ville au Bois Dormant - De Saigon a Ang’Kor en Automobile, (Saigon and Ang-Kor (Wat) by Automobile) by the Duc de Montpensier. 1910 1st ed, published by Libraire Plon, Paris. French text. This large octavo volume has modern creamcoloured cloth hard covers with the front cover from the original (with a striking colour design by ‘Sahib’) tipped-in on the front cover and the title and name of the author in black lettering on the spine. Modern cream-coloured end-papers, 260pp including the preliminaries, pageedges uncut, 89 monochrome photographs by the author in the text and additional full-page plates on thin card, two further full-page colour-plates by ‘Sahib’ with tissue-guards between pages 146 & 7 and 208 & 9, and two folding maps (with some foxing) at the back of this rare volume
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£80-120
290 The Automobile in America by Stephen Sears, 352pp including index, 1977 1st ed, a rare 4to with its decorative slipcase. Also, The Checkered (sic) Flag and Great Auto Races, both books featuring the art of Peter Helck. With DJs, with some soiling and short tears (3)
£50-100
£50-100
£80-120
295 Travelogues. Sixteen assorted books to include the rare title From Paris to New York by Land by H. De Windt, 1903; The Motor Routes of England; 1909; The Motor Routes of France; Motor Tours of the West Country; Motor Ways in Lakeland; Through Europe and the Balkans; High Roads of the Alps, etcetera. Various conditions (16)
£50-100
296 Ten Years of Automobilism 1896-1906, edited by Lord Montagu, 124pp and adverts, 1906. A compendium of articles written by motoring luminaries of the day: Mecredy, Thrupp, Knight, Northcliffe, etcetera. The front board with embossed decoration, the spine in need of repair. Cars and How to Drive Them, by the same editor, the 1903 edition with a green cover and black tooling, 125pp and advertisements, and The Montagu Motor Book by G. C. Sherrin, 288pp, 1912, published by The Car Illustrated. Intended for the owner/driver to be introduced to the intricacies of his Motor and not consider it a ‘Box of Tricks’ best left to the Chauffeur. Motor Driving explained in both text & illustrations with great clarity. The covers a little stained (3)
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£80-120